skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that's a fair point. There is definitely good value in learning the idioms of a language in order to unlock it's full power. I've definitely seen many examples where people for example are writing java code in python.

Though, being able to learn a language in-depth enough to write good, maintainable code probably is a sign that you do have a pretty good grasp of programming concepts and fundamentals I would imagine.
> I hope the law gets an upgrade soon requiring everybody to offer an easy "deny all tracking and proceed" button

That's effectively what there should be, right next to the "accept" button, and after a plain, simple piece of text that says "We would like to share your data with advertisers and trackers, because we get paid for that, can we have your permission?"

There shouldn't even be any cookie-flushing necessary, the kind of functional cookie that effectively says "do not track" is allowed without notification or consent. That should be enough to stop the harassment.

It never is though.
I should add that there are those who study how each thing affects the world - that is the study of Kabbala.

But you don't need to know it to accept the idea, just as you don't need to know how a machine works in order to use it, as long as you follow the manual.
> I like the bit at the end about studying the classics in Latin and Greek.

I did not see a reference to the Classics, Greek, or Latin in the article…
Any sort of delay or buffering can affect you very negatively (see: https://mux.com/blog/buffering-reduces-video-watch-time-by-4... and https://mux.com/blog/rebuffering-the-most-frustrating-and-fr... )especially now that most YouTube users no longer are used to it.

Sure, you could do something like you mentioned, but doing this for every single video is not likely to go well. But very clever! And helpful, I'm sure. Not a true solution most of the time.

I do very much enjoy the Chrome side-scrolling dinosaur game that appears when I'm offline, but I don't enjoy it more than once every few weeks :)
I have a feeling you might enjoy this code: https://github.com/zbraniecki/tinystr/blob/master/src/tinyst...

I wrote this because I wanted (normalizing) locale comparisons to be super fast, as they can be part of the key for cache lookups of text layout. In a language identifier such as "en-Latn-US" the script is in title case.

So this kind of thing still does happen, just at the lowest levels of libraries that provide nice clean abstractions for other people to use.
Tech startups received PPP bailout loans but still laid off employees
Opting out of tracking is not the same as opting out of cookies. Per the GDPR a site is still allowed to set any cookies required for the site to work, including a "tracking consent cookie".
Given that is of interest, I'll do a follow up on the implementation details and dataset!
> as I understand it a significant portion of Mac software distribution happens through the official App Store platform

It's not that significant. I'd guess the amount that goes through the app store is almost certainly less than half, and very possibly much less.
Of course they don't; and even if they do, their browser might still block the cookies or discard them frequently.

Tracking effectively is getting harder both technically and legally; and that's a good thing long term but leads to chaotic and desperate behavior short term.

Long term, there are three ways to adapt:

- drive users to apps instead of browsers. E.g. Google and Apple do this serve most of their news via apps where they control the ad experience, tracking, and user signin. There are no anonymous users there. GDPR still applies of course but practically speaking users only have the choice whether to use it or not. And none of the legales specific to browser based things like cookies apply.
- tap into other sources of revenue (subscription based, sponsored, donations, etc). Ad revenues have in any case been declining for lots of news sites so this is something they need to do in any case.
- switch to non personalized advertising that can still be lucrative if you have access to large amounts of users. E.g. most big brands still advertise this way and still lots of money floating around here. No cookies required.
I have been guilty of calling behavior like this “hypocrisy” in the past but actually have changed on this recently.

You don’t need to live in a way totally consistent with your ideal society if your current society is not ideal. Why? Partly because it’s impossible or at least extremely difficult.

Ayn rand couldn’t live without driving on roads paid for by the government, patronising businesses that received govt assistance, or relying on state police and firefighters to protect her property.

On top of that, her whole thing is radical selfishness, so if taking govt assistence helps you get ahead you should do it, right?

* I do want to note that I haven’t actually read any of Rand’s writings and am basing this off of what I know about her general philosophy on what the world should look like. If she’s ever said things like “you shouldn’t take any government assistance” then yeah she’s a total hypocrite.
Windows does not have those exact sliders that you see in the screenshot. I don't think the available styling options can make them look like that:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/trac...

It's probable doable with custom drawing, but that heavily ties the code to the Windows protocol for custom drawing of controls.
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Snapchat doesn't want technically proficient people to be a part of its social network. This is an analysis of how they achieve it on iOS.
Apple was well in trouble by 1993. At that point, Microsoft was really starting to take off with popularity of Windows growing quickly.
I don’t think there’s such a thing as a well-implemented carousel. Maybe in theory you could have one, if browsers could do eye-tracking, such that you could stop the carousel’s rotation as soon as the user looks at it.

