skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
96% of US users opted out of app tracking in iOS 14.5. iOS has a majority market share in the US, and over a quarter of the mobile OS market worldwide.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-o...

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

Based on this data, it seems extremely unlikely that 95% of users would prefer the "customer experience with tracking" on YouTube or any other mainstream social media site.
I've stopped caring about GDPR given its lax enforcement and recent power grabs by european parliament. They had their chance to prove they were going to 'clean' their space and give people trust in their actions. If they truly believed in their model I think they would have tried a bit harder. In my opinion they have already failed to gain the trust of their citizens.

I hate to say it but I think the Chinese model with 'nationalization' of the internet and IT services has already won and we're in denial. Regional governments, "federations" are likely to continue to reduce global trade through regional nationalization and IT programs.
I've been part of taking a number of software companies public and it's always a taxing process because of the amount of work to be done and regulations to be observed. I have massive respect for the executives who can manage this process. The timeline described here seems approximate to what happens, though I imagine it looks and feels slightly differently depending on where you're sitting.
The authors addressed this issue at least somewhat:

"Toxoplasmosis status was self-reported by respondents, which may be viewed as a drawback. On the other hand, it has previously been demonstrated that information on toxoplasmosis status provided by 3,827 participants of another internet study nearly perfectly (99·5%) corresponded to information in our files on subjects tested for toxoplasmosis in our lab."
I think I get to be the authority on my own views.

That is a disclaimer saying that I am not speaking on behalf of my employer.
It sounds like your friend is less worried about consciousness in general disappearing and more worried about his consciousness disappearing. Consciousness as thing can never completely go away. Even if the universe dies out, given enough time, even if the span of time seems infinite, a new hospitable universe will be born that contains conscious beings. If this wasn't true, how could we even exist right now?
It could've lasted much longer if agriculture runoff hadn't poisoned the lake and killed all the fish. It would've lasted until enough evaporation had taken place to concentrate the salts and kill the fish.
Yeah, most people are there because they grew up there and its their home and most of them are too broke to leave. It's pretty gross. If you want to support the locals, go buy a few dates and gas.
But how is that specific to SQL?
Most philosophers likely come from the elite classes in the past. You don't have time to sit around and think and write if you have to worry where your next meal comes from.
In America a lot of these positions are not full time. Employers like McDonald’s and frito will try to do their best to give “hours” (part time) so that they don’t need to give benefits.

So, imagine you’re making minimum wage and you have no benefits from your job and you have to remain in a certain income band in order to qualify for government aid. It’s very hard to take a vacation let alone to just take a Sabbatical and backpack around the world to “find themselves” because they can barely afford to survive. It’a a very hard life.
This explains why later in the article it says the mine could produce 40% of the world’s lithium.
I mean it behaves like a software KVM, at which point you can use a hardware KVM without the added latency penalty due to memory copy....
just to say this is the kind of answer that makes HN an oasis on the internet.
Yes it's an interesting counterpoint, but as a former Facebook employee I can say that those users will almost universally have a worse experience on the app, as measured by self-reported enjoyment.

That is, if you run a randomized AB test where some users lose personalization, then ask everyone "are you enjoying Facebook", the responses are much better for the users who have personalization.

Because the number 96 is large, it's not the case that some ads-averse subpopulation made an individually optimal choice.

You either have to reject my empirical claim about surveys, or you have to agree that these users made a choice that is worse for them on timescales of 1-2 months. (There's room for an argument that they're worse off in the short term by opting out but everyone will be better off in the long term, but then we're no longer debating individual preferences)
I’m not saying the changes themselves are necessarily bad, I’m saying the rate of change and the rapid increase in complexity benefits Google at the expense of anyone who dares to compete with them.

The web used to be more like the Linux kernel; today it is a fully captured corporate-led platform where only billion dollar companies can play. The problem isn’t that Apple isn’t keeping up with Google; the problem is there aren’t more entities like Apple pushing back.
This article is one of my all-time favourite pieces of writing about engineering management and startup founding, despite supposedly not being about that at all.

Think about what it takes to be a showrunner of a TV show. You spend years pitching an idea. It gets picked up... and suddenly you're in charge of a 100+ person startup, with a fixed budget, an immovable deadline and extremely activist investors.

And you're still expected to write the first and last episode of the season!
I found the programmer.
Has anyone here managed to get their hands on the HiFive? It looks really cool. Would love one of these devices as my daily driver.
Intuit announces it’s leaving Free File program
Because they pay marginally above minimum wage for unskilled work and offer consistent hours.

When I worked in the mall in college, our prep guy was an immigrant from Ireland who worked about 15-16 hours a day. He prepped vegetables and fruit at our place, did painting, did maintenance work and closed the day doing janitorial stuff.

