skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I just uninstalled a program called "Intel Customer Improvement Program" that installed without warning on Windows 10. It was bundled with their Driver Support Assistant package, which scans for new drivers for Intel devices.

I thought it looked unnecessarily dodgy, so I uninstalled it immediately, but was especially miffed about there not even being a consent checkbox during the installation process.

There was a blurb about how they collect and share your browsing history with "industry partners", which was definitely enough for me to immediately say no. Come to find out, a cursory Google search turns up an entire company division where Intel is using AI to develop and generate marketing leads for other companies. See here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.00778.pdf

One industry they mention several times in that whitepaper is "Healthcare", which I find a bit alarming given that I've heard large companies are now not only collecting browsing history, but new areas like event data (e.g. mouse and keyboard behaviors) to model the prevalence of diseases like Parkinson's, and ultimately find new ways to bill you for things you didn't know they knew about you (in an aggregate sense).

It's just all rather shocking, and I thought maybe someone here might have some inside knowledge of how/why this data is being collected, and to what ends it is being used - especially by mega-conglomerates like Intel, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. who have all the data in the world, and whose machine learning algorithms probably know more about us than we do about ourselves.
Presumably that house isn’t the same house it was back in 1989.

My uncle saw the same change (about 10x increase over 30 years) but his house went from “in the boonies next to farm land” to “desirable suburb of major city”. It was literally a town of 15,000 and is now a part of the greater metro area of 5M.

Same with my grandparents. Their house was on the edge of the city when they bought it and now it’s regarded as a “central neighborhood”.
There is of course a different in 'lifestyle'/'downsizing' and not making enough money to survive working 16 hours a day. That last category might as well be some pervasive form of modern slavery, but it all ends up with people living 'on the edge' in various forms. All it takes is one big thing that happens to a lot of 'on the edge' people and the bottom of society falls out.

The solution seems rather obvious: don't construct a society where a large amount of people are forced to live on the edge while at the same time pretending they are replaceable. Once replacements run out (like is happening right now), we suddenly lost something we apparently depended on as not-on-the-edge consumers.
Why did SO's "natural monopoly" keep sliding away from them throughout the trial period?
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It’s very simple: it’s because the story and your link talk about the same magnet. Yours was (initially) written when it was in the design phase, and it has now produced its first images.
SO was never convicted of being a monopoly.
This must be true because the bottom isn't the bottom because it just isn't worth much or has no value, it's the bottom because it's constructed that way. The idea is that there is a large pool of workers that could do the job, so you can just keep driving down conditions and wages right up to the edge where you still have enough desperate people willing to show up for it. It's essentially the other side of market forces... (which ends up in human abuse essentially)
Huh, TIL, thanks! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808646/why-are-the-firs...
Or did.

E.g. you are on a business meeting and your counterpart just took his glass of wine and sipped. Mirror it and sip your wine a few seconds later. Or do it with your hot date.

Mirroring works. Most of the time.

As apparently does using someone's name. Most (not all) people like hearing their name. Try to find out if they like or dislike hearing their name and either use their name a lot or very very seldomly.

I.e. for most people even in a 1 to 1 conversation say "Thank you Brent" and not just "Thank you".
Revisit your writing fresh, and read it as if you were reading someone else's writing
That doesn't work for docker since they are on a decline and the business isn't sustainable as it is anymore. So they are on a bankruptcy trajectory already.
No, you can also be profitable (or healthy) as-is and keep humming along.

In docker's case they are on the bankruptcy trajectory so now they have to make choices to change that trajectory (or select option 1 and go bankrupt).
CouchSurfing is just shit, full stop. I love the concept and hosted many people, but the way the company has been run over the last few years is beyond atrocious. It's like AirBnB sent over some people to intentionally run it in to the ground or something.

LinkedIn has to deal with a lot of scummy recruiters and scammers; I don't blame them for being very strict.
To the uninformed, why David Icke?
The only thing that concerns me is the state of the project https://github.com/OmniDB/OmniDB/issues/1289
If you still didn’t get it, you just used a method that Chris Voss recommended in his book.
Made an NFT of my CS Professor This was his reaction:\
>> But there is a difference! Stuff shipped a long way costs more in shipping, so they'll ship the best stuff, because the can charge the most for it

This is not always true. If the "best" is delicate or easily damaged they sell it locally at a big discount and ship the tougher ones further. A good example is lobster; the best is sold cheaper near where it is caught while the oldest, toughest and most durable is shipped around the world at a huge premium.
While I tend to agree--I've never used any of these delivery services--there is a slippery slope where you can also argue that local takeout and fast food generally is "absurd" compared to just cooking a simple meal at home, whether delivered or picked up.
You forget the editorial boards. They can mass resign, start their own journal, and ask that this successor be considered the legitimate heir. But editorial boards don't do that, and on the rare occasions they do, academics keep submitting to the old journal. Because, again, these folks don't care if anyone can read their research outside of colleagues who might cite them.
Oracle has done the precise opposite: they've open sourced or removed all proprietary features in Java.

