skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I come back with what is the harm in data collection?

None. Because it’s done anyway, except in an “anonymized” form. But as we all know, lifting that veil is trivial if you have enough data.
I think he was an abuse victim, so that might be related.
Their religious freedom can take a hike when they use their power to advocate for taking away human rights.
Textbook frequency illusion.

I just rewatched "Fight Club" a few days ago and was thinking "I just saw a movie with him recently!"
I don't know if you are referring to other languages also spoken in Croatia which are not Croatian (Istriot). They might not be the same language, but I would bet that if two speakers, one of Croatian (of the three main dialects), and one of Serbian, want to communicate, they will find very little difficulty (like between British English and American English speakers) in doing so.
He was also in the Spice Girls movie, Spice World, which Wikipedia reports made only a million dollars less than Fight Club ($100M versus $101M).
As the others mentioned; Advertising should be banned.

I do agree though that general change is needed.

Imo it comes down to education on drugs, facilitating safe use, and treatment of mental health issues and addiction.

"Don't do it, but if you do; do it as safe as possible. If you get into trouble; get help." is imo the only sensible drug strategy.

It's one thing to say "drugs are bad mkay" another to actually explain what the risks are and just provide basic practical tips on how you can reduce risk if you do take drugs.

Things like not using too much of anything at once, getting drugs tested, making sure you do it in a safe environment, not mixing drugs, clean needles (although really don't do those types of drugs), etc etc.

Also make sure people know the difference between weed and for example heroin, meth and fentanyl. Not all drugs are equal, weed is relatively harmless.

Lastly testing; It should be facilitated. Here it's quite common to get your pills and powders tested. It's free and facilitated. It saves lives as you make sure people don't OD on pills that contain fentanyl instead of whatever the user expected it to be. Same for legal weed btw, I believe in the US the quality is much better because of legalization. These things work, they literally save lives.

You can prevent so much pain and suffering by simply accepting the fact that people will use drugs and adjust your policies based on that fact.
Agreed. I think that part of the problem is that SAAS makes 'bought' software look expensive which has driven down the prices on eg iOS App Store to a level that isn't viable.
If you'd like to go beyond technical postmortems, I've found the IAEA reports on radiological accidents etc to make very interesting technical reading. Abstractly there is a often something to be learned about having a good playbook to deal with specific events.

https://www.iaea.org/topics/accident-reports
Another example of google going downhill?
> Microsoft has used its dominant position to charge for MS Office in perpetuity

You can still buy a definitive, noncloud, without subscription of MS Office, and they still release it (there is a 2021 edition).
The number of financial scam ads I have been targeted with is staggering. Youtube presented me with an ad that was ~24 minutes long with an investment strategy that was supposed to make you a $1000 a day. Facebook is the same thing with crypto scams and binary options were popular back in the day.

This ban would not make dent in my problem with targeted ads. That someone gets scammed out of their money and it had nothing to do with their health, religion or sexual orientation.
There were others like me as well. However it was at the same time the worst paid and most exhausting job I ever had. And that includes jobs where I had to carry packs of ceramic tiles in to the 6th floor the whole day.
I think it really depends on people, I've never had issues skipping breakfast and lunch. When I'm busy enough I will forget to eat easily.

But I know a lot of people who cannot skip a single meal and get irritated or angry.
Saw him live in the 90-ies, was amazing and he had a great band.

During the show he climbed on one of the big monitor speakers on the stage without thinking about how to get down again. A roadie had to help him out... I mean he was already a middle aged man at that point and no Eddie Vedder anymore...
The replication rate of Economics as a field is higher than replication rates for psychology, cancer research, pharmaceutical research, and many other fields. When was the last time you opened an econ journal?
Do they need a pre-trained modality-specific model for each modality to train this?
I was wondering about that topic recently!

Before COVID, offering remote was a big differentiator for startups and definitely considered a perk.

Now, it's becoming so common that I guess they should offer something new to attract talent, and I'm wondering if it could be a 4-day week? I'd be very interested by that in any case.
The value I get from and the price I pay for O365 are more closely aligned than when I used to buy shrink-wrapped software. “This software costs $299 in months 0 and some unknown month in the future, probably between 25 and 42, and is free in all the other months.” is how things used to work.

I hate recurring billing as well, and it works very poorly for occasionally used software, but for software that I use every week, I’m indifferent to whether it’s billed lumpy or smooth; the total price vs total value is what matters.
A well targeted predatory ad can destroy your life. I it looks like an overstatement, read it as «a long stream of well targeted predatory add campaign that span for years can destroy your life, and along the life of many others»
That's fine as long as the targeting is solely based on data that I expressly gave to the organisation that produces the product that the ad is for.

