skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a problem with the World Wide Web, not the Internet. At the network level, per-user cost accounting and quality of service is implemented quite well, to the point of being able to pay per byte if you really want to. And access to any network beyond your own LAN is not free.

The problem of how to fund actual web application development is not much different from the problem of how to fund media development in general. Newspapers, television, and magazines alike long ago settled on some mix of premium-tier subscription services augmenting a more open, ad-funded free tier.

This is so much more of an issue today than 30 years ago not because of anything specifically about ads to fund media, but because ad profitably has been driven sky-high by individual consumer profiling that relies upon privacy invasion and surveillance of your customers. Ads back in the day would improve via voluntary focus groups and that was fine. Today, they improve by tracking every digital action a person ever takes in order to more accurately correlate interacting with an ad with making a future purchase. Volunteers for focus groups are pretty much okay with giving their opinions in return for cash. Every person on the planet is not nearly as okay with having every digital action they ever take recorded and analyzed.
Well, it is easy to get rid of employees in case revenue is declining. ESOPs and RSUs are a very real thing as well. Of course, equity in an unproven company is basically short changing employees on salary.

Also, the EU has what, almost 30 different sets of tax and labour laws.
WHat if schools "economically" motivated them?

or maybe the teacher/professor IS on the maintainers list?
Somewhat related: it's time to toss out file trees as our primary module management technique:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347043

We've outgrown file trees.
I used to work on a web application where showing correct time stamps was extremely important, so I set my system-wide time zone to Mumbai so that TZ-related bugs would be really obvious in testing
Apple should make a (non-glasses at first) body cam wearable that is used for life streaming and personal security.
One easy step is a small generator. Like a 20-50 amp size. Easy, portable (storable) simple, test maybe twice a year.

I've also been putting battery/conditioner on my high-value electronics.

And avoiding sMaRt devices - I imagine them failing in stupid/frustrating ways with power/data connection issues.
Apple making employees wear body cams to avoid leaks
Is this move okay?
> In 2015, France’s highest court upheld the criminal conviction of 12 pro-Palestinian activists for violating restrictions against hate speech. Their crime? Wearing T-shirts that advocated a boycott of Israel — “Long live Palestine, boycott Israel.”

If pro-Uighur activists wore t-shirts that said "long live Xinjiang, boycott China" in Chinatown, do you think they ought to be charged with a crime? Frankly, I find that idea appalling, and I find the conviction of those pro-Palestine activists appalling too.
Facebook's market value surpasses $1T for the first time
You will often see japanese style mayo used on sushi rolls in American sushi restaurants.
I love instagram. It's the best social media site. Last time I checked, I couldn't even make an account from my desktop computer. I'm not gonna even try to install their app on my G-free phone.

When a friends sends me a link to Instagram, I know that I don't need to click on it -- the thumbnail contains all the information that I'd ever see without creating an account. When news articles consist of a bunch of embedded Instagram crap, it doesn't even load on vanilla firefox. That's cool, those stories are usually celebrity gossip that I don't actually want to read but got baited into clicking on.

It's my favorite social media site, because their hooks just bounce straight off me.

Thanks, Instagram, for the consistent signalling. I never wanted to be your friend anyway.
Isnt it "127.0.0.1/8" which is allocated, not "127.0.0.1/24"?
> the internet would be used to enlighten and enrich ordinary people. The internet of today is truly tragic in contrast.

Are you sure? There's certainly lots of "tragic" stuff in the internet today. But I don't think that, even in their wildest dreams, the first users of the internet who hoped for a fantastic future could fathom the current enormity of sci-hub, library genesis and wikipedia.
Likely both. It sure as hell ain't to make your experience any better.
Looks like the LinkedIn job links have expired.
I suspect it’s all that and their metrics show that mobile users are the most “engaged” so they want more mobile users to have an even higher count of engaged users. Also, it’s harder to spam notifications without a mobile app.
It seems to me that where we really ended up was distributed systems. We solve problems by not just making our code concurrent to use more cores, but by also making it use more computers.
Laguerre transformations (2D hypercomplex numbers and non-Euclidean geometries)
Then why bother saying it? I also know more evidence that supports my position, but I, too, don't want to dox by saying more.
What's really funny is that this escalating response from Apple in response to leaks comes directly as the relevance of Apple leaks has gone down. Nobody gives a fuck what the next iPhone is going to look like. Apple events are no longer these mystical ripples in spacetime because 1) Steve Jobs is dead and 2) Apple is not cool anymore 3) everyone knows the next iPhone will be a rounded rectangle with a screen on one side.
Apple thinks that they will reclaim their cool by controlling leaks but nobody is going to get excited about Tim Cook pulling the next iPhone out of his pocket. Apple's engineering is still great, but they are no longer an entertainment event.
Google Compute Engine (GCE) VM “remote” root exploit via DHCP flood
I think it's named ECS because before then entity+component designs were common in games. ECS generally took the behavior off the C and puts it in the S.
I'll one up this - I use an alternative, unofficial app for reddit. Until recently the 'open' button on their website would take me into that specific app - as you would expect - but since last week or so it's started sending me to the Google Play store page for the official app instead.
I didn't see the Kursk incident, where several nuclear warheads were lost
In the mountain west 80mph is the norm, and even then it is more of a suggestion, flow of traffic is closer to 90mph. Some states are posted 70mph on single-lane county roads. Many practical logistics of living in those regions become infeasible at 50mph because people have schedules and finite amounts of time for travel. You are being unrealistic about the implications.

