skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. Everybody pays for their internet connection and always had. News on paper have always been supported by ads so it's fair if news on the internet have ads too. Amazon sells things, they would still sell them. Phone makers sells phones and we had Symbian before Android. Wikipedia has no ads.

But I don't see how we could actually forbid ads on the internet and the legal basis for it.
ContentID is far beyond what YT needs to do to prevent themselves from being sued by copyright holders. It's a proactive difficult (or impossible) to appeal system. The DMCA requires much less involvement on their part.
I think you just encountered the clusterfuck pattern
Let's see:

- Google: monopolistic tendencies, decline of their search engine, copyright troubles for youtubers, overall bad execution with their projects recently.

- iot: really bad security and privacy, otherwise it would be neat.

- modern websites: gauntlet of cookie banners and modals, ads and surveillance are criticized, page weight often silly, but the capabilities of modern websites are generally appreciated here.

- crypto: enables ransomware and other crime, insane energy use, bad track record of ponzi schemes and hacked services, speculation vehicle with few winners, not generally used/usable for real payments; blockchain-based services not feasible (oracle problem, if possible then killer apps would have appeared, a Hello World program requires mining and melts your CPU, etc.)

Did I sum up HN's sentiment correctly? Could you point out where the lack of self awareness lies?
I was making generalizations based on things I had heard from people I know in Europe. The things I said may not apply everywhere, but I know from coworkers overseas that they definitely apply to Germany, France, and Italy.
Only a matter of time until they start getting Johnny Mnemonic'd out there.
Snist physicist finds solution for Riemann Hypothesis
Smart documents instead of web apps. And no JavaScript of course.
Can't you just make Insulin like they made it 20 years ago using expired patents?
how about read all the anecdotes posted not even two weeks ago about the HBOMax email incident

c'mon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27546017
No straw man, that algorithms cam be biased has been already proven.
Are there things we need to look at? Yes. But if someone doesn’t save your life then you won’t be around to argue about how they could have done it better. It’s also pretty rich to claim the numbers don’t add up and substitute numbers that don’t add up either.

Speaking about the war on reality (original title):

This article claims an infection fatality rate of 0.15%.

Currently we list 604 thousand Americans dead from COVID, that’s 0.18% of the entire population - not the infected population. Brazil is at 0.23%, and rising fast. Worldwide it’s almost 4 million out of 181M reported cases. That’s over 2% IFR.

If one were to assume that everyone in these countries was infected and we are just really awful at reporting, that number is still wrong. But the US is currently reporting a hair over 1:10 people as having been infected, and Brazil has not crossed that threshold yet, so 0.15% is already empirically - to use the technical term - horse shit [1].

Since the quarantine was about firewalling especially vulnerable populations, I won’t hazard a guess as to how this would have scaled, but we do know that if it had scaled, a great many people would have not had or lost access to medical equipment and labor that was in extremely short supply. The argument about how we didn’t actually run out of beds or labor may or may not be true for the rate of exposure we actually experienced but claiming that would not have been affected by a do-nothing policy is arguing both sides.

[1] This article should make you cussing-angry, because this sort of retroactive second-guessing is going to get a lot of people killed the next time around. Most especially old people.
That makes total sense, thanks!
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org-drill works entirely in emacs (as does org-fc and pamparam) so you'd need to be near a computer when using it (unless you run emacs on your phone).
No, the court says the FTC didn't allege that Facebook has sufficient market power to qualify as a monopoly. Factual determinations come later in the process.

The court dismissed the pleading document (the initial complaint) due to its inadequacies but not the case itself, which means that the FTC can file a new complaint with more detailed allegations.

The rough order of civil procedure: the complaint, where the plaintiff(s) makes allegations of fact and law about the defendant party (or parties). This is followed by discovery, where the actual fact-gathering occurs, then usually a motion for summary judgment adjudicated on the facts acquired during discovery, and finally, a trial on the merits (unless the parties settle first).
Such strong opinions for something you don’t and aren’t willing to pay a dime for. Why don’t you just shut up and use what you’re given for free?
What do you think they're intended for? Preventing the workers from slacking off?
Add a fallback protocol, that allows for onion-protected mesh-net-routing. All that is ever revealed for routing a package, is the next human-supra-organism you want that package to be handed over. Imagine you write a reply: "This is not a good idea" and hit send, but some benevolent leader decides this message is not a good idea. So it fails on the centralized infrastructure.

Now you wrap the adress of me: Individual > Household> Street > City> Airport into encrypted shells, that only reveal the next destination upon arrival within the data-organism.

These of course are valid only, if a public ledger certifies their longterm existence.

