skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data Stream Development via Spark, Kafka and Spring Boot
Candy crush is not pre-installed, it is just a link to the store, easily removable with right mouse click.

Gee, I never saw people complain this way with Solitaire, Mineswepper, GNOME Games Suit, or the dump of floppies they would get on their Atari/Amiga/PC bundles.
Eh, then it's no longer text?

Fwiw I don't really think a one-time large font download is much of a problem - considering that improved typography is a very good way to improve how a site looks. And unlike your png - the text will display without the custom font. Fall-back fonts are only really a problem with icon font sets.
There are more: F* compiles to Ocaml/F#/C/ASM/WASM [1] and it's variant Low*, and ATS [2], which compiles to C.

[1] https://www.fstar-lang.org/
[2] http://www.ats-lang.org/
At a previous employer, managers were expected to do 200 per quarter (typically for 2-2.5 of the most active quarters). We were told it's better than Twitter where engineers did a minimum of 8 per week (and, allegedly, managers did even more).

From my own experience, that sort of load undeniably turns evaluators into assholes. I think the main problem is that to see any return on investment (i.e. a 'successful' interview) it takes about a 6-12 months assuming the person is hired. Having to do such a repetitive task with such a dearth of feedback I think will make anybody go crazy. That's not even considering any imbalance between time spent on recruiting versus time spent on strategy or other management tasks.
Just out of curiosity, which android one phone was this. I have used two android one phones, the Xiaomi A1 and the Motorola One Power, and both of them work fine without a google account.
That's as vague of a key as the photo being color or has signs of modern lens coating
With Android you don't get to uninstall factory packaged apps.
An interesting bit:

"Educated Ottoman Turks spoke Arabic and Persian, ...,with the former being used for science and the latter for literary affairs"
Or better, just use a system font. Anyone who can read Japanese will have a suitable font installed.
I totally agree that misinformation is everywhere but I still think there's a huge difference in just how impactful/dangerous misinformation can be in countries like india vs the US.

I'm not indian, but a very similar pattern of a sudden explosion in internet access happened in Morocco, where I'm from. Morocco has a relatively large population of uneducated or barely educated young people that are super active on the internet and to be honest, the results are just horrible. Especially since majority of them are unemployed (which isn't their fault, the job market there is just horrible) and have nothing else to do anyways. And what happened to the two danish girls murdered there imo is directly related to that mix of totally ignorant people with total access to information they can barely process that end up radicalized
You assume it is as effective as onsite work, just like that? If that was the case, why haven't remote work companies trounced on site work companies en masse?
Yes - my heart bleeds for Vodafone and Airtel who kept data prices 10 times higher than they are now and sat on fat profits for years without building their 4G network. And kept milking us for "value-added" services we had not asked for.

And Jio is the bad guy for going up against the incumbents with a risky, but smart strategy of investing in the latest technology.

The reality is that there was no other way to match the incumbents except by growing the customer base quickly - as all other competitors have found. As a consumer i am very happy Jio did what it did, and I bet that no matter what happens, I will never pay as much for data as i was paying before Jio came.
For seven hours every day? Once again, I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it is in fact quite extreme for two people to use it up with Netflix.
Is it cool? Yes. Will it get scorching hot when left in the sunlight? Absolutely ;)
If I understand the context correctly, Buzzard wrote this post as a step toward solving the problems you state (mathematicians are unconvinced of the usefulness of proof assistants, many people need to join in to build things up in a proof assistant, documentation needs work, input from mathematicians is needed).
And after disillusionment phase we will eventually reach the plateau of productivity and complete the cycle.
Really interesting read for me. I am currently not so far from your SSD point but our setup still works fine most of the time. It’s just 100k/m though. I am trying to use more of the Go implementations of the graphite stack which did improve load. I will consider m3db probably to get some benchmarks. All the other ones would require some more people as you said.
I'm not sure how that's relevant here. Does my post say anything about what Ubuntu does being excusable in any way?

Edit: also, FWIW, running apt-get upgrade doesn't re-enable the ads in the MOTD :-)
yet another password? NO WAY! stay clear of this registereware!
The version with least telemetry is Enterprise Version. It's not sold to individuals.

Only way is torrent. Although some once wrote here that he got his off eBay.
There are a lot of fonts on Google Fonts that are many GB in size if you’d include them all.
Language being ubiquitous does not make it okay. ToSs are commonly full of crap, to the extend of most of them being invalid, hence every one of them having their "survival" clause.

This specific section renders the ToS pointless from the perspective of a user, as it may fundamentally change on a whim. Tomorrow, the company may change the ToS to sell you out for easy money, throwing away your private life and privacy rights before you'll have a chance to review and cancel. Even without a company turning on you like that, you will have to actively monitor the ToS and possibly cancel your service with a moments notice.

