skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is indeed folly to assume that cattle have no identity. There's an internally famous video inside Google in which a particular well-known machine was unracked, dragged out into a field, and ceremonially smashed to pieces by some hardware techs. Sometimes a machine just takes an arrow to the knee and it's never the same again. Then there are all the uncontrolled or unrecorded differences between machines: the ones at the tops of the racks, or the ends of the rows, are hotter (or colder); there's some difference between the same model of hard disk made in Hungary compared to the ones made in Mexico; at some date the BIOS vendor made an undocumented firmware revision that changes an obscure energy/performance register in your CPU; you have a machine with a dead CMOS battery that worked normally until it was rebooted.

Cattle is a good philosophy but it takes a huge amount of work to approach perfection.
Was HN Just Down?
Standard Notes is end-to-end encrypted:
https://standardnotes.org
There's nothing more unnatural about odd-order harmonics than even-order harmonics. The brain picks up on both of them because any harmonic sound is good evidence that some living thing is nearby (non-living things like flowing water and falling rocks typically produce inharmonic sounds). The idea that there is something "unnatural" or inferior about odd-order harmonics is propaganda invented by valve-amplifier enthusiasts, because their amplifiers predominantly produce even-order harmonic distortion. A stopped pipe wind instrument produces odd-order harmonics, and they were invented long before chiptunes.
I don't personally mind telemetry, as long as it's opt-in, or I can at least opt-out, and the data that is collected is clear.

The docs don't make any mention of how to opt out, or what data is collected. Which is incredibly annoying, as I really want an official package manager for Windows :/
My guess is that they will try to integrate Shopify sites into the platform, to give the FB Shops platform some momentum, then gradually push the non FBS stores down the page. My reasoning is that they are emulating Google.

Alternatively, they could be looking to make FB Shops an advertising platform, similar to Amazon Seller Central, where they don't care who you buy from, but they want each seller to pay for ads and/or payment processing.
> 3. They could still use data gathered from sites affiliated with NYT using NYT trackers, if that's something NYT does. No idea if NYT does it.

NYT seems to do this with sites they own like The Wirecutter. Even privacy preferences are controlled by shared infrastructure. For example, thewirecutter.com uses https://purr.nytimes.com/v1/directives, which serves this JSON. Presumably the values depend on which regulations you're covered by:

{
"PURR_AcceptableTrackers":
{"value":"controllers"},
"PURR_AcceptableTrackers_v2":
{"value":"processors"},
"PURR_AdConfiguration":
{"value":"full"},
"PURR_AdConfiguration_v2":
{"value":"rdp"},
"PURR_CaliforniaNoticesUI":
{"value":"hide"},
"PURR_DataProcessingConsentUI":
{"value":"hide"},
"PURR_DataProcessingPreferenceUI":
{"value":"hide"},
"PURR_DataSaleOptOutUI":
{"value":"hide"},
"PURR_DataSaleOptOutUI_v2":
{"value":"hide"},
"PURR_EmailMarketingOptInUI":
{"value":"checked"}
}
Hi Yabood, we actually don't use Fullstory anymore due to privacy concerns. We removed it 6-9 months ago from all platforms. If you're still seeing this somewhere please let me know so we can address it.
One that comes to mind is google reader. There were quite a few decent RSS readers out there but then Google Reader came in and took over. Then google dropped it and RSS almost died.
When I commented, the comment in question had a very generic market-speech, and as a moderator of other internet communities, my "spider-sense tingled" so to speak. As it stands now the comment is much more productive.
I've been trying for months to make redistributable Spleeter "binaries" that I can bundle with user-facing applications. Happy to see someone's succeeded where I've failed. Really sad they've chosen not to share their changes :(

I emailed them requesting more info on how their implementation works. I think this might be a violation of the MIT license?
Notable is great and open source.

https://notable.md/
Bitcoin’s Price Is About to Explode Why? Fed Printing Money
Yet it works, because someone's grandma will always type healthinsurance.com and get phished before they find the actual website for medicaid.
Why is that a showstopper?

