skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> large B2C apps like FB

FB is an advertising firm, and the identifiability of their audience is a major value driver of their ad inventory[1]. They explicitly leverage the PII stored on their consumer users to enable advertising offerings such as Custom Audiences[2][3][4] and Advanced Matching[5][6].

Best practice for any B2C app like FB would be to retain those prior values indefinitely, since prior values still provide valid utility for their advertising services as additional data points for matching.

That likely differs from best practices for large B2C apps that aren't like Facebook and don't have similar incentives for indefinite data retention.

[1] https://www.adexchanger.com/mobile/facebook-could-take-a-mul...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/341425252616329

[3] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2082575038703844

[4] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2082575038703844

[5] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/611774685654668

[6] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2445860982357574
I spent the whole day on zoom on battery yesterday and still had 35% left to play with.
Just assume that M1 doesn't exist. It'll be much easier.

It'll worth the wait. :)
Definitely. That's absolutely huge.
As a Canadian "musical fruit" still makes you fart. It is some nice potty humour.
> if [...] people can get more data about me (e.g., with whom I talk to) [...]

It's quite possible, at least among mutual friends. If you have 2 people you know, who are also friends with each other, who have high correlation of online times, then, it's a signal that they could be talking with each other.

It's also amusing (insert a better verb...) that Facebook probably knows who's dating who based on frequency of messages on Messenger/WhatsApp/Instagram, location data ("It's the 3rd Friday night that their phones are close to each other in some venue"), and if they're on the same WiFi (A few hours later: "Well, it's 1AM, and after an hour of inactivity, James' phone is now connected to Jenny's WiFi, they did have their third date earlier...")
What do you think about editing the title to indicate AirDrop has security issues? When I clicked I thought it was going to be about what all I can share using airdrop lol
Looks like it's supposed to be more like HyperTalk in the browser:

> It is based on an older and somewhat obscure (today) family of programming languages that originated in HyperTalk...

- https://hypescript.org/docs/#syntax
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Indian Council of Medical Research announced today that Covaxin is effective against several variants including B.1.617 (double mutant variant identified in certain regions of India and several other countries), B.1.1.7 (UK variant), B.1.1.28 (Brazil variant) and B.1.351 (Southern African variant).

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/icmr-says-covaxin-...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/covaxin-shows-78-o...

According to this Twitter person: https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/138482553989517312...

>Covaxin is the inactivated virus-based COVID-19 vaccine being developed with Bharat Biotech and Covishield is the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India under that name.

>So inactivated vaccines tend to have lower immunogenicity on average (when we look back on past vaccines). I would like to think if Covaxin neutralizes it, the others would likely do so as well. We will definitely need data but this is very promising
Yeah, It would be great if any fires were to burn clean and had a strong tendency to rise away from the aircraft, particularly for ground fires. H2 is also nice in that it doesn't create a lot of infrared energy while it burns.

You might be able to save the weight of any fire suppression systems.
I agree. Regardless of the quality of the Daily Mail, the following claim of theirs from the article is damning:

> It alleges Google "punishes" publishers in its rankings if they don't sell enough advertising space in its marketplace.

Whether that's true or not is another thing...guess we'll have to wait and see.
Exactly this - if they had released the documentation and made it available through usual vendors, we could see excellent linux machines coming, probably best in history.
2013 was only 8 years ago. Maybe you upgrade hardware frequently, but for many people it's unnecessary unless artificially required. I have a family member who uses an iMac from 2011. With 16 GB upgraded ram, etc it still works great for her needs... but it cannot run anything more recent than High Sierra, from 2017. Which means that certain third-party software (coughMSOfficecough) also refuses to run the most current version. In the midst of environmental crisis, why should we normalize a desktop OS only supporting < 8 y/o hardware, especially when the same company is moving toward proprietary hardware that is (so far) unsupported by alternative operating systems?
The alternative is none, so I'd rather take the chance.
Meh, everybody is a 0.9X developer in many areas outside of their specialty. I'm a data engineer who specializes in security. I only need to generate a GUI or CRUD webapp once in a blue moon. So a stack that makes sane choices for me and holds my hand a bit is greatly appreciated.
The GP's comment is not baseless - swap White and Black, and the following title could be right out of the Mail:

A Black Virginia Girl Says White Classmates Cut Her Dreadlocks at a Playground - https://web.archive.org/web/20190927202007/https://www.nytim...
I'm pretty sure they allow you to define safe areas where you can leave things without the lost indicator firing.
Check the benchmarks section (https://github.com/rusticstuff/simdutf8#Benchmarks), second table. simdutf8 is up to 28 % faster on my Comet Lake CPU. However with pure ASCII clang does something magical with simdjson and it beats my implementation by a lot. GCC-compiled simdjson is slower all around except for a few outliers with short byte sequences.

