skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could there be a boom followed by a bust? Sometimes a greedy algorithm looks good until it doesn't. It's at least imaginable that AI coding helps you do stuff locally that eventually ties you in knots globally, because you were able to rush in without thinking things through.

(It's also conceivable I'm put out of a job, but I'm not worried yet. So far I can only imagine AI automates away the boring part, and I super-duper-want that.)
It's a fair question whether the architects of Google's ad monopoly are the right people to build a private search engine. As noted in the comments here, Neeva's own website says "Neeva was founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy (ex-SVP of Ads at Google) and Vivek Raghunathan (ex-VP of Monetization at YouTube)." Anyone who reads the NYT or Information articles can draw their own conclusions.

If the counter-example you quote is Ramaswamy arguing to go not-quite-so-far abusing people's personal information as others at Google wanted, then I think that's pretty damning. It's a very Google-like position to argue that it's okay for Google to mine personal information to drive more ad clicks on Google properties, but not to let other websites do it as effectively. That's the argument to which your quote refers and it's both anti-privacy and anti-competetive.

Seems your account was created within a week of OP, and this is your only comment or post on HN.

I've found some extra supporting quotes and links below, detailing that Ramaswamy oversaw all advertising at Google, was the exec responsible for increasing ads on search results (which was only 3% of the screen originally), and that he knew doing this made search results and privacy worse for consumers.

"Earlier, he [Ramaswamy] spent 15 years at Google where, as a senior vice president, he oversaw all of its advertising and commerce products, including search, display and video advertising, analytics, shopping, payments, and travel. When he joined the company in 2003, Google Ads was a $1.5 billion business. By the time he left in 2018, its annual revenue run rate was $100 billion."
https://www.globalindiantimes.com/globalindiantimes/2021/5/1...

"I was the exec in charge of many of the increases in ad load, there was an expectation of a certain amount of growth" - Ramaswamy quoted on CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/16/sridhar-ramaswamy-ex-google-...

"Useful search results were pushed down the page to squeeze in more advertisements, and privacy was sacrificed for online tracking tools to keep tabs on what ads people were seeing" - Ramaswamy discussing his 15 years at Google
https://searchengineland.com/former-google-ad-boss-ramaswamy...
Not sure about the noJS part, but maybe a Nitter instance, like this?

https://nitter.dark.fail/DarinFeinstein/status/1408474879838...
NHTSA mandates crash reports for self-driving cars, driver-assist systems
My personal note taking system is based around plain text files in Git repositories. I edit with NeoVIM and use ripgrep (and other shell tools) to recall. I started out (in 2014 or 2015) with a wiki-like style, but I switched to a time-based/append-only style (in 2019) when I realized that not everything that I wanted to write down needed its own name. I still use some remnants of the old wiki style, but I mostly use a few append-only files/folders.

I have `scratch` where I'll write just about anything, it has upcoming tasks, my current place in TV shows, juggling patterns, math problems, and drafts (including this message). Many things in it are unlabeled and I often delete things from it, relying on Git to store the history. I have `viewed-topics` which lists things (HN/Reddit threads, papers, talks) I've read/watched with a summary, my thoughts and related things from the past. Last I have dated notes (files named `YYYY-MM-DD`) where I write things that happened, philosophical rambles, mental constructions, shower thoughts, etc. Often these will reference previous notes.

I've been thinking about how to improve this for a while because it doesn't handle "updates" to old notes well. I currently have three ways I do it: (1) copy then change (with a reference), (2) append in place with a marker (WRITTEN YYYY-MM-DD), or (3) new note with just changes (and a reference). Each has problems, (1) makes seeing changes difficult, (2) is impure and can make it hard to find by date, and (3) makes seeing the "current" version difficult. I relate this to version control, particularly the tradeoff between (1) and (3). Git allows seeing both diffs and states fairly easily, but it doesn't track bits of text between files well enough. I've thought about it off and on but always manage to confuse myself without producing any solutions.

