skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice if the platform-independent music sites (Spotify, Tidal, Beatport, Bandcamp, etc) joined together to fund a web framework for music streaming that didn't require the same level of system access as a native app. That would allow them to escape the App Store tax, and the headaches related to Apple's review process, deployment issues, etc.

Right now, Apple owns the moat. The fairness Spotify is asking for requires people to give up money on the table. Because of that, a well-intentioned public awareness campaign is no substitute for legal action.

PS - I'd love it if more news websites were structured like the simple timeline on this site. I'd like to see how the situation developed over time, rather than seeing a stream of articles littered with links to past stories. Just give me one timeline I can scroll through, and I'll decide which of the linked stories I want to click on.
The problem is, I have to build a generic deployment system for the researchers. To deploy their Model.

Inference frequency would be quite low, but multiple models could be deployed at time.
Thanks, much more readable than googlesource.com and others.

Also quite interesting that they changed the default search engine for China to be Baidu.
On a side note: the author of this post is an EU focused reporter who echoes every anti google sentimente coming from there -> she is linking to the twitter of the guy who runs the PR for the media lobbying cartel in DC that lobbies against google -> and he in turn is posting a clip of the former state AG now senator that regularly attacks/sues google.

It's quite the ecosystem.
Some things like the radio box trick are hacky, I agree, but many things are not. Personally, I like to strike a balance between old-school techniques and new technology (e.g. use CSS for hovers instead of instagram-style DOM manipulation via JS)

To me, this whole thing about JS-Free is a backlash against overdoing things in JS, and it's as good time as any to rethink today's status quo, especially in regards to how many babies we have thrown out w/ the bath water when adopting JS-first technologies.
> So presumably this means they're seeing a lot more DuckDuckGo searches in the data they're collecting from Chrome users

There's a lot to unpack in that statement... Is there any recent analysis on the usage stats that chrome is reporting back that someone could point to?
I don't see how doing this helps them track DuckDuckGo searches any better than they already could in Google Chrome.

EDIT: Added italicized text for clarity.
Is there a Chrome extension that shows to the user what information exactly Chrome is sending home?
You're right— I wasn't really building up to an argument. I criticized my parent post and then essentially made an assertion that the ‘#learntocode’ meme is essentially bad faith, and gestured at what seems to me to be the obvious motivation for that.

Part of the reason is that I haven't done a comprehensive historical investigation of the meme. What I have done is actually read the handful of articles that I've seen used to support it (here and elsewhere), and examined who have been involved in propagating it, and drawn a conclusion that I think is pretty obvious if you know the terrain.

Like a lot of HN comments, it was something that I hastily typed at work in between other tasks. I'll think about returning to the subject for a more thorough examination if I have time. :)
The article certainly makes those claims. But Bloomberg doesn’t seem to have any evidence of those things, beyond Tripp’s raw assertion that his friends didn’t make the call and he didn’t do what the lawsuit says. With no corroboration, why should we believe him over Tesla at this point?
We do know that these "contractors" do sometimes carry out missions that the military wants performed, but either needs to be kept at arms length to maintain plausible deniability on the world stage, or is used to implicate some other group. There have been a few exposes on these types over the years and their stories are pretty interesting.

I'm not sure this op was clumsy though. They are probably used to operating in regions where the police force is less effective.
Same way I know that Spotify Free exists. (ie, marketing outside of the App Store)
$80 is a lot for personal use, but how many personal users actually pay it? It's not difficult to ignore the occasional nag message, so people who can't or don't want to pay aren't forced to.
I was there, it was more like the US threatened to break up Microsoft, and then Microsoft, their army of lawyers, and the courts laughed the government out of the room. The government had to settle for lesser sanctions. ("Sanctions" which, in my opinion, were not sanctions at all.)

>Fast forward a decade later and apple, google and amazon bundle a crazy amount of unrelated services into their platforms without the regulators raising an eyebrow...

That's because the "sanctions" solidified that practice as explicitly legal. So now EVERYONE started doing it. The only thing you needed to do was to allow other people to put their unrelated services on your platform too. You could even charge other people for that if you wanted. (And you didn't even have to let unrelated services on your platform in certain cases. For instance, at the time, Windows was riddled with viruses and bugs, so where the safety or security of the consumer was concerned, you didn't have to allow or even have certain services on your platform. Little known loophole there.)

The problem was really that the issues on the face of it, to someone like me, a young developer activist at the time, were not really the questions dealt with when you finally get into court. The law is about the law, and there was no getting around it.

I became convinced that what we should be doing is trying to change the law. I'm just to old to put that kind of effort into agitating for changed laws any longer.

