skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am a childless tin-foil hatter so I am asking out of ignorant curiosity- is there any way to avoid tracking on your child? Does refusing to agree to Google/Gaggles/MS/Etc's ToS, EULA or Privacy policy mean the public schools can refuse your child education? Is there some different ToS and privacy policy for minors forced into using these services?

> I also feel like this CYA policy may backfire. Before they could rightfully say they weren't the responsible party. Now that they are using tax payer funds to "prevent" these things I feel like they put themselves in a position to be responsible if it fails. I am sure there is some legal doctrine term for what I am trying to say.

This is a really interesting perspective and I'm curious if someone knowledgeable on the subject would comment. If public education is a right, can my child be denied that right if I refuse to consent to a license? If the child consents, is that not an invalid contract?
You can have UAF in Go due to slicing in the presence of concurrency: the implementation doesn't use multi-word atomics to update fat pointers like slices and interfaces. That said, it's not easy to do so.
GC does not provide memory safety at a system level, it has the same issues as C++ in poorly programmed code once compiled. Also C++ has "memory safety" idioms similar to garbage collection through reference counting and RAII.

Google has a C++ race detector based on the Go one and it did not detect this issue (or was ignored).

Neither of those things you listed reduce the severity of the bug, and both are available in well written C++ code as google tends to do.
I love PlantUML. It’s made my job a lot easier and I love the whole documentation as code.

I’ve written a converter for it too. https://www.npmjs.com/package/pcomp?activeTab=readme
Agreed! I'm on an eastern edge of a timezone and DST ending moves sunset forward from 6PM to 5PM (and up to around 4:20PM during winter solstice).
This feels like doubling down on how much winter sucks: not only is it cold, but it's now not possible for me to exercise outside in daylight after work
As an Icelander living with all-day brightness or darkness all the time (depending on the time of year) I think this might potentially be bullshit.
You don't need to go that far. Go could have been memory-safe if slices were one word instead of three (like Java's arrays), and interfaces were one word instead of two (like Java's interfaces).
Google just last week announced a drop in profit, so expect more of these types of “optimizations” over the coming months.

Over the past 6 months they’ve already increased the font size of SERPs, made their ads look even more similar to organic results, and started showing multiple results from the same site in the top 5 results for highly competitive terms. All of these “optimizations” are designed to encourage more ad revenue.

Plus their Google Ads account managers have become hyper aggressive in pushing their keyword and bidding AI, which according to our tests increase costs per conversions.
At this point you've thrown out the utility of time zones and may as well just go back to the pre-time-zone status quo of defining noon in every locality as local noon.
Good thing Bing is no longer shit.
Sure but the US has lost so much abilities and especially knowledge. Most people active in the Moon-landing era are pensioners by now and there are at lwast two generations who have to start from scratch now instead of having decades of iterative tech improvements.
> and how many people did you show your interesting photos too? are they of any interest of anyone else? would they standout in one of the imageboards available everywhere?

I take photos to capture memories, not to post on social media. I greatly value being able to look back at my old photos, because they trigger memories that I'd long forgotten. Sometimes I share my photos, but most of the time I keep them to myself. In this case, smartphone-quality is fine.

I also take photos because the process is enjoyable. I enjoy the technical side of it, finding that perfect angle, then editing it to use as a perfect desktop background. That's what I use my standalone Sony for. I don't bring my standalone camera with me wherever I go, so my phone gets taken out a lot more often.
The key word is "claimed". I was amazed and amused at the time that Google rolled out its "Don't be evil" slogan at how many otherwise intelligent and world-wise (i.e. cynical) developers uncritically lapped it up, even though it was clearly just marketing pablum. A moment of thought should've told them that Google was being buoyed up by being at the forefront of a technology trend and once they reached the limits of that and started having to, y'know, actually compete for business like every other big company does, they'd start acting like every other big company does but their fanboys kept denying it for years. Well, people can't say I didn't warn them.
The proper solution to which problem?
What does ^H^H^H^H^H mean?
Don't. You are happy. Learning to spend more only makes you want to spend more. It's not much better than doing drugs.

I bought a nice gaming rig once and it's only made me unhappier - it meant I had to buy good looking games which I didn't really want, take time off to play, etc.

Personally, what's given me the best money to happiness ratio is donating. You don't have to put it all in one place. Give to many people. I love getting letters back from people who have received my donations. I once bought a platinum sponsorship for an education event where they read our sponsor names and put the name as "MY NAME IS JON CENA".

You can also do something like buy a thing on Humble Bundle and put a link to your favorite thing. I actually made a good friend this way who stumbled across a little ad.

