skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people didn't understand the article but nothing it says can be considered FUD.

The article is saying a privacy-focused decentralized software is using a central server even when you self-host the software and is collecting data and metadata from users.

If you read the paper it cites as reference and analyze the code yourself, you can found that theses information are accurate.

The author are rambling about a hyped privacy-focused decentralized chat app that are collecting user data and sending to a central server and the app is, in fact, collecting user data and sending to a central server, so what's the point to call the article FUD?

The fact that many users here called the article FUD without even check the references (you can find others on internet) makes the author's point about the peril of well funded, well marketed, super hyped projects.
this looks very cool, I've long wondered why vector graphics tools seem to have largely stagnated in terms of features and such.
Try Apollo if you’re on the iPhone.
After taking a year away from our rankings during the pandemic, we’ve tweaked the way we assess the nation’s best schools. The new rankings give extra credit to schools that educate the greatest number of students from the broadest range of backgrounds. In contrast to Cal’s 2021 graduating class of 9,000, Harvard’s numbered just 1,500. Only 12% of Harvard undergrads receive Pell Grants, which helps explain why that vaunted 384-year-old private institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a perennial No. 1 on college lists, fell to No. 7 in the Forbes ranking.
I've not generally had an issue, but I - for lack of better words - take "reasonable" doses of such drugs, so I suppose that is some of my approach. I mean, I drink somewhat regularly too, but rarely actually get drunk rather than comfortably buzzed. I've never had such a comedown, though I know of folks that eventually had a bad reaction (panic attack, specifically) over time.

I do not blame you for staying away :)
> It seems there are people who feel any organized entity with power is bad. Be it government, or union - the effect is the same.

I don't think that's true. Those people are typically very comfortable with one "organized entity with power" that you're leaving out: private capital in its various forms. What they're doing is actually defending that against any challenges to its power.

Usually those people are laborers like the rest of us, but they've been indoctrinated to identify with interests other than their own (often reinforced by having a slightly higher status than most other laborers, or by unlikely-to-be-met aspirations of hitting the jackpot and becoming a wealthy capitalist themselves).
If someone sets the language to (say) French but keeps their locale as English, do you write a thousand as 1,000 or 1.000? What about the reverse case?
You don't have to read his books these days since the Astro-Turf he's fuelling with those phrases is all over social media.

I won't even go into this baseless bashing of "environmentalists". It's cheap and disgusting. Some of them have dedicated their whole life to the cause while a shitty anthropologist bashes them while being paid by the same companies which pollute the planet.
Every large company has teams that are incredibly painful to work on, and ones that are not.

You can't really generalize either way from one, or even a few anecdotes.
Forgot it materialized out of thin air one morning.

Same crown as today was in charge back then. Same head of state.
https://archive.is/pBNog
In my experience, not really. It reminds me of another build-time check that I've seen which crawls material looking for broken (non-200) links.

Unfortunately, if you link to a single site too often, it'll hit rate limits and start to think links are broken, breaking the entire build process over a non-issue.

It runs slightly contrary to another value I hold that is "anything that can be enforced by a machine should be enforced by a machine", but when it starts to introduce security or other issues that impact velocity, it stops being a good check.
Isn't ebpf linux only? ZFS is not.
> Tech specs look good

Oh, you.

Where are all the open source tech specs projects?
Portland can’t make cops get Covid-19 vaccine despite city mandate, mayor says
Damage wise it’s really hard to say.

I personally feel I used to have quite a good memory, able to remember things I was told without being interested. Now I feel my memory is sharp with those items I find important to remember, but details of random conversations I don’t automatically store anymore. When revisiting those conversations later I find myself noticing I forgot things. I also search for words a bit more often. But it’s hard to recognise the pattern and even harder to trace it to MDMA.

But it is all in line with the impact on memory tasks from academic studies on MDMA users.

Not familiar with the symptoms you noted personally or academically.

My hunch is that damage will be partially temporary and partially permanent. But really it’s just a hunch.
LCD monitors only used VGA because customers didn't know enough to demand DVI. A pixel array is inherently digital, so it makes no sense to put DAC/ADC in the path.
And aside from that, who wakes up one day and decides to spend their lives wallowing in a dying programming language to work in the illustrious field of maintaining 30 year old banking systems as an underpaid code monkey whose skills are largely nontransferable to other sections of the information technology industry?
If anything this article is interesting just to see how differently people thought of trans issues in 2006. The article obsessively makes connections between gender identity and sexuality
Existentialism aside, it's impossible for a modern viewpoint to make sense of "Peter and Wendy" without knowing that at the turn of the 19th/20th century in the UK, infant mortality before age 5 was around 20%, and this was down considerably from infant mortality in previous centuries, as the germ theory of disease and safety consciousness made in-roads against a number of scourges, from whooping cough and mumps (there's a reason we have childhood vaccines!) to formaldehyde-contaminated butter and arsenical clothing dyes.

