skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the abstract:

"Studying the roots of this pipeline, we find that institutions that prolifically produce computer vision research, namely elite universities and
'big tech' corporations, are subsequently cited in thousands of surveillance patents. Further, we find consistent evidence against the narrative that only these few rogue entities are contributing to surveillance. Rather, we expose the fieldwide norm that when an institution, nation, or subfield authors computer vision papers with downstream patents, the majority of these papers are used in surveillance patents."

From the conclusion:

"Between the 1990s and 2010s, we have seen the rise of Surveillance AI, and it has become an overwhelming norm that computer vision papers analyze humans, and those papers used in patents
are most likely used in surveillance patents. Moreover, even when a paper does not explicitly state surveillance as an application, it provides the methods to do so and is grounded in a historical context that makes it possible to target human surveillance while minimizing the acknowledgement of these intentions. In other words, the default stance of the field ties progress closely with surveillance."

Thus, something is rotten in this subfield of computer science.
You definitely have control over what you get from YouTube. You can delete certain type of videos from your watch history so that such video will disappear from the recommended list. Pretty easy.
As for regulation, mega-platforms like YouTube are facing pressure from governments from all over the world, and each government has its own concern and requirements. It is pretty hard (or impossible) to come up with an explicit policy that satisfies every user and government.
We used plain ol bluetooth for this 20 or so years ago. I haven't used AirDrop but assume it's got better UX, but otherwise, what makes it special?
Either they are aping from Google Cloud or Thomas Kurian brought some Oracle phrases with him to Google, since GCP also calls it that (or at least they used to).
The speed limit on interstate highways is too low. There are no Amazon packages being delivered to homes whose driveways go directly on to the interstate.
With lisp, I only need functions.
Maybe you live closer to the equator than the Norwegians in that post? The farther north you live the more the year will become a thing on it's own, because the months feel very different due to the length of the days changing.

I am not saying that this necessarily must lead to geometric metaphors, but if you are somewhere where "a day" looks more or less the same independent of the season it makes more sense to tie to your own experience
Rear exits are already the same size as the front exits, but getting a jet bridge safely past the wing isn't easy so you'd have to mirror what European carriers do and use dual stairs.

If you're thinking of using two front exits, jet bridges also can't get too close to the engine so the only narrowbody that works for is the aging 757. Plus it doesn't really save time because the space between 1L and 2L is generally first class.
I mean if you think marvel is the high end of quality then I guess Disney is better.

I find the variety of Netflix programs much more interesting than Disney. But that only explains their global strength (where normal user wants to see Korean and local dramas)
Is that still true? I only found some very old forum posts, but nothing about the newer versions.
It doesn't matter. As someone involved in hiring decisions for developers, all we cared about was whether the candidate did something for himself or not. Because if he does, in our experience they're much better developers. Candidates who don't usually only take on the job for the benefits, but don't actually have any interest in the craft.
I can’t say that it has ever occurred to me to visualize the year as anything at all, and very surprised to learn that it’s apparently a very common (or near universal?) thing to do. I don’t really understand the concept.
And Frungy! The game of kings!

Frungy!
This is asking the wrong question: for example, there are antibiotics you are prescribed for IBS because generally they tend to have a balancing effect on the gut microbiome. I've done a course every year or two when things get unmanageable, since it's a good reset.

In this context, a treatment which reduced risk would likely be a combination of antibiotics and probiotics to try and shift the biome to a different one.
https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-dna-g...

>“We plan to engage constructively with policymakers on the best enforcement regime,” Haro said, reiterating that the coalition wants “a uniform national data privacy law” that treats all companies the same.
How so? Admittedly cars are much more likely to kill third parties than other consumer products, but you could also incur massive liability by eg. selling $10 toasters that violently combust while sending a rain of hot shrapnel in all directions.
It's Design of Experiments language, DOE being a damned useful tiny little subset of applied statistics.
If you subscribe to only high quality channels you will almost exclusively get high quality recommendations. Except for the shorts, those are a plague. I have a YT account only for the TV and the recommendations are incredible.

If that doesn't work, you can use your subscription page as your entry to YouTube and you won't see any recommendations at all.
Even later! My grandparents still had a black and white "portable" in the kitchen in the early 90s. My friend (who was wealthy) still had a black a white portable that my friend's sister would watch soap operas on in the mid-90s.
the code is still on BSC blockchain and any node will still return the information in those addresses

even binance operated nodes

the only thing Binance did was do the exact same thing that Cloudflare did, both on their HTTP routes. Binance just had one for convenience and to attract use of their blockchain, which … worked?

its actually lazy and amateurish that the hackers are using HTTP to access this code on the blockchain, they dont have to
Scale isn't a binary switch—Nebula's UX is very comparable to YouTube's, better in some ways. There's a space in the middle—between one guy's personal site and Google—where the platform has enough resources to get a decent experience.
Elon was only able to buy Twitter because Tesla sold a lot of cars. Not giving more power to people you don't want to have more power is not an abstract emotional value.
> Wifi got a bunch of ambient discovery capabilities a bit back that seems exactly targeted to this stuff. Neighbor Awareness Networking, or WiFi Aware for the trademarked industry packaging there-of. It was built into Android 8. There's also even older wifi-p2p/wifi direct (again, spec vs industry branding for the same thing).