You'd also be surprised how few people donate. It's easy to hit top 10% of something because the bar is so low. Get a VIP seat at a charity dinner. Meet other cool people who give a lot.
Any link for that please?
>I'm an old fart, I never understand why free games can make a lot of money from selling "powerups" and even vanity stuff like "skins", but as we all know, it's big money.

I was like yourself with this belief until i tried out mobile legends at a friend's request. I'd always read how bad those games were for that but I didn't really get why until I seen it myself. The game is so full of dark patterns and Skinner boxes to get you spending I don't even know where to begin. It's my first f2p game with things like that, it boggles my mind how much crap is being constantly thrown at me to get me to spend money on random skins, powerups, and heroes. Even when you're not playing, the game entices you to log in to give you a free chest every few hours with a push notification. It reminds me of the way a drug dealer gets customers hooked. They give you little bits of free shit when you first start then cut you off hard after a week.
That's the beauty of a resource hosted on a code repository. You can just open a PR.
A more appropriate analogy would be cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#^H
While this is true, a lot of exploitable bugs attributed to the JS engines are actually in implementations of built-in methods (String.split, Array.join, etc.). These can benefit from memory-safe languages.

Occasionally you do just end up with straight-up exploitable optimizer bugs, though. The literature has some powerful techniques to let us get rid of those too over time, but it's not as simple as rewrite-it-in-Rust. One thing that might help is simple layering: if the JIT could compile to something like wasm as an intermediate target, then you would have an extra layer of defense against optimizer bugs. This is something that's been talked about, but I don't know if anyone has seriously looked into how practical it is.
The test groups are separated on account level. I get old Google whenever I log out.
This is the style of results i m seeing in mobile:
https://i.imgur.com/eDZjQlW.png

I guess it s different for everyone
A great US surgeon may have performed forced sterilizations for the Nazis
I can transfer RAW photos from my camera to my phone (either through Wi-Fi or by plugging in a USB cable), then edit them in Adobe Lightroom. But I don't do it very often because the files transfer very slowly, and editing on a phone is cumbersome.
> After time switches, particularly the “spring forward,” there are increased rates of car accidents, heart attacks, strokes and workplace injuries.

I hate when credible scientists dangle correlations in front of lay audiences without a caveat emptor or further evidence of causation.

These folks seem to be doing real science, but this article reads like a lot of the questionable woo stuff out there.
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And when/how do you decide to shift working hours around? You’ve basically invented DST except now everyone’s schedules have to shift instead of the clock.

The “silly fake” number on the wall is roughly speaking a sundial that’s been adapted for more precise coordination. Archaic maybe but not arbitrary or fake. If humans started from scratch we would likely invent it again.
Bad statistics again.

See Matt Parker's book "humble pi" for a discussion on this.

But basically in the week following a clock change, there is no statistical variation in heart attacks or strokes. On the Monday, there's a slightly higher rate when we short an hour. On the tuesday there's a lower one to compensate.

Looks like people having a heart attack that week might have it a day early.

It's as valid to argue that with the drop on a Tue, lives are saved by doing this. Or the fact that the other change with an extra hour in bed has a temporary beneficial effect in the opposite direction, so over the year any such effects cancel out. Adding an hour to the night saves lives too.

My personal view is we should be on summer time all the time for later evening light and deal with dark mornings. Frankly, schools shouldn't be starting that early anyway; but that's a different argument altogether.
We're here. But largely ignored.
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About a year ago I dropped into a place that was still using SVN. Now they're switching to Git. This experience has really shown me how much SVN just gets out of the way compared to git-- much less I had to think about when using it.
There was another PR suggesting this source. Merged!
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I'm not so sure this is a meaningful distinction in the modern era of big advertising and big corporations. Pogs weren't an organic fad either, were they? Certainly the toy manufacturer that made them stood a lot to gain from their success, and pushed them as much as possible. By this metric Pogs were less of an organic fad than "hot knives cutting through things", because with the knives YouTube doesn't care anything about the particulars of it so long as there is a fad full stop, whereas the manufacturer of Pogs definitely pushed one particular fad that benefited them greatly.

Some other similar fads that have come around on YouTube including unboxing, slime, and bizarre mash-ups of superheroes and cartoon characters. I doubt that YouTube specifically pushed these exact concepts over any other random thing that could have been a fad, but wasn't.
I have a rugged point and shoot that has just GPS. It takes a bit to find a lock and does run down it’s smoothly with no cellular. But there’s definitely GPS in cheap devices. For that matter you can get $100 standalone GPS receivers.
It definitely makes me sad to see people like this rewarded so much. Not only did he become a billionaire, but he continues to get media attention which only raises his profile further.

