skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presentations like these assume people are dumb animals not being able to control their lives. They need to artificially constrained to help them live. Saying bluntly, they need a nanny.

I'm an active user or Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter and all of them. I turned off GMail notifications for non-important mails. I unsubscribe/report spam promotional e-mail. YouTube autoplay is off (simply because the recommender is not good enough, but I'd happily turned them on otherwise). I unsubscribed from junk groups on Facebook, but the connections on Facebook is very important since I can't meet with most of my friends in person. My Twitter notifications are off, and I do mute often, but the remaining Twitter suggestions are quite interesting. Almost all notifications are off on my phone, but remaining are very helpful. And so on.

The largest distraction in my life is a chat app which is used by my employer. But this is not service provider/product problem: it's company decision to use that application instead of e-mail. Other chat apps I'm used for communication with my friends are not distracting.

The suggestions by the presentation author is irrational: let's stop business growth assuming it will make people more happy. This is not how the world works: if a company start making less efficient product, it will die, and not because of ads revenue, but simply because users will leave for someone who knows how to retain attention.

That guy Tristan Harris who did the presentation is morally dishonest person: he wants to his cake and eat it. He got his millions from Google, and then decided to play good guy by virtue signalling with this presentation and by playing in Social Dilemma: working against the same companies which made him wealthy enough to not worry about money for the rest of his life.
I find work meetings boring in general. I guess I’m just not cut for the job…
I didn’t say it violates it - it does not.

I meant that most consent systems that companies add to their site to determine if a user is in EU or not (and hence covered by GDPR) won’t work reliable with Apple users.

Most of their geolocation relies on IP addresses.
If one understands linear algebra (and has Haskell output of matrices with nice eigenvalues), then reviewing this spelling is the only preparation needed to teach a semester course.
Fair, I'm overstating it. They basically kept wall street happy with their profit in AWS, while having comparatively little realized profit in retail, allowing them to keep margins in retail extremely thin. I'm explicitly thinking of 2010-2015ish, when I recall seeing news articles about it, but I'm way too lazy to go find them. Either way, I completely agree that they're now in such a dominant position they don't have to have predatory pricing to still capture a huge part of the market.
This MS patch is breaking printing on Zebra and Canon printers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/oflbny/windows_pr...

Furthermore, the MS patch doesn't work properly:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/07/printnightmare_fix_fa...
His excuse is about as plausible as, "My dog ate my homework." Yes dogs do sometimes eat homework, but most of the time that claim is a lie.

First, it's odd how such a garbled sentence managed to be perfectly understandable English. If it was garbled, what was the original intention? I don't know of any major tech company founded in SV in the 1980s by ex-IBM engineers who were mostly Republican. I can't recall any famous company or organization that was known for forming democratic circles of 20-40 people with laptops in garages (regardless of the decade). Any sort of elaboration or clarification on the intended meaning would have gone a long way toward convincing me. The original sentence is simply too coherent to be "garbled" without further elaboration.

Second, book drafts are read and reread by teams of professional editors. Excerpts are circulated among colleagues and domain experts. It is practically impossible that such a "garbled" sentence could sneak by all of them.

I agree that DeLong behaved despicably, but Graeber can't be trusted.

Edit: I've tracked down previous excuses by Graeber. Initially, he blamed incorrect information from an unpublished study by a student of the Marxist economist Richard Wolff. Annoyingly the Twitter thread is totally broken, but individual tweets are still there:

https://twitter.com/chumpchanger/status/141218501024157696 "David Graeber,Debt,p96: Apple was founded by engineers from IBM who formed little democratic circles of 20-40 with laptops in garages.-HUH?!"

https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/141581278880346112 "yeah I know I think Wolff was just kind of wrong about a lot of this; I tried to check with him but he didn't answer the email"

https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/141536818398113792 "no I mean Richard Wolff the Marxist economist whose student did a study of the origins of Apple and never published it"

Around six months later he blames a copyeditor[1]:

> The endlessly cited Apple quote was not supposed to be about Apple. Actually it was about a whole of series of other tiny start-ups created by people who’d dropped out of IBM, Apple, and similar behemoths. (Of them it’s perfectly true.) The passage got horribly garbled at some point into something incoherent, I still can’t completely figure out how, was patched back together by the copyeditor into something that made logical sense but was obviously factually wrong. I should have caught it at the proofreading stage but I didn’t.

