skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal never was to print "Hello, world!" on the screen. It was to quickly check that your build and runtime environment works.

But nowadays projects are generally expected to drag-in a lot more tools/dependencies than a C compiler and its runtime.
Are there similar tools to automate even the green screen removal process? It's super inefficient right now, especially dealing with green screen light bleed. Tweaking parameters etc on Premiere Pro/After effects takes forever.
I made a flat version that keeps the black ring and put them side to side. Check this out and you might immidiately see the issue: https://i.imgur.com/uW4TGX2.png

The white letters without background are perceived to be placed in space – you don't see the ring so you assume it is empty. The bavarian checkers in the middle seem to float in midair with letters crammed in above it. And this combination of floating and cramming makes it look bad.

With a dark ring this works much better, because the floating part is removed and the letters are on the ring instead of in it.
>So now we're cool with having an additional flu going around?

When people use the word 'flu' they are often referring to the illness and not the virus. That is, there are several viruses that can cause 'flu-like' symptoms besides the influenza virus.

Without definitive evidence that the covid-19 is 'new', it is reasonable for people to wonder if some cases of the illness commonly referred to as 'flu' for the past 1000 years may actually have been caused by covid-19. In short, are we absolutely sure that there is some statistically signicant increase in the number of flu-like illnesses in the past three months?
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I've given up RSS. Until the end of the year 2019 I still had a RSS.xml file which I updated by hand, but eventually I got too much work. The main reason was not that RSS is "dead" but the old and cumbersome syntax. I cannot get used to XML. Another reason is that browsers have started not to support RSS anymore. I have never used a reader, but rather read RSS in the browser than some kind of minimalist blog. It is difficult to say if RSS is dead, but I have the "subjective" feeling that less and less people implement RSS in their projects. In my opinion, RSS should be completely revised, not only in concept but also in syntax.
Exactly right – see here: https://i.imgur.com/uW4TGX2.png
This fantasy presupposes that no harm occurs by shutting down society.

Just because it is hard to measure how many people would die due to the economy being turned off or by having it be impossible for people to move or interact for an extended period doesn't mean that you get to assume the number is zero.
Well, I don't know if it's the difference between “resident” and “citizen”, but i was told “no” or “maybe in a few weeks” many times when trying to open a bank account in October/November last year in Germany. “Maybe in a few weeks” is as good as a refusal.
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> With basic income you make $4000 + $1000, which removes the discontinuities associated with means testing.

No, you don't. It is completely unrealistic to assume that UBI won't effect salaries in any way. Of course this is hard to test in a small scale study, but "you introduce UBI and everything else stays exactly the same" make no sense.
I’ve not before seen such an insightful explanation of communication breakdown on the internet. Thank you.
Because the open source community is slowly coming to the uncomfortable realization that many eyes != security. Take heartbleed: SSL had a glaring security vulnerability open for years that none of those eyes ever spotted.

I've seen questions raised here on HN about Signal and Tor: where they came from, and where their funding comes from. If I had to bet, then I'd bet both of those are modern day Crypto AG variants.
If you’re interested in this topic you should read Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education. Getting more credentials can be individually rational but socially wasteful. So there are tons of people working as bank tellers now and there were tons of people working as bank tellers in the ‘70s. Now they all have college degrees. In the ‘70s they were high school graduates. Their degrees don’t make them more productive and they cost them four years of their lives but they couldn’t have gotten the job without them.

Some of education’s pay off is privately and socially useful, increases in human capital, some of it is privately useful but socially useless or counter productive, wasteful signaling in an arms race, like that which leads to people who would have stopped with a Bachelor’s a generation ago getting a Master’s now.

Insofar as education is socially wasteful we should discourage it, not encourage it, tax it, not subsidize it.
A bunch of the Google Reader competitors of the day are still around and developed. How did Google Reader kill their development?
Protecting against harm by doing harm huh?
I imagine US insurance companies could make this true if it's not
Why, other than your privacy?

Businesses that don't accept cash don't make any money when the infrastructure fails. If your revenue is dependent on your PoS device, Wi-Fi, ISP, payment provider, the payment provider's network infrastructure, banking network, and more that's a lot of risk. For most independent businesses having a working cash register and a bank account that enables cash deposits would be a better option than the cost of SLAs and insurance against not being open.
You can specify ports using SRV resource records.
Just in time for all air travel to cease!