The algorithm is the one from simdjson, the main difference is that it uses an extra step in the beginning to align reads to the SIMD block size.
It has the option now to set retention for up to a year.
There is already a rebuttal:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03267-y

The rebuttal too is behind a paywall and doesn't have an abstract...
It took me forever to realize that it's the process, not the outcome that matters. There's a saying: 'Enjoy the journey, not the destination'. Because the destination is fleeting, but the journey takes longer and you should revel in it.

I suffer from what you suffer from It's called Analysis Paralysis[0] or overthinking. You should go all chips in on what sets your soul on fire and focus on that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
6502 was only used in the Apple II and MacOS never ran Apple II software on its 68k processor, so it doesn't really belong in that list.
Ahh Minnesota... land of out-of-control and local government-supported rioting... so I guess shenanigans are expected.
> However, when it came to buying a new engineer on our team a laptop, we had to go with the last 2020 Intel model.

There is no rush into purchasing an M1 for developers since, the software ecosystem at the time (and still to this day) is somewhat immature and not ready. There is plenty of time to switch to Apple Silicon until the ecosystem is mature.

By then, you would not even consider an M1. It might be an M1X, M2, etc. On top of the already existing issues that plague the first generation, the best thing to do for now is to stay on Intel for now. I am long term Apple Silicon, not long term 'M1'.

This is what I have been saying for weeks [0][1] and weeks [2][3] and now just yesterday. [4] I even said it a day after 'launch day'. [5]

Just wait for WWDC or September.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748321

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26159495

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26361883

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26327064

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26879674

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25066189
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A Ponzi is when the returns of early investors are "sustained" by the flux of new investors.

A cashflow producing venture is not a Ponzi since that cashflow is supposed to ensure the returns of all investors.
You can't really buy an equivalent since Apple focused on price, performance, absolute silence and battery life with virtually no deck flex due to the aluminum unibody.

You can get laptops that can almost match it on price and performance but the responsiveness and battery life is going to be extremely hard (including the MacBook Pro and reviews have stated that you can get it to above 18 hours with light use. Also, the MacBook Air is totally silent with great performance and I can't find many silent laptops at all. The biggest downside to the new M1 Macs are probably that they rely on swapping from RAM to disk but we have to see when those parts will wear out.
Prior discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
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Almost!

6502 -> 680x0 -> PPC601 -> x86 -> x86_64 -> ARMv8.5 (Apple M1)

First Intel Macs (MacBook Pro) had a Core Duo which was 32 bit. I think Core 2 Duo was delayed and Apple weren't particularly happy about it.
It’s more like the emperor banning a group of people who put the citizens in danger just so they could show that it could be done. The researchers did something unethical and acted in a self-serving manner. It’s no surprise that someone would get kicked out of a community after seriously breaking the trust of that community.
It is not so easy, even to explain. Many books have been written about organized criminality in Italy and many have to be written yet. Consider that Cosa Nostra (the Sicilian Mafia) at the beginning of '90 had so much power that managed to start a negotiation with high functionaries of the Italian government about which laws could pass and which not (la "Trattativa Stato-Mafia", the "State-Mafia Pact"). In those regions, Italian government and organized criminality have been the same thing for a lot of time. Would you fight yourself?

Also, let me add that a radical approach had been taken by two judges, Falcone and Borsellino. They almost destroyed Cosa Nostra, at the cost of their own lives. They have been both murdered by Cosa Nostra, along with their security, in the 1992. For the curious, this is the wiki page of the State-Mafia Pact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-Mafia_Pact
It's not the number of people directly affected that will matter, it's the reputational problems of "umn.edu's CS department got the entire UMN system banned from submitting to the Linux kernel and probably some other open source projects."
> It doesn't sound like it's worked out well for him in the end.

Half a million for threatening someone and forging some signature? And now the money's gone, presumably the wife and kids miraculously got more wealthy, and what will they do to a 67 year old? Two years of probation? The risk of him doing that again are pretty slim.

Sounds like it worked out and paid extremely well.
I’ve had to write complicated queries with prisma.

