skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The telescreens from 1984 have arrived! Just like in the Apple commercial.

Be aware that Albania is currently not a EU member [0], so none of the EU privacy laws apply (although per the linked NBC article, this proposal is illegal in Albania too [1], so I don't know what that company thinks they're doing).

BTW, this is technically a dupe from two days ago [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Albania_to_the_Eu...

[1] https://www.idp.al/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Rekomandim_nr_... (Albanian-language pdf)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113304 ("Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance")
Best Practices for Designing APIs
What's the point at all if you're just trying to get another linux?
ETH was forked because of a much smaller hack. So the most decentralized, stable choice in Etherium (the layer 1 itself) isn’t immune.
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In reality the person who finishes last in medical school is at serious risk of not being matched to a residency slot. So technically they're a doctor, but not able to practice medicine. Those people tend to go to work in related fields like pharmaceutical sales or hospital administration.
Its the best job seeker’s market in decades. Get another job if you’re unhappy
I don't think that's a rule, I think Twitter's length restriction has lead to quite a few good things too. Restrictions in general are a great way to motivate creativity. Of course there are limits to this. There are times where a 40m video or a proper 10 page blog post are more appropriate.
ActiveRrcord is pretty good. So is Sequel.
China Jails Canadian 11 Years in Politically Charged Spy Case
This is not the reason why Asian-Americans are discriminated against in college admissions, and this is not why Jews were discriminated against in the Soviet Union.
Much easier than shutting down misinformation. In other news, of you want to reduce the number of new Covid cases, all you have to do is stop counting!
Yes, if they're CSAM.
Yeah, for a company like Apple, I would hold them responsible for the contractors actions here. Apple could easily replace them if they wanted to.
Is there anything the government won't just take totalitarian control over at the whim of some slimey bureaucrat?
I think I was pretty proficient with my tools but most of the work was measuring out everything and then the first few prints either fail or were not designed correctly so it just becomes a big process that wasn't worth it if printing and CAD are not your passion.
Further, I would argue that every user is a potential power user and part of the job of personal computing software should be to be an onramp to power-user-dom.
Little pedantic, but you meant "Wet-bulb" temperature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Temperatu...).

I only know from owning a swamp cooler.
> It is very slightly surprising that these come from Soviet times. Weren't the Soviets supposed to have rid Russia of evils like this?

You surely can't be serious. You are either being very disingenuous, or have not spent much time looking at the history of the Soviet Union.
A lot of work has been done on this in Australia, though the mostly eucalypt Australian situation might not apply to the US. It seems that at best logging has little effect on bushfires, and at worst logging makes them worse.

https://theconversation.com/native-forest-logging-makes-bush...

https://theconversation.com/new-research-finds-native-forest...
The title makes it sound like they misplaced it.

Rather, after the rover drilled, it turned out the tube was empty.
Funnily enough, the most fun content on Twitter, reddit and instagram these days are repost of TikToks. One very bold and interesting move by TikTok which I believe is a huge reason for their success is allowing videos to be downloaded as mp4 by default and shared on any platform. Youtube et al would never allow that, which is why Reels and Shorts will never succeed.

Every time I browse through TikTok, I share dozens with my friends through all sorts of channels. Every time I try Shorts, I get a shitty youtube video link and I honestly don't want to spam people with Youtube links...
I misspoke a little bit, but to clarify: the regulatory regime in the US requires that US persons only trade US equities at SEC regulated brokerages. As such, broadly speaking, Americans cannot open brokerage accounts in foreign countries. Regulation S offers an exemption to this blanket rule, saying they're trading exclusively offshore in some circumstances that's ok too.

What I'm advocating is that all crypto trading by US persons be at SEC/CFTC/etc regulated exchanges.

Offshore appears to be where the chaos happens, see: Binance.
Precisely. The first purpose is pure invasive data collection of everything on the platform; otherwise how else is that so-called 'legendary recommendation algorithm' supposed to work? That and your data is the key asset that is being sold over and used by other companies as well, which is a violation of user privacy.

The news here is reassuring to investors and the users like the parent comment are once again the prime product addicted under a para-social relationship with other addicted influencers working for the 'legendary recommendation algorithm'.

They will continue to deny how social networks like TikTok keep screwing over their users repeatedly, even when they pretend that they are 'supporting the users' when in fact the investors are waiting for their giant exit for ByteDance's IPO. After that, we will see who ByteDance (TikTok) really listens to.

To the GP comment:

> Anyway, we are talking about specific things we like about TikTok as a platform that make it unique (so far), and you are talking in abstract.

