skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s very problematic for businesses 365 days a year, yes — but for your customers, it’s problematic no more than 1 day a year at most. And that is a huge win for us customers.
...and the fact that everybody is doing it makes it good and right, right?
I use a wired mouse with a 1000hz polling rate on an M1 Macbook Pro with vsync disabled system wide (through Additional Tools for Xcode 13.dmg[0] => Quartz Debug.app => Enable Vertical Sync; it only actually disables vsync if you use an external monitor and close the lid of the MacBook).

Like switching to the Classic Theme from Aero in Windows 7[1], as far as I can tell, this removes at minimum 1-2 frames of input lag (typing, mouse movement, etc.) throughout all of macOS.

In Firefox's about:config, after setting

user_pref("accessibility.force_disabled", 1)
user_pref("general.smoothScroll", false)
user_pref("general.autoScroll", true)

, I'm shocked by just how slow and laggy Chrome's builtin smooth scrolling implementation feels by comparison. In fact, it's so bad that I now open Chrome and all Electron apps with

open -a Google\ Chrome --args --disable-smooth-scrolling --disable-gpu-vsync --disable-frame-rate-limit
open -a Slack --args --disable-smooth-scrolling
open -a Spotify --args --disable-smooth-scrolling

You used to be able to disable Chrome's smooth scrolling with chrome://flags/#disable-smooth-scrolling, but that flag was removed for whatever reason.

I'm also surprised by how much faster Firefox's builtin middle mouse click autoscroll is compared to Chrome's ersatz AutoScroll[2] extension.

[0]: https://download.developer.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Additio...

[1]: https://pavelfatin.com/typometer/

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autoscroll/occjjkg...
The whole deal is a 'we are spending tons of cash, so we need to take it from someone' plan. This isn't a "watching out for the average person" deal.
There's a lot of late 20s early 30's that grew up when FB was coming up that won't leave anytime soon.
Morally he is ok? No issues looking at the mirror?
As a user I would say the platform is at fault, because the seller shouldn't be trusted with the information.
Thanks, that's good to know. Another confirmation: thanks to the Epik leak, we know the same is true there. Their Bitcoin transactions table is much, much smaller than their other ones.
Well, that's because scanning for WiFi networks and Bluetooth devices nearby effectively reveals your location.

It might still make sense to split these permissions, but it should be clear that you're giving up your location.
Zero-Shot VideoCLIP Outperforms Fully-Supervised SOTA Methods
I suspect your comment isn't entirely in good faith, but that might well be considered strong evidence of anti-competitive behavior.
There used to be tons of hacking tools for AOL, so I could see how IRC admins would just default ban connections from them to prevent hordes of script kiddies from attempting to cause chaos on networks they really didn't know anything about.
There are not that many compiler generated instructions both for X32 or X64 if you look at it by percentage of code. You have to look up the manual for rare instructions no matter what, you hardly need to read maybe a dozen pages to know enough to understand the common operations and control flow. My argument if you start with the current arch, that will be your frame of reference instead of X32 (why not X16 if earlier is better?)
Oh actually, if you go and read the bill text they link, there is in fact a cap at $10m along with other measures to close up loopholes. Starting at section 138301.

https://www.advantaira.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WM-Tax...
>California has a large surplus of renewable energy

Yes, that's why CA has had rolling blackouts and public requests for citizens to lower their use during peak hours because all of this surplus.
This is lewd but funny, I needed that laugh.
Tether says (or at least used to) that they have 1USD in the bank for every tether issued.

They say they're fully-backed, so they better be.
The first line of the article:

"California is not keeping up with the energy demands of its residents.

In August 2020, hundreds of thousands of California residents experienced rolling electricity blackouts during a heat wave that maxed out the state’s energy grid."

How can you say baseline power is not desirable?
>, this is the situation when you buy anything from anywhere else except the AppStore and we all get on with it just fine.

