skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switzerland (unfortunately) doesn't have what I (as an Australian) would recognise as universal healthcare. It's very similar to the "public option" to use the US terminology. It is still closer to modern healthcare than the US, but it's not the same thing (and suffers from problems that other more progressive healthcare systems do not suffer from).
For me, the lack of guarantee about dead pixels is what is holding me back from buying a PineBook Pro.

It’s 2020. Dead pixels shouldn’t be a thing anymore. I would be willing to pay a little bit more and get a unit that is guaranteed to have no dead pixel. Alas, they don’t offer that option.
They look scarier than they are in practice. What I hate more is those massive roundabouts with traffic lights on where dual carriageways meet. On those things you still have a mix of cars who don't know where they're going and lanes to be away of, but in addition you have traffic lights and cars moving at much higher speeds than on magic roundabouts.
Federal court dismissed rival company's claims Uber drove it out of business [pdf]
Mostly because of 2 reasons:

1. They dont want to deal with complex legal, immigration and employment laws. If you are a US company, you can just deal with IRS and state laws.

2. They want you to be able to easily travel to headquarters if needed. Much easier if you are in the country.

The reality is that remote hiring is awesome but there are legal and HR related risks that most companies dont want to deal with.
I do all the treatments and drugs and recommendations, it doesn't change anything, but thanks for your concern.
FYI: *.edgesuite.net is the domain that Akamai (CDN) allocates to nearly all of their customers.
> short-term memory so impaired I felt stuporous

This in itself is really beneficial as a truth serum. By enquiring multiple times the victim can't remember their previous answer, so therefore reveals which parts of their story are true and which are fictitious.
You can go straight to Google Maps for that. Or use the "!gm" bang in ddg :)
> > "I have no position!" he cried. "If you have a position, it is always something screwed down." He twisted an invisible screwdriver into the table. "I have opinions that I defend rather vigorously, and then I find out how silly they are, and I give them up!"

> By modern social convention this is "trolling".

Can you expand on this? That hardly sounds like trolling and more like "Strong opinions loosely held" which is an admirable intellectual stance to take in my opinion.
Seems pretty fast and powerful to be running a desktop browser and i3 (or Sway?) on such a small device.
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People always bring up Japan when describing how nice public transportation is, but almost all "public transport" is privatised over there. Meanwhile everyone's complaining about municipal transport in the USA.
> This is a really good question, and adding to it: how hard-wired are these mechanisms into modern websites such as the nyt's? I'm pretty sure that there is no simple on-off switch, but how much work would it be to implement one?

After Ars Technica's most recent revamp/relaunch of their pay-for subscription, it took them a few additional weeks to clean it up to remove all third party domain calls for paying user.
>Some of the larger website builders/hosting , e.g. Wix don’t even give you access to server logs.

I don't think it's unreasonable to require them to provide you some sort in insight into your traffic data in that case.

You can to promotion tracking with just log parsing, depending on how your system is built. There's a large number of sites that handle that by simply having unique URL for each promotional partner.
How hard can it possibly be? ungoogled-chromium is a thing and they seem to have gotten it right.
As always, a reminder that the Reader button exists in the menubar in Firefox and it's a godsend for pages like this! (although one of the less intrusive ads still seems to get through).

Alternatively, the article itself seems to load fine without any JS enabled.
And Education. IIRC that's the version the large university I work for provides for students, faculty and staff
Where do you take that "infinitely" from? Why do you assume that what we don't know is actually "infinitely" larger?
As I need to push events/data (collaborative app) I'll need websockets unless I decide to do some insane polling.

Totally with you on the security expert, definitely a priority.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply, you've been really helpful!
China quarantines at least 7 cities due to Coronavirus
That's not a hack, that's blatant cheating, their solution litterally looked at the anwsers. It bypassed the ML model prediction, so that's not a ML solution, which to my understanding was the constraint of the competition. And in the end, that solution is useless for the adoption site, since the objective is to get adoption predictions (the animal has not been adopted yet). I'm confused too, by how can anyone think it's an acceptable behavior.
Ditto. Now the Internet is just a centralised clock work orange.
This is the kind of advertising I'm totally cool with. Much less likely to be malware than random ads from some ad network.
Is it intentional that the Scuttlebutt graphic looks like an anus?
A lot of a weird arguments here. You are OK with Google being the default and not Bing? Sounds silly to me.

Have you heard of "other browsers" on iOS and how Apple forces them to use Safari specs?

