skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that Google is making money through use of my personal data. I wish they would be required boldly state on every page that my personal data is being used, and that they are profiting from it. Finally, there should be some steps offered to remedy some of the above such as requesting that parts of the data that would be convenient for me to have deleted would be deleted. And the parts that are inconvenient such as my ability to login to sites I commonly visit could be preserved since that minimum requirements are met so I can easily access those sites.

And while I have no big conspiracy theories at the moment about how Google is doing anything evil, there is certainly no guarantee that something in the future could impact me. For example there could be some bad players working inside Google, Google could be acquired, or the government could take control in some way. these are all things that could be dangerous to me in the future if Google continues to preserve large amounts of my personal information.
By extremely weird, I'm guessing you mean lacking in detail. The tiny sensors can't resolve as much detail so cropping with phone pictures will hit a wall much faster than, say, a 24MP APS-C sensor. The trade-off here is that you can't really shove a Sony A5100 with its lens on into a pants pocket like you easily can with any smartphone. I've pulled out a phone and taken once-in-a-lifetime pictures within 3 seconds -- good luck doing it with a packed-away bigger camera.

This is part of why you see so many wide angle and macro shots these days: they're the ideal scenarios for phone pictures. Phone sensors are finally starting to creep up in size from the common 1/2.55" sensors. I suspect should they reach the 1" size, the resolution of detail will dramatically improve. It looks like the S20 Ultra has a 1/1.33" already, but I haven't tried it myself.
That has not worked, capital has moved elsewhere to low tax domiciles.
Meanwhile, I'm pretty happy with the laptop I bought from system76 and am eagerly waiting for the one they're building themselves. I was assigned a mac for my most recent job and I barely touch it.

Many people are mentioning wsl in the comments and not only that really doesn't make up for all of windows's shortcomings, I still think it's a new first step in MS's traditional EEE ("look, developers! You don't need to use linux anymore, you can run your setup directly from windows now!"). Not coincidentally, wsl2 seems like a slow move into the "extend" step.

I don't think they'll ever manage to extinguish Linux, but it certainly won't be thanks to the developers who are doing microsoft's job of pretending that wsl is the ideal and giving it free publicity. If one needs Linux tools that much, one should just use it.
I agree wholeheartedly, the tradition of copyright maximization has its origins in capitalism and value extraction, as such it follows the siege of global capitalism as that is where the interests in the commodification and extraction of value from intellectual property originates from. So it naturally began in Europe, then in the US, and maybe shortly in China? We will see.
I think the debatable point here is that the lawsuit implies that the problem is that Google is not integrating analytics and Chrome enough. Analytics works in a certain way, and chrome works in another. The expectation that because both products belong to Google, they should treat each other in a special manner (i.e. Site-side Analytics should be behaving differently when encountering a chrome browser) is pretty iffy.
I think there are benefits but they don't justify the costs and the associated disadvantages.
Ivan Illich said that the faster we can go, the further away things get.For example if we all have cars we will prepare the environment for this reality and instead of having stores close to home we will have a big shopping center miles away.
I think the same can happen with information technology.

I'm not really familiar with 5G technology, but I have an idea that the stations had less range than 4G although they are faster. If that were the case maybe there would be other better ways to give good network to the rural environment
> Using private browsing mode is a very clear indication the the user does not want to give them that permission.

How? Incognito is meant to keep your history clear from other people who use the computer. It explicitly does nothing about websites tracking your activity.
What has it settled to? Html, css and JavaScript?

Btw if you consider that, there are wars over which JavaScript framework.
Behind the Scenes – Mortal Kombat 3 [Rare Footage]
In my experience the couple times I've had a touchscreen glitch, the watchdog will activate and reboot it after a bit. It's not very aggressive, though, for sure, it can take a minute or so.

> It’s not great because you lose lots of feedback. No speedometer, no sound from turn signals, etc. But it does work.

Yep, this is very true. You are driving blind, as it were, because the touchscreen is the dash. Fortunately it doesn't take long to reboot, but it is still much less than ideal.
The ones I'm thinking of were were in "boring" places like large power companies, and back-end systems for telecom. The stories we heard, which are hard to grok now but make sense if you think back to mid-90's hardware, where of multi-day build and test runs causing projects to grind to near halts. Fertile, but painful, soil for the idea of "Refactoring" to take root in.
I’m honestly pretty pissed off with the Democrats picking a candidate that’s not pro legalization.

The one alternative we have to the republicans is just doing the same crap.
Military planes - Super Hornet, for example - have been using touch screens (UFC, in this case, the thing just below HUD) for over two decades now, and they seem fine with it, and newer ones use it even more. They don't seem to cause any problems.

