skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it is, or can be, a matter of "choice", but that's a subtle thing. What does it mean to "choose" or "want" something when you have conflicting motives, when you both enjoy and hate the same thing, even at the same time? I think a large part of reaching emotional maturity (for some people at least, me included) is about resolving those conflicts and achieving a sort of unity of self. This often involves letting some parts of yourself go, deciding not to be a particular person any more, which the "addiction" may only be one aspect of.

In my case I finally succeeded in quitting smoking, after 9 years of 20-30 a day and innumerable failed attempts to stop, just after I got married, 18 years ago. It was easy.
You ever notice when cops bust a prostitution ring they never call it that? It's been renamed human trafficking. Law enforcement is all in on the marketing game.

Using scarier words will get the public to trade liberty for security every time.
Counter research: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...

- The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.

- The results provide hope that people receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will develop similar lasting immune memories after vaccination.
It's a slur for a certain type of white person, but also, nobody cares. It's stupid to care about name calling as a grown adult.
I'm not quite finding the angle here to state my thoughts clearly, but there seems to be a definition of monopoly at play in some of these threads that means something close to "I would make more money if Apple/Google made less, plus they already make lots of money so it isn't fair!".

Google/Apple having gained the trust of the market and acting as middlemen to sell access simply isn't monopoly activity. In the same way that renting out space in a commercial complex isn't.

There is no question they are running these stores to make an outrageous profit. But the monopoly would be expressed by how the gates are closed to alternate App Stores, or in Google is unfairly pushing competitors to their own Apps off the store to make a profit - which given that they generally provide their Apps for free is a hard argument to make. Nobody seems to be making either of those arguments. Particularly the first one would involve more references to Samsung being made.
Where exactly does the adversary sit in this scenario?
Enpass works nicely. I can freely share vaults and keep vaults backed up in anyway I prefer.
Two downsides:

1. Mobile is paid I think

2. Not open source
The Local Minima of Suckiness
I think the author's point is that it would still pretty easy to "sh -c" yourself if needed, and at least you would have to be aware you are doing that.
Buying a company to prevent even a hint of competition seems like quintessential antitrust. Over the last few decades society has really dropped the ball on antitrust.
This could be a self-hosted onlyfans if I understand correctly?
By now the concept of competing for attention, for the limited 3-4 hours of free time you have a day is well known. To maximize engagement and clicks you just have to appeal to the shittiest parts of human nature - anger, fear, low attention spans. A few people figured out how to make the equivalent of cocaine (e.g outrage porn news, gamified social media) and now there is no going back - you compete with cocaine whether you like it or not. The more technical phrasing is that "intermittent variable rewards" are highly addictive - and this basically explains the entire design of social media or the shitty mobile games you see now.

You can read statements/watch videos by Chamath Palihapitiya or Sean Parker admitting to this being an explicit strategy at Facebook. "Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport is also a nice book that covers some of the same ground.

If you ask me, our current way of managing society is a failure. You have large, well-coordinated organizations basically selling cocaine (fast food, youtube, social media, cigarettes) on end, but the other end (consumers) are necessarily less coordinated and informed because they don't operate within an organizational hierarchy with centralized decision making, shared knowledge and people dedicating 8 hours a day to maintaining those systems. Theoretically, companies live and die by how much value they create for their their customers. Practically, many companies resemble organized militia waging asymmetric warfare on unorganized masses in an increasingly zero-sum world.

I think we need to focus a lot on organizing as people outside of the structure of a for-profit corporation. Theoretically the government plays this role but it's not enough.

(inb4 omg you hate capitalism stupid commie)
In the more distant past, when we didn't have a lot of "markup formats", "plain text format" just meant the opposite of "binary format", where "plain" was just emphasising its human readability.
But I wrote my first BASIC program around the age of 7, in 1984 and the first and shortly after learnt Forth on a ZX Spectrum. So that's my perspective.

We wrote programs, which controlled a Roland DG DXY-880. That also used a plain text programing language.

I was not speaking a lot of English at that time, so mirror translating back from Hungarian, we said, "textual format" or "plain, textual format" ("síma, szöveges formátum"), to contrast its simplicity with binary formats.

(I was born and raised in Szeged though, so that could be just our regional dialect. How about you?)
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Not when the employees are the ones paying, which is what GP was referring to.
CS 436: Distributed Computer Systems
> There's actually a huge Supreme Court Case involving it right now. Where a guy copied the words from it but substituted his ex-gf for the president and he got arrested. It's crazy

Crazy is right. A guy posted the text of that sketch but the subject being changed to be his ex wife, and then did similar things but about a local park, a local school, and law enforcement.

