skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you get sleep at night. When I worked as a video editor years ago, I unfortunately had a boss who I needed to please and this kind of rabbit hole obsession would have added a significant barrier to doing so. More resolution, on the other hand, made me straightforwardly much more productive.
While I'm sure Apple would prefer a full scale production run, limited availability for a new product often can create a demand frenzy that is overall beneficial as production is able to ramp up.
They didn't try asking for half a banana?
https://archive.is/6gW3F
Had an engagement with a client a few years ago and GA came up. Folks on our side tried to avoid Google where possible, and I'd suggested some alternatives. Matomo, Fathom(IIRC) or others - multiple folks on the team had experience with these alternatives, but the client was insistent on GA. "This is the industry standard - look at all the billion dollar companies running GA - this is what we should use". I pointed out those comparison companies also had dozens of engineers per project; we had 3 part time people.

The argument kept coming down to "GA is the standard; GA is what people know". Which is... true, if not somewhat circular.

My other suggestion was try multiple; run GA and Matomo together, for example, for a bit. Or GA on just the public marketing site, and something else on the internal application. Nope, because they wanted to track every single ad spend all the way through to registered user usage of the internal business application. Knowing that the $70 you spent in Tacoma geo lead to 3 users registering then knowing that those 3 people routinely used a budgeting tool more than the $90 spent on 8 people who registered from Toronto... apparently those sorts of analytics might be needed in the future, so we have to have this.

Instead of "let's just install both for a few weeks and try them", this became "let's 'investigate' multiple options and write reports about the pros and cons of each". Nuts. My larger concern was that, for testing/dev purposes, we'd not have as easy a time of 'resetting' an analytics DB that was not under our control (resetting or maybe creating new/unlimited sandboxes for each test run). I didn't find any way in GA (or really any hosted solution) to handle testing well. But maybe that's not a big concern among 'enterprise' analytics users?
This is great, but suffers from the same issue as carbon credits in that any secondary market is likely to allow multiple pledging for the same underlying activity. If someone is already simulating millions of orgasmically happy fruit flies, for instance, they can earn utility credits by promising not to deactivate those flies - but how can we verify the same promise hasn't already been extended elsewhere?

I think you need some NFTs.
This really shouldn't have to be said, but wired internet and cellular internet are two different things.
Why RHEL?
Still, it's user hostile behaviour.
I used to be torn on this conspiracy theory, but I just accept it at this point. It's pretty clear that a huge number of comments on sites like Reddit are if not bots, paid for spam/manipulation. The amount humans, let alone people commenting in good faith is so low as to not make it worth engaging.

There's too much for bad actors and companies to gain, there's no way they're leaving this kind of opportunity on the table, especially as bots get much, much better at appearing human.

It is kind of funny when occasionally a bot messes up and posts the same comment more than once in a thread across more than one account.

I think this is why people increasingly prefer closed off, invite only communities as well. You can vet people coming into a discord community a lot easier and avoid a lot of the nonsense that happens on more open, public, spaces like Reddit, or Twitter.
Yahoo Search, MySpace Social Network, and Digg for link aggregation, amirite?

Blackberry smartphones, PalmOS to organize our contacts, Sony Walkmen to listen to music, Symbian Apps, Java ME phone applications. Flash internet content, Juno Email. UltraSPARC systems running SPARC probably won't be beaten by a scrappy open source startup...
Apple was just valued at over 3T. NVIDIA spiked. Infrastructure Bill spending is coming through as I understand it.

We're in a post-vid slump growth phase.
Well, that’s what the professor with autism can do though: in a statement establish that they will create a mentorship environment with explicit rule and clear boundaries such that will foster an environment for other autistics to succeed in the field.
The marginal cost per customer is not that different if it's a small customer or a massive one, so it's much interesting for you to go after the big ones that will generate much more revenue. You miss out on revenue from smaller customers, but your margins are higher (and it's totally possible that the revenue from smaller customers isn't financially directly worth it, if the support costs around them are too much).

Of course that skips the bigger picture like more people knowing and using your products and being happy with them leads to more champions for them doing your sales and marketing work for you, which can create lots of revenue in the long term; but it's pretty much impossible to quantify.
> I’ll give you a very specific example. When turning on the flashlight, I have to hold the flashlight icon for a specific period of time. If I hold too long, I get the dimmer option. If I don’t hold long enough, it doesn’t turn on. The iphone expects what feels to me like a zen-like stoner’s calm press of the button. This is absolutely infuriating to me. Every time. Just turn the damn light on when I press the button.

I just tested this on my phone (albeit it is an iPhone 8, so a bit older model perhaps without as many features). A short tap is sufficient to turn it on and off. A longer tap brings up the intensity slider. I was unable to tap the icon quickly enough so as not to register the tap and toggle the flashlight.

