skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did they watch the movie on your phone, or was it using the mic?
Well, it’s interesting to some people because they keep searching for that person.

It’s probably because they were trying to find out when that person lived there.
For anyone who isn't into highly social hobbies the countryside is usually at least equally good. Apart from restaurants and larger selection of food in stores, city life has not changed my free time much at all.
They should just offer the ability to display the OTP secret code directly there as well.
Because wrestling is hugely popular.
The behaviour could be to some extent either autodetected via remote proxies or crowdsourced, possibly via trusted contributors.

Even a partially-effective list of high-profile instances would be useful.

Removal procedure might also be considered. Automated, with an integrated proxy check, might work.
Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars
Certainly a much needed application in the Ethereum space.

As a blockchain game developer, I have talked ad nauseum (https://steemit.com/marketing/@steem.marketing/cache-the-gam...) about reasons why we switched away from Ethereum for most transactions (but not all).

The UX of the wallet being one difficulty for adoption. There are other even bigger reasons (in my opinion) - variable mining fees per transaction being a large one.
Living Room Stem Music Player
First, you claim that it virtue signalling is made-up nonsense. Then, you claim that use of the term virtue signalling is an instance of virtue signalling.

Your statements contradict themselves. Describe your position more accurately, please.
Actually you can get uBO for Safari:

https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/blob/safari/README.md
> Isn't Electron basically just a Chrome tab as an app (to over simplify it?

More like a full, independent installation than just a tab.
uBlock Origin is available on Safari. Installing it results in a "will slow down your browser" which is apparently just a CYA warning from Apple for any extensions not installed via the App Store.

https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.el1t.uBl...
Sorry; that's a bug and on our list to fix. I've edited the angle brackets out above.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20049765 and marked it off-topic.
It has examples like someone leaving a code review comment that says:

"Did you even test this code before you checked it in?"

Which while it itself labels it unhelpful, also seems to be pretty toxic.
>This is not being neutral

Then what is?

>The real answer is to separate dataset (aka community) from software (aka policy).

The result of that would be software that doesn't aim to serve the user. This is exactly what software was like before the current trend of analytics and user experience - and the reason those have become so popular is because believing you could make a product without feedback from how your users wanted to use it turned out to be a much worse approach.

Instead, you're proposing to make all software so powerful that the user is in complete control of all choices, which is really another way of suggesting that the user become a programmer of their own software. Designing something for end users involves pruning choice paths.
It can't. I think Apple is against Webm because there's little hardwire support for it, while mp4 (h264/265) has very good hardware support
In my naive opinion, it seems like a good choice then for languages (the ones with first-class utf-8 support, anyway) to operate on scalars and leave graphemes / user-text-editing-use-cases to libraries. (This is meant as an extention to your comment, not in contradiction to it).
Putting the Soul in Console
To me, when the social signal is valued more highly than the negative outcomes caused by the action, it becomes a bad thing. The action does not reduce gun violence, but hurts both customers and profits.
Could this be China's retaliation for the trade war? This may be a good opportunity to declare war
I had recommended uBlock Origin to a of couple of non techy people, both of them ended up installing the regular uBlock instead, now I don't even bother.
Me too. It likes FF 67.0 64 bit on win but dislikes FF 67.0 on 64 bit FreeBSD. The mapbox URLs aren't called on the latter. Are you also on a unix-like system?
Anyone knows what tool is used to generate/ those images in the post?
https://rpki-monitor.antd.nist.gov/
Container tabs have made my life much easier, as I'm managing a number of Amazon accounts, and being able to do that side-by-side is a life-saver.
Is Fenix the same as Firefox Focus?
I think a lot of the misunderstanding is willful. The "you'll take Win32 out of my cold dead hands" crowd is a fascinating one. Almost don't want to correct some of them because they seem so happy to celebrate any notion that UWP is dead, when the reality is that Win32 has been Weekend at Bernie's for years now and the dreams of UWP are more alive than ever, it's just getting much better at also propping up Bernie and pretending the Win32 corpse is still moving, so that the party keeps raving along.
You know what's horrifying about the idea of "just fork Chrome"? Google can still hurt you by blocking your browser's access to their prime properties (YouTube, Gmail, Maps, etc). Just look at YouTube denying Chromium-based Edge the new redesigned experience for absolutely zero reason.
I'd be interested to hear thoughts about the value brought by V4 vs V3.
It's a way to make your very own extra-walled-in garden, for those who want that- just block every instance you don't like, or disagree with, and every instance that doesn't block those you don't like, or disagree with.
>Can you imagine why they would be more likely to believe that those bureaucrats are involved in a child sex trafficking ring?

