skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and Singapore - which originally inspired all these Covid-19 tracing apps - is still refusing to go the Apple/Google route for the same reason. There's also a chronological issue, with the original app being well into development when Google and Apple released their approach. But fundamentally, this isn't about facts - it's about the British press having turned Covid-19 into a cynical, Brexit-related partisan football. Somehow starting development early and co-operating with countries like France and Germany on a shared approach turns into letting people die through "British exceptionalism", merely through the media carefully omitting the details that contradict that narrative and letting readers fill them back in differently in their heads.
I _really_ appreciate your comment.

I was initially reacting in a very knee-jerk and emotional way because I personally see this as a Bad Thing® as it does not align with my values and my wants for my country (US). Your comment made me think about it from a different perspective.

It saddens me to think that you may be right - that this may be deliberate - but you made me at least acknowledge that it might be the unfortunate 'will of the people', or at least some of them, even if not a majority.
Thank you for the feedback! I will improve the keyboard bar in the next release (it currently only has the undo button). Then it will contain buttons for different common Markdown options which will toggle the current line or selection.
Is the world making progress against the pandemic?
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That has to do with atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, not Chernobyl. You can still see some weapons testing isotopes in a 24-hour background count on a high-purity Germanium radiation detector.
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To Beat a Computer at Chess, Prevent It from Learning
When that dude stops updating his tool it'll truely be the end of days.
Another thing to consider, exactly the same thing happened when h.264 was first released.

Even though x264 quickly started seeing better results compared to DivX and XVid, you didn't see pirate encodes switch to x264 for years.
Dazzling drone display targets coronavirus in South Korea
I agree with you on the non-transactional nature of advertisement, as far as viewers are concerned, the metaphor is perhaps only effect at illustrating how given the choice most people would prefer to have free stuff at the cost of everything else (e.g. free meals or free content and services).

Tracking is not strictly necessary for having ads, but for having _effective_ ads I would argue at least in some cases it makes all the difference. For example I don't care one bit about cosmetics, if a cosmetics company advertises to me it's going to waste its money, and if the company has an increased chance of wasting its money than the ad space is worth less, meaning the website owner gets paid less, meaning that eventually after some threshold is reached offering the content or services via the ads model becomes unsustainable.
To be fair, there's a bit of ambiguity in what question is being discussed.

1. What development environment do you use most (IDE)?

2. What editor do you use most?

3. What editor(s) do you use regularly?

Personally, my day job currently has me working in Java, and I use IntelliJ for that. However, I use Emacs on a daily basis _as an editor_; especially in the case where I need to look at, move around, and manipulate files quickly.

If I had to pick one of them to keep and one to give up... I would be sad, because the fill different roles.
My story is similar to yours. We didn't have an accelerated program, per se, but my parents offered me a choice to skip a grade mid-elementary school. I said I wanted to stay with my friends. (Though I didn't have any close friends, so maybe I just didn't want to stand out but couldn't articulate that yet.)

Eventually, I began to do math at an accelerated pace, and it was wonderful to be with a group of older students closer to my ability level then.
>I wish more of the internet was like this.

It used to be.

I'm am old pre-WWW guy. We had a lot of whimsy, "back in the day."

Then serious money started to happen, and that changed everything.

It's not all bad -at all. I think a lot of modern stuff is very cool, and I'm glad folks are making money on this, as it helps with that ol' "rising tide lifts all boats" thing.

But I do sort of miss the "dorky" whimsy (I wonder if anyone remembers "Kill Dean's Inits!"). The current IT scene is fairly cutthroat and deadly serious.
> if someone says they’re in advertising I automatically hate them

You might enjoy Bill Hicks’ take: https://youtu.be/tHEOGrkhDp0
Sony is also a huge company who can leverage experience from this across several markets. It certainly makes more financial sense to use the playstation budget to make this happen rather than start with one of their bluray players.
Sort of like Goat To Meeting

https://www.sweetfarm.org/goat-2-meeting
> The way you describe it is clearly wrong

Please cite the inaccuracy.
Australia has banned books too. [0]

The most recent example I know of is "The Peaceful Pill Handbook", which was banned around '07 by giving it a "Restricted Classification", which makes distributing or owning a copy illegal in most state and territories.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia#Books
Someone make a service that automates uploading and managing channels on every video platform known to date:

Youtube
vimeo
dailymotion
etc.

