skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of these UIs don’t have the controversial changes that Google has recently been implementing, including adding favicons and hiding full URLs.

I used the UA workaround up until near the end of last year, when they broke it and instead replaced with an even more dumbed-down mobile UI. (If you know of a UA which can still "unlock" the old JS-less full-featured UI, please say so!)
It can be legally acquired through a Visual Studio (formerly MSDN) subscription.
Linux desktops are rare because there are few companies selling them. See for example Redhat. This is a pretty lucrative business opportunity. I think Microsoft is seeking other revenue models (ads) because once they get competition prices will drop.
It says 2020 now, but https://web.archive.org/web/20140910223112/https://www.emacs... looks substantially the same, so we'll put 2014 above. Thanks!
> SmileDirectClub’s chief legal officer, said in interviews that the vast majority of users were happy with the company. SmileDirectClub pointed to an average customer rating of “4.9 out of 5” on more than 100,000 reviews on its website.

> When some of the customers requested refunds, SmileDirectClub asked them to sign the confidentiality provision. The agreement prohibited the customers from telling anyone about the refund and required them to delete negative social media comments and reviews, according to a copy viewed by The Times.

Well, it's easy to have 4.9 stars out of 5 if you pay off the people who wrote bad reviews to take them down.
PowerShell is a lot better at this. It was designed for reading by humans, not for saving precious bytes over 300-baud terminal connections.

So for example, selecting columns is easy, and can be done by name.

Here's a useful little snippet demonstrating converting and processing the CSV output of the legacy "whoami" Windows command. It lists the groups a user is a member of without poking domain controllers using LDAP. It always works, including cross-forest scenarios.

WHOAMI /GROUPS /FO CSV `
| ConvertFrom-Csv `
| Where-Object Attributes -NotLike '*used for deny only*' `
| Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'Group Name'

It looks like a lot of typing, but everything tab-completes and the end-result is human readable. I find that people that prefer terseness over verbose syntax are selfish. They simply don't care about the future maintainers of their scripts.

PowerShell can also natively parse JSON and XML into object hierarchies and then select from them. That's difficult in UNIX. The Invoke-RestMethod command is particularly brilliant, because instead of a stream of bytes it returns an object that can be manipulated directly.

$p = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json/'
echo $p.org
echo $p.country_name

PowerShell Core is available on Linux and is great for ad-hoc tabular data processing! Give it a go...
I doubt that the problem of centralization can be solved by keeping the centralization (feudalism) and hoping our feudal lords will become nicer.

Just like the Impossible Burger, people will only switch once they have a good enough alternative.

Instead of copypasting a wall of text let me link you to what I previously write about the problem and what I believe to be the actual solution:

https://qbix.com/blog/2019/03/08/how-qbix-platform-can-chang...
It's not as if non-WhatsApp zero-days are hard to come by for nation-states. If it wasn't a video shared by WhatsApp, it was going to be an iMessage text PDF appearing to be from one of his assistant's email. I don't think governments need to author vulnerable software: they can outsource that to the private sector for $0 by doing nothing and decompiling/fuzzing/analyzing whatever comes out.
Actually it does. You'll get higher CFM through the system and it will take 5x longer to saturate the filters with dust. The cost per month will actually be similar, granted you'll have a higher startup cost with 5 filters instead of 1.
Since the wavelength of 60GHz is approximately 5 millimeters, this technology is sometimes referred to as millimeter-wave (mm-wave). (Copied quote).

That explains how close together the antennas are - close enough compared to wavelength to be able to beamform.

Edit: also explains why it would be extremely difficult to build something yourself at 60GHz - where every wire needs length to be matched to submillimeter length, and a submillimeter tail acts as an antenna and as an electronic component.
No, this is very wrong. You're thinking of surgical mask, in which case the standard precautions conform to what you said in their intent, and studies show both are actually effective in preventing transmission when worn by patients. [1]

An N95 is the current recommended standard (for medical works to wear) to prevent droplet transmission when working with high-risk patients on respiratory precautions since it is actually capable of filtering particles (like airborne droplets originating from the respiratory tract) down to 0.3 microns. These have been shown to be effective.[2] Interestingly, some studies show surgical masks are also effective.

A surgical mask is, I believe, still the standard to place on high risk patients on respiratory precautions to help prevent dissemination of droplets.

[1]https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/2/275/405108

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868605/
That rule only apply if the manufacturer has the power to install modified version after sale. If the embedded Linux product is unmodifiable with no update capability then you do not need to provide Installation Instructions under GPLv3.