Upon retesting a couple times, I did notice that on the first tap the icon is illuminated but it did take a split second more for the actual flashlight to turn on. But waiting the split second was sufficient instead of further tapping.

I’m using the menu that is pulled up while the phone is unlocked (by dragging from the bottom of the screen, on my model), for reference.
Isn't SoA basically always more performant though? You're either traversing individual "columns" and leveraging cache locality, or you're not and then you can traverse multiple columns in parallel to rebuild the structs on the fly.

I could only see this degrade or be suboptimal if you have a very small struct that still all in-cache (like an array of 3d coordinates or something)
Sure, Europe has to do more, but the idea that Russia is in a total state of war is pure propaganda.

https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/sipriinsig...

If your society is in full war against Europe and you only spend 5% of your GDP something doesn't add up.

Also, IMO it's not really that Europeans are not convinced that Russia is a threat, but rather that the messaging of European leaders is basically " we have 10 big problems we need to solve , we will work on them all at once " and obviously it all comes out wrong cos it's all half assed. We need to beat inflation and all massively update our armies and we need to decouple from China and we need to be climate neutral by 2050 and solve the gender gap and protect our democracy from the far right and etc.

Like the amount of issues that for example the Ampel(Germany) or Macron(France) have to face at the same time is multiples that of Lithuania.
> where at least a few thousand people depend on this tool

Just taking Google employees alone, a few *tens* of thousands of people depend on this tool. Millions of non-Googlers depend on the tool.
Why are you putting diverse in quotes?

Do you have data supporting your claim that "plenty of legacy admits are diverse"? By definition the legacy admissions are very similar to previous attendees. You need to explain how that would increase diversity.
If they couldn't just blow air through it (to feed the string, or push a swab), what about a specialized motorized vehicle (optionally using a long wire pair cable in place of the string, if that was better than battery onboard, or just swabbing as it goes with no cable/string)?

Did it come down to a $35+maintenance ferret being lower cost?
If a third alternative existed that would be a meaningful objection.
I remember my excitement for a Ubuntu Shipit CD quickly dissipating once I realized I couldn't use a USB-A cellular modem dongle, which was the only way for me to get internet connectivity at the time. This was even after having compiled a custom driver, and so on and so forth.

As a Linux newbie, this experience gave me an immense sense of revulsion towards the Linux desktop. However, one fine afternoon, I tried to boot up the Ubuntu partition, and try running the wvdial command instead of using Gnome PPP. Imagine my surprise when it just worked...
I'm not saying the extra level of concern RE Facebook is _rational_, in this instance, just that it's _there_, and that it shouldn't be surprising it's there, based on Facebook's prior record.
Google's updated privacy policy states it can use public data to train its AI
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All good points, but choosing to not drink alcohol should be exactly that --- a choice.
Yes, but compulsory DEI statements achieve the opposite effect sadly - they water down true commitment to the issue by making everyone make them, which has the effect of making the pledge worthless.

This again disadvantages neurodivergent people because they often can't effectively filter between mandatory bullshit and genuine commitments, so they might be abused by people who were just forced to sign the DEI pledge but do not actually care about it to make proper accommodations like explicit rules and the such.
Japanese firm believes it could still exist in 10 years
The neurobiology section is so far removed from the basic understanding of memory formation I honestly wonder how the author came up with it. It's not like myelin plays no role in learning, but the primary mechanism is synaptic formation. The author has ignored the stadium to focus on a seat. If you're interested in this I highly recommend "In Search of Memory" which is Eric Kandel's autobiography. He won the Nobel prize for his work describing how memories form and is a primary author of one of the most popular and widely used textbooks "Principles of Neural Science". His bio is highly entertaining, accessible, and informative.
Personally I'd be fine with password restrictions like 16 characters minimum etc etc. Still better than MFA.
> Education Science ... Germany

I guess you're studying "Erziehungswissenschaften"? You might find that educational psychology ("Pädagogische Psychologie") has a lot of the depth you would expect. One nice example is cognitive load theory.

One of the more complex mathematical treatments of learning are "knowledge and learning spaces". But it seems they get bogged down a lot in implementation details (= conflating implementation with interface behaviour). And: It's a bit to simplistic. For example, talking about things like the "expertise reversal effect" in this framework is not straightforward.
Basically, and it would work on a URL basis.
Casual twitter user here and have heard about 'notes' but not actually seen it in the wild yet? It sounds moderately reasonable; one of my concerns is that there's so much other upheaval going on that whatever effectiveness it might have will be lost in the shuffle or essentially impossible to measure well.
Didn't know this extension existed, thank you. I don't actually subscribe to any Youtube channels and mainly search for what I want at the time but this may be a healthier way to use Youtube.
Wow, that's a throwback. I remember when my Ontario high-school in '84 or '85 got a whole room full of ICON computers. It was a total miserable nightmare for the teaching staff as each computer class had at least a couple of students with the skills to elevate themselves to root privileges and cause constant mischief.

