skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ads are fine. I don't like them, but they are fine. Targeted ads are fine too. I don't like them either, but they are fine.

The privacy invading tactics used to drive those targeted ads are not fine. They are abusive, manipulative, and covert. I am not in Europe, so perhaps I'm bias, but I also don't see regulation of the data collection industry via the GDPR as improving the situation much. It seems to have just moved the goal posts for being more manipulative to gain permission. From my totally outsider point-of-view it seems the only way to effectively limit this privacy-invading data collection is to regulate how the data can be used vs. the collection itself. Heavily regulating the ad targeting itself vs. the data collection would mean even if you did collect the data, it loses its value to the advertisers. This also allows more legitimate data collection such as error reporting to continue as-is without the burden of extra regulation.

Anyways, that is my point of view on it. I would be interested to hear other's opinions on it, perhaps from those in industry.
That only happened because conservatives gave up trying to please a hostile audience. Reagan was Satan incarnate, until 20 years later, when he was a voice of reason compared to Dubya. Rinse and repeat.
>>Who gives 50% earned to charity?

Perhaps some. But I'm sure they don't brag to the world about it.
I'm not complaining about you posting it, it's pretty interesting if you ask me. Just noticed there's a new site linked to from HN (which has its darlings).
I for one look forward to the hacker news posts titled "How did we get it so wrong for so long?" analyzing the systemic and sociological failures that lead to the "taboo" which blocked progress/investigation for so long.

The comments of course will be how it was obvious, documented for decades, and how they knew all along.
> I can admit I am no BEAM expert and it seems my thought offended the experts

Who knows? I didn't find the musing particularly off putting.

As Alpaca is apparently dead there's also LFE[1] and Hamler[2]. Most devs in the space stick to either Elixir or Erlang so ymmv.

[1] https://github.com/lfe/lfe

[2] https://github.com/hamler-lang/hamler
The lawyer's defense is that, in any decent justice system, people have a right to a legal council and are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Even if they have been declared guilty of a crime in the past they might be innocent of this one and still have a right to council.
Except, confusingly, you seemingly cannot mount a full-frame Canon RF lens on a Canon EF-M mirrorless camera.
The ones Sony have discontinued recently, actually have a fixed mirror, known as SLT (though they can also be still called DSLRs).
Didn't Macron give some kind of posthumous honor to Pétain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4tWz0iOCzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slx4IsfsZPA

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46129990

https://www.france24.com/en/20181108-macron-stokes-anger-wit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_P%C3%A9tain
I wonder if the backlash to Mighty and the resulting defensiveness will cause it to persist longer than it would have had it announced earlier or gotten less friendly feedback. Presuming it doesn’t get the widespread traction it was hoping for.
The current frontiers are nowhere near what is possible though; E.g., python, bash, ruby could be a lot faster if their development was subsidized by governments. Cpp doesn’t have a good package manager (and likely will not have one in the coming decade either). Go doesn’t have obvious features such as string interpolation and generics. Rust’s tooling still isn’t pleasant. ...
Well, I owned a Xerox Lisp Machine from 1982 to about 1987. True, a great programming environment, but the situation is so much better today. For example, I own a LispWorks Professional license, and the support and quality of the product is fantastic. My friends at Franz have similar quality products like Allegro and AllegroGraph. Even Clojure+Cider or Haskell+Intero or Haskell+VSCode (easiest to set up) is arguably better than dealing with lack of deployment options for Lisp Machines.
An Interview with Linus Torvalds: Open-Source and Beyond – Part 2
Well, everyone knows now that the 'X nm' naming doesn't actually mean much when looking at the whole chip, which is why we're talking about transistors per area. Also, Apple has been designing modern chips with massive production volumes for a while, and IBM... hasn't (in fact, they've mostly sold off their former fabrication capabilities). So that's why my expectations were a little different.
The Utility of Suffering
> ability to explore different areas. When you are a contractor, you are expected to be top notch at what you do. Often that means you don't get to explore new things (except on your own time, which you should do). It's nice to get paid to learn as an employee.

I've also done both over my career, and I haven't noticed much difference in this regard. I've proposed we try out (and they accepted) a different language or technology that I would need to learn numerous times to long-term clients.
Saw this on Producthunt earlier today. Looks really clean and useful. It is also, and probably most importantly really easy to use. Looking forwards to use it in the future or recommend it if someone has the need for it!
Debug mode for AirTags found in iOS 14.5
As someone who has worked in ads in the past, this is exactly what it sounds like.