When you live in the parts of the country that have 80mph limits, and I have, it is normal to spend 3-4 hours driving in a day. Things are very spread out and the distances are far, which is why the speed limits are so high. I've lived in towns where basic things like shopping were a 75 mile drive each way. Casually increasing those drive times by 75% is not a small thing and, frankly, no one would comply. You'll end up in exactly the situation you already have -- people in urban areas will drive slowly and people in more sparsely populated regions will drive as fast as is reasonably safe.

The fact that these higher limits are largely in remote areas also has the implication that not that many people are driving that fast anyway, so it is unlikely to have much impact anyway. It would rightly generate considerable resentment with no meaningful impact on carbon emissions.

All that aside, my car hits peak efficiency at around 70mph, as did my prior car. You can monitor this in many cars and I do. Drivetrains are optimized for typical highway speeds. It isn't the 1970s.
Please don't post supercilious dismissals and especially not nationalistic flamebait to HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27658877.
yeah, you absolutely can emulate this stuff to a large degree. My point wasn't that it's impossible, but rather you have to build it from orthogonal primitives. And even then I don't think you can get the same degree of trampolining that you can get with inheritance (for example, we can get Bar.qux() to call Foo.baz() easily enough via interfaces, but then IIRC it's trickier to get Foo.baz() to call Bar.asdf()--that said I'm too busy to think it through properly).
Well that was for very low key entrepreneurs. More serious ones generally got death sentence if caught
>accelerates environmental destruction

Ethereum is working on moving to proof-of-stake within the next year, which completely removes its need for energy-intensive proof-of-work mining.
I'm not into the whole prepper culture, I live in a city so if sh*t really goes down I'm loading up my touring bike and leaving.

But I do have some things that are quite cheap and easy to get. 4 big jugs of water, total of 160 liters iirc. I rotate them out every 6 months.

One crank operated radio+usb power bank+torch.

First aid kit.

~80 days of powdered meal replacement, not for prepping but because I eat it normally as a snack or quick lunch. So I tend to order 45 bags in a box each time and that means I have between 50-80 days worth at any given time. I'm still on a big box of Plenny shake but when that is up I'm thinking of trying Huel.

Water purification tablets and gas camping stove is something I had for a long time because I love camping. And a lot of other little knick knacks for camping like a knife, flint and steel, bicycle maps of the region, compass and more.

Simple solar charger for USB, enough to charge my phone in a couple of hours on a sunny day. It's actually a foldable version that I bring on bicycle tours.
When I visited the exhibition in Kalmar Castle in Sweden at some undefined time ago it was calm and quiet and people sat on the floor or on little chairs.

I quite enjoyed it, would recommend.
Is there anything official from Google saying Amp is no longer affecting mobile search result rankings? I haven't been able to find anything.
nope - no side effects at all that I can tell
I wouldn't be surprised if a few more emulators use it too. It's the cleanest way to emulate ll/sc style archs on x86.
Presumably the Fed/State government people who hand out the DC contracts like the security cosplay. :)
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Encapsulation as a principle is something we do when writing idiomatic C code.

That's clearly not the case. C obviously does not enforce encapsulation, and it's extremely common for devs not to follow this principle, in fact it's pretty much the default not to and it takes discipline to enforce it.

"Encapsulation at module level", as you wrote earlier, is not encapsulation. If you implement your object as a struct (which is really what objects are) then encapsulation means not accessing the content of that struct/object directly.
The original article title is: "Apple Making Employees Wear Police-Grade Body Cams in Response to Leaks"

In reality:

* It's a few groups who handle hardware, it's not like the entire engineering team is forced to walk around with body cameras or face execution.

* "Police Grade" means nothing - it's an alarming phrased used for no reason.

* "In response to leaks" while fine, makes light of the situation - in reality its concerning hardware designs of one of the most complex hardware operation in the world.
Twitter does the same thing, but you have no issue with it because they aren't doing it to pedophiles like Byuu.

None of you have an issue with harassment, you have an issue when someone dares to gossip about people from your clique.
That would have just made the internet in accessible to the poor.