The ICONs were way more fun from the aging Commodore Pets that had populated Ontario high-schools, and the big trackballs felt futuristic.
> We originally created wvdial back in the late 1990's because setting up pppd 'chat' scripts was too annoying.

Yes, wvdial saved my ass back then. I remember pppd being incredibly confusing (not sure if it was, but I was only a teenager at the time.) Weird flashback to hear about this; I would have forgotten about it completely otherwise and yes, that is a sad state of things...
That was just Google being Google, and its history of abandoning products. I wouldn't give it too much meaning, tbh.
> I highly doubt that considering that web app / native app store debacle.

You mean the same Apple where Jobs said that no one would want to watch video on a tiny screen less than two years before the video iPod?

Apple didn’t go from idea of a fully featured SDK and an App Store in nine months without already planning to do so.
Personally, I take bigger issue with the people who hire the telemarketer. While I can imagine a person revelling in their telemarketing position, somehow I suspect most people working are just trying to get enough money to not starve before next months paycheck.

Regardless of the reality, I get the sentiment. Hey we built this system that can trap humans in an infinite social loop requiring either superhuman willpower or outright sociopathy to escape. But don't worry, we only use it on the bad people.
Not so strange at all. The IP address _can_ be used to identify you (together with other data-points), which brings it into PII territory. That it can not be used to reliably determine your physical location is besides the point.

Consider an online store shipping physical goods. It asks you for a shipping address. This shipping address is PII and must be treated as such. The facts that you may reside elsewhere and that multiple other people may be residing on that address are both irrelevant to the GDPR.

https://www.fieldfisher.com/en/services/privacy-security-and...

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
And that screenshot tool does not have anything in the global menu. That was my point.
I think most people don't consider viewable source projects to be truly open source
This seems like something Brave could get away with...
lol right like I’m signing up for another Zuck platform.

I unfortunately am stuck with the ones I have because of their ubiquity. I would jump ship in a heartbeat if a viable alternative actually took off.
Yes, you should absolutely not be using Google Analytics. They don't need more data, your users don't want to see cookie banners and most of you really don't need 99% of the data that you can filter through...

I can't recommend Fathom (https://usefathom.com) enough. They have a huge focus on privacy-first tracking. You don't need to show a cookie banner and you can still track events etc.

If you want $10 credit for signing up, use https://usefathom.com/james but otherwise, https://usefathom.com

Seriously, Google Analytics sucks. Use anything other than that.
Once upon a time I might have agreed with this take, but having years worth of battle scars on me now - the interface that any company’s data presents about its operations is entirely coupled to the implementation of how it’s collected and the assumptions with which the system generating it is built. This is a good thing, because there is very little new under the sun, especially in business.

However, most young businesses will waste tons of time and money reinventing the wheel of these systems and trying to customize them to their business’ unique needs, but the much more effective path is to really (re)think through your business process and figure out how to align it with the grain of the tool instead. This option is only obvious to those with experience in failing to execute on the former option, unfortunately.

To your point, an effective analyst doesn’t just present data, they have to understand the entire world around that data - tooling, people, processes.
I don't appreciate this reasoning. Promotion of lying isn't wrong because of some strained "discrimination" connection, it's wrong because lying is immoral and deteriorates trust.
Heaven Banning is hypothetical, it's not real. At least not yet.

If you look closer at the date in the screen shot of a NYT article in your link, you'll see that the date was deliberately chosen to be in the future (i.e. August 8, 2024).
An old professor that specialized in helping students prepare to university or civil servant tests used to say that if you want to understand a subject, you need to do two things about it:

- Make some kind of logical scheme to help with disambiguation (things like which legal process comes first, of the Socrates-Plato-Aristotle order of philosophers and ideas)

- Write the long form of the subject everything by hand. Pen on paper. If it's a law or bill, write it fully, if it's a scientific concept, write every part of it that is related to the subjects that can appear on the test.

It's slow, tiresome and a complete nightmare for students with anxiety problems (trust me, i know), but as you write, you very slowly burns the knowledge that fills your logical scheme into your brain.

That's what the people that succeed in hard tests do to dominate nebulous topics. I don't know if it translates to actual mastery in different areas, but it's a very strong studying technique
I think RWKV team should make a statement by training a really large model. Their 14B finetunes are fine but far from impressive. If they believe that this is the future, they should have at it. They probably have funding to do so (I think?).

