skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm minority as well, as I think that targeted ads are important for the Internet.

First of all, I think that ads in the Internet are important, it's a driving force. Without ads there will be no Internet with lots of "free" resources, everything valuable will be paywalled which is a problem for poor people and nuisance for the rest. That's already an issue for many information websites because of abundant adblock usage and those websites are paywalling their articles.

If ad is not targeted, you'll get terrible click rate for niche ads. So your advertisement budget will cost more and some businesses just won't work, as you won't be able to attract enough customers for reasonable budget. Another issue is that advertisement budgets are paid by customers and inefficient advertisement lead to higher costs of the end product.

It's basically like TV where ads cost a lot and small players just can't afford it. And that's because those ads can't be targeted.

Because of mentioned issues, I think that targeted ads are needed for the Internet, they're making world a better place in the end.

Google clearly tries to find a balance between privacy and ads targeting. And that's a good thing. May be FLOC is not perfect, although I'm not sure if it could be implemented in a significantly better way. But just disregarding targeted ads for me sounds like a wrong solution. What should be done is regulation of advertisement platforms which should be prohibited by law to track individual users and just use anonymized information, voluntarily provided by the user agent.

And those who don't like FLOC idea, probably will be able to use browser extensions to modify its behaviour.
Thank you for your response. Yes, it is a CRUD app. I intend to expand this to have a CLI client and a website that would allow users to upload stuff.
Well... You're clearly xenophobic.
Isn't the revival attributed mostly to The Queen's Gambit being released on Netflix?
I love not having a connection to my coworkers personally. I have some connection to the handful of people I directly collaborate with (like people who work on the same codebase), but that's it. And those interactions are far from daily, but enough that I have casual rapport. Nothing meaningful or personal required, but still a good working relationship.
Because it's too much trouble for an outfit like SP to write an export feature?? And why not read the whole comment? You buried the lede.
I have to add to the commendations of Lichess here. It's amazing. You don't need an account to just jump in and play with people. Amazing stuff.
Trying to get some people to understand adding version numbers to filenames instead of

tpsreport-final-final-iralymenit-fianly-freds-changes.xlst

Seems to be really hard - let alone doing minutes and action points correctly
A very cool and surprising result that I always thought should've received more fanfare in non-PL circles.

Just as a little extra context on what "unsound" means here since the term is often misused or used in different contexts: this program violates "type soundness", which is informally stated as "well-typed programs don't go wrong".

Generally you'll see this shown via a "progress" lemma (~ "all non-value expressions can take a step in the operational semantics") and a "preservation" lemma (~ "expressions' types are unchanged by the operational semantics") which, by induction, yield a theorem like "all expressions of type T can be evaluated to a value of type T" (for all T).

This paper, since it deals with actual programming languages and not minimal calculi, may feel a little bit removed from the theoretical stuff, but under the hood it's the same idea: preservation doesn't hold when applying `coerce`, so well-typed programs _can_ go wrong.

There's some great discussion in Section 6.3 about the (abundant!) literature on Java subsets/core calculi, and both the benefits and limitations of using such languages to reason formally about actual PLs.
Isn't AWS doing the same with Lambda?
As someone who's painted professionally, I can confirm the truth of this.
It is open source. The code is here https://github.com/standardnotes
Take a look at Julia's Flux.jl. It has a really nice API and is quite intuitive to use at a low level, and has higher level components as well.

Julia has a fast maturing data wrangling super-project (Queryverse).
Exactly. You're not getting paid to commute. But you are getting paid to work when you would otherwise be commuting. If you're salary, its a wash. If you're hourly, you make more.
Libraries had phone books for other areas. You could find the phone number for anyone.

There as no easy way to do a reverse lookup, but I think people are more afraid of someone finding their number from their name, not their name from their number.
That's not the point. The person playing the game would pay 10cents in carbon tax or something, which is insignificant to them. The person with a bitcoin farm would have to pay much much more, which is a disincentive.

And even if it is worth it to them to run with the carbon tax (as it would be for a gamer), the money that's being taxed can be used to offset their emission. That's the point of a carbon tax; pollute if you want BUT you pay for what you generate as pollution so that we can offset it in some other way.
there's just something about Kasparov that reeks of a lifetime away from the board that's looks to me like it has been a very unsatisfactory if not even unhappy excercise in trying to parlay undoubted excellence in the game into a intellectual halo of unassailable and unquestionable superiority, from political motivations to commercial exploitation and branding.

honestly I really hope that I'm entirely wrong about the man's life and success, but at the very least I'm convinced that Kasparov has never associated with the best available public relations and marketing minds, certainly no one equal to his genius for the game.
Are you thinking about releasing this? The services work well for this. Rss.app is one of the best ones.
The problem is that a lot of people are productive WFH but until very recently, this contingent had little to no sway or voice. With the pandemic, for the first time there's a major shift to WFH and now some companies want to start reigning that in. People who much prefer WFH are fighting not to lose the momentum of the last year.
Lets just say that I caught a glimpse of the Mountain at 1:30 and oriented myself from that.
https://www.pureftpd.org/
When I was growing up, you had to pay the phone company to not list your number.
Miniflux – a minimalist and opinionated feed reader
I see another thing on WFH vs going to work is 'just a job' vs 'career'. In my 'job' where I am doing about same thing for last 5 years and will be similar in foreseeable future.
So all office gossip, impromptu meeting, new project ideas coming while talking to boss and so on does not happen and neither I particularly care.