Hence the need for a childrens tale to explain to the little ones why their infant brothers or sisters weren't coming home from the hospital: it was something most families grappled with, and "they've gone off with Peter Pan to have adventures beyond the rainbow" is easier on a toddler than confronting them with the enormity of death.
The solution doesn't scale. The moment you need to deal with very large inputs, you will have to rewrite your entire application from scratch.
But can Bitcoin eliminate the Fed and have any meaningful impact on the US financial system if the big actors of such a system are steadily centralizing and controlling it? How would Bitcoin be able to change anything if its "enemies" are embracing it and applying traditional banking approaches to it? I can't help but wonder if crypto will be the victim of embrace-extend-extinquish schemes.

I'm not sure Visa is small fry. Regular people will want the easiest way to utilize crypto and if they can go through means familiar to them, they probably will. If companies like Visa end up having a hand in the majority of crypto transaction some day then crypto is effectively owned by the system it's trying to fight.
Given the alternative to prevailing militarily was typically slavery or dispersement and homogenization into the conquering society, I can see why these ideas were treated as important. As a proxy for meaning now? Spartan myths and ideals are a fun mythology and aesthetic for some and a straw man for others, so any discussion in the present is going to play out on party lines.
That's Linux-specific.
Blockchain nanites?
Assuming cryptocurrency, I looked into this and concluded that learning Solidity would be what I venture into.
Shouldn't we assume that anything online is paid advertising? I mean, someone is paying for it. Same thing for newspaper and medias in general.
> What unskilled workers need isn't a union, it's some way to make unskilled labor more scarce, e.g. a UBI [...]

Here in Germany, unions work as intended. The solution is simple: you can't be fired for participating in a strike. There, problem solved, no UBI necessary.

> The problem with unions is that skilled workers don't need them

Also wrong. There a many unions for skilled workers in Germany.
Let's paint a story.

You are looking at a tool review channel. Most of the tools are items that the creator had in his shed.

Suddenly, one of the screwdrivers he reviews doesn't look as useful as the others and is clearly pristine. It is clearly an advertisement. The product is new because it was donated by a brand and the review is better than usual because of that.

Except that this is not the case.

The screwdriver was recently given to him for Christmas by their wife and the creator is emotionally attached to it, explaining why they review it more positively than previous items on the channel.

Meanwhile, he was wearing a new belt. The belt was donated by a clothing company in exchange for positive exposure. It is identical to his other belts with the brand name visible on the buckle, except that it has a magnet on the side to attach screws. No mention is made of the belt other than the fact it is used in the video.

The ads are not as easy to detect as one might think.
Sktime: Machine Learning for Time Series
Wow, 100% of users on English-speaking site said that they prefer to use English language. I suspect that 100% of them are using Internet also.
(Not all, but many) Nurses/Doctors are exempt employees though, which has its own set of rules. Warehouse workers aren't, generally
Hi Leah!

I think the RockPro64 [1] as well as the rockpi4 can be run without any binary blobs. Why I don't see any vendor considering ryf-certifiying devices based on them?

[1] https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-...
Perhaps, but the point about divergence stands! Elastic won’t be copying the OpenDistro KNN API.
Thing is though that the RotaShield case highlights that vaccines either cause side effects with 3 months or they do not:

> The results of the investigations showed that RotaShield® vaccine caused intussusception in some healthy infants younger than 12 months of age who normally would be at low risk for this condition. The risk of intussusception increased 20 to 30 times over the expected risk for children of this age group within 2 weeks following the first dose of RotaShield® vaccine. The risk increased 3 to 7 times over the expected risk for this age group within two weeks after the second dose of RotaShield® vaccine. There was no increase in the risk of intussusception following the third dose of RotaShield® vaccine, or when three weeks had passed following any dose of the vaccine.

It didn't affect them 5 years later, it happened 2 weeks after the vaccine.

This is typical, and why it isn't particularly necessary to do safety studies of vaccines longer than 3-6 months.

You can argue that the safety study failed in that case and wasn't broad enough and the side effect wasn't noticed so that it wasn't approved, but it was found very quickly after approval, and the rate was 1 in 12,000 vaccinated infants. That is difficult statistically to find in studies of only 25,000 individuals.

And we've had a massive "phase 4" trial of mRNA vaccines involving >100M individuals that has gone on for months now. We know they're incredibly safe.
Does this mean there's a Lua interpreter in ZFS? That's pretty wild!
Hey HN,

sktime is a unified interface for time series learning tasks: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/sktime

It provides specialized time series algorithms and scikit-learn compatible tools to build, tune and validate time series models for multiple learning problems.

sktime is built by an active open-source community, working together during regular meetings, workshops and sprints. For new contributors, we provide mentoring sessions and tutorials.

