skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also endless data collection of literally everything in every persons FOV, ads aggressively plastered over everything in your life at all times, subtle censorship of anything corporations or government would rather you not see, etc.

As with every technology we have right now it will be used against you. It doesn't have to be that way, but that's the world we live in now.
Nvidia will no longer be sending review samples to Hardware Unboxed, citing bias
I don’t see how a launcher would need to be allowed. Only a new store to purchase. Xbox, PlayStation, etc. could have some policy still that says that when you launch a game it must not spawn any persistent background service or that it must launch directly without a launcher.
It might be a room full of monkeys. In that case, I would really support that. So we need to keep an open mind.
Oh no plz no
As opposed to Google, Yahoo, Bing? Mojeek seems equally frustating when it comes to naming... but if they become popular, everybody will assimilate the name.
I don't think there's a high horse here. It's just how life works. If you've truly managed your early twenties so well, that looking back now with more perspective you don't see anything you could have handled much better, you can congratulate yourself for being a rare specimen.

I, personally, am looking forward to my 60s to understand what I'm doing wrong right now.

> Most 20 year olds are smarter, have more self control, and more financially savvy than my parents, who are in well into their 60s.

This might be a regional thing. Around here, statistics show that more and more young people are getting their finances in a state that's difficult to recover from before they reach 30.
And it's much better than google's. Google will only find same image (different resolution or very minor changes), yandex finds similar images in general. That said google's image search has some use because google's index is still bigger than yandex's. (For people who prefer English interface https://yandex.com/images/)
ELM for quickly create websites
> You are not discussing what a lie is

That's precisely the point I'm making, nobody needs to decide what is a lie or what is not. Social media amplifies lies not by knowing what is a lie, but because of their nature. Lies generate more controversy and more discussion, true facts generate agreement but not a lot of discussion and engagement. Reduce the importance of "engagement metrics" in the algorithms that show you content, make them as straightforward as possible (chronological order for example), reduce or eliminate suggestions of "content you might like" and only show content you explicitly subscribed to. At no point anyone needs to say "this is a lie/truth", you just need to change incentives.
Covid: UK isolation period shortened to 10 days
The article raises an interesting question -

'this .... makes the billion dollars Unilever spent on Dollar Shave Club odd in retrospect, because the FTC at the time had no issue with it.'
Cannot hurt to lower that limit, after reading this post all those cloud services start to look bad....
This is precisely my approach. I’m an engineer so sometimes need to make very esoteric searches, but I’ve been using DDG for coming up on 10y.
I use https://www.ecosia.org/, which uses Bing results but puts the money into regrowing forests. Obv they get the money from selling my data, so if that's a dealbreaker it's not the right search engine for you
That might be because sqlite isn’t on Github.
For sure they will support ARM chips. They also see the performance comparison curves.
That's the thing: the concept of "human rights" was born in 1700s exactly because it was technologically limited to the people who invented it: the elites (more often then not, slaveholding elites!). It's just now it backfires because technology changed in the way everyone can use it.

And then again, it is mass democracy, which was always a mistake, and if it didn't exist many of the problems we have now won't exist either, it's entirely fair if voting is limited to landowners who have land giving no less than $X annual rent, the way it was in late 1700s-early 1800s America. And even more so when we have massive social programs so democracy becomes a death trap of freeloaders voting for even more free stuff.

What is the realistic exit from it? I believe that Chinese way relies too much on individual obedience so culturally impossible in any Western country. Returning to democracy for the elites and human rights for the (sub)elites too, is impossible because it's a catch-22: people won't vote for it.

Maybe something like Putinism is a good way out: keep democracy on paper but make sure actual voting is irrelevant, keep free speech on paper but make sure "right" content is ranked better than "wrong" (this is how Russian social media, which is KGB-owned, works, after VK.com acquisition). Of course it can't also work without some countries remaining true democracies - just kept afloat, with their social programs, with massive amounts of stolen money - because the elites need safe places to live in, after all.

This way, we will return to the "good old" American system of 200 years ago - except geographically, rather than racially, segregated.
I’ve found Cypress generally better than other alternatives such as Selenium. The screenshot feature is nice and it seems to be a little less flakey, although E2E tests using a browser are always going to be more prone to flakiness than unit tests.

This last project we’ve actually been running true E2E tests by spinning up the backend in GH actions (looking for a branch with the same name or falling back to master), seeding it, and making snapshot-style assertions about the UI. It’s more complex and slower but tests a lot more code now that the backend is involved as well as the API layer. It has helped a lot in major refactors.
The creator of Apache Ant, James Duncan Davidson, wrote about choosing XML as the “language”:

> Now, I never intended for the file format to become a scripting language—after all, my original view of Ant was that there was a declaration of some properties that described the project and that the tasks written in Java performed all the logic. The current maintainers of Ant generally share the same feelings. But when I fused XML and task reflection in Ant, I put together something that is 70-80% of a scripting environment. I just didn't recognize it at the time. To deny that people will use it as a scripting language is equivalent to asking them to pretend that sugar isn't sweet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20041217023752///x180.net/Journa...
The cheapest M1 devices are already cheaper than equivalently spec'd devices from competitors, like the Surface Pro X.

