skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We do not want to compensate journalists,

We barely have the choice to compensate journalists. For them to do their jobs effectively, they need to group together. But the people who control the groupings of journalists take active steps to cultivate a feeling of distrust and hostility between the would-be compensators and the controllers of the groups. Are there any news websites that make you feel better and more informed after you've visited them? It always seems like you should feel grateful they haven't started tracking you, got you an expensive and hard to cancel subscription and like your life will be desperately uncertain if you decide to go make a cup of coffee.

It's almost impossible to spend nothing but a couple of dollars and some attention in exchange for quality journalism like it was just a few years ago.

There is one party who controls the interaction between journalists and the public, and prior to casting aspersions on the general public you need to consider their actions.
Sure, but ideally we'd start by limiting the impact ad/attention-funded companies can have in our lives rather than concentrating on people who obviously will be affected by those companies.
Things like food forests can be socially engineered.
> I want to be able to advertise to a consumer segment which consists of people who are interested in Elixir

And, as the person being advertised to, I absolutely want you not to be able to do that. Why do your desires trump mine?

Surveillance is not essential to internet advertising. Because it’s not essential for advertising. Newspaper ads didn’t come with such invasive models, nor did radio adverts, or even TV ads.

If advertisers on the internet can’t figure out how to make a surveillance free advertising model work, then I’d much prefer those businesses to die.
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> That doesn’t make using unregulated stable coins from terrible terrible people like those behind bitfinex a good idea…

Good thing is, you personally don't have to, but others will, and you have no say over that. Heaven forbid a decentralized uncollateralized stable coin comes into existence, where its mechanisms for inflation and deflation are purely market driven, that won't be controlled by any single entity, used by people from all over the world without your (or regulators) approval… not like existing interbank eurodollar transactions have much of that approval anyways (than the same transactions, junk rated rehypothicated collateral backing that entities like bitfinex engage in, yet with lower cashflows; can't seriously sit here and tell me that regulators are in control of dollar denominated liabilities being swapped offshore everyday in non local currencies and usd deposits created from that are 1:1 backed and have FDIC coverage…).

Hell, we know more about bitfinex operations than we do of the a typical tradfi bank engaging in the same transactions overseas… what a joke lol

> or mean that trustless distributed consensus is worth the massive downsides of a decentralised system like bitcoin

Let's not pretend that there aren't any better trustless distributed consensuses systems out there that people are actively using because you would like to dismiss something you don't like/use.

> or that we should trust projects without the most basic financial controls.

Not too hard to use/build protocols that implement controls you wish and stay away from those that don't. Not everyone has to ape into shitcoins and shitchains with no research. Not everyone has to follow the whims of someone else.

> We have laws and regulators controlling money supply and financial transactions for good reasons…

That routinely fail to address (and as well as regulators failing to comprehend [at best])

> …massive leverage…

In the forms of ever novel derivatives cropping up in tradfi

> …unregulated banks and exchanges, money printing etc etc.

After talking with people who had to trade lehman positions out of administration and all the shit that went down behind the scenes… TBTF might as well be unregulated, when their positions are routinely bailed out at expense of others in many different ways and leads to people having

> … plenty of reasons to complain about fiat currencies…

That have long gone unaddressed because of the existing incentives that stand in the way. Plenty of kabuki theatre about it though from "regulators", worth about as much as the latest shitcoins cropping up.
Instead of arguing what current business models that would break, I think we should take a step back and ask:

What legal and moral basis warrants "surveillance-based advertising"?

The premise of GDPR in the EU has been that "surveillance-based advertising" needs to be balanced with user rights.

If we come to the conclusion that this balance cannot be achieved (e.g. because users are not savvy enough to safeguard their rights, because data sticks around forever, because data can be sold etc.), then it's a straightforward step to prohibit tracking entirely.
In at least one case - "Warrior's Gate", the final Romana story, there was a "2001"-style vibe between the show and the book - i.e. both very good, but it was a lot easier to tell what was going on having read the book!
Wechat is basically a bank as you can use it to send money, hence KYC. If all the CCP wanted was to build a profile they'd just ask for ID and then scoop up every call you make.
No it's not. It's the same situation that's existed in advertising for decades already. Want to advertise your automotive parts? Advertise in Popular Mechanics. Some fancy clothing? Advertise in Vogue.

Now, you just advertise in appropriate blogs.

If there are no appropriate publications for important topics, hey! Guess what! They have their business model back!
Many professors imbue their students with the idea that, after graduation, they will automagically, immediately and irrevocably be part of the elite.

This claim is utterly false, however it adds value to the professor's job and doesn't cost him anything. Some even use it in a "positive" way, to express "work hard, learn thoroughly, you will be an important part of society".

