skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to advertise a product to a very niche group on reddit. I just wanted to select 4 specific sub-reddits and advertise to anyone that was a member or viewed that reddit.

For some reason, reddit wouldn't let me advertise to 3 of the 4, and the 1 that they did let me advertise was very low volume (less than 100 members). I couldn't even get reddit to show a single ad, let alone have anyone click on it.

Facebook brought in way more traffic, and some of it did convert, but I feel like my advertising costs were too high there, since you can only specify more general interests. It seems like reddit, had their advertising platform actually worked, would have been the perfect place for me.
The Linux kernel isn't a monoculture yet. For example there is no indication Apple or the BSDs are going to stop developing their kernels nor is there indication Windows is dropping NT and most anything can/is easily moved between them (particularly the *NIX kernels) still. That doesn't mean there are certain places the only choice is the Linux kernel but that alone isn't enough to make it a monoculture in this sense of nearing domination of the space.

Browsers are the most oft cited example of monoculture issues be it the old days with IE or the new days with Chrome, I'm surprised you haven't run across comments on that one over the years.
Just to preface this was I too was young when these came out but for some reason I never thought this was about making the shoes fit better...I thought the pump was there to make you JUMP higher.
>Yes, everyone hates ads, but thats how free sites make money.

Maybe a simple user forum site doesn't need to make mega valuation levels of money. Maybe it, and other low effort sites like Facecrook and Twatter, should be run as public benefit corps. These companies aren't selling state of the art tech here - why do they need to be such money makers??
Tim Apple
Should the browser use all available memory?
It's not easy to run a company with as many users as they have.

As a mod, they've put a lot of work recently into flagging trolls and astroturf accounts, and still have a lot of work to do. I run r/sanfrancisco, and wow there's a ton of bots and trolls flooding our sub about the Newsom recall.

They also seem to really want to find a way to monetize content in a new way. They've flirted with crypto and awards, but I imagine they have strong ambitions around how they can reward creators and moderators in a healthy, non-ad-based-way. (Their ads are the worst of all the big social networks, given how anonymous their base is. So they're forced to innovate, which I think is good for everyone.)

Plus the usual suspects (infrastructure, traditional demand gen marketing, paid moderation, etc).
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish
You have a much more flexible interface with the user on the web than via git push.
Exactly, and the delivery model for this will likely be HTML5 via the web.
I enjoyed that game far more than made sense
yea that could have gone worse

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/06/asia/china-elevator-death...
This article speculates that that's because Apple is not scanning on iCloud to respect their privacy policy: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...

Apple's report count to the NCMEC is really low so it's probably true that they are not scanning on iCloud unless they receive a warrant.
I'm struggling to understand your point - is it that so long as that's not happening, people aren't allowed to complain?
They do it to prevent passwords, which allow access to privileged things like account settings, from being stored (and thus subject to being accidentally leaked).

It doesn't matter how long your password is if your password is in a text file with bad chmod permissions to people who shouldn't have it.

An access token, at least, limits the blast radius.
Is anything other than 100% cash backing a scam to you because that seems like a stretch? Oh lawdy did they defraud people by claiming to be 100% cash backed when they weren't but I don't think fractional reserve is a scam in general.

At any given moment you just need the ability to pay out the people who come to you and ask which is already teeny tiny (as evident by banks needing less than 5% cash reserves of deposits) and made even smaller since people don't typically cash Tether out directly and do it at exchanges.
I have two issues with automatic surveillance. One is of course false positives. When you scan everything, even a small false positive chance will mean a LOT of people get swept up by false positives. Scan enough things, and soon everyone will be victims of false positives.

This is compounded because people don't understand probabilities. Take DNA... if someone says "the chance of this DNA match being wrong is one in a million", people will assume the match is correct, because that seems like a really small chance of a false positive.. however, if you are matching that DNA to everyone in the United States, that one in a million ends up with over 300 matches that are wrong.

Second, perfect enforcement of laws is not always ideal. If we catch everyone who breaks the law, how can we ever decide as a society to change the law? For example, if we had 100% effective anti-marijuana laws, no one could have ever tried marijuana and we would not have been able to determine that we actually don't want it outlawed. If no one can ever break a law, we have no way of testing whether a law is good or not.
It's not meaningless - but it is good to observe that there's a bit of a tragedy of the commons when it comes to state-wise incorporation requirements. The weakest link effectively dictates for the rest of the nation. Delaware has incredibly low incorporation fees, taxes and disclosure requirements - and thus every other state just has to shrug and take it due to federal control of limitations on interstate commerce.
It's precisely why big corporations jumped on the woke bandwagon so eagerly over the past few years. They walk around constantly virtue-signal-flogging themselves these days, it's despicable.

