skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, thanks! I've opted out of everything you can already, and don't use Cortana, so all I'm sending is some basic telemetry data it seems.
Which uses Chromium under the hood adding to the Chrome render engine monoculture.
> Unlike Red Hat, Tidelift doesn't offer technical support,

And that s why it is probably a failed model. On the other hand, they could offer open source tech support, or pay people to do tech support gigs, or perhaps give developers a way to make money by tech supporting their own open source product.
Link for those without Medium sub: https://www.tygertec.com/lessons-producing-first-course/
A Guide to GraphQL in Plain English
Side note: Is the '/s' from the comment above a sarcasm directive?
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but what your saying is true.

Firefox activates limited telemetry for folks who turn off the heavy stuff. While your firefox browser shows that no telemetry is taking place, the browser will silently send information about your browser, os, and other information to Mozilla.

Personally, the privacy implications don't concern me as much as a browser that is deliberately lying to and deceiving it's users (though I can certainly see how it can be privacy concern).

If someone wants true and total control over their browsing experience, neither firefox or chrome are a good choice (imo).
Why are we assuming maliciousness?

Because based on their history big tech companies (possibly with the exception of Apple) lost any benefits of a doubt.

When they screw up like that I now assume that it's intentional and unless they run into a massive pr disaster or an EU fine of a couple billions they give exactly zero fucks about their users.
Yes however the mere presence of the right mouse button indicates that there's functionality intended. A curious user might go around right clicking on things to see what the button does. Buttons are meant to be pressed.

Force Touch has no physically or observable clues to it's existence and thus does not encourage experimentation and exploration.
Having Google on your resume is in no way impressive in my opinion. I have reviewed plenty of resumes and been part of the interview process. Being a Google employee just doesn't matter.
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Selenium on Steroids, run tests like never before
ColorPick is a tool to create colors palette
You are right. But in the end some engineer built that feature.
it looks like they are deleted. just immediately recreated.
power corrupts, absolute ... yada yada ... cliches etc.

I am trying to stick to duck duck go and a safari/firefox combo. The browsers are fine. But, its hard to give up that !g search. I worked in the ad-tech space in the past. Google's tech is amazing, but, the price we pay for all this free stuff ... scary/creepy.
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My understanding (limited, admittedly) is that there are a number of phenomenon that dark matter explains very well, galactic rotation among them. Alternative theories of gravity that explain galactic rotation often don't fit all the others very well.
200k doesn't seem like that much. Rats aren't very big, and Barcelona is a pretty large city, with a population of about 1.5M humans. I would have expected more, having grown up in a rural area where there's a lot more mice, rats and other critters than one per 7 humans.
The EU found a way around that with "content filters" - basically anything you upload will be sent to a government controlled body for inspection. This works fine with encryption and there is no need to ban math.
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Do you care if the auth is GPG or U2F? Seems like you want -L to forward a socket, and GPG_AGENT_INFO to point to it. I tweeted this series a while ago because it’s hard to find how that works: https://twitter.com/lvh/status/966408198558244864?s=21
not seeing it here, but its worth a mention for those ready to jump ship. Iridium https://iridiumbrowser.de/ is a fork of Chromium that seeks to deprecate the absurdities Google seems racing to introduce into chrome.
> Microsoft already went through this engineering/product growth to bizdev/marketing control to stagnation and is already in the return to engineering/product first phase.

Microsoft were always a marketing first company. Even in the early days they sold BASIC and DOS before they'd even written a line of code. And Windows certainly didn't become the dominant desktop OS through being the best at engineering (in the 80s and 90s they were usually amongst the worst in terms of performance and stability).

Having good engineering and being product focused doesnt mean you'll have a successful product. In fact all too often it takes underhanded stunts to get your neck in front simply because most people are not like us, they're not engineers. So you'd be amazed at how little most people would care about what's happening here (assuming they even understand it in the first place)
I can confirm that Google Fi and T-Mobile data get routed back to the US from mainland China. Location services always think I'm in California.
Modelling User's Theory of AI's Mind in Interactive Intelligent Systems
Why not start UBI on a small, voluntary scale, and demonstrate its success? Every one advocating for UBI could go to a poor neighbourhood / country, pick a poor person (or several), and start transferring them a portion of their income every month...
Try Overcast! I use Stitcher to avoid ads on some of my favorite podcasts (Stitcher Premium feature), but using Overcast is unquestionably a better experience. More focused and intuitive interface, tons of control over downloads, and the ad-free version (ad-free app, not ad-free shows) is a very affordable $10 per year.
Why? Don’t like Google, don’t use it. Pretty simple.
That bug is talking about a custom USB API for Firefox OS.

> Closing as WONTFIX since FxOS is no more

The Web USB API didn't even exist when that bug was first created.
Sure. If you have the monopoly, you don't need people to love you.

