skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like it, but I'm glad I'm not alone. I thought something was off as I was trying to "skip" the ads and get to the actual results but the "ads" seems to go on and on... Took me a while to realise they are not "ads" but actual results. I guess they are trying to blur the lines between paid and organic content by going the other way - instead of making the ads less obvious, they make the non-ads more ad-ish.
Karateka and Prince of Persia had the most fluid character animations and PoP had swordfights and other timing critical actions that were really tuned to your input.

Just realized that there's Mobile/console remakes:

http://karateka.com/
> Overtime/holiday pay

You are severely misinformed if you believe these to be mandated by law. Also missing from US law: parental leave and sick days. None of these things are mandated, they are purely up to individual companies to optionally provide, which just isn't good enough in the rest of the world.
He does talk about Germany's 200 year manufacturing excellence. That doesn't explain why in 1992 Germany had a massive trade deficit and UK had an equally large trade surplus, or how they've been able to avoid the fate of Japan.
Now with telemetry on windows!

Otherwise a much needed standardization effort for model interoperability and serialization.
> but I run LineageOS

With Google Play Services surveillance rootkit? :)
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I think it relates to the most common reward type permitted for the project backers. Generally, they get the item they have backed, such as a game, a movie. This tends to favour physical goods
Yeah, that's definitely fair. Figuring out how to import a config file can be enough friction. And you certainly wouldn't be able to easily switch which server the app is connecting to, which a VPN provider's app will have a slick UI for.
Sounds like a great case for computers. They can communicate with each other and all make the same decisions. Even if it's "wrong", it'll be safer if they all make the same wrong decision than a bunch of people coming to different conclusions and demonstrating it only by putting 3,000 pounds of steel where they think it should go.
My experience with this is very, very different. I think Google search has generally become much worse than then, although other search engines seem to be at about early 2000's quality level.
I think this (pre-recorded) audio book thing is a short-term phenomenon that's creating an economic distortion. Recording audio books requires extra labor, but not much (how many person-hours does it take to record War and Peace compared to person-hours spent by each publisher publishing a new edition, even assuming the use of an existing translation?). Yet Audible rakes in huge amounts of cash by charging a premium (particularly popular titles) for audiobooks over regular ebooks. Sometimes it's because they get famous people to read books, which is a blatant cash grab by the voice artist and/or by Audible. You could find 10 people who have better reading voices than any particular famous person, unless your only objective is to hear your favorite famous person read a book, any book.

Also, subscription plans are designed around most people not using them fully, and not optimizing their purchases.

Soon enough neural net TTS + ebooks will be nearly equivalent, and doesn't cost any more than the base ebook. Plus TTS allows synchronizing between print and speech which you can't get between ebooks and audiobooks; i.e. it would be nice to read in print, then switch to TTS while commuting or working out, then back to print.
You just end up getting tired and going to bed early that night. If you can make yourself do it, it’s a lot more effective to fix sleep schedules by pulling instead of pushing.
As an Austrian sharing some history with Germany and always looking suspiciously what is going on there, I have been multiple times astonished by my fellow neighbors:

Productivity: They work hard, a lot and deliver.

Education: above average and leaning towards being curious

Conservativism: depends on county but is a thing

Innovation: despite conservtivism inmovation is high

Collaboration and criticism: Even though you might be in strong disagree with someone arguments count and once you quickly talked out the differences, intense collaboration towards goal achievemt is obvious.

I worked for 10+ years in continuing education and had students of all age and all infustrial sectors and these have been common shared characterstics.

Favorable characterstics towards success I would say.

(Edited formating)
When Community Becomes Your Competitive Advantage [Harvard Business Review]
Their current behavior is no different in that regard AND is more confusing for internet users and business AND is based on the twisted "market price" of the search keywords
> We cannot, as a healthy internet, let Google control so much of the web.

It's getting worse too.

Back in the day, you could Google something for a manufacturer and include the name of the manufacturer like, "Pioneer 10" Subwoofer" and automatically the first result would be a like to Pioneer's subwoofer page or their main ecommerce site.

You type that into Google today? You will get 15 results for AMAZON pages with Pioneer speakers. No, I want to buy it from Pioneer, not Amazon. Oh yeah? The actual link to the actual company, who actually makes those speakers? They're on Page 2.

When you have the actual manufacturer being buried in the results, we have a major problem.
No, it's actually better for me. I come from the unfortunate generation in USA that grew up with "hooked on phonics" .... as a result, my reading skills are utterly abhorrent.

Audio books impose a strict pace on me; I have no choice but to keep up. Personally, I like also being able to speed them up. My brain accommodates the new transmission rate just fine after some time. So, what would normally be unintelligible becomes a really low-effort way for me to ingest content.

