skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i closed all my social media accounts and now only use Reddit with an anonymous handle that cant be (easily) traced back to my real name.

i think that part about using your real name is where you can get into toxic behaviors. you upload your best pictures, compare yourself to others, etc. if youre hust a handle its easier to just engage in discussion.

an interesting note, when i first decided to leave fb/ig, my first baby step was to deactivate my account (instead of deleting it). my thinking was if I wanted to, i could come back.

4 times it happened to me, that out of nowhere id get an email from fb: "so and so tagged you in a photo". id click the link and discover my fb was again active without my consent. after the fourth time i took the definitive step of deleting it completely and even then i got a message: we received your delete request, but we're going to keep your account for 30 days, if you don't login in that time then we'll actually delete it.

geesh man, they really don't want you to go
This is an advantage of open-source (as in source that you can read and modify, not necessarily FOSS), not web, IMO. Webapps are just necessarily open-source (at least the client-side portion).
I think part of it is that the answer depends on the fact that the host's strategy is to always open a door with a goat behind it that the player didn't choose. If the host instead opened one of the doors the player didn't choose at random, then one third of the time the prize will be revealed. The remaining two thirds of the time, switching and keeping your choice have an equal probability of getting you the prize.

Many descriptions of the problem don't tell you what the host's strategy actually is, so I'd guess that a lot of people who are "fooled" by the problem actually just have a different reasonable interpretation of what it's asking.
Yes, but then you'd have microchip objectors, leading to governments and businesses implementing microchip mandates, and do you think that will go over well with the crowd that thinks the Mark of the Beast is an actual thing?
I don't mean to go too much against the narrative in this thread, but aren't cameras on glasses necessary to achieve AR? Are people concerned about these glasses just because it's Facebook, or is there broader opposition to AR technology?
Hmm, interesting thanks.

Given the name IO..ctl, is this unintended or unavoidable behaviour?
> I wonder if its possible today to port the RTAudio lib ChucK is based on to the Web Audio API. Can we possibly see a ChucK.js for use in browser?

This is in fact underway!
Jack Atherton has been working on this though I am not certain of its current progress.
Its certainly a lot more practical now with AudioWorklet now being available in all major browsers.
A solution to Newcomb's paradox
Your observation is very interesting. Mark Suster's article ("The Changing Venture Landscape"[1]) also discusses how today's startups raise significantly more early funding and how this is changing the venture landscape -- more money chasing fewer deals, raising valuations, but also non-angel investors having certain expectations of their startups.

Taken together, do these observations imply a structural change to how venture and startups work?

When I was starting my first company in 2012, your point on identity rang true -- I tied my identity to the startup and so did our early employees. Now, many of the startup CEOs (and venture studios, angel funds, incubators, etc.) seem more like money managers and financial engineers.

...and I guess this might be why compensation expectations are changing.

Thanks for sharing your thought. I've been bothered by the way startups seem to work nowadays and I haven't been able to fully articulate why. The above is helping me clarify that.

EDIT: as I try and clarify my thinking here, it sometimes feels to me like many startups today feel more akin to private equity (PE) projects. In such a scenario, you'd expect founder compensation to change (as per the original link). It'a also in line with Suster's post + observations of hedge funds and PE shops funding more startups[2].

[1] https://bothsidesofthetable.com/the-changing-venture-landsca...

[2] https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/how-hedge-funds-are-lead...
Why the Fate of Troubled Developer Evergrande Is Posing a Headache for China
VPN companies make a lot of money selling your browsing activity to governments, fintech, and adtech.
Given that Ray-Ban has been one of the most popular sunglasses and eyeglasses brands for a long time, following that principle might make it really difficult for you to go anywhere in public.
I didn't expect this from telegram. This is a huge disappointment.

Putin was very nervous about Navalny smart system because it was working. He put pressure on everybody, Google apple and telegram.

Their reputation is tainted forever.
I don't see any paradox here. The principle could be the same as in computer science: You can move data either by copying or referencing. In a world that having teleportation (like MMO games, or real-world if we figure it out somehow) the principle should not be any different.

1. Moving by copy: Create new data which looks exactly the same (deep copy), and put the data in desired new address. So teleporting by copy is just create the exact same character in the new position, and then make the old one disappear.

2. Moving by reference: The data is the same, it's the pointer to the address we're updating. So teleporting by reference is like there's an external table of characters, and the world is just referencing them with positions. Teleportation is a process that originally the position that points to the character was A, then the teleportation creates a new position B, and reference the exact same character and then remove position A.