Granted, stuff that's absolutely critical - like gear or the arm switch - is still mechanical, but UFC is still pretty mission critical, controlling eg IFF, autopilot, or radios.
It is because tech people think of tech solutions. Just as this whole pandemic was handled in the countries by virologists - who think in terms of viruses.

Reading about the app I remembered the book of Hans Rosling ("Factfulness") where he describes a situation in Africa during an Ebola outbreak. He wrote: There where people with apps everywhere. The apps were the hammers looking for nails. However, it just consumed resources and shadowed the fact that numbers reported were just messy and the epidemic was over 14 days ago. In the end they had to do data cleaning and they managed _Ebola_ without an app.

I think this app will make people become accustomed to getting traced for $reason.
How to reevaluate your front end architecture
I feel your point here is important. Facebook has a lot of power. To the point where I feel they owe the public more than they would if they were a small entity with a narrow reach.

There are two principles here: 1) it's a problem if you have enough power to force the weak to cover the expenses of your failures and 2) if you have a lot of power you also have the ability to defend yourself from assholes and malicious actors.

So, for point 1, if facebook decides that they want to dump trash into residential areas, they could silence everyone on facebook who complains. They could also call up their friends at twitter et al and convince them to do the same in exchange for whatever massive corporations like these days. Because of this possibility, I want facebook's freedom to curtail freedom of speech on their private platform to be extremely limited.

For point 2, if facebook becomes inundated with assholes or (heaven forbid) malicious trolls who make relentless fun of the font that facebook uses for posts and every post that everyone sees is just complaints about fonts, then facebook has the capability to create a special asshole facebook website and marketing campaign to convince the assholes to go somewhere else. They have the ability to switch out the font. They can fund research into powerful AI techniques that can group all the font complaints together so that only people who want to see that crap will see that and everyone else can have a good experience. Because of facebook's ability to deal with malicious (or social incompetence that is indistinguishable from) behavior, I want facebook's freedom to curtail freedom of speech on their private platform to be extremely limited.

On the other hand, if we're talking about an individual (or otherwise small and powerless organization) running a personal blog (or your living room), they have extremely limited ability to force other people to deal with their platform. And they also have extremely limited ability to deal with malicious behavior if they didn't otherwise have the right to curtail freedom of speech. In these cases, I want them to have greater rights because the likelihood of them being able to use these rights to oppress others is minimal AND their necessity of them needing them to defend themselves is greater.
i was aware of ats before creating zig
Qt requires a commercial license in this use case. Why bother if Chromium is free and it works?
NASA's software teams are also remarkably small, and manage to produce code with one of the lowest defect rates of all time. (Space shuttle code had 0 defects in 500k SLOC!)

Just goes to show: quality over quantity!
Sanction violation - whose sanctions and why? This is a sign of decreasing US power and the desperate attempts to keep things from changing.
That the others are behaving badly as well does not excuse Googles behaviour.
Most of the societal or political problems of the world are a medical problem: how do you treat IQ deficiency. You solve that, you revolutionize politics, ethics, demographics, etc.
Especially now with the US economy in the toilet and unemployment numbers at astronomical levels. No mass exodus is going to happen unless people can easily move into another job.
Yes. The buttons on the touch interface don't change positions either, but I understand your point.

Anecdotally, I've been driving a Model 3 for two years now and I have zero problems with the touch interface.
Specifically I am praising pre-print servers in the current crisis, not in general. I don't propose they can replace journals wholesale in the near future.

The harm done by bad research in the Lancet is colossal because the results are widely read and disseminated, that is obvious isn't it? Pre-print servers are still quite obscure. Anyway, arxiv has been running for a long time with much success in certain fields, and hasn't been overwhelmed with nonsense, so your characterisation of pre-print servers is poorly calibrated and hyperbolic.

Also the Lancet charges money for its products, and can therefore expect to be held to greater account.
Awesome!

Yeah Chrome is what I use, but the browser extension API is fairly standard these days, so it's relatively easy to make it cross-browser.
To re-quote the adage about the automobile replacing the horse-and-buggy - the workers today (especially those lower/ more automatable skills) are what the horses were then.
The arrangement may sound off occasionally (great conductors like Mahler or Mendelssohn couldn’t always get their orchestration right the first time either), but the music itself certainly didn’t suffer. Yes, late Beethoven is often just weird, but not in any amateurish way.
Interesting analysis, but IMO using Europe as an example makes it fundamentally flawed.

Immigration dynamics within Europe are way too peculiar and can't be extrapolated to a global level. And immigration (visa/bureaucratic hassles mainly) is probably the #1 fact that needs to be considered when analyzing the payment gap problem.
It’s not new. Schneier has been saying this for a long time.
Like healthcare? Privacy? Freedom from enslavement? Right to trial by a court of peers? A level footing between apenniless person and a billionaire? Crumbling infrastructure? Toxic water and food? Freedom from persecution?

