skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's other ways to signal ad impressions that aren't a huge security risk. Maybe not quite as convenient, but I doubt banning redirects would have a measurable effect as long as Google gave a deprecation warning.

You can achieve the same thing without redirects using URL parameters or the referer field. Google should ban any destination that doesn't match the sites domain. It's an unfixable security risk that's being actively exploited
Yes, they were better of earning 2.50/day, but then they got ensnared by deceptive advertising that promises a certain income. I don't expect a taxi driver with a basic education in India to figure that out. Everything about them from Travis Kalanick, to the harassment suits to them jacking up fares during the NYC explosions, speaks of a shady company.
We posted at the same time, you're right. Disabling js fixes this (and so many other problems)

js websites cannot be trusted
There are many devices out there on amazon, since formaldehyde inside your house == bad is a chinese health meme where air meters will measure it specifically.

https://www.amazon.com/Air-Pollution-Formaldehyde-Detector-T...
«While we still use it heavily, IRC is an ongoing source of abuse and harassment for many of our colleagues and getting connected to this now-obscure forum is an unnecessary technical barrier for anyone finding their way to Mozilla via the web. Available interfaces really haven’t kept up with modern expectations, spambots and harassment are endemic to the platform, and in light of that it’s no coincidence that people trying to get in touch with us from inside schools, colleges or corporate networks are finding that often as not IRC traffic isn’t allowed past institutional firewalls at all.»

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763276

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/26/synchronous-text/
OK. In my experience it worked with any user account. I would install, create an account, and immediately use sudo to change the root password.
Toro Kernel: dedicated (uni)kernel to develop and run microservices
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18393103
Let's put it in simple CRUD terms. Users want to:

C - control when you collect it.

R - read what you have on them, and know how you read it and/or share it with others.

U - update it, e.g. when it is wrong.

D - delete it.

Most users just want non-hostile defaults, but all users should have CRUD-control.
>It's 2019 now, China has no excuse, and we have no excuse.

Well, I guess the question is : if things were so much different in the 30s, and it was stalled by the lack of global information awareness, why are we (humans on earth) complicit with the camps that exist now-a-days (and in more places than just China.)?
If anyone is interested in commentary on this, this video with Anderson Cooper and Michael Pollan is great: https://www.facebook.com/AndersonCooperFullCircle/videos/den.... They talk about the psilocybin vote at the start of the video and at about 3.5 mins in.
> but my larger point of getting parts swiftly to the repairer certainly couldn’t make things worse.

For sure. No need for a single cause.
And this guy also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14543536 (which comes with this: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Reading-No...)
I really liked the discussion around Solidity and Web Assembly (Wasm).
Graphene: Library OS for Unmodified Applications
[light spoilers]

In Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey", the alient Monoliths influenced human evolution and later decided to terminate the human race instead.

In Fredrick Pohl's Heechee series, humans stumble upon abandoned alien technology and use it without understanding how it works.
I think when you're cooking for the two thousandth time and trying to prepare multiple recipes simultaneously & time them together, you start to have an interest in efficiency. I've definitely burned things because I took a minute or two longer than I had to spare working on another dish. The better the kitchen is laid out, the more simultaneous multithreads I can run before I miss an interrupt...

Part of the point of this article is also that the kitchen you take for granted, even one that isn't especially Taylorized, is still a sea change vs only a century ago.
What does flagged mean on HN? Not sure why my comment got down-voted so fast. It's a genuine question.

If people can't agree on what Nazi means we should ban the word altogether since it has loaded political context and doesn't foster proper discussion.

It appears to me that:

1) Some use Nazi to mean Nazi Party with proper historical context
2) Some use Nazi as tool to bludgeon anyone they don't like
3) Some use Nazi to be an umbrella term for anything related to fascism, racism, right-leaning ideology, all kinds of other stuff.

