skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately no-one provides what I consider to be a sane default.

I'm fairly happy with what I have. I add the odd alias to my dotfiles and a few things I pick up but for the most part I've had my config for half a decade or so now.

By contrast I could never figure out how to like, get Windows to fuck off with the telemetry ads bullshit. It always felt like I would disable it and then behind my back some randoservice would enable it again or install an update that brings back OneDrive or some madness.

The best bit about my Linux setup is that it's all just files. Home folder, few flat text files with the odd bit of json, we're home.
Block Me If You Can: A Large-Scale Study of Tracker-Blocking Tools (2017) [pdf]
Also don't just do what code review comments tell you to.

If you disagree, state that and tell them why. Maybe you know something they don't about why you did something the way you did. Maybe they are just wrong. Maybe there's some business requirement you know that they don't or vice versa.

Also the other bit of not making changes just because they tell you to is this, you need to understand why you're making the change. This way you won't make the mistake again and you'll learn. You may stop doing the thing again if they comment it enough times and you internalize it, but that's not understanding, that's pattern recognition and won't help you be a better dev.

Code reviews are a two way street and a great learning opportunity. Use them to your advantage! :D
Do you have a source for that? I'd be interested in reading the studies.
> The rise may be unprecedented, the level isn't.
So you admit the there is a problem ;) The level hasn't been this high for over 400,000 years. How many homo sapiens were around then to adapt to that? The unprecedented rise is the problem, and it's not just CO2 and methane rising faster than should be expected, it's also the global temperature.

> That's a strong statement for what it is at best a discernible correlation.
It's a strong and very valid statement, supported by a wealth of science. In this instance it's not really possible, or wise, to run multiple randomly controlled experiments on our own planet to conclusively prove the point. Instead, we have a lot of observations and modelling that allow us to run those experiments, and the weight of those say we have a problem.

> We absolutely have to drop everything and start cooling the planet?
The majority consensus is not to drop everything but to continue making substantial changes to human activity to reduce warming. You personally do not need to become an eco-warrior, just more aware of the effect you're having on the planet and try to reduce it. Cooling the planet is now beyond expectations. The aim now is for it not to warm up too much.

> Until the next ice age, when presumably we'll have to warm it?
That is a terribly big false equivalency! First, yes, I expect so. Second, it's totally different! Ice ages take multiple hundreds, if not thousands, of years to get going. The next ice age is not going to affect the next generation, global warming is.

The benefits to ecological improvements and the risk of climate change vastly outweigh the costs. Less pollution related illness, our limited resources will last longer, etc... The risk alone is enough to make me think that ignoring the problem is the morally wrong choice, the benefits double the equation.
At the end of the day, both systems are subject to issues. Computers are far more disciplined than humans, but that comes with a tradeoff of lack of introspection.
Google is also a domain provider
Thousands of WeWork phone booths could have dangerous levels of formaldehyde
I unironically agree. Either nobody is rich, or we all have the opportunity to get rich. I will not settle for inequality which is what is proposed under the hood by this author.
That's because that page explains how to turn the mode on and off, how to fine-tune it (e.g. different date formats) and how to index formats other than JSON. Elasticsearch does not support a good chunk of this, so no need to document.

If you want a more streamlined version, you can check the example instead: https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/master/solr/examp...

And even then, it will already discuss the problem with auto-guessing the content types, something that Elasticsearch mentions only later. Solr is just more upfront and explicit about the issues.

Still, you do have a point, Solr documentation tries to be comprehensive rather than ease-of-use oriented. That sometimes obscures the easy things.
I got the impression the GP is describing precisely that.
I suspect one key difference is that the educational systems (HK vs. Macau) impart different intellectual values. I would expect that those raised in the HK education system have internalized the values of the English enlightenment. Once received, those values are not voluntarily given back.
A dollar a day is quite expensive, you can get a domain and a email prodiver for like 5€ per month.

See for example this [Dutch provider](https://www.transip.nl/webhosting/) that I myself use, but it includes webhosting. So you can probably find email providers for less.
Tutanota is also pretty good.
Protonmail was also pretty great.
(I used them both, currently at Tutanota)
This does not sound plausible, more like the work of an Internet troll. The user's GitHub handle translates as "Fuck you all, damn it!". When asked to provide evidence, he comes with excuses in the linked thread. He has filed some issues before with the same project, some of which got closed as dupes. My take is he was dissatisfied with the response from the GitHub community and came up with this story to discredit the project.
Killing the rich and seizing their property always turns out well for the everyday joe and never creates a generation of ultra wealthy and corrupt ruling class /s

Wait you didn’t think YOU were going to get that stuff did you?
Protests in Catalonia against referendum trial verdict
> The negative is changing preferences...