If the ad is based on data that was harvested without my permission from a source that wasn't related in any way to the product then I don't want it targeting me.

And every single targeted ad is of the second type. It's nefarious and I have no issue with the current type of targeting being restricted.
It takes resources to build, maintain, and operate most SaaS offerings. More competition should drive prices down, theoretically, but in reality there just aren't enough software engineers in the world who can build and maintain effective alternatives to many SaaS offerings.
Except 10 is not good.
And you missed 8.1, which was and still is decent.

> For Windows 12 we will cycle to "good" UI.

Unlikely.
Before anyone freaks out too much:

"Persistent" means up to one week. From the actual paper: "However, results were not significant for an abstinence period of more than 7 days."

Basically, science has proved that stoners behave like stoners. And if you stop it takes a few days for everything to wear off.
> A well targeted ad can be a net positive to my life

*can*. And is also a net negative to millions of people, by creating pressure to consume in a world facing environmental collapse.

Ads pollute our minds and the world.

Furthermore, they cost quite a bit of money and the cost is ultimately always paid by the consumer. This is another net negative.

I'd rather see all ads banned.
It sounds like you're talking about the W3C standards track (correct me if I'm wrong, just guessing from the context) whereas I'm talking about the spec itself as the document and the API. Those are two different things after all.

All browser engines have been following living specs even for core stuff like HTML/CSS instead of the W3C "officially finalised" standards for a while now, so I didn't bring the latter up as they weren't relevant to the conversation about the spec itself or its stability.

However, I admit that I missed myself and should've called out that the spec, while stable, is still a draft - that's a mistake on my part.
Indeed, if VCS is not your core biz, go with whatever you know well and feel comfortable with (for instance, disaster recovery and solving uncommon problems). Briefly consider the ease of on boarding of new employees, and whether your own skills are good enough to teach it to them if your preferred system is not one that can be expected of people to know.
Browser Tamer – super lightweight browser url redirector (windows)
If you want to know what the "that" was, I suggest you listen to the full song and you'll have your answer.
My impression was that roads were cleared first because snowplows and snowblowers would push snow to the side and it made sense to clear the sidewalk after the roads. Good on Sweden for challenging assumptions though. Especially because cities in Europe have vastly different car vs pedestrian balances than the US.
Copyright
Am I the copyright holder of my username (on any site not just this one.)?
If my logon name is an email address, do I own the copyright on the email address (assuming I own the domain)?
More importantly do I own the copyright on my actual password?
Why I ask this is because there is quite a bit of discussion/movement on privacy matters.
If I own the copyright on my username how can Google (or anyone else) sell or market my private information to third parties using my username or indeed my email address? Do they breach my copyright?
Tonga’s likely lengthy Internet outage
> People haven’t been paying for offices for the last ten years for no reason.

Companies have been paying for open plan offices for years. When I first started my career I found it bizarre that open plan offices were in any way considered suitable for programming problems.

However it's evident that many companies haven't got an issue with handicapping their staff in this way.
Everything I said was correct. I was a member of X3J11 (which was established in summer 1983), the C language standard, and was the first person on the planet to vote to approve it (due to alphabetical order) ... that was in 1985. It was several years before it was ratified, the delay having to do with standardization politics which required a lot of buy-in. I have no idea why you're mentioning the first edition of K&R from years earlier, which of course did not have prototypes.

There's a notable difference between C's prototypes and C++'s ... `int foo();` in C is not a prototype, whereas in C++ it's equivalent to `int foo(void);` ... C had to maintain compatibility with K&R style declarations, whereas C++ didn't.
Suppose you go on YouTube and it recommends you a video that is similar to the ones that you liked. This is a targeted ad. Would you like to ban it?
The usability of the web has declined substantially because of what the EU came up with. I need to click buttons on every goddamn site I visit.
Anecdote here: Old school targeted ads helped me discover something i didn't know i wanted. I was watching a game of football ( soccer for americans), and during the halftime break there were ads I wasn't really paying attention to, and per tradition, they were oriented towards males. There was an add for a decent looking multi-purpose electric razer that came with all sorts of attachments for different body parts, including head. I bought it and use it frequently, including for cutting my hair ( which has saved me hundreds of euros compared to going to a hairdresser) and beard.

