skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nutty idea for discussion. Should the US go in the other direction and officially sanction some of these monopolies with the tradeoff that they have to accept some extra oversight/regulation (ex. telecoms)?

It could be argued that some sort of oversight of these things is sorely needed. The well documented ability of mobile apps to influence behavior, and collect and exfiltrate the detailed personal data of US citizens at population scale presents an unprecedented national security risk - especially in the age of AI.
I computed Fibonacci(20*10^6) using Binet's formula. The answer has 4179753 digits. I computed sqrt(5) to 4179753 digits and applied the formula. The result was correct.

The time to compute sqrt(5) was 0.23 sec. The time compute the formula (I dropped the insignificant 1-sqrt(5) term) was 2.8 seconds. When I used the built in Mathematica function to compute the Fibonacci number, it took 0.12 seconds.
It only took me like a week to get used to vim. I obviously still don't use it to its full capabilities but i can use it like a normal text editor now.

Emacs by comparison makes no sense to me.
How would the website code communicate with the browser, unless it was some open API you can refer to. As for "in conjunction with Gmail", yes that's called cookies.
Those storefront photos were remarkably clear/unambiguous, compared to some I've gotten.

When logging into an account I needed to log into, maybe a couple years ago, they'd jerk me around in the manner of this grumpy.website example, but more. One time, it went on for several topics, for what seemed around 10 minutes. I pay money for that account.

This obnoxious annoyance is in addition to the offense of some company letting third-party code from a mass-surveillance company not only into their pages (which almost every company with a Web site does, sadly) but also into their authentication page. Much more important services on the Web do not need captchas for login to accounts that were paid for. Now, every time I get a hassle to log in to my account I pay for, plus directly leak that info to a surveillance company. It makes me regret paying money for the account, like the company are oblivious or don't care, and I won't have much loyalty when the right competitor appears.
That sounds really bizarre. What version of which OS are you using? I've heard that older versions of Windows (I think 7) have problems with the REPL that cause extreme latency.

I don't think the latency you're experiencing is normal.
I would like a choice between consistent and curated vs open and free with both respecting privacy.

Unfortunately, the choices today are limited.
I think VLC core had a large amount of code rewritten, to change the license (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4787965), which required a large effort from the VLC team.
Loom just clicked with me for some reason. It was the first adventure game I completed 100% on my own, and I did so fairly quickly.

The other adventure games I had played to that point I was only able to finish by playing in parallel with several friends and when one of us got stuck, we would help each other. Hero's Quest was the first game I completed in this manner (we were stuck on King's Quest until someone downloaded a hint guide from a BBS; that game was primarily difficult because how easy it was to get in an unwinnable state).
I also get this sometimes, not even using buster. Once I was not able to access package tracking information, because Google blocked me completely via recaptcha from that.

I actually do a lot of automated queries from my computer.

I like to scrape and save content that may disappear. Just recently one psychology website I liked years ago where I put a lot of effort to comment on, silently deleted all 60k user comments, including 100s I wrote, and started putting old articles behind a paywall. My activity is perfectly legal, as I'm doing all this for my own personal use.

Thankfully I have all the content locally in the database.

Does it mean I should be prevented from accessing third party services that use recaptcha?
Really impressive images with apparently regular PET-scans, so could be available for general use rather quickly. It's advances like this that enable medicine.
The government is by far the largest player in society, employing anywhere from 15-35% of the population and organizing and regulating the services needed for our very survival, including transportation (because private citizens don't build highways), electricity and water (because even if privatized the state provides the legal framework for privatization and service level agreements) and a myriad things for which you probably have _no clue_ are happening at this very moment.
Not saying I like the precedent of Google being inescapable, you're not "signing up" for anything. A web server is 100% in its rights to refuse to send you a page, on their terms.
Often times even having configuration options creates surface for security issues.

A good example of this is that there were scams that involved having people paste some script into their chrome devtools and steal data. This worked fairly effectively. Facebook ended up doing some magic to show a warning message in the devtools console to tell people that no, you really shouldn't paste random stuff here, it will do bad things.

Configurability does come with a cost. And "the ability to reroute all push notifications through an arbitrary MITM" is a security cost that I expect wouldn't be worth it.
A comment function doesn't necessarily require a database lookup for every request, you can cache the blog page for a second or two so that it doesn't collapse when getting a hundred requests per second.
I can only warn off from this direction. There is no product unless a core problem is being solved.
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars' lifetimes
Take my money!

I've received incalculable value from using Mozilla products and I'll gladly pay to support them, especially when it comes to increased privacy.
How is this different or better than Steven Black's project?

