skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read your comment twice trying to fully understand your perspective. I've been working in C# off an on now for about 10 years and as a guy who "grew up" on version 2, I mostly use the core features, but wow do I love some of the new features. The introduction of Tuples in 7 changed the way I program so dramatically in a positive way - every has their own style for me Tuples as per my example allow me to return a code + the data. I welcome the improvements and think MS is doing an amazing job.
It says it will be up on their blog soon, but I don't see it anywhere yet. And I agree, the article really says very little about what the title describes.
Pi Hole is a good first layer, but good sites occasionally have bad shit on them, so you can't rely entirely on host-based blocking.
Having replication studies/papers be on par with "innovation" studies/papers on academic conferences and journals. Or maybe not on par, but considering them as something worthy of publication.
So what is qualia, or the experience of conscious beings?
We have good reasons to believe that everything is under the streetlamp, and little reason to think that there is something immaterial or irreducible.

This is a totally different debate though - 'Is materialism/phyiscalism/reductionism etc. correct?'.
No. Google's OneBox, Ask’s Smart Answers, Microsoft’s Instant Answers, and Yahoo Shortcuts all existed at least two years before DDG was even founded in 2008.

Also, DDG's "Instant Answers are open source and are maintained on GitHub, where anyone can build or work on them".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

It's not the same sort of massive web-scraping click-stealing operation as Google's OneBox.
...and the tools, space, consumables, safety equipment, cleaning equipment, training, and policies making on-site destruction possible.

I can easily angle-grind a HDD in two in my garage, where if I fuck it up no-one would be liable. But it would be quite involved to do the same thing in work, where if I fuck up they'd be liable.

Unless of course your rule is "diligently follow all security policies, but ignore and bypass workplace safety policies" which I would say is a confusing message to give your employees.

Of course, there's no excuse not to dd zeros over the entire disk and, (if it's an SSD) trigger a security-erase with hdparm.
How long after constitutional republic founding did previous nations last?
You should definitely not be pushing anyone to Safari. Apple's monopoly on browser engines on iOS gives them veto power on all web standards since iOS uses have no alternate browser engines (like Firefox)
Celebrities Seek Her Advice. M.B.A.s, Executives Line Up for Her Harvard Class
If this had a bit more satire to it, it could absolutely pass for a beaverton article.

Privacy means a lot to me. Assuming it's not winter time, I'd honestly prefer going home to my own tent in the forest over this.
There's a definite 1968 feel to a lot of this stuff.
The implied warranty of merchantability[1] applies to all merchants, not just manufacturers. In the case of a reseller like Home Depot or Amazon, a consumer can seek recourse from the reseller, and the reseller can in turn seek recourse from their supplier, and so on up the chain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_warranty#United_States...
> I've run drives with the platters exposed. I've push-started a drive with my fingers and copied data out.

That surprises me. Recently? And you've done that by transplanting the platters into a new drive? (Assume we wrecked the heads completely when we removed the platters)

> Even partially damaging platters is insufficient.

Really? You've recovered data from part-broken platters that have been removed and scratched or partially shattered?

> The problem with that is that you're trusting that people have actually done that

Sure, but unless the CEO is going to inspect every drive destruction, you're trusting people have actually done the rest too. There's trust here somewhere.

> and that nothing went wrong

You can usually see from the command output if it has.

> and that the drive firmware was not compromised.

If the firmware was compromised all bets are off anyway, the data's already been exfiltrated using spin speed modulation to transmit your data out as audio, as far as you know...
I would say that under almost all circumstances it would be better to study in Europe if you can. German universities are free and pretty good (LMU and KIT for compsci for example). The cost of living is comparable. Even favoring the ~1 year of language course that you would need, you would be far better off financially.
qutebrowser is better than both Firefox and Chrome at respecting privacy.
They remind me of coffin apartments in Hong Kong albeit with communal areas.
> My experience with Amazon, in this regard, was an eye opener. Today I do not buy anything on Amazon that isn't marked as "Sold and Shipped by Amazon". I want nothing whatsoever to do with their third party sellers.

After all you and your wife went through, this is the measure you've chosen to put into place? You state that Amazon cares more about making money than about "criminal behavior on their platform", so why* would you continue to support Amazon at all? Not to mention the fact that "Sold and shipped by Amazon" is meaningless given that they comingle their own inventory with that of third-party sellers. If you're buying supplements via Amazon, it's entirely plausible you're still directly supporting the sellers that drove your wife to shut down her business!

* EDIT: I suspect the answer to this question is "convenience." So the follow-up question is: at what point does your convenience become trumped by your principles?
Do you have any public examples of how you have done this?
But do people run their toasters continuously 24h/365 days a year? THAT's why they used yearly average.
Why is there no door on this? Wtf?
I'm not saying we have an answer today, just that an answer is reachable.