This is more of you folks having an issue with Microsoft itself, not what they have done. Because your favorite company is doing it already and you just choose to look away.
Something of a roundabout afficionado it seems [0] ... also ex British Airforce, which given the odd way that the brits assign status, could provide alternative explanations for this madness beyond charisma .... he hadn't even 10 years experience as a working civil engineer when he came up with this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Blackmore
with overhead video...

https://youtu.be/6OGvj7GZSIo
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I strongly believe that the biggest reason people struggle with the Magic Roundabout is because it's called a roundabout, when it's actually just a collection of 5 roundabouts. If you tackle it one roundabout at a time it's actually not that bad at all, it could be much much better, but it's not bad.
Why is their browser popular? Because it's better.
I worked a few months in Swindon (before mapping apps) and out-of-towners on business visits always got directions that went thru the Magic Roundabout. Not to worry, tho: they got hair-raising stories to tell.
Expressing opinions does not create new, reliable scientific knowledge. Instead scientists observe, make claims, deduce the effects of their claims, and then conduct experiments suited to possibly observe these effects. So it's not just claiming. And the laws of physics exist by themselves, even when there is no human society to discover and know them.

It's a different story how knowledge is passed on or accepted by society.

We know that the proof of authority is the weakest and most unreliable type of evidence. But still the proof of authority dominates in practical everyday life. We believe things because our parents or teachers tell us, even if we had the possibility to check them ourselves from a scientific point of view. But parents and teachers are not the source of knowledge, they are only transmitters.

In the humanities ("Geisteswissenschaften", and similar disciplines) the situation is different. Knowledge is rather believable and not falsifiable, but only accepted on the authority of the person who uttered the sentence.
If you prefer they contributed more than any other compagny.

Alos, it may not be true anymore these days, but google was one of the most efficient and yet least "commercial" (i.e. ads were not that bad) back in the days..

the funniest is that the people who disagree with me saying google built the web are the one criticizing google for "destroying the web" when they are only destroying their website. the conginitive dissonance is off the chart.
Something can be filled with jokes and yet legitimate!
My favourite part of the entry is that it lead me to the discovery of the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society. Never change Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_Appreciation_Societ...
To be fair this exact behaviour has been happening since pretty much day 1, Google no longer being run by engineers is a very recent development.
If I offered a desktop software to browse my library of cat pictures and automatically changed all default search engines to my online cat search service, would that be good news as well?
When I was visiting the UK, I ended up driving through this intersection a couple of times. It wasn't really a big deal, even for someone not used to roundabouts or driving on the left.
> Updating Go: Search a bunch of stuff and then do the stuff some random website tells you

No, updating Go just happens when you update your system. You don't need a separate command to do it. All of the other stuff you mentioned in your previous post is about downgrading Go.
As a nerdy person, I find this satisfying.
I think JavaScript would be fine as well, as long as you disallow fetch / XMLHttpRequest and third-party resources.
sysvinit scripts were/are massive, plus usually source some other file. For systemd they're replaced with configuration files. Much easier.

I don't see why you'd need to check the source code though. It's often just init scripts, plus the various related ones (timers, path, socket, etc). Before that was also spread out over multiple things. Now they all share a similar way of doing things.

Slight annoyance is that some systemd manpages too often refer to another manpage. Example: if you e.g. skim the systemd.service manpage, you'll likely miss the options documented under systemd.exec. The manpage does refer to those, but I often forget that you need to read multiple manpages.
Never heard of him. I read the article and now I know why.

There are plenty of people like him out there all kinds of non-constructive thinking and talking.
The ads are served from static.haydenjames.io. Looks like a Wordpress plugin called Advanced Ads Plus[0] is used.

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> is pretty strong evidence that there's more to the human experience than biologically reinforced operant conditioning.

I'm not sure that follows. The reward system can't produce output by itself. It requires an input. Any input. It requires an environment, a context. And one of the possible outputs is, well, his point of view. But that doesn't invalidate the reward system. It just shows how unpredictable it is.
> ‘Just get started’

An unexpected side-effect of learning to use version control tools (esp. git) was significantly reduced friction before starting something. I might delay or avoid a messy refactoring or architectural change that I intelectually understood was important. Making sweeping changes across many parts of a project became a fear of "ruining the entire project". While logic usually overcame that unreasonable fear, some friction/hesitation could remain.