After all, only some changes will trigger a notice, and even then only a notice.

As for how I use the internet: I just don't sign up for/install a lot of things. If I do sign up for/install something, it's only if I can accept/live with the terms. I don't have social media accounts (Self-hosted Matrix/Mastodon not counted), I don't use random cloud services, my app list is roughly limited to government/bank stuff, a single parking app, Matrix and duolingo.

I also live in a region of the world where EULA's are only used as toilet paper, so that takes care of the worst part.
Perhaps you might consider putting that sort of effort into CSE outreach or preparing interview prep materials that are free to the public.
Hard to say, but the programming parts are fairly general and low level so the ideas should transfer pretty well. E.g. there are numeric values, mathematical operations, logic gates, etc. It can perhaps be compared with LabVIEW.

My main worry with Dreams is that it is a closed ecosystem, which is always a minus in my book. So far it does not feel exploitative at all, and Dreams does have some cool "under the hood" features such as OSC support. I don't think the studio itself is likely go evil, but in the end they are owned by Sony...
We're not debating the efficacy of the practice, but whether or not it can help prevent rising costs of living caused by tech agglomeration. Certainly "taking remote work more seriously" would include investing in pilot programs, experiments, and innovating processes/technologies to make it better and better. And it's something that large megacorps could work with, if they cared about rising CoL.
Misinformation has a huge impact everywhere, and I don't see how other companies are more immune to it. With the president of the US claiming climate change is a hoax, invented by the Chinese, and Boris Johnson, the current PM of England, saying NHS will get so much money back on leaving the EU, these countries sure don't look immune. Mind you, these are not trivial lies, these are lies believed by a huge number of their followers. And both of the above people ended up winning elections.
Discrimination is discrimination. Whether it's 'good' or 'bad' depends entirely on who you ask.

I think most people making a case for 'good' discrimination don't realize that the existing 'bad' discrimination originated exactly the same way.

We need to strive to eliminate discrimination, not perpetuate the swing of the pendulum that's been going back and forth for hundreds of years. Pushing down on some demographics to uplift others is not going to solve anything, it's just a no-op perpetuation of what's already going on.
Why Technical SEO Is Important? 6 Benefits of Technical SEO
Wired version of an original piece from Arstechnica, based on this report[0] apparently.

[0] https://duo.com/labs/research/crxcavator-malvertising-2020
I’m a bit curious as to whether this will have any actual impact on the number of people (and businesses) who use WhatsApp. It’s utterly insane how much of our daily lives goes through it in my neck of the woods...
You do, you can literally disable gmail from app info. I just tried this on my moto one power and it is totally possible.
I often think it would be better to introduce a random element into the process. Set some minimum criteria then just roll a dice.
I had a small 'jungle' on a balcony less than 3m2.

- Learn the hardiness of your area. This will tell what type of vegetables you can grow.

- Check how many _direct_ sunlight hours your balcony gets every day.

- Choose the vegetables you want to plant based on the two points above (hardiness and sunlight hours). Example: if you have lots of sunlight plant full size tomatoes. If you have less than ideal sunlight exposure plant cherry tomatoes.

- Learn what you can plant in each season and when to fertilize. Liquid fertilizer is your best bet in a small apartment.

- In a balcony on a tall building, wind is the enemy.

- If you get many hours of direct sunlight (6+) and your balcony faces south you can grow almost anything there.

- Prefer a few big pots to many small ones: A few big pots means less variety but will require less maintenance, watering and the plants will be stronger because their pot is bigger. I have 70L pots and they're great. I would bother with less than 20L.

- Some fruit plants will take more than 10 years to give you fruit and others can't self-pollinate. Avoid those at least when starting out. Radish grows in less than 30 days.

- I've successfully planted and harvested Raspberries, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, peppers, strawberries, carrots, parsley, radish and basil in a small balcony that isn't even south facing in Lisbon. It never produced enough calories but it was fun and the produce was very tasting. I tried to plant cantaloupe twice but it failed mostly because of the wind (I think).

- I prefer store bought soil with added perlite and textile pots. Perliet and textile pots improve root health in small pots.
Ah I didn’t know you could draw yourself. That explains the difference.
She introduced herself with a little background. So what?
The SIGGRAPH 2015 presentation for Dreams was amazing[1]. They started by experimenting with some very outlandish ideas for modelling and rendering their worlds.

It was a very ambitious project. Hopefully Dreams finds success, because I would love to see more of it.

