skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That criticism escalated in January, when Google said it would phase out the use of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser within two years to enhance consumer privacy. But cookies — small files a browser uses to track visits to websites — are also a key tool for publishers to demonstrate the effectiveness of advertising campaigns to ad buyers.

> Google’s own estimates show that eliminating those cookies will reduce advertising revenue to news outlets that show online ads by as much as 62 percent.

The fact that they're focusing on this, of all things, does not exactly boost my confidence that this investigation will be handled competently or in the public interest.
I have a kinesis freestyle. Really like how I can move the parts around depending on what feels more comfortable at the moment. However, I haven't gone down the layout rabbit hole yet.

Are dvorak, colemak, etc also useful when writing in languages other than English?

EDIT: ok, found the answer to my question - depends on the language, but generally not so much. So, a question to multilingual layout geeks - do you learn the best layout for each language? Or do you just optimize the most used one and stick to whatever is the default for other languages?
New way of testing device about Python
Well, there's a conspicuously unoccupied middle ground between the two, but if the terrorist's goal is only to inflict harm, without necessarily revealing the reason or taking credit, they would presumably prefer their actions to look like a natural disaster, riot, (industrial/medical/etc) accident, forest fire, or other non-deliberate and/or non-planned event.
Theres a guy on youtube who buys Amazon returns by the pallet and then sells it on. Its quite eye-opening. http://resalerabbit.com/
It could be that tracker was noticed and sent to landfill, not the item
Violence is sometimes the only way forward, though. It should be the way of last resort, but a way nevertheless. That's why we have democracy: so we can remove the people in power by ballot instead of by guillotine. When the former avenue is blocked, violence is all that remains...
> Think how many video files you see on social media, or video ads inside cheap apps you downloaded, or autoplaying videos online.

There's not much I do outside the Chrome browser—no social media apps. I can count my downloaded apps on two hands.
I don't necessarily disagree with your points, though I might debate most of them. #2 however strikes me as pretty darn optimistic. Recent history suggests that the US doesn't have much hesitation about using their weapons.
Array should start from any index scientist wishes. That is how it is done in Fortran.
AI attempts to continue song: Country Roads
Let's be realistic here. Why Liang would fund a site like that. Either one of the reason: CCP ordered that, or he wants to show loyalty and earn credit to CCP. Either case, it was as good as funding by CCP because CCP liked that to happened and didn't ban it.

And Liang is vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. What it means is he is not officially CCP but a very trusted person to be included as decision maker of CCP.
Droid: Origin 1950s shortening of android.

https://www.lexico.com/definition/droid
Why the down votes? Does it contain "trigger words"? ;-)

I think even the down voters would have liked it if they would have looked it up! See yourself:

https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/
Everyone probably noticed, but didn't care. I imagine they see a lot of returns where the customer forgot to empty the pockets, or something got mixed in with the returns, etc.
I am not saying that having local versions of apps is a bad thing. I am just annoyed that so many people yell 'but China is not playing fair, so it's revenge time' at the same time. It's both disingenuous and pure spite.
The massive difference is that in Mexico you have to bribe cops all the time when you get pulled over. In the US the corruption doesn't have a direct impact on your life like that.
I'd think it would be much easier for a preprocessor to determine that it is done with a file, once it encounter that pragma, instead of having to scan for the corresponding #endif (not sure if it'll dare to scan from the back and hope that all #if/#ifdef, #endif pairs match or whether it diligently checks those every time).
Why can't the same argument be hold for Pre-Socratic philosophers and the "atom"?
Microsoft Teams — https://teams.microsoft.com/
Amazon used to source everything themselves and as the years have gone by they source themselves things less and less. When almost everything used to have a “sold and shipped from amazon” many things now do not and that’s the root of the issue. They are becoming eBay without really telling anyone.
Thanks for your insightful reply! The discussions I see on GH seem to be mostly about software architecture (by which I mean: how to solve a certain problem with code). How do you design and discuss systems architecture? (ie. how do you choose components/technologies like databases, API protocols? How do you discuss the interconnectedness of components/systems?)
Second Yes. I would not play this at a live gig myself, but it does run fine on my Acer laptop with i5 processor, which is not meant for serious audio processing. If you try it and are getting latency issues, try adjusting the sample rate. Also the stand alone app seems to run much slower than the VST plugin, but most people interested in this I expect would use the plugin anyway.
Especially the latter. Concentrated or not, documents get lost, stolen, and if not, then eventually they simply get degraded. Digitalisation is a means to (i) record things before they are gone for good, and (ii) at the same time provide a way for more people to freely access them (now you don't need to live in a place with a museum or have the means to travel there, even if you are a poor student you can go online and view millions of works of art).
YMMV but when I was touring the east coast the attendant handled the payment but I did the pumping. My preference anyways, you have to actually care if you want to keep the fuel off your paint.
even with the python `int`s a: int, b:int and the `str` function as the pure deterministic function you still cannot make the conclusion. It's an utter mess
In my opinion your defense of US is completely unacceptable and wrong but i don't want to start a discussion about that: i want you to consider that in general, it's better to spend energy, focus, money and any other constructive effort in creating something that helps people instead of something that kills people, even if you consider those people bad ones.

It's better to spend efforts in education and culture instead of spending more on police defense. It's better to spend efforts in negotiations and ways to sign peace treaties instead of making wars. It's better to spend efforts in making chirurgical items instead of spending efforts in making weapons.
We’re meant to question it.
>None of my computer science lectures were about how to apply that particular part of CS knowledge in some hot new Python library.

Mine were

I had C#, .NET Core, Docker, MongoDb, MSSQL, Postgres, GraphQL, OData, Neo4j, Redis, WebAssembly (Blazor), React, Vuejs and stuff like Git.

that was covered on "Web apps", "Databases", "Non relational databases" and meanwhile some bigger/smaller programming projects.

Public school, studying at weekends.
In my recent experience in churches in New Zealand, newer hearing aids either don't have T-coils, or the audiologist has to turn them on (and hasn't), or the hearing aid owner does but doesn't know how.

10-20 years ago everyone had a T-coil and loop systems were a great option. Now they're not.
As far as I know it has been for a long time.
That's still fraud, even if your heart is in the right place.
Ah yes, I ended up replying to a HN comment :)
> "Other examples of human anatomy changing over time, include the prevalence of spina bifida occulta (opening of the sacral canal), abnormal connections of two or more bones in feet, increasing absence of wisdom teeth, thyroidea ima artery (branch of the aortic arch) – decreased over time, disappeared completely by the end of the 20th century) and fabella (small bone in the back of the knee joint – increased over time)."

Many of these, and the headline artery, appear to be newly retained neotenous traits and/or atavisms. It reads similarly to a list of physical differences between domestic dogs and wolves.
That's unlikely to end well. You really need custom audio hardware - or at least dedicated commercial-grade stuff, for this sort of application. Latency is HUGELY important. 2-3ms can be felt, and most consumer level stuff uses buffers WAY bigger than that.
Not asking somebody to do something is “opening a can of worms”?
The Indiana Pi Bill of 1897, or “How not to square the circle.”
Why work for a boss 8 hours a day, when you can work for yourself for 16 hours a day?
Take out a tape measure and measure the actual size of a few different brands of trousers. They are never even close to the size that's on the label. Maybe men's clothes are more consistent than women's, but the label is always wrong by several inches.
I guess I don't regret it that much. Maybe I could get a iPhone 11 instead of Pro and feel the same. Now I am thinking to get rid of my phone and use a watch instead.
My old phone battery wasn't perform very well, I have heard good words about iPhone 11's battery, I think that's the reason I bought it.
Thanks! Can't wait to see these efforts continue where the N900 left off.