Good luck trying to track down the startups that Graeber says he was referencing, or the report that he claims he got the information from. The much more likely explanation is that he wrote some nonsense, got called on it, and refused to own up to his mistake.

1. https://crookedtimber.org/2012/04/02/seminar-on-debt-the-fir...
This is not theoretical, if you've got say support@example.com that goes to your support queue, and employee@example.com that goes to your employee, and you want employee email on G Suite, your options are:

a) have your own MX that handles support mail and forwards employee mail to Google MX; G Suite provides a not exactly public domain you can forward to and you can whitelist your forwarder(s) IPs so Google uses the received headers for spam checking and SPF checks. If you don't setup the whitelist properly, a lot of mail will bounce or get flagged, yeah; but Google isn't dumb, they detect mail forwarding IPs with good behavior and will eventually semi-whitelist them without intervention.

b) The opposite way, where google is public MX and then delivers either specific addresses or unhandled wildcards to your MX to manage the support queue. (Or you might also forward it to a third party).

c) some people use third party email archival services (for example, ProofPoint) or virus scanning that shows as the public MX, and then forwards to some other MX for actual delivery
First impression from a quick perusal: looks really good and complete. Touches on topics not normally discussed in trading or r/wsb
A hackable framework for the lazy ones
what if you could build your whole app and deploying it in a scalable infrastructure just by using the command line?

this is my work https://kaviarjs.com, it's a fullstack framework on node & typescript with code-generators, graphql, db-agnostic security system 500+ authentication providers, DI, live data, uploads, cronjobs, emails, loggers, validation, fast relational data, ... really everything you need in the 90% of the mobile or business apps.

All it takes is `npx @kaviar/x`, choose "x:microservice", and create a backend microservice or frontend. Now you can create "x:collection", "x:crud", and you can craft your api without leaving the command line.

well, you can also deploy to heroku in the same fashion (https://www.kaviarjs.com/docs/deployment)

I'm always on the hunt for new ideas to make it better.
Ask HN: What companies are focused on product rather than politics?
I'm looking for a new opportunity, but I'm looking for companies where I will feel welcome. I'm a white male engineer, and in several companies I've heard derogatory comments about white people and men, and have personally witnessed discrimination against people from those categories.

I just want to be able to do my work without hearing that people who look like me are bad, without feeling like the HR department has an ideological bias against me, without company management making divisive statements about politics, and so on.

Do any companies like this exist, other than Coinbase and Basecamp? I think crypto is a scam, and I am not very experienced with Rails, so those two options don't seem like a great fit in comparison to other options (aside from the politics).
Not really. Whether the ads are targeted or not, you almost certainly don't need the shit they're selling & from that point of view, ads are, by default, bad.
It's because this is a flippant, unhelpful attitude. If we were talking about building a mile of blacktop highway then such a casual observation about the overrun might be warranted.

But we're not talking about that. We're talking about building the first non-orbital space telescope in human history. To a certain extent, no one could know the actual cost ahead of time. It's one of those things you kind of have to do and it will cost what it will cost.

Was there waste I this project? Probably. But there's a good chance the overruns are dominated by true "found work" rather than waste.

In fact, this is exactly the kind of project you want handled by the government because the cost of failure is so high. In a project where you need to push the risk out as many decimal places as possible it is good to have an agency which can afford the overruns to do it.
I'm with you on that minority opinion.

