skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever it is that allows UBlock Origin/UMatrix on their platform, without making moves against them, is at the forefront of thwarting advertisers. Apple doesn’t allow it on iOS, so I’d still put Firefox ahead of them.
We order seeds from around the world all the time. Luckily most of our orders go through private websites, not Amazon.
Same here, I hate when API is used to denote Web APIs, which are only a subset.

> While in one sense an API is a compact between two or more pieces of technology, it’s ultimately a compact between two or more people.

Also the author could have re-read its article before publishing.
Yeah, that's a good one. I need constant internet access for my work though (software engineer) for slack, for testing, for docs, so it wouldn't work for me.

Anything that introduces enough friction that you stop and make a conscious decision will do the job.
> You can select multiple images in Finder and drag them onto the Preview dock icon to open them in one window with a Sidebar where you can quickly flip between them with arrow keys.

Instead of wasting time dragging and dropping, just press Cmd+Down Arrow to open the files (usually images are associated with Preview.app as the default application). Cmd+Down Arrow in the Finder opens (navigates one level down) whatever is selected: folder or single file or multiple files. Cmd+Up Arrow goes one level up from the current folder.

> Path Finder: A fancier version of Finder with multiple panes and various other advanced features.

Path Finder has a few nice features, but its updates and update schedules haven't been great. A cheaper alternative that also supports network transfers is Forklift.
Isn't this what Spartacus (https://spartacus.com) does?
>Good grief I have no idea why these debates always descend into alarmism and philosophizing...

I think it's similar in a way to the argument in the US about the right to bear arms.

In the UK there's a similar kind of "inalienable right" feeling that we [as citizens] are not the property of the state and therefore are under no obligation to carry a piece of paper which identifies us as if we were a piece of state property. Theoretically in the UK you do not even have to give your name if asked by the Police, unless you are under arrest.

There's also an association of ID cards being symbolic of totalitarian regimes, viz. the Nazis or Communist Russians of so much popular culture, grim-faced and eternally demanding "Your papers!"

You can argue that in the form of Driving Licenses / bank cards / work ID cards, most people here are already carrying ways to prove their ID when required and that an officially issued card wouldn't make much practical difference, but the stigma against a state issued ID card still remains.
What Russian coup in Montenegro?
Quick, someone post this article to LinkedIn.
Is this true? I keep reading that the US is putting increasing pressure on allies not spending at least 2% of GDP in their military.
Why would China do that? It doesn't make money for them.
I'm starting to hate how every thread slowly ends up being about the US instead of the actual topic. HN avoided this for the long time but slowly crawling up here too. Reddit already past this, there is no post in almost any front page default sub without mentioning Trump
To be fair to x86, each new generation of SIMD added new kinds of arithmetic & logic operations too, not just wider registers.

RISC-V will need to do the same, so expect to see multiple versions of the "V" extension over time.
Agree

The more I move away engineering, the more I feel the unreliability of human beings, and its stark contraction to machines.

Of cuz, machines, when sufficiently complex, becomes unreliable as well. But by operating still within that boundary, one can already do exceptionally things.

People managers essentially are dealing with a completely different entities than machines. Rarely one can operate on 2 different entities and still perform exceptionally.
+1 for ControlPlane. I’ve got a lot of automations set up for things like muting my speakers when I get to the office (remember those days?), when I use an app that listens to my microphone, automatically turning on a Hue light Red and toggling Do not Disturb so I don’t get interrupted is my latest and favorite though.
It's surprising there even has to be a "right to repair" to actually repair things.
When Learning Is Remote: Students Climb Trees and Travel Miles for a Cell Signal
>because when I order something online there's not necessarily anyone there to look at it with their eyeballs

Isn't that problematic because all Timmy has to do get his hands on booze is to lay his eyes on someone's ID? I don't see how the scheme is any more secure than validating the order wasn't placed with a prepaid credit card (presumably only adults have access to non-prepaid credit cards). It makes much more sense to do the verification on delivery, rather than when you're placing the order.
For some reason the HN title, which was originally the actual title, has been changed to "Common color mistakes and how to avoid them", which seems weird. The actual title ("How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations") doesn't seem clickbait-y, so why take the subtitle instead?
Maybe the whole web and browser game is not sustainable were it not for ads and bloat
huh? by invade i mean they want to own Taiwan, not destroy it.
Which is why authoritarian regimes control what the broad population decide, thinks, and sees.
> BetterTouchTools - Who'll live without this one? Just give "three fingers swipe down" mapped to cmd-w and your life will be quite that much better. No more click at the upper corner tiny button to close a window which is an insanely dumb usability.

