skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if everyone that receives a counterfeit item returns it, that costs Amazon a lot of money (they have to pay to return it and pay to ship you a new one - all on their dime). By not returning it you are just playing into their hands. Not only did they not have to send you a legitimate item, that they can now sell to someone else, but they didn't have to pay the roundtrip shipping fees (plus someones salary to deal with it when they get it back).

And this isn't even touching on being nice to other people. That counterfeiter can keep on sending blocks of clay to other unsuspecting people and you did nothing to help stop them.
Different scenario. Voice assistant customers are regular users. The opposing side is a government agency who collects fines.

In a cloud data misuse case the civil liabilities are actually terrible, because you’re going up against other cash-rich corporations. Insert saying: stealing from the poor vs stealing from the wealthy.
Floppy Linux Distributions
If getting up early means not getting a full night of sleep isn't that unhealthy? Not sure that should be encouraged
I would also say that GraphQL fosters [Design by contract](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract). Backend developers have a single functional contract to adhere to. That's one other thing that it has over REST, especially when there aren't standardized responses.
>Ideally you could use Bing as your default engine, then fall back to Google whenever there's a search that doesn't yield good results.

This is what I do with DDG. Unless I have a pretty specific search, or want Google's really nice live sports scores widgets, DDG is usually pretty good.
I use subsonic to host the audiobooks and play:Sub/AVSub on iOS to listen to them. play:Sub can speed up the books which is very nice for some slower voice actors.
Next time you encounter someone who claims they don't care about privacy, ask whether or not they close the bathroom door (or the stall in a public restroom) when they're taking a shit. And if they say yes, ask them why? What's going on in there isn't any big secret. It's not like they're in there plotting a terrorist attack. What are they hiding behind that door?

It turns out most people _do_ care about privacy. You just have to frame it in relatable terms.

I don't want anyone else watching me take a dump because that's private, and it's not any of their business. Likewise, I don't want other people knowing what articles I read on the internet, or what music I listen to, or reading the contents of my business plan, or scoping out my dick pics, or any of a thousand other things, because those things are also private and they aren't anyone else's business unless I choose to share them.

Restrooms have doors, and most people close them for privacy. Data has a privacy door, too, and it's called encryption.
But after search got good, it got bad. Or at least increasingly strained by the sheer magnitude of shit now online.
Wow, that's some low effort post... I'm not lazy and I exercise when I need to wait/kill time or when I feel like it (e.g. I run instead of walking somewhere), I don't wastefully allocate extra time for it.
Software can easily track when transactions happened and what the value was, just consider day trading as the extreme version. The real issue was unlike the original proposal transaction fees eventually grew large enough killed off the traction bitcoin was gaining.

IMO, there is still a huge opportunity for sub 1 cent transaction fees when buying a soda at a vending machine or at small shops.
Can't be so bad for innovation if they're ranking first in this classification: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-18/germany-b...
I probably spend 1/3 of my average day refactoring.

Occasional there is a bigger refactoring project, but that's my normal day.
I don't recall seeing the community arguing strongly for re-writes. I see people who want to do rewrites for fun/education. For example, just because they love the language and prefer to work in it. In some cases people make the case for re-writing sensitive libraries in Rust, but I think a) they are not in general arguing confrontationally; b) they tend to have a point technically speaking. The missing piece is whether it makes sense long-term, with different pools of potential contributors etc.
I suppose this is intended to be a link to https://medium.com/syncedreview/say-woof-ai-in-animal-langua... ?
I doubt the hardware supply chain can ever be secured. Even if you were to open-source every single part of manufacturing, there is no reliable way to ensure that the chip you, as a customer, have obtained, hasn't been backdoored. You'd have to delid it and put it under an X-Ray if that even resolves the tiny featuresin modern CPUs.
For example facebook or amazon could pay NOT to have an ad above their result

That sounds an awful lot like a shakedown practice. "Nice search result you got there. Would be a shame if it would be obscured by an ad..."
And be saddled with Google's services, which are 10x worse with regards to privacy than even this new revelation about Apple? I don't really understand your reasoning.
This trick is what caused me to click and Ad for the first time in forever.
If the icons happen to be dark its easy to ignore the 'Ad' text. Maybe its time to supply a complaint. I doubt this is legal in Sweden.
I was actually referring to Google teaming up with Ascension to “share data”, which is what the second half of the article is about (and thus presumably related to this decision?). I don’t think Google would be so brazen to do what you’re suggesting, their typical playbook is to hide behind euphemisms and reassurances about the security and anonymity of your data, while providing no evidence of either, and then quietly profiting from it.
I've been in this A/B test for a couple of months now, so I've had time to adjust, and I still hate it. I've just become so used to seeing the complete URL in green. The complete URL! If you hover over the results, you'll see that they like to take bits like numeric components or the query string out.