The "for" side mimics nested for loops structure, but then the output statement goes first (?!).

It's the same feel as MM/DD/YYYY date format: very widespread, yet absolutely asinine to anyone seeing it for the first time :)
I mean, the irony here for me is that I regard Haskell's list comprehensions as a bit of a bag on the side. There's not much that couldn't be equally readably implemented using other Haskell syntax.
What Is Poetry?
If you can't go without multivitamin supplementation for a day then there's something medically wrong with your body.
Well, you've just found another leak ;)

By the way, scale matters too.
Apparently asking for information means downvotes. Which are the weaker versions of cancel culture.

So I'll just assume there are no examples of dictatorship.

Thanks for the feedback.
Exactly this. What happens south of US border is absolutely the same as the effect of 1920s prohibition. Communism and prohibition both looks good and neither works.
> It can be made much less accessible because it's not meant to be shared with the remote side.

Can be, indeed, but was not in existing implementations, to my knowledge. My point (perhaps I was more clear in my followup comment) was that we shouldn't shed too many tears given the actual implementations did not provide the promised security gains. Were they stepping stones? Maybe. But they didn't (yet) deliver.

> A client cert is also not shared among all users behind a NAT, can be durable across roaming across IPs, and is actually meant to be a security measure unlike IPs.

Yes, but, bizarrely, IPs actually provide more security against some threats, as I noted. I don't think this is because IPs are a great security measure--they're not!--but because token binding as implemented was pretty weak.
> I tried disliking

Don't do that! The algorithm counts that as an engagement action.

What you need to do is click on the three dots symbol next to the video title and select "don't recommend this channel". This absolutely fixes it. You may have to do this a lot. There is also a general "don't recommend this" option that, anecdotally, doesn't work as well.

Also, disable autoplay. It doesn't seem like YT can distinguish between clicking on a video and it just playing on autoqueue.

The YT algorithm is not fundamentally different from the other social media algorithms out there: it tries to serve you up with controversial content that "engages" you. You are most likely to be "engaged" by content you either directly disagree with, or by second-source channels that report on content you disagree with. As a fallback, the algorithm will also try to serve you content based on your cohorts, which can in of itself be pretty radical and disagreeable.

Get a YT Premium account if you can, sending a very small message that you vote against ads and all the algorithmic baggage that comes with them.
Because the amount of abuse / scam / crap via Tor is incredible?
> I'm hoping that this is the start of a trend away from the overly complex, overly engineered, big ball of mud that is Kubernetes towards simpler and easier deployment/hosting/container runtimes that are easier for smaller and large teams alike to manage.

But is it easier to manage? Is it simpler?

So they went from kubernetes to

- Control Pane running in

- Container running on

- Firecracker with Kuma running on

- Nomad with CoreOS running on

- Some servers

No idea what half of those words are, how they all are ocnfigured, interact with each other, and fail in spectacular ways.
> Why should predominantly well off ev owners get out of paying for road maintenance?

Great point. We should raise gas taxes to subsidize electric vehicles for people with low incomes. If enough people switch to electric to the point that this revenue starts seriously dropping, great: keep turning up the heat with more gasoline taxes until polluting vehicles are completely gone.

The "it's not fair" trope about road maintenance for EVs isn't super compelling - the vast majority of road damage is from heavy vehicles like semis. Road damage increases with the cube of mass. Once we've put gasoline vehicles in the history books forever we can work on a mass*acceleration tax.
Aren't they all elected? I think rather than _control_ what these people do, we just need to have more _reporting_ on what they do.
JTN, this was actually what Medium led with when they originally started* (minimizing distractions) to clear all the rubbish out of sight when you are reading a single article, and not have other content & CTA's competing for your attention.

Of course, it turned out that alone doesn't imply you actually respect your users' attention, as we saw what Medium turned into.