If a single word means all kinds of things to all kinds of people, it's a useless word.
Because it's beautiful. Because we can and should preserve Earth's natural monuments. Because fragile and vulnerable species live there and nowhere else.

Have you ever been to Death Valley National Park? I was never interested in it until my SO dragged me there. Never did I imagine it would be as incredible as it was. It is otherworldly; surreal; lunar (or martian - if you prefer). It almost feels like you are no longer on Earth.

Ubehebe crater is a geological monument. The alluvial fans are so vast as to be almost incomprehensibly large. Surprise canyon is gorgeous. The racetrack playa is home to wandering stones that seemingly migrate of their own accord. Teakettle junction is a fantastic reminder of the trials of many generations of settlers. Badwater basin, Telescope peak, Artists' Palette, Zabriskie Point, Golden Canyon, the wildflower blooms, unique wildlife, etc. etc. are all amazing sights and features of a desert that's apparently not "much more worthy of protection" that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Death Valley is a severely underrated and under-visited national park that is, in my opinion, far more impressive than Joshua Tree NP, for example. Or Pinnacles NP. Or Cuyahoga NP or Acadia NP or others.

If I were you, I would go visit DVNP.
> Responsible email publishers use lack of opens as a signal to reduce volume of emails sent and, eventually, unsubscribing you automatically.

No, they don't.

> Gmail causing a lot of bogus engagement would make it look like people can’t get enough of your content

For a few days, perhaps. Gmail accounts for a significant proportion of all email. 'Publishers' would quickly realise they are no longer able to track emails sent to Gmail. To fail to do so would be their loss; if that weren't the case, they wouldn't bother with tracking at all.
What is missing from this discussion is level of control and tradeoffs.

First, having a full level of control can be desirable.

Second, you trade off maintaining firmware levels on hardware and software levels on hardware to managing the way cloud providers build networking and servers themselves (and the cost control as well).

Maintaining your own hardware and keeping it up to date really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Its not hard to get right either, assuming you can hire any sort of decent system engineer.
I understand the difference, but perhaps I misunderstood the article. What it says (and you're correctly referring to) is:

> We will be conservative and say that our algal beds fix 2.5 kg of C per square meter per year and 2.5 kg of C works out to 9.167 kg of CO2.

But then a couple of paragraphs later:

> the maximum CO2 assimilation rate of algal beds which we will say is 9.167 kg of C per square meter per year.

I.e. they first mention a conservative "2.5 kg of C" in the context of the ocean, followed by a "maximum rate". 9 kg of carbon is around 33 kg of CO^2.

Maybe they meant "kg of CO2" in that second paragraph, it's certainly suspicious that it repeats the same 9.167 number, but why would they call that number both "conservative" and "maximum assimilation rate", hrm...
A big, unstated theme was how memetics goes for the most radical, extreme, offensive viewpoint. The same phenomenology that causes the press to seek out Nazis to talk to, causes search engines to return only radical viewpoints. It's what people want, but it's not good for us.
That sounds like a problem with process, not technology.

I can provision a handful of production servers in 5 minutes.
I think you can make unambiguous sentences: "I walked one mile today." Unless context specifically indicates the very rare possibility that walked is personal shorthand for another activity, it's a pretty unambiguous statement.
Certainly. For example, https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/posenet/cam... will run in your browser. https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose is also a decent choice for realtime pose estimation, although I'm not sure if they have a web demo anywhere.
> The hard part is that filling a path is a fundamentally sequential operation, since whether a pixel is on or off depends on every other path that intersects the scanline that pixel is on.

I'm not quite sure I get this. Are you simply talking about overdraw optimizations and the requirement for in-order blending here, or something else like even-odd fill rules?

Obviously, the hardware itself has a massive serial component in the form of the ROP which will make sure blend draws retire in-order, and pixel-shader interlock gives you a bit more granular control over the scheduling without relying on the fixed-function ROP unit.
The truth of "users want control" depends on how closely your users' preferences resemble each other with regards to the particular service you're providing. If you can make one set of choices that works for all users, then no, users don't want control. If you can't, then the users will be demanding that control whether you give it to them or not, and if you don't they'll go elsewhere.

