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Ask HN: Filter Shopping Results from Search?
When searching for help repairing commercial products the search results contain almost nothing but links to product listings on Amazon, Ebay, Aliexpress and so on. Adding the keyword 'problem' used to resolve this issue but search engines like Google or even DDG apparently no longer care. Filtering by e.g. -"add to cart" replaces the results with non-English product listings.

How should one deal with this? Finding troubleshooting information used to be easy.
Ought != is. They should be applauded for this.
Thanks for the solid recap, for some reason I forgot how voice chat was a big focus of Discord in the beginning. That might be because I mostly use Discord for non-gaming oss servers where voice chat isn't really a focus, and rather it's just a chat app.

It's interesting how they started out focused on gaming and have since moved away from it. I discovered a new Discord competitor, Guilded.gg, that sprouted up with marketing claiming Discord has abandoned gamers and they're going to recapture them.

It just goes to show that you never know which direction it's going to truly move and you have to be able to pivot. But having a core initial user group that you solve a problem for is key, and having a working product is key as well.
Every point you have mentioned can be applied against any behemoth in any country, with slight exceptions on some countries having more controls than others.

Ever heard of a lobbyist? How the FCC operates, how lobbying is influencing decisions , how net neutrality is screwed etc etc?! once you check those out, you will find a common story line across board.

Also w.r.t privacy, the link posted on this has 30 trackers, you are already being followed everywhere online! infact, every site that you visit will have 2-3 trackers so, jio may be a plus one than being the sole problem!

But would be very interested to know about JIO blocking Wikipedia, any sources?
The Crazy Story of Facebook's 'AI Invented Language' [video]
I assume a device's security is improved by being hampering the ability to install software. Can I rely on an Android device to not be tampered with or have malware just as much as I can an iOS device?

I don't mean secure as in the NSA can't break into it. I mean secure as in normal people can't mess it up clicking bullshit links in WhatsApp messages.
Europe still has extensive passenger rail network, but in my experience a train trip is roughly twice the price of flying in 500-1000 kilometer journeys. That needs to change somehow before trains can have a chance of a renaissance.
Yep, they even quoted some recent HN comments in the article.

I have absolutely no doubt that a small but vocal minority will remain unsatisfied. I'm not surprised by this move, as there was barely anything left in the Enterprise license anyway. Personally, I think this is a great move, and one that should in theory leave that vocal minority with very little to actually grumble about.
Excellent point and that makes sense.. I remember using Teamspeak way back in the day.
I went on site for an interview with FB a few years ago. College atmosphere is exactly as I'd describe it. Free cafe for the kids, they were brewing beer in one corner of the office, they were keen to point out all the stuff they had available for just hanging out with the bros. If you want to work at FB, show up on a skate board, with beat headphones and a zip down hoodie. Don't show up looking like someone that works in an office.
Richard E. Borcherds Lectures
See: further down this thread where literal-minded software engineers all try to "fix" this analogy but can't agree on how.
Because "great for developers" just shouldn't matter. It should be about what the consumers want.
Damn you're totally right. You'd have to have a subscription fee and a team of mods to fix that.
These diagrams look worse than the default tool with comes with SQLServer...
Can you share some of the screenshots?
What's his net worth?
Not even a little bit. Wind and solar are the cheapest source of power, with their usability reduced only by surge demands. Liquifying H2 would absorb peak production and be unaffected by temporary lulls.

Unless you think it would be natural to use the more expensive power instead?
It shuts someone from a 10 dollar job that doesn't exist. But it doesn't shut people out of the labor market.

Removing the floor creates a new cheap labor market where Americans are shut out because they can't afford to live in that wage group. That's why the cost of living should be connected to min wage.

Take vegetable picking as an example. No one will pay an American min wage so they can't fill those jobs. They want 3 dollars an hour workers. No American can afford to live on that so they are shut out of those jobs. They import temp workers who can convert $3 American to $20.00 their currency and can live a higher standard of living to their peers.

Removing the floor killed thousand of American jobs. Why would we import it to other industries?
If you don't like Epic, then aren't they exactly who you want to take part in what will likely be a long and economically painful legal battle?

I'm not a fan either but indie developers don't have the resources necessary to take Apple to court and win.
Yup, I have the same problem with UML diagrams. I always end up drawing the UML or ER diagrams by hand (i.e. manually), incorporating the tables/fields/relationships that seem interesting, leaving out the things that aren't. Then I update the diagrams multiple times as I start to understand the system better, or make changes to it.
Wonder what it's like to be a Facebook employee on HackerNews and see this

Anyone who joined, or stayed at Facebook, in the last say 5 years, 100% knew about it and was OK with it. They’re probably laughing at everyone else taking so long to figure it out!
Can't overstate how grotesquely inhumane solitary is. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/solitary-nation/
Love that you're doing this! Some questions and feedback:

When downloading background removed images, they all save as the same filename. It would be useful to suffix the existing filename. Speaking of the background remover, the gold standard seems to be remove.bg. I compared the quality and it seems, comparatively, hotpot's edge detection is not as tight. Is this something you guys are actively working on or is it "done" for now? I'm asking because I was looking for options to remove backgrounds of about 1500 images, but remove.bg is awfully expensive.

