skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow! I thought I disliked GNU but after all this... damn. This project made me dig deep into other GNU projects. I have to say I am extremely impressed. GNUnet, their featured and upcoming applications are intriguing. There is even GNU Taler, a privacy-preserving payment system. These projects are remarkable. I hope that they will continue working on them. They must! This is the direction I would like the future to take. I love the Secushare website, too, it is utterly informative and the design is pleasing my eyes. The content is stimulating my mind. Their goals are restoring my faith. Please make this a reality! I am so excited about this!

Thank you so much! If someone can afford to help them (Secushare, GNUnet) financially, please do! I will dig even deeper and try to contribute as much as I can as I have some knowledge in C and cryptography.

For anyone who is interested in contributing to Secushare: https://secushare.org/introduction (especially the "How can you help?" section)

For anyone who is interested in contributing to GNUnet: https://gnunet.org/en/engage.html
Another possibility is that the "new" media threatens the "old" media so much that the old media feels compelled to exaggerate the problems with new media. Sure it's different. There is more noise than consensus. The next generation of humanity might well consider that a benefit. Don't expect old media to figure that out; all of their incentives pull in the other direction.
A lot of HN’s electorate’s salaries depend upon not understanding the importance of software freedom.

After all, the server we are using to communicate is paid for with dollars made from keeping source code secret from the users of that same software.

Let’s not forget that this is first and foremost a commercial YC project. HN is not free software and its source is not available to its users. It is unsurprising that users here are hostile to the plain, objective fact that it is clearly and self-evidently impossible to own a sequence of bits in the same way one can own a physical object.
Says my Chrome and Firefox on Linux (ubuntu) not supported. :(
Hijacking the session can be a lot harder (especially if the site has defenses built to detect that) than stealing a key. The access is also a lot less persistent.
Met Police gave images for King's Cross facial recognition scans
True story.

There is no endless RAM, even for browsers :)

DOM-nodes are rather heavy compared to simple JS objects, so getting rid of them can bring some visualizations that are too heavy for the browser back into the realm of doable.

After that you have to optimize your other data-structures. If you have objects with many boolean fields or strings that are essentially used as enums, you can try to replace them with bit-fields, I read some library creators (BlueBird promise) got much performance gains with them.
I'm really excited for this. I'm unaware of any mainstream language with first class support for differentiation, I think its going to be really interesting to see what people use it for out side of ML.
Related, have a look at the Sysinternals tools [1], particularly Process Explorer [2], a powerful "Task Manager" replacement.

Sysinternals used to be Mark Russinovich's external company that provided expert Windows debugging. His blog was impressive, and my little finger tells me he knew more about Windows internals than Microsoft did.

So Microsoft acquihired Sysinternals, and his tools continue to be supported :)

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
They also are using Stencil for many of their web components in the app, like the music video player. http://stenciljs.com
You're 100% correct.

The point isn't just about causality. As an undergraduate, one of my philosophy professors (Bill Lycan) told a class "never attempt to define anything in terms of counterfactuals. No matter what it is, there will be decisive counterexamples."

To be super-clear, this is not a statement about Pearl, and it's not denying that counterfactuals are interesting, just a claim that you can't define much of anything in terms of them.

P.S. He actually said "analyze", but the way philosophers use that term, it's appropriate to make the substitution to avoid confusion.
This was the reason I chose Spotify over Apple music all those years ago.

Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? Spotify's recommendations have been absolutely stellar for me over the years and I have a lot of playlists and stuff "locking" me in.
This is great advice and isn't followed often enough, especially when reviewing code written by people new to an organization/team:

> If you see something nice in the CL, tell the developer, especially when they addressed one of your comments in a great way. Code reviews often just focus on mistakes, but they should offer encouragement and appreciation for good practices, as well. It’s sometimes even more valuable, in terms of mentoring, to tell a developer what they did right than to tell them what they did wrong.