(Airlines have grounded huge numbers of aircraft already anyway -- the last thing any of them care about now is having more planes)
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Yep. Sweden’s debt per citizen is about $10k. Compared to US debt per citizen which is $86k

[1] https://www.finansportalen.se/sverigesekonomi/

[2] http://www.theusdebtclock.com/
I wonder if RISC-V would fall under this category. I saw recently that a decently powerful SOC was built and sold in small quantities. Is that architecture sufficiently open (and simple) that a satisfactory audit would be feasible?
> "I know not all tracking is based on JS, but the browser provides so many heuristics this way: screen size, cursor location, installed plugins."

Installed plugins? Why would javascript need to know my installed plugins? I'd like my browser to more actively restrict what javascript has access to. I get a popup when it wants access to my location (which I generally deny). Why not do the same with these other features?

"This site wants to view your installed plugins. Allow/deny?" "This site wants to set a non-login cookie" Deny, deny, deny.
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Up to version 5.5.
I have seen too many people who were born into wealthy families, "have it made", and yet totally self-destruct in ways that I am not sure I would wish on my worst enemy.

I think another perspective on this issue is worth making.
Under Stallmans model the developer works for free, and I guess they need a second job to pay the rent. Ah but GPL doesn’t mean free as in beer? Oh yes for practical purposes it does mean exactly that. Outlier business models excepted of course!
Tried to google for it, couldn't find anything - could you provide a link, please?
I have to say that whether or not RSS is dead it is quite obviously pining for the fjords.
For mobile apps and SDKs I found it very useful to keep a pointer to the current production version (master) for integration tests.
Unless fake John asks for info on real John.
HIV was a major black swan to Africa.
Can you point me to a good doc on deploying a small production service on k8s?

The official documentation provides a super simple tutorial, and then nothing. There's not even documentation of the primary config file. Frustrating.

https://github.com/kubernetes/website/issues/19139
Isn't it very hard to "not think about it" when required to not think about it ?
No, Netflix has their own CDN.

The servers running in AWS are mostly metadata.
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There is a difference between "you know, we should try to do something about this" and the "OMG, the best-case scenario is that 10% of the population is dead in six months! We're all gonna die! Summon the army and weld people's doors shut!" that people carry on about here all day long.
It is around $20 a year, there are no people poor enough for that to be an issue in Europe.
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It still exists but awareness that it exists is at an all time low with both users, web developers, and SEO specialists.

Valid reasons for continuing to invest in having this feature on your websites include better discoverability of your content by various content aggregators that still depend on this. In short, if you are running any kind of blog or news site, it probably helps you to have some RSS feeds but not not a lot.

But lets be real, a lot of RSS out there is just a side effect of many companies having used the same CMS for more than a decade. It's just something the CMS does by default. I stopped using feed readers some time after Google reader shut down. I used feedly and inoreader for a while but found myself opening that less and less over the years. I still have the bookmark but haven't looked at it in over a year and have not added any new feed in probably close to five years.

These days I depend on HN, twitter, and a few other social media accounts to discover content. I use but am increasingly unhappy with Google News; or rather what's left of it after Google's AI hipsters got their hands on it and turned into a clickbait aggregator to drive their ad revenue. Trump trump trump, more trump, did you know trump farted? etc. It's hopelessly biased to crap I definitely don't care about. All my attempts to nudge it away to more interesting stuff seem to be not working. I hope he loses the election; mainly it because it might clean up my news feed.

By chance I'm actually working on a project currently where I'm dealing with RSS feeds. A lot of feeds out there are actually shockingly bad in terms of content, usage of fields, etc. You get stupid things like brain-dead marketeers putting their company name in every title and description; people forgetting to add a timestamp. Or categories. Or an image. These things kind of matter if you want to aggregate and present content from multiple sources. Looking bad is never a good thing for any company whose primary business model is content distribution (i.e. major news papers and magazines).
I dunno...I was doubtful at first but I had a thought that perhaps what the doctor said about raising adrenaline while lowering cortisol has something to do with activation of the vagus nerve.

Breathing techniques are of course used in various relaxation techniques, this could be an extremely refined version. Perhaps each person has a particularly optimum frequency of breath that must be discovered.

I've noticed that if I hold my breath and flex my core muscles to send blood pressure to my head, while relaxing my upper body, if I breath out after holding that for a few seconds I get a euphoric light headedness on exhaling. But I feel like I'm going to pass out and it's terrifying every time.

Maybe I should try it while jumping into an ice cold lake.
I don't think any of this is inevitable. In fact it is quite illegal in many cases. Availability doesn't imply use. Especially since we even have falling crime numbers, increasing security still has become some religious dogma for some. Basic control freaks in my opinion, although there is also the other crowd thinking they are constantly under personal surveillance. Similar fears I imagine.