In short expect(character).toDeelEqual(teleportedCharacter) should always be true, but expect(character).toBe(teleportedCharacter) should be true if it's referencing, but false if it's copying.

Although it could be either way I don't see any paradoxes in both.
What I personally dislike about the rephrasing is the ambiguity around the states "what happens when Monty selects the prize". I think that's the more important question.
So it's a contract but "with code"/"with crypto"?

I don't understand why you'd prefer to work in a structure governed by contract-written-as-code compared to contract-written-as-anything-else. Seems like you could put any arbitrary set of rules in a regular contract too.
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I thought it would have been a better workaround to the Aereo ruling to have separate companies for the antenna + digitizer hardware and the DVR software. If one company simply offers a VM in the cloud that has an antenna and digitizer of various frequencies, it could be used for many different purposes (streaming TV, research like politicaladarchive.org, police scanners like broadcastify.com, learning GPS, etc.), and as long as they don’t provide the DVR service themselves they aren’t acting like a cable company. And separate companies can sell software to run on the VMs to make it all user friendly.
If it wasn't Facebook, somebody else would or already is doing this. There's no escaping public CCTV in major cities nowadays. It's not nearly as regulated as you think and is also majority run by private companies.

If you don't like this, changing the laws to ban public surveillance is the only option.
(16:115) He has only forbidden you dead meat, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and any (food) over which the name of other than Allah has been invoked. But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

So only meat is banned and only when it's not "necessary" (which is really open to interpretation)
The 2011 version has its problems (crushed blacks, magenta flashes, a bit to cool color temperature) but I still prefer it over the rest
Because there's a principle of quantum mechanics called the "no-cloning theorem"[0] which results from not being able to determine the exact quantum states of particles. If you can't determine them, you can't clone them and you can't teleport them. With the essential caveat that you can use quantum entanglement to transmit the information from one particle to another and thereby destroying the original quantum state of the first particle. So the mechanism of perfect teleportation requires destroying the quantum state of the original.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

(As far as I know this doesn't really cover whether or not we can do "good enough" cloning/teleportation, meaning, good enough to preserve all our bodily functions and memories, even if not perfect at a quantum level.)
The clever cost-saving design of the ZX80 [video]
Assuming you pull results every 1 second, that's 86.4k requests a day for each potential user you have. Another solution, is it have a single CRON worker that watches for all notifications, kinda a basic implementation for a Push API.
Yes, I’m not a fan of lots of what Apple does, but I don’t see how these generalised complaints about Apple are related to this case. I don’t think your comments justify the notion that Apple is obliged to hire people at a loss to provide some form of ad hoc social welfare.
For me, it’s because Facebook. They have no track record of trust. I work for a significant Silicon Valley tech company and have seen up close the types of shenanigans that have been attempted by Facebook — especially with their mobile apps. Don’t trust them.
This is less about founders not tying their startup to their identity, and more about the exponential growth of VCs and the power they wield over non-leveraged founders.

Take a first time founder for example.

You’ve been working on an idea for a while. You’re just now getting traction. You likely don’t make much, if anything at all. Either because you are pre revenue, or you’re putting everything back into the company.

Now, a VC comes by and says I’ll take 20% of your company in exchange for $2 million.

Another VC comes by and says I’ll take 20% for $2.5m.

And so on.

The founder now has a hard decision. Do you take the money, grow the company A LOT faster and be able to pay yourself a salary? Or, do you continue to grind away, hoping the business grows organically, which could take 10-20 years? Do you even have enough savings to wait that long? Are you killing the business by not taking the money?

Okay, so let’s say you take the money. If you’re a repeat founder you know what to do. Don’t do a priced round, or if you do, don’t create a board. If you do create a board ensure founders still have majority. Essentially put everything in place so you don’t get fucked. So the option for you to be replaced by a hired gun doesn’t even exist. This sounds reasonable right?

Well most first time founders don’t even know you have to do these things. Or even if they do know they still might have zero leverage and take the money anyway, knowing they’ve relinquished some control. Knowing they will likely be replaced in 3-5 years.

This is how VC works now. The leverage has shifted completely.
> Access region-locked content: Any VPN works here. This could explain some of the advertising.

