skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do people who advocate for advertising insist so hard that pervasive tracking needs to be a part of it. If pages were serving up plain, static images, probably free of pervasive tracking, I wouldn’t feel the need to take the nuclear approach to ad tracking. Advertisers have really wrought this upon themselves.

I’m actually happy to pay for the media I consume, I actually do pay for some things, but nobody gets their advertising/trackers let through because the whole industry is patently untrustworthy. If publishers want ad revenue from me, they can remove pervasive tracking, it until then, they get nothing.
Looks like here would be where I should start.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/android/player/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4654878/how-to-play-yout...

Now, I would just have to see if it is possible to only show certain videos or a range of channels.
Please be a bit more serious, change rate between 2002-2016 is closer to 30%. If you want to make up numbers and conclusions be my guest. I'm not here to play Trump-mathematics
I don't know about him, but technically, the definition of a "desktop" kind of "gatekeeps" what that specific word means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor
They're also launching a suit in the capsule. I can't wait to see another Starman, especially one that flies a real spaceship.
Let's look at it from the other side though. Not doing so is implying that I am okay with website owners adding whatever ads and tracking they like, terms unseen. I am not.

> One day when our tech will limit you to a binary choice of ads+tracking versus paying money, which way are you going to swing once your hand is forced?

Easy, paying money. I already do where it's an option.
> There’s something wrong with the methodology here when Cuba is ranked higher than the US. People are starving in Cuba, with no health care...

[Citation needed]
According to Mozilla : "There are future plans to allow WebAssembly to call Web APIs directly.".

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concept...

Although I couldn't actually find any description of the intended capabilities.
This allows you to be more focused and productive. Maybe, life is the wrong word to use.
You can change window focus from the keyboard, have more than two equally-sized windows, split in both directions, control the wm via i3-msg commands, autostart programs easily.
Please refer to the url provided, it's there for a reason
There is information for newbuys. I suppose most of users know about Frink a lot
Clearly you didn't read the article. It's an xmonad setup ;-)
> Why am I entitled to a larger share of profits than other people?

You aren't entitled to profits at all. Profits come after cost. You're cost. You cost more because the demand for your labor versus the supply of your labor raises the price of your labor.

Don't assume this will go on forever, the next bust may well wipe out the huge wage advantage of today's tech workers.
Is it necessary you think? I do not think so
I remember when modern telemetry gathering practices were labeled a malware/adware..
Ah, you're right, fair enough; I read it as "trust anchor" (because that's the real term). Sorry for snarking.
>you can’t buy houses around the world (and staff them) in a whim. you can’t go to davos and mingle with the true global power brokers. you can affect social change but only on a small perhaps local scale.

I can't imagine any of these things increasing my happiness (or even be particularly interesting to me).
These threads always repeat themselves. There are the people painfully explaining why they would like to be able to program for the web in the languages they like. And then there are the JS advocates that take it personally and go out of their way to explain why JS is all you need. Even though no other platform forces you into a single language somehow the web is different.
Your therefore doesn't follow. You haven't established that the law would even need to form a "complete" logic, which means it must be able to encode both addition and multiplication. There is little reason to think this is the case.

Furthermore, oversight wouldn't necessarily yield any further insight even if it were. Humans aren't extra-logical, we have similar limitations.
Why not learn it now? : )
https://learn.adacore.com/
Original article says it is £1.7bn for just under 2 miles of tunnel. For comparison, the new Crossrail is £15.4bn for 73 miles including 13 miles of twin tunnels under central London[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail
Anti-Amazon Fever Is Spreading, and Big Tech Companies Should Be Worried
Umbraco 8
An LA hospital will put Alexa in over 100 patients' rooms
> there's no reason why someone who scores well on one dimension should also score well on the others.

Except that this is literally what happens; this correlation between seemingly unrelated cognitive tests is referred to as "the g-factor". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

To be fair, this doesn't actually contradict most of the rest of what you say. But this correlation does suggest that there are some shared factors (whether innate, or developed, or both) that affect many or all kinds of "practical intelligence"; one might reasonably call these factors "general intelligence".
The average inflation was closer to 2% according to https://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/spain/historic-infl...
She's just modeling the bottoming out of the middle-class. Its interesting that it visually looks a lot like cancer metastasizing.
Well, I would say yours is not a desktop setup ;-)

I mean, desktop usage is meant for people who work with computers. They spend several hours a day in front of them and therefore require ergonomic chairs and the like. If you want to use your laptop on your couch, that is completely okay, but you are probably not doing some of the things people at desks are doing (like decrypting compilers errors etc.).
Agree.

Have been using mainstream (more or less) stock distros for years.

