skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>When did this happen? Why? Did people lose interest in actual news? Is there less actual news to report?

Social media happened.

People have been made to think that they have got what they needed from a news article from just the title, image, summary as the next shiny news article was just waiting below to scroll.

News media are under tremendous pressure to entertain the few who actually clicked the article and is reading it.

World over only those news media which started out as traditional newspaper have some journalism integrity left and are serving news as it is. They are paying for that by going bankrupt, getting sued, journalists getting murdered etc.

More over people are getting news only from those sources which gives the news 'they like', rather than going to source which reports factual news.
Remind me not to consider purchasing a BMW (especially used!)

Are there any other luxury brands that nickel and dime like this?
You are using “very conservative racists” and “differential racism” to explain something which is better explained by historical relationships and obligations. No such relationships or obligations exist with Syria or most of North Africa.

No country can invite everyone to immigrate. They have to be selective, and that doesn’t make them racist. No one has the right to immigrate to another country: it’s a privilege granted by the government and people of that country who make decisions about who to accept according to their own interests and perceived obligations - again, not racism.
> I think the only counter argument is to demonstrate how close many of our western democracies are to becoming fascist dictatorships.

What bizarro alternate reality do you live in where this is the case?
DuckDuckGo Unreachable in India, Apparently Blocked by ISPs
It's the official terminology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Backward_Class

It's not considered derogatory in India.
What's DDG core product?
They’re giving parents who don’t send their kids to public school a tax credit.

This prohibits discriminating against parents for how they want to raise their children.
> The fighter pilot needs to be focused on fighting the enemy, not managing the hardware.

And in contrast to a civilian airliner, when shit hits the fan, the pilot can eject....
Let your customer manage the deal
LOMAC, Lock On: Modern Air Combat, is great for the F-15. That plane is easier as fuck to fly and once you learn how to use the weapons system it is a beast. I found it easier than doing WWII planes because while there is more to learn for weapon systems, once you do it is simple and easy as pie.
I think you're right. I am thinking of old TVs which I remember using a single remote with all functions in it. Moreover, I was responding to the specific argument about 5 vs 50 buttons to do 5 vs 50 things.

> You can't have physical buttons for all this stuff. It just doesn't scale.

Definitely. Like in the F-15 video, the controls near the elbows were rarely used (essentially "hiding" them out of sight). So may be a good compromise is pick 50 most used features, create buttons for those and then leave the rest of the 150 features in the menu system.

I haven't used a modern TV in over 10 years, I hope the remotes still have decent number of buttons.

[1] car appears to do everything right. [2] is worse because it feels like what you see is just the tip of the ice-berg. [3] had to be like that because there was nothing more to be done. It didn't need more controls.

Unrelated: A turn signal stalk is a brilliantly designed UI control. If famous designers we know - say Jony Ive - and if they don't know what a car is and you ask them to design a dashboard, not in a million chance that they would come up with a dangling stick behind the steering wheel that translates LEFT/RIGHT signal > DOWN/UP stalk movement > ANTI-CLOCKWISE/CLOCKWISE steering movement. It is totally genius and not obvious at all unless you've seen a steering wheel and a turn signal stalk before.
> I'd absolutely guess that, in a pinch, you could charge your modern iPhone with a non-working cable if you did the same procedure

Or you charge it wirelessly (Qi charging).
Higher speed makes all road behaviours riskier. I'm also from the Kangaroo states and while I know of not a single person who likes getting a speed fine I think the vast majority agree that having some speed limits makes things safer.

Australia doesn't have the same cultural views as America with regard to freedom. We have high taxes, virtually no guns, heavily enforced traffic policing, etc. On the Wikipedia page for road death per 100000 population Australia is about 5 compared to the US at 12. A large number of Americans seem to be culturally ok with this as long as the government doesn't interfere with their life. Hacker News has an international audience and you often see the different value systems at play in the comments.
To all the people who doubt that TikTok is Chinese government spyware
Unscientific. The best facial recognition is accurate 98%-99.9% of the time. There are minor known problems with blacks (~2% worse), bad lighting, bad cameras, but big problems with small databases to compare against. There are yearly vendor tests and challenges.
E.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_Recognition_Grand_Challen...
Latest winners are all in the 99.9% ballpark, not 4%.

If the Detroit police has no faces to compare against and the image quality is crap, it's certain that their success rate cannot be much better than 10%.
Good for them! If the police don’t charge you with anything and you pose no threat to others, why should they release the mug shot? The old policy was basically legalized libel.
> I've tried every Android editor and IDE and it's like going back 20 years.

