skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta would get away with it if it was "Pay or Okay or [Customize]"

The 'Customize' screen could have lots of power use options for deciding how ads data was used, and sufficiently powerful that the options couldn't be explained without pages of help text, and that choosing "No" or "Yes" to all options made a config with contradictions (ie. "The configuration you have provided requires us to use age data to show you age suitable content, but you have denied us permission to use your age. Please correct your choices before continuing.").

They'd still have the majority of users Pay or Okay, and a tiny minority would go the power user route, and it's existence would keep the EU happy. They'd need to convince the EU that the complexity of the customize screen was necessary due to the inherent complexity of the decisions that need to be made by the user, and not because they want to discourage the users from using it.
It's a little clear which of us got more out of the project
They very explicitly do not want to know what their users are using the browser for.
LLMs output probability distribution of the next token. And that automatically makes them non-deterministic. You can make their output deterministic by greedy sampling, fixing the seed of a pseudorandom generator, or by computing exponentially growing probability distribution of all possible continuations, but it doesn't change the fact that LLMs produce probability distributions you need to sample somehow to get a definite result.
They are not allowed in there during the flight. When the plane is turned off and parked at the gate, the rules are a bit more relaxed.
That's awesome, glad he liked it!

Very fair - the OpenSky API has no SLO, so it will sporadically fail to reload. I'm working on better retry logic in V2, and potentially the ability to login with your own OpenSky account (http basic auth)
You forgot one:

- Don't touch my fish
Also, they support Passkeys. Which is by all metrics a vastly superior way to secure an account compared to normal passwords.
One if the first company i worked at used X-windows networking for their Paas offering,until at least 5 years ago.
Lockheed Martin adds a ® to the name on
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/sikorsky-black..., so somebody seems to have some claim on that name, so maybe, yes.

By the way: it’s not Sikorsky-style, it’s US military style.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Inside-DOD/Blog/article/2052989...

“The tradition of naming helicopters after Native Americans was once an official regulation. That regulation no longer stands, but the tradition continue.”

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products.html?domain=&c... also shows Sikorsky doesn’t use this theme for civilian helicopters.
What specifically do you mean by "wrong end of the stick"? It seems you are just a troll incapable of engaging in meaningful discussions.
Then don't use facebook.
My man at Apple Maps forgot to account for Header
I basically mean:

No matter if you dislike Go you cant argue with the fact that it is a good fit for larger teams collaborating on a big multi-year/multi-decade project.
If it's true that they'll lay off Oliver Drotbohm and Dan Vega then "seriously bad" could describe the impact.
Good point. Are there any code-semantics-aware diff tool out there though?
Right! I was expecting it to be hard, but I literally get my orientation streamed by CoreLocation
Sometimes you have to be flippant when engaging with trolls.

There wasn't enough thought behind the issue, other than being outraged at their unsatisfied entitlement
Why would a higher temperature be the more optimistic estimate?
Not free as in beer.
As recently as the 1970s I remember the Rag and Bone man who used to trade in the streets around where my grandparents lived. He used a horse and cart, and was mainly collecting metal. This would have pre-dated the council refuse collection covering any recycling, i'm not sure when this was introduced generally in the UK, but i'd say the 90s.
Thank you for making me one of today’s lucky 10,000!

https://xkcd.com/1053/
If it reproduces by cloning, it should be relatively easy to eradicate at once. You only need one specimen...
I don't think it's working properly. Most (if not all?) trains are going at around 40-20 km/h. Why would they all stop in the middle of nowhere like this ?
Yes, just because you see SIMD instructions doesn't mean the code is fast. You need the correct instructions.

Not relevant to this example, which is `popcount`ing only a single number, but AVX512 did also introduce SIMD popcount instructions for getting many inputs at a time. Also true for other useful bit-funs like leading or trailing zeros.
So if you're using zmm registers, you can do way better than that godbolt example.
It's the branding element of the environmental warnings that are funniest to me.