My customizations are so they're hardly worth noticing. Notably I spend more time fixing a default Windows (show file extensions for known file types etc) than on a typical KDE setup.
Can't you? Where's your proof?
I believe that's been possible since 1.0-alpha.1 : https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1735
To be fair, self-hosted ads are a thing on some sites and often don't get blocked by adblockers. I know I don't specifically go out of my way to block such ads because they're generally on sites that I'd like to support.
Microsoft defends US military contact amid employee outcry
That comes down to organizational standards. When I worked with Mongo, all of the code was done in C# and the POCOs were in a shared internal Nuget package. There was never any harm in using older POCOs. You can add a catchall property to the POCOs that round trip any fields that it doesn’t know about.
The Mastermind (2016)
Falsehoods programmers believe about economics (2016)
RethinkDB Architecture
Below are two, also when visiting it is very clear:

1994 - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/millions-of-cubans-...

2012 - https://www.poverties.org/blog/poverty-in-cuba

Apparently, it has improved since then - but that’s because international aid was sent, aka food.
The authors note that judges may care explicitly about racial bias, but based on a quick read they're making a really, really big mistake in the language they're using: they confuse arrests with crime. Arrests and convictions are simply a measurement mechanism for crime, which is known to have severe biases.
With some automated formatting: https://pastebin.com/7F2Leqy1
Yes, when I read "back to the land" I pictured a retreat from Google and Facebook. Guess not.
What Rising CO2 Means for Global Food Security [pdf]
> Forcing it on me will

No one is forcing anything on you, muchless that you have to go to a webpage. Your entitlement is through the roof.
Yeah. I’ve replaced IDEA tabs with i3 windows. They’re way easier to manage.
There's a fair amount of low code type web application makers. Google's AppMaker, Quickbase, Zoho Creator, Knack, Airtable, etc.

No real comparable open source equivalent for these types of things yet.
"If we're going to use ad blockers, at least let's admit to what we're doing and not claim a moral high ground."

What I don't understand is why they insist in fighting against people who hate excessive ads. Adblockers don't install themselves, users install them, which sends the message they're resistant to advertising, so why embarking in this endless war costing them even more money to show an ad to people who wouldn't buy the service or product anyway? If a company screws with my adblocker and manage to show me an ad for something I need at 100€, I swear all divinities in the Universe I'll go buy that thing elsewhere for €150 rather than them. Been there, done that.

I would rather go for a much nicer alternative: "You using an adblocker? Fine, you get the content anyway but your traffic get the least priority so that users seeing ads will get some precedence over you". To me that would be nicer to all users while giving some advantage to those without adblockers, and to the company as well since adblocking users would never be able to clog the network. Would it be so hard to implement?
Wages have been "decoupled" from productivity because they weren't be coupled in the first place. They were correlated because productivity and economic growth are correlated and economic growth and demand for labor are correlated.

However, wages (like all other prices) in a market are set by supply and demand. Wages will rise to meet demand but not higher, irrespective of productivity. Furthermore, productivity increases through automation decrease demand for human labor and therefore suppress wages.
> I think that the question is, why wouldn't you?

We already have a reply to that in your case with the availability of the docker image.

In general, people do not rush into upgrading to a new release of any software because it's risky.

> There are already a lot of work and testing done on projects that depend on 1.12 features

The only reason I can think of is that you have a requirement to support TLS 1.3.

And there is no 'delay', as, surely, you plan based on the availability of everything you need (or build your own container image).
This is lovely until the same system and precedents are used in reverse (algo district attorney) or by banks to automate the foreclosure and seizure of thousands of homes. The banks did it before!
Ask HN: Good books/papers/etc about recommender engines for audio content?
As with most social media, what you get out of Twitter is largely a function of who you follow. Using it as a "direct connection from people of note" is using it exactly wrong IMO. That makes it just another megaphone for advertisers, politicians, and entertainers. Personally I find it much better to follow people whose ideas and perspective I already find valuable. Some I know IRL. Some I know from their work, or from blogs/forums including this one. Some I was "introduced to" by these others, in the sense of repeatedly seeing retweets or responses and finding them valuable.

I can get the news a bazillion different ways. I don't need Twitter for that. But I also enjoy seeing the reaction from the various communities of which I'm a part, from work to the ski club to the people I follow on Twitter or Facebook. Social media is much better when it's social, not broadcast.

Am I in danger of creating my own little bubble this way? Sure, as has always been the case with RL associations as well, and the remedy is the same as well - learn critical thinking, don't rely on any one of them for your information, etc. And even if each of my social-media "avatars" is in a bubble at least it's my bubble, the result of my own conscious curation and not someone else's idea of what bubble I should be stuffed into.
Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base
I have just started working with one of the client who have existing nodeJS code which they build in last 3 years.