Honestly? No. And if I could, I still couldn't sympathize with them.

There is a big difference between having an honest disagreement about political policies and being willing to believe a politician is trafficking in child sex slaves and the occult. I wasn't happy about Obama or his policies, from the complete opposite end of the political spectrum being discussed here. I wanted an anti-war leftist, and got a pro-war centrist. But I still didn't believe he was a Muslim interloper who wanted to start a race war. I despised George W. Bush, but I don't believe he "did 9/11."

How would one go from "hearing that your daughter lost the track and field state championships to someone who used to be a boy" to Pizzagate? From "seeing violent criminals get away from cops because the cops were too afraid to do their job" to "The Clintons had Vince Foster killed?" There is no rational way to connect those dots.
No uBlock Origin. Literally the singular reason I don't use it.
Ask HN: Are MacBook Pros still a good purchase for developers?
Preface: I don't need to hear the standard arguments from people who've never liked Macs, nor am I talking about the types of development that were never well-suited to them (AAA game dev, embedded, etc.)

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MacBook Pro's for a while now have been the go-to for certain segments of developers. They "just work" so you can focus on development instead of system config, yet still give you a Unix-like environment with first-class Bash support. They have good battery life and keep working for years. They have a strong software ecosystem.

But given the recent strides in Windows laptops (and Windows itself), some of which even have official Ubuntu support now, combined with the problems the current line of MBP's has experienced (and continues to experience), is it time to re-evaluate? Many of us (including myself) are still holding on to our 2015 MBP's, but what comes after that? Have people had good experiences switching to something else (the XPS 13 comes to mind)? Any recommendations or anecdotes? Are some just holding out for the next major MacBook Pro revamp (likely in 2020)? Or are the current Pros not as bad as the press makes them seem? Does anyone do serious development on one of the new Airs?
Would love to, but can't, for one simple reason: I like to keep my work and personal profiles completely separated and frequently need to switch between the two. Firefox has profiles, but does not have a low-friction profile switcher. This is why every time I try it I'm back to Chrome a few days later.
Would you rather have chrome that disables add-blocking, forces user-login on browser when visiting websites, etc.. ?
1Password for Mac allows you to do this also.
There's a setting to show the full URL in the address bar.

Preferences > Advanced > Show full website address
Obvious clickfarm account. The article is also complete trash.
Lawmakers Push to Stop Surprise ER Billing
I guess you can't change your password (while keeping the same private key), can you?
Just picked it up by the Mic. It was a DVD they watched.

Apparently my phone just logs all the music it hears all the time and displays it on the lock screen.

There is an option to tell it to not listen all the time.
I'm not part of the problem just because I have to deal with it. My company's motives and mine are separate.
What would be the benefit of doing this?
As far as I can tell the gibberish text eventually becomes readable. So the book exists and can be tried out, but with some annoyance. That still qualifies for Show HN. For books, people usually put a free chapter or two up, which is arguably less annoying, but there is room for different approaches.