Actions speak loudly.
Only thing that concerns me is the state of the project

https://github.com/OmniDB/OmniDB/issues/1289
You deleted your examples, but the Astrophysical Journal will be 100% gold open access starting in January: https://journals.aas.org/oa/

The NSF also requires that all the work it funds be deposited in a public archive: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/about...
These articles are never very useful. They're super high level "I didn't do x enough", but they never give enough context to really learn from.

> Not perceiving the toxic impact of the “brogrammers” on my team, and how they would subvert the ideas of the quieter developers.

What's a brogrammer and how do we avoid hiring them? Looking up this definition online it suggests we shouldn't hire devs that work out and wear sun glasses. Also how did they subvert the ideas of quieter developers?

> Letting the more stubborn of my team work like ‘lone wolves’.

So should all devs be forced to work as cooperatively as possible? How much can you let devs work by themselves, when you do what risks are you taking? How did this blow up?

> Not understanding the severe impact of group-think when having an almost all white and male developer group.

How did hiring white males lead to group-think? How would hiring of different races or genders lead to less group think?
The pumpkin here is just a test. They are still tuning it and at some point want to look at brains with a 100 μm resolution. They just cannot put living people in it before it’s been tested and certified.
>I wonder what the UK gets out of this

Just money. Pending on how much they can screw Australia out of local construction. AU barely had expertise for Collins class, pretty much no chance they can build indigenous industry for nuke subs. UK only country with free shipyard space AND license for US nuke tech.
How much cost does daily cleaning presumably add to a hotel room?

I'm imagining that the 20 or 30 minutes of labor is the majority of it. So like $10-15 dollars.

Where am I going wrong?
Never underestimate the scraping technique of last resort: paying people on Mechanical Turk or equivalent to browse to the site and get the data you want
I just fired my therapist for toxic positivity to the point where I felt she would stifle anything before I said it. Smug
In general, it is valid to resolve localized strings for use as format strings, which means that it is valid to have dynamic format strings at runtime.

NSLog might be considered an exception vs other Objective-C usage of format strings - but it might also not be worth having a singular special case.
I first learned about facebook's misdeeds from Stallman, who has had serious and valid criticisms since at least 2016. He doesn't hold back on many other organizations either. Many groups and individuals have had good reasons to criticize facebook for a while. At first I was surprised it didn't become mainstream sooner, now I'm surprised it's become mainstream at all.

https://stallman.org/facebook.html
Also interested in this question. Never finished the MIT os course utilizing xv6.
Another fun brain bender you can drop on people at your next dinner is that bananas and tomatoes are both berries but strawberries and blackberries are not.
The first internet assaults on privacy started with the MPAA/RIAA to stop piracy.

While it lasted Napster seriously threatened the music industry.

Eventually though the music industry won, without care of the larger damage it wrought.
I use mirroring all the time, and anchoring pricing works really well in a world where people believe you should never be the first to state a number. I also think getting to understanding without accepting or agreeing is a really powerful lesson/technique. So considering how easy of a read that book is I think there's a decent pay-off.
> then there's businesses that do sell bottled air

They're selling compressed air. That's added value.

> and people that do contract work or paid support on free software

They're being paid for a service, not the software.

But hey, I'm an enterprising man. Send me $100 and I'll send you a package with air in it and instructions for downloading free software.
The article says they didn't post to the status page for 24 hours.
You do realize that modern academic journals with these peer reviews didn't exist until pretty recently? Science doesn't need them, you can review papers publicly and actually contribute to the community, but instead these publishers convinced scientists that the publisher is the science instead of the other way around.

Read Nature's original mission statement, does this sound like the publisher we know today?

> It is intended, FIRST, to place before the general public the grand results of Scientific Work and Scientific Discovery; and to urge the claims of Science to a more general recognition in Education and in Daily Life; and, SECONDLY, to aid Scientific men themselves, by giving early information of all advances made in any branch of Natural knowledge throughout the world, and by affording them an opportunity of discussing the various Scientific questions which arise from time to time.

https://media.nature.com/full/nature-cms/uploads/ckeditor/at...
That Java "cafe babe" magic number seemed unfortunate, in hindsight, because of what was going on in industry when Java launched.

