skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government is not allowed to collect and store data on citizens without a warrant.

No such prohibition applies to the private sector, although data privacy laws are starting to become more popular globally, so this may change - although if they don't give citizens the right to sue corporations who unlawfully collect and store personal data, they'll be ignored. See Americans with Disability Act.

Hence, governments simply avoid the need to get a warrant by purchasing the data from the private sector.

Incidentally, in "Permanent Record" Snowden said that ensuring the data was kept in the private sector was a kind of victory, but in reality that's meaningless. The merger of government and corporate systems is well under way, particularly in the military-industrial-tech-spying world.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

HN is not a single-minded hyperfocused community nor should it be. It covers most topics under the sun. If you are interested mostly in tech topics I highly recommend browsing "best" which tends to be mostly tech related: https://news.ycombinator.com/best
> I can't see what it would matter

Because getting rid of perks means higher or stable profits which means the stock goes up and Pichai makes more money.
I made one[0][1] that uses the GitHub API to pull snippets from recent commits to use for the code. But this is much more beautiful and comprehensive on the visual front.

[0]: https://apitman.com/apps/redpill/

[1]: https://github.com/anderspitman/redpill
All the more reason to do it then, at least show your subordinates that you're serious about taking measures to reduce expenses.
A drop in the average to one car per household implies a significant reduction in the number of cars on the road. Right now, it's not uncommon to have two family members commute by car every day.

Yes, there will always be outliers, but I care about the average case.
I expect polycrisis to go the way of "water closet".
I go to work exclusively to trade labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter. I don’t go to work to have “fun”. I don’t hate my job any more than I hate breathing. They are both necessary for my survival.
...and this is why I just stopped trying, heh. The industry really shot themselves in the foot there.
I was lazy... thanks for prodding me to do better.
i'm desperately mashing my keyboard hoping that some button would allow me to drive
IQ is the most strongly supported thing in the field of social science/psychology. Way more strongly supported than many of the concepts being used to steer government policy

The irony being that tons of social science academics desperately want to prove IQ is bunk and become famous for it, but their failures just keep proving it's legitimacy. If only they tried so hard to disprove their own pet theories
Facebook Report Concludes Company Violated Palestinians' Rights
This worries me. They recruit over 300k but only 150k were used for the invasion. If they are recruiting much more than 300k, as the article suggests may be a possibility, they may have some plans beyond Ukraine indeed - despite their shitty equipment and lack of organization.
Mozilla (and Opera for that matter before) showed that one needed much smaller team to maintain a full-featured web engine. Plus a lot of Chromium complexity comes from the desire to make such big team manageable. So they split tightly coupled code into separated components worked on by different groups resulting in a lot of glue interfaces and wrapper classes.
I imagine he'd open himself up to a lawsuit if he accused a player of cheating without hard evidence.
Cooking has a similar air quality problem; cooking with gas even more so.

Proper air filtration and maintenance is something to pay attention to in new builds.
What is your point here? This is a point cloud library compiled to webassembly. All you seem to be saying is that browsers and compilers are written in C++, which doesn't really have anything to do with this.
>I work at AWS in Professional Services where we are pushed to go after the other 95%.

It wasn't stated in the article that 95% of hosting is self hosted. I would appreciate some article or something that actually makes that claim.

>I watch the ReInvent videos. He is very much talking about growing by going after the other 95%.

I haven't watch those videos, but if it just reiterates the article then it won't prove your point. 5% of costs has nothing to do with market share.

Continuing to say 5% is useless when it almost certainly doesn't mean what you are claiming.

>I know first hand how many large enterprises and state and local government institutions are self hosted

Has nothing to do with the percentage of hosting.

>As far as “needing an app”. Do you really think the same people who will show up by the thousands to watch Trump and go through the trouble of invading the Capital won’t go out of their way to go to a website and post their opinions?

A growing number of people don't even have a computer. They only have a phone. It is difficult to deal with many sites on phones. Not sure how good Parler is, but they are frequently a subpar experience like notifications not even working most of the time.

I'd you want engagement you need an app. Its as simple as that. That is why every social media has its own app instead of directing people to their websites.
WhatsApp embeds google analytics into your client, which means that it does tag all your messages while you are viewing them (and also tags them with each open/close of the conversation).