TL;DR I greatly agree but want better updates
Let's not bring back the passenger pigeon. I like having reliable grain crops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Utterly disgusting.

As far as I'm aware, the Australian government cannot do much about this either (not that they would chose to). There are laws about not interfering to preserve academic freedom (kinds of ironic here).

This is made worse by our ex Prime Minister refusing to admit that this is a serious issue. (He is close personal friends with at least one University head). https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/86-coronavirus-covert-...
I see it’s running now using WSL; I don’t believe that was the case when I worked with Erlang years ago, but it’s pretty fuzzy at this point.
There is an epic tv show to be made about underground freedom fighters in HK and what they do to subvert the gestapo. Just like there is a genre now of how different groups tried to subvert the nazis, it’s pretty clear that China is the modern-day fascist state, where disagreeing with the official party line risks your career and possibly your freedom. The only permitted disagreement is whisper-networks, and the moment any speech rises above low-level chatter it’s subdued with the iron fist. Interesting times. Hard to believe in 2021 over a billion people live like this, so sad.
I work with tmux and vim a lot and the difference in font rendering is huge between 1080p and 4K
The fallacy with that 9-11 rebuttal is that in its main stream form, 9-11 is as unprecedented as the conspiracy they are saying is far fetched. Why is it more infeasible to assume there was some inside help or looking the other way? Add in incentives as a result of the act, Israel’s known knowledge and surveillance of the act, seems pretty clear there’s more to it.
I'm not sure that all of that has really gone away.

It's just concentrated into the hands of a very few super specialists, it's much harder to get to their level but their work is much much more important.
And if they are stupid and racist, they get elected president.
Not so fast. Rubyists vary in the extent to which they fetishise OOP. Those that do are going to run a mile from Elixir once they peer beneath the surface/syntactic similarities. The Rubyists who revel in Ruby's procs, blocks and lambdas will find Elixir tantalising.
It reminds of this project[0] using lora protocol and custom icb. The advantage of using lora is that it can go up to 25 miles and uses 1/10th of an amp when in use so it can last for years.

[0]:https://makezine.com/projects/armachat-lora-communicator?vgo...
Echelon[1] and Room 641A[2] (and others) were well known among niche circles a long time before Snowden. These "conspiracies" were the kind of thing that people would call you a crackpot for if you told normies though.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
I convinced I'll do same mistake.
That assumes there's no mixing involved to call it a recommendation engine. I just don't have time to know all songs from beginning to end by title alone anymore or to have a curated playlist ready for every occasion so it helps me find "recent songs I rated highly and downloaded within the last month" or find "a song with a vocal and in X,Y or Z key of a certain genre". I don't want to clash two vocal songs together by accident or I want to be aware of some other note I left on a song before I cue it so I can filter more easily.
From OP,

> He claims the data was obtained by exploiting the LinkedIn API to harvest information that people upload to the site.

> our initial analysis indicates that the dataset includes information scraped from LinkedIn as well as information obtained from other sources. This was not a LinkedIn data breach and our investigation has determined that no private LinkedIn member data was exposed.

If the attacker is telling the truth, Then somehow the attacker has gained access to privileged API of LinkedIn which gives out more fields than those listed in the official LinkedIn API doc[1].

If LinkedIn is telling the truth, Then the source of breach is most likely one of the many data brokers who have been breached several times in the past[2].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/references/...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21606415
I completely agree. I was addressing a confusion of the previous poster.
Nice! Great that you have an RSS feed too!
Elon Musk Just Announced That Starlink Will Go Global in Five Weeks
Archiving web sites with wget and puppeteer (2019)
Not trying to reframe anything. Just trying to understand the bounds of your ease with team members making these decisions.

I haven't been hostile to you or anyone who disagrees with me, by the way. Just trying to understand if and where I'm incorrect.

Furthermore, I said what I said in reaction to someone disliking the idea of Svelte being able to use any javascript library at all because of the chaos and bad practice that represents.

> You're talking about people going against quality standards of a development team.

