skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By default, even users not logged in to Google will accumulate a search history. To disable this, visit the submitted URL when not logged in to a Google account and scroll down to the “Signed-out Search activity” toggle. Use a browser mode that persists cookies (that is, don’t use incognito mode).

Repeat on each device you browse from.

Here’s the equivalent for YouTube watch history and search history: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
I think you're confusing Hangouts with Meet? Meet isn't going away as far as I know.
There is: Use something else.

I don't mean this in a snippy way, but truly. If it's that bothersome, why not try something else? It seems that most people instead think that they have the privilege to change the product to their desires.
How AI can save your photos from photo-bombers
Ask HN: What filesystem is the best for a portable SSD?
I got myself a portable SSD to backup my data on a second drive. But i am struggling on what filesystem to choose.

It would be best if i could read/write files from Linux, Windows and Mac.

I only store documents, pictures and videos. But a filesize of over 4 GB should be allowed.

What fileystem can you recommend me and why?

And do i need to be aware of something when using a SSD as a backup drive?
Personally, I would’ve liked to be asked whether I consented to paying 10x the price that every other country pays, in order to subsidize drug development, cause I definitely don’t recall ever agreeing to that deal.
The problem is that facebook has so much money, that they can just buy any startup that might threaten them.
What makes us think the objects would actually interact at all?
"I think we're all used to the fiction that we live in a world that's totally governed by fairness and laws."

Why are you so sure that this CFO did not break US trade law with regards to Iran?

Let's bring it to a trial, that would be the fair thing, and that's what is taking place.
wait till they break Google voice into Google talking and Google Listening
Nobody is talking about editing the JSON directly. They are talking about programming a wysiwyg editor to the JSON data model.
Maybe US citizens should demand better government instead of wasting time on the never-ending partisan warfare. There are plenty of countries with regulated healthcare markets that work very well for their citizens and are cheaper than the US system.
This is pretty specious reasoning. The US is a leader in a lot of industries that aren't healthcare.
"Now everywhere is New York":

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-03-13/now-ar...
By making choices on one's own accord. This is the only qualifier of Free Will. The argument against Free Will is that this is actually an illusion despite the experience–the argument is a metaphysical one, which can never be known as it's circumscribed in the noumena.
Mitigating Spectre Variant 2 with Retpoline on Windows
(stripe head of engineering here)
I hosted the open house in Dublin, thanks for coming and sorry to hear about your experience; even if it doesn't end up being a fit, we always want candidates to feel respected rather than demoralized. Without knowing the specifics of your situation, I do want to be clear that there are obviously a lot of factors for us to consider when evaluating candidates, but age isn't one of them.
Webassembly Tutorial using Emscripten (2017)
Idris 2: Type Driven Development of Idris
America seems to have a huge problem with everything it does being incredibly costly. It's definitely true in the public sector and universities and also in large areas of the private sector.

American healthcare being more expensive than anywhere else fits the pattern. It also apparently costs more to build a rail line or any other work of infrastructure here than anywhere else in the world.

I'm not sure why this is, but health care is not exceptional.
If only. I work in the same town as a big medical device manufacturer, and several co workers over the years had worked there and immediately nope-ed out on moral grounds. Stuff like panics on anything out of the order in a morphine pump that defaults to full on while resetting. Apparently those killed a few people.

Meeting the FDA guidelines is more about finding the cheapest way to technically meet the spec rather than trying to build something safe.
I suppose someone should mention Brave is an alright choice. If it had mobile sync working, I might be using it (Firefox currently)

Edit: just checked and their android version doesn't seem to have implemented password manager support yet. I'm excited for when they do, but its disappointing.
the first example code is an expected issue, according to Qt's document, only the main thread should update the gui:

GUI Thread and Worker Thread
As mentioned, each program has one thread when it is started. This thread is called the "main thread" (also known as the "GUI thread" in Qt applications). The Qt GUI must run in this thread. All widgets and several related classes, for example QPixmap, don't work in secondary threads. A secondary thread is commonly referred to as a "worker thread" because it is used to offload processing work from the main thread.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/thread-basics.html
You’re missing the point. The parent isn’t suggesting this situation is good, or that we shouldn’t eliminate bureaucratic waste. They’re saying that there are a ton of people highly incentivized to keep the system as it is, because it pays for their salary. Concentrated benefits, diffuse costs.
>1. Russian interference in the election and the fact that FB knew about it and did nothing.

"the fact that FB knew about it and did nothing" is unsubstantiated. The person I trust the most on this is Alex Stamos, who actually left Facebook due to tensions over this, and he's gone on record saying there was no obstruction.

