skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently been inundated with “People you may know” which are old flings, people I went on one date with/slept with once, etc… I met them on tinder or CL, and it’s very strange to see that. I can only guess maybe I was still in their phone, but I haven’t had a facebook app on my phone in many years, and I don’t believe they were all even on my contacts list. I did have whatsapp, so I can only guess that’s where it’s coming from - maybe there was a small overlap in 2017 or so. One of them I’m sure I never added to my contacts.

Anyway, it’s strange and jarring to see that. It’s been more than 6 years, I’m married - with kids. I don’t want to see them, I don’t want them to see me.

This was with everything on good terms, I can only imagine how jarring it would be if things were different.
Does FuryGPU have a homepage or something? Can't find anything relevant.

Some resources for noobs looking to enter this space would also be appreciated.
Yeah maybe I'm underestimating them in that case. Every other battery powered device I own degrades a lot faster than that but I guess car batteries are higher quality.
Not sure what you mean by default Android apps but Google Pixel apps != AOSP's stock apps. AFAIK most apps can now be disabled in Settings on recent Samsung phones, I'm not a fan but I don't think they're that worse compared to Pixels, especially on the flagship devices.
Googles layoff are among the dumbest I’ve ever seen.

Laying off randomly and not low performers is par for the course for the management of Google. High performers will leave when the market gets Better and the company will fill itself with more shitty performers.

This is not how a top tier company behaves.
New? You mean other than the fact that it was a successful test of a new way of communicating from "deep" space? No, you're right, we've been receiving data from satellites for a long time. Totally changing the method in which those probes communicate is totally just meh. <smashesHeadIntoTabletop>
In the US, iOS has the majority of the market share, so it is the first most popular mobile OS.
I remember that when it was first announced it was big news they were only charging 30%. I was a mobile app developer at the time and before the App Store the usual way for people to buy games on their phones was by sending an SMS to a shortcode. You would then get a reverse-billing SMS (a.k.a. premium SMS) with the download link. The telco’s would usually take around a 50% commission on that SMS.

50% of your revenue, for delivering up to 140 bytes to a phone. Note that delivering a message was the only thing they did. You had to write the code to handle the incoming SMS message and send the reply. You had to host this service and serve the downloads (meaning you had to also pay for hosting and bandwidth). You also had to set this up for every single country you want to offer it in. None of this was discoverable, so you had to advertise your game/app as well. Also, the development tools were absolute shit (and you had to pay for those as well).

In comes Apple, who lets you keep 70%, provides excellent dev tools (I know it’s trendy to hate on Xcode, but even early versions of Xcode were heaven compared to the absolute shit show we had to deal with before). They host the app, they make it discoverable in their app store, they handle payments and make it all available worldwide.

So yeah, I’d say it was more than reasonable. Is it still reasonable in today’s market? Hard to say.
Here’s the text:

If last week's shit-show was not the end of @cartainc , this definitely is

* the sales representative who whipped his dick out at a company event, and was promoted a few weeks later.

* you read the texts one manager sent to her Mom about an executive touching her under the table at a work dinner, let alone her claims that she was subsequently “admonished for ‘having her legs out’” and fired after she escalated to HR.

* the Head of Corporate Compliance was fired a week after she learned that the People Team had been instructed to stop logging complaints in the company’s whistleblower platform.

* When the company claims it fired another female executive in part for “taking unauthorized leave,” after she reported to the Chief People Officer that the CEO’s gaslighting and abuse had shaken her so much she needed a day to collect herself…

* CEO who has turned over no fewer than eleven C-suite executives in five years — and settled at least three discrimination cases in the last year alone
The repair costs (on the invoice) aren't that much higher than other luxury cars, but rather the issue is how long it takes for the repairs to get done, with both parts availability/delivery times and shop demand issues. That effectively makes it much more expensive to repair a damaged vehicle if their opportunity cost is losing e.g. $100/day in margin. This is mostly just for body work, though - regular automotive diagnosis and repairs are very quick, with the only issue being how far out the appointments might be for your shop depending on demand and availability of repair shops.
Sounds like a clown show all around, standard for the golden age of fraud.
And Apple forked WebKit from KDE!
To me, the answer is noise.