I've worked with people like this in the past, who've done bad things and got rewarded for it. It does make me wonder if you can be a good person and also be successful, or if the rewards only go to those who are willing to achieve success at any means necessary.
"butbutbutbut regulation bad" - average HN reader
Obviously when “totally not DST” happens the schedules for everything would shift by an hour to accommodate people.
>>‘Every single word that comes out of your mouth is fake.’”

But someone with cash will fall for them, and then, Ka-ching!

what else can it be?
I think GitHub is good for any shared textual resource because it is free and gives you version control for free. it also lets you use markup which is faster than coding in HTML.
I feel that this debacle would not have happened if it had been subjected to the scrutiny of public market much earlier.
One can make public financial market more efficient by spotting bubbles and bet on the other side, and thereby making a killing financially and arguably counterbalance prevailing insanity somewhat. How does one do it in private markets? Not only is there much less transparency, but also murky and less liquid markets. Therefore are private markets less efficient?
>one of the best arguments for standard time all year around! [...], this time will be in sync with their circadian rhythm. And this can be guaranteed best with standard time.

To clarify because of possible imprecision around the word "standard". I think what you're saying is that circadian regularity is best achieved with "unchanging" time instead of "standard" time.

There's Standard (capital 'S') time where the high point of the sun roughly at ~12pm. And then there's Daylight Saving time where the high sun is roughly at ~1pm. A circadian rhythm can be compatible with either of those systems if it's kept the same all year long.
It's actually weird to see that in a DDG x Google comparison... But yes, DDG has started giving me results with entire terms removed from the search since recently, and I have to add quotes all the time to get them back.

But at least with DDG we have to option of quoting the terms. Google is much worse at this in any way you care to measure.
on my firefox, on click, it switches to the tracking url (there's an onmousedown event). It does use the ping attribute on chrome.
I’ve definitely used my iPhones at any rate as GOS receivers where no cell signal was available. It just takes longer to get a lock.
If you ever find out, please share. I'd also love to hand most of my code to other people and never see it again.
> His great-grandchildren will be prominent philanthropists with their names on museums and universities, the strange origin of their fortunes long forgotten.

Maybe the archival nature of the Internet will preserve this article and instead they'll be shunned from all the fanciest regattas and dressage competitions. It's maybe the only justice we can hope for.
Oh yes, you are absolutely right. I am not really into weaponry so I tend to bag rocket launchers, mortars, bazooka and the like together.
> I'm not an expert, but I find it quite likely that, yes, playgrounds do magically change brain development.

They don't change it enough to make executive function develop early enough to make that story plausible, which we know because some of the studies on how and when executive function develops which make it implausible occurred with people who grew up with those old playgrounds.

Pretending children are just smaller adults is as much of a problem as excessively infantilizing them, if slightly less popular of a problem the last couple decades.
Just considering this possibility and asking this question a huge first step.

Ethics in CS is important just like any other field. I think just taking a class to be aware of it helps a lot.
I was under the impression the Nokia that did this failed because it ran Windows Phone and not Android.
On DuckDuckGo, when I searched for "Crate and Barrel Canada" (without the quotes), their home page (www.crateandbarrel.ca) showed up as the first search result:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Crate+and+Barrel+Canada&t=ffcm&ia=...

DuckDuckGo has mobile apps: https://duckduckgo.com/app
Ah good one, I did not realize they were still alive.
Having work start at 5 am doesn't make time unofficial, does it?

It would seem like it would make starting work at 8 am non-standard, but I don't see any logistical or biological reason that people have to go to work when a clock says "8:00". In fact breaking from the "8:00 means go to work" custom seems like less of a strain on transit systems (among other things).

Or are you saying that "start work at 8:00" is so ingrained that people create another unofficial time zone to deal with it?
I think it’s funny that wall clock time is considered low resolution when a unit of human time is like 15 minutes. Like if you had a watch that just went 9:00 9:15 9:30... very little would change.
It's been a long time since I used a GUI source control client. Maybe I should try one out again. Certainly it makes diffs nicer.

It's just that I've been using git CLI for so long, and know exactly which commands to use in any circumstance without having to look them up, that I don't benefit much from switching to something new, whereas someone who hasn't yet put in that time to really learn git would stand to benefit more.
I don't know, it sounds pretty stressful?