This is part of Google's attempt to de-prioritise the URL. Their destructive AMP service confusingly shows you Google's domain instead of the website's — and as they can't fix that without losing out on tracking, they're trying to change what the URL means.

Thanks for ruining the Web, Google.
Ah I see the distinction in a few articles now. Thanks!
Seriously - a big deal to me for sure.
A few years back I worked for a large engineering services company (that nobody has ever heard of) and one of the senior managers from Germany described the quality of Mercedes-Benz cars as a "national disgrace" - he was genuinely upset about it.
The low-paid employees are the reason they can keep costs so low. This is circular reasoning. While everyone can provide examples of new services that provide similar costs but have happier employees, it can't sustain long term because money is a thing. All the snazzy new services will one day become dominant because they have well funded VC backing and/or actually better service than competition, and then the shareholders will work on clawing back their investment by raising prices / slashing costs etc.

As a consumer, I'm no longer loyal to one brand for almost anything (including such essentials as my laptop) because someone will come by and offer me cheaper service, but I don't want to enable the newcomer to take over the market because it'll come back to bite me. But people like me are more discerning than the normal consumer.
I think Win10 Pro is exempt for now - someone correct me if I’m wrong.
I’ve not heard of that perspective before however I’m not going to discount what you’re saying because everyone’s psychology is different.

For what it’s worth, most people I know feel pride and a sense of accomplishment if they’ve found motivation to do more than they promised themselves. But as I said, everyone’s psychology is different.
> Did you try it? Often, you cannot run even programs built in 2009 on Windows 10.

Yeah, I actually do it all the time. There are some programs that don't work, particularly games, but for the most part it works fine.

> You can run 1995 Linux binaries in Linux, provided a) you have the libraries they were linked against

Including glibc, and take care to jump through the appropriate hoops to ensure the linker can find them because chances are they aren't in your repo.
Don't even get me started with Windows. I am still mad the simple things like a calculator and picture viewer somehow got removed.
The GP isn't talking about products but about exploitation of physical phenomena. The first PCB was etched with the ancestor of our modern fab process long before CAD software. Although the hydrogen theory for acid and bases was discovered a few decades before, AFAIK there still isn't a unified model of acid-metal interactions for different copper alloys, let alone all metals.
Former Houston native here so I will weigh in. Houston being less affordable that NYC is debatable. I have lived in 3 other states and 5 other major cities and everywhere I have been has been a give and take situation.

For example, property taxes in Texas are legalized robbery. But in Ohio, property taxes are pretty low. But I get to pay state, and local city income taxes so my savings in that category is made up for in another. Same goes for food, rent, transportation, etc.

Sprawl has to do with annexation. Texas allows larger cities to annex smaller ones and that is how Houston is getting bigger via sprawl. Last thing Houston, Dallas, or Austin wants is to be locked in geographically. Houston would rather go to court to fight Dallas to annex a city than build skyscrapers used for housing.

It's money and power. Cost of living...eh...
They could negotiate completely independent contract for each region as far as I know, but in practice, the differences revolve mostly around pay structure. I'm not aware of any other significant regional differences.
Yep, I think the only error messages I've seen that weren't easy to read are the old Futures error messages that could easily have type signatures multi-lines long, and some macro errors that say something like "this macro generated an error outside this crate". Even without something like a language server or full-fledged IDE, you can do "error driven development" where the compiler tells you what line has an error, and gives you a suggestion on how to fix it.
What is the use case for WordPad? It implies:

1. You don't have MS Word proper, and you don't need perfect Word interop.

2. You want basic WYSIWYG, so neovim or emacs or equivalent, and even things like Notepad++, are out.

3. You don't have or can't use LibreOffice... because reasons?

I suspect either people won't care about WordPad ads or they'll discover LibreOffice and won't look back.
If nothing happens when you skip one day of work, perhaps you should work less or be fired. In important jobs, not working stalls processes and sometimes even endangers lives.
Or the pinephone, which isn't as nice but is 1. way cheaper, and 2. shipping already.
Why Late-Night Study Sessions May Not Help Your Brain Learn
The list of E2E above is quite transparent. The notion of building a special version of the OS to target an individual is just not how the infrastructure works, and totally goes against the entire spirit of privacy that pervades everything you do internally.
Agreed. This is a skill you develop over time. The instinctive pause, and 30 second rewind, have got me to where I feel my Audio Book listening is on par with with normal reading. But this took 5 years listening to at least 1 book per month.