So, sometimes a targeted ad can be useful. A contextually targeted ad can be useful too ( e.g. cooking utensils / supplies on a a recipe site).
"Life is a lemon, And I want my money back"
It must be said that the problem with (2) is the site pushing the claims being allowed to advertise/operate at all. Its only marginally less harmful if it can still profit from less directly targeted advertising.

I also think there's an important distinction between data that can be used on a platform's own website and information that follows you around the Internet (which this legislation doesn't appear to draw). In practical terms, this is the distinction between ads for services a gay teenager might actually use on a login-based social profile the teenager has voluntarily publicly displayed their sexual orientation on (and bombarding them with slightly fewer invitations to be heterosexual!) and rainbow ads following their mum round Internet.
dang/mods: The title here has a small typo: it misspells algorithm.
I’m not familiar with globuli. Does it make actual claims of curing things?
In general I do share your negative view on subscription business.

However, not all aspects of subscriptions - and not all players - are shady or bad. I wrote about the different aspects of subscription businesses recently[0] if you're interested.

[0] https://trive-studio.medium.com/do-you-hate-subscriptions-th...
It depends. How long did to take for bash4-isms to get adopted? Sometimes the update time for more basic utilities, for all systems can take a long time. (Apple switching to zsh doesn't help here.)
It's still early days, but as far as I understand it, one of Suborbital's explicit goals is to commoditize wasm-backed FaaS platforms: https://suborbital.dev
Isn’t this basically JVM?

Jython is a thing.
No, it was preventative to hinder people to jump to false conclusions while there cannot be definite certainty about it.

I do condemn this lie and believe people had a right to know that it is a possibility. But the condition for that would be that people are able to restrain themselves to not act on suspicions. This was not fully the case.

But even with that they should have come clean with their suspicions and adapt them as further evidence surfaced.
This is my #1 wish as well. I would expect they aren't, but it sure would be nice.
Wow, that's a very bad trend we see emerging in those past years. Did you have any chance to investigate the request at play and whether you could impersonate it via DNS on your local network (or if on the opposite, TLS certificates were stapled into the app)?

Also, i'm curious about your experiences with Roblox. I've only heard about it from these HN threads (no i don't know a single person using it) so if you have feedback to share regarding how to program it and how it compares to a modern game engine/editor like Godot, i'm all ears. Also, if you know of a free-software "alternative" to Roblox ; i'm amazed we run proprietary software in the first place, worried when it doesn't run because it can't phone home, but i'm actually ashamed we end up *producing* (eg. developing) content with proprietary tools that these companies can take away from us any minute.
He hasn't refused. I believe he said it was an annoying question, because it was obviously in the lyrics.

Fx,

> And I would do anything for love
I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love
I'd never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now,
Oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that
No, I won't do that

In the first verse "that" refers to "never forget the way you feel right now"

I gotta admit, even after I was told it was in the lyrics I couldn't find it and needed someone to show me before I got it.
I consistently get 4-5 days on my "shovelphone". Well, maybe its not a shovelphone. It's a 2021 midrange phone from a respectable manufacturer.

I just happen to use it as a simple phone with most of the crap turned off. Which maybe explains the improved battery life.

Edit: right now at 10% after 4 days and 16 hours. 8 hours of screen time. Top app was Microsoft Teams (56% of my battery usage).
Because they pollute the world?
It's fascinating how much the ageing West is fascinated by feats accomplished by as young as possible people.
Oh my God, now tell us how you navigate the bugs.
Java application server could run only Java, had really no control over the application (eg kill it if it uses too much memory or throttle it’s cpu), and provided hard to use APIs.

The idea was great, but it was premature and not well thought.
Then it will need quoting the metacharacters used for nesting.
<alt><left-arrow> ... and never return, blacklist them.
RIP to a legend. Please respect his memory and resist the urge to regress to Cox jokes.
According to United Nations there is the right of self determination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
This should take precedence over national law as it is the international community who decides what in the end is a country.

But in this case there was not enough international support as more countries (especially in Europe) didn't want to ignite their local independence movements.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41610863
Before doing that, it also misspells "first".
It is still just a modernized windows 95 desktop. Not sure why everyone is looking at Microsoft for innovation.
Yep. Amazing how the AT command reference I tweeted at you is still 50% valid since 2004 :D
Maybe the best pivot ever (since the iPhone was made for web apps [1]).

Can Apple ever switch back? Since their valuation depends on their income from the app store, they are forced to continue their policy.