> 2. FB running psychological experiments in the newsfeed not only to see if they can make you spend more time there (questionably ok) but also to see if they could affect your mood (definitely not ok).

From 2014. I'd also disagree with running A/B tests to increase time spent being "questionably ok" though.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...

3. Facebook censoring news in the newsfeed based on political leanings.

I can't find anything online about this? Unless you're talking about filter bubbles, in which case I think that's a reasonable criticism although I think describing it as "censorship" is a huge stretch.

4. FB tracking you even after you log out.

Again, from 2013.

https://www.dailydot.com/news/facebook-shadow-profiles-priva...

5. Zuck lying on capital hill about what he knew and when.

Can't find any news articles about this.

6. FB hiring a pr firm to right negative articles about an investor.

Fair criticism.
Huh... like the amygdala of the social mind?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala
US has a host of not-for-profit providers, they’re not drastically cheaper.
Guessed this site was made by them when the third metric was:

"The Most Photogenic
Based on Snappr Photo Quality Score"

Interesting site regardless
(C'mon downvotes!) I thought the idea of paying your "fair share" was in relation to the services provided by the taxes paid. I can take an extreme example that I've tried to steel man to hold up this point: Bill Gates.

Does Bill Gates the man use more taxpayer provided military/healthcare/infrastructure.. than anyone else? Of those things that he does use more of, if he taxed by the volume of those services used (example: water/sewer) and therefore paying his fair share?

What difference does it make if her was born to rich parents? How does that make it right to make him pay more money?

I am asking respectfully and I sincerely hope that you do not take this as an attack.

edit: spelling
I’ve tried that a few times, but inevitably emacs+plugins get into a bad state and I have to restart.

Plus I haven’t figured out how to keep my buffers organized. When I’m working on project x, I don’t want to see project y buffers. I’m sure there are many plugins for that too, but the state gets corrupted over time and stuff I use quits working.

I much prefer separate instances for separate work, and nvim or vim start from scratch faster than an emacsclient connects.
> Maybe US citizens should demand better government instead of wasting time on the never-ending partisan warfare.

Never ending partisan warfare is what you get when people demand better government but disagree deeply on what is necessary for better government.
It’s 1.0-ism. Engineers are apparently most positively rewarded at google for being part of the first public release of a product but there’s little reward for then sticking around for 1.1+ I’ve heard Google PMs complaining how their engineering team mostly bailed after 1.0 to the point where it becomes hard to get even basic stuff like i18n done.
And the negative mass postulated here? We don't know if it's still equivalent there because we have never tested it.

It would be a lot simpler if inertial mass was negative gravitational mass in this theory.

Then you have repulsive gravity with normal behavior under force.
More like the doctor who has dropped six-figures + a crazy amount of years in education and certification to work very long hours seeing a lot of patients, many of whom think you're a quack and trust an online forum over anything you say.

Oh and don't forget the high premiums for malpractice insurance, as you're working crazy hours without breaks, and if you make a mistake you're sued up the whazoo.

And that's just describing a PCP - never mind a surgeon, EHS driver, hell even the nurses (though the latter are most likely unionized.)
If theres one reason for Zaha Hadids exceptionalism its wealth. Her career was subsidised for decades and wealthy connections brought the work in when it first came.

Now of course its not the same and the practice can support itself at least to some extent, but whether it can do this over the long run is still a question.

Her treatment of young staff which varies from exploitative to abusive to helpful depending who you ask, is not very different to other Starchitects.
But there should be some VP which will be accountable for spent budget on dead product..
These aren't the free markets the ultrarich are interested in.

Actually, America doesn't care much for free markets at all, which is why virtually all industries are monopolies or cartels.
+1 for piptools. Piptools makes a lot of sense in a docker based workflow (virtualenv not needed).
Fizz Buzz - Enterprise edition.

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Which is what makes America, with elected and political DA's, so much less of a beacon compared to normal democratic countries where that would be considered insane.
Why Cardi B and Offset's Breakup Is So Shocking
Dark spin? It spins in a direction that nothin else can?
They have to, otherwise Microsoft will trample them with their SharePoint/Office online offering.
It seems to me that industrialized countries the world round have different ways of organizing the relationship between patients, payers and providers. There's nearly 100% public models like the NHS in the UK and hybrid market systems like those in Singapore and Switzerland.

But the one thing they all seem to do the same is how they keep costs down. They give the payer, whether that's the government or separate insurers a legal framework for setting prices.