Is there any guiding principle which is beneficial while working with existing code base?
Hi dang, I’m given to understand that you’re one of the moderators here. I’ve tried to contact you twice in two weeks through email without a response, so I’m concerned that it’s hitting your spam folder. Is there a better way to contact you? I don’t feel good about inserting my comment in an unrelated post like this, but I’m unsure what else to do.
Nowhere on that page did I see a chart showing the dramatic increase in CEO pay since 1950. The money is still there, it just going to the top.

Are you saying the CEOs are solely responsible for this productivity gain?
Note: #PMKB is a trending hashtag based on a video[0] where a kid says "Pakistan (ki) ma ka bhosda" which translates to "Pakistan's mother vagina", or more loosely, to "fuck Pakistan's mom".[1]

I never thought I'd see something like this on HN, but there's a first time for everything.

[0]: https://twitter.com/neeraj21345/status/1097583981304852483

[1]: This citation translates it incorrectly, but I speak the language. It still corroborates the gist of the content. https://twitter.com/neeraj21345/status/1097585602365542400
Microsoft’s new Azure SQL DB Hyperscale does something very similar:

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2019/01/how-azure-sql-db-h...

I sketched out a lot of architecture diagrams in that, showing how it differs from traditional RDBMS’s, and I tried to keep the post approachable for database folks from different platforms.
I'm just getting into beekeeping so take this with a pinch of salt, but I've read that in the region that Varroa are native to, native bees are able to clean themselves. The problem is that bees from other geographies which do not have this behaviour are (currently) sitting ducks to these mites.

Mite reproduction is hard to inhibit for both the bees and beekeepers. Female mites sneak into brood cells (cells used for bee reproduction) before the cells are capped and hide under the developing bee young. Once the cell is capped, the bees outside are unaware of what's happening within the cell. The mites lay their eggs within the capped cell, the eggs hatch, mate and emerge along with a diminished bee. This means Varroa treatments (such as oxalic acid vapour) only work if there are no capped brood, which only occurs at certain times during the year.

On the topic of vision it's worth pointing out that bees spend the majority of their time within the hive where it's completely dark. They only go out to forage late in their short lives. Their lifespans increase for winter, and they stay within the hive until spring. All that to say, they can't rely on vision for most of their activities. Their various dances (of which the waggle dance is probably the best known) are actually felt rather than seen. For this reason, I believe they could not rely on vision for mite hygene.

Note that Varroa is only one of the troubles that bees face! There are also hive beetles, wax moths, European foul brood, American foul brood and more, depending upon geography. Asian hornets are another serious problem in some regions.

Despite all this I would encourage anyone to look into beekeeping and see whether they find it interesting. I feel like I've discovered a fascinating and lovely niche with a great community around it, and I wish I'd gotten into it earlier.
I've used Linux as my primary system since 2001 (WinXP wouldn't run on my PC at the time), with a wide variety of distros from Mandrake over Debian, Arch, Gentoo and a bunch of others. Usually going all out on customization and tweaking.

These days, I run an almost bone-stock KDE Neon (which is based on Ubuntu LTS), with a couple of PPAs added to get the latest versions of a couple of the applications I use the most, and that's about it. I keep the default desktop/panel layout and theme, the most customization I've done is turn off all notification sounds and switch to focus follows mouse with no auto-raise.

KDE gets out of my way and lets me do what I want perfectly fine in its default state.
I thibk it's a reference to https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (AI-generated faces bases on real faces).
Appears to be a series of generic, generated fake startups, like the AI-generated faces at https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ [appears to be down]
Joe Armstrong: Setting Up a TiddlyWiki Website on GitHub Pages
Could you say more? Is it already available?
I've been getting into i3, but I haven't made any use of i3-msg yet. Are there any good tutorials to get started?
I tried, but as someone not familiar with the intricacies of the Spanish health care system (or the Spanish language for that matter) the numbers are tricky to parse out.
Wow. Russia looks worse off than I thought. Congrats, you share Egyptian health standards.
Loopholes are essentially bugs, and they're common. Is there a reason to believe another way of encoding laws would necessarily be more bug-prone than it currently is?
Maybe the Cubans and the Spaniards have some magic genes on them, but I think is more probably that you vision of those countries is distorted.

Personally, and this is my intuition talking, I think that the most important fact is primary care.

If you need open heart surgery you probably would be better (marginally) in the States than Cube (assuming you can afford it), but what really makes a difference is to get diagnosed in the early states of a illness or, for old people, constant follow up by a doctor.

Interesting, it seems that both Italy and Spain have primary care totally public, that means, the doctors work for the National Health System. It would be interesting to check if this the case for the other top countries in the list.
Same for uMatrix. I run two different configurations (home/work), a strict one with all scripts disabled by default, and a lax one allowing first-party scripting by default. Doesn't work in either of these.
This is shockingly real.

https://i.imgtc.com/DawgjdH.png
if they're as easily replaced as you say, they won't be very well compensated for long.
If all you’re doing with AWS is a bunch of EC2 instances - the equivalent of a bunch of VMs - yes you will spend more and not get any operational experiences.

