skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google keeps actively making it worse and just ignores feedback from users. In the process, they've managed to make something that is worse than what it attempts to replace; I could throw away the Sports and other irrelevant sections when i bought a newspaper, but there is no way to remove or rearrange the priority of sections on Google News so I get sports stories every day despite not wishing to see any sports news.

I don't really know what's going on in Mountain View. Senior Googlers just lie or BS in response to questions questions from non-Googlers. It's pretty obnoxious.
Very impressive collection!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker
Unless the company is successful, in which case you should do the opposite
This is assuming "who to audit" is even a software process or completely a software process, but fine, don't open source that if necessary. I really just want the IRS software that I personally use to be open source.
It's a super inefficient mechanism. You're better off having everyone save a bit by buying from Walmart, and be able to afford to go out to dinner once a month - instead of never.
Or, alternatively, every trend will be well capitalized
> Because, today, "real" now means it has social sharing, interactivity, and a certain level of visual polish your web page will lack.

Apparently a real website has social sharing and "interactivity" that can't be achieved with raw code! I'm guessing you're not a developer.

> * A WordPress install is a better path because it looks nice.*

That's the saddest statement I've read all week, only topped by..

"Growing wheat?"

Nobody suggested "notepad". A basic HTML structure can be achieved in 5 minutes in your code editor. From there it's about populating that structure with layout components. Yet more minutes coming your way. What, you wanted to have your site made by clicking a few buttons?

"Tweaking the template" in Wordpress is an exercise in extreme patience. A lot of faith in the black box under the Wordpress hood, and a spammy, over-commercialized "do you want fries with that" plugin ecosystem. The fragmented style of adding custom CSS or HTML in wordpress... you end up with a bloated unsustainable, messy maintenance headache. That's how you want people to learn web dev?

> Frankly, raw HTML and CSS is already a dying path

Rubbish. When it comes to doing interesting polished "modern" things with transitions, nested flexbox layouts, interactivity, and custom light-weight modules, there's no better way to control the quality and details of a web product than with raw coding.
Microsoft Backs Facial Recognition Bill as Amazon Mulls Support
Agree, it is verbose and bombastic. But I prefer clear and simple (but no simpler). I'd enjoy less of this.
Trump has named bezos directly as an enemy in more than one tweet and has denigrated Amazon &the Washington Post directly because they are Bezos-owned entities and has said as much. Cut the bullshit.
I found the fact that they're using modified 4G over unlicensed spectrum to control the robots pretty interesting. Latency, scalability and consistency seem to be the key drivers. There's more on that at:

https://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/press-wire/ocado-uses-unlicen...

https://www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/media/uploads/files/UK5G...

https://www.silicon.co.uk/networks/voip/ocado-4g-network-unl...
I've never seen a checkpoint in Manhattan. Where do they typically operate?
Then it doesn't exist.
How can it be entirely separate infrastructure if it uses the same physical wire? Using those wavelengths for that leaves less carrying capacity for internet data. It's in direct contention for the same resource.
This is why I don't buy any of the claims that "the world's elites" have developed AI technology that can predict what you want to buy/watch/listen 95%+ percent of the time. I've not seen anything that Google, Amazon, or Facebook have done that suggest that their recommendation engines are extraordinarily intelligent.
Thanks @jabberthemutt!!
Can you tell me which of your civil liberties is being violated by DUI checkpoints?
It was an interesting read until his admiration for Bill Gates soured it.

Besides milking the world of untold billions in unearned profits by illegally enforcing a monopoly on OSes, Gates personally held back progress in development of computer software by easily fifteen years. (Youngsters who never suffered Windows 9x might not know that Microsoft singlehandedly changed the meaning of "crashed" from "I need to restart my program" to "I need to re-install my OS".) It was only the explosion of smart phones that knocked his jackboot off the world's throat. Now he is putting drips and drabs into philanthropy to try to salvage his reputation.

Inspired by Bill Gates? No thanks.
I don't have patience for that either. I'd just uninstall the app.
You have the order wrong. It should be customers, then idea, then product.

That’s how all the successful products I’ve worked on have done it. Someone was in an industry, saw a need, built a product, and sold it to old coworkers/friends/employers in that industry.
I think everyone has a different definition of news. I wouldn't call a product review news, but browsing Google News I do see some in there, so...
During what appears to be an amicable divorce? With an age-appropriate woman? I'm not sure that rises to the level of "mistake," and certainly not to blackmailable acts.

AMI way overplayed their hand here, and we may yet find that they had gone all-in.
Seven Supreme Court justices, products of the same era, training, experience, and institutions, cannot in all cases unanimously agree that a thing is (or is not) constitutional.

Let us pause to imagine for a moment the comity arrived at by "every citizen," having taught themselves law in accordance with their civic duty, in considering the same matters.