People do not give feedback so it's impossible to tell how their programs are being used.

The other choice is to listen to the vocal minority that offers feedback than you get into issues of implementing features that no one wants/uses.
A whole class of retailer that will be blocked at my router. The Balkanization is well underway.
IF you have to argue if something is dead or not, it's not a good sign.
For those who have bought domains but haven't had much time to develop them (like me..)

https://www.newsy.co

It's something I've been working on to scratch my own itch.
On Mac I use Ulysses. I hate that they switched to a subscription, but it's still the best Markdown app on the platform.

On Linux I use typora (previously caret when it basically shut down). typora and caret are built on web technologies and cross platform.

Oh Android I used to use and recommend JotterPad, but they've disgraced themselves and moved previously paid features (which I bought!) to a subscription, so I don't have an Android app anymore :(.
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I think their approach is a very nice start. This way it can be immediately useful. It would risk not getting any use if it was too involved to create new packages. With this approach anyone can create a package.

There is nothing stopping them from adding more traditional packages in the future.
I wish there was a way to disable all the CSS transitions. Makes the UI feel unnecessarily laggy
The main reason this happened is because cookies are now useless.

3rd-party data was always rather flimsy and relied entirely on a strong identity link. With adblocking, anti-tracking, and privacy regulations changing the industry, there's not much accurate 3rd-party data left to use.
New Theory of Everything Unites Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity
Am I the only one thinking it's weird that this rolls out on ChromeOS first but other Linux platforms (including Android) last?
I went back to university (I'm in Europe, where tuition is affordable) at age 35, after working for 12 years in IT in several roles. I did it because I felt I missed the theoretical foundations to progress further than what I had learned by myself. The advantage of getting a degree is that you have a more or less coherent program to follow, with potentially things you wouldn't care to learn by yourself. I had courses on, amongst others, Operating Systems, Machine learning, networking foundations, logic, software engineering, programming paradigms, algorithms and computational complexity and more. I wouldn't have learnt all this by myself.

I did it out of personal interest, I enjoyed it, and it was totally worth it, even though it was exhausting combining it with my (downsized) freelance activities. After that I went bask to my professional activities thinking it didn't have impact on my career after all. But one year later I got a proposal to do some research at the university with a professor of which I had followed a course. And now, I'm working at a spin-off of that university. In dramatically change my career path, even though it wasn't the goal.

Personally, it was the thing to do and I have no regret. But that depends of course on your situation, motivation, interest, opportunities, expectations. I hope you make the right choice!
I would rephrase "all in one tool" to more specific like "project management tool". All in one for software teams makes me think that you also offer things like version control etc. All-in-one is a very loaded phrase. Just my 2 cents.
Maybe so, but that isn't enough. It also needs not to be trite and shallow. Note this guideline:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's tons of previous explanation if you skip over the trivial bits in https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... more generically.
Just you wait until Google sunsets Drive...
I'm not sure that would allow you to glean specific types of clothing, unless the purchases were at Pants R Us or The Pansatorium
Germany is already part of the 14 eyes agreement and has been moving to join the current 5 eyes
This is a fun benchmark in C++, where you can see that GCC has a more restrictive small string optimization. On my desktop the main python example runs in 3.1s. Then this code

void example() {
for (int64_t i = 1; i <= 20; ++i) {
for (int64_t j = 1; j <= 1'000'000; ++j) {
std::to_string(j);
}
}
}

runs with GCC in 2.0s and with clang in 133ms, so 15x faster.

I've also benchmarked it in Julia:

function example()
for j = 1:20, i = 1:1_000_000
string(i)
end
end

which runs in 592ms. Julia has no small string optimization and does have proper unicode support by default.

