skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can turn retweets off for the people you follow. I follow maybe 100 people who post regularly but only allow retweets from a handful of them. Since I've done so, the quality of my feed has improved dramatically. Usually, when I follow a new person I leave retweets on initially but turn them off after two or three retweets because I'm only interested in what they say originally.

Incidentally, the iOS Twitter client also shows tweets in your feed which your followers liked. And you can't turn that off. I don't understand that feature at all and it made me switch to a third-party client.
>Until we get over the fact that there isn't anything inherently wrong with capitalism/consumerism

There's loads wrong with it though. We only make it work because we patch it up with numerous environmental laws, social safety nets etc
Or, most 'regular' users will switch to Chrome because reCAPTCHAs work better in that browser. Firefox needs to make sure they're not going to ruin the user experience by breaking sites like this
Being a slave to my OCD vs. having some semblance of control over it is not even a question.
Anyone who has lived or is living in a foreign country, and doesn't speak the language, appreciates the presence (or lack thereof) of these services. I know I do. Without even considering that there are people who get very anxious talking on the phone, for whom these are often a life saver.

Where I live now there is no Uber but there is no app for taxis either. You have to call a number, be able to speak Spanish, wait 3-5 minutes and then they'll tell you the ID of the taxi, which you have to remember. If anything goes wrong the taxi driver has to call the station which in turn will call you and try to figure out where you are.

Sorry but screw that!
I guess that traditionally mothers have been more involved with raising infants than fathers. I am fortunate to be able to provide AND have the freedom to participate fully in raising our child.

My very limited exposure to (online) communities centered around rearing children has give me a negative bias... [reinforcing gender biases, excessive spiritualism, etc]

On the other hand - I devour every article I can find on child rearing, child psychology, etc. It helps that my sister has a phd in psychology. It is my job to be the best parent I can be - and to do that, I need information.

Luckily, my wife has already had two children, which makes my life so much easier.

I have no idea what is happening on Facebook... Honestly, I would value a resource similar to HN focused on raising children. Serious and valid information and in depth discussion is extremely hard to find. At least, I find it difficult to find the information I value online.
> Charging is the number 1 thing holding back adoption right now.

Even if we could charge in 1 minute, ICE fans would argue that they have to charge 3 times more often than with their ICEs at highway speeds and that they have to choose longer routes because of charger coverage. It's only part of the solution to increase charging speeds and fast charger coverage, EV also need 2-3 times the current range (i.e. 200-300 KWh batteries) to convince most people.
What would be the most american answer to this question?
Hey, how about stick FSD up right up your jacksie and buy a different car. Tesla isn't for you.
Plus, in academia (at least in most countries of the EU, where you receive a salary during your PhD... I don't know how it works in other countries) you can focus on stimulating problems with little business value, and you can decide on your own your research topic, which is a kind of freedom I can't imagine in any industry.

I'm more than willing to trade a significant amount of my salary for that freedom.
Ernst and Young are huge and do a lot of very sophisticated forensic accounting work. If they don't have people in house, they almost certainly have the phone number to someone who does.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/06/we-were-pirates-too/amp...

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/07/05/americas-industrial-re...

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/china-stealing-f...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2013-02-01/piracy...
Any tips on good/cheap ARM-based boards for a desktop system that would pay for themselves in electricity savings?
>> the start-up world is in competition with the academic world to recruit the best talents. So, it keeps publishing biased articles about the drawbacks of doing a PhD.

You think Nature has sided with startups over academia?
Indeed. It's intended as a method of watching porn without having it pop up in the address autocomplete later when your kids are trying to go to the Peppa Pig website.
Running existing Docker images as single-use containers
Yes the obvious concern is potential risk. But the PR spin is angry Americans (and allies) screaming China bad with no (public) evidence of back doors and a preponderance of public reports from governments and private security researchers that Huawei is clean. That's the kind of irrational sentiment Huawei wants to cultivate - innocent until proven guilty. Any rational person can see it's absurd to have China build critical infrastructure in the US who has unique security concerns as a hegemon. But her allies and other nations, not so much. This spin might be all that's needed for to rationalise Huawei.

Personally, I just wouldn't be surprised if Huawei is actually operating cleanly on paper (in terms of back doors) out of pragmatism and foresight because confrontation with US security apparatus seems inevitable. Hence the lack of evidence from even private security researchers with no incentive to conceal. Huawei knows they're not getting into US. The PR is for 190 other countries, some of which might be five eye allies with how things are going.
How to Write a Good Essay
Huh, I thought the person you're responding to explicitly advised the opposite? I.e. - don't cry it out?

