skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic, but in the section of the best one being PNG, there’s this:

> The second-to-last byte is a Ctrl-Z, used on some systems as an end-of-file marker in text files. Not only does it detect improper text handling, it also stops you from getting a screen full of garbage if you "type" the file under MS-DOS.

Why does MS-DOS stop reading at an EOF market and not the true end of the file? I admit, I’m too young to have used DOS, but didn’t FAT(12/16) have file sizes?
> medically diagnosed insomnia

What is the difference between this and just regular insomnia.

Did you have sleep studies done?
Never rely on a single cloud service for your backup. Always backup to at least one independent place such as a local hard drive or another cloud provider.
Here is a funny story: I live in Athens, Greece. In 1987 (or it was later?), I read on the ACE magazine about the Sharp X68000...with magazine at hand, I went down to the local Sharp dealer to see if they will import the machine...they didn't know anything about it! when I showed them the magazine, they didn't believe me and they refused to pick up the phone and phone Japan!!!

The Sharp X68000 was a beast of machine, but it didn't have sprite scaling.
In any case, writing a point by point post full of false claims can and should result in rebuttals.
Even though I think story is fake I encourage everyone to setup their own mail server using Mail-in-a-Box [0].
You just need one VPS with public IP and domain name and it's fully automated solution that works great.

[0] https://mailinabox.email/

https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
I think these automatic suspensions are really alarming.

I got my whole Vimeo account suspended by some script that had the impression I was violating some of their ToS. I just uploaded 3 demo videos of an app I created. Then they told me I should click on a link to contact support, where they told me I have to log in to contact support, which I couldn't do because my account was shut down.

I just released a blog article that needed these videos, so I didn't have any time for these things so I quickly uploaded the videos to Youtube.

I mean that was just a small account with three videos, but they simply nuked the whole thing. That's just crazy.

I don't think I'm save at Youtube either, I just didn't have a better idea at the time.
> too cheap to meter

I like to joke that electricity is already too cheap to meter; just look at all the free places to plug in a phone or laptop!

IMO: Energy will never be "too cheap to meter," because someone will always come up with a way to consume lots of cheap energy.
Well, if I made a set of superficially good argument about African American in the US and concluded with something like "Niggers, by far the less evolved human species", wouldn't that cast some serious doubt on my work ?

That's exagerated of course, but really if you can't help yourself to stay civil for a whole article, there is no way your bias have not tainted the rest of the article.

Name calling means garbage article and a waste of time for readers.
And on the east coast we have the Firth of Forth
Don't ever let anyone tell you HN is only for insightful, interesting articles. Keep those nerdbaiting shitposts comin'! #spicytake
Of course these things would be decided by popular vote.
Pretty sure the answer is no.
Couldn't this "airborne laser scan" be used for spying?
Do you use Google Drive or Docs to store anything critical?
Interesting. Why behind rather than in front? And which type did you get?
You can thank Facebook and their wonderful innovations: algorithmic news feed and social graph.
It’s bad because it’ll be abused. We have hundreds (thousands) of documented cases of the governments abusing their power when it comes to technology. We specifically have cases of NSA workings spying on their ex-significant others[0]

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveil-lance-watchdo...
(Firefox user here) I find that ctrl+shift+n makes more sense: ctrl+n for a new window, add shift for a modified (incognito) new window.
Although whichever shortcut is a very quick habit change to make anyway
What's a good replacement for icloud keychain? Something that will fill passwords on my iPhone?
And not just Polish, most (if not all) Slavic languages. What a perfect name indeed.
Write articles, books, participate in debates, write letters to newspapers, columns, speak at Speakers’ Corner. But don’t buy advertising.
> We should be able to port emails like we are with phone numbers.

We already have that if the e-mail address was "yours" to begin with, you can buy domains and keep using e-mail addresses pointing to them, moving to whatever e-mail provider you prefer this decade.
An effective razor for what I presume will be a lively discussion here:

Your first amendment rights don’t compel a private sector company to host your speech, or require them to accept your ad dollars for your message
How Randomness Can Arise from Determinism
These aren't even remotely equivalent and you know it. Western governments don't place minders inside Western companies; they don't take stakes in all companies to exert control; they don't have social scores that are contingent upon your speech about the government; they don't ban encrypted communications; they don't have great firewalls; they can't easily detain you arbitrarily; they don't strip control of IP and transfer it to local competitors; there is a much higher degree of rule of law...

Just because the US et al aren't perfect (and they certainly aren't) doesn't mean the behavior in China is equivalent to what is going on in the west.
> China, by her own standards, has been very soft on the protests so far.

