skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just because we somehow ended up in a situation where spyware got effectively decriminalised doesn't mean it's a good situation especially in the long-term.

Spyware is just newspeak for “I feel immune from being prosecuted under the computer fraud and abuse act and the senator I paid for agrees”
Also try to give usable web app ( todo ? ) hostel somewhere if possible.
You can use the up arrow with an application highlighted in the command-tab picker to select a particular window of the application.
I think I 'd start with simple generated images first, like a sine wave rendered with dots, to get some initial insights.
I'll give you a different take. For most of my web applications, I am designing and building every single thing including all of the front end and backend and any database. It doesn't make sense for me to spend a bunch of time on the user interface before the software actually works.

Then once it's working, there is a fair amount of CSS tweaking just to get basic spacing and other things to look okay.

At that point, there are usually functional bugs to fix, one more feature I need, and two other projects I want to work on. Satisfying the latest design trends is usually a very low priority.

For my recent project aidev.codes, I actually used Bootstrap, which is not something I normally do. But AI helped me with class names and stuff.
> people who didn't know how to read in college and had to study English to learn how to read

You seem to be suggesting that liberal arts majors didn't know how to read in college. At the very least, English majors. I'm confused why you think extensive study of language would be attractive to someone who didn't know how to read.
Nice thought, but it still incentivizes putting people behind bars.
The entire site is one giant ad for YC. The only difference is that HN has achieved an extremely effective content marketing strategy so tracking isn't needed.
If you haven't already gone down the custom keyboard rabbit hole, I suspect you might like it. There's a pretty large enthusiast community out in the world, and there's a lot of ways to go custom - build your own from scratch, use a kit, use a pre-built with flashable firmware, etc.

The firmwares used (e.g. QMK) allow you to build the sort of thing you're talking about into your keyboard and more.
VC also strongly suggests that it is made clear one person is the CEO, so when push comes shove, some one can make a decision and things can be resolved.
I remembered reading it is better to have 51/49 rather than 50/50 equity for that reason. Though to be honest I am not sure if I read that in the “good advices you should follow” or the “shitty toxic advices you should avoid”. Hard to differentiate sometimes.
Again the author doesn’t consider crypto solutions like pgp, keybase or any kind of signed social trust graph. Why do people keep writing this sky-is-falling thesis over and over without at least arguing for or against cryptography?
Yeah, basically I share those doubts. Still I'm still considering rewriting might be worth it at this point still. The question why it came to be is probably mismanagement, changing business requirements, a very inconsistent and highly volatile "microservice" backend made across hundreds of developers across the globe. Corporate shenanigans you name them. So the software being in a weird environment is nothing I can change. I just want this piece, the stuff me and my team works with to still be able to produce new stuff and be as much of a pleasure to work with as possible.

Some notes that make me actually favor a rewrite:

* Despite of being a considerable large codebase not a single piece of software made it past the "just for presentation" purpose - no customers or production software involved. (Also parts of it are infact already cancelled by management and therefore obsolete)

* Team morale is very low as practically any task currently
means dealing with a ton of cruft

* We actually piled up a refactoring backlog, that grew so big it practically will touch everything. Like obsoleting an outdated store package that contains 70% of the business logic. Migrating to vue3 will pretty much touch every view as our class decorator syntax stuff won't be straightforward to migrate. Then theres not much left.
Vapid video has already crowded out thoughtful text.
Almost certainly not, imo.

Unpalatable to Walk St? No, using a service that does not have personalization is unpalatable to the small businesses that pay for Meta's services.
> This decision, as I understand it, renders large swathes of tech service revenue models untenable.

To be honest, good riddance. If it is no longer possible to offer users a "free" service in exchange for extremely invasive spying and psychological manipulation (without explicit consent [0]), it forces companies to 1) innovate in order to offer such services for a sustainable price, and 2) encourages competition from new entrants.

[0] By the way, one can imagine a scenario where users are somehow compensated for the permission to use their personal data. For example, let's say Facebook now costs 20€ per year. If you allow Facebook to use your personal data for ad targeting, now it costs 5€ per year.
Your comment is phrased like you're disagreeing with or challenging mine. But I think we're in agreement? I didn't mention the specific jobs that you did but I agree wholeheartedly that we need people to do those jobs. And I'll go one step further and say they're important and should be done with great skill and care whether or not they have economic value, especially because they have to do with caring for those in our population that have some of the greatest needs. Of course economic value drives the sustainability of professions in a lot of ways, but my hope is always that if we prioritize skill and care in our professions then economic value and sustainability will follow.
And the eyes don't seem to be symmetrically placed.
I would assume the books are inspected before delivering them, to prevent this? Just like any other package delivered to the inmates.

