skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably worth distinguishing 'bloatware' from 'crapware', even if Wikipedia does consider them synonyms.

Roughly, I'd say that bloatware is anything preinstalled that's not filling a core use-case for the device, plus literally anything unremovable that isn't part of core functionality. So Messages isn't bloatware, but Messages+ and Samsung Health are. The first standard is sort of a fuzzy with general-purpose devices like computers and tablets, the second is pretty clearcut.

Crapware, to my mind, is "bloatware + shovelware". It's preinstalled stuff that's broken, malicious, redundant, or outside of standard use. Samsung Gallery is crappy, Superfish was malicious, VZ Navigator is basically a scam (paid, bad Google Maps), and the NFL app is worthless to a huge fraction of users.

The Office suite is very popular and highly functional, so I'd give it a pass if it could be uninstalled. Since it can't, it's bloatware. OneDrive is on the line; it's a popular complement to Office, but it's vendor-specific in a way that opening documents isn't. (Low-impact is not at all a defense; the 'disabled' state is nice for quick reinstalls, but there's no user-friendly argument for not allowing deletion.)

LinkedIn is absolutely crapware of the worst kind. It can't be uninstalled. It's irrelevant to a huge fraction of users (anyone who doesn't work). Its provided for the benefit of one company in a crowded space, whereas Office is a clear market leader. It's redundant functionality with a simple website, where Office is only partially duplicated by OpenOffice and Google Drive.

And worst of all? It actively hurts users. When LinkedIn lost its user data in 2012, the breach was made substantially worse because their iOs app scraped and uploader user data (including calendar info!) without permission. Permanently preinstalling an app that's largely useless and has already contributed to a major data breach is far outside what I consider acceptable behavior.
The SOAP specs do not even make sense. What doesn't make much of a difference, because the only player I've seen even trying to follow them is Microsoft (go figure...).

SOAP has a broken type system that can not be extended (leading to many extension standards for things like lists (go figure, again) and complex formats that people didn't want to convert from and into). It had horrible error handling, with problems only becoming visible at the application layer. It inherited the XML's property vs. contents problem. It inherited the XML's bad DTD format.

Soap deserves to die. Taking the good parts of it would be good, but there was nobody in a position to do that, so we settled on fixing the problems and patching the good parts back with time. With gRPC, I think we are there.
With european wages it's not always economically feasible to have people on the clock 24/7, plus you won't find many people doing 12h shifts.
A lot of tech companies are opening/expanding offices in LA.
I feel like what Kondo is trying to say is another version of this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Aq8BQMXRZX3BoFd4c/morality-i...

I.e., people don't intuitively understand what "good" or "useful" is—those terms are mired in tons of prescriptive statements made by ideologues that get you confused. But "awesome" (or in this case, "joyous") isn't really a property people ever insist that something has for political reasons. It's something you've probably only ever heard as a descriptive word referring to things that are genuinely "awesome"/"joyous", and so your intuition on what is "awesome"/"joyous" is likely much more solid and easier to "hear."

I would also argue that "joy" is a pretty useful word in the sense that asking about a thing's utility conjures images of sterile pro/con lists of a thing's immediate usefulness right now; while "joy" might be an acute nostalgia, or the sense of determined hypomania brought on by a clearly-imagined-and-still-enthusiastic plan of what you will be doing with the thing a year from now.
> If the network was degraded a revote is possible.

That's kinda the essential problem. If you can trigger a revote, then the attacker will stuff the ballot to make their's the winner.
It's not incorrect, it's an opinion.
Disables my back button
Yes, but markdeck uses decktape and chrome headless...
so your PDF is in fact a near pixel-perfect version of your HTML slides.
The problem isn't Chinese in general, but the written register of Chinese specifically, and all the texts already using it. If you've ever looked at a verbatim transcript of a spontaneous conversation, you'll probably have noticed how much of an incoherent mess spoken language can be. Written speech is much tidier, because people have the opportunity to be very deliberate in what they write down.

For Chinese in particular, that means that people can be much more succinct in writing than orally, because the characters provide additional disambiguation beyond just indicating the pronunciation. Any purely phonetic writing system would require everyone to readjust their standard of what kind of sentences are comprehensible.
I learned English. The spelling is a nightmare, you essentially need to learn it twice. Chinese at least doesn't pretend to be phonetic.

You also need smaller vocabulary in Chinese - 3500 characters is all you need. English vocabulary is absolutely massive.