I remember my dad scraping enough money to buy us a computer in '97 with unlimited internet (aol was still selling the internet by the minute back then). As a kid who hardly ever had enough money to buy a comic let alone magazine, and who's local library was lacking, it was life changing being able to just lookup and read about anything for free.
Ah, but are those assistance programs available to people on Medicare or Medicaid? I know a diabetic on Medicare so I've watched ads and lots of the ones that mention how little your copay can be seem to have a little note at the bottom of the screen "for patients on commercial insurance."
That's some cyberpunk level monitoring
Mixing AZ and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines creates better immune response: study
You can be dismissive about literally anything that way. Computers: another variation on the same ol' "input in, output out" pitch.

You find stablecoin's failures interesting. Crypto enthusiasts (which admittedly are a tiny fraction of the people holding cryptocurrencies) do too, while at the same time finding the pegging mechanisms interesting as well
OP > "where it's too critical to outsource support"
This article is probably bullshit. I mean, it might be true that Apple is requiring some employees to wear a body camera in some circumstances, but none of the evidence cited even indicates that this is directly in response to leaks.

It doesn’t even make much sense. Unless they’re hoping to catch body camera evidence of an employee using a phone to snap a picture of a prototype, what sort of leak would this possibly prevent? And really, would it be that hard to “accidentally” obscure the body camera for the 5 seconds it takes to snap such a photo anyway?

It certainly won’t stop you from calling, texting, or meeting a journalist in your free time to leak whatever information you want.

There’s probably much less to the story than this sensationalist headline suggests.
Sadly, I doubt the brokers have much concern about their data being inaccurate!
My startup received this "seal of excellence". It hurts because I'd rather have the money instead of a piece of paper, but hopefully we might be selected for the next round. They do this startup selection every 6 months or so.
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Speech has consequences otherwise it wouldn't be worth speaking. Whether or not you want to accept those consequences is not censorship.
I'd be surprised if they launched a product that indicated they cared about customers. Like something repairable, or that had a headphone jack.
The plus side is that smart contracts provide their own "bug bounty" programme. If a smart contract that handles a coin with a market cap of +50M USD has not been breached, I absolutely trust that contract to be safe.
You asked for an ambiguous example and you got one. What do you mean you don't buy it?
VCs blowing an order of magnitude more on coke doesn't make the news
People repeat that quote a lot, but I don't think there's much evidence for it. The main thing is people have kids, and kids take time. Boom 10 years gone from high-performance productive individual-contributor work. It was uncommon for people to go back to school at a later age, but maybe not anymore?
What's your proof that Muslims in the US are resisting integration?
Maybe I've just internalized how to use Anki in a way that works well and avoid it's pitfalls, but what are the actual problems you have with it?
totally fair. "Police Grade" in this context is ragebait, pure and simple.
Maybe, but if it was the same with FDIV from what I saw. The bug was bad but actually bumping into it was quite rare.
Mars may have dozens of lakes beneath its south pole
First of all... if this story comes from a leak, how do we even know it's real? Tons if not most of Apple "leaks" turn out to be false. Also, how do we know this is in order to prevent leaks, as opposed to other security concerns (like accessing PII).

Second, even if true, it's impossible to judge this without knowing who "some" employees are. I would expect that highly paid Apple engineers aren't all going to be wearing them all day at the office -- that would make hiring a bit difficult...

But if there are certain restricted-access design rooms that they require you to wear one while inside? Or a policy for third-party contractors where Apple doesn't have control over the premises and can't install security cameras? I dunno, but I can imagine a few scenarios where this might not be obviously unreasonable.
Which means you should include member state budgets, as the EU has no social systems, militaries etc... to find. Comparing EU member states to US states is just plain wrong.
I haven't used Facebook or Instagram in about 3 years. Occasionally I'll get sent a link to something on Instagram before having this exact experience. Whatever I'm missing out on, it hasn't been enough to convince me to make another account, my quality of life has significantly improved ever since I extricated myself from the social media hellscape.

Indeed, "fuck you" Facebook.
" there is never a pro-user reason to destroy ux and privacy"

Huh?

I require users to register (little to no privacy) and pay a bit - this results in a both better user experience and is a pro-user reason to destroy privacy. You can also blacklist most of the anon email providers / do SMS verification etc
It’s a good one actually cause even if it’s falsely triggered e.g by users on NAT sharing the same address it’s only going to tell them “fuck you” but they can still login
What browser are you using on your phone?
> It's the classic "what devices 16 year olds are asking their parents for?" survey, which hovers around like 90% pro-Apple.

Are you sure about that?

Windows dominates the high-end computer gaming market, which a lot of this demographic is into. That's a $40+ billion market, representing a large number of Windows users.
This seems like an anti-scraping measure to me, they are limiting how much content you can access on the site without an account?

