skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’ve gotten to a place where Ads have become the backbone of the Web. Google says it’s mission is to make the worlds content organized and useable. That isn’t quite true. It’s to monetize the organization of that content.

They claim ads “keep the internet free”. “Free” from paying sure, but free from questionable untruthful ads, con artists Ads, and Horrible content that is monetized by ads that shouldn’t be?

Google will say those are “hard computer science” problems they are tackling. The reality is they tackle the problem as long as it doesn’t impact revenue and put just enough resources on it to make it look like they care. Or retroactively share data and say they are ahead of the problem (like YouTube CEO on 60 minutes).

How a trillion dollar company of the Self proclaimed worlds Smartest people don’t know a pedophile ring is using YouTube kids comments Section is reckless. Why google even needs to monetize Kids content is pure greed. Do kids really want to see an Ad or benefit from it? Maybe to burn into their habits that “Ads are just part of life”

Life With Google in charge of the worlds Information.
Sure, that's definitely true but I'm just saying that this same thing happens going the other way too. There was actually just an story about it the other day. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/us/michigan-iranian-student-d...

So maybe I should've said that I wish more Iranians could come to our country safely and easily.
What ever happened with Project Vesta?

https://projectvesta.org/
I guess it's not specific to academia either. Startups work exactly the same, they tell stories to investors to get grants, and are often staffed with idealistic people straight out of college.
US Army Sleuths Seek Social-Media Search Services
Here you are:

https://yukari.sr.ht/knightos.webm
As a reminder like all medicines and psychotherapy, they really should be done with and through a trained professional than on your own.
Another day, another leak of proprietary software collecting and selling sensitive user data.

Hopefully Discord's day is coming soon.
Not sure which layoffs you're talking about, but the ones I've heard of are mostly frivolous VC-funded (and not profitable) Silicon Valley companies.

If you want to avoid layoffs, try looking for jobs at safer companies -- ones that are profitable and have a genuinely useful product. For example, choose a SalesForce over a scooter company.

As more general advice, I'd suggest working on soft skills, like managing teams, understanding product, translating business reqs into coherent tech specs, etc. It's easy to find people who can code, but it's very difficult to find people who can understand the entire business (all the way from the client thinking "I need something" to a coder writing it to a final delivery of that value).
Don't all devs need the LTS release? Why would you want to build something on constantly shifting sand?
I’ve taken mushrooms quite a few times. Sometimes, it’s just been mild and giggling at colors and nature. Pleasant, but just kind of a fun drug.

With a moderate dose, you tend to be introspective and consider your own life and relationships in different ways. There’s usually a lesson at the end.

With higher doses, it’s sometimes been just extremely confusing and not at all fun, to the extent that I’d forget my own name or what I’ve taken and basically just all memories. It’s very frustrating to be in that state, constantly trying not to fly away but not able to ground yourself. It’s a little disturbing, but not horrific. I think the reason for this is that I am afraid to lose my ego/die and I would actually benefit from a slightly higher dose to blast it away...

With really high doses though, it’s been a truly beautiful, enlightening experience. I still think of it sometimes. It’s very difficult to really explain in words, but it feels like kind of extreme empathy with all life. Buddhists would call it going egoless. I just felt very at peace: we all live, we all die, and it’s all okay. I’m not particularly religious or spiritual at all but that experience really changed me. It feels like life is in all these different forms, and you just happen to be one variation of it, but you could easily be any other living thing, so you just feel love and empathy for all life. And you know it’s finite and you’re not afraid of death. I would still attempt to avoid death, but I was just at peace with it if it was inevitable. Also, when you come back to reality you’re utterly, utterly convinced that you’ve experienced something profound, possibly, despite all your rationality, there’s a message form god inside this mushroom. It’s almost like the mushroom is laughing at you: “good luck going back to your normal life now.” You’re left with “wow? That was that?!” It’s annoying honestly, because I’m not religious at all and I know it sounds crazy to even say that out loud. Of course, that feeling does slowly fade away like a distance dream or memory.

A great story it reminds me of is “The Egg” by Andy Weir:

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Functional code tends to extend horizontally a lot.
Show HN: Banco, a project management system for the command line
So that’s something like $2250 per capita? Even if only 2% of the population inherit something in a given year, that’s an average of $100k. Given inequality, it’s a fair guess that the median is more like $50k.

Should a $50k or $100k inheritance be taxed? Probably a bit.

