skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have to explicitly opt out to stop tracking? If so, are you sure your apps are GDPR compliant?
Maybe not workable due to scale but can they never the less set up a pre-emptive review system where if you’re willing to have something pre-approved (reviewed before publishing) by moderators that that content cannot be automatically axed and would require manual intervention with an independent appeals process?
Universal Binaries were barely an issue fifteen years ago, either. Sure, they were a bit larger but only the actual compiled code changed. Any assets used were the same and the difference in package size wasn't particularly significant.
Don't take this the wrong way, but are you very young or have you been living without internet for the past 20 years?
I think you may have misunderstood my comment. I meant that the "consent forms" should be a browser-side feature, consistent across websites and such that things like cookie blocking are guaranteed to be honoured. This is trivial.

Things like server-side fingerprinting must be enforced through legislation, e.g. it's against the law to track users if they've selected not to in the consent form.
If there were fewer moderation actions, then we'd be seeing more articles saying how obviously abusive content that should have been taken down and wasn't.

There are many sophisticated actors that try and game the system, and it's because of them at sometimes the system makes the wrong call.
That metaphor falls apart on multiple levels. Paying for a meal is a transaction that both parties explicitly agree to. Tracking in its current state is mostly done without the consumers awareness/consent.

Tracking is also not required for advertising, it only (supposedly) increases the effectiveness of it at the expense of the user. A more apt metaphor would be "restaurants are using cheap toxic chemicals to increase their revenue".
Jordan Peterson studied/covered this as well; here's a short clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWbj-2DRLps
I saw that Yuri Bezmenov interview[1] ages ago and didn't really think of it until now, when crime statistics are openly denied almost as if crime doesn't really exist at all.

Then I thought back to that Bezmenov interview with what he said about "demoralization". When a population is demoralized, they cannot discern true information when it is staring them in the face.

I think ignoring facts has less to do with some kind of esoteric psychological process and more to do with raising multiple generations to believe that they've been lied to and the whole "system" is evil.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYaR7mWxuf8
HipChat was sold from Atlassian to Slack.
Not very. The predominant isotope of thorium is an alpha emitter with a half-life measured in tens of billions of years.

Looking at the video, the counter appears to peak around 200cpm, or (per the Grafana dashboard screenshot) about 2 microsieverts per hour. That'd take 50 hours, a little over two days, of exposure to add up to the dose of a typical chest X-ray. And that's for a whole mantle, placed directly adjacent to the tube; it's not obvious in the video, but the dose rate is highly dependent on distance. Spicy gamma emitters aside, most small samples drop to background just an inch or two from the detector.

So I wouldn't worry all that much about it, really. Eating a mantle, or breathing the dust from a freshly replaced one, wouldn't be a great idea; I'd expect it to increase cancer risk to a degree probably commensurable with some number of years of smoking. (Probably fewer years than I racked up, back when I still had the habit.) Nor would keeping a mantle in your jockeys, or your bra. So don't do any of those things.

But buried, or even just mixed with dirt? I'd worry more about falling into the fire, and that's not something I worry about a lot, even if it does typically get pretty drunk out every time I ever go camping with anyone.
The UK PM did tweet images of cabinet meetings containing the id, albeit after the meetings were finished. This turned into a few security stories e.g. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21202584/zoom-security-pri...

At the time, people were (at least) less aware of the password options for zoom calls, so it was easy to hijack meetings knowing only that id if the host wasn't careful.

I don't think you can be faulted for expecting this to have happened again.
The Spectrum used the CPU and the ULA for everything. This resulted in a cheaper price for the machine. Meanwhile the BBC had actual hardware. As an example a simple beep would tie up CPU cycles on the Spectrum whereas the BBC micro could define a sound envelope for something more than a beep and hand that off to the AY-8192 sound chip.

