skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd like to passively consume someone's ideas about passive consumption? It's a matter of the soul, not that it makes you dumber or any objective worsening. No one is qualified to talk about it; everyone is just opining. Only you can decide for yourself whether a life of passive consumption is meaningful to you.

Perhaps your instinctive desire to consume someone's ideas betrays the truth of the matter already? I think a healthy soul would look to itself and its own intrinsic virtue for guidance first, before anyone external.
Pretty good point. People resort to occams razor as if it is a fundamental constant of nature valid in all
cases. Occams razor has heuristic value not probitive value.
> Phoning home with telemetry data does not by definition imply tracking.

As far as the user can know for sure, it does.
I assume that's universal! (The other thing you can talk about being sports)
It might have been bats this time, next time it might be chickens.
That unsentimental optimization created the depression and anxiety inducing pits of social media with all its manipulation of feelings and opinions and fake news leading to a mistaken attempt to overthrow the us government
I watched the boiler episode to learn how central heating worked and got drawn in, they're all excellent and explain a lot.
And having my IP address is going to help them how exactly?
That's an interesting idea for an agent-based-model and a study: Show how certain corporate policies would push towards short term local-optima (what's happening in the article) instead of more long term global optimum states.
I hope this makes it into bitwarden_rs, which is what we use at work, soon. That and/or the ability to disable personal vaults would go a long ways for us.
It is in humans.
I have talent in dev/code, but didn't use any of it. 2x Corona, short-time work, depression.. :(

I'm fully open for any suggestions.

It's not passive: I started investing into stocks and sold almost all for about 5% profit in total. I think many won't like it, but I used that money and invested into different cryptocurrencies. I ended up with about twice my total investment and on some days I earned more per day, than monthly with my dayjob. The goldrush wasn't forever though, because after may I'm back to my initial investment.
The Switch controllers are so disappointing I doubt I'll ever buy another Nintendo product. Out of 4 Joycons and 3 Pro controllers, 1 pro controller is still fully functional.

They're ok for solo gaming, but anything multiplayer or especially cooperative is impossible.
Yes, it's all about ported indie games with an fat margin.
I feel like UX improvements would be best driven by user feedback, not inferred from telemetry.
First intermittency is just a cost of battery question, because cost of one type or another is the only meaningful metric. Hell if land use bothers you we can put panels on rooftops, parking lots, between highways etc. It’s wasteful but plenty of people are doing it.

Also, 13,968,000 kWh per day * 70% capacity factor = 9,777,600 kWh so solar only needs 3x to 4x the land. Except, nuclear reactors need land near large bodies of water making that land far more valuable. So because you can’t put a nuclear reactor on the ultra cheap land viable for solar panels Nuclear actually ends up with higher land costs.
That's what I though. Considerably more freedom than many other countries, IMNSHO, including those whose leaders chose policies with emphasis on maintaining liberty.
You're neither naive or dumb, but this is peak HN.

No, it's not better. Algorithms aren't some magical unbiased utopia. They're created by people, with their own biases. They just add a level of separation between the human bias and the person getting fired.

Humans are, at least, accountable to other humans.
The joycon thumbsticks are nothing like the joysticks on the xbox/ps4 controllers. They may be the same manufacturer (which I'm skeptical), but they are clearly a different product line at the very least.
Good to see that qwave hasn't lost its core competency of peddling misleading marketing bullshit.
OP here to clarify this is “public discourse”, not Discourse forum software nor the Discord app.
Nintendo announces new Nintendo Switch model
> AutoStore says its first supplied technology to Ocado as early as 2012 and this is the foundation on which the Ocado Smart Platform was built. The company has claimed several patent infringements relating to the design and lifting mechanism of Ocado’s robots.

If true, yikes, but at the same time I have doubts if some aspects of the technology are even patentable (or at least make the claims too narrow to the point that patent-free variations allow workarounds and make the patents useless).
Rapid UI development with styled-system
>> For Canada and most of Europe, the idea that you can be fired for any reason on the spot just because your employer feels like it is ridiculous.

As employer you may see it differently. e.g if you don't want to be fired make your own company and rule it as you like.
One problem with arguing that something is an unintended consequence is that you have to prove that they're not among the intended consequences for the creator. I'm really not convinced that the original GPL authors weren't aware that their license would somewhat reduced openness (relative to permissive licenses) in its pursuit of other goals.
Reminds me of this 2014 king-of-the-hill challenge:
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/25347/survival-...

One particular solution stood out:
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/25357

The suicidal wolf became a (short-lived) running gag so it started appearing in other king-of-the-hill challenges:
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/34856
I forget which day it was, but I came across a day with a much higher number of food poisoning incidents.