Regarding the organization, its very clean but also seems very simple for a graphics SaaS. At the minimum it would be nice to see a search bar in front to see what's available and make each parent clickable. i.e. Clicking on instagram shows all instagram options in one place.

I relate to your initial pain point of trying to find a good and easy way to get app store screenshots and was surprised by lack of quality options. Glad you expanded into other categories as well.

Good luck!
> How much could this reduce the total environmental food print of cattle?

Poore and Nemecek did a pretty comprehensive survey of the climate impact of different foods https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987 in 2018. Their underlying data suggests that methane accounts for about 38% of the total CO2 equivalent impact of beef herds. So if this is true, beef would still be highly damaging, but materially improved over where it sits now.
I agree. It's difficult to determine where the line is drawn. I think the primary considerations should be the methods used and the potential harm caused.

Yes, TV shows can be made to be "addicting" but what is the potential harm? Someone sits around watching too much TV? That's not a very big drain on society at the end of the day. Sure it's not great, but the negative outcomes for the society as a whole don't seem to be too impactful.

Now look at gambling. It's certainly addictive because of various techniques used by casinos to get people hooked. It seems that much of society agrees that it also has some negative impact on society as a whole. It drags people into impossible debts which can have a variety of negative externalities... loan sharks, violence, evaporation of wealth, financial crimes, etc.

It seems clear to me that not only is social media addictive but it is also having a net-negative impact on society and that is why people are concerned. If the impact was just people are spending their evenings glued to the screen but not going out and causing societal issues then I don't think anyone would be too concerned.
I get that this product is about super low cost but seems to me that with a custom firmware, the AirPods Pro could do a brilliant job of noise cancellation and amplification of specific frequency bands. Ostensibly, you could even employ some ML to enhance clarity of spoken words, etc - like Krisp
Yep - the scrimba site is using partial hydration heavily. Hope to get imba 2.0 final out in a few months :)
I've been following safeboot for a while and it looks really, really cool!

One concern I've been having regarding a read-only root file system – an idea that I really like! – was how cumbersome software updates (say, through apt) and quick config changes (in /etc) must be. AFAIU I'd have to manually sign a new rootfs image every single time[0] which looks rather painful to me. I wish Linux distributions provided a clear separation between user-facing software & configs and system-internal stuff that one hardly ever has to touch: IMHO software & configs should by default get installed on a per-user basis and not require root. (And applications should also be sandboxed by default but I'm digressing…)

[0] https://safeboot.dev/install/#root-filesystem-updates
Microsoft does not allow anyone else to sell digital Xbox games.

This is the crux of all of this. Apple is doing what everyone else is doing. Google charges 30% and kicked Fortnite off the play store. Steam charges 15-30%. Microsoft and Sony have a monopoly on digital distribution of games on their console platforms, and charge some percent that I can't easily find.

Hell, if you take this thought to conclusion, Epic has a monopoly on the Fortnite digital store.

The idea that Apple is a monopoly is pretty silly. There is obviously smartphone competition, and Apple is a minority player. The idea that Apple has a monopoly on iOS and the App Store is true... but if that is illegal then it should also be illegal for Epic to have a monopoly on skins in Rocket League. I find that to be a pretty preposterous proposition.
> Adding random apks or even downloading anything from the play store can legitimately be unsafe.

It has been unsafe, but Android was designed with this in mind and is continually improving its security model. For instance, Android 11 added a regular check-in for permissions you have granted to apps and tightened a bunch of other loose ends like background location access.

(In general, barring unpatched security vulnerabilities, it's about as unsafe as blindly clicking things in your web browser, or believing the weird robot that calls you every day really should know your bank account number. You can try to help this using technology, but it is not a technology problem).

Apple does the same kind of work all the time, tightening sandboxes and patching vulnerabilities, but they always have the crutch of app reviews to fall back on. But it is completely wrong to believe that crutch is the thing between iOS as a reliable platform and iOS as a malware-ridden hellscape. That's what Apple wants you to think, but their developers are not actually that stupid.