Repo: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
A great book to read on this topic is 'How To Wreck A Nice Beach"

https://www.amazon.com/How-Wreck-Nice-Beach-Vocoder/dp/16121...
Micro Frontends
Well, for one thing they (at least in ASUS's case) appear to do the opposite of Night Light / flux by subtracting the blue channel rather than increasing the red channel. This means at first the image looks a tad green/yellow-er, but you get used to it much more than Night Light's red tint. I've had it for a year now, mostly on the highest level (certified as "70% blue light reduction") and I still sometimes check that it's on. (But once you see the onscreen UI in a blue-ish white it's very obvious)

My eyes also get a lot less fatigued with it on compared to OS features/flux, even after tuning my monitor & room brightness accordingly with a colorimeter.

A lot of it might come down to certification and blue light reduction methods at the monitor level. In ASUS's case they claim to be certified by TUV Rheinland[1].

[1] https://www.asus.com/Microsite/display/eye_care_technology/
Why don't they just limit it by bandwidth/hits? Is there anything special about media content that it should be considered differently?
In this context, it actually means a "non-routable meta-address used to designate an invalid, unknown, or non-applicable target" [1] - 127.0.0.1 is localhost, 0.0.0.0 is its own thing.

[1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/225487/what-is-the-difference-betw...
Working source map
I've never run into these image captcha things before. Where do they get used at?
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> The goal of the Vega project is to promote an ecosystem of usable and interoperable tools, supporting use cases ranging from exploratory data analysis to effective communication via custom visualization design.[0]

0: https://vega.github.io/vega/about/
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5. The guild samples very sparsely so smaller musicians receive no compensation

6. Smaller musicians often arrange their own events and thus have to pay licensing fees to for the privilege of playing their own music, which as the guild doesn't sample the event, is not returned to the musician

Yeah, works well.
>The next task coming up is that they want users to be able to ad-hoc schedule an email to themselves with the fancy graphs attached as a pdf, so we've got that to look forward to.

This is the endgame of every OLAP tool. But execs really love this feature.
I'm from the UK and often get very American questions. Such as "select all the images with cross-walks". This isn't really a phrase we have over here, so when I first got this I had no idea what I was meant to be looking for in the array of random pictures and actually had to look it up to get past it. If you're going to force me to do a captcha, at least localise the damn questions.

Do other non-American's get this as well?
Another aspect of this is to consider all the moments when it could have gone very wrong. Somehow, we only consider the missed opportunities and not the lucky saves. Speaking of taking roads, you can become a traffic statistic any time you cross the street but it doesn't appear in our tree of past possibilities.
Have been chatting with a radiation oncologist about this. His response: "imaging appears to be the same as F18-FDG-based PET. Just a bit more convenient since the patient doesn't need a normal blood sugar. And prob 2-10x the price"
You outsource the service to a payments provider that does that for you.

The _same_ way global corporations have accounting offices in every country they operate in, or the same way you buy standardized industrial components that comply with existing regulations.

It is not ideal, but getting paid overseas is far from the largest barrier startups have to face.
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Don't forget the "90 day roadmap" that tells players when the game will be worth playing and then gets blanked out like Anthem's when the players give up.
I Hate Startups
The ORY suite (https://ory.sh)
No one knows where America’s helipads are, except this neural network
So by that standard, any market situation in which a vendor makes high profit margins on a product in high demand would be a market failure. I really don’t think that’s what it means. The limited supply and subsequent high prices of Bugattis isn’t a market failure.

It seems to me it’s more like cases where poor infrastructure prevents distribution, or excessive regulation obstructs trade, preventing vendors and purchasers from linking up. That’s a problem on both sides. It’s an actual failure of the market itself.
Maybe you are referring to David Samson's study of the Hadza tribe in Northern Tanzania? "Chronotype Variation Drives Nighttime Sentinel-Like Behaviour in Hunter-Gatherers", 2017. [0]

Or in some more entertaining format at Duke University's website [1].

[0] http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0967.

[1] https://today.duke.edu/2017/07/live-grandparents-helped-huma...
> forbidding dangerous hobbies like mountain climbing?

Well not that it would ever happen but why should I pay for someone's dangerous and/or foolish risky activity? (Rescue, health care and so on). People often act as if there is a large pot of money sitting around to cover any and all mistakes and life choices someone makes.
I propose that it would require a minor change in web browsers only. Consider that we have 'incognito' and 'private browsing' sessions. The implementations are slightly different between browsers (e.g. Firefox appears to allow sharing between tabs in a window; Safari keeps each tab completely isolated), but the principle is the same. Modify the browsers so they're always in 'private' mode, and to only permit sharing once the bill is paid.
The difference is Apple has been the same from the beginning. There was no bait and switch. People who bought Apple products knew what Apple was and will be and what the terms were.

With Google there is a bait and switch (and it doesn't really just apply to this particular story). They came to market defining themselves as the open alternative to Apple to get market share and developer interest (and evangelism), and now that they've achieved dominance the terms are changing.