Yet you are trying to go back 50 years instead.

> No market opportunity because the OS is locked down making all this impossible.

No it isn't, you just have to free yourself from POSIX chains and embrace Android APIs and architecture models.
> It's a good reminder to get your software from trustworthy sources, like developers whose code is "signed" by Apple to prove its legitimacy, or from Apple's App Store itself.

Just because an application is signed with a developer ID is little guarantee that it’s trustworthy. And stuff from the App Store won’t hold your Mac up for ransom, but fairly concerning software has slipped past review.
Artificial Intelligence – 1 Effective Human Intelligence Technology
I can't read that one, but I did read a few newspaper articles on the topic and it sounds like there is a lot of debate around the issue. I can imagine its almost impossible to take into consideration all various factors like road conditions, and local cultural issues, and quality of cars and everything. I'd also like to know how much the spend building and maintaining the unrestricted stretches of road, I would imagine you don't want to hit a pothole at 180km/h

But my personal view is that sacrificing safety so people can get from A to B a little faster is not worth it, and perhaps it's not clear whether or not speed is a big factor, but why risk it? Whats the rush?
Reason enough that they should be illegal or at least strictly and specifically opt in, not as part of general marketing consent.

If a customer really wants or needs something they’ll go back and buy it. The world doesn’t need the excess consumption of people psychologically manipulated into buying stuff they weren’t going to.
No, their own crawler is just used for Instant Answers and other widgets.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

> We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

So basically it's all Bing and I see no effort to reduce that dependency as you claim.
That's just pure muscle memory. I personally dislike the chrome tools.
> We had already had created this anonymous favicon service for our private search engine.

Which presumably means you've already created the logic for determining favicons. I'm not sure why this couldn't be implemented in the browser.
Why believe any model?

Just act completely random.

Don't wake up, and go to your job, under the assumption that you will get paid.

Don't avoid jumping down a 15 stories building under the assumption that you will die.

Don't breathe. Your model is biased towards breathing.
And the low market penetration outside the US school system proves how much consumers actually care about it.
Because D is effectively dead/has lost its momentum completely?

If you look at the development surrounding D, the stdlib got its allocator module around 5 years back IIRC in experimental. It is still not stable. Same for many other modules. Due to lack of resources not much work is being poured into the stdlib. Same for developer tooling, some people have created ide tools and stuff, however they are not AST based and so most of the things that should work don't work.
Yet, instead of pouring resources into these issues, the resources are poured into developing 3 compilers dmd, gcc based d, and llvm based d.

Also, the readability issue posted by the op are subjective. To me, and many others, Nim is much much more readable and elegant than C/D/C++/Rust.

Also regarding OP's
>Many advertised features have been present in D for a long time.

Nim has macros and many features are based on or around macros, whereas D will never get macros. IIRC D uses reflection based stuff?

> I seriously doubt that Nim or any other language in this regard has better metaprogramming than D.

Well, you are wrong (Unless you like reflection more than macros). Nim, haxe, etc. languages have very powerful AST based macros.
Product description (play store):

"Tired of being tracked online? We can help."

And then they track you.

Yes, that might not be intentional and is used "just" for the favicon, yes they might not use the info on the domains you visit for tracking you today, but the data is there.

Why not use that data tomorow "just" to see what kinds of pages their customers (browser users) are visiting so they can better place their ads.. and then maybe some other idea.. this is a path that many such companies went ("don't be evil").

You either respect the user privacy or you don't - there is no middle "just for this little feature" ground
In gravitational wave detectors.

Heard of the Casimir effect? Two plates can experience a force from vacuum fluctuations.
No, but even back in 1996 you didn't have to use the URL to store the state of a user's game. They could have used a cookie (supported in Mosaic since around 1994), or used a server-side session (I think was cgi::session a thing back then). That was a technical decision someone made. Those sorts of choices when you're speccing a web app haven't changed.

These days it would be a bit unusual to use routing to store the game state admittedly but that's why it's good to have older devs like 43-year-old me on the team. I actually think about these sorts of details rather than using the defaults.

It's also worth noting that storing the state in the URL shouldn't be the default. Being able to see the state by reading the address bar would be a security issue for most apps.
How Blockchain Technology Is Beneficial for Mobile App Development?
The main segments of the industry are now leveraging Blockchain Technology for healthcare, automotive, to finance; why should the mobile app development market fall behind?
This is a bit of an unorthodox take, but I think there are actually no schools or institutions more broadly that are truly "a-religious".

After reflection on my own experience going through the public school system, I've realized that the absence of the prototypical religion in public schools did not by any means remove "proselytizing and indoctrination". Instead, a sort of undefined religion has emerged, that we'll likely only be able to encapsulate in the rear-view mirror of history.