While Google could easily find engineers to implement anything, they can't as easily find people who know what to implement: People with a deep understanding of the web. The power grab we could observe over the last year has alienated a lot of people. In hindsight we will know whether that grab worked for them.

Right now, they are burning through goodwill at a high rate.
I'm curious why you're asking, as I used to have a pretty bad ear infections as a child.
Don't be too optimistic about "smaller seats meaning lower costs" because it might not.

Cereal packages has gotten smaller, but the prices for cereal hasn't gone down.
I work on a product that uses Buildroot, which doesn't really act like a "package manager" in the sense that libraries.io seems to want. We also have a handful of FOSS projects that are just copied into our tree and applied on top of the base system. Is there any anticipation of support for that kind of situation?
The author of the article describes the problem as such:
> When a patient with a complex medical history like Michael arrives under my care, it’s like opening a book to page 200 and being asked to write page 201.

Even Epic doesn't have the ability to consolidate multiple CDA documents, or even write information directly to the chart. Each one requires manual review. Standards for exchange are not really the problem.
Maybe an old phrase meaning "rabid dog" or "raged dog". Rabies was probably orders of magnitude more common of an occurrence back then (which is non-existent in most Western countries right now).
6 members of Social Capital, including 4 partners, were let go
It's been removed very recently but it can still hook in if you include it.

It actually has zero dependancies now: https://github.com/alvarotrigo/fullPage.js/blob/master/packa...
Does their grocery bill change as a result of not eating meat, though? If not, then there's probably no difference in environmental impact.
So Who Are Angel Investors?
AI creates more than 100,000 new tunes based on Irish and English folk tunes
>It also doesn't help that there's a lack of information or simply misinformation out there. Sometimes I think frameworks with a very specific use-case like Zappa do more harm than good. Yes, it's easier to get running, but it doesn't give you a general purpose solution and makes you think everyone is just hacking around the mess.

I'm generally unwilling to learn skills that only apply to a proprietary environment. If aws was using openwhisk, I'd probably code directly against that instead of using a hack like zappa.
> and can bring your whole family over eventually.

You have to pay 100K AUD for bringing your parents.
Isn't this premise flawed though? I'd assume that even low-calorie plants are still way ahead of your average cow in terms of environmental impact. You have omitted methane emissions from that calculation, even though their impact is significant. You also ignored that plants produce oxygen instead of consuming it.
what index are you using?

I can't find my favorite podcasts
Yes stopped reading there as everyone going vegan would actually plummet the demand for industrial crops because eating them directly is order of magnitude more efficient than eating them through inefficient proxy like meat. Any time one eats 1000 kcal worth of meat they are effectively eating 10000 kcal worth of soy/maize.
What's the alternative to Android though? Apple has its own well-documented issues, as well as a rather large price-tag. I just use my phone for maps and some chat services, don't need a very fancy phone. Even the iPhone 7 is listed at £449, which is already £150 more than I paid for my Sony Xperia.

I wish stuff like HP WebOS or Meego was still alive, but as far as I know, Apple and Google are the only serious players in town at the moment :-(
Chrome 69, “Clear browsing data” – “Cookies and other data” keeps local storage
This is how I feel as well, especially in a work context. It's liberating to have hardware freely available for use. I'm dreading the day when our computing grid is made more efficient (smaller and tolled).
> But I've seen nothing about this area that makes it more likely to happen here than anywhere else.

Everyone has different experiences, but this does not really jibe with the incentive structures of Tech companies. Heroic hackers with legendary exploits are not only lionized, but everyone is rewarded with "pay for performance" incentive structures, and of course, the elusive jackpot of startup glory.

In my experience it's absolutely part of the culture in Silicon Valley that top hackers burn themselves out like this.

Having a normal life seems to be counter to the prevailing mindset and the very real, very palpable monetary incentives.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I linked to a Javascript library so I assumed you'd understand that I meant that the markup is in the page and you enhance it with this library. Crazy old fashioned idea I know.
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It would be nice also for websites to have an alternative to recaptcha. I hate to have to train google's models for free just to access a website. I'd prefer to do some work for data that can be openly accessed (OpenStreetMap for example).
Can't imagine I'd want to be with in miles of the group at Unisys or IBM responsible for supporting the IRS.

"Per the ESS Managed
Services contract, Unisys or IBM as the managing contractors who are responsible for the
IRS Tier 1 storage environment should have been first to identify the outage and contact
the IRS. During this outage, it was the IRS who initially recognized a problem, and the
IRS had to reach out and notify its contractors to prompt action on remediation. The
contractors did not uphold their contractual agreement."

It seems like it comes down to a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't decision to install (potentially?) major upgrades as soon as they come out, or wait to see if early adopters have any issues.