Coca Cola is an evil company that - in my opinion - has knowingly killed hundreds of thousands of people with its product, by way of health consequences. They're every bit as vile as the tobacco companies, and they've operated in a very similar manner over time. Yet somehow they've become a poster child for woke'ism in corporate America. How is that possible? They certainly do not care about the well-being of people. They see a power angle in taking advantage of it, there is something for them to gain by acting as a parasite riding on cultural trends. Giant corporations like that don't do anything for any other reasons, power and profit.
I've always loved this story, I (incorrectly) remembered the topologist calculating that there must always be one train missing
Very funny to see a post lamenting people falling for "cognitive traps" and then repeating falsehoods like a 3% infection fatality rate (a massive overstatement of the real number which is itself highly stratified by age and comorbidity cohorts) or that the new variants are more deadly.
I still use Win32DiskImager for windows. It doesn't phone home or check for updates because it doesn't need any, it just works.
According to John Gruber this does work on SMS, but is a feature of the app, not the service:

> It’s also worth pointing out that it’s a feature of the Messages app, not the iMessage service. For one thing, this means it applies to images sent or received via SMS, not just iMessage. But more importantly, it changes nothing about the end-to-end encryption inherent to the iMessage protocol. The image processing to detect sexually explicit images happens before (for sending) or after (for receiving) the endpoints. It seems like a good feature with few downsides. (The EFF disagrees.)

https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initia...
I think this is definitely true for some of their other brands especially, they own the right to use all these celebs: Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Shaq, etc. However, it does look like many of their other brands continue operating - Forever 21, Brooks Brothers, Aeropostal (maybe?), Lucky Brand
It has just become a very combative and partisan issue. Take the statement "women make 70% of what men do". This statement has been thoroughly debunked, but if someone made that statement and you challenged it, even with something reasonable like: "There is a gap but it is not that large", you would be risking ostracization by longtime friends, loss of career, etc. Are we supposed to feel like we are making forward progress when objecting to bad statistics, or any reasonable discussion around certain issues will result in an insanely hostile response?
I doubt that a large amount of programming jobs will be outsourced to cheaper countries. Having a good understanding of the problem domain in the same language and time zone as the employer is extremely valuable.

I guess that local extremes for wages in areas with high living costs like in silicon valley will drop when it's possible to work remotely. But I don't see why rates would drop across the board as long as demand stays high.
From https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...

> The laws related to CSAM are very explicit. 18 U.S. Code § 2252 states that knowingly transferring CSAM material is a felony. (The only exception, in 2258A, is when it is reported to NCMEC.) In this case, Apple has a very strong reason to believe they are transferring CSAM material, and they are sending it to Apple -- not NCMEC.

> It does not matter that Apple will then check it and forward it to NCMEC. 18 U.S.C. § 2258A is specific: the data can only be sent to NCMEC. (With 2258A, it is illegal for a service provider to turn over CP photos to the police or the FBI; you can only send it to NCMEC. Then NCMEC will contact the police or FBI.) What Apple has detailed is the intentional distribution (to Apple), collection (at Apple), and access (viewing at Apple) of material that they strongly have reason to believe is CSAM. As it was explained to me by my attorney, that is a felony.

Apple is going to commit child porn felonies according to US law this way. This claim seems actually quite irrefutable.
I think the average coder in the USA only has about as much purchasing power as a regular old skilled tradesman did 60 years ago.. My grandfather was a dockworker, and with his dockworker pay he could comfortably afford a full-time stay-at-home wife, 4 kids, a heavy drinking habit, AND a mistress
By that you mean several piles in different languages? Or one pile for each customer?
Did they arrest GoogleBot as well?
You don’t. That’s the entire point of E2EE, the data transferred is private between you and the recipient party.
The globalisation of ideas will be different than that of goods
It's still a non-zero chance it triggers a no-knock raid by the police that kills your family or pets.

it happens all the time
Interesting that also the Julia Package manager has a presentation.
Well, that's not necessarily an American thing. For a long time, the race that's currently described as "asian" was called "oriental" and specifically referred to that race. For some reason, the more specific term "oriental" fell out of favor (and is even considered offensive now, although I'm not quite sure why) and was replaced with the more generic, and somewhat confusing, "asian".
I agree that people like Peter Thiel are kooks ;)
>here are perfectly rational reasons to pursue the spread of such material.

sure but people should also keep in mind that pursuit could massively backfire, like in the case of backpage, where the shutdown of the site actually made is HARDER to find and recuse children being abused because now the traffickers are using more secure, more underground platforms...
In this TechCrunch interview, Apple believes it is less invasive since no one can be individually targeted.