[*the year before this presentation, actually]
Junk e-mail is not an issue at all (at least in GMail, not sure about other providers): they go by default into "Promotions" folder (not visible by default), and it's not hard to go to that folder once a day to click "report spam" on those which are not important, and that's enough for train Google classifier to send them to spam next time.
Mass ≠ insulation. You can have mass as a buffer and regulator, but normally stone or brick and mortar houses simply shift the issues to later in the hot season. It is usually a more even temperature over any given timespan though, as you say.

I'd think barns would have very low mass in comparison to their size, but would stay close to surrounding temp by way of having very little insulation and being very "drafty"
Are there multidimensional comprehensions in Haskell? In Julia you have

jl> [ (x,y) for x in 1:3, y in 2:5 ]
3×4 Matrix{Tuple{Int64, Int64}}:
(1, 2) (1, 3) (1, 4) (1, 5)
(2, 2) (2, 3) (2, 4) (2, 5)
(3, 2) (3, 3) (3, 4) (3, 5)
Wow, TIL! Thanks.
Further to your point, now that the pioneering work has been done, a similar piece of equipment could likely be built at a significantly reduced cost.
Why is it pathetic? As other commenters have stated, the fuel taxes have supposedly been about offsetting infrastructure costs of the roads and not a pollution control (at least in US). All cars need use of the roads whether EV or ICE powered. Personally, I'd rather they actually charged you by requiring odometer readings instead of a generic tax on utilitly fees. Maybe collect that info on your annual inspection vs the over the air telemetry??
Forums are still alive and well for most niches. Discord groups serve a specific purpose as well.

Aggregators are nice too, from all sides of the political spectrum to avoid echo chambers/censorship.

News aggregators:

- lobste.rs

- notabug.io

- patriots.win

Forums:

- ar15.com

- pbnation.com

- many many car forums
It is a strange thing, in theory what you say should be true, but in practice things were quite different. They could chase moonshots and try out crazy ideas but in practice they were working on small inconsequential problems with almost complete lack of energy. In part it was the result of a selection process - those who had energy and ambition had left long ago and those who remained lacked those things. Also I think it is important not to checkout of society (even if it means occasionally dealing with unpleasant people) because very few people can maintain energy and relevance without constant contact with others.
I hadn't heard the term "district heating" before, but it makes sense.

The name puts me in mind of a chain called District Taco, but unfortunately that doesn't mean a supply of tacos piped directly into your house.

https://www.districttaco.com/

Not even slightly authentically Mexican, but nonetheless quite tasty.
I like your way of thinking. What companies do you think fit that goal?
You probably play/have played games owned by these companies.
Lots of SoCs start by licensing (or already having) an existing MCU or CPU core and adding a bunch more peripherals. They didn't need the die area, so they left the IR peripheral in.
Vue.js 3 – Provide and Inject
I'm not really sure what to make of your second paragraph (Mentioning Chaucer again when he's irrelevant because he didn't use singular they in the sense that is now being promoted).

Regardless, I appreciate the straightforwardness of your first paragraph.
It's a great format for reaching functional illiterates, which accurately describes huge portions of the white collar workforce.
I watch a fair bit of this sort of thing on YouTube, but I don't use the subscribe or like functions on anything.
By that logic, so is the military, public schools and highway maintenance.
Most consent systems that companies add to their site (to determine if a user is in EU or not) rely on IP address to determine if in EU jurisdiction.

If the IP address can’t be reliably used then many EU users are going to appear to be in the US and their data collected without consent. The opposite may happen too.

This is not Apples fault and Apple aren’t violating GDPR. I’m just flagging that it creates downstream problems and headaches.
Did you tell them to opt you out...?
If Twitter hides Trump from everyone doesn't follow him, but shows all his messages to everyone follows him. What is the problem then?
The Lonely City: geographic economies of pre-modern cities
We really should have a big science lab up at L2
This isn't a hack, but the way org-columns combines a collapsible tree view with spreadsheet like functionality is neat. I use it for project estimations where breaking things down further and further results in a tree, and the estimate sums of lower items in the tree are combined for the higher items. I don't know if this can be done in a spreadsheet.
I agree with you, but I think I and most people wouldn't view astrology videos anywhere near as harmful as any of the other videos mentioned. Could you link one or two videos that you consider to be presenting information as harmful as the other things you listed?