The intention of the "try out" guideline is to make sure that the work actually exists and that people can play with it to get an idea of what's there. It's not intended to force Show HN projects to all be free.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Some people who you might not normally expect to, do concern themselves about bus routes.

https://www.sidis.net/TransfersContents.htm
VR pioneer Leap Motion reportedly sells to UltraHaptics for $30M
Adam Savage Teams Up with Peter Jackson and Nasa for Savage Builds TV Series
And they're such losers too. They just downvote because they can't even present a counterargument.
Given the multiple conflicting anecdotal experiences you'll find in the comment section of any story about Firefox or Chrome, performance of either browser is all over the place and seems to depend on your hardware, OS, drivers, extensions, how you use the browser and probably the phase of the moon.
Extensions. Safari has almost none of them and I need them. And not just uBO. I have 10+ of them install and I'd say 8 of them are mandatory for me. I don't care about Safari being the fastest or battery life.

Also dev tools are so much better in Fx and Chrome...
I love this blog and learned so much about the Unix toolkit and the philosophy behind it by reading it. Too bad it doesn’t seem to be much active anymore, but there’s a lot of great material in the archives that pretty much never gets old since its focused mostly on standard Unix software. The author (Tom Ryder) is an very talented writer with a clear and concise style.

A couple of plugs for your consideration:

- I integrated all of these history options in my project Sensible Bash [1], an attempt at saner Bash defaults

- I made an ebook [2] out of a series which appeared on this blog, titled “Unix as IDE”.

[1]: https://github.com/mrzool/bash-sensible

[2]: https://github.com/mrzool/unix-as-ide
So insightful to call people babies and compare comments to facebook comments to make yourself feel superior. Great content filled putdown.

so many fcking brilliant things I can do with my data. But what?

All things you could have done, if you had configured your browser to save your searches on your terms.

Not worried if Google tracks a skipped song history or an irrelevant app install on the gazillionth device I own.

Nobody is worried about this strawman.

Google has a copy of the same too? baby cry What am gonna do?*

Extrapolate this bit "google's anticompetitive behaviour" in your mind to the point where it affects you personally, then realise that it affects other people who aren't you, then legislate them hard before that happens.
I have, and the companies then failed. Because without the developers, bugs weren't getting fixed, and new features weren't getting developed. If they trimmed from the middle, killing the layer of middle management first, they may still have failed, but not as quickly. The middle managers cost more than the developers, and by not maintaining the products they would not have shed paying customers as quickly.
You're advocating removing freedom from people you don't like. This is, presumably, also an enshrined freedom.
What I'm hearing is that I should strap this to my dog, and commit a phone-less crime.
To Crack the Toughest Optimization Problems, Just Add Lasers (2018)
I do lots of transfers between VMs (different personas) via mixing services. So I always verify receiving addresses using md5sum. I presume that prudent folk routinely do something like that. It's ~hard to see some single-character errors, but md5sum changes completely.
I hand-drew the illustrations using an iPad pro & photoshop. The code highlighting is using Sphinx + witchhazel.thea.codes.
The Weird World of Larval Fish (2016)
Its not a good conclusion, but its the one that many seem to hold.
I am curious to read your feedback on my Clojure book.
Please send feedback by email: viebel@gmail.com
I like terse comments (extra space) more than the fluffy (Looks like you have extra space at the end of line...).
Testing AV1 and VVC
Except Angular Dart is alive and kicking, no? Powering AdSense at least which is a huge chunk of Google's business if I recall correctly from a Flutter talk by the PM who put some numbers on a slide.
150 tabs here, lol.

But it is true that for some users Firefox on retina is barely usable. It is a confirmed bug.
It takes a hell of a lot more than a "modicum of common sense" to comply with GDPR. If you really just think that saying "well I'm not going to save PII indefinitely" is enough, you're setting yourself up for a lawsuit.

Did you go through every layer of your stack and ensure that every tool and platform you use doesn't log or persist PII? Did you think of justifications for every use of PII? Did you consult with attorneys on these justifications, or are you just hoping that all 28 member states of the EU agree with your personal opinion? And don't forget you need to build a system to give people all the info you have on them at their request.