It could be that there was something happening that day, or maybe it happened to people who were more likely to report it. Somewhat related, it would be cool to see if the areas of pest sightings correlate with food poisoning incidents.
If they do this, and improve the program enough, then it seems like a reasonable outcome that in exchange for using non-GPL versions of the code you have to agree to their tracking.

And if the people that are now freely contributing code to that project to handle audio decide that they don't want their changes to be licensed in a proprietary way, well, we get a new LibreOffice... people maintaining GPL software for free/cheap seems a lot more likely than maintaining software that is proprietary and owned by some company that is uninterested in sharing the improvements they submit.
I would put money of them using OpenCV and the assorted algos in that library for their vision work.
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Install NoScript browser extention, then ban medium.com
Lots of open source software uses opt-out telemetry.

Sure, I also want it to stop, but there are so many doing it.
Arguably, only because it didn’t have an OLED display.
> If you are a global MNC with multi billion dollar valuation,

What if you're none of those?

Is it still fair to require a local presence for every single site / app / network to have access to a population?
The Command Line in 2004 (2004)
Where are you getting this information?

Where are Australians not pressured into speaking Standard American English? On the street? Well, I don’t think anyone pressures people to not speak AAVE on the street either.

In schools? Certainly an Australian kid going through American schools will be taught to lose his Australian spellings, pronunciations, irregular vocabulary. Unclear to me how this is any different.

In the media? Well, if an Australian newscaster working in the US starting saying cunt, I assure you, he’d be forced to adopt Standard American English.

As I said, you have a highly ideological view and seem to be looking for anything to justify your conclusion.
sadly nothing was stated so I assume no
Where I think you are wrong here is that you fail to consider the fact that the same programmer must decide which dataset/training data they will use for the AI. So implicit biais is not just external to the programmer, it's definitely caused by the programmer.

And implicit biais goes way beyond their training dataset.
Did they put a clause "if pregnant, then...", likely not. However, what conditions did they use for testing this algorithm and ensure if it works? Testing is really much part of the process as well.
That's the relative risk increase. What's the absolute risk increase?

Varies by age, but for a young person we're talking the risk going from 0.001% to 0.004%.
> I think it would easier to build a website with a more feature-rich <textarea> alternative, than it would be to push that clunky syntax onto end-users.

The <textarea> we always have with us. Anything extensively indentation-based is doomed as a general-purpose web markup language (where you’re typing in that markup language—WYSIWYG/WYSIWYM editors are another matter), because all <textarea> “enhancements” will behave differently and will be at least a little painful.

> reStructuredText and AsciiDoc are already straddling the line between Markdown and full-featured markup languages.

I think that’s the wrong framing. All three have roughly the same goals, just Markdown is… worse. And yeah, I’m going to stick with that. Markdown is a low-quality hack that unfortunately (in my mind) gained popularity, a textbook case of “worse is better”, because its dodgy HTML foundation and simple processing model made it far easier to adopt (with many painful incompatibilities between implementations) than something like reStructuredText which is actually sound but takes a lot more effort to implement, so that there’s really only one implementation of it.

reStructuredText and AsciiDoc are full-featured presentation-agnostic markup languages. Markdown is itself fairly minimally-featured, which works out because it’s tied to HTML, which carries the burden of supporting more extensive functionality (though not very well).

LaTeX is a full-featured presentation-locked markup language. It is not at all suitable as an alternative for the likes of reStructuredText, as reStructuredText is much more flexible on presentation options. With something like Sphinx, you can target HTML, LaTeX, Windows’ old-style help, man pages, and more.
Fair enough. I am not a regular Linux user (and when I do use it, I tend to use CLI), so do not have a critical day-to-day user experience with them.

Most of my opinion is based on "over the shoulder" observations.

Also, X11 is ghastly. Anything looks good, compared to that.
Not so much. I'm trying to illustrate thae consequences of that view, and the results of applying standards resembling the 4chan-ers views to the 4chan-ers themselves.

I.e., they see X as appropriate punishment, they should themselves be subject to X -- let them live by their own rules. Currently, they do not - they make their own rules, make all kinds of threats, and then just laugh about it on their chats in their basements.

What is actually effective is highly reliable and under-proportionate penalties, but that would require massive tracking systems that almost none of us would be willing to even consider, much less implement. E.g., if every anti-social act resulted in a fine between $5-$500 (scaled for income/wealth so it wasn't just a license for rich ppl to be a*holes), it would rapidly decline. But it would require a nearly insane tracking and judicial system.
I think if you only look at the biggest budget or most advertised movies you are right. But there are lots of great indie or lower budget, but not 'low budget's movies coming out. It's just hard to find these movies because they are drowned out by the noise of all the other ones. People said the same about music, but really I think things like discover weekly from Spotify and just general YouTube recommendations have proven that statement totally false and it's just people didn't have a way of finding anything.