Why ban the books entirely?
The exact same applies to UDP. Your connection is (usually) a single full duplex stream of Ethernet packets, sending and receiving packets one at a time, providing concurrency across the many open connections through time sharing, not parallelism.
The issue with "one worker one vote" is that it assumes an egalitarian world that couldn't be further from reality. CEO's are in many places overcompensated, sometimes ridiculously so. But the idea that a CNC programmer or engineer should get the same input as the guy pushing a broom around to clean up their part shavings is so absurd that you will never get talented people to take part.

This of course means the only solution to the talent disparity is an ultra-authoritarian crackdown on any type of private enterprise at all, a truly dystopian outcome that we've seen only under the likes of Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot etc.

I think the part you're overlooking (or consciously not wanting to think about) is enforcement. How do you expect to prevent someone from starting a private business and structuring it in a non co-op manner? Ultimately, this can only be enforced with violence or the threat of violence, right? So now how do you convince people used to freedom to accept widescale authoritarian violence as being "worth it"?
I agree that it is exhausting. But it seems that it's a challenge of information parsing and application - not necessarily the volume of information itself.

I think there can be no doubt that the volume and accessibility of information exploding is a good thing. It will take time for us to find our rhythm with the new reality - we need tools on an individual and social level to cope.
This is the correct answer given the poor title of this post.
Punishing companies directly that do business with Facebook/Meta would probably be the strongest deterrent. If we can sanction countries, why not companies?
Isn't the Quest 2 the newest headset they offer? Why wouldn't it be fair to try that out and see if it worked, and come to the conclusion that it was underwhelming?
This is a matter of one's priors. One could just as easily say that it's one thing to find a clearly environmentally mediated difference in some extreme situation (i.e. between North and South Koreans), another to pretend that such differences are enough to explain even a worthwhile fraction of the achievement gap – especially between different ancestries within the same polity, in the absence of any overt discrimination or substantial evidence for covert one.

It'd be a better argument, even. Despite severe global sanctions and a ridiculous political and economic system, there isn't that much of a difference between North and South Koreans. Denizens of DPRK still maintain an orderly society with universal literacy and advanced domestic technology, and overall demonstrate cognitive performance on at least European level – with like 5% of GPP per capita that South Koreans have, on par with poor African states. Which are, indeed, among the lowest-developed, and frequently fail to maintain basic infrastructure – despite external support.

I do note that you have ignored my meta-level question, though, and that says enough.
That'd imply it's okay to put obese folks in cages without food until they've lost weight and I'd suggest that that's fucking insane. We've discovered another dimension!
Why would anyone choose Mein Kampf for a Great Books program? It’s not a significant intellectual or creative work of literature.
Even with co-founders, one of you is still the CEO.

You need an executive function to set direction and unblock stupid territory squabbles. Someone whose decisions are final. If you have two actual CEOs, you don’t have that.
If your hot take is so bad that you can only say it in an empty room without getting dragged, do some introspection.
Absolutely!

A lot of completely new immersion possibilities to try. GPT powered characters will be a fascinating thing.
> not tracking them across the internet

FB's like button, found on many websites, tracks you across the internet whether or not you click it.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/facebook-to-pay-90-...
Apparently not enough. This community doesn't really reflect the world at large.
Advertisers aren't altruistic and don't voluntarily subsidise poor people's access; advertisers want to target people with money.

Poor people being able to "freeload" is a side effect of imperfect ad targeting - if advertisers could reliably identify someone's financial standing without hurting conversion rates they'd absolutely do so and deny access to poor people.

If nothing gets done against ad targeting and non-consensual data collection & processing it's likely that there will be a point that poor people will lose access to ad-supported content (despite said content being free to someone much richer).
Any recommendation for Mac?
This whole thread consists of Python vs Ruby discussion. I abandoned both when .NET 5+ was released. C# on Linux makes me happiest.
I think we're very close to the point that even video won't be confirmable to be genuine. If it could even really be said to be so now. (Instagram/TikTok are the most performative/contrived content platforms these days)
Yes it does sound like an ad for cloud services
> To really understand something, we must construct it ourselves.

I think the real power of these bots will be to lead us down this path, as opposed to it doing everything for us. We can ask it to justify and explain its solution and it will do its best. If we're judicious with this we can use it to build our own understanding and just trash the AI's output.
This is only the most recent attempt. It was proceeded by a successful publication of the exact same article to mainspace, but it was removed because the account used to create it was linked to a previous blocked sock.