Windows is so poorly designed that I still wonder why there's Settings as well as Control Panel offering mostly the same settings, and old settings dialogs from Windows XP or Windows 2000 are still around!
It is simply insane to me that companies didn't provide these assets (digital assets, design docs) to the folks producing these ports.

I understand that these ports were often cash grabs. The original Japanese publisher could sign away the home computer rights to one of their games and get a nice check in return.

But, still.

Surely the original owners of these properties must have realized that by providing at least some assistance to their licensees (something requiring almost no effort) they would see better results?

Surely these Japanese publishers must have understood that a bad port of Outrun or some other game would reflect badly on them and tarnish their brand even if they had no involvement in it?

I say this as a long-time fan of Sega and other Japanese game companies, which were filled with some brilliant folks. That's why these decisions have always baffled me.
This is the scariest thing ever.

But lets do a thought experiment with it! Like an episode of Black Mirror. Imagine being an upper-class engineer in China in 10 years. You're sipping your morning coffee and checking your emails. Every day you get an email with all the trade-secrets collected across China the night before; curated and tailored just for you. Kinda like Recorded Future but instead of passively analyzing the internet these secrets were beamed straight from the source.

Their technology could advance rapidly as a result of this.
The thread of responses from the Wayland issue tracker about why "allowing the user to change the scroll speed" is an impossible problem to solve is truly depressing: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/issues/87
Completely agree. Unless Google can assure some amount of access to accounts, even in cases of potential abuse, the behemoth threatens to destroy lives with ever scratch, sniffle and scare that it gets.
knew some of this, but it was great to see the complete rich history of the computing industry in Minnesota
That's why there's a hong kong you know.
He identified the problem being "companies shouldn't wait for government to take action".

Then, he proposed solutions that still seem to involve increasing taxes.

If government is inefficient in allocation of resources and has disincentivizes to actually solve problems in reasonable timelines with reasonable red tape, then perhaps letting private companies take on improving infrastructure or providing care easier might be a good solution.

Look city governments have huge cash chests: neither homelessness nor poverty had ever been addressed by throwing government/money at these problems. You need the right inventives to tackle these challenges. And frankly governments need to reduce the friction in terms of money allocation and regulations to get things done.
I think the one annoying thing about Windows is the forced updates. Apple has started taking a leaf from Windows. A few weeks ago my system updated and asked to restart without giving me any choice of saying no.
What is really interesting is that the main innovation is never mentioned in the BBC article. The academic they quote, Dave Cowley, is an author on "Using deep neural networks on airborne laser scanning data: Results from a case study of semi‐automatic mapping of archaeological topography on Arran, Scotland" from 11/2018 [0]. The "new 3D technology" that is becoming more "widely available" and allows for "rapid discovery" is not LIDAR (which is very old) but Deep Learning as applied to LIDAR. It's interesting b/c the BBC doesn't mention "Deep Learning" in the article. LIDAR is old enough that it was launched into space as early as 1971. Deep learning is most popular on images, but is becoming more popular recently on less structured data like the unordered collection of points in xD (x >= 3), so this is the new part.

(I will also say that in this case, the article makes images out of the LIDAR data and runs DL on that, but this is not mandatory. Checkout Pointet++ if interested. I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that the "cutting edge" part was not collecting data but analyzing it.)

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/arp.1731
While you're technically correct, I think calling it "just" LiDAR is kind of underselling how amazing that technology really is!
That's all we need, a disposable plants service. I guess it's great for people who can't keep them alive longer than a month.
The world might not need China as much as Xi Jinpeng thinks. A lot of production is already moving, and China is less and less valuable as you move up the value chain. Most high-end engineering and other high value stuff is not in China.
Light arms vs a modern arms(tanks,planes,helicopters) is just suicide.
He's using sarcasm to point out destruction is still destruction, whether or not bones are broken.
365 USD a year for an email account? That's literally more than I spend on netflix and amazon prime combined.
I wonder if there’s any relation between this and “Made in China 2025” [1]. Seems like it would be a lot easier if there are no more trade secrets from the government, and the government has representatives in various Chinese companies [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/23/china-to-place-government-of...
Admittedly I haven’t used gmail for years now but from what I remember when I used to do this this is half right. If you change the From address in gmail, it will add a ‘Sender:’ header with your gmail account on it. Some clients will show that combination as the email being from ‘X on behalf of Y’ where Y is the from address and X the sender address and some will send replies, especially bounces, to your sender address. It may also set off some spam traps. I think it might also have required some form of verification that you have access to the address in question.

