skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> even before I've typed anything there are "trending" recommendations

How is that an ad?

> As soon as I click to make the search active it defaults to Apple Music, instead of Your Library.

How is that an ad? The apple music app defaults to searching the apple music service.

> Other times I accidentally press the heart icon at the bottom thinking it's my favorites but it's an ad is are "browse"

I don't even know what that sentence means but that's the "for you" recommendations section. Even if it doesn't work if you don't pay for Apple Music, how is that an ad? This is a gated feature.

I agree that it doesn't sound like the apple music app is a good experience for you, but none of those are ads.
That person devoting 60 hours a week is almost certainly committing trash that someone else will have to refactor or discard entirely at a later date.

Real 10x programmers spend most of their time levitating, anyway.
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Because they use partial verbatim copies of other people's shader code to make that happen.
Design and presentation is IDEO's bread and butter, so it makes sense that make sure to get those things right when speaking to outside audiences.
For anyone interested in the details behind all of this, you should check out Frank's blog:

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog
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For the most part the same grad students get tuitions wavers, which if accounted for, would up their income for what is part time work significantly.
I see you're firmly on the "subs" side of the eternal "subs v. dubs" debate.
If I found out my competitors made sweetheart deals with hardware manufacturers so that their software worked better on their hardware than my software does, I'd be pissed.

> Would there be some sort of uproar if people found out that Firefox had special optimizations for common websites, for instance?

It would ruffle a few feathers if Chrome was optimized for Google properties, but ran their competitors' code with a performance penalty.

One of the issues in United States v Microsoft was that IE used optimized APIs that Microsoft's competitors, like Netscape, didn't have access to.
This discussion is about iOS. As far as I know they don't do that there?
I am pretty sure it is not Your / Google Cloud's fault given AWS and Azure are in similar situation here, but;

ROME was announced in Later 2018, Released on Aug / September 2019. Why did it take another 6 months to roll out an new instance? When I assume you must have had samples since early 2019.
This is interesting, as Webrender does not use D3D but OpenGL, so the parts of Firefox that use D3D might interact badly with it.

There is work to port Webrender to gfx-rs which abstracts over Vulkan, Metal and modern DirectX but it seems to only live in the fork of the Hungarian Szeged university for now: https://github.com/szeged/webrender/issues/198

Maybe then Firefox can purely use DirectX?
Right, that's the feature. If you can't afford to go into business without polluting (or otherwise externalizing costs), you can't afford to go into business. If we want to keep the barrier to entrepreneurship low, we can subsidize it, but we don't get to pretend that pollution/etc is free. It feels more expensive because we either raise the barrier to entrepreneurship or we raise taxes, but the reality is that we've been subsidized by a whole bunch of environmental debt.
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Blocking Javascript seems to be enough to read the article
https://archive.is/Gf3Pg if anyone blocks guce.advertising.com
> Debezium writes them to a side-topic, which isn't obviously synchronized with the data topics

That's unfortunate. It seems like it would be ideal to feed schema changes through the same topic, so that the ordering is defined without the usual distributed-system hilarity.
This is doubly bad because not only is your password in plaintext, it also means that anybody who works for the bank is able to view said password.

Don't get me wrong, plaintext stored in a DB is bad enough, if the DB gets compromised, but apparently they don't even need that as they have an interface that customer service can use to view your password.

How secure do you think that system is?
Is the SP500 the Highest It's Ever Been?
Honestly, I really want tech workers to unionize and push for companies to install ethics committees.

Particularly at Facebook and Google -- tech workers should unionize there not because they need better work conditions but because otherwise all business decisions are in the hands of executives for whom unethical or sociopathic behaviour is often an advantage.
It is a very useful tool to raise awareness for Parkinson's disease. If you don't have an use simply don't use.
> Climate change models are just directly discretized physical equations.

I'm no expert, but it's my understanding that they're hugely more complicated than that implies. Sure, there's lots of physics there. But also chemistry and biology. The best ones are general circulation models,[0] and the outcomes will never fit some pretty theoretical structure.

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Circulation_Model
Use Stackbit to create your combo of SSG, Theme and CMS. https://www.stackbit.com/
https://outline.com/https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/indian...
I know this is a bit of a rare condition, but I have very sensitive eyes, so I need to work on a single small laptop screen with decently large font size, otherwise I get eyestrain and I'm out for a week. So when I have two emacs windows open even 80 characters wraps around. I put up with it, but when a codebase has something like 70 or less characters per line I find it much easier to develop in.
This is not the same coverage, but it does seem related, and I'm reasonably sure that the response that is served to Europeans is compliant with European regulations.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-14/india-...
Current US tuition is a scam driven by an exploitative loan industry. Giving tuition waivers to grad students is something universities do precisely because it lets them say "no but really when you consider your total compensation it's very competitive with the industry". It's nonsense.
We need some kinda shortcut: like, run your app for a few days on an instance, we chew your stackdriver metrics, we make a new shortcut n3-mybestinstance, which picks the right shape/processor family etc for yah.
Ask HN: Indonesian startups lax about privacy, what to do?
Hi HN,

I’ve wanted to voice this concern of mine for a while but didn’t know where to do it, so I’m posting with a throwaway.

