skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the the algorithmic basis of twitter is much less troubling than Facebook.

Part of that is because Twitter is a far more alive means for discourse, for democratic processes to emerge & steer what gets raised. There's way less of the echo chamber. There's significantly more back & forth in the comments, way more cross-engagement, that highlights other views, that checks what's happening. On Facebook, the post & the link are primary & the comments are a mess, often a sea of amplification. Twitter- as a for the most part open discussion- is able to tap a "wisdom of the crowds" sensibility whereas Facebook is perpetually falling into dark rabbit holes.

But all of this... blaming the tools... it doesn't click with me, really. As unknowable & scary as algorithmic selection is, it seems like a distant second compared to what the real story is.

Isn't it obvious? It's us. It's humanity that is the problem. These are inherent problems with attention & broadcast, & how easy it is to feed on other people, to excite them & drive them to ends. Antagonism and zeal are a high-grade memetic weapons payload, and the easy democratic access to thought & conversation is easily subverted. We haven't much in the way of building up immunities- to this day, blocking people seems to be the one and only defense most people have online, and that is a shield which does nothing to contribute to general welfare, to helping align & raise up the infosphere.

We live in a dystopian world with dystopian fallen people. It's a much closer together world, much better stitched together. This was of course going to cause problems. But I cannot imagine the horror of going back, of trying to establish authoritarian & limited channels for communication that the info-scarce world of the past was limited to. I do have great hope for progress, but humanity must innovate openly together, must build our own overlays to ourselves better comprehend the world.
I’m aware of kbb but I neglected to mention that I’m not in US so the car brands we are looking at will probably not the covered by kbb.

I wanted to see if anyone knows what goes into an entity like kbb saying that a certain used car is fairly priced at X.

E.g., we looked at a year old used car with around 7500 miles on it. It was priced just 7% below the price of a identical new car. The first year depreciation curve of a new car says the sale price of a one year old used car should be 20% below new.

I’m wondering if HN can help me figure out whether the dealer’s 13% (20%-7%) is reasonable or has some wiggle in it.
> This and its dual, not having to restore apps configuration every 3 weeks because some bloatware has the rights to change boot settings etc

What type of shady apps are you installing that is modifying boot settings?
Meanwhile, WSJ charges same as New York Post for their services.
It’s often the obvious and simple things that are overlooked, because they obviously won’t work :)
QTranslate – best free desktop translator. How to install and use?
Yeah of course, the og medium probably won't last 500 years, but if it's good enough to matter people will put them in safe spaces or reproduce them. Good quality modern books kept in ok storage conditions should last hundreds of years. I have a couple ~100 years old books and they look as new besides slight yellowing.

Prints are different since they're much more exposed and fragile than books
>on an iphone, hitting the lock button on the side five times rapidly will disable the biometric unlock until the passcode has been filled in.

I don't know what iPhone you have, but on mine, that brings up Apple Pay.
I don’t view it as obviously unjust as applied to individuals. That may suck for that person, but turning off the revenue demands substantially reduces the odds others are subject to ransoms. If all you do is focus on the individual case, you never actually address the root cause.
Golang Defer Tutorial
Hahaha! I first read this as "two to the four" as in 2^4 == 16x, and I was pretty surprised that they could manage to sustain that kind of pricing!
Most major brands use multiple dsps, as performance is easy at low spend volumes and gets more difficult as you spend more. Dsps have access to unique inventory (through direct deals, pmps, etc) and unique technologies. For example, many companies use google, a vendor for mobile, one for ctv, one for retargeting, etc.
There was also a point in Samsung’s past when they had been selling Nand chips to the market, then decided to hold all the capacity for themselves (or maybe Apple and themselves), then somewhat recently opened it back up again - but nand (and CPU) chips aren’t easily interchangeable - so a reliable partner is more important. Dram chips on the other hand are much more interchangeable.
That's a really cool article. The wording could be a lot simpler but the important part is that it does not abstract the concepts. They don't need to be abstracted because they are really simple.
Situations can become very complex, especially when someone does not know what they are doing. Developers need to learn the priciples without lies and overzealous simplifications. If you know what's going on it's a lot more doable to not end up in a super complex situation, but not a lot of people have a really good explanation of git even if they understand it very well themselves.
> In reality, most of the problems you see in rural areas all around the world are human-caused problems, typically where humans are interfering with individual freedom (civil and economic).

This is exactly what I'm trying to say. Rent-seekers are keeping the world under their callous little thumbs, just like they have been for thousands of years. I think I'm done. HN hivemind, you can have your echo chamber back.
What's the actual vulnerability?