The supreme court found him not guilty 8-1.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonis_v._United_States
IIRC Netflix are able to get around this problem by processing subscription payments outside of their app. Wouldn't this solve the problem for some use cases? Or has Netflix got a "special" arrangement with Google and Apple?
The answer to that is a personal one and I suggest for anybody on either side of any argument to recall Nietzsche’s saying -
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Peter+James
Well, one way of looking at it is that a framework is just a big (or very big) library. I don't know the history of React, but maybe it began as a somewhat smaller library and then grew more than expected?
>which refuses to consider the possibility of there being some truths here, and there not being some litany of horrible reasons against this person.

The parent, and we, don't "need" to consider the above.

It's already available to us, as that is the original framing in the linked post. If someone is content with that, they can stick with it and it's authors own explanation.

What people DO need to consider, and the parent did remind us of, is the possibility that this might not be the true reality. Which, more often than not, is the case when one speaks about themselves and how good and balanced they are.

(Your tone - e.g. "repulsively small minded" is also kind insulting).
“Aggressively normal” :)
What can really help getting addictions under control is understanding how it is expressed in the brain.

Delta FOSB seems to be associated with addiction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSB#Delta_FosB. And having a simple model of how it works helps in dealing with it.

Contrary to popular depictions addiction is not bolean, it's a unbounded scale. And roughly each consumption of an addictive substance increase addiction and for each substance some time is required to go back to baseline. And if another take occurs before this period, then the addiction will grow.

As a very simple model it's ovmbviously wrong but it's a very helpful proxy.

Another euristic that is helpful in dealing with addiction is to avoid repeated use before 6-7 times the halflife of the substance. Such that > 99% of it has been eliminated.

Finally looking for "harm reduction techniques" when dealing with a substance provides many helpful tips.

I believe those advice can probably be translated in the case of an addictive behaviour instead of a substance but will obviously yield less precise recommendations.
Bikes are great! 101 has at least one bike bridge. But I'd personally feel really unsafe in the bay area biking. Zero protected lanes. Tons of cars merging through bike lanes to enter turn lanes. Fast-moving roads that also have direct access from driveways.
I know the name, but what's the reference?

edit: ah wait, is it the thin slices?
Your point that the application level programmer should not be burdened with details like CPU cache size is something the article's author may agree with. They mentioned that cramming 17 floats into a cache that can hold 16 is (premature) optimization.

On the other hand, the author is arguing that developers should take the presence of a CPU cache into consideration. The distinction is important. By failing to take the hardware into consideration it becomes much more difficult to solve performance issues down the road since an avenue to resolve it will likely involve rewriting disparate parts of code. Incidentally, this type of issue is unlikely to be addressed by optimizing compilers since it requires a knowledge of the runtime performance of disparate parts of code and may involve code that is not compiled at build time (e.g. the data structure may be passed to a third-party library).
It's a shorter version of "Generating Collisions on a Neural Perceptual Hash like Apple's NeuralHash" optimized for click-baitingness ;), but the spirit of the attack is there.

It's a pretty standard attack based on the fact they use a neural network, therefore the function is continuous(ly differentiable) and vulnerable to (gradient-)optimisation based attack. Neural networks are famous for being susceptible to adversarial attacks.

I don't own an IPhone, so that's as far as I can go. (If you have one, jailbreak it, locate and copy the weights).

Unless they have additional security on their version of the NeuralHash they don't speak about in their technical documentation, they have the same weakness that this standard generic neural network perceptual hash has.

The neural-network is considered public as it's run on device without homomorphic-encryption. They also can't change it very often because every-time they would need to recompute the hashes of the database of sensitive material they don't own (every-time leaking more information on the raw sensitive material).
OK, If we accept that, what is the point of adding an unnecessary que to the process?
You buy things in-app in Epic games. Google and Apple don't let you do this unless you use their payment processing.

Netflix and Office 365 you buy a subscription and then you simply use the app on a multitude of devices.

As an aside - does anyone know if it's explicitly banned to buy "coins" somewhere else - and then use those coins to buy things in the app? This is actually how Epic games works.
I think the point is that stimuli and physical conditions still create certain emotional responses in you. You may or not be aware of these responses or contributing factors, but most everyone is effected by them. Stick someone in a dark room for weeks and they're not going to be very happy no matter how aware or unaware they are of their surroundings.

If it's a specific case of ignorance is bliss then I agree, remain ignorant. Otherwise, it's good to know things that cause problems so you can fix them.
My dad is a horder, and I like to minimalize the amount of stuff I have, and you're right about costs being associated.

What I've noticed with my dad is that most of the stuff he hoards, practically no one would want. Some of the stuff he hoards is valuable, but after a short term of hoarding, it gets damaged from neglect to a condition where no one would want it.

