skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the comments here are missing the picture...

They may be trying such deals because they just found out that behavioral advertising is ilegal under GDPR without consent. And also, under GDPR, people should be able to decline without a degraded service. They first tried to place consent in the ToS, and failing that they tried declaring it a "legitimate interest". Except it isn't and a DPA ruled as such. "The cost of doing business" may become significant.

So they may be trying this deal because they are screwed in the EU, offering a subscription as an alternative. Except that this too will be deemed ilegal.

People saying that they'll sell that data anyway are missing the point: (1) they are not selling data because they aren't stupid, and (2) the EU is making their business model ilegal within the EU.
Chase Bank allows Google Voice numbers. In fact I'd say around 95% of the services I use which require SMS work with Google Voice.
Facebook doesn't sell your data to brokers. In the US or EU.
That's bottomfeeder crap.

FB advertising is a walled garden and they want advertisers to come to FB to buy ad space. They would never simply sell that data back out in to the broader ecosystem. It's not about charity, it's about control.
Lots of people here simply thinking it's a question of whether this is something you'd buy, as if the EU regulators are going to countenance this for so much as a femtosecond.

They will not, and the implied quid-pro-quo of "extreme ongoing privacy violation is what we get for not charging people" will make them more angry, not less, and is an _extremely_ dumb idea for them to be pushing in this context because it actually cements regulators' belief that Meta has no interest whatsoever in behaving itself.

The EU is not empowered to let Meta break the law. This is NOT a thing.
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I may have underestimated the population and behaviour of stink bugs in the broader world.

I've never had to deal with more than a few at a time, and they have always been pretty docile/non-reactionary creatures.
This simple point seems lost to 95% of the population. I guess the media portrayals don’t help either.
Perhaps we need more more specialized courts.

My local jurisdiction has separate tracks for both vets and addicts. Because handling those cases in the "normal" court is inefficient and unproductive. (eg Most addicts need treatment, not jail time. Vets specific care, not jail time.)

IIRC, there's a separate bankruptcy court. Sounds smart. I don't expect laypersons to understand finance and such.

Methinks we need separate courts for both intellectual property and healthcare. Where the "jury of one's peers" is composed of actual domain expert peers.
Even if you never get around to using the photos, I think it would be a wonderful service to take the photos and put them up somewhere for non-Vienna residents to enjoy.
> I should generate UUIDs at every interaction and hope that collisions don't arise

Assuming you're using uuidv4, the chances of a single collision is so low you don't need "hope"
These labs have their custom structures synthesized, adding a small circuit specifically for endurance testing would be trivial compared to what they have achieved designing and implementing the structures they have.
There is a difference between the [collective] perception of value and what is objectively valuable for our civilization.

We might imagine an island with 100 inhabitants where 3 people own 99% of the wealth and 99% of the produce. Here valuable is for the most part defined by what those 3 people value. If they really enjoy good choreography, 50 people could permanently work to put great dance shows together. It makes senses to cut down on fishing and farming. If there is food for 40% the system works.

China deleted 12,000 cryptocurrency influencers accounts from Weibo and Baidu. Both cryptocurrency and influences are valuable. As the formula creates it's own money everyone could be a cryptocurrency influencer for a living. I don't see why the sector couldn't grow to be bigger than the rest of the economy.

To me the danger starts when wealth and income are increasingly controlled by people who don't make useful contributions to our collective survival.

We can use information to educate people and to do countless productive things.

I'm not willing to sacrifice 1% of that process to rent seeking organizations and individuals or to peoples sensitivities. We are not talking about 1%, we are attempting to design the entire flow of information to cater to these people primarily.
Science isn’t perfect, but they have repeatable theoretical models. That’s literally what separates them from the social studies.

> It is precisely why I regard computational social science as important, seeking to bridge the seeming incompatibilities between exact and inexact phenomena.

Yes, this is what I meant with a near perfect simulation. We agree here

> Even after more than a century of social science, we are only at the cusp of understanding the foundational patterns that make up social life

This is what’s meant for social studies lacking repeatable theoretical models
Also, French has no other character that takes an acute accent. For the same reason, ç isn't typed with a dead key on French AZERTY.
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That is just crazy high. Who will pay this? Rich people that spends most of their time on Instagram?
In Alberta, it's required by law to pay before you pump. This happened after an attendant was killed during a gas-and-dash robbery.
Extending on that.