If you're small, you get to sidestep this distinction by defining your market carefully. Apple is one company that famously does not give users control. Is it true that PC users don't want control? No. That's why Windows has 80% market share in PCs and Android has 75% market share in mobile. But it's true of Apple customers, and in return for giving up control, they get a well-integrated user experience that's relatively bug-free, just works, and requires no extra thought on their part. You could look at dealing with hardware incompatibilities, avoiding crapware, integrating systems, and so on as services that Apple provides to its customers, and as a result they can charge a premium on their devices and make handsome profits.

This model falls down for public policy, like privacy, because people have different priorities that lead to different tradeoffs. I will happily give Google my location if it helps me avoid traffic jams, something many HN readers object to. I will post semi-identifiable comments on Hacker News, because I've derived fairly significant benefit from comments here. I don't generally post pictures of my family on Facebook. I certainly don't document my every waking moment with Instagram. Many other people make different tradeoffs, and that's their right.

It's debatable which bucket health care falls into - I suspect most people are in the "just make it work" camp until they dig into the details of exactly what experience and cost "just make it work" entails. I'll point out that the Apple experience for health care is completely possible with Kaiser Permanente and other managed HMOs, if you are willing to give up your choice of providers. Stay within their network and everything "just works", but then you have to stay within their network.
I don't know if obsession is the right word. However there is strong reaction partly due to large Jewish population in the u.s. and there is no stronger expression of anti semitism than Nazi.

Another thing. This may not be a popular opinion but based on my personal observation, ordinary Americans don't "obsess" over Nazi to the same degree as the media.
The Brigate Rossa was, like the Baader Meinhof Gang, just evil. But as I recall, the Communists (PCI) by the 90s were just another left wing party, democratic socialist. I think they even changed their name.
Not my takeaway at all...if the teen in the article didnt have an unusually high amount of critical thinking, meeting in person would have not have changed much.
In Australia where I am, it's becoming normal for a 6 month probation period and you can terminate or be terminated with 1 weeks notice. Outside of this the notice period is usually 1 or 3 months - the former being more common,
Running your own servers doesn't require you to bid for sparse plots of land, like constructing your own office space does.
> Insurance companies are required to cover drugs without regard to the price

Not really. Insurance companies put higher-priced drugs on higher “formulary tiers”, which means they will cover less of your costs (within certain regulatory guidelines).
Jeff - Looks like there are some mistakes here https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

i3en is showing "EBS only" under "Instance Storage"
I can imagine there is a non-trivial increase in certain gas concentrations, but smelling people's breath? That just seems ridiculous.
Really good points. Maintaining your own infrastructure may be "boring" with "old" technologies. But its a known process. Its really easy.

But with the cloud its a whole different domain. It may be easy too, but I don't think its as easy as hosting your own.

And your last two lines are great. It really comes down to the company about which tradeoff is appropriate.
Not that I necessarily disagree, but I quaver at the thought of a government that understands memetics well enough to craft such a course. Defense can so easily turn to offense...
Download Visual Studio for Mac 2019 and you won't find C# 8.0 listed under the project's language options. I'm referring to the Mac here where I understood Mono is still the way .Net Core is implemented.
13 years old in Italy join communists groups and communism and socialism are promoted by many unpunished public school teachers.
The only problem wih the alt-right is that is not fashionable, otherwise people would rejoice at the interest in politics this 13 year old is having.
Truth is you're all a bunch of totalitarians who want impose your ideas and don't like free speech which ironically is what the alt-right has always loved and the reason why it was born, to defend free speech. Yep well done, we needed "nazis" to defend free speech, science, reason and logic, that's how bad academia, media, politicians, billionaires, etc have got. Nice work, keep it up.
Thanks, AWS said there is no resolution on their end. They mentioned the product code too.