Generate so much false data about yourself that you both overwhelm and devalue this mechanism entirely.
Someone managed to pull this off in 2021 at Google and I'm still very, very, confused as to how
And, talking about condescending / emotionally triggered, apparently I attracted an interesting reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39033023
Is "general purpose computing devices" a relevant factor with current legislation? Is this yet another area where people want activist judges when it suits their agenda?
The dude was at Google for 19 years. A director level. Possibly reap >$50m. I imagine it wouldn't be hard to not be angry.
releasing on Unity instead of Unreal is similar to releasing on Android instead of iOS
There's a worked example near the article's start proving that an isoceles triangle has equal angles: the so-called pons asinorum. The caption concludes with "In this example, just one construct is required."

That strikes me as odd, because I'd expect the symbolic engine to require zero such constructs to find a proof. Although dropping a bisector is the standard grade-school proof strategy, there's a well-known proof that defines no additional entities: since AB = AC, we have (by side-side-side) that △ABC ≅ △ACB, and therefore that ∠ABC = ∠ACB.

It's funny because what that proof is most famous for is having been rediscovered by an automated theorem prover in the 1950s-1960s. (Wikipedia states that this is a myth, and that it was only rediscovered by Marvin Minsky pretending to be an automated theorem prover... which is true; but then Herbert Gelernter later wrote such a theorem prover! [1])

[1] https://www.qedcat.com/function/27.3.pdf#page=18
[dupe] / Related:

Epic plans to contest Apple's 'bad-faith' compliance with ruling over App Store

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39033686

US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020365
Is it legal to have a 90 day salary clawback (not a signing bonus clawback, just salary clawback for quitting) in the US?
Totally. My S21 Ultra 512 with OneUI 6 with Android 14 is a very, very nice UI experience; got the update around the new year.

I'm in love with the new drop down settings screen especially.
So far, I've yet to be in a friend group that wasn't willing to switch to Signal once I explained my security concern. This includes my group of women who are spiritual directors in their 60s, not exactly a demographic you'd expect to care about E2EE.

It's always been easy for me to come up with a circumstance under which something the people involved cared about might become so politically or socially condemned that being associated with it could have major repercussions.

Maybe give that a shot next time you want a group to switch to something private.
> I think the references to FB's "custom audiences" is a red herring - it's a very manual process and very few companies use that feature in any sort of scale.

My experience is that "custom audiences" is a typical/normal usage. Companies that use platforms like Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) create their marketing segments (sets of targeted customers or prospects) in AEP and send those identifiers (e.g. hashed email) to various destinations including Facebook (via "custom audiences").
Creating an alternative OS isn't the problem, it's that manufacturers like Apple prevent installing alternative operating systems.
> It is possible to write very efficient code in CL. However LQN will never be anywhere as fast as e.g. grep, Sed and AWK. Among other things the startup time for running CL from the terminal is higher than for smaller utilities.

What implementation is the author using? A dumped image from sbcl is significantly faster in startup time than e.g. Python startup time.

> As you see CL vectors are written as #(..). And kvs are lists ((:OF . "tuples") (:LIKE . "this")). LDN is also valid CL source code. If you paste the above into a CL REPL you get the same object back.

This is only because the outer object in the example is an array. If the outer object were a kv, then it would try to call a function with the name of the first dotted pair, which is unlikely to be a function name[1].

1: The only time a CONS can be a function name is if it's of the form (cl:setf SYMBOL); I don't think this is possible with a kv as written, since that would require the value (i.e. the CDR) to be of the form (CONS SYMBOL NIL) . The atomic types are not clear from the blog post, but the aggregate types are either arrays or lists containing zero-or-more CONS cells, I don't think it's possible
7 days for things like games is peanuts. Also, Epic charges 5% in perpetuity...
My personal experience comes from the following, I was a full stack person who eventually showed a high level of talent for frontend and made that my main expertise. However, with the demand for AI/ML/Analytics being big in my area I have had to do a hard transition. I have followed AI/ML/Analytics for some time and I have a foundational knowledge of the concepts behind it. However, it's taking theory/concepts to actual real world human interfacing applications that meet with what client's expectations that is the big hurdle. Learning to rein in the expectations is a skill that I feel is worth mastering at the same time.
> Personally I’m happy with both the operation of Facebook and Apple.