Not just by China's standard, the handling seems very soft by Western standards also. G8 meetings in Western cities regularly look similar, and those are 3-5 days, not weeks or months.
Coming soon: Netflix-style nudges that reward retail bank customers
I seem to remember a website that helped people "de-google" (something like that), where it listed self hosted alternatives, or other cloud services with better customer service track records.
Interesting concept.

Btw a bit of spin, presenting them as about the same as modern Homo Sapiens. They killed and ate their neighbors when times were tough; they had a very hard time mastering crafts more complex than 'break a rock'.
In America you get a voter packet with detailed information on the Candidate's position on key issues, plans, etc. To me this is far superior to a 30s ad clip produced by some marketing agency that specializes in being hip for college students.
Great documentary I saw on CNBC about Costco:

The Costco Craze - Inside the Warehouse Giant

https://www.cnbc.com/the-costco-craze-inside-the-warehouse-g...

My key takeaways:
- Costco orders at scale - any suppliers they work with has to be able to supply millions of items per week
- Costco procurement works with suppliers to optimize the suppliers' process for Costco (it's a conversation, not an order)
- Costco really thinks about their members' preferences. When they procure at such quantity, they don't want to be stuck with it!

Another thing I did not know: Costco has EVERY purchase each member has made since 2009!

The fact that they will honor (almost) any return of their item since then is mind-blowing. If you want to return something before 2009, just show them the receipt. The only thing they won't let you return is electronics past 90 days (dammit! :-) )
Which same issues - do you mean some LEDs emit UV?
If you live in the EU you could threaten them with GDPR, also you have a right to not have decisions made by algorithms without recourse. If you live in US you are pretty much fucked.
Alternatively, one should probably break up one's interface to Google into a personal Gmail account and a professional Gmail account.

I don't disagree that Google could do a better job firewalling TOS violations in one service from blowing up all your interaction with Google, but in the short run, defense in depth.
You're talking about what the media or politicians report. Things like "the climate crisis will come in 12 years" have usually no scientific basis and often are based on much more conservative predictions like 1.5C° warming cannot prevented after 12 years of "business as usual" because temperature increases lag CO2 emissions by several years. This doesn't actually mean that we will see 1.5°C warming within the next 12 years. It might even take 20 years or more. 1.5°C warming will suck but it's not the end of the world. It just means that we will have to adapt to a new way of living and we can't go back to the good old days.
Some brands, like FiiO (high end audio gear made by a Chinese company), have a web portal for checking authenticity of UUID "serial" codes
How do you determine the ‘opponent’? If I want to argue against racism which racists do you give the money to? Just any racist in the street? Some organised racist group? Which one? What if my obvious opponent denies they’re racist are they still entitled to the money?
If you're using Mac, you could try https://thehorcrux.com/

Disclaimer: I'm the developer.
Can you access takeout.google.com with a suspended account?
Google Photos is not a backup system. It’s a place to host photos in the cloud. You need your own backup somewhere else.
Tesla's approach to safety seems to be 1. Overstate the capabilities of features, 2. Technical ensure that customers retain liability. It allows them to do two things simultaneously - claim an amazing step forward in autonomous driving, whilst in reality delivering a relatively trivial feature to the customer. The problem is when customers behave how they've been told to behave by Tesla's advertising, and, for example, summon their car in a busy parking lot. I don't want to be overly negative about this, but I thought Tesla was telling us that we'd be getting fully autonomous vehicles by the end of the year, here we are in Q4 and we've got a feature that'll driveat walking speed, doesn't correctly react to traffic or pedestrians and requires constantly line of sight. It just feels to me like Uber before they replaced Travis - constantly repeating the same mistakes until it becomes an existential threat. This is not a company that is showing the level of responsibility that we should expect from someone trying to sell completely autonomous vehicles.
It's probably similar to PlanetFitness.

People get the Costco membership but barely go to it because Walmart or Kroger is closer.

Plus some companies buy loads of Costco membership for employee benefit.
Same here, about 2008 for me. The complaints I have are pretty minimal (audio is a bit wonky sometimes, but nothing difficult to resolve; hilariously enough my laptop does have wifi issues, but I don't care, I'm plugged in 99% of the time anyways). To be fair, I'm using the exact opposite of an out of the box experience. I've been refining my setup for years and using it is truly a joy to me.
No but American ideals may. It's not all about 'what's the legal minimum they can get away with'. Hopefully its not just about that.

As a platform hosting media, it's not clear what their editorial latitude is, or should be.
Against Radical Transparency
Caching MongoDB Database with Redis
It wouldn't change.

Most people's political views are molded by first their parents, then by their social circles. We're an "average" of the people we hang around with. It's extremely rare for someone to be an outlier in political views. Not saying it's impossible, but it always takes effort. Most people don't like "effort". Most people don't even vote. Their opinions normally only exist as empty words.

