skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think ads are a necessary evil at all. Facebook and Google came along and ruined the market for paid services. Prior to that the market was healthy and operated just fine.

If we undo the damage caused by FB and Google we can go back to a healthy market where people pay for things with money instead of their privacy.
Thanks.

Doctorow's article prompted me to revisit Zuboff's thesis.

I now think both Doctorow and myself, in different ways, are completely wide of the mark.

Zuboff's analysis is far more potent than I've been able to grasp or articulate. For instance, she moots the "paradox of privacy" by getting back to first principles of market design and choice theory.

I really wish I was better prepared on this topic. Sorry.
NextGen TV Could Beam Cable-Style TV to Your Antenna, but You'll Have to Pay
Fighting games, too. Most gamers know to avoid wifi, much less a wireless ISP.
Any scripts out there (dev tooling, bespoke build tools, etc) with a dependence on 'master' are broken by this change in default. Foolish business move — GitHub's been slowly burning its credibility for years. It's funny.
I think it's reasonable to say that the modern trend of expansive executive power going unchecked is comparable to the mixing of religion in American politics.

In both instances they're the result of the Constitution being so old and sacrosanct that you can no longer amend it in a meaningful way. You simply change the norms, stack the courts, and you've knocked out the leg of the stool that was supposed to uphold these ideals. A modern president moving around money allocated by Congress flies in the face of the Constitution. Same with an immigration ban based on religion. But the game has changed to "us v them", and if you get enough of your team in the judiciary they'll sign off whatever you want.
You're employing the tactic of "poisoning the well", which is a pre-emptive personal attack. Many programmers are introverts, and you calling them antisocial basement dwelling nerds is just a hostile stereotype. There is no way extroverts are inherently better than introverts. I don't like the false dichotomy you're implying. Also, making people "guilty" by association. Also, dehumanizing while taking high moral ground.

Downvoting you, and I'm saying this openly because I despise cowardly anonymous ostracism present on sites like this. Sometimes I wish all downvoting was done with stating the reason.

There were civil ways you could have described these behaviors, but you didn't. For example covert narcissisim, passive aggressive. I have some covert narcissist traits, but at least I'm trying.
One thing that may be a game changer: inter-satellite relaying. With the whole network, Starlink client to Starlink client latency might actually drop.
> It’s quite easy to “break” the speed of light in fiberoptic glass.

I don’t understand this, why? Does light travel faster than the speed of light in fibre optic glass?
Let's just say I prefer polling to pushing.
"Black lives matter" specifically is a slogan with a US background, yes, but European countries do have racism, sexism and trans-rights issues, and there is really no point in pretending otherwise. EDIT: that's not to say that there aren't overly strong US influences in some topics, just that "oh that's a US-only thing" does not apply here.
GenRL: PyTorch-First Reinforcement Learning Library
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I don't understand this, can't we just grow more trees? Reading emails is a huge waste of time and I don't see how we can produce much more of that, let alone produce more Donald Knuths.
Implementation is terrible, concept is fine
EV owners can just get a green electricity plan.
exciting to see event listeners drag, zoom. they make data come alive
> I personally believe that pervasive high speed internet even in remote locations will do more for humanity than the scientific cost of these satellites.

Perhaps in the US, but other countries, even poor ones, manage to do rural internet fine without cluttering the night sky.

I, for one, am not stoked about the implications of an American ISP forcing worldwide coverage for themselves. Their shady business practices and the questionable reliability of the US government make it very hard for me to see many upsides.

Were this to be released only in remote areas and third-world countries, I would agree that there is a large net benefit to Starlink. However, because of the way the system is designed, every country on the planet will now be forced to deal with a solution for the anti-competitive behaviour of the American ISP market.

As long as Starlink is managed by a an American company, I have little faith in their intends and purposes. Being able to intercept or duplicate random internet communications worldwide seems like an NSA wet dream come true to me.
Which client does he use?
Everything deserves to have a Version 1.0

I have high hopes for the future efforts
Exploring LibreOffice 7.0
How to Catch a Fly in Your Hand
I watched it.

Now how does that justify the officer to murder Floyd by keeping his leg on his neck?
I don't flag topics just because I can't provide meaningful resources to it. Do you?

Flagging may prevent others who might have those resources from contributing, yes? So flagging is not a neutral personal expression but a public negative expression, yes?

I still believe the interesting question is why did a big enough population decided this was not on topic enough to flag it, rather than ignore it.
For many countries like mine this will be a window towards freedom. As long as US stands behind its constitution
>>The US isn't doing it. Companies are doing it.