If you don't know this already, use App Warden to remove spyware handlers on Android and use RethinkDNS to block their ad domains.
Good luck seeing your performance drop off a very sharp cliff if you start using larger numbers than your CPU can fit into a single register.
> veneer of neo-ludtisim over a malthusian mindset

sure, I will take that veneer and counter -- there is such a thing as balance in dynamic systems. Tragedies of excess are being played out now, seventy years after a "boom times for all" expansion by any means necessary. Before 1970, outrageously excessive pollutors in many areas of the USA were given slap on the wrist oversight, calling the outraged greens things like "neo-luddites" ..
>With prices going the other, governments in EU (including Germany) is now considering subsidies again by creating a price roof. Any difference between the roof price and the market price will be paid by the government.

Isn't it the other way around? The difference won't be paid; the whole idea is to stop paying over the roof.
That sounds great to me. And the iPad has a better screen and still supports PS/Xbox/Switch controllers.

But there would have to be a touch only interface and that may be the killer.
Give SkyMass a try. It has the convenience and productivity of lo/no code tools but it’s entirely code based.

https://skymass.dev
Seems like you’re working with a PM who thinks agile is an excuse to release bad software. MVP should still solve a customer pain point.

To play devils advocate though, maybe case 1,2,3 are low enough risk to release. Having metrics set to watch if these are actually big problems could be “good enough.”
Smart pointers and other managed types are nice, but memory errors are still easy to make, e.g. pushing into a std::vector from several threads.
Nylon knives aren't scratchy, they are stabby.
How to make this a live wallpaper on Android?
It is being used to describe a good thing that you receive, but don't earn, so "privilege" is an appropriate choice.
> ...because it paints a deceptive portrait of the past.

I assume this is at least partly deliberate, because it's a major part of what has been termed the "Religion of Progress," in which the history of humanity, when you squint hard enough and ignore most of the actual history, is a "rising line from the caves to the stars." Life in the past must be worse than life today in every reasonable way you can describe it, and life in the future must be better than today, because this is what's demanded by the current myths.

The problem, of course, is that any moderately in depth study of the history of humanity demonstrates that this absolutely hasn't been the case, outside the effects of the industrial revolution from the past 250 years or so - which, as is now becoming rather obvious, has some serious downsides as well as the assorted miracles it's produced. And the focus of some of the (if not brightest, at least best paid) members of society on tricking other people into staring at a bunch of tiny flickering dots for as long as they possibly (while the world is literally burning around them) can doesn't seem like the sort of thing that's going to be considered particularly well in the future. Not that we should be praising it right now.

JM Greer has done some solid writing on the "Religion of Progress" concept, and it's just depressing how often you see life and history crammed into that mold, because it's the way we've been trained to think of the world. It's also going to be responsible (or is being responsible) for a lot of mental anguish when reality refuses to deliver what we think the future ought to be. Humans won't go to the stars. We probably won't ever have flying cars, Jetsons-style. Etc.
The European crisis will likely end up making them stronger.

- They're not just making themselves independent from Russian gas & oil, they're making themselves independent of American and Middle Eastern gas & oil too. The resulting price stability will provide massive benefits down the road.

- Wind & Solar energy costs up front but has 0 fuel cost and little maintenance cost. Energy at essentially 0 marginal cost is going to pay dividends for a long time...

- The Ukraine crisis has united Europe like hasn't been seen since the end of WW2.

This winter will suck, but if Europe can stick together until spring, they'll be well positioned for the future.
You're mixing up personal fitness with the fitness of a meme. Sure rich people have more surviving children in the long run, but why don't we ask the rich Pagan Roman Senators how well their money protected them from the hungry Christian mob?
No no, i mean the psychometrist is the person superstitiously using the fact that answers to their choice of questions correlate, as some measure of something.

The claim that IQ tests are "cognitively difficult" is either trivial or unevidenced. Its trivial in the sense that most tasks are "cognitively difficult", that doesnt make them valid measures of cognitive difficulty. It is unevidenced in the sense that there is no theory of what "cognitive difficulty" means that can be tested.

My apologies, but IQ tests really are actually pseudoscience. They're a product of a discipline which superstitiously uses GUI-statistical tooling without understanding anything abotu the scientific method, nor the statistical metrics that these tools report.

An animal, and its intelligence, is a complex chaotic system whose "cognitition" or "intelligence" is by no means measured by an IQ test. And such a claim is prima fascie ridiculous from any actual biological (ie., theory-building, scientific) study of intelligence.
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20742682

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20739540
Nice to meet someone on the same train, I sometimes get on my high horse too. My brother is an anthropologist, and he’s the one that corrected my high-school mis-impression, and educated me that longevity for humans who live to be at least 20 has been around 80 years for all of known history. There are writings from thousands of years ago talking about 80 year olds. I honestly don’t think it’s the anthropologists, but I’m not sure where it comes from. Some kind of cultural misunderstanding of averages, and maybe for some people just a touch of belief than anything before fifty years ago was the dark ages and cave-people.