You should have higher standards too, then.
Any recommendation on FPGA programming hardware/tools/books for noobs, please?
Don't tracking pixels also work without cookies or Javascript though? If you have an `<img src="example.com/someTrackingPixel.gif">` on your website or app, the server that houses that URL gets a ton of info on you from the HTTP request header data. Less useful without the cookie but still something.
I'm on Apple's side for this one but weren't game publishers also funding the development, marketing, and distribution?
I bought a gas car from the last hertz liquidation sale and it’s been great.

I don’t think people abuse rentals as badly as you may think. Even the aggressive charging has only been happening for what, a year? It’s not going to cut the life all that much imo.
There was a benefit to the consumer of the old no-sideloading world, specifically if it's possible to sideload an app then then companies can force you to do it.

"Hi, this is the company that owns your mortgage. You can now only pay through our app which you have to sideload because it's also a rootkit."

Why do consumers have the attitude "I will buy apple specifically to make you suffer through the apple app store approval process, and I don't give a shit if they take 30%?" The answer is 20 years of abominable behaviour by corporate app teams.
Except that kitty's update check defaults to off for distro packaged software and on for non-distro packaged software, without maintainers having to do anything. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.update_check...
To be honest, my gut feeling is that it's a cynical observation and mediocre perspective on life in general.. removes some human qualities in life. That said:

1) adult life is often a swamp

2) not knowing how to play the game can harm you

3) often, cynicism wins over good hearted values for tons of simple reasons..
It seems ironic to argue that Apple shouldn't get the same treatment as Sony/MS because phones are not game consoles, when the primary litigator in this case is Epic. Apparently there is a societal need for Fortnite to not have to pay the Apple Tax.
Offtopic, but is it just me who struggles to treat seriously any post that has "I used GPT" somewhere in the beginning? This one actually isn't a good example, since I "feel" it's kinda reliable for the task, and may only produce slight false-negatives, which isn't that bad, and I don't see any other plausible way to parse HN comments for books anyway. But I'm noticing lately that I'm half-consciously slightly annoyed every time when somebody nonchalantly offers me "used GPT" as a source for the "answer" (which really starts happening quite often), and I'm wondering if it's normal these days.
> Again, who cares? I'm using the same messaging apps that I was using 10 years ago.

One of my best friends who was using Allo. Or Duo. Or Hangouts. Or Meet. Or whatever. He really loved one of those apps and it got removed/changed/or something.

My point was that as a developer, I'd want to ensure users like the platform they're on enough to buy my app. This same friend? He moved to some launcher and just uses Discord and Element now. As I understand it, using a launcher prevents you from using the Google Play Store, so you're not buying apps.

EDIT: See also: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo...
Don’t need to be a researcher to notice that. All my last searches at google was always with site at the end.

Have not been using google for probably 5 years or so. First DuckDuckGo. Now Kagi. I am so OK to pay for a good search engine. Family Plan.
IMO no. The unique combination of parameters with early-Google were:

- Small, relatively young company.

- Absolutely gargantuan amounts of revenue

You can't run a company this way unless you have a very large money firehose.

The last time this happened was early-Facebook. I don't think there has been a single company since then that fit the description - which IMO is fine, the celestial alignment of factors is pretty rare.

