skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The association of advertisers came up with a beautiful definition of advertising to advertise that advertising is doing it to provide value for everyone - as if anyone with two working brain cells can’t see through such a definition as further advertising for advertising.

The study of markets to advertise better is still advertising, while the study of markets to understand markets is economics.

The reason people hate marketing is because they are professional liars, who claim they’re doing it your own good, like in the definition you provided, instead of ‘to make money’, which is the truth. That’s why they are hated and earn their hate.
Russia cheated with steroids / doping at a state level. So Russia itself was banned from the Olympics (their flag, their anthem, etc. etc.)

The athletes shouldn't be punished however, so the athletes are allowed to get together to make their own group. At least, the 2021 athletes are not the same athletes who cheated years ago, so we should give them a chance at the world stage.

Flying under the Olympic flag under a "not Russia" name is a good compromise IMO. It publicizes the cheat while still allowing the athletes to compete.
Truly shows how oppressive Mainland China government has become.
The 'action at a distance' referred to here it not the one that crops up in entanglement. In entanglement, the nature of our knowledge changes instantaneously when we make a measurement. The action at a distance problem Weinberg refers to relates to the speed at which one object influences a distant one. For example, in Newtonian gravity, with its V = GM1M2/r potential, the speed of propagation of gravity is effectively infinite.
> It is loosely based on the real-life CSX 8888 incident, telling the story of a runaway freight train and the two men who attempt to stop it. It was the last film Tony Scott directed before his death.
I'd say this is a good explanation, but a bad tutorial[1]. Which is fine, they're different things. But if you want it to be a tutorial it should be focused on just Rust Futures, and the other stuff should be separated out.

[1] https://documentation.divio.com/
You can pay a £1M mortgage in £20 notes.
Yet how many people, even well-educated ones, have this balanced view on salaries? Most people see the bottom line on their pay statements. They "conveniently" forget that they still have to pay for health insurance, pension funds, etc.

A big figure on the pay slip is a status symbol. If Germany wants to attract foreign high-profile human capital like the US does, they should create a similar system: Pay them their full salary without deductions, and then charge them the mandatory cost instead of their employers. It could work wonders.
Here is a scientific study on the vaccine using observational data:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/study-electromagnetism-vaccina...
Ask HN: How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?
I'm currently working on a side project and will be searching for early users / alpha testers in the near future. Our target demographic is established, but we want to keep an open mind as we iterate on the product. Anyone have any "dos" or "don't"s that you can share? Also, sharing a brief description of the product/service itself would be really helpful as well.

For context, I am working in the computer vision space.
I have signed into the "NBC Sports" app on Roku with my basic package Dish Network credentials, and that allows me to view any event live or on replay. This is in USA. I'm not sure what else we expect NBC to do here. I have watched canoeing, cycling, rugby, equestrian, TKD, sailing, etc. Of course their headline/primetime coverage is shit and doesn't know sports other than swimming and gymnastics exist. They have the Today Shitshow people running it.
Someone seems to be unable to tell between Twisted Metal / Carmageddon from real life.

It's a multi-ton machine with a non-trivial amount of lithium, ffs.
How is this not illegal?

Its not an autopilot, stop calling it AutoPilot tm.

Its downright misleading and potential lethal. Almost no one read manuals, not to mention small print.

If I make a DefiBrillator tm that looks like an actual defibrillator, but gives gentle electric shock for fun. I would be in jail.

Have a billionaire do it and its national hero
Income tax is quite high in India at the upper bracket. For the right-most tick on that chart (Rs. 70 lakhs pa) you can expect to take home around Rs. 3.5-4.0 lakhs per month after tax. In Bangalore a decent flat will cost you at least 10% of that to rent, or around 2.5-3 years worth of after tax salary to purchase.
Brilliant business idea. Best of luck!
There's a apocryphal story about a translator at an anime convention being asked why he changed a name in the English dub, using an L sound, where the name in Japanese used an R sound. The translator's response was a very flat "Because 'Alucard' is 'Dracula' spelled backwards."
I’m not sure which standards you are referring to (I guess that means no). If you have a link or open an issue we could scope this out.
Iirc it also is an unsigned app on the Mac, meaning that by default Macs can’t run the app either.
It's a different title, however. It is Woman Grandmaster. It is not at all easier for a woman to obtain the regular Grandmaster title. A subtle difference perhaps, but nevertheless a difference.
You can’t pay off a computer to throw a game.
First thing I do on a new Windows setup is turn on "handles", "threads", "Commit size", "NP pool" columns in task manager details...

If you want to see some real offenders... have a quick look at Asus's "LightingService.exe" (the daemon that controls their rgb LED coloring suite). Gets up to 2m+ handles after a day or two of running on my system.

The next biggest offender on my system? Their ez updater "EzUpdt.exe" at ~60,000 handles.