While knowledge of the issue from January for another IBM client would have changed things, I'm not sufficiently familiar with if issues like this are routinely spread among the install base.

It sounds like the presentation of the firmware upgrade had about as much information as change logs (unfortunately) normally do: Fixed bugs. Performance enhancements. &C with no further detail. Details would have perhaps aided in identifying the issue more quickly once it began happening, but I'm not sure I believe it would have changed the initial decision unless it was something whose trigger was inevitable.
"Given that you would say that everything in our life is determined at birth? We just don't have enough knowledge to fast forward the simulation?" Yes
Space sniffer on Windows: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
Choosing one day a week to be completely miserable sounds like a much worse path to veganism than cutting back one thing at a time.
Rat teaches me to feed her when she tattles her tray. But I won't do it until everything's been eaten, also the boring bits.
Then suddenly for weeks no trouble whatsoever - when she rattles her tray, it's empty, everything gone.
Until one night, hidden behind a doorpost, I watch her methodically clean out the boring bits and bury them under floor pellets. As soon as the tray is empty - rattle rattle rattle.
This was a supremely gifted individual. She performed similar strategems towars her cage-mates, for the most part successfully.

Oh, and I always wondered what all the fuss was about with the Japanese macaque monkeys and their cultural transmission stunt. I saw one rat getting inventive with the drinking water tap, beginning to take water with cupped paws and use it for washing her fur. Others picked up on that habit, and yes, it spanned generations.
There's a Whole Video Game Hidden in Google Search
I recently started reducing my meat consumption, and I was surprised by how many people are doing the same without making a big deal out of it. That is the sort of change that sticks.
Probably some corporate required antivirus package.
"Java console" [sic]
> The internet as a whole is probably one of the least regulated markets

> What stops smaller search engines from competing?

At the risk of sounding condescending - the IP protection legislation [1]. Please bear with me as I'm not about to make a value judgement here, merely point out the mechanics.

Right now Google holds a vast trove of data - indexed web content, users' search history and behavior, and algorithms to generate search results based on the aforementioned. No competitor may use that trove to improve their products or services unless Google gives them explicit permission by licensing. This is enforced by the government based on Copyright Clause and Berne Convention and other; the enforcement is pretty quick and can involve swift disconnection from the network, forfeiture of internet domains, etc.

I'm generally against blanket removal of IP protections.[2]

Having said that, consider a thought experiment: data being free as in free beer, and whomever manages to grab it, could use it. Both static data, and use of APIs. Be it copy of Google's indexes and algorithms, or perusing results of direct queries from Google to further their own search results. Employees free to exfiltrate data and code and start up competitors to Google. This would give many a competitor a leg up in the battle to catch up and perhaps overtake.

What one can do currently is either go DDG way, by improving incrementally on Bing and other contracted sources while remaining at the mercy of their whim, or do what Bing did - try to sneak a bit of the crown jewels here and there [3]. The later didn't do Microsoft much good.

Re-emphasizing, I'm not advocating abolition of IP regulation here, nor making value judgement; merely pointing out that there's regulation in place - and it gets acted upon swiftly and to pretty strong effects.

--

[1] just as well as the network effects, brand loyalty, access to VC, and other aspects discussed upthread

[2] I want the protections to run for meaningfully shorter periods of time

[3] https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/
chrome 69 on macos using latest 15 inch macbook. much faster than chrome 68, and in a different league than firefox 62.
different story on windows thou.
Mine shows me literally everything that the people I follow have posted, but maybe that's because I don't follow a ton?

When I've scrolled through all the new posts there's a nice big green checkmark and it says "You're all caught up."

If something isn't what I want it to show me, I don't follow that. Works great, no weird view optimization algorithm as far as I can tell.
>Change can come from internal activism and external Market pressures. Quitting is neither of those and actively contrary to the former.

False. A mass exodus of employees can certainly increase market pressures as it signals instability; it can also be extremely difficult (sometimes impossible) for new hires to understand big legacy code bases -- so quitting can be a form of legal/indirect sabotage
Ask HN: I'm not motivated enough to take privacy seriously
I see all this posts about Google (with it's massive services), Twitter, Instagram, [any other sites], collecting data and building a profile of you to serve you personalised ads and maybe other stuff. I understand that. But, apparently not enough! as I can't seem to leave the convenience of it. Maybe it's because it isn't tangible?; as in I can't visualise how all this will affect my day to day life, so I always give in to the comfort. Can you please convince me otherwise?
one big flaw. The first page thumbnails do not re-appear with a summary text when I click View More. It seems like the View More view shows podcasts there were not amongst the first page's thumnails. What if I want to read a summary about one of those first page podcasts?
They're getting into sports for VR, buying licenses, streaming rights and stuff. Most european soccer clubs are already primarly interacting with their fans through FB. FB might attack Sky sports and similar, and instead promote the idea of the self marketing of clubs and their streaming rights. Right now, in many countries there's still a "middle man" or body that handles the streaming license stuff for entire leagues.