Many graduates think they are entitled by being so, and as it is not the case they judge that others unjustly mistreat or even betray them.
Hot water tanks are generally expected to last about 12 years. Some make it 40, but some die after 5. (replace your anode rod!) So we already make a lot of them.
Is it possible to hook up computer heat sinks to these things? I figure it'd be better to pump the heat outside my home instead of dissipating it into my air conditioned rooms...
Big pharma is not going to be pushing for shrooms, LSD, etc. Many studies show these substances can have curative effects after a single use, which means no more money for them. Things like Ketamine that need to be taken more often are far more useful to big pharma, which is why that is being prescribed now IMO.
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Get the new version of Netscape 2.0 when you can.

LOL
For other folx reading this, if you're keen on trying this, try to get ahold of 4-HO-DMT instead - it is an identical experience to psilocybin (psilocybin converts to 4-HO-DMT in your body, which causes its effects), but can be dosed exactly to the milligram, greatly reducing your chances of accidentally taking too much.
> But the results would be equally great like they were in Soviet Russia or Mao's China.

That's your HUGE assumption. While I didn't make any assumption, you are making a big leap of faith here without anything to back it. Pretty much what I would call nonsense.

> Why would anyone in a centrally planned economy work beyond the bare minimum needed to survive?

Sigh. I don't know, maybe ask the many artists, intellectuals, sportsmen, scientists, etc that came out of URSS? How can you be so certain about human nature when nobody can agree on that?

> Nonsense. Hayek explained why that can't work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fatal_Conceit

Ah yes, Hayek, the economist accomplice of the brutal Pinochet's dictatorship. Definitely someone without a strong bias.

Funny that they could only force people into the "free" market under the authority of a dictatorship born from a military coup.
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Your reference is whatever crap Netflix currently uses. The algorithm they were using at the time of the prize was actually good to begin with. I think they may also have a smaller catalog of movies now. So that wouldn't help.
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Yes. In the end, the piece is really an ad for her analytics business.
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How, exactly, is the average person supposed to do them, then? It isn't like most countries let you walk into a shop and buy them. Realistically, it is the only way many people will ever get to do them legally. And realistically, if you are wanting to do psychedelics, you might not even find the same sort (I've generally found more opportunities to do LSD than truffles or mushrooms, for example).

Your words are kind of like telling young folks not to go and buy alcohol without knowing how to deal with it. The only way to learn is to take them.
Local democracy sounds nice in the abstract, right up until you look at it: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/05/handforth-in...

(Note that a 'parish council' here is for a civil parish, that is the smallest type of administrative unit in the UK; it's not a church parish)

At that point, you will probably be relieved that those idiots aren't allowed do anything important.

I suppose in principle if local authorities were more important, you might get more competent people running for election onto them, but given the average quality of _national_ backbenchers, this seems optimistic.
At first I was going to agree... then I realized we're neither like Elves or Dwarves and its the reason Tolkien included Men in his metaverse.

Men are culturally diverse and capable of building great cities and societies. We are adaptable, industrious, but not particularly loyal. We tend to be fearful and vengeful. We don't form a symbiotic relationship with the land (Elves) or have a single-overarching purpose to acquire wealth (Dwarves). We conquer our natural environment and bend it to our will as best we can.

The Elves and Dwarves are very one-dimensional in Tolkien's work and they sort of represent specific things.
You don’t need to use Karabiner for that: keyboard preferences has a modifier keys setting (per keyboard) that achieves this exact remapping with no kernel extensions.
Highest roaming fee on a network I've connected to with Vodafone UK (On Air Aerospace) was £7.20 per MB (about $10)

That would make it $200+ to load the page including the advert.

Highest I've actually paid was in China at £3 per megabyte, and not only did I use normal phone stuff like data and email, because the UK network I was on allowed connections to my company, but the local wifi didn't, when I accidentally connected plugged in my phone without disabling tethering, the laptop started downloading stuff - ran up a $400 bill in about a minute before the flood of text messages I get every 5MB started to arrive (out of order) and I realised what was going on.
What's the fraud scenario? Page owners presenting fraudulent visitor/click-through numbers to advertisers?

In that scenario, it seems like advertisers would pick up on that pretty quickly when they realize the conversion rate on that supposed traffic is terrible and doesn't warrant the inflated price. In the case they're using an ad network, the network could ban the page owner from their network if they see this pattern from them. Since page owners are materially benefiting from the network, proof of identity should be (probably is? I don't work in the space) applied between the page owner and network to prevent repeat fraud via identity laundering.

> you will not be able to pick as good of an ad compared to if you had more data.