The most obvious form of proselytization, to me, was the constant preaching about college. While a rabbit-hole on its own, college attendance has not been leading to good outcomes for many of its attendees in recent times, and seems to have been an unquestionable tenet.

Simply put, secular public schools are not devoid of proselytizing and indoctrination. Why withhold taxpayers the option to choose their preferred form of indoctrination for their kids?
Unity was approachable in its early days. Now it’s a mess , not to say that there aren’t many fantastic games produced using it, but anyone coming to it now is going to find it very hard to get a foothold. Having had a good experience with it when it first started making waves I installed it for a family member recently and found the whole process excruciating, none of the tutorials seem to work out the box and there’s a lot of specialised vocabulary you need to know before you can make use of the tools. It seems like Unity is competing with Unreal now rather than going for the market vacated by Flash.
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Check out "Captain Fantastic" with Viggo Mortensen. A pretty good road movie where he uses an old school bus as a motor home for his hippy family.
Man bites dog
Out of airplane mode or not?
If yes: yeah why not, perhaps your mobile network was able to get something in or you catched a wifi short term.

If no: i would say no. But if you get an alert popup, it can be mechanism like mobile sending generic alerts for tornado and stuff
Google Changes App Refund Policy, Adds the Voided Purchases API
11ty is a great little static site generator. I just started playing with it. Fun to use and seems to have a lot of power behind it's apparent simplicity.
Pythagoras Was Right about Fava Beans, but They Killed Him Anyway
Appropriately posted on arXiv
There is a perception that D has shot its bolt, having been around for quite some time without making a noticeable impact, either by itself or by influencing the mainstream.
The matter of course to include telemetry eludes me. I think this criticism is correct and should even be expanded. I never looked into Julia, only R a bit and they have mutual interfaces. These discussion don't sell me the language at all.
Can those people actually make a living wage from it, or are they "entrepreneurs" like all those Instagram "influenzas"?
Ask.Moe also support bangs (I know !g and !gt works, not sure about scholar). Searx doesn’t but I imagine they’d gladly accept a pull request for it.
Hey now. Don’t be sexist and forget to mention the Ken’s.
Yes. Also i think you're right there. Everyone's moving out from the more central areas to houses in the suburbs.
I don't think it's fair to say this comment is 'wrecking DDG's carefully built up reputation'. If what he describes is damaging their reputation to you, that's on the business, not on the commenter. If anything, the commenter seems to have been honest and straightforward with what's going on.

Sounds like you'd prefer him to have run a message past management/public relations first?
>> The Arabic language is one of the most important language among all Muslim countries due to the Quran and Islam.

Is there anybody quality checking anything on the app store? That’s literally embarrassing copy to put anywhere, and it’s not because of language skills.

Also doubtful written by an Arab speaker.

Also, comments are totally manufactured spam judging by their content.

Also, names in user reviews are clearly randomly generated.

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Teddy Harmison June 24, 2020

Arabic keyboard application have excellent features and characters. I like to use this application because this application have amazing results and graphics.

James Stewart June 30, 2020
Arabic keyboard very good application with interesting features really got good experience by using this application I like this application very much.

Glenn Maxwell June 22, 2020

Arabic keyboard is a so wonderful keyboard for all time it is easy to use and install i like its function and features all time great application

Zia Ur Rebmann June 23, 2020

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I agree. Sometimes it feels that companies throw any possible value out of the bus in order for the perfect UX.
Still no custom domains, so you don’t really own your audience or your content on Substack.
Very cool. It's pretty interesting to see the various failure modes. Some seem straightforward (e.g., the font is missing the glyphs) while others seem to be parsing limitations.

As an aside, this finally convinced me to explore using additional SSIDs in creative ways with emojis.
Nim still Mostly retains its pythonic nature (fun and readable) even when you do whatever’s needed for C/C++ level performance.

I think it’s exceptional in that it feels lightweight while delivering great performance, and it has no “glass ceiling” of any sort.

Rust and D have no ceiling either; but D feels like a better C++ and Rust feels like a court filing.

D is definitely under-appreciated if you prefer C feel to Python feel
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MIT's Tiny Images dataset removed
If this was implemented by the JPCSP guys it would be a nice counterpart against PPSSPP.
AND being so reluctant to remove this pinging mechanism adds more doubts about the real purpose.
Thanks for sharing this -- I love stories like these
Maybe I'm too old for this, but wasn't a favicon supposed to be located at "fancy.url/favicon.ico", or alternatively as a "<link rel="shortcut icon" \>"?