That's what I've been taking about this whole time
So it's akin to Capgemini, Infosys, Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, TCS and the like?
Mine has. Their response is to crack the whip and insist that everybody come back to the office with less flexibility than before the pandemic. Wonder why our top talent keeps quitting
Was he a pedo, or was dyn just bitching about anime avatars again?
Automatic refactoring could be useful for avoiding a lot of dumb legal disputes.

I say dumb because I am, perhaps chauvinistically, assuming that no brilliant algorithmic insights will be transferred via the AI copilot, only work that might have been conceptually hard to a beginner but feels routine to a day laborer.

Then again that assumption suggests there'd be nothing to sue over.
The writing was on the wall in the summer of '89.
I've been using it for the last year and most of everything just works, it's a real pleasure.
I wonder if Microsoft will leverage this for Excel.
I love the concept too, but also couldn’t get it to work in the latest NixOS 21.05 with Gnome40, unfortunately.
A friend of mine in his late 30's from work passed away from Covid and he was a healthy person.
Sometimes your immune system needs help. Please stop the "my immune system is enough" nonesense
At one point, early on, they lost everyone’s passwords. Doesn’t get much worse than that.
Someone above explained exactly how and why a state/Federal grant is different than local taxes.
Ocean background noise steganography?
Neev it?
The problem is the outsized reward relative to the effort.

It shows a broken system and should not be celebrated, if for no other reason than the opportunity cost of elevating such a small percentage of humanity to such wealthy heights while letting 1/3 of humanity live crippled lives with no access to clean water.
Twitter ditching ‘Latest’ chronological feed option on the web
The "pull the pin" game requires actual level design effort. You design 2000 puzzles and in 6 months the player's done with them all.

Taking Bejeweled and painting it a different colour can be done once and keep the user occupied indefinitely.
It does make you wonder about some of those louder people spouting the most bullshit and where their funding comes from though...
I agree. Thanks!
Haha funny.
> All their founders came from schools with less than 10% acceptance rates.

This says they were overachievers in prior pursuits too. Universities may not do a perfect job of it, but their admissions is primarily based on merit. In fact the kind of person that will make a big impact on society is precisely what they look for in addition to grades and test scores. Perhaps they are just pretty good at it.
I haven't seen a spider eat a snake, but it's fairly common knowledge here in Australia if you find a lot of dead skinks [0] (a lizard) around you have Redback spiders. The skink is many times larger than the spider.

Our Redbacks look similar to the USA Black Widow, and like the Black Window displays the sexual cannibalism while mating behaviour. And surprise surprise, the article says 80% of the spiders that eat snakes live in Australia or the USA.

One notable difference between the two is that, unlike the USA Back Window, a bite from an Australian Redback can and has killed people. You will hear Australian's refer in a joking tone about the Redback under the toilet seat. Don't be fooled by the tone. It isn't a joke.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_garden_skink

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider
NOT HAPPY WITH YOUTUBE SPLITTING UP SOCIETY: I'm not happy that YouTube (having a strong network-effect monopoly on online video content) has decided to close the Overton window so much. People interested in the information will get it elsewhere. These kinds of policies have caused people who follow edgy content to find that content elsewhere, and those "elsewheres" can be very nasty and radicalizing places (such as BitChute). I wish YouTube kept people from getting radicalized, but they seem to push people away and into those radical corners...

SCIENTISTS ARE NOT BEST ADJUDICATORS, BETTER HYPOTHESIZERS: Bret and Heather are scientists and as such are not necessarily of the best mental positioning to adjudicate facts. How so? Scientists should form hypotheses and argue for them. Scientists must as a group take on and argue for multiple hypotheses, vigorously. The data will decide who wins. It is quite appropriate that Bret and Heather have taken up hypotheses in regards to Ivermectin and in regard to possible damage from the vaccines. That doesn't make these views "the final word" or even "stated as factual". I think Bret and Heather would agree and I think they try to make clear that their opinions are hypotheses.

