skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd really like to see robotic (light's out) pharmacies become a thing. Removing the extremely expensive Pharmacist from simply counting pills for things like repeats of common medications. This would surely reduce consumer costs with little/zero risk.
Yeah. Vodka was typically served in a simple ~100 ml glass (maybe 3-4 shots). Pepsi came with a fancy goblet.
It's a matter of degree. What you posted was a degree worse.
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Wow, DisplayPort 2.0 offers literally twice the bandwidth of the latest HDMI spec:

HDMI 2.1: 16 Gbit/s per pin, 3 pins total, less efficient 8b-10b encoding: 16×3×8/10 = 38.4 Gbit/s

DP 2.0: 20 Gbit/s per pin, 4 pins total, more efficient 128b-132b encoding: 20×4×128/132 = 77.576 Gbit/s

The article claims "77.37 Gbit/s" but I think that's a typo+rounding error (.57 → .37)
Slavs aren't the only ones though! Romance languages, while not completely lacking articles like Slavic ones, have slightly different requirements for articles. (They tend to use them more for abstract concepts, eg. "the reality" when we would say "reality", or "the <noun>(s)" for describing general behavior/attributes of that noun -- this difference may make speakers over-correct by using articles less in English)
The most informative answers I've encountered on StackOverflow are either a product of research (benchmarking, analyzing multiple sources) or very specific knowledge, sometimes written by the author of the framework/library in question. I'm not sure your analogy applies since these answers demand substantially more effort than the (usually) predictable and repetitive questions teachers face in class.
Consider high school shootings alone. They've spiked since the NSA started their program in 2005. By your hypothesis, we're not seeing these invisibly stopped school shootings, which must be on an order of magnitude higher than what we're seeing to account for the spike since 2005.

Either that or the NSA just isn't doing anything to stop these shootings. We may never know.
> And while we're at it the container should just spit out random shit like different resolution, audio api, user agent, once in a while (unless the user turns it off) to thwart such attempts.

Wouldn't that break the legitimate feature-detection uses for these APIs? Asking the user to identify and whitelist each call is impractical, especially since the fail-case in this scenario would be subtle (you'd still see the page but it might randomly be in the wrong mode, or images might be scaled incorrectly, etc). At that point you might as well just turn Javascript off.
At least it's not as insufferable as /r/s4p (and really all of /r/politics) during the '16 primaries.
"capitalism is irredeemable" or "green deal" are positions that even in germany would be considered very left or far-left, not centrist. Where in the world would they be considered centrist?
" was something like $15 more than in my cart!"

This is infuriating.

I think I would call them and wait on hold just to give tell them how I'll never shop there again.

It should definitely be illegal.
Neural networks scan the final rendered image of the page for ads and remove them. You can't dodge that.
I've had a few sites that wouldn't work for me without booting up my windows laptop and running edge. One of them is the place I make car payments.

I use uBlock Origin at home. I use NoScript at work. I like it because it blocks ads and because it does break much of the web. I don't want auto-playing videos, I don't want an enhanced experience, I just want to find the information I'm looking for. If the website I go to won't show me anything even after enabling the main domain and a CDN, then I move on to the next choice. Enabling js on the main domain usually makes menus and such work. The rest seems to be ad-related, from what I can tell.

There are a handful of sites where I really am looking for an enhanced experience. Mainly my banking sites, sites I frequent for shopping, and some forums. Most other places I visit I'm happy that the site is mostly broken as long as I can see what I went there to find. In many cases, I'd be happier with a 90's era gray page with text and pictures. But then I'm old.
I think ad blocking is a misnomer. What people are trying to do when blocking ads is prevent marketing people from spying on them. And the performance and resource consumption that comes from that.

Personal opinion: Laws are needed to make what advertisers are doing illegal. Advertisers are spying on people to the extent where if the government did it they'd need a warrant.
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This doesn’t really solve some of the more concerning things about recommendations, which is the gradual ease into more extreme content. i.e., “super Mario speedrun” to “Top 10 speedrunning fails” to “Super Mario speedrunner gets owned” to “Why women shouldn’t be allowed to play video games” or other such hogwash.
The post about how we live in a low trust society (or at least more so due to the internet) is really ringing true.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20265155
Your position seems to have backtracked from concern over bots to... disliking lots of upvotes within a community. Forgive me if I think you're being disingenuous with this latest statement.
An interesting Go2 proposal that didn't make the cut is "change int to be arbitrary precision", i.e. make the builtin int type a bigint to avoid integer overflow and conversion bugs:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19623
Crazy! That's just perfect. Imagine the sheer randomness of an AI to produce some immature NSFW humor! Really, the outcomes are hilarious. Especially reading those AI-brainfarts with other humans was absolutely worth it.
>The suit alleges that these companies used a subscription service called Agri Stats to share information with each other about the age of their chickens and operating costs.