Seems like if they did not have protections like this, another group of people would be complaining about easy FB makes it for nefarious actors to violate your privacy, etc. and how careless they are in not locking down access better.
This is incredible sobering. What can we do in the face of this?
I agree with you but I've been astounded at how many people I've seen paying for Substack subscriptions apparently for the sole purpose of disagreeing with everything single thing written by the author, often in not very polite ways that end up getting them banned.
Nope we are still here. Look at the anti-war movement. Full of left wing veterans like myself who are anti-establishment. Its just the democrats who changed. The people who actually were left, didnt. Of course America doesn't have a good basis of what left wing is.
As with (nearly) all things, there's a robust subreddit and a niche industry focused on "prep" (preparation for disaster situations). Many refer to themselves as "preppers".

https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers

Some are ready for a "HTF" (hit the fan), society-collapse events. Others, like myself, focus on the higher probability but less attention grabbing situations like multi-day power outages, supply chain disruptions, and low-cost-high-ROI investments (like buying two sets of N95 masks for the family in 2018 in the unlikely event of a pandemic).

There's lot of view points within the community as to what is best, but generally the agreement is to determine what your personal level of risk tolerance is, and invest + prep accordingly.
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> The classification problem is interesting though. I ended up with a long list of hundreds of topics. Most articles fall in two or more. There's also a sub-problem of clustering news by subject.

Yeah, certainly difficult. I'm doing it partially manually right now but also with fastText[1]. I'd like to switch completely to fastText soon though since more often than not the newsletters I add don't fit well with the checkbox categories on the landing page. Clustering the newsletters with fastText is pretty easy, but it might be hard to generate good tags for the landing page that match up with the clusters.

[1] https://fasttext.cc/
I use Anki for infrequent power-user commands and e.g. Python modules I don't use often. There's a class of tasks that I do regularly, but infrequently enough that I have to hit Stack Overflow every time unless I've put it in Anki.
> Can there ever be 'bug free' software?

Only in academia
Quite the opposite.

It's valid, healthy and even recommended to have significant skepticism regarding crypto. I think that's fair game, as about 90% (or more) of coins are pump-and-dump schemes. Further, almost everything "Defi" is supremely risky, as they are completely unregulated, not insured, often lack liquidity, and can go down the drain at moment's notice.

Fine. However, there's a general anti-crypto stance here largely based on outdated mainstream narratives that if you truly would be literate about crypto, could only laugh at.

So this community is not "very literate", it doesn't even past the basic smell test.
Some agreed, others didn't and they decided to create a fork. Consensus doesn't require everyone to agree, just the majority
No, but this is really interesting! Thank you so much for sharing!

I obviously have quite a passion for the idea that there's a universality to Tree Structures and some fundamental simple notation we are stumbling towards, so interesting to see others with that!

This page (https://www.tree-annotation.org/blog/no-escape.html) is close to one of the benefits, but it turns out you don't need any escape characters at all! Simply indentation let's you have blocks that cut and paste naturally with no escaping.
OK, we've taken the trademark out of the title above. Now someone else will point out how they had a sales team and bought ads...
This is not about “data” moving over borders. This is about services being provided from one country to another. This is something governments already regulate within their borders (and have for centuries).

This is something that’s already heavily regulated for other industries e.g. financial services. There’s nothing novel about the GDPR in that aspect.
> Every drug company gives away their drugs for free to people who can't afford it in the US

I don't believe this is universally true though. For example, patent-encumbered novel delivery mechanisms for existing (generic) drugs, like Concerta. The drug company has nothing to gain by maintaining the administrative infrastructure for patient-assistance for drugs like that.

Another example are personalised therpaies, such as immunotherapy treatments - which cost so much because (as I understand it, please correct me if I'm wrong) they require individual experts to develop the personalized antibodies and whatnot - unlike with mass-produced medication pills/tablets/capsules that have negligible marginal cost: a company isn't going to give away a $100k therapeutic drug for free because it still is going to cost them $50k+ (numbers just made up btw).
To be blunt, if you're doing cloud VMs that way, you set yourself up for failure. The whole point of cloud is autoscale distributed workflows.
Switch meat-eating for slave-owning and you're starting to justify tearing down those statues of Washington and Jefferson.
To be fair there are a lot more places in a 1000 miles radius around me taking bitcoin or crypto than there are taking dollars as payment.

The relevance of USD, and any currency, is a regional value.

And bitcoin is actually widely accepted here in Switzerland
This is where I fall on the topic as well, and I think so do many others. This seems like an easy way to bootstrap and scale this, start with a premium on the product pricing and have people who can afford it fund the scaling. At the end, economies of scale will bring the price down for the rest.

I can also totally see people buying this occasionally to supplement their regular meat consumptions.
Regardless, they harass others all the time on social media outlets like Twitter. He got to keep his income and job despite his pedophilia, whereas others denied those for having less egregious views.