As an example, Bret had a guest on who argued that the number of deaths associated with vaccinations was off the charts. Bret didn't agree but didn't counter-argue. The information was highly misleading. Last episode (on Odysee) they brought up a paper studying Israel where via vaccinations for every 3 people saved, 2 are lost. They weren't at all critical of the author's credentials, nor did they even seem to have read the paper yet, which was quite flawed. Mallen Baker's latest video goes into that a little bit. Mallen Baker is IMHO a very good adjudicator of facts.

I have a lot of respect for Bret and Heather and I think what they are doing is important. But it is also easy to be confused by them and to "follow" their beliefs as if they were clearly correct, when they are actually quite speculative beliefs.

All that being said, everyone communicates on social media now and scientists need to communicate just like the rest of us. If YouTube doesn't want to be the conduit for open communications, some other platform will be.
I just read that and chuckled. Someone must have been under pressure and just said fuck it, this works.
Not OP, but imagine something like this https://postimg.cc/N53tdRDc

(Which was just getting from standard serial port to some weird nonstandard RJ45 thingy for some weird SINIX terminal concentrator with the available technotrash(USB2Serial-> gender changer, etc))

:-)
That one is only considering one's self.
In the end, I think NATO was done a service by this.
Research identifies new ways to try and prevent lethal blood clots
Read through some of the links in the linked article it must be micrograms.
… just so they can go extinct again?
Or you can just run git blameall and see the complete history at once. http://1dan.org/git-blameall/ still have no idea why this is not more popular / core.
Is this a joke? Top 3 comments follow almost an identical format?
It depends! If they're compromised and put on a torrent, does that make them a Distributed Distribution of Secrets?
Can you please elaborate what you mean by "one on one"? What context? (Work, Friends, Church, Pub, etc?)
I mean, how do would this present the FBI action against social movement groups in the 1970s?

The actions against the black panthers, for instance, were secret and harmful to the group and the question of the legal status of those actions is open. The same could be said with regards the US treatment of the American Indian Movement, or many, many actions taken against labor organizers in the late 19th C.

Much could be said of about anything the CIA has done in its history.

IMO, it's more useful to just open up the term to any organization that acts in concert, because then a lot of the fuzzy distinctions between, say a government that isn't acting in the direct interests of its entire population and a criminal cartel.

Those are clearly different kinds of organizations, but "harmful" and "legal" become questionable in many situations.
I’d be all over that HT if they would enable DMR. It has all the hardware to do it, and you’d get Kenwood quality in a DMR. Right now I have an Anytone (Chinese crap) for DMR and Yeasu for Fusion.
I’m slowly making that switch. It helps to have Plex Amp, which lets me stream my (lossless) library to my phone over the internet.
This article is surprisingly hostile to workers organizing for better working conditions against the world’s largest corporation.

Even setting aside that whole thing, here’s what might happen if Apple doesn’t support remote work: talented people that want remote work will quit and go work at Facebook, Google, and other companies that now support full-time remote. Maybe that works out well for Apple, maybe it doesn’t.
YouTubers, TV shows, hollywood, newspapers make fun of conspiracy theorists every day for millions of views. That's how peoples opinions are formed.

There's also an amplifying effect where only unpopular people voice unpopular ideas - either they don't pick up on the social cues, or lack a sense of shame, or simply aren't very bright. Its a feedback loop adding to the stigma.
God I wish contracts were encoded semantically rather than as plain text. I just tried to look through Github's terms of service[1]. I'd search for "Github can <verb> with <adjective> code" if I could. Instead I'm giving up.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
https://uk.indeed.com

title:elixir / UK = 11 jobs

The trouble with Elixir is that it's never going to be mainstream.
Just gave Picard a try. GUI takes awhile to get a hang of, but love the acousticID search. I might switch away from EasyTag for this--the fact that it pulls down album art is a great bonus.
It depends on which conspiracy theories you mean. I probably agree with Snowden on his last point that people make an identity out of which conspiracy theory they believe. Groups base their membership on which conspiracies are believed. I just always felt that way so he didn't give me that idea.

