skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, just let the corporations win. Lots of them already get 0% effective tax rate, some get billions in subsidies.

But they will always want more.
FYI `rclone` is good for "dumb content" in that it doesn't keep execute bits on shell-scripts, etc.
My 13 year old girl isn't just gonna "stop" using Instagram.

Is it possible the media and congress represent the viewpoints of the non-technically sophisticated?
I think that underestimates her abilities. I think it is more likely she will found or at least join a policy focused non-profit that will further her social goals while making use of her existing technical and management skills.
>The fundamental economics of the last century was cheap resource access and cheap technology development.

The fundamental economics of the last century was high population growth.

>The fundamental economics of the next century are resource shortage.

Is this supposed to be some kind of joke? Resource shortages? You mean the thing we've had for the last thousands of years? Come on, the worst case is that these people will keep living in poverty, they aren't going to terrorize the west to demand a higher standard of living. If anything, the problem is abundance in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
In my experience it’s the opposite. Alcohol destroys relationships. It’s nonsense to medicate stress with alcohol.
Likely tripping breakers or overload protection on UPSes?

Often PDUs used in a rack can be configured to start servers up in a staggered pattern to avoid a surge in demand for these reasons.

I'd imagine there's more complications when you're doing an entire DC vs just a single rack, though.
The most impressive part is that it doesn't do this at the expense of compatibility. The page is reasonably navigable in a text-based browser like w3m.

It's perhaps not the easiest to navigate that way, but that's a complaint that could be levied in browsers with javascript and renderings as well.
So you get to ignore all the responsibilities that come with your rights so you get to clog up our hospitals with your bad decisions?

How about you take full responsibility: you get to not put whatever in your body, and you agree never to take an ambulance ride or be treated by a hospital.

Don't want the vaccine? That's fine, it's your right. But now when you can't breathe, nobody coming to help.
"This 2019 internal report obtained by Haugen says that the parties feel strongly that the change to the algorithm has forced them to skew negative in their communications on Facebook ... leading them into more extreme policy positions." (8:07)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-...

Although the above statement is from a group of European politicians, it's not hard to see the same story playing out in the United States. Take the Covid-19 pandemic, for example. The impact of partisanship on this issue is as clear as day:

"There's A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States' Vaccination Rates"

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1004430257/theres-a-stark-red...

"Ron DeSantis isn't anti-vaccine. But he has started standing shoulder-to-shoulder with those who are."

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/09/15/des...
I’m guessing that people use targeted advertising and personalized advertising interchangeably. The advertising industry knows full well what it means, and I’m sure the legislator should have no problem finding experts in that area to make a legally rigorous definition.
That's actually a great analogy.

Years of social media and misinformation resulted in an attempted coup and insurrection earlier this year, the major contributing factors of which are still ongoing. I don't think phillip-morris ever got that far.
I think he did quite a bit out of the ordinary, according to reports like this (1):

> "Through a legal, little-known practice called multiple listing, Jobs doubled his odds by getting on waiting lists in California and Tennessee. Competition was too stiff back home in California, and Jobs, his wealth and fame notwithstanding, may have died waiting. But in mere weeks he jumped to the top of the list in Memphis, ahead of dozens of others."

I would have a much higher opinion of Steve Jobs if he'd have kept Apple manufacturing in the USA instead of helping gut the Bay Area's electronics manufacturing industry by outsourcing to Foxconn and others. He was basically another clever CEO with a rather ruthless streak, hardly the Heroic Idea Man he's portrayed as.

1. https://archive.naplesnews.com/news/southern-transplants-how...
This story again?

I once interviewed a smart guy from a certain UC across the bay. Still undergrad, he played a lot with Python and wished he could have something similar to pip when doing C/C++.

So he wrote himself a "package manager" that could fetch binaries, place header files correctly and add them to his build. Neat little project.

That's basically what this guy did. It reads a YAML file and exec() whatever build instruction is in there. The CS102 guy I hired could do it as well.

Keivan was brought in by Microsoft for an interview and he didn't get the job. He kept talking about how "he could have patented this" or how it was an "acquihire" but there's nothing new to acquire in there!

But hey, he flunked his interview and got a lot of eyes on his startup thanks to some well placed clickbait on HN...
I've been experimenting and exploring a few ways to implement this for my own browser [1].