Points 3, 4, and 5 basically amount to, "well, as long as I have good intentions I'm sure the government won't sue me even if I do screw up and violate GDPR". You might be willing to risk your business on this assumption. But if that's the case then I sure wouldn't want my retirement funds invested in your company.

Put yourself in the shoes of a West Virginia local news station. What percentage of your revenue comes from EU users? Does it even remotely justify the cost to audit all of your tech and make it GDPR compliant - let alone run the risk that one of the 28 EU member states interprets GDPR differently than you do? Chances are, it doesn't. This is the natural consequence of regulation. People who don't have interest in complying with it leave the market.
That's incredibly depressing to me. If he really talked to a representative cross-section of America, almost all of those optimistic people will never be wealthy enough to afford the car. At least the Brits know where they stand. We're never going to be able to effectively address wealth inequality if every person on the street believes that they're going to be a multimillionaire some day.
I'm no MS fan but in this case it's Google that's doing the 3 Es. First they bundled their own adblocker in Chrome (embrace), then they're making their own standards to dictate what 3rd party ad blockers can do, under the guise of improving performance (extend) and now they're making it harder to make efficient 3rd party adblockers (extinguish).

It's pretty clear what the plan is here, Google naturally sees ad blocking as a threat and they know that they can't outright disable ad blockers so they take the long route to take it over. Make it functional enough that most users won't bother looking for an alternative but make sure that it can't threaten your business model.
Voat and Gab seem to have done. Which ones haven't?

The way it seems to work is that unmoderated forums attract the toxic bigots that aren't allowed to speak their minds elsewhere, and they attack anyone who disagrees with them until most of those people get tired of it and go elsewhere, leaving the forum to the jerks. (Or else the owners have second thoughts and start moderating.)

It happens to any unmoderated forum that gets large and popular enough.
some corrections - http://blog.zorinaq.com/serious-faults-in-beci/
But this co-mingles bookmarks and add-ons. For work/personal separation profiles are definitely better
If you are a Mac power-user and have gotten used to all the conventions (e.g. window behavior, shortcuts, UI interactions), you won't be able to last 5 minutes on Windows. Every once in a while I have to logon to a Windows computer for work and just fiddling with the Start Menu frustrates me. To me, the Windows UX experience is horrible enough to keep me on Mac despite all the growing issues with Macbook hardware.
Sorry yes, corrected that typo.
It's amazing to me to see some people rationalize away the events that happened at Tianamen, in the same way people rationalize away/deny the Holocaust. My previous comment here was flagged and removed talking about the denialists' perspective, so to be clear I am not promoting that, I'm just relating my amazement at how it can be denied and ignored. I've spent some time reading the "real" truth about Tianamen from such sources, and I walk away shaken at how convincing it is. That I almost want to believe it. I don't know what to make of it; I guess just that it's interesting and amazing how beliefs are formed and hardened, and that nearly any perspective can be backed up with convincing evidence.
Yes. Desperately poor ones. And most of them are improving, rapidly. The process takes a couple of generations, once it gets rolling.

Take Egypt, for example. Its birth rate is currently 3.26, which is "high". but That's down from 6.72 in 1960 and 5.60 in 1980. Over the same period, life expectancy has risen from 48 to 71. This means population growth hasn't changed that much, from 2.8% to 1.9% - but as birth rate continues to fall and life expectancy levels out, it'll go negative, just like it did in the US and Europe, which would have negative growth, were it not for immigration.