What you posted is TF though, yes?
How is using sperm a patient didn’t consent to not assault?
Fewer members of this generation are learning ethics through religion. I'm not religious and I don't believe that religion is necessary for ethics, but I do recognize that religion was a traditional vehicle for introducing young people to an ethical system.

Grade-school civics is one solution, but I think there are some other family- and community-based ways (religious or otherwise) we can raise the next generation with a strong ethical code.
> plus then you lose voice typing completely which is not acceptable to me

I use GBoard on iOS, and on the iPhone XS with iOS12, you can still use the native voice typing while using GBoard
That's not true. There are a significant number of non-profit health insurance companies, insuring a majority of the total market:

https://www.firstquotehealth.com/health-insurance-news/non-p...
It has become popular to associate NAZI's/Fascism with Trump and his supporters. The Far Left in the USA use this as a virtue signaling kind of thing to try and demonstrate that they are morally superior and that anyone who voted for Trump is evil and a Fascist/NAZI.

I personally find the Communists far more dangerous than the NAZI's/Fascists ever were. They are responsible for the greatest human suffering the World has ever seen. A monumental evil based on murder, poverty and destruction.
It's a relativity thing.

He selectively revealed truths that were hidden from us by people who were either out-right lying, or were totally ignorant to the existence of what was revealed.

So, as a citizen, do I trust an individual who selectively introduces me to information, or do I trust the large conglomerate governments which I now know to wholeheartedly lie to me on a repeated basis?

In old Louisiana parlance : " if I gotta choose between bags of shit, i'll take the one that comes with the clothes pin for my nose. "
The rise-and-fall adoption of Scala and Apache Groovy is because their whole rationale for existing was to be a better something. Groovy (2003) tried to be a better Beanshell (1998) by adding closures to it. Beanshell tried to be a better Java (1995) by adding dynamic typing to it. Scala (2003) tried to be a better Java by adding definable operators to it. But when something even better comes along, their rationale for existing disappears. They will try to catch up by adding features later (e.g. Groovy 2's inferred typing to compete with Scala, or its more recent macros to compete with Clojure) but by then the newer language has made a foothold, and it's too late.
Have You Join Product Hunt?
I meant that the contract would seem especially unfair if Uber could choose an arbiter they didn't have to pay for.

Even if they didn't outright choose an expensive one to squash claims, it would be unfair to make an individual pay for a service they can and want to get cheaper elsewhere (on less favorable terms for Uber).

Unless there's blatant cronyism and abuse of power, I don't think biased arbitration by itself would fail to hold up. Judges are humans with personal ideologies too, so you can pick some that do everything by the book and still skew the result in your favor (especially averaged over 60,000 cases)
My favourite quote from the article:

'For the next ten minutes or so, the reporters filmed the Nazi. When they finally turned away from each other, each side seemed happy, shaking hands, nodding enthusiastically, and smiling their thanks. It was the most nakedly symbiotic transaction I’d ever witnessed. The reporters and the Nazi needed each other. There was no meaning—no job—for one without the other.'
How fair do you think time estimate within 30% is? Plus/minus 20% if over 3 days
Today our boss came up with a "reorganization" to "improve efficiency". He expects us to estimate time needed with max 30% deviation, and max 20% deviation if it's over 3 days. Software projects.

* * *

Background (SPOILERS)

boss is an old programmer, an American client is outsourcing its work to us. The work is two repos: a) IE-compatible Javascript without Babel or Node (ES5), b) Python 2.7 with no unit tests, no dev database, lots of "except: pass".
Both repos are centered around a god class, functions often 100,200,300+ lines , no documentation, very few comments, superficial but nitpicky code reviews, one or maybe two questions answered per day.
Sure, the school is not going to overpower the influence of parents and the rest of society. But the program does help normalise discussing feelings and relationships, at least in some settings, like especially amongst the kids. Which is what you want because when those kids grow up to be adults they will have better social skills when interacting with their peers.
Kubernetes Context in iTerm2’s Status Bar
Unless you use "-I", as in the example, in which case the default method is HEAD.
You could even have your own!