The options seem to be:

- Great Suspender style suspension [2] - swap page with a simple low memory placeholder and reload back (detecting interactions)

- Chrome/FF style tab discarding (only happens with memory pressure) [this post and 3]

- Optimistic unloading with screenshots (this is what we're experimenting with) - we suspend the tab and replace it with a screenshot of the tab before it was suspended, you trigger a reload if you need it. It seems that the screenshot gives you access to the information you cared about while being easy to unload and reload from memory and making it much less likely you actually trigger a reload.

One final one I've been thinking about that I haven't gotten around to testing yet for fast-fan-syndrome (and non-memory limited systems) is to just use renice/cputhrottle (in macOS for example) to force CPU share limits on the processes. This has portability issues and requires certain privileges which is why I'm hesitant to try it immediately.

These obviously have their issues like stopping the JS VM when there might be long running thing that was actually desired (usually prevented with a whitelist).

Happy to test any other ways you think might work!

[1] https://synth.app
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...
[3] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discar...
Is windows trying to become more like MAC? To me that UI giving me look and feel like a MAC than a traditional windows
Latest OWASP Top Surfaces Web Development Security Bugs
No recommendation algorithms for certain classes of websites.

News feeds must be sorted in chronological order only. Users may selectively filter their feeds if they choose.

No infinite scrolling.
Note that regardless of what you do, a container of fuel (without its own oxidizer) would never successfully light/sustain fire without first having displaced the majority of the fuel with atmospheric air to provide the necessary oxidizer. That’s why you can’t light a full container even with tracer rounds.

Otherwise, you are only be able to light the part of the fuel that leaked into the atmosphere.
This seems like a podcast but with more steps.
The gaming industry would like to have a word...

In a sense, companies are right now incentived to develop the most effective 'digital crack', because anything that hijacks the reward pathway of the brain more effectively leads to more profit. It'll be quite interesting to see how the public discourse around this will progress, since digital entertainment isn't as easy to publicly mark as 'bad' as drugs were.

On the other hand, China is sending quite clear signals that it's theoretically possible to legislate against e.g. video games -- though only after you've already established an intrusive 'social credit' system, which I hope we won't see in the west any time soon.
As with the NP for Med/Physio it is unfortunate that the trope of "saving the planet" has such a vile revival. And if I'm not for the one team I'm for the other.

Irrespective of that this years NP in Physics is an achknowledgment of a "young" (in terms of NPs) but promising field.

For anyone interested, I found this podcast very informative:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/08/17/110-...
Yep the key here is that it makes you question your memory. "Wait... I could've SWORN that person was looking elsewhere earlier"
Except social media has a lot of upsides along with all the bad while the tobacco industries have literally none...only downsides (well if you don't count jobs created and all that but that is a low bar since any unethical thing can create job). But ultimately you're not doing a fair comparison here.
What are the benefits of Tox without the guarantees?

Not intended as snark. Genuinely interested.

Does it have some features there that are superior to other systems? (Outside of the obvious features that are not guaranteed via audit.)
> One of the jobs performed by our smaller facilities is to respond to DNS queries. DNS is the address book of the internet, enabling the simple web names we type into browsers to be translated into specific server IP addresses.

What is the target audience of this post? It is too technical for non-technical people, but also it is dumbed down to try to include people that does not know how the internet works. I feel like I'm missing something.
I really appreciate this point. I often see it as written rules (laws) and unwritten rules (ethics). If something breaks the unwritten rules we have about how people are supposed to interact with each other, then we often codify that rule into law. Many people will say "I didn't break the law" but where many people would say that person did break an unwritten law.

> There should be no question, that what FB is doing here, while not illegal, is highly dubious ethically.

At the same time, I believe some of the stuff FB has done is currently illegal, such as this example in one of the whistleblower's disclosures to the SEC [0]:

> Our anonymous client is disclosing original evidence showing that Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has, for years past and ongoing, violated U.S. security laws by making material misrepresentations and omissions in statements to investors and prospective investors, including, inter alia, through filings with the SEC, testimony to Congress, online statements, and media stories.

So it could be a combination of them both violating ethics and violating the law.

[0]: https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1445248400237244423?s=...
Yes, or something like that. People who can be expected to be responsible (they have a lot to lose) and who will never come to depend on the government, but rather, government will always depend on them.

Expanding suffrage to people who depend on the government rather than other way around is easy to explain (populism: "let me create millions of new voters, they will be super happy and all vote for me"), but destructive and impossible to undo. And we are at the tail end of it now when all these people not just vote, but can also make use of free speech...