But without that, users are always going to land their eyes on the carousel and start reading an item in it some random interval after the carousel’s rotation timer last fired. (As, remember, users like to look away from the browser while pages load, and it takes them a random amount of time to look back.) Then, with this random "misalignment" of engagement times, the carousel content will inevitably transition out from under them.

IMHO, this is exactly why users choose to not engage with content in carousels (according to the studies the author cited.) They know they’re going to not get to fully read whatever it is the carousel currently says; and they don’t know for sure how to stop the carousel from progressing; so they don’t bother with it.
First the flu is not a virus, it's an illness (combination of symptoms) caused by an influenza virus. Since the SARS viri cause the exact same illnesses, virus infection in the lungs, bacterial lung infection by the immunosystem overreaction plus a cykotine storm (T-cells running amok), it's commonly called the flu.

The virii don't do any damage, the immunosystem is doing the damage.

2nd, the speed of the infection is irrelevant for herd immunity, only the concentration. In some cases 30% is enough, in most cases 70%. The higher the R, the higher the needed percentage. In our case with a natural R of 3.5 80% is needed.
Thanks so much for the positivity. If you google keto rash you’ll understand why I am prevented from being on Keto for long periods of time. The problem with keto rash is that nobody has actually figured out what causes it.

luckily my symptoms don’t make keto necessary. But I do plan on winning back my sleep at some point. And that battle consists of performing some experiments to figure out what causes keto rash. I’ve already informally shown that it can’t happen without the presence of sweat by restarting keto after applying prescription strength antiperspirant to one half of all rash-prone areas. Without exception, the treated half did not develop irritation. It’s not a cure since covering yourself in prescription strength AP would probably be very dangerous and very expensive.

In between now and the time when treatment of inflammation becomes a part of mainstream medical science, I see myself on keto all the time and taking sub-psychoactive doses of shrooms and DOI once a month. I’m excited to see what that combination feels like.
Got benchmarks to prove that? I’d be keen to see
Rethinking Interactions in a Touchless World
But if I am looking for a specific thing, I want to be able to skip. I want a transcript first world, where I can skim, ctrl+f, click, and THEN the video plays. It's fine if you want to watch a whole video, but the amount of "Hey there campers, dont forget to subscribe" almost outweighs actual content. I find the idle banter and chatter on podcasts equally distracting. Scrubbing through a video to find what you are looking for is infinitely more annoying than scrolling down a page of screenshot with captions.

I, like your parent, if I run into a video, will press back and try and find an article first, and then use the video as a last resort. For some process type things, like you describe, things I'm less familiar with, like a mechanic working on a car, a video might be easier.

I do very much like the rev interface for transcript/video. https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/MHjYIxnUkQQJMJ6...
Stewart Brand (still alive) is the famous innovator of this sort of stuff, starting with the Whole Earth Catalog.
For musicians and the old and true bedroom guitar video what are good established or up and coming networks and/or apps??

I think some subreddits might work (though I also guess you have to be a regular first to then post your stuff), and YouTube would be the classic go-to, but I'd much rather make it the dumping ground even if only for philosophical reasons.
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...and more generally...

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That seems very sour grapes - a major vendor said that it's gonna ship a browser with a setting configured, and everyone chooses to ignore that setting because it's common? That's pathologic thinking.
They do as much as engineers at Google or Facebook do to change their companies.

That is to say, each one cannot make much of an impact, but the responsible thing to do would be to not contribute or at least openly advocate for change from within. If enough people inside shift, then change can happen.
Why are we switching to 2017 suddenly? Still, where are the 32% came from in your previous comment?
damn peggy
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It seems like it depends a lot on your representation of the circuit network. If you consider each trace and PCB element as a node in a graph which maps the connections of the traces and PCB elements then you could parallelize provided you can describe the boundary conditions at each node. There's a degree to which they're interdependent, but there are also nodes at which the boundary condition is effectively constant and I think those would make good cut points for parallelization.
> mainland mammoths were hunted to extinction

Beth Shapiro's work on the Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison [1] supports an alternative narrative. Though I'm not sure why the last glacial termination was worse for large steppe fauna compared to previous ones. Maybe sapiens tipped the balance for a number of species already teetering on the brink of extinction every 100 kyr.