No it isn't in my case because I don't use my Apple email anywhere else but Apple. It stays clean with zero spam in the inbox. Many services hide email addresses from sellers including ebay, Etsy, Craigslist, Amazon, etc.

The key is that the granularity and quantity of managing email spam is reduced when all those intermediary platforms shield customer email addresses. I do have my own email domain and I can create throwaway email addresses which I use with many other websites but that's irrelevant if Apple decided to share my email with App Store developers.

>You just decide if you trust the seller or not and block their emails if they're annoying.

Why would I want the additional "mental tax" and decision tree of trust/distrust potential seller and then do extra digital housekeeping of blocking future spam? I'm still not paying any less (the court ruling said Apple is still entitled to 30% even with non-Apple payments) -- so what exactly do I gain? It looks like Paddle offers more benefits the seller but no compelling advantages to the buyer.
8086 let you address the upper and lower halves of the 16-bit registers as well, so don't trick yourself into thinking there was just one register width available in the sense that everything could only be treated as 16-bit words.
> This is just fringe, nutty stuff.

Why? You have room here to explain.

> The media is indeed doing what he says they are nut they are doing it because that is what they always do when they have a story they want to be a part of to try to feed off the popularity.

Ah, they're doing it because they're doing it. Why didn't he think of this?
I think that's another dimension of the control. It'd be controversial to make a law saying "we're restricting how you repair your air condition", but if you instead said, "for your safety, you need to have a signed and stamped form B-6 to repair your air condition" you can achieve the same effect by creating layers of bumbling bureaucracy. Everybody is hostage to insane rules that obfuscate your control.
I like having full control over my data so I choose to use local applications where I can. Fortunately there is a lot of good stuff for Linux out there so I don't need to reach for online tools.

But I see your point, it's a bit funny :)
Compared to doing the same on Windows this gives me an image of a very calm OS
Correct! Is it not fair to say that Python was at least initially popularized by the perception (right or wrong) that its syntax made it easier to learn? From there it rapidly spread (network effects) within the community of educators and learners and then outwards into the education adjacent field of scientific computing.

I see perception and network effects having at least initially a stronger factor in Python’s popularity than any particular technical advantage.
I find it really interesting how I had never heard of OCaml before frequenting HN, but how incredibly passionate so many people here are about the language.

It honestly seems like a great lang, and I hope I get to try it out for a project sometime soon.
It's an issue with naive free market electricity setup, which allows intermittent non-schedulable power source drop price of static ones.

Then you find out that you don't have power when the cheap sources don't work...
I understood a double digit premium as percentage. So anywhere between 11% to 99% extra just because it's fb. Sounds about right, not that this premium only apply to fb nor only companies having bad reputation.
I payed my favorite newspaper and they still didn't write what I like.

Fun aside, I think you are correct. The net inflated the value of articles and similar to art, quality didn't necessarily translate to value. Although I don't think that tech people were particularly stingy in paying writers.
You know that some people care about how policies affect people other than themselves, right? They may even care about society as a whole.
Just my experience when I was trying out OCaml (I was mostly trying it out for frontend using the bucklescript-tea package) was that most people in that space used the ReasonML syntax. I don't remember my exact issues, but I was trying to avoid using the reason syntax because I preferred OCaml's. There were a couple of hurdles I needed to get over before being able to even really begin. This was probably 3-4 years ago, so things may have changed.
Why shouldn't you pay taxes on profits made speculating?
I've been looking for a summary like this for years. I'm quite comfortable with IPv4, but haven't understood IPv6 well enough to start using it in my home network. Thanks for sharing, going to read this over a few times to make sure I understand everything completely.
Prince Rupert’s Drop
> we're not rich

Yes they are.
So how can Apple make it easier to cancel a subscription if they don't have control over the payment method?
hmm, considering the seriously deficient state of these systems, I'd have to agree with rsynnott that using it without a very serious overlay of human checking before taking any action - probably enough to outweigh the benefits of the "AI" itself - would constitute negligence.