You do it to support your family and because you’re too busy to find a better option.
Definitely a gateway pet. I've started using dogs now.
> Dwayne Johnson probably makes shitloads of money

He is the highest paid actor in Hollywood right now at a 87.5 million/yr.
And yeah he seems like a real cool guy doing real fun titles.
That study was apparently submitted by a blogger posing as a medical student.

There's 62 and counting other studies out there. I linked to some of them above.
Since when did we trust google maps for hiking? Honestly.
Great that you know that. I didn’t know there were different kinds of dotted lines on Google maps until reading this thread. I bet a lot of other people don’t either. I get dotted lines every time I need to change transportation (walk to/from/between transit). If I saw the screenshot in the article the only clue I’d have that it’s different is the smooth curve, but that’s just because I’ve spent a lot of time looking at maps. I wouldn’t expect people using their phone for directions to know that’s unusual.
That doesn't make any sense: the CDC claims "in the United States it is estimated that 11% of the population 6 years and older have been infected with Toxoplasma" and Wikipedia claims "serological studies have estimated that 30–50% of the global population has been exposed to and may be chronically infected with latent toxoplasmosis"... and yet, other than pregnant women, does anyone ever get tested for it? The CDC even goes so far as to directly claim "most people who become infected with Toxoplasma gondii are not aware of it because they have no symptoms at all"!
Prof. Teachout: Antitrust Makes a Comeback
By the way, my personal opinion on this is that Apple is extremely astute, and this is their highly effective strategy for growth and entrenchment.

From where I'm standing, Apple masterfully manipulated their users into adopting a worldview that transfers future cash flows from other tech giants to Apple.

It's great for me as an Apple shareholder, but just another punch in a bout amongst the titans.
Solarpunk is "punk". We are at the point where hope is an act of rebellion.
I'm curious if you are speaking from research experience in this line or work.
I used it for a bit a while back and would only use it again if I absolutely had to. Cases like that are very limited though, using an external GPU enclosure without a monitor attached to it is one. Being dumb enough to try to use a gimped mining GPU that doesn't have any video outputs is another.
If they routinely use maps for transit or walk any significant distance from a parking spot, they have a completely different expectation about what the dotted lines mean.
If anyone is interested, the main developer, who goes by 'gnif' spends a decent amount of time on the dedicated Looking Glass sub-forum on the Level1Techs forum, here:

https://forum.level1techs.com/c/software/lookingglass/142

Level1Techs also has a ton of information and help both on the forum, and their YouTube channel, about setting up Looking Glass and VFIO. The main host of the YouTube channel, Wendell, has forgotten more about nitty-gritty system administration than I will likely ever know in my lifetime. He also just seems like a genuinely good human being.
I'm still only using cats but I use two now to get the same boost as one a decade ago.
I can only tell it’s de-emphasized because I’ve been told it is. And while I have vision correction it’s reasonably up to date, and I’ve never suspected I have any kind of color blindness until reading this thread.
You haven't lived until you've tried bare handed deer hunting with a helicopter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ZZ2wlMSyw
I think you forgot to mention why you didn't like it.
Cool project. Not a big fan of the name. Kind of hard to sell to a sourcing team. If they called it “Enterprise Ruby” or something like that the conversation is going to be much easier.
Libwsm: Wayland Security Module library for Wayland compositors
It is okay if it were only for ads personalisation, but everyone knows that isn't the case. They have too much data just for personalising ads, Google knows way too much.
Two technical things that make it more difficult.

1. lack of flight recorder (black box).

2. computer systems are brittle, complex and ever-changing
A recent survey in New Zealand found that 7% of people believed the worst case credible predicted sea level rise by 2100 is 15 meters or more, which is wrong. More people underestimated it too. But it shows that media sensationalism is probably leading people to ridiculous beliefs about climate change too.

People saying climate change is a disaster, crisis, catastrophe, etc. use those words because they haven't got a clue what's going to happen and are just hyped up on fear. The media sensationalizes it out of proportion while the solid science is relatively boring. There's also media sensationalizing it as a false bogeyman which encourages denialism. But either way, most people are just tools of the media because it's so much easier and more entertaining than reading dry science papers.
For those wondering why on earth this isn’t simply a contribution to Ruby, the FAQ has a really nice explanation - tldr is that this is a variant optimised for the very specific context of Linux, x86/64, server environments, with pre compiled and packaged binaries, with special memory allocators (jemalloc).

These changes are specific to this context and are unlikely to be accepted into the more generalised Ruby core.