In advertising, context matters. Ads when you’re in discovery mode looking for things to consume? Great, ads are usually unobtrusive in that context. But there are only so many discovery scenarios but lots of ad money to be made.

Advertising is a zero-sum game to dominate the human attention span. This has negative effects on our social lives and mental health. Is saving a few dollars a month worth the societal impact that constant advertising entails? In my opinion this constant barrage of ads is a big part of why we as a society can disagree about basic facts about the world: we’ve been conditioned to consume media that is promoted by virtue of its ability to draw eyeballs through being controversial / shocking, rather than the veracity or value of the information. Ads create a perverse incentive for publishers to operate at the edge of truth because those stories / media get more views.
The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles
Labor used to be directly related to our ability to feed ourselves (when everyone was a farmer / hunter gatherer). No work = no eat.

Nowadays, we have more productivity as a species if we do specific labor instead in order to feed ourselves, but the premise is the same. No work = no eat (at least until you have enough savings/investments to afford not to work). At least until theoretically automation takes all of the jobs.
remote globally?
Yeah but that refinery starts making money at some point. With Chernobyl, the $2B is completely gone.
Wrongness has no bearing on the strength or stability of a nation. There are plenty of strong authoritarian regimes around the world. Political structures care about stability and relative strength, not morality.
Size of tele lenses is also mostly determined by the size of the entrance pupil so there is little point in offering dedicated DX telephotos beyond 200mm/f5.6 or so where it still makes a difference.
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Also interesting is the fact a rifle was/is used as a field instrument:

"The substance proved too hard for a drill mounted on a motorized trolley, ... Finally, a police marksman arrived and shot a fragment of the surface away with a rifle. The sample revealed that the Elephant's Foot was a solidified mass of silicon dioxide, titanium, zirconium, magnesium, and uranium"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant%27s_Foot_(Chernobyl)#...
Rust ownership and borrows – Fighting the borrow-checker
Can you blame them? The lower performance camera market got absolutely obliterated by smartphones. There is almost no market left for them in that area.

I recently bought a Sony A6000 to see if I would enjoy having a dedicated camera over my smartphone. Overall I like it, but I'm really shocked at well my smartphone does in comparison for 90% of photos.

There are certainly some major benefits to a dedicated camera such as low light performance, depth of field, better focusing, etc. But, honestly, for 99.9% of photos people are going to take (portrait photos of friends/family and etc), a decent smartphone does a better job.
Well it's true that certain world views are incompatible with knowledge of certain facts.
While we're at it, let's see if we can fix "officer-related shooting" too.

The most recent one I saw: "A trooper-involved fatal shooting in Leonardtown that ended in the death of a 16-year-old."

Both the "trooper-related" and the "ended in" passive voice to avoid saying "a trooper shot and killed a child."
We need a Godwin's law for Elon vs. all of society's problems.

"As the technical discussion gets more popular, the likelihood of Elon having a purported solution approaches one"
As to the original question of how to attract senior devs away from contracting:

1. Pay them more -- a lot more. See point one above.

2. Give them greenfield projects.
Paul Skallas puts more elegantly, 1KYAE. America exports its culture without even trying. Echos of BLM and MAGA can be found in many corners of the world.

If you find it strange.. its not!
On an individual level there's another angle: Wait to long and you run into the point where other people are scrapping newer, more efficient machines. At that point, picking one of those up is increasing your efficiency.
The heat of the volcano wouldn't change anything. The problem is first that you can't guarantee it won't be carried on magma currents and be pushed above ground elsewhere, and second if it got stuck and didn't sink into Earth's core, you'd have a volcano dirty bomb just waiting for the next eruption. And you'd have no way of knowing if it got stuck or not.
>At $50 bucks a month I should just buy them a mac.

Yeah, agreed. I kind of thought the savvy business plan would be to charge at a loss, make up the loss with VC money, gather a lot of market share (customers like you), then raise the price once the pain of moving off is too high
What's changed about bureaucracy and decision-making in government that makes it safe now?

Should only collapse-proof nations build nuclear plants? If it looks like a collapse is coming, should they decommission them early?

I get the better tech arguments-- those are solid. But this idea that they were dumb and we're smart is, I guarantee you, the same exact idea they had at Chernobyl. The whole reason they wanted to save face so much is because the whole thing was built on that idea.
Stack Overflow switches to system fonts on May 10, 2021
quite partial to RNG / .rnc
People have been saying this for decades. I don’t see a way for this to happen that is both more convenient to users and not open to all manner of automated attacks that would be difficult if not impossible to track down.