Haven't bothered looking at it with process explorer/procmon yet, but I'm sure it's a quick fix.
Sure, you might be happy with the coverage they do, but I'm sure you could understand that not everyone is. There is no real reason that you cannot watch the events you want to watch - when you want to watch it - instead of whatever is playing on air when you can be at home to watch. You know, assuming you have the internet to do so.
According to this article just 5% of the world’s power plants account for almost three-quarters of carbon emissions from electricity generation.

I think this may be one of the most encouraging bits of news about AGW that I've seen in a long time. 5% of electric power plants (about 1500 plants) is a lot, but it's a manageable lot. This gives us a clearly defined area of attack with a very high ROI. It seems to say: if we're going to get serious about saving ourselves, start here and go all in. The paper lists the top 10 polluting plants... unsurprisingly many of them are in China and India, but at least one is in Germany. If Germany wants to set an example, there's where to start.
I guess I'll ask here since I'm in the process of updating my backup system.

I have a variety of machines I'd like to backup (desktops/servers/laptops/phones) running a variety of OSes.

I have a NAS ZFS machine that I'd like to host a copy of all my data from each machine.

From the NAS, I'd like to backup to a cloud host (e.g. rsync.net).

What I'm unsure about is where to introduce Borg in this scheme. I see a few permutations:
1) Borg from each machine to the NAS, then rsync to rsync.net
2) Rsync/ZFS send/etc. from each machine to the NAS, then Borg to a different location on the NAS, then rsync the Borg repo to rsync.net
3) Rsync/ZFS send/etc. from each machine to the NAS, then Borg directly to rsync.net

I'm leaning towards #3 personally. Thoughts?
I'm not convinced by this argument, and would favour x/0 to return 'undefined' rather than an infinity.
Collectivism at its finest
I switched to Linux with the release of XP. Later versions of XP (SP2 and 3) were better with their service packs offering new features that really should have been in vanilla XP. But the original release of XP was slower than Windows 2000, uglier than Windows 2000 and required twice as much system resources as Windows 2000 while offering literally nothing in return aside a little more compatibility for gaming. But since all of the Windows games I played already supported Windows 2000 (bar the DOS games but I kept Win95 about for DOS games) there was no benefit in upgrading to XP. So I switched to Linux instead.

So it's been nearly 20 years running Linux and honestly I've never once missed Windows. I've never got people who said "I can't run x" because everything I've needed to work has worked or there has been some open source alternative that has worked equally well. And if I really needed a corporate platform there was always OSX. Unfortunately macOS these days is becoming a similar cesspool as Windows. Before long the only good operating systems left will ironically be the free ones.
> you could make an educated guess because resetting the iOS device takes the same amount of time regardless of how much data you put on it

This is incorrect. Secure deletion should cover the entire disk no matter how much data was used before, in order to deny an attacker any information or to guide their recovery efforts. I would absolutely expect a secure deletion process to take the exact same amount of time regardless of how much data is used.

A better tell is the difference between the same model of phone with different storage sizes. A 512GB iPhone should take 2x as long to securely wipe compared to a 256GB one, assuming they’re actually overwriting the encrypted data with random noise.

> iPhones don’t have erase speeds of 12gigabit/s

It’s worth pointing out that a true secure delete is actually a write not a delete. But it’s true that your typical iPhone could not possibly overwrite its entire disk in 10s or so, although last time I did a reset it took much longer than that.
OpenCV-Python for Apple’s M1 Chip: A Detective Story with a Happy Ending
Depends on the company. Mine (Coalition) does do scanning and ensuring basic metrics and protection are in place. For example, RDP ports must be closed, which is an auto-decline.

The client is given an output of our findings and what would be necessary for us to underwrite the policy.

Any cyber insurance company that does not do this is exposing themselves to outsized risk because they're writing policies based on incomplete data on their exposure.
I'm not a mathematician, but in the rare occasion I have to use the Pythagoras theorem, I use it without knowing how to prove it.

And that's OK.

(Mathematicians are probably too polite to moan about amateur plebs like me who didn't even learn primary school mathematics properly)
Not in London, but I can confirm that the only time drains are cleared around here is when someone bothers to complain to the Council. Then there's usually a delay because the blockages are causing widespread street flooding and the Council can't cope. As for actual street cleaning, I can't remember the last time...
> It's from the lack of heavy metals - lead is necessary for transporting glucose to the axon, and its deficiency leads to massive synapse loss and resulting mental illness.

I'm going to need a reference for this because I was under the impression that there is no safe level for lead in the body, and it serves no biological purpose.
Your examples have nothing to do with reality. Of course not all people will not egregiously overpay for everything, but that isn’t a rebuttal to what I said. You can ask ten million for a gallon of milk, fifteen million for a hair brush, a trillion for a car - those aren’t rebuttals to the purpose of marketing.