The point of the license condition is that once a device has been sold the new owner should have as much control as the developer to change that specific device. If no one can update it then the condition is fulfilled.
"First blog post of Stack Overflow's new CEO" or similar might help explain why this post is interesting.
If its hosting costs the ACM is worried about, they could offer torrents as a free download option to lighten the load.
He was at the Max Planck Institute at the time but on a lot of state and federal commissions to figure out how to get German industry on a fast track to compete with silicon valley.
The intersection of information security and game theory is constantly paradoxical.
> You'll find many of these companies in rural regions.

In so much of the developed world we're becoming more and more politically split along urban/rural lines, is this the case in Germany is does their distributed industry even things out?
You're talking about writing URLs as if that's the only purpose they serve. You also read URLs.

Same as I'm not going to type a long path to a file on my file browser or CLI, I'm not going to type the full, character-by-character URL. But being able to see the path also provides extremely useful information.
> their publication templates and publication workflow, to ensure greater consistency in publication formatting, improve accessibility, and archive publications in more future-proof formats

Publication workflow, formatting and accessibility? For every paper I’ve done I just send the ACM a final PDF produced myself from a LaTeX template that hasn’t changed in years. What’s the workflow for taking an already final PDF from authors and uploading it to a file server?
Even a month of no updates to browser is a bad idea.
This was the endgame. Ever wonder why the original release of Chrome combined the search bar and the address bar?

Nobody bookmarks/memorizes domains or URLs anymore. Google == the web, as far as most people are concerned.

90% of the time I search for something, I end up on Wikipedia, StackExchange, or HTML versions of documentation/code repos like Github. So I started just searching Wikipedia etc. directly. Next step in taking back my sovereignty is to get in the habit of cloning git repos and ripgrepping the code/docs instead of relying on Github (another monopoly getting bigger every day).

(Advertising companies HATE him!)
HTTPS is a great thing for privacy, but Google was just one of many doing that pushing! Personal attacks aside, I think it's plain now how evil the management culture there is. I have friends who work there, and they concur that the evilness flows down from the top. It's hard to defend that evilness, which I imagine is why you get so much grief.
How about an "ad system" that people actively engage with when they're wanting to discover vs. being bombarded everywhere - perhaps not understanding the implications of manipulation of ads have on them? At minimum it changes the user experience greatly.
They come in a lot of different flavors. I have been fit-tested several times with success. Some are definitely easier than others.

Do I think that every 0.3 micron or above particle is getting filtered out by the mask for the duration that I wear one? Not really, but I do believe confidently that it is getting the vast majority. Certainly enough to measurably reduce risk.
Jeff Hunter: Embracing Confusion [video]
the keys seem to be about $2

you could get scammed or have your key deactivated a hundred times and still be ahead
The consumption of hormones which cause a major adjustment in our endrocine functions in whatever direction is definitely harmful though. Just because it may cause lower cortisol baselines in some manner is 'not good' at very least, and there surely will be other side effects.
So while it is “communicating” with iPhones. What exactly is it suppose to communicate over standard protocols that would alleviate the need for an application and still perform all of the functions of iTunes?

What other devices perform all of the backup, restore, and os upgrade, functionality of iTunes.

The iPhone doesn’t use the standard “usb mass storage” protocol to allow you to download pictures. It uses the picture transfer protocol.
So that is what is going on with my search results.

I hate it. It makes me feel dirty.
If what you say is true, eating apples would be a universal joy. That's not the case.

Food preferences / aversions are a product of culture.

The ability to ask both "am I enjoying this moment?" and "does what I'm doing matter?" is a byproduct of symbolic thinking. Culture is both the vector for those symbols and the product of them.
>Adding in services doesn't change much: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Balance_....

The link you posted doesn't show the UK on it. It just compares four Euro countries.
Well played sir, well played.
I know Google is unpopular here, but the new design doesn't really change ad visibility. Just compare the designs side-by-side [1]. If anything, the new design emphasizes colorful organic favicons.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/fEo0QF9.png
Wikipedia seeming to lose relevance is like my old high school teachers finally getting their way over a decade later...

Do you find their search tool more effective than appending "wikipedia" to your Google search?
The sonos system is an extreme example of "engineered to fail". The only issue is lack of memory. All they needed to do was make the memory upgradable (or supply the system with a decent amount of memory to begin with). Sonos intentionally engineered this End of Life.
Listen, we could all make our own DIY Sonos system, but to be honest, a.) We don't have time, and b.) they're software integrated with Spotify/Pandora/etc. (after they fixed major bugs from each release) was actually pretty decent. Instead, unlike my Dad's 1976 RCA reciever/turntable/speakers that still pumps out a sweet sound, my Sonos system will be relegated to the dump.
If someone out there is selling an open source sonos replacement with decent control software, post the link here, I will buy it.
I would pick Go and Python. Rust seems interesting as a language and tech but their CoC [0] seems heavy handed and may be indicative of dysfunction in that community.

