skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 1, I use Temporary Containers[0] and have it set to auto-start and delete the containers as soon as the last related window closes.

It's a PIA for logging into things (e.g.: companies who use three different redirects to three different sub-domains) but that complaint is my fault, based on how I've configured it.

That plus deleting history on close of Firefox isn't enough to thwart the most egregious adversary (e.g.: those with three-lettered names) but should be enough for privacy concerns.

For 2, I might also recommend Canvas Fingerprint Detector[1]. Instead of not replying (which could be, in and of itself, a fingerprint[2]), it generates a random fingerprint signature in response; though, in principle, this might be a tracking vector, as well.

[0] - https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/canvas-finger...

[2] - https://multilogin.com/how-canvas-fingerprint-blockers-make-...
How do companies typically implement this? Do they not offer free trials to Quebec residents, or charge for the trial, or offer a free trial that automatically ends?
The asymmetry comes from the value of the outcomes. For Amazon, a multi-billion dollar corporation, the mistake is negligible. For a photographer, it may be the deal of a lifetime.
Last time I checked IBM was alive and doing well.
I disagree with you, but also with many of the answers that disagree with you.

My stance is that the reason you are allowed to get refunds is to maintain an healthy consumer ecosystem and disincentivize online scams.

I agree that it is not a morally good choice to take advantage of a obvious mistake (even if consideration of who gets damaged by this is relevant and non trivial) and in this sense I agree that there is a moral asymmetry in consumer-company relations that is not entirely morally justified.

On the other hand from a legal standpoint I believe this is how it should be.
I’d pay good money for someone to turn this in to a macOS screensaver.
There will always be something to strive for. Without bad there's no good. Happiness is like a garden.
In the Netherlands, two similar cases went to court and judges have ruled that the selling party does not have to deliver in such a case. Dutch sources here:

https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati...

https://www.techzine.nl/nieuws/42639/otto-hoeft-goedkope-lcd...
At this point the housing bubble in Australia likely can't be ended without triggering a recession.
> If you accidentally purchased a bag of M&Ms from Amazon for 500 dollars instead of 5, they will let you undo it.

[citation needed]

Audible (part of Amazon) started billing me silently for a subscription I did not use, for several years, after I had used a free trial. When I discovered it and canceled the subscription, I could see how around the time the free trial was converted to a running paid subscription, they had also stopped emailing me about anything. My card was automatically charged in the middle of each month, for a relatively small amount, and the bank statement did not make it clear that it was for Audible - all clearly designed to make me not notice what was going on. It worked. All in all, they charged me hundreds of dollars for nothing.

Were they a good sport about it? No, I had to sit on the phone for half an hour to talk to someone with very poor English skills, and got only the last payment back.
One thing you can do though is tile an octahedron by just hexagons. At each of the 6 corners you end up with 2 hexagons which border each-other along 2 edges (instead of the usual 1). If you blow this octahedron up into a sphere those hexagons appear to be pentagons, because two of their edges are colinear (i.e. the same great-circle arc).

This can be nicer in some cases: the edge case your hexagon-grid algorithms have to deal with is having a hexagon with one of the same neighbors twice, instead of needing to worry about pentagons per se.
Or show a flick under "continue watching" that you deliberately stopped watching because you didn't like it. Even disliking doesn't help - it's still wasting a tile - just greyed out.
Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming (1996) [pdf]
Practically speaking, you would have to use Chromium as a base, if you want the product to be successful. And if you do that, Google has a million ways to screw you up. One of the first obstacles you will find will be Widevine. Hardly anyone moves past that point.
The current way wiki design is exactly that.
Galileo has not declared Full Operational Capability (scheduled for 2020), it's still in the Initial Services stage. It's a bit like complaining that a beta has bugs.
First real autocomplete for GraphQL queries in both JS in browser and NodeJS and TS.