I've seen cases where people got hundreds of comments (many of them minor, nitpicky) from more experienced developers and were discouraged by the sheer number of them. That most new developers naturally suffer from imposter syndrome is not helped at all by 100% critical code reviews.
Uh, do you mean two weeks of only water? Do you do this for weight loss? Do you work out? I would be very afraid to mess-up my metabosm. How do you prevent that?
"Technical facts and data overrule opinions and personal preferences." So true, so true!

Now if teams pay careful attention to this statement, the Code Review Guidelines can be shortened by an order of a magnitude! ;-)
When Apple decides the mobile app for Music is worth their salt, then maybe. But until then Spotify will rule the market.
I just like separating information acquisition from entertainment, because things that try to fill both roles tend to be bad at both.

I'm also not proposing to make it illegal to write long-form articles, just asking whether there is a service that transforms them into a form that I personally prefer.
Simply, varargs functions didn't use the register calling convention. Varargs is rarely used outside of printf, and so isn't worth the effort optimizing. Indeed, the Linux 64 bit ABI for varargs is hopelessly klunky, but it doesn't really matter.
Is 50MB that important? I would just use whatever provides you with the best experience (whichever that may be).
Thing is, Slack makes it far too easy for orgs to use it for free.

I work at a megacorp, and we use Slack without paying a single penny.

We have a Slack account setup per project, which typically have 5-50 members. We don't care too much about search or history, we just want a simple chat and audio call solution that isn't horrible to use. Slack fits that bill.

To be clear, this doesn't sit well with me; we should be paying for a service we make good use of - but Slack makes it so damn easy for us to get away with it!

Maybe this is part of some long-term strategy, to basically give it away until it becomes ubiquitous, and then scale back the free tier?
The Linux mtd stack is incredibly primitive by today's standards. It's primarily targeted at small SLC flash devices, like the ones you're describing that might be found in a small embedded device, not the large MLC (or beyond) devices that are used in modern storage.

It's telling that high-end embedded Linux devices, like Android phones, typically use storage devices which implement their own translation layer, like eMMC or NVMe devices, not raw flash.
Yep and the web components are built with Stencil: http://stenciljs.com/
I will teach you how to check that: https://i.imgur.com/HjhAmQW.gif

Here are the statistics just in case anyone else is interested:

1,519 Sources
38 Forks
18 Archived
6 Mirrors
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1,581 Total

Source: https://github.com/google
Interesting, I'm using Fx 68.0.2 on Solus without any issues.
Restricting Users
Not accusing them of breaking laws. Just manipulating the valuation knowing it's not supportable.
Oh, I already have IBS, so that's a hard pass for me.
> But are you saying that ads never influence decisions or actions? That seems.... impossible. Ads must work sometimes. The degree to which they may or may not, however, is extremely hard to figure out, as you note. The study that this HN thread is about doesn't shed much light either, other than saying that "people can sometimes have their decisions influenced." Same as always.

Nobody is saying that ads have literally 0.00000% effect. (I would strongly disagree with such a claim: https://www.gwern.net/Everything )

What I am disagreeing with is the claim that they are so powerful and so obviously pass a cost-benefit test that they are known to work and further, that the mere fact that people buy ads is sufficient to prove that they are highly effective and worth buying. ("Isn't it obvious? If political ads didn't swing votes, no one would run them.") All of these claims are quite likely to be wrong: the best evidence is that the average effect is minute (and one can't rule out even negative effects the opposite of desired), they probably do not pass a cost-benefit test because much commercial advertising does not, it is easy to be mistaken about their value, and given how 'obvious' it is that they work and which casual analysis would support such interpretations ('candidates who spend more on ads win more! isn't it obvious that ads work?!') we should not be surprised if people buy advertising even when the true effects are unknown, unknowable within reasonable possible experiments, and probably minute.
Not really. I've never used Apple Music, but as far as I can tell, it has no real free tier (just song previews) and it has a long way to go if it wants to compete with Spotify's playlists.

