skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not Facebook knowing who used their app, it’s restrictions on what data Facebook can pull from your phone. It’s also making it clear to users how often this data is being fetched, and the option to opt out of data collection is new too.
Pretty sure some people’s brains are just stuck in an infinite dopamine kick loop. I consider it similar to the opioid epidemic, where people’s brains have been re-wired to compulsively do things they might not want to do. Next time try asking someone you see scrolling Facebook if they’re actually enjoying themselves and I guarantee they will express some form of regret (but then will continue doing it).
Yeah, I have a little section of no-ad kids games on my phone. There are times when it's helpful.

Minecraft, a couple educational games the younger one likes, machinarium, don't starve, lost journey.

I find that it's nice to say no mobile games but it's easier to fill that void with stuff that doesn't suck.
That's a sad quote.
About 20 states have their minimum wage at the federal minimum wage. So the federal minimum does have a major impact on the actual minimum. I agree about the other part though.
I can follow all my friends and family on Instagram and see what they're doing. I don't necessarily need all my friends and family to talk to each other like in a big group chat. It's a one to many relationship (me to them) versus many to many (everyone to everyone else).
You should clarify that it is not universal ownership of a color, but limited rights in the context of products/services that might be confused with each other.
There was a whole post there, he chose to selectively focus on one word. There is not much I can do about that. What is it that you are trying to say?
Yeah whenever these SPA-slamming posts come up, I just try to imagine carpenters posting about why they switched to hammers from screwdrivers. They're just different tools that excel at solving different problems.
I don't doubt they work. I doubt the margin of work done by facebook ads on working professional adults over the work of ads that they are exposed to through other means and by word of mouth. And not that that margin doesn't exist and not that it's not worthwhile to advertise on facebook, but the doubt is that as compared to any other demographic being advertised to that it's worth so much more.

Advertising to impulsive spenders is worth more than advertising to less impulsive spenders. Less impulsive spenders are informed by ads, more impulsive spenders are convinced by ads.
If you're familiar with the expression, you're also familiar with it having a connotation of something being oversold, usually for reasons of sales or politics. I don't think that's a fair way to describe good faith scientific research into a hard problem.
Lots of people use it.
I'm guessing OP has a strong bias on this since the article does not match the title and actually talks about how there is controversy over the claim.
The PCBs are in production – what have I messed up?
I would also love this. The current rules for when you're allowed to elide are nonsensical.
It does have a certain charm but the I and 1, O and 0 not being distinct enough prevents me from actually using it.
‘Will He Make a Similar Pledge?’: CBS Reporter Presses on Biden Appointments
> This is so f’ing stupid, and in that way perfectly epitomizes what’s so broken about crypto.

> nobody wants to run their own bank

It sure looks like A LOT of people do. The real question is why are you so mad about it?
The “Pi Is Rational” Page:)
Ah yes, that does make sense, I would agree. That Rust doesn't have that (in any context that I know of) is one of its annoyances,
I built my last company with Go, Vue.js, gRPC, and Kubernetes. And, wow was it a slog. It was hard for new developers to jump in, we had separate engineers for frontend + backend, and there were things we never even touched - such as real-time/websockets or end-to-end testing.

I recently started a new project in the same stack [1], and partway through paused because it was taking so long to deliver customer value. I jumped back into Rails, inspired by their new Hotwired framework [2]. And, holy shit - the speed of development became insanely quick. Not only that, but I've been able to achieve a higher level of polish than I would have with a single-page JS app. Specifically - building in real-time updates only took a few lines of code. It was possible to achieve this level of polish with an SPA, but realistically it would have taken me so much time that I would have never prioritized it.

I hadn't touched Rails in over a decade. As a junior developer, I felt overwhelmed because Rails had solutions for so many problems I had not yet encountered. But, returning to Rails with some more experience - I appreciate its "omakase" [4] approach so much more. So many best practices are built in or easy-to-install. Queues, cron, async jobs, audit logs, email click tracking, end-to-end testing, real-time updates, caching, sessions, URL slug "friendly IDs", image resizing, rate limiting, admin interfaces, rich text fields, S3 integrations, sitemaps - they all just work!

With the new Version 7, Rails is truly a "One Person Framework" [5].

[1] https://www.booklet.group

[2] https://hotwired.dev/

[3] https://bookletupdates.substack.com/p/comments-directory-and...

