skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the false alert - you HAVE to press yes all the time to get NORMAL work done.

Same with cookie acceptance popups - supposedly this is allowing the user to know the website uses a cookie blah blah, but you HAVE to press yes in most cases to go forward - so everyone has now been trained to auto click yes all the time. At this point those popups could say anything and at least 10% of users would still click yes.

I like the other approach. NO popup / warning unless something meaningfully unexpected.

The problem is there are bunch of warriors on the net and elsewhere that do things like claim that users hate cookies and won't accept them, so need to be warned of them by every website (which can still technically set cookies regardless of any popup). If users don't want cookies they can block them at the browser level - that's how you have actual control BTW - a scam site may not put up the cookie notice and may still be able to set the cookie.

Meanwhile - no notice required when your ISP tracks your every move AND is the monopoly provider. The internet folks have priorities totally backwards - so much focus on evil google it is ridiculous. The reason many people give google their entire search / email history is that they trust google more than the Chinese phone folks, the samsungs, the comcasts etc.

Some real actions to improve the net:

We need actual criminal prosecution and responsibility for websites distributing malware, browser exploits or downloadable.

Owner goes down even if it was their ad network, they can then sue the ad network and if they can recover from them great, if not they still pay for picking a crappy ad network. If their webhost was hacked they still pay for picking stupid web host, they can then sue webhost to recover.

We need to ban and criminally prosecute sale of info by places like ISPs and DMV's that are monopoly providers that have strong paid revenue streams already.
Stoicism 2: Negative Visualisation
> I didn’t help my customers and was too focused on the technology.

Great write up, though this gold nugget should be in a massive <h1> at the top instead of at the bottom underneath a whole lot of coding talk.

The more I interact and learn from businesses the more I'm convinced founders need to categorically stop writing code, buff up soft skills, and tirelessly hammer the business needs at near complete expense to software development. Yes some companies really are engineering first and need an engineer at the top, but most don't.
Why is unpleasantlness necessary? What's wrong with having high standards while treating people with respect?
Extremely good point, thank you for making it!

Where I'm at, we just so happen to only be in the initial phases of a cloud strategy, and it happens to align with Pulumi's current support of AWS. So Pulumi's execution of a multi-vendor solution will bear keeping a close eye upon.

We're likely in for a few years yet of fragmented API wars amongst the cloud vendors, before the value extraction from uncoordinated API's levels off enough that a more universal API is adopted for a progressively-larger "core cloud" of defined services (we're kind of seeing that with cloud object storage for example), W3C-style.
https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables
Hollywood unions are not industry-wide. The unions have only negotiated with the major studios and some of the more prolific independent studios.

For example, Netflix hasn't (currently) entered into any agreements with the unions, though rumors are that Netflix will become sometime before the end of 2020.
Just goes to show you the importance of secularism and it's need to be bastioned.
Using the same protected grounds under which people seek asylum, to discriminate is inherently unprincipled.
All things being equal, non muslims may well have more pressing claims to refugee protections.
The merits and priority of a migrants application can be determined without destroying India's secular fabric.
It's not that it doesn't work, it's that there is an anecdotal bias towards making you do more work to prove you're not a robot.

I don't use Chrome, so I can't tell how bad it is on a comparative basis, but (especially in private browsing mode) Recaptcha can make you cycle through a half-dozen different images looking for the traffic lights or what not before letting you continue.
The UK, national smart meter effort. Sub gig, supported by three silicon providers did Zigbee sub-gig for the last mile, tough to penetrate homes and buildings. Running 3.0 on which means it will port very easily but sub-gig is much more regulated country by country than 2.4.
You can search. This article covers the initiative but doesn't call out the sub-gig detail:
https://telecoms.com/opinion/467631zigbee-and-the-smart-mete...
So should the plans for atomic weapons be available to anyone?
My only complaint is that it completely freezes my firestick at least once a day. We plan on upgrading to something else so this shouldn't be a concern soon.
overview of studies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930618/
Every measurement of brain function decreased significantly with marijuana use, long term abstention seemed to clear up some problems, though physical changes in brain did not go away in users who started as adolescents, there were long term permanent changes to brain function.
How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb, and Anywhere Else
Intel Ice Lake server roadmap delayed due to issues with 10nm node development
I think stable government and general development (education, economic) is really the ultimate solution to this and everything else will either be largely ineffective or have significant downsides.

There needs to be some international/African Union pressure to stop some of the proxy warfare going on in central Africa and some way to ensure stability in Congo.
Aito can do statistical predicting, recommending, matching and relating, and of course normal queries and FTS search.