The issue links to itself for "more details"…

(Also, yeah, it'd be nice if the URL of the OP had just been the Github issue. It is just as informative (or uninformative), and isn't an advertisement…)
So I wasn't the only one who got a huge ESR vibe from that article.
> Hey Everyone, here's a high severity vulnerability report, to check for it, run the folliowing: curl -shttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/noideawhatyourerunning/ins... |/bin/bash

.... oh man
Spoken like a religious tenet, detached from everything interesting.

Which board? What implementation of capitalism? You don't pretend that the States are running a free market or anything absurd like that, do you? The States have a Crony system at best.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for capitalism. I think humans are a rotten animal at heart and capitalism is the only way to effectively harness that bad nature for good results. But like any technical system, the implementation matters, and the implementation in the States in the last 50 years has been dreadfully short-sighted.

We have gradually whittled away at every collectively positive subsystem for generations now and are left with an inordinate number of miserable people whose day to day life would show up as, 'improved' on the Pinker style charts & graphs.

The subjective is the core of wellbeing.

Objective reality matters, certainly. But all the more so when you apply nuance to your reading of it.
we are talking about democracies not shitholes like russia, china, iran etc
> I still haven‘t found out how to select several disconnected lines for staging in VS Code.

In the Source Control window, select your file then in the right panel:

- Select the first range of lines

- Alt + select the second range of lines

- Cmd + Shift + P > "Git: Stage Selected Ranges"

or in multiple steps (I usually do it like that):

- Select the first range of lines

- Cmd + Shift + P > "Git: Stage Selected Ranges"

- Select the second range of lines

- Cmd + Shift + P > "Git: Stage Selected Ranges"
She told them she was the valet.
It's a tough operational problem for knowledge graphs to know where updating starts and ends.

For instance you might put a "record" into a knowledge graph that describes some topic like

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108937326

and then later decide to delete it. The "record" consists of not just the

?s ?p ?o

patterns such that

?s == https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108937326

but also other patterns that involve "blank nodes" that are necessary to make statements that go beyond what a single triple can express.

You can reconstitute the relational database without "rows" (e.g. turn a relational database into a graph and do OWL inference on that graph, or run SQL queries against a database with a columnar organization) but the row concept, like the document concept in document-oriented databases provides a boundary for updating records that (mostly) works even in the absence of transactional semantics.

Many of the older approaches to implementing transactions were row-centric, although newer MVCC approaches apply just fine to graph systems.
Same on iOS and iPadOS. Power cycling requires the passcode.
Thanks!

It's questionable, but I think the idea is that ad tech makes ads more valuable? Ie a user gets something relevant to them.

Maybe the future will be this personalization happens offline on the user's device.

Your example on WhatsApp buttresses my point I guess. With payment, businesses have to rely on part of their userbase. And we all know that segment largely comes from particular geographies. This knowledge largely affects a company's strategy.

Ads are not totally different -- CPC/CPM varies across markets. But maybe can be compensated by volume.
I wondered in college (in the 80's!) why all computer languages were in English. Fast forward 40 years, and somebody is doing something about it. Kudos!
Intel lost Apple, Intel is losing the server market, next will be laptops I assume when AMD can keep up with demand. That's going to hurt.
> I'd imagine they should make getting a court order for such a serious crime very quickly kind of a priority.

That's the whole point. This was done without a court order, and they used his refusal . There should have been a court order.

Also, the rule is not about unlocking phones. It's about what happens if a defendant refuses to unlock a phone: that fact can't be used against the defendant in court.

The purpose of this rule is not to protect kidnappers, but to protect other people who might be browbeaten or manipulated into incriminating themselves for crimes they didn't commit.
There's a new game coming out this week called Moonglow Bay which looks like it will have a similar vibe, but focused more on fishing. No idea if it will be good, but it looks interesting.
Coins also last a lot longer, and are harder to accidentally damage / destroy. Canada moved to 1 and 2 dollar coins, for just this reason.

(Plus, 2 dollars is like a quarter 50 years ago....)
Might be different sensors you are reading.
Hello Hacker News,

I'm working on implementing the PST file format specification in Golang.
PST files are basically like .zip files for emails but a lot more complex.

I'm the first person to have implemented the PST file format specification in Golang and I hope it will be used by others.

I'm trying to start a forensics company to present and analyse digital evidence to be presented in court. I'm starting with emails so go-pst was born.

I have everything implemented except attachments, that's next on the roadmap.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me (details on GitHub README).
It's a super-easy thing to say on a message board where none of us have any skin in the game.

Can you point to the statement where he supported fraud or asserted that she was innocent of any crime?

If you need me to I can point you to a statement where he said he wouldn't back her as a CEO again.