EDIT: It's probably only fair for me to add that the courts turned out to be right in the Microsoft case. History has shown that information processing paradigms can change on a dime. (PC to mobile). The law is there to provide reasonable safeguards to all actors in a market, and ensure that competition is fair. It's just that "fair" in the eyes of the law, looked a bit different than "fair" did in my own opinion.
You can. In fact, Chrome automatically creates search engines for any site you search on. I can search Amazon by typing "Am<tab><query><enter>" in the address bar for example, and Chrome learned how to do that automatically despite not having any knowledge of how Amazon's search system works when I first installed it.

I guess the only difference is that with this change, DDG is available as a search engine by default with a blank install, even before you've actually used it.
Chrome has the all powerful "omnibox" that still sends stuff to Google. Since searches or URLs go through the omnibox there's a good chance Google gets (some of) the data.
Hedonistic Imperative
Yes, the "universal" complex-conjugate operator cannot be unitary. And yes, you can conjugate a vector or two using a unitary operator. Coming up with an algorithm to conjugate a specific configuration of qubits is just linear algebra.

I am not a physicist, and so I don't have a good grasp of the physical significance of the size and existential probability of supersystems mentioned in the paper. But I have to say I'm just a bit skeptical about the main claim of the paper.
> Yes, a single Dockerfile is as simple (if not simpler) than a setup script. A Dockerfile is a setup script.

Sure, but:

a) you have 10 setup scripts rather than 1. This would make sense if you actually wanted to have different dependencies/OS setup/whatever for your 10 services. But if you've decided to standardise on a common baseline set of dependencies for the sake of consistency (which is a valid choice) then why repeat them 10 times over?

b) You have the extra intermediate artifacts of the images which just give you one more thing to get out of date, go wrong, or slow down your process. Rather than run script -> get updated things, it's run script -> generate images and then deploy those images. Sure, it's all automatable, but what's it gaining you for this use case?
Launch HN: Synthetic Biology IDE
Does anyone know if the data thats generated from these devices are easily accessible?
I am familiar with it, and I have no idea what you're trying to suggest.
I started using two browsers + search engines:

1 - I use Chrome + Google for work stuff
2 - I use Firefox + DuckDuckGo for personal stuff

I sync my passwords with Bitwarden.
No, it is just an update to what they've been doing for years: showing the top 4 search engines per market as options.

Nothing new to see here.
Wow, that's like the exact opposite to my nighty calf cramps.

I tend to get them when I'm way too relaxed as that makes me "stretch out" during sleep, which I kinda notice in half-sleep as feeling great, until I seemingly "overstretch" and get fully woken up to a painful calf cramp.

Tho that whole problem kinda fixed itself once I started taking Magnesium supplements before going to bed, to help with teeth gnashing/neck pains.
Modern chicken is terrible -- too much meat, too little cartilage. Slashdot had a post titled "Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: 'Spaghetti Meat'" - https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13563208&cid=58...

Before the 1950's chicken was mostly bones and cartilage. Hens were used for eggs; when they stopped laying eggs they were used for soup.
Is that considered psychosomatic, though? I don't think this fits the topic at hand.
Maybe most of the DuckDuckGo users use Firefox and other non-Chrome browsers.
On the Web's 30th anniversary, a new platform works to change the world
Thank you kind sir! A new release should be up soon.
> It's a constant drive to feel outraged about something.

Are people actually outraged or do they pretend to be outraged because it gets other's attention to their issue? And doesn't that take attention away from issues that are less... click-baity?

Essentially, isn't this another negative outgrowth of the attention economy?
Thanks for posting this, I now have a new opinion on climate change :)
Wonder if DuckDuckGo could request Google to be removed from the option and I kinda wished Mozilla can work the DDG.
I was going to down-vote this, but then did some research into how much Alphabet and Microsoft spend on lobbying. In 2018:

Google spent $21.7M, all in the "Internet" industry.
Microsoft spent ~$9.5M, and only $70k of that in "Internet." The rest went to "Electronics Mfg and Equipment."

Sources:
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00006782...
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000011...
This is pretty classic amateur hour. He basically says 'I now know docker and everything looks like a container! Look at how productive I can be by discarding this set piece environment with out of fashion, slow and deliberate provisioning for docker images that I can create once and run forever with auto provisioning and dutch oven magic + an editor!'
are you fucking kidding?

a sellout and a race to the bottom all in the name of dollars

fucking pathetic
On iOS I just updated and I was able to set ddg.
In warm climates, yes. AWD is important anywhere where it snows.
I am curious regarding item 4:

STABILIZER TRIM WHEEL - GRASP and HOLD

How does the trim wheel work? Is it mechanically connected to the stabilizer?
Posted this yesterday, why was it flagged then? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19374792
Counterpoint (and I say this as someone who currently makes a living via Apple's platform): Apple reserves a fair bit of system integration/functionality to their first-party apps. For example, on iOS no navigation app other than Apple Maps can actively navigate when the device is locked.

