skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think the question is reversed. Now that the consoles are rather clearly general purpose computing devices, why are they not asked to be open?

The two arguments I have seen seems pretty weak to me: they are not general-purpose computing device and that's how they make money.
I think you debunk the former pretty well, and as for the latter they are not entitled to a specific business model.
Nice domain name for "job resume" related services
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Can someone elaborate what the satirical part of this article is? I’m not sure I understand. Or in other words: I agree with this version very much.
Why would companies collude to raise salaries? If other law firms did not raise salaries to remain competitive, that would be suspicious, especially if the firm that did mysteriously lowered them again a short time later.
> * I don't care about privacy; I have nothing to hide.

I find that those people change their attitude immediately when responded with "OK, if you have nothing to hide give me your Facebook/LinkedIn/Instagram/email username and password." All of a sudden, they do have something to hide.
At some point in my company we've bought quite a lot of Intel SSD, and many failed after a relatively light use. We're using Samsung ones, and they're obviously much more reliable.
Applying Chaos Engineering in Healthcare
It's obnoxiously loud.
Treating people as your adversary is the surest way to get them to act like it. That's true of employees, customers, and strangers.

If my boss tracked me like this I'd put a good amount of effort into getting around the tracking.
How to Fix PostgreSQL Performance Issues with PG Extras
Mesa 20.2.0 Is Released. ACO is now the default shader compiler for AMD Vulkan
That's a pretty valid criticism. I am wary of significant whitespaces too as are many people(and one of the reasons I use Ruby for scripting rather than python.)
Right at the top of the article it points to hacker news using insufficient contrast. BUT, clearly the author is not familiar with the site because the example they give in the screenshot is of a comment which has intentionally been rendered with extremely low contrast because of the number of negative votes it has received.

Technically, this violates ADA guidelines on contrast, but I think it is a completely legitimate use.
I would disagree with your idea of living in a rural area somehow allowing you to distance yourself more from the internet, at least based on my own experience living in exactly such a place in Europe. Sure, we don't need the smartphone to get an Uber or get pizza delivery, but many necessities are also online. So rural does not mean backwards in those regards.

Examples:
I'm entirely dependent on online banking, as the nearest bank office is 30 minutes way (and it will be closed by end of 2021).

The shops around here are mostly just food shops and a few ones that are more specific to the rural life, but for any modern creature comforts I quickly have to resort to online shopping.

Want to take the bus, only mobile tickets are accepted these days.

etc etc.
Plotted btc inflation vs. btc tokenization
> slack is social media

That is far fetched, but I don't know where do you work. I've got 2 slacks going at any point of time - work one is pretty tame and business only (our work culture is dry). The other one is for a developer community and I wouldn't call it "social media", but a community focused on certain topic.
> Jobs like nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, etc. are 3 year apprenticeships in Germany.

You're wrong about the pharmacists (it's a study program almost as hard as medicine), and the fact that nurses are not an academic study in Germany is something that is often criticized.
The linked page[0] on the Android website explaining the choice screen has some interesting information on the auction, including:

> Google will use a fourth-price auction to select the other general search providers that appear in the choice screen. ... The three highest bidders will appear in the choice screen for that country. The provider that is selected by the user will pay the amount of the fourth-highest bid.

My gut reaction to this auction system is that it would be vulnerable to abuse by a small number of bad actors. For example, what is to stop a company from bidding an artificially high amount in order to win the auction, knowing that they will most likely end up paying a more reasonable sum by the other fair bidders?

[0]: https://www.android.com/choicescreen/
> We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons.

I'm sure the main one was that people associate fingerprints with being arrested, but maybe they could trick people into volunteering to be constantly fingerprinted by a private company if they just used a different part of the hand.
Ah, thanks for the heads-up. I tried to understand what you mean and found this: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/americans-class-politics-pist...
Seems somewhat reasonable to me.

But at the same time this statement:

> When people can’t easily identify who will be the ultimate beneficiary of a particular state program or policy — that is, whether the rich or the poor will come out on top — then support for that program plummets.

makes me wonder how this should change in times of industrial grade trolling and disinformation campaigns. And if the compass is so fragile, why is that?
> IMHO, this argument is shallow, as all 3 formats are text-based. Thus, you can - and should - compress files.

Not only that, but converting data to text, compressing, decompressing and back from text to data is kinda dumb; there's technologies like EXI (https://www.w3.org/standards/xml/exi) that transport XML data in a compact binary format. It may not be readable in transit, but switching the transport or converting the EXI into text-based XML should be trivial if you want to inspect it manually.