I’ve been trying to delete many of my ecommerce and fintech accounts from Indonesian startups and I’ve noticed a very disconcerting trend - very few of them allow you to delete your account. Most, if not all, also have very arbitrary limitations on changing any account data, including the most basic things like my name.

I’ve tried emailing them, calling them, and sending requests through contact forms but I’ve been met with either no response or an automated “we are not able to delete your account at this time”.

What’s going on here? Why are these companies doing this? I understand Indonesia has minimal privacy and data protection laws but what incentive do billion dollar startups like GoJek or Tokopedia have to retain inactive accounts with highly sensitive (and irrevocable) information like credit card numbers and addresses?

Most importantly, what can I do about it? Am I just meant to suck it up and move on because I made the mistake of making these accounts in the first place?

I’m sure many Indonesian tech people read HN and work at these companies, so if you’re reading this - please put “Users can delete their accounts” in your next sprint. It should’ve been in your first one.
The meaning of the word "coast" makes this a pointless comparison
I'm curious, why does a team working for Mozilla need to host their blog as a free account on wordpress.com? They really don't have a unified blog system to provide a more official feeling to all their different departments?

Or is this just an unofficial blog from people that is unrelated to Mozilla?
People are free to make whatever irrational decisions they wish. Again, we're talking anecdotal evidence, but those people don't stay long at those companies.

I certainly won't hold it against an employer if they provide snacks.
Monetary penalty cases generally are "preponderance of the evidence".

"Beyond reasonable doubt" is generally only when jail is involved.
The parent comment seemed to be suggesting that people use a static site generator "instead of a CMS". Part of what I was trying to do with my comment is point out the orthogonality of the two. A static site generator is just a glorified cache over a normal web server.
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> Verve Coffee

verve roasts some killer beans
Did they manually browse through the data or download it to a computer for further analysis later?
Again, you could be surprised by some IT departments.

There's this perspective that the best way to keep a system working is to make it unusable, so that nobody uses it, and thus nobody breaks it, and so you don't have to keep fixing it. It's something I've seen parts of organizations navigate into without any union-related involvement.
100%. Faster your realise and act on it the quicker you will find your path in front of you get clearer and your chance of success will shoot up.
As a young tech person in India, this stuff makes me so angry. The ruling party here (BJP) doesn't have any real competition. Which means they can get away with pretty much anything.

They've banned VPNs. They'll chuck you in prison if you speak against the government or a politician. Then they'll brand you as an "anti-nationalist" and openly say to their supporters that you deserve to be shot.

Facial recognition is now being used to identify protestors. Bots and deepfakes are being used to spread propoganda.

Many people are upset, but there's nothing we can do. We can't speak out without fear of being reprimanded. We can vote for other parties, but there's no way that they'll ever win. The majority of the population has blind faith in BJP. The only demographic that appears to realise the implications well enough is the youth in urban areas - a very insignificant fraction of the nation's population.

Even the media is afraid to speak out against BJP because if they do then they get attacked by physical and virtual mobs.

It's a shame. So much potential.
Except that for research programs these tuition wavers are for "research credits" for the majority of grad school duration. That is, there is no classes, only work on behalf of the university. Unlike normal work, you pay them. Calling most grad students "students" is a fiction. They are workers.
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Skynet is one of the biggest innovations of the last 20 years! Congratulations to the sia hard-working team. Sia blockchain is the future.
Or the "queue album/song" functionality. It's amazing how absolutely dogshit the Spotify UX is. I keep using it because they have the best selection / device compatability but god the UI is just awful.
What things do they get right? Serious question.
Yes, absolutely. Entire dissertations have been written on the topic: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/14226097/KATE-DI...

Efficiently maintaining views over arbitrarily complex computations is one of the two hard problems in computer science for a reason [0].

[0]: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
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Perhaps there is also the need for untraceable/hidden tools for censorship circumvention. This may involve masquerading as normal traffic. I've heard of specialized hidden censorship circumvention tools that do this by tunneling information though protocols like ping or DNS which won't look as suspicious as a VPN. Of course, for wide deployment this will become a game of cat and mouse, but I don't see any reason it would be impossible to make a good solution that is very hard to detect.
>Yes it's accurate, though the "Always Punch Nazis" controversy was just the tip of the iceberg

Wow pretty crazy that a company would expect employees to consistently enforce a reasonable part of the company's T.O.S.