Think this nations are just doomed and can't get any better? In the mid-19th century, places like Sweden and England had birthrates above 6, and 90% illiteracy rates. They got better. The "third world" is dropping its birth rates and increasing its economic standing far, far faster than Europe did.

edit: Over the same-ish 1965-present period, Egypt's per capita GDP grew from $165 to a recent peak of $3548, about a 20x improvement (this is constant dollars). So wealth goes up, life expectancy goes up, birth rate goes down. These things are linked in virtually every nation.
But we can edit genes related to other traits as well, such as charisma or emotional resilience.
I moved from a 2015 MBP to a ThinkPad T470s. I am very happy with the hardware and even get along with Windows, now that WSL is a thing. I was using Homebrew for package management and its so much nicer to have apt.
I also recommend FZF. Really very handy for doing CTRL-R searches.

I also use it for doing interactive git rebases. I have an alias for doing a fuzzy rebase interactive (frbi):

frbi = !git rebase -i $(git log --pretty=oneline --color=always | fzf --ansi | cut -d ' ' -f1)^
Well, does a Milk Ceiling shut European and American ex-pats out of top jobs in China, Japan, and Korea? Certainly we're just as underrepresented there as they are here.

What if we stopped expecting every single group to be identical and perfectly proportionately represented in every aspect of society? How about instead of assuming that evil and racism and prejudice lurks behind every single stat, that it's possible other factors are at play, with each situation being a little bit different depending on the individuals and their actions?

I'd say this - for each of these claims of unequal treatment and representation, would it be okay for White people to similarly look for under-representation impacting their own group, and advocate for action and redress? If not, why not?
I did keto and had a ketone strip tester based on blood drop tests. Not urine becuase it's not as accurate. It's definitely possible if you're disciplined and follow it properly.
Not really. This is people looking at Wikipedia.

Guess: Who's the Alan with the most pageviews in Wikipedia? Who's the Steve?

I left the answers here:

- https://medium.com/towards-data-science/bigquery-without-a-c...

Basically a show-off for BigQuery, but to answer this specific question: The most viewed Alan and Steve in Wikipedia are the ones closer to HN.

SELECT title, SUM(views) views
FROM `fh-bigquery.wikipedia_v3.pageviews_2019`
WHERE DATE(datehour) BETWEEN '2019-01-01' AND '2019-01-10'
AND wiki='en'
AND title LIKE r'Alan\_%'
GROUP BY title
ORDER BY views DESC
LIMIT 10
For any number of reasons that the author should be able to decide and not be forced into doing?

The original comment was that this would limit adoption due to licensing restrictions, and I'm not sure how this change helps.
This is cool! It's generic enough that it works not only with nvalt on Mac, but also with Notable on Linux (https://github.com/notable/notable)

Notable also uses markdown files for storing notes, so I just had to point the plugin search path to notable's notes directory, and it worked like a charm!

Please keep this usecase in mind when you make changes to your plugin going forward. Thank you!
It's frustrating to read articles making the kinds of points that Dustin's original piece did, and it's slightly cheering to see somebody change their mind. But this:

"There is no valid counterargument to the abstract idea. The fact is that if a company had better data and analyzed it more completely, they could obviously produce better experiences for their users."

I think this is something that you don't need hindsight to understand is wrong. Modern ad driven companies work to maximize 'daily user interactions', not quality of experience. A lot of people think these are strongly correlated, but I think optimizing for that is likely to drive your products into bad directions for users.
William James Sidis: notes on the collection of bus transfers
Yap, same here. What helped additionally was going plant based, 80% of the time. It’s really hard to avoid it completely, but 80% is realistic
I wish someone with a lot more knowledge than me on this replies. You raise a very valid, practical and useful question, would love to hear the answer :-)
> better 1Password integration

Am I using it wrong in Safari?

Because to me the Chrome integration with 1Password X extension is by far the easiest, you get the dropdown right there in the field. In Safari, I have to click the 1Password extension button next to the address field and then select Autofill.
I conducted reasearch on the proposed enterprise in the 1980s. A goal, and the primary one evident in the literature, was manganese nodule mining. Producing manganese.

I don't have my original references handy, but some citations:

https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/0143008

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0160932778...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03354283