skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PII is never black or white. "_same_ person 104898" will become PII at any moment when the site can collate it on a one-to-one mapping with some other PII of yours (e.g. your email or login).

From GDPR Recital 30: "Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them."

So your Apple ID becomes PII for a specific site at the precise instant you share any other PII to that site, that they are able to link to the Apple ID.
I'm puzzled by this statement. Do you think of resiliency as waste? That twitter would have been fine without it?

The article makes a point that the reason Twitter is running ok on 20% of personnel at this moment is exactly because it was build to be resilient, not because the personnel was bloated. A large part of this so called bloat, the 80%, was responsible for Twitter to be running right now. Calling this bloat implies it is actually not important for Twitter to be available all the time (or at all).
But how much money are you willing to spend to get that 1% that will be turned off by a fail whale or latency?
Unfortunately it may be more dependent on skin color.
I think this is down to the time horizons each kind of company optimizes for. Mittelstands are usually owned by families and they basically try to build a business that will feed the parents as well as kids when they come of age. Publicly listed companies usually optimize for this quarter. So even if you are looking at the same KPIs, you could get different outcomes just due to the utility functions being different.
If twitter, a top 10 viewed site in the world, isn't difficult, what is?
[closed, open) isn’t the only strategy that works, but it should be preferred because it’s so common.
I know the amount of Alexa-devices are "numerouse" but not sure how they count those ? Do they include my ASUS router that is Alexa-enabled but not active?

I was really excited about Alexa at first, but when I tried it on a day to day basis the biggest issue I had was "Amazon knows too little about me, compared to Google". I know right ! How horrible is that.

But consider, Alexa didn't know what i like to listen to music wise, didn't know my favourite tech topics or news websites. It had almost zero history on, even though I have bought probably about 20 books in the last 10 years and from Amazon.
It goes well with dotfiles from the same author:

https://github.com/jan-warchol/sensible-dotfiles
Yeah I love it. I would like to "buy" a multi-million dollar mansion in the Bahamas with big bank money, but have the bank only encumber the property itself, and I get to live in it and pay service staff for my luxury, maybe the odd AirBnB letting to maintain the occasional pretense of repayment, up until the time 'it' can't sustain 'itself' and I walk away debt-free.

But apparently I'm not a rich person so that kind of accounting doesn't apply to me.
Most people prefer the stuff they're accustomed to, and they probably buy $20 wines much more often than expensive wines.
He was 21 at the time and thus legally an adult.
Well graphics design isn't hard. I'm sure one of the Devs could do that. And I'm sure there are tools to convert an iOS app to/from Android, so one dev can do both.

And a website is easy. You could do it with 1 person.

But Elon is such a machine, he could keep it running by himself.
Yes I'd love if there were a site to help find these. There's a show called How It's Made that I really enjoy and such tours would be like in-person versions of the show.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0835010/
> Well, I think the issue is precisely considering Twitter a "simple technology project"

But I didn't call it "simple", I called it "simpler", and it is.
Better together: A Kubernetes and WASM case study
> People with autism are not psychopath and it's honestly insane to bring psychopathy into a conversation about autism as some kind of comparison

I don't think it's insane to bring the comparison into this conversation, because the behavior of this autistic person is clearly a psychopathic one, regardless of the intention.
I get your point

> Same with glass interfaces with no buttons - they make them because they are cheaper, not because it's better.

But are you saying current smartphones are somehow worse than button phones? I'll pass on that. And they ain't cheaper too :)
Seems like someone could be on the autism scale and a psychopath.

I'm aware that the concept of a disabled person also being 'bad' in some way is not an intersection box that modern world has the tools to discuss at the moment. Outside the Overton window so to speak.
Reason x why I'm rooting for Zack and his metaverse bet! I love the iPhone & Mac but I dislike apples approach to "privacy" feels hypocritical
Well, memes tend to plant in our collective heads, so I guess yes?

Chances are that more people have seen spider man than met your law professor, but yes I'm not arguing that your law professor is a more authoritative source of law related stuff, just saying that I did remember the quote I quoted, for what is worth.
What you're saying suggests that those old codecs were superior to new ones (offering better quality at smaller sizes), which is not a case for most of formats. Also the "size bloat" with data from say 40 years ago means little today as space has become so much cheaper. If you have to expand your data from say 70kb to 120kb, which 40 years ago would be a huge deal, today it's something no one will even bother to optimize. And anyway, discussion was not about space economy, but about data being permanently lost, unable to be accessed ever again - which unless the medium is physically damaged is very unlikely scenario. There are always people willing to reverse engineer old formats, just look at the state of retro gaming now. I converted my original ZX Spectrum games from tapes to digital files, and can play them on my modern computer almost 50 years later.
I love offline systems. IoT is everywhere, garage doors should not need the internet. SyncThing is one of my biggest inspirations in software. They are one of the only projects I consider truly getting P2P right, ever, and there's a nice ecosystem of stuff people have been doing with just that one primitive of a folder that syncs.

