skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're point would have been better made without the confrontational tone and upfront profanity.

The article specifically talks about apps as well, and that is a user choice. Web pages also ask for location data in popups: this can be denied to them, which limits (though only limit, not prevent) pinpoint location tracking. I never said all tracking can be prevented. I said that people give away their personal data. That is a true statement regardless of whether certain types of data are taken without their consent.

I think we're probably (mostly, or at least partly) on the same page here. But if you want to continue a discussion that's fine, but only if you review HN community guidelines on discourse and civility beforehand. Also not that I often go days without revisiting threads to see if further conversation on a topic would interest me, but I'll try to make a trip back to this one to check in.
Hey dude, I know we're on Hacker News but there's no need to come at people with logic fu. There's a rhetorical dimension to language. You can't really "win" like that, were debating, not playing fallacy UNO.
And they will keep on buying Apple products.
I got decent results with a simple test query. I'll give a shot and see how it goes.
Yeah, stories about bad people sell much easier than stories about good people. How many movies and shows are there on Netflix about drug lords, serial killers etc vs saints and good people? The public has a weird fascination with bad people. It makes good TV.

That is why the front page of a newspaper is filled with negative stories, gossips, murders, mayhem etc. Rarely does the front page features a doctor doing free surgeries.
“The Dawn of Everything” explores how human beings once lived together
Smart appliances are a good idea in principle but rolling them out will take a long time. Water heaters last 10+ years. I don't think there are even any widely available on the market today which will automatically increase the temperature at mid day in anticipation of an electricity shortage later. And it's a safety hazard in homes with small children; hot water temperature should never be hot enough to cause burns when someone turns on the faucet.

Most homes don't have enough free space for a big pile of rocks to increase thermal mass. My home has pretty good insulation but on hot days we're going to be miserable without AC in the evening regardless of how much we chilled the house down earlier.
Missing physical feedback is a problem, of course. For example, you see a bench in VR space, but you cannot just go there and sit on it. So there certainly is a limit to what you can do. But just improving all other aspects will change the game already.
...the calling conventions are not the properties of the language itself, or the OS, only of the langauge implementations — the Gnu Pascal Compiler uses the same calling convention as the Gnu C Complier [0], so I think GCC simply decided not to support any other Pascal implementation explicitly and left those to figure out themselves how to link with object files produced by GCC. And yes, generally different implementations of the same language tended to use the same calling conventions to be compatible/interoperable with each other in the first place, although it's not a universal rule, so that's how why x86 calling conventions were labeled with PL names; but that's slight misnomering.

On x64 Linux, everyone managed to agree to use the same calling convention which is of course very convenient. The language of it's written specification is heavily C-biased, but if you squint you can see that it talks mostly about eightbytes and and compound objects and where to shove those so it more or less trivially translates to most other Algol- or C-descendant imperative languages; I believe it can even be reformulated strictly in language-neutral/assembly terms.

On vanilla x86, of course, everyone invented their own calling convention, even different implementations of the same languages: IIRC, Borland C++, MSVC, Watcom, and GCC on Windows all by default produced object files that you could not simply link together without manual tinkering. And (32-bit) Windows, despite being written in C, uses a variation of "Pascal" calling convention in its system API which they called "stdcall". I believe there were some C compilers that actually used "stdcall" by default instead of "cdecl".

Hell, even on x64, Cygwin GCC (on Windows) uses SysV ABI for everything except interfacing with Windows itself where it obviously has to use Windows x64 calling convention.

[0] http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/Importing-Libraries-from-Other-...
isn't that the asking part?
2.5" SSDs are AFAIK the medium for this.
I know you had a bad day today Richard Socher. I am sorry for that.

Reading through these comments must have hurt, and in some strange "The Egg" [1] way hurt me too. I felt as everyone that left a bad comment, and I felt as you, receiving all this. And all that after finally releasing the beta of your product, having worked very hard for that.

I am impressed by your stoic attitude and not caving in under all this pressure (this was probably as far as 'blood baths' on HN go). Truly remarkable, even though you obviously made a product marketing mistake here.

I encourage you to keep going and carefully read all the advice you got here today, for free. This time, let it all in. The cause is still good, the execution is clearly suboptimal. It's on you to get there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
Telephones actually have a specific exemption to what’s called Third Party Doctrine: the government’s right to acquire information sans warrant when that information is lawfully held by a third party.

Telcos are exempt for exactly the reason you mention: phones are really important to daily life and they collect tons of sensitive data as a side effect of normal use.