Wouldn’t that be a great tool for creators?
I did my degree in Photography and spent money I don't care to sum up at that store both online and in person the few times I was in the City.

I always found their stance to be one of integrity instead of self-righteousness. They are situated in a little enclave - see HN articles about the Eruv, etc. - and are quite genuine and not exclusive to their Jewishness, but simply have a community and a point of view.

The no-shabbat-order-processing feels less like "we don't make the machines make money for us" than it feels like "Look, you can shop online, but we're not gonna load it and ship it until we get back from our families."

Like how I interpret the intentions of that commandment, it forces Photographers to think ahead and plan for that service outage. I may or may not encourage Rest, but again, the commandments weren't for the Egyptians.
Why on Earth does YouTube get the benefit of the doubt that they had good reason to ban this person. Google has taken deliberate steps to make sure there are no real competitors, so why should we expect market forces to resolve the situation. When you create a monopoly, freedom for a company to operate as it pleases should be suspended.
If anyone wants some context about radiation dose units across various orders of magnitude, I recommend the charts in this DOE chart (see page 6) [1]

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/01/f46/doe-ioni...
Well, it didn't for me
I'm disappointed that it's remotely driven by a human.
Super video. Related, a Dutch governmental meeting got disrupted by people saying racist things [0]. The politicians now don't trust zoom, and claim it was hacked... But they published the link on their website and didn't set a password )facepalm(. They are now also afraid of getting viruses via zoom (even though they went digital to avoid them huehuehue).

[0] https://www.gelderlander.nl/west-betuwe/online-raadsvergader...
Marketing drives revenue so... 3
That is the same in C++.

Again, I think you are talking about C's type system, not C++'s.
For my CV, I just use a PDF of my LinkedIn Profile. Seems to work well enough. Maybe a bit long, but the page space is used inefficiently, so I blame big fonts and large sidebars.
Wikipedia has more money than they can use; they still ask for donations even though they're more than relatively loaded with cash. I'd support the Internet Archive; as they're not really as over-grabby as "others." Every dollar you send to IA would buy them some hard drives or something; or whatever else they need. Internet Archive is the thing bros; Wikipedia is great and all but the Internet Archive is worth supporting with your dollars.
I used to have a similar list of things to do daily on my whiteboard. These are items that I can easily stray from and have to remind myself to come back to and reinforce.

In my personal experience, these things have a much great impact on my well-being and quality of life and they are within my control. In contrast with ideal of how I think society/world should be.

If you become accountable to the things that are within your control (ie. thoughts and actions) you will quickly notice that trying to control things beyond that is futile and a source of frustration.
> There's no great quote to pull from the article, but there's a strong implication that Go has to compare every field in order to determine equality... but this simply isn't true. Go only has to do this to determine inequality. If you have two pointers, Go will first check whether the pointers are equal. If they are equal, its job is done. Otherwise, it dives into the fields to see whether those are equal or not. Unless you want "reference equality" to mean that you can just cheaply compare the pointers without falling back to structural equality, but... why would you want to do that?

I might be missing something, but Go definitely doesn't compare every field in order to determine equality or inequality. Go only compares pointers, and it does this because (1) pointers are values and they get compared like values and (2) sometimes you want to do identity comparison and sometimes you want to do value comparison and the language has no way to infer which you intend unless you tell it (and the mechanism for communicating this to the compiler is by the type of of the operands you pass to the equality operator--pointers for identity comparison and values for value comparison).

Here's a little playground link to illustrate: https://play.golang.org/p/zrtTLB6Y9w3
Human-in-the-loop, definitely.

My point being that they still deploy a lot of low-level data science against data sets to prepare a view for human interaction.

And their typical customers have limited ability to do that prep in-house.
> This isn't going to hold for most undergraduates, since you're not going to interact with professors enough unless you're participating in undergraduate research.

In my experience professors at top tier research universities encourage and enable this, as one of the most fulfilling parts of their job is finding and grooming future research collaborators. Students are also incentivized since getting jobs or especially into grad school requires strong references from their professors. The extent to which it happens depends primarily on the student’s initiative though.