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/storage-case-pieces/cupboa...
Interesting, I saw an article claiming it narrowly failed a bit ago and was saddened.

I have never tried them personally, but I suspect the threat of being arrested makes it harder to have a good "set and setting".

I know that I never enjoyed cannabis until a trip to a place it was legal. Knowing that I was 100% ok to imbibe took away all my worries about detection, people knowing I was high, etc, and let me enjoy the experience.
actually, the mechanism described in https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/08/13/android-pie-include... sounds different to this, but given it mandates Android 9.0, we can't use that either yet. (Our minimum Android is still 4.1...)
It seems that most of these problems would be solved by a time delay, like on safes at gas stations. You can disable the "Find my iPhone" service, and it will show as disabled, but it will actually stop working 48h or 72h later, so that there is a time window in which to catch criminals.

As always, the important thing here is for criminals to know this: even if they force you to unlock the phone, they are not off the hook.
> Sam prides himself on questioning conventional wisdom and subjecting claims to intellectual scrutiny. For kids today, that means Googling stuff. One might think these searches would turn up a variety of perspectives, including at least a few compelling counterarguments. One would be wrong. The Google searches flooded his developing brain with endless bias-confirming “proof” to back up whichever specious alt-right standard was being hoisted that week. Each set of results acted like fertilizer sprinkled on weeds: A forest of distortion flourished.

I would like to nominate “Sam” as poster child for why the feedback systems in Google Search and Facebook are so damaging. It’s one thing to continuously confirm the beliefs of old people, it’s quite another to funnel impressionable children into one extreme or another based on a few semi-random data points.
Ok. I personally think a 100% correct rendering would have great benefit. The coincident edge problem happens a lot, especially when the scene is computer-generated. Also when overlaying the same object a number of times exactly, the edges lose their AA property. (E.g. in Inkscape, draw a circle, copy it, then paste it exactly on top using ctrl+shift+V and repeat 20 times, and you see the edges becoming jagged).
>Nobody would be LaTeXing instead of using MS Word or Adobe Illustrator.

Hahaha. Have you tried to write a piece of mathematics in MS Word? I did. It's a torture I wouldn't wish on anyone I know.

Mathematicians are all about convenience; so much so that proprietary LaTeX Editors were quite popular before FOSS caught up (remember WinEdt?).

But LaTeX itself - it's the most convenient tool to write and share mathematics that's ever been made. It's unsurpassed. It's required if you want to publish, because all the journals use LaTeX, and most math books are made with LaTeX.

It's so good that people will literally think you are an idiot if you are not using it[1] and won't believe your results.

And ArXiV, have you heard of ArXiV? No LaTeX, no ArXiV.

And trust me, most mathematicians don't care much about FOSS. But they care about not spending too much effort on making their results presentable and shareable. LaTeX -> PDF is the path of least resistance.

[1]https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304
Is the convention of 60 frames per second related at all?
Why not just SVG as the interchange format?
Why the U.S. Continues to Fail with High-Speed Rail [video]
Rail investment is on the timeline of decades. I'd say it's not only probable but highly likely we have full autonomy in the next 10 years.

And I got the SkyTrain numbers from the provided Wikipedia link, the Tesla costs from an Autolist report on Model 3 depreciation, and the gax tax cost hand waved based on $0.35/gallon and 25mpg (US average).
Is Linux Journal's website closed source? Looks like it's running Drupal to me, a quick scan of the HTML reveals <meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)" />. Drupal is GPLv2+, seems fine.

Would be nice if they replaced Disqus with e.g. https://commento.io/ though.