skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent years worrying about misleading descriptions and fake reviews. I then bought a subscription to which.co.uk and have been a happy customer since. They review a wide variety of products and they are a non-profit registered as a charity in the UK. They are mainly funded by consumer subscriptions so conflicts of interest are avoided.
WHO gives emergency approval to China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine
I've seen all sorts of solutions put together by municipalities big and small from counties to states to countries and everything in between during this whole Covid thing and the thing that struck me is how easy it was for them to essentially track you with perfect precision and tie it back to a phone number.

> Except it wasn’t hastily built

They were built very hastily with little oversight with iterative beta cycles in plain sight.

> nefarious way that you’re implying

I didn't imply any nefarious intent what so over. All I implied is that your location data is being tracked and put into some database somewhere and you don't control it.

Who has this data? No idea.
How will it be used a year from now? 10 years from now? No idea.
Does it draw more energy on my device or use more processing power? No idea.

That alone is enough to not use it.
Why does this website ask me to enable DRM?
> I get it, it's hard to believe because it's easy to think of Amazon as all-powerful.

This has nothing to do with thinking Amazon is all-powerful, and everything to do with thinking they don't care because it makes them money. Amazon's revenue is clearly skyrocketing and they make a ton of money because of the marketplace. It seems obvious to me they made the decision to put revenue/profits over long-term customer support.

You believe that Amazon wants to solve the problem. I believe Amazon doesn't want to solve the problem, because they make more money not solving it now. And talking about the long-term vision of a company whose founding CEO just stepped down is pretty meaningless.

I'll be more blunt. Amazon saying they care about fake reviews is like Facebook saying they care about privacy. They make money by lying about it, not fixing it. Facebook clearly hasn't suffered the long term damage of years of horrible PR using their stock price as a metric (you know, the only metric that really matters), and Amazon likely won't either (in fact they've had just as much bad PR and look at them now).
Naaaah too easy, better to use your microphone to listen to what you're doing at random times, then deduct what you would be interested in.
I don't think it could achieve critical mass, but if there was some alternate Facebook with just as widespread of use that you had to pay for but it didn't track you or show you creepily personal ads I would strongly consider using it.
Since the payments would have to be made through the App Store platform (unless Facebook forced the user to subscribe through a web browser) Apple would most likely be profiting though.
Does anyone know if there's a trick to avoid the trailing newline when double-clicking a line to copy/paste it elsewhere?

This always annoys me for single-line commands. I'd love a CSS solution but can only think of some ugly JS approaches.
>Everyone else is engaging in inane one-line comments and meme posts because the new interface does not encourage substantial, nuanced discussion

How does the old interface (which I use) differ at all in terms of encouraging nuanced discussion? It's still just a box for markdown.
I can't speak to any actual person's mentality, but Covid relief is temporary, whereas wages are subject to a ratchet effect and establish a future baseline for what you'll be paid for the rest of your working life. If you're being offered more than you used to make before and it's anywhere near what you earn in temporary relief payments, the economically sanest decision is to take it.

Provided you can, i.e. your kids' school isn't still shut down or something so you have to stay home to watch them.
Certain programs, yes. Notably earlier Opera versions and several image editors.

It's called Multi-Document Interface (MDI).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-document_interface
>This is where the whole "I looked up nike shoes on Amazon and now I'm getting nike shoe ads on Facebook" comes from. Without the IDFA, Facebook has no way of knowing what you looked up on Amazon, only what you look up on Facebook.

Can this really be true? Wouldn't the conclusion be "Facebook can no longer rely on the IDFA for this information, but can probably gather it by a different ID shared between both Amazon and Facebook?"
For simple windows installation isn't official Microsoft Media Creation Tool enough anyways? Rufus is a great tool to install ESXi, linux variants and other custom ISOs.
We're not talking about maternity leave, but unemployment.

Thanks for agreeing they both have a stigma. You seem to be struggling to make up an example where being employed has a worse stigma than being on unemployment though.
Is it?
I'm just pointing out that the USA still getting a lot of cases. I'm not saying that other countries are doing better. Would it be better to point out that just under a 1000 people a day are still dying from it in the US? What's the better metric?
From the link about GraalVM:

> Something that Graal can do that C2 cannot, and a key advantage of GraalVM, is partial escape analysis. Instead of determining a binary value of whether an object escapes the compilation unit or not, this can determine on which branches an object escapes it, and move allocation of the object to only those branches where it escapes.

And from https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/vm/java-hotspot-vi...

> The Java HotSpot Server Compiler implements the flow-insensitive escape analysis algorithm described in:

> ...

> After escape analysis, the server compiler eliminates the scalar replaceable object allocations and the associated locks from generated code. The server compiler also eliminates locks for objects that do not globally escape. It does not replace a heap allocation with a stack allocation for objects that do not globally escape.