Your reply will take time, it will travel on land, air, water and, by all means possible. But it will reach me, i promise you that. To add plausible deniability, all you need is hostile apps, who participate within the meshnet, without the users consent.
To add motivation to participate, just allow the transfer of crypto-currency - a currency backed up by the promise of data-transfer, no matter were, no matter what.
Major bugs in smart contracts can cause the system to stop working rather than handing anyone billions. As such people can discover such issues without disclosing them in much the way infrastructure can be vulnerable without people damaging it.
This was a dark pattern they launched almost a year ago, as a non user of mostly every social media site, instagram is probably the worst in terms of forcing users to login to view public content.

I wouldn't normally have a problem with this but public content should be just that, viewable by the general public and not being forced to install a tracke.. err, their app on my phone.

Where I have a huge problem with this is public health or other official announcements from community leaders or essential information and its being put out on facebook. So now I can't access a public message by a publicly elected entity for general consumption. It seems extremely slimy and it feels illegal on some level as I don't want to be forced to login to facebook to view local updates.
most times the results will be contaminated by bacteria. The knowledge of what was actually going on when you do this was only gained in the past 250 years or so (before that, yeast was known as godisgreat).

In addition to doing it the way you described (put out flour and water in a bowl and wait for it to bubble and smell nice), you can also buy a $100 microscope, collect wild yeast, clean the bactiera off, and grow mass cultures. Sometimes it pays to work at the last step of the industrial, scientific and agricultural revolutions.
I dont think anyone likes the fact that US minimum wage is so low. Seeimg the higher wage offers has been pleasant, but not being able to go in restaurants because they have been unable to hire enough staff hasnt been.

Mcdonalds + Amazon wont be a victim of minumum wage laws, they advocate for high minumum wages, as less productive chains and small businesses with smaller margins will have to die off to allow for more mcdonalds and amazon.

It is sad how expensive some parts of the country are, and the minimum wage "should" be higher, but ive seen economists say raising minum wage hurts low income earners looking for their first job (disproportionatly bipoc people), increases prices for everything, increases govt beurocracy, and simply doesnt work as a simple fix.
Be careful, some simple/cheap/common solar systems will generate power, only if the grid is up.
Heatwave images in the media can better represent climate risks
It always takes exactly 3 reloads for me.
WTF is artificial general intelligence exactly?!
Thank you! The entitlement is disgusting.
> take a look at Zig's MultiArrayList for example

Thanks, I'd not seen that before, very neat. [0] I thought it was just going to be an option to be row-major or column-major, but no: Instead of storing a single list of items, MultiArrayList stores separate lists for each field of the struct.

Could this be done in C++, perhaps with template metaprogramming?

> The compiler is a tool, you can set the field to help it do its job, but it's no magic wand

A paraphrasing of a familiar Mike Acton quote. Fittingly it was mentioned in a blog post that mentions the Jai language. [1][2] I find it frustratingly insubstantial. Given we all presumably accept Rice's theorem and how it applies to compiler optimization, it's a rather empty quip, especially considering we're discussing future possibilities.

Today's compilers are capable of some impressive optimizations. It doesn't do to just dismiss the idea that tomorrow's compilers might be able to do significantly more with memory layouts.

Consider if, decades ago, a sceptic of optimizing compilers had said: Compilers are useful tools, but they are not magic wands, and cannot achieve highly optimized instruction-selection and register-allocation. It cannot think and understand your application: only you can do that. The baseless suggestion that efficient register-allocation is impossible in the absence of a strong AI, would seem laughable today.

> it cannot think and understand your application: only you can do that.

Today's compilers are not strong AIs, sure enough, but that doesn't speak to the point here.

Optimizers and static-analysis tools are capable of reasoning about program behaviour. Again, you haven't justified dismissing the suggestion that future optimizing compilers might be much more sophisticated at this kind of transformation. Perhaps I'm an optimist for arguing for the sufficiently smart compiler, but it doesn't strike me as beyond the realm of possibility.

Perhaps the closer answer is to adjust (or indeed replace) our languages to be more amenable to memory layout transformations than C/C++. This would presumably be comparatively easy to implement.

[0] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#std;MultiArray...

[1] https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/the-compiler-will-optimize-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010965
I mean, kind of. It does work, but under the hood there's a big fossilized mess of a technology stack that could have been better had it not been the result of many years of accumulated unrelated solutions to different, smaller problems...
Presumably Anki’s mobile frontends.
It really does not matter what MS tried to do back the, as the average consumer was using Windows to access the internet.

Sure, MS was bad. Doesn’t change the fact that most people first experienced the internet through Windows. And it was that audience that brought business and more money.
Congrats on your product. I'm curious what lead to you all creating this product, after you spent "years working at data brokers."

