skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak to the market, but for me personally the restrictions on ad targeting and more specifically conversion tracking is what made me think FB loses a lot of value - not the reverse in user growth. Though that's not great for a long term window.

It seems the most profitable users don't care and typically engage with the ads. Or they used to before apple came in and lowered the quality.

Arguments about ethics/ads aside
First, the restrictions on your account are because you've been breaking the site guidelines. The way to get those removed is to provide evidence that you've stopped breaking the guidelines and won't break them in the future. That has nothing to do with any of this other stuff—it's not as if being right about bias or demographics (if in fact you are) would make it ok for you to break HN's rules, although people often act as if that non sequitur were true.

Second, it's not obvious how to study this kind of thing quantitatively without making interpretive calls, and whoever controls the interpretive calls completely controls the outcome of the study. In other words, all this would do is reproduce the same cake at a meta level, just with a distorting layer of pseudo-objective icing. The chance that anyone with strong ideological passions is going to run some quantitative analysis about this and come up with anything but the conclusion they already believed, is approximately zero. Has there ever been any study of this sort that did that?

I'm not saying that a good quantitative analysis is impossible, but it would need to rigorously account for this effect (of people reading into the data what they already perceive and believe). How to do that is not obvious, and any 'offer' that comes without a serious plan for it screams bogusness to me. I don't mean to imply that you're intentionally making a bogus offer, just that one would be foolish to take it.

Besides all that, the one empirical analysis you've offered so far ("I watched you single out all of my comments, and then later go back for a second pass to flag the other posters too after you read my profile description") was completely imaginary. That's hardly unique to you—it's just devilishly difficult to perceive these things objectively. The mind simply can't resist its own narratives.
- WSL2 will not have problems like that, and I believe they were long fixed in WSL1.

- I love Go but the Go runtime is a pretty big snowflake, its one of the few non-libc users of the Linux syscall interface . Also, I think they fixed it on the Go side as well, for good measure, though I could be wrong.
LinkedIn shares something with Facebook, in that it is a giant clusterfuck of additional bullshit on top of a few key features, and a critical mass of participants, that fulfill the promise of social networking.

100% owe my career to LinkedIn, despite having never posted or commented or liked or joined a damn thing.

The access to people and information is, alas, worth the cringe.
Can someone explain the people that post gushing thank you posts on their way out of the company?

I don't care what amazing next step of your journey awaits you, I want to know if you quit or if you were fired.
Because barely edible and slow-poisoning food isn't a bug of the American prison system -- it's a feature. In, they're proud of the "whitebread and baloney" diet they feed these people.

Not that vegan food can't be barely edible and slow-poisoning either, of course. But it's a lot easier to get to that desired stat with a high-meat diet.
Intel included support on all their consumer chips until recently I believe. The mediated passthrough is different than full passthrough like you are probably thinking.
He also used to post about it on 4chan's technology board, especially on the daily programming thread. Plenty of pictures and videos showing off progress as well as discussion of implementation details.

https://warosu.org/g/?task=search2&search_text=awesomekling&...

Definitely among the coolest things I've ever seen on 4chan.
I figured this out about a year ago. As well as ad-free viewing I get YouTube Music, so I don't need to pay for an additional music service.

Now, if they would only stop with the censorship. When in the history of mankind have the censors ever been the good guys?
> How is open access to information not a fundamental human right? Do you believe in a society where people can't find out about things?

Non sequitur. I believe in many things that make a society good and better which do not reach the standard of a human right.

This is my personal litmus test: the deprivation of a human right should create a legitimate claim to be violent. If your human rights are being denied, you have the right to take up arms. (My theory being the state, at that point, has lost the legitimacy of its monopoly on violence.)

Blood has been spilled over slavery. Starvation. Torture and free speech. Blood is not owed because someone didn’t pay their Comcast bill.
Why Rubber Is Such a Problem for Retro Computing
> it is up to you to prove otherwise

This is funny because the reason why I cannot prove you that I am conscious _in_ _addition_ _to_ being a body governed by the rules of physics, is the same reason why I believe consciousness is metaphysical.

Qed :)
It's great to finally see this information—which was fairly clear already from the literature—hitting the NYT. (Still, it's too late to stop the booster handwringing and virtue signaling we saw in NYC during Omicron.)
Relevant passage:

>The FDA meta-analysis examined data of four health care claims databases and estimated that, among males aged 18 to 25, the rate of myocarditis following Moderna’s primary series was 148 per million males vaccinated.
That figure is higher than other government estimates, including a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis of reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The analysis found about 10.7 cases per million males aged 18 to 24 who got Moderna’s first shot and 56 cases per million among those who received Moderna’s second shot
> So yeah, go ahead and tell me (and everyone else) to go vegan for a month...The obvious solution would be to require companies to buy emission certificates for those emissions

Vegans are way more likely to vote for laws like you're suggesting. They can't be swayed by fear-mongering campaigns of "burgers are getting more expensive so we can save the polar bears".
The page does mention two Gorton variants.