If you want to send from a different address without the sender header being set to your gmail account, I think you have to have Gsuite.
Mid-2014 Macbook Pro user reporting in.

This Macbook Pro has an actual keyboard, magsafe power port, continues to function great, works great with external monitors (HDMI port). Other than feeling squeezed for RAM and that the CPU isn't the fastest anymore, it was well worth the purchase price.
I used the G Suite basic account in the past ($6/month), I was able to get a support ticket responded to within 24 hours. The issue got resolved by someone before their support team responded to me via email, but I was still happy an actual person got back to me.

It's been said many times before, but it's best to pay for stuff, even (and especially) when you can get a good product/service for only ~$5/month.
If losing access to Google would ruin your life I’m pretty sure you’re doing something wrong. To be sure, many don’t have the knowledge to put in place fallback plans. But if you think that about yourself you really ought to do something about it.
Whenever I feel the need to use the adverb "just" when talking about something I think someone else should do, it usually means my understanding of the situation is the tip of an iceberg I can't fully see.
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Sure it would be great for business leaders to change their ways, but the beauty of capitalism is that consumers can force businesses to change by their actions. Mark Zuckerberg could change Facebook overnight, but what incentive does he have? It’s still one of the most populous websites in the world.

It’s easy to blame to rich and wealthy for the problems but they cannot force us to give them money. Every time I buy Facebook ads, I’m telling Mark that it’s okay for him to continue what he’s doing.

It’s very fun these days to blame the 1% for societies problems. But the 99% enable them.
He's not wrong. Most ideas for fixing capitalism will lead to fewer grossly wealthy people. Many rich people support this despite the fact that it will make them less wealthy.
Source for any of your claims? It’s extraordinary to claim that something is not subject to supply and demand.
At that point you just get paid more to make the wrong decisions again.

Buying the soul of politicians seem to be surprisingly cheap.
I just tested it and it does work from the Android Gmail app.
As a rule of thumb, if you would like to not get downvoted for controversial statements, please source your assumptions.
It now seems like a symbolic nationalist issue. But isn't your argument that HK is a smaller fraction of China's economy an argument to NOT crush the dissent in HK?

If China decides to "crush" resistance in HK by any means necessary, it would be the Chinese economy that took the blow of international sanctions and boycotts?
In conclusion: buy my overpriced Salesforce products because I'm a good billionaire with a private jet.
I just installed a VPN to see how this works on the demo site, https://concorde.io. Pretty impressive to see the price changes when I change between various countries.
'Nerve-release' surgery helped ease one man's tough migraines
252 comments, featuring a proposal to break up the company, based an anonymous internet comment with 0 evidence, and thousands of NewPipe using people with counterevidence.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723#issuecomm...
Half of Web AR Sessions Are More Than 2 Minutes
I think that’s all very commendable of you. But what is the choice, then? And if there’s a line, then obviously there will be legitimate variation in that line from person to person. If there’s a line at all, it means the bar for passing judgement on others has to be very high and extremely clear cut. And it’s rarely so clear cut that passing judgement is a good idea. Most people are just trying to get by and feed their families. For example, all companies advertise, so not working for a FAANG company doesn’t really escape that one. Paying for advertising is just as bad as taking money for advertising. Paying is what actually perpetuates the system. Total aside, but only two of those companies are primarily driven by ad revenue, Apple, Netflix, and Amazon all make money from products.
"But Chinese law now requires complete government access to those secrets if those secrets cross the Chinese border for any reason."

So if a routing burp just happens to send some data to China that was supposed to go from New York to London, then "Oops! So sorry. We read all of your company's plans. But that's OK, we kept a copy on that file share that your Chinese competitor has access to."
Any HNers feel being Cheated after seeing Google translate? I bet not many.

The reason is deeply buried inside human nature: We have bias: Lies from good side(Freedom fighters, "Peaceful" protesters, People) are not a problem and even not detected in our brain. Lies from bad side(Politician in Washington, Wall street Banker, Dictators of regimes) are real lies.

Note: Modem lies have been evolved from blatant lies which fabric stories from nothing, into a new more effective form that by removing partial context to create deception, lairs can claim innocent after being caught. WMD is an exception which belong to old lies. Most lies (From journalists who promote the war based on their ideologies which is the same as majorities of HNers here who support "peaceful" protester --just-- want freedom.) are never detected. Just like the (modem) misleading news coverages about HongKong.
Windows 10 works marginally better. Both remain vastly inferior to MacOs.

