skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it actually true that tracking results in better ads?

Take this very post - couldn't some agent scan all the text, aggregate and basically determine that "anti-ad" sentiment is strong, then some company could advertise in pages that have strong "anti-ad" sentiment. No tracking necessary.

Advertising is the ultimate zero-sum game.
> The problem here is that this was clearly a prohibited transaction

I have been unable to find any source for this claim. Even ProPublica, the people with the original documents and the most incentivized to break the news, do not claim this.
Looking at windows 11 I might move back from linux.
I can think of two reasons:
(1) It was not his own company when the IRA made the investment. That is, the IRA invests alongside other investors at the founding. Anyone who wants to buy shares at 0.01 is able to do so. He is not dictating some special price that only he gets.
(2) If some investors create an SPV to invest in PayPal (e.g. to limit liability), then his IRA becomes an investor in that SPV. He loses management control over that portion of the investment, but when the SPV sells its PayPal shares, it distributes the cash to all investors, including to the IRA.
> Tech salaries cover a very wide range. Some of us have to do 80+ hours weeks during months long crunches.

Sounds like it's time to switch company or location!
How would that be a solution? What does Taiwan’s standing (or lack thereof) in the UN have to do with protecting the chip supply chain? Isn’t the US already defending it?
Or, the government should change the tax code to not make this possible and make the advantages of doing this moot. People need to be taxed, and we shouldn't have a system which requires a bunch of extra paperwork just for people to avoid it.
For all those disagreeing, I’ll agree with you. Inability to hit a large target at very close range belies cognitive inability to perform safely. Knowing rules of the road doesn’t matter if you can’t drive on the road for a mere 100 feet without going over the curb.

That said, methinks this FAA training is abusing rent-seeking to harass & discourage small drone use (just as most legally obligated “gun safety” courses are designed to hinder ownership via imposing undue cost & time burdens).

[LFI-IV][Gunsite/Cooper]
Why bigger species live longer and what we can learn from it
Well said. The guy litteraly got a TATTOO to make the point. He honestly didn't kill himself. Especially not without even tweeting one last time.

If he did, I'm sure his wife will know and will confirm this soon.
And yet despite this, there's still a bunch of people, even in an adjacent thread on this site about the US' low trust in media [0], complaining about the "leftist bias", "left-wing bias in the media", "left-wing slant", etc.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27617011
Yes, that is true.

But I cannot fathom the cries of "IRS Pursuing Investigation against a single Tax Transaction from 20 years ago against vocal Trump supporter" would go over well.
So, I was reading into this a bit recently after getting an equity offer (also in the UK). The "fair market value" is open to interpretation, but if the inland revenue come calling, you need to be able to explain it. For a startup with no assets that has not previously sold shares, £0.01. Is just fine. But if you've got assets, or you've previously sold shares as more than that, then quite clearly the market value is more than a penny.

I mean, what better definition of "fair market value" is there than "what the buyer was willing to pay for them"?
It would if you have product people saying they want it to look like Macos but just lets the developers run with it.
It sounds like it will, actually, deny access if you aren't connected. This is for Windows 11 Home, not Pro.

Also, as for legal actions, strongly doubt it. Apple has required an Apple ID on their iPhones and iPads for years during setup.
More specifically, you are choosing to render that content. You could use an ad blocker to be more selective about which content you render
To add: this is not even a small business, but a non-profit with a security mission.
I enjoyed reading this article by a man who was canceled in social media and fired from his job. People had a knee-jerk reaction to a book he wrote in a goofy childish style to try to get laughs. They did not take into account the actual context of his book, they simply took a few lines out of it out of context and generated a whole bunch of Twitter rage. Apple, a pretty scummy company at this point in time, actually fired the man over it.

