skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There isn't anything about garbage collection that enables something that couldn't be done before. ...

True, there's always another way. But you can say same about almost any subject. In my experience about lock-free (and wait-free) programming, safe and high performance deallocation of the objects is often a problem. (Especially in kernel mode when context switching is not an option.)

Whenever high performance is required and it's possible to avoid atomics (CAS, FAA, LL/SC, etc.), (false) cache line sharing or even memory operations altogether, I'll take it. Not to mention CAS (or equivalent) loops and mutexes...
I don't understand what's so objectionable here? there is ample disclosure, it's for adults, and those who opt in receive rewards, is this really about everyone being concerned for apple's terms or is it just that it's "hip" to portray tech companies in the worst possible light?
> What does "politicising" mean, and how do you know their motives?

Example right here. For better or worse, some people will try to make everything about their pet issues. It doesn't really matter if their motives are good when every single discussion gets dragged into the 2010's version of Godwin's Law.
> you can't express yourself through code

...Bro, do you even code?

Honestly, I can't fathom how you could make such a statement. Granted, most people can't express themselves through code - but that doesn't mean in general you can't.
but what about a rough order of magnitude? There is definitely some qualifiers you can put on "order of magnitude" to make it include 3.
At 60 mph? No. I listen to the wind until I get a safe opportunity to properly close it.

(I might try to pull it more shut while moving. But not open it.)
"new realities" = -60F wind chill
Naw. Not signing up for Quora means you won't get to essentially entertain yourself.

People would immediately sign up for SO if it were tied to their productivity.

That is, unless answer providers have no interest in using the site for anything else. That's true in some cases.
This is my problem with many "privacy advocates" on the internet. It often feels like the end goal is not, to help consumers, or make it clearer what technology is doing, but to get rid of large tech companies on principle or maybe return the internet to the glory days of the the late 90's and early 00's, or just end consumerism in general. It just so happens that privacy is the most effective path to that goal.
> Google is already starting to add unsubscribe links

The Mail app on iOS also offers this. Not sure how it works, but it seems to have a high success rate in my experience.
For the British, I don't think you can say it "collapsed". The empire fell apart, sure, but it's not like life for the British people turned into living hell; they still enjoy a very high standard of living, among the best in the world, surely better than the Americans.

By comparison, when Rome fell apart (which admittedly took some time), the standard of living was objectively much worse for average Romans. They went from a civilization with plumbing, toilets, cities, aqueducts, a Coliseum with water shows, and probably the highest standard of living in the world, and a society with specialization of labor, education, rule of law and a well-developed legal system, to feudalism, where they lived under feudal lords as uneducated serfs living in huts and working in fields. It took over 1000 years for western society to get back to the level of technology and development they had under the Romans.
It sounds like the problem was that she never got a response. She sent the original letter, never heard anything back from them, assumed it got lost or was ignored, and then tweeted.
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49% are not getting the government they voted for.

And it might be more: the number of [Voted For Something Else] + [Didn't Vote] + [Not Eligible To Vote] is probably far greater than 49% of all residents.
Try again:
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You know, I considered saying that the "roughly" buys me a factor of two in log space. I didn't want to be that person, but I'm glad you were ;).
I went through the same process, until I realized that Google’s results aren’t better for me because I evolved.

What Google does is to have context and to use that context to make the queries more specific. They use for example your location and your history of searches.

However being privacy conscious, I deleted my Google history and disabled the collecting of history in my Google account. And then the results became visibly worse.

This is important because when people complain loudly about the difference, they usually have a search history in Google going back a decade, reflecting a trail of embarrassing moments of course that most couldn’t make public. Not many people are curious to look at that history, although to Google’s credit, they do expose it in full detail and a nice interface.

With DDG you just have to be a little more explicit. For example searching for “ruby” won’t yield results related to programming (except for ruby-lang.org), but searching for “ruby programming” does. So in general you just have to be a little more specific and we’re talking about a word or two.

Nowadays whenever I can’t find something on DDG on my first try, I’m confident that I won’t find it with Google either. And lately I feel like DDG is better, maybe due to my changing search patterns.