For example, regional playlists. Apple Music just has "Top 100 {country}" which is just radio pop music. Compare that to Spotify's Explore -> {Mexico,Colombia,Arab,etc} -> all the different subgenres.

Spotify's free tier is a no-brainer. I've had to listen to so many Spotify ads at parties and get-togethers that it's clear nobody cares about them either. Unless I'm missing something, Apple Music is just offering a three-month free trial.

Also, even if Apple Music managed to be a Spotify clone, doesn't it only work on iOS/OSX?
It appears even Apple themselves do not bother with using the overflow scrolling CSS that iOS needs.
Similar tools include WhatRuns [1] (Chrome only).

[1] https://www.whatruns.com/
Yes, it all comes down to money. Money = the means to influence = power.
It is interesting to note that citizens have been self-inflicting political bubbles upon themselves this for hundreds of years by surrounding themselves with similar-minded people (i.e., people who aren't going to argue with their politics).
Non-determinism isn't great though.

It could be useful to allocate a number of seats, but then deciding who filled those seats would be a matter of headache (or "trust the party!" goes into effect and removes direct voting)
Intuition is built-up over time. I would try and carve out smaller, well-defined tasks for the individual.

It may also be worth your company’s time and money to find some online training courses to target specific weak-points.
Three Databases in One
Lots of good ideas. Continue working on it.
Parameters? We have Object Cobol already!

https://supportline.microfocus.com/documentation/books/sx51/...
> the structure of these loans is almost exactly the same as a payday loan, even if the APR is dramatically less.

I don’t think this is the case. Payday loans compound interest, don’t they? You end up owing more money the longer you take to pay them off. With this, you only ever have to pay back the advance and fixed fee no matter how long it takes.
Seemingly random studies in biology can have unexpected benefits. Studying gecko toes led to the invention of a super-adhesive. https://geckskin.umass.edu/
I get that semi-regularly; do you have strict content blocking + fingerprinters turned on in Firefox? IIRC that advertises that you're on FF ESR and a few sites deem that too old.
For the privacy-minded, Apple Music doesn't notify Facebook each time you open the app. Spotify does.
Doesn't happen to everyone, and if does occur, it usually subsides after a week, but I would not recommend to someone who has IBS.
Nicely paced intro to D3.js except for the part where it matters the most. The `d3-selection` section where this guide introduces "the pattern", things begin to go downhill as the author loses the audience they claim to be targeting.

`.enter()` and `.exit()` is not covered at all, simply outsourced to the guide/demo by Mike Bostock, which is actually a really nice demo however it also omits explaining the mechanism.
> Uses 50MB less memory as the sole tab in Firefox than iTunes does on my Mac.

Well that's because iTunes also includes Calendar, and Mail, and Safari... ;)

https://youtu.be/psL_5RIBqnY?t=6254
Thanks, Wappalyzer looks pretty awesome.
Whatever. I was really hoping to see some improvements to the music-organization and display aspects here but it looks like they just re-implemented the weird parts of iTunes using html5.

For example:
It drives me crazy how Apple Music emphasizes the idea that "Recently Added" is only grouped by albums. I don't add whole albums to my library, I add individual songs. I want to play all the songs I've recently added because hey it's new music I like. Why can't I get an auto-updating playlist of all the songs I've recently added? None of the cloud-based Apple platforms support smart-playlists and the "Recently Added" section only lets you play songs from an individual album from which you may have only added a single song.

It's super weird. - Apple music seems to really push you into either whole albums or the overly-generic editor-curated playlists.
> For the privacy-minded, Apple Music doesn't notify Facebook each time you open the app.

Isn't there a way to disconnect Facebook from one's Spotify account altogether?
https://secushare.org/federation

https://secushare.org/architecture

In my opinion it is worth going over most if not all of the website's content. It is time-consuming, I know, but it is such a gold mine. There are links to other websites, too, and when I get the time I will open those links as well. So much useful information, so much to explore and learn! I love it.
Is this on the web or on the backend - use an adblocker if not?
Why would a web client be polished for the one platform that has absolutely no need for it?
On my iOS device, the link takes me to the Music app. I have to go back to Safari to see the web interface.