> And getting sufficient attention to get into those programs is probably going to be harder in an online-only environment.

That’s certainly one of the main problems that needs to be solved by online education, but I believe it’s one of the things everyone will adapt to out of necessity. Professors don’t want to stop grooming promising students for research careers just b/c of an outbreak, so they are finding new ways of doing that online. And we know from some fields like software engineering that remote collaborations are possible, so we’re starting from that point already.
Decades of bad UI design have trained people to click away these kinds of things without reading them. Even people like you or I who should otherwise know better frequently do it.
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This is most likely not a problem of policy but rather that nobody has flagged these videos yet.

And you should blame that (that nobody flagged them) on the double-standard most people have towards "not hurting innocent animals" vs "freedom to do any slaughter with the so-called 'pests'".
I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.
Exactly. It's one type of candidate, that the OP happens to like; you don't need this stuff to get hired. Personally my gut reaction to lots of side projects or social media is slightly negative, simply because my experience has been that those candidates tend to interview slightly worse.

I think side projects can be valuable when you want to demonstrate competence at something, and you don't otherwise have experience to draw on. If you're a barista who's learning to code in their spare time, or you want to understand a hot new technology, sure. Otherwise, I'd rather ask you about your actual work.
And exactly why should I as an employee fund this (and increased property taxes) for my employer?
That's the illusory truth effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect), which is one of the understood cognitive biases.
The visual aspects is very important to beginners, they get immediate visual feedback of the effects of their program. Cause (code) and effects are very easy to see.
Ideally you don't do this, but rather just keep the video that you uploaded in the first place. Obviously you can't do this retroactively if you haven't already been doing it, but it's preferable from a quality and time perspective these days considering that in addition to the extra compression, most videos now are being packaged and delivered as a zillion HLS/DASH segments that youtube-dl has to fetch and reassemble.

YouTube also lets creators download (sub-1080p) MP4s of their originally uploaded video, and Google Takeout will also archive all your videos this way, but of course this is assumes your channel was not recently deleted.
Ok, this requires Rust's "rich enum type" (whatever that's called), and some sort of generics, both of which Go doesn't have.

But you can create the "gist" of this sort of return-based error handling even in C, by returning a struct which contains both an error code and a value-payload, it's just not as convenient (because C lacks generics), or as "safe" (because one can access the value even when an error is returned), but it still would be better than "old-school" C code which splits the error-code and success-value into a simple return value and an out-pointer, and arguably also better than C++ exceptions.
Allocators in Rust
There's no independent large private company in China right now anyways, ByteDance is controlled by the CCP just like any other large Chinese company (tech or not).

And decisions like this do help to hurt the CCP, it reduces the reach of Chinese tech companies.
Regression tests don't usually identify bugs in new features, unless they interact with the older code or required changing the older code. In my experience, they're useful to have, but not useful for identifying novel issues. I recall reading someone's analysis of applying fuzzing and that using a particular fuzzer would eventually stop discovering issues, but that didn't mean the system under test was perfect. It meant that they had worked out most (if not all) the errors that fuzzer could identify for them and needed a new fuzzer.

The same thing with regression testing. I wouldn't stop running regression tests just because they aren't identifying issues anymore, but I wouldn't rely on them to discover novel issues. That's what the new, updated test suite should be doing. A regression test suite will not have a test to cover a new feature. It will only make sure that the new feature doesn't break the old one.

[0] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1796 - found it
What’s Next for Tech Conferences?
I thought at first this was a cameo.com - like thing from Rick Astley where he'd personally rick roll for like a hundred bucks.

I think he'll probably hear about this from some of his fans. He relaunched his career. He's an awesome dude.
In my experience personal projects get reviewed so infrequently that I'm not all that worried about someone digging down and evaluating the code quality of a 4+ year old repo.
Browsers do provide these controls to users. You don't have to switch between them. More fine grained customization is possible with extensions, assuming you can trust extensions authors and the browser you're using supports them.
It isn't theoretical. Google is currently facing a lawsuit (Brown et al v Google LLC et al) for tracking people who assumed Chrome's incognito meant Google would stop tracking them. [0]

[0] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/06/google-facing-us5-7-billi...
I don't use Youtube for detailed technical documentation, but I watch a lot of conference talks and lectures on technical topics. I also like to watch other people programming to pick up their small tricks and the details of their setup. This is invaluable information that would otherwise be inaccessible except by acquiring it by chance at the workplace, a meetup, or a conference.