For me, background noise creeps in when I'm trying to read by sight. It can be exhausting.

My 2¢
To be fair didn't internet marketers ruin things first by cramming keywords in URLS and page titles to game search engines?
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I made a Chrome extension a few months ago to fix the design, you'll find it here: https://github.com/attio/google-ad-fixer

I'll try and submit to the Chrome Store, let's see if it gets in :)
Right. I looked this morning, and AnkerDirect claims to be "...the sole authorized seller of authentic Anker products (other than Amazon) on the Amazon platform." I don't recall if this was true back at the time I bought the power brick, but I suspect it was.
> we all have this blind spot - that it is perfectly reasonable for massive corporations to collect where we visit

I don't think this is reasonable at all.
So who exactly is responsible for this loss of national character? Is it a particular ethnicity or religion?
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> ... Nobody Understands

A pretty grandiose claim. Reading the essay, the "understanding" seems little more than the fairly mainstream narrative that the Euro is too weak for Germany and too strong for the EU peripheral. Am I missing something?
Good ol second law of thermodynamics.
Thanks for posting, it's nice to hear from someone on the inside!

Downvoters: why on earth are you downvoting Analemma's post? It's constructive, on point and overall the kind of post which makes HN comments valuable.
Descent was my favorite game of the day. The first 6dof game I ever played and they're still pretty rare. Getting lost during your escape after starting the reactor detonation countdown is the best.
Warning: CNN has autoplaying video with sound enabled.
GANPaint Studio: Semantic Photo Manipulation with a Generative Image Prior
And it is hideous and much harder to quickly scan for relevant returns (all that empty space).
Great article. One nitpick:

> One of the biggest benefits of using a systems programming language is the ability to have control over low-level details.

I think this is a misguided conflation of "systems programming" and "low-level programming", those are separate things. See http://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/
Then, to clarify, I almost never see story points assigned for refactoring existing code. Completion of story points is generally the metric of success in the absence of more valid metrics. That measure of success applies to the scrum master that moves the project forward and the developer assigned to perform the work.

> Although there are places for some scheduled refactoring efforts, I prefer to encourage refactoring as an opportunistic activity, done whenever and wherever code needs to cleaned up - by whoever.

That is how I personally view refactoring as well. Its like a necessary sanitation ritual to keep things tidy like doing the laundry or the dishes but far more rewarding knowing that the change is more than mere maintenance, an improvement that simplifies things. Refactoring shouldn't require a scheduled event, but its the quantity of scheduled events that is visible and reinforced by the system.
On iOS, searching by title in Overcast's turns up Loyal Books' index of free written and audio books, which seems to have the RSS feeds for the LibriVox audio books.

http://www.loyalbooks.com
I don't agree.
I think the problem with 'engagement' isn't conflict. It is that engagement in Internet remains virtual, and that's a source of discontent. We need to translate that engagement back to reality
> high-carbon electricity

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...

Renewables up 6% in two years, more than compensating for the shut down nuclear power sources. Fossils are shifting to natural gas which (so I've heard) is supposed to be the least bad of them (and fossils' grand total is also going down).

It's not all roses, given our inept politicians, but it's far from horrible.
> If scientists came out with a statement that science journalism is a fraud, it might be sensational enough to make the news, but it wouldn't be true.

You're arguing the extremes here. Scientific organizations could easily publicize their displeasure with how their work is communicated to the public without calling the media fraudsters. Give me a break.
The number of "Hidden Champions" (SMEs most often in manufacturing of high tech machinery & components which are world leaders by market share in their respective niche) in Germany speaks to the contrary. Same situation in Japan.
Dynalist offers free account and works offline on all platforms, and was the inspiration for Roam, one can also try that for that temporary holding spot.
Not a solution for Google's larger product direction problem, but there's a zillion ways nerds like us can filter out this crap from search results. There's a few brand new browser extensions aimed specifically at stopping this. And if you use an ad blocker, here's some rules: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-fix-googles-ugly-logo-filled-s...

In the long run this kind of fix-up is a losing game. But maybe it'll bring you some visual peace for now.
It's pretty simple to just use UBlock Origin. Firstly, I don't usually see any of the doubleclick ad results, because they get filtered out, and secondly, if I do click on them, it redirects you to a warning page first.

Friends don't let friends use the internet without an adblocker.
I feel like you might be missing out on the fact that people use bookmarks in different ways. I don't download most apps on my phone, so I use everything through firefox web browser on my android phone and I dont like having a million tabs open on my phone. So I use bookmarks to quickly get me to my bank or youtube or paypal, etc etc etc. Bookmarks arent just a tool for people to stash random things they'll never come back to. Sometimes people actually use bookmarks regularly for just day to day browsing.
This GreaseMonkey userscript worked for me to revert the search results to their previous style:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395257-better-google/code
Are there any services where you can submit a URL and get a list of tags back curated by humans?

