skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> If I had a kid they would not be allowed to use Apps or have a Google account.

In our school district (Arlington Public Schools in Virginia), children get assigned Google GSuite accounts by default starting in Kindergarten. They are used for a variety of things, including authentication to multiple school apps.
Given all the other things Reddit does, it seems to me this could just be another part of the “ruin the web to push the app” strategy.
I hadn't known there was a term for this braindead idea that websites should hassle you based on your IP address. Of course there has to be a term, compartmentalization is necessary for getting good people to do bad things.

It's fantastic that Apple is continuing to mitigate commercial surveillance. It's easy to discriminate against us lone individuals who hide our IP addresses, but Apple's market is too big to reject. If they're successful here, I'll have to consider buying a Mac purely for their VPN service.

Perhaps they'll take on CAPTCHAs next.
Be that true or not, I don't think we should strive for "full of doubt", since uncertainty is also associated with fear/anxiety disorders [1]. Probably doesn't need to be said but if facing doubts ideally keep thinking until you can reach some level of certainty or known uncertainty. Don't know if that will come across as "cocksure" or not

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088761851...
I don't think you understand just how powerful states with big fucking guns are
The clustering technology was way ahead of its time. Stuff that everyone oozes about over Kubernetes was in VMS clusters back in the 1980s.
Also see https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/A2 for a more modern system you can run as a guest, use to build standalone applications for your host, or run natively as an OS.

It’s fun to explore and play around with, has a Zooming UI with a virtually infinite (I think) desktop.

It’s not a “pure” Oberon system as it has some extensions, but they provide async/await (and seemingly a long time before that caught on as a generally good idea! It’s the basis of “active objects”)

The language report was updated 2 years ago (http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/projects/a2/repository/raw/trunk/Lang...), and the repository is fairly active given the relative obscurity of the system.
Could you please explain how?
Good catch. The cheapest plan is almost always the worst cost per GB. It seems they’ve crossed terms and chosen the opposite of what they wanted to represent.
Converting old notes to a profitable newsletter(6 months – $2K MRR – $15K sales)
Tongue meet cheek.
Stylish Footballers That Kill It Off the Pitch
That's...not what they said
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?
Could you please explain why you think it doesn't?
I'm being sarcastic, I know it's a risky move here but I couldn't help myself. Bitcoin is a scam.
Ask HN: Tech news HN alternatives with stronger tech focus?
I spent some time looking through the HN search results for this topic, but haven't seen any more recent post (please correct me if I'm wrong.)

I'm hoping to collect some recommendations for sites that have a similar news aggregator functionality like HN, but with more of an actual focus on technology/hacker space/CS careers/etc.

For whatever my personal opinion is worth, it seems that HN has, over the past 2-3 years become an amalgamation of r/news, r/politics, r/TIL, and other popular subreddits that might have some kind of a technology-adjacent topic.

It feels similar to how Instagram Reels, or Youtube shorts, are merely copy/pasted Tik Tok videos (this is probably a different conversation altogether.)
Many original settlers including the pilgrims were religious extremists that the Europeans were all too happy to get rid of.

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html
The main point of IBM was that by using RAM and Disk storage you could perform computations of the google system that were not as onerous as was put out in the google paper. That said, if you had an extra 10+ qubits (which is essentially what this new work does) you are back in the range where the supercomputer will be taking more time than is reasonable. For a quick eyeball imagine what adding 10+ qubits on to this kind of plot would do (from ibm post)
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/wp-content/uploads/2019/1...

Oh, and you need a lot of storage, just a couple of more qubits and it would not have been able to fit in the 250 PiB on Summit, so the IBM argument would have been void if google had 55 qubits in their work.
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+1 for Killary
Thanks! That's very kind. My suggestion to people is to read widely, so they develop high standards. Then write a lot and be continually frustrated that their own writing doesn't measure up. Repeat this cycle for decades and you will still be frustrated with your own writing, but people will tell you you're a good writer!
The engine would be better not doing silly things just because of a "sometimes" fetish or bad faith.