I'm not familiar enough with Android to know if Google does this as well.
haha, I don't think you understand. If I told my dad "There is no proof that an email that came from me, came from me." He's going to say... "but it came from <myname>@gmail.com"

That's what you don't seem to comprehend. Yes, for you this seems obvious. But really, to the average Joe/Jill, this idea that you could get an email from the address you expect but it has been spoofed is gibberish.
>Musk is heavily involved in the engineering efforts at Tesla and SpaceX.

Is there any evidence of this, outside of him personally claiming this to be the case?
They already used to do that

https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8913105/spotify-apple-app-...
I'm anti-electron as anyone (hello VS code waves). But for spotify, it seems to make perfect sense. I'm not interacting with it in a way where the downsides of electron (latency, etc) really make a difference.
If you run a business and then complain about where your customers prefer to buy your products... you're literally complaining about the fact that you have paying customers. You're free to not support the people who keep you in business but they're then also free to not keep you in business anymore.

You might be in the wrong business.
This article seems to gloss over possible physical causes for CFS/ME, sort of implying that nobody has any idea what physical basis there might be for it. But that's…not entirely true?

For example, there's at least some evidence linking it to mitochondrial dysfunction, see e.g.: https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Mitochondria

> There is evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction in chronic fatigue syndrome patients. Muscle biopsies have shown evidence of mitochondrial degeneration, deletions of mitochondrial DNA, the reduction of mitochondrial activity, and Sarah Myhill found measurable mitochondrial dysfunction correlating with severity of illness. Myhill also produced improvement by targeting those dysfunctions. Mitochondrial DNA variants correlate with symptoms, symptom clusters & symptom severity.

Far from conclusive, but I think worth at least noting.

From both reading a variety of sources on the topic, and having someone close to me with CFS/ME for many years, I think it's pretty clear that a) there's most likely a physical basis for it, b) we don't yet know how it works, and c) research on this is drastically underfunded.

Considering millions of people are affected, there should be way more resources put towards it. Hundreds of millions of dollars per year, to put it on par with funding of similar diseases. (See: https://www.meaction.net/2017/01/07/dimmock-mirin-jason-esti...)
I forgot my Apple Music membership was active, I just canceled it.
Art degree here, and fairly decent at it. I'd suggest that you learn to draw first. Having a good handle on rendering form and value (dark and light) are a necessary foundation for painting. You can start with painting but you're going to have to build that foundation while also learning a bunch of things particular to paint. If you want to try drawing first, Youtube is such an awesome resource.
My impression Google helps DDG to become a popular alternative to its own search engine. Why? Just funny fact: In 2018 Google transferred ownership of the domain name Duck.com to DuckDuckGo.
Interesting! Brazil calls it the Solimões, but most of the rest of the world just calls it the Amazon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solim%C3%B5es_River

On the US version of Google Maps, the Amazon starts where the Marañón and Ucayali rivers combine in Peru: https://goo.gl/maps/ia7gCLD1k5M2
Natural selection acts to increase the fitness of a species relative to its environment. In the human case 'race' is a misnomer. It simply refers to certain features of humans' external appearance, namely melanin. But this does not track any distinct genetic community, which primarily changes as a function of the total sum of environmental pressures, and not just in proportion to UV radiation (i.e. as is true of melanin). It is difficult to take anyone seriously who uses race as a meaningful biological category.
I quite like Duktape because it is really simple to embed as well. The V8 API is comparitively pretty complicated.
delusion
> I think that this is their prerogative.

If that's their prerogative, then they should come out and say it instead of pretending it's not true. Also, shouldn't we as a society at large take a better look at whether Federal funding is best used to maintain social classes?
There is no minimum requirement for plenary sessions.

Looks like the majority of MPs were present at the beginning (list of absentees: https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/vaski/PoytakirjaLiite/Sivut/EDK-... ), but the video shows that by the end (when voting happens) most people were not present anymore: https://www.eduskunta.fi/_layouts/15/Arkena.Edk.SaliVideo/in...
You can add an arbitrary web application as a search engine for Chrome, just like in any other modern web browser.

You go to Settings > Manage search engines > Add or pick one of the auto discovered ones. This also works in the mobile versions of Chrome.