As much as political advertising sucks, I have to agree it should still happen. Finding ways to squash political opinion, good or bad, has unintended consequences. It's not like "politics" is a new thing. It's always been a talking point. Whether at home, work or the market square with someone on a literal soap box (where the term comes from).
I took a look at this user's GitHub activity, and it seems they have been using NewPipe daily. It's not trolling probably.
> Political advertising should be banned entirely in my opinion.

That's a dictator's wet dream.
It seems you interacted with reasonable people who wanted to uphold the rule of law. Not all lawyers, prosecutors, judges, or police officers are like that. The best suggestion I can make is to look up the correlation between time spent preparing in a criminal case and conviction rate. I do not have research db access anymore and can't do this for you.

It should be obvious that time/money spent and outcome correlate by looking at the reverse. Spending no time would assuredly prepare an inadequate case. What is unusual is the almost unbounded positive direction correlation.

You need to divorce "following the law" and "following the law that was intended or that may result in the most freedom for the most people." Many high level cases are the former, not the latter.
And of course up in the north, the Moray Firth :-)

I wonder if there's anything referred to as "Firth" in a non-Scotland place, perhaps up in Canada or in NZ?

update: yes (in England, Germany, NZ and Antarctica)! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firth#English_firths
NordVPN has launched a file encryption app called NordLocker
Really, all they'd have to do is drop a v86 emulator into NTVDM. There actually exist a handful of projects attempting to bring emulated 16-bit support to 64-bit Windows, including one that's based on that leaked Windows source code (which apparently had a copy of the CPU emulator they used on other platforms back when there were actually non-Intel builds of Windows).
If you're lucky.
The title is no good, but maybe a compromise would be "Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger on the 737 MAX". Picking a just a sentence without the context seems to be against the spirit of the no clickbait rules.
A lot of people actually aren’t okay that cars kill so many people, on top of the other enormous externalities. No single person woke up one day and did a cost-benefit analysis on private automobile travel (and if they had, they might’ve come to the conclusion that it’s dangerous and bad for the environment). But we shouldn’t assume that just because the world is the way it is that it was the result of careful reasoning by all of society and not individual decisions of decades, many of which were made in bad faith or for nefarious purposes.

I.e. just because we use coal doesn’t mean society is okay with it.
You could use a molten salt nuclear reactor to heat the molten salt and use the heat when you need it. Terrestrial Energy will produce such plants commercially in the next 10 years.
This reminds me of a huge story last year where suspicious activity on an account got the whole company banned, including their personal gmail if they linked it as a recovery account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115643
I think geopplitical interests in this circumstance may be rational if a bit cold. It is like someone paralyzed by a broken spine vs by a virus essentially - both are bad of course but the later has real fear of "contagation" to spark worry. Ecuador while messed up is "contained" and would fail to take even a neighboring territory without any third party intervention. The most impact everyone else could feel is a refugee surge.

Meanwhile China is growing in power and influence while not softening in authoritarianism but even going backwards with Xi. The threat that something like that may spread elsewhere worries which may be why the NBA and Activision/Blizzard are facing a fiercer backlash than Dr. Strange and the Red Dawn remake for their caving - they effectively extended their reach. While boots on the ground domestically wouldn't be plausible without some "magic" antinuclear technology or incredibly good missle defense and detection bringing an end to Pax Atomica getting fired and blacklisted over acknowledging Tiananmen Square is potentially plausible with global markets and clout. That level of "having a blacklisted employee or contractor bars the company from selling to China" wouldn't technically violate treaties. Jurisdiction may keep one safe but barring financial transactions would be within the powers of a nation and before that level of tracking would be logistically impossible.
Wordpress, Gitlab, MySql is also a company if memory serves, ...
What about LineageOS and no gapps?
Don't try to prove yourself or worth by "over programming". Learn the culture and abide by it. Don't try to change everything as soon as you start working. Control your ego.
Is picking the rotten apples at the store just as hard as picking the very best?

If you made an index of penny stocks, do you think markets are efficient enough this would be basically as good as an S&P 500 fund? What if you made two indexes, one of penny stocks that pay dividends, and one of those that do not?

I've done this experiment years ago with a stock market simulator utilizing real market data, and it suggested that, no, there is not a price at which total shit is a good investment, or if there is, it's not the market price. Therefore it follows that excluding that shit from your index is potentially worthwhile.
Lenovo on site pricing on a higher end X1 Carbon. One year, $19, Two year $89, Three year $149, Four Year $269.

Accidental Damage adds $49, $99, $129, $199, $219.