How are we to imagine a thing to be (or not be) constitutional, in such a circumstance? If most citizens think a thing constitutional, does that make it so? Or have they merely 'ruled' that it was constitutional, in your view, should your own self-taught understanding persuade you differently?

I agree in general that there is a civic duty to understand principles of government, to understand the nature and limits of law and justice, and to grasp (if not embrace) the fundamentals of ethical reasoning.

However, in this instance what you seem really to be saying is that you hold your own judgement to be absolute and superior with regards to what is and isn't constitutional.

I am not going to impugn the quality of your personal reasoning or education. The problem is that that just isn't how it works. None of the rest of us are interested in having that be how it works, and as a pragmatic matter it simply would not 'work' in any meaningful way. It would not result in a system in which most of us could agree and get along.

The overwhelming majority view, from the time of the framing of the Constitution onwards, has been that Section 2 of Article 2 conveys the power of interpretation upon the federal judiciary in instances where the need for interpretation arises within the constraints imposed elsewhere upon their power.

The other view is not a 'view' in the sense of a workable alternative. It is a stubborn naysaying, notionally on principle, that renders the entire system of law and governance unworkable.

We don't want it.
Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not seeing how to do this. The settings available are pretty sparse. I'm logged in for sure. I've hidden espn, but I can't exactly hide every source that has a sports story.
>science section is full of pop-sci headlines

This is painfully accurate. The technology section is also bad, since no matter how hard I try to get Google News to show me technical/interesting content, it keeps recommending me banal stories of "the blockchain revolution", smart-phones, and video games.

Any suggestions for a decent RSS reader?
I suppose it is heavily dependent on one's personality and what one has actually been caught on camera doing. But assuming your average sexytime pics, if some of me were made public, I'd care very little about it. If someone started looking at me funny over it, I'd laugh at them; if my boss or someone else with power were to be a prudish twit, changing jobs would be a hassle, but that's the worst I could imagine, and, eh, I'm lucky that doing so isn't as huge a deal as it is for some.

I do of course realize that things can be very different for people in different positions, and of course sextortion of minors is a very different thing. But for someone reasonably secure both financially and emotionally, who cares? Only the sort of people I don't willingly spend time around anyway.

I don't know Bezos, but he's certainly OK financially, and this reaction seems to demonstrate emotional competence, too.
As I read Bezos's post, I noticed that at the section where he describes the photographs, I found myself simply scrolling past them to get to the next part of the story.
>like the world leaders don't know what genocides are and what could lead to them. They are the ones who approve covert and overt operations that start all the conflicts leading to genocides.

I strongly disagree. Genocides take place in specific, generally small countries due to specific circumstances and politics. You seem to think that everything bad that happens in the world is due to a few evil powerful leaders, and things in every other country would be simply wonderful if it weren't for them. I think that is terribly mistaken.
TL;DR: Blogger with a low-readership blog (for internet standards) wants to be included in news carousel at the top of Google results but is rejected.

So Google News is broken.
I've used screen recording systems in both web and mobile and found them to be very valuable tools. And I've only ever used them to troubleshoot and improve the product. Never shared the data. That said, I've always been disturbed that it was considered fine to do. I think Apple's move is great. I hope other apps stores do the same. I think it should be done for text-based analytics like GA as well, as they get so detailed that it's pretty much the same as screen recording.
Traffic stops require reasonable suspicion to pull over your car under the Fourth Amendment. I find it hard to explain how a DUI checkpoint is not a similar action to a traffic stop.
Like Adobe Animate which is a rebranded Flash Pro that does exactly that?
Look at Netflix with chaos monkey and simian army. Netflix routinely does catastrophic destructive testing on their production systems, sometimes evacuating an AWS region entirely. To them, a server going down is a non-event, because they designed their systems with the premise that servers go down.
Court records that relate to traffic citations are public record already (with the exceptions of those who can use traffic school to avoid a conviction or violations that are granted expungement for whatever reason).
i know its not an RSS feed but i really like TED talks.

https://www.ted.com/talks

try this too

advances.sciencemag.org/content/rss-feeds
It’s not, unless you want to signal how much money you’re willing to throw around.
Yeah small and quickly diminishing over time, outside of very close friends and direct descendants.
For example how many fought in WW2? How many were in high level roles and instrumental to the conflict? How many would be thinking they were making a lasting impact on the world? And of those what small portion have pretty much a permanent place in the history books?