[0]: https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct
Honeygain – Make Money Sharing Your Bandwidth Is That Legit or a Scam?
https://web.archive.org/web/19990422131909/https://www.multi... looks the same, so I switched 2001 to 1999 above. It could of course go back earlier.
> It's not a 3rd party seller problem. Amazon might be using 3rd party suppliers too.

It's because Amazon co-mingles stock between sellers for the same SKUs. As in, they add all of the same SKU to one one big inventory and no matter who sells the product, they pull randomly from that inventory. So while it was shipped and sold by them, they most likely didnt supply the product.
> If a local government loses a signing key they would have to...

They'd have to know they were compromised first. I think that is a big 'if', and creation of a centralized repository of backdoor keys makes for tempting targets.
That's not the goal of titles on HN. If you want to say why a post is interesting, that's great, but put it in a comment in the thread. Which you just did!
I shudder to think what would have happened if Obama had ultimately refused to give up his personal phone, and every half-talented hacking group on the planet had pwned it six ways from Sunday—what a national security disaster that would have been! Oh wait
Create a Multiuser GraphQL CRUD(l) App in 5 Minutes with the Amplify DataStore
In the end, I went for

- Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup, covering C++11:14

- C++17 - The Complete Guide by Nicolai M. Josuttis

- using CLion
I'm a Californian, transplanted to the Midwest 25 years ago, and the idea that Americans are homogenized is hogwash. Sure we all have mostly the same strip malls/nationwide businesses, but the difference between the states is still pretty high. My town even has a "Germans from Russia" museum that chronicles their unique history. The same with the Nordic and Scandinavian influences in the Dakotas. Many have similarities, but also wide differences.
I'm the author of Fountain Mode[1]. I bumped it to the top of the list because it's the probably what the majority of the Emacs screenwriters out there are using, maybe even all five of them.

[1]: https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode
As gaming phones gain steam, the Black Shark 2 Pro could be the best yet
Very important insight, yes that happens.

Basically all things ADHD has are downsides.
That is pretty tricky for a case like this, though.... DDOS protection is pretty expensive, and various CDNs have dropped customers who become more costly than they are worth.

If they had phrased this as "we have decided to drop them because the DDOSes they were experiencing were more expensive than the money we were making from them", would you have been ok with them dropping them? Or would they be required to publish a hard rule about 'we will drop a customer that experiences more than x amount of DDOS traffic'? And if they have to do that, that is basically telling adversaries, "DDOS us this much and you can get us dropped"

It seems really tricky to make this a rule that businesses have to do business with everyone. It is a very established rule in the United States that a business is free to enter into business agreements with whoever they want, as long as they don't discriminate based on specific protected classes.
StackExchange content is published under a liberal language. There's nothing wrong with making money by orchestrator value creation for the general public, at no charge to consumers. Benjamin Franklin called this "doing well by doing good".
That the richest company in the world can’t do this—the one that also runs cloud infrastructure for too much of the net—yet smaller businesses figure out how to operate in the regulatory framework, suggests that they just don’t give a fuck. Bezos can buy his way out of literally any scrutiny.

This is the true injustice of our system. Bezos can just play the Amazon Exceptionalism card.
Around here in the emergency medicine field we have a Norma Pancake and a Dr Waffle.
Doesn't stadia use it?
I’ve always been annoyed with the fail fast model. The only group that benefits from fail fast are VCs looking for a big score. They push entrepreneurs to invalidate instead of teaching/helping them how to build a business. It’s all ass backwards.

But for the VC, if they see a hundred good ideas invalidated by bootstrapping founders, they save time and money.

The founders are the suckers if they listen to this bull crap. You still need to validate. But do it by actually trying to make the vision work, not by giving up at the first sign of trouble.
Not to defend the price differential, but someone has to solicit reviewers and manage the review process. This is going to roughly track the number of submissions and isn't free.
I would say Perl’s native support for regular expressions makes it more useful on the CLI than Python, but Python is also very low on my preferred languages list.

I do, however, use it for JSON pretty printing in a pipeline: python -mjson.tool IIRC.
If you have a problem with a product and call them about it, sometimes you can talk to the people who designed and built it, it's quite nice. They will also work with you to build similar things not yet in their catalogue if you need them (sometimes inventing new processes on the way), even if you don't need a lot.
I think if you want a knock-off and are aware you're getting a knock-off (i.e. a Brada purse) then there are some interesting morals involved and I'm personally cool with it - I think brand name markup in the modern world is insane and generally not justified. Then again I never go out of my way to have the flashy labels, I've never owned a Hershel bag and probably never will.

My concern is more on the fraud side. When you buy something usually you can follow up with the seller if the product is defective or damaged, when people fraudulently report themselves then that follow up is impossible. Additionally, legitimately imported goods should adhere to certain domestic safety regulations, the enforcement of this is complicated, imperfect and not always effective, but enforcing safety standards on smuggled items is a fool's errand so if there are unsafe materials that are significantly cheaper then you're more likely to find them in counterfeits.