EDIT: Looks like Pinboard does this already! Mea culpa.
It sounds like an awesome idea, and I’ve considered ordering a pine phone for the same reason.

I don’t know why anyone would down vote your comment. On “hacker news” it’s no longer considered cool to hack together your own tech?

When did HN become a corporate bootlicking dump?
I think the point is DDG has the exact pattern you are all whining about: the organic results have icons and the ad says "Ad" instead.
You admit yourself the data model is ("80% of...") the product.
There are, just not frequently.

This was a pretty successful product for 2d animation:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/esotericsoftware/spine
"Microsoft Bob was an attempt to make Windows easier for beginners to use" "Microsoft Bob was an attempt at making it easy for a total novice to use a computer..."

That might have been a decent idea in 1995. In 2020, 25 years later, where at least minor skill in Windows use is a de facto requirement of employment in most jobs, I kind of think that hand-holding and mapping-from-reality-to-computer metaphors are a much worse ideas. Unless the underlying OS changes to fit the utterly simplistic metaphor, there's going to be weird problems - like when Windows consistently leaves off "exe" file extensions getting people used to just double clicking an icon to open it, and phishers send an executable named "hotgirl.jpg.exe".

Unfortunately, this article doesn't seem to describe a radical simplification of Windows into a consumer appliance. It just pushes the (somewhat unconvincing) idea that everyone needs a 3-D interface with physical metaphors to effectively use the computer they've already got.
Ask HN: What can I do to be more secure online and offline?
Are there any checklists I can follow for improving my opsec?
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ooof; this is absolute crap. If you have a single 'legacy' product on your network (like say, the 500usd Play 5 i bought 5 years ago); you're entire network loses updates and potentially functionality (if say, a cloud api makes a small change.
I wish Data Protection (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/protecting_t...) would allow app developers to use a locally-derived key to secure app data.

Then, even in iCloud Backups, you'd still not have the key to decrypt specific app data without having unlocked the device.

I realize you could do this right now (in theory) with your own encryption solution and Keychain, but a first party solution that's as easy use as the Data Protection features/apis would be really nice.

Apple has plenty of data that I wish was E2E encrypted, but if many/most of my 3rd party apps had their own data locked, that would go a long way in the right direction.
Oh, happy day!
My impression is that iMessage is indeed encrypted end-to-end in China, same as everywhere else.
@dang, if you see this, please delete this thread.

I've reposted my question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108768
Nope only local iCloud backups are encrypted, which is why I never backup to the cloud.

But this makes me wonder if they have our local boxes totally owned already which is why the local encrypt feature would not hamper investigations?
IMO Google is doing the best they can to serve you relevant results, just that everyone and their uncle is spamming internet to get up in the ranking game.

Think of modern google as a question answering machine not a serch engine. And do "Show me Pioneer 10 subwoofer manufacturer specs" instead of just jamming keywords and hoping for the best.
suggested title is 8 characters too long for submission.

on edit: changed original to suggested as being clearer.
I think you’re underestimating how much fear people have of flying. If there’s a plane that is considered “dangerous” then people are going to avoid it. It’s not like airlines losing your luggage which people just put up with.
They also kinda build the web though
It really does concern me that the world is gripped utterly ignorant and blinded fools, because everyone will end up having to suffer the consequences of the ever increasing pent up real effects you repress. The laws of physics that dominate all of humanity, including politics, do not care that you wish they did not exist.
Same with web app. I'm using Stylus for my own tweaks + Dark Reader.
They had plenty of expertise but an extremely hard time securing utility pole right of way, IIRC, to the point of being sued my incumbents to stop them providing service.
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> On the other hand, it's possible that because we have a smartphones duopoly, Apple only needs to maintain a position where people will say "well at least it's not as bad as Google". I'm upset about this personally, but I'm not ditching my iPhone. Of course, this does cement my decision to never pay for iCloud, for what that's worth (much less, but not nothing).

Agreed, and I am likely going away from Android and into iOS for my next phone. It's still a setting you can change so it's not forced into their cloud thankfully.

I wish Microsoft hadn't backed out. A Surface Phone would be kind of cool. I guess too much stigma about Microsoft has held them back from being competitive. I think they shoulda waited for their Microsoft Store to grow much more organically, then release the Windows Mobile phones.