It's also trivial to put all of the things you watched recently into their own subcategory in case you want to watch them again, which is in fact something that Netflix already does. It's called "Watch It Again". There's no reason to pollute recommendations for that.

> I sometimes click thumbs down by accident

The recommendation engine should be obeying your explicit actions, not trying to subvert them. Accidentally clicking thumbs down is an outlier action that is trivial for you to rectify on your own as soon as it happens.

> or upon rewatching change my opinion.

Intentionally rewatching a movie that you expressly disliked is an outlier position.

> I like to rewatch movies, sometimes more than once in a month.

Netflix already has a personal queue+favorites list called "My List" that you can add things to. If it has been less than a month since you last watched something, the reason you're watching it again so soon is because it's on your mind already and you don't need the recommendation engine for that.
I used to love Insight Timer. It was a really good meditation timer! It provided a number of pleasing sounds and was really configurable.

Then came the social features. They actually weren’t bad. You could create a profile and track your meditation, and you’d get messages from people all over the world thanking you for “meditating with them.”

Then the app was sold to a couple of meditation entrepreneurs.

It took a little while, but soon the app wasn’t a nice meditation timer any longer. It was a platform for people to share and sell guided meditations.

The timer feature was de-emphasized. Login became required. They added courses, group meditations, sleep stories.

The timer is still in there if you can find it, only now some features are restricted to Insight Timer premium members who pay $60/year.

—-

I think the app was at its best right before it was sold. Sign in was optional, and while the social features felt a bit superfluous they were quirky and fun, and also easily turned off.
And you'll be happy about it.

Same song.
No, because the people are actually friendly and outgoing. I noticed that going from San Diego -> North Carolina too.
While I don't disagree with your example I would point out that caveat emptor is a core principle of commerce for quite some time. In times of rapid change/technology, the consumer doesn't know what they're buying. Before long, it will be common knowledge that "smart" everything has a cost that was not obvious to average Joe at purchase. But, Joe was also so impressed with the shiny object he didn't think about the consequences of things. Another point, in Texas, energy companies have been adjusting people's thermostats remotely when the grid is struggling. While I never thought of that specific thing, I have been anti-connecting-things-to-wifi because I know once you open it up, it's just a matter of time before someone else is mucking around with your devices. I'd totally expect it to be some script kiddies doing it for lolz instead of the electric company, but at that point, it doesn't really matter - you're not solely in control of your device.
Fun fact: the vacuum cleaner company (https://www.vax.co.uk) had "Nothing sucks like a VAX!" as its advertising slogan: http://foldoc.org/vax
How does that work for dead authors? You can grab copyrights by default?
> US political party identification is a decent though not perfect proxy for how your neighbors are likely to feel about a whole range of issues, and _people_.

Not nearly as much as you have been told it is. But that’s a really nice way to generalize conservatives as racists. The truth is as a local who has lived in both areas, I’ve met just as many left wing racists as right, just in different ways.
Nethack/Slashem is complex (and most roguelikes too) and text based.
I think it's more likely heritable attributes follow a normal distribution, rather than have a variance of 0. I wouldn't expect everybody to score the same- there seems to be (biologically speaking) a process which leads to variable levels of attainability of intelligence. Anybody who actively denies that men and women have different height distributions is just being non-scientific to avoid pissing off somebody.
And they probably still argue that 1GB is 1,000,000 emails or 100,000 web pages based on outdated number.

The speeds are fast though so you can be sure when you tether just as MS Office is updating you run out of data in about a minute.
I don't think I've ever been asked to accept a cookie policy on Reddit. I normally only browse Reddit while logged in, so that could be part of it. Is this a new thing?
The history summarised here is the main reason.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761407

(You might hope that that quote exaggerates what was done to Haiti, but if anything it underplays it.)
We can solve that overnight by legalizing the selling of drugs to adults. Require a (free) registration to be able to buy, prohibit the selling to minors, require that all shops selling it have pamphlets with addiction guidance and pom, no more drug dealers, no more selling to kids.