Actually, most of the time your VPN is just going to be blocked entirely by the service: they have a limited pool of IP addresses being shared by users, so the patterns of access of users randomly popping up on their addresses makes even automated bans pretty easy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28143238

To really get this right requires crazy tricks like taking all of the traffic destined for a service and routing it to per-user stable addresses that you cycle much more slowly. NordVPN seems to do this with Disney+, for example. There was a great analysis of this done (but to get it you will need to use an archive site as the author mysteriously deleted it).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692

The result is that users trying to do this tend to have to keep using different VPN services until they find a server on one that actually works today, and probably in the process keep accumulating subscriptions to "too many" VPN services for "too long". A lot of random review sites are then just claiming to tell you which service is best able to access such content at any time (but honestly, it is a losing battle: there is no obvious way to win this in the long term).
The worst is renting a condo and then something affects your unit that requires the HOA's involvement... might be faster just to move out.
If you want to run something in the background whether the user page is still active or not. Once the computation is complete, it pushes a notification to the user or trigger other workers.
A lot. TypeScript is becoming popular these days, but there are still a lot more projects being written in JavaScript than TypeScript.
I'm not sure that helps with judging somebody's worth. If you are the programmer that added a new feature to Gmail how can that contribution be measured against revenue? Are you worth more or less than the person that created the new menu on search results?

These systems are too complex and interdependent to measure the value of an individuals contribution. People know this which is why corporations become infested with politics.

I'm not sure equity helps (other than competing with other employers at the start). People burn out without some kind of intrinsic motivation.
The author makes it pretty plain they do everything from a laptop that is in their sole control. I don't think it is a reasonable critique that every article is pertinent to every kind of user.
Python Chr(): A Step-by-Step Guide
I think its pretty much just a complaint against Facebook. You could buy the first gen Snap Spectacles and its the same thing, no?
The feeling I get is that founders aren't looking to the long-term anymore, either because they aren't confident of their ability to make it on their own or they're only working toward an acquisition. I assume the latter is the dominant mentality in undergrad/MBA/GSB subcultures. Cowardice vs. greed, I suppose.
I use it mainly because my ISP does traffic shaping, videos and images load painfully slow on a full duplex half gigabit fiber connection. We do have a law that makes traffic shaping illegal, but it's not enforced, so the only way around it is to use a VPN.
>she is from MBA(finance) background ?

Start here. Find something menial she does but hates, do it in front of her with coding. Show, don't tell.

Zed Shaw had a great passage to this point:

>People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines.

As programmers, we do things to save us time without even thinking about it. Friends coming to pick me up and there's a webpage for a job offering with a disappearing Apply button? Quickly write a script that pulls that page every minute, checks if the button is there, and sends me a notification on my mobile. I didn't even think about it, really. Trivial to do while they're on their way, but science fiction for most people.

Writing code so we can be humans and spend time with loved ones as opposed to waste time doing meaningless tasks is what programming gives you.
I miss Mcafee, funny how most libertarian activists seem to drop dead while the people looting stores and setting cities on fire during protests, or stealing “under 900$” roam the streets freely. I guess not paying taxes is a worse offense than murder to the government.
I don't know that any of the bases in Antartica is military, Chinese or others'.
Baby humans do eventually grow into productive adult humans who pay taxes, and parents who are given generous parental leave do better at their careers in long term. Therefore both are beneficial to a society. Of course a private company won't care for either - that's why in sensible countries you get 12 months of maternity pay, majority of which is paid from the social fund not by the company. After all we all pay taxes for something, no?
I find modern JS much simpler, much more terse. You don't have to carry `this` around like a chain, you have tight arrow/rocket functions, you avoid leaky scope with var and you have mutability control.

It's taken me from "this is a mess" to "ok I can work with this."

It sounds to me like you have a familiarity issue. When something changes drastically in something you're comfortable with it evokes a very strong natural rejection, because it's like someone's taking something away from you.
So I just pulled up Nahl 115, and I can make an argument that I can deny preventative care (ie vaccines) while still accepting medicine that suppresses my symptoms if they contain the wrong substances. So the hospital is definitely wrong, and anyone who thinks they can be an arbiter of religion is blasphemous and has not learned the lesson from Europe's dark ages.
My startup, tasq.ai, was founded to solve this exact problem, as we have a live, successful product with all of the features you describe and more.

We're happy to have a conversation - feel free to reach out to me via my profile email or you can find our contact details at https://www.tasq.ai/
It’s extremely unlikely founders own the majority of the company post Series B. In fact, it’s closer to 10% by the time a company exits. So I would say the article applies in most cases.
Parts of it are overly verbose, but as a 1997 developer you're likely to understand that better. Have a play with a Lisp, or Python's functional aspects, or Haskell, then think about how you'd put those in JavaScript: chances are, you'll end up with a similar solution to what we have today.
The problem with the Monty Hall is that there is a hidden rule that people never explain. If you put there rule there explicitly, it's reasonably easy to see that the presenter is messing with your up-front probabilities when he opens a door.
Your are comprised of atoms. You drink some vodka and those atoms don’t affect you, they become you. Then you piss them out. Well, you piss yourself out and flush yourself away.
The wording of the statutory claim asserts the existence of "an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed", which means that the claimant is asserting that there is at least one such right that is allegedly being infringed.