We live in a flat with poor soundproofing and out of a desire not to make our neighbours miserable (especially the nurse who really needs a good night's sleep after a long shift..) we've tried to minimize night crying. She sleeps pretty well now.
Interesting, I thought spinach was a hard vegetable to ferment because it gets soft and sloppy quickly. Could you share a recipe?
Nice but the more you want privacy the more CAPTCHA Google will throw at you.
This is litterally a wrapper around bing.

The problem is that the ads are also from Bing — Ecosia doesn't track its users, Bing does.
Yes, it's really the same graph. There really no difference between drawing two copies of V with arrows going from one to the other, and drawing one copy of V with arrows just staying in that copy. Either way, if you trace the arrows from a given vertex you will end up at the same spots.

So for example the interpretation of matrix multiplication as path composition given here explains why the nth power of the adjacency matrix gives the number of length-n walks.

(I think the precise relation is that if A the adjacency matrix for G, then if you draw the graph from this article for the matrix A, the adjacency matrix of that graph will be the block matrix

0 A
A 0

That's assuming the edges in the article are regarded as undirected; if they are directed, just replace one of the As with 0.)
Let's say there are three BTC addresses in the world, #1 to #3. Let's say address #1 has 1 BTC that you're interested in.

On Monday, all three addresses send all their BTC to address #4. The next day, address #4 sends the coins back to addresses #5 through #7.

Which address out of #5, #6 or #7 has the original BTC you were interested in?
The Outline of a Research Paper
Opiates can kill if used wrong. And yes they are used recreational, the big problem occur when they are not used as prescribed.

SSRI apparently has a withdrawal problem even with proper usage
You can track the money going from the cold storage wallet into an account that the mixer service owns. Say it's 10.000 coins.

The mixer then transfers 37, 185, 205, 1002, and other random amounts to other accounts, which in turn transfers it to other accounts, and at some point they get funneled to one or more accounts owned by the person who originally transferred the money into the mixer.

Couple this with a lot of other people doing the same at the same time for the same mixer service, and you cannot say who owns the coins being transferred between the accounts. It is public what money was transferred back and forth, but without some serious analysis it's practically impossible to track who is likely to own the accounts where the money end up.
I think they've been bigger in Europe. I have a 3g dongle I got in 2013 in Ireland that's from Huawei. Every single "mobile broadband modem" that the providers here give you is from Huawei, annoyingly.
> it is absolutely infuriating that I can be required to take a drug just to live

It _is_.

> I'd rather get sick and fail than live with it forever.

It's easy to say that now. When you've not slept for three days, and that happens so often it's become routine, or you've not used the phone in _months_ due to the anxiety it causes, it's not so easy.
> If it's the first week end, you don't need to iterate, as the person's condition will only get worse.

Then you let your subjects rest up and repeat it again another few times, to make sure that its repeatable and not a coincidence.
Oh man.. Am I the only person who has been neglecting that little red arrow icon in Chrome for the past few days?!

I'll take some blame, but it would be great if Chrome popped up a blocking message that said "UPDATE NOW, DAY ZERO IS UPON THEE!!!!"
I'm considering which online backup service to use for my music collection, is there a particular one you'd recommend, other than the obvious players like Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive?

Preferably not hosted in the US, for privacy/bandwidth reasons.
Microsoft ain't doing it for free, and they are the ones providing the ads. So whenever Ecosia plants trees, that's because Microsoft made money as well.
For whatever reason the last two transparency reports were only published in their blog. This is the most recent one: https://blog.ecosia.org/december-ecosia-financial-report/
If you want to fool facial recognition it’s simple enough
I've recently found this interview from 2012 where Amazon's VP explains why he thinks mobile CPU architectures will take over server space. 7 years later - we are getting closer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOYdKht1YwE
> Consumerism is core to how our society functions and isn't going away - why should social good and environmentalism fly in contrast to it?

Because it's a major contributing factor to the situation we're in. It's a perfectly rational response for environmentalists to choose not to support projects like Ecosia that promote consumerism.
There are way too many articles about Facebook that are simply:

1. Title implies Facebook is going down.
2. Body clarifies that everyone is just using Instagram
AI will revolutionize the way video games are developed and played
If they had proof would they disclose it.
Then why do you still check it?
It’s art.