Pile-ons don't imply that other people want to be that person. Shaming feels good.
When it comes to search results, there are great competitors. You can not credibly argue that Google holds a monopoly on webpage search.
Shameless plug for a personal project:

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This is really just a one-liner I put in a shell script to pass things to Pandoc so I could read them like a man page in my terminal.

Love the Emacs lib though. The more emacs I my life the better. :)
Last I heard, this has stalled in the EU parliament. :(

Some of the big countries have shifted their position from "cool, lets do this" to "meh, why bother".

I'd also prefer permanent standard time, FWIW.
>>I'm a consultant and I rented some space at WeWork Montreal.

Please note that "We" is a registered trademark. Fixed it for you: I'm a consultant and I rented some space at We®Work Montreal.
One big time zone sucks only if everyone incorrectly assumes everyone else in that zone has the same sleep/work schedule, rather than letting knowledge of the other person's location better inform that assumption. This tactic scales all the way up to the whole world just using UTC without clocks being set differently anywhere. Instead of a time zone meaning "a zone where clocks are offset by X amount" it's replaced by "a zone where the typical start of work is X o'clock." Of course, then we have to decide if "noon" and "midnight" need to be redefined not to mean precisely 12:00 and 0:00 respectively, but instead to be used as vague ideas the way we use the vague "midday" and so forth.

Edit: Or not vague per se, but calculated and looked up exactly how we do sunrise/sunset.
Baby steps. Once the majority of human drivers get off the road we will almost certainly see an evolution in traffic control systems which will allow self driving vehicles to conquer poor weather conditions. As of now, each vehicle can only rely on its own sensor package to understand the world.

Tesla already has a system in place that lets one car learn from thousands of others; ie if everyone disconnects autopilot at a certain turn each car will learn to slow down even if they have never encountered that turn before. The future will have more of this.

Self driving has mostly been a solved problem, it just only works in ports, warehouses, docks, and factory floors. You might say those are tightly regulated spaces, but so are roads! All it takes is political will to scale up the same systems that guide robots today and install them onto every highway and main road.
Ahh cool! Thanks for clarifying
I signed up for Matt Levine's newsletter after that and was surprised to receive well written serious information in addition to this sharp wit.

An example of one such pieces was on the relationship between institutional investors and proxy advisers. Not a single joke or funny sentence unfortunately, but very interesting.

As long as the two types of content he writes are well written information about how the markets work or humorous viewpoints tinted with a mild amount of rage, I am a fan.
In my experience DOS/4GW was pretty stable. The only times it used to spam my mode13h screen full of registers was when I did something wrong myself.
A geofenced robo taxi service does nothing to improve my life. The real usefulness of self driving cars will come when you can fall asleep in the back as it drives across the country. Also you can’t set up a mobile office in the back of a taxi, so productivity in robo taxis will be no better than regular taxis.

For self driving to be truly useful to the end consumer car ownership needs to be an option.
Any plans to switch to more commonly used add-ons? Maybe like using metrics-server, Prometheus, grafana, and alert manager out of the box?

Would also be cool to see other CNCF tools included like a service mesh, some DB operators, etc.
Most people need to still make the things we need for ordinary life, otherwise we all become starving artists in the 'creative economy'. Can't eat a podcast.
I use the extension "Don't track me Google" to circumvent this. Converts all links to the direct URL on Google search pages.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-track-me...
It's a good point: just because an entire product won out doesn't mean that every single one of its features was individually superior to its competitors. This is definitely not true for git.
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More authors are self publishing than ever before. The problem is that you never hear about them. Additionally, the editing on self-published books tends to be a lot rougher.
I never heard undefined behavior in Go like your example. This would means that not synchronizing a slice would lead to memory corruption.

Please give us a code example.
> "worst ever" or "best ever".

An inability to consider and relate multiple states is a trait of immaturity. The long tail of modern economics (which gives way to the long tail of education) ensures that this is a dominant perspective, over time.

Hollwood reboots are not worse.
> Who wouldn't want to be perceived as inspirational and forward-thinking when seeking support for a pet business endeavor?

Most people would want to be perceived as inspirational and forward-thinking because they seek to be inspirational and forward-thinking. Sociopaths are more happy to manipulate perception to suit their purposes regardless of reality.
And embedded in Asciidoc!
If the architecture and design were open source, how expensive would it be to recreate that office?
Shifting the time scale so the sun would rise later and set later in summer seems a good thing - I certainly don't need sunlight until 8am so I have to cover my windows with tinfoil, and I'd love the sunset to be even later, at midnight ideally.

But as for winter - why do we move the time scale back so it gets dark even earlier?