I know correlation is not causation but until some country shows strong price performance while implementing a different scheme it seems wise to defer to the one that is ubiquitous.
Waymo's so-called Robo-Taxi reveals a brutal truth – Wired (audio) Swig News
Medicare and social security won't be insolvent. They can go on for a long time by doing some adjustments that account for life expectancy and other factors. Unfortunately the people in DC are more interested in fighting each other than running the country in a responsible manner.
Is that still Bernie Seefeld ?
I mostly agree with you, but this isn't exactly a case where the CFO can expect to be tried by a jury of their peers. Enforcing international law (or laws with international scope) in a single country that isn't one's own is a little problematic.
I guess I use it differently than you. It’s common for me to get emacs+plugins into an unstable state.
Hypothetical economic studies may not be "normal science". But if we're talking about a massive new government program that is going to cost X gazillion dollars, I'd kind of like to know what X is before deciding that we should support it. I'd especially like to know whether X is greater than the actual benefits.

And who am I going to trust to decide that? Not a politician. Not someone who strongly favors one side or the other, either. And not just somebody at a bar, nor even a media personality. I want someone who actually knows some economics, and actually is attempting to be impartial. In fact, I want several independent ones of that.
Totally in agreement. Same can be said about their hardware lines. From nexus phones to chromebooks. Terrible.

I was a hangouts guy. That's what has me worried about their cloud services. Are they going to suddenly just add and remove things without any real notice?
> Just because you have no moral standards, does not preclude others from having them.

That's a bit of a non-sequitur and a personal attack. Do you mind explaining where you're coming from with that comment?

> Your particular conspiracy theory also fails to explain why Google and Twitter are not attacked in this way,

The mainstream media are much more dependent on them for traffic, and sometimes content.

> why Facebook is attacked now, even though its growth (and therefore its impact on the media) peaked maybe two years ago, or why craigslist and monster.com, which hurt the media almost as much as facebook, were never targeted.

Legacy industries are legacy industries because they don't keep up with innovation and react in a delayed fashion.
> This is... exactly what everyone expects, and the assumption of every economic graph in the world?

There are actually markets where the opposite holds. Basically anything with high fixed costs, because the more units sold, the less of the fixed costs each unit has to cover.

But fabs don't really work like that because, while very expensive, they have finite capacity. A fab that can produce a million units costs a billion dollars. If you want two million units, that'll be two billion dollars and be available a few years from now. And if you build more capacity than there is demand, you're bankrupt. So they purposely build somewhat less than expected, which when demand is higher than expected results in much more demand than supply.
I was indeed being hyperbolic but hey, I just learned about meteor strikes.

My intention was poorly portrayed but to try again, in all my years I've never known anyone who has been sued over a non-compete, a good chunk of those people have been software developers and most software developers sign non-competes these days, usually in overly broad topics (and I do know a bunch of people who have continued to work within the same relatively narrow industry).

Non-competes are nearly never enforced but their presence has a chilling effect, those of us aware of their unenforceablity and lack of attempts at enforcement generally waive off the consequences of signing them. People who are less familiar take them more seriously and they can have a real chilling effect, so their mere existence creates an imbalance in seeking future work.
While we are at it, let’s also send anti-moonlighting clauses into the abyss and drastically scale back IP-assignment clauses too! One’s employer should have no control over what you do on your own time using your own brain and equipment at home. All large companies I’ve worked for include such garbage and they are never open to negotiate them out. These clauses stifle innovation and actively deter entrepreneurship.
In a company with these kind of problems, if you try to run it up the chain, it usually gets "captured" very early on from allied powers of the bad guy. In a healthy company with the right "antibodies" in places, a bad apple has more chances of being caught before it spoils the whole bunch.
Forget the Terminator: Military Robotics for Logistics 1st, Combat 2nd
I'm assuming that you can push in the classical sense but for what negative mass does to the equations, but sure, if you can't then the whole question is moot.
so... you just have to mug someone and take the stuff they normally carry around with them? yikes.
I think he means free as in available, not free as in no cost.
I’ve owned three or four Seagate drives (at least two of which were enterprise-class), and they all failed. My many HGST disks, with one exception, were all still alive and well when I retired them. I’ve never had a WD disk fail.
Setup a family slack. Works well, full media support. Options for bringing other people in and having family connection there, or you can just DM each other.
I don't believe that people disagree along the lines drawn by parties. Most political fights are artificial constructs to keep the people busy while the the people in DC and their donors stay in power.
Beefalo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefalo
http://olegdb.org, my favorite MAYO compliant database.
> It is absolutely crazy to think that US law should apply worldwide.