The problem with these is that interop is a nightmare. And interop is exactly what you want to get 99.9% working, otherwise the tech is moot.

Apple, and to an extent Google, can do it thanks to their control of the vertical stack. Open-source... has a harder time about it.
Cameras, sensors and your privacy (in Dutch)
I use HN at 133% zoom and it's perfect. (unfortunately refined hacker news also don't fix the zoom)
From the same article, 23&me is lucky they are not covered under HIPPA...

>The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a.k.a. HIPAA, includes penalties ranging from $100 to $50,000 per violation — that is, per hacked record. Violations also can carry criminal charges resulting in jail time.
> We haven’t forgotten anything. MS Power Apps is the spiritual successor for Access.

I am pretty sure that having access to all of the events in VB6, I would be able to implement a bug-free Autocomplete Textbox. [0]

In Power Apps, it is not possible to implement this exact UI, without major bugs - in 2023.

Something was definitely forgotten along the way.

[0] https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_autocomplete.asp
That is true! Samples are usually good forever in the freezer. Do they keep all samples?

Running -80C freezers is not cheap! I have 3 -80C freezers in my lab, those large chest-freezers, and each uses 22 kWh per day for a total of 66 kWh per day. Apparently the average US household consumes 29 kWh per day, so we use up 2 houses per day.

Our freezers certainly don't hold the 14 million samples 23andMe supposedly has, more like in the low thousands. They'd need the power-usage of a city to keep all those samples OK!
Teaching – Content, Courses, Calendars and Students
> This approach eventually sucks out the pleasure of exploration and random encounters [...]

Oh, that depends entirely on the game and what your mood is. In something like Opus Magnum that min-maxing is the entire point. In something like Factorio or Oxygen Not Included you can have fun both with bumbling around or with min-maxing.

Also have a look at https://www.sirlin.net/ptw for some perspective. Playing to Win can be fun and rewarding. See especially the chapter https://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/love-of-the-game-not-playing...

> Now it’s time for what appears to be the opposite point of view: “playing to win” at all times is counter-productive. If you want to win over the long term, then you can’t play every single game as if it were a tournament finals. If you did, you wouldn’t have time for basic R&D, you’d never learn the quirky nuances that show up unexpectedly at tournaments, and you are likely to get stuck honing suboptimal tactics.
> Maps are hard! Car manufacturers should leave it to the professionals.

I hate this sentiment. This kind of thinking essentially says that anyone whose primary product isn't software should not be writing software. And what it's really saying is "If you're not FANG, you have no business writing write software"

Full Disclosure: I worked in infotainment writing software for several years.
All ebooks I have ever bought were instigated by stealing the first book from Pirate Bay.

It must be bigger phenomenon than authors understand.

Palahniuk knows this and made a video how to steal more of his books.

Lars Wilderäng seems to understand it too, because he just jokes about it in X. He probably made those torrents himself as they are from trilogies and people are compelled to buy rest of the books, like I did.
Your concern is addressed in the OP:

> The simple solution is a legal mandate to allow third party app stores. It’s fine if Apple wants the official rails to be highly curated but there simply must be an off-ramp.

Right now Apple has an effective monopoly on the software that can run on its machines, especially the iPhone which is extraordinarily difficult to install non-appstore software on. I don't understand why that's considered acceptable when we once pilloried microsoft for having internet explorer be uninstallable. In that case you could at least still install whatever other browser you wanted... (obviously software being uninstallable is also bad)

> What makes you think there's some secret buried treasure of high quality apps and not an overwhelming noise of 99% crud?

This could be because of the barrier to entry to getting software onto the platform. I don't really face this problem with other platforms, such as Android or Linux. Maybe because I have my own curation process though, which brings me to my final point:

If 3rd party app stores were mandated, not only does that allow users to install the software of their choice on the computers they purchased, it also allows competitive markets. Apple right now can (and might?) pull an Amazon and promote their own products/software over others' because they own the market and the algos that run the search on the market. They can prop up their partners, and they can charge whatever markup they please to be listed in their curated experience.

3rd party markets means new algos representing different needs without daddy Apple getting say-so. F-droid is a great example. The various marketplaces for linux software is another: Ubuntu's official repositories, Arch's, etc, with offramps in the form of AUR or just compiling software on your own that you find on your favorite search engine or forum if you're so inclined.