The hashes are hard coded into each iOS release which is the same for all iOS devices. The database is not vulnerable to server side changes.

Additionally, FWIW, they do not want to start analyzing entire iCloud photo libraries so this system only analyzes new uploads.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/interview-apples-head-of-p...
Ah get it. They don't want the password to login on github to be the same as the one you store on a text file. Makes sense. But it is still Baby-sitting
I had a pair. They didn't fit any better than shoes tightened with laces.
The whole point of reddit is that the crowding issue is self-correcting -- you just move to a new sub. I like to envision it as a malthusian catastrophe -- as the population starts reaching capacity limits, people start grumbling more and more.. until suddenly they far overshoot the capacity, and leave en-masse to new subs. In one fell swoop, the original sub is left near-empty, and out of the many new subs created in that instant, a few survive with healthy populations.
So far so good? At least here in the West, other than a short panic of "We're going to run out of forests that they felled that we need to wipe shit from our asses!".

But maybe things are falling apart in the background, with things like global shipping insanity, and food price hikes http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/ . But cable news is busy talking about the things cable news talk about.
Honestly, I worked at an electronics retailer and I had to burn 200 copies of the same disk image, twice a year, for the RPI.

I can't remember if I used gnome multi disk writer or Balena etcher, but the "10x card readers on a 10 port hub" did the trick, and was relatively painless. there's no way my company was going to pay for this. Performance was limited by the SD card rather than the equipment.

Does each unit in the Daisy chain have a screen? Can you buy secondary units that don't have a screen? Seems to waste screens after the first one.

Also I'm really tired of growing acceptance of e-waste. "Burn 1000s of USBs at trade shows and throw them around" - QR codes are technology. Just print out a QR code that goes to an interactive website.
Do you know of any examples where the English version of a wikipedia article has a more "Western" explaination whereas the Japanese version has a more "Eastern" one?
No, because usually we aren’t in such an extremely tight labor market driven by high federal spending.

If you want to argue for indefinite high federal spending to guarantee a tight labor market for decades, then sure, a higher minimum wage might not be necessary. Is that what you’re arguing?

Because if a tight labor market is transitory (and minimum wage keeps dropping due to inflation), then businesses won’t be given a firm enough pricing signal to make productivity investments.
And Nike is currently valued at $270 billion. Where did reebok go wrong? What did Nike do right? Crazy how much more successful Nike was.
One is a website. The other is a open source tool for local read/write that's been wrapped to add data collection without explicit user consent.
Use SSH and GPG to authenticate and sign commits, it's easier and quicker. If you're doing something that needs a token use a GitHub App Token:

https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/getting-started-w...
I'm not so sure. John Gruber's write-up said that Apple has only sent over a couple hundred reports in the last year to the gov't, compared to over 20 million from Facebook. This suggests to me that Apple's scanning wasn't nearly so widespread.
> I don't understand how a hyper developped rich country like the USA tolerates so many grid failures over times.

Because there is not such thing as the "USA grid". The US, unlike many other countries (FR, ES, UK, IT), is not a monolithic legal entity. It is made up of small legal units (states) that have sovereignty with-in their borders over certain matters:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism

There is no "US electrical grid" in the legal ownership sense. Rather there are a bunch of smaller grids tied together, each somewhat free to do what they wish with-in guidelines. Different areas may choose to tolerate grid failures more than others depending on how they want to allocate resources: some may want 0 issues per year and pay more for that level of reliability, while others may be okay with 1-2 so that prices are lower.
Like I said, there are plenty of tech centers (with incubators and/or big corps) outside of STHLM and GBG, where none of this is a problem. It doesn't sound like you're a native or here anymore.

Waiting times is kind of a "first world problem" when the alternative is dying, getting no treatment, poor treatment or becomimg homeless if you do get treatment. All you're saying is pay more if you want to skip triage.
There’s also CouchDB/PouchDB made for this use case.
Maybe that points to a way they could make $: curate and make anthologies of the actually valuable content. /r/askhistorians content could be turned into a few history books.