Very tempting indeed.
These days there are also so many health and safety concerns that putting any items which had their packaging unsealed back on sale is a big risk unless they are carefully checked and tested. Often this is not cost effective or even doable at all.
I think your first sentence is an answer to every thread of this nature. The rarity of this sentiment and people's sentiment towards it are self-evident.

Training a language model similar to GPT-3 in capability, but cheaper (and smaller parameter-count-wise) is entirely possible for a committed team, if one applies more modern architecture and finds cheaper training infrastructure. For example a 1080ti cluster or a few graphcore servers. Also one does not have to start from scratch, the initial model can be distilled from a publicly available snapshot of one of the larger language models.

In fact, as we are talking, several teams are racing towards this goal. I see this as the main reason for prevalence of non-constructive comments in such threads - everybody with constructive attitude has found a team or founded their own.

If you are interested in these questions, get in touch.
But I don't think that's in compliance with H1B is it?
That would be best, but then you have the current situation with Epic saying that Android's warnings cause consumers to be frightened when trying to install their third-party app store, so I'm not sure what solution there is that both protects consumers from malware and allows trusted third-parties to have their own apps or app stores. I guess you could have notarization for iOS apps, but then you'd still have that Apple dependence that Epic is against.

But yes, the safeguards that prevent sideloading today make me confident in recommending an iOS device even to someone that downloads malware anytime an ad shows up promising free gift cards.
> I'm not sure "failed miserably" is a fair description either.

Interesting, thanks for the link!

Particularly towards the end, this looks similar to transcripts of conversations with ELIZA. I suppose "failed miserably" is indeed an overstatement, given that comparison, since ELIZA, IIRC, actually did fool some psychologists into thinking it was an actual paranoid human being.
It is always like that. Jeans expand when you use them. If you gain 3 lbs it might be really tight when getting new ones of the same size. I almost always buy 505s.
> #2 killer in the US it’s likely for the circulatory system to be undergoing rapid change.

Primarily killing people past reproductive age though.
How would you propose to enforce that goal?
I never would have thought this till I started a relationship with a woman who buys several sizes of everything she shops for to ensure she gets the right fit. Women’s attire doesn’t have standard sizing so every brand is different. It’s a giant guessing game.

Basically, the industry needs some standards to help with all this waste.
> I am usually told that those are only meant for women.

Is this the US?

If so: Isn't this a full-on gender discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen under Title IX?
This is the correct answer.

However, when confronted with this "the system does understand" argument, I believe that Searle and his defenders fall back on the lack-of-qualia position. That is, there is no entity that would experience anything, and that therefore the ability to demonstrate "understanding" as the room does isn't a sufficient (or perhaps even necessary) condition of consciousness.

This point is trickier to rebut, because I think it's fair to acknowledge that our ability to imagine where there would be qualia in the case of the chinese room is more than a little limited. I think the only fair answers are either:

1. our imagination is too limited, but that doesn't allow us to conclude that there cannot be qualia

2. there are indeed no qualia associated with the Chinese Room, because consciousness is not required for full language processing.

(or both)
It can if you only have one customer. The issue is monopsony.
That's hilarious. They make the battery impossible to replace for consumers and then you need a new phone every two years and you see that as a feature.

AAPL is a strong buy.
App Store gives Apple ‘monopoly power’ over iOS apps, US House antitrust (cont)
No need to request: https://scihubtw.tw/10.1111/joa.13224
Wow, that's cool that you already tried it!

Could you tell me what was the most important metric missing from userTrack for you? I keep adding new features (eg. just recently added the ability to filter all sessions from a specific user), so knowing which ones are the most common requested is really helpful!
Things you can do to increase your eBay sales during Covid-19 – ByteConn
Why I'm starting a newsletter, and you should too
> - #!/usr/bin/env > #!/bin/bash for portability

Yes... but do not take that as a "cargo cult script shebang".