Ad fraud is already a huge problem, as are things like ransomware. Micropayments would just give bad actors a direct line to your wallet.
I remember all the vegetables etc. thrown away / not eaten in Germany back then - especially mushrooms (not vegetables, not animals I know) if I remember correctly.
How long before the $500 Lenovos and Dells have same ballpark performance to the 2021 M1 Macs? AMD or NVidia will inevitably release an ARM chip that competes with M1, and it will just be 12-24 months before this is commonplace.

I don't buy the argument that performance will always get tapped out by developers. There is an upper limit to what even a horribly architected 2D web app needs to consume.
That article is much better:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/
Also, you can't mount EF-S lenses on a EF camera.
This post seems to be in response to the recent Mighty app.

To me, the main problem lies in what VCs think pass as 'tech'. The mighty app website made it sound it like it was some novel revolutionary app.

I was hoping it was really something clever like what the Cloudflare people or even game streaming companies do. But nope.

It's significantly worse: it's literally slapping together existing tech and calling it novel. And worse, simple security/privacy seem to have taken a backseat as if there is some innovative performance-oriented solution being prioritized here.

There doesn't seem to be any tech. But reading through the website, one might be mistakenly led to believe it is something of a hard problem to solve. In fact the person running the show admits to how they pivoted from a Windows VM company to running just Chrome. This is reality distortion at best. Running an Electron app to stream a live Chrome VM session seems like a CS401 style project.

This is similar to Uber or AirBNB: the value add is in slapping together some quick existing tech with the main 'innovation' being the funding system or creatively working around regulatory/legal hurdles.

I find it amusing and sad that there isn't any new tech nor even a sound financial plan for a lot of these companies (nor even a so-called moat beyond just siloing their first mover advantage behind legal paperwork).

It seems as though the 90s VCs funded actual technically sound, innovative, "pushing the envelope yet making money" companies.

These days it's a popularity and ego matching competition among VCs and founders. This isn't tech. This is throwing money at a problem inefficiently and seeing what sticks. The people that work in this space are rather uninspiring, technically demotivated but financially motivated group.

I hate to think that this is the new 'tech' world that was promised. I don't even want to start on Jonathan/Casey comments as they are obviously right but that's besides the point here.

Makes me wonder if Mighty or Clubhouse (or even Lambda school/Coinbase) are the stellar examples a budding CS student is going to look up to: which is sad and makes me really wish for the 90s VCs to come back and fund more technically/financially sound and inspiring companies.
Windows “modern” calculator takes quite some time on its useless splash screen for me. (The old native calculator opened almost instantly.)
Unless of course we've missed the time to raise them :)
> Furthermore, most/many user-provided rich-text applications use a DSL like Markdown which sidesteps the need for sanitization, so you can use escaping for these cases as well.

Be very careful about that assumption for Markdown. Many markdown processors will pass html tags through I modified so you could have a script in Markdown.
Thanks, I was very happy with it, it had the right balance of being outrageously inflammatory while containing plenty of clues that it was a troll. And the images were the icing on the cake lol.
I know people here are (rightly) worried about censorship by Facebook and other social media companies.

The problem is that Trump and other fascists, don't give a shit about being fair or moderate or playing by the rules. Trump and his supporters care about power and control. They will use and abuse the rules in their favor to get as much power as possible.

This is page ONE of the fascist playbook, manipulate the rules to gain an advantage. Trump does not deserve to be treated like an honest part of the political landscape, he deserves to be banished from public office and thrown in jail for his many crimes.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean you let people outright lie about things that are clearly the opposite. There is almost zero evidence of election fraud, yet Trump continues to lie about it every chance he gets. Trump wanted to steal the election and then tried to stage a coup when it didn't happen.

His citizenship should be revoked.
Big difference in cities built of masonry and those built of wood. Eastern Asia had many of the largest cities through history but they were often wooden and thus much less has survived than Rome
I invented 'antiad'.

I see an annoying ad in public space? I might get in contact with them to complain about that ad.

I think it is just fair to tell someone my honest opinion as soon as they take the time and effort to target me.

I'm totally lost on why we support generic unrelevant ads in public spaces. It makes our cities ugly.
Nikon, Canon and others continue releasing updates for a long time, though. If anything Sony is the odd one in this market.
> all more user hostile for my use cases

Why are these user-hostile? I see very little friction to any of them - $10/year YT subscription disappears into the background (that's, what, two moderately expensive coffee drinks? if you spend just a single day watching educational content, the obtained value will easily exceed $10), per-search microtransactions would be so cheap that you could just turn on the "always transparently pay for this" feature, and any YouTube video of reasonable size that is worth watching is definitely worth spending the few seconds of time to assess and then click the "donate to get access" button.