None of the compilers can see that the loop can be optimized out.
Mutable Immutable JavaScript
FWIW, I submitted that thread which is sourced to CBS12, because I had thought (mistakenly [0]) that it would be more accessible to EU users. However, the CBS12 story is essentially a summation of the floridatoday.com story, with some additional followup comment from the fired scientist.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23231757
Leslie Lamport – The Paxos algorithm or how to win a Turing Award
No props/photoshop needed.
scoop and scoop extras (https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras) covers pretty much everything I use on Windows. I didn't realize the other repos existed for a while, but once I did, I got rid of choco entirely.
Well, not as bad as Google with their multiple chat applications...
It's also a genuinely good note taking app that works on all platforms I care about as opposed to Apple Notes.
Watch Where the Linux Kernel Drops a Packet
This is how Chocolatey works too for most stuff. Most Chocolatey “packages” are config and/or script files that point to the URL of an MSI installer.
Why do you think that? I find her statement pretty obvious and candid about the situation, and don't think it hurts her credibility at all.
Why have 2 different shops on Facebook and Instagram, it will lead to more confusion. Also what about for folks who don't use either of those services?
Does Notion work offline?I tried Notion way back when they launched, but at the time I was not willing to pay for it. I then switched to Coda, which was free, but had awful offline capabilities. I then gave up for a while and just went back to google documents which loaded offline without any issues.
That's how Google's billion dollar adwords business works. It's not about laziness, it's about the right environment to use it in.
My thoughts exactly. I’ve blocked Facebook in my DNS hosts file & thankfully Firefox has a Facebook fence to isolate their trackers.
A Geometric View of Series – relating arithmetic, geometric, and Taylor series
Google has backup strategies and could pivot fast, not without shedding a lot of people.

You're right, though - ad money is definitely providing bad incentives, but it also provides support for cooky projects. Marketing people also get to show their managers these nice graphs on ad spend "returns", that are complete lies.

Twitter and Facebook are much more tied into ad money, though.
Uninstall, Deps and other items are on the roadmap here: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/wind...
App Service Static Web Apps
I don't see a complaint, just an analysis of things that make code slow. Assuming that PyPy will just fix the problem is unrealistic, considering PyPy's limitations (doesn't support every architecture Python supports, lags behind a Python major minor version or two, etc.)

Python is a great language and PyPy a great tool, but let's not become complacent or - worse - dismiss valid information just because we like them..
I thought this was a really neat idea, so I went to sign up and found it's $19/month.

I'm entirely cool with paying for neat games, but $19/month for a simple drafting game is a whole lot of cash. $5 - $10 a year? Sure, maybe after some kind of quick trial like a single league.
Didn't publish anything. Mainly, we focused on making 3D reconstruction practical for B2B use cases.

It's interesting, because I personally see the idea of commercializing academic research to be well-intentioned, but a bit more difficult than it sounds.

Some more thoughts from a previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20753553
If I’ve understood it right, looking at the homepage and the FAQ, Notion is tied to its own cloud service for storing information, and there’s no way to use it as a standalone app storing data locally and sync information through an unrelated service on my own (using, say, Dropbox for example)? If yes, then this is not for me.
What about for non dot com domains, any advice?
Why not make this more direct-to-consumer with a more friendly UI? Versus just a demo.

From a product perspective, a lot of awesome viral feature possibilities with twitter integration + timestamps + clout on predicting their next moves/outcomes
Would dependency management really make much sense on Windows?

Under normal circumstances you share as little as possible. There isn’t a situation where an app needs “library X version Y or greater”.

Some runtimes etc is usually all that’s shared.
Isn't revenue one of the main if not the top metric that define "success" in a business?
+1 for keypass. The apps aren't quite as polished, but they do what I need, and I can store my encrypted password file in my Dropbox folder so that I've still got it if any single company in this small chain folds.
Joplin[0] supports code highlighting and TeX math. I assume you just need TeX for equations, not for the whole document. It's also open source, and works with several different sync back-ends. I've been using it for some time and am very happy with it so far.

0 - https://joplinapp.org/
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Does Notion have access to the content of my notes if they're compelled to produce them?