Besides programming suddenly becoming more of a "bro" thing than before, due to the dotcom gold rush, there was sexism that hit close to Java.

Kim Polese was business leadership for Java, but there were sexist slights in the field, like, IIRC, an article in the business press suggesting that she was able to get lunch with anyone because (the article said) she was an attractive woman. Nevermind that Java obviously had monumental promise at the time, both for software development in general, and for the future of the skyrocketing Web, and Polese was arguably the person to network with, if you could.

Here's one quick, incomplete introduction to the environment at the time: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/people-in-technology/...

When that started happening, 0xCAFEBABE felt like something one might've chosen to do differently, had one known all the overt sexism that would be going on, including targeted at one's colleague.
I've always thought credential stuffing and most password hacking attempts could be defeated by simply logging into randomly generated dummy accounts if the password is wrong. Just make it so that the same username / password combo takes you to the same random info. Real users should notice things were wrong immediately but bots would have no way to tell unless they already knew some of the real information.
Having a hard time reconciling the headline about “selling at a loss” with the words “driving up prices.”. Which is it?
Who are you working on this with?
It's full of distractions. Did you know that chocolate is a crystal? So when I see a thread on twitter, I can't decide if the next tweet is directly related or is it a reply. It would take less than 6 months to get to the moon by car at 60mph. Then there are stats like retweets and likes for every tweet that's totally meaningless, why can't people just push the top tweet? #furries are trending in Hungary btw. Then there's the conceptual problem about how authors interact with the platform. They must fit a paragraph into 280 characters, they can't edit a previous tweet so it's less coherent and they certainly can't give it a proper read through. Pierre-François Bouchard discovered the Rosetta stone in Egypt in case you wondered. Unfortunately this makes Twitter threads more like a rant rather than a regular blog post.

Basically, twitter.
Because OP said they didn't know anything about postgres and were speaking in generic terms, and the way they said "switching to int64" and recompiling all binaries just stroke me as "if you want a 64 bit system, you need to recompile it" (which is true). I'm surprised it's a compile time constant, as I just learned.

Reading their post history now they probably do know what they're talking about, though.
You’re in luck! The author has written many in this style and they’re all entertaining and usually educational too
A large pool of workers can mop the floors, but if the same pool of workers has better options, then employers cannot drive down conditions and wages.

For example, if bars and clubs lose their illegal barback labor because immigration from Mexico has slowed or stopped. Or strawberry farmers. Or people stop having 3+ kids, or even 2+ kids, and have them later in life, and the demand for people willing to change bedpans in nursing homes for $15 an hour is much higher than supply of labor.
Well, I stand corrected. I thought OP did not know that (given they said they didn't know anything about postgres and were talking about "recompiling all binaries"), but reading their posting history they probably do.

With "doesn't distribute well" by the way I meant that it doesn't distribute well as program binaries, not across a cluster. It used to be extremely common to recompile e.g. your Linux kernel, nowadays almost nobody does that unless there are some very specific needs. Of course, building a specialized postgres cluster for exceptional scale would easily qualify.
I’m not sure what rate you are trying to get but the electric market in the US has 5 minute settlement periods. So for your region you would need to grab the price for each period and average that to get a power rate. Take that rate and add transmission fees, taxes and various other fees your provider tacks on then multiply that by usage. In Texas you can go directly to the ERCOT site and get these prices and not worry about counter measures. I’m not sure where you are but there is likely a similar whole sale site that you can access.
How is this different than any other coordination problem?
Sorry, I don't understand your comment, I mean, I don't get the point? :)

I guess it was founded in 2009? (who am I to argue with wikipedia!), but wasn't "real" until 2013 or 2014. I know this because I was there, working our booth at NAMM, and chatting with the Bitwig devs about the architecture. :)

And yeah, it's worked out fine for Bitwig and Ableton. Though I'm still not that impressed with any Ableton release after 7.
I believe you would be correct on the first point, but have the second backwards. If V' was instead a chunk without the player, then res^V_V' Γ(V,F) = ∅, and the sections of sheaves are supported on {p} (as well as on any other entity with a valid chunk assignment). These sections would basically be functions providing the chunk containing a given entity, supported on the collection of all entities that actually exist on the map. Any other would give you 0 in the constructed top. space (no chunks if you don't exist).
Love agar.io and HN for this
No, you're probably about right on a marginal basis. When hotel chains give loyalty points credit, they give about $5-10 worth. If you do it systematically at the level of an entire hotel/apartment, you can probably save more. But still. Probably less than $25-30 which isn't nothing competitively to slice off a room rate even at expensive urban hotel prices. (Or to add to your profit given that I honestly don't really care much about or value daily cleaning and, to be honest, it can be a bit of a nuisance.)

