skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW I run a D2C brand and the iOS 14 change hurt badly.

We are able to attribute something like half of the sales we used to. The main consequence of this is the FB models can't learn who our customers are as well, resulting in an increase in our cost of customer acquisition.

It makes selling niche products much harder.
DirectML: High-performance hardware-accelerated DX12 lib for machine learning
Very useful to be able to see the details of e2e tests, especially cloud environment. Do you have an on-prem or library solution for running internally?
Do you enjoy explosions, spaceships, and verbal exposition?
> I feel like we as a tech community should take a step back and consider whether or not we should not be the only ones that decide what should or should not be done.

As an engineer, I'm in a better position to understand what the f is going on regarding encryption and, say, nuclear power than most people.

No amount of wishful thinking will change that.

> It is a massive country with many opposing viewpoints.

World. Not country.
Seems somewhat biased towards popular opinion.
How the circadian rhythm or sleep-wake cycle works
Thank you, Sparkfun, for spending the time and resources to defend the principles of civil society.

Can Sparkfun now counter-sue for costs and maybe even Barratry?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry_(common_law)
Frances Haugen's own motives are not the defining factor regarding the public utility of leaking this material.

Her motives are her own, and once her information is out in the open it isn't up to her to decide what we all do about it. I'm not about to dismiss what was revealed just because I disagree with some of her opinions about that material.
That last paragraph makes sense, changing taxi markings etc is inherently expensive. The lookup tables part is harder to understand, but perhaps the airplane software is very badly written.
> When you build a society where people worship money & fame instead of kindness or sincerity or any moral virtue at all, some people will do literally anything to maximize the $$$ and your society is fucked

Some people will maximize the $$$ in any society. It's how to make the strive for the $$$ the most beneficial and the least destructive that is the challenge.
Despite what Michael Douglas thinks, greed is not good.
You're doing what I wanted to warn against, individualizing something that is at heart a social problem. If there are all these better options to choose on every step of the way, why are there so many Jacks who don't choose them?
Couldn't you just measure background radiation?
Ham radio, for which you need a license issued by the government, the very same government which took down the internet.
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Yes we tried various things to better manage issues but there's just no easy solution when anybody can open issues.

We have templates, clear explanations about what the issues are for (it's purely used as a bug tracker for us), we even say plainly that if your issue is a support or feature request, it's very likely to be ignored. But still, probably 90% of new issues are feature requests, support requests or duplicates.

We've also considered closing the bug tracker altogether but in the end we prefer to leave it open for the 10% of issues we actually want to hear about.
Founder here :) Thanks for the submission!

There are now 50 companies with a 4 day work week in the database but I'm finding more and more each day so check back soon, I have more to add
I think it supports Jest framework. But I generally work with Java and Python. I've noticed the JUnit support but I'd also like Pytest support too!
> 1. regional censorship will be applied at a network level — e.g. upon “Indian IP Addresses” or “Indian Phone Numbers” — which is not a good solution because the Internet does not respect national boundaries, nor does it work that way: e.g. VPNs exist and are already used to bypass these approaches.
2. regional censorship will be applied at a human level — e.g. upon “Indian Users” — which is not a good solution because it assumes that (a) online anonymity should and can be effectively stopped, (b) national identity is straightforwardly applicable to humans (how about “dual nationals?”) and (c) platforms must know the nationality of their users merely to function, e.g. to send cat pictures.
3. global censorship will be applied blindly as the union of regional censorships — so people in the USA will not be able to critically discuss Indian politics, and absolutely nobody would be able to discuss China. This would be highly illiberal and destructive of public discourse.

It's going to be neither of these, but close to #3. Users will be able to discuss anything (withing their nationality's rules) but they would be not visible to user outside their own--or atleast not available to the citizens/users of the place is question.

The seeds have all ready been planted with this Russian propaganda/disinformation/whatever campaign (not trying to argue about the veracity of it, but it's interesting that the public apparently cares more about who said it than what was actually said).

Even in the USA, supposed home of the free, we are seeing that free speech doesn't seem to apply if you are not a citizen. Can't have weak American minds exposed to wrongthink from abroad.
Thank you. Let us not forget what general purpose computing was like.
> It's not going to be a revolution despite all the EV bull market folks say

https://www.drive.com.au/news/norway-to-hit-100-per-cent-ele...

I'd call that a revolution on a small country scale.
Pregabalin/Lyrica, I think. It's a seizure medication but as it was explained to me it increases the amount of signal your nerves can take, or it slows the signal, and that reduces pain. It helped me in the past but it makes you tired.
I know there's the whole "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence", but is incompetence a more likely path to becoming a billionaire?
It's understandable. It's uncomfortable to have the things you believe to be true brought into the light and scrutinized.