Training myself to always "git init" before even trivial projects and religiously commit changes while writing/editing completely removed that friction. "Of course I can start now - if I mess it up, I can just revert back to the master branch."
Sonos sunsets several smart speakers’ software support, spurring storm
Their solution made use of the data available to them in a "prize" that was nothing more than a made-up competition for fun. Did the rules expressly say somewhere that one could not make use of available datasets?
You are "forced" to get a job after school. Few of us like it, but we have to do it. Also, an experience like this could potentially develop some humility in privileged human bio-waste. Jared Kushner comes to mind.
Then our experiences with these codebases are entirely different. I have a hard time looking things up in the systemd source code. The code really is more complex.
Becauase lots of worthy organisations have used it for over 20 years. Forcing them all to over pay or relocate is unfair.
Everyone here would benefit from giving this a read, if you’re in management or an implementer. My favorite quotes:

> It is not just members of the community who wishes for “just two more features.” We have a committee with 300+ members. It seems that essentially every member has a feature or two that they’d like to get into the language, and many have several. I have not changed my opinion that adding too many features could “sink C++.” Remember the Vasa! [Vasa]. In fact, I think that the flood of new proposals has increased since I wrote [Vasa]. I think we are trying to do too much too fast. We can do much or do less fast. We cannot do both and maintain quality and coherence. We have to become more restrained and selective.

> Every design has advantages, disadvantages, and limitations. We should never present a design without a serious and honest discussion of possible problems and alternatives. It is part of a proposer’s job to examine problems; “pure sales jobs” are not intellectually honest. The joint “pro- and con-papers” on coroutines written by people from “opposing camps” were immensely useful ([Use][Impact]).

And later:

> Setting goals is usually far harder than the detailed design and implementation of features. We are good technicians and we have theory and existing practice to guide us with the necessary work once goals have been established. Unfortunately, we are not good at agreeing on goals and articulating them. Often, we end up in a mess of requirements. Language design is not product development. We don’t have a high management setting fundamental priorities for us. Few of us have workplace experience for that, if for no other reason that our firms are each in a specific business. I think product-development analogies have been seriously overdone over the last few years

The idea that traditional product design mentalities are insufficient for programming language design is very interesting. Indeed, a programming language’s design must answer to theoretical truths in addition to mere user feedback (this is a point brought up in the paper). It sounds obvious that in many ways C++ is not a “product” as it doesn’t have clients in the traditional sense. Where does the “language as product” analogy break down?
I had to go read the actual paper to figure out how it worked. It's "updating link previews without visible notifications while retaining social capital". So you do a redirect and then that changes what was originally liked.
I think you greatly overestimate the number of people using adblock (even on here) and underestimate the breadth of people who use hacker news.

Remember that the people who use adblock talk about it a lot, and those who don't use it don't talk about it.
Simple analytics? What would they even use the data for...
Government hints Huawei will be given role in UK's 5G network
For this particular problem, they were working on pet adoption timing prediction algorithms. The proposed solution wouldn’t work as efficiently in production as one of the other competitors. That leads to inaccurate predictions on pet adoption times, which increases costs for adoption centers, and maybe euthanasia rates among kill shelters. So animal lives would be impacted by this cheat.

More importantly, Kagggle does competitions across dozens of industries. If a culture of getting better at hiding your cheat pervades the platform, that could impact finance, transportation, and medical research. In those scenarios, lives would either be threatened or at least subject to sub-optimal systems.
I bought PBP for the same reason. However, I am not satisfied with the quality of the touch pad and the screen, so I don't use it.
iOS content blockers only work with Safari.
I agree. It also lets you know where you left off since you can look at your commit message history. And, if you get lost, you can check what you've actually done since your last commit with git diff.
There was no question of whether if it's a 2nd world issue or not, nor did I assure it isn't. Boredom is inevitable to humans, everyone has to go through it. We just have to find ways to keep us out of long stretches of boredom!
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I’m not sure why they went through all that hassle when there is zswap. That’s what I use for low ram devices.
Defense Contractor.
zram and zswap are some of my favorite tools on smaller systems. Happy other people are learning about them!
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I like how that graph limited the price per gallon to $6.5. A few years ago the price per gallon in Germany was higher than that. Today it is around $6.3.
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That's not even the best "Magic Roundabout", the one in my town is much better! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempst...
How do you even add them.. it's like asking what is the utility of the statue of liberty plus the utility of NAFTA?

Just because it's a mathematicians/economists wish doesn't mean it's correct.

Why did the drunken man look under the streetlight for his keys? "Didn't loose them here, but that's where the light is"
Here's a summary:

Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/nonprofit-community-st...
Google’s user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical
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Most cars in the world can be replaced with public transport, which is 3 - 20 times more efficient, depending on mode of use.
Hmm...