We had Leonard Nimoy warning us in the 1970s about about global cooling and a 'mini ice age'. That didn't materialise so we moved to 'global warming'. Then when that didn't seem to happen either, we moved to the generic 'climate change' - a term which is always true (and meaningless).
I quite like that they were willing to try, even if it was a waste of resources.

Sometimes you just have to do experiments, even if the outcome isn't wholly known.
I mean, everyone's going to have different moderation patterns, and experienced with moderation. And you can't please everyone.

I actually don't like locking posts either; the concept is fine, but in execution it felt more like a band-aid for when a moderator was tired of moderating, often because of 1-2 specific chains of comment and everything else was perfectly civil. Rotten apple ruins the barrel, and the feeling of mod laziness means they throw out the apples and the barrel instead of pruning the fruit.

>You write about developments on major subs, but those are just that, the major subs.

which is what proportionately most people will experience. moderating 100 people and 10m people are different problem spaces, similar to sorting 100 items and 10m items. They need different solutions and approaches to perform them optimally even if the end result is the same.
Broadly agree, except:

> Facebook is the big corporation the GDPR was largely written to try and reign in

As I understand it, GDPR was to keep all the different EU member states' rules on the same page and up to date, and was continuing the same path that had already been stated with the Data Protection Directive in 1995: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive

Most of the core ideas were already present before Zuckerberg finished[0] high school.

[0] and possibly started, but I don't know how US schools work.
They sure did! But in what shape do they exist in today? Depending on the language you might find N ways of doing something, where N = amount of devs who has worked on the project. Most likely you have a huge mess.
They don’t require a space around them. That’s a French thing. They don’t require that in Swiss German.

Also not in Norwegian and probably others.
There's a conflict there, though.

Free markets are "one dollar, one vote", as compared to government which is (nominally) "one man, one vote".
> lead plaintiff Kevin Hardwick <...> had not shown per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, found in his body could be traced directly to the defendants such as units of 3M, DuPont and others.

Is this a cruel joke?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...
Bandcamp does this too, which surprises me. Individual record labels can yank releases whenever, and bandcamp purges it so thoroughly I'd think they were trying to convince me I never bought it in the first place. Not in my collection, not in my purchase history, etc. They don't mention this happening on their "where did my music go FAQ" page. I only confirmed it by searching my email history to find the receipt.

Sure, there's stolen music, but some record labels just delete and recreate the product pages for no reason (or maybe to prevent purchasing individual tracks? not sure why that would require a replacement).

There's another option, to mark a release as private, where purchasers can still view/download their music.
I am more interested on running llama.cpp on CPU-only VPSs/EC2. Although it is probably too slow.
I think this is utterly ridiculous and a dangerous precedence if allowed, it is asking government to regulate the pricing directly. People can't survive without food, but it doesn't you can sell luxurious fruits?

Facebook/Instagram, are not fundamental rights, nor will it impede one's ability of living without them (I have neither).
I don’t think that’s correct. Consent must be opt-in, informed, and freely given: for cookies many EU countries have decided that a “Disagree” button must be as obvious (or more obvious) than the “Agree” button.
tl;dr

Each fingerprint sensor was ultimately defeated by a different weakness. The Dell laptop's Goodix fingerprint sensor implemented SCDP [encrypted device communication] properly in Windows but used no such protections in Linux. Connecting the fingerprint sensor to a Raspberry Pi 4, the team was able to exploit the Linux support plus "poor code quality" to enroll a new fingerprint that would allow entry into a Windows account.

As for the Synaptic and ELAN fingerprint readers used by Lenovo and Microsoft (respectively), the main issue is that both sensors supported SCDP but that it wasn't actually enabled. Synaptic's touchpad used a custom TLS implementation for communication that the Blackwing team was able to exploit, while the Surface fingerprint reader used cleartext communication over USB for communication.
What are your goals? Knuth's books are a very rigorous tour through computer science. You will almost never need this amount of rigor as a software engineer, or indeed, as a computer scientist.
"Economics is Not a Science"

https://www.aubreydaniels.com/blog/economics-is-not-a-scienc...