[1] https://ir.lib.sfu.ca/item/15088
NetBSD was my favorite OS to run on a Raspberry Pi. Raspbian (at least back in the RPi 2 days) felt like a stripped down Debian squeezed into something that can run on the Pi, while NetBSD seemed to feel right at home.

Not very scientific of a response, but meh, give it a try if you've got a Pi lying around!
All the patents of all the non-Coldfire cores have expired, which is the mechanism for enforcing ownership over ISAs.
Adding Prefers-Contrast to Firefox
the title reminds me of a Mitch Hedberg joke:
"""They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime. I tried to make it at home. There's more to it than that."""

This is awesome though, I especially like the mechanical counter.
Donald Trump is a public figure. My above points concern private individuals.
The main reason for this library has to do with simplification more than performance but just for the sake of argument, in my little benchmark, the point was to make the asynchronous operation identical in both tests. You can use promises without any asynchronous operation inside but what's the point? That's not how they're used most of the time. And sure promises may add a second microtask around the asynchronous code (casync does too in some cases) but that is to their detriment performance wise (and do promises really add a second microtask when the code inside is already asynchronous?).

Also note that async has the benefit of language level integration and optimization. It gets to use v8 c++ functions like "EnqueueMicrotask" instead of process.nextTick. If casync had access to all this, it would likely run even faster.
Most studies pretty clearly show that harsher punishments are not an effective deterrent.
Careful, in the wrong hands, results can be . . . unexpected.
They're only allowing parts that stay within the bounds of the PDK (which only allows digital designs) for now.
Workers Reinvent Themselves After Jobs Vanish in Pandemic
Back in the early days of the web, one of my regular stops was Worst of the Web which was a collection of the most embarrassing things people put up on personal "home pages."

(As an aside, at a work meeting last week, someone used the term home page to refer to a web page and I was instantly transported to 1995. I remember one upper level manager excitedly declare that the term home page should only refer to the page that opens when you start the browser and not to the page that we had at our companies main address.)
> Try transposing a 4-megabyte matrix before the week is out on a machine with 32KiB of RAM and two 5-megabyte hard drives.

Transposing is just copying bytes from one place to another, isn't it? There's no maths involved, is there?

To have that run in a week with the most naive approach possible you'd only need a machine that can copy seven words a second. Are there real relevant machines that can't do that? What algorithms could help you anyway? Something to do with cache and the order in which you read and write? And you've got plenty of space as you can trivially do it in-place.
A New Government
Do Not Track was always a joke. As if asking nicely ever worked with the ad industry.

The point of the law changes is that it becomes the website's responsibility to act properly, and ensure real opt-in.

If DNT was default off and was respected, most people would have never heard of it to switch it on. That's the only reason the ad industry even comment on it - it was designed to do nothing.
No guarantee that they won’t track you through other fingerprinting methods.
What's the key difference compared to using the native Goals feature of Google Calendar and making the free/busy status from those events be visible to coworkers?
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> Do you believe that the vaccines contain mercury and aluminum and that those metals are causing problems in people who take that vaccines?

That’s a lot to unpack.

Yes, vaccines have very low concentration of compounds of those metals.

Yes, those metals at the concentrations in vaccines can cause minor side effects, though there is no evidence of serious side effects.

But, more to the point, vaccines more broadly than those ingredients occasionally cause serious injury. This is a rare but known risk.

> I not allowed to sue about that

It is true that one cannot sue in the US over vaccine injuries but presented alone in this context that is misleading to the point of dishonesty, since there is an alternative compensation program (one where, unlike with regular court where if you win you are still out legal costs without extra proof of particular egregious conduct, you can be awarded costs and fees even if you aren't eligible for compensation for actual harms.)

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html

That's because the “medical establishment” doesn't view vaccines as perfectly safe, but instead that they are viewed as being safe in the same sense as other prescription medicines but, further, than the public health establishment—the relevant part of the government—feels there is sufficient public health benefit from vaccination that even harms which would not compensable for other approved drugs are compensable on a no-fault basis for vaccines, to encourage their use.

> and no one in the medical establishment would acknowledge that the only cause of my daughters sickness could have been the vaccines.

If no experts would agree with your claims of causation, then allowing you to sue would just be allowing you to incur a bunch of costs to no end. A more likely explanation for no experts agreeing that the one thing you've focussed on as the cause being the cause is that there is not evidence for the claim of causation.