IMO this is one of the more viable routes to getting this behavior changed: expand Third Party Doctrine exemptions to a lot more services, but to do that we’d have to confront just how much data we’re choosing to share, and whether we’re actually choosing to share it.
This one didn’t do me too bad, but a lot of the “anime filters” I’ve seen will completely feminize my face into an obviously female character despite the facial structure and beard, I assume because I have long hair.
Thanks, we're trying get a feel for what players prefer nowadays.
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Except that Israel study of like 2 million people showed that natural immunity was something like 7-16x more effective than the vaccine.

Hmm...
If I hire a hitman who murders you, I will be guilty of first-degree murder. Our legal doctrine is sophisticated enough to handle this kind of first-order misdirection.
If tech@crowdtilt owns tilt.com, and the 'thief' owns crowdtilt.com, then don't they also own tilt.com?

I guess the registrar of tilt.com would have clear owner details on their end? It's not like an @ can 'own' something without a real identity behind them, right? Or is an @ a separate legal identity?!
That is def not a weird question.

I've noticed that I also make a bunch of silly mistakes when my brain is tired, like, after a long day of meetings or other things that are affecting me. If this is consistent I take it as an early sign of burnout and try to take some time off.

Something else that I do is let my code rest, like, open a draft PR and leave it there until the next day. Then the next day I'll just review it line by line. There's a lot of silly things I've caught that way!

Honestly Idk if there's a way to "get things right the first time" because of... Idk, being human? (at least in my case) but do check if there are any external factors that might be affecting you, and if you have a good manager that you feel comfortable talking to (this is rare... but there are some out there!) they can really help (maybe doing more system design and less coding for a while? mentoring? there's a bunch of things that seniors can do apart from coding)

Anyways, tons of luck!
I'm sorry to nitpick, but a judge can't outlaw anything. Judges don't make laws. They interpret them, and I can't imagine a court willing to opine with any sort of honesty that the fourth amendment provides the sort of protection you're suggesting. I'm as angry about it as anyone, but I recognize that neither my opinion nor my anger is law, a sentiment which I hope for the courts to share.
It's kinda true though... Oculus became a billions of dollars company almost overnight after Facebook acquired it.

I don't like FBs business model regarding privacy but they sure have put VR on the map. It's entirely possible it would have fizzled out without their involvement.

And this is really how the stock market works these days. It's more about belief and dreams than real-world financial results. If many people believe it's going to be big, it will be worth billions.
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So glad to see that there are more and more people taking on new things whatever their age. Hope you find time for game development, eventually. It's fun.
Which platform? Here's one on iOS: https://twitter.com/NoelDavila/status/1458134578544185346

Disclaimer: Not associated with the tweet above, but I was the TL for Reader :)
How many different publishers did I visit once or twice this week? Probably a lot, but I’m not sure which, or how much all of them would cost.

Subscription-only articles suffer from the opposite of the network effect. If I pick 1/n publishers to subscribe to, and you pick 1/n, the odds I can read something you tried to share are only 1/n^2. It might help if there were wire services for major topics I care about.
Hasn't media (newspapers, radio, television, periodicals, etc.) in the United States always been this way? Why would this time be any different?
Yea pretty much, Canadian VC is just an employment scheme for failkids + some guy who cashed out 20 years ago on yahoo or whatever to coast around.
FYI: in WW2, unsuccessful US generals were not dismissed, they were usually just rotated out.

Although US leadership in WW2 was amazing overall, the problems were:

- Pearl Harbor (top 2 military commanders there were relieved)

- Italian amphibious landing failures (slow to breakout)

- B-29 campaigns against Japan slow to ramp up (Curtis LeMay replaced the previous leader, then lowered altitude from 15,000' to 5,000')

- Patton slapped a couple of ill GIs and got disciplined. German intelligence thought it was some kind of disinformation campaign since they had generals shooting their own soldiers with impunity.

In later wars, leaders were hampered with limited rules of engagement, or interference from the White House.
Cancer? Wow. Personally, I expect they have a lot of good they can do in the world. And I believe they need resources to do it. What do you do that is so virtuous that you can call Wikimedia a cancer?
You're not an "actual owner" if non-ring-0 code you run on your processor can gain ring 0.

I agree that there is value in having control over your devices. But control, by its nature, must be limited. If everyone controls your device, nobody does, certainly not you.
I found that it did an awesome job on some photos and messed up some. When it messed up, it generally made mouths look way too distorted. I also thought it was funny that it turned obviously green eyes blue. Overall, I think it is a fun implementation, but it would be much better to have a larger output file.
Which browser are you using? Firefox appears to be not getting the agressive prompt to install the Chrome extension, they were clever enough to check for that.
I think Hemingway mode is when backspace and delete are disabled. Ghostwriter (https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/) has Hemingway mode and another mode that they call "distraction free mode" which highlights just the current sentence.