I wonder if we label the irrational or maybe unverifiable beliefs of unfavorable groups as conspiracy theories but we label similarly unverifiable beliefs in a conspiracy as 'lived experiences' or 'perspectives' when they likewise have no evidence. The only difference in how we treat the beliefs is based on the racial/religious/political preferential status of the group that has the beliefs.

So conspiracy theories are probably pretty common and uniform and not confined to certain groups.
HongKonger here. We all know they are bullshitting but we just can't do anything.
They got guns, the law or even backed by the court (yeah new judges post 1997 were appointed by the Chief Executive).
People who did tried to resist are arrested, beaten or maybe even killed (of course no one is dead according to the official records).
Yeah I agree it's somewhat frustrating there isn't an all in one device with a QWERTY keyboard but I usually Bluetooth pair my phone to my radio and use APRSDroid for a better messaging experience.
I agree with you although if the meeting is booked and there is nothing else to discuss then it’s OK … but probably should say “this concludes the 1-1, I’ll write it up now and then we will move into talking about the technical details of X”
Umm there is at least an equal number or more of conspiracy theorists on youtube as well. Qanon qed.
What gets lost when Zoom takes over the courtroom
Here are my four: Designing Data Intensive Applications, the Google SRE book, High Performance Browser Networking, and Effective Python.

https://notes.eatonphil.com/books-developers-should-read.htm...
Wonder as only 16 level of grey. If that enough?
With a name like generator2 it's hard to know who to believe.

In all seriousness, I think it's been fairly well optimized to generate outrage and get people clicking the article, whereby many readers will reach the conclusions you mention.
A Covid-19 infection changes blood cells in the long run
So do I. I really don't see it.
As the lone IT guy, I built a new database to upgrade/replace the production system, it would have saved hundreds of hours of labor, but couldn't get buy in from management.

I had conversion scripts that worked, a reasonable plan for recovery if it didn't work.

I tried a few other projects, but eventually settled in to just showing up and waiting for things to break. It broke my spirit.
I'll second the advice to take up a sport or other physical activity. Easiest for me to get going with was 'body weight fitness' aka calisthenics, since all I needed was my apartment + youtube videos + time/practice.

It took me a while to turn it into a regular habit, but now the effect on my mood + energy is a night/day change. Wish I'd made this happen years ago.

A last tip on it: if it's un-fun, doesn't stick, etc. experiment, try variations, new activities—but keep going back to it. (Their seems to be some initial resistance that is partially psychological if you're just beginning to work out after a long time without; parts of you, maybe unconscious, may try to convince you to quit. Be understanding of that, but persistent in continuing (imo)).
The other arguments in the replies here covered a lot of it, but one other that I didn’t see is that it is unfair to the broadband companies who built out networks.

The argument goes, the broadband company spent a lot of capital to build out a network, but they can’t compete with a government run system that doesn’t have to make a profit.

It is an interesting argument, but I don’t find it compelling. I think internet access is a public good.
a valuable lesson and pointless busy work.
I did this, ended up at MIT due to work ethic, and thankfully ended up having a number of kids who are akin to a vector field with locally negative divergence (for these feelings).

There are always things to clean up from the chaos, and so much more meaningful than if I were doing it fit myself.
Ask HN: Best screenshot tricking tool for Windows?
I am on Windows 10.
My employer wants to monitor employee's work
stations. It's creepy. I can't deny it.
Is there a way I can trick the tool into sending custom images as screenshots?
I tried Screenwings but it shows only a black screen which my employer will easily detect.
Is there a way to override Windows' screenshot API to send custom images etc?
How to start writing such a tool? ( If someone helps me get started, I will try to write such a tool)

Thank you so much!
It seems pretty obvious, in this context, that he's referring to this specific instance, and not a completely different scenario where there's popular support enough to get through a ballot question.
I'm getting about 100 million subscribers with the current fleet (1700 satellites) if they oversubscribe and limit subscribers to 1tb/month like my local cable co.