A lot of the time it seems like you really don't need advanced conflict resolution, if you change your actual UI model to be inherently parallel, which you often can.

A collaborative document editor is hard. A forum that lets you post offline is easy. At worst a conflict will get a few out of order posts, which is not an issue if people use @references, reddit style trees of comments, or there's low enough volume that it's unlikely to be confusing. Post race conditions already exist in forums anyway.

There's a lot of low hanging fruit in P2P and offline first, and everyone seems to be mostly doing the hard stuff like cryptocurrency instead.
I don’t think given their ad sales that the sales people were that pivotal.
Musk lead teams at the only company who can land commercial rockets and the first company to profit from making electric cars. To say he is a wealthy idiot says more about you than it does about Musk.
In spite of him, not because of him.
They can't even consider encrypting them, since they are forced to scan for CSAM and the public overwhelmingly rejected on-device scanning. So their server needs access to the images.
Leveraged buyouts are certainly a thing that sounds like it shouldn't be possible the first time you hear of it. It seems extremely odd that you can buy a company with money you don't have and then have the money take on that debt instead of having to take it on yourself.

As I understand it, this works by rounding up potential loans, approaching the board of the company and getting them to sign over ownership of the company for a pittance in return for the shareholders being paid out by the company using the loans you brought in. This feels more like an emergent property of the system (specifically, contract law and how publicly traded companies operate) than how the system is intended to function.

Intuitively this shouldn't be possible as it's acting against the company's own self-interest despite being in the interest of the shareholders (and the buyer), but I think "the company's interest" in practice is defined by "the owners' interest" (and the owners in this case are the shareholders, who sell the company). I guess corporations aren't people after all.
TypeScript 4.9: The Satisfies Operator
The article starts with: "This is advice for younger me. It might work as advice for you, if you think about value the way I did." The "you" refers to the younger version of the author.
Hanlon's Razor -- maybe Alexa matches to the most probable match and not many people are expecting what OP expects Alexa to play?
I think it's likely some of the video games I've helped build. They were each the combined effort of hundreds of people, mine was just a tiny contribution. I still have people contact me sometimes about how Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is one of their favorite games. The other, larger, titles I worked on after have provided valuable escapism, friendship, and fun for many people in a way I'm certain was/is impactful.
> Again, not arguing. Just trying to say that there could be multiple points of view. And if something works one way for someone, it may be completely useless and even stupid for others.

Yeah, but it's about who the thing is useful to, and how many people are in that category.

Amazon is very useful to the general population.

AWS is very useful to startup and corporations in general.

Zoom is very useful to the large amounts of people that like human interactions and consider text-only to be cold and distant.

Crypto so far is useful to... not that many people, and worst of all, many of those people are scammers and grifters and criminals. Many of the others it's "useful" to look a lot like marks, gullible people that lose a lot of money.

When a business the size of AWS decides it's not worth investing into it, that's a bad sign. They'll go for anything that can make them a ton of money long term.
Once thing I've seen that I think is overlooked in the whole "is Twitter's tech stack inefficient" chat is the nature of the service.

A lot of the "Twitter could be run off my laptop" style comments seem to come from people who run, effectively, Read-Only services. They might serve data at thousands of queries per second but the data itself is _slow_. It is video files or music streams or other data that updates infrequently or, if there is dynamic data involved, it comes from a very small number of fixed sources.

Twitter deals with thousands of posts per second that are subject to huge fluctuations in the density _and_ those posts have to be disseminated to the millions of users. Twitter is a two sided problem.
Do you have a particular logical system based on probabilities in mind? Most likely (pun intended) false will be simply probability 0.
Autism is a spectrum disorder. There are many who can live high functioning lives, there are also those who never learn to speak and require assistance there entire life.

I'm guessing most of the people you've met are high functioning, so there's a bias in what your understanding of autism is

In more severe forms of autism a combination of learning disabilities and the inability to read facial expressions can make it hard to parse what is considered "horrible" for the people suffering from the condition

That does not mean they lack empathy or desires harm in others. The issue is that they need help and support parsing the environment around them

Of cause some might need to be denied access to certain things like knives or social media because their inability to understand could be a danger to their surroundings, but that's a situation for a minority of people with autism
If you look the article as a single piece of content, it may look like a clickbait. If combined into a Solutions page where several blog posts are outlined about how to solve particular problems, it actually makes sense.
It’s really easy to get a mortgage for 20% of a property and assign it to a corporation.