It has been built bottom up to provide programmers ability to query unknown (like ML system) as an addition to known (like database).

I'm not certain how this relates to the recommendation systems you are talking about. Perhaps you could provide me a link to one.
I'm also interested why the FED would want to do this. Could it be to maintain interest rates at a certain target? If the banks don't have money to lend, would it cause them to charge higher interest on their loans?
I believe it's a play on the "Millenials are ruining X" trope
Image Classification Datasets for Machine Learning
oh please, I reject that argument outright.

This is about stopping the exploitation of children. While you're trying to squabble over whether or not some random internet person is using a keyboard with cobalt in it, children are being forced down into these mines and risking their lives.

Get your priorities straight.
I just zoomed out and it worked (but I am on iOS 12, if that matters).
Very close, yes. And yes to the parent comment. ;)
> Isn't the whole idea of capitalism to force most people to align themselves to exterior goals?

No more than a subsistence living as a hunter-gatherer, and in fact, likely less so. If you live absolutely primitively, then your circumstances force you to align your life and habits to those behaviors that sustain life. There is something external to yourself which constrains the actions that contribute to your continued survival.

The whole idea of capitalism is this: If you want something you do not have, then you must offer to those who have it something that those people value. There is something external to yourself which constrains the actions that contribute to your continued survival. This may force you to align your life and habits differently than in the subsistence scenario, but not necessarily more so.

In each scenario, there are things you can control, namely your actions and behavior. You can take actions which convert into shelter, water, and food. Whether there is nature or human volition on the other side doesn't matter so much. There are actions you can take which support your survival, and actions which don't. That the actions are different is not germane to the question as posed - there are external constraints that determine which of your own actions contribute to life.

As a side note, there is nothing inherently uncapitalistic about the subsistence scenario[0]. If you build yourself a shelter, do you consider that you own the shelter and get to control its use? If you do, this is capitalistic.

[0] This is phrased as a negative on purpose. I am not claiming that the subsistence scenario is inherently capitalistic.
I might have not explained properly, the output of the program was saved into the file,

python generate.py > big.py

then this file was executed with Python, that took 5 seconds:

time python big.py

and yes, I had no idea what to expect, hence the test.
Tbf most code doesn't encounter trees deep enough to generate a stack overflow.

It's more of a concern with things like mutual recursion (multiplying your frame depth at each step, instead of just +1) or if your recursion depth is based on unbounded user input (eg iterating over an AST, or this code snippet)
I'm using a couple of marketplaces to list my domain names. Some of them are Sedo, DAN.com, Afternic, GoDaddy, Uniregistry...

The good point is when you list your domain name on those marketplaces, your domain will be listed on dofo.com (https://dofo.com), too. So if someone searches your domain name on dofo.com, he/she will know that it's for sale.

The time it takes to sell depends on the quality of your domain names and your price expectation. I'd say you have a medium portfolio, and you should expect to sell 2-3% of your portfolio each year, but as I said, it totally depends on the quality.
I think they're all great, and definitely recommending seeking them out. I prefer seasons 1-2, story wise, but the 3-4 are also very clever, and further develop Saga's character in poignant ways.

Kim Bodnia leaves after season 2, and is certainly missed, but Thure Lindhardt, who replaces him in seasons 3-4, is also excellent, and a more complex, less trope-based character (though he does have a traumatic past).
I dislike the whole "Pop out the system settings dialog and enable things for the application" approach. It throws users into what is likely unfamiliar territory, which just obfuscates things further.

I think a list of permissions with detailed explanations as to what they mean, and a Yes button, is a better approach.

Although there needs to be an option to disable or even mock certain permissions.
It's the myth of merit. Tech workers like to think they're highly-paid based on merit (and not simply because demand far exceeds supply), and also that they are the best at negotiating high salaries.

Of course, these same workers were getting completed shafted out of tens of billions in collective salary due to anti-poaching agreements that limited their bargaining power.
Big tech companies have been at the cutting edge of corporate tax avoidance
>What happens if banks systematically are unable to pay these loans back?

And how would that happen exactly?

But if it did, the Fed would extend the loan, or loan more. Not very complicated.
All good points. I don't know much about his actual higher-level mathematical stuff (I'm pretty bush-league about theory overall, really!) But I've heard that a lot of people in the music theory world say it's awfully close to regular Neo-Riemannian theory.

That said, in the Princeton lecture notes, he does seem to start a given topic on fundamental/"why" questions and then build out, more than any other intro music material that I've seen. A far as I can tell, his own theories are in there, but more as a framework to help explain things, rather than demanding you think that way.