Anyway, exciting to see what comes next.
Those features drive use but did they also increase profit, given that Facebook successfully enshitified their main product (the news feed)?

I don't disagree with your main point, though: Facebook certainly developed lots of new features, whereas Twitter pretty much stood still.
If you have an invite to spare I appreciate one, my email is cliche.finest.0k@icloud.com
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On a $/per-watt basis, I suspect won't ever be able to compete with solar, but as an indirect means of capturing solar energy, this seems interesting. One of the downsides of solar is that you need to clear out foliage so the array can receive sun-light. But if you can run something like this in the humid understory, i.e. without having to cut down trees, that seems like a potential real win.
MFA has some sort of calculated irritation built into it.

Part of it consists in the incredibly varied ways it can manifest. I could receive an SMS code, an email code, I could generate a TOTP code (choice of two Yubikeys), I could use U2F/FIDO (choice of 3 Yubikeys), I could get a Magic Link, I could use Sign in with Google, I could punt and use a code on my emergency backup paper. Don't forget to pass a CAPTCHA, and your password probably expired while you were away, as well.

Of course this all transpires after I've unlocked my password manager's vault, which has its own style of 2FA security, its own timeouts, and its own UI/UX quirks.

So you can see the sheer dizzying possible mutations of the MFA flow. Sometimes you don't even know what they'll hit you with until you try to log in!

What amuses me is "We sent a code to your email. This message will self-destruct in 10 minutes." when email used to arrive on the scale of 5-7 days if the server was overloaded or busy. Oftentimes I find myself racing multiple timeouts to run the gauntlet of MFA in whatever way has been mandated.
This is the paradox of tolerance; you cannot be tolerant of the intolerant if you hope to foster a tolerant society. I’m merely arguing that it’s entirely possible to have a diverse thought community that all value diversity. There’s people who believe communism sucks, and there’s communists. There’s people who believe unions good, and people with bad experiences with unions. Someone who is a veteran will by necessity have different opinions (based on lived experience) than someone who had never lifted a gun, or someone who is a refugee of war. It’s inevitable that such a group of people will not all have the same opinion on things.

If the demand is to act a certain way, it’s only that the demand is to accept others who are different in a way that doesn’t actually harm anyone and foster an environment where no one person is unreasonably limited based on factors like being black or being a parent through thoughtless setup of the working environment.

The diversity of thought thing is always strange to me because it implies the only diversity of thought that matters is the thought to discriminate against others or the thought to put one’s head in the sand and ignore implicit discriminatory factors. Notice you totally ignored that the professor could’ve just written about accessibility, but the professor implicitly apparently does not consider accessible labs to be merit-based or something, because he argues the only solution is to sue since DEI is so against his meritocracy position.
What I dislike about Twitter lately:
- overarching political propaganda
- crypto bros
- AI bros
- profit chads
- constant fighting over idiotic topics, some driven by Musk itself

What I care for when I open Twitter:
- news
- hearing from other people from the dev community

If Threads can deliver this, I will be hooked
I do know Plausible, and their motivation is to make a sustainable business providing basic web analytics, which is why they charge for their service and Google doesn't. The data they provide to the users of their service is like an order of magnitude less detailed than what Google provides.

I get the cynicism about the industry in general since Google led this merger between web analytics and advertising, but there are plenty of providers in the analytics space that aren't following that path.
The list of countries that have ratified WIPO treaties includes the US, the jurisdiction under discussion. It's very much relevant.
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> if Threads becomes too successful for the Fediverse.

I wager most Fediverse users aren't worried about this (at least speaking for myself). The status quo is 2 or 3 big private companies and a few thousand federated alternatives. If Meta betrays the community, things will go back to square one and core functionality of their app will start to falter. They need the community more than the community needs them.
> ComeAsAService

I’m sure there’s a joke in here to be made about dating apps.
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> SQLite is unlike other RDBMS in that you typically do NOT want to create a new connection per logical unit of work

i would've imagined that most RDBMS would have a pool of connections that get reused, rather than creating a new connection every time.
or it was always just a dice roll, and asking the same prompts again will give you sometimes 1, usually 2, sometimes 3 bananas.
fumbling? My characterisation of the policy is here is far from CPC being unwitting or clumsy, it is quite deliberate. However, HK providing a safe zone for the CPC to experiment is not the same as being deliberately malevolent to any one else.
It was working when I posted it, if you click view raw file it will take you to the changelog.
A quick search suggests Meta face or faced two antitrust cases in the USA (acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, and separately a restraining order against the purchase of Within Unlimited), and have been warned of the possibility of antitrust charges in the EU (regarding advertising).