----

So, some JVMs implement, others only do a limited subset of the optimizations available with escape analysis.

I would not say that the answer of "is it used in practice" is "no."
A lot of on-line businesses created in the last ten years would not be profitable without the ability to grow their customer base. Anyone selling products specialised enough to only be relevant for 10% of a demographic group or less.
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Why do you feel this to be a compelling argument? It doesn't matter how high you think the wages are. If they are not attracting enough workers, they are too low.
If ads companies like FB, GOOG pull all of their apps from the iOS app store, would customers move to android? Is the vendor lock-in strong enough that people would find iOS alternatives than buy an android phone?
Right but if you select the wrong /dev device, you just wiped your drive. GUI tools will auto select "the usb one" typically. Also tools like YUMI can make things like a multiboot drive with 50 different linux distros on one drive and set up things like persistent disk space for the ubuntu distributions and can set up WindowsToGo drives. Not sure how to do that with cat / dd.
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Slight related tangent: For all those interested in birding, I highly recommend the BirdNet app available on Android and iOS! You can record and send audio data, and it will try to classify the bird for you based on the recording.

In the process of recording, it will show you the bird's spectrograms, which is really cool!
One scientific paper predicts around 200 excess deaths eventually. A single percent of the death toll of the tsunami.
Show HN: Mortgage Calculator: 30-year vs. 5/1 ARM (Monte Carlo, Brownian Motion)
How do you choose the "right" type of mortgage to optimize your net worth? This little calculator compares the payments on a 30-year fixed mortgage to the payments on a hypothetical 5/1 ARM.

Since the payments on a 5/1 ARM vary with interest rates, I used Monte Carlo simulation (with Brownian Motion) to generate possible payment paths. Then I took the 75th-percentile of 100 possible ARM paths (yep, this is a small sample size!), diffed it with the 30-year fixed payments and discounted everything back to the present day to generate a (for entertainment purposes only) recommendation.

The state of ARM calculators is bad. Check out the products offered by Zillow, Bank Rate or Nerd Wallet and you'll see 1) they don't really exist and 2) they might have some weird assumptions like interest rates staying fixed or only increasing. This isn't reality.

Moreover, comparing two mortgages (e.g. 30-year fixed vs. 5/1 ARM or 30-year fixed from one lender vs. 30-year fixed from another lender) is sorcery for most people. This stuff lives in Excel sheets on your banker's desktop, but with some effort, I could make make the "which type of mortgage and which lender?" question more transparent and actionable.

In any case, this calculator is a simple Google sheet. It doesn't really work on mobile: sorry. Also, you can break it with little effort. Please don't, it's just a headache for anyone else playing with it. Also, yes, this sheet is multi-tenant. Play with it directly or download a copy. Be sure to hover over the cells to see notes about relevant stuff.

I'm curious who's interested: brntsllvn@gmail.com or linkedin.com/in/brent-sullivan-350230209

Some background on Monte Carlo and Brownian Motion: I'm convinced Monte Carlo is the right approach, but we might debate Brownian Motion as the right model. The reason I chose Brownian Motion is that the daily difference between interest rates is mostly Gaussian. Tweak the params and see what happens.
When someone writes, “Surprisingly, …,” they are expressing their own surprise. It is equivalent to “To our surprise…,” except it is more succinct. Absent other context, there’s no implication that anyone else is surprised or should be surprised.
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I mean, sure this sounds great - if Facebook would let us pay for access instead of selling data on us - but I don't see that happening ever. Aside from this being an obvious bluff, I see the best case scenario is that Facebook charges for a premium access, but still tracks you as best it can get away with. If Facebook can figure out how to do it, they'd sell you a service and sell your info to the highest bidder.

Also, Facebook doesn't track purely for better ads. That's the benign version. Facebook tracks because it wants to own the aggregate profile of "you" online.
Different needs for different people, I don't think there is a singularly best car out there. I'd personally like to see an electric minivan, as it's the most practical for my family of five, with all our luggage and three children in carseats.
Speak for yourself. Don't use words like "anybody" to force your point. Facebook has definitely benefitted me to stay in touch with my friends and loved ones over the years.
>Torvalds even said so himself.

Torvald's comment about ZFS was as uninformed as it gets...and he calls himself an FS-Guy ;(
"It's free and always will be" quietly disappeared in August 2019.

"The first one is always free"?
I use 80/20 rule quite a bit of coding. Developers can easily get obsessed with minutia that doesn't help the product organization or has ample diminishing returns. Tuning a business app is a great example. Is 80% performance tuning good enough? Most times, yes. In fact 80% is probably too much in most cases. I can spend the remaining 80% working on new features that would greatly enhance the business' service.