[4] https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html

[5] https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-one-person-framework-711e6318
If I understand correctly, you're referring to the "easy" problem of consciousness, i.e. the "mechanistic" explanation of how a self could be constructed by the brain. That's an interesting question and I think your take is a coherent and plausible one (from a materialistic perspective). However, I still think this doesn't get around the hard problem of why these interactions actually feel like anything. I've never heard a satisfying materialistic explanation of that. Do you believe the interactions could in principle be implemented on any Turing machine? Or are they substrate dependent?
It's there, but there are issues:

https://trid.trb.org/view/1756275
I don't see that anywhere in the page source. And when I try to manually inject that css it says it's an invalid property name.

For context, I'm using Firefox on Linux. Also I haven't done any real front-end work in 10 years, so forgive me if I am missing something obvious here.
This is part of apples model that the web is for static reference material, and anything more complex should be an app in the apple ecosystem.

Apple goes to great lengths to make sure webapps can't be too useful for the user.
> They haven't seen audience growth in years and their audience is skewing older and older, which is bad for their advertising business

Older people have more money to spend and are therefore worth more to advertisers.
Yeah, I think the real problem here is that nobody wants to support anything anymore. The only way to continue shipping products is to basically ship generic throw-away happy meal toys that are incapable of being misused.
I'll pick just one point to address:

> The JS tooling ecosystem is amazing and getting things setup nowadays just takes one command.

Which command would that be? Sure it's one command if you use one of a billion template projects, but just picking one of those is a chore and I'd never call that situation "amazing".
>I still enjoy React, but why is it so much harder to create apps in the JavaScript ecosystem, compared to Rails? We have all the necessary tools after all.

It is not harder at all as long as you do not commit to those giant frameworks and accompanying toolsets. I wrote decent size SPA using couple of libs and plain JS. Was fairly easy.
Insiders are often very overexposed to a single company because it's their primary form of compensation. You can sell every share you have and still be overexposed due to unvested shares. I would advise against interpreting "I don't want to tie my life savings to this company" as a lack of faith.
i had this same question, maybe someone can explain.
People who disagreed with the article, flagged it as "spam or off-topic". The article discussing cancel culture got canceled (flagged) -- how ironic is that?
It would be like middle school with on-call rotations.
Just keep in mind that behind the times != dysfunctional
> You do realize "defund the police" means diverting funds that would usually be spent on tons of military grade gear they don't need, and using those funds on community improvement programs, right?

That's not what it means at all. In policing, as in most organizations, the overwhelming majority of expense comes from paying salaries and benefits. Equipment makes up a relatively small portion of the pie. The only way to defund the police, or anything else for that matter, is to cut the headcount.

Why I don't agree with AOC on much, she was considerably more honest than other politicians when she said, "Defund the police means defund the police".

As others have already pointed out, meaningful improvements to policing in the U.S. would require spending more money, not less.
Wouldn't it be the case id one worker was pulling work asynchronously delivered from two places? I only use one go routine / one channel myself, but the name select itself very strongly implies it is a yield type operation where any of a number of async actions can wake it for their callback to run. Albeit without a callback syntax, it is async and better be fair.
This is also my #1.

Parameter / Option ergonomics.

The current best practice of "functional options" and long function chains results in far too many function stubs ... its a minimum of 3 extra lines per parameter. Parameter structs require a whole extra struct...

Borrowing optional / named parameters from Python would cut down length and complexity of Go code drastically.
> this is not the modal Facebook user

the increasing hew and cry suggests that it actually is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theo...
What would be his motive for saying revenue would be $10B less than previous trends would predict? They posted record revenue again in 2021, so it doesn't look like he's trying to cast a scapegoat for stagnant revenue.
There is one thing everyone living in a democracy can do to make a huge difference -- write your elected official (specifically 6-12 months before an election) & include climate stance in your vote calculus.
What's Meta? You mean Facecrook, the spying and surveillance network?
So, here's an interesting question: I recently got an email from a recruiter for Amazon saying I could interview for whatever org and whatever team I wanted. What are some sane, reasonable teams? Which teams are the most insane and unreasonable?
If you're in a district that is heavily gerrymandered, your vote may actually be more important.

Still, the best proportional representation for you is local. So mayor, state rep, governor.
And this is the big, probably irreconcilable, difference in culture between the sum-typers and the compiler-assisted-named-valuers....
I’m saying just the opposite. If the argument is that people prefer Android over iPhones for reasons like “openness” [sic] that’s clearly not the case. Where users can afford iPhones either because they have the income or where carriers have easy payment plans, they buy IPhones - like in the US or the more affluent even in China.
A SEC report is something you quietly (hopping they'll ignore it) tell investors so they can't sue you.

If they were threatening something, they would have made noise about it.
People don't want to run their own bank but they want the option to do it. People don't want to store their own cash but they want the option to do it.
Show me a source for this claim.
I think you missed where I wrote "I take it you are against any sort of reparations for those people still alive today whose lives were directly harmed by racist laws?"