My company has a huge diversity of nationalities, religions, and every type of individual working here. If my employees launched a cancellation crusade every time they saw something they didn’t like in someone else, our company would crash and burn fast. We have employees from Pakistan and India, which have a lot of hostility to each other. We have employees who are Christian, Hindus, Islamic, among others. We have employees who are straight, gay, trans, etc. To protect everyone, we keep all of our focus on work rather than trying to browbeat people about politics or religion or anything else. All we care about is the performance of our company towards our goals.

The way to solve societal issues like systemic discrimination is to eliminate all traces of it and focus on a pure meritocracy. Attempts to use reverse discrimination are extraordinarily misguided and dangerous, and will lead to the worst kinds of backlash. We already saw that happen following world war I when the Germans were discriminated against and developed so much anger that Hitler was able to rise and bring on world war II.
OP here. The original title was not really wrong nor misleading, however I'm not opposed to it changing.

Prior to TRUST, you did NOT need a license to fly any drones for recreational purposes.

The FAA has had Part 107 in place for a while, which is a drone license, but only needed if you fly drones for commercial purposes.

Now we have both. Part 107 for commercial drone flying. TRUST for recreational drone flying. I'm not opposed to either, and given that the TRUST test is very easy, I don't see any downside.
I know, Sony went to a judge and bought their way to an injunction forcing Quad9 to blacklist DNS resolution. Same went for Homeland Sec here in the US some time ago. It’s still Sony’s lawyers, it’s still not right, and a judge should know the difference between telecom lines and operators and their users, as this is the same thing analogy wise. It’s like me getting you to not eat dairy by banning you from ice cream shops because I’m lactose intolerant. It’s a huge over reach and abuse of power.
How Facebook’s News Feed Changed the Internet
Why can't we go after surveillance using existing wiretap laws? If they share the surveillance we go after everyone using it under RICO.
Are you ok? Where are you?
But why? I can think of exactly 0 Android apps I would like to run on my Windows desktop (and I've been an Android user since the original Samsung Galaxy S). Is this really something people crave to do?
Absolutely not -- the Amazon app store and the Google Play store are completely different entities. The fact that Microsoft partnered with Amazon instead of Google for app store integration is a strong indication of how serious they are about this whole thing.
It’s only free for screen sizes up to 10", isn’t it?
Because this post is like someone coming to an AA meeting claiming it's okay to go into a bar because he loves eating peanuts, drinking carbonated water while reading a book in a corner booth.

There's always someone in these threads who is like "hey, I have a healthy use of facebook, why don't you ?". This conversation has been done to death.
It sounds like Windows and macOS are similar in this regard, except Apple has more customers who would see this as a "convenience" because their smartphone/tablet world is tied to Apple.
hmm reminds me i must switch to the self-hosted version of newblur soon. i only use it when im at home so i dont rely need anything to be stored in the cloud
> Good. Advertising is theft.

>

> Hear me out.

You are heard. I read it more than an hour ago and have though about it.

I appreciate the initiative of Forbrukerrådet.

And I think your comment is obviously wrong.

You get free content for your loss of attention.

Just like selling something more expensively on one place than another isn't theft.

Maybe advertising is wrong, but please keep it somewhat serious.
> Also worth noting that just because an optimization works in V8, there's no guarantee that it will also work in another JS engine.

The essay even covers that, when it mentions that matching arities had a significant impact on V8 (14% improvement) but not perceivable effect on SpiderMonkey.
Hi All, it's true that LSH (locality sensitive hashing) and DR (dimension reduction) are very related. They both derive their correctness from the same strong concentration phenomenon.

But, they are used/designed for different use cases. DR is mostly concerned with preserving distances such that

c * D( f(x), f(y) ) < d(x,y) < C*D( f(x), f(y) )

Here, f(x) is the mapping of x to a lower dimensional space (or any other object, really). d(-,-) and D(-,-) are the original distance measure and new distance measure respectively. The smaller the ratio C/c the better. Clearly, the computational overhead of applying f and D are also important.