It is not 'abstract' and the comment [0] (and this related comment [1]) you replied to, has evidence of their claims and is factual. It is your 'anecdotes' which are in denial of these facts.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28134880

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28133855
I still don't consider myself a luddite after reading this. It's thought provoking but neo-luddism has stronger ties to the anti-science movement than the author probably wishes.

From my understanding, neo-luddism doesn't separate the technology from who's using it. Social media has created a kind of communication that was once thought science fiction, I can have a meaningful conversation with a few hundred people reading my message without ever learning who I am.

That kind of tool for communication is naturally exploited by big companies but at the same time you see things like addiction recovery forums that overall are a positive good for society. The creation and iteration of these tools move too fast for society/government to meaningfully have had a discussion about it.

The author seems to be implying that a luddite today looks closer to the kind of people that join anonymous and are against mega-corporations. I think that's no longer related to technology. That's a view of requiring stronger government oversight of how tech oligopolies operate, but the reality is that it's not just tech companies that use these tools to paint a narrative.

The only way to fight that kind of control is to understand the technology yourself. I support the message but I don't believe it's a discussion about technology and so I don't consider myself a luddite or neo-luddite.

The wikipedia article about neo-luddism also paints a pretty different picture of what it is compared to what the author writes. However it seems that there isn't a strong message of what neo-luddism is yet in general and is still being developed as a philosophy.
The amount of regulation that any particular industry has is institutional knowledge about all of the failures and shady practices that have previously occurred and would otherwise be forgotten:

* Banks

* Finance

* Insurance

* Building and fire codes

* Pharma

* Travel (airlines, trucks, and cars)

* Energy
An exact breakdown of how one CEO spent his first two years of company building
There's a tremendous amount of building happening in Phoenix, because people keep moving here driving home prices up. I would almost guarantee these rents will be much higher once they open.
Harvard also used to have admission policies specifically designed to exclude Jews. It's a dark chapter in higher education.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/at-trial-harva...
Bingo! Welcome to a new company town, where you're locked into a bubble world
This rating system ignores something fundamental: Facebook is preinstalled on a lot of Android phones, and TikTok is not.

It would be much better if we could see metrics on which app is _used_ more, not which is downloaded more.
The speech is protected, the use of company resources to distribute said speech is not.
Well, apparently you are using a very exotic definition of "quality of life", especially in the original context (of the states increasing the quality of life).

For any specific improvement in quality of life, as it is commonly understood (and whether it's measured for an average person/median person/the most miserable person/...) there's very obviously somebody who doesn't contribute to it. Not literally everyone helps run a homeless shelter, plant a forest, build a highway, or run a non-corrupt judiciary. Similarly, there are quite obviously some people who detract from any particular improvement, either directly (whether it's a corrupt cop decreasing public trust, a burglar decreasing safety, a factory fouling up the air, a hiker littering in the park), or by using up a public resource more than they contribute to it.

There's no reason why somebody's combined contribution cannot be a net negative. So, it's very easy to find such a person.
A book that appeared previously on Hackernews is Lev Tarasov's "The world is built on probability". This is not striclty a textbook, but it is translated in English in a way that preserves a lot of the feel of the original:
https://archive.org/details/TheWorldIsBuiltOnProbability

For examples of beautifully crafted exercises see this:
https://www.imaginary.org/sites/default/files/taskbook_arnol...

There are plenty of books in Western literature where exercises are also very good, and not only in math, but other fields too. One that comes to mind is Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls", which has very well chosen exercises.
The point I’m trying to make (poorly) is that i don’t think a one size fits all definition of “understanding” is useful. It’s more useful to define understanding with respect to how you can justify a thing you know.

So for the case of cats, I will understand cats at a different level from a cat biologist. I can point to features that seem catlike, and they can talk about all sorts of other scientific things that make a cat a cat.

With respect to that sciency kind of understanding, I don’t understand cats. With respect to a much looser ‘point at the features’ kind of understanding, I do understand cats.
Not more than about 5-10% (at least at state of the art). Computers are the biggest argument, but again that's off-loadable to the rover. Again, if anyone said 10 years ago that a helicopter on Mars was not realistic, then they didn't know what they were talking about (it's funny how people who style themselves skeptics will learn like 5 facts about some place and then crown themselves an expert). I explored a similar but more advanced concept professionally about ~5 years ago.
> The US, if anything, is much less progressive than the USSR was at that time.

This seems like a pretty baffling conclusion. Why do you think that’s the case?
I would have assumed that logging clears out the old dense wood which does not burn so readily while leaving the shrub which is the most of the problem.