Is AgriStats just another industry BI data vendor or is it some messaging/forum platform as well?
Yes, I did get that chain (pun intended), but I thought GP meant it literally.
There's a passage of Carl Sagan's "Contact" that's on point and interesting to read 34 years later. The billionaire who helps to decode the Message (from outer space) and ends up building the working copy of the Machine made his fortune by selling tools to detect and block ads from television.

There is some discussion of the technical cat-and-mouse game he has to play as advertisers try to make their content avoid detection and blend in with the regular programming. In this version of the future, the ad blockers eventually win and network television is destroyed. (The book also features networked computers and email ("telefax"), but the concept of ads appearing on them was still too futuristic for 1985.)

https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6o51-W_z8MC&lpg=PP1&dq=go...

Adnix and Preachnix were the essence of capitalist entrepreneurship, he argued repeatedly. The point of capitalism was supposed to be providing people with alternatives.

"Well, the _absense_ of advertising is an alternative, I told them. There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaching people to be stupid. A strong country needs smart people. So Adnix is patriotic. The manufacturers can use some of their advertising budgets to improve their products. The consumer will benefit. Magazines and newspapers and direct mail business will boom, and that'll ease the pain in the ad agencies. I don't see what the problem is."

Adnix, much more than the innumerable libel suits against the original commercial networks, led directly to their demise. For a while there was a small army of unemployed advertising executives...
No kidding. You can hit refresh as much as you want and it keeps showing the exact same recommendations. Very annoying, but not nearly as bad as all of the censorship going on, imho.
I didn't say any such thing. I think you might have meant to respond to a different comment.
URLs are plain text... Can also easily be clickable, depending on your e-mail software.
The best comment that I heard about media bias was from a conversation I had with a major news anchor nearly 20 years ago. Off the record she says, "We are biased both ways. Most reporters are liberal, and most owners of the media are right-wing. So most stories slant left, but on the big ones we're forced to slant right.*

This was before Fox News became so powerful, and media became more explicitly ideologically divided. I sometimes wonder how much it has changed since.

But given how any left-wining news outlets Rupert Murdoch owns, probably there remains a lot of truth to the observation.
Nintendo releases more software than Toyota
Interesting. I wonder what qualifies as a "major surface ship"? Presumably not 50 foot coast guard cutters?
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We've seen nations grow beyond the bounds of tribal/regional origins into ethnically diverse multicultural and multilingual economic powerhouses. The US and most European countries are good examples of this. As long as a lingua franca remains mostly dominant and people acclimate to others acting differently around them, it's a perfectly natural state. Ancient Rome and Ancient China both prospered economically under these conditions. Nationalism in all it's incarnations has historically been an attempt to reassert tribal balance in favor of some formerly dominant but now sub-dominant group and it rarely ends well for that group.
Your source is interesting, but devoid in those stats are human values, which are much harder to measure and add a weighting to each of those bins that may shift the histogram. I don't even think the framing shown here is without some level of bias, for example, they put all types of cancer into one bucket, they treat road fatalities the same as falls and other accidents. It's very hard if not impossible to color the results somewhat, and it's a struggle we have to always deal with and be mindful of.
It's interesting that studies from across the pond show otherwise, with the NHS endorsing e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation device.
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Nice page, but unless you have never used software for math before, I am not sure it's very useful.
> Well no objectively it is not.

Show me something better. I'm not saying it's as balanced as you _could_ get.

Again, it's about how you post it. I've posted at least a handful of libertarian or conservative ideas that have gotten upvoted. You just have to make your case carefully. Snark gets downvoted, for instance. Rightwing or libertarian snark gets downvoted more, granted. They police tone here, not so much ideas. I think it's a fruitful policy.
"A corporation is inherently an immoral actor"

This is not true.

And FYI big corporations are also stupid in many ways.

I'd argue they've operationalized some core things, everything else is wishy washy at best.
Why are DP problems so popular for interviews? I am doing leetcode now and they seem to be everywhere.
Mongo itself, per-se? Never. (single write master = scaling bottleneck)

A document database? Whenever I wanted to lump certain "tables" worth of data together literally ALWAYS (as in modeling many real-world entities) in my CRUD operations.
Literally the opposite use case of what the person below me outlined with "whenever the data structure may change too frequently" as I see relational-dbs directly applicable to aggregations (data analysis/metrics) and frequently-changing amorphous data structures in which various concretely and atomically known entities have their interactions and composition fleshed-out.