The grammar is pretty bizarre as well, as far as I am able to judge.
West Highland Terrier. And yeah, he's curious about clothes, but footwear stepping on him seems very different.
I think that's a 'sleeper car'. A 'train car' means any train carriage in all contexts I know. So anyone getting a train is getting into a train car.
It's funny really. When countries like Iran ban English and clamp down on Western studies, it's oPpReSsIve. Western subversion? Why that's a conspiracy theory hurr. Mandarin taught in Kenya? Oh no muh takeover
Bell Canada wants permission to gather and track customer data
This is fantastic news, and I'll definitely be taking a look. I do want to point out, however, that there are a number of benefits to having your content in a Git-backed file repository, rather than in a centralized database.

I understand why Ghost would want to promote using a headless CMS with a database—it's great PR—but I hesitate recommending this as a slam-dunk solution. For me, generally speaking, all the sites I build now are JAMstack (Jekyll, with a custom Rails-based content editor), and having all the website content in a Git repo is a huge part of that workflow and a major selling point.
An Economy of False Profits
What difference would that make?
Show HN: Major upgrade to blogging platform I've been building
Hello HN,

This is a major upgrade to the blogging platform we're working on as a side project.

It's just simple place to write a blog and follow favorite bloggers without any bubble-filter or annoying machine learning algos making your blog feed full of nonsense.

URL: https://blog.gonevis.com/reader-design-updates-paid-plans-an...

Would love to get some feedbacks as well.
I prefer that people go home and spend more time on their hobbies or families. I spent a few months in Austria and in a couple of weeks I was used to everything bar restaurants closing at 5.
Perhaps some real-world data could support or refute that hypothesis. Though if Veganism is every going to be a proper religion, that sort of rationalism may undermine it.
there is a "natural" phenomenon known as chandler wobble.
its just part of a bigger scene.
basicaly the earth doesnt spin on a perfect axis related to angular momentum. this axis "sputters" like a top that has slowed down and is succumbing to chaotic interferences before it falls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_wobble
> I'm an American in Munich, and while taxis here are indeed reliable, I wouldn't call them cheap.

Compared to the stories I have heard about US taxis (underqualified drivers, bad technical maintenance, general unreliability), I am not surprised. You can't have reliable and cheap.

In addition to the mentioned factors, of course Uber/Lyft can be less expensive in the US - they ditch the contributions to social security, healthcare and pension system that is required for German employees.

btw, I am Munich-based too... yes our taxis are expensive indeed but so are the living costs. Can't have no taxi drivers when they don't have a place to live in.
11-year-old hacks replica of Florida state website, changes election results
Thanks for posting this. I am at a very similar place with startups where I am attempting to stop just paying lip service to lean startup ideas. I'm going to look into the tools you mentioned.

BTW, the last startup I worked at we were building a really cool "timeline" interface using react. I see you are using Vue but we still might have some interesting discussions. I found some really fun/difficult product and technical problems with developing that type of interface.
Having worked with Japanese software engineers I'd say they more likely feel they have no ikigai. It's substantially soul crushing compared to sword making or carpentry.
> To get a bit pedantic you're on the path to domesticating those squirrels...

To be even more pedantic: No, they're not.

> Domestication should not be confused with taming. Taming is the conditioned behavioral modification of an animal to reduce its natural avoidance of humans, and to accept the presence of humans. Domestication is the permanent genetic modification of a bred lineage that leads to an inherited predisposition towards humans.
Let's say you worked at Amazon and did this. You would continue to have a job and your equity value would grow substantially. There are worst and best cases, most fall somewhere in the middle. Your anecdote doesn't really change what I said because my point is some are willing to own more risk than others.
Thanks for the details. I'm exploring a side project to find viral\interesting\fresh content on web\social media. I know this is a hard problem to solve as 'interesting' varies from person to person.
The argument that Chinese writing has to be made phonetic because Chinese is too hard only holds sway to non-Chinese. Most Chinese people do not consider Chinese writing to be too hard. Therefore the most common argument for phonetic writing is compatibility with international standards. As of now the Latin alphabet is the international standard.
So Aion comes first and Ethereum 8th, sorted alphabetically? Sounds fair.
People forget that Survivorship Bias is real.

I’m reminded of the coin toss example in one of my college classes. Everyone in the class stood up and flipped a coin. If it was tails you lose and sit down. Flip again and again until there was only one person standing. Then the prof “interviewed” him to ask him how he became such a good heads-flipper and what advice he had for other aspiring heads-flippers.

Listening only to people who struck it rich in business is like getting lottery advice from only lottery winners.
I'm not saying it's automatic. I'm saying it's inevitable. It took decades to get decent safety standards in the USA (one could argue we're still working on it). But a government that doesn't do basic things to protect its citizens risks its own legitimacy. And contrary to popular opinion here, the Chinese government has legitimacy, not just brute force. The people trust it to do the right thing most of the time, eventually.
The simplest way to format a Word document is to select the text and format it. Unfortunately the simplest way is also the worst. If you constrain yourself to using Styles instead you get all the benefits of templates and consistent styling.