Companies nowadays have kind of the opposite problem: lots of hiring, but not enough revenue to show for it. Some tried to build a similar culture on VC funding but imploded once the cash ran out. You really need an intensely profitable product to make this formula work.
There's such a beautiful irony in reading about unfettered data mining on a website (theverge.com) which connects to *37* third-party domains when displaying the article:

1. ak.sail-horizon.com

2. amazon-adsystem.com

3. api.parsely.com

4. c.amazon-adsystem.com

5. cdn.concert.io

6. concert.io

7. coral.coralproject.net

8. coralproject.net

9. csp.withgoogle.com

10. d35xxde4fgg0cx.cloudfront.net

11. duet-cdn.vox-cdn.com

12. google.com

13. googleoptimize.com

14. googletagmanager.com

15. googletagservices.com

16. gstatic.com

17. ingest.sentry.io

18. js.memberful.com

19. memberful.com

20. micro.rubiconproject.com

21. moatads.com

22. narrativ.com

23. o4682.ingest.sentry.io

24. parsely.com

25. polyfill.io

26. rubiconproject.com

27. sail-horizon.com

28. sentry.io

29. static.narrativ.com

30. theverge.coral.coralproject.net

31. vox-cdn.com

32. www.google.com

33. www.googleoptimize.com

34. www.googletagmanager.com

35. www.googletagservices.com

36. www.gstatic.com

37. z.moatads.com

P.S. list courtesy of the uMatrix browser extension
Really? Selling your data is core to the business model of virtually every merchant that offers the ability to create an account and/or use a membership "rewards" tracking system.
What alternatives do you prefer to Samsung Notes? I think it's by far the best note taking app I've used. OneNote is close but is less reliable.
What the actual fuck is a normie?
I don't really remember any more, but he re-scanned everything, said I made a mistake, and gave me a new (lower) bill. Maybe it was something out of the ordinary?

I was mildly frustrated because it was the second time in as many days that they checked me.
On the face of it $14K for a Tesla is a steal. My dad has been coveting mine and I’ve been on the lookout for a cheap used one. I think I will wait a few months to see if any issues shake out before I get one.
Asphalt is only cheap because it is a gas byproduct. switch to ev and it is done. I don't know what to do about concrete though.
I’m going through it now. Brilliant book. Just finished your design patterns book as well.
I doubt Microsoft would have managed to pull anything off because Japanese nationalism would have very quickly gotten in the way in many forms.
Cause an infinite loop CPU explodes by making data that leads to you being your own grandfather.
TBH as an app developer myself I'd far prefer an option to publish and make transactions outside of Apple's purview than any kind of concern about piracy or meddling.
Ok, so there can be two kinds of iPhones, one for people that want control of their devices, and the other for people who don't. It can be built into the physical phone so there's no chance of compromise. Better?
Yup. I use the Samsung browser as my primary - thanks to the adblockers.
Sure, but you get seconds if you right click the time control and select "copy video URL current time" :)
yes, why doesn't the rest of the world conform to me? that old trope? we're all individuals. in every relationship, there are gives/takes. sometimes you have to do normie things. i have relationships with true addicts that play this normie won't understand card waaaay too often for me to be swayed by it. sometimes, the mountain won't come to Muhammad.
Perfectly fine to buy cars that were rentals. I bought my Mazda 5 used and it came from Enterprise car rental. Still have it now and it’s 9 years old. Nobody aggressively drives a Mazda 5, so we knew it was less likely to have been abused, versus a Mustang.

We tried buying used again, but the deals are terrible. For the first time in my life, had to buy a new car. The days of a 2 year old car, with 60,000 km (37,000 miles) with a 45% discount are gone. We found it was like 15% to 20% discount for 2 year old card…we were only looking at Subaru Foresters in Canada.

I don’t know enough about Teslas, but being ignorant, they are giving you about 50% off a 3 or 4 year old car. It’s on the borderline of a good deal for both parties on paper, but what repairs do you need after 4 years? If the battery needs fixing in 4 years how much is it? Those kind of costs could kill this hot deal. Either way, the math needs to be done. Oh, and you’re probably going to need new tires. Used cars are notorious for coming with crap nearly dead tires. So add that to the price.
> impulse control are some of the last things to develop.