But these things do seem to matter to those who are just starting career, or have ambition to grow in current place by going beyond doing assigned tasks.
I'd guess the majority of people don't hold a strong opinion on them one way or the other, and being default-on for more people results in more data that can be used to make ads more relevant for everyone, instead of just relying on whatever subset of users actually know to opt in.
Not only that but Square competes in the same market with their acquisition of Weebly, now branded as Square e-commerce sites.
I had a "Gary Kasparov" "computer" chess board when I was a kid, maybe 1995. On one hand it was cool in that you hard pressed your move into the board with the piece, and it would tell you where to move it's piece. On the other hand it had 64 difficulty levels which were all either extremely easy or impossible to defeat.

He's been putting his name on stuff for years.
They would produce something which won't generalize to other types of environment without another huge load of human labor.

Your complaint could be made about just about any new technology. It's usually worse than what came before it at first, but the value is in the potential to eventually become better than what came before it.
One approach:

There are skeleton projects for each framework (Django, Node, etc.) that will take care of all this. One-time fee. You'll have to maintain it. But it's great to get started.

Basically, search for "saas boilerplate" or "saas skeleton".
It's funny that you described wfh as "robotic" yet you literally have to use robot assisted noise cancellation in your office. I don't mean that to be snarky, just an observation.

I find wfh much more "human" as I can be around friends and family, go for walks, eat healthier... Probably the biggest gain is not having a boss watch me all day. That seems superbly unnatural to me.
We also _write_ actively over Slack. I write into my text editor as well, I don't feel a difference. I'm staring at the same freaking screen all day, interfacing with individuals that couldn't feel more irreplaceable. Maybe they're advanced ML text and video synthesis models, I don't know.

Every day feels the same, like three weeks old chewing gum. Work is effective and incredibly empty. I don't know what we're working on. I don't care what we're working on.

The (forced) WFH revolution seems to really be a field day for introverts, nomads, misantropists and sociopaths. I'm happy for them, but I couldn't be much unhappier myself than right now.

If I had the qualifications and could afford it, I'd rather quit and work as a hospital assistant with real humans than stay one day longer in homeoffice.
The problem is the young financially illiterate people BTC hypers who believe that BTC is an issue of tech, when really it's an issue of money and finance.

BTC a number who's ownership can be legitimized by some degree of public scrutiny.

It has utterly no value, no benefit, it's not a currency or store of value.

It's like a pair of Nike shoes, baseball card or comic book, except that it ownership can be transmitted digitally, hence the 'baseball cards'. It has utterly no value other than novelty and speculation.

It's not worth dealing with the BTC crowd, they're the same kind of people who think the Earth is Flat, that Trump won the election or that COVID is not real, following Elon Musk Pied Piper 'to the moon' because of a Tweet.
Some other front page HN article is already saying Edge is out for FLoC. Which is it?
You're arguing against privacy. It's weird to have to rehash this debate, ever since tracking and data collection has become a widely recognized problem. Would you like to see Tor shut down as well? Same argument could be made for "unlicensed" encryption. Which feature of cryptocurrencies would you say is useful to criminals, but not to not-criminals? I'd argue that there's no such feature.
Not really. The revival for me was due to agadmator on youtube but obviously I only started seeing his videos once they were popular and I dont know the cause of that (other than the quality of the channel of course!)

But Queens Gambit did push chess to be even more popular.
Before he became famous. Msg me at johnbees606@gmail.com if interested

Taking bids in bitcoin
They may have solved the LOX boiloff problem, but perhaps not.
Thank you. I’ll check it out.
I'd love to use a static site generator, but no simple WYSIWYG for the people that create content on the site make that a non-starter.
If you use an adblocker, you shouldn't have that problem. I mean, it will get around most things. My preferred way of reading feeds is in list view, so I get an excerpt with a link anyway.
nginx has experimental QUIC support:

https://quic.nginx.org/
+1. I remember checking out Standard Notes and their longevity mission is very positive. They seem to have a solid product, but their approach just doesn't click for me.

Been using Joplin for a couple years. It's one of those few open-source apps that managed to find a golden ratio of functionality but still to the point, a coherent pleasant experience across desktop and mobile.