Once clubs realize that they could fill virtual stadiums or sell virtual tickets, this may change. They may even switch to free tickets in the real world to better the stadium atmosphere and fill their virtual stadiums that won't have a capacity cap..
In an ideal world, yes. But people have mortgages, families and other commitments. Some have social anxiety and find job hunting an impossibly scary prospect. Others might suffer from depression.

It's all good and well placing generalised ethics on individuals to do the right thing but in those kind of ideal world scenarios you also wouldn't have accountants finding tax loopholes, lawyers perpetuating patent abuse, nor company directors asking their staff to do morally objectionable things to begin with.
I've been trying to keep my average under 90g/day since about 2010 and most weeks nowadays I average half that.

However I wouldn't call 500g a proper steak, only time I've seen stakes at that size is as novalty items on menus of burger/grill joints, and even then very rarely.
I'm sure that there are enough people with the same or similar problems to make an iOS app viable...
Pretty sure they only need to worry about dot com.
I am young (26) but (anecdotally) everyone around me assumes there wont be social security left by the time we get there anyways
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Not dissimilar to a couple modern wellness tips I have come across...
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Title of the post is not right, the author issued a (technically important) correction[1]:

> Brief correction: Cookies seem to get removed and re-created immediately. At least the cookie content and creation date seems to change. Nonetheless: After hitting the "remove all" button you still don't end up with an empty cookie jar.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ctavan/status/1044543955457773573
Big and heavy - requires anatomic knowledge (you know there was no Wikipedia showing exactly where that dog carries it’s liver)...
Just have a quick look to China. Europe and America are going in the same direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
Does Lightsail still throttle CPU heavily? https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/posts/amazon_lightsail_1gb_is_...
Wages and profit is amortized over thousands of cookies per day. You pay less than 1 cent per cookie. If you don't bake all the dough in your mixing bowl you already have spend more on ingredients than the labor at the factory.

The comments on cheap low quality ingredients and bulk pricing are true as well.
I thought exactly this too as I read hacker news this morning and read through the Sydney Morning Herald - absolutely terrifying!
When I started at Amazon they gave us dual 22" monitors. I bought dual 27" dells and a gfx card to back them and plugged it in. I also explained how much I was swapping with 8gb and a virt (45 minutes of lost productivity a day), and ram was $86. Manager happily expensed ram for me and the rest of the team . 2 years later that was the standard setup. Now I have 7 monitors and 3 PC's from multiple projects and oses and hardware reups and interns. None funded by me. The dells are happily on my quad tree at home.

Amazon also allows you to byoc and image it. Images are easily available. Bias for action gets u far.
what makes this netflix ish? Just that lists of lists initial UI? That is a very superficial aspect of what makes netflix netflix.
Show HN: Unwaffle – SaaS Trial Conversion Steroids
Unwaffle is a tool that helps SaaS businesses with Free Trials make more money.

It tracks every action that your trialers take, and finds out what sort of things make those trialers convert to paid subscribers. And it gives you tools to act on that information and boost your Trial Conversion Rate.

Unwaffle started as an admin feature of S3stat, but it was so apparent after a few days that it could be useful for other businesses that I separated it out with an API and stuck it at a different URL, in case it turned out (which it did) that I wanted to polish it into a product of its own. I use it on a daily basis, and it has actually added enough revenue that I'm no longer worried that it would have been a waste of time to build it, should it turn out not to be commercially viable.

It lives in the same sort of space as Mixpanel, but rather than being All Things For All People, It's opinionated and focused on shaking the churn out of your Trial Funnel. It's Onboarding Things for SaaS People, so if you're not one o' those or you don't care about that, it's not going to be useful. But if you are and you do, I've found that it leaves those general purpose analytics tools in the dust.

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

https://unwaffle.com/
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I don't have any FP&A details, only technical public and private. They are vocal about using it for GPUs. It's a much cheaper and more balanced way to glue Nvidia GPUs versus Nvidia DGX on x86 which also has severe bottle necks at the host bridge point. The private is gmail, which happened much later than the negotiating tactic point. It fits into a number of other goals including a completely open firmware stack. You only have to have cursory headline knowledge of the news for the past 2 years to understand why this is no longer about initial procurement cost.
Your opinion is not representative and thus not relevant to the argument (that ex-Google engineers have very good job prospects).
For Windows: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
For Mac OS: DaisyDisk
I don't think anyone is seriously promoting that idea. The implication, rather, is a more modest proposal: That, of a company's staff, the bean counters and executives are at least on average more bottom-line-motivated and hence more likely to push for changes that will pull in cash at the expense of honesty, privacy or consistency with user expectations, when compared with the technical types.