He knows that none of his children want the stuff, and he knows that I will be renting a trailer-sized dumpster to empty his house after he dies, he even knows he can't use the things himself, but he can't stop accumulating new things or get rid of any the things he already has. I believe his stuff is what will kill him. I've witnessed him trip on piles of stuff (think of his house like an ant farm, where there is only one narrow path to walk through). The air quality conditions are extremely terrible. He didn't even notice an ongoing water leak that was damaging valuable things.

I'm all for reduce/reuse/recycle, but in some instances it's a net gain just to throw things that might be perfectly good, away.
> Attempting to harness natural light in this type of building sounds like a feel-good notion that can't possibly compete with decent led lighting run from a renewable grid.

Most indoor lighting is below 1000 lux. Bright daylight without direct sun is 10000 lux. There's no comparison between proper daylighting and almost any reasonable amount of indoor lighting. This is why it's very difficult to see things even on a very high luminance screen like a Macbook Pro outdoors during daylight.
For a long time, I believed this myth - might have heard it on TV as a kid. Then one day while reading about the possibilities of intelligent life on other planets - I wondered how far we (humans) would have got technologically without oil or similar fuels, which "I thought" were a result of dead dinosaurs and a extinction level event. That is when I looked up and found the correct answer.
Stick with elasticsearch of course, it's "the real thing", made by the people who have been working on the product for over 11 years.
That's what I do.
I wouldn't touch things related to Amazon with a 10 feet pole.
There are places where $136/month will easily cover rent in a cheaper town, or food. e.g., where I live, in Ukraine.
> Which part? The fact that storing "length" along with a hash is not superfluous?

The part where you make a false claim out of ignorance.

> You can probably find many things which have a SHA hash of "ca978112ca1bbdcafac231b39a23dc4da786eff8147c4e72b9807785afee48bb"

No reason I should go looking for such things. You're the one making the false claims, if you have found "many things" with that hash then list them to prove your point, otherwise go away.
Biologists were surprised to discover giant tube worms living independently of photosynthesis on the deep sea floor. There's much we don't know about the Earth's ecosystems. Particularly of interest will be the possibility of intraterrestrial ecosystems, deep within the Earth.

>"The biomass of these intraterrestrial organisms may be equal to the total weight of all marine and terrestrial plants."

These observations may not fall in line with the current Malthusian, apocalyptic rationales. The phrase "fossil fuels" seems loaded from this perspective. Our knowledge of the natural world is constantly evolving. Making all-encompassing declarative statements might make sense in some situations, but it also makes sense to question them.

https://academic.oup.com/femsle/article/185/1/9/485798

http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=5412

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riftia_pachyptila

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-rewriting-textbook-fossil-fuel...
Why two methods take different times when name is changed from A to D in .NET
Green/clean energy does not exist. The only thing that has somewhat +/- zero impact is (edit: small scale) hydro. But hydro also requires hydrocarbons to build and maintain (don't forget the powerlines) and freshwater fish populations are impacted.

The population will go down to 1 billion from here, that much is inevitable. The question is how fast it goes down and how much people will suffer: we peaked our growth-rate in 1968: https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth
That’s not evidence of global warming, you’d have to prove the energy released is large enough and not radiated away / stored back in some other way.

Unfortunately global warming is real and there’s plenty of evidence for it. Your mechanism isn’t really the issue though, it’s the greenhouse gases trapping new energy from the sun which is the basic root cause.
>Then came 9/11

The rising pessimism and negativity since 2008/09 is a global phenomenon. I think it's wrong and very US-centric to attribute that to 9/11.

The 2008 financial crisis and the rise of social media has probably more to do with the rise of millennial pessimism and negativity.
> If 1/3 of the male population are convicted, I would assume the realities of who partook are actually much worse.

And though news articles talk about 1/3 of the males, they usually don't mention what percentage it was of the _adult_ males. According to this Guardian article[1], it was 7/12 of the men on the island (58%), and that's not including the man convicted in 2016. A meeting of women on the island consisting of "almost the entire adult female population of Pitcairn"[2] (13 women) also defended the actions as just being part of the island's way of life.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/former-pitcair...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/growing...
> We don't know what he wouls have had to pay if he lost

These cases are taken on contingency, so if they lost, the lawyer gets nothing. This is compensated by the large percentage of fees in the case of a win.
So you're saying Rust is safe because it does exactly what C does?
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70% market share is considered a monopoly "on the face of it"

https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...