The PDs either already know that the "AI" FR systems are not fit for purpose and are using them anyway without proper checking, or they don't know because they couldn't be bothered to do their due diligence.

I want to catch the crooks as much as anyone, but catching the wrong people does no one any good, and has a hugely corrosive effect on society.
Because he feels that it's wrong that he made a lot of money doing something that other middle income earners could reasonably do, but now the ladder is getting pulled up behind him?

This is no skin off the back of the wealthy. They'll find another trick and life will go on. For those of them that actually care about "normal" Americans being able to do the same thing they did, it feels a little wrong that it requires an ever increasing amount moving parts and money to do what they did.
I assumed a 1.zy multiplier vs a 1.0y multiplier (where y,z are decimal digits)

Anyway, I'm not convinced that's causal. Doesn't FB have a reputation for paying well to get smart people, and don't many people aspire to work there so they can get paid well?

I personally don't believe I would ever work for facebook because of how uninterested / opposed I am to their mission. But I don't see any evidence, including lots of people I know that went to work for them, that a few people like me actually materially impact their ability to hire
Facebook has had an outsize impact on society, they have a lot of power. I believe they (and any other agent that has that effect on society) are pretty much fair game for the press to cover; that’s literally their job.
Alas, downvotes. To those who disagree with me, what's the alternative? It just seems like the EU is fundamentally opposed to this model which would mean any company is no longer in charge of their own destiny.

"There's no advantage to being a platform owner? Eh, OK, let's just not bother trying then."

It's a bad look.
Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months
Hey mid-30's to 40's is young..ish.
Both statements are false.
I quite like the idea in “The Island” that there is a desire to dominant within all people, but for those who have a strong compulsion to dominate, we must provide a productive outlet. In the novel, this outlet was rock climbing in which the desire to dominate is turned inward upon the self rather than outward upon other people.
>Headwinds in hiring (there is already a double-digit premium Facebook must pay for talent). From recurring whistleblowing, and its impact on morale and productivity.

I wonder if they have interview questions to weed out potential candidates that want to work there long enough on these ridiculous salaries while they gather juicy tidbits to leak later?
Are you getting a discount for this comment?
Yup. I fully understand the complaint from Match (and others, like Netflix). Apple's app store payment policies are obviously and blatantly anti-competitive.

But if you've ever tried to cancel an AT&T internet line or New York Times subscription, you begin to understand Apple's position. Consumers oftentimes have no recourse; Apple's (and, similarly Google's) subscription framework is the first time in history many of these companies have experienced the powerlessness their users feel when dealing with recurring payments. They don't like giving up power.

It should come as no surprise that the companies most vocal about the payments monopolies are the ones who want to abuse the freedom Governments will hand them, in the name of maintaining a healthy competitive landscape.

I think a balance needs to be struck; Apple needs to have its power reigned in, and I think that takes the form of a forced reduction in revenue share to 10% max (Visa maintains a global network of hundreds of thousands of diverse swipe terminals at ~3%; if Apple can't maintain some servers at 10%, they're incompetent and deserve to be driven into bankruptcy by this totally reasonable legislation).

I don't feel that allowing alternate payment methods / subscription frameworks would actually benefit users/consumers, across any length of time, in any fashion whatsoever. I think subscription/payment management needs to be delegated to user accounts outside of any control of the service providers taking payment, as its an intrinsic and irreducible conflict of interest. Maybe that means Visa or whoever should start a "subscription and payments portal" that service providers have to integrate with. I don't know. But the way we've done it for 20+ years doesn't work, and Apple's way is absolutely better; its just not the best it can be, right now.
> By relying somewhat on self-selection Aleksandr's firm was able to profile facebook users. Since there was no second-guessing by the subject of the test as what a "question might say about them" I think it was pretty robust methodology.

Having worked in adtech, and as a psychologist who's attempted to use OCEAN for said adtech, I never found it to work better than standard approaches.