You know it is possible to signal support to a friend and colleague when they're at rock bottom and with the entire world piling onto them, without endorsing the worst of their actions, right?
> Or have you actually gotten out and talked to some of the workers?

A friend of mine had to move to a new city on short notice when his wife got a new job. He applied at an Amazon warehouse while he applied to longer term jobs.

He expected the worse given all of the news stories, but then he started working there and it was fine. He said it was the most well-run warehouse job he’d had. Still a warehouse job, but nothing like the horror stories in the news.

Obviously only an n=1 anecdote and it’s entirely possible that other locations are worse, but it wasn’t the dystopian job that we’ve all read about in every news article about Amazon lately.
>Not having to worry that upgrading one app will break things for other apps.

That's subjective.

>Safe screen locking.

Slock.

>Not having to spend hours getting hardware working properly but unreliably.

No issue with Void. Good luck with Windows and old harware.
You don't have your wifi drivers on your laptop reinstall? You are fucked. Yes, SDI Tool Origin, but you need an extra USB drive about 16GB to do so.

>Not having to deal with audio issues when you want sound from multiple apps.

That's bullshit, I solved that in 2004.

>A responsive interface that doesn't feel like a clunky children's toy from the early 2000s.

You mean, Windows 10 with UI latency and everything being felt as if it was ran over a layer of tar?
Because, in comparison, MATE flies. And I don't even use a DE.
After the preachers of the Linux desktop, I expect a flow of "Linux is GNU/Linux" folks and some followers of the "GNU operating system" cult, followed by the "the only free software license is GPL" congregation, so I will run to take cover.
Yeah it kind of reminds me of why I thought Bernie Sanders was once a useful voice. He was willing to point out realities that most political elites wanted to keep hidden.

His solutions though are crap, and he has profited greatly off the misfortune of the poor.
Over the long term, it doesn't matter. People will change business hours that best suite them.
Internet was from DARPA

Turing machine was from WWII to crack Enigma

NASA advances (including CPU chips) were from the Cold War

I love private development such as SpaceX, but we'd be nowhere w/o developments we gained from warfare. Turns out you can really put your mind to something if it's life or death.
This reminds me. I have an anecdote from my 90-something year old uncle who coordinated and managed construction efforts for the power grid in a post-WWII socialist-bloc country between 1940-1990. At first they relied on the blueprints left behind by Germany, and then they sourced their power generators and components from the USSR. But within several decades, it became clear that the USSR stuff is just bad. Like straight up unreliable and faulty bad. So the question became about whether to build their own, which the engineers were very confident they could do. Although it seemed feasible in principle, after many years of failures it just turned out that manufacturing these things was way too difficult to do reliably domestically. They had underestimated the entire intellectual investment necessary. Buying from the West, from manufacturers with decades of experience became the only option. And this was a long time before the iron curtain even started to collapse. And this was a process managed by socialist/communist loyalists. They were buying tech from the West while still projecting an image of strength and control.

Regimes trying to copy something strongly reminds me of that anecdote. They usually manage to waste a lot of resources only just barely catching up, copying, and then they still end up buying the stuff that works from the companies that have the decades and the experience doing it.

Making this chip tech sounds orders of magnitude more complex.

Reading the article I only think about what a major fumble it was geo-strategically that the people with good ideas went to Taiwan.
> The conflict dates back to May 2018, when Stock published a blog post that calmly raised concerns over the shift to self-ID. “Some have pointed out,” she wrote, that “this change in the law will allow some duplicitous or badly motivated males to ‘change gender’ fairly easily,” putting women at risk not from those who are trans but from predatory men.

People (in the US) panicked when a black man danced with a white woman because "women need to be protected." People panicked when gay couples asked for the right to get married because "marriage needs to be protected." It's always the same fake concern, changing the subject so as not to deal with the actual problem at hand, the treatment of certain kinds of minority people as lesser than others.

With trans people in particular the concern always seems to be that trans people somehow open the door to this kind of predation (see the "bathroom bills" in America). But why is that trans people's problem? A predator is a predator and should be dealt with as such. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a trans person deserves the simple dignity of being recognized for what they really are (human people), rather than what is convenient for old-fashioned people to see them as (second-class citizens who are "confused" and don't know what is good for themselves).
You avoid average-of-averages by storing multiple summaries. For example, you don't compute and store average, you compute and store sum and count.
Two of the examples of later applications of the wall of sound in the article are Jesus and Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey," and Spiritualized's "Let it Come Down," which are both fantastic albums if you are into that. The latter doesn't use the same kind of reverb, but that technique of creating a giant wash of sound was huge across the entire subgenre of shoegazer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoegaze), and arguably extends into the current era with the whole modular synth drone scene, which comprises a varied spectrum of diminishingly listenable microtonal soundscapes.