Sure, but, most crime denominated in dollars goes through New York too. The section called "Stationary bandits" in the following expands this theory a bit:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-27/don-t-...
I know that's what's pushed, but how much of that is true? Federal grants pay for a lot of initial frubt work, and drug companies spend around twice as much on marketing as they do on R&D. And that's with all sorts of tax benefits behooving them to call as much as possible of their budget R&D.
I made an attempt to do something a bit like this this by a) seeding from HN links and, b) passing all links through uBlock Origin via Puppeteer. My assumption is that more uBlock hits correlates with lower quality (a crude metric, I know, but turns out not far off the mark)

My first-run result is here http://kakapo.susa.net:8080/cfs/ - I think the results are promising, even on a tiny index (around 1M pages, I think).
The cost problem in healthcare is exactly that: many pigs at the trough, and everyone points at the other pig for being the problem.

Healthcare administrators! Drug companies! Device companies! Trial Lawyers! Insurance companies! Doctors (especially specialists)!

They're all the problem, and yes lots of them should make less money. I know cardiologists pulling down 500k+ and that is ridiculous. I can see highly skilled surgeons making that much, but pill pushers?
No, this is a myth. We know this because the same drugs often times cost a fraction of the price in other countries.

The real reason drug prices are astronomical in the US is because the US government is legally prohibited from negotiating drug prices. So the pharmaceutical companies can literally set any price they want.

You don’t have this problem with certain government agencies that are exempt from this prohibition. For example the VA can often acquire the drugs for much cheaper.
Do you head that sound? That’s the sound of every American CFO packing up and leaving China.

But seriously, China is already preventing foreigners from leaving the country. https://www.afr.com/news/world/asia/china-steps-up-and-widen...
I think that helps explain the puzzle. Drive/Docs/Sheets probably do have a strong mandate from senior leadership and a coherent vision: beat Microsoft. So these products have effort and focus that most Google offerings lack.
That's a very interesting question!

However, it may not be salient. It's allegedly HP computer equipment - https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-huawei-skycom/exclusive-h...
Just as the state taking control of something doesn’t magically fix it, it doesn’t magically break it. The article you sourced even posits that the systemic problems could be fixed by increasing funding to improve teacher salaries and make the job competitive with industry jobs, not by privatization. These are apples and oranges comparisons, and there are countless examples of both state-run efficiency and inefficiency to support any position. If you’re asking for scientific rigor to back up economic policy opinions, perhaps that should apply to both sides of the argument.
Wouldn’t the technology behind thwarting this essentially be a solution to the man in the middle attack?
I agree with you on the "U.S.'s potential for emissions growth is just so much smaller".

But my POV (as someone who spend 1/3 of my life in US and rest in India) is that US has huge potential to cut down on unnecessary emissions in terms of HVAC, lighting, using efficient cars, subsidizing public transport systems. Hence I have this huge bias against the energy consumption habits of Americans in the US.

Main problem is that the economy of US and many developed nations run on fuel burning carbon emitting industries (crude oil, car manufacturing, gas/electric utilities, car dealerships selling IC engine cars, HVAC equipment). That is why lobbies in US scuttle any govt moves toward encouraging solar/wind power, electric cars (It's a surprise for me that Tesla has survived this far), public transport systems.

I also agree that emissions as a geo-political entity helps in driving global policies to reduce emissions. But beyond that, if US is not setting an example like recently GM shut down many sedan making plants in US and Canada (and POTUS gives an excuse that he'll get rid of subsidies for GM's electric cars while Americans are moving back to their SUV craze), it's only going to mean tougher choices for India and China to make, with costs born by those citizens, and a price will be paid by the current heads of state in the respective countries because they capitulated to US's pontificating (Eg: Canada PM has a growing anti incumbency for the next round of elections).

India is making the right moves as of now (crazy huge solar fields and alliances, massive investments in public transport infra, LPG and electricity connections / supply to more households etc), but it'll take a decade at least for any of this to materialize into reduced emissions.

(None of this is even factoring the pollution in China because of US's consumption of goods manufactured in China and transported to the US, which gives US kind of a free ticket to pontificate saying they are not the most most polluting country.)
Doctors aren’t a huge cost issue. Their pay isn’t that outrageous or out of line. It’s the pharmacy costs and administrative costs (and I think also DME costs?) that are seriously out of whack in this country.
They also only care about stupid metrics. One google dev said they got given an old project and they found it was full of bugs and reporting loads of bad info so the dev added a bunch of tests that picked up on the bugs and bad data and then they were denied the promotion because the errors logged from the program they were working on went up since they started working on it.