You can find more instructions here: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426
noone can answer you if it is "secure" because that highly depends on your perspective and usecase! I would argue that running windows is inherently insecure ;)

but i would also argue that its way more secure than needed for 99% of the users
getting tired of tired people being tired of being tired.
What makes the not viable for longer trips?
> it's completely possible that a major cause is that the median in that arbitrarily defined racial category is below the median in another arbitrarily defined racial category.

Sure, possible, in the sense of theoretically possible. But very unlikely as socioeconomic factors potentially dwarf all of the aggregate group differences.
Yup, even an open source one:
https://github.com/farkam135/GoIV

Unfortunately it's not as good as Calcy IV. There are also iOS apps, but they require manual screenshotting.
Yeah, but contractors could be hired by anyone, hard to really know who hired them.

This is all very weird.
Chrome uses open search for the amazon search. It's not some chrome magic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch
No, it's actually just like cleaning your room.

Imagine your room (system) has three objects (quantum state) whose respective positions are (a, b), (x, y) and (p, q). You move the objects in your room to positions (a + k_{1}, b + k_{2}), (x + j_{1}, y + j_{2}) and (p + m_{1}, q + m_{2}), respectively. You know where the objects were before and you move them by adding or scaling their coordinates within the room. Thus you know how to move them back to precisely where they were before.

Likewise, this process is linear and preserves all information inherent to the system. Therefore it's precisely invertible, and voila.

It probably has some kind of value and it's a neat result, but this doesn't constitute time travel (in any meaningful sense) in the nonlinear world we reside in.

EDIT: Come to think of it, this probably has value for debugging and auditing the states, as a perfect rewind stepping function.
Professor Alan Dershowitz addresses this issue.[1] He thinks that this is just "the tip of the iceberg" and that we shall find many other "mini scandals" at other colleges and universities. He also briefly comments on grade inflation at elite universities and the practice of giving athletes an unfair edge in the admissions process.

[1]
Alan Dershowitz reacts to the college admissions scam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auvd9daACGg
Not all airports have sinks?

It's not like they filter what's coming out of water fountains anyway.
No Slack on weekends: Agencies look for ways to tackle employee burnout
Why bother?

1) It increases the cost of sending (especially "spam" aka official marketing and customer communications)

2) 99% of customers use either corporate or major email systems

3) 99% of customers have no clue what a "signed" email is (is that like when the sender inserts a PNG image of their scanned sig?)

For 99% of practical purposes, it's isn't necessary or even desirable.
> What other solution for the easy portability do you know? Or how would you propose to handle this?

Puppet for the server-automation part. Languages that make it easy to produce a "fat binary" for the isolation part.

Docker solves a real problem for languages where deployment is a mess, like Python. It just grates on me when the same people who spent the last 10 years mocking Java (which does essentially the useful parts of docker) are suddenly enthusiastic about the same kind of solution to the same kind of problem now that it has a trendy name.
I acknowledge this point, though there are efforts to reduce the value of non-subscription digital licensing. For example, exclusive or advanced content only available to streaming subscribers.

While brand new exclusive content is hard to imagine being portable (since it is often locked to a particular service) it seems to me that generic user music collections should be made portable.
It need not be chrome users, Google could (ironically) get relatively good metrics just by how many times ddg has been googled.
For me, Chrome runs much smoother than Firefox on macOS with the 2013 MBP.
it's not good nor bad. that's an opinion, and opinions have no place in the realm of science. that being said. climate change is natural, and has been going on without humans, and will do so after we are long gone
For example, everyone’s disks degenerate with old age. They squash, bulge, even herniate. But only some people experience notable pain from this. And back pain has been a growing epidemic for decades!

Are there physiological differences between people that explain this? Probably. But I suspect in many cases Sarno is right, it’s not purely physical. Look into neuromatrix theory and non-proprioceptive pain for a somewhat more scientific attempt at an explanation.
You can compare any groups you like, but only after you've decided who goes into which group. The point being made here is that with race, that decision is subjective, and heavily influenced by various social factors unrelated to people's genetics and so forth.
> My sites are already quite compact. Firefox tells me this page and all resources is 171KB / 54KB transferred

16323 bytes of text, 6933 bytes of vector graphics, 23,256 bytes. 22KB of content, 171KB total, 87% of the transfer total is potential bloat.

It could be worse, but there's almost certainly room for improvement.
Encryption and signing are different things here. Encryption in this case means that the contents of the email are encrypted between Google's servers and the recipient's servers. i.e. preventing snooping.

Signing verifies that the contents of the email itself have been authenticated by the author. I.e. prevent spoofing.