There's no surprise that there's going to be massive pushback (and probably antitrust implications).
I was lucky enough to be at PARC for a time when some of the original PARC researchers, like Dan, Danny Bobrow, Stew Card, etc, were still around and working. I can only say that I reached the conclusion that the early web really did a end-run around a lot of the really cool stuff that came out of the earlier PARC work. Core distributed system work, real OOP, Ubiquitous Computing in the style envisioned by Weiser, collaborative MOOs, early Ray Tracing and computer graphics, data visualization, human factors, etc. etc. And: most of this stuff came from a time when joining PARC was like was more like a life-ticket to work on stuff you thought was interesting and cool, not necessarily stuff with commercial potential. It wasn't directed so much as managed at a cat herding level. This dissipated in the later versions of the lab.
For my team, we abandoned k8s because of the insanity of just managing the cluster itself in AWS pre-EKS. Our team has a lot of low level OS and AWS knowledge, and it was just this massive undertaking and at every turn we were told, "Lol, just use Google Cloud."

My employer is all in on AWS, there's no way to change that. Furthermore, our accounts come with a lot of restrictions imposed by our central AWS team. VPCs, subnets, NAT gateways, etc. are all pre-provisioned and we are prevented from modifying them or creating new ones ourselves. The only real tool for k8s in AWS was kops at the time. It was so opinionated that it broke down very quickly when faced with all the IAM restrictions on our user accounts.

Now that EKS is a thing, we're looking to revisit it. But a lot of the pain might be coming from the fact that it seemed that "manage my k8s cluster for me" was under-developed on AWS at the time. Elastic Beanstalk's ECS platform was just the easier thing to start with for us.
I believe I ought to mention R studio as an alternative.

What Tableau does, R libraries can do better.

https://www.showmeshiny.com/
https://gallery.htmlwidgets.org/
https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/

with shiny / D3 and general JS support.

ps; i am not affiliated with any of these sites or libraries.
Taxing Google and Facebook is not pushing British or French population closer to that breaking point.
I m hopeful about distributed distribution, things like bitchute
If you're ever in the D.C / Maryland area, Fort Meade has a pretty cool museum with all of these on display.

https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum/
Hobby sites may be in a more difficult position, but businesses may decide between developer convenience and low cost, or excluding some of their users and tormenting them.

There are also ways to reduce the damage reCAPTCHA causes, such as keeping it out of the default UX path. Discord for example will show a reCAPTCHA challenge on the login page only if you are signing in from a new location.

reCAPTCHA cannot effectively defend sites against targeted attacks either.
see my responses lower down to a similar question

or direct link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20146535
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The photos or voice still needs to come from from somewhere. The somewhere is google.com. The .com is blocked.
> Julian Assange would be surfing in Australia with his family right now if he exposed Chinese war crimes.

We certainly don't know this to be true or false, because China hasn't had a Julian Assange yet.

What we can work with is available data - China has tens of thousands of thought-criminals in reeducation camps, and is actively killing them for their organs. America has leveraged its extrajudicial international powers twice in recent memory - once for Julian Assange, once for Kim Dotcom.
Yup, went contracting for this reason. Code is a passion of my and I love that it's also my trade but I have other personal ventures I need to focus my attention on and I have absolutely no juice left in a regular 5day/40hrs engineering week.
Where do they deliver it instead?
Notes on Image Annotation (2012)
Welp, I was not expecting this to show up on Hacker News so early in the project's life cycle.

This is still fairly early work, so I apologize if the API is not quite as neat as it could be yet.

Still, author here, I'll gladly accept any comments/criticisms.
Why are we labeling images for free for google?
Yep yep, I run a cluster of 5 ODroix XU4's (not radically different than a Raspberry Pi), and even doing a ton of video streaming through Emby (which I hate), everything tends to perform just find for the up-to-three concurrent users that are ever on it.
I'm just waiting to find out if someone will get Librem 5 working with a Verizon approved networking module before I jump in. But yes, very excited.
I was in speech recognition tech during that time. It all tanked, but Dragon got screwed the hardest. ScanSoft (now Nuance) made out like a bandit with all the tech fire sales post-bust.
I don’t think I have any disorder of any sort, you are right.

But here’s the thing: I used to struggle horribly with all this societal nonsense about when to and not to sleep. For 30 years I was always waking up too late and feeling more comfortable staying up late. It sucked but I couldn’t for the life of me adjust.

Until one day I realized it’s just like timezones. I can use the same tricks I use to switch timezones. Like going to bed at a set time instead of waiting for my body to tell me it’s time for bed. Waking up at a set time etc

And ... it worked.