Same team as Phusion Passenger, so excellent background.
Talk about burying the lede! I read through 2/3 of the article and stopped before they proposed other alternatives.
Phusion Passenger (same team) has lots of enterprise offerings with very entierprisey names and prices.
It doesn't need to be from the research experience. Research is not a straight line from A to B. One has to form wrong hypotheses, discard them completely, improve upon them, etc. Some paths are from A are MORALLY forbidden from pursuing.
Name taken, see http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/
I’ve seen Oracle RAC in use in many banks in particular where uptime and resilience are critical requirements. It scales well horizontally, but at a very high cost.
The World’s Tech Giants, Compared to the Size of Economies
In fact I’d wager that a substantial number of regular people would move between iPhone and android without ever realising that they were convenience benefits in sticking with the same platform, other than basic familiarity with a particular user interface.

Similarly, I’m sure there are plenty of people who continue going to a McDonald’s drive-thru instead of a competitors’ because they are comfortable with and familiar with the menu. Yeah no one would accuse McDonald of having any amount of “platform” lock in.
You're so wrong.

You're dealing in absolutes and lumping everyone you disagree with into the Hitler/racist bin. It's an indoctrination.

Explain non-white conservatives. Explain them in other non-US countries such as Japan. Explain white (often Christian) conservatives that adopt minority children.

You're so single minded in your hate towards these people, most of whom you do not know, that you can't see that you're wrong. Perhaps it is your world view and experiences are that are limited.

I'm sorry you feel this way.

I hope you can start loving more people than you hate.
And then there's the whole realm of robotic welding where the quality and consistency of the welds in all sorts of cockeyed positions and otherwise extremely unsafe working conditions is at the level of the best weld a top 1% journeyman welder is capable of on their best day. Ever since I began writing Focal in jr high school I've been looking for a better way to "tell the robot" what I want it to do.
Then again, I'm perfectly happy with the welding work some fresh grad from trade school did for the railing around my deck.
@mods - please fix the link. It should redirect to actual article here: https://www.simplanations.in/p/ipo-2
Just want to say that gnif is amazing. He is always happy to help out people on the looking glass support discord. Plus he's absolutely dedicated to continuing to improve the software he writes and the ecosystem around it. Top notch guy.
I looked into this project (and related GPU pass through projects) a few years ago. Putting the discussion and even some issue tracking into a "support thread" in this forum makes getting information really difficult. It's the same experience when you want to install LinageOS and realize you have to go through a long thread on XDA and sometimes reddit to solve any issue you may have.
It's too limiting, if you're doing the whole VFIO thing in the first place you don't really want to limit yourself to just Windows in a specific configuration. You want to have an ability to run any OS you can and pass your hardware to it.

I wouldn't recommend VFIO just for gaming, there are better options.
So people who were tested for toxo knew they had it? Scratches head.
Google Maps once sent me into a gigantic snow bank approaching a mountain pass. It was right around this time of year, so I guess their historical data assumed the pass was open. I came around a bend and, that’s where the plows had stopped maintaining the road.

I was fortunate to get some help getting my car out from locals who were driving around the area, and when I stopped in the nearest town for lunch everyone knew the pass was closed. But I had to reroute my whole trip to freeways to get GM to stop trying to send me back over that pass.

There were no dotted lines. There was no way to tell the app that route was impossible.
What does this do that regular KVM + Qemu does not?
Can you be more specific about what the social problem is? Do you know of anyone who is working to solve it?
advertising is itself on ethically shakey ground since it so often crosses the line from providing information into outright manipulation. Targeted ads can be especially unethical when it involves the invasive tracking of individuals, the compilation, buying, and selling of dossiers, and it all taking place in an environment where much of that data is sold to the state directly or taken from companies by force and in secrecy (national security letters).

Even if you could be 100% certain the ads being pushed on people against their wishes were not harmful to them directly, (and there is plenty of evidence that ads have caused great harm to people and their health) the entire system that enables and sustains targeted advertising is downright abusive and dangerous. Only the most narrow view of the issue could support the idea that it wasn't an ethical mine field and google's implementation specifically is full of problems.
I read the whole thing and saved it for future reference, in case I ever go there.

I wish therenwere a class of travel books written in this style. This seems particularly helpful, which I didn't know before:

-3 teas/coffees is ok, 4th is a sign to leave.
- quick language reference. The amount there can be learned in a few weeks prior the trip. I also like the suggested vocabulary.
- a bit of history and context on why people live the way they live.

Thanks for sharing!
> There are no penalties, but really, for things as egregious as hard coded passwords

Is this sentence missing a word or phrase?
Yet another lone optimist here too :) I grew up with a TV show called "Beyond 2000" about the miraculous things the future would bring. The future was widely seen as exciting and better than the present. But nowadays, popular culture seems pretty negative about it, as does science fiction. Maybe the really influential technologies like cars, transistors, computers, and space travel have finished their initial rapid growth and over-hyped stage? But why isn't machine learning or some of the new biotech technologies taking its place? They're as exciting as buggery to me!
I just automatically silo by customer because I am so scarred by so much shitty SQL written by ??? that it just make sense for privacy reasons alone.