Only in rare exceptions would I want the inverse: spend the remaining 80% of my effort to gain the final 20% improvement.
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> What we, er, the linux community, chose instead, was BTRFS. It isnt ZFS

Speak for yourself. As a part of “the Linux community” I gave btrfs a fair chance, but stopped using it because it constantly failed on me in ways no other fs had done before and didn’t protect my data.

ZFS is rock solid and I’ve never had any of the issues I had with btrfs.

So as a member of “the Linux community” you claim to unilaterally represent I put such petty license-politics aside and choose the file system which serves my needs best, and that is ZFS.
Can you do that without installing their app which will have access to your contacts and location upon first access?
If you are looking for some level-headedness on the topics of AI, self-driving etc, here are some recommendations:

Book suitable even for lay people, written by someone who has been working for years in this field:

[1] Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
by Melanie Mitchell

People to follow:

[2] https://twitter.com/missy_cummings/

[3] https://twitter.com/rodneyabrooks/

[4] https://www.twitter.com/MelMitchell1/

Edit: For criticism of Elon Musk and/or Tesla:

[5] https://www.elonmusk.today/

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Tes....

[8] https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/04/surely-we-can-do-bett...

[9] https://troll.tv/videos/watch/54bc7bd0-8691-4359-aa7d-dc5148...
XFS all the way down...or ZFS (on FreeBSD)
>Nobody gives a shit about those non-profit organizations that "represent" the decentralized groups.

Everybody that's donated to BLM does, as do the community organizers that leverage these groups, and the media and news they generate, etc.

>You've had plenty of time to learn this.

IMAX-level projection on not getting it. It's apparent you don't understand the basic concepts.

>I provided evidence

No you didn't. You provided nothing. I'll ask again: find me some official collateral which back up GP's "literally the only substantial voice" claim.

>Seems to me you have a bone to pick about the "official" blm non-profits and can't seem to approach this subject rationally.

You have this backwards. The only logical and rational way to back up this claim is to post proof of it. "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
Scala has to the solution to every problem except the problem of too many features.
My favorite phrases in academic papers are "leaves a lot to be desired", and of course "towards a ...." in the title.
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4% is level with the Lizardman constant, i.e. the threshold of noise in the data:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

So that 4% is basically meaningless, indistinguishable from 0%, it might represent misunderstanding, misclicks and the like.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27076848
As an Android user, is there anything I can do other than use Firefox with uBlock installed to improve privacy?
If some person openly said to you that they wanted to hurt you, then I would assume bad faith. Please let someone know if that happens, in most open source projects that would probably be a code of conduct violation. I don't think people who say such things often would be very welcome in GNOME.

>I think assuming bad faith can be very helpful if only because it tells you what to not support or depend on.

I'm sorry I don't get what you're saying. You can decide not to support or depend on something without (incorrectly) assuming bad faith. This stuff is all open source, nobody can force you to use a library that you're not interested to use.
How well does it support nvidia optimus (for laptops)?
This just sounds like you’re creating a second revenue stream for them. I don’t trust a single company to stop collecting and monetizing data that they are used to monetizing.
Exactly. Labor market is linked to many other things. Wages are the most important factor, but not the only factor.
And do what with it?
And as an advertiser, I confirm losing a lot of money trying to advertise, not seeing revenue. Choosing to advertise 25-34 males (in addition to being the definition of sexism/ageism) who type “Jira time tracking” (because “Jira” keyword is reserved anyway) is useless. I want to put an ad on websites that talk about Jira. And that requires no tracking at all.
>So if you're building something right now, maybe stop and ask yourself "ok, so how does this all look if we end up taking over the world 25 years from now, and this thing is a gatekeeper between a lot of people and a lot of revenue?"

This is a fair concern, but I'd say that if you're building something right now, I think is better to worry more about getting your startup in a position to take over the world first and then deal with those concerns. Worrying about these big problems when you're small I would say is a bit of premature optimization.
You’re right of course. Too easy, better to put a neural implant straight into your brain and watch your nightmares.
Keep an eye on Tenstorrent AI cpus...
> This is where the whole "I looked up nike shoes on Amazon and now I'm getting nike shoe ads on Facebook" comes from. Without the IDFA, Facebook has no way of knowing what you looked up on Amazon, only what you look up on Facebook.

That's not really true, as far as I know. FB provide a feature called custom audiences, which can take a set of emails and match them to FB users. Amazon could easily upload this list and use it to target on FB.

