skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rating system you mention is not something that “we” decided. That was forced onto the people by the same group of people that think swear words should be banned from tv.

The great thing about the internet, is that we all don’t have to consume the same feeds anymore. We can all find our own level of filtering that makes us confortable. However, there is no reason to push that onto other people. The only rules that really should apply are the rule of the law, where “We” HAVE decided that certain things are illegal.

Like others said: Let me choose what i want or don’t want to see. That should be a few checkboxes when i setup my profile and that’s it. Why should apple tell me what i should and should not see?
I'm not a prude, but why ruin a family friendly product with porn?
I am creating a "privacy-focused" analytics tool[0], that actually provides useful stats.

The privacy part, compared to other tools, comes from the fact that it's self-hosted, so no data is shared with 3rd parties, which is the best way to achieve data privacy.
You can detect returning visitors in various way, an option in userTrack is to store the hash of IP + user-agent string of the visitor. It is not 100% accurate and if the visitor updates his browser or his IP changes it will be considered to be a new user.
If the user is logged-in, you can tag each session with his username or user ID.

Also keep in mind that fully persistent identities rarely exist (unless the user is logged-in), as the cookies can be cleared at any point or simply be blocked/reset by the browser on each visit.

PS: I do agree that many privacy-focused tools are also not really private, because they still are a 3rd-party aggregating data across the web.

[0]: https://www.usertrack.net/
Apple can demand it on their platforms though. If you don’t like their world view you don’t have to buy an iPhone ya know.
My understanding is that some of the "fakes" for high-end fashion are due to multiple factories building products to the same specifications, but only the first one to deliver them gets paid. The others are still built to the exact same specification, and are functionally identical except for the logo. Is my understanding correct, and does your service distinguish between "fake because it isn't officially blessed" and "fake because it uses inferior construction"?

I tend to see the following categories overall, and while I'm not at all interested in the label/authenticity side of things, I have a difficult time identifying well-constructed or poorly-constructed household items.

* Real label, high quality. Good to have, but much more expensive than I can usually justify.

* Real label, low quality. Typically when a brand has just been bought out, and is trying to cash in on a reputation while using cheaper construction.

* Fake/knock-off label, low quality. Trash, masquerading as a good deal.

* Fake/knock-off label, high quality. The absolute sweet spot, getting the higher quality build without needing to pay for the social "authenticity" of the brand label.
You're right, the inventory management part gets tricky. On the other hand they claim to only have inventory they trust and promote. So it becomes a question of "Do I trust this influencer's opinion?"

I've seen modern direct-to-consumer brands use the approach you mention. Their revenue stream is instagram ads and online retail, but they also have physical shops in bougie locations where you can go browse and talk to their [sales] staff. They only rep 1 brand which can be an issue.

Personally I've had good luck with specialist stores. You have to go in with a satisficing instead of maximizing mentality and it works great. The average on offer is about 10x better than the average you find online. (because inventory & space are expensive)
The developed world of today did everything as they saw fit when they saw fit. They did not have to worry about global warming or any other issues.

Now that they are developed, it is unjust and unfair of them to say, "Hey we polluted the world in the first place, and became developed. Now you must put climate before development and remain underdeveloped".

As I see it, developed nations should reduce emission much below their goals so that countries like China, India, Indoneshia, and Brazil can prosper.

You cannot just say- remain poor because climate. We are rich and we brought this situation.
> the medical research community is privately divided but largely unwilling to speak out publicly because they don’t want to be labeled conspiracy theorists

So there's a hidden truth that happens to confirm the priors of a bunch of highly-on-the-internet people, but without any evidence in public. And the fact that the evidence doesn't exist is being cited as an argument that it must exist because of asserted suppression.

Well, for sure someone's going to be labelled as a conspiracy theorist. Seriously: it doesn't surprise you that the same folks that were so into Q a few months back are suddenly all aflutter with this omg-Fauci-created-covid nonsense?
It Isn't Weird If You Get an Erection When You Poop
Ah, greed.
An American obsession? I think that is a gross over-generalization. I am American, by birth, and am happy eating mostly the same thing day after day. My spouse is from Poland, and she is not satisfied by that approach to food. Not by a long shot.
It's also much easier to handle applications that require very tight timing (examples: motor control, real-time signal processing) when you're using a microcontroller with bare-metal code or almost bare-metal with a very lightweight RTOS.
Thank you!

> What doesn’t have anywhere near the same impact for the charity is a group of randos showing up for an afternoon

Yes, I totally agree. It's the long term commitment that makes volunteers useful. Rando newbies need monitoring and don't know how much they don't know about the real problems. So can only be given a narrow range of tasks. They can't be trusted with tools that are dangerous or tasks that have expensive failure modes.
There's explicit content in reddit which is allowed in App Store. Also there's parental controls in iOS, Safari respects that setting while other browsers do not, so other browsers are 18+ in AppStore.