Google has special treatment for their services in the search results.
I.e. different look for their market, prefers youtube to the search results which has a better text version. Now it shows their hotels booking service instead of actually searching for hotel sites (they had the same thing with online shops). Pretty much killed Yelp by copying features with maps and showing their reviews when searching.

On another hand, MS/FB/twitter do the same.
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I assume by "which cannot be cached" he meant "which is in a page configured as non-cacheable in the MMU", i.e. exactly what you said
Selling targeted ads is selling your data (not directly, but selling products that depend on your data). Are they going to continue to use your data to sell targeted ads to others?
I wonder how much money they currently make, but it looks like they're going the YouTube/Reddit path where they expect the paid user to pay much more than the money they currently make from ads.

Edit: indeed they are[1]

I'm not sure why they're doing that but I suspect they don't really want people to move to the paid/ad-free plan so they charge a premium for that.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37752005
Something I don't really understand with people putting free speech as the bedrock of an open society is the contradiction in some arguments during the debate.

In one hand, they are explaining that free speech is the most (or one of the most) fundamental right, super hyper important: any speech is very valuable and without a full unregulated freedom of speech, society is loosing something that is very very important.

But on the other hand, they are also saying that speech is useless and powerless. They are saying that there is no consequence to speech (or that, for strange reason, the person speaking should be given credits for all the nice consequences and should be considered having no responsibility at all for all the bad consequences).

I understand better why other rights (freedom of movement, right to own things, freedom of religion, access to health, maintaining justice, ...) are fundamental. I also understand why some of these are still restricted (freedom of movement: yes but with passport and in respect of property, right to own things: yes but you cannot claim whatever you want to be yours, freedom of religion: yes but without bothering too much your neighbourgs, access to health: yes but if it costs you have to pay, maintaining justice: yes but at some point the jury will decide and may be wrong, ...).

I don't understand why freedom of speech is such exception that it has no restriction.
Sure, the presence of some collision somewhere is still likely to happen, but the chances that that collision will actually matter for anything is still vanishingly small.

In the real world, we do not spend 100% of our entire species's computing capacity generating uuids and doing nothing else. In the real world, we aren't burning through uuids at a rate of 2 billion per millisecond, and even if we were it wouldn't matter because the true denominator is the scope of the data system the uuid will be referenced in: if your hard drive partition and my webapp user entry happen to get the same uuid, we will never know, and if for some reason it does matter, then we can use uuidv1 or uuidv7 which guarantee no collisions for thousands of years by embedding a timestamp.
You can make housing legal to build without also subsidizing it with taxpayer money. The former doesn't require the latter.
This is amazing; thank you for the suggestion! I've thought turn-based games could work for e-ink, like correspondence chess or other play-by-mail type games.
How much does $17k cost for a celebrity or wealthy person compared to someone making $75k-$100k? It would be interesting to see comparisons with an average celebrity or multi-millionaire, but it seems hard to define without getting into crazy wealth.
Also commented on at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37749891.
Hands that tick? They give me the ick. Hands that sweep? On watches I'll keep.
It's already so that writing on computers is quite US-centric (at least English-centric). While this might help on some of the shortcomings, I'm also a bit afraid it will make it so that even more focus is put only on the US part, and the rest of the world get a "good enough" implementation made by AI that kinda erases some heritage.
I found a few months ago that the gpt-4 code interpreter is capable of converting a black and white png of a glyph to an svg

https://twitter.com/lfegray/status/1678787763905126400

It would be cool to combine a script like the one gpt-4 gave me with an image generation model to generate fonts. The approach from this blog post is way more interesting though.

On a separate note it reminds me of this suckerpinch video :) maybe we can finally get uppestcase and lowestcase fonts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRdruqQfRk
Sri Lanka will investigate allegations of intelligence complicity in bombings
I can agree that most modern web design is bad. I can also agree that the web design on tonsky's site is bad, but OK, I acknowledge that it is intentionally bad; so bad that it's unreadable. I had myself a chuckle now, and next time I see a link to tonsky's site, I'll click on it, chuckle, and immediately leave.
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Is it any more meaningful to speak about organisms as autonomous mechanical agents? Those are metaphors too.