For evidence on how you can build a solid, reasonably secure platform without this kind of crutch, you might consider Linux on servers, desktop MacOS, modern desktop Linux (particularly stuff like Fedora Silverblue), even modern Windows. This is not a solved problem by any means, but it's solved enough that giving up, closing the gate and throwing away the key is completely counter-productive.
Yes, it does mean that you have to use them (if you already do). If you're a user of Spotify or Tinder and they pull out of the App Store, you now have to follow whatever arbitrary consumer-hostile decisions that will make them the most money since there's no one to tell them otherwise. I like that they have to follow the strict rules in the App Store because I know they want that sweet sweet App Store money and won't pull out unless there's a less strict option. It's like giving auto manufacturers a choice to either sell via dealerships that follow EPA laws or those that don't. Gee, I wonder which one they will go with given the choice?
More on Plankalkül: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
To me, It’s not just that it’s addictive that is the problem, it’s that the addiction is accelerating the spread of misinformation and allows national/global hate groups to not only exist but flourish.

Many have suspected it for a long while but this testimony proves that Facebook profits from hate groups and the spread of misinformation. That’s not hyperbole, that’s now fact.
Cost-Cutting Use Cases of AI in Banking and Finance
How many apps do we use that don't have an identical counterpart on another platform? I have an android phone and looking at it, I think the only app I have installed myself that isn't available on the iPhone is an app that lets you write a shader to use as your background.
This is not correct, what you are thinking is implementation defined or maybe unspecified behavior.

Please do explain the behavior of calling an uninitialized function pointer on x86 if you insist.
the circumspection over democracy is as much a consequence of elitism as it is political wrangling.

as a member of the (extra-)educated class, the failure to convince the ignorant masses of our superior ideas and policies lies squarely at our feet. we fail to realize that education and intelligence are differences we magnify in our egos and thrust upon others, without regard to circumstance nor environment. we know better, so why don't they listen to us, their betters?

wedging happens all around. it's most insidious when blinded by (self-)righteousness. clumsy terms like cancel culture and wokeness try to describe/mock this sort of tribalism, but the underlying impetuses those terms describe is a significant contributor to division as well.
If that were true, there wouldn't be any reason to write this submission's article. But the article points out that it's not merely a supervised learning problem; the number of board states for a 768x768 board is 768x768xN, where N is the number of time steps. How would you gather labels for every possible board state? It would require 768 factorial labels to represent every possibility.

Consider the problem of face completion: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/miscellaneous/...

Given a set of faces, mask off random parts of the face, then try to fill in the holes.

Neural nets excel at that kind of task, because as you say, it's a supervised learning problem: you "know the solution" (the missing face) and you can penalize / reward the model so that it learns a correct face on average.

But game of life is nothing like that. Every board is a valid board. You can set the board to whatever values you want, and then say "Go!" and game of life will happily simulate it.

Therefore the neural network's goal isn't to learn the board state; it's to learn the rules, and to obey the rules. Hence, self-play seems like a reasonable formulation.

Without self-play, your learned network will always overfit or underfit different scenarios. E.g. even if it does well in general, a sparse board might throw it off. Or a board with a bunch of pieces in one corner. Or a board in a checkerboard pattern. But self-play will automatically handle all of these cases, because it's forced to learn the patterns over time.

Minesweeper is another example: it's possible to win every game using nothing but logic (disregarding tiebreakers), so therefore the solution is known. But I don't think it can be formulated as a supervised learning problem. There are too many board states, and the board states are related to each other via logic ("am I obeying the game state?") rather than atoms ("what does a human face look like?")
Fair, but the Senate was designed as a moderating influence to hedge against mob rule. That may be a good idea, but today it's also a joke.
>If a consumer does not like the experience of purchasing their apps in the app store, they can use Safari to access the web site, purchase an Android or use a PC for their computing needs, and a console/portable for their gaming needs.

That sounds like an incredible headache for the customer wishing to opt for an alternative.

> If ALL mobile platforms did not allow sideloading and charged similar rates, AND it was impossible to create a new mobile platform (admittedly difficult, RIP Microsoft, Blackberry, Nokia, Firefox OS) AND it could be shown webapps are not viable (they are viable) then Apple plus the other platform might have an anti-trust problem.

You've made my argument for me: nobody wants to use a webapp and just about no one does. There's only one other mobile platform with any market share and it's Google's Android. The Sisyphean task of launching a new OS into this fray is so high that even an authoritarian nation-state isn't going to do it, so let's just call a spade a spade and say it's impossible.

Google's Android doesn't give you blue bubbles so say goodbye to much of your iPhone-privileged social circle, which uses blue bubbles as a new kind of social elitism predicated on wealth-peacocking. You're essentially bullied into one avenue or the other and the apps you paid for a long tether of slavery to the platform you've picked. It's enough to give someone Stockholm syndrome but I'm not yet out catching bullets for them, are you?

All of these corporations need to be broken up. The problem is not just Apple. But Apple's platform is locked down so tight they will stop at nothing to get their penny's share, whether you're a cool new email service (Hey) or you want to launch a gaming cloud service (xCloud, Stadia, you-name-it).