Generate library using zeus command:

$ zeus https://faker.graphqleditor.com/aexol/olympus/graphql ./generated

And use it like this

let DionysusCard = await Api(

'https://faker.graphqleditor.com/aexol/olympus/graphql'

).Mutation.addCard({

card: {

name: 'Dionysus',

description:

'Dionysus is the Greek god of wine, has the power to bring the dead back to life.',

Attack: 1,

Defense: 15,

Children: 9

}

})({

id: true,

name: true

});
"I don't remember the last time a writer had to claim asylum in the USA from France or Portugal or the UK to get their ideas published."

That's a rally bad argument because you would never happen to know any writer with opinions that are that controversial because someone wound never even get to be known. And also why does it has to be a writer?

"Sure, there are restrictions on denying the holocaust" You say that as ifs not a big deal because you do not get it. That is the entire point. In the US you can say and publish petty much everything that is opinion based as long as you not call for violence against someone. And if they are public persons you can even say pretty despicable things about them. Its actually pretty simple and nowhere else it is that way and clearly and simply definded straight to the point like that. That is why people like to say it because its true.

But social media is writing its own laws now and they hate freedom even fdroid now. Twitter based on some stupid UN SJW bullshit for example.

There is no Free Speech in Germany and elsewhere in supposedly "free" countries. And the UK is actually very horrible, total surveillance state prosecuting people for doing journalism ... it quite fits the Gap is from there but if pretty much could be anywhere. Tech is infested with SJW types. WordPress got already censored by them. Linux has some stupid code of conduct now when you have to cuddle everyone ... its clear that happens. We well see countries writing stuff into laws soon and then these laws will be used again the people who wanted them in when the next administration has its go with them. Would be fun to watch if not so fucking annoying to say "told you so" all the time.
>Secondly, yes, most contractor focus on money, not really doing the best job they can (I mean, in many way, the fire is a proof of this).

I specifically said I wasn’t disputing the claim in general, only the extent to which a contractor would risk it like this in a high-profile case.
> What is the key reason to use photon size

Photon size wasn't used. Micron is an unofficial name for 1e-6 m, the lengths of 0.7e-6 m to 1e-3 m correspond to the wavelength of infrared radiation:

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

So "those 10 micron photons" there mean "the photons of the radiation with the wavelength of 1e-6 m."
Deep in the Dark: Enhancing Malware Traffic Detection with Deep Learning
Isn't that already the case?

I thought that when you use multiprocessing in Python, a new process gets forked, and while each new process has separate virtual memory, that virtual memory points to the same physical location until the process tries to write to it (i.e. copy-on-write)?
This has nothing to do with morality. It is purely economic. Amazon makes a decision whether they can afford to absorb this mistake, and gain brownie/internet/karma/customer-service/loyalty points, or that they cannot afford to absorb and in that case they will simply not honor the mistake.

A smaller vendor would probably not have the luxury of that option.

Economics, really.
what is a pain about using Tor?
Very cool, although that picture in the narrow tunnel does not look very inviting. Especially not if I think about how crowded some landmarks can become. Imagine being stuck with 400 other tourists for 2 hours in tunnels like that.
Going as far as co-processors for 3D rendering[0] - image buying a game today that comes with its own GPU!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX
Service was restored yesterday shortly before 9pm UTC: https://www.gsc-europa.eu/notice-advisory-to-galileo-users-n...
I am one of those people, and I do this whenever people want more performance, connectivity or anything else that the PI 3 or PI 4 doesn't have. Then in my view a logical alternative is to man up and pay the reasonable price for an Intel NUC to achieve the solution one is looking for.
What about Tor Browser?
>>You know when humanity started evolving rapidly? When real estate stopped being the main driver for wealth. And you know how the system where the main source of wealth was real estate was named? Feudalism.

Real estate stopped being the main source of wealth because other sources of wealth grew, not because the state interfered in the market to hobble real estate as an investment.