Apple can't really prevent advertisers/platforms from sharing information from other sources. What they can stop is apps using IDFA as a primary key for a particular Apple user, and that's what they appear to have done.
Or you know, the JIT will trivially optimize away the old class if it is reassigned to the same variable, as you would use it inside a loop. How do you think the litany of FP languages work? Like Haskell, Scala, Clojure?
as an 80/20er myself, i have "80/2" tattooed under my right eye ... i regret it every day.
Value classes, primitive types and specialized generics will be on the stack on the next versions.
There is also this related work
https://github.com/microsoft/openjdk-proposals/blob/main/sta...
I don't think Apple's "pro-privacy" stance is solely about improving the experience about using their products. They're certainly very aware a focus on privacy and security makes a great product differentiator for them, but from all appearances, it's not just fluff when Apple executives say they believe privacy is a fundamental right. I'm not intending to be Pollyannaish about Apple specifically, either; I think most companies have some set of core values distinct from profit-seeking, and will try and stick by them as long as (a) the profit-seeking and the values don't come into serious conflict, and (b) the executives at the top continue to believe in those values.

So I don't think those policies are in danger of being reversed based on "threat to enjoyment"; I think they're more in danger of being reversed based on "measurable threat to profit" somewhere down the road -- but probably most in danger of being reversed, long-term, by executive shuffle.
Personally, I can't see a difference for startup times between urxvt and alacritty, both of which are near instant on my i3 setup, but I have heard of some users experiencing long startups on mac. I'd wager theres a bug there to be found.
Let's be honest, even if Facebook started charging for access, they wouldn't shut down their other streams of revenue. That ship has sailed, Facebook is not and never can be a company that treats its users like the customers. Facebook users are the resources they exploit for profit, and they've been locked into that business model since inception.
This is not true, see my other comment. You are correct, as far as I know (which isn't much, as I'm not really in the industry anymore).
I don't remember this but would extremely interested to see it. Any link?
> How much more honest a relationship it might be if Facebook charged for its wares.

The author seems to think that Facebook would suddenly stop doing all the other things it does to make money, once a user would pay. Of course they would not.

On the contrary: Facebook would see those paying users as extra valuable for tracking, keep harassing and confusing them until they click the wrong button once, and then sell that "premium" user data for more.
Also the users willing to pay are the most valuable to advertise to.

I think I also read the per user dollar value of ad revenue was $150/month? Way more than any individual would pay - and losing a subset would reduce this for the others.

Also the preference for targeted ads is rationalized nonsense (imo) when the cost is user data:

“To test if users truly find 'relevant ads' as value-add: make two products, one with ads and one without and charge for the one with ads - see how many people buy it.

Why doesn't Hulu charge more many for their streaming service with ads instead of their service without? The behavior of these companies suggests they know on some level this value-add nonsense is a rationalization. Even if you say it's only value-add when compared to un-targeted ads - let users choose to have un-targeted ads without giving up their data privacy. I'd bet money on what choice they'd make.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27069492
How to Design Programs is maybe my all time favorite programming book. BUT it is incredibly dense and you can't go to it for your first book. Realms of Racket is a good one though.
Newton's law of universal gravitation is quite useful even if not fully accurate. Psychologically and sociologically people especially children need to be informed and inherit a tradition which is done through story telling. Campbell points out that humans haven't changed physiologically in the last 10,000 years, what has changed are the traditions passed down by story telling. Contained in myths is more than how to tell a captivating and compelling story but also how to use symbolism, perhaps a more direct language than words. He says the myths, which people carry in their memory and thoughts as they go about their lives, serve four main functions. The first is dealing with the mystery of the universe and the human condition. Then it has a cosmological function to describe the universe and phenomena such as thunder and lightning which we now do with science. It has a sociological function informing people how to behave and act in their society and culture. And, lastly, a pedagogical function. Perhaps one day we can explain the mind and consciousness with neurology but like Newton's law, spirituality, symbolism, and mythology is very useful today.

In the context of Disney's use of mythological symbolism in their story telling, it has everything to do with tech/science. When children repeatedly watch movies like Marvel's Black Panther and pretend to be the character by dressing up, the characters become that child's identity. When they are faced with new situations like going to a new school or having to deal with bullying, they are informed how to deal with the situation by the memory of the story. In the Black Panther there is a fictional highly technologically advanced nation called Wakanda. This isn't just about telling a compelling story, it is deliberate informing girls especially girls of African decent of what their relation to the society they are born into is. The character Shuri is Head of the Science and Information Exchange. Someone at Disney decided to put a black woman in charge and this is the sociological function of the myth watched by hundreds of millions of children all around the Earth. That is a crazy new idea.

One thing these girls who grew up to become scientists will have to face is after investing 4 years in college and another 4 in graduate school they likely will be discriminated against because of the color of their skin or being female. The hero's journey is one of several mythological plots and it is the one these girls will need to be informed with at that point in order to prevent complete psychological breakdown when they face that challenge. Anyone with a crazy new idea whether it is in engineering, science, making movies based on comic books, music, or literature will have a similar journey.