Additionally, Costa and McCrae created the Big 5, found it didn't replicate in confirmatory factor analysis, so they created a new method of CFA which did replicate it.

Like, E O and N are probably real, but the overall structure does not replicate and should not be taken very seriously.
> Only thing that is holding it back more than that and the reason I have not done many projects with it, is it weirdly fragmented ecosystem.

Maybe you are referring to the Async/Lwt dichotomy? Hopefully with multicore (and basic support for "effects" that are going to be merged in OCaml 5.0) this will become less of an issue going forward. Since the runtime is becoming considerably more capable, I expect there to be less "real" fragmentation going forward as the libraries begin to use more of the primitives provided by the runtime rather than building their own from scratch.

But then again, fragmentation is a way of life in other ecosystems too. Haskell has an ever increasing number of effect systems and preludes, Rust has many async runtimes also (async-std, tokio etc.). Fragmentation can often mean a time of competition and vitality as different approaches duke it out.

Regarding syntax -- I feel too much time has been spent in the OCaml ecosystem on surface syntax. OCaml syntax has its flaws but syntax is really a small aspect of the overall art of programming. The OCaml format is here to stay -- even if it is a bit wonky. Once you commit to it you can begin to worry about more substantial things. The ReasonML community brought in the new syntax, but with the departure of Rescript (Bucklescript) from the OCaml community I expect the usage of the new javascript-y syntax to decrease.

(If I may be heretical, I actually prefer the traditional OCaml syntax! ReasonML tries to be like JavaScript with the braces and so forth. I prefer the Haskell/OCaml syntax to the JavaScript/Rust/C/Scala brace syntax. Interestingly, Scala 3 allows a braceless style in an effort to match Python perhaps. Fashion changes. Algorithms and programming patterns endure. We shouldn't worry about the syntax so much -- as long as it is not APL ;-) ! )
As long as it's me that gets to determine what is "biased" and what is not, sign me up. I also have thoughts about what is a "real" religion and what isn't, if you need more help.
Are There Top Signs of a Cheating Lover? What To do Then?: https://www.hackerslist.co/are-there-top-signs-of-a-cheating...
I loved the presentation of this
More likely, it's merely evidence it's a legally sound thing to do. That doesn't mean it's particularly reasonable, simply that it's not technically trivial to reject out of hand. It could equally be a symptom of regulatory capture; it's not like the judge gets to just do whatever they feel is fair (at least not without professional consequences).
To be fair, taxation is useful for everyone and the common good. What can be considered.... wrong is EXTRA taxation. Meaning the governments job should be to operate as leanly as possible by being most efficient. To me that means, highly systems efficiently, low personnel overhead, large reduction in programs supported.

Instead - the name is big and bloated. Expanding budget deficits mean expanded spending, which can never go down.
It’s really interesting they have so many unique words for ice because the top 100 words in the Oxford English Corpus make up about 50% of all of written English. I wonder how often these words for ice are actually used in practice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English

> According to The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists, the first 25 words in the OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first 100 words make up about half of all written English.
It is pretty much designed to dump money into the stock market in a magnitude that wouldn't occur naturally. As with ETFs, people are indiscriminately tossing money at investments they have no idea of (under the premise that roboinvestors will take care of everything). I am skeptical that this will work out in the long run, or that the government won't someday find ways to confiscate fractions of 401ks because reasons.

People don't want to hear this because 401ks are silver bullets, and we are all inclined to desire silver bullets over applying rigor. Most people have no idea what part of their paycheck is invested in. Why do we let them lecture us on where to hold and grow our wealth?

That's not to say that 401ks in and of themselves are bad. Their existence doesn't mean that people shouldn't take their own risks and hold assets that keep their wealth liquid rather than locking it up. Personally, I prefer paying more in order to have liquidity. Many would disagree with that. But truth be told, no one knows any one answer that applies to all.
> overt ideological propagandism

As an outsider watching from across the ocean, the 2016 election (the race itself and its media coverage, I'm not talking about the result) really hurt you guys.