Missing a basic collab or note sharing functionality though. It's all open formats and that, sure one could hack around it, but more in the spirit of mutual access to encrypted notebooks for example.
I spend ~35% of my weekly waking hours with my coworkers. Despite my objection, I completely understand people who want WFH/remote. But I absolutely don't understand people with your sentiment.
Destructive modification of literal objects is one of those things you're not supposed to do because the consequences are undefined [0]. Some CL implementations might let you get away with it; others might not. I agree that it would be better if immutability was required for literals.

[0] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/03_aba...
A surprising number of limited-access networks only do port blocking, not protocol sniffing. This means many will cheerfully let you connect to an SSH server over port 443 (useful for a SOCKS proxy).
You answered your question, you're paying for the platform that integrates all the third parties into one backend instead of having to build it yourself.
I think the model also has to contribute. If you charge a fixed price up front for a game then the infrastructure for online play is almost pure cost.
Do you honestly believe (let's say) the USA cutting all economic ties/imposing tariffs is insignificant?

Of course they can trade with the others who don't care about pollution. That doesn't mean the costs of a carbon tax don't outweigh the benefits of having economic ties with the countries that have that tax.
Obsidian is amazing. I can’t wait for it to get WYSIWYG Markdown editing.
My guess is a slew of "closely monitored" Facebook groups eagerly shared the article the moment it was posted and some machine intelligence auto-moderator immediately added it to a blacklist without any human oversight.

The article itself is pretty even-keeled (although has that typical New York Post editorialized spin). The article mentions other, unaffiliated BLM groups have already demanded transparency to where Cullors' income came from, and the amount spent isn't completely absurd for a best-selling writer, culture advisor, and public figure.

Blocking the article and spreading buzz about the abbreviated version of the article is definitely bad news. Someone needs to tell the product owners at Facebook that if they want to auto-moderate media across the United States, they should read the wikipedia article about the Streisand effect.
Definitely not. I remember watching chess games on Twitch when the pandemic started last spring and being surprised how popular chess had gotten.
And with multiple paid employees, funded _only_ by small donations. No ads, no corporate sponsors, no investors etc.
> posting a link to the HN discussion

Well... contentious stories get removed from here, too. This is a topic that gets contentious.
Check out https://github.com/saasform/saasform

(I'm a co-founder, feel free to reach out directly.)
"These transformer ants are called “gamergates” (the “gam” rhymes with “ham”)—not to be confused with the 2014 internet campaign."

https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/indian-jumping-ants-shr...
Chip tools become latest victim of global semiconductor crunch
Wow. I wonder how many times it has been said that Cuba's economy is collapsing and people demoralised and the country starving. And yet they don't mention the sanctions, or the hard data that put Cuba ahead of US in many indicators.

Cuba is about to produce the first Latin American Covid vaccine. The broken country they want to make it look like would not even dream of that.
I thought they denied oxygen to the fetuses of the lower castes for set amounts of time?
I think it's better to avoid casual gender stereotyping of behaviors, but I have to raise my eyebrows a bit at the notion that there is a large contingent of people who think it is "ethically monstrous." I suppose it might come down to circles though as you say. Good luck out there.
Though I prefer Kotlin to Java I can't fathom why IntelliJ's Kotlin tooling is still so inferior to its Java tooling when it was JetBrains who invented Kotlin as a Java replacement.
Take a look at my project? https://github.com/tobyxdd/hysteria/
What is weak about Shopify's design capabilities? Liquid gives you full customization. Do you mean Squarespace has a friendlier UX for non-coding users?
During the ~6y I've worked at home, in my <900 sqft space, I've had two children and have had my whole family at home for months at a time due to the pandemic.

Even so, it has never been nearly as disruptive and distracting as any office I have previously worked in.
Preach. I was setting up SFTP batch jobs for financial data last year. New jobs, not migrations.
> Will FLoC speed this up?

If you look back at Chrome's original announcement about phasing out third-party cookies, they are explicit about replacements like FLoC being how it happens:

"After initial dialogue with the web community, we are confident that with continued iteration and feedback, privacy-preserving and open-standard mechanisms like the Privacy Sandbox can sustain a healthy, ad-supported web in a way that will render third-party cookies obsolete. Once these approaches have addressed the needs of users, publishers, and advertisers, and we have developed the tools to mitigate workarounds, we plan to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome. Our intention is to do this within two years." -- https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-...

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
> TPMs are soldered onto motherboards so they are not portable. Like U2F, they also don’t let you sign arbitrary data.

Incorrect!

You can use TPM chips to RSA sign arbitrary data, and use that to authenticate SSH:

https://blog.habets.se/2013/11/How-TPM-protected-SSH-keys-wo...

Even under Windows:
https://blog.habets.se/2016/10/Windows-SSH-client-with-TPM.h...