Also, if you go back and watch some (not all) of those 90s movies some are pretty meh. Independence Day really stands out as being really boring and if anything the template for all the action movies you dislike. It has a very similar, shallow feel to it.
I do appreciate the difficulty of getting software configured correctly.

But I'm of the opinion that software configuration is quicker and easier than redeveloping algorithms to become faster on FPGAs or GPUs.

Its really odd to have a talk about how FPGAs are part of a hypothetical mainstream future (when so few people even know how to code in Verilog, let alone know how to synthesize a systolic array or other obscure parallel architecture). And then turn around and say that Dual-Socket computers are too hard to configure.

Verilog / FPGAs aren't magic. They're just highly configurable logic gates + some preconfigured ALUs that allow for alternative parallel structures. These alternative parallel structures (most commonly a systolic array) are often highly specific to a task. But ultimately: the mode of compute still needs to be super-parallel to beat a CPU.

Remember: CPUs have higher clock-speeds than FPGAs. That's why FPGAs have mini-ALUs inside of them (ex: multipliers), because ASIC beats configurable logic in every spec that matters (GHz, power-efficiency, mm^2 on die).
I find it interesting that there seems to be a self-selection process here. Irresponsible people seem to be attracted to "hey I can just put a car in autopilot and ignore the requirement that I have to be attentive." Unfortunately these people are a menace to the rest of us driving on the road. And these same people are going to going to get a technology banned that can save lives and injuries.
> For Canada and most of Europe, the idea that you can be fired for any reason on the spot just because your employer feels like it is ridiculous.

The counterbalance is supposed be that you can quit whenever you want and aren't owned by your employer. Economic imbalances and capital having more power than labor affects that.
If you want to talk about OGWs, let’s start with the BJP IT and WA cell
I don't understand this argument. "Apple did good UX without telemetry in the 80s, so you should be able to do good UX without telemetry now, Muse".

Like, what do people think they want the telemetry for? Are they planning to sell the treasure trove that is "how many people clicked on the 'select audio sink' button" to the highest bidder?

You can tell them "do it without telemetry" all you want, but in the end it's just not going to be as good as if they had feedback.
It's a double edged sword, difficulty firing people will always make hiring more difficult; it becomes a much bigger risk.

At will employment wouldn't be such an issue if we had a more substantial government safety net.
Having the choice to send and having transparency to see what is sent would be a great choice.

Sometimes projects take their cue from enterprise.

Hypothetically, if Microsoft can’t count how many SharePoint installations they have active and on what version, telemetry could help them plan a roadmap. Only that inch is often taken and stretched into a mile.
Put a screen protector on it! I think it’s a good trade-off to prevent the screen from shattering.
> Describing the covid pandemic as simply a small decrease in life expectancy is a little on the nose.

How so? The first result I could find[1] estimates that life expectancy decreased by 1.18 years in the US due to the pandemic, which doesn't strike me as extreme.

1: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/5/e2014746118
Not quite the same. The French 'i' is an 'ee' sound.
They're (reasonably, in my opinion) looking for telemetry in order to improve the program.

The original Reddit post (Discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727150) stated Audacity would collect data necessary for "law enforcement, litigation". That doesn't sound like telemetry for improving the app.
> Any new entrant would have software that expects a blockchain being built substantially faster (or with substantially higher difficulty).

"Difficulty" isn't a thing in PoS. Provable random functions that choose validators always have fallbacks, because if they didn't, a single absent validator would bring the entire chain to a halt.

Repeated fallbacks would look suspicious, so a smart attacker would simply neglect to include transactions from the real chain that transfer money or power away from addresses he controls, which would quickly lead to >50% ownership of the fake chain. It would be impossible to distinguish this on-chain from a real validator drop event (such as an AWS US1 East outage).

> He doesn't consider that hard coded checkpoints handily solve the problem of long-range revisions.

Hard-coded checkpoints do absolutely nothing to address this issue. If you're requiring that the checkpoints come from a trusted entity, you've just given up decentralization. If you're not requiring that they come from a trusted entity, then they can be spoofed just as easily as a block.

Instead of reading a paper and immediately believing what it says, you need to try to think like an attacker and see how you would try to get around the "solution". There's likely not a paper written on this, because it's so trivial to get around that it really doesn't require a paper to refute. The fact that you presented this idea non-ironically seriously undermines your credibility.