What, you're saying that these things don't exist? Then that's a problem with currently available implementations of microtransactions, not the concept of microtransactions itself.

It's easy, from a technical perspective, to design a low-friction microtransaction system.

> Would I rather replay history and pay ~$120 every year (~$2400 ?) to search for web articles?

That's a price problem, not a pricing model problem. Microtransactions/subscriptions are irrelevant - that price is so far above the actual cost of your Google searches that the equivalent in terms of the current model (you pay with your data) is that Google demands your SSN in order for you to search - and the results in both cases will be the same: users will use a different product.

Edit: Because this comment has gotten strawmanned in the same way repeatedly: I did not say that the ad-funded model should go away, nor do I believe that - my comment was purely a response to the idea that microtransactions are infeasible, and nobody carefully reading it would think otherwise.
We don't have to have government take over housing, just relax the zoning regulation. The damn real estate owner's association has too much power - if we curb some of it, I will have no problem with privately owned real estate.

Remove the carveouts against money laundering for real estate, the preferential tax treatment / mortgage interest deductibility for investment properties, things like that.
Right but there's an assumption of all else being equal when making a comparison like that.

Obviously you can get away with paying below market rates if you provide some other benefits to make up for it.
> you will end up not setting keys /entries in maps

This is what I run into. But that's not exactly a dynamic language problem. It's more of a data-oriented programming (in the Clojure sense) problem.

I'm coming to the opinion that data-oriented programming techniques only make sense inside a fairly tightly bounded context. One that's small enough that you can see and understand the whole thing at once. As soon as you've got ad-hoc data structures crossing logical boundaries, you lose the ability to keep track of it all, and it becomes very difficult to ensure everyone's interacting with these ad-hoc types in a compatible manner.

Incidentally, this is also exactly why I dislike JSON for APIs. I'd much rather share data across boundaries using data structures with explicit, nominal, static types. Like what you get in gRPC.

Anyway, my Clojure experience is limited, but I think this is why I have an easier time letting Python code get big than I did Clojure. With Python, I've got myself into some problems with data oriented programming, too. But with Python, it was easy (and idiomatic) to walk that back and switch to using dataclasses.
Go back in time a thousand years and tell people that one day man will fly faster than a bird and land on the moon.

FTL is not impossible. The only thing physics say is that you can’t accelerate a particle that has mass past c because that would require infinite energy. But accelerating an object doesn’t have to be the only way to move “faster” than light.

Look at our civilization today and compare it to what it was a thousand or two thousand years back. Now imagine a civilization that’s had three hundred thousand year head start on us.

Who’s to say they haven’t mastered wormholes or bending gravity or harnessing dark energy to accomplish things that are purely in the realm of science fiction today?
I get the BLM, people everywhere want equality. But why MAGA? What feeling/emotion drives support for that outside the US?
> being bullied, death threats, mob harassment etc are not acceptable responses to ideas or opinions you don’t like.

Soo in your opinion this is ok? I’m so confused...
A big one I have to add is time off. I've rejected a lot of companies that tell me, "All new employees start with two weeks off per year." Yea, I'm sure the new CFO starts with 2 weeks vacation, too. I've been doing this for 25 years, and if you offer me two weeks, we're done.
I think that amounts to the same thing; the lawyer thinks "This $#@& is guilty as sin, but the court has to prove it." Few professions have a regular test of that kind.
Good point, but I think headline writers that don't need clicks for advertising money would still write headlines that make people click - the popularity of a writer or article is one measure of success.
The author doesn't present a single logical argument that I could follow. The entire piece is just hand waving with a self proclamation of logic. I'm confused how this could reach the front page of hn. My best guess is people just want to discuss their own theories on UFOs and it presented a forum for that, but it feels like we are collectively giving this piece credibility.

The first line sets up the entire charade:

Sometimes I pride myself on my taking an intellectual strategy of tackling neglected important questions.
I feel like there should be a middle ground alternative where its normal tetris for awhile but then it just goes nasty. First it lulls you into a false sense of security and proficiency then it strikes hard.
I think it's more likely that any sufficiently advanced civilization capable of monitoring earth, relatively undetected, has evolved beyond the types of problems that compose the way we view everything. Assuming that mundane explanations have been systematically and thoroughly refuted I'd posit we're the curiosity of the extraterrestrial version of something along the lines of a zoologist, student, or voyeur.
Could've been this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentine...
If Agile doesn’t achieve those things, which it explicitly is meant to do, are you familiar with any other methodology or set of guidelines that does?