If you review the history of the article proper, you'll see a history of creation and deletions. There are also past attempts in Italian, Japanese, and Simple English.

If you use COIBot reports to search for his various domains, you'll find Wikipedia is littered with his activity.
Yes, it could - and should! We shouldn't give up on teaching maths because of calculators.
For many industries like these that are heavily driven by development of intellectual property and heavily regulated by the government, nearly all the profit is made in the US market, while selling to the entire rest of the world adds a few % of revenue that by itself would not be enough to justify the investment.
Right, every org and individual has their own subset of c++ they use and exclude. C++ may have standards but that hardly matters when projects/orgs/individuals have their own variant of the language that is used.

It’s a fallacy to think that there’s some idiomatic C++, there isn’t in practice.
EU fines Meta 414M dollars for ad practices
The case hinges on how Meta receives legal permission from users to collect their data for personalized advertising. The company includes language in its terms of service agreement, the very lengthy statement that users must accept before accessing services like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, that effectively means users must allow their data to be used for personalized ads or stop using Meta’s social media services altogether.
They have also been ordered to stop doing what they're doing, and will face additional sanctions if they don't.

When calculating fines under the GDPR the supervisory authorities have to take in to account whether the violation was intentional, previous violations and compliance with previous orders.

In other words, if they don't stop now the fines will get bigger.
There is no way this is a good faith question. As someone delivering their opinion on the internet - surely you can explain why someone would like to deliver their opinion on the internet.
> Transparent remoting

Presumably you mean "Transparent remoting isn't a thing"?

Paper authors were at Sun, so had experience with NFS (the design of which assumed that transparent remoting was a thing).
Are you able to add a reference? I am curious about the mention of Romans. Thanks!
WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR)
It's one thing to provide on opt-in for new users, but will this mean retroactively resetting ALL users to no?
We haven’t been preparing for the massive retirement of the boomers. It’s tough in many cases where they spend their careers keeping younger people out of leadership.

Then they complain to national papers that workers aren’t hustling enough to get into leadership.

There will be volatility as a new generation takes over at companies. Each generation is larger and more educated than the last so demand will keep up.
Wow, you're right. It's a decimation to the T. Hmmmm.
If I am understanding this correctly, GDPR means that you must legally accept free riders, ie. you cannot deny service if they don't want it.

Mandating companies to serve users who provide no value at all is an example of the regulatory requirements that spill down to hurting regular consumers and workers in Europe. You can see this across all sorts of fields, youth unemployment in Europe (for example) is a mess.
They could press criminal charges against all Meta executives and extradite them from the US. Of course this is ridiculous and will never happen for a number of reasons, but it shows that the EU doesn't have literally no teeth.
Sure, in general, but when the profit comes from shafting the prisoners to the point of diminishing returns, I feel there's little room for that argument.

The sweat-shop example seems somewhat quantitatively different, as treating the workers better adds value for a sufficient number of consumers.
I don't know about corporate adoption. I started programming around 2008 or so, and the first things I encountered outside of grad school were Ruby and Python. At first I used Ruby because I felt like anything I wrote "just worked", but later I switched to Python because there was just "one way to do things", and also because of NumPy/SciPy/Jupyter.
At a risk of being ignorant: Isn’t obesity a function of calories intake and calories burn rate? If so, why do we even need a drug for that? What should a possible drug target here? Assuming no changes in behaviour and thus a continued steady daily caloric surplus, would it even work?
ChatGPT Failure Archive
Do they have a privacy commissioner too or just Ontario? “The French” really seemed to love stealing trade secrets more than standing up for liberty or whatever when we crossed paths during my time in so called civil society.
I’m currently taking one of these drugs and it has been no less than a miracle in my life. I became obese when I was around 5, topping out around a 34 BMI. When I was 20 I lost a substantial amount of weight the old fashioned way (diet and exercise), and within 8 months I was BMI 23. Losing weight was extremely challenging and socially isolating.

7 years later, I had a bad ankle injury and regained weight to about 29 BMI. This time I lost weight by doing an “eat every other day” diet. This was also extremely challenging, but easier than just counting calories and working out. After Covid and a lack of exercise I was back to BMI 30. I started taking tirzeparide this summer and have gone from BMI 31 to BMI 26 and still dropping. This is by far the easiest way to lose weight. The side effects for the first 3 months are quite bad, and include off and on strong nausea, extreme fatigue, brain fog, and constipation. I was eating <1k calories per day for a long time and feeling full. I expect to be on this drug long term. My blood work shows extreme improvements in cholesterol, BP, and other key health indicators. I believe that everyone, even the skinny folks, should be on GLP1 drugs for the longevity effects. They changed they induce in diet reduce the oxidative stress on the human body, even if the person is already thin.
I'm not sure it's tenable to just evacuate young people from a radiation zone. There still needs to be people to service the old people's needs.