Humanity began progressing rapidly because of better enforcement of private property rights, which made investment to create productive capital more profitable.

Deliberately harming the real estate market by making it harder to invest in it will do no such thing, and will only add to the restrictions that have increasingly suppressed housing supply growth, and worsened housing affordability:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images...
To be fair, the Netherlands is tiny: Amsterdam to Rotterdam is only 60 km (~37 mi) apart. There are plenty of Americans who live that far away from their work city and commute in by car.
Does the container provide "fake" lowest common denominator environment so that your browser cannot be fingerprinted? Are mouse movements and keyboard typing frequency randomized to avoid matching one's behavior to a subset of all users? If not, you are easy to spot.
There is a new ownCloud app for viewing images and videos
I do that. Then people hate me because all my variable names are single letters...

At least, for functions use self-documenting names instead of "f", "g", as in math.
Show HN: Fund a Maker launched to support bootstrapped startups
Our Waistlines Are Widening But Many of Us Are in Denial About Our Health

The growing epidemic of overweight to the point that an estimated two thirds of us are in this condition has been attributed to a number of factors. But two big causes rise quickly to the top of the pile. Our modern sedentary and inactive lifestyles and the abundance of high calorie, nutrient devoid, processed food full of chemicals. These 'so called' foods throw our metabolism 'out of whack' unbalancing the hormones that tell us when to eat and when to stop eating.

One of the factors that precedes weight gain and is believed to be the ultimate cause of becoming overweight is a becoming resistant to the hormone insulin. This hormone's job is to regulate concentrations of blood glucose. If blood sugar goes too high insulin is shunted into the blood stream to bring it back down.

It does is job in several ways, first it increases the rate of uptake of glucose by mainly muscle cells for use as fuel. Then it converts any excess that is not taken up by the cells into body fat for storage. But when a person develops insulin resistance their body no longer can maintain ideal blood glucose levels. So, more glucose is converted into fat and high levels remain in the blood stream along with high insulin levels which find their way into places they should not be and cause damage.

People are encouraged to get themselves started on a proper exercise program not only to lose excess weight but to decrease resistance to insulin. When strength training exercise is performed the muscle cells use up the excess glucose for energy and can take more of it from the blood stream so less is left for fat storage and to do damage to arteries and other sensitive tissues. Do not expect low intensity activities like walking, jogging or cycling to have this effect as they do not directly work the muscles intensely enough through their ranges of movement.

Somehow we have to get past the "I'm fat and its okay" notion. It is not just about acceptance of appearance but something way more important - it is about health. The journey back to a healthy weight is simple.https://freepdfreview.com/naturethin-review/
Intel CEO Pins 10nm Delay on the Company's Aggressive Design Goals
The aliasing / moiré artifacts are also dramatically less objectionable with hexagonal grids.

Now that image sensors and e.g. smartphone displays are very high resolution, and most content ends up going through multiple resampling routines on its way from capture -> storage/processing -> display, I would love to see people start to experiment with hexagon-grid cameras and displays. The slightly more complicated resampling wouldn’t really be a big deal for modern DSP hardware, and the visual output could be significantly better for the same pixel count.
This is the same reason astronomers like HEALPix tiling for skymaps [0]. Equal areas-per-pixel (important for integrating over areas) with straightforward spherical harmonics calculations and hierarchical extensions that can store images at multiple resolutions by subdividing base cells (LIGO uses one such hierarchical strategy for our low-latency gravitational wave source direction estimates [1]).