Of course, there could be in theory a multitude of ways to fix it, not just by limiting suffrage (like poll tax for example), but all of them unrealistic.
No, it’s usable by any income level. You’re thinking of Free File, which lets lower income users use TurboTax and other products for free.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

> Free File Fillable Forms is the only IRS Free File option available for taxpayers whose income (AGI) is greater than $72,000. Taxpayers whose income is $72,000 or less qualify for IRS Free File partner offers, which can guide you through the preparation and filing of your tax return, and may include state tax filing.
Can you cite some case law that bears out this argument? While I agree that your point is true in the most general sense, we compel companies to make their internal information public fairly regularly via various mechanisms (admittedly, none of which are 100% analogous to the FB/social media situation).
> Frame of reference is a big thing that is almost never discussed - one's perception of how "bad" things are can only be informed by what one has already experienced, and otherwise influenced by the media that is plopped in front of us (in a kind of feedback loop). Your "bad" is not the same as my "bad" and that is true for everyone.

This can work both ways. As the past is increasingly forgotten, the conditions of the present are more and more normalized. For instance, how many people actually remember what airline flights were like before the TSA? There are fewer of them every year.
This is textbook ad hominem:

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

> attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself

Question her motives or qualifications, rather than the claims themselves.
You seem to be getting downvoted, so to help give some context, these are supposedly Jobs’s last words: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/31/steve-job...
> I don't understand which of these accusations are actually breaking the law.

You misunderstand: this isn't so much about enforcing existing laws, rather it's about advocating for new ones.
How about an age limit. You have to be 18 or above.
Curious, do you not wear seatbelts too? Opt for asbestos insulation since its better than anything on the market today? Plumb your home with lead since its more durable and flexible? Use leaded gas because its better for your older engine?

The state acts on the collective when the public is not making good decisions for themselves and causing net harm onto themselves, usually with the public paying the price. Sometimes thats overt like with death rates from accidents without seatbelts, or cancer from asbestos exposure. Sometimes its less overt like the behavioral issues, increased incidents of mental illness, and crime rate increases from leaded pipes and gasoline.

I'm willing to bet social media causes net harm. It hasn't enabled communication that wasn't possible before; if you can get access to a facebook account you therefore have email and access to irc. But it has cost probably trillions in productivity from people staring at it so much during all their idle time, and the cost to treat mental health issues that wouldn't have cropped up without toxic social media culture.

I say we have these companies pay for these externalities if they are forcing us to pay for them otherwise. By not passing a tax on externalities like this, the state is deciding that I need to pay for facebook's ills on society whether I use the service or not, which should anger you as a libertarian as much as it angers me as someone on the left.
When you phrase your argument like that, it comes off as whataboutism.

You are free to campaign against Fox News, CNN, and the like. I will even upvote and share those HN posts if you do.
I'm not sure where you see an "innuendo" about injustice in what I wrote. It's a candid question on the rather common practice of law firms taking a cut of the settlements they manage to obtain for their clients.
My point was a cig always causes cancer because it burns tobacco, so you need a banner to warn users.

A social media behemoth does not need to use doom scrolling or private algorithms to be a social media site.
You're right that two axes are not enough. Even within the two-dimensional model, authoritarian leftists regard authoritarianism as a means to an end (Marxism-Leninism endorses the eventual withering away of the state, even if it never got around to practicing it), whereas the authoritarian right regards authoritarianism as good in and of itself (the leadership principle).
> I personally find the personalized advertising great. A lot of the time I am shown things that are actually useful/valuable to me.

There are plenty of ways to deliver this value without secretly fingerprinting every user and delivering targeted ads at every corner. A search where you profile yourself, for instance; similar to how you provide search filters on Amazon.
The claim is that THC somehow causes craziness, and it’s usually paired with claims that CBD inhibits those effects.

However, see this:

https://jcannabisresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...

> Fixed effects regressions showed that, controlling for time-invariant user characteristics, mid and high tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) levels were the primary independent predictor of increased symptom relief, and that when broken out by symptom type, this effect was only statistically significant for our largest sample of users, those reporting anxiety rather than agitation/irritability or stress. Cannabidiol (CBD) levels were generally not associated with changes in symptom intensity levels. In a minority of cannabis use sessions (< 13%), cannabis users reported anxiogenic-related negative side effects (e.g., feeling anxious, irritable, paranoid, rapid pulse, or restless), whereas in a majority of sessions (about 66%), users reported positive anxiolytic side effects (e.g., feeling chill, comfy, happy, optimistic, peaceful, or relaxed).