The NYT still does world-class journalism, but not even a paper with that kind of rock-solid journalistic tradition fully recovered from the moralistic crusade it had become.

I don't know if that's a bias of my own (I'm open to hear a counterpoint!), but 2016 really stands out as an inflection point in my mind.
You want peaking power for heat waves. Baseline is in theory cheaper because it’s running 24/7/365 however you don’t want to produce maximum heat wave energy 24/7/365 or your going to damage equipment when demand lowers.
There's Ask HN, which you could probably subvert for this purpose.
401ks can be rolled into IRAs, which people do to avoid poorly-chosen high-fee ETFs often found in 401k plans. For example, my employer's plan had 0.5% annual fee index funds when the same could be found for 0.05%.

401k limits are ~20k/yr -- about 10% of your pre-tax if you are maxing out on a 200k SWE TC (or much less given an employer match). Easily, your 401k (and rolled over IRA) can reach 200k (20k x 10) in a decade with no growth, and much more with growth.

At that point, this bill is relevant -- do you really want all your holdings in public stock that gyrate wildly in value every 7yrs?
The pro-blackout crowd lol.
TBH A range of ages is demographic diversity. No idea why it's forgotten about sometimes.
A lot of people in this thread are casting political attacks on Facebook as a Democratic thing, so I'll just point out that conservative Republican Senator Josh Hawley has been attacking Facebook for years, including proposals to strip them of Section 230 protection and to allow people to sue them in federal court for "harmful content".

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-demands-answers-faceboo...

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6950261/Limiting-Sect...

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21074054/federal-big-...
U.S. Department of Defense Climate Adaption Plan [pdf]
Lots of recruiters are having trouble. You haven't demonstrated that anti-FB sentiment makes it harder for ex-FB people to get hired.
It would also be great to see a quick video or gif showing the editor features since it will be replacing what the customer might already be using.
Make Anything with Gradient. Yes. Anything.
You can contribute to a traditional IRA at any income. You can only take the deduction at certain income ranges though.

Also, you can “use” an IRA after you contributed to it, so you could be high income now but contributed to an IRA when you weren’t.
I have to admit that R's dashboard and interactive visualisation ecosystem beats Python's. Plotly and Leaflet have R versions and Shiny blows Dash out of the water.
I'm pretty sure big oil supports solar/wind because they take the shine away from nuclear.
Why is Facebook singled out vs. all social media? I feel worse after half an hour spent reading Twitter, Reddit or even Hacker News than after half an hour spent on Facebook or Instagram.

The amount of hate I see on the first three platforms is much higher.
I don't get what do you mean by "you must allow paying through Apple and the price can no lower than 30% or whatever the cut".
The full set of "Media Use and Evaluation" questions is quite interesting: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1663/Media-Use-Evaluation.aspx

E.g. in response to the question "Now, apart from how FREQUENTLY you use them as sources of news, we'd like to know whether or not you can trust the accuracy of the news and information you get from each of the following news sources. First, do you feel you can trust the accuracy of the news and information you get from ... ?" the source that the most people (74%) said they can trust in 2019 (the last time the question was asked) was local television news. Other local news sources also got rated more trustworthy than national ones.

I wonder how much of that is due to culture fit (reporting news in a way that matches the expectations of the people in the area) vs ease of verification (if something happened in your neighborhood, it's easier to find out whether the news is accurate than if it's about a faraway place you've never been to).
The Dubai Frame
I get those points, but Fukushima was 10 years ago so clearly it couldn't have been that urgent. Really this has been about reducing carbon emissions. It is clear now that the full impact of natural gas is much larger than originally understood.
Yup, I'm inclined to agree. I also think the word 'toxic' is horribly overused, to mean essentially 'anything I don't like'.

Though FWIW, ulterior motives are hidden by definition – as in, that's literally the meaning of the word 'ulterior' – so I'm not quite sure what the last sentence is getting at.