[0] https://healpix.sourceforge.io

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03634
> But of cause just like everything else in government, the main aim of the future is to build up huge infrastructure projects... If they'd taken the money they would have spent on this large project and instead just lowered fares

Exactly. Why did they ever bothered building highways, ports and airports. That's just silly nonsense. They should have just taken the money and lowered the horse feed prices.
> It's a PIA for logging into things

...which is why it's probably better to use multi-account containers that isolate and store your cookies in that container, for sites such as gmail that you use a lot. It's very simple to set it up to always auto-open in that container, no matter which container you type the address into.
Amazon China Officially Closed Business with Third Party Vendors
The incessant captchas.
If that wasn't so utterly arbitrarily enforced it would pass the smell test.
Entrepreneurs go after money to survive, where is money in selling a private browser? Moreover, using some niche addon is a very nice signal to fingerprint one in the ocean of privacy-unaware users.
I like the charity-starts-at-home approach. I don't know how people do this in first world countries, but in developing countries is relatively easy to find a cause.
He net roughly 3 million USD dollars [1] after a bunch of resale activity, per complaint (case 2:19-mj-00321-PLM).

[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/07/17/us_v_kvashuk.pdf page 25
You point to a hypothetical alternative: "instead of everyone".

The underlying assumption is that, when you (and characters you do not object to) were portrayed in mass media entertainment, everyone was covered too.

The target audience isn't just black people and gay couples: it's black people, gay couples, and those who do not object to the aforementioned groups.
You can enable privacy.resistFingerprinting in firefox's about:config to thwart fingerprinting.
"... despite efforts to conceal his identity ... to hide public blockchain transactions using a Bitcoin mixing service."

Does someone have details on what he was trying to do here and why did he have to use bitcoin mixing in the first place?
Proposal to Pump 74T Tons of Snow onto the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
This almost looks like a quack article but then there are prominent names like Hameroff and Stanza in the article which leaves me very confused. Why would such intelligent people engage this kind of pseudoscientific speculation? Or is there some scientific evidence for this kind of stuff?
> You are saying it's okay for ISPs to charge per packet rather than per pipe size.

Not my intention, sorry. Per-packet pricing would be ridiculous indeed.

> not sure what you are trying to say with your seedbox example.

"Per pipe size" pricing doesn't mean you only have maintenance costs. Because it's technically unfeasible to guarantee "pipe size" bandwidth to all routes on the internet to all your clients. So if i keep "my" pipe filled, you may have to add new cables/switches or maybe upgrade some transit plan.

So i can understand that with a 10Gbit/s uplink you may never reach these limits because your network is already oversized for your needs. But many people (even actual ISPs) don't have 10Gbit/s uplinks. Or at least not 10Gbit/s of transit (although they may have 1-10Gbit/s peering links with other local entities).
Microsoft employs many contractors, we tend to call them "vendor staff" internally. More often than not these people will come from external companies who supply the staff, but they will be based on-site and embedded onto a team for the duration of their contract.

Pretty sure I can't name any of our vendor companies, but you can take a guess at some of the bigger ones I'm sure.
Recently the Go team decided not to add the try-keyword to the language. I'm not a Go programmer and was a bit stumped by the decision until I saw a talk of Rob Pike regarding the fundamental principle of Go to stick to simplicity first. [1]

One of the takeaways is, that most languages and their features converge to a point, where each language contains all the features of the other languages. C++, Java and C# are primary examples. At the same time complexity increases.

Go is different, because of the simplicity first rule. It easens the burden on the programmer and on the maintainer. I think python would definitely profit from such a mindset.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM
> You can rack lines of caffeine like coke, and they do wire you up, but the anxiety and nausea makes it really not worth it.

A teaspoon of caffeine will kill most people, like it did this young man a week or so ago:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/man...
What do you consider a high percentage?

Looking at Oxfam, it's 10% admin and 7% fundraising [1], which doesn't seem too bad given their global reach.

Admittedly their reputation has taken a bit of a tumble due to the scandals.

[1] https://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate/how-we-spend-your-money
How one engineer's birdwatching made Japan's bullet train better
That doesn't quite solve the problem unfortunately. If this is the only solution then the subject of some content can repudiate it by not signing it, even if it did actually happen.