Well, that isn't really a useful distinction in any sense of the word. The American companies are doing it, because they are allowed to do so by their country. Most countries which have any kind of space capability have their own space agencies which say what is or isn't ok to launch. If the American space agencies approve things like Starlink, then the pollution of the Earth's view into space isn't purely on Elon Musk.
I quit venmo when they went mobile only. There's no obvious way they make money, so it must be in the metadata they collect... somewhere. I can control what they see from a desktop web browser, but on mobile their app asks for far too much.
are capable to get a projectile in LEO

The plan for Starlink is to have 12,000 satellites eventually. You'd need to shoot down quite lot a of them to block access to an entire country.
I wonder when the first CDN's will be put into space when this will become broadly used.
Botnets hacking Google rankings
My familiarity with it is superficial and only as an iPhone user, it is not an API I have ever concerned myself with, so first, I might be wrong about this next part but second, my understanding is that it provides almost nothing about you except a number or a string. I’ve never delved into Apple’s docs to find out because the “how they do it” has always been less important to me than the “how do I turn this off”.

If you go into Settings on iOS 13/iPadOS 13 and into the Privacy pane, all the way at the bottom you should see two tabs, one labeled “Analytics & Improvements” which is for information Apple collects for the device, Siri and iCloud, and another “Advertising”.

It’s in that second one that you can toggle “Limit Ad Tracking”, off by default today, on by default in iOS 14, at least that’s the plan and is the case in reports from people using the beta releases. Right below this toggle is a button labeled “Reset Advertising Identifier” which does exactly what it says. This is the “IDFA” that is the subject of discussion and will be the same value returned to Apps that request to use it. If you reset it, that will break continuity with your previous identifier, at least in theory.
As I noted on a similar thread the issue is not removing the streaks, it's what data is lost behind those. If you take a look at this image you'll see that it can be a non-trivial amount of interference in some cases and that data can't just be filled in with "black". https://i.imgur.com/Qdt0N2g.png The interference also causes a "glow" effect on the CCD which corrupts the data well beyond the edges of the main streak as well.
Yeah, it's surprisingly simple. It took little time with a game library to get the key polling to work. I was experimenting with chorded keyboard ideas back then.
We tend to underestimate the value that a decent UI/UX professional can bring to a software product. Users typically hate changes (change aversion is in the human nature) and will hardly notice any improvements. But try to install an older piece of software, say, Microsoft Word 97 and compare usability to the current version. Don't pick one feature, look at it from a daily usage perspective. I bet you'll find a ton of improvements and think "huh, I had no idea it was so painful to work with Word 97"...
An interesting contrast is that some early access games have very detailed feature and bug fix notes for their releases. As an example here are the release notes for the build versions of 7 Days to Die (Alpha 19).

https://7daystodie.com/a19-official-release-notes

They change notes are very detailed, and voluminous. If you had an issue with a previous build, you can, just by looking at the release notes, see if your issue has been fixed.
Is it a difficult problem to solve though in software? On its face it seems trivial, and something that should be part of an astronomer's job description. The cost of not having internet satellites seems to be many orders of magnitude higher than writing software to get around the problem.
Ask HN: What do you want to see in a job ad?
I've done a fair amount of hiring and I keep coming back to job ads and thinking that most of them aren't fit for purpose. Being on "the other side" my view is somewhat skewed. Would love to know what other engineers are wanting to see in job ads and what entices them into applying somewhere.
The Renault ZOE is one of the most affordable EVs and it certainly didn't break the $20k barrier even with subsidies.
Does that justify the police killing people without any repercussions?
Well, your phone has the time to create new emails for these purposes with the Sign In With Apple feature[1]. You don't have to remember your email nor your password because iOS can create a secure one and save it on your phone. More secure than people using the same email and password across multiple apps imo.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/
One takeaway from this article is that condemning fascism was too much for American tech companies... pathetic. Have companies always been this spineless?
> Ads are very much a necessary evil rather than something desirable in society I think

You think advertising is 'evil'?

How far do you take that? For example does a listing in a local newspaper advertising a law cutting service count as evil? Is any form of telling people that you off a product or service really an act of evil?
Since you want to grow your personal brand, I'd rather you use Medium. It will make it easier for us to filter out your blog just by looking at the URL.
This is only a problem with headsets that have poor drivers.

Better devices like Jabra headsets integrate directly with Teams and will actually synchronize mute status between the headset and Teams!
Having refuted the central point of this entire essay, why do you think he wrote this in the first place?
For many open source contributors and maintainers, it's always not an option to "be on the bottom of things".

Patches (for some projects) flow via e-mail.