The other issue is Google's agreements.
And yet they felt the need to remove the "don't be evil" clause from their code of conduct.
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There are plenty of more mundane misuses as well. Ex-spouse stalking, slighted lawman with a grudge, technician with a weird fetish. Sure there should be safeguards but they don't always work as well as you'd hope.
I disagree as I don't want to spend time learning a third new tool just to use another tool. Especially not Emacs.
There’s been a spike in one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases
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>I noticed this on a co-workers screen recently and my immediate thought was "what dodgy search extensions have they been installing?".

My legit first reaction when I saw it last week on my daily driver was "I wonder what extension is trying to cash out".
It’s not only way more friction than iCloud, but you’d be surprised how many people nowadays don’t even own a PC or Mac.
In my wife’s family 60% of people only have phones, tablets and smart TVs. They use laptops/desktops only at work.
>While iPhone itself is pretty secure as a device phone

I simply don't understand why people would blindly believe marketing material from a for-profit corporation. It's a device running closed source software. There is no way to prove this claim. If anything, Apple has been caught in the past sending very very personal sensitive information [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con...
But why wouldn’t they go with the option that also increases revenue?
My point is that $80 is not a ton of money to spend on a coat. Neither is it a ton of money to spend on shoes. But many people only intend to use their shoes or coat a single season. It's hard to say that only clothes that last years should be sold. But if I'm being sold a $10 coat or $10 pair of shoes,why should I expect it to last years? I should have paid more for better quality.
Any historical claim can be argued with, and I guess this is an example, but I would maintain that WWI involved a lot of things that wouldn't be repeated with modern knowledge. To offer another example, consider actual Napoleonic-era tactics: why was Napoleon running around and defeating everyone with them when the same guns were basically available everywhere? Ideally everyone would have copied his artillery tactics as soon as he used them once, but military leadership rarely moves that fast. If you sent a general from the era to West Point today, they would probably be able to defeat Napoleon.
Mullvad has been open-source for a long time now[1], and unlike ProtonVPN it doesn't ask for an email address or any other personally identifiable information.

[1] https://github.com/mullvad/mullvadvpn-app
That definately isn't meaningfully true, because MacOS devices without enclaves can function as iMessage clients.
Really, just use duckduckgo.com.

Go to your Firefox' settings and change the default search engine, there, done. See if you care in a week to change it back, I promise you that you won't.
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Using pearltrees.com for a while. I usually keep them well organised but when I want to find something, i usually do a search. Using historysearch.com these days, which is more inline with modern day needs i believe.
Literally just semantics and opinion. What's the difference between symbolism and meaningful moments for some?

And yeah, everyone is aware you don't remember anything when you die. When I die, I want to die in a way that impacts those left behind, because like you said, I won't remember it but they will.
As someone who has bought into that meme I will admit this feels like a pretty huge betrayal by Apple. So, yes, I think if Apple sticks with this, their whole privacy stance is going in the toilet now. And a very dirty toilet it is.

Beyond just the facts of not protecting data, there is also the deception. This is some really very, very, nasty stuff for Apple's brand and the reputation of every person who works at Apple. I don't know how to state it strongly enough.

Huge Apple fan until today... see my comment history... this is devastating for them amongst the sliver of their users who pay attention to this stuff. And they should realize that even though we may be just a sliver, we can lead other customers away from them if we want to.
They are not exactly in charge anymore
I'm almost there, after reading about how much Boeing has spent on stock buybacks (5x all of R&D over the past six years) I think I'm going to start looking into which model typically services a route and avoid all modern Boeing planes.

Boeing made a lot of executives super rich with buybacks and equity compensation, this led directly to the shoddy engineering choices.
Oof. I don’t know why he would stay in Brazil while publishing stuff that embarrassed powerful interests in Brazil. You can do that shit in Canada, in Brazil you’re lucky to not get a bullet.
I've been holding since $25
Yes! My biggest complaint is I can't quickly scan search results now, there's so much wasted space.
A new search engine outside the hands of Google is overdue. It feels like a huge ad machinery.
Aldi and Lidl save a lot of cost in the distribution chain by carrying dramatically fewer product lines/SKUs compared to the traditional stores. That means bigger volume discounts for them as a purchaser, less food being thrown away inedible, more ability to focus purchases in a particular subsector on higher margin lines and some efficiency gains at the till, which enables them to maintain a reputation for reasonably good quality. It's quite an interesting business model.
Which ones are more to your taste? For me it is mostly Zig which seems closer to what I want to see in a language. Crystal also looks promising but I prefer languages without GC. Rust is a good language but it is a bit too complex and restrictive at times.
How do they avoid paying tax on receiving the stock? If you're given shares, that counts as income at fair market value.