I prefer using the keyboard as much as I can, and I use Cmd+W to close windows (yes, sometimes one may mistakenly hit Cmd+Q and close the entire application, but muscle memory can help).
I accidentally dosed myself in the middle of the night once after turning LSD crystal into ethanol:water:lsd solution and being careless at some point in the process.

Those damn mucous membranes, they really get ya. Must have touched my lips absentmindedly.

Before I realized, I was in bed trying to sleep. Restless, tossing and turning. Eventually started feeling that unmistakable body high around 1am. Anyone who’s done LSD before knows the sensation I’m talking about, you can’t miss it.

Cue a couple hours of having no idea how much I had dosed. I was trying to keep a loose subjective accounting of the time. In my head I’m simulating the different possibilities: either I dosed the equivalent of 1 hit a couple hours ago, 2hits an hour ago, or 4+ hits 30 minutes ago. It wasn’t until I passed peak that those different forked realities collapsed like the wave function and it became clear to me that I’d dosed something like 250 ug.

I didn’t sleep that night, as you can imagine. But the run I went on when the sun finally came up at 6am was incredible.
Minecraft's Pack.png Found
It seems to be the same reason as of why "How to exit vim?" was generating .005% traffic on stackoverflow.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19069526

Web development has seen a boom and there are a lot of new web enthusiasts.
What are you talking about? unique_ptr contains a pointer, that's it. Yes, to represent a pointer you have to contain a point. Passing it on or not makes zero difference and using a website that return unoptimized C++, is not a good place to gather intel. unique_ptr is zero cost, unless you use it across library boundaries without LTO.
From Rebecca Rozelle-Stone's Simone Weil and Theology: "For Weil, attention is the decreative release of self to receive the world in all its reality. Paradoxically, this (passive) letting go of self and accompanying control is simultaneously a “creative” action: attention sees what is invisible (as the good samaritan saw the bleeding, anonymous, dirty man in the ditch) and hears what has been deprived of a voice because the din and smog generated from our maintenance of control has finally cleared."
You're right on the strength of my argument, but you're wrong on anarchy not being able to create governments (in the M-W definition above). But I'm not going to argue this any more.
> Noun compact (plural compacts)

> An agreement or contract.
I would be surprised if users asked for battery level reporting, and various other modern web standards.

If Google introduced a “let website know I’m using phone on the toilet” service, I’m sure some people will claim in retrospect that users wanted it.

I’m not saying that users know everything they want. But the claim that those apis are there because users want them is also false.
What I can't figure is how much browser core debugging will suffer with DevTools no longer available to inspect misbehaving in-the-wild JS/HTML/CSS -- code that behaves "right" on Chrome but not FF.
Nope, there will be no great power wars while MAD still exists (and it does between china and the US).

At best, you will get some kind of military skirmish before they decide to pull out the nukes. There will likely be threats of nuclear exchange which lead to a cease fire. If there is no cease fire, than God help us all.

But no, two nuclear armed states are not going to fight a large scale conventional war. Partly this is because the US would spank China in a conventional war.
Why v in institute?
"Freedom isn't free

There's a heavy [FLOWERBED] fee."--Team America by way of the Babylon Bee
> in an ideal world, trustworthiness of information should not be coupled to how slick its presentation is.

On the surface and without context, this sounds like an ideal, but it’s an interesting question and I wonder if you and I would really want that ideal. I’m not so sure that trustworthiness and presentation are separable nor whether I think they should be. Just Google “ugly web pages” and really imagine how many of them you could see yourself trusting. When there are clear signs that some information has had no thought put into the presentation, isn’t it reasonable and natural to start assuming that lack of attention extends to the information itself? Presentation is a very important part of how information is interpreted. It’s easy, for example, with bad color choices to accidentally emphasize one piece of data over another, and therefore to mislead the viewer - like how something yellow or bright green tends to dominate next to dark grey. By choosing colors carefully like in the article, the presentation can actually make the information more neutral.

An interesting followup question might be: what characteristics should make information trustworthy? What other cues should I look for in a presentation to know whether something is trustworthy? Ideally, the trustworthiness of information should depend solely on whether it’s true, right? But ignoring that there are points of view and shades of true, in the world we live in, we use other cues like who is the presenter and what are their credentials, whether we agree with the conclusions beforehand, whether we were seeking the information or it was pushed, whether the presentation is informational or agenda driven, and lots of other things... since it’s often impossible to know whether information is true or not without resorting to original research. What cues should we use to establish trust in information without having to do original research?
> My CV evolved over the last 20 years as a word doc, and loading it in anything else explodes it into 2x the pages.