The Z80 had plenty of features that the BBC micro's 6502 did not have, so the code should have been quicker with fewer CPU cycles used and fewer lines of code. But the lack of supporting hardware negated this gain.

BBC BASIC was also a more complete implementation of the language. So any code written in BASIC was more efficient just because you didn't have to use your own BASIC workarounds. Being able to drop into assembly language also helped, the Spectrum lacked this option to truly turbo charge your code.
The BBC used 16k for BASIC in ROM and had 16k for the OS. This enabled ROMs to be swapped out so you could run BCPL or another ROM, e.g. Fortran.

The Spectrum had BASIC and the OS in 16k with 48k available for RAM. The BBC could use more than 32k of RAM if installed, as per the later Master system that used bank switching.

I am not familiar with the code but I would be surprised if the BBC Basic ROM was anything less than a work of genius concise code. Every byte counted in those days regardless of what home computer you were programming for.
There's also a film based on the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_and_the_Terrible,_Ho...
I think one benefit of homemade mask usage is simply that it helps to normalize masks in general. Seeing others wear masks in various contexts can help reduce the stigma of embarrassment that one might feel, or serve as a helpful reminder to wear one.
I'd disagree pretty strongly. You may evaluate the tradeoffs and decide to go all-in on a single cloud (and you should do that analysis!), but it's far from a given. You're not wasting engineering time if the costs get out of hand and bankrupt you. Managed services may accelerate your time to market, but they do so at the expense of lock-in and your bill.

Context: I work at a startup that benefits enormously by avoiding AWS/GCP (for most cases) and renting cheap dedicated servers. It is context-dependent; our exact business doesn't benefit much from managed services and really needs big servers.
An ancient (albeit trivial) argument for facts not changing minds is that rhetoric was a distinct discipline from logic.
But better social services. Salaries will go up with more competition.
> truth does exert a pull on our beliefs

I'm more cynical than that. I believe that facts do change people's minds, but most people harbor hidden agendas that they try to adjust convenient facts to while ignoring inconvenient ones.
> This is common misconception, but in fact since Windows 3.x there was a kernel that did a lot of stuff but made it look like DOS was in control.

I don't think that's true of Win 3.x, only Win 9x. They are very different beasts.
I don't know about that, most of the people I've ever worked with (and hired or helped hire) seems to fall in to the category of not writing blogs, etc. A silent majority, if you will. I may well be wrong of course, and I don't doubt that being better at marketing gets you noticed more easily but that's not the same as everyone else rarely getting noticed.
What does this even mean? Being a dissident is allowed in the US going by google's definition. What's not allowed is stealing a bunch of shit and then giving it away to foreign nations like Snowden did.
Or it's artistic expression for a certain type of individual, and we have accessible art everywhere
That's true. Following the Christchurch shootings, Telstra pre-emptively blocked 4chan, 8chan, Zero Hedge, Liveleak and others. (Vodaphone and Optus had similar blocks with slightly differing lists of sites they put in place after Telstra had enacted theirs).

They did later lift some of those blocks after everyone stopped sharing the video of the shootings, but not all of them. (And if the government ordered blocks on some of those, I actually would be fairly comfortable with it, if it were done with process and transparency.)

This isn't a judgement of whether their actions were morally right or wrong. However, an ISP should probably be pre-emptively calling MPs to make a decision, rather than controlling access directly.
Presumably the creators already have their videos, since they uploaded them to youtube in the first place. Hopefully they don't delete their own copies and rely on Google to safeguard them, though!
I recently started running a peertube instance at https://battlepenguin.video I don't have a lot of stuff on YouTube/Vimeo and none of it has ever gotten a lot of views, but I am in the process of uploading old videos to my peertube instance and changing all the embed blocks on my website to show my peertube video instead and just have YouTube and Viemo below it as Links under a section labelled "Mirrors" on each of those posts.