AFAIK explicit content is allowed in AppStore as long as you're clearly separate it from non-explicit with a setting.
Cool, do paternity leave next.
Why? That's such an extreme view.
I think you left out a crucial part. How did you develop the skill to spot a fake? The encyclopedic domain knowledge that you possess is the anchor of your business and the value you being to the table. How did you gain that knowledge?

Super cool! Thanks for sharing this though.
Well said, but your word choice ("potent") reminded me of this great essay of hers: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the...

tl;dr she's making a feminist argument that a lot of our stories (Joseph Campbell, monomyth, etc) involve this phallic potency of going out into the world with our pointy sticks and poking wooly mammoths or whatever. she thinks maybe instead of pointy sticks we could think about this carrier bag model.
but I can't figure out what she really means in practice, because surely she wants her politically-oriented work to be...potent? if her stories aren't effectively pointy sticks then what should they be? anyway I haven't even read Earthsea so I should probably shut up and go do that, but if anybody figures this paradox out lmk.
Imagine how high apples stock price will go when they're forced to allow porn on the app store. They're missing out on so much potential revenue right now.
I guarantee you the product manager for Clips probably just made a lot of noise about trying to reduce onboarding friction as much as possible, and their manager talked to someone else's manager and got that entitlement. I agree it's bad optics, but on the other hand I'm not sure there's a practical difference between the Camera app having this entitlement, and Clips having this entitlement. Both are made and distributed by Apple, regardless of the method of installation.
#B9CA4A definitely leans towards yellow in my opinion. At best, it's a mix of both, which is terrible still
The process of creating a family isn't family-friendly.
Homepage: https://closetab.email
Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States (2016)
No way. The vast majority of people who invest in crypto do so because in the back of their mind they are afraid of inflation

That's the spring which compels them to invest: hatred towards the Fed policy of 2%, the public would really love a -2%.

The sentiment is so strong that they accept the consequences of the vastly inferior settlment mechanism which is BTC as well as all the headaches.

People don't have the same hatred and concern for companies which Eth aims to disrupt. People by and large love their user experience on Amazon, Google, Youtube, Robinhood etc. whereas Eth and DeFi is overtly complicated with 0 liquidity

The only bull case I can see for DeFi is that nerds with money and cryptopunk attitude would think that regular people would want to exchange JPMorgan and RobinHood for DeFi...in that case of course price will pump because a whole lot of people anticipate something, but it won't happen for real, just as an appreciation due to people betting and projecting that everybody is wired as them.
>Google makes some of their most valuable IP - Android and Chrome - (mostly) opensource and open platforms.

This was out of market necessity. They likely wouldn't have open sourced either if they thought they could have dominated the market without it.

Moreover, with both of these products they're drip feeding more and more functionality into closed source appendages (e.g. google play services). Their end goal is likely to ensure that if they did de-open source the whole lot, it wouldn't be possible to just fork it.
The only reason this is a story is because the media (and social media) love using Silicon Valley caricatures and stereotypes when it suits them. Which is frustrating when you don’t live in the tiny bubbles where those stereotypes are grounded.

It’s simultaneously great to see an article like this and frustrating that it’s a story at all. Of course, it’s still a biased story pushing a message, but you can’t expect everything.
I want that but still have things delivered. I don't want to drive anywhere to get my stuff.
Hmm, defo didn't meant to come across that way

In all honesty, the post got inspired by this HackerNews hall-of-famer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132

It sounded like an interesting story

As we leave our scrappiness behind soon, I thought some hackers would like to hear our (scrappy) story
Thanks! Will do it!
On YouTube I create multiple channels to curate my recommendations. I have multi modal tastes but most recommendation systems don't really seem to deal with feedback that spans independent interests very well.

So, one channel for how-to's, crafting, and tech talks. One for instrumental and foreign language focus music, etc..
And the Mac has cases like Zoom installing a back door web server so even when you deleted the app, it could reinstall itself.

Another case (not saying it’s nefarious it was obviously an unintentional screw up) was if you had System Integrity Protection turned off an installed Chrome, it would render your Mac unusable. (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/no-it...)

Even Apple is not immune from screwing up on the Mac. A certain version of iTunes deleted users files if the hard drive name had a space in it.
>It's only a matter of time

According to some sources, it's been done before:

>CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline

>Thomas Reed, a former US Air Force secretary who was in Ronald Reagan's National Security Council, discloses what he called just one example of the CIA's "cold-eyed economic warfare" against Moscow in a memoir to be published next month.

>Leaked extracts in yesterday's Washington Post describe how the operation caused "the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space" in the summer of 1982.