"No, Economics Is Not a Science"

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/13/economics-scie...

"Don't let the Nobel prize fool you. Economics is not a science"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/nobel-...

"10 reasons why economics is an art, not a science"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/10-reasons-why-econo...

"ECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE"

https://www.edge.org/conversation/douglas_rushkoff-economics...

"Is Economics a Science? Well, Not Yet."

https://www.ricardodahis.com/papers/Dahis_IEAS.pdf
The definition of clean water is a local concern? Yeah, I guess some communities are more concened than others...
It's been decreasing rapidly. My peak was a million words/month (mostly fiction) about 6 years ago.

Lately, a lot of consumption has been in video, because, for some reason people like to teach with videos instead of text. Also I realized that my eyes were 'glitching' -- when wearing glasses past a certain power level, words start to flicker on screens, especially short distance ones. So I got reading glasses and things are better now.

Be warned that you can read a lot faster if you skip comprehension; reading a mentally challenging book means that the bottleneck is how fast your brain can process the information. AI has been good at "predigesting" info i.e. doing summaries before the actual reading.

Some books are extremely difficult to get through without the context. Just an hour ago, I was reading Joyce Carol Oates' Heat (a poem-story), which seemed difficult because it was unfamiliar. Then it clicked when I saw that every paragraph only contained one point of information and the narration was distorted on purpose to evoke unclear memories, but it was still chronological. After that, reading was a breeze.

Other things are hard to read because of some fear of getting better after you read it; some form of regret at not doing this earlier. I still haven't completed reading The Pragmatic Programmer, despite starting it almost 10 years ago.

Anyway, to answer the question, probably 4 books/year in the last 2 years. I've been forcing myself to try to focus on a book until it's finished and it's proven very inefficient.
Perhaps a weaker statement would be "centrally planned interest rates exacerbate the business cycle".
this. that has been my personal experience as i browse github without being logged in for the most part.

even searching a specific file name inside the repo has been locked behind the same way.
PeerTube v6
Apples and oranges. Eh? And yet, while completely rejecting my post so confidently, you somehow managed to miss a central point:

We can have targeted ads and privacy, and to an extent we already do, so that is not the issue.
reversed by 2000
This is useful, thanks for sharing. I will incorporate it in my gipeties.com directory of GPTS (yes, I don't like the name GPTs so I came up with gipety as an alternative ;)
Nowadays languages are huge enough to cover various paradigms and countless concepts

That should enough, right?
The fact other companies do the same thing doesnt mean what Facebook is doing is OK. Probably nobody (yet) filed GDPR complaint about them.

Actually going after the big players is way how to set precedent. If Facebook will be allowed to do this then most likely everybody can.
Nothing in GDPR gives you legal basis for that (the penalties under GDPR are paid to the state). But there isn't anything that prevents you to sue them either, so you just need to find another legal basis (like, to prove a damage) and convince the civil court. Civil courts have famously low standard (preponderance of evidence), so it doesn't sound easy, but it doesn't sound hard either.
Ok, i can rephrase. You cant sell your right to privacy. As you can't sell any other human rights. Or any constitutional rights.
You can read what I wrote and you can read their biography.

Both myself and the references do indeed state that the director of the New York office of UNEP holds political and legal qualifications and no STEM qualifications.

Neither they nor myself claim that he is the Head of UNEP or speaks from ignorance.

It's clear, though, that in an AP article he uses non SI units and doesn't clarify expected ranges and probabilities.
The reason is that they are smaller and if you want to make an example to scare an industry into compliance it's better to go after big companies first. If Facebook gets dragged over the coals the smaller ones are next unless they adapt. This myth that only non-EU companies get pulled into court is nothing but propaganda, mostly spread by the poor, poor, US-based violators of privacy.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ has a list of enforcement actions, and low and behold, most of them are against EU companies.