In theory I lean towards agreeing. I was arguing for tech-powered hyper-personalized ads back when I was studying advertising 2008-2012 (and did a bit of "stealth marketing" in that period where I built relationships with bloggers to share our product before the term "influencer" had hit the mainstream vocabulary).

In practice, advertisers do not personalize ads. Facebook has become pretty good about selecting ads that map to my interests thanks to the reach of their spy network, but the ads themselves still aren't personalized at all (they take my interests into account, but not my spending history to realize that I don't have the budget for what they're trying to sell me) and my conversion to a sale because of them is still very, very low.
Lycamobile is about 15 for unlimited data eh, give it a spin
That's why we have TOR. Which allows you to use TCP without revealing the two TCP endpoints to anyone else.
They probably make the argument to themselves that none of those people had anywhere near the amount of data they will have. I guess it remains to be seen how long an intelligence agency can hold a country together when they have access to a large portion of every private conversation between citizens.
Hi! Thank you for the feedback!

> The IDE is completely useless on Linux with Ryzen 4700U, 16 Gigs of RAM and no GPU. Super laggy. Text input does not work and Ctrl+V does nothing when I tried to paste a link to the iris CSV file.

Would you be so nice and create an issue report with a short description and your machine spec here, please? https://github.com/enso-org/enso/issues

> Speaking of first impressions, the initial empty pane is a bit scary

We are currently working on making Enso much more user friendly - adding icons and better guidance.

> Why no support for Julia language given that Data Science is your main focus?

First languages we target are Python and R - those are most natural for Data Science. We can definitely think about Julia in the future. We are not targeting android development as a goal. Thank you for pointing out that it is unclear.

> Why would anyone non-technical use this tool over RapidMiner which feels much more user friendly with Drag-Drop widgets (does Enso have a "widget" library pane or only the autocompletions?).

As I wrote above, making Enso more user friendly, with icons for every action etc. is our main effort right now. The goal to improve user experience with every weekly release. Enso however, is much more extensible than ie. RapidMiner. If there is a need to add a custom blocks and share them with others in your company - we are working on making it instant and possible without any engagement from technical team.

> Conversely why would anyone technical use Enso over jupyter notebooks and ipywidgets or bokeh?

If it is a single person or a technical team, who doesn't have to explain the process to the business users or non-technical domain experts they might be happy with notebooks. Having visual representation is helpful for bigger workflows, that have to be easy to understand by non-technical user. However, interactivity while working with Enso is adding a value here as well. You can observe changes in your visualisations when data have changed, without refreshing, in real time. This is making testing ideas faster and more effective.
Notably Step wouldn’t say whether they were selling data, whereas Greenlight said they weren’t and would remove the part of their privacy policy that reserves their right to do so in the future.
Is is not surveillance - at the very least not in the relevant sense - if you maintain a temporary list of IPs you have seen in the past minute or hour.

This is your best argument why we have to track and profile every human on the planet around the clock?
Big Tech went from the shiny new thing, to the Mc Donalds of content.

They serve crap in mass produced quantities because it sells.

Remember that content moderation stops scaling after a point. No matter what good engineers think they will achieve in the Trust and Safety / Risk divisions.

Reading this article it seems pretty clear that training parameters weigh engagement at a rate that makes junk content a guarantee.

The troubling part is that this IS creating another educated/uneducated divide. The kind of conspiracy theories I see gaining traction around me differ entirely based on education (and therefore income).

And if you are reading this far - almost all the data needed to have a society level discussion is under an NDA.

It gets worse the moment you leave the English language. Want to find a sentiment Analyzer that works well on Code-Mixed subcontinental/Portuguese/Dominican hate speech? Good luck with that.
Similarly in Ireland, I'm paying €20/month (prepaid) for "unlimited" (T&Cs: 30gb) data. Even including the cost of my purchased outright phone amortised over the expected lifecycle (€450/36 months) leads to €32.50/month.

Bill pay plans end up way worse on the low end though. The cheapest bill pay plan from my provider is €40/month, only includes phones that are €30 outright, and comes with 20gb of data. A year or two ago it would have been €30/month with only 1gb of data included.
Yeah, they were stalling through their lawyer, but he has since then quit.

No other information has been forthcoming as of yet.
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Hey HN!

Product research is a frustrating experience. On average, people visit five websites for product research before purchasing and spend many hours or even days before they finally make the purchase.

90% of the consumers check user reviews before making a purchase, making reviews the ultimate gatekeeper to a sale.

The biggest frustrations with online product research we’ve found are:

1. It's time-consuming

2. Sponsored content / Ads

3. SEO / YouTube spam

4. Fake reviews

5. Inconsistent metrics and info across sites

About four months ago, I played around with GPT-3 to approach this problem and posted it here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224784 After getting a lot of positive feedback, I decided to turn it into a product:

https://reviewr.ai aggregates online product reviews and provides AI-powered analysis. It's like having a team of people researching products for you.