In fact most banks will go as high as 80%, especially if the house can rent for the mortgage payment.

And they will definitely do that deal if you’re willing to pay 10% interest.
Crypto is the ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’
The interest rate of the loans is based on an index + fixed %. If the index goes up, like in an inflationary environment, so do the payments.
Yes, your GPU needs to support the newest DisplayPort 1.4 standard (with updated DSC) for 4k@144Hz. AFAIK all Nvidia 20xx series cards and Radeon RX 6xxx cards support that.
The fallback is 4k@120Hz which should work with older cards, but when testing with my GTX 1070 I had to add a custom resolution to get that set.
With my new RX 6900 XT there are no problems.
Yes, Siri is hot garbage too, but I find HomePods worth it just for the sound quality. Especially worth it in stereo mode paired with an Apple TV in the room.
I thought it was going to be 100% robots moving so fast you need strobe lights
One in Four Workers Still Fear Catching Covid-19 at Work
> I'll actually follow you in taking the argument to the extreme: prison are pointless in almost every case and we should replace it with something different.

If rehabilitation is their only goal. If their primary reason of existence is to keep criminals from committing further crimes against citizens, they work well. You'd just need to extend the time to make them work even better. Can't reoffend if you're behind bars (well, you can, but only against your fellow prisoners, and that might earn you solitary confinement, aka prison in prison).
do they though?

what if the debt is sliced up and repackaged and rated AAA fraudulently?
Good tip. Thanks. I will try and get that book. Looks interesting!
Nice project! Just one question, how do you find open-source projects?

I'm the core maintainer of an open-source smart home software (https://github.com/GladysAssistant/Gladys, 2.2k stars, has been existing since 2014), and is not listed, any reason why? :)
"It would be like Microsoft saying "explorer.exe? Policy A only covers the OS, and that is clearly not part of Windows! - so therefore you are covered by Policy B."

This made me remember a long time ago when I ran Windows I used to disable explorer.exe by editing a certain registry key.

Not sure if this still works today, but it did back then. This reduced distraction as only one window could be maxmized at a time. Also made the OS feel more stable and snappier. In any event it was one less memory-consuming process running.
Aging of the population is a problem even in societies whose tax burden is much higher than the American one and which do not have that many rich people.

If anything, it is remarkable how the same problem affects very culturally diverse countries in a very similar way (Japan, Italy, Serbia etc.)
You just need to look at profit and revenue. Revenue grew nicely in last 2-3 years, profit not so much. Bloat is only reason.
True, you might be also forced to sell the windshield, doors and the seats to pay the $4 million in interest each day you didn’t have to before
Since Scotland shows a simmilar interest, it might become The United Kingdom of England and Wales.
Having a 2nd level cache that only has a 2% cache hit rate doesn't really seem worth it...

Isn't it better to just get rid of that layer all together and have a simpler system?
because libertarians took over the government in about 1980 , thats when this stuff really got going.
FTX Group Bankruptcy Filing Shows Cash Balance of $1.24B
That's very similar to YouTube recommendations, they seem to think your tastes are too peculiar and you should be dragged down to a more popular cluster.
No. Some people have information that they are not fiduciarilly bound to keep secret but they may still know things that would allow them to make a profit. That’s not insider trading, that’s knowing private information that isn’t reflected in market prices. That’s the point of a prediction market as an information aggregator.
This is really interesting, thank you. I had never heard your highlighted point that a child won't understand despite multiple reminders. On a personal level that sounds incredibly difficult and heartbreaking to deal with.

As a HN commentator do you have ideas for how society should work with regards to this issue? Especially regarding preventing harmful situations where parents of autistic children aren't able to provide enough support.
>It does not cost nearly as much as the price premium

for industrial climate control on wines? if you remove the improved drinkability that comes with age, and the scarcity and desireability of well-known chateaux it absolutely does.

There are companies that specialise in storing wine portfolios and you'd be amazed at how much they charge, wine in bottles takes up a lot of room and is really heavy.
do you have more info on the rates?
I read it as the exact opposite: the reason Twitter is still ok* is not because all these people were just browsing reddit at work. You can't just gut Twitter to run on only a couple of hundred people and still expect the same results in the longterm.