Many tech workers have no idea how unbelievably spoiled they are.
In addition, when it comes to taking too much space, most people don't know it can be collapsed (double click the active tab).
ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data
Well I'm certainly not ordering from GrubHub either.

> Your office manager (or whoever) orders snacks from a contractor in bulk once a month (they don't make N GrubHub/etc individual orders every day). If they give you your fraction of that back, it wouldn't cover your GrubHub/etc order. Perks work because of these economies of scale.

What's the economy of scale on me getting up and going to get a fresh salad even when snacks are provided for free, because I value my health and sanity?
Exactly, this is complete crazy talk by the US goverment and they know they don't have the tools to enforce such a ban.

TSMC is part owned by the Taiwanese goverment. The US is literally asking the Taiwanese people to throw away their only bargaining chip as a sovereign nation. The moment TSMC opens a factory in the US/Europe, both of those countries stakes in the sovereignty of Taiwan drop down to 0. If china takes over Taiwan the US will simply nationalize the American factory and be done with it.

TSMC would probably rather lose the whole American market and live off SEA/Europe, than having their government overthrown by China.
There's an i9 8-core model (on the 15.6 inch model). That's the one I got. I agree that the 16 GB max is disappointing. No problems with touchpad, though I'm used to Windows laptops (I don't use Macs)
In a co-op, yes. In a union, no. You only elect your union leaders, not the company's leaders. The board decides who is in charge of the company, and the board is controlled by shareholders.

Powerful unions sometimes have a board seat, but one seat does not let you unilaterally impose who runs the company.
Well I just launched fastcomments.com which you could use :p
Official Launch “No Stress Booking” – blocks stressing messages on booking sites
Hi everyone,
My name is Assaf, and several months ago I've built a Chrome extension that hides all the dark patterns and behavioral manipulative messages that litter the experience of searching and booking. I called it “No Stress Booking” since that’s what it does :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-stress-booking/kkfmoaflbacidmgmkddkhjfdepckmggg

It basically started as a tool for myself, while using Booking.com. The red blinking messages were just too much for me, so I hid them. And then moved to another site.
And then I've sent it to my friends, and it got some nice attention all around. Today it has around 1700 Weekly active users with a tremendous 5 stars score in the chrome web store (almost 200 voters.)

The extension is pretty straight forward. When you're visiting a site that uses such techniques, you'll see a nice guy on a hammock on the bottom left side of the screen. Clicking on it, and it will make all of the messages disappear.
I also need to say that every message is specifically selected. there's no "one rule for all". There's no "remove all the red boxes" mechanism. I simply play with the platform, letting it show me all the big cannons so I can kill them one by one.
As for now, the extension supports Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Viagogo, Hotels.com, Kayak, OneTravel, and others and I'm willing to add more based on users feedback, so if you know more annoying sites like Booking.com - let me know :)

The extension does not track, store, collect or do any shit on the site, except hiding these messages.

I would love to hear your thought and inputs or even more sites that should be supported.

Thanks
Assaf
Please visit: https://trader.covemarkets.com/

Thanks!
They are likely outnumbered by the ones who like the ribbon but stay silent.
#factsthatmakeyoufeelold
Perhaps I should have used the conditional - "there might be new physics".

But yeah, that's the long and short of it.
I agree that models for the overall development of the universe are a lot like models for global climate change. The scale is vastly different, of course. But I bet that the relative cell sizes in our models are similar. Because they're running on similar machines.

But the goals for a theory of gravity, and its integration with QM, are totally different. Or at least, that's my perhaps naive opinion.

Edit: That is, relative cell sizes and total cell counts.
> Update: we have created the channel #gfx-wr-glitch on Matrix

Funnily, this alias is incomplete and therefore not enough to join. A room ID might have been enough, but just an alias without a server part is worthless, a bit like someone left an e-mail adress as gfx-wr-glitch@, without specifying the rest.

I've successfully joined trough #gfx-wr-glitch:mozilla.org, (roomid is !qaAtjMWizEgMcVSbNH:mozilla.org, no alias on matrix.org) and told them so.

Edit: they fixed it. I wonder how often that happens with those new to Matrix?
Great summary: "It's like using a Raspberry Pi 3 inside of a smartphone"
We have yet to see how the US reacts when a massive section of it wants to secede.

India and China both face a significantly more difficult geopolitical reality than the USA.

Some of the world's most westernized and developed countries (Spain, Israel) are starting to use violence and suppressive tactics now that they are faced with even the smallest amount of secessionist unrest.