Even to pick a small part of it, 130,000 people worked on the Manhattan Project but a history of it that the average person would consume might name 10 key figures.
To optimize, they should probably have the checkpoint only on the alternate route.
This is quite the inspirational read believe it or not. It is really good to hear about success that is actually a matter of redefining perspective.
Rust isn't going to just silently move the pointed-to data in something like Box<[u8; 32]>. It looks like the point of Pinned is to protect against operations like swap() that would move the pointed-to data, but the point here is to maintain the data's invariants (e.g. a self-referential struct cannot be moved or its self-references would be invalid) rather than to protect against silent moves (a call to swap() is definitely not silent).
This is more of an issue with setuid (which has all sorts of problems) than with leaks. Note that this issue would still occur with C++, or in any GC'd language if the GC didn't happen to run before the call to system().

Also note that Rust has contained a mitigation for that issue for a long time now: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24034
But you can restrict yourself to JSON+Comments and call it YAML; it isn't idiomatic YAML, but it's still valid YAML.
>Given a choice between action X and action Y, and given all the facts and experience and self-knowledge currently at one's disposal, which option will you look back on in future with fewer/lesser regrets?

One practical issue with this advice is that it can lead to the "death of a thousand cuts" where any single binary event can be weighed one way but over the course of thousands of iterations, the aggregate would be weighed the opposite.

Sure, in theory one would take into account all possible futures where this could happen but in practical terms that is a tough thing to do and there is seldom a good point to stop.
Brandi Carlile got 6 nominations and now has a show at MSG. The corporate music machine isn't 100% efficient at limiting exposure to only cookie cutter acts.
You are free to move around. You are not entitled to use public space, especially public transportation infrastructure built by the government, in a way you see fit.

Feel free to build a road in your private land, get drunk and speed all the way you want, nobody's going to impinge on your freedom.
I get this crap for domain name renewal notices. Warns about the deadline coming up and it's time to renew a few months before the actual date.

But they're very obscure that it's not your current registrar and you're changing companies.
> The natural data cap is the line speed of the ISP's peering links to upstream providers divided by the number of customers.

The natural data cap is the line speed of the ISP's peering links to upstream providers divided by the number of active customers. But you don't need monthly limits for that, it's true all the time inherently.

It's also kind of a scam on the ISP side because content providers are generally happy to peer with ISPs at no cost to the ISP, so it's not as if there's a non-artificial bottleneck there.
Business critical systems can’t afford not to test failover.

You can bail out of a test at the first sign of trouble. When a real outage hits, there’s no telling how long it will take to recover.
YAML is great for simple human-editable configuration files. Its very easy to write, and can be picked up quite quickly.

Opting for YAML over XML/JSON/whatever doesn't make me a tool. It made life much easier for myself & my colleagues.
Ask HN: New role as product manager for mobile app. What should I know?
I will be starting a new job as a product manager on a mobile app soon. What are the most important books, blogs, and concepts to know about designing and managing mobile apps? Please share your general wisdom as well.
Facebook handles money too, though. Also I think the parent was making the point that Facebook builds software with resiliency in mind so when a failure does happen, the software deals with it gracefully.
While the tt-rss community is a tire fire, the software is very good if you're happy to self-host.
Also makes nice file diffs!
Herbie: Find and fix floating-point problems
I did recall one incident where the plane got out of balance because of passengers moving in concert.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/asaram-bapu-rape-accus...
Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need
I think there's an important distinction between Gawker and Pecker's rag. I get that people hate both for being celebrity gossip slime-factories, but only one of them seems to make a habit of extortion and (at the very least) gray-hat political operations.
Well, if you take countries like Japan or China with their high speed railways, it takes also less time to check-in, board, the most basic security checks; moreover, often train stations are located in the city, as opposed to airports outside. So it is not a clear cut.
> But few industries (none outside food service?) work this way.

I guess apparently Amazon, DoorDash, and Instacart do!

> 100% of the tip goes to the driver.

That's verbatim what happened! They just omitted the additional fact that they would decrease the base pay, like in the food industry.

> Cutting costs on the backs of your dynamic and more economically vulnerable labor force feels cheap and immoral.

Sure is! But restaurants do that too!

The difference is, a rich, single, 35+ year old male programmer can be righteous about Instacart. I mean, they don't cook for themselves, they don't tip their Amazon drivers (they didn't know you can do that!), they eat out, so who cares if the tips are taken away.

But virtue taking away your right to pay $50 for a dinner-for-one at Burma Love? Fuck that, they say. They're hungry.
Erm, of course a justice of the Supreme Court would say that.

If you don't believe of the People's independent ability to judge the law, then I would ask why is the text of the Constitution so widely published? Why doesn't the public simply forget about it, and wholly defer to what the clergy decree? If the Supreme Court still wants to use the document as their basis they can do so, but to the rest of us it's irrelevant.

> the right to drive fast isn't exactly the moral crisis of our times so I don't think you're gonna pick up a whole lot of supporters

This isn't about driving fast nor drunk, but about creeping totalitarianism. This is the moral crisis of our times, as computing and communications technology have created the ability for the state's tentacles to invade every minute aspect of our everyday lives.