Curious to know why this is an issue.
You know, back in high school when I was learning HTML + JavaScript, I was really looking forward to creating websites that took "longer" to load[1]. Because I have associated that with complexity (understandable), and I associate complexity with coding professionally.

Now that I _am_ coding professionally, I just wish websites would load simple as this, with interfaces as simple as this. None of that fancy image preloading, or disappearing/reappearing navbars, or those sidebars that scrolled independently from the main page content.

Then again, what memories are those which time will not sweeten, right?

[1] Caveat: with the dial-up connections then, all it took were enough images for a site to load slow. So I wanted mine to take "longer"!
Let's just say opinions differ here. I'm very much not in love with the idea of everyone driving around in massive cars. They take up huge amounts of space, belch out pollution, and are much more likely to kill pedestrians and cyclists when involved in collisions.
Maybe I misunderstood something, but it seems to me their data demonstrate that less interesting papers that nobody bothered to download from SciHub tend to have fewer citations than more interesting ones that are downloaded? How does that support the conclusion “Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations” (emphasis mine)?

(Yes I read the paper and I’ve seen all the other factors they considered, but those factors simply aren’t as good predictors/indicators of interest as an organic download number from any channel, whether it’s ScienceDirect or SciHub.)

Edit: To be clear, papers in their supposedly "limited access" (if we want to draw the same conclusion) control group appear to be available on Sci-Hub, i.e. as open access as their Sci-Hub group. Details in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23710992
Depends on where do you read ;) But tbo D community concentrates around D forum and in majority consists of former C/C++ veterans. Being a younger language Nim lures younger and active members who probably never heard of D anyway.

Historically D never advertised itself enough imho and that is a shame. I blame the lack of proper leadership and management at the start. Its early development progress has been a rocky ride many languages would not survive at all but it did and for me personally it's a testament to its maturity and resilience newer languages still have to prove.
That's an elegant fix, but for a problem that wouldn't exist if the feature was properly designed. (IOW, designed as a local function.)
It seems like downloads from Sci-Hub and citations could have a common cause, for example, being interesting to scientists. If Sci-Hub downloads are a good proxy for interest and they happen first, then they could usefully be used to predict citations, without necessarily being a cause. Different people could be using SciHub versus making citations.

I couldn't tell from the paper whether they considered this, or what they think the cause graph looks like.
It would sell now like hot cakes. An interesting artefact
Are month-to-month rentals common in these areas? In my experience, renting an apartment in SF almost always required signing a 12-month lease.

In the case of a lease, you can’t just skip town for a few months to save money.
thanks for sharing mate, great to know what was going on behind the scenes during this time.
It’s the new printing press. Gutenberg’s printing press also caused massive social upheaval and without it, it is unlikely we would have seen the accelerated pace of scientific progress, the Reformation spread as quickly as it did, the decline of Latin, just to name a few things. It’s often forgotten, but freedom of the press in the 1st Amendment refers to actual printing presses because you used to be able to be prosecuted for what came out of your printers.

Some people liken Section 230 to being the First Amendment of the Internet, and they’re not far off. That doesn’t mean social media isn’t dangerous, but fire is dangerous. Print is still dangerous. Guns are dangerous. There’s a lot of dangerous things out there, so where do you want to draw the line? We’re not very good at dealing with social media as a society yet, but you don’t develop antibodies to this crap without first exposing yourself to it.
And wars, don't forget wars.
> Indian boomer generation

Off topic but this is something that grinds my gears.

India didn't have a post WW2 baby boom, there are no Indian boomers. Etymology aside, Boomer is used to signal generational privilege which also doesn't apply to India.
Yes, things have gotten a lot better. G1GC is the default now and we have free options like ZGC and ShenandoahGC for low latency options. Of course there are the IBM options and Azul as well.

Scalar replacement got better, and with Graal partial evaluation gives reduced heap allocation rates. Which can have big impacts.

Future is even more bright with inline (value) types going towards even less allocations and better memory layouts.
Hacker Laws – Chesterson's Fence
Because of this " If you don't have permission to do something through raw Linux syscalls, you won't have permission to do it through the official stable API either."

Just because you aren't supposed to do Linux syscalls directly, doesn't mean there isn't an Android compliant way to achieve the same goal.

For example, you aren't supposed to fumble with Linux networking APIs directly rather use the NDK and Java APIs for the same.
With Firefox you can use the Picture-in-Picture feature for videos and size it as you like. For me it worked fine to read what's in the video.

Additionally you can then watch the movie and have i.e. your terminal open.