> higher THC levels were the strongest predictors of relief
"It was the intern" is only cute once.
>Apple focused on profitability.

Quite the contrary. Apple focuses on experience - and knows that if you deliver a kick ass experience, profit will naturally follow.

Apple also is one of the few tech companies that seems to be willing to say "no" and not be all things to all people. It's often misinterpreted as only targeting the profitable markets, as if that's a bad thing. Not pursuing unprofitable markets seems to be common sense to me - call me crazy!

Microsoft of the 80's and 90's focused on profitability and chasing relentless backwards compatibility; and it worked - for a while. Until you had the Windows division actively undermining other portions of the organization it saw as competition.
Memes like this are no accident: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big...

Then the next wave of computing - mobile happened and they suddenly were on the outside looking in. Much like the likes of DEC, Prime and heck even SUN were when the PC revolution happened and dethroned mini's.

As for baseband chips - radio is freakishly unforgiving. Apple did buy Intels baseband modem operation lock stock and barrel, so in three to five years - who knows? They certainly are motivated and have the resources to make a solid go of it. And they have certainly proven they can expand their expertise rather competently when they are motivated to. I don't think the Swiss are as dismissive of the Apple watch as they initially were; some even admitting the band designs Apple came up with were an improvement. That you can take segments in and out of the metal segmented band with just your thumbnail is, dare I risk saying it, revolutionary. If you don't think so I have a Timex band the flummoxed experienced jewelers - lets see how you do with it.
Phase Transitions in Data: Where Statistical Physics Meets Computation [pdf]
One case is automated protection systems in the grid detecting a sudden hop of current and assuming an isolation failure along the path - basically, not enough current to trip the short-circuit breakers, but enough to raise an alarm.
Why not keep an apple of discord in your pocket for later use when you already have the perfect one ?
That's because they wanted to hire him as a PM, not buy his package manager.

He failed the interview.

He's the only one who talked about "acqui-hire". Microsoft never talked about acquiring anything. There was nothing to acquire.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-...

> The CDC guidance says that officials should report deaths in which the patient tested positive for COVID-19 — or, if a test isn’t available, “if the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty.” It further indicates that if a “definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed.'”

What else were they supposed to do in that scenario?
Back in the 80's and 90's, working on consoles in very tight space constraints, there were times we’d go with a horribly inefficient implementation of something like sort, because we only needed to sort 8 things and the savings in bytes of code was more important than the savings in time from a “better” algorithm.

Those abominations could be tweaked throughout the development of the game, and along the way we'd sometimes "rediscover" a more common (sane) algorithm. The refinement in this paper reminded me a lot of that.
"The Devil's Backbone"
Strange how the Paycheck Protection Program didn't directly pay workers who didn't get paychecks, but had to go through their employers instead.
And they got the middle-class and poor to cheerlead for policies that they knew would only enrich themselves and provide them the opportunity to strip mine society even more.
It’s a metaphysical distinction. If a process occurs in a way that’s totally indistinguishable from actual randomness, who can honestly claim to know it’s not random? Why do you claim to know?
Yes, although you can get to it directly from the irs.gov site it does seem confusing at first that it’s on a .com

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
I think it will die out if it is empirically denied by facts. There has been an astronomical increase in video game consumption and realistic violence over the last 20 years, a time during which murders have been dropping consistently. And, when there are very high profile murders like mass shootings (Parkland, Vegas, Pulse Nightclub, etc), video gaming does not seem to be a common theme.

On the other hand, social media's ills are very real and very proven empirically. To reverse the narrative, social media will have to reverse that fact.
How can you use Zig to compile C++? This isn't one I was aware of
Does it calculate or solve?
While there are users for UDP, I would guess that TCP accounts for more traffic by choice. Of course there are sometimes problems associated with too much buffer too.
Been a timescale user for a little while and here's how this is different than their previous offering:

- Scale compute or storage separately

- One click spin up, pause, and recover

- Configure data retention (docs page not complete)

- Set a refresh policy for continuous aggregates via web console

- One click VPC

There's other stuff in that list but I either didn't miss it in the old Timescale or don't use it. Overall continuing the coupling of dba and analyst/backend dev via software. A nice set of changes.
Godot Games in the Steam Next Fest
Yesterday's blog post (discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28754824) was a direct apology.

Should that be repeated in a somewhat more technical discussion of why it happened?
Is there any backstory? How did you convince all of them to answer the question?