Youtube's the first place I go to learn about any topic I'm a beginner on, especially topics which require manual skills, like home repair, automobiles, playing an instrument.

It is a repository of the informal knowledge of mankind that is unprecendented in scale, breadth, and probably depth. It may be more revolutionary than book-learning in how it has disseminated knowledge to the world, and large parts of it would have incalculable value in being preserved.

I only wish the Internet Archive had the sort of resources necessary to back up Youtube, but that seems unlikely to happen given the huge amount of storage necessary.
It actually took a lot of hard work in the early days, to prove the model as valid and also defend the legal code and rights that underpin FOSS.
Why work for 6 days and rest for 1, when you can rest for 6 and work for 1?
It's an impossibility given how our society is structured. A hundred years ago, if Tim's General Store did something shady, there was both social (hey Tim, wtf we're buddies this town only has 50 people) and economic (I'm never going back there and I'm 10% of Tim's regular customers). In this circumstance, our system works very well. But because of increased communication and transportation, pretty much everywhere you can consume from is a multi-national corporation. If Walmart overcharges you for a shovel, you can get your money back, but otherwise don't have any meaningful say about your experience, and probably don't have a meaningful alternative. Same with the internet, there are millions of people hitting up Google the same way you are, even if you blacklist "spamshitblog.net"; most people won't. People like RMS realized this a long time ago, but they basically got shouted down, and I definitely don't think we're gonna stop the train of unchecked free markets anytime soon.

TLDR: The market always wins, just download an adblocker.
I feel you. I have a similar issue with the logo of this Norwegian company: https://www.bus.no.
These are really basic, reasonable suggestions. It's baffling Google/YouTube doesn't at least afford such basic dignities to its most important population: original content creators.
Apologies, I meant for 0 * inf = 0. Since in n * inf n can be 0 the result should be able to be 0.
Links in this thread are not to be trusted!
I distinctly recall a situation where speed made a huge difference. I took an undergraduate lab at UCSC where you were given raw bacterial cells and had to use the original literature to purify restriction endonucleases with it. The course ran for a quarter, and on the first day the professor said: "Most of you are going to spend a few days planning, then running your purifications for a few weeks. If I were going to do this, I'd spend a couple weeks planning and then do the whole experiment in a day, because the moment you break the cells open, all the proteases will start eating up your restriction endonucleases and you will lose activity in a couple days.

I've also found a few situations where I couldn't get somethign to work and it turned out the person who had it "working" wasn't running controls (positive or negative), so you didn't really know if it worked.
> A viable alternative: show non tracking ads and see if it keeps the lights on, otherwise shut down?

I'm not sure that'd be viable in general, like what would the economic impact globally if all websites that barely can manage to keep the lights on today because of effective ads just disappeared? Maybe the impact could be even positive, like by disallowing politically very-targeted ads, among all other kinds of targeted ads, maybe we can prevent idiots from being elected, but if I had to guess I'd say I wouldn't like to see those websites disappear.

Like imagine if YouTube disappeared because it can't make enough money to host all that staggering amount of content.
Depends on how you value the potential outcomes. A while ago, I think it was Gitlab that didn't check their backups and they were a dud.

That caused quite a few problems...How much is it worth to them after the fact? I'd say a fair bit.

But hindsight...
>Michael Moore's solution to a YouTube takedown (a copyright dispute) was to switch to Vimeo. [0] Seems to have worked in that instance.

Sometimes Vimeo will also delete your channel. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20347254
Thank you, I understand convenience for author / inconvenience for reader.

I do not use Google Analytics but it looks like it is possible to disable Cookies [1], anonymize IPs, disable data sharing with google [2]. Effectively making it almost third party server logs analytics (no consent required). Would remaining functionality be sufficient for you?

[1] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/36105/can-usage-of-g...

[2] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/35528/is-it-really-p...