Human language is metaphors the whole way down and science isn't immune to the leaky abstractions of semantic ambiguity.
These sort of costs are easier to drop than they are to raise - they might want to see take-up at a higher price point and then drop it later.
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Gas stations - especially in rural areas - are usually hanging by a very thin thread and if they go bust they leave the area underserved. I don't know what your definition for 'little people' is but gas station owners would definitely qualify in my reading of that term. They tend to make less than minimum wage. If they make any money at all it is usually from store items, and that's one of the reasons 'pump then pay' is a thing in those places, it is an attempt to get the customer into the store.
There's also the Beta Whistler AXP64 Build which was used to port Windows over to 64-bit before there was any 64-bit hardware available that could run NT. The people in the virtuallyfun discord got that running (I am part of that! I have an AlphaServer 800 5/500 next to me, with some hacks to the setup and telling it what HAL DLL to load it installed perfectly!)
I'm firmly in the mid-range segment of the market, and made some good and some not so good choices over the years (including a Nokia with Android One for my mom, which was not a good choice because of the many hardware issues). The A52 I currently use has been hands down the best one, closely followed by a Pixel 4A for my wife. I don't love the whole One UI thing, and would prefer Android One or whatever the stock Android is called these days, but it's just a polished product, in terms of hardware, software and security updates.
I agree with your sentiment, but your statement is pure survivor bias.
I remember once, eons ago, there was a gold plated 3.5 inch android phone that costed a few thousand euros. This was probably iPhone 4 era. It was a mediocre phone, specs wise. I struggled to understand who would ever buy this. Maybe as a prank ultra rich teens would pull on their friends?
I have a better solution for ad free facebook and instagram access.

Bibliogram or any other open source frontend to access public profiles.

Otherwise, just stop using Meta's products.

EDIT what's most interesting is that people from here are actually considering it to be a good deal. Paying to have your privacy "preserved" by a super shady and unethical company like Meta is not a win. You're negotiating with the devil. As others pointed out, it doesn't mention if your data will stop being sold to third parties to have personalized ads for you. In the future they might even decide that it's simply a dumb decision they took and sell people's data regardless if they paid or not; hell, they can even make it worse by adding a line to the dataset saying that you actually have money to pay for useless, placebo features like the one just announced.

I expected more of HN and not just being condescending to an unethical big tech that milks every data out of its users for a profit.
I wish my website quitfacebook.org was higher on any search engines' “quit Facebook” query.
To opt out of ads. The privacy invasion is still opt in and free :)
Trust me if I was a defendant I'd prefer a jury system too because I know that people can be skillfully manipulated.

But such a trial has nothing to do with justice. It relies on the dark arts of psychiatry.
I've never seen loans of that size, but in my understanding a lot of debt is structured so that if a payment is missed the lender can call the entire amount.
instead of sparc, I wonder if you were remembering the i860, which certainly ran NT/OS2.
The issue I have with this article is it’s trying to change the definition of censorship.

Not allowing profanity is censorship even if most of the public is okay with this.

One can argue that there is a good reason for censorship but you have to call it what it is rather than trying to redefine the act itself.
It looks good but it was last updated 6 years ago. They don't seem to be taking issues or PRs.
I didn't get a special rate because of the recommendation, of the 3 lenders I was reviewing, the recommended lender had the best rate and I had the bonus that the realtor and the lender had worked together many times so they were a well-oiled machine.

Trust me, I hate the idea of middlemen, and I do hope the system can get more efficient.
Is it not the case that having 128 bit primary keys take up 4 times as much memory as 32 bit integers when keeping the indices in RAM? I guess if you need the index to be clustered by time and also need a unique identifier in most queries then UUIDv7 fits your use-case but I still think having integer for the primary key will fit most use cases and be more efficient
I suspect it would be like most other services that have a different price in each European country. I would guess the $value is a conversion for the article from one example country.
This is fallout from a British documentary that revealed Sri Lankan intelligence agencies were complicit in the 2019 Easter bombings:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/06/sri-lan...
> this brave new world.