If you're interested in other keyboard typography, you might be interested in an open source clone of the font used on Cherry keycaps: https://github.com/dakotafelder/open-cherry
Adblocking works just fine on mobile too, with a few more jumps, at least on adnroid.
English prescriptivism is cringe.
I wonder when the trend of funny names for this type of stuff is going to end. I find these names mildly amusing but I have to think that at some point a younger audience is going to find this type of naming convention really cringeworthy.
I believe it calls into Clang/LLVM to do so.
That can be rephrased as "Oracle is continuing to see a return on its investment and innovation in RDBMS from the 80's into the 2000s". Why is this a bad thing?
>Instead you can go to TikTok where you will find mostly amusing and at times informative content.

TikTok has by far the best recommender system I have ever tried. After an hour of use the system had correctly narrowed down my interests of exoplanets, space exploration, technology, and startups.

However that also means TikTok is the most hypertuned echochamber. I hope people don't get their political views from TikTok.
In my experience (now perhaps ten or more years outdated), fax is still legally preferable because of the time stamping available to both sender and receiver, giving fax a proof of point-to-point transmission and receipt email doesn't provide.

Also, back then (2010 or so) my employer dealt with a lot of remote sites (logging camps and lumber yard offices) that had POTS but no Internet. That has probably changed a lot.
banning?
> if a sufficiently advanced computer could perfectly simulate exactly how a person would react to anything given a perfect snapshot of the wiring of their neurons and states of synapses.

And if so, would that simulation still create the subjective experience? Or would it act exactly the same as the real person except the subjective experience never occurs?
I think that makes sense. However Its odd because if they were enticed to become permanent residents they'll setup businesses and eventually create an ecosystem, which can create more spending in their economy.
> Things feel good or they feel bad at a level far below anything resembling what they are.

This primal good-or-bad feeling is known as Vedana in classical Buddhism. On an at-home meditation retreat two months ago I had begun to see this arise in every interaction with almost everything. So much so that someone set off a firecracker outside my house (pretty normal in my neighbourhood but at an unexpected time) and I first noted that something unpleasant had happened, then noted that my eyes had flinched, then heard the sound, then recognised the sound as a firecracker. (I was in the shower at the time, wide awake.) The first glimmer of almost every experience was this vedana.
My biggest feature request: A check box that says, "[ ] I'm not buying anything"

I don't know how technically hard this would be to implement. Or what business model will resist adding it. I just know that most of my web searches are NOT me trying to buy stuff. They're usually looking up information.

Like, how does the load sensing algorithm work on my LG washer? No chance I'll ever find out by searching the web. Only 200 links to different places I can buy a new one. Or maybe some videos explaining that the feature exists, and "oh and would you like to buy one?"

Maybe I want to know if my GadgetMaster 3000 will work with my WidgetWanker Mark II. Nope, but here's 100 places you can buy those, or maybe the THINGDOODLE brand of knockoffs.

Ok, I'm ranting. Point is: give me a way to restrict my search to only those pages that aren't selling anything. Maybe the heuristic is that the page hasn't changed in 6 months, or uses outdated tags like <marquee>, or some fancy semantic analysis of the page copy. I don't know. I just wish search results weren't so utterly dominated by e-commerce sites or affiliate spam.
> What people want is to stop being forced to pay Apple’s 15-30%.

Just to be clear developers care about this, not “people”. Vast majority of iPhone users couldn’t care less. Wanna know why? Because the developers have to compete on price and Apple is cutting into their margins. This is Apple vs app developers through and through. If Apple stopped taking a cut there would be no price changes. Developers would just make better margin.

Since Apple provides me with a great experience and developers tend to mostly be bad or mediocre, I’ll stick with Apple thank you.

> What they should do is force Apple to allow competing stores.

No thanks. I like that my grandma who uses Facebook has Apple making sure (within bounds) that they aren’t doing shady stuff, and that they have to state what they use data for and confirm permissions routinely.

> We don’t have to wonder what a platform with a competing sources for software looks like. We have a bunch of them, and they seem to work well.

If it’s the best model you don’t need government intervention because it’ll just win out. If Apple’s “monopoly” on the App Store is that bad people will buy other phones. But the truth is it’s a great model and users love it, which is why Apple crushes sales quarter after quarter.