However, is this a valid long-term strategy? Right now, most apps are by requirement single-purpose tools. Is Apple prepared for the time when there are user-generated apps? Much of what web3.0 can be is inhibited if Apple puts a tax on every transaction and prevents apps that change their source code.

Since the US mobile phone market is dominated by Apple, does this give China a huge advantage for developing the next generation of software?

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-original-vision-for-the-...
Indeed, this is one of the bigger problems. Big Tech have normalised a situation where free (but you pay for it in other ways) or misleading SaaS (total cost much higher, although cheaper in the short run) are dominant and smaller developers struggle to compete against this
Why don’t we talk about mental health in our teams and how to start
> What you are saying is that in the US a smaller entity is free to say “fuck you, come and get me” to a higher entity and get along with it, and the only way for a higher entity to step in is using force? (not literal force but force nonetheless)

Yes. And the feds would have to use literal force to get someone for smoking weed in say, Colorado.

Your friendly neighbourhood FBI or DEA agent can still arrest you for smoking weed in Colorado, it’s just that the local and state police don’t care and they won’t transfer you to federal custody.

Obviously this is not how federal law enforcement works. They don’t do patrols, and they are extremely reliant on state law enforcement to transfer the cases that fall under their jurisdiction to them, except when they are doing the investigation themselves.

Harbouring illegal aliens is illegal under federal law, but what are you going to do, if California doesn’t care and straight up refuses to cooperate with the ICE? ICE has the authority to enforce federal law within California, it’s just that they have to put the boots on the ground themselves now, for which no federal law enforcement agency has the resources.

This was by design. States are sovereign entities.
In a same boat. I must have filed hundreds of internal feedback & bug reports to see none of them addressed. Nowadays I remember to double click the right-click context menu, because right-click + V doesn't open a file on a gvim anymore...
Does 2720 have a Spotify built-in? Last time I checked it doesn't. If Spotify is available then it's 10x more appealing to me
Maybe use ads that are targeted to the context you're currently in, rather than target you as person?

The alternative to ads targeted towards an individual doesn't have to be completely random ads. Google even does this. The ads you see on a Google search is tailored to your search, they aren't ads based on your browsing history (though that might be part of the input).
The public needs the data, so the public need to pay for it. We absolutely can. Yet the FDA says "sorry only 500 pages a month" which means 110 months.
That's a good point! Personally i think forcing manufacturers to produce software is the wrong answer. Manufacturers should produce detailed documentation (datasheets) of their products so any software vendor can keep them maintained "forever".

That point was abundantly argued at the latest USENIX if that's of interest to you: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21/presentation/fri-ke...
Wouldn't they be able to detect mining? And shut down that VM? I think many hosters would like to have that...
Is Crystal the name of the author of this post? I couldn't find any other mention of the name, neither in this article, in its source or on the about/faq page of the site. This doesn't look like it's a personal blog where I'm expected to know who the author is already. (I was curious since I originally thought the article had something to do with the Crystal language, e.g. like how Zig is being used for cross-compilation)
If that's the only reason for accepting ads, then they could be consigned to particular websites and stop polluting the world for the rest of us. Then, if you need something, you can go watch all the stupid ads.
There is actually a fairly good ad blocker for safari available. It's called AdGuard and works quite well.
To be honest, I never lived in Switzerland and only know about it from my Swiss-German friends which, I imagine is a vastly different perspective than a Swiss-French, Swiss-Romansch or a Swiss-Italian would provide.

On the German side, there is a high sense of Community-First, where your neighbor will tell on you if you don't live according to regulations. This is opposite to individual-first mentality of the US where you won't tell on your neighbor for shooting fireworks in the back yard, in hopes that they don't call in on you for a noise violation later (for example). I imagine this mentality difference is the reason why direct democracy would not work in the US since everyone would pull the blanket to their end.

In terms of EU countries most similar to US, Ireland is most similar in terms of liberal economic policy while Germany is most similar in terms of culture imo.
Actually, having this plus using something like Confluence for internal documents is quite appealing.
There's also the "sooner or later you'll be screwing around" line he replies to
SPIR-V is an intermediate representation and WSGL compiles to it. WSGL is (or will eventually be) a w3c specification.

I fail to see where your point about trust fits in to that.
The whole point of misusing legitimate purpose is they're trying to end-run around consent. It's a bad hack until one of the national data protection agencies decides to say "no, you can't do that" and then it goes away.
I don't care about your product and I don't want my view obscured by your ads. The fact you think you should be able to force me to see them is the problem.