For example, in the first pages, he describes a bunch of well-known fundamentals in music theory/psychoacoustics, but in a very "Tymoszco-esque" way. He lays out five principles common to a huge range of music styles: some combinations of notes are considered more pleasant than others, you don't want to have melodies that jump around too much, etc. (These all go for the Western musical tradition, but also many others.)

Then he says that our scales are essentially "solutions" to how you can chop up the octave into steps and meet all of the five requirements. It turns out there are a relatively small number of ways to do that, we've found just about all of them, and those are pretty much exactly the list of scales that we're using. But then he quickly builds it out to common scales that you can play on a keyboard written out in normal notation, and goes from there.

This is extremely satisfying to my hacker brain, like picking a handful of criteria and doing a search to find all the possible lists of numbers that meet those criteria.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if you can explain music theory from fundamentals just as well using traditional Neo-Riemannian theory, or even something totally different. I just haven't ran into any intro-level materials like that.

(Also: it could even be that his list of requirements isn't really true, but it's hard to see which ones you would want to deny for Western music.)
Taking loger to ship isn't less work.
It's not an attempt to get internet points. It's an expression of frustration that one of the most important platforms of our time has first class support for only one language, and the only reason that language is used is because of its monopoly on the platform. Were it no for that monopoly it would rarely be used.

I'm just glad JS is as good as it is, considering it didn't have to be good. It could have been even worse and still would have succeeded due to its monopoly.
Decoupling and modular design is pointless?
A NIH attitude is kinda the the opposite of what I meant. Choosing the right job for the tool, would mean that all the wrong jobs should be outsourced.
The banks have assets that are worth money they can post as collateral to borrow the cash to meet reserve requirements.

Or would you rather have banks unloading massive stacks of treasuries at market close daily to meet their cash needs, creating volatility in bond markets?

Repo lending means banks don’t have to unwind their positions daily due to a cash shortage, because they have other assets they can post as collateral for cash. It’s not a bad thing.
Washington freed them only after his death and from what I know that didn’t work that well either so a lot of them remained slaves. In what way did Virginia force Jefferson to keep slaves?
> newsgroups

Odd spelling of "BBS's".
I like thought experiments like this. Sort of along these lines, I've been wondering more why we don't make displays that just connect to a cloud hosted VM instead of PC's -- the end user never has to know what or where is powering the images in front of them. Assuming its just network bandwidth issues preventing this, but eventually this could make more sense than having an actual machine in your home. Would be a lot cheaper, there would be hosting economies of scale, etc.
I'd love to use something like this that forced all to go through a turn server, I'd like to be able to protect each participants ip address from getting taken by the other person.

I know in a way that is backwards to the whole peer to peer thing - but maybe there is a way to let people spin up virtual turn servers that would increase the turn-mesh-net's bandwidth - and so all using this sub-system could benefit and yet all be protecting from having their ip discovered ?

This webrtc stuff is great for friends / family / coworkers, but strangers on the internet gets a little dicey once in a while.
My uncle died in a construction accident that would never have happened on a union site. So while there may be two sides, implying that the sides are similar is classic whataboutism.
Louis Rossmann: Google adwords applies anti-repair policy selectively. Why?
If I'm reading this correctly: as soon as you drag a path into the terminal window, anything run from Terminal has access for that path apparently permanently, through a special hidden capability attribute, bypassing the usual Catalina permissions dialog.

Assuming it's true - I've no reason to think otherwise but I'm not using a Mac at the mo so can't try it - this is fascinating. It has the ring of a quick workaround for something: in desperation we bung in a whole new capability for this, let's hope nobody notices, we'll do it properly in a later release. Is there a better explanation? If it is a grubby workaround, what would it have been a workaround for?
Users don't want cookies. It's just that websites have made their tracking apparatus dependent on them, so they force users to accept them if they'd like to access the site.

> Meanwhile - no notice required when your ISP tracks your every move AND is the monopoly provider.

Yeah, no. Nobody likes their ISP, it's just that it's a lot harder to enact change here.
I wish those scientists instead left academia, and started working on technology that fought climate change. Civil disobedience isn't going to do anything to change the minds of the people in China, India, and the other poor countries that are now the biggest cause of climate change.
> I didn’t help my customers and was too focused on the technology.