So, my favorite distinction is between “life expectancy” (which is a misleading average that includes early mortality) and “longevity”, which is what people often really mean, the typical length of life of someone who doesn’t die early of some kind of accident or disease while young. Longevity is the word to use for living to a ripe old age and to factor out infant mortality.

If you want to be really triggered, take a look at the graph at the bottom of this article by Ray Kurzweil: https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns

That is so wrong and so completely and intentionally misleading (note how it leaves out known data points from the mid 1900s and from before 1850, and how the article is intentionally conflating longevity and life expectancy) that it has convinced me that Kurzweil is a charlatan and I can’t trust a single thing he’s written. It’s a bummer because I really enjoyed his keynote on double exponential growth and eventual immortality at Siggraph one year. Fun ideas but now I see he and the other eternal life pseudo scientists are selling snake oil.
There are many issues with dairy... This video touches on many:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3c_D0s391Q

A main thing is the hormone content.

> Lactose intolerancy is annoying for those who have it

I believe we all have it to some degree. And LI is the default, it is just some europeans who became better at digesting lactose.

All food comes with downsides. I'd say for us humans the least downsides can be found in fruits and tender green leafs, which is what the diet of the other primates (yes humans are biologically classified as primates) predominantly eat in their natural habitats.

Apart from science and research, there's also common sense: no other animal consumes milk after their (if mammal) weaning stage.
Google's net income in just Q2 was 16 billion dollars.

These are not "difficult choices". But they do like to make them at the expense of employees.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q2_alphabet_earnings...
Look at Google's Environmental Insight Explorer. I'm sure that's less than 150 people and it's doing incredible work to help cities with legislation, transportation, and energy. https://insights.sustainability.google/
In my experience, Coinbase doesn't charge any fees on USDC to USD conversion. And then if you live in the right place, you could get their debit card and use your funds pretty much instantly.
There are so many different versions of Christianity that it would be extremely likely to receive contradictory answers to your question.
Ask HN: Should CTO own company shares?
I am CTO in one small company for about 2 years (company was founded 5+ years ago). The salary is not competitive - maybe better paid senior developer position. And I am now struggling with my inner me - team is great and lot of interesting challenges, but building the company for someone else is ...demotivating. We had couple of great ideas and I even started working on those in my free time, but then it hits again "Should I really work on this new idea when it is owned by someone else?".

Does anyone have the same problem? Should C-level management own company shares? Or is it just my personal problem?
> I also wouldn't buy a fridge that had a built-in toaster.

Storing food and transforming food are not the same activity.

However, "trivection" ovens that use 3 kinds of eat and also microwave or toast are increasingly popular, because people very much like one thing that does several related things. (EDIT: Same story as the water + ice you agreed with below.)

"Get my stuff that's online" or "do things online" is one of those same-headspace things large percentages of boomers grew up doing in one place (AOL, then Mozilla suite, Opera, etc.), and "portals" perpetuated today by Google and Microsoft except as web apps in browsers (Edge, Chrome) trying to be the portal wrapping the web apps, which the same people tend to hate.

So Vivaldi gives the "one place" that works "one way" but doesn't feel like a weird web app you accidentally close a tab and lose everything.
I found some screenshots of said ads. I was annoyed enough to screenshot these but not click: https://imgur.com/a/K9xkXKY
Wrong [1], giving link to my flagged comment with my girlfriend's cite

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950845
Supercomputers? Rack-scale computing? See some of the work being done with RDMA and "far memory".
> the right for you to not be in their database anymore

Let's switch that around: you're referring to their right not to be listed in my database any more.

I don't see what difference it makes whether I'm incorporated or not; I'm not OK with the idea that certain information cannot be shared. Like, if the information is false, that's one thing; but a legal requirement that some true information must be hidden, that seems like pure badness.
A man who made people sit VERY far away from him and went into hardcore isolation in 2020 due to fear of covid is clearly signaling he cares very much for his health/life. I think its a 2 for 1 thing though. He cares for his life and his reputation, and this is a threat to both. Maybe he would be ok with dying if he was the great Hero of Russia, but this wouldn't be that.