Just one more cost (from the perspective of the consumer) to take out of the system, which someone was making money to supply.
> Springer Nature Group is the single largest publisher of scholarly journals, with about 3,000 titles. In terms of revenues, however, Springer is second to Elsevier with estimated journal revenues of €1.150/$1.333 billion (30% of Springer’s reported 2017 revenues of €1.64/$1.9 billion, in fact, derive from the sale of books). Its operating profit margin of 22.8% is also well below Elsevier’s 36.8%.

—https://infrastructure.sparcopen.org/landscape-analysis/spri...

That is to say, after they pay all the staff, including well-paid executives, and other expenses of putting out a journal, plus pay for other initiatives that are, as you say, funded by charging universities for access to the research created by their own employees, on top of all that there's around $300 million in profit (directly or indirectly benefiting shareholders).

(Btw, average profit margin for popular press publishing is around 12%, vs 22% for Springer or 36% for Elsevier).

It's not a charity, or a non-profit.
You can't completely tackle negativity because some things justify a negative outlook, but I think the key to handling negativity is to accept that people are going to act like you're wrong no matter if you are pessimistic or optimistic.

When I was a much more negative person, most people told me I was wrong. As I got older, had more experiences, I became less negative and more empathetic, I try to put myself in other people's shoes, and guess what; most people still say I'm wrong for that. I kid you not. If I try to find the good in something or someone, people act like I'm using some sort of tactic on them by doing so. It's crazy. All the time, if I disagree with someone but I decide to not damn them but that they will change their mind, others will jump in and say that I'm just "pretending to be nice". It's not enough that I think someone is wrong; I have to hate them for it, for some reason.

To handle negativity, you have to stay sane, and to stay sane you basically have to start ignoring how people perceive how you act out your morality. You can be the kindest, gentlest person in the world, and hordes will be ready to make you out to be wicked. If you can stay sane, you won't be too negative, and you won't be too positive.
Rates don't have much of an impact on affordability. If rates drop dramatically, then home prices rise in near lock-step, all those looser dollars flowing right back into the housing market. It means that with the same monthly payment, you're able to afford more (and people seem to shop based on what monthly payment they can afford, and are encouraged to do so by everyone from realtors to bankers). The inverse is true, too, with prices falling as rates increase (gee, remember way back in the day when that used to happen? 2018 was wild!).
Zig, Rust, and (as much as I hate it) WASM seem to be doing magical things for several years running.
Yes, their claim is for the most powerful full-body scanner. AFAIK and for perspective, the highest man-made magnetic field is around 45 T, the LHC magnets are ~9 T, and those in ITER are (will be) 12 T as well.
Find people you agree with. Or just change the stuff you’re complaining about.

Or find a venue where your negativity is appreciated and make it funny, George Carlin and most comedians have made a living out of complaining. People pay big money to hear their complaints.

If you’re not funny go into activism or politics. It’s constant complaining. Media too.

Product reviews, art / media critics, law. I’d guess half the GDP of the world is based on negativity.

Reframe your negativity as superiority. And don’t give your complaints away for free to ingrates on HN who are getting your complaints for free and not appreciating it.
Skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is
This is a different issue. You ran out of IDs for your row identifier. The PostgreSQL issue is that every transaction has an ID; normally this is a fairly invisible internal thing you don't need to worry about, but in some edge cases this transaction ID can causes problems. You could, in theory, run in to this issue with just one row.

I don't know how MySQL or MariaDB handles this; AFAIK it doesn't have this issue.
These have long been my favorite series of technical blog posts. I wish I could write prose like the author does.
Lead time for semi equipment is already years. Supply of qualified labour and expertise is constrained. Money is not the issue. Would take decades to rebuild existing capex. China broke apart meme negates the fact that when united, Chinese dynasties typically last 300 years if they survive first 50. Threatening east Asian supply chain is incredible smart because it resets world to PRC semi levels and forces US to fight within 1st island chain where PRC is strongest. It's massive deterrence to prevent fighting in the first place, per Sun Tzu.
Beartype: Unbearably fast runtime type checking in Python