Perhaps this is too harsh an analogy, but how is this different than someone who spends years working at a tobacco company and then launches a company which sells a smoking cessation product? As other comments here point out, even the process of opting out of these brokers via Optery requires disclosure of personal information and some level of trust. I can imagine the fact that you all previously worked at data brokers make people less likely to trust you with their personal information, rather than more.
Submarkets over a certain size, controlled by a single party
Here's the case I had, a review from 2014: https://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/06/12/zagg-autofit-bluetooth-...

They don't make it anymore, sadly.

I loved that it held my 7 inch tablet and worked with it wirelessly, and that the hinge was stiff enough to hold it up as I used it on my lap or standing on the subway. If only the keyboard was weighted it would have been stable to put on a table without the kickstand in the back, but that was a fine compromise given everything else it delivered for not a lot more money.

I hope your Pinephone experiment goes well. I'm optimistic for them.
TechInsights Apple iPad Pro 12,9” 2021 Teardown
If the copyright owners were punished (monetarily) for broad overreach, then the poor artist's lawyers would take the cases on contingency.
FYI, the name conflicts with FreeBSD’s nullfs [0][1], which does something entirely different.

[0]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nullfs&sektion=5

[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nullfs&sekti...
Wouldn't be the most secretive thing apple has done. I think some internal groups are given red herring designs with the actual key material embedded into it, but depending on which red herrings go out they knew where the leaks came from.

And following from that, they know who gets to be fired.
Is there a Google option to perma-ban a domain?

Maybe a place I can upload a HOSTS file?

Or an extension that adds this to every search?
Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer (2016)
Let's go back to before real agriculture. 10K years ago People harvested wild grain, processed it, managed to make yeast starter, and produce an edible bread that sustained humanity until we learned how to domesticate it and build the infrastructure to study it until we know how all this works at the molecular level. But they managed to do it without any science or technology.
Yes, I think so. I mean, I'm not totally clear on the ethics of raising animals in a farmshare, but I am clear that the lab-grown meat is totally fine ethically, so I'll do that.

(To be clear, I eat meat now, but as far as I'm aware there's no easy way for me as a consumer to consume only meat from non-factory-farming methods.)
>a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot

Can't believe I've never thought of this.
Just looking at how this post got 400 points in an hour says a lot about how people feel about this. Internet fame isn't the arbiter of truth, but practically everyone here knows and relates to this post at one point or another on the web these days.
Not every way to break a smart contract results in a major payout.
Your product is dead when you want it to be or you've tried a million things that make sense and it just isn't working. It could be now, or later after you've tried 100-1,000 more things and you are getting the same results.

You have to decide how to use your time and energy. They are precious limited resources. That might mean cutting your losses and doing something else now, whatever that is (including resting). It might mean trying more things on this project.

If $100 a month isn't a lot to you, and you're interested in making this project work, learning more, and getting better at creating a business, I'd do more work on it. You can apply what you learn to any other project you do, and some jobs as well.

You are getting some feedback (low sign ups, no paying users). You know alternatives exist that are getting some paid users. So you know something isn't working but you don't know what. It could be all sorts of things. Framing (copy, design), pricing, emails or lacks of emails (their subject line, what they say, etc). So many things and their combination could be the problem.

Have you read the Mom Test? Here's a summary:
https://www.slideshare.net/xamde/summary-of-the-mom-test

Here's a great guide about growth, marketing, writing copy,ads, etc: https://www.julian.com/guide/growth/intro

I'd recommend getting more feedback from potential users to figure out what to change, and tinker with the website, pricing, and framing to get some users and paying users. Consider targeting a small niche of users, focusing on a sub-sub-group whose needs aren't being met with current offerings or specific feature that is lacking.
Hughes v. Benjamin determined that Benjamin's (Sargon of Akkad, anti-feminist youtuber) reposting of this type was fair use, in fact he was even awarded fees. This a U.S. district court decision wrt federal law so YMMV.
Maybe. I'm just saying that we should teach people in the 60s to design for the future and make things extensible. Maybe we'd still have custom silicon, but they would be designed with an external bus to a second chip that can be easily switched out or upgraded or something as a way of dealing with future growth of address space.

Obviously it wouldn't apply to everything, but back in the 60s future growth was clearly not thought about the same way as today.
even windows 7 also had "launch parties"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
I know half a dozen folks that have worked there who all independently described the security as a joke to impress clients. When I took a tour once they claimed that because of their government contracts they can legally commandeer fuel at gunpoint to run their generators if they need to, which is a cute fantasy.
The evidence here stands strong and firm over the tone, emotion or reaction I'm afraid.

The claim is either backed by reliable sources or not and claims can be simply dismissed if there is little to no evidence presented.