Does two years of Apple Care get you on site and accidental coverage for under $200? Oh and no deductible. Apples per incident Accidental Damage on a Covered AppleCare+ device is $99-299.
Google isn't nearly old enough to have the vast web of cross-contradictory regulations that a government does. I sincerely doubt most users even interface with it enough to risk violating the TOS.
I'm currently experiencing issues with trying to use an nVIDIA eGPU as apparently only AMD cards are supported officially. Display port chaining also fails to work as it only mirrors displays.
GiveCampus (YC S15) needs engineers who are passionate about education
As noted above, stable has a precise definition in this context, and in that context the Max is stable.
Install "Split Screen Shortcut", turn it on in the accessibility settings.

When you say non-intuitive, you're not talking about intuition. Holding a button for split screen not intuitive, it's just something you've learnt. Rows vs piles of cards are essentially the same thing, each with slight benefits.

Reforging muscle memory is an inconvenience, but if Google thinks it has a better UX (copied or not) for non-indoctrinated users, maybe it's worth learning another way.

And the similar-UX business case works both directions.
With all that GDPR stuff we have now shouldn't they actually be forced to let you download all your data in a simple way?
I don't use GM for anything relevant but I'd totally abuse the "get my data" thing to backup stuff.
Babies make great random number generators.
Nah, the Amiga's Outrun was a silly Atari ST port. It didn't even come close to what the Amiga could do (e.g. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge).

> In effect the Amiga was the closest the market would bear

Not at all. Commodore was a very shitty company that has no business plan, was engineer-unfriendly and by 1992 they have managed to alienate all their top engineering talent.

Those very clever engineers (RJ Michael, Jay Miner etc) could have easily designed chips that did sprite scaling and rotation along with blitting.

These people have developed the Amiga custom chips actually in 1982-1983. In 1989, I am sure they would be able to develop something much better.

And it could be a little pricey at first. Even at double the price or a normal Amiga, who wouldn't want to play 100% authentic coin-op conversions?
And let us not forget about towns like Centralia which had to be abandoned (by nearly all residents) due to an underground coal fire that has now been burning for 57 years.

https://www.history.com/news/mine-fire-burning-more-50-years...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
"Move one city" implies a mass migration, yes?

If so, then I agree that we have solutions. Mass starvation is another solution. But I wanted clarification on what "deal with" means.
Is it a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21246628 ?
Nonsense.

You have no ownership claim to the domain gmail.com. You are merely renting it, and for free no less!

Stop acting entitled. If you want ownership, the option already exists, and it’s easy: get your own domain.

That’s yours to keep and manage as you see fit, with Gmail a possible service attached to it as you see fit.
iOS and OS X has Night Shift, which is native implementation of the same idea.
I'm surprised you managed to get the Copyright for 'Horcrux'. Did you have to licence it at all?
I think with tlp/powertop you can leave settings to their (good) default values. It's just a matter of installing these tools.
That would be great. When they're done replacing every screen in existence, if they could replace all lightbulbs in places people visit during the evening with warmer bulbs (hotels, common spaces, street lights, etc), the lights in all the new car dashboards, everyone's headlights, every cheap piece of electronics that's covered with blue status LEDs...

Or you can just filter out some of the light right in front of your eyes and achieve a workable solution today.

As an added bonus, I think you'll find it actually reduces your eye issues. Tried out the filtering basically because I couldn't think of a reason not to and the first time I put the new glasses on it felt like I'd stopped squinting and relaxed my eyes for the first time in years. I get way fewer eye-strain induced headaches now.
It depends. If you're a web dev/full stack maybe. If anything else, maybe not.
You're very kind to offer help like this, but from the article: "... the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best" quote seems apt.
entertaining and well written.
It is surprisingly difficult for private sector data scientists and engineers to help with any type of research. Universities look at data problems and just throw unpaid/underpaid graduate and undergraduate students at the problems. There is no way any private sector data scientists can compete with that. Even trying to create tools for the grad students to use isn't really that viable. There is so little budget to spend on the tools, and the turnover is very high in research, so the amount of time it takes for sales people to forge relationships and trust is lost. I am not sure what the answer is. I have seen some spectacular utilization of data analytics and science by insurance, banking, credit unions etc. that I think would directly translate to better medical research, but I have no idea what path to take to bring it there.
(Former Flash dev)

A consistent display was a nice thing to count on when making little games, applets and ads. However for general web layout it made accessibility features difficult to impossible to implement.

I'd also add that behaviour wasn't always consistent. There would still be OS/environment specific bugs that would crop up from time to time. (Though granted, these would rarely be related to rendering or layout)
Yeah, unfortunately, that smells a lot like a coordinated attack on a specific user's account.

Do you have the enhanced security features turned on? Google's systems trust the logins more if you have to 2-factor them against a phone or somesuch.
I never really thought of Hong Kong as being a part of Mainland China. Ya, China has political ownership (which is why we are having riots at all), but HK feels like a first-world modern city...they don't even block Facebook.
This could easily ruin someone's life. Stop fucking around Google.