But people seem to be reluctant to have mechanical sympathy, even if the data is barely ever read by humans.
Airbus drone broke up in-flight because it couldn’t handle Australian weather
>I found it amusing.
You wanted the door opened or not?
Great podcast! Thanks for sharing.
That OpenVDB data structure is a sparse hierarchical collection with a huge count of small 3D blocks of voxels.
They use bit masks in the blocks to track which voxels are empty, and which contain the payload data or higher resolution child blocks.
That’s why these bit manipulation instructions contributed that much to the overall performance of the library.

I saw similar approach in other software as well. Not necessarily for voxels, also 2D data, and trees where nodes use bits to track children.
>Auction does have downsides, but "advertising money" is not a convincing one.

It has nothing to do with auctioning. As your point about how random distribution of those slots being unfair towards DDG shows, those slots are advertisements.

When buying a tangible resource at auction, like part of the spectrum, what you said is more likely to be true. Being willing to spend the most in advertising does not make it likely you're providing more features and services, and it doesn't mean you're an efficient company. It means you're able to generate more revenue per person, and a company that respects your privacy will be unable to compete in that metric.
I think Youtube is only killing the community provided (a.k.a. anyone) subtitles, but the video owners can provide their own subtitles. If there is a risk for you to be sued for not providing captions, you would provide your own anyways.
> I expect they were trying to contrast with face recognition, though.

That's how I understand it too, I think this is just UX, by the time you check out they know who you are and what did you pick up, so I think the palm is just a gesture to confirm, maybe confirming by walking away the store with item or with a face was a weird user experience, and they are trying confirmation "by hand".
Or I'm curious what happen to the, "you just walk away with your items" experience?
I've had no complaints. I have always made it a point that I prefer working on better equipment than the company provides.

I understand people that say the company should just provide you with the best, but honestly beyond a certain point you are often looking at a different value derivation curve.

I've always liked computers, and am rather intolerant of perceived unnecessary inefficiency. In the past I replaced the HDD in my work laptop with an SSD (1st gen, long before these were commodity) because I realized the enormous difference they made. Was working with a HDD impossible? Of course not, and most colleagues worked like that for a few more years. For me, it made me discomfortable knowing the amount of time I was wasting due to some technology hold-back that was already solved.
I'd add a fourth dimension: is it Free and Open Source software?

WhatsApp is proprietary software owned by Facebook, for instance.
I know it's not entirely related, but the informal responsibility you posted is really enlightening.

Would you be ok with sharing your informal take on the other levels?
'Consumer product' is a synonym for 'cheaply built crap sold at premium prices' these days.

Much as how the introduction of SMR allowed for the prices of real hard drives to increase by 25% or more, the development of new data-destroying technologies for consumer SSDs has pushed the effective price for non-garbage SSD storage up to the $0.75-$1 USD per GB level of enterprise SSDs.
That's a losing proposition for end users. Nobody really wants "just google some alternate store and install that" to sound reasonable for anyone (with a few exceptions).
It doesn’t have to be this slow or expensive.
A sprinter train from Berlin to Munich, which is a similar distance, takes a bit less than 4h, non Sprinter is 1h more with Tickets starting at 17.50€
> I think startx now only works if you’re root or have given users additional permissions

That was the case for a while but in OpenBSD 6.7 startx works again out of the box, as long as you have certain graphics hardware, eg. radeon.
I think the relationship is more of a symbiotic one, like wheat.

On the other hand, we get to pick the meaning of "domestication", and I believe the definition leans heavily on the traits a domesticated dog exhibits, so there is not much to discuss here.
Apple TV device UI is pretty great as you'd expect, but the core tech is buggy - sometimes video will just stop playing for no apparent reason, or the audio system will die and you'll have to reboot the device.

Apple TV app on macOS Catalina is a disaster zone. iTunes was pretty bad but the new app manages to be just as confusing, with fewer features, and worse of all it crashes immediately and reliably if you do something totally unexpected, like plugging your laptop into a TV via HDMI. Ridiculous.
I've got too much of impostor syndrome + introversion to get promoted; for me at this point, a promotion would mean moving to a management position (e.g. scrum master, project manager, architect, CTO, roles like that), but they all involve managing and interacting with people a lot more and I'm not very comfortable with that. I'm afraid I'd get full of myself and pissy at people, bossy, etc.