I also don't think he would be safe at all in any country. Russia has openly poisoned people in Great Britain, you think they would care about some Middle Eastern country? And it's likely Russia who would go after him. And people would laugh and say it's just desserts, even people in the international community. What bribes can he grant once he is out of power that would make people want to protect him? Only thing I could see is if he gave nuclear weapons to some countries in violation of the Nuclear Proliferation treaties in exchange for protection.
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I remember back then searching ebay for a used Targa, but being confused by why all of the result thumbnails were Porsches.
https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

The "make water your drink of choice" replaces a reference to milk in the previous recommendation.
I wonder if you can find a "bunny suit" helmet large enough to go over a motorcycle helmet. Some seem to have a pretty wide head piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_pressure_personnel_su...

Sure, you'd look like a moonman when you roll into town, but you'd be comfortable, especially if you added cooling.
Oh, TIL, thanks for the clarification!
If you're saying that lawyers and PhDs all have to score high on what's literally an IQ test, then I don't think that is true. You can become both without ever doing an IQ test, and as such there can be no filtering -- are those even routinely administered?

However, to succeed at higher education (and to get into it), especially written tests, you need to be good at some stuff that also means you'll be decent at an IQ test. That means they have some value, though I tend to agree that it means very little overall.
And to make it more fun it has yoyo'd. In 2020 it was panic, doom and gloom. Then suddenly it's irresponsible party time. And now back to doom and gloom.
My work place has been going through its “return to office” discussions and if there’s one thing it’s taught me it’s that tone and perception are wildly different among people. One persons “direct and no bullshit” is another’s “uncaring and defensive” is another’s “angry and abusive”. And if a news company can’t find one person to think something is “heated” or “dismissive” or “angry” they will latch onto that person for their headlines.
The answer is no. We were not ready for the internet. Its made people crazy.
yeah i went on holiday over to the east and saw one of these things up close.

I never pissed it off, and I never would... they're mean looking birds. you can just feel the menace on them...

Beautiful Plumage though :-)
Those are evolved from the System/38.
Since I know many people here struggle with mood issues, just know that higher PM2.5 leads to greater mood instability.

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.20180056...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...
This may or may not apply to the anecdote you shared about your wife, but since these apps know your relative proximal location to your weak/strong social connections, they also can know what your friends may search for and is often-used flavor of targeting.

e.g. You and a bunch of friends go to dinner and have a conversation about <topic x>, at least one of those friends googles something about that topic. You later see an ad related to <topic x> because you were targeted based on the search your friend did while they were near you.

If your wife potentially did anything digitally, related to the diabetes topic, its likely that you were targeted based on that.

Again, no idea what happened resultant to the story you shared, but whenever this sort of thing happens to me I try to appeal to Occam's Razor based on how much I know about how this tech works under the hood.
The chief complaint seems to be that they only found statistical significance on one measure for one subpopulation (boys), and other measures were not significant (and while the correlation for girls was not statistically significant, it was leaning the opposite direction!).

Sure, maybe there's a correlation purely centered around boy's non-verbal IQ scores, but it smells a lot like a "if you look for enough correlations you'll eventually find one".
Exactly. And lol that the corporate ruling class wants to call you a "quiet quitter" that isn't a team player because you aren't willing to sacrifice yourself to further enrich them.
As to the SVR and a defined PIN that activates this, this is really an “ultra-bleeding-edge super nation-state” issue. Not many can crack the SVR (outside a few professors of cybersecurity).

In the short term, preserving association seems paramount over the longer-term required to crack SVR … regularly.

I’m using PIN (and thusly SVR) because most of my contacts within Signal contact address book are named with family nicknames). So, SVR is filled with avatar, phone, last access, creation time, and its computed hash UserID values is that weak point but SVR is not that weak enough to prevent its practical usage for near-perfect message content anonymity. That’s why I ask family members not to bother with avatar and keeping real name off of OS primary user contact info.

If you are pushing the envelope of OpSec, then disabling PIN is fine too.

It doesn’t matter as long as the phone is not in the hand of adversary but steps above will make it harder, forensically.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-th...
Sounds like a disaster in terms of potential bugs.
Unofficial RedHat motto.
Once a business segment gets mature enough, this comes for every firm in it. This happened to storage system vendors in the early and mid 2010s.
Out of curiosity, does Google really have that many engineers working on Chromium? According to Wikipedia, Mozilla has ~750 employees and only a subset of those are working on Firefox.