It's clear that there is at least one exclusive right in existence for this work without regard to the question of alleged infringement, so the only question is whether infringement of the right is truly being alleged.

I accept that it's possible to interpret that last question either way in the case of someone asserting a self-infringement while probably knowing that self-infringement can't exist, since the interpretation will depend on whether a bad-faith known-meritless allegation still counts as an allegation for this purpose, and I guess also on whether the person knows the terminology enough to know that what they're claiming is false.

In any case, there are many reasons why this is not the kind of perjury claim that any prosecutor would ever bring to court, so we'll probably never get a ruling on it.
Hey there, sounds like the audio IO engine itself is not successfully able to start or connect to Jack- is the Jack server running?
That said Im a little rusty with Linux audio so might not be the best help here!
Founders don’t realize any gains unless they have an exit or sell secondaries. The likelihood of either is pretty low.
The issues are not in fact unrelated.
>>: duration of harmfulness, doesn’t uranium have a half life of some 10^9 years

Yes, and uranium in its pure form is hardly dangerous. Like, don't eat the stuff, but the same could be said about lead - you're perfectly fine holding it, just don't eat it.

Again, the more dangerous something is the shorter is its half life, stuff that has incredibly long half life is almost by definition not very dangerous. With uranium you'd worry more about the toxicity than the radioactivity.
I hate giraffes, even the articles about giraffes don’t make sense to me
Ethereum’s Design Choices Are Inherently Political
I apologise if it was unclear.

I should have said Gell-Mann Mnesia.
Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: The Literature of “The Pose”
I think, the fact that those contracts are enforced by themselves is the USP here.

It removes overhead that made a huge amount of rules prohibitly expensive and slow in the past.
I come from a C++/C/Java background and also always disliked Javascript. It still has its warts sure, but the book "Javascript the Good Parts" really opened my eyes. I liked programming lisp in school quite a bit, and the idea of just treat Javascript like a lisp and program it in this specific way was really enlightening. Prior to that I was either shoe horning it in to a java model, or building on some legacy JS that didn't really have a methodology to it.
Sure, but it's more than frustrating to go to a lawyer for a service you are supposed to just get, even if you can get free consulting through an insurance. That's why most people don't jump through those hoops and work-around it themselves. (I.e. do nothing usually which is bad for both parties)

Also there has been a general official agreement so far that modernizations justify higher rents. Which is just nuts because why would a one-time investment justify a basically indefinitely going increased rent...
Hold on, going through the calculations for the second case you described (the, “picks one of the other 2 doors at random” one).

(1/3) chance you initially picked car. Then, (2/2) chance the door he reveals has a goat.

(2/3) chance you initially picked a goat.
(1/2) chance he reveals the car (but we will condition on this not happening) and (1/2) chance he reveals goat.

Sanity check : these (1/3)(2/2) + (2/3)(1/2) + (2/3)(1/2) add up to 1, as they should .

For the cases where he doesn’t reveal a car, and we should switch: (2/3)(1/2)

For the cases where he doesn’t reveal a car, and we shouldn’t switch: (1/3)(2/2).

So, yes, (1/3)/((1/3)+(1/3)) = 1/2 , as you say.
Many companies don't just undervalue their current staff, they underestimate the market value and demand for that staff. My wife was in this situation, pushed for market analysis of her staff (mostly PMs) to take to management in an argument to give out raises. That analysis was some employees were underpaid by almost half the market rate. Management disagreed with the analysis. Within 2 years, the entire department was depopulated, having taken alternate job offers for considerably more money. The CFO couldn't grasp that people wouldn't just stay out of loyalty at 60% of what they could make elsewhere.
so hard to find stock of this in australia :(
Is there by any chance a list of software patents that Adobe or other companies hold that GIMP cannot implement for this reason?
I can tell you why I struggle: my mind says that if I pick a door at random out of two I have the same probability of getting a goat.

So if I switch door and pick one at random it should be 50% right even if I pick the same one I had picked before.

I trust the smart people on this, but I'm going with the math goblins explanation from now on.
And SerenityOS is the proof an old Win9x GUI+OS can run smooth without taking all screen space & with little memory.
Is there a specific policy you think should be legislated that would prevent unwanted tracking?