They killed Socrates for asking too many of these types of questions.
Go see it! It is a beautiful half movie: it only covers half the book, but is a great interpretation.
> If you are looking for a proven moral system, there are none.

What do you mean by "prove"? You can easily extend your skepticism to any body of knowledge. The empirical sciences ought not be given a free pass merely because of some unexamined (and incoherent) prejudice like scientism.

Everything can be said to be a matter of opinion, so that does nothing to clarify the subject.
Only if you can signup though, been very long time since I registered for invite.
Switchless Optical Fabric for HPC and AI Clusters
It is possible. I've been running my own for a year, but it takes quite a hefty server at least with Synapse, and it's not cheaper compared to the quite nice 5 euros a month pricing here.

If you want to give it a try, this is what I used: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
It's not obvious that Ms. Haugen provides any additional expertise in policy matters. What are her achievements in the policy space that merit deference to expertise?
> We are humans and like other industries, greed has crept in and we don't always make great decisions when left on our own.

I feel strange having to point out that Governments are made up of people too. If it's not people that are making the good decisions, whom do we turn to?
This news should take into account the current rental car market situation: that is, absolutely bananas.

Rental companies buy cars on leverage, and sell them used after a short lifespan. They sold off their inventory at the start of the pandemic and now can’t refill due to chip shortages, etc.

The used market is also crazy inflated, currently, but these companies couldn’t take advantage of that appreciation.
Disambiguation. If 34% (or even 49%) claiming A>B>C made A the winner, 66% (large majority, or even 51%, simple majority) explicitly claimed that C>A ...

That «roughly 2/3 of the electorate would prefer one of the others» means that whatever candidate is chosen (say, A), the large majority states that a single different candidate (in this case, C) is better than the winner.

There is clearly a paradox.
Nah Zimmers atrocious score was at least a tad worse.
Ask HN: Why I get ads despite paying for no ads in Spotify?
I pay for ad-free Spotify. But pretty much all the podcasts there have ads. As a customer I feel lied to - I pay for no ads, but am still getting ads. Am I the only one irritated here?
I guess its the content creator's decision what to do with their content and at the end of the day I am not obliged to listen, but isnt this a bit immoral? How long until we see such ads embedded in songs?
> We have massive conflicts of interest and some tech companies have shown over and over that greed trumps morals in many cases.

How is using end-to-end encryption of private communications a case of greed trumping morals? If anything, encrypting private messages and preventing others from reading them - be it Facebook or the various world governments - seems like the obvious moral move.

I think a lot of people, tech or otherwise, are projecting their own ideals on to this Facebook leaker without looking closely at the details of what she’s been lobbying for. Most people seem to want less surveillance and interference with private communications by Facebook but she’s arguing for much, much more.

But that’s the problem: The issue has now been so dramatized in the media that the average viewer doesn’t really know what’s being proposed, they just see “Facebook bad, whistleblower good” and assume it’s what they want.

It’s up to people who know the subject matter, including the tech community who understand things like end-to-end encryption and government regulation thereof, to speak up.
A Shot at Social-Media Fame Lures 50M Contenders–and Lorenzo Mitchell
> Therefore, the treatment of whistleblowers really does depend on who's hand they're strengthening -- the govt or someone else's -- and not a generalized respect for the truth

This is a very easy argument to make without resorting to political derailment, especially since it's basically a founding principle of our country (separation of powers, because we can't trust governing entities to police themselves, therefore competing and opposed government entities must effectively 'police' each other).
You mean apple isn't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts and belief in privacy. Wow!
Isn’t a whistleblower by definition not neutral? I’m not even sure what a neutral whistleblower would look like.

Should her
motivations be questioned? Absolutely! But if you don’t like her stance, just say so instead labelling her an “activist” or “advocate” like there’s something inherently bad about those things.
No but they do need to be able to be comfortable with mathematics and need to be able to make sure their models are correct. Which I would argue is not always the case.
"what the tech community wants" is pluriform and broad.

However, what we clearly see here, is how one company can almost dictate "what all of us get". If Facebook decides to have e2e, that is what we have. If it decides to have "less encryption" that is what we get.

The real issue is not what governments, tech communities or whistleblowers want. The real issue is that it matters very little, because in the end we get "what facebook wants" regardless. And that, according to those leaks, is entirely driven by profit.
> a switch that annihilated a $50b mobile advertising industry

I think your significantly overestimating their impact as Android is obviously not impacted. At most they reduced but not eliminate the revenue from iOS advertising.
Reverse Proxy Servers and Costs
> her suggestions really do not align with what the tech community wants at all.