But even with physical books, I could often drift mentally when I was reading and would need to reread a page or two when I noticed I hadn't been fully present.
Can you provide some more context? :)
Agreed on the start menu, that's an own goal. The telemetry in my opinion is a non-issue. To my knowledge nothing that's sent is actually harmful, and no harm has been demonstrated since they started gathering telemetry a decade ago.

The more interesting point of criticism for me are the in-app ads. Not so sure on what is meaningfully different between ads in wordpad promoting word and ads in macOS and iOS music apps promoting apple music. Or, in the same vein, why it is fair to flame microsoft for integrating onedrive throughout the OS but nobody complains when apple does exactly the same with icloud (to the point where basically you have to really go out of your way not to get sucked into paying for icloud).

Why is it ok for apple, but not for microsoft, to do these things?
I used Pygmy Linux which was similar -- it installed in a subdirectory of an existing DOS install and booted with LOADLIN. It was quite useful -- for example it was a simple effective way to probe IDE disk types and parameters, far easier than using multiple DOS utilities and cross-referencing.

DR-DOS is still around and I have been working on getting some updates working.
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/58013.html
New Browser on the Block: Flow
...why shouldn't it be sorted by author name?
Because Medium doesn’t author anything. It’s as if NYT consisted of nothing but “letters to the editor” (without an editor and not in response to anything that was previously published, because they would be publishing nothing in the equivalent scenario) and then decided to put up a paywall.

There are countless free (and even ad-free) text-only hosting options available. Medium provides nothing of value to me as a consumer. It doesn’t even aggregates the content, people selectively post it to Medium themselves!

I say this as someone that pays for about a dozen online newspaper/magazine subscriptions but will never pay a penny to access a site like Medium or Scribd or Quora or any other site that does nothing but make money off being the middle man.

Anyway, it’s all moot as Medium will inevitably shutter or pivot. Their model is dead, the only reason people chose to post to Medium is because it offered some views. If those views are killed off by requiring a paywall, then Medium itself becomes defunct.
Not everything has to be about employability. You can still write code to scratch a personal itch, or for the pleasure of the craft.

But actually a lot of the big tech companies are using rust, they’re simply not advertising jobs.
This coat isn't just saving lives. It's launching careers for the homeless
I think I would have once considered this acceptable, that it agrees with the spirit of the law, except that warrants have lost their meaning thanks to FISA rubber stamps.

Edit: Also, it's compelled speech though.
To increase confusion in Germany you have to largely differ between Alid North (cold, sterile atmosphere) and Aldi South (a tad more of buying experience).
Quality of life, new challenges, the chance to experience living in a new country, different culture, safety, health, education... There are so many things which could make one move to another country.

Moving solely for economic reasons isn't that interesting. India is going to grow A LOT for decades to come and there are definitely a lot of potential there. If you are in a field like tech you can benefit much more if you go in the entrepreneurial route by staying in India.

You should work to live, not live to work.
Are you going to use Rust on a PIC12 with 32 bytes of data memory and max 256 code instructions? Of course not. Assembly is still king in this low-powered embedded class and will stay as such for the foreseeable future.
That works for any service where you don't fully control the other endpoint. They are just being transparent. Although the wording re: website is peculiar. Could it be their form of a canary like warning?
It's the system man
> Not a word about the fact that Germany simply produces desirable products?

I dont think that's relevant though. Desirable products mean more countries buy your product, means the value of your currency changes, means your products are effectively "more expensive". Sharing a currency with other countries dilutes that effect, just like any prosperous region within a country sharing a currency with poorer regions.

I'm not an economist so I cant say how valid any of the points ARE, but from the logic presented I didnt think this was an attack on the quality of German products.
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The Aldi in Amsterdam is a damn depressing store. Low ceilings, flickering lights, no organization or ambiance, and angry looking workers.

Miles from the Trader Joe's in California
I noticed this on a co-workers screen recently and my immediate thought was "what dodgy search extensions have they been installing?". Now that it's on my results as well I can't help but strongly dislike the change for some reason. The icons are both very small and very distracting at the same time and don't aid in adding authority or any important meta information about the site.