While there are efforts to bring more people to engage in civil society, where we don't wear masks, increasing surveillance will have the opposite effect because of basic self defense mechanisms that shouldn't be to hard to understand in my opinion.

> As a society we need to reevaluate what personal information is private and what is public.

I like to decide that myself and for bureaucratic needs I will supply the minimum amount of data needed for processing.
In a society where cash is an option there is a roof on how much money you can extract from the population as if you ask for too much people will increasingly avail themselves of cash.

The cost of switching to using cash is a trip to the bank/atm.

The closer you get to cashless the more you can afford to screw people to the wall.

For example does anyone recall the idea us bankers floated about negative nominal interest on checking?
Don't know why an option of both anonymity and cashless isn't possible.

Why couldn't a virtual wallet with just a fake name and a password exists?
FYI: I've seen screenshots of takedown complaints in the Youtube mgmt. UI. So login to your control panel and look around for that.

It says who did it, what they object to and gives you the choice of fixing it or filing a complaint. But if you lose the complaint, you get a copyright strike and can lose your channel.
Every 10 years or so Intel will not only insist everyone is in the office, but will look at relocating teams into their head offices for any given project - literally giving the people the option "Hey! I hear Gdansk is lovely this time of year".

Actually, Gdansk is lovely all year round. If Silicon Valley could move to Gdansk, it would be a great step up (but not for Gdansk).
AutoCAD amongst other software has been doing this for about 25+ years, I think. Clicky-clicky if you want, or just type in the command, same output.

IntelliJ also, more recently, with its actions input.
If you really lose your card that often why don't you just order two to begin with? You'd have to take precautions like this even with normal money, since if you misplaced your monthly allowance you'd still be out for several weeks.
There are plenty of 'open' standards[0] for webhooking and reporting ads, however there isn't much client support. As far as listening metrics go, Apple has implemented non intrusive podcast analytics already[1].

Podcasts work really well as is. They don't need fixing. Barrier to entries are low, and like the early days of youtube, you can have a successful podcast with a relatively low production value. They are published openly, monetizing gets easier with some traction. There is so much cross promotion that discoverability isn't a challenge either. I just hope the 'open podcast ecosystem' can resist attempts to be destroyed by Spotify/Luminary etc. This happy medium doesn't need personalized targeted advertising.

[0]: https://rad.npr.org/dotorg/about-rad/
[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/501/
Yeah, I think it's more to do with where you grew up and your adaptation to it than your precise heritage. Phenotype over genotype. My family is all from cold places but I grew up in a warm place, and while I like cold air on my face, I could never walk around on a 4°C day wearing short shorts.
two reasons come to mind immediately:

- it is low key discrimination of un/underbanked. imagine a "cashless utopia" where the only way you can buy groceries is by either:

* paying a "human usage fee" to use the cash line because businesses have axed labor down to the bone

* for those of the "efficiency" mindset, who just don't accept cash at all, the only way to get a credit or debit card is paying a bank a nice monthly fee. because, well, your credit score is bad. or something.

- it signals that as a business owner you're probably on the take on this whole hoovering up data and using it to your benefit without my consent or profit. you may know me as a loyal customer but i'd prefer to stay out of your MapReduce jobs by using cash, and i'd /especially/ prefer not to be sold or haggled over if you and other bakeries (or software shops) decide to hold church and compare lists to derive insight or other perverted data stuff, as credit cards and banks probably do today.

edit: here's a third - what's the environmental impact of having all this tech running (POS terminal, CC database, all the steps in between)? is it >> cash? i don't know the answer here, though.

another reason: when you pay in cash, your debt to the merchant is settled, right there. as a merchant accepting say a CC, if you fail to run an authorization check, you eat the cost. but what if the power runs out/comms down/servers overloaded/etc.? things get a lot hairier.
This is a great reason for why modern data laws like GDPR and CCPA enshrine right of access so highly, I believe. I think it would be interesting to persue civil cases against fraudsters whose data you manage to collect out of PayPal audit logs or whatever, but you'd probably be contending with international courts and it would be an expensive and time consuming affair.
There are some people who refuse to use applications implemented with Electron.
Cash in the only practical anonymous-when-you-need-it-to-be way to pay still.

Don't let it die until we have alternative suitable anonymous and un-blockable-by-cyberattacks (eg. "it must still work while the internet is down") currencies!