Speak for yourself. Facebook has become a threat to my country's democracy and stability and has enabled all sorts of horrific violence. If Facebook could be trusted to do the right thing I would feel differently but they've shown time and again they don't have the capacity or will to do so. "Move fast and break things" apparently applies to everything Facebook touches and so they should be regulated and controlled like a toddler.
Not saying you're wrong, but. . . who actually knows what actual top-grade INS is doing these days? Those kinds of capabilities would probably be Top Secret or SCI.
I have yet to see a compelling argument for enshrining security vulnerabilities in law outside of the usual sob stories that like to get echoed in Congressional testimony.
The direction indicator is not a gyrocompass, though – it will eventually drift unless it's periodically adjusted.
https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Hitler+shooting+himself

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Punching+a+terrorist

https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Visiting+auschwitz

Hmm
Governments provide services - in general - in no small part because services are almost all cost.

Do you want your citizens to have electricity, as is expected in a modern 21st century country - or would you rather folks go without because of cost? If yes, then getting electricity to houses should be a priority, even if they never profit.

It should also be very noted that electric companies tend to balance the rural costs out with charging urban customers a bit more to make up for the difference, much like healthcare (whether it be premiums or taxes)
True curiosity and then follow through to be able to learn. Which I would argue is aptitude.
It feels like a Trojan horse for collecting biometric data.
I don't see anything that indicates that this could be dangerous, so I have to assume that it is safe.

I do know that pigments made from uranium oxide (bright white), in cloisonné, can be quite dangerous.

Of course, radium pigments were very dangerous (not to mention the medicinal philters).
Right, but doesn't that inevitably lead to nihilism? If all value systems are equal, then are any value systems meaningful?

Why do we assert that this-and-that is a human right in such a context?
> he pulled up a DOS window in Windows XP
Because the A-Series round of financiers think that's a great idea.
I would love to hear more! Did you write the datalog layer or is there one somewhere? Is there any code available I could see?
I was going to ... In fact I just did a bunch of research for half an hour. I picked a language, hosting, UI tools, looked up the API calls and worked out how to do most of the mechanical process behind the scenes. Despite being a decent idea and a product I'd 100% use myself, I'm not sure I should do any more work on the idea due to GitHub's Acceptable Use Policy...

> 10. User Protection

> You must not engage in activity that significantly harms other users. We will resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole.

I can see a lot of arguments that GitHub could use to label any kind of automatic "bumpbot" bot/tool/service in widespread use as violating this clause. If I was more confident it wouldn't get ban-hammered and shutdown, I'd pop back open that folder of notes and get at it.
I’d go one step further and say a whistleblower is by definition an activist. The entire point of leaking is to instigate change.
The sad truth is that your girlfriend in the wrong country. It's the same in mine, where many doctors move to nearby countries where they can earn many multiples more.
I wouldn't even call it a score, more of a collection of Zimmerisms
It's fantastic. Go see it in Imax if you can.

Going to the theaters will help to get part 2 made.
Betting on Nix
> they were able to flip a switch that annihilated a $50b mobile advertising industry

Fuck them. Seriously. Bunch of parasites.
Semisopochnoi Island
Does Ada also have something similar to the borrow checker? That is, forbidding bad memory access at compile time. I'm not familiar with Ada
what about discord? :(
"Everybody" is an increasingly large group of non-technologists with a social and political agenda. It used to be in tech circles most people believe the line should be drawn at illegal content, trolling and obscenities. We don't want more freedom, we want to protect the freedoms that we are entitled to. And no one should need to defend such an obvious position against those who want to turn the web into a glorified television.
The very fact-check you link to says:

> industry experts said that some owner-operators sought work elsewhere. Some fleets, too, chose to stop doing business with owner-operators in California.

where "stop doing business" is a link to an article about people doing just that.

And the "exemption" you mention is a temporary injunction that may be lifted at any time, which is not conducive to a stable business relationship.
Wrong comparison . You are comparing old M1 (that laptop is around 1000 bucks). Here’s the comparison with M1 max
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-max-vs-amd-ry...
Exactly. The Element UI isn't the best selling point of Matrix right now and that would be a requirement for someone to switch from all those apps to Element.
Don't listen to a random person. Predominantly people enjoy it but make your own judgement.
Blockchain's Nicolas Cary on crypto, blockchain and digital disruption
It's a temporary infertility, at least.
I think it's possible to work this way while still having single issues - I usually like to do a two phase resolution of an issue.