Google holds many monopolies. Is the play store not a monopoly?
Thanks for extensive explanation, but idk how feasible and cost effective would be to do this "en masse". It seems like a lot of work and effort for small gain of cracking a captcha task/s. And yes I agree privacy would be a problem because people don't want some random and untrusted site to access their webcam and/or mic. But I still thinks my idea has some potential. Maybe someone else will come up with better captcha idea.
I think most of the domains being squatted on are worth nothing, people don’t want to deal with squatters, who pay registration fees every year, etc. ‘.com’ doesn’t have the cachet it used to, many TLDs are viable, plus the number of two and three word combinations plus neologisms is so great squatters can’t stop anyone who is creative and flexible from getting a good domain.

I’d imagine somebody gets a big payout once in a while and that hope keeps squatters squatting. I know (from trying to sell a few domain names) that it doesn’t happen often.

An alternate approach is to hold on to old domain names that get some traffic and hyperlinks. Alternately there is ‘SEOmaining’ where you develop simple sites on the domains you hold. If you can make $1 a month with a site you can hold the domains forever and you can even sell links from those sites, link to your own ‘real’ sites, …
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There's a great XKCD "What If" about this. It answers the question "As plastic is made from oil and oil is made from dead dinosaurs, how much actual real dinosaur is there in a plastic dinosaur?"

https://what-if.xkcd.com/101/
Couldn't be genuine outrage about a child getting murdered in cold blood
Congratulations on your launch. It's really exciting that you are taking on content creation.

There is so much curation of content before it shows up on somewhere like Amazon, Netflix (probably even BET?) that any minority-driven content you end up with is a polarized caricature of the actual experience.

I see you guys as providing agency to different communities of black creators, to actually share their UNFILTERED perspectives.

Even platforms like TikTok do not offer this agency - evidenced by the number of videos by black creators that start off, "If you're black, keep scrolling."

I hope that creators recognize this agency and rally around BlackOakTV. Good luck to you, my friends.
Safe communication should be available to everybody. Given how many professional engineers botch PGP at some point, it isn't exactly a great option for people like journalists who may need to depend on it with their lives.

"Don't worry, these few thousand techies are the only ones that need secure communication" is sheer arrogance.
Booster shots for the rich world won't end the pandemic, experts warn
I don't think anyone is arguing that Google/apple shouldn't be able to charge to use their stores. What is wrong is the amount they charge and the lack of options if you don't want to pay that fee.

In a non-monopolistic market you can take your business elsewhere. If you don't like apple and Google's cut, you have no options.
> A promotion and a raise? The horror.

This is not an argument in good faith. I'm referring to the consequences of attacking a person's character publicly. We have yet to see what those consequences will be in the case of Mustafa Suleyman.

> It's weird, Hacker News is usually extreme in its defense of absolute freedom of speech and the press, especially the freedom of the press to report negatively on people in positions of power. But when someone writes an article on a Google employee that they don't like, it's "destabilizing our society at large" and violates "basic legal principles."

I cannot say anything about the opinion of HN, and, indeed, I'm the one being downvoted here. My position is that, in order to protect the freedom of the individual, some freedom of speech must be sacrificed. Unlimited freedom of speech risks violating people's right to privacy and due process, which ultimately limits their freedom and promotes conformity. Defamation laws and well-functioning legal systems combat this outcome.

> Where was all of this sympathy and assumption of good faith for Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell? Why does HN only ever go to the mat for sociopaths, bigots and assholes?

I know as little of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell as I do of Mustafa Suleyman. If they were unlawfully terminated, I support their cause. My comment was not tied specifically to the case at hand.

> Are you trying to make this "cancel culture" now? This has nothing to do with "today's social media climate."

The consequences of being publicly shamed have never been greater than they are today. This is largely a result of the rise of the information economy and the current design of social media. My point is that many lawmakers have yet to catch up with this development.

> There was no Twitter mob calling for Mustafa Suleyman's head, there were internal complaints made by employees.

Again, I don't think we have seen all the consequences yet. As long as complaints are internal, I have no problem with them.
Average and median have little meaning when most accounts never make any content.

We can compare to stackoverflow that probably has similar economics.

- There are 15.236M accounts on stack overflow.

- Only 4.046M accounts have more than one reputation, that's equivalent to one answer or two.

- 1.095M accounts have more than 1000 reputation. That was very easy if you started in the first few years of stack overflow, or is quite a bit of participation nowadays.

- 0.232M accounts have more than 2000 reputation.

Main take away, you can be top 26% percentile for posting a single answer or question.
Bots in the business of CC fraud are often written specifically for that website, so you might have bots register a few hundred accounts a day to try the CCs. All I’m saying is that ReCaptcha is a scapegoat, other big websites and services get away with doing their own fraud detection (Stripe, Shopify) because they’re good at it and have a team dedicated to constantly improving it.