(The country filter is for the fining entity, not the fined entity, just in case anyone thinks this doesn't include US companies at all)
They are currently working on a linux beta/alpha version.
I have two small children, and can't name a Disney movie made after Frozen. Their new stuff is just a bit bland and run of the mill in my opinion. Nothing to do with any perceived political values.
We are starting to sound like the response to agile being overrated, "you aren't doing it right".
These comments never come with suggestions of how to do it right or what is being done wrong. They will never consider the possibility that the criticism is justified.
People seem unable to hold these separate thoughts in their head at the same time:

- none of the predictions regarding global warming became true

- this does not mean that human-induced warming isn't happening

- but this also doesn't mean prosperity-ending measures to curb co2 emissions are justified in every case

The climate deniers are probably wrong, but so are the climate doomers who have shown a lack of epistemic humility and a failure to weigh the pros and cons of potential interventions. At its worst, its a death cult, and thankfully it seems to be in decline.

None of the interventions in western countries has made any impact globally, they literally don't matter and are a rounding error when compared to China and India.
If you want to pursue an academic career in computer science, then yes, probably, I don't know. If you just want to "grok" algorithms to prepare for an interview, then there are much more time efficient ways to do it.
Plenty. There's not a lot of Malaysians on here, so many tend to drop me an email when they figure it out. Most hang around the same communities (hackers, YC, tech, etc) so we end up knowing lots of mutual people too. It's a small world here.

There's also meeting people by proxy. I find another community from here. People on that community are friends with one another. Turns out those people browse HN too.
Replaced it with Lemmy, sure. I think you're underestimating how many others went off to other large, centralized places, even if they barely relate to reddit. Discord, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter, etc. If they first and foremost just wanna chat, they don't need a long form forum like reddit, and I imagine most aren't making sizeable comments anyway. I'd be surprised if the mean comment length on a large sub wasn't below Twitter's character limit.
Same thing. Governments can't govern without those.
This is a similar site for the UK: https://www.map.signalbox.io/
While I’m all for privacy, I don’t see why people should not pay for using their apps. Running a platform costs tons of money. Any operator has to make their income from somewhere. In case of FB, it’s through displaying ads; or paying a fee. One can argue the fee is too high and request a reduction. Or quits using the app. The choice always exist. But nothing in this world is free.

Social networking as a fundamental human right? I find the idea ludicrous, but if, then request the governments to build and operate them.
Modern money is debt. Every dollar is borrowed, pretty much. Money is created by borrowing, and destroyed by paying back the loan.
Not sure why my comment was interpreted negatively -- too practical? Seems like important details to solve. Maybe that's why things aren't getting done.

Might make sense for the state to provide funds, since many city budgets are struggling. SF has a projected $780 million two-year deficit, last I heard.
Eggs do not cause suffering, no? And they do not contain blood. What is the reasoning to include them in this list? Honest question.
Where's the exaggeration? When a scientists says "1-7" and in the end it's 3, there was no exaggartion.

Also, it's not a way how "climate activists think". It's called "Preparedness paradox" [1] and has been well researched, e.g. with flood disasters and their countermeasures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox
Headteachers in England tell of worsening behaviour of pupils – and parents
It's the gestalt more than any part really.
One of my other favorite point and click adventure games also suffered from this transition to 3D: King's Quest. King's Quest 7 was a beautifully hand-drawn animated storybook that looked like an old school Disney feature film. King's Quest 8 was hideous 3D garbage that looked bland and worse, they changed the whole premise of the series to focus more on combat than puzzles and storyline.