So there's some decent amount of "being on top of things". Not at the rate of "I need to feverishly refresh my Inbox every 2 minutes", but "I ought process these patches/designs/bug e-mails at some sane rate that doesn't drive me bonkers". (Which can be done effectively with venerable tools like Mutt, et al; refer to the recent thread on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24173676 – "Mutt email client 25 years old")

This is just saying the boring truth that there's different kind of e-mail—the draining, unproductive long threads that don't go anywhere and the "get the work done"-style patches/designs/bug work e-mails.
That's the point. If updates are expensive, you'd think twice about pushing one out every week for no good reason.

As far as file formats go, how often do you need to change these, anyway? I'm fascinated with most of the mainstream file formats (except mp3, mp3 sucks) — they're built with extreme extensibility in mind, and you have to try really hard to make something incompatible with the rest of the world. So, then, what stops you from designing your own file formats to be extensible? You add a new feature, you add a new section to your file. The user downgrades, and the old version skips over that section because it doesn't know about it. It's easy.

And besides, I've seen a lot of software that's able to save files that are 100% compatible with older versions of itself if that's what the user asks for. Microsoft Office is one example.
Indeed. Unfortunately none of us can predict the future. For now, the best we can do is make an informed decision based on what is presently the case. One day hopefully, steps will enter the mainstream to prevent the need for trust by guaranteeing our information isn't collected and thus can't be sold.
There's always exceptions...

Some business exist with the intention of generating a loss, or some sort of tax avoidance scheme. Legally, I don't mean tax evasion.
I checked French & Italian and the data source is rather bad : Bonny ? Blondene ?
Reddit block quotes don’t work on HN, try asterisks.

This once again has very little to do with the situation at hand though I’m afraid, if you’d like more information as to why a president can seemingly tell a specific corporation what to do on a whim, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investmen...
I also think this shouldn't be flagged. What I personally dislike on sites like this is that anonymous downvoting often works like anonymous ostracism. Many times when some of my comments are downvoted I would at least like to know why I was downvoted. Perhaps there should be a way to post anonymous comments for the purposes of downvoting someone.

More generally, rating all comments and submissions on a scale is wrong for some topics. In some cases there's no right or wrong way to do it, only tradeoffs and context. The +/- voting system has simplistic appeal, but is also a bit archaic.
Depends how much you care about people talking over one another. If your call is a presentation/lecture/class with few switches between speakers, latency's no problem.

But if your calls normally have lively discussion where someone different jumps in any time there's a pause, the higher the latency the more likely people will say "meeting in person is much better"

Likewise, with things like remote desktop, 100ms of latency isn't a dealbreaker but it'll certainly leave some of your users saying "things that run locally just feel snappier"
I guess you could statistically impute that data. But it is the long tail of unlikely readings which are generally interesting, and imputation will not find those.
Interesting workaround. I imagine this could in turn lead to more pressure on these same apps to implement Sign In with Apple - as a user, its email privacy feature becomes more interesting in this scenario.
I would love to test it too but it is already in a different part of the world :) That was a custom order.
Own- yes, take notes- no. My Pocketbook eReader supports note taking but those devices are too slow to mimic real note taking.
The actual UX of this is very telling. Apple haven't actually clobbered this, they've added a modal "This app would like to track you across apps, Y/N". Apple haven't actually said no to this, they've given the user the ability to say no.

I find this an interesting distinction, because the only logical way to extrapolate "the user now has a choice" to "apple have ruined this for us", is to admit that given a clear and effective choice, the user will opt out of this almost every time.

Which is why this one is a "good!". If every user wants to opt out of this, perhaps it should never have been viable in the first place.
Yet still the term "internet shutdown" is being circulated a lot.

It's still the correct phrase. There are two meanings of the word 'internet' - one is the infrastructure, and the other is the websites and services people access using the infrastructure. You're assuming the first meaning while the article is talking about the second meaning.
I'm still angry about a Windows 10 "upgrade" that overrode my late father's repeated declines. It rendered his previously working and familiar PC completely unusable and with his failing health he couldn't face getting to know a new OS and reinstalling it.

It prevented him from having the tools to book a last holiday in the sun, and in my view Microsoft stole that from him.
It seems to be around 1-2%, which I would say is trivial. This can be further reduced if you use multiple exposures because then only 1 contains the streak. Getting satellite data from SpaceX about satellite positions and turning off the receiver for a few seconds would also mitigate the issue. I don't understand how this is treated as a problem that's worth halting satellite launches over.
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Interesting that you say that. Personally, I thought the article’s use of sarcasm was unprofessional. It is not at all objective, a core tenet of journalism.