That said, I don't see the overflow (iPhone XS).
You can access iCloud Drive on the web at iCloud.com
Policy decisions should be made by elected reps, not a Silicon Valley elite
>“But the results are not rock solid because the study is very small and not well controlled.”

That's a significant disclaimer. I wish they'd not even call such things a trial.
Though now forgotten, much of the early european settlements in the Americas came from a sort of proto venture capital. Both Jamestown and the Mayflower for example, were private ventures with the intent of turning a profit. Of course many details remain to be filled in. While they sought gold, it's not clear that any riches will be found on the moon.
Here's the source code:

https://github.com/facebookarchive/warp

and the one for the C compiler I wrote long ago:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/master/dm/src/d...

which is integrated with the C lexer for speed reasons.
I don't even have a Facebook account. That doesn't stop Facebook's SDK from phoning home every time Spotify is opened.
That's only if you login with Facebook to Spotify... Which isn't required.
I would wager that a vast majority of them are personal projects. If you work at Google and want to do some open source project on the side, the code is owned by Google and is under Github.com/google. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15592968
Ok. I looked this up a bit, it seems to essentially be a variant of anarcho-syndicalism. The essential conceit of which appears to be "we're going to do centralized planning, but local, so it'll be good instead of bad". It's unclear to me why this would substantially resolve any of the serious criticisms of central planning (calculation problem, local knowledge problem, etc.)
> Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify?

The ability to upload one's library [1] is huge — I believe both Spotify and Apple Music still aren't very good with video game music.

[1] iCloud Music Library: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204926
>Nonsensical

E.g. One sentence of the 'cover text' I got read:

"Then, on September 8, 1816, Sherman surrounded Army headquarters and killed three emissaries and surrendered with large supplies and safety pins."

Sherman wasn't born until 1820.
This is an example of what I call "Feature vs. Product."

A classic example is Snapchat and Instagram. Snapchat was never something that stood on its own, as everything that made it unique would easily be duplicatable by Instagram, down to the tiniest feature. Theoretically, the network of users would be the unique value but it was nowhere near Facebook's size, and thus would not be able to truly compete. All it took was Instagram copying most every good feature to dominate the space.

In the article's case, each of the apps (Clue, Duet, DoApp, Voxer) were creating something that, while valuable to users at the time, was simply an addition to the existing functionality and in no way was a valuable product outside the context of the phone or iOS itself. Effectively, they were features wrapped in an app that in no way stood on their own.

If you want to make a successful app in the App Store, make something with value to a user that can stand alone.
Code Review Guidelines are an amalgamation of said technical facts and data, data gained through experience of the company's entire lifespan, but also mixed in with a ton of personal preferences along the way. The trick is separating the two ;)
While all true statements, anyone who has been anywhere near [brandname] Captial products know the reason why you are offering this structure is to get around lending laws.

Just be honest, you don't want to deal with the regulatory issues that surround offering a fair compounded interest rate.
No, you are mistaken. I have no Facebook account.

Spotify phones home to Facebook the moment the app is opened. This can be confirmed with a no-root firewall like Netguard on Android.
Oh! Related gripe - registration and login having different validation, removing it in the frontend 'fixing' it...

I've been able to supply my 'too long' password more than a few times that way, and it's transpired that actually it clearly was all stored on registration.

So on a whim I've tried it when registration's failed, and sure enough it's been stored, and then not validated on login.

It's so easy to do better, just don't do it in the frontend!
> 1) Make it their time
2) Mentor the whole person
3) Don’t give answers, provide strategies
4) Give homework
5) Don’t prevent all mistakes, just horrible ones
6) Don’t try to create a you-clone

https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2014/01/07/how-to-be-a-mentor...
i want something a lot more like dropbox or gdrive which have native applications, preferably with command line interfaces.
Hossenfelder is not a crackpot: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NaQZcyYAAAAJ
> An investigation by ProPublica identified more than 60 accidents since June 2015 involving Amazon delivery contractors that resulted in serious injuries, including 10 deaths.