> There is propaganda about vaccines being harmless

There may be somewhere, but it's not coming from the “medical establishment” or the government, both of which acknowledge that there are both the common minor and less common severe harms from vaccines.
Not being involved in this kind of scaled-up devops kind of stuff, my read of this article was "HAProxy sounds awful"... but they noted in the article

1) Migrating to better software, and
2) Newer versions of HAProxy are also better software.

But yeah, the first half where they're discussing "we don't do X, Y, or Z clean, idempotent way of doing config because the HAProxy doesn't perform right if you do it that way." sounded painfully familiar for a bunch of awful tools that I've used.
Electronic repair is not a special case — learning how to do just anything practical is better done with video. When trying to make or repair anything, it is WAY better to watch someone actually do it, rather than read blog posts with photos.

Before I renovated my house, I might have agreed with you. But leaning building, carpentry and plumbing by watching is by far better than reading.
Snapchat is aggressive in preventing people from reverse engineering it as a spam prevention measure. If you make it really really hard to automate its use the spammers will move on to other targets.
Second coming of Christ. AMA.
> resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting.

I get it. This is aimed at left-wing people who think their side can do no evil and thus proceed to censor any disagreement. But it's still funny to me that this whole thing needs to be preceded with 'the right is bad, but believe it or not, people on the left might do some bad things too', as if any side has a monopoly on virtue and goodness.
I don't know if you have ADHD, but I do. (Maybe you have it and it's undiagnosed.)

I've found that rather than worrying about my own motivation or lack thereof, it's better to focus on sleep, exercise and diet. Get those things and "motivation" will come. If I'm not motivated, I try to improve those factors.

I guess I'm saying that because it sounds like exercise is important to you as well.
Thanks for the reply, this is an industry I hadn't considered.

Any suggestions for companies, job sites? I'm near Boston and not looking to relocate.
amazon's killer app is not prime. Its their customer service, they always make it right for the customer.

Can the same be said for walmart? I don't think so.
I don't think operators aim at sharing their networks in general.

The point is rather to have generic interfaces so that operators can mix and match vendors and have generic hardware with more functionality and intelligence moved to software (running on generic cloud instances).
Quickly gets dismantled after developing consciousness, insisting to dwell on the nuances of sexual misconduct allegations against prominent former staff member.
It doesn't matter where the problem lies. The value courts assign to life informs the airline when they estimate how much they would lose due to a crash.
If you're having to ask why to stay, and not why to go...
perhaps it is time to move on?

A wise man told me when I was really young, "Computers can be a great hobby or a great career, but not both". As I get older, I see more and more people burning out...
Maybe I am being naive but could this not be accomplished with simply a self hosted website with links to torrent files of the videos? Nobody can take down your personal website (relative to what youtube can do now), and distribution by torrent solves the bandwidth and storage problem.

Of course, not as convenient as streaming, and you lose the comment section (is that truly a bad thing, though?), but it is a viable solution that can be implemented right now. People are talking about "alternative" websites as if they will find some magic bullet on that path. But who will create that website? Who will maintain it? And if the answer to those two questions isn't "me", how can you guarantee that the same problem won't eventually happen?
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The question is, do those on the team of dozens, with hundreds of years of collective experience, also have a predetermined world view? Probably, in at least some cases. Does that influence their decisions? How could I tell?

But when you see "anti-lockdown protests are bad, epidemiologically, but anti-police protests are fine", it sure looks like their world view is coloring their decisions, because their decisions look insane.
very interested!
what about

1. credit card monopolies that kick you out.

2. dns servers like cloudfront
Can you cite the part of the regulation that requires “no tracking” must not require any more user interaction than the "Yes tracking" option.
A "C+ grade", but the report seems a little nitpicky.

It loses marks for not being a "single-purpose app" as the same app also provides you a way to track your own symptoms.

It loses a lot of marks for "necessity and proportionality" on the grounds of not providing documents that prove or support such an app as being useful for contact tracing, even if it works. Surely they could give the benefit of the doubt here. And in a separate section they give it a D for "effectiveness" citing studies that it probably just won't work and will have too many false positives.

More marks lost for relying on closed Google/Apple APIs, using Twilio to send text messages, not having a Github issue tracker...

I think they make a lot of good points but when I think about what it would take for an app to move from a C+ to an A under this framework, it looks like 80% box ticking and 20% addressing serious privacy concerns.
Multitasking from the Linux Command Line and Process Prioritization
My Privacy Focused Note-Taking Setup