This reminds me of someone recently defending Google doing something on behalf of users. Developers thinking they know what their users want “opt them in to this great feature they previously opted out of” so they can discover it. Same stuff different tune. It’s all business and just rich corporations attacking other rich corporations with no benefit, except that I lose benefits when Apple isn’t in charge.
I got an invite within several days of waitlisting back in January. Unfortunately the invite expired before I got around to signup, so no idea how the service actually performs...
Running pipes of flammable gas to people's homes does look a little out of place in 2022.
Y'all still see ads??? -Gorhill
It still needs a Faraday cage to keep RF in and out, it need chilling and people have to be able to get there.

Scanner location is absolutely a driver in where people get their imaging done. People want good parking and a nearby location.

If the building is being purpose built it is a lot easier, as retro fitting steel isn’t cheap.
There's a pretty good chance that "A C compiler written in ___" will be well-received here, regardless of ___.
Once every 20s is too frequent by several orders of magnitude for me.

I absolute detest and despise animation to a degree that is hard to express.
You held them up because they “source” their piece and we’re “objective”.

Sourcing yourself is not sourcing. Citing yourself is not objective.
Speaking of Manifest v3, I really hope all these adblock extensions secretly work together and on the day Manifest v3 is released, they all display a gigantic red-backgrounded warning on startup telling the user Google Chrome has turned evil and suggesting them switching to Firefox or some other browser.
> The former, the extension has so many issues, it messes up namespacing, it's unclear where it came from, etc. etc

That depends on the implementation. A monkey-patch is definitely problematic, but when it's properly scoped, like C# extensions, Rust Traits or Ruby Refinements, it's quite elegant.
It's sadly not available for the last few major releases of Safari on Mac.
it s really a mess. Searching for 'viper' brings up 'Viber' as the first result, the rest is cars except for a link to 'viperidae'. It's a goddamn snake, google
do you realize how disgusting it is to be okay with twisting the truth as long as it fits your agenda? somehow people are actually receptive to arguments like yours, it boggles the mind. criticize when there is something to criticize, in Google's case this is not hard. viewing the world in black and white is the height of immaturity
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> Apple allows “free apps” that are entirely ad-supported, never giving Apple a dime (aside from $99/year), yet they are consuming infrastructure

Because Apple doesn't give them a choice! Android developers can host their own apps, set up their own CDNs and downloading/updating infrastracture, pay journalists to review their apps etc.

This is like tying someone up in your basement and telling them to be grateful that they don't have to pay rent.
Could you expand your time frame a little bit then look Snap again?
Seemingly, so is everything on FB!
aahhhh,

Down voting me for tryig to have fun...

ahhhh,

Loging out for the next 3 months, HN on time out..
How IS it a fundamental human right? Access to information is conferred through a variety of human made constructs (including laws, which can enable or disable access) and I disagree that universal access to information is generally understood to be a natural right, and by proxy fundamental human right. Believing that something should be bestowed to people, does not make it a fundamental human right.
> they dictate what you can run on your hardware that you paid for after the sale.

You bought the hardware from Apple knowing exactly what restrictions they place on the hardware. You were knowledgeable about it and still decided to purchase the hardware.
This is just like the Millikan Oil drop experiment.

It was actually off, but anybody who did experiments that disagreed with Millikan's "adjusted" things a little bit to match better.

So, it took a while for the value of the charge of the electron to "settle" to where it belonged.

Scientists are people--with all the same failings.
Data Model Comparisons Between Time-Series Databases
> SF is one of the densest cities in the USA (17k/sqm vs. NYC's 27k/sqm).

This is irrelevant, it's obviously not sufficiently dense to meet demand. If you look at the photo you'll obviously see that it's simply not particularly dense by visual inspection.

> Houses are expensive in SF because people want to live in SF.

They are expensive because they do not permit sufficient construction to meet the demand, what about that do you disagree with? It's not just that people want to live there - it's because people want to live there and city council would rather keep a derelict parking lot for Nordstrom than put up a 27-story 500 unit condo building in the middle of downtown. [1]

> If you want cheap housing for your city, make your economy unattractive like Gary Indiana, or, if you like your economy, take the Tokyo approach and make housing speculation unattractive and let units be small.

That has nothing to do with what Tokyo does. Tokyo permits construction via federal zoning rules.

[1] https://thefrisc.com/how-to-unpack-one-supervisors-rejection...
These are excerpts from Richard Merrick's book called Interference: A Grand Scientific Musical Theory; highly recommended, available for free online.
This is true whenever your real identity is at stake tho? Almost everyone sanitizes their views in the public so much so there's no opinion in there anymore.
The important point is, don't "give me Linux" that then can't cover the common trendy tech projects. If it doesn't work, it's not Real Linux, and I ain't got time for that.