The easiest solution IMO is to stop trying to control every single fire and designate some zones as essentially wild and focus all efforts at protecting a smaller city area with a buffer zone between buildings and the nature reserve.

Problem is people want to live right in the middle of a forest but also do not want to face the reality that fires happen and that they are at risk.
Ask HN: Which “old” programming language(s) you still use in your $DAYJOB?
And what's your experience of using such “old” programming language(s)?

Here “use” can mean writing new code, debugging/maintaing old code etc.
This is an old project, released in 2003 by Dean Allen (1966-2018). His personal website was textism.com, and he also invented a markdown language called Textile.

I've never used it. It bills itself as a "Content Management System", which I've always thought was an amorphous term. I suppose you could use it for a blog, wiki, or something similar.
“If you’re watching it, it’s for you.”
It's not hidden in a disused lavatory behind a sign bearing the words "beware the leopard". Click menu button view panels "Information" Also F11

If remembers the state globally so if you leave it open it will always be there when you open a file manager window if you toggle it off it will be hidden next time too.

It's not open by default perhaps because not everyone regards it as maximally useful. Say I open a file manager and have it sized to 1/4 of a 24" 1080p screen. On the left hand side of the screen is a panel which lists common and places and other items. This leaves a space for 15 icons on the screen at 48px size big enough to comfortably read and note some details in a preview.

Opening the information pane reduces that to 10 icons greatly reducing the space available for the main purpose of the application.

What if I open it to the full size of the screen? I can now view 56 icons at 80px where now they actually are a pretty decent size to see whats in them in their own icon.

I think most of the time having the info panel shown would decrease the utility of the window.
> The US, if anything, is much less progressive than the USSR was at that time.

Are you joking? In what respect is the USSR of the 1970s more 'progressive'(so-called) than modern-day America?
https://www.sciencealert.com/exxon-expertly-predicted-this-w...
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>Why does the extension on Firefox block AV1 by default? It seems unrelated to the purpose of the extension.

Because AV1's decoding is slow and on some low-end hardware it makes the animation stutter.

> Also have you considered coloring the spectrum according to the musical note? So every C is red, every E is green, every G is cyan, etc.

The color is used for left-right channel separation.
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Interestingly, banking and other professions associated with Jews, excluded Jews until relatively recently.

> The term originated in the Ivy League colleges and originally reflected a stereotype of old-line firms populated by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). The term historically had antisemitic connotations, as many of the New York firms known as "white shoe" were considered off-limits to Jews until the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-shoe_firm
Am I the only one that likes the default HN size? I'm currently reading it on a Pinephone with unit scaling and it's pretty readable.
They did but the results won't have any immediate impact. Some have argued that it was done too late.
This article does a good job of acknowledging global-warming as a cause. Which I do too. I'm agreeing with it that the best way to respond is to do prescribed burns. They ameliorate the short-term and long-term ill effects of the megafires. Which ultimately contribute more to climate change. The frustrating thing is that no-burns is typically seen as the pro-climate change response, which makes a certain amount of sense because doing a burn puts smoke into the air. It's also naturally controversial because it affects the air quality around where you do the burn. No one wants to have smokey air. With a prescribed burn they blame the government. So it carries a lot of political liability.
It wouldn't surprise me if many enterprise systems were still reliant on Java 7. Where I work, most of our stacks still depend on Java 8.
As Northern California is currently demonstrating, wait and see can be unpredictable in historic drought conditions.
Yeah, that bugged me too.
2015.

Yes, Permgen disappeared in Java8 I believe.
I'll be glad if someone ports it to Audacity.
This. Only Microsoft thinks these are subjective.
If there is a positive correlation between admission standards and graduate ability, what you have done is lowered the average but left it above the bar (assuming that the bar isn't curved).

There is still the question as to whether certain admission standards are actually correlated with graduate ability. I wonder if there is a way to find out?
There's no way to hold environmental organizations to task. They're just using the law advocate for their position, as is their right. If we want to improve the situation then we need to change the law.
This is completely wrong. Also, being "gone" which he actually isn't and is going to take I believe 30 days is not an excuse to not charge him for criminal acts.

He deserves to be in jail for a long time. He's done some seriously illegal things and destroyed lives separate from killing people in nursing homes and tons of other horrible things. He abused his power and so did his criminal father.

If he was a republican, he would be charged 100%
It's not flawed though, because total economic value goes to zero when all the workers kick up their feet and decide they want to post on Instagram for likes from Aruba once they hit 35.
We already see 35c wet bulb temps in parts of India. It's deadly.
It’s purely a matter of taste.