Of course, then people might start looking at the fact that they are giving away valuable property to Reddit in return for access to a simple forum site...
The problem is winner-take-all effects and inherent difficulty of getting traffic to new subs.
The end isn't really compromised with their described implementation.

The only thing sent is the hash and signature and that's only if there are enough matches to pass some threshold.

I don't really view that as 'permanently compromised' - at least not in any way more serious that Apple's current capabilities to compromise a device.

I think e2ee still has meaning here - it'd prevent Apple from being able to see your photo content on their servers.

This is a nuanced issue, I don't think there's an obviously better answer and both outcomes have different risks. [0]

[0]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb...
> I don't really understand the physics of why electrons don't collapse into the positive nucleus, since positives and negatives should attract

My (student of physics) answer to that would be that they are pretty much collapsed as much as they can. It’s just that under quantum mechanics that least energetic state is not the one in which the electron is perfectly co-localized with the positive charge. (As that perfect co-localization is not even physically attainable.)
> Second, privacy is a human right. You should not be forced to list yourself in a publicly accessible database to own real estate. Needing to pay a trustee to avoid this is bad enough.

I think there is a core of truth here - individual persons should not be forever tied to business they've worked for. Everyone should always have the right to "walk away". However - while you're executing actions on behalf of a business you should not have a right to privacy of your actions - you are actively executing them and if you're doing shady or illegal things that should be knowable.

Freedom of speech doesn't free you from the consequences of that speech - and I think it's unreasonable to demand to be free from the consequences of your actions.

I do whole-heartedly agree with your final point though - it's the beneficiaries that should be on the hook as the first point of contact - agents of the company may be shielded by the company but the beneficiaries should achieve that shield by making themselves clear points of contact.
Disabling iCloud does not remove the scanning system or it’s database from your phone.
These requirements apply to all American citizens, not only wealthy people. I lived in Switzerland briefly and had a bank account there; it was closed (along with all other Americans' accounts) because the bank didn't want the burden of reporting.

As gutitout said, "the US goes so far that foreign banks would rather not deal with you at all." And the worst burden of that falls on average citizens living abroad, not on the wealthy who just move their money to a different haven.
C++ Exceptions: Under the Hood (2013)
If there's a managed server you don't trust, it's unsafe to put anything that authenticates you to GitHub there, because it can (e.g.) modify the git command to push malicious code.

For a semi-trusted machine (e.g., you want to "git push" to work-related OSS from your work desktop, but you don't want your work HR/IT departments to have full access to your GitHub account if they decide they want it), make a new SSH key and configure it as a read/write deploy key for that one repo. This workflow is primarily intended for automation, but it's reasonable for this sort of interactive use as well.

https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/managing-depl...
Oh dear, all I see is the New York Yankees logo.
They might be talking about the Muslim cultural eradication program going on in Denmark, the description fits.
>why are these companies spending billions of dollars on diversity consultants

Are they really spending that much? I'm out of the loop on this. Any and all such consultants I typically hear about are ones who have had some falling-out on Twitter. If consultants are resigning left and right, it can't be that much money, can it? Really billions?
What I really wonder is, once virtually everyone has crossed the rubicon to reuse the article's expression, how long it will take for whoever decides NOT to be tracked to look guilty?

How long before people without phones, doorbells or smart watches get frowned upon?

At the rate we're accelerating, it wouldn't be crazy to see it happen in a couple years.
Forgotten Italian CPU – The Genesys B52 MMX
> higher user engagement

It's the dark patterns and having to reload pages multiple times to finally see the content.

> and time on site

Again, break your site so addicts have to try harder to get their dopamine hit

The reddit "engagement" numbers are false.
Apple almost never talks about features like that until they’re ready, so while you’re correct, it doesn’t mean much.
Clearly they should be described as a "failed actor turned successful director" and anything else is leaving out information.
Apple isn't looking at the actual image, but a derivative. Presumably their lawyers think this will be sufficient to shield them from accusations of possessing child porn.
I would love the advice of a copyright attorney about this! It was never published, so under current US copyright law https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/303 I think it is protected until 70 years after Pop's death in 1983. But I guess we'll find out for sure in a few months – I just submitted a registration application ツ
Parents take a lot of photos of their kid. Like, lots.
False positives have been found, not because the photo hold any similarities but because the hashes match: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...