That's where I'm stuck. We're all-in at our house on Apple stuff. I'm no Windows hater per se, hell, I used to work at Microsoft and my wife still does. And there was a time that I'd say about Mac OS: "this is what an operating system should be". Oh, you most certainly disagree, but bear with me. I don't say that anymore. Too much half-assed shit, and yada yada, no need to repeat it here; macOS ain't what it used to be. But what else am I going to use? I keep rootin' for Linux, but every time I boot one of my VMs, well, it ain't replacing macOS just yet. Windows (at least the NT variants) when I worked for MSFT was a perfectly servicable operating system. It wasn't Unix, but it was better than classic Mac OS, and pretty damned solid. But I have to use Windows 10 at work now, and I fucking hate it. Again, no need to repeat it all here, I just do.

Yeah, Mac hardware sucks, too. I guess when my 2012 retina dies, I'll have to...oh, wait a minute, I'm still plugging away on a seven year old laptop? That I've dragged all over God's creation and use daily? Still as functional as the day I bought it? I dunno, will I find a better alternative come replacement time? Or has the quality of everything else gone down, too? I know, I know, X1 Carbon, XPS; but then my gut seems to think that I hear just as much complaining about those, too.

So in truth, when the 2012 MBP dies, I have no idea what I'm going to do to replace it.

EDIT: thanks, folks. Don't know why I hadn't considered used 2015. If a 2012 is fine, I ought to be tickled with a 2015, right? :-)

Sidenote: "which listed the magical indentation that purges reserved space." Unless you're using Python, I think the author wants to replace "indentation" with "incantation".
The one time I had to use MacOS I managed to get something tolerable after spending a lot of time in Karabiner, but the keyboard controls were just incomplete and inconsistent and there wasn't any way around it.

Let's not even get into Finder and how awful it is in so many ways.
The gripe is coming from the fact that Apple had this fixed in 2012.
Awwwwww
I think you are confusing speculation with scientifically demonstrated evidence.

You are linking to the interpretation of data not actually scientifically demonstrated claims.

I could post rebuttals to each of them here is just one:

https://www.thegwpf.com/ignore-climate-hysteria-brazil-set-t...

but it's not really an argument about the future either.

The facts are the facts and they are:

We are better than ever to deal with unpredictable weather patterns and can produce food places that used to be impossible.
We are better at living places that used to be impossible.
We are better at producing food than ever, we are better at using resources than ever, we are better at dealing with floods than ever, with drought than ever, with extreme weather than ever and I could go on.

You are claiming that this will change based on speculation and single points of reference, not science and thus we can then have a speculative debate if you'd like not a scientific one.

I haven't seen any evidence that would point to us not being able to deal with the climate in the future better than we are today.

So what's your point? What's your suggestion? What is it you want me/us to do we aren't already doing that wouldn't be worse than what we are already doing?
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> It appears that your "deal with" accepts mass migration, mass starvation, and civil unrest, as those are some of the historic ways humans have addressed things before.

If you want to see civil unrest, just raise the taxes on gasoline, like Monsieur Macron.

As for mass migration, if there really is such a big fallout due to climate change (or anything else) rendering places uninhabitable, let the people migrate. Humans have always migrated. Why stop now?

As for mass starvation, I don't buy it. Most crops today are fed to cattle, there's a lot of leeway in terms of repurposing it for human consumption.
This whole discussion is so tired to me. I’d like to see organizations who genuinely want to end inequality to start compensation transparency practices. Let’s see the numbers and we’ll decide for ourselves. After all, it’s not in our interest that salaries are so closely guarded.
If all you need is mail on a custom domain you can find offers for 0.5€ per month.
Regardless of this particular case, it should be the other way around: suspend your Google accounts unilaterally.
> So just like Hong Kong, only smaller and with less tear gas? Would seem to undermine your point that the Chinese are "soft by western standards".

If you have 3 people instead of 30, yeah, you're going to use less tear gas.

I get, China bad, West good and all that, but still "if it happens in Genua, the police are just upholding the right of the politicians to assemble" vs "if it happens in HK, it's just an authoritarian regime".
Is their successor responsible for everything that went on prior?

Yes.

That wouldn't even be a change to the current system. That's how it works now. If you take on the role of CEO and it turns out that years earlier the company did something terrible you will be expected to resign. It's one of the reasons they demand so much money.
So many false dichotomies in this and the sibling posts that follow.

Email existed before Google. The email services didn't all used to be owned and controlled by giants. Remember Hotmail and Yahoo Mail?

Email doesn't have to be a Government-provided utility service as another poster claims. It doesn't have to be free or paid. The market will make it work.

Just don't let Google operate it.

It's a simple narrative.
NewPipe is a video downloader, different from an adblocker.