LSH, on the other hand, is mostly concerned with probabilistically filtering and searching for nearby points efficiently. Here are some (old) class notes from a course I gave 2013https://edoliberty.github.io//classnotes/datamining2013/pdfs...

While LSH is mathematically beautiful, it is no longer considered the gold standard for ANN. There are many open source algorithms that outperform LSH on most datasets.

(I founded a vector search company: https://www.pinecone.io)
Maybe ＞(Unicode 0xFF1/&#65310;) would be a good substitute?

Side by side: >＞
MRI machines aren't like a copier. They're million-plus dollar room-sized installs that require massive facilities support, custom spaces, and in many places in the US, a certificate of need to allow you to purchase and install it (distributed geographically by population and governmental formulas).

I suspect the 'replacement' or 'upgrade' market for such machines is very very low. Major capital expenditure intended to be amortized/depreciated over many years.
This is Google admitting FLoC is dead, so they're going to just leave things as they are instead.
Didn’t Seaspiracy show that it was largely fishing plastics
The lack of support for start menu folders and named groups of apps probably means that not only with the Start Menu suck even worse than in Win 8-10, but third party replacements will no longer have the data available to restore a decent experience.

As with the “task bar only can be attached to the bottom of the screen”, um, “feature”, I really don’t get this. Okay, sure, MS targets a default UX that I’m not partial too, fine, maybe its better for more of the market; lots of it is subjective so I don’t expect my tastes to be catered to in every default. But why throw roadblocks in the way of what people who don’t prefer the default experience have been doing for years to optimize their personal experience?
A whole lot of what you're describing -- not all, obviously, but a good chunk -- have to do with not being able to significantly affect the aesthetics of the operating system, or in some cases, the functionality of the widgets. This is fair, but I think people who haven't really gotten deep into "the Apple bubble" don't really understand how much control Apple does, in fact, give you over the functionality of the operating system, whether through OS-level features or hooks third-party applications can latch onto. When I think of "customizing my environment," I think of running things like Alfred and Keyboard Maestro. I think of using Automator (and soon, Shortcuts) to control applications and create system-wide services like "select any Markdown text in any application and convert it to BBCode, HTML, or Rich Text". I think of editing the default keyboard finding file to add ^W as "select word" in every application that uses standard system input. None of these are "hacks" that are going to go away tomorrow. Personally, I don't care whether I can "move the menu bar" (where the hell would I move it?) or turn window chrome purple, and I don't really care that I can only put the dock in one of three places. :)

As for some of the others, well, again, yes and no. I mean, in the history of computing, "I can only run FooCo's OS on FooCo's hardware" was the norm"; I don't think it's Apple's fault if you can't rent out a cloud Mac for an hour at a time; I think it's debatable whether the lack of fine-grained editing of BIOS settings is a material loss on the Mac platform.

Also,

> If Apple decided to stop making Intel machines tomorrow, I'd be screwed.

I have bad news. :)
Not really, like I said this isn't the first time Canonical has done stuff like this. They both make money from it-- for the most part, that's the collaboration.

Don't read evil intentions into the word "fork", it's really the only way Canonical can promise any sort of support. They won't be developing the fork to compete with Blender, they'll just be supporting it and maintaining it. Trying to do that in a place where you have no commit authority would be impossible.
Microsoft really wants to convince you that your phone and your PC are the same thing. But they've failed in the execution of this idea several times now.