>Mr Reed writes that the software "was programmed to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...
Odd you're getting downvotes for this. As if to say people have so little self-control that they absolutely can't boycott Amazon without involiving a technical solution.
I wonder why we don't have an Uber for local shops? There's Uber Eats already, why can't we have Uber Shop?
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Silicon Valley Home on 74 Acres in Woodside for Sale
Loved the idea of automated reporting. Can reduce interviewing pain :))
That's Google shopping, and the inventory integration is pretty hard. Lots of stores don't or didn't use reliabile inventory systems. I wonder if the pandemic and in person closures have pushed some shops into maintaining their inventory databases.
Right? Libertarian property development has no problems that have been repeatedly demonstrated throughout history! Why didn’t the people who study and work in housing policy just realize that? And you can throw some savior complex in on top — nothing but California housing to save the world from China’s emissions. And sure those less eco-friendly places would cease reproducing to replace their lost members?
Utopia is a philosophical concept, like paradise, like perfect.
Projects in other programming languages for which Meson is not a choice also want to link statically (thus need the `.a` file installed).
If we consider the people from this article representative, California is just 25% white.

That's quite encouraging, not sure why NYTimes complains about the whites so much when they are in such minority. Kind of punching down.
Yeah, this has already happened :)
I didn’t mean “hide it”. It can exist in books but why must we point to it in public today?

The truth is humans behaved as they needed to survive given the world at the time. The rest is analogy and metaphor handed down as song and story. We can never know truth just speculate.

It can be in books but to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, we must update our society as our experience reveals new truth.

Am I under an obligation to discuss Jesus and Roman Empires to educate my kids why we goto a grocery store and why it’s bad to hate on others? Or repeat the Founders when we vote?

Can’t we simply do as we do, justify it as we need to today, without uttering the names of the dead?
In a twisted sort of way I am happy to see these types of ransomware attacks making headlines. Before it was much harder to quantify how much a breach might cost but with ransomeware you get a fuzzy lower bound. Also the prevalence of these attacks might actually make us all safer in the long run.
Despite Chip Shortage, Chip Innovation Is Booming
Edit: https://gist.github.com/alecco/9976dab8fda8256ed403054ed0a65...

I think using a range of rows is overkill, at least for row-stores. And also in the majority of cases random rows are preferred than a range.

In the case where the table has a simple Primary Key the query is easier. Select all the valid PKs (rows) ordered by random and then limit.

SQLite gives access to the rowid making this query even simpler and likely faster (no need for PK and the query works on tables without a PK).

SELECT * FROM test
WHERE rowid IN
(SELECT rowid FROM test
ORDER BY random() LIMIT 10);

or with a more verbose JOIN:

SELECT * FROM test JOIN
(SELECT rowid as rid
FROM test ORDER BY random() LIMIT 10) AS srid
ON test.rowid = srid.rid;

The database engine tracks existing rows by some sort of id with its own internal rowid/PK index structure. Materializing these IDs should not be that expensive and as it's sequential access it should be pretty fast. The expensive part is the ORDER BY random().

If your table is truly big, say billions of rows, this could be improved by reducing the list of rowids with a WHERE clause.

But don't overdo it or you'll affect the truer randomness. For most cases just reduce to hundreds of thousands.

For whatever reason, using this filtered (WHERE), the JOIN query to generates a seemingly better SQLite plan.

SELECT * FROM test JOIN
(SELECT rowid as rid FROM test
WHERE random() % 10 = 0 -- Reduce rowids
ORDER BY random() LIMIT 10) AS srid
ON test.rowid = srid.rid;

The manual '% 10' filter could be improved with some calculation of the table's row count, minding small tables. Left as exercise.
I find Microsoft naming is always suspicious.

"Let's deliberately choose a name for a thing that could be confused for a different thing. [some amount of time and nefarious activity later, and with false innocence] Oh, we've always called it that, so you can't have that namespace even though you think it should belong to that technology that predates our suspicious name with which we encroached on non-Microsoft technology."
Of interest to me because I have been doing agricultural process monitoring and production control systems for about 30 years. And most of my clients' systems are at least semi-custom and re-invent wheels for no other purpose other than to do it their way; that is, silos (pun not intended). But where NDAs and IP agreements allow, I have attempted to standardize some architectures.

But was disappointing to see the way the LF is organizing this - no representation from the ag industry's heavy hitters and no specific and attainable goals.

Should this be done by an Operating Systems organization? Other than centralized control and logistical systems, ag engineering is not the realm of microprocessors and operating systems, and code monkeys. Ag engineering is a world of hardware, micro-controllers, FSMs, and scheduler stacks.