The Bill of Rights is best viewed as a bunch of test cases to judge whether the administrative structure fulfills the purpose of its design. In my opinion, every described right is basically being oppressed in some way or another, for the convenience of those in power. For example, I don't think that being forced into chain-link cages or kicked by horses is in line with the right to peacefully assemble.

An individual is obviously not capable of enforcing their personal judgment across society - the point is to keep one's own perspective straight. This corruption is not of the magnitude that causes violent revolution yet, although people do seem quite polarized these days. Perhaps peaceful agorism can head off collapse, if we're lucky.
1) Is that really a bad thing? Isn't it generally a good thing that law enforcement finds law-breakers?

2) So do drunk drivers that crash.

3) You're arguing against yourself. Yes, it's bad that bad guys get notified so they can avoid checkpoints.

4) Shouldn't law enforcement spend their time enforcing the law? It's well spent time IMO. As you say in (1), they also solve other more serious crimes (e.g. finding wanted criminals)
Several books and quite a few short stories by Arthur C Clarke are more or less optimistic about the future - definitely not utopian, but better than today.
this has been going on since forever. I remember my dad talking to me about it when I was young. He basically threw straight into the trash anything that wasn't first class mail. Just look at the postage. If it's a bulk rate letter, it's nothing you need to worry about.
>racialist photos

Can you clarify what makes one of these different from a racist photo?
Having someone else around that is stressful and may cause a heart attack, instigate or help perpetuate bad habits, etc, probably not so helpful.
LastPass raises prices 50%
XML is not tedious at all with the right tooling. For example a tool like Visual Studio IntelliSense proposes only elements and attributes valid in the context, automatically close tag, format the file and complete opening tags too so it makes editing XML file a breath.
Said another way, the underprosecution of white-collar crime provides an advantage to career criminals.

Go where the cops ain't.
> Did he not divorce his wife by parting with half his fortune?

Half of their fortune. It was communal property.
So you can’t reason about something that hasn’t happened yet. That’s your stance. You could throw any argument out the window this way.
I do believe that science will eventually prove abortion to be abhorrent.
The more we learn, the more we realize those are small people, who can feel pain.
Yeah I know. It's almost just slipped in there as an afterthought, but it tells a story of Bezos saying to AMI: "I'll spend more money on this than your entire media 'empire' is worth, if that's what it takes... And I'll barely notice the loss."
Google's redesign of News was a piece of junk. It's 100% based on "social media" and "your browsing habits". That's the opposite of "News".

It's also broken... disabling "Open web pages in Google News" actually opens the page in, you guessed it, Google News.
Full text of draft House Resolution on Green New Deal [pdf]
> They don't get a base pay that gets eaten away by tips until the tips exceed their pay, otherwise why would anyone bother to work harder for the tips if they just get the same amount?

Yes, they do get a base pay that gets eaten away by tips until the tips exceed the base pay. It's structured like so:

1. The state minimum wage is, say, $8.

2. The state minimum wage for tipped workers is much lower, say $2.

3. But the minimum wage for tipped workers doesn't exempt you, the employer, from paying the overall minimum wage. If someone is so terrible at their job that they only make $1 / hour in tips, then you have to pay them $7 / hour so they end up making minimum wage.

But you can describe the exact same pay schedule differently:

1. The minimum wage is $8 / hour, and that's what waiters make.

2. But for tipped workers, up to $6 / hour of tips can be garnished by the employer.

As you can see, your first $6 / hour of tips do nothing but reduce your base pay. Whatever you get tipped above that amount is yours to keep.
Yes, someone mentioned that on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/ao3z4r/pagerbeauty_...

Looking at opsgenie API, it shouldn't be too difficult to build a version of PagerBeauty for it, but I'd need API keys to for testing. Their sandboxed app (app.sandbox.opsgenie.com) doesn't allow me to add an API integration so I can't generate the test keys. I'll ask on their community forums or send a message to support.
I made a complete editor for a trivia game just using vanilla HTML+CSS+JS in half a day. All of the people that should maintain it asked me why I didn’t at least use JQuery or JS framework du jour.

Mind you, this was a completely functioning back-end interface already.
Same. It clearly has me pegged as a Nebraska Cornhuskers fan. I am not, I have told them.... Google doesn't care.

That tag or keyword is just stuck to me

Let alone all the stuff I am interested in....but then I get actual or borderline fake news recommendations on that topic but clearly exist to quietly push a narrative about something else.

I gave up on it. The moment an AI or system can't even bother to filter what I don't like, why bother?
Politics is about alliances, and I can fight against Bezos' shitty business behavior while also supporting his fighting back against those who would scandalize common social behavior (yes, sexting is normal), and exploit the threat of scandal for undue gain.