First, I triage issues - this should be done relatively quickly (within a day is a good target), and should involve reviewing the issue, determining whether it represents a genuine bug, a misunderstanding, a missing feature, etc., tries to identify where the problem might be occurring, and provides any workarounds, etc. That should happen on every issue without exception.

Second is actually solving the issue, if it wasn't solved during triage. The 60 days can be useful here - as much as we all want to have bug free software, an issue that a single person encountered 60 days ago and hasn't been seen or reported by anyone since might just not be worth fixing or might not even exist anymore. Maybe it's unfair to users, but also keeping an issue open indefinitely can be equally unfair - if you're realistically not going to fix something, better that the user knows now.

There's for sure cases where a single report is actually about multiple bugs, but that's relatively rare and I'm happy treating that as the exception rather than the rule.
> The other thing they did was use AI image recognition to scan images sent via text.

I think, this would have used the already built-in Vision framework [1], which runs locally, and only on any attempts of publishing to the iCloud. This is really the conflicting point: while it should be implemented at the publishing end, the concern for end-to-end encryption prevents any such idea, for which has to be migrated to a local service.

Regarding the procedures and treatment of children as receivers of such images, this is an actual (while restricted) leak, but it's a fact that minors are not recognised as independent individuals or as deserving much privacy of their own. It may be deplorable, but that's pretty much established in society and by law. Also, it may be argued that proceeding to view such an image after a warning implies consent.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision
A solution is requiring social media companies to verify the identity of users. They don’t have to require other users know the identity but the company has to. This protects against sock puppet armies and makes bans easier to enforce.
> There are no skeleton keys, only vulnerabilities.

This is something really unique to digital technologies. In meat-space, everything has a vulnerability: force. With sufficient reason and circumstance, whether or not you give up your keys, the government is still able to claim dominion over anything you're trying to hide. All they have to do is break a few walls.

Digital technologies don't have this problem (feature if you're the government). If you have your key stored in your memory, and there is no back door in the software, no matter what court orders anyone has, if you don't tell them the key then the information is lost to them forever.

This kind of breaks some fundamental assumptions layed into law prior to tech. When you use encryption, tech really becomes an extension of your mind, and your 5th amendment rights effectively shut the government out of them completely. While I like this idea, it definitely poses problems for enforcement of basically every digital and financial law on the books, which can pose problems for all of us.
> As an engineer, I'm in a better position to understand what the f is going on regarding encryption and, say, nuclear power than most people.

Yes, you are an engineer and understand the implementation details and potential side effects, but what about the opposing viewpoints like those from law enforcement? Are you an expert in law enforcement? Your viewpoints should trump theirs why exactly? You really don't think that it's possible that you can't see the forest for the trees?

Do nuclear scientists define nuclear energy policies or do they provide advice to those that define them?

> World. Not country.

I don't think we have a world government that will make regulations in regards to facebook.
That's only true if everything works perfectly and they're also able to solve some unsolved problems. This is why, for the current phase, they're scanning and storing people's bodies, faces, eyes, and other metadata.

See this page:
https://worldcoin.org/privacy-during-field-testing

We collect the following data through the Orb after the user gives us their consent: Images of users’ body, face, and eyes, including users’ irises (visible, near infrared and far infrared spectrum) Three-dimensional mapping of users’ body and face

If their system were hacked or misused by authoritarian governments, the damage would be huge. And they're basically telling the world "trust us, we'll figure it out" without proving they can do it.
What are some interesting use cases for CRDTs beyond collaborative (text) editing?
That's a fair perspective. The part of it though that is nefarious is that the main segment they have angered is the media. Simply put, the advertising dollars that used to go to newspapers now go to Facebook and Google (because you can reach the same audience far more efficiently).

Unfortunately, it's pretty clear the media 'has it out for' facebook, ultimately, for monetary reasons. Particularly the big institutions believe that if Facebook were out that a lot of those dollars would flow back.

It's the heart of all of the facebook attacks.
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My take is that it makes sense to grow the water-heavy vegetables yourself. These vegetables seem to be the most prone to damage during transport anyway. Plus, you can select heirloom varieties.

Then just get your staples (grains, potatoes, dairy products), plus fruits which require specialised agriculture, via the commercial food system.

If I had a house, instead of an apartment, I'd test the soil and then replace most of the backyard plants with good-looking and low-maintenance food producers; and replace the front lawn with pollinator-attracting xeriscape and maybe some herbs.