For example if the president was filmed saying something in public he later wanted to deny, he could just claim it was faked. The person who filmed it could sign it, but who are they and what authority do they have to claim that they didn't fake it?
> _language of instruction is more or less irrelevant_.

Since it is 'irrelevant', perhaps the colonial state can stop sapping our taxes to fund 'english-only' universities, and instead educate and 'skill' the 90 % (instead of teaching them broken english). It's insane that being pro-British empire is a stance that is even morally justified in a nation of 1 billion.

It's not at all surprising that India's socio-economic indicators are worse even compared to Africa. How would it not be, when the state sucks the blood of the non-elite basically to create an endless supply of white-collar labour for English-speaking nations.
Also known as, Web development keeps re-discovering 90's best practices of native GUI development.
Functional Programming Jargon in Rust
> - 100% uptime (not "five nines", literally 100% uptime)

There's literally no such thing as 100% uptime. You can add more "nines", meaning that disruptions become exponentially less likely, but that's still very different from "100%".
India, Vietnam and others are a big beneficiary of the US-China trade war.
>>Actually, most buildings constructed in the last 10 years in big cities

what cities? In China? I hard about that but frankly in Eastern European countries the aim to last 100 years.
Same in USA AFAIK. Properly prepared concrete last quite a long time, if protected from the elements.
I imagine that if you do this, you'd sell gift cards for store currency in Bitcoin, and presumably also in cash. You'd probably want to avoid using bank transactions.
People also manage to make a profit from food, water, electricity, employment, medicine and so on.
Rental car companies frequently resort to personalized pricing. I've been in situations where just by using a different country TLD to make your reservation you could get a 2x price difference. Same car, same options, everything. So, good for you that you get a good deal out of this.
> Now what they should do is just run everything 50 percent faster at high speed to get the cycles down to 20 minutes.

I'm not sure the math works out that way.
>How do you find such contract work?

It's a misnomer[0]. You usually find this work through vendor companies that actually hold the contracts with BigCo's. To the BigCo, you're a contractor but you're "technically" an FTE with the vendor company, who holds the actual contract (head count x duration) to work at the BigCo.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misnomer
An investment opportunity just means a shortage that you can profitably fill.

Preventing people from making money by investing in real estate just means housing shortages are less effectively filled.

That's essentially what rent control does, and economists are almost unanimous about the harm it has done to housing affordability:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html
Intel Builds a Neuromorphic System with 64 to 768 Loihi Chips: 8-100M Neurons
I would also point the finger at Free to Play games simply undercutting the single purchase games and diluting the market for AAA studios big budget games.

One more thought is the idea of the "Forever Game". It seems the longtail development cost of already released games keeps growing. So how do you fund it? Is that a cause or a symptom of the drive toward profit?
Fedora, Gnome Software, and Snap
I believe that once WASM matures a little bit more we will get that tooling back, alongside Flash's revenge.
Discussion: How Fast Are Aeternity's State Channels?
I think the temptation to "rewrite the whole thing" is often strong with a large legacy project, and often doesn't pan out as well as it seems because while it is effective at eliminating a lot of the cruft and architectural missteps of the legacy codebase, it also means throwing out all of the subtle behaviors and edge-case-handling which has been built up over years of iteration.

I am a proponent of the disposable-code philosophy though: no system should be considered "off limits", and a healthy codebase should probably be completely rewritten every couple of years. It should just be done incrementally, in a modular way in most cases rather than throwing out the whole thing and starting again.
>...we tend to call them "vendor staff" internally...

There was a time when MSFT called them "dash trash". Good times. /s
I wouldn't mind paying 10-20$ per year for a decent browser. At scale it might be profitable.
Also check out,

http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/

Rather than a 'caste-system', the bigger factor in determining economic success in India is linguistic ability. Even the supreme-courts in India won't hear anything in a language other than English. It's quite insane TBH.
I would hope that Africa would be, too, but it seems like that is a hope for the future.