I can give you my currently favourite theories of course, but they are beside the point.
The environmental impact of a PlayStation 4
Being able to walk outside seems like a plus. $40 a day for a bunk bed, tv, and food sounds very reasonable to me. And you can move around whenever you want.
I used to do a lot of c/c++ mfc/atl but haven't used a visual studio c compiler for years.

Mainly python, c# etc.

Got it on the ram
With removed ads and binaries https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
As a lover of Lisp, I find these sorts of initiatives really depressing and frustrating. They seem to come up over and over again, where someone has the bright idea to make Lisp less Lisp-like, often by getting rid of all the parenthesis and making the language more Algol-like.

But parenthesis are, for me, one of the greatest things about Lisp. They make understanding, reasoning about, editing, and manipulating the code really easy, and add a consistency to the language which I really appreciate when compared to mismash of arbitrary, inconsistent delimiters in other languages.

This leads me to adopt a "you'll have to pry my parenthesis from my cold, dead fingers" attitude when I see suggestions like these. Please, just keep Lisp Lisp.
Why patents are useless, and can ruin you as a small inventor [video]
Some supplier in China doesn't care about that. The drop shipper or importer certainly doesn't care because they can point the finger at the supplier who claimed the certification. To further muddy things, the supplier may very well be knocking off a compliant design and producing a compliant product that simply isn't officially sanctioned as such.
the cold won't distribute at all ?
I do wonder if you're allowed to at least install a curtain...
Maybe. If you refer to a more specific issue, it's easier to give a definitive answer though.
How eyes see continuously in bright light: regeneration of cone visual pigments
Also this cat:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-08/cat-thawed-out-after-...
> even the poorest person was entitled to live his life as he saw fit on his land

.. but by implication non-landowners were second class citizens, and nonwhite people were unpersons?

> Social customs somewhat enforced neighborly behavior in place of regulation

Including lynching.
What's a Pin Game?
possibly they didn't want them to profit from selling the insulin in US https://khn.org/news/americans-cross-border-into-mexico-to-b...
https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers/issues/121#issuecomm...

> Google Chome makes SXG indistinguishable from regular HTTPS, which breaks basic assumptions around how users understand the green padlock in location bar (aka "nobody but me and the Origin server can see the payload"). UX of regular HTTPS is reused as-is, pretending that end-to-end HTTPS transport was used with Origin from location bar, which is not true.

https://blog.intelx.io/2019/04/15/a-new-type-of-http-client-...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ha00dSGKmjoEh2mRiG8FIA5s...

> Big changes need strong justification and support. This particular change is bigger than most and presents a number of challenges. The increased exposure to security problems and the unknown effects of this on power dynamics is significant enough that we have to regard this as harmful until more information is available.
This game is AWESOME...

> join the army and build a rocket

You spend all your free time practicing your archery skills and building rockets. One day while you're working on one of them Elon comes in

> say Elon, do you like rockets?

Elon looks at you and smiles. "Yes, yes I do! I also like women, but they always disappoint me. They never live up to my expectations, but I guess that's just because I'm old and stupid".

> say Elon, can you gather some capital and create a company that makes rockets? We could call it SpaceX, what do you say?

Elon laughs. "Yeah, sure, sounds good to me!"

> join SpaceX and become an astronaut

You finish building your rocket and send it flying into space. You land safely and immediately begin training for your mission. Your mission is to go to Mars. You will use the money you make from selling the rockets to buy a spaceship and travel to Mars

> travel to Mars

You arrive at the planet Mars and find that it has been colonized. There are many people living there now and most of them are humans. Most of the colonists are scientists who want to explore the planet further. Some of them are even
planning to settle down permanently

> plant tree

You plant a tree in the middle of the city and watch as it grows. Soon it becomes a huge tree that dwarfs the rest of the buildings. You smile and think that you've done something right. You've made a small contribution to the future of mankind.
There are? Where.

Also, it doesn't matter. You can't leave prison. That's the main problem with it, not how poor or nice the finishes are.
No moral judgement? He's literally stating that he thinks people who can't get out of poverty within 10-20 years are not worth his empathy. It's clear as day that he considers her to a large degree responsible for her situation.

The anectotal example he is asking for is in the very article we're discussing. Not that she has made no mistakes, but that (as has been stated several times in these comments) such mistakes are extremely punishing when you are this poor.

As for the discussion on societal help, I think it's very relevant, because the very definition of working yourself up from poverty means climbing the societal ladder. As such, the society you're in is intrinsic to improving your situation. It's a fallacy to say that you are completely in control of your own destiny and luck - the society around you is always helping and/or harming your efforts.