[1]: (slides) http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/AlexEvans_SIGGRA...
Dead Sea Squadron will be equipped with Spanish S-80 submarines.
There's should be a way build a calculator that did that, for for pedagogical purposes. For example, you could do everything in floating point and zero the exponent after each operation. I wonder if that's the same as the effect of slide rules? (Goes to check wikipedia...)
> Gee, I never saw people complain this way with Solitaire, Mineswepper, GNOME Games Suit, or the dump of floppies they would get on their Atari/Amiga/PC bundles.

Strange. Especially as those didn't actively run analytics when you run them. Perhaps those two situations aren't completely comparable.
In my experience, once you have a very basic sense of 'how to program', your programming skills don't matter a lot anymore. If you work in a team that underdocuments and underspecifies their project (which is practically every team ever), communication and motivation are much more important than knowing how to reverse a linked list in-place.

I have masters in two STEM degrees, which most employers seem to value at exactly nothing. They are very enthusiastic about hiring me. At the same rate they would hire someone without a degree, that is.

The thing they want, is multiple years of professional experience with a very specific set of 4-8 technologies. These are 'must-haves', and then there are probably 4-8 'nice-to-haves', which are even more exotic demands. And then companies complain 'that there are sooo little people skilled people in IT' and 'the IT people have such ridiculous demands!'. In my environment, I see people with a lot less experience make a lot more in other fields.

(This is how it goes in the Netherlands, at least.)
While some ads are just links, candy crush is actually installed and being updated regularly even though most people will never ever start it.
> failure but TLA+ proved that it was impossible to build a reliable system based on the hard requirements

That's probably the most useful result TLA+ can give in comparison to not using it.

Understanding that requirements are impossible after 1-2 weeks of modelling is way better that after 6+ months of coding.
Ah heck. That was one crazy guy I was actually kinda rooting for. I mean, if your rocket works, good for you.

Seems to not be the first time, though, that I wonder if backup parachutes should be activated remotely.
History of global surface temperature since 1880
I think it was one of those cheap Alcatel phones with Android One. I don't remember well myself but I'm pretty sure it was Alcatel.

I ended up helping him getting a LG G6 and for his usage it's more than enough power for him. (plus cheap in 2019 when I bought it) All problems solved. Not sure what went wrong with his phone but I couldn't even do anything with the recovery mode and resetting to factory.
Why do rich, smart people vote for socialist policies?
I work in tech and so many people I know moved to Silicon Valley, London, New York etc. from poor, often socialist places. Moving to civilization is what got them a good career and more money. Why, then, do they vote for and want socialist policies that would turn the places that made them into the places they left.
The Problem with Standardisation
The thing I hate more than getting rejected is getting a very enthusiastic response accompanied by an offer that is slightly above minimum wage, when you have a year of work experience and masters in mathematics and computer science.
Definitely the economy as a whole, it started in the Thatcher/Reagan era when corporates starting shedding people. It's no surprise employees show no loyalty when their employers do exactly the same.
I can confirm, Motorola One & later Motorola One Action, both can be set up in seconds without an account, there's a prominent Skip button everywhere. Some phones can't, i.e. MIUI-based Xiaomi phones require a Google and Mi account on the first boot, to call home owner info. Later resets will not require it, but they always require a mobile data connection (not WiFi!) to verify validity of the device (as dystopian as that sounds).
What makes you say it’s high quality? Can you point out specifics?
> The first intuition behind this finding is that each dimension is not only a source of problems, but also a potential for optimisation. Once dimensions are reduced to a minimum (eg. no skill gap because of a single technology platform) all wiggle room for optimisations (eg. features missing from that single technology platform will be missing in all eternity) is gone, too.
Apple’s warning about it was not discussed at all, even though pretty much everything Apple officially says is discussed at length in here. Plus, you would think that seeing images with the streets of Beijing and Shanghai basically empty would have elicited at least a post or two on this website, seeing that just yesterday we had a discussion on the front page about the Paris car traffic being slightly lower compared to last year. There was also the news of China’s greenhouse emissions being down by 25% because of coronavirus, again, we’re talking about a subject dear to HN users (the environment) which was practically ignored.
This overly thick yet empty appeal to FOSS starts to sound like you protesting at the people in line at the movie theater because don't they know they can go home and watch something on TV for free? Sometimes there are even good shows if you wait long enough!
I am very excited about Solid. That motivated me to write my thesis about a decentralised wiki, where Solid is its foundation. For further information, you can have a look at my work journal (https://ma.parrillo.eu).
You should host everything yourself.
It will read just fine. But no, I would not recommend it. But much rather that than a multi-megabyte one-liner.

One time. Per site. On slow and/or expensive mobile connection?

The png will also display without the custom font...
True, and even in Pro you are prompted to “finish setup” (attach a Microsoft account) according to the Thurrott article.