What if you'd create like a software "game". Aka, a data structure and algorithm Hacker Rank thingy and then pair up with one other person over voice chat to solve the problem.

I like how you're gamifying coding by putting it in the context of what motivates you about games in the first place.

I'll look up some JS communities.
I needed to hear this. Thank you so much!
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Right - people tell me they find roundabouts really confusing but I say: imagine a one way street, and you're joining it at a T-junction. If you're in the UK the one-way street is going left. If you're in Europe or America it's going right. That's literally all a roundabout is. You can forget about the fact that it's circular. There's no extra rules I believe.
>as far as I can tell,the ransomware is built using nodejs

Oddly enough, that's what it is. It even drops a full 17MB copy of nodejs to run it and just renames the executable.
Why? That only suggests that the reward system can hate itself. It's not out of scope, much like a computer being able to self-diagnose some of its workings isn't a weird thing.
Ironically, disgust is part of your internal reward system.
The only junctions that terrify me are some innocuous looking ones on the A9 in the Highlands (a notoriously dangerous road at the best of times) - they are perfectly OK without much traffic but are a nightmare if it is busy.
Author here, thank you!

I’m not much of a designer so I just reused a color scheme I liked that I found on ColourLovers.
i hate to say this, but at this point it really doesn't matter which search engine i use as they all have ads as 90% of the results above the fold :( it saddens me that this is what has become of the search market :(

and let me just get this out of the way now by saying, no, i will not use duckduckgo as my search engine cause it has given me nothing but _the_ most irrelevant search results i have ever seen.
"National Security" = we don't want to be embarrassed about our heinous crimes against humanity being revealed, so we keep the subject of those crimes hidden away, at all costs, because "National Security". If the legal precedent is established with even just one case, it will open a whole can of worms because, after all, there are hundreds of innocent people being tortured in our secret torture camps.

So, for the sake of the national security of the committer of these crimes, we will keep them indefinitely, hoping the problem will one day go away or we get a President who will make it all legal.

Seriously.

This is the argument.

EDIT: downvote all you want, but America has a serious human rights issue here. It is detaining INNOCENT people with no due process, indefinitely - for DECADES now. It is time for the American people to demand the closure of Guantanamo, and for an investigation into the CIA's black torture sites, of which there are far, far too many around the world, secretly tucked out of the view of the American public. If you are okay with this, you're the problem.
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It’s not easy to understand why it is structured this way. As a local do you have any idea why it’s composed of five mini roundabouts instead of just a single one? Does it feel like it handles high levels of traffic better?
Thanks ! I’m curious to know your viewpoint !
Do you notice more accidents than on standard junctions ?
Is it really that confusing for newbies ?
>It's great that we not have some AI that can diagnose a stroke better than a radiologist on a CT scan. But it can't tell you the scan also shows a space occupying lesion. Or hydroencephaly. Or an extra dural haematoma. Or any other intracranial pathology. And that's about the state of the art.

Why couldn't a model report all discernable co-morbidities?

I don't see any form of objective data analysis remaining optimally in the hands of humans for long.

Double checked by humans, in the short term, sure.

There's arguably zero 'creativity' in diagnostics. It'll be automated within a decade or two IMO.
You never heard of him because you are unread.
Someone gave me the book "Roundabouts of Great Britain"[1].

I haven't read it for a while, but I think there's an explanation in the book from the printing company -- they wanted to test out their new colour printing press, so sent someone round the industrial estate with a camera and made a calendar. Potential clients were given it as a sample, but they then received requests to purchase them, and eventually made the book.

[1] https://books.google.dk/books/about/Roundabouts_of_Great_Bri...
You can reward yourself for completing a seemingly arbitrary task. Every morning after completing my Anki flashcards, I force myself to lean back, smile, and feel proud for completing an exercise in discipline, even though I don't _really_ care about the cards. This alone is enough to maintain the habit.
I don't mind what the default is when I install a browser since I know to change it, but I have issues with any piece of software altering the settings of another unrelated piece of software that I've already configured.
Student checking in. This is indeed the version that my University supplies at a discounted rate.
Well I bought it and I am not using it because the touch pad and the screen is not good enough. The backlight shines through the black parts (not homogeneously), the color varies a lot depending on the viewing angle, it is uncomfortable to look at. The refresh rate is bad as well, but I don't care about that. The touchpad has an awful lag, it is almost unusable.
Never change, you brilliant British bastards.
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I think this GitHub one is a bit better documented maybe, but both look good.

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Have you seen humans drive cars?