But this feels a little blown out of proportion.
Canadian Banks and Telecoms Are Collaborating on a Digital ID System
Endless Version of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes No. 1
You would need utility scale storage to flatten the load curve. The peaks and super peaks are not going away until there is a viable storage mechanism with enough capacity. We are talking significant changes in demand between even the early afternoon and the super peak in almost all load areas (pjm California ercot). The other alternative is a massive buildout or behind the meter solar which theoretically could solve this issue.
I thought they were going to support recording all cameras at once (IIRC that was demoed at the iPhone 11 launch).
Growing food in one's yard is a good use, better than the USA's biggest crop: grass. In the log term, we ought to also build housing that has smaller lawns. Those who do have large lawns could help by growing their own food, trees or having a more low-maintenance plan for it
I've a 2012 MacBook Pro as well, and Chrome is unusably slow on it (OS X). Safari runs okay. Mine has 4 GiB of ram, and a spinning disk. The combination means it's hitting swap constantly, and hitting swap thrashes the disk on top of it. When I get the money to upgrade the ram to 16 GiB and upgrade to an SSD I'm hopeful it's be more usable, but for now it runs a terminal well enough.
Asetek Unveils Most Advanced Desktop Liquid Cooling Technology to Date
I think the Economist had a good take:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/01/25/huawei-is-a-cyb...

There is a real risk in using Huawei equipment, but the risk can be mitigated.

If the Chinese government tells Huawei to insert a backdoor, Huawei will certainly comply. But state actors don't necessarily need backdoors to exploit equipment. They're going to look for bugs, which they're just as likely to find in competitor's equipment as anything else. So the real solution is not to exclude Huawei because they're Chinese, but to make sure engineers fully understand the system from the hardware on up. This means insisting on open source systems and then conducting thorough audits.
I find this question useful: What is your objective evidence that the software does what it's supposed to?

Note that there's no "percent coverage" whatsoever in that question. Instead, it's a question of what behaviors of your code you need to test.
But it's ok when small companies or OSS projects copy big companies? Isn't that double standards? GitLab was a perfect example when its first release(s) blatantly ripped off the GitHub interface.

Edit: Removing "amusing"
This is the surface shape of code.

There is an intrinsic and deeper geometry that textual programming hides.
Why is coding something that could easily add functionality to, say, PC Part Picker, a lazy trend?
Yeah OPs comment is some sort of idealistic historical revision that ignores the fact that there were a myriad of streaming services that predated Spotify.

It's a pretty weird thing flex about too. Like isn't streaming music based on preferences pretty easy?
Interesting, ok never thought that it might be the wordpress template. Will update the text. Even so, that "Sam Chester" page on that first linked site is legit. I think I found the legal guy too (US lawyer by the looks of it), this is his twitter page: https://twitter.com/richardnacht
> Without fail, every single person that has been to Iran rates it their number one country

Only heard similar opinions, which really makes me want to visit. Three female friends of mine went together and they loved it even though there is this omnipresence of the religious police, reminding them to cover up.

The stories they told me of how friendly people are and the things that go on behind closed doors makes it sound like a fascinating place.
Isn't this just a desktop-wiki with auto-linking?
I doubt they even know it exists
If we ignore the potential security issues with either approach for a moment and assume for the sake of argument that neither is more risky than the other I "might be surprised" by the behavior of running `./configure` or `make install` but I will almost always be surprised by the behavior downloading and running a random shell script.

I prefer a package over either case, but lacking a package I'd prefer to use something that has some expectations of how it should behave. As a packager I find that software with a Makefile, CMakeLists.txt, or a configure script is likely to be easier to package than something that just provides a shell script. Those might still need to be patched or tweaked but there's an expectation that it's going to try to behave a certain way.
I'm not doubting you but, do you have some stats to back this up? I'm curious.

I would imagine the expense is difficult to determine and quite controversial. Especially when you consider the costs of the effects to the ocean/environment and whatnot that aren't being borne by the japanese people.
Unfortunately, providing access to everyone would be incompatible with publishers' business models. As long it's more profitable to not provide the access the everyone, business will continue to do so.
>there are versions of Xanadu and ZigZag you can download and try.

I tried here: http://xanadu.com/xuspViewer.html

I got this file: http://xanadu.com/xuspD9y,2013 which is a .zip file.
So it's ~7years old, Windows only (though full of _MACOSX files). Keyboard only. No installer. No source available. Described as "spent several years trying to refactor it, but it's beyond fixing"

But yeah it does run on my laptop, at least! Any other versions out there?
I seem to be quite a visual thinker (I love a whiteboard or pen & paper to think in boxes and lines) and I really enjoyed working with Max/MSP as a minimal typing (it’s not quite typing-free) programming environment.

I know visual languages don’t get much love around here (largely for good reasons), but I wonder would that be a good solution to what you describe, especially if using a touchscreen rather than a mouse.
> simpler for the grandparents, powerful enough to compete against a surface.

The UI of a 2010 iPad could replace your laptop on trips. If you just need a device to occasionally keep tabs on email and review photos and bring up websites, the iPad has always been great for that.

If you need to do anything more intense, the one device you bring really should be a laptop, especially as we become able to engineer laptops that are increasingly small and light.