That being said, I think modern 3D games look fantastic when done correctly. It's just not the best format for some genres.
Thanks for being honest about it. Sad to see that it's downvoted. I guess people spent the time and effort and don't want to admit it might not have been valuable.
Yeah always at the gate upon landing - sigh, I’d love to jump seat to satisfy my curiosity
It always intrigued me how can people justify NOT CHARGING interest for a loan, seems like the reason is "tunnel vision" exclusively looking at the matter from the point of view of the party who borrows the money.

But looking from the point of view of the one who loans the money, without interest there's only risk and no reward. I mean like when I'm lending an amount of money to someone with no interest, all I can hope is that they might repay them back (uncertain). And most likely I'll have to go through the trouble of incentivizing them to return my money, another cost on my side with no benefits since I can only hope to get back what I already had. So I have some money now, lend them and temporarily lose them, then go through great lengths of effort and stress to get them back and at the end all I can hope for is that I'll have what I already had. Probabilistically this is a certain losing position, by pure statistics some money will get "lost". I'm locking myself into a loss.

Really as a loaner, how do you justify lending money with no interest? What's in it for you?
[disclaimer: after talking to many people much smarter than me, I might, just barely, sort of understand this. Any mistakes below are my own]

Thanks for the heads up! AI is better at making up stories than humans already. Hodl my beer while I go buy some BSitCoins.
Care to explain the reasoning behind this? I don't follow.
A Qmail example of dealing with unavoidable race conditions
yesn't social engineering and people not understanding anything about technology are a thing, I had to disable notifications for an older person before

but at least no one who potentially is on HN should have that problem ;=)
No, it's the other way around. Either FB offers something that aligns with the law, or they GTFO. Why it's the me(g|t)acorp that sets rules and not elected governments? Because it's their product? Because we the people are the product and not people?
Paying for groceries with privacy is not only possible, it's extremely common. That's the entire concept of a membership card (at stores which will sell to the general public).
Here 'conservative' means the least extreme best case assumptions.

Here higher tempretures are the pessimistic worse case predictions.
Depends a little on the time of year. I don't read for leisure very much. During a study semester, I will read 30+ journal articles a week (20-40 minutes per paper), but very few books, maybe just one or two chapters a week - usually boring textbook stuff.
However this year for leisure I have read a few books including Teo Te Ching, Meditations, The Art of War, Civilizations and Discontent, Confucius, The Communist Manifesto, Utopia, The Prince, The Art of Being Persuasive and How to Win an Argument, Beyond Good and Evil, The Game of Life and How to Play it, Big Panda and Little Dragon, Utopia, Determined: A science of life without free will.
Next i'm going to tackle my first graphic novel and read V for Vendetta - I don't even like fiction, or graphic novels, but V for Vendetta is one of my fave movies, so I decided to have a crack at it.
I should read more, but sometimes I just can't be bothered.
This is a book that is literally famous for being one of the most rigourus and comprehensive computer science books ever written. I feel like if you don't already know what you're getting into then it probably isn't what you are looking for.
That is so cool. I often wonder if I’ve been on this aircraft before, wish I had that data!
You can get privacy without paying by not using Facebook. Getting someone to host your pictures and provide you a platform to share them isn't a fundamental right.
I think it's a good thing that admission criteria based on race are dis-allowed. I'd rather support dis-advantaged people over people of a particular race. Doesn't mean you can't still support dis-advantaged people in many ways - and I strongly think they should be supported. The left doesn't have to rely on identity politics to achieve good outcomes. They would be far more effective and less divisive if they did so.

Does that supreme court ruling also rule out admissions decided on the basis of income, where a person lives, etc? I assume the answer is no? Low income scholarships are clearly a thing... why not admissions?

If I'm wrong in this regard - then boost support to pre-college students (scholarships, tutoring programs etc). Earlier the better - as I am given to understand that earlier intervention is better than later in terms of outcomes.
Maybe if I can trust them, which currently I have no basis to do so.

And I don't use Google search anyway (brave search is really good), I just care about YouTube.