If you're a sysadmin writing a script for a company with 2k linux servers, that has a policy of "we only use linux version Foo X"... and we do not use other bash in the system than /bin/bash (no bash compiled by hand, no multiple versions of bash, etc)... then portability via "env" does not make sense.

If you have two laptops and a raspberry at home, with debian or arch, and you write a script for yourself... then portability via "env" does not make sense.

And last but not least... using env is slower.

See:

strace -fc /bin/bash -c ':'

Vs

strace -fc /usr/bin/env bash -c ':'

On my system, that's 92 syscalls and 3 errors, Vs 152 syscalls and 8 errors.

Just to start procesing.

Diferent levels of system bloat (environment, library paths, etc) can give different results than my example.

And as others said... if you're not using GNU/bash syntax and the script is really simple, the best for portbility is to go with /bin/sh.

strace -fc /bin/sh -c ':'

On my system 41 syscalls and 1 error... (and less RAM, CPU and pagefaults).

If you're not using associative arrays, array indexes, non POSIX builtin options, and other bash extensions... if the script is just to join a few commands and variables... it pays the effort to write it in simple sh, both, for portability and performance.
If cluster experience problems to run rook pods, then other pods that uses volumes will fail too. And it may cause situation where everything fails with timeout errors...

Nothing against rook, but the idea to run k8s storage in k8s is fragile
You said, “You can absolutely be an epidemiologist without understanding medicine”. Which is strange because you said they don’t exist. It’s also not something I refuted.
>Interactions (any observed results) are side effects of deterministic properties

That's my understanding as well.

I'm trying find utility in the 1st comment, but I don't see the direction of causality - e.g. emergence of culture from physics (bottom up) - is relevant in determining whether something non-deterministic.
It really is one of the most egregious examples of a cultural echo chamber I've seen on HN.

We're talking about a brutal police force serving a corrupt and delegitimized regime, that is involved in extrajudicial detention, torture, and murder of peaceful protesters. This unit, the OMON, was specifically established to serve as Lukashenko's beatstick against the opposition. Now, the overwhelmingly peaceful protest movement in Belarus has turned towards intimidation (no actual violence has been reported, afaik) against these people specifically, as a way of fighting back.

And then you see people on HN referring to this as "doxxing", as if this was some kind of pithy Twitter fight. I understand that Twitter fights are what people around here can more easily relate to their own life experience than what is currently going on in Belarus, but for Christ's sake, let's try and put things in perspective here.
100% agree. The wiki is absolutely still useful if you use Debian / Ubuntu / something else. I use it all the time, even when trying to solve problems on other systems, and I've been using the wiki for longer than I've been using Arch.

In fact, noticing that I kept seeing good reference material there is what prompted me to give Arch a try in the first place.
I’m in the US and we order off of Amazon all the time. I’ve had exactly one problem that apparently came from a vendor with tons of complaints (wrong item and a history of refusing refunds or trying to negotiate a partial due to return shipping costs).

Aside from that, everything has been great but I also never order clothes from Amazon.
Is this any different from what the ancient Greek philosophers had already determined?

Also, the piece starts by listing some definitions from dictionaries. I think it would be fair if it would end by giving a suggestion for an updated definition.
The same detrimental effects can happen with lots of aid given to Africa. Basically, the majority of Africa is clothed with first world hand-me-downs. The result is that there is virtually no market for home-grown clothing makers in Africa.

Think about it, the US has "anti-dumping" laws to protect US manufacturers, but we "dump" into other countries all the time in the form of "aid".
What an interesting line of work that would be. I wonder how they calculate risk for such a policy.
An Almond-Based Low Carbohydrate Diet Improves Depression in Diabetics
Not to sound bitter, but why the heck do you buy so much on Amazon (you and others on this HN formum) ?

Isn't it clear from the premises that that whole online thing is treacherous at best for the environment, our environment ?