Twitter was not a leftist commie welfare company as Musk and its fans want it to be. It was actually the fine work SRE (amongst others) put into it that makes it still tick along as it does...for now.

* actually some things are already breaking, but it will take some time for the real damage to surface on a technical level
Can you link a single washing machine, TV, or thermostat that requires the internet? I have never seen one.

Even my ecobee thermostat does not require an internet connection.

https://support.ecobee.com/s/articles/Wi-Fi-FAQ-Setup-Guide-...

> The short answer is yes.

>Even without a Wi-Fi connection, your ecobee will still function as a traditional thermostat; it will engage your equipment as needed and maintain your comfort set points.
Who are they? What combination of symptoms from autism are you referring?
China set to fine Ant Group over $1B, signalling revamp nears end
I would prefer no immutable chains whatsoever, but this is a lot better than a public shared chain.
Honestly I have to disagree. There is nothing particularly special about what Super Template Tetris(STT) is doing.

At its core, template metaprogramming is just functional programming at compile time. STT is just a template and a runtime function which do the following:

1, take an input via compile time flag (the `-D DIRECTION`)

2. take a type input from an included header file containing the current state (`#include "current_game.h"`)

3. via functional programming, compute the results of a single step of the game.

4. specialise a single function using the results of step 3. this function prints the computed result to the screen and the computed game state to a file (`./current_game.h`).

5. gcc/clang exits. compilation is complete.

6. call the compiled binary.

7. the binary runs the specialised function and prints the outputs.

Sure it's fucky and you shouldn't do that in production but what sane individual is writing a piece of code that at runtime (after compiling) seeks out one of its own source files and modifies that file?

To prevent this from being possible you'd have to remove runtime file IO from the language. The other potential solutions wouldn't work:

1. Remove templates entirely: Still would be possible using https://github.com/Hirrolot/metalang99 which solely uses the preprocessor. Given that the pre-processor is literally just term substitution(a glorified copy/paste engine), if you removed that as well, you'd have to accept no form of metaprogramming at all.

2. Remove the ability to #include other files: Could still be done by doing everything inline. `#include` is just copy-paste anyways so it's more an abstraction than anything else to the compiler and preprocessor, it's basically the same as if all the code was pasted into the same file.

That leaves you with removing file IO. Without IO a programming language is basically useless, particularly as a systems programming language.
> Imagine we were able to definitively prove, beyond any doubt whatsoever, that all behaviors are driven entirely and completely by chemical and electrical processes within our bodies and minds. In other words that there was literally no such thing as free will.

I am not sure why you consider this a logical extreme; I'd say the existence of free will is in fact an extreme (although not very logical) position.

> Ought we now simply drop all consequences for crime or asocial behavior in general, because the people engaging in such literally cannot stop themselves? I'm certain you don't agree with that. So the question then becomes where do we start, where do we stop, and why?

... which indeed renders the idea of 'punishment' obsolete - it is nothing more than a rudiment of our barbaric past. Punishment for the sake of punishment (as in inflicting suffering as retribution for a deed after the deed is done) is simply unethical, and punishment as deterrence is even more so. It doesn't mean a criminal should, in every case, go free - the objective here should be to maximize the outcome for the society, but equally as important, to minimise the suffering for the criminal. In the OP case, psychiatric supervision and prohibiting access to digital technology for the accused is more than enough.
> For me, the contrast between text and the background is just a little too low (especially if I’m working in a bright space), and you can see that it also varies between different token types.

Strange. For the dark scheme, it fixes the saturation and lightness difference between colors, but it doesn't seem to improve the contrast ... at all? Are my eyes lying to me? You decide: https://i.imgur.com/vFa06CE.png

I think this is an interesting approach, maybe I'll try using it with a significantly darker background color.
Anyone still wondering why there are so many Indian scammers?
Why work this BS job for BS money, when you can scam old people and get paid.
Let's say you want to find accommodation from day x to y, would you rather have [x, y + 1) as the interval in the code?

In other words, I think the blog post lists problems the author has had and in those cases an open-closed interval would have worked better. But one could come up with an opposite case, would that be equally true?
Basically, know your UUID generator type. V1, V2, V6 and V7 are mac/time dependant and more useful for f.ex. DB-keys whilst V4 is more useful for things that should actually be secret.
youtube literally been sued over this exact issue multiple times.
Maybe.

Maybe my reaction was to harsh.
The only winners here are former Twitter shareholders no matter what happens next.
It is an unrealistic and unwise expectation to live one’s life that way.

Decision fatigue will catch up with anyone who lives like that soon enough.

Time is a finite resource. Don’t waste it on perfectionism.