I usually fix this with libreoffice by installing fonts that are metric-compatible with Microsoft ones.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Metric-compatible_fonts
So how would you describe the ability to open a Hebrew bible/prayerbook and recite recite verses or liturgy that you have never seen before and don't have memorized? I think that's "reading", albeit without comprehension. This is common among religious folk.

Note: most religious schools I know of do try to teach the kids to understand what they're reading as well, but that's a more advanced phase - first the kids learn to read Hebrew, which is the bare minimum requirement to be a functioning member of religious society, and then they're taught to understand what they're reading.

My experience was that some kids learned enough to translate a passage of average difficulty by high school, while others never quite got past the very basic vocabulary. But no one in my school got past second grade without being able to read and transcribe a text. (This was at a religious day school in the US).
> > cmd+backtick is like cmd+tab but between windows of the same app.

> Well, I wish that were completely true, because cmd+backtick only cycles through the windows of the application, while cmd+tab lets you select the application you want.

I'm having trouble distinguishing between these two descriptions of the behaviour. What is different between what you say and what the author says?
Yes but Luxembourg is a small, wealthy, homogeneous country (cough, tax haven, cough).

Bigger countries can't afford to do that as their infrastructure costs are higher.
Being able to read is helpful. They are "zero cost abstractions". Yes, they are not zero cost, big surprise (I thought they wouldn't produce assembly instructions). A pointer is an indirect reference. But the abstraction around them is zero cost:

i.e. there is no way to end up with faster code that does the same thing, without using the abstraction.

This is the very definition of zero cost abstractions.
Then they'll just pay a few journalists to run a couple hit pieces on the open web, saying it's a place where people who kick puppies reside.
There aren't many.

You mentioned Canonical and Red hat IBM. For Canonical I actually don't know their model (they had Amazon search integrated but haven't seen them in any business context) RedHat (now IBM) has servicesl/support.

For other I see with notable scale

- MySQL (nowadays Oracle) with services/support and dual licensing
- Qt (Trolltech/Nokia/Digi/Qt Company) with dial licensing and consulting services
-MongoDB, Redis, ElasticLabs all burning VC and support, dual licensing

After those the list becomes short for me. Most other open source software is side business, from doing something else (i.e. many Apache or Eclipse projects) or supported by small companies/individual developers who do consulting around it or got sometime from their employer to work on it.
- npm: burning VC (and offering commercial repo) (now GitHub/Microsoft not sure they want to see profits from it or only control of the environment)
Because of the way iMessage is designed though, it just happens to benefit them by making any other platform look broken if you don't do these steps. They worked with the mobile companies to get visual voicemail support, why not for this?

How many regular users do neither of these things and just shove their old phone in a drawer or let their kid watch YouTube on it?
One wonders where this disinformation campaign is.....
China is already paying most TSMC employees to move to China already. TSMC won't last 10years at its current strength.
Testing Delegates and Protocols in XCTest
Capitalism is not incompatible with dictatorships. Pinochet is a common example, but also Nazi Germany had a working state capitalism, like China.
The important part is the "wasn't" in "Taiwan wasn't any better".

After Japan lost WW2, the island of Taiwan they had annexed in 1895 was turned over to the KMT, who moved their capital to Taiwan as a result of losing the Chinese Civil War to the CCP and ruled the island as a one-party dictatorship with martial law lasting from 1949 to 1987, during which they killed and imprisoned many dissidents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)

Taiwan has only been democratic since the 90s. Before that, the only thing distinguishing their government from that of Mainland China was their anti-Communist ideology.
Only it's not you that wants the child returned but the guy that invaded your house and is living there now.
The largest threat in the long term for Apple is when NVidia is successful buying ARM
It's not that easy. To use someone's electronic ID as verification you either need their ID card and their ID pin code and probably access to their computer as well or mobile phone (+ access to it) and their ID pin code.
Speaking from an orthopedic perspective (though most fields are similar), there are literally thousands of ways to measure this, they are called (not surprisingly) outcome measures and they are basically the foundation of almost every medical study. Many are a collection of questions or items that add up to a given score which is how they are able to be statistically analyzed.

Some are subjective like pain (VAS or visual analog pain scale, “rate your pain 1-10”), ability to do daily activities, “would you have this procedure again?”, return to pre-injury activity level, etc.

Others are objective like range of motion, strength, bone healing noted on Xray or ct, tendon / ligament healing observed on mri, histiologic healing observed from follow up biopsy, rehospitilzation rates, revision surgery rates, infection rates, or mortality rates (the ultimate objective outcome measure).