(Note: no, we don't have yet, all current crypto currencies are "barely working prototypes" at best, all of them have issues that still need ironing out! Bitcoin itself is like a proof-of-concept-pre-MVP that got "rushed into production". And the blockchain itself... we NEED to have a way of fully erasing history from it, like paper money do, we don't yet know how to do that while keeping the nice properties of blockchain... all these are open research questions, Satoshi only made the first baby step!)
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For DMCA, it's dmca-agent@google.com

But it's more likely that you get a Youtube takedown, which is not related to DMCA. There's a UI for that in the mgmt. console.
It's funny, I hate winter, not because it's cold, but rather because it's dark all the time. I like running in the snow, skiing, etc. I also don't like summer because I'm always too hot.

I want a place that's always Sunny but doesn't get too hot. Ideally here you can ski in winter and climb in summer.
Storing carbon copies of credit cards is something still supported for when the network goes down, see “credit card imprinter”
In Poland, chain and franchised grocery stores were smart enough to go into two-shift mode, and are generally open from 6am to 10pm. However, most other stores - and more importantly, services sector, banks and government offices - were not. They work 8 hours a day, smack in the middle of everyone else's workday. It's no surprise so many people in their 20s-40s want to do everything on-line, because it's either that, or taking days off at work for errands (and while you can do some things on Saturdays, banks and government offices don't work over weekends).

This is IMO stupid, and I'm increasingly of the opinion that the society should be run in mandatory shifts. I can't understand why the market won't fix that itself? Why leave all that money on the table? There is huge demand for services open outside regular office working hours. For instance, personally, I chose dentists by their opening hours - most of the money I spent on dental was with a place where I could come at 8pm. In pre-Internet banking era, I would've picked the bank that had branches open past 5pm, if any existed. I don't shop at places open 9-5, because I only have time earlier than that, or later than that. Etc.

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Not that it makes it okay for Apple to allow this, but it goes without saying that any app that does this, paid or unpaid, is getting immediately uninstalled.
Commure looks fascinating, I was hoping something like this existed! I work in publicly-funded mental health/social services. Our programs use 5 different EHRs, then we have to interact with 4 more supplied by county funders for billing and compliance. It's a real Tower of Babel shitstorm to transfer data between systems in the absence of interoperability standards like FHIR. As you note, the current fragmented state of health tech has significant human and economic impacts.
Depending on how this is implemented, this could actually be a step in the right direction. Lots of apps already send "promotional" push notifications (including big names like Lyft and Uber). The only way to turn them off was to turn off all notifications, which meant missing actual important updates. If this change means being able to opt-out of one without losing the other, I'm all for it.
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In Norway, next to Sweden, accepting cash is mandatory and you can get fined (after a warning it seems) if you don't.

The reasoning is we don't want everything to break down just because the power grid or backbone networks breaks down.
Or you could just turn off the ads, since the article says apps will be required to have a way to do so.
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A browser that disables Javascript could easily circumvent this too, either pre-loading URLs in :hover rules or ignoring those rules.
When I travel abroad I just use my mastercard, why doesn't that work for them? I don't know anyone without a mastercard or a visa.
> People with an app installed for their favourite clothing brand, for example, may welcome a push notification to alert them when a sale is on.

So this wasn’t allowed before? But those “check out this stupid post from that random stranger” push notifications were allowed (maybe not on paper but definitely in practice)? Seems only fair then.
I did the exact same. I used to be a Godaddy customer and had a bunch of domains with them. One day I cancelled some of them, but when I did this it didn't auto-cancel the associated services, as I expected, so they continued to charge me for whois guard, and some other services for domains I no longer owned after they expired.

Godaddy are thieves. I'll never use them again.
"Flash of unstyled content" is not a valid concern here.

Except it really is. Most websites are attached to businesses in some way. If you see statistics that the flash of unstyled content means 10% of your traffic leaves the site after less than a second you do what you can to fix it, and unfortunately that's often hiding everything until it's ready.

Pragmatically, most businesses would give up users who don't like tracking long before they give up users who care about styling, because there are just a lot more people who care about styling. It's an unfortunate fact of web life.
To be fair, I've never been so cold than on a windy September day in SF. I'm from The Netherlands and we get the occasional cold spell in the winter, but the cold wind coming from the bay on what seemed to be a very nice, sunny day just went right through me.
In the U.S constitutional complaint about right against self-incrimination. But if it worked well it would be too useful to let that right stand, so I'm sure the courts would decide it was not covered by the right.
That depends on where you live.
Does not make it any less of a travesty of justice. A man has lost his freedom.
That's great to see Edge + AI on kubernetes