Apple's app store is monopolistic behavior, plain and simple. You can love it, you can have it, it's actually quite fine imo for there to be an official software repo, but there must be an offramp to enforce user freedom.
Bent Flyvbjerg has a lot to say about this. He has a new book out How Big Things Get Done

In a database of thousands of projects over $1B in size, nuclear power projects come out third worst for cost overruns, behind (before?) Olympic Games hosting and Nuclear Waste Storage Facilities. The kicker: that's construction, after approvals.

It's not even close, either.

1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Bent+Flyvbjerg+How+Big+Things+Get+...
Better UX that makes it actually usable
At the end of the day you wouldn't want to work in a place that isn't a good fit, so it's for the best when this is figured out sooner rather than later. This is something that should be consciously explored in the interview by both sides.

My 2c on the exercise, that infographic chart has a 3d layout with subtle effects, and because of that it's not really a design that can be practically translated with CSS/HTML (without images). The above and beyond solution would be something done in 3d, i.e. Three.js., otherwise the cheap solution is to use static images with JS interactivity (something like a fake 3d with images). Using CSS for the 3d effects is also possible but it would need to be justified because there are other better solutions, depending on whether you want to optimize speed or quality, for example there is probably a way to do this with only HTML, but it's probably very tedious and unmaintainable.
Just because cloud spends are low doesn't mean there's more room to gain for cloud. The biggest expenditure in IT, onprem or cloud, is talent. Which is why a lot of CIOs at big corps are "excited" about the whole "ChatGPT for code" trend (not that most of them don't have much experience in the space to actually evaluate that premise).
Seriously reading this article and thinking about where we headed really puts every moment into perspective and makes me realise it’s precious.

Every time I look at children, and the wars going on is a reminder it could all just be wiped away so quickly.

Enjoy while it lasts…

Maybe this revolution will end well but man it seems like it’s going to be a wild ride.
Because people want to zone out with their addictions. If they didn't have YouTube or endless scrolling, they'd stay in front of the TV just as their parents or grand parents, and if they didn't have that they'd spend every evening drinking and playing cards or dice for money.

I wouldn't call somebody who sits and watch YouTube clickbait "a victim".
literally nothing, they just disabled blue tooth transfers on iOS and came up with airdrop as if it was something novel
so lack of awareness makes support of that behavior more acceptable?
Speed, mostly. Ad-hoc wifi can push tens of MB/s, which matters when sharing photos and videos at today's sizes.
The parent is more confused than you are, I think. I have almost never seen an histogram with bins of unequal sizes. The claims were dubious so I checked Wikipedia, which mentions this:

> The bins (intervals) must be adjacent and are often (but not required to be) of equal size.

And this:

> A histogram is used for continuous data, where the bins represent ranges of data, while a bar chart is a plot of categorical variables.

To be fair, there probably are variations in nomenclature across fields. But saying that a histogram with bins of equal width is a bar chart is wrong, at least in the general sense.
They'd just do it more slowly, with big concave mirrors.
I literally cannot give that up. The US government demands taxes on all of my global income, will not allow me to renounce my citizenship without another citizenship, and the state department refuses to grant me a passport or disclose the reason why they won't grant me one, even with FOIA requests.

I'd gladly pay $100k for the privilege of renouncing my citizenship and legally becoming stateless. I'd actually have more rights as a noncitizen than I do as a citizen these days inside the US, especially when it comes to KYC and AML rules.
> My proposal is a bit more, um, simple:

I think your suggestion is kinda based, but it's definitely not more simple, as it would require targeting a single company and enforcing a monopoly action against it to force it to split up. I believe the last time that happened in the USA was 1982 when Bell System was broken up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

Meanwhile a legal mandate to allow third party app stores can be accomplished more simply (imo) similar to how the EU forced Apple to use USB-C: market directives.
you run into the reprap vitamin problem: is vitamin b12 'just materials' or is it 'decoding'? but afaik all cellular life encodes its own ribosome proteins in its dna or rna, rather than harvesting ribosomes from prey, so in that sense it encodes its own decoder

would a hypothetical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_genitalium variety that harvested ribosomes from eukaryotic cells no longer count as 'alive'? it's already an obligate parasite

how about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasuia_deltocephalinicola? it depends on its insect host for atp
This is a web forum so no room for nuance, but you're begging the question.

Who exactly is the government "seizing and selling off" Elon's shares to in your scenario?

And why does the answer to that question imply the company will be driven into the ground?

At $150bn market cap, you just need a maximum of 151 shareholders (I'm not going to bother to look up Elon's ownership percentage of SpaceX) worth of dilution to ensure no billionaires.