For big content creators that depend on the ad revenue, I realize it really isn't practical to mirror everything on PeerTube. Even if you know how to run your own peertube server and keep up with security updates, now you're eating into your own ad revenue (with the advantage of keeping your videos online in case the YouTube robots and/or gods decide to take down your channel).

It's a double edge sword, but I hope more content creators will mirror their videos on services they pay for and have more control over.
As Covid-19 Cases Surge Daily Deaths and the Case Fatality Rate Continue to Fall
I'm upset that you made me remember that meme.
I hate people that normalised censorship of this kind and it was predictable that someone would crash the fun at some point...

Our own fault to give single corps that much control on content though. Content creators should always upload their videos to other platforms too. If those get a critical mass of content, they might stand a chance.
And what happens in the unlikely case of failure of the shuttle?
Consent to cookies? No big deal, my browser will erase them as soon as I close the window (and I don't reuse windows), so I click on what is easier.

They never ask for consent to track on the general sense. So I use extensions to stop that.
Seems to me that most of the problems came from the sheer scale Slack operates at. A single instance of a self-hosted chat application wouldn't require any of the load balancing infrastructure. But SaaS is really convenient. I wonder if there's a market for "local cloud" companies that operate out of your city and offer hosting of popular open source projects. The complexity would be much lower, and hopefully the reliability higher. Plus you get the benefit of lower latency. 90% of the people in my team's slack channels live with 5 miles of each other.
With Joe Rogan moving to Spotify, including video streaming, I wonder if Spotify is seriously contemplating building out a true Youtube competitor.
Definitely a good, broad list that can apply to everyone. I feel like the last two are especially relevant today in a world where the internet dominates my generation and we're in a culture that replaces instead of repairs.

I am definitely guilty of failing on your second to last bullet, and I should work on that.
I guess you haven't been following that whole legal saga during COVID where Archive was letting people check out digital library books?
Needing to survive a reboot isn't necessary. This system would let you know that nothing is being saved. It's not perfect, but it does that thing very well.
You have a point with aptitude making hard logic easier than fuzzy logic for some. But I would observe that such folks are the minority, not the majority, making hard logic more difficult for the population on average.
I admined a multi-hundred user Slack org and now am part of a multi-thousand user slack org and I've never experienced (or heard about) the slowness that you're describing. Do you have a feel for whether it was client-side or server-side?
I learned with turtle graphics and similar things. For me the visual aspect was really important and fun!
On a related note, anything that pushes OSS for government is IMO a Good Thing - forgive my usual self promotion here - http://oss4gov.org/manifesto
"A public Git account" - that is not really a well-defined concept.
Did you mean GitHub? Open source software exists outside of GitHub. If we want to be pedantic, even outside of Git.
Coronavirus accelerates the rise of the robot harvester
You could have kept Rick Roll a secret. It's more fun when we randomly click a YouTube link on the internet, and Rick Roll plays!
Isn't Ambassador doing the same thing?

Btw not sure if you read till the end, they are actually in the process of migrating to Envoy.
That's the article I read, so apparently I'm wrong. I do know northern Ireland is using the same app though, which is good.
The benchmarks in that library are misleading - by wrapping the resolve in the promise example in a process.nextTick you're actually making the engine enqueue 2 microtasks, as promises are always guaranteed to be async. If you remove the process.nextTick the results are reversed, I get:

- 63ms (async)

- 100ms (casync)

so it's almost twice as slow as native async await in this example.
Project Freta: Full System Memory Analysis in Rust from Microsoft Research
I think yes. If china is isolating itself from the internet, its only fair to not allow china to participate in the internet.
Mike Pompeo Said the US Is Considering Banning TikTok
Windows has sliders. I have no idea about MacOS.
A fast clean way to make PCB's at home (by scratching)
Mapbox GL for Android/iOS is going closed-source
There is bad code in everyone's repo. Several of my repos are from courses in grad school. From a software engineering standpoint, they are horrendous. But, they solved the problem the professor assigned and taught me what the professor intended by the assignment.