The secret is using TSS_HASH_OTHER as the hash algorithm, which tells the TPM "it's already hashed". Whether it actually is hashed, or just raw input, is up to you.
Foundations of Complexity Economics
It's chess streaming becoming mature at the same time a global pandemic forced people indoors, combined with TQG.
NASA selects SpaceX as its sole provider for a lunar lander
yes. especially with AI on the edge.
Actually, sort of: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
The SEC's SPAC Crackdown May Have a Chilling Effect
Take a look at the code examples, looks like Python & Numpy + Haskell had a baby. And yes, it is developed by the creators of PyTorch (the irony) and some of the guys from Tensorflow, Jax and S4TF at Google Research & DeepMind. Read their paper here, it's pretty interesting. [1] It may never become an actual production language but it is many times more interesting than both S4TF and Julia.

[1] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rJxd7vsWPS
If they made some money gambling in Vegas it was clearly not thanks to Kelly’s criterion, because Kelly’s criterion clearly (and correctly) states that the optimal bet in Vegas is zero dollar.
European model is very different to US.

I used to do contracting all over EU.... and it was pure bliss. Even with VAT "complexities", it's still about a million times easier to do taxes as a contractor in EU/UK, than it is to do your own taxes in US.

The final thing about contracting in US is that average employer cost of health insurance is over $20k per employee. If you don't fall under someone else's employer sponsored healthcare plan, your self employment income will be greatly diminished. (In US freelancers don't get huge bumps in hourly rates, just because they're not full time benefited employees)
Tracking isn't bad though. I don't see how a person age would make it any more good or bad to do either. Without tracking the internet wouldn't even work at a large scale. All it would take would be 1 malicious user and it would be impossible to know who it is since you aren't keeping that information around.
Not without danger or failure if the scripts depend on internet connectivity, since they could either ex-filtrate data or change their behavior based on the connection being present or not.
"We never spent a dime on marketing."

... except for Luis' salary, hosting the website, and the rest of the marketing stack, which might include Calendly, video conferencing, mailing list, etc.
Hi Winston, I want to know something: when cops murder somebody do you make a comment about it on hn or social media or anywhere, or do you only make comments when car windows get smashed?
How do you check during the hiring process to tell whether new hires will intuitively know when not to interrupt?

Have you often worked on teams where everyone intuitively knows when to not interrupt someone?

Every office I've ever worked in has always had people who interrupt me while I'm trying to focus. If you've got a way to exclusively hire mind-readers that can effectively avoid this, I'm curious to hear how you've managed it.
Do you have an office? My working space at home is a small corner of the living room, a few feet from the kitchen and dining room. There is no better space.

Also, does your wife also work? I just can’t fathom how it isn’t distracting. My kids are two and five, so someone pretty much always has to be watching the two year old. You can’t fully focus on something while watching them. Even my daughter, who is five and can play by herself, is going to need something multiple times an hour; food, a different toy, to go to the bathroom, help getting something, etc.
Is it possible to use Box (which is special cased in many places in the language and thus cannot be replaced, unlike for example Arc) without the alloc crate?
to dogpile more -- the lichess open source library is amazing and the site itself is a joy to use.
The signs that make a city
nice looking lander, which is a big form to request access. of course that is the easy part.
Zero custom scripts other than some vanilla JS I wrote that loads on a few pages. Your numbers are pretty similar to mine. It's not that much different than the WordPress site that replaced it, but it still seems higher than it should be.
I actually switched back to the Jetbrains products due to the bad Go support in VSCode (if anyone tells me the support is great and there is a plugin: please give Goland a try, it is miles ahead)
https://www.crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu
Just tell them you're willing to donate them more than $5K and they'll figure it out.

Politicians are surprisingly cheap, as I've learned over the years from various reports.
There is no compelling evidence they are 'rampant money laundering machines'. Even to prove money laundering happened, you have to prove a crime happened that generated illicit revenue that was then laundered, in which case prosecuting for the AML violation would be redundant, as the offender could be successfully prosecuted on the root crime.

This is why AML laws make much more than money laundering illegal, why in the vast majority of cases of AML law violation, no money laundering was proven to have taken place, and why none of the analyses on the volume of money laundering use this burden of proof when formulating their estimates on the scale of the phenomenon.

What you could say is that other venues are less compliant with warrantless surveillance requirements of US financial crime regulators. That is the phenomenon that is actually provably rampant in non-US-regulated crypto exchanges.
Chrome has 65% market share, even if "nobody' joins, still it's a strong majority of users that have FLOC enabled
Here's the official source selection statement by NASA if anyone wants to read it: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/option-...
Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit

https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/jet/index.html

is a contender for this, BTW
It's also a flimsy excuse given that Facebook recently handled a leak of personal data poorly and does collect financial and residential information.