<ms-rant> Plus, Microsoft- who needs em? Not a pleasant daily driver. My entire family already accidentally "upgraded" to windows 11. Ever since, they've fallen into a perpetual zombie-like state of confusion with regard to their windows computers and what is happening on them. What is good, better, or worse? *shrug*

</ms-rant>

I'd much rather cast the MS bits off to a lowly second-class Hypervised Cassowary VM.

Long Live CASSOWARY!
I love the Gervais Principle, but only as a cynical joke that can sometimes be applied to real life. There's really no need to read the book. If you're interested in a laugh, just see the blog post [1].

The gist of it is that there are only three types of people who work in organizations:

1. At the top of the food chain are the sociopaths. Executives.

2. Below it are the clueless, the mid-manager who works nights and weekends out of a sense of loyalty to the company. Unlike the sociopaths and the losers (explained below), they don't have it within themselves to straight up leave the company for something better. To them, this is life.

3. And below that, are the losers. That's everyone else. The pawns in this little corporate game designed by the sociopaths and coordinated by the clueless. They won't be promoted. But unlike the clueless, they have a sense of freedom. They can go work for a competitor if it pays more. Or they'll have a real work-life balance, etc..

It (should be) no more than a humorous take on corporate culture. Don't try to take away any life lessons from this.

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
The thing is these tools don't track people; they track planes.

And only planes. You don't know who was in the plane, or where they were before or after the flight.
This was a very powerful episode. The strongest part for me was the description of Apple's developer workflow or philosophy, where you can look through the stack all the way through. When I first joined the JVM on Linux camp after mostly being in the .NET world on Win, seeing the system all the way through was a revelation, incredibly empowering.

Andreas with Serenity not only sees the system through but can modify any part of the layer to make the abstraction of each layer just right.
Well, it depends, doesn't it? If you have plain old phone service on either end, that's not the same network -- which is possibly the case with small, older companies and individuals. Not everything is VOIP.
I hate you for your first comment in this thread, and love you for your second.

Dr. Ian Malcolm strikes again: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Back in the first era of the JavaScript library was this was one of the big differences between Prototype and jQuery.

Prototype added a whole bunch of new methods to the built-in JavaScript objects. It also defined $ as an alias for document.getElementById.

jQuery added nothing to the built-in objects, but did also use $ as an alias for the jQuery function.

Something I really liked about jQuery was that it included a noConflict() function, which you could use to avoid it interfering with Prototype. Doing this:

jQuery.noConflict();

Reset the $ back to whatever it was before jQuery was loaded.

If you wanted to keep using $ in your jQuery code you could use this elegant idiom, which registers your code to run when the page content has loaded:

jQuery(function($) {
// Within this block $ is an alias of jQuery
});
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

Belief has little to do with this, legally speaking.
This all feels either out of date, or just incorrect.

You can use consumer cards for this. Both Nvidia and AMD consumer cards. Nvidia drivers work fine now, and don't require any workarounds (they previously "blocked" VM's with their driver, but was trivial to workaround). AMD have a few hardware quirks, but that can typically be worked around too. Though you're best going with Nvidia as it's more straightforward.

It also seems that a lot of virtualisation software supports it (libvirt/qemu, vmware esxi, proxmox, xen, probably a few others). It's typically also, set and forget. Once it's configured, you're good to go. There's not much of "keeping it working properly in the long haul". I've had my setup for about 4 years or so now. Even through software and hardware changes.
I came here for this. The one place where this might actually be a useful real world exercise, and yet, apparently not.
My kids' generation: Roblox.

This is the lockdown generation, so it's also the way to socialize with real world friends.
I really love Qubes. I've tried to run it a few times and it's not _quite_ there for daily use relative to Arch, at least for me, but the "simplicity" of the OS in terms of VMs is actually something I still miss.

For example, I can make a new VM to hold everything related to a "project" that I'm working on all in one place, and then I can suspend that VM when I'm done. Right now, I have 500+ tabs in Firefox open, but with Qubes I was able to "suspend" Firefox in the VM along with my IDE + terminal. It was awesome.

What has stopped me has been the fact that I operate with a Laptop and I couldn't quite get power management working as well as I hoped. Even simple stuff like not having the fans on at 100% was a challenge (it was on Arch too, but it was fixable with some AUR utilities that weren't as easy to get into Dom0 in Qubes).

Anyway, bravo to the Qubes team and please keep it up!
Good. Facebook needs to die.
I only mentioned what I've witnessed. To say "Many on the progressive or even classic left" is hyperbole. Consider using a specific example instead of hearsay. You don't want people thinking you're a disingenuous shill, do you?