That’s like the old school Netops people who got one AWS certificate, did a lift and shift of a bunch of VMs and then proclaimed their client has “moved to the cloud”. The client still has the same amount of staff, same processes, etc. Of course it isn’t going to save any money.
Gatekeeping...I just explained why some people consider the the usage of a term wrong. If you are triggered by people having different knowledge and opinion, then maybe you stay away from communications, instead of starting to insult others...
> If the median worker isn't responsible for the increased productivity, are they entitled to a share of the work of other people?

With most salaried, white collar jobs your payscale is almost completely decoupled from your productivity. You are paid based on the market value of your skills and experience. You're essentially a commodity.

We see this in the software industry all the time: There's little salary difference between a "good" and "mediocre" programmer. The so-called "10x" engineer, myth or not, is likely to make just 10% more than their peers, if even that, not 1000% more.
Recently I came across https://langserver.org

To me, it looks like an upcoming solution to the 'code completion' problem.
Google Tries to Patent Healthcare Deep Learning, EHR Analytics
Yes, Crostini is awesome since it doesn't compromise on security and still offers close to native performance.

Integration into Chrome OS is ongoing though. Some features like graphics acceleration and sound are still incomplete.
Can't remember where I read the story, Steve Yegge perhaps. But they were talking about how where they worked secretaries actually used Emacs apps developed by the IT department and, over time, the secretaries started to extend the apps with Elisp.
This would be a problem. What Google cross site tracking cookies does GA send back to Google? I didn’t see any in the documentation.
The imaging in this article is incredible. Worth it even just for that.
> I can never understand those protesters. If they can sabotage military in all countries, that may be good. But they must know it is impossible.

Every person has his/her own moral values and it is right from their own perspective. If someone did not signup to build something for army, and that is one of his/her values. It would make sense to me that he would refuse so.

And what kind of value it would be if you say I won't keep it until everyone else do the same? That is not a value anymore.

This argument that says "You should do it, because they will do it" is exactly the same argument that worst countries are using to brain wash and turn citizens. What is the difference then?

Secondly, I see some comments are saying: "Perhaps a Chinese/Russian wouldn't want to work with military only because military might build something against China/Russia". NO my friend! Don't make that assumption. I believe it is more likely that the same person wouldn't want to work for China/Russia military either.
What's next? thisworlddoesnotexist.com? Generate an entire random world with people and everything in it from some ML experiement?
The majority of the results seem like believable bullshit startups. Every now and then it makes a pretty good parody.

"Myescent is like Google Plus but for Gaming"

"Coner, Startup as a service"

"Contracee, Rent a Phone as a service"

"Ultrambu, Using the blockchain to create AI-Chatbots"

"Malicious, Interactive learning"

"Octozu, Using the blockchain in Dating"
You could also lower the price of the items sold so that the average consumer can afford more stuff
> Anecdotally, I feel as though i have a stronger recall of negative experiences than equivalently good ones.

It is the same for me, but I noticed I was the odd one, almost all around me follow the 'rule': they forget about most of the hardship, remember the good parts, and even assimilate the good parts for the whole experience.

It was especially noticeable a couple of years after school. My student mates and I started studies through a tough school (very intensive, exhausting, an unbelievable amount of work, not a minute of rest, rough teachers and discipline, lots of pressure), and we went through the same thing. But like 5 years after we escaped from there, they spoke of it only as a great experience, which was lots of fun. That sounded incredible to me. They had forgotten about all the bad times, which happened 10 times more often than the good ones. The 'great experience' I could understand a bit (it's normal when you have finally overcome something difficult to feel proud of it, and it also made you stronger, if it didn't break you); but 'lots of fun' it really wasn't. Ever. And I couldn't understand either that all the negative points had vanished in their mind.

I was about to add that I have always been more (now) or less (20 years ago, in those student years) on the depressive side, and that it could be related, but I read that you made the exact same theory in your next sentence! So it seems we are in this same bag:

> If that is a thing, i wonder if it might be due to, or perhaps a cause of, depression.

I came to think that depression make you see the world as it is, and not the version the world which is numbed by the 'drugs' which a normal body/brain produces and which blur the vision as rose-tainted spectacles do (anecdote: I have rose/orange-tainted cycling glasses and that's exactly the feeling some days when I take them on/off!) .
But also:

> The Smith–Waterman algorithm is fairly demanding of time: To align two sequences of lengths m and n, O(mn) time is required.
ROFL. This is hilarious.
Privatisation has nothing to do with reduction in government expenditure on healthcare: it's merely about where that expenditure goes.

As far as I've seen, privatisation seems to normally lead to increases in government expenditure: the US has the highest per capita federal health budgets in the world (and Switzerland, in second place, is far behind)