The real gain is privacy and this reflects in the searches you’re doing. I can’t convince myself to search for medical conditions on Google anymore. What if I’d get classified as a diabetic (I’m not)? What if that data leaks and this affects my credit score? No thank you.
Nice, I like this model. As stated, this would be really useful to have in the site.
Wouldn’t displaying the top level domain name in bold or another colour make identification easier, or am I missing something?
Me too, I'm just much more productive at work with google /s
I don't see this opinion very often, so I might just be insane, but I firmly believe that the fun was removed from the internet with the invention of NAT.

Without the ability to receive connections on your home computer, the list of "fun" things you can build is hugely reduced.
Console- and 8-bit home computer gaming on your 80s arcade cabinet
Google and FB should partner with Huawei to complete the picture.
I'd say it's 2b, right? It's the water normally evaporating from the lake (so it's water vapour), condensated by a sudden drop of temperature in the freezing air?
Shaders are cool. https://shadertoy.com
Exactly!

Just don't fall into the trap of many others that wants to take an amount from my account every month. I'm quite fed up with that.

Instead allow me to pay per view. I'll happy pay a sum in up front to reduce friction.
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To be fair, you can sideload apps on to your iPhone, it just that if you are not part of the Apple Developer program you'll need to resign them every seven days.
Sorry, to be clear the tool is designed to make it easier to locally test your static HTML GitHub Pages repos, where things like a `/about` link will not resolve in the context of your filesystem and likely also won't know to check for `about.html`. I'm not trying to make sites equivalent to GitHub Pages from other sources. Does GitHub Pages actually support org-mode? That's certainly news to me, and if so I'll take a look into how it works and whether I can add support.
That's the nature of living in a democracy. What's your alternative?
Try https://startpage.com They pay Google to proxy their generic non personalized results.
I agree. In general, DDG tends to have pretty solid results now. I'm glad it doesn't think it knows what I'm searching for better than I do.
The one advantage I will give Google is that the layout can be better in some situations. For example, if I'm getting multiple results from StackOverflow and MDN on the same query, I like how Google groups them. Also, searching for something like sports scores is a better experience on Google because I don't need to click into any links. Other than that, I find DDG just as good if not better in almost every other area.
Sure would. If that would pass, I would simply create a club, let everyone join up and call them members of my organization and ship apps through it, bypassing Apple, the 30% and App Store review all in one shot. Considering how I've been treated at the hands of the iTunes support team, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Shameless plug - I built MyTube.FM few months ago as an attempt to give alternative platform for those who prefer to voice rather than write.

I am curating few profiles myself; for example: https://potus.mytube.fm/
Did you read the description of this service at all? They literally link to this exact story as an example of why they are a payed service.
For that matter, any typical SSH+FS setup with a shared directory can work for a remote.
Car repair is another. I drive a 20+ year old vehicle. You'd think that there would be tons of articles about repair since the world has had 20+ years to reverse engineer it, right? The first two pages of Google results are almost always SEO spamfests. It was almost impossible to find out how to change the burnt out lights in my car's gauge cluster since every link took me to a bad copy of Quora with each answer recommending the automotive equivalent of essential oils.
Is it a little baffling to anyone else that Facebook's entire plan if Apple killed their research-app Onavo iOS workaround was "loudly point out that Google does it too"?

Surely there must have been more to their contingency plan? They have great engineers and I'm surprised there wasn't more than a PR response up their sleeve. Just for example, in retrospect, why did they use the mainline Facebook iOS enterprise certificate to sign this app rather than a cert from one of their subsidiaries or acquisitions -- wouldn't that have de-risked a bit?
I signed up but I see they're using credit card payment...can this work?
> Like one that replaces springboard for example.

This is not something that apps can generally do.
Wouldn’t making the top level domain portion of the URL bold or another colour solve the problem, or am I missing something?
I'd also extend 1 to include "can I subvert this type system when I really need to?"

(And to those who would say "You never need to", I don't think you can be quite that dogmatic. The real world includes a lot of unforeseen scenarios...)
This seems disingenuous when talking about offline games stored on an SD card - when you buy a CD and the CD is destroyed or the store that you bought the CD closes you don’t have an expectation that you will always get new copies of that CD.