I don't think it's possible to develop a UI that is both as capable as a traditional computer and as simple and intuitive as early versions of iOS. The more actions you add, the harder any action is to discover.
That's only for people using the global trust mechanism in a mainstream repo. If you think about it from a security perspective, how much difference does installing some random project's GPG signing key make?
Library providers make this really, really hard though. They should do what used to be common practice -- separate security updates from feature updates, so that applications relying on the library don't have to be on the total upgrade treadmill.
Read further. They explain this view. It is 100% correct, based on the evidence they provide. What they are saying is that this was LTCM but instead of banks coming in and forcing losses at 50 cents on the dollar, the govt came in and bailed everyone out at par. I have no first-hand knowledge of the extent of this trade but a lot of it sounds correct (the key premise of the Fed is that this isn't leaking into the market...whether you believe ZH or not, you should be extremely suspicious of this line).
That doesn't change anything that I see. Indexes and counters are usually not used for "continuous" metrics such as liquid quantities. And again, the biz domain typically does not count fractional quantities, at least not in an indexed way.

It's not a practical problem for most coding. If you disagree, can you demonstrate a problem caused by indexing arrays starting at one in a typical code situation/scenario?
Old phones make for rather good CCTV/surveillance cameras. Anything made in the past 4-6 years will have great picture quality (during the day, mostly), Internet connectivity, alarm features, motion sensing, even object recognition.
The Virtue of Sloth
The main design theory of Apple is simple: come up with a great usability feature and deploy it on one model. Then spend the next 5 to 10 years spreading this out to their other models. When people stop buying, just swap in a higher specced component from Intel and talk about how it is 2x faster.
> I always wished that GNUStep could have gotten more traction on the desktop.

GNUStep is just the programming framework, aka AppKit aka Cocoa.
> become neutral after certain adoption

No business should be required to let other businesses screw it over because "neutrality". There really is no such as a "neutral" when it comes to this anyway.
wow 5 hours.. 2 years..
I think you are conflating industry and markets. Britain already had the industries when it started colonizing India.

What it needed were the markets to sell the factory produce.
That is what they traded in return for the spices and raw materials.

Hence it destroyed the competing industries in it's colonies like India - which was a huge market.
U.S. core capital goods orders record largest drop in eight months
Author here, from the readme:

Banco Management System, or simply Banco, is an opinionated project management tool for the command line that helps you organize notes, tasks, bookmarks and documents for your projects.

Banco objects (notes, tasks, bookmarks, etc) are stored in the filesystem, implemented as plain text files and folders within the root of the project, so you won't need to install or run any database or server. This enables you to easily create archives and backups, move projects around the filesystem, use command line tools, or keep track of changes by using version control.
A discussion of ‘Regular Expressions - Theory and Practice’. It covers a bunch of interesting aspects including Chomsky’s Hierarchy, Büchi automata, grammars and much more.

This is a weekly discussion that takes place among TerminusDB core team. It doesn’t have to be work, it doesn’t have to be TerminusDB, it can be anything really. We are a moderately distributed team and we have plenty of opportunity for detailed technical discussion (indexing strategy anyone?) so we thought that it’d be a good idea to start a less formal weekly exchange. One member of the team leads the discussion and the rest contribute with questions & comments.

This is the first time we have recorded. This was yesterday.
Probably so, but when someone steps in the direction you want them to go, its not effective to whack them for it. If you want them to continue down your path you say "Well done! But, can you take just one more small step?"

The hope is that these steps accumulate into something meaningful. A virtuous upward spiral.
The current UK government is going to get bent over and given a reminder of BoJo's days at Eton before they get any trade deal from the US, and that is before you start to ask questions about internal US politics and the chance of passing any sort of trade deal during the coming election season. Humiliation is a baked-in assumption regarding any future deal and having some chips that you can afford to sacrifice during the deal-making is something worth keeping around if you can.
Why do you think they acquired Echo Nest for 50 million euros? It's the music discovery engine, not the streaming.[0]

[0] http://the.echonest.com/pressreleases/spotify-acquires-echo-...
Brief search on Ryzen pro seems to imply it's some kind of mobile integrated graphics / cpu solution? I don't think the Ryzen 7 2700 is one of those as it's just a plain old am4 desktop board CPU of the ryzen2+ generation, that said, it does have AES hardware encryption support in the instruction set according to https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/ryzen_7/2700#Features so that may well be what's going on with the seeming complete lack of overhead there.
> Regardless of whether something is "found" or not, every single Chinese company is completely beholden to the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP has absolute power over the private sector that we have not analog for in the West. Consider the recent defiance by Apple and other tech companies against the Government on issues of privacy and involvement in military programs. That simply does not happen in China because it cannot happen. The private sector is embedded in the framework of CCP governance.