FWIW I find it really distracting to have the current sentence highlighted because it means the file's appearance changes more than it otherwise would. Sublime Text has a "distraction free mode" (shift+F11) which goes to fullscreen, hides all menus, limits the current file width, and centers the file's contents.
People willingly give up a lot of data about themselves. We can have a conversation about the details if you're willing to do more than just basically say "you're wrong" without justifying that. Of course you're under no obligation to do that, but it's otherwise a waste of time and low-effort posts run counter to HN community guidelines.
For read frag on ssd shouldn matter, and for write since zfs is tree struct the allocator would create few more nodes and links but no big deal ?
Absolutely correct. The Verge and other media reporters continues to omit this important note from the ruling itself from [0]:

Under all models, Apple would be entitled to a commission or licensing fee, even if IAP was optional [0] (p68)

Seems like The Verge loves to spin their way into misinformation since they know that the majority of readers won't read the ruling text at all. For those that don't have time, it's better to watch the Hoeg Law video explaining the ruling in full depth. [1]

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21060631-apple-epic-...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43CMV8KIs3E
Again, you're not buying stuff with cryptocurrencies, anymore than the heroin dealer is buying things with heroin. You're both converting your asset to a fiat currency, and then buying things with that.

It's a simple distinction.

Okay, less emotive comparison - you hold gold as a store of value. You liquidate some for US dollars, and then use those to purchase goods and services.

Again, did you buy those goods and services with gold, or with US dollars?
You might be surprised how often a CSS bug will break an entire site. I've seen it many times in my decades.
It may be the "we". For example, the public debate in the place I live in was more along the lines of "hopefully the vaccines will bring some relief, but we won't know for sure until large scale implementation" and then "initial results are promising", etc. - in my personal experience the vaccines' performance has matched my expectations based on the information I got from e.g. basic news, and I'm glad they're working so well.

This may be different in other places, and discussing differences in vaccine portrayal/media discussion of vaccines may be quite interesting. But without the context your comment may read somewhat vague or alarmist.
The saddest bit is that when it does end up failing, he will have convinced himself it's because:

1) "competing with a $2tr company is hard"

2) "people were too dumb to be able to immediately make it their default navbar search engine"

3) "We made a super easy extension to let people install it before trying it! We even open sourced it! Clearly, people don't care enough about privacy yet. It's not my philosophy or my PR approach, it's the users that suck. I hope the target audience for my next genius idea isn't as stupid and lazy as this one was!"

Insane. Absolutely insane.
You are misstating the ruling. It does not say that they are still entitled to the 30% commission, it says that they could choose to charge it for third party payments. The difference is that the former would be the judge saying that the existing contract entitles them to that (something the judge did not rule on), while the latter just means that they could legally make a contract that did entitle them to that.
Apple backs down on disabling face id for 3rd party repair
At any store. There is no registration requirement for SIM cards in the US. Wearing a mask is completely socially acceptable in the US now :)
Linux has taken over the server space.

But Linux can't even keep up with OSX in market share, or more importantly, developer effort for games/apps/etc.

So Gnome should ask itself after about two decades... are they helping or hurting. KDE should ask itself a similar question.

Gnome has several active Gnome2 forks out there and Gnome3, KDE is simply ... ok

And even then, Unity was another attempt, and who knows what ChromeOS is built on.

Linux already pissed away the golden opportunity of Windows 8. Now that Apple is leading an ISA shift from x86 to ARM on the desktop, Linux needs to get its desktop situation ready.

Linux and OSS are uniquely positioned to outclass Windows in the ISA move, arguably they are in a better position than OSX was in the M1 move. A huge portion of its applications can simply be ported with a decently supported recompile and I think there are package infrastructures that will well support an ARM ISA changeover.

The issue is the desktop. The blocker is the desktop. The barrier is the desktop.

I welcome System76 to take no prisoners in this critical period. If they fail, well, oh well. If they push Gnome/KDE to keep up out of paranoia, well, good.

Just please people, please. Windows is awful. OSX is becoming a jail.
That is indeed how facts work.
When I said Feds I meant it as the federal government in general, not a reference to The (Fed)eral Reserve. Because I'm guessing that if Treasury can do this, it's also an option available to any investigative branch of the federal government.
For recent drives, if you're lucky the vendor has implemented the Preferred Write Alignment, Preferred Write Granularity, and corresponding Deallocate alignment and granularity reports, added in NVMe 1.4 (2019). Those values may not exactly correspond to the underlying NAND page and erase block sizes, but can probably be taken at face value for their intended purpose if the drive actually reports values larger than 4kB. Otherwise, finding that kind of low-level NAND specifications often comes down to trawling through TechInsights teardowns and conference proceedings (especially ISSCC, though what gets presented doesn't always match what goes into mass production).