Row based permissions are not great imo, either performance is crap or you have some weird bug.
The New Pavegen section of the Green Heart bridge. What is it for?
The abbreviation KVM can mean two things: Kernel-based Virtual Machine, and keyboard/video/mouse (switch). Gp was talking about the latter.
> It's still delusional thinking you can have a 'relationship'

It's overly cynical to think that you need to be intimate and in the flesh to call it a 'relationship' (in scare quotes?). It is a relationship. There's a real exchange of ideas and emotions.
> Apparently LSB 5.0 mandates[1] both Perl (5.8) and Python (2.4)

Wow, that didn't age well. That document actually says Python "2.4.2 or greater" and Perl "5.8.8 or greater", which doesn't help if the installed interpreters are Python 3.10 and Perl 6.c (2018.06), since both are greater than the specified versions but incompatible with them. Even if it had specified the major release (that is, Python 2.x greater than 2.4.2 and Perl 5.x greater than 5.8.8), that wouldn't help once those major releases are no longer maintained.
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Spike proteins, man.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/1kylx4VpU8RV/
Embracing the Steam Deck
You can always use a dummy plug to fool windows into believing there is a monitor attached. Then it's much more convenient than using a KVM switch.
An ancient design technique could help us survive extreme heat, no AC required
It provides bare metal access to the entire hardware stack. So for instance you could run Linux via your integrated GPU (the one on many consumer CPUs) while passing through your dedicated GPU to the Windows VM.

This is how I "gamed on Linux" from 2018~2020 when I ran Ubuntu as my primary OS. It's incredibly finicky to set up (shocker, I know!) but if you're able to get it working it's truly amazing. Talking like 1% performance loss in AAA games in that virtual machine on the GPU.

As for me, I abandoned Ubuntu (and Linux, I did try other distros!) in early 2020. I was tired of juggling my home setup just to relax. In a move unpopular with the Slashdot crowd from 1996, I went back to Windows as my host OS.
"Of course, I could be wrong and my resume might just suck."

Your resume's job is to get the person screening it to say 'yes'. Create a list of achievements for each company/role and, when applying to a specific job, include the achievements that best prove the skills/experience listed in the job ad. Don't try to include everything you've done.

Maybe you are a great plumber and a great guitarist. But when applying for a job as a plumber working on high-rise buildings, emphasise the relevant part of your plumbing experience. Omit anything guitar-related, as it won't help, and will just dilute your main message and make your resume exceed a single page.

If you want someone to look over a couple of your resumes/applications, and provide more specific suggestions, email me.
The Culture series by Iain M Banks. The Culture is a pan-galactic post-scarcity Type I/II civilization of transhumans. The novels often revolve around the dealings with other civilizations of many different tech levels (including medieval and steam age).
Yes that's what I'm thinking as well. It's seems likely that inbalanced parasite(of many different kinds) overgrowth is a huge risk factor for lethal covid co-infections. If the immune system isn't already overloaded with parasitic imbalance issues, covid is probably easily dealt with.
Not him but I'll echo the same thing. Unless I absolutely have no other choice, I'm not going back to this setup.

It's how I "gamed on Linux" for a couple years. Support is basically you and you alone. The dev for Looking Glass is active but the man isn't your personal tech assistant so often you're just doing A/B testing to make something work.

For me, I just didn't want to fiddle with my home desktop that much. I went back to Windows.
Look up the Logic of Chance by Eugene Koonin. Written by an actual evolution researcher of current times instead of legacy hacks like you-know-who.

This book is even better because it actually talks a lot of about horizontal gene transfer s role in prokaryotic evolution, and borgs might actually be something involved in a similar process. Kinda prescient if you ask me!
What exactly is limiting about it? I use it on a daily basis in order to flip between high performance Linux and high performance Windows instantly with the flick of a hotkey.

I use it for gaming, software dev, and just in general it's nice to be able to switch OSs for any reason instantly. What better options are there?
But choice-making is a product of neurobiology and economics. We’re not going to solve problems like global warming by “choosing” our way out of them. We need to formulate economic solutions so that they’re the only rational alternative.
Have you thought to yourself that the Climate Change movement seems more and more like a religious movement?

https://medium.com/@hwater84/climate-change-and-the-ten-warn...
So to me, that's the preview of an argument, but not a complete argument. What is the actual bad thing or bad state that will be caused by Google knowing this information about individuals, or in aggregate?

I think that when we weigh the harm against the good, we're likely to disagree about the balance. But I think I have more information about the good than people who have not worked at Google or Facebook, and I have just as much information about the potential and actual harm.
I hit about a half dozen of them when I was younger.

Freezing in front of the lights is a big issue, but a bigger one is that they flip out and do weird stuff based on the sight and sound of the car at twilight. I had one jump into and break the driver side window of my car on one occasion.