Do employees have access to the content of my notes?
The website uses SVGs for animation instead of the canvas2d API, I'm fairly certain that's the cause.

(honestly I love SVGs for static images or at most one or two animations when used on a web-page, but if you're not using canvas2d or even webgl with a thin shim for anything more complex than that, mobile users will suffer)
You are not the target. Who do you think clicks on "10 hot girls want to see you NOW! click here!" or "Item you bought 6 month ago is now at a 50% sale!"

I know some of the people who are the target. People who would buy 3 lifetime supplies of coffee because of a 20% sale. People who can't pass something framed as an exceptional offer. And of course, they are in debts.

Fuck advertisement. It is preying on vulnerable people, it is making markets less efficient (by distorting information and urging consumers to not act rationally). Forbid this scam. Fund internet service in a saner way.
It's interesting how people here are happy to criticise "chyna" when facebook is really the same thing with a corporate logo and a backdoor. The difference is china has a frontdoor. Facebook also runs in your phone with spyware.
Are they doing any form of caching (think CDN) to battle link rot?
Certainly is, though slowly but surely you zero in on the "best configuration" for yourself. Whereas when I was using vscode, onenote, google keep, and a bunch of other shit to manage everything, I had "topped out" at productivity.

I'm trash at vim (I use evil-mode), org mode, and org-agenda, but I'm still lightyears ahead of where I was 2 years ago before I used these tools.
Is never getting a newer version of gcc or llvm as default sustainable so long as developers can install a new version for their own use?

What happens in 2030 or 2040?
Once upon a time, Slack was actually really solid and I happily used it. It.. was quite some time ago.

And sure, obviously NYT is more complex than throwing textfiles at users.. but do you really need to be running A/B tests for acquisition and have such a complicated pipeline to buying a subscription? Do you need dozens of analytics suites? Data is useful, but only to an upper bound of what you can meaningfully analyze.
Extend, embrace, extinguish.

Is this the embrace phase?
Yes they do. Read the T&C.
It's the 1407 Console Inquiry Station, pictured and described on p. 29 here:

IBM 1401 System Summary, Sept 1964.
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/1401/A24-1401-1_1...
Instagram shop charges 5%+ transaction fees... (more if the product is priced below $8) is this going to be the same pricing model?

Because if so it's a non-starter for myself and anyone comfortable with the stripe api and/or shopify at least.
The main source of revenue for FB is advertising. They are able to offer Facebook Shops at a loss to get the market share. Many small businesses are mainly present online as a shop on a platform and a FB page. This is bad news for Etsy.
Its amazing the first thing people assume here is that she's lying. Why would she lie? What does she gain?
Challenging your child to learn tech so they can more effectively lie to you seems extremely unhealthy.
I understand your sentiment. This is a game made in jest. It's not perfect and it has limitations. The purpose is to have fun, not replace careful analysis of our political leadership. But, I do think it can aid that endeavor.

McConnell is at the top of the leader board because he is Senate Majority Leader and that requires him to be very active on the Senate floor. His job is not only to represent the interest of his constituents, but to do right by his party, and also set the daily agenda for the Senate and run the floor proceedings (more info: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing...).

Regarding your sentiment against the use of gamification: I agree with you that we should measure our political leaders by their ability to serve the interests of their constituents, and the things they are doing to make the city/state/country better. But if you're not paying attention, that's hard to do. Things change so fast, people employ strategies to hide the true nature of their actions, discourse around politics often feels toxic and there's a million different news sources saying contradictory things, not to mention literal fake news that spreads like wild fire. Gamification is a way to intrinsically motivate people to pay attention. Because with out a little push, most people won't. Additionally, I'm only using primary sources (data.gov and the GPO's api) as a means to cut through the noise.

It's definitely a work in progress. And you might still disagree with me about any benefits, which is fine. I've had a few teachers use in the classroom though and they said it made a big impact on their students.
Did you read the article?