I think I understand why Spectre was less about the song itself than the overall effect of the production. The early Raveonettes albums took the best parts of most of what he produced and made more perfect versions from a lofi pop perspective, imo. Songs like "Lust" "Great Love Sound" and their cover of "I wanna be adored," are probably the most comprehensive examples the style Spectre pioneered, and I'd say they improved it with interpretation. I would probably even recommend "Lust," and "Dead Sound" as examples that representative of Spectre's sound more than any of the actual songs he produced. Nothing can compete with hearing JMC for the first time in the 80s/90s, but the Raveonettes are pretty close. They're to that era what Interpol was to Joy Division - interpreted, and almost better. That wall of sound technique over pop is a big influence on my own stuff still.
At the end of the day, ROI is what matters right? If Google is providing that much better of a service then people will keep paying.
The problem with that is who enforces the autonomous system? Who keeps it from sending data until you interact? Who stops it from being changed later on in newer models to do more?

Our cellphones once did not track us either.
Anecdotally, I can confirm that my employer requires me to:

1.) Not allow my phone to be unlocked by fingerprint/face.

2.) Not carry USB sticks or similar portable storage devices on my person, to only transport them by courier.

3.) Not unlock my computer for anyone, including the police, unless directed to by our compliance office.

Or it's breach of contract and they can reclaim part of my compensation. I don't work on anything exciting, just Big medical data.
Regardless of anecdata either way, would any of that be reason not to unionise, and hence reduce the risk?
Tesla (TSLA) reaches new all-time high, surpasses $900B valuation
How to prevent inspect element, users should not be able to edit disabled fields
Wow, I might actually prefer the Naked version of Long and Winding Road. The stripped down background makes the vocals convey more emotion. For Across the Universe, I still like the more psychedelic sound of the original - but thanks for the links! Despite being a Beatles fan I never listened to the Naked album.
>Did you expect a new country wise economic model to be purposed in this article?

Well yeah.
I thought it was a more general principle and applies almost any task. For example, the software written today is done at a larger volume and more cheaply than at any other point in history and can do more things than ever before (heck printing “hello world” or adding 2 numbers was a feat on the original machines).

My understanding is that it’s a general phenomenon. The more we do something, the faster we get at it (either as a species or individuals), the more tools we accumulate to help us smoothie out any bumps, tackle larger projects more efficiently, etc.
People don't have text messages, phone calls, messaging apps, in person conversations, USB thumbdrives, somebody else's email at a different provider... you're not a brain in a vat connected to the universe with email, you can figure out how to communicate without it for a while if it goes down.
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Great question. We support average of averages by storing the intermediate state of the aggregate (for average that's the sum and count) so we could cleanly re-aggregate.

Eventually, we'll be able to incrementally update the aggregate if we backfill even if the raw data is no longer available. That's not implemented yet though, so backfill only updates the aggregate if the raw data is still around by re-computing the intermediate state of the aggregate off the raw data for affected buckets. For most cases that isn't actually an issue since most people have a longer data retention period than backfill horizon.
If you let humans freely exchange goods, and not interfere, you get capitalism. Capitalism is not a creed like marxism. Capitalism is Marx's term used to describe what happens when people can exchange goods freely.

If you're arguing that we should protect free markets in these areas, like Colombia (which would also include curtailing criminal cartels, which infringe on freedom), then sure, we can have a discussion.

If you're going to pretend that rural areas are sometimes impoverished because of 'muh evil capitalism' and that we need 'insert untried, or failed social policy here', then I don't see the point.
The site is not accessible from the keyboard at all, 0 links, 0 buttons
If the possums are so keen on moderation and community standards, why not take advantage of this and employ some self-moderation and censorship? Make the community invite-only or if a user reaches a certain threshold of downvotes they are banned for a while. This would discourage Otters who are generally just looking for somewhere to spend time.
People's risk perceptions actually don't match reality no matter how much we wish they did. Given that, superficially nice people are likely a much greater threat to us all than we'd expect. And that's not to mention all of the dangerous encodings of social control (i.e. powerlessness) in that scenario.

Search term: "risk perceptions"
I think there is a whole generation of college students that have a visceral hatred of this book, not because of its quality, but because of professors trying to extract more symbolic meaning than was intended.
I like to use cash for the privacy.

If you are concerned about giving your data to Facebook, then you should also be concerned about giving your data to the banks. I'd argue that the banks have more important information on you, and you never known who they share it with
At minimum you could download software that is at least signed by someone you trust. Rather than streaming arbitrary commands from a source that the extent of the authentication is that their CDN's TLS certs matches their domain.