We've been moving slow and pulling up the ladders behind us for hundreds of years. Things only trickle down when there's profit. That needs to change. These protests are exposing that game.
"Tax “fairness” is therefore simple. He who earns the most should pay the most." - I don't like the idea of tax fairness as what is fair to you may not be fair to other person. I would only concur with your second statement on the absolute value (numbers) and not on percentage basis.
Ah the bandwidth isn't something I'd considered. That's a good point. Unfortunately for me the KCERS Seattle site's total bandwidth is about 6.5 mhz. I have a RTL-SDR and a SDRPlay but it seems like the only thing that can talk to the SDRPlay is their own software.

https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=604
> I doubt there's one single fact that all 8 billion of us would agree on.

So, we should cater to the lowest common denominator of human intelligence/education? Sorry but no. That's both illogical and impractical.

> Let's try moving our focus of value away from the contents of peoples' beliefs and toward the knowledge that people sincerely believe them and we value the people[...] it seems like browbeating everyone until they agree with us hasn't been working out too well [...]

One can be tactful and understanding without compromising truth. The definition of words matter. You can't tell people their alternate views are "facts" or "truths" just because they believe them. As (I think) we've agreed, strong evidence is required before we can describe an idea as anything approaching truth.

> A person's sincere belief in something is what that makes that thing true.

and

> the only thing that makes something factual is when enough people share the same opinion about it.

Attempting to bend the meaning of the words "truth" and "fact" to include "opinion" is an extraordinarily dangerous idea. The end result can only be an Orwellian nightmare where nothing, and everything, is true. I don't want to live in that world.

>It's hard to have a conversation with someone who is telling you you're being insincere,

You seemed insincere because you were exclusively responding with drive by, single sentence comments whose only goal was to disingenuously poke a hole in the previous comment via circular reasoning. You weren't presenting an actual coherent argument (until now).

I think your approach is great. Let's be more empathetic and understanding. Let's educate people about objective reasoning and evidence-based approaches. But, let's do it without compromising truth.
And now the DEA has been mobilized against citizens to quell protests and criminalize dissent. The DEA is now the Gestapo.
It’s a fascinating thing to realize that policymakers consider zero unemployment to be too low. The economy is built on the idea that some people at the bottom will be desperate enough to keep minimum wages low.
The Crew Displays do not use Knockout.js. As far as I am aware this is possibly used in some other asset management software developed in-house for manufacturing teams but definitely not onboard Dragon.
That's a very lazy assessment of this situation with so many logical fallacies, while also demonstrating a callous disregard for other people.
Learning from Failures: Better Crash Reporting for Better Incidence Response
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Sega Is Releasing a Game Gear Micro
It also removed the IE thing which showed icons or some stuff like that... Wait, that was in 98.
Curiosity (stupidity?) got the better of me and I ended up awake until 2am fixing this last night on my Pixel 3a.

I was fortunate enough to have developer mode & USB debugging enabled, which allowed me to install some code to clear the wallpaper using the WallpaperManager [0].

Sadly it wasn't as simple as pushing the code to the phone and running a command to execute it. When the device boots, it would crash _almost_ instantly and reboot into recovery mode after attempting to show the wallpaper a few times. This meant I couldn't put my passcode in, which meant Android refused to run the application I made to clear the wallpaper.

The ADB (Android Debug Bridge) tool [1] lets you replicate user input for the connected device, so you can basically swipe the screen / enter keys from the command line. I was able to use ADB to swipe up on the lock screen and enter my passcode. This was a start but wasn't enough, as the crash was happening before the wallpaper deleting app could be started.

I figured the unlock process was taking too much time, and found out after Android 8 (Oreo) you can actually use ADB to change or remove your passcode [2], provided you know your existing passcode. After I removed my passcode I was able to reboot the device, and run a single ADB command to swipe up on the screen and delete that cursed wallpaper.

And no it wasn't worth it, but I enjoyed the challenge

[0]. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Wallpape...

[1]. https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb

[2]. https://android.stackexchange.com/a/194779
How is "edge of Maxwell's Demon" related to "edge of chaos"?

Re: flops. I understand brute force is a good way to simulate dynamics but we constantly solve hard problems by approximation and have gotten pretty far with that approach. So what approximations have been tried and why have they been considered failures?

Also https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1268111230020...:
> "Scientists created fully functional mini-livers out of human skin cells, then successfully transplanted them into rats. The research is a proof-of-concept for potentially revolutionary technology and provides a glimpse of an organ donor-free future." Wow!