This is not Costco selling generic fruits and meats for your consumption. This is a dominion of access to how you communicate, to how you read, to how you play.
> Your perspective makes me sad. I'm honestly depressed because people rush to defend bad behavior of their favorite monopoly. Like, physically holding back tears. Serious.

As long as there's no law where if a company refuses to cancel a "recurring billing" with the same number of clicks that was done to create a recurring billing a customer can immediately collect N times the amount of subscription value from the company the likes of Epic, Match and Spotify can go and eff themselves. Customers like app store payments because the alternatives demonstrated to be swindling scum.
I'm not sure if you're being intentionally obtuse but I have my suspicions. Blacks are convicted of violent crimes at far higher rates than whites. I will not postulate on how much of that conviction rate is a self fulfilling prophecy on the part of the police (much has been written about this possibility by people far more qualified than me) but the practical effect is that the police do not extend the benefit of the doubt to black people, particularly young black men, nearly as readily as they do for other demographics and this extends to all contexts which is a problem for black men who are trying to exercise a right that (in some jurisdictions) police are the gate keepers of.
We aren't after the same five dollars
What does it mean for an analogy to be powerful? I typically see analogies used to support an argument, which analogies don't do. Hence you see the conversation break down into whether or not the analogy is accurate or not.

Analogies illustrate a concept. They don't establish reasoning or causation or proof.
> lawmaking is a semantic designation

The semantics, in this case, is when someone is trying to ask "why have lawmakers not done X yet?"

And then the response to this question is "its not the law!"

The original question was quite clearly asking for a justification or reason as for why lawmakers have not done something.

And then the semantic response, that ignored the very obvious question, was to say "this is what the law is!".
> what's the motivation behind the leak?

To let criminals know which banks they can trust?
I've had the same questions myself. America has this dual system of capitalism and democracy. We are greatly affected by both. When the two exists in our borders, we are able to sort of use one to effect the other, etc. but globalization expanded our markets (supply, labor, and demand) while leaving all the democratic restraints and "feedback" at home.
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat on OpenShift so I'm biased, but this opinion is my own

Odo is an interesting tool to me. In the K8s/OpenShift space there's always been a tension between "admin facing" and "developer facing" interfaces. Devs and sysadmins have mostly had to use interfaces more tailored to devops pros and people familiar with how K8s works. Numerous efforts to fix this have been tried, odo being one of them.

I didn't like odo at first because it felt like a leaky abstraction. It still may be, but I'm warming up to the idea quite a bit, especially as it is maturing and seems to be adding real value not easily realizable with `oc`. I'm looking forward to diving into odo 2 and trying it out.
Coming from a former Soviet block country, this practice is widely known simply because it was so prevalent. In the capital, there's a theatre by the main square which literally bears the name "Russian Theatre" [1]. Whenever a military parade was held, the theatre's name was retouched out of all images to avoid the ridicule the name would imply.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/LYeCLoRoLVMnifEt7
Young urbanites don't cook. They don't drive, how do they get groceries. They probably have a single frying pan. For these people, free food at work might be a large portion of their daily caloric intake, outside of the beer/booze.
Eh. Not a fan myself, but it's a good example of highly popular content that Spotify is using to restrict consumer choice and promote their own platform.
Shakti Announces Third Silicon Success with the Arduino-Compatible Moushik
Note, they didn't say Republican, they said "Republican"

The Dem Convention was filled with "Republicans." There were/are a fair number that tried pushing back against the Tea Party first, then Trump (remember "Never Trump" Republicans? Or "Log Cabin" Republicans?).

The issue is not that Republicans went crazy; it's that party dynamics shifted. So, consistent with your surprise, there's a word for, , as GP put it, "Republicans": "Democrats"
I must have come across the same as OP somewhere. Where Sweden was more likely to completely skip the judicial process, so we wouldn't notice it as we are now in the U.K. It wouldn't have reached Swedish courts to even see if your source still holds up.
Because subsidy is an idiotic way to fund it. What's the point of seeking private investment if the government guarantees profit, selects the reactor design and it's location? What usefull funcrion do private investors fullfill, their funding is more expensive than a government loan.

They should contract EDF to build it for a fixed price, job done.
> misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news

It's amazing to see people casually use these words as if they still have universally meaningful definitions. Not anymore. What one half of the country considers misinformation another half of the country considers the truth. Not to mention that social media operates internationally.

You can't have a meaningful discussion without admitting this and doing something to escape the semantic trap of perfect ambiguity. In other words, you first need to establish some sort of information processing principle that is unambiguously defined and everyone (or at least the wast majority of people) agrees with.
A startup said no to an investor. The investor sued, citing a breach of contract