There should be a mode in word processors that disallows on-the-fly formatting and forces consistent use of styles.
57 Michelin starred chefs, and the US's premier wine region, plus lots of cheese/beef/specialty food producers. Also, pretty amazing ethnic food, particularly Mexican and Asian (of all types).

Maybe second to New York for restaurants, but per capita pretty much on top. California is the best produce region of the country, so there are better ingredients within 4 hours of SF than within 4h of NYC. NYC might win for European haute cuisine and for long-established restaurants.

https://sf.eater.com/maps/san-francisco-bay-area-michelin-re...

(More 3-starred restaurants than NYC)
Yes, it is ridiculous "more good" is spelt "better". I am unsure whether the exact form of "doubleplusgood" is optimal, but something like that makes perfect sense.

Given that China successfully adopted simplified Chinese characters, English-speaking world is perfectly capable of adopting Newspeak, and it will bring long term benefit, just as simplified Chinese characters did. But like many long term beneficial things it won't happen due to short term cost.
> That would be like reporting on Ebola as a #1 killer, but then ignoring the Opioid crisis.

No need to couch this as a hypothetical - wall-to-wall coverage of Ebola (and later, Zika) did while "ignoring" higher number of deaths caused by falling in the shower. Again, it wasn't a conspiracy, it's just that the news-cycle has positive feedback loops between newsrooms and the public- certain topics become more popular because they are popular.

Edit: replaced the flu with shower deaths. I couldn't find number for flu deaths for the period.
I've worked at a couple startups where we would speak MVP with our lips but our actions did not follow our words. None of them were ultimately successful.
There are still way too many hompohones which can introduce a lot of amibiguity. Even Korean still includes Hanja to clarify technical terms in law/medicine.

Modern Standard Mandarin has way fewer syllables than Middle Chinese and Southern Chinese languages which makes homophones a lore more common. Vietnamese didn't really have this problem because the phonology is a lot more complex and it shows through the written word.

An example of homophones creating ambiguity: An Jung-geun was a Korean independence activist who assassinated a former Japanese Prime Minister in 1909. He is often called 義士 in Korean textbooks which means "hero, man of honor". However, 義士(의사) is pronounced in the same way as 醫師(의사) which means "doctor". The Hangul spelling is identical thus it has led to many younger Koreans to think An Jung-geun was a doctor and question why would a doctor intentionally kill someone. It's more of a tongue-in-cheek joke but it shows the problem of completely detaching a writing system from a language that does not sufficiently distinguish words without context. In Chinese this is not a problem because by people usually learn this type of stuff on paper first. The additional context helps reduce the ambiguity in spoken conversation. Being able to talk to each other without writing is not sufficient proof that a writing system can be abolished with minimal impact, because it ignores the fact that the writing system is what helped to dispel the ambiguity in the first place.
California homeowners 55 and older can get a one-time opportunity to sell their primary residence and transfer the property tax assessment to a new home under Proposition 60. The caveat here is the market value of the new house generally must be lower or equal to the home being sold. For married couples, only one spouse must be 55 or older.
> You better update Wikipedia with that information then

I'm under no obligation to correct every error in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia> Amazon Fire OS is an Android-based mobile operating system

It's actually AOSP-based, more than Android-based (whether the relationship between the two is such that the former is a subset of the latter is...another discussion.) But even Android-based isn't Android (OS X is BSD-based, but not BSD; MariaDB is MySQL based, but not MySQL; the legal systems of much of the US are English Common Law-based, but not English Common Law)

Android devices, Android-compatible (per the ACP) devices, and devices running derivatives of the AOSP source code constitute a sequence in which each item describes a superset of the set described by the preceding item.
Where there done by the payment processor like Artemis2 or in house?

I'm asking because I saw a lot of in-house tokenizer with hashes or deterministic encryption that could get reversed in a few seconds by brute force since the space to cover is so small.
This is my exact situation. My electric car is far more convenient for me than my gas car is and, so far, I would extend that to long road trips. Literally the only benefit I find to driving my ICE vehicle is the short fuel-up time but, with every trip I've taken in the EV in the last year since I bought the car, you don't have to charge it all the way to get to the next charger/destination. I can charge to the daily drive capacity in about 20-25 minutes which has gotten me to the next charger with plenty of range to spare.
Were you able to find a good javascript or typescript gRPC client? The official google one seemed to have spotty documentation for the js module itself. It did not look like it supported promises or Nodejs streams either.
I think his demo POC had outside power and ground.