You might as well ask of painting and drawing artwork what its purpose is.
The applause echoes so tellingly in the mostly empty room..
About Ecosia, none. The ads are from Bing though, and they get user data.
So, a service, then?
They would still be fooling FB and its clients (advertisers) with the garbage metadata.
It's more a case of the web being used in ways in which it wasn't really originally intended. Of course developers can implement things poorly and create problems (and often do) but demand for things like responsive sites is user-driven in my experience.

If you don't understand how the web works and actively dislike the community I don't understand why you keep commenting here.
One of the Devs at Ecosia here. The more up-to-date reports are at our blog: https://blog.ecosia.org/tag/financial-reports/
Also known as The Climate Change Paper So Depressing It's Sending People to Therapy according to Vice.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbwpdb/the-climate-change...
It looks like facebook is engaged in a race to the bottom, against it’s own metrics. The easiest way to be engaged is to repost memes and fake news shock posts, so the most engaged users are meme posters and fake news trolls, so features that cater to meme posting and trolling get the most bang for buck, so they’re getting trapped in a cycle of circulating ever increasing torrents of drivel.

My girls are 14 and 15 in the UK. None of their friends use facebook, and that’s not just their social circle. Facebook is just not a thing for them. The only reason they use it at all is because there is one out of school club that posts their upcoming activities on a FB page, so they literally log in once a week to check that page and they’re done. They do heavily use Instagram and WhatsApp though, so they’re not entirely out of the FB sphere.
Nobody knows. The ownership structure of Huawei is extremely obfuscated and it has a dual share class system where the employee shares have no voting rights.
You do know how powerful the farming lobby is in the US and EU - in the UK they pay no tax on Diesel for example.

And the farming lobby is even stringer in France and Germany
Do you never buy anything online or log into anything? They're blocked for me too but I will unblock them temporarily when the need arises.
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A lot of great comments int his thread. The quotation that had the greatest impact on me was this one:

"We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there is no subject so trivial that it will not grow to infinite proportions if one's entire attention is devoted to it."
I hope its a RISC V processor that wins out and not an ARM one. RISC V is more open than ARM

Make it happen Apple !
Wonder no longer. There is an add-on for FF called canvasblocker.

https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/releases

I have been using it and it makes some websites go nuts and Google CAPTCHA takes forever.
Here's my approach to this issue in Firefox:

1. Right click - Inspect Element
2. Right click on containing node in Inspector Panel - Delete Node
3. Read article
Tesla’s new Supercharger slashes charging times
Yeah, but now we know.

People said the same things when Snowden leaked PRISM etc.
> But it stopped being interesting

A concise version of the "I don't care what happens to these people" fatal to tales ...

( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EightDeadlyWords )
Repl.it Game Jam – Winner Gets a Bitcoin
No kidding. With how smart they are and all the AI that goes on behind the scenes, I don't understand why I continue to get notifications when friend X 'adds to their story'. I have never once watched anyone's story. And I don't plan on starting. Aren't they smart enough to understand that this is just adding cognitive overhead and detracting from my immersion in a meaningful experience? Seriously, not rocket science. These UX people should get that.
Feature toggles in a microservice environment – Part 1: Benefits and drawbacks
Yeah, but if you have the choice between a product with an existing history of backdoors and one which potentially, at some point in the future based on political prediction could have one, how do you choose?

Let’s assume you are not in the US and industrial spionage will be bad for you independend if it happens from China or from the US.

The answer isn’t that clearcut.

Also: banning a product based on the possibility that it could get a backdoor in the future? That would mean banning all products with an update functionality.

Edit: as you might notice this is not compelling evidence
Spotting mismatches between your spec and your REST-API with hikaku
And those comments are understandable for a number of reasons. From an outsiders / non-economist's point of view, these things should not be possible. There's also an army of trolls hired by short sellers who would benefit from Tesla's stock losing value - at one point, Tesla was the most shorted stock out there.
Nice to see that technologies are used for saving nature not only digitalising our lives
Docker and Angular: Dockerizing Your Angular App Easily
Yup, it has become staggering.

I frequently get notifications on my personal page to say my business page has a notification. That notification turns out be to "Your users have not heard from you in a while, write a post".

I get this all the time, even when I have written a post within the last five hours.

I would say on average I get 5 notifications per day that are utterly useless.
Ligaturizer – Add Ligatures to Any Fonts
Aside from the downsides mentioned in other comments, this significantly reduces JS timer accuracy which will make games and WebGL laggy and unusable.