When you need to take that and run and run hard, documents make sense, then you can look at turning that into primitives (key:value mapping like ohm...?)

Incidentally, there are decent commercial MongoDB SAAS vendors, but running your own replica-set is somewhat cumbersome, and I've personally experienced data-loss suddenly on a self-hosted system after 1 year of flawless operation and 5 nines of uptime...
Url changed from https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/26/apple-arm-hire-mac/, which points to this.
I was a bit confused with it being called a consonant.

After some research, although I had a flawed understanding of vowels and consonants, I think it's classified as a semivowel.
Given that DisplayPort 2.0 was literally just announced, you really can't compare the performance/usability of X to DP2.0.
So they'll finally stop recommending me Asmongold clips? Hallelujah!
They get money and there's no way anyone could ever find out if they continue to log people regardless. Free money getting to track all firefox users is a pretty great incentive.
There's a decent wiki page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R
SymPy turns "maths" into "programming", using python syntax instead of maths syntax, so if you already like programming, then you might just like SymPy... but as someone who likes maths, and likes programming: the programming maths parts is also the mind numbing part, and any line fewer I can write, I will take.

So to me, this article just confronts me with the soul-destroying parts of modern maths, while claiming that those are apparently the fun bits. I have no idea how to reconcile those two things so I can pass that learning on to someone who might be getting interested in maths...
Sure you can, the same way TV shows have done it - by subtly incorporating it into the text of the article.
I'm surprised that noise like this reached the HN homepage.
The argument indeed isn’t about the language, but about the reason why the language doesn’t have generics. The fact that some predefined functions are developped using something looking like a generic type system, or not, is an interesting factor in this conversation.
It's just a growl, but short and controlled
I have tried to figure all this out for my raspberry pi + HDMI monitor and everything is a grey area.

Monitors use DPMS:
DPMS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Display_Power_Management_...

I tried this with my Pi and could get it to sleep and wake, but waking would not seem to send an image, even though the backlight came on.

Also confusing is that monitors also use HDMI, which seems to be from another standards body. It appears some TVs can do lots of stuff using HDMI-CEC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control

but the TVs I've bought support it poorly. Either it's hard to find if they support it, and when they do they might only support it piecemeal. It's sort of age and odel dependent. I've never seen a monitor that supports HDMI-CEC.
It's covered a little in the TAL episode on NUMMI[1]. There's also a bit of it involved with TWI[2][3]. I'd read some other interesting things about skill transfer post-WW2 with the Marshall Plan but having trouble finding the original source material.

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/403/nummi-2010

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Within_Industry#Post_...

[3] https://twi-institute.org/training-within-industry/history/
Who says it even has the same kingmakers every day? Slashdot solved that part of metamoderation two decades ago.

A person might be an expert in cars but not horses. A car expert might be superseded . The seed data creators could be a fluid thing.
Shelf companies is an interesting approach I hadn't considered.

I wouldn't call anything you described easy, but I'm not a nation state trying to illegal smuggle banned goods. I disagree that you can churn and burn these, but you've made a good point.
I've never read a single post in The_Donald, and only rarely read reddit as a whole. I couldn't claim any idea of the group's views (though the habit of claiming the other team's ideas are things like "violent, separatist rhetoric" is pretty common, so pardon me if I don't take your word for it). I'm simply talking about the trend with conservatives, and those right of center, in general.

I don't have any particular love for the modern Republican party. I'm just pointing out how ridiculous it is for them to setup shop on platforms owned by their political rivals and then be surprised when excuses are found to shut them down.
Yes, thank you - I only mean in terms of organization.
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I just want to stop seeing an ad that drives my spouse absolutely insane. Nope. No option to not see it anymore.
Does Microsoft (ad owner) or Google (ad provider) perform the fingerprinting in this case?
Are there plans to improve C interop ? i mostly care about opengl
I disagree. The tech crowd is using adblockers to prevent spying and resource consumption. But majority of people running adblockers just don't want to see ads.
> The banning of The Donald is going to drive an even bigger wedge between the two sides of the political spectrum.

This keeps getting repeated over and over again and does not correspond with reality.

/r/the_donald is a forum full of obvious bots, spin doctoring, and people with openly extreme and antisocial views. Out entire history has shown that the "deplatforming" of these views works.

The views in that forum are not part of a majority, nor what most people would associate with mental sanity. You would do well to dive into the content.
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Actually I have pretty bad eyesight, so I wear glasses all the time. But maybe that is the key, maybe it's more of a problem for people who have very slight near- or far-sightedness so they don't wear glasses etc., but the really fine detail is hard to see.
In my cursory research, desiccant pack may not actually be a foolproof solution. E.g. in the link[0] of opinions from shoe collectors, do a Ctrl+F search for "silica" and note that the last 2 people say it can harm the shoes.