If you are interested in contributing or just a chat about the project, feel free to submit a PR or just reach out to us. We welcome all kinds of contributions: code, API design, testing, documentation, outreach, mentoring and more.
Ask HN: Philosophical Reading Recommendations
Hello HN. I have an undergrad in philosophy, and another in (computer) science, and I often read popular science books. I really enjoy the passages that deal with more abstract concepts and take a more philosophical approach.

For example, in Richard Dawkin's book the Ancestors Tale, there is a section I really enjoyed towards the end where he speculated on what would happen if evolution would be "re-run" on Earth from a certain point in the past. For example, if evolution were executed many times from the point where the first multicellular organism arose, what should be the distribution of the results? He goes on to say that there were many "good ideas" in evolution that would likely occur every time; such as bilateral symmetry, sensors that take in EM radiation (eyes) and so on. He also discusses things that would be unlikely to arise. He also speculated on evolution on other planets with, for example, stronger or weaker gravity than that found on Earth.

Not a book, but I also recently listened to Dan Dennett on Sean Carrol's Mindscape podcast. The conversation was very philosophical, but had a good basis in science.

I'm not looking to read any more Dawkins or Dennett, and want to branch out a bit in my reading. Any suggestions that may fit the above criteria?
At least in those instances, the union can negotiate for better (longer) quotas. In Amazon’s case, there’s no union to represent them. There’s the companies (that contract with Amazon) that the drivers work for, but they’re less powerful because there’s another company right next to you.
Brand deals are the majority of their income, but not the majority of their content. This just means the platforms aren't paying very much, since the platforms are advertising on _all_ their content and yet creators are managing to earn ~80% of their income through brand deals on a tiny fraction of their content. 58% of creators post 16 or less sponsored posts a year, and those with more followers post even less[0], while the majority of creators post significantly more content than that.

Creators are very careful not to overwhelm their audience with ads; their audience (and their portability to new platforms/ channels) is their number one asset since they may need to jump to new platforms in the future as their channels can get demonetized/ banned for frivolous reasons.

[0] https://influencermarketinghub.com/creator-earnings-benchmar...
I love JetBrains products and their approach. If I had any interest in writing Java (or desktop) I would love to work there and be part of the mission.
"Results not guaranteed" "Actor portrayal" "Real users compensated for appearing"

If everything would have the warning label (like "Don't try this at home" or California's "known to cause cancer" signs or arguably GMO food labels) then people ignore it.

It'd be better to know how different what's shown is from the median result, but that'd be hard to figure out, and if you could, why not just require the ads show that result instead?
Precisely. This fukuyama dream of corporate liberalism paints exactly such a picture:

that the tax evading Monopoly which has subsumed a significant portion of US capital (stripped from the common man) can be seen as beneficent for merely satisfying their own need for skilled labor in an economic context they helped foment wherein education has been made unreachable by normal means.
Women have made many powerful strides in becoming part of the workforce and finally achieving educational equity, but we still have a long way to go as a society. We need to ensure that remaining barriers are removed to ensure that more women can pursue their dreams in many more professions: everywhere from programmers to boilermakers, loggers, miners, deep sea fishers, roofers, and more professions where equality has not been achieved. Only this positive effort for total equality will go a long way towards reducing the male-female wage-gap.
The Disney+ Application Development Kit
Any way to get an invite code?
That is good advice. I would add, you determine your worth, don't depend on any company to reevaluate your value.
I had a pair of Google Glasses when they first came out in beta. Looking at the HUD was a bit of a strain but these look like they don't even have a HUD.

Plus the privacy concerns and the "glasshole" nickname.

I see that there is an activity indicator LED (just like there was with Google Glass) but even the article admits there will likely be nonconsensual candid photo taking.

Which raises the question: Did things really change that much about how people perceive privacy since 2013 that now no one cares?

I'm happy with with smart watches at this point. I'm not convinced smart devises were meant to be attached to our head.
Yeah it's possible to know the format by reading the Intel datasheets (sandybridge/ivybridge ones). Certain parts are "reserved" but have been reverse engineered like you see in ifdtool.

In Libreboot there is a tool that I wrote called ich9gen, which can entirely generate ich9 ifd+gbe from scratch. This does not exist yet for sandy/ivy i think, but yes there is that --dump option in ifdtool.