All I can point to is that every other operating system with cloud backup services has gone the same way. It’s hard to backup a local account to the cloud when it’s not synced and once synced, why force users to remember different passwords? Combining accounts does make life easier for most folks...
Some of the new JCDecaux digital signage I've seen in Berlin definitely seems to have a camera lens on its top. There's no posted notice concerning video recording, but I wonder if it's just a lens with no camera, a camera but not attached to the rest of the device, or only disabled in software.
Alcatel doesn't have Android One, at least not internationally. They have Android Go, which is the less-resource-intensive version. However, Alcatel is absolutely awful with privacy and some of the software bundled is absolute scam-ware. Even older devices got updates via Play store for system apps like Calculator, File manager, etc., which introduced ads, and a (!!!) floating blue octopus on (every) screen which shows suggestions and full screen autoplaying ads with sound.
Happened to me two weeks ago while installing windows 10 1909 Home - I just unplugged the ethernet cable and it let me create an offline account... It's still crap and not acceptable though.
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What's the source of the data?
That’s why the protocol is open, so there will be multiple players. They will naturally converge like we currently have but that’s not what’s game changing. The game changer is the visibility and control of what data is collected about you.
AlphaServer 2100A, for pure nostalgia
Systems Thinking and Quality
GitHub SSH Key for $50 (broad phishing attack?)
Can someone confirm or correct my suspicion? That the founders are interested in education finance reform and not so much education? Are any of them former teachers? What's their background in pedagogy? It's cool to hack code, systems, and to hack together a software product. This feels like they are hacking people's lives and futures and if you're going to do that, maybe some credentials are called for. Happy to be corrected if the founders have a long history of involvement in education.
You know, it’s sad whenever a tinkerer or explorer gets killed, but I have a feeling he knew this was his destiny, and this was clearly the path he loved in life.

Good on him for being an explorer and pushing the limits. Sorry it had to come to a end :(
Did you read in my original post the distinction between calculating and measuring a leak?
Don't Fall for the Quantum Con
This might not be end of the world. In a lot of cases convenience is worth the risks. There is no golden rule that one should never depend on third parties. It is always balancing pros vs cons.

Self hosting introduces extra code, resources and assets that you as a developer must introduce and maintain. This is not free.

Especially if worst thing that happens is a wrong font loaded.
If that's you, you go ahead and boast. I'm all ears.
Pseudoterminal
> No part of the system or a collection of parts of the system has an independent effect on it. Therefore a system as a whole cannot be divided into independent parts.
The Limitations of Stylometry For Detecting Machine-Generated Fake News
And why couldn't it be freed?
MIUI based devices don't come with Android one though, but yes, MIUI is horrible and I will never buy a device even if it has great hardware with MiUI.
Next to the data source, it would be interesting to show normalised numbers as well. Right now, everything is trending upwards---correct, but unnecessarily alarming.
https://openai.com/blog/nonlinear-computation-in-linear-netw...
On cheaper Android devices that are sold at-cost or below cost, you usually can't. They need to make money on your data with those "value-add" apps, to remain profitable, so they mark ALL apps as "system required", to prevent disabling (i.e. try disabling SystemUI through the UI, it won't let you, the button will be greyed out).
The router thing is just a possible future and not the most likely even if it succeeds.
Well, WeChat forbids the use of any emulator. Maybe you have used an Android emulator to log in your WeChat account?
If you don't use the play store or apps that rely on play services. It should work fine.

My issue with MS's forced use of online account is that there's zero merit for doing so.

I don't use the store or any store app. I don't use OneDrive, nor need to sync settings, word, app states...

It doesn't make my device more secure. Instead created more attack surface for my devices. All devices connected to one account can are owned once someone takes over my email.

But I do like using PIN instead of passwords. There's no valid technical reason why offline accounts can't use PIN but it is what it is. So, so I end up signing in.

For Windows phone, it made sense to save my phone contacts online, and to use find my phone.

Once Cortana got into the picture though they started messing up with stuff that worked fine to force Cortana on me.

So stuff like quiet mode no longer worked without Cortana. And no longer worked offline.

If there are clear Advantages to users more people will use Microsoft account.
That seems indeed non-compliant with many legislations. I think in the EU this would not be legal as you have to inform your customers about any changes in the terms and if you change them they have the right to end their contract with you.

This clause would otherwise allow them to raise prices tenfold without the consent of their customers.

Maybe they should revise this...
A very central difference that the OP misses: Technologists generally accept that technologies are tools that can be used for good, and less good, or even evil. Many policy makers (especially in the EU) seem to think that policy can somehow reserve the benefits of technological progress for uses they deem positive for society.
Yes, true. However, Android One is not a panacea for spyware, as I discovered with Nokia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19449824
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329825

Manufacturers are still allowed to install apps that are "necessary for [special] hardware functions", and include spyware in them.