I do take your point, I interpreted the parent to mean that the reason for the evacuation was radiation. In that case I'd still maintain that the deaths should be attributable to the nuclear incident.

Agreed man years lost may be a better measure. I'm not sure what the morality is Vis a vis valuing a young person's life more that an old person, as a society though, we seem to have come the conclusion that an old person's life is more valuable than it should rationally be.

I don't think it's reasonable to resort to whataboutism. Yes nuclear energy has probably saved lives overall, but it still costs lives. If a plane crashed should we accept the people died due to the plane crash or should we discuss how it's much safer than driving?

I suppose half the problem is that humans are bad at evaluating risks. So I'm not averse to contextualising the risk, but the contextualising cart shouldn't be put before the actual quantified risk horse.
There are two things I see Python being better at.

- Static typing

We have RBS but that is written to a separate file, the only thing I see being close is the Contracts gem

- Lots of first class scientific libraries and other cool libs

http://sciruby.com is working towards lowering that barrier
If you’re an employee (not contractor) in California, your employer can specify in the employment contract that they own IP rights to anything you make even in your own time, as long as it “relate[s] [..] to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer”. Many tech companies do so, including large tech companies whose business relates to just about everything.

YMMV if you’re in another jurisdiction.
Decimate was how the romans culled a weak unit. They would kill 1 in 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)
I wonder sometimes just how far off the day is that AI no longer requires humans for content generation. If you asked me a few years ago if something like ChatGPT could exist without strong AI I would say no.
Maybe an internal voting system, where every SWE gets 1 vote, but they submit a couples projects (as a fallback mechanism), so at the end of the yr all donations get bunched up & paid out together. Then if the money can't go to the first project for whatever legal reason it goes down to the next one of their list.

It's still a complicated system so it'd would take serious buy in. Not to mention the drama donations generate internally and publicly. But it's a noble goal.

$1000 per engineer grant might still be easier and less fragile
(Years ago) Ruby made a lot of sense to me coming from Perl, and I'd bet that Perl-inspiration might explain many of the WTF language design choices.
Link to the commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkHENcNlwDM
Is your tiling-manager also automatically focusing a window on that workspace? And are workspaces limited to a single screen, or do all screen simultaneously change state? Because those are the main reasons why I switch to specific apps instead of desktops/workspaces/tags/whatever you call it. Apps are reliable, but desktops seem too heavy and pointless for me.
Meta can still use personal data for ads. They just have to explicitly ask for consent.

I do not like these sensationalized titles on HN.
My wife lost a hundred pounds via bariatric surgery; resting heart rate dropped by 20, cholesterol dropped into normal range, knee and hip pain disappeared, and it even helped the chronic migraine substantially.

We've got plenty of clear evidence that being significantly overweight has health impacts.
Yes, though the plugin system itself has really no rails at all. Any plugin can do anything.
Please, Turner Diaries is explicitly racist and written by a card carrying white supremacist. And its is a know fact that the text has incited murders. The Oklahoma bomber had pages from the book on his person when he carried out his attack. It's ridiculous to deny that the book communicates a message of racial hatred and violence, when it's clear in the text, claimed by the author, and celebrated by it's fans.

I'm not for banning any books, but if books are banned when they "Advocates/encourages violence, hatred, group disruption, racial animus and not merely describes the same" the Turner Diaries should one of the first to go.
I would argue that we're overvaluing the level of danger here. All athletes risk their entire career being cut short due to injury. What the European footballing system does (by not being franchised) is allow there to be multiple levels below the "top" level which then justifies the number of children trained in the game so there are careers (of varying degrees of profitability) for many of them.

However what we are discussing is rather the levels of money at the top of such an industry and that concept applies to both sports. Where Ronaldo can earn £25m in a year at Manchester United while still having his "dream job". Football in Europe since the Bosman ruling has allowed its players to share in the wealth of the industry; one could argue that programmers in the gaming industry are not afforded that same. It remains an interesting discussion as to exactly why that is and I think the risks that workers take are not as relevant to the amount of money available in the game and scarcity of the best employees available; which results in such inflationary salaries for the very best employees.
I remap the useless caps lock to AltGr and then customize the whole keyboard. Mostly for unicode characters, but some shortcuts too—especially those F keys. I'm using Linux and do it with xkb. Can write a blog article if anyone is interested.