As a result, I noticed errors like the statements that Facebook can no longer sell user data. Actually, FB does not sell data. FB sells ad placement based on user data. Still bad, but much less so.

If the Reg got that fundamental fact wrong, what else did they get wrong?
Elon Musk and some investors don't represent humanity. Hell I doubt even SpaceX values Starlink all that much, most employees I know say that it exists mostly as a filler payload during launches.
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns – less than three months in office
I have reached that age.

Oh, I get sent a lot of messages. What I receive is a different story.
Actually you can use d3's maths functions standalone and then use react or vue's declarative templating to render. It's not too dissimilar from what you'd have to know using d3 DSL directly. Here's an example:

https://github.com/timwis/vizwit/blob/v2/src/components/char...
I have been on EE 4G in central London (Westminster) for several years now while at work. A speed test back when it was new would get me 85/85 Mb, these days, with a much more capable device, I am lucky if I get 15/30 Mb (download is being taxed more). It's not horrific, but it's a far cry from what I was advertised when I started. I guess I'll just upgrade to their 5G plan and start the cycle again sigh
A rift in democratic attitudes is opening up around the world
Do you have any evidence for your claim?

Because the first time I heard about it was from 17 years ago when a black man complained about the use of master/slave and filed an EEOC complaint. See https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/masterslave/ .

Your hypothesis is that virtue signaling describes the movement to get rid of the term.

Have you considered that the term master/slave was popularized and maintained as a form of virtue signaling?

Quoting from "Broken Metaphor: The Master-Slave Analogy in Technical Literature" by Ron Eglash" available from https://sci-hub.st/10.1353/tech.2007.0066 :

> ... being unconscious of social mores was a good sign for a future physicist, because physics transcends culture. Perhaps this kind of emphasis on a technical identity is at work here, too, and the master-slave metaphor is attractive to engineers because its free use “proves” that they inhabit a nonsocial or culture-free realm, which is a matter of professional pride
Lots of regional jets and props with SAS, Finnair, Air Baltic. Embraer, ATR, Bombardier, Fokker...
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Thanks!

1. I already have this - in my app, it's called "Static Video" - you select the "static video" tool, click where you want do set it, and drag for as long as you want.

2. I have this as well - I do need to test it a bit more, but it's there (as long as the audio + video are synchronized, which is the default) -> this works

3. This - I've added to my TODO list. About the audio - that makes sense too (also added to my TODO list).

A bit more details on 3. - I want to implement also something called a "lock" - basically, when you click it, you tell my app - I'm not gonna modify this anymore, so you can do whatever mojo you want, to optimize as much as possible. Will (in theory :D) work wonders on time remapping (which is what I'm working on right now).

^Does that make sense?
Don't they come from Spanish, since most of South America was colonized by Spain and the words also exist and are more commonly used in Spanish?

Regardless, point taken, it's not a US-centric problem.
Brain gain: Early stimulation gives mice life-long benefits
Has anyone asked Rutan what he thinks about the Celera?
It’s better than what most of the US has (by land not people)
> "Do you want to access the thing you're using 100 times a day in 1 click rather than 5 menus?"

Usually, that's an argument for the old version
I certainly agree with the NNs are used as hammers point. Until coming across the UODE concept I was of the opinion they were more parlour trick than anything useful. Here though, I could see some validity.

These comments are appreciated - I think a discussion like this is lacking in the SciML docs (or at least not visible enough). Will have a chat with some of the devs and see if there's something we can add.
Open a shell session in Colab notebooks using Python and JQuery
I've just found out that with a bunch of Python and JQuery you can run a shell session in Colab notebooks.

Here is the link to the code: https://lnkd.in/eqgek22
I didn't make myself clear, I wanted to mean that transfer are reversible (with the cooperation of the other bank) not that the source bank can unilaterally do it.

The law sides with the banking making the mistake as discussed on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045

With bank cooperation, which usually happens, settlement are non-issues. When an operation can be reversed by one of parties the settlement agreement usually mentions that the settlement is only final when the reversion period is over.
Doesn't Patreon (which also has a lot of porn content) also use Stripe as a payment processor?
> How? I mean, what do you suggest?

Not hiring people like this is a way to fix the culture.
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Updating Mac OSX invariably breaks things for my workflow. If I’m lucky, I just have to reinstall Xcode and agree to terms (annoying). If I’m unlucky, an app stops working, or there’s a critical security vulnerability (like free admin access for anyone as in ~2018), or worse, mysterious video/audio failures like I’ve had since the most recent update (some compatibility with my setup of hub to usb switcher was broken).

So the lesson is, never upgrade unless you need to.