With games that are online only, one also expects that wen the service is shut off you won’t have access. This is pretty accepted (but would be nice if there were some way to preserve the server code)

But games that are inherently offline and perform online checks are the worst. If I get something on steam that checks in with steam every 10 minutes, then steam goes away, then I’m pretty miffed.
If I'm not wrong, the redesign and app do away with custom CSS altogether.
Reminds me of (the portrayal at least in the movie) the NTSB investigation in to the US Airways flight that landed in the Hudson. The board's claim, based on simulations, was that it would have been possible to make it to a nearby airport (Teterboro?) and land safely. But their simulations failed to take in to account the altitude lost while the crew determined what was going on and what course to take. A convenient miss in that each simulator pilot instantly made the turn after the bird strikes knowing full well what happened and where they were going to go.
I think the de-anonymization of online users is another shift that (among many other things) caused the Internet to be less fun and weird.

You can see a very different tone in YouTube video comments, for example, before they switched to using real names.

Now, people are afraid to risk damaging their own personal reputation by posting "weird" things (I don't mean extremely weird either -- people are extremely self-conscious in general of saying things that MIGHT be considered weird in front of others, so they don't be themselves as much as they did when they were anonymous). And often, "fun" is synonymous with "weird".

It's not ALL bad -- people also say FAR less offensive things to each other when their real names are attached (but it still happens), but if you're looking for reasons for the shift, user de-anonymization is definitely one of them.
Offtopic, but I really hate arXiv's page layout. Nowhere else is the link to primary content sequestered off to a sidebar. The abstract isn't that important and web pages aren't modern index cards with limited space. Horrible ergonomics with this site.
I don't think lawyering over the terms is what's important here. Instead what matters is whether Apple thinks it is better for its business to pull Google's enterprise cert.

Apple holds all the cards here. If it wants to punish Google over this, it will, and Google won't be able to do a thing about it, terms or no terms.
Apps of this category must be classified as "educational", which is hard but not impossible to justify for iSH.
It makes you wonder about some of the other insightful sounding top comments on topics that you aren't as well versed in
So are Applause, BetaBound and uTest be considered enterprise distribution then?
Alternative thought: this is the way China does business, full stop. Who exactly was in council at the time would not have mattered because the media headline "Council torpedos Foxconn factory deal that would have created X thousand jobs" is about as bad as what happened.
From my really ignorant, but introspective, point of view, this notion that life and consciousness somewhat escape from the physical rules that govern rocks, air and the rest of the universe seems like holding onto the theist idea of soul after the decline of religion.

I think the universe doesn't care about us, we are just the natural result of the fundamental interactions of matter, the same interactions that burn stars. We are complex automatons.
Does Bing offer the same privacy advantages (no tracking, no history based ads, etc.)?

EDIT to add: I think nobody disputes or cares that most results come from (or equal) Bing results, as long as they're good enough.
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> How could Walker and his cronies have ever fallen for any of this?

Maybe they didn't fall for anything? Who did Foxconn buy the land from? They presumably did OK in the deal, as did any of the parties (i.e legal/accounting/lobbying firms) who facilitated the deal. Walker lost his governership in the last election, but that was before the magnitude of Foxconn's reversal was clear, so it's not directly attributable to that.

Looks like the people duped here might just be the taxpayers who payed for it all, and the would-be manufacturing workers for whom the jobs haven't materialized. I'd guess those groups' interests weren't being represented by their elected officials when the deal was struck.
> if I'm prepared to outsource my email to Google then how different is it to let other SaaS scan my inbox to provide their service...If they don't respect this policy, it's going to get found out eventually, and it's going to hurt their business and their future reputation as founders.

The likelihood that some small SaaS shop will be found out for unethical/illegal behavior is much smaller than Google being found out. It does look like their hearts are in the right place, for what it's worth. But there's no way for them to promise never to sell to someone interested in monetizing the data.
> British empire was a rapid collapse [...] It collapsed within 20

It would be better to treat the British Empire and the United States as two forms of the same empire, as they both speak the same language The capital of the empire simply moved from London to Washington via an internal revolution, a process that's happened many times in the past, e.g. Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, St Petersburg to Moscow, Xian to Hangzhou, Kyoto to Tokyo. So the British Empire/United States reached a peak after 400 years, and is now declining for perhaps a few hundred.
> TV Meters also come with a camera, but that camera isn’t used, and doesn’t collect data.