If I want to market something, I’m doing it because I want to sell it at maximal cost, whether its a bike or bagel. That too isn’t a rebuttal to what I said.

Basically your entire post is justifications for marketing that don’t actually rebut what I said, because you are somehow deeply tied to marketing and feel the need to defend it and somehow justify it for any reason.

Marketing is getting people to overpay for things they don’t need.
And this is why the first thing I do with winblows is disable defender.

So much for that.
On YouTube tv you can just subscribe to an Olympic sport and it records it all.
If languages used float-intervals instead of just float that would be a reasonable explanation.
But Frink is the only language I know which default to floating point ranges.
So what? It is the factory to which we outsourced almost all of our production. Do you think the stuff you shop to waste after use grows on trees?
Tabliss – open-source, customisable New Tab page for Firefox and Chrome
Out of playing tournaments, sure, but that's not the only source of income they have. Not even the main one. Tutoring is likely among the best options.
Yeah, just an amazing performance.

FYI, the pros got caught out here a bit. The Olympic road race is probably the last one running that doesn't allow radios.
...or you just disable Windows Defender.
My impression is that COVID is problematic because a lot of people spend weeks on the ICU. The death toll itself is not that big, but having ICUs overflowing is a bad thing.

ICUs were built to take care about acute problems and there is a silent expectation that most patients admitted into ICU care either die quickly or recover enough within 2-3 days to be transferred into regular care. Having people around on ventilators for weeks destroys logistics of ICU systems.

We put way more than zero research into anti-aging research. Granted, COVID attracted a lot more money and attention, but anti-aging research is gaining traction. And with the tech moguls of SV aging, you can bet on some extra investments.

I for one don't believe that people like Bezos (a notorious fitness and health fanatic) are just going to succumb to natural aging without a fight.
Both. Plenty of malware-infested executables in torrents.
Faulty RTC chip may be affecting watchy
recently switched off of Windows to using PopOS. Really impressed how everything kinda just worked out the box. I'm very excited to see if Valve's proton will push more people to Linux and in general, improve the desktop experience.
So you’re saying his opponents leaked it to sympathetic media?
> no one knows for sure that it cannot cause a problem

It is extremely hard, if not impossible, to prove a negative. By all available evidence, the vaccines are "safe" for some level of "safe". What more evidence do you need?

Not getting the vaccine -> risk. Getting the vaccine -> smaller risk. Those are your two choices.

Also, your choice to not get vaccinated not only increases others risk of infection, pools of unvaccinated people allow for mutation, endangering the currently vaccinated as well.

If you are looking for the ability to 100% prove something, take up mathematics, and leave the rest of science to others.
I've previously watched a lot of the Olympics and think it's a great way to bring the world together every now and then. Now this year you have to jump through all these hoops (pun partly intended) and you don't even get commentary for much of it - the IOC are being greedy to a new level.
There are variatons on this joke that are even more apropos to HN, for example:

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes that he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, "Excuse me. Can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man below says, "Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees north latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees west longitude.

"You must be an engineer" says the balloonist.
"I am", replies the man. "How did you know?"

"Well..." says the balloonist. "Everything you told be was technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information and the fact is I am still lost."

The man below says, "You must be a Manager"

"I am", replies the balloonist. "How did you know?"

"Well..." says the man. "You don't know where you are, or where you are going. You made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met but now it is somehow my fault."
Is defender a ‘big daddy policing decision’?

You’re welcome to disable it via group policy if you like.
As a pakistani immigrant, I've felt this pain for years.
Or for Patreon subs.
The question was for Nirav. You dropped yourself in with an unhelpful comment. I told you it was unhelpful and you have now confirmed that, correct, you cannot help.

:facepalm:
What I like about NBC Olympic broadcasts is when they cut to shots of Bode Miller's girlfriend at the bottom of the mountain every few seconds. Great stuff.
I set up a LAN box for my parents on a computer that my dad received for free. It came with Windows 10 on it, but wasn't very powerful - company's old hardware.

After several...frustrating...hours of trying to talk them through things over the phone to get RDP working, just so I could install Docker to run some containers that didn't even work properly with networking, and having to call/text any time the machine thought it was smarter than me and rebooted because of an update, I finally drove out there, wiped it, and threw linux on it (Ubuntu 20, which serves the purposes I need).

The entire installation process took about 15 minutes because I was explaining it to my dad as I installed it. Zero headache since it was plugged in next to the router and powered on weeks ago, and the performance on the running containers makes it feel like a brand new computer compared to trying to run them in Windows.