Jim Crow laws weren't abolished until the 1960s. People alive today suffered from those laws. Do you think they should get reparations, and if not, why not?

The Japanese-Americans were in internment camps because of mid-20th century views on race. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 which legislated reparation explicitly names "race prejudice" as one of the factors. See https://www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/house-bill/442 .

I've read a decent amount now about CRT, from the people who have developed the concept over the last few decades. It does not do what you say it does. What I have seen is how the popular nay-sayers use it as bogeyman term used to reject or diminish any examination of systemic racism.

That said, EVEN IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, do you think reparations for living people based on harms caused by historical race prejudice is itself racist?

It seems that if you do, then you think the internment reparations of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was racist. And if you do not think it's racist, then you agree with Kendi, LBP, and Justice Blackmun.

Here's a more specific example. In 1924 the city seized the beach resort own by the Bruce family. The owners were Black, and it was one of the few places in California where Black could get into the water. Quoting https://www.npr.org/2021/10/10/1043821492/black-americans-la...:

> White residents set up barricades to keep Black beachgoers from getting to the ocean, and the Ku Klux Klan, active along the California coast, reportedly planned attacks against the Bruce's resort.

> "They slashed tires, they burned mattresses under the porch of the resort, they tried to blow up a gas meter of one of the residents here," Shepard says. "They had 24/7 phone campaigns and made threats against Willa and her family."

This made the news because the California legislature passed a law to return the land to the family, long after the owners were dead.

Is this law a form of reparation? Is this law racist? Personally, I see it as a form of reparation, and not racist, but rather trying to right an historic wrong based on race prejudice. What do you think?
I mean at the end of the day attempting to shift blame to "the corporations" for emissions is neglecting the fact that the corporations are emitting in order to (ultimately) supply consumers.
these are beautiful
It's not about taking the money. It's about taking your privacy and selling it. When more ways of processing and selling personal data become illegal there's no point for Facebook to continue doing business in the EU unless they want to pivot to a subscription service.
The same argument can be made here. "You're speaking from a place of infrastructure privilege. Not everyone can afford smartphones. Not everyone has reliable access to electricity. Not everyone has reliable access to internet."

(I'd like to clarify I'm pointing out that this argument can be made, I'm not actually claiming to be familiar with anyone's circumstances or privileges.)
> Please note that Apple has audit rights pursuant to the entitlement’s terms and conditions.

Apple expects each company to open their books in perpetuity. Simply evil.
Have any of you tried JEE? ;)
You are correct - many apps use SPAs when the business requirements don't necessitate it. I got hung up paying a loan on the Department of Education because of bad Angular on the payment form. I had to "hack" (push through a request using DevTools) a page on CVS's speciality pharmacy page to order a very important medication. (Also Angular)

There are definitely apps that are only possible using SPAs. Using a front-end framework should be based on business need, not personal preference, but unfortunately, boot camps and the like are churning out developers who are being taught that every problem is a nail.
I manage a remote team from Eastern Europe and I can echo this 100%.
So should the post's title be "An active ingredient ..."?
It always depends on the product. I have a hypothesis that almost everyone is a "power user" of something, but that something varies from person to person.

For me, I am a power user of computers and technology, but I couldn't care less about my car and just want it to get me places.

Other people are the opposite, and love tinkering with their cars. Or maybe they are a power user of carpentry tools, while others (like me) just need a basic drill.

I think one thing that worries me is that there are markets that cater to power users in other areas (cars, tools) but the way software is going, almost all software is being stripped down and power being taken away from all users since the non-power-user base is so large. This is especially true with mobile technology, but it is creeping into desktops/laptops as well.
Take FB from them and they will make noise for a week before they adopt something else.
Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online Tao Data Store (VLDB'21)
If you need to employ N other tradespeople to earn a high income, that means that the ratio of high-income to low-income tradespeople is semi-fixed. If you need to have 9 employees to get 100k income, that means only 10% of the people entering the field will have a chance to earn 100k. In addition, unless N is 2 or 3, it cannot be the case everyone gets a chance at higher incomes in their life; that they will earn lower salaries the first few years but then start earning high salaries when they move up.

So, what is N? Unless it is a low number and almost everyone earns high salaries after a couple of short years, we are doing the next generation a great disservice by encouraging them to get into careers where they destroy their bodies for the benefit of the boss, not themselves.
The right analogy is trying to understand why your favorite OS works, by trying to understand why certain window appears when you click in certain region of the screen. You need to understand up to certain level the underlying mechanisms (e.g. if you want to understand how an OS works, you need how a syscall works, then you need to understand how the processor works).