In fact. One that prisma didn’t support.

Ordering by the count of a relationship, and returning the few highest counts.

So I added a GitHub issue that is being tracked.

And what did I do for now?

I wrote the SQL using prisma’ raw query function.

You can learn SQL and use an ORM.

Things don’t always have to be one vs the other
More metrics, higher resolution, pre-configured alert. It cannot displace it as is but it can work in tandem very nicely.
Are you suggesting monadic anamorphisms are easy in other languages but hard in Haskell? Could you give an example for comparison?
In short - endless battle between RISC or CISC.
Interesting. I just read the title and assumed it was talking about security issues. Since we all know AirDrop can share files (what it was intended for), presumed this meant it's also sharing some data/privacy issues unbeknownst to us.
The full title is "Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in the name of research" and it seems to justify the ban. It's not as though these students were just bad programmers, they were intentionally introducing bugs, performing unethical experimentation on volunteers and members of another organization without their consent.

Unfortunately even if the latest submissions were sent with good intentions and have nothing to do with the bug research, the University has certainly lost the trust of the kernel maintainers.
I’d love to see a Super Mario Brothers version of this concept.
Apple hasn’t responded to responsible disclosure for 2 years?
You aren’t only voiding the existing contract, you also have to pay the market rate for the player.

The contract is between the club and the player, nothing to do with the league.

A club “owns” a player under contract, so if someone wants to buy the player, they can ask for whatever price they want and turn down any offer if they choose.

Often the costs have a lot of conditions included to protect the buyer and incentivise the player. Such as more money after a number of games played and more money if they win a trophy etc.
It does nothing but serve to increase paranoia that someone is actively being ignored.
Can we think of Apple's podcasting ecosystem as similar to paterons? Or can we assume that Apple is looking to wall the garden in, locking everyone to their context, to extract maximum rents because users can't leave. There is some history there.
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Talking about flagged posts: why are they so hard to read? If I don't want to read a flagged post, I simply won't read it. Why are you forcing me to not read it by coloring it that way?
From an infosec perspective, I think this is a knee-jerk response to someone attempting a penetration test in good faith and failing.

The system appears to have worked, so that's good news for Linux. On the other hand, now that the university has been banned, they won't be able to find holes in the process that may remain, that's bad news for Linux.
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$100/4 isn't going to be a burden for most apple customers if they're just putting them on their keys, wallets, handbags, etc. But the endgame for these sorts of devices is longer lifetimes and slapping them on everything you might conceivable care about losing, which will only become practical once they hit prices below $1. Maybe something based on semi-passive RFID?
This is spot on. I have worked as a consultant doing reviews of a handful of diverse government departments, and leadership's priorities were always identical: justify headcount increases. Every one will have a presentation about the changing nature of their work, new legislation, the decline in staff vs some past golden age etc etc that shows they need more people.

As you say, its 100% a function of the incentives. This is a general flaw with "command" economies where resources are based on who can argue for them best as opposed to demand for the outputs. There is a lot that can be done in terms of SLAs for operational departments and discretion to the operational side on how money gets spent, to try and come closer to a market driven system, but there is no political will for it.
I was very skeptical about the M1 macs but then I got an M1 mba as a complement to my 16 inch mbp and well it's just fast and the temperature is much lower for typical tasks.

Now I'm just looking forward to the 16 inches arm macs.
This seems to miss the point entirely. The furore wasn't from further commercialisation, it was because a cartel of greedy clubs tried going solo and breaking tradition with the ladder system, where Leicester can win the Premier League or Greece the Euros. Most footballers are born into humble backgrounds, meritocracy matters.
I’ve read the post you linked and I still don’t know how you plan to make money.
Also, the blurb you copy pasted it tells me nothing in a clear way.
I only used WhatsApp for a year or so to talk to a specific person, but it definitely felt like a chat client to me. My general impression is that it is a lesser version of AIM but using phone numbers as logins. To be fair, I think of all instant messaging apps as lesser versions of AIM, and I still can't believe AOL dropped the ball so hard on that.

I don't remember the online indication, is that only when you're actively using the app? or just if the app is open on your phone? I'm trying to think of a situation where either could ruin someones life but I'm struggling. Maybe if you're trying to avoid someone important to you, but need to talk to someone else on whats app? Could you give an example of what you were thinking?
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Neat project but I'm also confused with 'distributed'; It sounds like designed for monitoring multiple systems in a single dashbaord OOB with 'zero-config', But on further digging it seems like the distributed monitoring works 'only' with their cloud service[1].