If at all. Guanfacine helps that though.
Be sure to read that link with showdead.

thedrake’s victorious final comment “ SOLVED!!!!!! I spent several hours looking for an axe or a hatchet or an Ubåt…” is dead.

Possibly because of a heuristic aimed at killing spam posts with too many links.
That's… Interesting. So, what's your axiom for deriving realness from? Because I tend to think along two axes:

1. You can derive realness from materialistic, physical phenomena. So in this case, quark-gluon-electron interactions are real, and basically everything else is like 99% imaginary. "Society" is no more and no less real than anything else.

And/or:

2. You can derive realness from minds' conscious perception, experience, and interaction. In this case, "society", being an aggregate of many minds' mutual and conflicting experiences and interactions, is probably one of the most real things there are.

And of course you can unify the two, by framing the latter within the former based on the information-theoretic complexity of the physical substrate of the minds, and by framing the former within the latter as the common, shared basis of perceived and lived experiences.

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But I'm not sure what concept of realness would let you say ""Society" is the most abstract illusion of them all".

Or do you mean that the rigidity of currently existing societies and their specific laws and customs, as universal and immutable constants, is what "has always been a complete fiction and pretend"? In that case I would fully agree; You can have multiple possible societies, in any number of shapes and configurations. But that does not make extant societies, as they are right now, any less real for those that live in or otherwise interact with them.

> So, maintaining a bunch of fictions in order to maintain another fiction becomes circular reasoning.

Uh, no. Not circular reasoning. Fear of starvation, more like. Fear of marauders killing your loved ones to take their resources. Fear of entropy.

Agriculture, presently existing as a function of society, is certainly very real– assuming your body obeys the laws of thermodynamics.
I have no idea whether any of that is true. If it’s not, Carta should sue the hell out them for libel. If it is, wow…
I've replaced the batteries on several phones (at authorized places) and, while I like the idea, they all started displaying weird behavior. I guess they are glued so hard that the heating needed to open them up must cause some tiny damage. Just a guess.
I experienced data loss on Messages lately. But, I understand it might take some significant time since I set it to never delete forever.
Trying to post a listing but cloudflare seems to block me from saying anything but one line.

VSZ RSS
275156560 151048

using lxc info Memory 276.90MiB Swap 16.00KiB

wow, that is a PITA, just trying to be helpful. Anyway, seems a lot of virtual but next to no real memory.

edit: as I said, aside from the scary VM size, very small. I only have 60 local hosts though.

edit: ps, the dhcp/dns integration first class.
I have a few networks and run a couple of dhcp namespaces and it all works perfectly, with multiple routes distributed. I could never get that going with piHole. I was running dndmasq for years before that.
> And it’s hard to believe Carta’s response to my board letter of October 2022 — trying desperately to signal my worry that the company’s leadership was breaking the law and putting the business at risk — would be to hire a forensic firm to recover a copy of my personal Apple iMessage history and publish private messages with enthusiastically-consenting sexual and romantic partners that had nothing whatsoever to do with the company…and then use those messages as a pretext to falsely accuse me of harassment and discrimination

emphasis on "enthusiastic". i get what Dr. Talton was going for here but it made me laugh that he had to put his partners' enthusiasm on the record (and the not so funny side: it is extremely f'ed up that Carta put his private affairs into public record in the first place. i'm not looking it up and i feel sorry for Dr. Talton.)

> When I finally decided that — as a fiduciary — I had no choice but to write to Carta’s board, I hoped that my record of accomplishment and my commitment to the company would ensure I was taken seriously.... And if I, a 40-year-old 6’2” cis white guy in the C-suite with a Stanford PhD, couldn’t speak up, who could?

amen. very well written and it seems the case is building against Carta's CEO.
Gas cars last hundreds of thousands of miles too. I still expect a big discount on them.
He goes on to say “Success is owed to personality and the ability to lead people
-the person who has technical ability plus the ability to express ideas, assume leadership and to arouse enthusiasm among people”

Not sure how that’s cynical maybe mediocre or trite but it was insightful to me as a programmer focused on code and less on people.