Also way less crime.
Wow. I stand corrected. Thank you.
> It's totally possible to imagine a VAT-type regime with US-style consumer rules, where you'd have to figure out if your bread was actually bread before putting it in the shopping basket.

That would be hilarious, especially if you're shopping with friends.

It would be ludicrous though to actually implement, rather like the US's sales-tax system.
They just wanted you to train their AI.
Yes. The fair-use policy is 4GB/day, but you can get an extra 1GB of data an unlimited number of times (with a manual action, to avoid abuse).

The policy makes sense to me.
Ex post peer review encourages high-risk research, ex ante review discourages it
How does it fix it?
This debt was still being collected by Citibank up to 1947. For the 'theft of property'... That is, the citizens of Haiti themselves.
In 1981 the VAX 11-780 was an object of lust for engineering undergrads, who'd be lured by faculty with promises of access to the "1 MIPS, 1 MB RAM beast" ...

The author says he re-implemented the CPU (using Verilog) on an FPGA running at 50 MHz, well enough to run a test binary successfully.
We (myself and my girlfriend) still find it surreal sometimes. We moved to North Carolina and people just… wave, they just wave and say hi and will talk to you. It’s really nice.
A GitHub Action to create single-show feeds from your Changelog++ feed
This poster explains exactly why:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761407
> They won't do this if there is no such law.

They will, if they can make money doing it.
Also here is the same graph with the classic taylor expansion of sin with 3 terms (x + (x^3)/(3!) + (x^5)/(5!)):

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/emfz64hjhv
> Bitcoin is a scam.

You're really tempting fate twice here :))
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I've always liked Jeff Atwoods visual explanation of joins [1]

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-visual-explanation-of-sql-jo...
Cant edit this anymore. But telecom prices were stagnating in Poland for a long time, then Play joined the forces and in 3 years prices were cut at least 50% on everything. The trick was that Play built their own IT-telecom infrastructure, not based on existing from Orange.
AI bot holds politicians accountable - there I fixed the title for you
No, it won't. But it's better than trying to send mail from an IP that a month ago was hosting phishing sites.
Technology, surveillance and privacy in China is an ongoing topic of interest here and in news outlets. (Obviously it's a topic that's of interest in relation to other places as well.) The excesses of one generation can lead to the reforms of a subsequent one, and I'm curious whether there will be a counter-reaction among young people in China if at some point they perceive a line to have been crossed, and where that line might be.
I think he either means the two left wing capitol bombings, or Jan 6th. Who can tell anymore!?
What is ‘degrowth’ and how can it fight climate change?
Needs to be something more believable, like multiple self-inflicted shotgun blasts to the chest.
Was it a bitcoin comment? It could help.
Horrifying usage aside... I'm curious about the tech here as it relates to structural bias.

In the US there are frequent stories about how ML works well on white men, but not, e.g., African Americans and I think Asian Americans. There was that Twitter spat between Timnit Gebru and Andrej Karpathy about this subject, and whether it's "just" training data or inherent in ML, partly because of who runs the analyses and who the wealthy consumers are, etc. Having trained some models and fiddled with hyperparameters myself, I could see the argument that it's a little more than just the training data; for example, how the algorithm uses contrast or what kind of angles it picks up.

But what I'm curious about is how well this system works here, developed by a Chinese company with Chinese developers for primarily Chinese users. Does it have better accuracy than Google on the same Chinese data set? Does it have worse accuracy on white people than Google?

I imagine the data is not out there, but maybe there's some published research along these lines by Tencent, or others comparing algorithms or models trained on Tencent data sets to the western equivalents?
Clinton foundation is a key player in Haiti's debt prison.
https://www.coreysdigs.com/clinton-foundation/5-shocking-fac...
Telstra actively promote people contact them on Twitter for support.