For things like homeopathy and other medical pseudoscience, I think a lot of those things do get banned, depending on the claims they're presenting.

And for something like a video recommending you invest in the video creator's company because [astrology gibberish], I think in that case it's just a matter of magnitude. Of course such a video causes harm, but YouTube can't be expected to be able to prevent all levels of harm. Your argument is sound when you're comparing against things that many would agree are at least as harmful as the other examples you give, rather than just meeting the criteria of any level of harmfulness.
Previous submission/discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10060557
If YT ever suggests something you don't like then you have to not ever watch it for a long time to make it go away.

Unless it's television news, something seems to artificially inject that into the feed.
I've been downvoted to punish my comment. Stating an opinion is deemed offensive on HN.

I'm out.b
Also, something doesn't add up here because they were calculating sin(pi*y/2). I suspect it's optimized for -1 < y < 1, so the argument to sin is in [-pi/2, pi/2].
lol - the larger the company the more bureaucratic they become. I have friends inside the casino industries and they are 10 times worse than I've ever seen government when it comes to gross internal inefficiencies. Makes sense - the government doesn't have to earn its money, it just uses the IRS to confiscate it and casinos don't earn their money either, they just steal it.
Thanks for your comment! I gather we're using it for scheduled jobs and for its speed relative to R or Python. It's funny that so many of the sources of info on it are from around 2010-2012 range.

What would you say is the "modern" approach for joining large data quickly, and for creating clones and running various jobs repeatedly?
Punctuation has a purpose.
I sure do - I finished all the stockfighter levels and loved the experience.

There were some people who reverse-engineered stockfighter and had at least some of the code on github. You might try looking around for it.

I sometimes look around for companies that use hiring challenges like that now but haven't had much luck.

I think fly.io is using some type of challenge in their hiring process which makes sense given tptacek, patio11, and elptacek were the stockfighter cofounders.
All those staunch conservatives in San Francisco, Seattle and Portland.
FCMB Group buys 60% stake in AIICO Pension Managers
We start with the cross product set, and apply the join on criteria as a subset operation to create the "background" of the venn diagram.

We can then define a set "Table A" as the subset of the cross product where (as you have written it) the first element is not null. Same for Table B and the second element. Then joins are set-union and set-intersection between these two sets. I would agree that most people just flip up the diagrams without explaining what they are actually working with.
Yes, things are picking up at Ford. Electric pickup trucks are going to be a very big thing. Ford's real innovation is that the "commercial" model, without all the interior luxury, is priced at not much more than the gas version. That price will probably drop as battery prices go down.
Birthday Parties as a Virus Vector
Assuming some existing technical solution is optimal. Hubs existed for a time because they were cheap, not because they were good. Or assuming that some solution to an unsolved problem will be pulled out of the magical innovation hat. We'll just devise more efficient time sharing algorithms.
I plan on joining, at least watch the fun. I do have 2 old systems, the oldest is AMD 333 32bit with NetBSD on it, but the system needs a serious upgrade on NetBSD (I think it is 6.x). I am hoping I can get that ready by the 10th. (cdrom flaky)

The other old system is a tpad R51E, but 2 gig memory with OpenBSD. I may try and remove 1 gig, the 512mb is long gone. But really hoping to have the AMD 333 ready :)
I recommend reading up on the history of Haiti. Independence was declared first (by the upper classes) and the 1804 massacre came later. There were, of course, a number of slave revolts that happened throughout that time, but the genocide was in 1804.
I suspect it's just a passive aggressive way to punish people who value their privacy.