The fact that this partnership is with the Amazon app store, not the Google Play store, is a strong hint of how serious they are about this, and how this latest iteration will work out.
On average, yes, they are not free. The way things break down, however, is a small subset of users subsidize the rest. So if you're the kind of person that pretty much never clicks on adds and doesn't pay much attention to them, then you are only paying the opportunity cost of consuming the product and ads, which is likely less than the per-user cost to the service.
Microsoft Will Bundle Its Rival to Slack in Windows 11
Keep reading the disqualified persons section:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27621342

It specifically sweeps in classes of people with responsibilities that are held by typical active co-founders: "(H) an officer, director (or an individual having powers or responsibilities similar to those of officers or directors), a 10 percent or more shareholder, or a highly compensated employee (earning 10 percent or more of the yearly wages of an employer) of a person described in subparagraph (C), (D), (E), or (G)"

Very difficult to a) be a cofounder with meaningful equity b) not do any work so this provision doesn't trigger c) keep your equity and d) have it be worth anything.
There are bans in numerous places around the world against people going up and bothering people to sell tickets etc. Seems the understanding is there, we just need to progress as a society and take it further.
maybe ... they want to stop the javascript-based desktop app craze. E.g. their android skype mobile does not look much different from their skype desktop now.

Maybe they want to steal google's OS
Don't forget fake plants, empty boxes from PC parts, and weird anime figurines.
Early SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Wuhan deleted from U.S. database found on GCP
By that logic anyone failing to secure their servers are actively inviting hackers to do whatever they want. After all they connected to the internet.
> One of the thing that sucks about all these billionaires running end run around the tax system

It's not an 'end run around the tax system'. It's either legal or it's not. If illegal they run the risk of getting caught. If legal it's legal. Period. Nothing also to prevent a regular person from doing something somewhat similar other than they don't know how to or don't know it even exists to use or exploit. Now you can say 'oh well the rich can hire people who know' but there (in this day and age) nothing to prevent a regular person from taking the time to research and come up with their own schemes using online research and help from others readily available. Of course if you don't have money to be taxed what's the point of that? If you do that takes effort and most people just want to assume what is being done is wrong because someone has or has access to information and importantly knowledge they don't have.

People who are wealthy have many things that regular people don't have.
And Google made 300,000 in profit per employee in 2019. So despite getting paid oodles of money, engineers are still failing to capture the full value of their labor.
Yep. "Offend our commercial legal monopoly for exploiting creators, and the laws and legal precedents we bought order all cartographers to damnatio memoriae your IP and/or location."
They are slowly moving in the direction of only letting you run apps from their app store. Look at all the warnings and prompts you get if you try to run a program you downloaded outside of it.
I didn't think I needed a source for a well known and long standing history of the CCCP and later Russia doing this sort of thing.

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/30/560042987/russians-targeted-u...
Quantum simulation: Measurement of entanglement made easier
This is great. I'm a college prof, and this is perfect for teaching students how to use APIs.
Under that definition, I can’t really think of any activity that isn’t labor.
Yes which is why you don't connect to wifi right away. But I've installed Windows without an internet connection many times.
>I believe the US Supreme Court has already weighed in... It naturally follows that...

Being deemed legally permissible does not make that same action morally acceptible. To you, perhaps, but certainly not to others.
> Software developers around the world don't have to build software compatible with your old car, and get blamed for any incompatibility.

That sounds like a problem for software developers, not my grandmother. Now she can't use _any_ software because she has to relearn the OS every few years. She doesn't have that much time left on this earth and I don't blame her for not wanting to expend the mental energy on learning something that's just gonna change for no apparent reason a few years down the road.
I wonder if this will happen in Europe first, since the connector is standardized with Tesla's. I also wonder how, in the US, they'll handle the fact that lots of EVs charge very slowly.
You're following into the trap of "there are two sexual orientations: straight and political."

You can say that everything is politics and power dynamics. That the existence of a comic book club at your high school is the political act of organizing and normalizing these freaks and nerds who indoctrinate good christian boys away from football and family values with their superhero propaganda. The problem with reasoning like this is that it creates this world view where everything revolves this lotus of "establishment" and must exist in opposition to it. Where really it's just people who like comics and want to share this thing they like.

The same with how LGBT groups are portrayed. There are people engaging in politics on issues like gay marriage and trans rights but that doesn't make an LGBT youth group set up to give community to people who feel alone and marginalized a place to be themselves and make friends a political group.