At least I'm not the only one; the other day, instead of asking me if I could work on tasks in a project that shouldn't be my primary focus (in my perception), I got a call from the CEO of the company asking me the same thing instead. Why my colleagues wouldn't just ask me directly? I dunno. Why none of them stood up to take charge of the project in the role of a project manager? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
HOPE THEY LIKE PORN.
Haha, thanks. Did debate it but initial feedback suggested Resumr.io might work! Happy to listen to alternatives. But really, more keen to see people adopt PWAs for simple use cases like this and avoid app stores.
Have you really forgotten the Hoover Dam?
That strategy quickly falls apart if more than one company bids an "artifically high amount". It's a pretty well-studied format that incentivizes bidders to bid the true value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_second-price_aucti...
"I recognize that piece of bedrock. See you soon."

There is already long established technique to find location on the map based on screenshot containing piece of natural land forms or bedrock (immovable blocks below the terrain).

This has application on large maps where players try to distance themselves from other players to be able to build undisturbed or stream without getting stream-killed.

In particular, it is know that some players got killed mid-stream based on screenshots on natural terrain.
Kinda tricky to scale that kind of network ;)
I agree with most comments !
Who can defend XML today?
The best nightmare for programmer!
Costing billions to ITthe industry (as all major companies use it internnaly and externally).

Probably another growth hacking news .... ;(
I can use the same device/OS to install GoG or whatever.
I need to spend hundreds to get a new device to use Android.

I'd say that's a fairly big difference. Whether that's enough to be considered a different market, I do not know, that's for regulators to say.
Also known as the "Don't break the chain" technique.
If you have giant migration scripts, for whatever reason, this tool is the only migration engine that would not choke on them.
Thanks for sharing this with us. This advice (change from being a shooting star to helping others to improve) seems to be in contrast to the article. Or am I missing something?
How Sally Rooney and James Joyce represent the ordinary person in their works
Year 2030. I kind of like the old school physical credit cards. It was fun to carry a wallet too. You could customize it, add a bit of flair and constantly obsess about making it thin.

Good ol’ days.
One of the best things about gaming in that era was how you essentially got multiple remixes/covers for every piece of music, depending on the hardware you ran it on.

For some games, I prefer the Amiga music, for others PC/Roland, or even PC/Adlib if that was what I first grew up with.
The evils of monopoly...
> Refused to upgrade the proprietary firmware on my wifi AP's. The manufacturer has provided no changelog and does not provide a download link for the current firmware to enable a downgrade if it goes south.

That is a luxury. My cable modem updated itself automatically to include a bloated asp server for modem interface and the modem crashes regularly, because it can not handle the load of the asp server on top of 4 devices connected to it.

Plus, they added a "Community Wifi" to share my already crappy connecting with strangers, overloading the modem even more.
Is there a point where Microsoft brings back windows mobile? Or maybe Amazon has a go at a mobile os?
Ask HN: Where to advertise if you don't want to use social network platforms?
I guess title is self-explanatory.
I've been working on an IDE for music composition. Launching soon http://ngrid.io
my experience using DDG is that its simply returning the same results as Bing. Is the only value they bring that one trusts them more with our data than microsoft?
And resolve chargebacks with non-existent Customer Care or is that going to be another plan for devs to buy?
What is the C++ standard library?
it doesnt work for me on firefox/osx unfortunately
Apparently HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) requires JS on every platform aside from Apple's. I was looking at that for streaming video + captions but since it requires JS to run it didn't really achieve what I wanted it to.

Maybe you could build an in-memory video stream for each user and just serve it slowly but then they would likely need to press play or you rely on autoplay and I've no idea how well that would play with buffering behaviour.

This solution maps quite closely to the idea that MJPEG is intended for "live" video. And also I find it adorable that it is just an img tag.
We tried it at my previous company once, we had a setup where customers could pay per 2-week sprint.

What they tried to do was get more work done outside of that timeframe by reporting bugs in the delivered work. Bugs that were basically missed features.

Before that my company tried a fixed price project; they sold 8 weeks of work, but to make a profit we had to quickly finish everything in the 6th week, maybe one more guy on the project in the 7th for the last bits. That was a bit shit.
If you need help or someone to ask questions about the material, than it is very valuable to have access to a teacher or tutor. Sure, a lot can be self-taught. But some material is just hard and many people will require a more knowledgeable/experience person in that subject to help them grasp it.

However, if online learning could be paired with effective online tutoring, than I think you are absolutely right.
The point im trying to make is more that video streaming is a standard technique with off the shelf solution. The author presents MJPEG as some long lost solution to do this without js, but you can just as easily throw in a <video> tag without JS and call it a day. Except video tags arent as exciting.
> By redefining privacy as "we don't know you" instead of "we keep your stuff secure" their doing a clausewitz style offensive.