It's probably more helpful, in evaluating a developer, to see a progression of thought rather than shiny, functioning code.
I know you meant this harmlessly and maybe even encouragingly, but this post comes off as pretty entitled. It comes off kind of like, "hey, I want access to your knowledge and wisdom, but I want you to do an enormous amount of work to put it into a format that is easy for me to consume at my leisure. plzkthxbye."

Usually when you want to learn from someone more experienced than you, you seek them out, and you do the work to understand their wisdom, not the other way around. Plato didn't ask Socrates to write everything down so he could read it and grow, Plato studied under Socrates and did the work of transcribing his words himself for the future.
No, the entire transaction relies on coercion and/or deceit. If companies aren't going to listen, maybe it's easier to just ban any sort of unnecessary tracking across the board in order to cut down on enforcement costs, so it stops becoming a process and more of a draconian whip. We tried the carrot, it's time for the stick!
Open source in Hamburg: ‘a showcase for technological sovereignty’
You know how back in the 90s you used to get those CD-ROMs of games in cereal boxes you bought, or the AOL installation discs you'd use as cup coasters? Or just about any freeware CD-ROM from the 90s that you might have come across, period?

Archive has all that, and more.
We have a past where dumb ads used to work reasonably well, and could sustain a huge diversity of publications of all sizes.

There may be some reason why this can't work again, but all of the reasons I can come up with point to a higher ROI for those ads, not lower.
Ask HN: Why shouldn't I leave software?
About Me:

I'm a mid-career developer, age 48. I started programming in 1983 on a TRS-80 Model 3, then graduated to an Apple //c, and fell into a Computer Science degree. I've been a professional software developer since about 1996, with a couple of detours, including getting a business degree and doing project management. I'm a good developer and have been successful in my work.

Nearly all of my professional development experience has been doing "full stack" web applications using a (much-evolved) Java backend with whatever passed for frontend at the time, starting with godawful applets, HTML, and Javascript in Netscape Navigator 3 and culminating in Vue.js and the madness that is Webpack.

I still love programming; the satisfaction of dreaming up a solution and making it work is strong, but I don't love the software industry. In fact, as time has gone by, I'm coming to hate it. The obsession with youth, novelty, and the accompanying hubris (even ignorance) cause me to want to move to another industry and give up professional programming. I also don't see a path for personal growth that isn't software development management, something for which I find no enthusiasm.

I've got a family and other interests and abilities, and hopefully about another 20 years of full-time work ahead of me.

Here's the Question:

Why should I stay in software?

Is it just money? Have you faced this decision, and what and how did you decide?
We'll have to agree to disagree. Perhaps someday a judge will rule on this, but I'm not aware of any case on this particular point yet.
With all that money raised, large audience competition due to no cinemas being open at the time and everyone staying indoors due to lockdown, this looked like the perfect opportunity to launch. Problem is they still failed and Netflix, Disney+, etc just got even bigger.

If they failed at lockdown, they failed in general.
The problem is that Youtube's policy of aggressive takedown has enabled a massive abuse of the system. You can go and find many prominent YT creators complaining about their videos being taken down by false copyright claims. Literally any of us could go to a single channel, issue 3 copyright strikes and their channel will be taken down, with no regards to fair use whatsoever.

Moderation here isn't the problem. Youtube's policing has downright enabled censorship on the site.
Does this hurt the CCP? No. It only hurts ByteDance and its investors , which are mostly private entities; while the CCP gets to gloat that look told you, they are no better than us.
Over-engineered solution to a problem better solved with segregated infrastructure which will be "backwards compatible" with older cars
Reminds me of a snarky comment I read, "If you love doing something, keep it as a hobby or you'll begin to hate it."
Housing is not the main issue (grad students can afford that, after all), child care is.

For several years an adult needs to be present 24/7 and if the adult is someone other than the parent that ain't cheap. If the adult is someone other than the parent and it's not business hours that really ain't cheap.