Again, these 151 individuals would remain grossly wealthy.

And certainly there are large companies today without a single shareholder holding $1 billion.

Again, it's really not hard to imagine a world where no single person owns more than $1 billion of collective capital and equity, and still operates in a capitalist fashion.

Edit: McDonald's (market cap $190bn) is 70% owned by large institutional investors, a meager 0.31% combined by executives in the company, and the rest is the general public with no dominant shareholder.
That was not the question asked. Google is good at data security, and at the same time they are probably the biggest privacy violators, and both of this can be true.
Not as cool nerd
https://www.dxo.com/eula/

For security reasons, DxO integrates DRM (“Digital Rights Management”)
software components in the Software.

Don't know if it's still Pace Interlok, don't care.
In a full factorial design you’re able to calculate the main effects and all the interactions between everything and everything else: not just pairwise but all combinations of variables.

You may not care for that because you don’t think there are such interactions or perhaps you just don’t have the experimental budget.

In fractional designs you can chose to confound some of the interactions so that you can’t tell what’s happening beyond a certain level. Eg just main and pairwise effects, with the rest confounding those effects. You would do this because it requires fewer runs.

You can also use it as a sort of screener when you have many variables by confounding things together in such a way that you can at least tell which variables are having the effects even if you can’t calculate the individual effects.
I've been using https://snapdrop.net/, and if it's not down it works great! I think it only needs to be up as a signaling server, right?
Very fun and interesting blog. What's the rationale behind that powers of 3 number system though?
Not a Bot - X requires paid subscription in two countries
I’m in a lower cost of living European country, a lot of people use $200 phones here. $230 for “some photo editing software” made even my fiancée raise her eyebrows, and she’s used to seeing me pay a lot for computer stuff.
Also good luck finding a NAN-capable WiFi adaptor that you can plug in to your regular Linux PC, Raspberry Pi, etc.
Min-Maxing can be fun. That's how you play Opus Magnum for example (but you don't have to.)

Different play styles suit different people, different moods and different games.
I'd like to know more about that. If you've a blog or something.
I think multiplayer is a good name for a different reason. I think it’s a clear and accessible metaphor for how people will interact, i.e. by concurrently working toward a shared goal with a coherent shared state.

I don’t think it trivializes the goal or the work being done, it just distinguishes it from parallel non-coordinated use.

Also, players are not just for games; the Bard had some thoughts on that. ;)
Wow. As an experiment-design nerd, this may be one of my personal top favorite HN posts of all time.

I don't 100% get the generation part yet, but I believe that's just me needing practice.

A long time ago back in New York, Grace and Trevor from Javelin (Née Lean Startup Machine) taught me the scientific method over the course of a weekend workshop.

Still, to this day, I use their experiment design process and I am grateful for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-5Iyj9A1MU

Thank you demofox for sharing!
> It's also a matter of getting to your seat at the back, finding no space, and then having to walk up and finding any remaining space has been taken ... If you're boarding last (as I do voluntarily and involuntarily), you just shove your stuff wherever

I get what you're saying, but I pay extra (a lot extra) to sit in the front and have more leg room, and forget about the fact you hate rich people, there out to be a place for my one carryon near where I'm sitting. Because if I have to walk to the back of the plane to stow, how will get to my bag after we land?

the asshole approach really is the asshole approach.

I know, I know, rich and asshole go together. Me paying for that seat, that comfort, should be balanced by me not being able to get my bag till everybody else has left the plane /s
This company definitely deserves a dooming Netflix documentary with lots of visuals of DNA and network-like structures.
Indeed: agrivoltaics is under active R&D. Initial results seem to indicate that in dry areas PV can actually increase crop yields while reducing irrigation demand.

So in effect it has a negative land requirement in those places.
What is PVN?
Why not just use SyncThing?
They've raised $670 million???

It's a SaaS product. In what world would they need close to that much money? Am I missing something?

Or do companies really just raise as much money as possible, and hire assuming they'll be endlessly exponentially growing, regardless of what they need to build their product?
What about Ayran (that salty turkish thing)?
In the USA, presumably, although they never say it outright.
To me, it seems to be merely the illusion of control. Sure, you can teach it what topics you prefer, but it'll always be tempting you with what is truly addictive and crap. Trying its luck like an adversary. It also punishes creators who create their content at a pace that's more sustainable for both producer and consumer. There's plenty of really good bait, but in the end a trap is a trap.
No plugin for Vim?!
Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law
Some journalist should write an article on how many times platforms have played this card throughout the world.
I don't understand how this is useful. People don't calculate numbers in brain, they learned to use calculator. LLM should just learn to access external API every time they need to make a calculation instead of spending precious neurones on primitive tech already solved by transistors.
Yeah, because fed is stupid about inflation. That'll just mean higher rates for longer.