So, without even touching the question of brand name entitlement and the defense of intellectual property... I think there are some significant reasons that counterfeiting is, indeed, really bad.
> someone has to solicit reviewers and manage the review process

Lol that’s done by volunteer community members as well. It literally is free to the ACM (but the people are paid to do it by their institutions as part of their jobs.)
The Hajj is a once in a lifetime pilgrimage for most Muslims while the Arba'een is an annual regional event of Shia solidarity. The former is done by a far greater number of unique individuals but the latter can be bigger on an annual basis.
I remember reading this paper and I think watching a corresponding PoC video when this came out. Does anyone remember why or happen to know why this never made it to market? Error rate, maybe?
This is, honestly, a brilliant suggestion!

Instead of trying to legislate social media companies on their terms, this would help in creating 1) a standard of communication across different ones and 2) help in creating better social media platforms.
Have you tried IGNORE_MOD_TAP_INTERRUPT?

https://beta.docs.qmk.fm/features/feature_advanced_keycodes#...

Basically, it makes it so that if you want to use A + L for Ctl + L you have to:

Press A

Press L

Release L

Release A

Anything else will send As and Ls.

I ran Alt under my pinkies, Ctl under my ring fingers, Shift under my middle fingers, and Win under my index fingers for a long time. It worked well most of the time.
> If what you say is true, eating apples would be a universal joy

That doesn't follow from anything the grandparent said.

> Food preferences / aversions are a product of culture.

They are certainly subjective, and culture has some influence on them, but “product of culture” is far overstating the case. Food preferences exist without culture for purely (though still varying across individuals, because biology does) biological reasons.

> The ability to ask both "am I enjoying this moment?" and "does what I'm doing matter?" is a byproduct of symbolic thinking.

Insofar as all use of language is, and this the ability to ask any question framed in words is, certainly. It's less clear whether the ability to distinguish momentary enjoyment from significance is, because we don't really have address to the cognitive processes of those without access to language.

> Culture is both the vector for those symbols and the product of them.

This may also overstste the influence of culture, but it does so less than the prior example.
What are some good alternatives ?
If they get bad enough, people will make the effort to change the default search engine. Seems Google has been trying to do this slowly (aka boiling a frog), but similarly to a market bubble, at some point it'll pop and they'll take exponential losses to their market share.
No, I don't. Ran across them discussing filtering options recently.
> This issue of identity was an acute one for FOAF. (...) there does not exist and probably should not exist a "planet-wide system for identifying people," (...)

> Do we trust the homepages and conclude we have two different people? Or do we trust the email addresses and conclude we have a single person? Could I really write an application capable of resolving this conflict without involving (and inconveniencing) the user?

It seems the author identifies identity online as a major problem.

Interestingly, the last years have witnessed significant efforts towards a concept called "self-sovereign identity" [1, 2] that tries to solve exactly this. Emerging standards at the W3C [3, 4], open source software at the Hyperledger Foundation [5], and even non-profits [6] are working globally on the technology and governance of such a system.

Eventually, I think, self-sovereign identity will happen. I wonder what will be the impact on decentralized social networking.

[1] http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/the-path-to-self-soverereign-identity.html
[2] https://sovrin.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Inevitable-Rise-of-Self-Sovereign-Identity.pdf
[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
[4] https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/
[5] https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/hyperledger-indy
[6] https://sovrin.org/
My favorite apple deceptive practice: allowing you to think you have disabled Bluetooth, when all you have disabled is Your Own ability to use it. Merchant partners of apple can use it to finely track you.
I use start.me
It is free to use, but I paid for the lifetime subscription and it hasn't let me down. I can use it between browsers, and I can access it from machines that aren't even my own. It is a browser based solution, but when I set it to my home page it is almost second nature to use.
The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity (2016)
$60/hr is actually pretty good, even in the bay area. Currently paying $40/0.5hr for 1:1 violin and $20/hr for group piano for my kid
Ask HN: How should a professor market themself to transition to industry?
A friend of mine is looking to transition from being a tenure-track computer science professor at an R1 university to industry, probably in an engineering role. A lot of recruiters seem unsure of what to do with a professor. Since professors are a unique hybrid role consisting of fundraising, developing prototype software, and managing students, it can be hard to convey that to recruiters/HR.

Other than randomly applying for entry or mid-level dev positions, what should they do?
https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016?s=...
Bravo! This is one of the most insightful comments I've read in a long time! I have been using some of these tools for years but I never thought of describing them this way. Now I can think of writing a complex query in relational algebra and translating it into these commands in a very natural way.
is this totse Jeff Hunter?