The customer had set `net.core.rmem_default = 2147483647` on purpose. Which exposed a Kernel bug. The whole herd would be having the same issue.
What's wrong with

Start-Process -FilePath "powershell" -Verb RunAs
Out of curiosity, has doing this disrupted your web browsing experience in any way? I'd like to do this but I'm kind of afraid of alienating 75% of the web that relies on the FB JS SDK for something (I'm not really sure if this is the case, but it might be?)

EDIT: thanks for the responses. Will block at DNS :)
Agreed, especially what I often see from search engines related to health and fitness. Many blogs with short, descriptive domain names, that are completely over-optimizing in SEO, changing publish dates of articles and offering bad UX in general (invasive ads, popups, trackers, ...)
What Linux distro do you use that it doesn't have Python on it?
I don't think section 230 would be able to establish absolute immunity from liability that does not originate from moderation activity. If that were the case, it would be gamed to Hell and back with disparate legal entities and straw-man corporations, such that the immunized entity would book all the revenue, and the liability-exposed entities would be rendered judgment-proof.

If Google takes 30% of revenues from all apps on the play store, should it not assume 30% of product liability for the content found therein? It seems like a common sense rule, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is anywhere in law, or that civil courts apply it.

If you put up a paywall on your forum, and it is a platform for libel, you damned well should be liable, at minimum to the extent to which you profited from the wrongful behavior, and possibly lessened by the extent to which any libel is usually moderated away.

If the moderation in place is so strict that it is producing significant false positives, why should the false negatives be protected? Having both is a symptom of sloppy, insufficiently earnest moderation.

I would assume from the actions of Twitter that they implicitly endorse content from people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and I would assume from Facebook that they implicitly endorse misinformation campaigns. They are making money on their failure to moderate to their own published standards. Should that be legally protected? Section 230 presumably makes no exception for lazy, insufficient moderation.
Walmart has stores everywhere but the North & South Poles. There's a reason they employ over 2.3 million people.
I dunno, I prefer to call it too practical. Lets just do terrestrial programming.

Something like this?

@keyframes ball{
0%{ left:50px; top:100px;width:0px; height:0px }
10%{ left:50px; top:90px; width:20px; height:20px }
20%{ left:50px; top:90px; width:20px; height:20px }
30%{ left:300px;top:50px; width:100px;height:100px}
50%{ left:300px;top:50px; width:100px;height:100px}
60%{ left:200px;top:50px; width:100px;height:100px}
90%{ left:250px;top:100px;width:0px; height:0px }
100%{left:50px; top:100px;width:0px; height:0px }
}

https://jsfiddle.net/gaby_de_wilde/eoj875qr/
If my dog or friend or family member would die, I'd be unhappy. Understanding that death is natural wouldn't do much to that unhappiness. Maybe someday I'd get over it, or maybe not, but either way, it wouldn't be because I gained some deeper understanding of life and death.

> it doesn't make you unhappy if a wild animal attacks you when go into its cage

Maybe we have different definitions of unhappiness at play here, because being attacked by an animal would definitely make me unhappy. I mean at the moment it would mostly make me fear for my life, but afterward when dealing with the damages I got, I think I would be quite unhappy, and understanding that really I'm the one to blame wouldn't help. It could make me more unhappy, leaving me kicking myself for doing something so stupid.

I wouldn't blame the animal if that's what you mean, but that's different from happiness/unhappiness.

> are you upset because you can't fly like a bird

I think that's more because my hopes and dreams are shaped by the environment that I've grown up in and, living amongst other humans that can't fly like a bird, the possibility of doing that has never occurred to me, at least not for seriously enough to become an issue of happiness.

Had I been a born an elephant with huge ears that all my so-called elephant friends would torment me for... yeah it would make me pretty unhappy if those ears wouldn't at least give me the ability to fly.
I dislike Facebook, but this is a really smart way to grab a market share. Most businesses need minimal online presence so FB front is sufficient.

I won't see those businesses, but I know I am a minority, when it comes to this.
Peter Coffee, VP Strategic Research at Salesforce, on Names, Domains and the IoT