At-scale use of fingerprints by law enforcement is old - probably much older than the word "database":

"The French scientist Paul-Jean Coulier developed a method to transfer latent fingerprints on surfaces to paper using iodine fuming. It allowed the London Scotland Yard to start fingerprinting individuals and identify criminals using fingerprints in 1901. Soon after, American police departments adopted the same method and fingerprint identification became a standard practice in the United States.[80] The Scheffer case of 1902 is the first case of the identification, arrest, and conviction of a murderer based upon fingerprint evidence..."

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint#20th_century
Scaling up learning across robot types
Using the Intl Segmenter API
At least one of the doctors called as a witness has.
Not sure why you'd bring up such a blatantly obvious point.

All I'm saying it would be hilarious to see a terminally paranoid person argue why they don't want the government to keep fingerprint records of criminals in front of a family of people whose lives were just permanently altered for the better by the same records.

I can't even think of very strong arguments against such records, which makes the above even more hilarious. But I get the opposition, it's scary when the government has permanent records of people.
This article pretty much useless, where’s the details about the hack itself, what’s the protocol, is it specific to some vendors, among other details. Will wait until someone technical investigates it.
What would you use to compute proximity of vectors, for example?
Thank you for your suggestions, but I'm afraid the best we can do is to list packages compatible with both std.

The problem is, in order to build a std, we have to use a lot of <ABIInternal> stuff in assembly, and use internal/abi.FuncPCABIInternal in Go, so we can not make any promise regarding to the inter-std-compatibility for the time being, unless the Go project decided to make these features stable.
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
Nah not that huge. It works in many places. See Singapore and if you can look past freedom and patriotism biases... you can live actually live a very good life in china under a dictator.

Democracy is also a bit of an illusion. How often has a protest changed things? why is there huge wealth inequality and power concentrated among the few? Democracy Looks like much of the bad things associated with "dictatorships" with useless freedoms like voting and protesting as an outlet.
First TikTok now Meta...I think these companies are going to be hard pressed to get people's spare money considering inflation and COL increases.
> Don't even think of switching on the dark (night) mode with that attitude! :D

:D

> I really enjoyed the tongue in cheek design. I think every modern browser either allows you to turn on reader mode (especially on mobile) or just turn off CSS. This particular article works excellently even in w3m.

Firefox Focus on mobile does not have Reader Mode.
But not all normalizations are done to fight spam, not all of them should be interested in visual similarity.

I normalize strings in searches not because of bad intents but because for all user related purposes "Comunicações" and "Comunicações" are the same, their different encodings being more of an accident.
Last week I had some idle time, and I was looking up whether they sold multi-color e-ink displays in a 6"x12" size.

My state doesn't even emboss plates anymore. If I did mount one and kept my real tag number on it, could anyone even tell? I'm boring as shit, so I don't know why I'd have a James Bond gadget on my car...

> Looks like pump then pay is more regional than I assumed. Yes it’s still a thing in some parts of the US in 2023.

I haven't seen this in forever. Even the shitty little gas stations where I grew up, I thought those were all upgraded ages ago. The EPA tends to frown on tanks that have been in the ground a long time, and since that's the biggest cost, they tend to get the electronics upgraded too so that it's pay at the pump. No idea why anyone with cash wouldn't be forced to pay first.
Yep that’s right. I’ve been saying that for years. Ads are in a race to the bottom, it is a tragedy of the unmanaged commons and the commons is human attention.

In most “socialist” countries, ads did not intrude in your life.

But actually, it is worse than just ads. Capitalism can harm freedom of speech, and for-profit online platforms shape it in such a way that society gets more and more polarized and depressed.

Record levels of depression and sadness in teenage girls

One fifth of middle aged women on antidepressants

There are solutions, but they involve different economics:

https://rational.app

If anyone wants to get involved — feel free to email me.

I did a couple interviews with Noam Chomsky on this subject:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPZ8rSESZo

https://community.qbix.com/t/freedom-of-speech-and-capitalis...

And also David Harvey and Thomas Greco:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ezf7wxJ7whA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ax6iHAG3lx4