Kashmir is one of the most militarized border zones alongside the West Bank. I fully agree that there might be better and less suppressive methods that the Govt. can use to deal with the Kashmir issue, but to act as though a USA like policy would work in countries with very different ground realities is being willfully arrogant.

At the risk of sounding too cold, if the choice was between death of a few million people (which India has a long history of) and complete destruction of communication frameworks. I would choose that latter.

Now the big problem with what the Indian Govt. is doing, is that this has been going on for almost a year and they are making no efforts to bring Kashmir back to "normalcy". Such draconian policies should only come into place for very short durations with measures for removal, the second unrest goes below a certain point.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-stress-booking/...
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Housing currently controlled at the local level by default, resulting in all those problems. Efforts to move things to the State level in California are ongoing and have hit or miss.

The problem is that since housing has been managed at the local level for so long, finding a coherent State level solution is hard and moreover, wealthy interests have influence at the state level also.
It's no replacement for Pergolesi. Pergolesi stayed open late, had food and shows, chess club and other meetings, and catered to the punk/alt crowd in a way no remaining cafes do.
Was a neat little feature, too bad the share functionality didn't actually work.
Ironically, in the 1970s, people used pareidolia to discover scary skulls and crossbones in the smoke curls of cigarette ads. These were thought to be subliminal symbols of risk and danger, secretly engineered to appeal to smokers, who knew they were engaging in a deadly habit.

20 years later, governments mandated superliminal death symbolism.
My relatives did this when fleeing from the bolsheviks. When they returned a hotel had been built where they buried their treasure.

So much for the family fortune. They owned gemstone mines.
When you're reading documentation, you also will notice other things in addition to solving your particular problem. Those other things might be helpful few minutes later and you will actually save that time. Or may be tomorrow, if your memory is good. Or may be you'll read those documentation and will actually find a better solution.

Of course most of interesting problems are not described in documentation.
Microsoft’s ElectionGuard will make future elections safer
I live in Kansas and we call ourselves Midwesterners. I get really confused when Ohio calls themselves Midwest, being 6 hours drive from Manhattan does not strike me as "the middle of the west".

We think of Utah or Colorado as being "The West". I guess like you say, it's all relative.
> we had meaningful, sensibly grouped, sets of standard icons

Come on; the normal method to find the function you needed when you didn't know the icon was to hover them all one-by-one.
Wikipedia says "Due to the addition of WebRTC support in Apple's WebKit rendering engine, macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 come with native playback support for Opus audio encapsulated in Core Audio Format containers."

And of course VLC works on Macs and knows Opus.
I'm familiar with the idea. Their custom algorithm seems to do the opposite. The order actually being generated has very little perceived randomness, far less than what a true random shuffle would look like.
assuming that its true, "its online medias fault", then why havent we seen similar extremes forming in other countries?

it seems extreme student violence, incels, increased violence, depression and suicide

1. seems to be more of an anerican phenomena (incels, student shootings)

2. started to sharply increase after 2008 financial crisis when huge swaths of people went through huge personal and societal stresses [0]

so while online media can definitely be attributed to accelerating and manipulation of people being easier, i would posit that the seeds were already there in the culture and environment...

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-2008-financial-crisis-in...

[edit]
just to clarify: this isnt to mean i give fb a free pass of course... they are making money off of manipulating people with this kind of misery and extremism which i find reprehensible
Remind me again, does India have a democratic government or an authoritarian regime?
They say "anti-nationalist" is a bad thing? Wow.
People that don't like it when freedom of association is exercised by website owners want to chip away at safe harbor provisions such that all of the internet is turned into a virtual Disneyland where any objectionable content is banned out of fear of criminal liability for hosting it.
As a Googler: take VM rightsizing recommendations - "save $X because you're underutilizing this machine shape" - and extend them to encompass this by including VM-family swaps based on underlying VM metrics? :)
The overwhelming majority of the audio files I have are .mp3.

I don't even know if my ".mp3 player" can handle any other format; it has trouble with a few file formats for sure, so I convert the files just to be able to listen to them. This is usually a once-and-done deal for me. I honestly can't tell the difference other than "does it play?" and I have decent hearing. Maybe if I were some purist with perfect pitch I'd be throwing fits, but I'll leave that for other people. The audio is fine. I don't hear the problem.
Amusingly, the comments at the bottom are from a large number of others also noting that their algorithm doesn't work as described.
Speaking personally...

I think that it makes it hard to find what I need to do when what I need to do is something uncommon. This is because it not only hides things, but it changes where it hides things depending on the current state of the application.

It's not a matter of it being different than the other ways. I don't have a problem adapting to new ways, unless the new ways are worse.
It's very difficult to actually grow a company in a country like Sweden because of the regulations and taxes you are required to pay after a certain amount of employees.