I’ve lived in Manhattan for close to thirty years got married here and raised a family here.

What you call a dramatically more livable feeling means different things to different people. Honestly it meant different things to me at 25, 35 and 45. It also meant different things when I was stretched financially and when I was flush.
Its easy to be a saint in paradise
This is a great writeup of some of the story behind the Tiktok algorithm - https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorti...
It's nice to have inbuilt memory limits in programs. It's a nice demarcation to have.
There are social ways, such as what OP is doing by calling them out as at best well intentioned but actually disastrous .
I think the data only shows that they’re over represented compared to the normal population and there isn’t that much discrimination.

There’s still discrimination against Asian applicants and they’re also over represented so I don’t think the data shows that it’s necessarily stopped.
> What also seems to be the case is that Siberia is experiencing multi-years-long fires. They flare up in the summer time, but continue burning, much as coal fires do, in roots or sheltered regions throughout the winter, to flare up again in the summer time.

Yep, peat fires [1]. I believe the bulk of them got started in the 2010 fire season [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat#Peat_fires

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires
The ZR-2 was in fact a Zeppelin, the Macon and Akron were built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin corporation, a joint venture. The Shennendoah (ZR-1) was based on a Zeppelin design (ZL-49) though built in and by the US.

Only the R-101 and R-38 were entirely independent designs (both UK).

The R-101 was specifically designed for passenger service, and was conducting a demonstration voyage when she crashed with major loss of life. The only reason it didn't enter commercial service was because it didn't survive long enough to do so.

Another British airship, R-100, flew from Britain to Canada.

Airships were built and operated by Germany, the UK, the US, French, Hugarian-Croatians, Brazil, and others.

The Macon, Akron, and Shennendoah were all lost at sea or over water.

There's nothing inherent to nationality, corporate ownership, military vs. civilian use, or passenger travel which changes the laws of physics under which airships operate. The craft are inherently vulnerable, slow, low, and dangerous.

Modern widebody jet aircraft have the highest safety record by passenger-mile travelled of any transportation mode. There are more people aloft at any moment of the day than airships carried in any year of commercial operation.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/number-of...

Every claim of your comment proves false. A solid record.
Here is sample code that illustrates how it works.

The approach to using inline functions in C is a bit counterintuitive. Here is how you might define a normal function in C:

// file.h
int add_one(int x);

// file.c
#include "file.h"
int add_one(int x) {
return x + 1;
}

Here is how you might define it inline:

// file.h
inline int add_one(int x) {
return x + 1;
}

// file.c
#include "file.h"
int add_one(int x);

Seems backwards to have a definition in the header and prototype in the implementation file, but because the prototype is "extern" (which is default, and can be omitted), and because the definition + declaration merge in certain ways (extern + inline = extern inline), you end up with an "extern inline" definition which means "emit the code in this translation unit, please." If LLVM's behavior is counterintuitive, it's probably because it's there to support counterintuitive parts of the C language.

This frees you from making decisions in a sense, because the compiler can decide whether to use the inline or extern definition at any given call site. Again, the syntax for it is counterintuitive.

The other way is:

// file.h
static inline int add_one(int x) {
return x + 1;
}

This may give you multiple copies of the code (emitted in potentially any translation unit it appears in), but it's less typing.

Omitting any discussion about C extensions here.
I wonder how long before the doughnut gets taken over or burnt down.
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See my reply to other similar question in this thread.
Surprised no one mentioned Irvine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine,_California

New neighborhoods are quite nice, e.g. https://www.irvinepacific.com/homes/eastwood-village
Yeah, that's part of the new regulations / guidelines by the FTC. If FB/Youtube/IG/TikTok have to enforce that, it would be probably be a complicated and difficult system to build. This would increase the barriers to start a social network. This is part of the transition from innovation to regulatory capture. 10 years ago there weren't really any limits or regulatory clarifications and I expect to only see more.
$GP is suggesting a high ratio means there isn't any discrimination against a group. For example, asians.

But there is discrimination against asians. So $GP's evidence isn't satisfactory.
Exactly, so we better do nothing at all and cower behind the maybes as the world literally burns down around us.
Yep this older millenial is staying away. I do enjoy the links my friends send me. I watch and immediately close. "Download the app" they say. Nope. I'm mostly down to just a few minutes of twitter and instagram a day and a bit of reddit. The latter I don't really consider social media, its just what forums evolved into IMO and I've been using those since the late 90s so no difference. Facebook is probably just a few minutes per week. If it wasn't a convenient way to contact a distant connection I'd delete it entirely.
Long live Metaspace.