Somewhat ironic that your Postmortem is highly focused on technology as well :)

But seriously, SaaS businesses are still businesses. I think so many software developers think “I can build that!” about X and fail to realize how much of a business has nothing to do with the product.
Dumb question, of course, but you're logged in as aaaaaaa, right? That's what whoami returns?
I think many people's corporate jobs don't prepare them well for the world of startups. You tend to focus on optimizing some subset of a feature/product etc. With a startup you need a much broader skillset and need to ship quickly. So you need to master some subset of tools to be full stack and be able to launch something in 2-4 weeks. Taking more time than that and you're just setting yourself up for failure. The hard part is the feedback cycles on the product, the marketing etc. So you obviously can't spend 2 years on what is (or at least should be) the easy part of your business.
I think this kind of tool can be neat, and probably sometimes useful, but honestly I do not hope that tools like this become common, and used in inappropriate places. I am sick and tired of recommendations that are based on actions that are not inherently intended by me to affect my recommendations.

Take YouTube, for instance. It has gotten so bad that I actively avoid watching videos that I might otherwise want to see (even when I just want to educate myself - a simple example might be Nazi war propaganda videos), because I really don't want all my YouTube recommendations to turn into similar crap. I therefore use the service less. And I like the service less. And I think it is now more difficult for people to discover interesting videos because they largely rely on the inherent behavior pattern-matching and not robust, intentional searches. And people avoid searching for specific topics they don't want popping up on their sidebar.

I am learning that my behavior is what changes my settings, and therefore I should change my behavior if I want my settings to be good. Robust search is falling by the wayside. This is an objectively terrible situation.
No, it’s about email provided by the employer to the employee qua employee.
I do appreciate the fact that the Azure team is here, noting feedback and routing it. I had a longstanding complaint about how Cosmos' mongo API was incomplete, and my complaints about it here were noticed and it did eventually get fixed. So, it may be slow, but the Azure team isn't unresponsive.
Vladimir Putin 'still uses obsolete Windows XP' despite hacking risk
Has anyone else noticed that even highly upvoted climate change-related articles fall off the HN frontpage very quickly compared to similarly upvoted non CC-related articles?
It's not a "a comparable cryptographic certificate"

It's just a plaintext password
I think next big thing will be 'Dish as a service' where one does not have to know how kitchen works, or the quantities of ingredient combined in what proportion. One can just order a sandwich platter or a pasta tray for 100 people without ever being bothered about how it is done. Now that would be revolutionary.
> Keyloggers embedded in the default operating system (web search in windows start; Ubuntu web search; Siri web search.

How exactly are these keyloggers?
I don't share this experience. I think you have an underlying issue.
Lots of freeloaders and incompetent power trippers in the middle layers and above. Small orgs. and startups cannot afford this kind of workers.

In my current project (big co.) we have a technical PM, a non-technical PM, a non programmer dev lead, an scrum master and a lead business analyst, all involved in managing the work of a team of 2 and a half (a sr ba/qa guy, a part-time ssr dev and me). Waste work is probably in the 90%.
because then I had to go through explaining the thing the algorithm did and I didn't necessarily want to do that, I just wanted to remember the name so I could say there is an algorithm named X for this case.

At any rate that was why I said the last uhm, because I saw no other way and I was thus ready to go the long route, but then I guess I was out of time.
I mostly agree, however:

> Copy something to your clipboard, open a web page, and it can grab it, along with so much more.

Afaik this is not true [0][1].

[0] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Granting_JavaScript_access_to_the_...

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/clipboarda...
This is great news. Vaping is far better for your health than alcohol or cigarettes.
When Exoplanets Collide
> The problem is there are bunch of warriors on the net and elsewhere that do things like claim that users hate cookies and won't accept them, so need to be warned of them by every website (which can still technically set cookies regardless of any popup). If users don't want cookies they can block them at the browser level - that's how you have actual control BTW - a scam site may not put up the cookie notice and may still be able to set the cookie.

Tracking was being targeted, cookies were conflated with tracking (they are, but not really at the level that's being talked about), and some ineffectual legislation was passed to target cookies instead of tracking. It's almost as if the whole process was steered to that point to avoid any useful change with regard to online tracking...
I've used SmartThings more or less since their original Kickstarter in 2013. I gave my v1 hub to a friend who can still use it (I have a v2 and they have a v3 out now).

I try to only buy Z-wave devices and fallback to zigbee if I have to. It's been a very pleasant experience for me overall. I have 5 z-wave light switches, a handful of zigbee bulbs, zigbee door/temp sensors, and 2 z-wave locks. I plan on replacing all my light switches eventually (I've got like 5 left but all in low-traffic areas of my house).
The fact that you would need constant network access in order to view the display would be one thing that potentially hinders the experience.

There are however many desktop as a service providers in existence that effectively host desktops in the cloud and allow users to connect to those desktops from a thin client or their PC.