A zoned-like workload that is append-only within large chunks and uses a Deallocate (Trim) or Write Zeros command to clear chunks should perform well even on standard SSDs. I don't think the exact zone size has much impact, as long as it's comfortably above the erase block size.
Tons of places use devs in Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Bulgaria, and Serbia for example. Most of the US companies that outsource to Europe mostly just choose to outsource to the cheapest places with good talent.

Office wise though, that would make sense to open up in UK, Spain, Germany, etc.
Won't somebody PLEASE think for the children!
Warrantless access to all of those things is basically the definition of an unreasonable search and seizure. It is prima facie prohibited by the 4th amendment. There is no "way around" it.
Honestly, as a customer I love notion's and slack's "magic link" instead of using a password.

I think the next step would be trying to hack/crack your solution ;)

It'd be pretty interesting to see what you came up with, but for a product I'm building I decided to give "outseta.com" a try (not affiliated) and picked up the laziest way of just purchasing my way out of implementing auth...
I think Safari, flaws and all, is pretty much the only browser that has any weight against Chrome.

Tell your manager that you want the web site to support Firefox or Brave or something else, and they'll tell you it's a waste of time.

Tell them that the web site won't work on their MacBook, and it's a four-alarm fire.

In a lot of ways, I wish Safari would deviate even more from Google's "standards" just so that maybe it would pull Big G back to the center some how.
> I'd also like to see them move development onto Github, that should make it easier for more people to participate.

From: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ruby-core/#following-...

> The current primary repository of the latest Ruby source code is git.ruby-lang.org/ruby.git. There is also a mirror on GitHub. Usually, please use this mirror.
Should we be using them at all? Yes, probably. Being able to connect with my friends and peers digitally was a mindblowing experience in high school. The problem is social media has pivoted away from social connection and been entirely re-focused on media consumption. Honestly, at this point I want Myspace back.
Not that I don't favor a universal living wage, but price discovery for labor lives along a separate axis; the ability to withhold value (or the credible deterrent of doing so) is a bargaining chip that can be used in negotiation. This is true of every firm, be it an overseas sweatshop, an Amazon warehouse, or high-paid engineers in a tech giant.

Even if every John Deere employee made 3x of a "living wage" (relative to local costs), they'd still have every right to collectively bargain by withholding labor (to say nothing of non-monetary demands: autonomy, safety standards, flexible scheduling, etc).
Unfortunately wind and solar isn't homogeneously distributed around America nor the globe. The highest capacity, for both, in the US is more central US and not the coasts. This creates a lot of added complexity as those places also tend to be the lowest population density AND a large distance from said population centers.

So we can store our storage centers closer to population centers, but we can't generate it close by. We now have lots of transmission losses and opportunities for failures.

The problem with all this is that it is exceedingly complicated and most people are trying to simplify the problem. But here even including second order factors doesn't give you good approximations of the solution.
Oh, my apologies, I originally misinterpreted one of your earlier messages when you brought up underreporting.

I understand where the 0.05% case rate number comes from (reported deaths divided by reported cases). I do personally think the reported deaths number is probably slightly over-reported and the reported cases is significantly underreported.

Even if the case fatality rate is accurate, I just don't think it's useful when assessing personal risk unless you routinely go out of your way to catch covid. If you start getting into that level of detail, you at least need to correct for comorbidities as well.

Specifically, when I say that it's an order of magnitude less likely for a teenager to die from covid than a car accident, I don't mean a teenager that caught covid or a teenager that was in a car accident. I mean a randomly sampled teenager out of the 60 million or so in the US.
When I was an extra on Lord of the Rings "Weta" was a distinct step of getting into the costumes. The three steps would be something like:

1. Weta (for the Urukai this would be the wetsuit-esque muscles outfit, armour and helmet/mask - before the combined them)

2. Wardrobe (The rags laid over the armour)

3. Makeup (not really needed for the Urukhai except I seem to remember they used to darken around our eyes)

The order would be slightly changed for the elf costume with makeup playing a larger part (this also involved the wigs).

It's hard to imagine what part the teams involved with this would be doing for Unity!
And it's still a violation of the 4th amendment. Now, whether the fact that the violation occurred is surfaced in court, and successfully used to exonerate a defendant, is where the problems occur.