I would hope this is not the case. If it was, I don't see how it can be legitimately called a hardware proof-of-concept. I agree, though, that the lack of outside power and ground doesn't seem to be explicitly stated in the writeup. The video comes a little closer, with one of the questions after the talk asking whether using more pins would make things easier: (from the automatic transcript of https://youtu.be/C7H3V7tkxeA?t=1868, punctuation added and some typos corrected):

"But do you see a way to actually get more power into your setup, maybe using other power sources other than the two pins?"

"So the question is about would there be some way to do more arbitrary changes through redesigning the implant? One of the goals was to fit with only those two pins so that a single piece on the motherboard could be replaced. You know, with a dual probe soldering iron you can pop it out and stick a new one down in a matter of seconds. So yes, if you have more pins where you can get more power from you can do much more interesting things, but that would require a different set of changes to the motherboard."

I'm pretty sure the author is claiming that their FPGA implant was working off of just two pins on the motherboard. If they are relying on some technicality (such as "all the other pins are from a source other than the motherboard") this would make me write off the entire article as untrustworthy. But until there is proof to the contrary, I'm inclined to believe that they used no outside power or ground, and that they indeed built a hardware POC.

Edit: I sent email to the author asking for clarification.
> renting a car for the weekend is a significant hassle and time sink

That's the real problem to be solved, and not by stationing one of those cars permanently in each person's house.

Evolving tech might enable at least three scenarios: self-driving cars can be summoned on demand; cars can be piloted remotely to the customer's location (a matter of legislation at this point); electric scooters can make it feasible for a driver to deliver and return to base at a reasonable cost. I'd pay a premium to have a standard-issue rental car at my door at the press of a button.
It's not just TV and movies. Go Wiki browsing on organized crime some time. Here's [1] a fun starting point. These organizations go through extensive efforts, which at times has included things such as flipping decorated law enforcement officers, to 'get revenge'. I put that in quotes because I'd imagine it's not really about revenge, at least not entirely. It's the criminal analog of law enforcement. If you don't enforce your laws, there will be an increasingly large number of people that break them. And similar to a law it's not just the penalty people factor into consideration, but also the probability of getting caught.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_criminal_enterprises,_...
> but ever since that incident I have been distrustful of penguins

Shouldn't you be distrustful of school teachers?
Coverity Scan Update
We've had taxi hailing apps in Brazil since before Uber arrived. Once Uber got here, though, no one could compete with its prices.
The convenience outweighs the time.
DeFrancis book The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy is excellent on that and many related questions [1].

First, Mandarin has no inflection (love/loves), which allows for writing in characters in the first place.
Then, Mandarin has a fairly impoverished phonetic system, allowing for only about 400 different syllables ignoring tones, or 1200 or so when distinguishing tones (while English for example has some 7000 or so, without tones). This leads to many homophones, which can be distinguished by being written with different characters. Or so the traditional justification goes (I don't think much of that argument, because clearly people can speak to each other just fine, without having to clarify which word they mean - disambiguation happens by longer words (two or more syllables), which you could just write down. What happens is that in writing, you only need to write parts of a word: spoken out loud it would be ambiguous, but the chosen character disambiguates it, and thus people conclude that writing wouldn't work without the characters.)

However, arguably it's just a matter of habit (and resistance on the part of those that have already put in the time and effort to learn the characters). There are, in fact, Sinitic languages written alphabetically, eg Dungan [2].

The whole issue is very politicised, as you can see with the animated discussion here and the vigorous resistance to the initial comment (which was a bit unfortunately phrased, in my view, but fundamentally sound: Chinese is a very hard language to learn, mostly by virtue of its archaic writing system, and that is arguably somewhat deliberate.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Language:_Fact_and...

[2] see the articles linked from here: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=40417
So much of what you listed here are optional puchases:

* Exciting food other than what is needed to survive

* No way internet alone should be costing you $120/mo. If so, call in and threaten to close your account if they don't reduce the price.

* Set the house to 68 in winter, 72 in summer. Dress accordingly.

* Exercise at home doing body weight exercises.

* If you don't have an emergency fund, you can't afford going to the movies or renting one.

* If you don't have an emergency fund, you can't afford books or video games.

* If you don't have an emergency fund, you can't afford a new computer/laptop/console/phone unless it is used to generate income.

* Don't speed and you won't have to pay tickets.

* How often are these other tragedies occurring? More than once per year? Maybe you should considering moving away from a place where people are smashing windows or slashing tires/doing things to break bones?
Wait what? How so? Let me know so I can fix this
Inventory is way, which I think is what the OP is referring to.