Our mission is to make product research less complicated, more transparent, and less time-consuming for end-consumers.

Using technologies like GPT-3, BERT, and AutoML, we’ve built a service that collects product reviews from all over the web, filters and aggregates them, and presents results in simple and understandable ways.

Our core features are:

- Automated review collection

- Consumer (Amazon, Walmart, etc.)

- Article (Wirecutter, etc.)

- Video (YouTube, etc.)

- Community (Reddit, etc.)

- Review relevance/helpfulness rating
- Fake detection

- Sentiment analysis

- Keyword extraction

- Short summaries

You can see all these features in action on our public showcase: https://baqpa.com

What’s next?

Apart from improving our core features, we are working on a self-service portal where users can upload a list of products that automatically get processed within a day. Users can then conveniently access the data through an API or dashboard.

As we’re getting more and more customers, we’re working hard on the scalability and reliability of our data processing pipeline.

We will continue to work with the community to build reviewr.ai. We would love to hear your experiences, thoughts, and ideas!

Read the full blog post here: https://www.reviewr.ai/blog/using-ai-to-research-products-fo...
Practice self-kindness and self-acceptance in the short term and you will find yourself involved in more ambitious projects in the long term.
When poverty, homelessness, and desperation increase, so does crime and theft. And these politicians are correct in that we cannot jail our way out of this problem.
Not jailing people doesn't work but neither does jailing them. At least one of these policies doesn't waste money, incarcerate people, and puts the responsibility on the store owners.
The pricing chart on that page is for customers who are not smart enough to shop around. I have lived both in the US and Canada and in the US I used to pay 120USD for 6 lines with 2.5GB data per line(T-mobile). In Canada currently I am paying 20CAD per month for 1.5GB data (Public Mobile).
>If you have the resources (time, money, teachers etc.) to get your children the same education they would get in a (german) public school you might as well found a private one.

Unless Germany's public school education somehow doesn't show its results on tests like PISA then this shouldn't be too difficult to provide to one or two kids. More than that would make it way harder. And I'm sure that if you did try to found a private school you'd have to deal with a mile long list of inane regulations as seems standard in all aspects of Germany.

Just an example of the absurd regulations in a different subject: Germany requires a license to stream to more than 500 people and they've actually enforced this on streamers. The license can cost €10k.
Hey HN - We've been working on Sourcery for a little while and wanted to share it with you to get your thoughts/feedback!

Sourcery helps make your Python code clearer and more readable by automatically suggesting refactorings you can apply. It integrates directly into your IDE for VS Code, PyCharm, Vim, Sublime, & Emacs, can tie into your GitHub repos, or can be run as a pre-commit hook/as part of your CI pipeline.

All of the analysis and suggestions are performed locally (except for GitHub cloud integration) so your code is kept secure/private.

Today we analyze and improve code at the function level, but in the next few weeks we're moving up to the class level to give more complex improvements to code.

You can use Sourcery for free in your IDE and public repos - let us know what you think and how we can make it better!
As an urbanite I was looked upon like a madman when I walked 30 minutes to the store from my academic campus which was hugged by a nature reserve on one side and a major highway on the other. Not having a car is a real hassle in the majority of the non-urban areas of this country. The only other people who thought to ever do something similar were international students from Bulgaria and Nepal that didn't blink twice at it.
This is what we do at https://officesnapshots.com and it works pretty well: office furniture ads on office design content.
When I see these kinds of takes on movie quality dropping I typically encounter the impact CGI has had over time. I was surprised that you did not similarly decry the impact of CGI on cinema and the over reliance on it.
If I had a kid they would not be allowed to use Apps or have a Google account.

Sure I'd give them a laptop, I would even probably give them unsupervised access to the web after they seemed ready, but Apps are no good even for most adults.
It’s not about it being local(which I bet it’s not anyway). The point is that we can witness an example of people literally drinking mud. And they still continue polluting what’s left of the water.
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it is illegal in mine, a single therapist has the authorizations to perform this therapy here in switzerland.

on the other hand it is perfectly legal for food/oil traders in geneva to starve entire countries / destroy an entire planet for short term profit.

i suspect psychedelics will remain illegal here for a long time since at least half of our politicians are paid by the pharmaceutical industry, so that would crunch a multi billion market.
> The kernel is still going to be big and monolithic (it contains the entire BSD kernel in the same address space!)

macOS does not use “the” BSD kernel (it’s not even obvious what your assertion even means since there are many members of the BSD family, each with their own kernel - none of which macOS uses).