I, too, like to add unnecessary sensors to devices which considerably increase their value, despite never using them.
The goal was to have an AI defeat humans at SC2. Mission accomplished.

Was it fair when AlphaStar tried getting at an air unit with all its land units and pissed away a lot of time doing so, while Mana proceeded to obliterate its base?

What if a future AI solves cancer from scratch in a day? Are we going to find reasons to call this 'AI vs Mother Nature' match unfair?

Silly hoomans don't need to look for reasons why AlphaStar was playing unfair. It's just a game. And machines will be better at it. They'll be better at everything. Make your peace with that.

DeepMind has only just gotten started. Like with Go. AlphaGo was trained for years. AlphaZero was trained for days. The latter obliterated the former.

DeepMind is reading this criticism, don't you know. What do you think AlphaStarZero will be doing in a few years time?

Crushing AlphaStar 100 out of 100 times, with low APM. That's what.
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The primary maintainer input is getting us up to speed on their project goals, work preferences and existing communities. After we have a good understanding of their preferences, the maintainer can choose their level of involvement. Maintainers can be as involved as they like after we begin our campaign. We provide a weekly update detailing who we’ve reached out to and the status of each communication. We can provide this information on a daily basis as well.

As far as tactics, we start by collecting publicly available GitHub information related to the maintainer’s repo. This includes looking at who has engaged with projects by doing things like submitting issues, pull requests, and stars. We also use social media and any community channels the maintainer has created (Slack, Gitter, Discourse, etc.). Then we act as the maintainer’s sales team by reaching out to these leads via a variety of different channels (email, social media, phone, real-time messaging). We find the right people within an organization to discuss how the maintainer can add value to the company, and we negotiate contracts based on the custom plan we’ve developed with the maintainer.
Perhaps, which is why the exact terms, as they are now written or might be amended, would be interesting to know.
The most peculiar thing about building on top of Bing's index, when it comes to privacy, is that Bing itself was caught looking at the queries and clicks of Google users during the "hiybbprqag" affaire. It was quite telling that Microsoft didn't turn that off even after getting outed.
Sure, but campaigns also engage in "grass roots" propaganda efforts. For instance, _the entirety of US mainstream media_ aired propaganda in favor of Hillary Clinton campaign for a year and a half. Bad news were suppressed, good news were circulated, angles and crops were picked for the rallies to show crowds that weren't really there, Trump (American icon just months before his run) was smeared head to toe, including allegations of rape (which disappeared immediately after the election) and pee-pee "dossier" which turned out to be completely bogus and paid for by the Clinton campaign. That's not even considering the official "social media" propaganda efforts like Shareblue etc, on which millions were spent.

Are you going to tell me that given all these blatant propaganda forces at play Russia still had any effect on the election? I understand this meme looms large in US liberal psyche, but I'm struggling to understand why anyone would rationally believe this.
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Next step: Facebook detects you're at risk of committing suicide and starts increasing the influx of positive posts to your timeline.
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Even shorter to type. ;)
Curious how to implement https://github.com/jgraph/drawio without JS?
Check my other comment in this thread.

People don't want to pay per article. It's too much friction to decide every time they read something (or worry about refunds after the fact), and many users spend hours on these sites going through hundreds of pages. Easy discovery of other stories is a major part of publisher value. Blendle pricing doesn't work at scale for mainstream users and they say that themselves, but they have a beta in the US if you still want to use it: https://launch.blendle.com/
What have you worked on?

The healthcare sector can be impactful, but not particularly challenging. I personally find anything working with an assembly language to be challenging, and I'm sure you could think of something where that would be impactful.

Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of tech that you could apply your skills toward? That would help fulfill the interesting, and satisfying criteria you are looking for.
One engine should be iOS and the other Android to prevent simultaneous bugs in the future.
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