Further clarity on this would be appreciated.

[1] https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/quicksta...
This is one notch above..

2,094 ghost employees working in USC: report

https://www.dawn.com/news/1615213
Yeah exactly.

Most queries you can figure out just from typescript auto complete too...

Majority of queries in an app are basic relationships and crud actions... doesn’t take endless hours figuring this out with prisma.

If it did, we wouldn’t use it.
Yes, from the python side of things there are tools like py03 that make integrating rust into python code really painless.

I have a sql parsing library (shameless plug) that is 50x faster than any other python implementation, it is just a super simple wrapper around a rust crate.

https://github.com/wseaton/sqloxide
Impressive, but I've seen worse.

My mother used to work as an artisan in a theatre and the two worst offenders of this sort were:

-Sceneshifters, whose relations with their superior were a little bit too good so instead of doing their jobs they left the work to my mom's co-workers at the same time reporting hours for that.

-Actors with a long-term employment contract. In theory they were required to participate in at least one play every two years, but in reality the theatre could not afford to lose them and their brand, so they went years without even stepping in the building.

On a smaller scale every sufficiently large corporation will have at least one such a person per team.
The new M1 machines seem cool, and I almost considered grabbing a MacBook or Mac Mini last year, but I'm worried about the complete lack of upgradability.

From my understanding, the older Intel models of some Apple devices at least had some level of upgradability (memory, etc.), but the the memory being on the SoC, I can't buy a cheaper model and hat upgrade it later as I see fit. So if I need something new later, I have to purchase a brand new, expensive machine.
Professional mercenary sports played by international athletes is a poor substitute for regional identity. Man U has as much to do with Manchester as CocaCola does and this new league just makes that undeniable.
Pleeeeeease open an issue if you have a simple reproduction for this. That will make sure we will make sure this _does_ work (sooner or later, not committing to a timeline here on HN of course :p).
And the problem is? At what point did it become wrong for parents to know where their children are? It's called responsible parenting.
Apparently there was an article as followup:

"Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction" (2010, in Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results)

We had the good fortune to have discussion of the study with comments from the author a few years back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15598429
I have a Pro Display XDR hooked up to a MacBook Air and the only glitches I have had would be unplugging and plugging in the display while in sleep mode which just requires me to unplug the XDR and plug it back in.
I can tell you for certain that the OS swipe animations are not pre-rendered (you can easily tell, sometimes one or both of the views involved are animated for example), and I highly doubt anyone would do that. What would be the purpose? It's much more complex to handle, and there's no benefit.
This article presents a simplistic "UK football good, American football bad" viewpoint, but there some aspects to how the NFL is run that are desirable. Primarily here I'm talking about negative feedback.

In the Premier League (as well as Formula 1, for example) there is positive feedback that keeps the top teams at the top. Being successful means that you make more money (whether directly through prize money, or indirectly through sponsors), and you can use that money to keep yourself on the top. Seven clubs have won the Premier League in the last 30 years (of which two have only won it once). If you support one of those top five or six clubs - good for you. If you don't, then you don't have a realistic chance of seeing a league win in your lifetime.

Whereas in the NFL the playing field is much more even. The player salary cap means that teams are limited in the ways that they can outspend each other, and there are various mechanisms that advantage the worst performing teams compared to the best (draft position and schedule). This means that with the right moves (usually the result of new leadership) your team can go from bottom of the pile to Superbowl contender in a short span of years. If you are a Jaguars fan and your team is picking #1 in the draft next week after getting one win last season, you can realistically hope that you might be supporting a good team in a couple of years. In the last TEN years, there have been EIGHT Superbowl winners despite what is considered to be an unprecedented period of dominance by the Patriots.

This makes the sport more interesting to watch as a fan - it's not the same few contenders year in year out. Even Formula 1 is moving in that direction for the good of the sport - bringing in spending limits and evening up some of the prize money distribution.
I'm not exactly sure on how to install this thing, what I just dropped the binary into my path?
e.g. ban `any`, which you cannot do with tsc.
> neodymium magnets

This. I personally know a parent who lost a child this way. The worst scenario imaginable: the child swallowed a magnet, and then another one a day later. The magnets brought together two sections of their intestine. By the time the problem was serious enough to warrant a visit to the hospital, it was too late.

Be very, very careful with small magnets.
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I wish the title were clearer. Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches on purpose.