But Ben Sharpie, his content is literally just political outrage bait designed to push a very specific narrative for the purpose of changing the political tide. And since that's all that he and people like him do day in and day out it's why they assume that that's what our comic book club must be doing as well. Bleh.

You know what we do in our LGBT youth group, play Super Smash Bros, bake cookies, and watch gay rom coms.

Our Discord is just a stream of people calling each other and random things gay, a deep fried meme of Lord Farquaad saying 'E', a twitter screencap about how attractive girls are with suspenders, a meme of Ferris from Re:Zero saying "excited gay noises" with a story about how a stranger called her miss in public, and someone suggesting we have a cottagecore theme night.
Covid can infect brain cells: study
Yeah? Tiktok's app is way better than the website. Snapchat etc doesn't even have a usable website.
A fake wedding, and a $250k scam
Kazakhstan: Russia’s Yandex taxi in court trouble as China’s Didi circles
16bit support isn't legacy enough? No 32bit install?
Flutter and Dart would have more reach with this adoption on Windows 11.
To kill Chromebooks
ProPublica making a public claim of a tax crime is much more likely to be considered libel than an insignificant person on HN doing the same.
The root servers (ICANN) are still under the remit of the US department of commerce, so it’s theoretically possible for US legislation at least.
HP Elite Folio: A perfect hodgepodge of mobile-like features
At the very least they should let you self sign and run applications you built yourself. I feel that is enough barrier to entry to keep Grandma from sideloading a virus.

I just wanna build and run RetroArch dammit.
So now that you have acknowledged it, you have to take steps to fix its. Otherwise, it is fraud.
Integration into your own systems for example. Or specific requirements for which it is not clear they can be met by the product. Or unawareness. Or a combination of the above.
This doesn't seem to follow from the example at all. What you're saying would be true if people only visited sites repeatedly, knowing what they were going to get. But much of Internet browsing is just following links, with text indicating you're going to get a story about topic X, only to arrive and see that, no, you get a autoplay video about topic Y, possible at 1 in the morning when your wife is in bed next to you trying to sleep.

Imagine you ordered a book through the mail, knowing the book vendor offered it for free, but not knowing how, only after the fact finding out Toyota paid them to give away promotional pickup trucks, except you had to pay the shipping expense for a truck to go through the mail.

Is that theft? How is bloating the web with unrelated content a user has to pay for without knowing in advance they'll be getting it or even how much they'll be getting any different?

This is quite a bit different than all previous forms of advertising, which were directly embedded into the content media and added no cost to deliver. There was no way to order a newspaper and be delivered a video. Analog television streams were broadcast, with airwaves publicly allocated, not paid for by the consumer (you paid for the right to decode them).
Games Don't Just Let You Escape. They Also Help You Remember
But macOS does it differently, visually it looks far pleasing that what is shown here.

I’m not a huge fan of macOS dock bar but UX wise it isn’t so bad.
Are UK salaries really that low? I checked the current exchange rate and £20k is what you can get working a minimum wage job at not even full time hours
Cheap for us or cheap for people in India?
Thanks for this info.

Supposedly the fTPM should work with Ryzen CPUs and offer TPM 2.0, but I can't confirm now either.

Similar deal to yours, my Gigabyte x570 board offers TPM cards: https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Motherboard/TPM-Card. I am assuming this is unnecessary tho, but good to know.
There are platforms that debut on phones first and either are limited to phones or launch way later on web. WhatsApp for example was a phone only thing for such a long time.
You'd think they could build a ARM-powered, credit card sized controller for them with a disk breakout card and network IO. PC motherboard and full-sized cards seem like overkill.
"From the new Start button and taskbar to each sound, font and icon, everything was done intentionally to put you in control and bring a sense of calm and ease".

It is important to carefully polish icons to put users in control.
Nah, better to just stick to the walled garden and let Almighty arbiters of all that is safe to install guide us.