FWIW, I'm not a PoS detractor. I'm quite excited for Ethereum's implementation of PoS, because if anyone can solve the issues with PoS, it's the Ethereum team. My current thinking is very much in the "wait and see" camp.

Weak subjectivity with PoS is a real thing (if you don't believe me, perhaps you should listen to Vitalik Buterin, who cannot be accused of being a "PoS detractor"). What remains to be seen is how much of a problem it is in practice. The release of Ethereum 2.0 will be the largest full-scale test of a mature implementation, but depending on how quickly full roll-outs of PoS happens for Cardano or Polkadot happen, one of them may get there first.
This almost seems to be placing the blame for unrealistic expectations on a company that hadn't given any reason for those expectations.
I mean, kind of. If you develop an algorithm and the user you're picturing in your mind looks like you, talks like you, and lives like you do you're embedding all kind of gender-related, racial, and socioeconomic biases. The most famous example being automatic soap dispensers that don't detect black hands[1].

Now combine that fact with the demographics of Silicon Valley companies and you get a recipe for products and algorithms that are "fair" only if you match a set of implicit criteria.

None of this is intentionally malevolent, just a product of hubris and "move fast and break things".

[1] https://reporter.rit.edu/tech/bigotry-encoded-racial-bias-te...
for context, rust is mentioned more than: in, the, and, a and I happen to think it reads a bit silly

here's the word count

rust: 13
in: 11
the: 10
to: 8
a: 6
and: 5
for: 5
linux: 5
For a lot of positions, this is worth more than a paper degree. If I came across a candidate who did all of this, has a profile filled with visible projects, and was able to finish all of this course work self directed then they are going to be worlds better than most CS graduates.
Maybe it’s because players put so many hours into breath of the wild, where you just hold the left stick straight up forever.
The Amazon drones sprinting around doing package deliveries are certainly governed by a similar algorithmic approach.

When I and I think a lot of the tech community see that, it looks ugly and dehumanizing, and the algo under the hood plays no small role in why.

This news has similar markings. If you feel there is no issue with Amazon’s Algos and their leverage over a vulnerable workforce: that’s your ethics and I won’t fault you.

But, your blind trust that an algorithmic solution to PeopleOps is problem-free is indicative of a common blindspot for techies. It causes a fair amount of social issues downstream when the algos meet the people being governed by them but the industry that creates the algos can’t see the nuance.
Why is it critical and what does it give you?
You want archaic? It could be worse. It could be EbcdicDoc.
It's amazing how much better an old, fuzzy copper landline was than my phone with VoLTE/VoIP turned off. (Or to someone else on a cell phone without either...)
Sounds like you live alone, most people don't.
Never heard of it before, but just googled it and it looks like it introduced a new exemption for children to work for their families: https://thediplomat.com/2016/08/indias-new-child-labor-law-b...
Yeah, I agree with you. The rumors that have been going around didn't make much sense IMO. (Has Nintendo ever done a hardware upgrade that would have been as drastic? Genuinely asking).

Also yes, the original kickstand made me wonder if anyone at Nintendo had actually tried to use it more than once. It's by far my least favorite part of the Switch.
> I don't understand this trend

Network effect. I don't like it neither. Many open source projects adopt Discord now, making it harder to be part of their community if you want to avoid non-free software / closed networks. (What next? Open source projects hosted on a non-free social network? /s)

From the outside, this is an impressive phenomenon, where in a very short time you notice everybody suddenly going to Discord and you don't understand what's happening / what's the deal.

But since nobody cares, it's not a problem.
Who needs (or asked for) your IP address?
If I remember correctly there were similar scenarios that would occur using that popular Berkeley Pacman universe where he would run into a ghost to avoid the penalty of living for too long.
Smartest Birds: How Smart Are Crows Compared to Humans?
Because you can't safely change it and also take the next upstream release. Either you live with whatever interface they give you, or you don't use it at all. Any change you make will be lost when they release an update with something else you need (perhaps a security fix).

Now you can wrap the library if you want so that only the wrapper as to use the bad API. There are pros and cons to this.
I kind of doubt Amazon's algorithm even uses machine learning, it probably assigns a score based on perf metrics (using a human-written algorithm), then fires employees below some cutoff.
Poisson's Equation
It was done in poor taste indeed, but really blatant abuse of the National Security Act. This does appear to be more of a political move than anything. And there in lies the problem when such laws with broad interpretations go into effect, a government in power can leverage it to their gains. All they need is a technicality on which to trap someone.