I can understand the convenience, buying stuff you don't find in your local shops, etc. But much of what Amazon do is because they have customers... So instead of complaining about Amazon, why not just fix our own behavior ?

(sorry to say that like this, I know it's super not diplomatic and one sided and maybe I could even not defend my own point of view if we'd be to talk face to face, but at some point choices must be made)
I've bought too many things that come with annoyingly broken parts. Not enough to render it useless, just annoying. For example, a cracked handle on a Amazon Warehouse snowblower. It still worked but required a tricky glue job. For most things now, I'll pay the extra for something new from a local shop.
If you are at all concerned with performance and can sacrifice a couple features (fewer supported text formatting options & mathematical elements, less legacy support for some browsers). Katex is a great alternative.

https://katex.org/
But that’s completely different from ordering from Amazon, and not even considered a return per se. Zappos and Zalando operate under this model where you try out different sizes and return the ones that don’t fit.
How do you switch to a four-day week?
Did you post the wrong link?
James Webb will prove nobody nothing. Search Twitter thread by Foone who discussed there how many wonderful things humanity managed to pull off while waiting for James Webb to launch.
Those people still influence the young, though. They have a huge impact on their young childrens' diets and habits, and I think epigenetics can throw a wrench into things by affecting how genes are expressed based on environmental factors.
If that was the case, the internet would be full of self proclaimed experts writing on all sorts of topics but with no actual training or grounding for the stuff they wrote about. But, they would sound and act as if they did...

oh wait...
I don't think I like the argument of "it was as good as funding by CCP because CCP liked that to happened". CCP is a party with 90 million members, so if you argue Liang act as a member of CCP, I think I am okay with that.

I don't know should we be 'realistic' or should we be 'accurate' when we make a point. This is a strange time.
> full built took a good share of the day

Yikes
Was this with/out some sort of cluster support?

Which language?

Is this due to legacy practices, or is it simply a difficult build?

I am asking because i am involved with a parallel build project. and often there is plenty low hanging fruits
I think the solution should be to make a web interface to the app and let apple users use it instead of the app itself, something similiar to discord. This way what apple are going to do? ban Safari?
Could this be an epigenetic/gene expression change caused by increased use of our forearm and hand muscles? For instance, how I'm typing this right now, and how children write a lot more than they used to.
Still on Firefox 55.0.3 (64-bit) because of the way both Google and Mozilla are handling user interface changes. Considering switch to IceCat or WaterFox.
Hi,

Your work sounds really interesing to me.

I am wondering about the reasons for these issues that you mentioned. Could you please mention them here ? It might serve as a nice pointer to do better hardware design debugging I believe(I have close to zero experience in this. Hence the interest).

Also, are there any formal systems that verify your TTL-level designs ?

Thank you.
It’s interesting to note that tech companies in America have far larger cash balances [0], which they’ve generally chosen to not spend in favor of smaller acquisitions / investments that they then develop into something larger once acquired.

This has begun to change in recent years as greater investments have occurred, but are in comparison still much smaller than what Asian tech companies are willing to throw down.

I wonder what the more correct strategy is here.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/microsoft-apple-and-alphabet...
you kinda need some people to be making missiles in order for everyone else to have the luxury of being able to spend their efforts on education and culture. do you know of any countries without missiles? exactly.
I'm not so sure it is such a waste. From the perspective of the store, they save on retail space and personel. From and environmental perspective, the home deliveries are usually much more efficient, since they deliver to multiple nearby addresses in a single run, than single people driving their cars to the malls.

I don't know exactly how it would balance in the end. It probably depends both on the type of goods and a lot on local circumstances. But don't take for granted that this is worse than it was before.
Ah, that makes plenty of sense. Thank you!
That entirely depends on how you define things. We are each a ship of Theseus[0]. What happens if I slowly replace my organic parts (even my brain) with cybernetics. When do I stop being me?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
If you're on Ergodox EZ, check out the options "Ignore mod tap" and "Permissive hold", they might solve your issue.