What's a better use of the NSF's dollars? Funding night-nurses for grad students so professors can keep working them through the night? Or just funding day-care and regulating their hours?

You definitely don't want to just give grad students assets that can be converted into liquidity after some fixed term, because then you're just exacerbating the "you get rich eventually, after you're too old for kids" issue. A better asset would be something like a seven-year voucher for day-care that is:

1. Granted after a two-year vesting period (so that people receiving this benefit get at least a Master's degree)

2. Non-transferrable (so students don't just sell it)

3. Not conditional on continued enrollment (so it doesn't tie you to an abusive professor / department)

Again, I think this only really works with regulations on hours (possibly with a shift system of some kind), but once the federal government begins funding such a benefit there's no reason to restrict it to grad students (I'm sure military service-people could use such a benefit as well, and the more government professions receive it the more flexible the voucher is).
OAth is still the same
Your username matching the github pages gives it away.
Fantastic read, there is sufficient material for someone to author a sizable book covering the history of digital type in computing and how it came to be standardized. Digital type is such a critical part of our computing experience but so deep under the covers that is does not get any attention.
KiCad is getting very good but it requires a lot of work to compete with the big boys - for example there's no signal integrity built in, and impedance control is fairly detached from your board i.e. I don't think you can do RC on impedance control yet. I don't need a huge amount but signal integrity is fairly important for the project I'm designing.
The curse comes in many forms: I can’t remember the last time I felt comfortable looking at a schematic diagram of a coil/ferrite transformer:

https://circuitglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ideal-tr...

Apologies for the puerility.
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I just run a script that auto-generates a pdf via html from an edited markdown file. The css just defines the font and a few spacing parameters. It takes all the headache out of trying to format everything nicely in Word, and any fanciness will look dated real soon.
US is not great, but i would want the US to be the police of the world and not china. I am not a US citizen. The reason is simple USA is built on democracy and individual freedom.
My comment by itself certainly isn't an adequate summary. That's why I recommended a whole book.
Average visual acuity for young people is about 0.7 arcminutes, best being around 0.5.

There seems to be disconnect about how people are consuming media. For me holding a 2280x1080 6.3" phone ~8" from my eyeballs is a natural viewing distance and I can see the full resolution without difficulty. And at least from my point of view a 65" TV is also a pretty typical size.
Archive.org has so many scanned books that they're being sued by publishers calling it a pirate site. The EFF legal team is getting involved to defend the lawsuit.
All that's old is new again. The level of abstraction just keeps getting higher.

Someday, ecosystems like AWS and Azure will be as standardized as programming languages. You'll still be writing algorithms, but instead of telling one PC what to do, you'll be telling a distributed system what to do. The old design patterns will still be relevant; the implementation will just look different.

We're already there to some extent. It's just messy and fragmented right now.
Why Is Glass Rigid? Signs of Its Secret Structure Emerge
The author explains how he came up with the idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Ask HN: Does SEO Matter Nowdays?
I clicked on the comic. Should have known better.
That's a Belgian site.

I am going by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age and their sources.

If that's wrong, please correct the Wikipedia page.
If the risk of investing is goes from (Value of your investment can drop to zero) and is now (Your entire personal fortune is at risk), what do you think is the outcome? Thinking 1 month, 6 months, 12 months, 5 years.

Or to put it another way, is causing another massive economic shock the correct response to a dark patterns on websites?
I could watch that all day long!
What would be really neat is a self-stripping universal binary.
Because somewhere north of 500 hours of content is uploaded to YT every minute. Scanning and moderating that with people would be very expensive so they turned it mostly over to algorithms to have a hope of keeping some control over the nature of YouTube to keep it advertiser friendly. Then when a channel has accrued enough strikes to warrant removal you as YouTube potentially have hundreds of hours of video to consider if you're trying to manually review removals.