That's very reasonable logic, but in practice, that falls apart immediately, because the US has already spied on citizens of the UK[1], and there's absolutely no reason to believe this program has ended. It's rather pointless to argue that the CCP is more likely to spy on UK citizens than the US, when we already know the US has spied on UK citizens.

> the US is on the side of human rights,

Nonsense. Most obviously related to this conversation, we have a long history of violating the right to privacy, but that's just the start. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay are just where we torture directly: there are literally thousands of military/police in allied nations who are trained and funded by the US to torture. US cops kill unarmed men of color daily and only a handful of these serve any jail time. We imprison and disfranchise literally millions due to non-violent drug crimes. Money continues to be seized by police in the US without any charges filed. Immigration enforcement detains and imprisons thousands without trial, in inhuman conditions, including children.

> freedom of the press, freedom of information, etc.

Really? Which of Aaron Swartz, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Bill Binney, or Thomas Drake's cases are you confused about?

> If you don't recognize the magnitude of the differences between the US and China or perhaps don't care about them, that's beyond the scope of this post to address.

There's arguably some difference, but if I were a UK citizen, I wouldn't want either one of them spying on me, and given the history of surveillance of UK citizens by the US and not by China, I'd take my chances with China over the US.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-d...
> NewEgg is a bit better, but don't buy refurbished drives.

Be very careful even buying new drives from party vendors on Newegg. I've gotten quite a few that were advertised as new but report over 30,000 hours of power-on time.

It turns out my experience is far from unique. Basically, very few people will check the SMART data, so the vast majority of the reviews are fine. If you do happen to catch it, Newegg will of course ultimately step in and force the vendor to fix it -- but that's about it. The first vendor that scammed me appears to still be doing brisk business on the site over a year later, with mostly 4 and 5 star reviews.

Don't buy from https://www.newegg.com/TEKDEALZ to start with.
Unless we can see the numbers we don’t know if Microsoft profits from Office for the iPad. So I could be right for all you know.
My wife and I made the switch to vegetarian about 3 months ago, and it's been much easier then I expected. I love meat, but knowing both the health and ecological impacts I just couldn't justify my consumption anymore.
CMOV aside, I remember it was proved MOV itself is turing-complete.
> And there aren't enough NGOs and startups to absorb thousands of Amazon workers anyway... hence having to get the warehouse jobs in the first place.

These climate protesters are not warehouse workers – they are Amazon's tech employees, making hundreds of thousands per year.

People working for a minimum wage are far too busy fighting for their own survival. In fact, many blue collar workers in the US are concerned that any new environmental policies might reduce their jobs and income.

It's the highly-educated white collar workers, who are protesting against climate change. And they have more than enough options in choosing whom to work for.
Deploying Helm Package Manager in Kubernetes
What's wrong with tree-planting? Unlike cutting back emissions which does nothing to remove CO2 that's already in the air, trees actually do remove CO2 from the air.
Because he is a corporate shill?
Won't need them since we'll have Fibers in Java soon.
That is interesting, earlier I enabled flash painting in your codepen and it only re-rendered/flashed the specific component that has a value changed. Maybe that was a browser feature (safari) I will look into tracking to understand what you mean.. (or maybe it's a coincidence it works as expected)
Did you click on the links in the comment above yours? ;-)
The market would disagree with you - where's this hurt to the "competitive free market" you mention? Have yet to see it.
My city has lights timed to ensure that signals turn red just before the wave of traffic reaches it. You can see the signals have antenna on them pointed at the next intersection.

It is infuriating on a level I can't describe. My guess is they are trying to reduce accidents or they are trying to make more tax money by getting people to burn more gasoline.
The argument, I believe, is that all equipment should be treated as suspect and carefully monitored. So you don't trust Huawei but you don't trust equipment from other suppliers either. Both will need constant validation.

Personally, I don't trust Huawei but that's mostly down to stories I've heard about industrial espionage against alternative suppliers.

For instance I never liked the way that BT replaced Marconi equipment with Huawei stuff in their 21CN network way back when. I think the government of the day was foolish to allow that to happen.

The bosses at BT at the time are long since retired on fat pensions and Marconi is now gone for good.
A Chance for Change
I've been playing with Polar ( https://getpolarized.io ) as a cross platform PDF "consuming" app. By "consuming" I mean reading but also note taking / flashcard making.
So far it's been pretty good, and in addition to the note taking functionality, it doesn't have the creepy surveillance of Kindle or whathaveyou.
it's not actually illegal to buy + grow psychedelic shrooms in the majority of states.
The solution is Amazon Transparency. This is offered through their Brand Services division.

And the solution for the whole industry is the same thing with some distributed ledger or some very light centralized authority (like MAC or UPC vendor assignments) plus vendor-specific databases.
Your test should explain what it's testing. Via it's name or some other mechanism. Otherwise how do you know what's gone wrong when it fails?
OK Google, what do you see? – Labelling images in Google Cloud