(I'm not saying they're right because it's not easy to tell who is making scientifically valid claims.)

[0] open in new tab to avoid breaking the Back button: https://solecollector.com/news/2015/05/how-to-store-sneakers
USA doesn't need to open its borders indiscriminately, what I'm saying is that it should take responsibility for some of the fallout of its own meddling with Latin American democracies and economies.

Indiscriminately opening the borders is just as bad as indiscriminately closing them, there should be a fair review process to accept some of those refugees. Expecting Mexico to become "the wall" will just stall the humanitarian crisis a few years.
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nobody asks you to switch

it is always nice to try new stuff, it makes u aware of current trends, and ready to move in case of job opportunity
i hear there are subreddits for rational political discourse. i dont remember their names, i use r/goldandblack for libertarian matters, (it is often frequented by leftists too). In fact i dont remember any substantial political debates in HN for years now, do you?

> it's about how you post it

I dont use snark but my posts are blunt. If i have to preface all my comments with social engineering fluff , i already know it's not the place to post it.
There is Weboob which might interest you http://weboob.org
> Google Analytics belongs to the former category and does by default not collect any personally identifying information.

IP addresses, timestamps, and webpages viewed over time is absolutely personally identifiable information.
Youtube Red probably.
Thanks! I've detached my reply from the original thread and collapsed it.
Haha I've known for years and I still use <br />. Usually the linter will nag me, but otherwise I just don't care enough to fix it.
Yeah, no joke. Kids shouting in your ear can cause permanent damage. I have a friend whose kid did that to them, and they now have problems hearing with that ear.
Yes I thought about it that's why "unless the user turns it off" comment in parens. I think out of 100 sites I visit everyday no website needs to access the audio api without my consent maybe except one or two which i can whitelist. Same for user agent, I don't think it should break if the container says I'm running firefox v65 or v67, etc.
I would say obfuscation is a valid strategy if also coupled with good security practices / algorithmic security. You're no less secure than if you were using the common flavors of good security practices (assuming you didn't create a mistake in rolling your own, which is a difficult assumption) but the effort required to target you is much higher than normal, and you are somewhat shielded from blanket-applying zero days.
Jesus, this dude sounds quite insufferable.
Adsense is just going to start providing content for you to inline into your site.

Kind of like how https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/ is just a sequence of ads being flawlessly delivered to an ad-averse demographic that eats the ads up.
Hell, I'd even enjoy a filter that analyzes the audio and filters out anything that's below a given (low) bar of sensible discourse. I wonder how hard it would be to categorize the really awful rhetoric? It's very formulaic.

Maybe give me a slider like the old SlashDot days so I could fine tune it depending on my mood :)
>I think these companies are optimizing on metrics that (ostensibly) show an improved experience

They're optimizing for highest profits. For Netflix, that means showing you videos with the lowest licensing fees. For Youtube, that means showing videos where the uploader has paid to boost it.
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> Reddit is huge and there's no real competitor. It's basically a monopoly, in its niche. "Deplatforming" whole groups because of their political views, however nutty, is a very slippery slope. Unless you also support speech you don't like - you don't really support free speech!

Unlike Facebook and Google, which exert truly horrendous amounts of power over very significant aspects of people's lives, Reddit is, fundamentally, just another forum. It even has its older versions open-sourced.

In fact, There are reddit clones where these things are perfectly allowed.

And those clones are cesspits of schizophrenics, fascists, and deeply disturbed people.
At that point I think most people wouldn't care. Nobody is offended because James Bond wears an Omega watch. When it is doing not so subtly then it becomes weird (e.g.: transformers)
Ironically, I wonder how many of the folks that were laid off recently (http://fortune.com/2016/09/11/apple-self-driving-car-layoffs...) landed a position at Drive.ai only to be brought back into the clan?
The situation is much worse for the dogs in Ukraine as after passing of the new language law they can't bark "ghav-ghav" in Russian anymore and must instead bark "dzyav-dzyav" in Ukrainian.
I'm doing both. I don't want to be spied on, and there is no room in any sector of my life for corporate propaganda.
Was just talking to a family member recently about this. Her daughter is into horses and so is watching a lot of showjumping videos. Apparently the algorithm keeps trying to lead her off towards increasingly bad showjumping accident videos and from there basically into /r/watchpeopleandhorsesdie
> It doesn’t allow ad blocking anywhere else, which is most of the platform.

It also works inside apps adopting Safari View Controller.