In this can, the grandfather comment failed to provide any and can be instantly dismissed.
Okay? They will get upset and RRW will get an extra place to host their content free of charge.
Software verification can make a system ≈ bug free from a pragmatic perspective, but, there are still holes: humans do the verification, and there are practical limitations to the scope of system and integration tests. The fact that we still find zero-days (and other bugs) on systems that have gone through software verification is evidence of this.
Apple employees allegedly required to wear body cameras to stop leaks
This is such a classic paper that I felt it deserved a more readable copy. So I copied the text into Word and cleaned it up a bit. May be easier for those with visual impairments etc.

Here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kmpo4c2q9klqx1e/A%20Plea%20for%20L...

(MS Word format, old .DOC version. Should be readable in anything.)

Feel free to reshare.
That argument goes the other way as well, you can construct every company as being not a monopoly by painting the market segment broad enough.

I don't think this is a valid argument.
I think there would always be something invented to take its place. It addresses a real need that lots of people have. If you want to remove it, you have to replace it with something else...
I was wondering at first what this might be used for, but for testing it makes perfect sense.
One of their biggest hurdles to overcome is, I gather, that a lot of the super large subreddits' moderator teams are exclusively on old.reddit.com for moderation. If they break old.reddit.com completely right now, a lot of the biggest subs would implode with bots, spam, and angry human word-vomit.

If they fix the moderation story for new reddit, I'd imagine they have a pretty quick path towards obsoleting old reddit by just not caring about anyone else still on old reddit.

They've already 'fixed' modmail for new reddit. So I think they're actively working on that problem.
The problem with this is, who gets to say what a nominal dollar is? There are like ten different versions of inflation calculation. It wouldn't be hard to cherry pick the commodities that set inflation low. Or, if you are really devious, you could subsidize only those commodities that are in the index as a loss leader for stuff people actually need.

Personally I would prefer to use a percentage of the 99th percentile of earners. So if the rich get richer, the minimum wage goes up.
Couldn't resist. Here's another video showing a streamlined and "much more compact" computer room from around 1990. That 44GB of disk storage (DASD) probably cost $150,000 at the time. Somebody signed the P.O. and slept well that night. [0]

Best part. You could roller skate to the music.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlvUz3T4WTA
There is no need to put IP stacks on non-server endpoints unless you know what you are doing and the implications. Each non-server device could establish a context with the network as and when needed to send and receive traffic, as you did in the dial-up age. Removes a huge raft of security problems, IP address shortages, DDoS, privacy/tracking.
Toon In
discussed alot a month ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27166162
You mean like say Texas? Or California?

Fires, storms, even just cold weather can be life threatening. Even simple stuff like knowing how to turn off the water supply to your house and drain the system would have saved MANY households in Texas.

Planning to not have electricity, natural gas, and working cell network makes sense pretty much universally. I'm not talking about spending $100k to go off grid, but making sure you have some essentials around. Even simple things like enough blankets for a family to weather 0F for a week.
I've seen it on multiple android devices. But even if only one tap on the search bar is necessary, it's still an antipattern, as the user clearly wants to search, and the keyboard should come up right away. Recommendations and suggestions should not be conflated with search, or at least shouldn't override search.
> How are you going to make the Internet better?

Anything that allows me to send files to a device of a person I know on a direct connection without a service in between and regardless of our locations in the world. Still an unsolved problem AFAIK.
The grease is applied to the wheel flange on the outer rail of the curve, to minimise wear from the flange contacting the inside of the rail, which addresses some but not all screeching.

Screeching can still occur because train wheels’ axles do not have a differential and one wheel travels a longer path than the other. The conical shape of the wheel profile deals with this, but some metal/metal creep between the wheels and the (ungreased top of the) rail still occurs
They all do the same thing (peg to the dollar), but in different ways with different tradeoffs. That's the interesting part that you're completely missing.

Some are more centralized than others. Some rely on governance more than others. Some allow themselves to drift further from the peg than others. Some are more complex (and therefore more at risk of failure). There's actually quite a lot going on, and I personally find it pretty interesting, but yeah, at the surface, it's a bunch of coins that trade fairly close to $1.
Thanks for highlighting this part of the text. It’s shocking to see how vague the complaint was and I hope they get their facts together because this action needs to happen. If I recall correctly, this antitrust lawsuit was filed prematurely because trump wanted to claim credit for it and there was quite a hullabaloo about it at the time.
For Android at least, there are multiple free-as-in-freedom reddit client apps available. Two I know of are Infinity and Slide. Both are way better than the mobile website, and I'm sure better than the official app.
Like the “submarket” of Costco & Costco’s shelves?