That's unrelated to the original points but I see plenty of innovative approaches to problems in biology. Simulating cells is just one way to figure them out and we don't need to figure them out completely through computational means to put them to good uses. Biology is already computronium and if we can understand how to "program" then we don't need to simulate everything.
Not every website controls: the browser, analytics service across large part of the web, and sometimes the OS (Android/ChromeOS)
They'll be dancing in the streets of Redmond tonight!
If you need to get to a hospital they all slow you down, doesn't matter how planned the event is.
Healthcare pros are minimally trained in research paper interpretation and are almost all unable to perform the most basic statistical or critical review work.

So yes, I'd argue that brand names are a big problem. You just have to see how proud people are when they are accepted in one of the major publication venues, and the prestige that results.

I think you are not being objective.
> The two sides are massively unequal in terms of power

This is certainly not true except on an individual scale.

> the onus is on the police to stop the violence.

The onus is on every individual. On each side.
Yes, this is absolutely true, I was just lightly teasing the use of “criminal” as a moral thing.
Have you seen their vacuums?
“We strongly dispute these claims and we will defend ourselves vigorously against them,” Castaneda said in an email.

I wonder what it is they actually dispute, when the claims are so basic? Most popular websites use GA, so of course Google is watching every single user action across the Internet, regardless of if they have tried to 'opt out' via any methods, laws, processed, etc.
Honestly I’d still take it, why not both?
Ask HN: What are the cheapest hosting provider?
I am learning web development, and building a web app using Flask. What are the cheapest options available to host web apps online for practice purpose?
That every other website in existence is behaving "badly?" Do you think Chrome should tell the website that the user is browsing in incognito mode so that websites will treat them differently? For example, a paywall website with a free article limit would simply not show content to users saying they are in incognito mode.

Enabling incognito mode in Chrome and Firefox even explains that it doesn't stop server-side tracking, so it's not even misleading.
I fail to see this in High Tech Companies, let's take FANG for example, by various measure we can call these monopolies, now if you look at their worker's earning, they earn by far the highest in the industry for same type of job. So that seems to have failed the premise of this argument "Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power:"
Agreed but tax evasion is not the only crime associated with black markets (especially the drug trade)
> Prosecutors have a constitutional obligation to disclose information to defendants that could help establish their innocence. But there’s a big debate in criminal justice circles about when police misconduct allegations in unrelated cases fall under that requirement.

Why is this debated? If there is convincing evidence that an officer committed perjury or fabricated evidence, isn't there reasonable doubt about anything else they've done?
What do you suggest then?
I think disease-carrying species live together with non-disease-carrying species, which, if correct, would mean an ecological impact of effectively zero.

We humans have a long, long "tradition" of exterminating species and we know it will not affect things that really matter to us, like agriculture and water. The number of human deaths will be effectively zero.
I like Scaleway.
Well, yeah. "Brick", as in a paperweight, as in it's dead for good, forever. It's in the word.
Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin. They both represent the elite class, and do not care about these issues. They've had decades to do something about it, and instead gave themselves raises and made it harder for anyone to change anything.

Edit: It's funny because I actually applied to YC to build a company that would try and fix this. Naturally they didn't even offer to interview me. YC doesn't care about fixing a system that helped get them where they are, either.
That's not how your spell "Sweden"
Programmers make a /lot/ of money. Spending this money effectively and increasing the pool of money that is spent is probably the most impactful way a programmer can support a cause. I am sure the linked resources are fantastic, but for my dollars I will be directing them towards political campaigns. Obama recently posted something talking about ensuring a focus on influencing change at all levels of government, not forgetting about local and state/provincial governments. A solid addition to this list of resources might be ways of donating to political campaigns that can flip a seat. A lot of major tech companies are donating thousands of dollars to undeserving campaigns. Programmers in these companies can influence where that money does or doesn't end up.

We as programmers are quite good at assessing prior art as well. If we take cues from protests in Hong Kong, it has been widely reported that the HKmap.live mapping app that Apple banned has been a major resource for protesters in those areas. There is probably room for a similar appllication? To add an additional anecdote, the "This American Life" Podcast "684: Burn It Down" seems to me to be a relevant story. It details the story of a corrupt fire deparment, and how an attempt at organizational change (cultue/values/operations) was effected. Long story short, it didn't work! To me, the "why?" behind the relative failure is interesting. The leader who was attempting to remove corruption and corrupt and sexist firemen was was outsted by a shift in the political climate. He had support from the mayor of the city, but after the mayor lost in an election, the chief lost his job and any progress he made was reverted.
Years later. What later became Google was initially prototyped in Java and Python.