Every person has an obligation to themselves to improve their life as best they can, but a society that ensures basic needs are met is the best springboard for being able to do so.
> Also means if it works in Firefox it will most likely work in chrome.

Can’t relate at all. In my limited frontend experience, I’ve run into a lot of rendering deferences between WebKit and Blink, and even more between Gecko and Blink. Sometimes the differences are subtle yet break pixel perfection; sometimes the whole layout is broken.
No, we never shared them.
The Guide “How to Find Node.js Developers for Your Team”
cnn is an assault on your browser. The header bar bouncing up and down as it chases your location, the video auto playing top right, the marketing overlay asking for your email to send market insights, the cookie acceptance bs at the bottom. All wrapped up nicely in 443 requests, and 19.1MB of data.

I CAN NOT STAND the web anymore.
Maybe if you can fit your life in a backpack. That's a serious limiter.
Alas, I can't open it:
Could not fetch resource at https://clients6.google.com/drive/v2beta/files/1u7flclharvMc...: 403 Forbidden
Interbrain Synchrony in Socializing Mice
> most users don't care about it anyway

Our designer was pissed off when we discovered this bug, which explained why Chrome was the only program that displayed RGB values differently from all the others (not just browsers). She'd been careful about standardizing and tweaking colors we already used to work better for people with colorblindness, much of which was thrown out the window on Chrome. Not to mention issues matching the PNGs and SVGs she created for the site.

Quick edit:

> Why so much resistance?

Comment 34:

> Chromium developers have previously stated this won't be supported for reasons mentioned in this old post.

> https://www.webkit.org/blog/73/color-spaces/

From that link (posted in 2006):

> The big hurdle that we ran into, though, was with the drawing we did not control, namely the Flash plug-in. The problem is that designers specify colors in Flash and colors in CSS in the Web page, and they expect those colors to match. Because Flash’s drawing isn’t correcting to sRGB, if we did it in Safari, there would be color mismatches all over the place. These mismatches look far worse than if we just don’t correct at all.

Isn't Flash gone from Chrom(ium) now?
Not at this price, though. A symptom of housing and job market dysfunction; do all the high-paying jobs really need to be co-located in the same few cities?
Upstate NY is not Yankeedom. It is Greater Appalachia.

Also, many of the Midwest states are less Yankeedom and more Heartland.

Also, Dallas is Greater Appalachia and not Deep South yet Houston is Deep South and not New France?

Also, LA is El Norte and not the Left Coast?

Was this map based on 200 year old data?
True, but the extension ecosystem is poor now.

1. Extensions in the app store are not easily searchable. They aren't indexed/sorted on the store properly, and many only show up on Google.

2. Many of the good extensions are no longer available, e.g., UBO and KeePass, Vimium (there is a Vim extension, but it's a poor replacement so far).

3. The store promotes junkware and throwaway extensions.
Prisons at least allow visitors.
Taking an Ecological Approach to Misinformation
This would work really well trained on erotic lit where the unpredictability tied to sexual themes would produce the sort of gameplay already found in certain erotic games.

For example, Champions of Corruption 1: https://www.fenoxo.com/play-games/.

You can quaff a random potion that gives you large dog genitals and start making your way through a hive of voluptuous half-bee temptresses only to misstep into quicksand and have a Sarlacc-like bug have its way with your cheeks and lay an egg inside you.

Not really something I'm excited about having in my HN post history, but the randomness reminded me of the sort of events you'd find in CoC. Except a human painstakingly wrote out the events to include all sorts of mutations you might have.
How does this compare to Scheme sweet-expressions https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/ and curly-infix https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-105/ ?
Does anyone know the Firefox dev tools equivalent of Chrome dev tools "JavaScript contexts" drop down menu? I'm not sure how to describe it, but here are two screenshots from a tutorial where I saw it:

1. With mouse hovering over the drop down menu showing the displayed tool tip

https://imgur.com/a/16lCRWg

2. With clicked on drop down menu showing the "javascript contexts"

https://imgur.com/a/SPZuvWr
I don't think it's at all clear from the term that returning visitors wouldn't include someone who visited your page from a search page, went back, made a new search, and clicked on a different page on the same site. That seems contrary to the industry standard definitions. I'd encourage you to call it something else
Pretty good, but it doesn't do public transport.
Yes, I had the same thoughts, then I figured out that vast number of techies are earning from the fishy practices we should protest against. And barely anyone is prepared to protest against something that pays for his <insert your poison here> even if he knows it is wrong. We had a few people leaving google and facebook but vast majority stays or those companies would go out of job by only management left. And not only for tech, this is the same on all levels of life.

Just check the threads here when GDPR was introduced, oh all the rage.

Don't blame the companies, politics,...

They are the best what society can offer.