But then, if not the LF, whom has the organization to do this?
Depends on how big a percentage of the set you're planning to pick but yeah that would work.
I think the issue there is data, even on critical infra. Modernization, reliability and the such require data analysis. There are definitely ‘strong’ ways of protecting the assets and mitigating attack vectors, but almost no way to eliminate them entirely. For example, event if you isolate the process computers you’ll typically have an interface node that presents the data up a level (hopefully to a DMZ). Obviously you can be compromised if that interface node is.

Some critical infra is air gapped though. Other systems implement SIS systems in parallel with general process systems to mitigate catastrophic failure further.
'Surprising' is emotional noise that has no place in any scientific paper of value.
My money is on garbage collection. In Rust it can happen from compile time: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32677591/235463
There should be no situation where a malformed or unexpected PT_INTERP leads to privilege escalation. If you believe you have found such a situation, please report it.
I think it's important to note that for Backblaze personal backup you can set your own private keys for end to end encryption[0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/mncrsn/-/gu0dvf7...
Maybe. Or maybe in these areas it’s even more expensive to waste space on towers.
My first book by her was The birthday of the world and other stories - Paradises lost really moved me.

How good good literature can be
It’s possible but very unlikely. In my experience, people who suffer from OCD almost never say things like “sorry I have an ocd need to do X”, since people who have OCD know the true depth of OCD is not in the compulsions but rather the obsessions and intrusive/distorted thoughts that lead to them. The mainstream view that OCD is primarily characterized by things like “I need to arrange things according to a certain way” is not accurate. (Hence the comment in the first place)
Two thoughts there. First, my partner and I always send one person to the store, so that we don't have to load up the kids or deal with them in the store.

Second, I think that this shopping experience you describe is a uniquely suburban experience. Going to Target is indeed awful. But, where I live in the city, it's a reasonably pleasant 10 minute walk to the neighborhood hardware store, which has had the same layout for probably 30 years, and you can be in and out in a few minutes. Grocery store is an even more pleasant 5 minute bike ride, and it's also a human-friendly size and easy to get through fairly quickly. Shopping for clothing is still awful, but shopping for clothing is inherently awful but thankfully infrequent.

At my partner's folks' out in a small town, I guess some people do drive an hour round trip to the nearest big box store, but I've always liked that it's a short hop into town, and all the stores are reasonably sized and within a block of each other. With the town's park just a couple blocks away, so we can take turns hanging out with the kids in the playground while the other goes into the store. I guess we don't have as many options, but I'm genuinely happy to choose convenience and happiness over a selection of 73 different kinds of breakfast cereal.

Similar when we're visiting my mom, also in a small town, except that the playground is unfortunately on the complete other side of town from the commercial district.

Then, at my dad's house in a suburban community, it's nothing but big box stores and misery.
I wouldn't say you're out of the loop. Generally speaking I think you're right in what you're saying (commercial vs. underground).

Ultimately it's just a label that people can apply to certain things to lump stuff into a category for them to conceptualise what "thing in category" is.

In the UK (at least in my experience), we had an existing label to call this "thing". Then Skrillex, Steve Aoki etc happened and everyone tried to tell us it was called something different (EDM).

We were like, no. Piss off. It's not that. What you're doing is not what we're doing.

And it's sort of stuck as this "definitely not what we're doing" labelling category.

Tomato, tomaaato.

--

IDM is an awful term. And I say that as someone who buys a lot of IDM.

My friend has a different (arguably better) name for it: "hurty brain music".
That's a cute story. However there are vast differences in reality. The fisherman is likely an uncultured bigot and xenophobe with life experiences that reinforce this condition, and who will suffer terribly from the ailments of aging that the businessman's wealth can afford respite from. For example.
It would be amazing to have some of those systems implemented as emulators or as FPGA clones.

It's very sad that nearly all computer science and history is biased towards western systems with common myth that Soviet Block did not invent/made their own hardware and software. Same goes to digitization of manuals...

Fun facts:

- It is common western myth that Soviet Block citizens were in any way forbidden from owning personal computers in 80".

- Life was good: free healthcare, education, guaranteed retirement pension, almost free apartments from government, 1 bit computing, RISC, parallelism, decimal computers, fast floating point accelerators, vector computers - we had it all in late 70".

For some reason no one brags about it, and no one cares about preservation of such historical artifacts or knowledge alone. Many Wikipedians also reject such claims as there are no western sources available to quote...
Would it be ruined?

It's not difficult to make the porn opt-in, so you wouldn't even see it if you didn't want to.
As far as I can tell he didn’t do anything illegal either? Same business model as YouTube, which didn’t have any SWAT teams on it.
The control that miners exert is much less than governments have over fiat. Miners only control transaction inclusion and ordering, but can't uniliterally change the emission rate. Governments on the other hand can do all of that.
It's not about the randomness of the results, it's about optimizing the speed of the original query.
and it's certainly readily available via a browser