You mean they know the difference between privacy and security?
Does this mean it gets added to the graveyard? Or no, because it was just a feature?
https://killedbygoogle.com/
> Note that the author does not respect gender identity/pronouns

The article is written in the first person throughout and doesn't use any gender specific pronouns that I could see. How is that disrespectful? (My knowledge of German isn't good enough to read the article you linked).
I'm undecided about DDG with regard to its relevance for my search behaviour. It seems that it requires reevaluation on at least a yearly basis. Practically speaking I rarely use it despite being very data privacy conscious and sympathetic with its goals.

But what I can say is that I turn to Bing and Yandex on a regular basis because they are simply better for some searches.

Bing is great for image search. Yandex is great for finding streamed movies, p* and reverse image search.

Generally speaking Google seems to handicap itself by two forces: censoring content (for moral and legal reasons) and monetary optimization (like preferring click bait content over actually useful content).

Over the years my approach towards protecting my data moved away from aiming for anonymity (DDG, Tor, OSM) towards pseudonymity and data distribution over competitors. F.x. neither Fastmail, nor Dropbox, nor Telegram, nor Firefox, nor Office 365 etc are perfect but at least I don't have all my data on Google and the rest of it on Facebook.

Sadly Google is rolling out or maintaining mostly unrivalled products like Search, Maps, Android, Youtube. I try to mitigate this by using separate fake Google accounts for youtube.com and google.com (via Firefox Containers) and LOS. Also I add an obstacle into the mix with uBlock Origin. Of course they can figure that out but if everybody does it then this would significantly increase costs. Also it's completely transparent for me - not adding any effort.

So, at the end of the day it seems that the fight for my data became some sort of guerrilla war fare.
Scold apple all you want but, Google takes our money and even sells our data to any bidder. Apple taking 30% is one thing and Google shamelessly taking and us bending down to it is another thing.
I work as a research assistant in a wetlab (i.e. I physically do experiments). In a previous job the lab manager was suspicious of me appearing to not be doing any work sometimes. Once I figured out I was being watched I went to extra effort to appear busy. I couldn't actually be more busy because I already did the most I could do in a day. But I could waste some time appearing busy. It was a constant drain and I was glad when that lab manager left and I could be as efficient as I wanted without needing to also appear busy.
Okay, but "hard reality" isn't the same as "the newbie is redefining things".
From the FAQ, it seems like this is not as invasive as fingerprints:

"We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. One reason was that palm recognition is considered more private than some biometric alternatives because you can’t determine a person’s identity by looking at an image of their palm."
The idea of having an 'auction' is completely ridiculous.

The price being paid is company revenue, which is a function of how much value is not going to the consumer!

Imagine the best search engine in the world, that was maybe free (!) or provided by some government, it wouldn't be there!

Every dollar in profit a company makes, could be in the pocket of consumers in terms of lower price or better features.

Ergo - you literally get the scammiest winner.

If all search engines were free and low-profit, the winners of this contest would be McDonald's and GM, merely interested in talking about their brands all the time.

This is really bad, the EU needs to track a list of classes of search engines (i.e. A, B, C rating) and have Google organize them so A's appear before B's.
When it understands that it is a network and can rework itself and its surroundings, working as a homogenous unit interacting with its environment.
I'm sure retconning (was the game even canon?) it as having happened after Crusade would have taken less work than writing an entire new story.. (though considering the quality of Skull's writing, I'm not sure)
Since Minecraft got popular, people started using 'voxels' for any stylized game that builds objects out of cubes, even if it's still a 100% polygonal rendering and there aren't any algorithms like marching cubes or raytracing going on.
Yeah, I'd like to know this too. Our choir is facing remote rehearsals for the foreseeable future... as I understand it, if you want latency low enough for live jamming, you need purpose-built networking equipment.

See https://jammr.net/howitworks.html for a clever workaround, but I wonder if it is that great....
A part of me hopes they never quite crack it, so I can keep having a laugh at some of the subtitles generated for UK regional accents
> and would basically create a new railroad next to the existing one, as fast passenger and slow freight don't mix

Why not make freight fast, too?

> A nice bus gets you better service with lower capital expenditures

A bus can accomodate 80 people per driver, a train (German ICE) 750 seats+750 people standing. Sure, a bus is cheaper in upfront investment, but has higher operation expenses, is way slower and is worse for the environment. Additionally, buses get caught in traffic jams while railways are generally separate.

> allow electric buses on the rails

What? Why? And how should this be secured?!

> and eliminate the crazily overbuilt rail standards

These standards were written in the blood of thousands of people who died or were severely maimed in accidents.
On the note of type safety I can always suggest people to take a look at Dhall.

https://dhall-lang.org
They ranked based on relevance, not who paid the most. That was new.
App analyzes coronavirus genome on a smartphone
And even if it ends on landfill it's not as bad as plastic as far as I'm aware.