In about:config if you search for 'resistFingerprinting' there seem to be sub-settings which you can tweak to disable the timer modifications, but even after tweaking them I wasn't able to get performance to be as smooth as when resistFP was completely disabled.
Google Bolo, a speech recognition app that helps Indian kids learn to read
I can’t believe the core of it is still some C code from ’95 called “Ratpack”: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/tree/master/src/Calc... over which they added a whole bunch of enterprise fluff.
Unfortunately people react differently. You might have better luck tapering over an even longer period.

I've been on Venlafaxine (the generic name for Effexor) and went from I believe 300 mg to 200, 100, 75 - I was able to drop the dosage once a week, but that's my experience. It could take you longer, or you might need to work with your doctor to switch to another medication that you may have better results tapering off on.

And if you're not really ready to get off of it, don't rush it. Better to deal with the side effects of being on it rather than being hospitalized or worse.
This is made by Przemysław Sikorski (Rezoner), pretty famous IO indie game developer (wilds.io, wanderers.io etc) with a unique art style that's reflected in this tool.
I did, too. And although, much like other replies to your post say, it was not in the US, I know many "happy graduates" from there.

My impression is that the amount of PhD stress is different in different fields, with higher-competition fields resulting in more tragic overall experience. For example, my own subject was relatively un-populated and even a bit out of fashion, so I was able to publish papers on openly available data taken almost 10 years ago, and even open source some of my code.

That being said, I also got very lucky to have a flexible and supporting supervisor, and to have a proper working contract with my institute with all the social benefits included (yay, Germany!).

Edit: just realized that the above looks too rosy - I had also burned out in the middle of my PhD from overworking, got increasingly cynical attitude towards science and have left science altogether after graduating due to lack of career prospects. However, challenging as it was, I still consider it a great experience.
Not sure my word is going to mean much, but yes, we do indeed plant these trees :) We also publish regular tree updates to make the impact more visible (latest one is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeBhY5m9npE&) and just now some of my colleagues are in Indonesia: https://www.facebook.com/ecosia/videos/1056643057857650/

We also use a ODK-backed system for monitoring, where our partners on the ground fill in surveys about the trees they planted.
Well, they're competitively co-evolved; human head size at birth really is limited by maternal survivability.
i've tried firefox, and chrome is simply faster in what i've experienced. I've tried the newer firefox too.

Having my privacy stolen? The moment they do something malicious with the data they have, they are dead. I trust them with my data because I know how the world works. Facebook is so much more dangerous as far as privacy is concerned
Ecosia isn't "promoting consumerism". It's simply accepting the reality of it and helping mitigate/counterbalance the damage. There's a key difference there.

You can ra-ra all you want about it, but consumerism isn't going anywhere - so either you work around it, or you accomplish nothing.
That's an interesting question, imo. Google is (was?) also very well known for (A) making decisions with data and (B) letting flowers bloom, fail, and moving on.

You could describe both with the same shorthand cliches, but they're obviously very different.

I think the difference is how intentional they are. In this case, they want to do physical retail. They have certain ideas about what meaningful wins they can achieve in retail. What they're "testing" are, in a very broad sense, implimentation details and approaches. They are intent ona destination, but very expiremental about the route.

Google is/was either more "blue sky." They "expirement" more like a VC or incubator expirements. It's more about making likely betys than finding a way to do X. Anything that seems promising is worth a go. They have certain areas (ML, web/mobile platorms) that they invest particularly heavily in, similar to a VC's specific health-tech or ed-tech funds, but the destination is blue sky... "change the world and make billions with ML."

I would say amazon does it more like a startup, and Google is more like a startup investor.

BTW, sometimes one works and sometimes the other works. Google (mostly via android) had far more success in mobile devices/OSs, even though both attempted it.

I think you have to give the edge to amazon though. They managed to build a new business that was better than the old one. Google still makes all its money fom search+ads and supporting stuff. Even their big product successes (android, chrome, drive/docs, maps, etc.) are not money spinners. They arguably support the search+ads business, but nothing is in the same league as aws.
BoingBoing presents ad-blockers with nag screen
That's one of the poorest ads I had seen in a while. Congratulations, hire someone who knows PR
I agree; it always makes me put my tinfoil hat on, and wonder how much of this comes from news planted either by competing car companies, or more likely the hedge funds who will profit if Tesla does fail.
Lovely project. Incredibly smart idea on how to monetize a search engine.