So all I’m saying is try it. If you have and it didn’t work, fine. But you’ll never know if you don’t try. For 30 years I was too stubborn to try and would fight to the death anyone who suggested I may not have a sleep phase shift thingy and just aren’t going to bed early enough.

Also if you say you are so very tied to signals for the sun. What happens in the summer when it’s light out from 6am to 9pm? Do you also start waking up earlier? What about in winter when it’s light only from 9am to 4pm? How do you cope?

What do you do if you live in Finland and it’s light out for 6 months? Do you just not sleep?
It's a bit more expensive, but for this type of thing and other reasons, I now use a CPA.
Some industry standard CRC's are not recommended as there are much better ones (see research done by Koopman). So perhaps Intel is justified?
"I'll tell you an anecdote that played a role in my life. I was about twenty-two and one day I was in a terrible state. We were living in Sibiu, a city in the provinces where I spent my whole youth, and where my father was the priest of the city. That day only my mother and I were home.... All of a sudden I had a fantastic fit of despair, I threw myself on the sofa and said "I can't take it anymore." And my mother said this: "If I had known, I would have had an abortion." That made an extraordinary impression on me. It didn't hurt me, not at all. But later I said, "That was very important. I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?" Because, in effect, it's all without substance."

- Emil Cioran, Writing at Risk: Interviews in Paris With Uncommon Writers
You have zero trust in Facebook, and Facebook has zero trust in you. Perfect use case for blockchain, right?
Edited, 500mcg, sorry about that! Studies show that the smaller doses have great effect http://news.mit.edu/2005/melatonin
Haven't heard much about Qlik lately. A few years ago we were evaluating Birst and Qlik, and have since settled on Looker and Tableau.

Birst end up getting acquired too. https://www.infor.com/news/infor-to-acquire-birst-infor
"Always own your platform" doesn't necessarily mean "never use someone else's platform."
As an amateur pianist, it’s worth adding that there’s a status hierarchy.

Pre-war (WWII) Hamburg Steinways are supposed to unparalleled, followed by Hamburg post, then New York in general.
This CSS shorthand would be so good
You are not average.

The average person loads up the browser and wants it to just work. We're software engineers, but we have to understand our users too - and they're vastly different to us.

Anecdote incoming - most of the people who use Firefox in my immediate circle are family members, and they don't care about configuring a default search. They don't know about DDG, they don't know about Bing, and they don't care. They want to open their browser and search whatever they need to find.

Configurability is the engineer's pipe dream, but it dismisses a lot of people - and what matters is the masses, not the HN minority.

We are a minority.
“I don’t care what editor you use for source code – you can use Quick basic for all I care – but look, you have to know that Magit exists. Even if you don’t use Emacs in any other capacity, you may want to use it for Magit.”

There are exactly two instances of “Magit” in this web page and I just quoted both of them.
This isn’t Firefox-specific you witch hunting morons. I’ve seen the inexplicably slow captcha in Chrome many many times.
> Here's the obstacle: Motor skills. It just takes way to long to first memorize reams of commands and then to train your fingers to issue those commands effortlessly.

Do you know VI? You can use viper-mode and use it as VI. And it's not a handful of keystrokes as the likes of Eclipse implement, it's a full blown VI mode.

Your comment about "apropos" tells me you have never ever tried Emacs help system. There is a nifty tutorial, you can search for commands, functions, what have you. Need to know what happens when you type a keystroke, even down to the source code if you want? describe-key. Need to know anything about your enabled modes? describe-mode. And so on. There are more describe commands, but I never had to memorize them due to completion.

The only times I feel like using something like VSCode are:

– Learning a new and popular language: as of late, you can find nice extensions which sometimes even integrate installation of external commands, so you have a working system out of the box. Since I'm learning, I don't yet know what I need.
This use-case is diminishing as of late due to Spacemacs.

– When I feel the need to have something "fancier" in terms of UI widgets. For instance, the popup golang help that VSCode provides is less disruptive than having a pop-up buffer.
This is just a case of being attracted to eye-candy, which the exclusively text-based does not provide by design (although it can display graphics to some extent).

That's it. I always end up going back to Emacs as it provides so much more. And specially when interacting with Git, Magit is wonderful and far better than any applications I have seen - including the command line. Org-mode is always at my fingertips.

One thing though. If you are unwilling to learn Emacs because you are happy with your environment and you have other priorities, that's perfectly fine.
If you are unwilling to learn Emacs _even though you feel that there are benefits_, then that's not a good sign. We need to learn new things all the time to stay relevant and productive. If there is a new tool, language or process that will improve your professional life, you are doing a disservice to yourself by refusing to learn.
Out of curiosity: What would you be willing to pay for it? Did you mention you pay yourself? Or do you expect your healthcare provider to cover the thousands of dollars for tests without any indication?
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