By the way:

bincfg is a nice tool in coreboot, and you can write a spec file for that, based on intel datasheet, to generate gbe/ifd images. I actually have this on my todo list, as I've been studying it. The datasheets are very confusing especially for the Gbe NVM region, making it look like it's not even documented, but it is, poorly.
I agree with your second paragraph completely but I don't draw any parallels between a relationship and working for a company in the same way "we are a family" is immediately translated to "we expect you to put in more effort than we are paying you for and we will drop you at the first sign of trouble" (a LOT of people learned this the hard way throughout the pandemic). In a relationship I wouldn't be ok if my partner was always "window shopping" for "someone better" or, probably the better analogy, still on Tinder/Bumble/whatever-they-are-using-these-days while we were dating. When it comes to work I try to treat it purely as business. If a company could get the same output from someone else for less money than they pay me they would take that option in a heartbeat, they can't get mad if I do the reverse of that.
I’ll second the suggestion for the Mighty. It’s a fantastic vape. I’ve also heard the Crafty is quite good if you want something a little smaller. Prior to the Mighty I had a Pax 3, which worked quite well but the hits off the Mighty are much smoother.

As a side note, you can also buy water pipe adapters to connect your vape to a bong. This looks stupid, but gives by far the smoothest hits. I still occasionally will smoke papers with others, but dry herb vapes are far and away my preference.
One would imagine that the richest man in the world, who rules the largest private employer in the nation, has some amount of power to influence others.

An obvious solution is to make secondary education free.

> And once we derive what that action could have been, we have to evaluate the value it has to Amazon because at the end of the day they are operating a business not a social justice non-profit.

This is a rather myopic view of society. If you believe that the status quo is unquestionable (that businesses should only prioritize their self-interest), then of course you can't believe in any radical change to it.
That is how it can be done. You can find videos of south asians manually cutting new grooves on worn down truck tires. It was normal practice in the rest of the world before retreading was invented.
Cafeterias and gyms within the office save employees time which then goes to working. Big win for the corporations.

Going to college offsite, off hours doesn’t immediately benefit the corporation. The investment only benefits the company if the employee “moves up the ranks”.

My understanding from the article is that the benefit is for front line employees. My guess is most do not care for college and would rather take in even 50% of the college tuition
A decade too late?! They've dropped the "i" naming scheme for new products. Apple Watch, Apple Tag.

Maybe Apple Lens?
How to transfer data from your PS4 to PS5
That's fixed now. Prettier and I had a misunderstanding.
Should this include a disclosure note that you work for Amazon?
Don't feel down about that. If someone's job is writing database engines or JSON parsers, you can't do a better job than them while also writing business logic. We should be glad some people chose to provide such code in a matter we can use it, and when we can't, a patchjob that does the trick is just as good.
> one "organized entity with power" that you're leaving out: private capital in its various forms

Private capital is not "one organized entity", especially not in "its various forms".
I read Helgoland at the weekend (in a hammock at a glamping lodge in the jungle) and have been meaning since to buy some prisms to see if I can replicate that experiment. Do you happen to know if it's as simple as he describes it, or is there a trick to making it work?
> it's always safe to assume ulterior motives anytime Amazon does something that seems good

You don't see how that attitude, if held by more people, creates the situation it holds in contempt?

If I'm working with someone who responds like that to acts of goodwill, I don't have an incentive to be nice. Being a human, I'll likely be spiteful. (And goodwill doesn't have to be purely altruistic to be good. Win-wins exist.)
I have wondered for a while why the FTC isn't getting serious about this here.
It can be done, this is exactly what homotopy type theory is for.
No big surprise really that scrum would be misused like this. It is the perfect recipe for micromanagement. Disgusting none the less.
Exactly! Ironically, the most Anglo-centric assumption of them all is that people are only fluent in exactly one language. Configuring anything to be truly multilingual as opposed to "in another language" has terrible UX.
Electric Cars: Fatally Flawed?[video]
That's what I'm thinking too. Why would Visa invest anything in crypto if they don't think they can reasonably control and benefit off it? Risk assessment is at the very core of Visa's company and I cannot imagine they would invest in something that has unreasonable risk. Crypto is risky and difficult to predict, which makes me think they have a plan to minimize risk by controlling crypto thru means well known to them and traditional banks.
Yup. The “key” for the translation is the English phrase itself. It also makes English text changes weird because you either have to change the key across all languages to match the new English or you leave the key alone and change/add an English “translation” that is the new text.

Personally I think it is better to use a “surrogate key” that isn’t the English text itself.
That's because repairing an electrical outage is unpredictable. There are a lot of uncontrollable variables. However, jobs like manufacturing definitely have quotas. I know for a fact that they exist at the heavily unionized auto-manufacturing facilities in the US.
This is brilliant. Amazing work. It even caught my ceiling fan running in the background.
Corepack
Cant have peace anywhere you go now from Facebook. Surely there has to be a law against this. No “smart glasses” allowed is a first step. Enough is enough with them.
https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Troubleshhoting_logic_board_comp...
If they do, I'm sure they're not so tight that the electrician won't be able to stop and go to the bathroom, or facilitate soft bans on potentially mandatory break times.

How often have you seen linepersons diligently working after a heavy storm while doing the pee-pee dance?