There is hardly a shortage of outcome measures out there, and researchers propose new ones all the time, but they need to be validated as relevant and accurate by other studies before they are widely adopted.

http://www.orthopaedicscores.com
The Linux kernel has contributors from Redhat, OEMs, etc. There unfortunately isn't that type of interest in FF.
Not exclusively c++xx but more like the rapid pace of new features in all of the big libraries (glibc, etc). And it's not the only reason for containers but it's probably the largest.

I'm going to bet you haven't tried to use an older distro in the last decade and have kept up to date. Trying to run software from outside your repos that's written with the latest features is a serious problem on even mildly old distros. It wasn't such a serious problem with the slower rate of development 2000-2010. GCC 4 spanned an entire decade.

I get that on the big corporate server side there are different reasons for containers; for scaling, deployment, and all that jazz. But on the desktop, or in academia, it's the primary reason. It's futureshock and containers are the fever.
These conspiracy theories ignore how from ~2013-2018 Yahoo was the main source of income for Firefox. How is Google convincing their competitor to help them in an antitrust case?
As I wrote in the article, there’s increasingly not a shared identity or values between people in the same nation state. I think the burden of the proof needs to be on “why should nation states exist?” in that kind of environment. Especially considering how new the idea of a nation state is in history.
Ads are not the same thing as spying.

One of the biggest problems with this whole discussion is that people, including those who should know better, are not making distinctions between ads based maybe on broad characteristics vs ads that are based on tracking every move you make across the internet, purchases in stores with credit cards, and micro targeting based on specific interests.

With just ads you can place a direct value on how much people are willing to pay to not see them. Netflix does this. Hulu does this by offering 2 services, as free and and supported at different prices. Normal business practices should create a market that allows people who are willing to see ads and those who wish to pay more to be ad free to both be serviced.

The problem right now with micro targeting and extreme spying is that you have a race to the bottom that has users paying for the services they use not through watching ads, or monetary payments but through data and information about themselves. That data is much more valuable than just for ads. It makes it extremely difficult for someone who isn’t the biggest player in a market to, for example, compete with the entrenched power. So it’s not just people watching creepy ads, but it also entrenches monopolies, and allows the likes of Google and Facebook to create new monopolies based on data they have gained from their existing monopolies.

Ads are, if anything, the least problematic part about the spying and data collection because at least they are open and obvious to everyone. Google and Facebook do far more creepy things than what they do with the ads privately, but the largest uproar has been about ads simply because that’s the most transparent use of the crazy data collection practices.
Would China let any non-loyalists go to HK?
> You're assuming the "real" ideological position of a black Marxist starting a black advocacy movement protesting police violence against black people is actually Marxism, whereas the actual evidence from her own mouth is that the "real" ideological position is the black advocacy.

Actually, I’m suspecting that the “real” ideological position of the BLM organization is both an end to police-on-black violence and certain extreme economic-socio-political goals, except that its leadership tries to keep the latter aims covert. After all, even in its overt public platform the BLM organization makes certain demands (like for empowering trans people) that go beyond the matter of police violence against black people. So, you cannot claim that the BLM organization is tightly focused just on antiracism.
That is about par for course on any service offered by cable companies. I had three different TiVos with cablecard support and I had very no issues getting the cable company, Verizon FiOS initially and Frontier later, to install them and configure them.
A year ago, I gave up on cable and went to OTA, but that was just due to cost and nothing to do with service.
>National identity needs to be tracked in any country, regardless whether you have an ID card, and all the systems the UK has in place prove that point, the card doesn't change anything other than actually guaranteeing some standards and safety and consistency and providing some utility.

There are advantages in making it harder to request id. Imagine a world where any website or app can validate your identity by tapping your national id on your phone/tablet/computer (via NFC). I would think every website is going to start asking for your national id for account creation or login, for "security" and "anti-fraud" purposes of course. We already see this with phone validation for major services (eg. google, outlook, twitter). At least with phone validation it's not directly linked to your real life identity, and you can get burner phones.
Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
As far as I can attest (I studied together with them), this is not the case :)
Lmao. Talk to anyone from east or south east asia about their thoughts of the british (if they were part of a former colonized country) and the story will go something like this:

"Well, the british weren't perfect but compared to Japan, or the 50 years of totalitarian warlords who ruled after, they were a paradise"
Not sure that refurbing pc's had a problem with a right to repair.

Some bandwagon jumping going on
> Path Finder has a few nice features, but its updates and update schedules haven't been great. A cheaper alternative that also supports network transfers is Forklift.

It is mentioned in the article immediately after Path Finder. The author says they prefer Path Finder for its good column view, which they find no alternative offers.
I think Fox Sports does something similar and people complained. I've gotten used to seeing cut-outs of people at ballgames now .. weird times that we live in!