I run a Windows desktop locally for gaming. I've heard good things about SteamOS and have been toying with switching, but I'm put off by the idea of trying to re-flash Windows if it doesn't work. Personally, I'll be happy when I no longer need Windows even for gaming.
Demo: https://web.tabliss.io/

Github: https://github.com/joelshepherd/tabliss
That's an unrealistically pessimistic assumption though. Many laptops are off, not failing to sleep. The great majority of people aren't buying these niche devices.

And the source should be cleaned up since that is a vastly bigger lever impacting all loads. This is just limiting consumer choice for a largely symbolic gesture. I would also be really surprised if the rule is kept up to date and relevant, vs left in the codebase to rot.
Windows is the dominant operating system, and as such has a giant target on its back. It's true, I despise Windows, but the risk of torrenting on Linux vs the risk of torrenting on Windows is quite a huge difference.

And look, Microsoft has been user-hostile for years now, the fact is, this kind of behavior from them doesn't surprise me anymore, and I'm tired of watching people take those punches lying down.
A lot of that has to do with the design of the city. In my neck of the woods (a moderately dense urban area in Canada) I see plenty of parents who either don't own a car or use their car as the exception rather than the rule.
> and while technically you could use a 2 button mouse it wasn't really designed for it.

I don't quite think this is true. I'm pretty certain that MacOS 9 had a right click menu if you plugged in a two button mouse; I've used MacOS since version 6 and I recall distinctly right click being a novelty in OS 8.

Apple's philosophy always was that context menus could aid other workflows in the program, but couldn't replace them -- the functionality had to be accessible in some other way. Which, I thought, certainly makes sense if 90% of your users have a one button mouse. Could this be what you're thinking of?
2030 seems to be a magical date that is oft quoted. Is it when something will finally happen, or will it just be the date by which the current crop of CEOs and politicians retire (to their secretly built climate-controlled bunkers?
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The people who opposed lockdowns but were first in line for the vaccine, sure. Maybe they're just in a hurry to get the economy up and running again.

But there are people declining a free a pinprick jab that's been given to billions of other people already, when there's clear evidence it's good for both the nation's interest and their own? The country's not asking us to charge Nazi machine gun nests on the beaches of Normandy here.
So this is largely a concern tied to the internet?

Man I don't know what to think about that making folks change how they dress. It's their call but just not sure how I feel about that.

I saw some celeb announce that they were tired of nasty internet comments about their size and they wouldn't appear in any revealing scenes for now.

I'm all for their choice... but I couldn't help but think that there's some extent that they're engaging with / dictating their own choices based on some assholes on the internet who aren't going to go away...
Seems strange they have to do that when there is: https://www.imec-int.com/en/applications/advanced-semiconduc...
See http://www.themanitoban.com/2015/03/the-toilet-wars/23367/ for some previous similar situations
Expecting CSS to solve people on holiday is not the point, but expecting a technology to protect me from the much more general problem of other developers and content generators making mistakes is something I think you can blame on CSS.

Going back to brundolf's point, he's arguing that you should try and take advantage of relative constraints as much as possible as CSS lets you do that. I'm arguing the opposite, and so are you in your last line, that the solution is to hardcode those images and decouple the two components.

You can say don't blame CSS as it gives you a multitude of options for how to deal with the situation, but the counterargument is that good tools lead you to a "pit of success" where the correct way is obvious, and CSS is more like a "tiny little bridge out of Moria of success" where you're just asking to fall to your doom.
I'd be careful drawing broad conclusions from that study given the data source (https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/2016-fales.pdf): The bulk of the sample data came from an NBC News online poll. Online polls are subject to known biases (https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2020/02/18/assessing-the...).

The second study (with a smaller but believed to be more representative sample) asked slightly different questions, and concluded that there was some statistical significance on "Makes at least as much money as I do" and "Has a successful career," which don't by themselves support the hypothesis that "women by and large prefer men to have a higher career title than themselves" (though I can agree that it waggles its eyebrows and points in that direction; perhaps suggesting follow-up studies).
It's the problem #28 in this set: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884973
Famously biased person claims bias of other people, yawn.
Generally, we get paid by our output (agreed upon deliverables). However, on the other hand, we generally get repeat business by our outcomes (users became much more productive and now they want more).

There's enough nuance required here to fill a small series of books. If you state the obvious and then go on to actually examine the nuance, then I'm fine giving you credit. If you don't then I don't really see the benefit.

Worse, you've given people a thought terminating cliche that can be disastrous in the hands of a novice. "Hey, we're focusing on the outcomes!" Yeah, but you've missed three milestone dates so your funding is going to be pulled and everyone is now unemployed.
You'll keep thinking that until you pirate a copy of Adobe Shitware 2077(tm) and it works fine for a day until the embedded cryptolocker activates and holds everything on your system hostage for 3 bitcoin.
This happened to me as well. Even when those keygens were in zipped files, Defender would flag them as malware and remove them automatically.

The only solution I found to this was to keep the keygens in a password protected zipped files.