Is that supposed to sound like a lot? Amazon delivers a staggering number of packages.
Very nice to see them provide a dark CSS theme via prefers-color-scheme, following system preference.
By accident I found a way to spend easy less time on HN. I was looking for a way to find more niche posts and made https://hackerer.news that separates posts by time from votes. Now I can quickly scan a day's posts and see new ones without rescanning the popular ones repeatedly. It's so quick to see everything at once in sections that I often get bored and do something else. It goes back a few days that I never feel like I'll miss anything.
Serial Peripheral Interface[SPI Bus]
In the "What Is Not An Emergency?" section:

> It is the end of the day on a Friday and it would just be great to get this CL in before the developer leaves for the weekend.

I laughed out loud because it reminded me of so many times I have seen it happen and then someone had to fix in the weekend.

Who shares the same experience?
http://info.perforce.com/rs/perforce/images/GoogleWhitePaper...
It’s not worth reporting at all on such a small uncontrolled trial. There is no value in this other than providing funding for a larger trial.

Discussing “why” this outcome occurred is ridiculous. Look at the numbers.
iCloud for Windows includes Drive: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283

If you are talking about Linux then you should be more explicit about that.
Skimming through, I found this:

> Copying technology has gotten tech giants in trouble before. Two decades ago, the Justice Department and 20 states sued Microsoft, whose operating system Windows was dominant at the time, after Microsoft copied the Netscape Web browser and made its own version, Internet Explorer, the default option in Windows. Microsoft settled the case.

That’s not exactly why they were sued. It was because they made it hard to uninstall IE and hard to install other browsers.
I think it will be very useful. Even just being able to retrieve the Win + arrow keys from the bizarre Windows Snap 'feature' will be great.

It's not quite ready for daily use yet. Behaviour across multiple monitors I've found unpredictable, the layout editor doesn't really work, and it does some peculiar things (like grabbing hold of the task bar Search window and trying to tile it, fortunately without resizing).

[edit: it also substantially slows switching between virtual desktop on my machine]
You can create a genius (or maybe it’s called smart) playlist in iTunes that is ordered by recently added. It does exactly what you need.
Why shouldn't there be lots of kinds of indexes? There are certainly ones like you describe. In practice it just doesn't matter, the large companies are so much larger that adding even thousands of tiny companies doesn't move the needle.

VTI is Vanguard's total stock market ETF which works like what you suggest. It has 3,606 stocks, year-to-date it's up 18.82%. Compare that to Vanguard's S&P 500 ETF VOO which is up 19.03%.

When a company hits its stride and is large enough to really make it difference it will join the S&P 500. I guess if there were a lot more than 500 companies that you should own there would be a problem, but we're not there currently.

If you want exposure to small caps it's much more efficient to own an index of small caps. Their performance has seriously lagged in recent times though, so just owning VOO has been the way to go for a long time.
> "That sounds to me like a big deal, given that most people find fasting difficult"

They also find hospitalization "difficult" but that doesn't stop them from OD'ing on sugar and junk food. It's not a matter of difficulty. It's a matter of priority. We (in the USA) live in a culture that devalues the personal responsibility to personal health.
> Yeah and there's a reason the tech moved on from that. It was a LOT of work on both ends to negotiate and monitor the relationship. Instead now we have a central broker who both parties work with that has set up a computerized way to manage these relationships.

I'm not disputing the necessity of a central broker. Contexual ads based on search keywords or website content used to work fine without surveillance, and can perfectly be automated by a central broker.

Years ago, I didn't have much issue with online ads (with the exception of popups and spam emails). Nowadays, I'm forced to block them altogether to avoid the extensive surveillance by adtech. It doesn't have to be this way if adtech respected user privacy.