Like others have experienced they're sending unsolicited SMS spam that cannot be opted out from with a simple reply.

Regardless of all this - the information they're asking for is not acceptable, especially since they're a telecommunications company that could simply SMS, call or send a push notification to the Telstra app that is installed on your phone.

Lastly, please don't make assumptions that everyone can just "pickup a phone a call them".
Calling Nethack text based is a little disingenuous. It uses text characters as tile-based graphics, which is a different thing.
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When I got my first Raspberry Pi Picos, I got three in a row cut out from a reel. I don't think you'd get ATX motherboards this way, but I do see smaller boards come that way nowadays.
From [2] it looks like poverty has been going up and down staying within 10-15% range for the past 50 years.

I'm sure it's possible to construct a measure which will show that poverty went up - as it's equally possible to show the opposite - but either will mostly likely be overfitting, i. e. hand-picking data to prove the desired point.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
The New York Post (ugh) has a longer version, and it doesn't include the American voice at the start shouting about DEA operations. https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/haitian-president-jovenel-mois...
Reasonable comment except

> and were not right wing nor driven by a left/right idealogical divide,

What were you thinking when you wrote that?
This is part of something I had been thinking about and looking around for a while. In my own search for this, I found that there is a flaw in this kind of thinking.

It likens “Human” and “Elvish” as to the degree of interference with the world, as if interference is the only way to interact with the world. But I do not think that human “interference” is the issue. Rather, it is the worldview in which we come to this dichotomy that is the problem.

That worldview is one where the world is understood in terms of inert, non-living mechanisms. That things happen from clear causal chains. That actions undertaken to change something in the system are forces to act upon components within that system.

So of course, from that worldview, the only way _not_ to unduly interfere is by withdrawing actions that perturbs the system.

However, this is not the only worldview. In a different worldview, the world is comprised of living systems. The whole cosmos is alive, as are every human, animal, plants, organization, polity, etc. Living systems are wholes unto themselves, capable of growing on their own, adapting, participating in their ecosystem (which in turn forms a greater living system).

Change doesn’t occur by applying force into a component within a dead, mechanical system. Rather, changes already happens within the living system because it is inherently capable of change and growth. Rather, improvements come in the form of helping the living system to grow and participate in its unique niche within the ecosystem.

Within a living systems world view, technology is either synergistically a part of a living system, or it is itself a living system. It is not something separate from the ecosystem.

From this worldview, there is no such dichotomy of “Human” vs “Elvish”, or even a notion of minimizing “interference”. Rather, it is living systems participating within and contributing towards an ecosystem.

This is drawn mainly from Carol Sanford’s work on regenerative paradigms and living systems worldview. Most of her work is applied towards business organizations, but it is applicable to technology’s place in our civilization.
The western part of the island was a French colony and gained independence early by force. The population was made of black former slaves so they might not have had a lot going for them in the beginning, even just in terms of organizational capacity, and none of the neighbouring countries particularly wanted them to do well (slavery was a thing in all of them).

Spain colonized the East of the island and government and power remained in the hands of European settlers.

Haiti was also occupied by the US in the early 20th century, which was not exactly a glorious episode, either, and certainly did not help.
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> college grads make more than high school grads and this gap has only widened since 2008

Problem is that it's not that college grads have made more and become more successful, but that good sustainable jobs for high school grads have completely vanished and a college degree is now the minimum requirement a high school degree once was.

Many people with business/social studies degrees are taking the jobs that were once filled with high school grads, and the high school grads are now just homeless. If I was 80k in debt and working at Star Bucks I'd be pissed too!
Agreed, if a hiring page asks me to upload my resume and then asks me to manually enter all the info along with answering extra questions I will close the application. It's not worth my time, especially if they can't be bothered to pull the info from my resume and auto populate the resume section.
The old mobile site (i.reddit.com) cuts that in half to ~700 kB transferred.