All this philosophical labyrinth of words seems futile. We need to have a right system level model of the cortex and subcortical structures to progress. I feel like we are trying to resolve this problem looking at the quantum effects in the transistors (using the previously cited analogy) [neuroscience] and looking to a datacenter [cognitive science]. We need to choose the right level of abstraction. We haven't figured out what is the right one in the last 100 year. We will do... and perhaps discover that Cortico-thalamic pathway in the von Neumman base of our OS...
the val and const cases should hardly be different if the compiler has constant folding, except maybe for the typing.
I think it was Fortran which introduced the equivalence between programming variables (that are a mutable piece of memory) and mathematical variables (which describe a relationship). But they aren't really the same. And "variable" has become too fixed in computer science usage to be repaired back to its earlier mathematical meaning.
Doesn't cold weather still kill more old folk than heat in the UK? High heating bills doesn't really move the needle any if they are also significantly subsidized.

Out here in the midwest US, high propane and natural gas prices have caused a massive spike in the installation of wood heating. Our bill went up by nearly 50% this winter due almost entirely to supply issues.

Unfortunately, heat pump installation is still too expensive (many years payback) and electrical heating isn't particularly green (resistance heating a house at -40 degree wind chills off of coal and natural gas at night is the worst outcome possible short of burning petrol generators).

We are much better off saving residential heating for later and focusing on other carbon priorities until the grid itself is greener, I think.
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Where is dang on this post. Why do we think so many of these comments and even this post are okay and on topic for HN. Next thing you know this place will revolve into blind. I guess dumping on amazon is on the right side of the line here but anything questioning Covid vaccine efficacy should be banned because it’s not science. This place has become a mockery of itself.
So many comments here miss the tone with which The Economist presents this. It encapsulates some intriguing truth about the HN commentariat that the disclaimers are so willfully ignored.

> The Big Mac index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide...

> Burgernomics was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment, merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible.

And before you go and dissect the last sentence as E claiming it has actual use, stop and look both ways for puns.
Can someone provide context for this?
> You can always vote for the politicians that are willing to go after the gas leaks, you can choose to buy from companies that are sourcing from leak-free gas pipes or use renewable energy sources etc.

None of these things are true for me. I'm not allowed to vote where I live and even if I could, the US election system doesn't offer a practical voice that reflects this (the broken voting method is arguably is the biggest problem the US needs to solve). I also only have a doctor gas company. So my alternative would be to switch my furnace, water heater and stove to electric. That's actually on my wishlist, but now we are talking significant money. People who live in apartments or even condos likely at best have control over the stove.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not saying that individuals shouldn't take responsibility. In fact I've moved to a largely vegan diet both due to carbon emissions and animal cruelty concerns. I feel guilty every day and wonder if my positive contributions outweigh the damage that my existence does to our environment and the harm and pain climate change will ultimately cause for other people as well as coastal cities behind uninhabitable, we see unrest over climate refugees, famines, etc.
A vaccine has the potential to give you enough of an immune response to prevent an infection. But eradicating an existing HIV infection is a very different problem. The virus lies dormant in large quantities, and your immune system will only attack the virus that’s “awake”. The current research for a cure is focusing on eliminating this viral reservoir. While your immune system could theoretically keep the active HIV at bay, leading to a functional cure; we’ve never seen this play out (other than in Timothy Ray Brown). HIV always wakes up, and replicates faster than your lymphocytes can kill it (while using your immune system as a virus factory).
Agreed. We tried bolting a js front onto our elixir app and instead ended up using liveview. It saves us a ton of effort and has most of the bells and whistles our users expect anyway.
So what's the line?? Is it 10 million? 1% of the human population? If so, why should it be 1% and not 0.1%? Because it seems more significant?
Is that still true with WSL?
if it is not constant, it must be variable i.e. changing. Mutation = change.
I am only a home owner because the value of my deflationary BTC savings dramatically outpaced inflationary USD savings account interest.

If bitcoin is coming in constantly you get it at the average price via dollar cost averaging and the average value of Bitcoin has trended sharply up for a decade.

Selling BTC for USD is most likely a loss to inflation if you intend on holding for a year or more.
Fair point. "value" and "var" then, perhaps?
the total lifetime cost of car ownership (50 years) ranges between €599,082 for an Opel Corsa to €956,798 for a Mercedes

So between 11901.64 for a Corsa per year and 19135.96 for a Mercedes. Damn, i knew Mercedes was better.
A new Corsa is from 15000 Euros. That says a lot about their calculation.