If world is filled with corrupt, egoistic, narcissistic, greedy (etc.) people, the companies that are made by exactly the same people, are also corrupt, greedy (,...).

Same goes for politics. And everything else.

The society needs to change. But. There is barely anyone left to push the change. There is barely anyone who understands that there is a need for change.

< scratching head under thousands of layers of tinfoil hats various people, who didn't listen, put there in last 20 years >
I'm of two minds about this (ha). One nods and says "yup, 'nuff said". The other thinks about a radio. A sufficiently complex radio can do amazing things... provided it has a signal. It can make music sounds boring and flat, or it can bring it to life (via an equalizer function). But if you mess with the antenna in any way, or, for that matter, disconnect it fully, the entire experience can be altered in significant ways. So, yeah, part of the physical matter was changed. But the original signal, already produced by some other process, "somewhere else", was never changed. I'm not necessarily advocating that our consciousness is generated somewhere else. It just makes me wonder (ha).
I'm sure many people would, but there is a distinct lack of forests and camp grounds in downtown San Francisco. There's a reason you see these things popping up in big city centers as opposed to, say, the Buffalo Peaks wilderness area.
There's a saying: "the cruelty is the point".
What western media? The NY Times and the Washington Post make it sound troubled, but not like a war zone.
Consultants have usually seen 10-20 successful versions of what you are trying to do and 3-4 failed versions materialize over the last three years.

The difference is usually whether the companies involved had the money and focus to mostly follow the consultant’s plan or whether it gets bogged down in customizations and committees of internal stakeholders at the company.

I’ve also seen a couple stall because 3rd party vendors over promised and totally dropped the ball but it’s usually the vendors that the company was locked into before the consultant came on board or some niche product with no good vendors in the space.
How about people without "reasonable intelligence"? Do they deserve the hardships of perpetual poverty? Why should genes and a genetic lottery decide if you can live a decent life or not?
Interesting! With pinball machines, that was to prevent cheating, since you could change the course of the ball by smacking the cabinet. (Some players consider doing this without triggering the tilt sensor a legitimate part of the game.) Hilariously, Video Pinball on the Atari 2600 supported it specifically: holding the button while you move the joystick nudges the ball around, but if you do it too much you get a TILT message and can't score any more points until you lose the ball.

It seems like a weird sort of reflex action to put a tilt sensor in a video game, though. Maybe they were just worried about frustrated players damaging the equipment?
Competition tends to lower costs for consumers and profits for companies. Lowered profits results in lower corporate income tax.

Shall we restrict competition, in order to maximize corporate income taxes paid?

I’m not opposed to corporate income taxes or making an “is theft” argument, but I don’t see maximizing corporate income tax paid to be a first-principles good outcome to seek.
In Denmark we have a “newish” national standard for public service architecture called rammearkitekturen. It’s an attempt to make IT easier and cheaper in a country with the most digitised public sector of the world where 98 muniplacities each have 300 different IT systems on average.

Part of it includes a transition to UUIDs, and the way we deal with them is slowly and in stages. Some systems, especially new ones are build to use them as the standard identification, but some of our systems are 50 years old, run on mainframes, tandem computers and what not, often with a range of APIs on top of them. Others were designed with local non-standard UUIDs that would work if the systems hadn’t been sold multiple times. And so on.

But the most basic way to get into them is by adding UUIDs for external use, while the systems continue using their own ID system internally. Then eventually replace internal IDs with the UUIDs when it becomes possible both technically and financially.

This isn’t the cleanest approach and it’ll likely take a decade or two to complete, but doing a Big Bang transition on an enterprise scale, well I wouldn’t recommend it.

As for standards, go with the newest international standard on UUIDs for you to part of the world. We follow EU.
You can always open a pull request.
This probably won't be a popular opinion here, but some of us actually want to live in San Francisco, and not just for the job market.
It seems to break line wrappings, period. The breaking doesn't appear to be mobile specific, the quote appears as a single line on my laptop.
Today’s Most Valuable Tech Companies Are Time Machines
Any company that creates more than $10 billion in shareholder value does one of two things: extend time (more time, saving time) or enhance time.
If by "internet" you mean the more traditional thought of internet with all of its decentralized goodness (and services and such), then YES 1000 times!!
What once was old is new again.

The fad we call "co-living" today has been common for most of the nation's history. You can even see examples of it in old movies, books, and TV shows.

But now that it's got SVVC money behind it, it's somehow shiny and new.

Although the "pod" angle seems new, it's not. Though, it was almost exclusively for the very very poor in the past.
Why Brave rather than the Epic Privacy Browser?

(They are both based on Chromium....)
GPS-enabled devices are the first such improvement to have a novel downside: you can now be tracked, whether you want to be or not.