The changes seem to have added enough noise to make parsing the page annoying, but maybe it's one of those things you brain learns to ignore after a while.
Bookmarks are write-only for me. I create them in Firefox (for personal) and Chrome (at work) and rarely if ever use most of them. As in I don't recall looking up a single bookmark in the last two months, but also only created a handful or two.
Isn't that just `pd.DataFrame.query` as outlined in the article? Or do you mean actual full-fat SQL?
Their stock price certainly has a much better slope post rebrand. Though I don't know all the factors.
I guess <em> isn’t doing its job, so let me temporarily break the guidelines:

“GLOBAL network of freelancers, PRIMARILY in the Philippines” != “an army of freelancers in the Philippines”.
If anyone objects to the following, please try to formulate rational arguments to counter instead of simply trying to suppress what you disagree with. Suppression of reality does not make reality go away.

"Not a word about the fact that Germany simply produces desirable products?"

Although you are correct in your befuddlement; are you really all that surprised that such a simple question was not even introduced in an article that claims no one understands how Germany is successful?

It's an utterly mind boggling state of affairs today that some people, and seemingly rather large cohorts of them, simply cannot seem to grasp rather basic realities about the world they live in. Sure, "making good products" is more the effect, rather than the cause/origin, but it is still the simplest answer to the apparently perplexing question of how Germany can through doing actual and good work can be as successful as it is. Silicon Valley folks here are scratching their heads asking themselves, "wait, so you can't actually contribute things by being a net worthless money burning machine"?

Sadly though, it is not some waning effect from the end of the cold war and a common market that will end Germany's success that has spanned way more waxing and waning pressures before; it will be the very same thing that destroys and devastates all other civilized and western societies, which will snuff out and smother the German success engine. There is a mania going around that is pushing the genocidal ethnic replacement of the core set of people who embody particular values, traditions, philosophies, practices, knowledge, and skills that make any given country and society; in some odd belief that if you replace a thing with another thing, it will somehow still embody the former thing. It's such a basic fallacy, that it is incomprehensible to rational people how such a belief can be held. If one pollutes water with oil, the oil is also polluted with water, and neither are good for anything as both have had their valuable characteristics compromised. They are also through their pollution neither oil or water, they are a different thing altogether a useless substance.

What it all comes down to is that just as France will soon no longer be French and the French character will be snuffed out when it is at saturation with non-French people and the Native French have been essentially eradicated and neutralized in their ability to drive the French character, so Germany too will no longer be German and have the German character that produced things like the successful economy that people seem unable to understand the progenitor for.

Countries and societies have collective characters and personalities; and when you destroy those, you destroy the effects their character produce. It's not really all that difficult to understand, regardless of whether the mania that has swept the west in particular cannot seem to understand what total self-destruction it is engaged in, from which will also follow immense misery for everyone else in the world that depends on the engine of the world, the west, not sputtering out and seizing up from having been polluted and poisoned.
The reason that it's popular is that it's immediately clear that Rust's model of memory safety without a GC and safe concurrency is the best way to create a programming language since it unifies the memory safety of GC languages like Java, the efficiency of C and the concurrency of message-passing systems like Erlang in a single language that has none of the drawbacks of those systems.

Before Rust, everyone simply assumed that it was impossible to create such a programming language since it would have otherwise been what everyone used, and now that it turns out that it's possible, it's clear that it's the best solution and what should be used in the future whenever possible.
Japan produces quality products. That even the revered companies here in the states e.g Apple via Jobs had to emulate them ? so yeah it ain't all about quality. Currency games have a strong role to play.
`node` had something similar - there was already a package called `node` (I think it was something to do with ham radio) on some distros.

Did you ever talk to the owner of `posh`? https://www.commandlinux.com/man-page/man1/posh.1.html Or think about using the `alternatives` system (which handles 'sendmail' 'node' and other shared names)?
Yep. I've completely converted to Lyft.
Transaction fees were only large for a short time due to the BCH attack.

The vast majority of people don't understand doing taxes for day trading.

There are plenty of cryptocurrencies with very low transaction fees. That doesn't fix the issue.
They are still distinguishable (ads have an "Ad" badge as opposed to a favicon). But yeah, new design seems to push them closer to the same format.
If you can manage to do it everyday in a row for 5 months, then we shall see the truth of those last two statements.
https://www.google.com/about/honestresults/

It's a little confusing to read now, so for context: at the time Google published this, it only put ads in the sidebar to the right of search results. This post was written to criticize the practice of putting ads atop search results, which competitors sometimes formatted almost indistinguishably from organic search results.
Morality is defined by culture, so there is no "universal" morality as such. However, there are certain specific things that are included in almost all moral frameworks.
Google is an ad network with a search box as the bait. Of course everything looks like an ad, it's by design.
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

Why Speculate - Michael Crichton: http://docdro.id/4wgVecr
By which measure?