I think it is safe to assume they will only get cheaper from their launch-day prices.
If he didn't write about it then Apple wouldn't keep sending him free shit.
I hope that any switch to ARM retains a degree of the flexibility available with the PC but it's important to recognise that

1. x86 probably isn't going away anytime soon and

2. the PC world has come with its own set of constraints - notably being locked-in to (to all practical purposes) a duopoly of CPU manufacturers with the resultant impact on pricing and customer choice.
Non-cryptographer here, but I think homomorphic encryption is fascinating. IIRC, it allows a user to perform operations on encrypted data, without being able to decrypt the original data. I see it as the holy grail of data anonymization and I understand it to be cutting edge stuff.

I'm sure someone will correct me soon :)
Healthcare (universal or otherwise) deals well with short term 'conditions' (things like dealing with broken bones, flu, heart attacks, and even cancer). It does not deal well with long-term chronic conditions that require personalized, daily care. I know a couple with a severely autistic child and they just can't get any support because the only support they could get is a specialist to work with the child day-in and day-out and that just cannot scale.
The problem is that the entire premise of the study is flawed, whether three questions were asked, or a hundred. Asking a hundred questions simply means it’s more likely your study will “succeed” in the sense of finding something to report that aligns with your agenda. Statistically, take any sample size. If you measure enough factors, you are bound to find some bias in your sample size.

Instead, a better study would consider actual science. Microbiology, biochemistry, etc and form measurable hypotheses instead of this spray-and-pray pseudoscience
Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own History (2017)
But that's the point: social influence is meant to be what free speech levels the playing field for. Can you persuade others to repeat and defend your ideas and influence them, and idea value is provided in part by how many other people are talking about it.

With automated bots, fake accounts etc the attempt is to create this illusion.
When I read the title I thought this might be about David Bull, a well-known traditional Japanese woodblock artist who has a great YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/seseragistudio
Framework to Analyze Customer Feedback
That's probably because SQLite doesn't use git, and this tool seems to require git. Actually, in its current state it seems to require GitHub: https://github.com/ossf/criticality_score/blob/main/critical...

This probably omits some other projects as well which don't use git or GitHub.
I wonder if it is genuine weight, or just non-functional weight packed into the headphones to give the appearance of quality like that which was found on a Dr Dre Beats teardown. Be interesting to see a teardown of these.
The quality of many of their own brands is terrible as well. We were moving and needed a couch and bed quickly and the bay could deliver one reasonably fast. The couch cushions lost their loft in a few months and were covered in pills. Customer service offers no solutions. The bed came with bent slats thst couldn't support any weight and the upholstery was poorly affixes to the frame. It took almost 10 hours of phone calls to get them to take it back and another 5 hours for them to tell us the gift cards they sent us couldn't be used until we activated them in store. We ended up replacing the couch with one from Urban Barn that only cost 15% (regular price while the bay was a 40% off sale price) more and is much better quality. Everything with HBC is terribly mismanaged and I agree that it really needs to die.
I think OP was referring to Microsoft's hardware brand Surface, not OEM Windows installs.
I agree with you. However, there is the world we want and the world we live in. Until we have an actual democracy (which likely won't have billionaires, look into what happens in popular movements in the past) then Musk has an outside responsibility to society because he has outsized power.
We shouldn’t have to rely on Apple, a private company, to regulate tracking of users. There should be actual regulations protecting us such that we’re not at the whim of Apple.

GDPR and CCPA have made significant impacts on user privacy.

Also, Apple can keep enforcing it at the API level and prevent access to identifiable device information, tighten app sandboxes, etc.
auto-deleting my various e-mail alerts with a google script. I think this functionality should be accessible to everyone
Poland and most EU countries in Eastern Europe are using more coal than ever. You can make an incredible reduction by changing those coal plants to oil or natural gas.
> I'm generally the person to be very critical of Sweden, but this is somewhat unfair as the definition of "Rape" in Sweden is incredibly broad, and includes people who can't give consent such as those experiencing fear.

I'm unsure if I'm reading the way you worded this incorrectly or not.

Are you saying people who are too scared to say no are only included because the definition is "incredibly broad"?! Do you think people too scared to say no shouldn't be included?

If so, I'd argue you must have a very narrow personal definition, which worries me.
You're arguing with someone who said the Sony headphones are relatively good, and saying they are not because there are better headphones out there? Also, you're arguing with someone who claims they are satisfied with the Sony headphones? Should they not be satisfied?
I don't understand why people keep doing this to themselves. OP is ex-Googler and we can surely state that he knows his way around tech. Why would you, as a startup, go on route of using convoluted mess of tech that every cloud provider is, instead of buying cheap dedicated server, setting your own k8s or whatever and just using that platform for your project.

Cloud solutions are immensely and, for most cases, unnecessary complicated. In addition to that, they have the ability to kill any dream of yours with invoice far exceeding your darkest forecasts in less than an hour.

The time OP spent solving this issue could be better spent learning about self-hosting and avoiding this trouble all together.
Second edition of Infrastructure as Code available now
It depends on the price. Apple products are rather expensive, and if you're poor you may not understand interoperability but you can see its effects.

I'm very far from SV salaries for example, and although I can afford an Iphone or Imac, It's just a dangerous slope for my pockets.

There are many countries poorer than mine.
I agree with you about cabs in the US compared to ride hailing apps. But AirBnB is very different, and worse. The hotel industry is nothing like the cab industry. And residential real estate is nothing like roads.

Hotels face lots of regulation not only on how they operate (fire safety, egress, food safety, etc) but also where they can operate. AirBnB lets investors get around all these regulations and tap into tourism demand at a much lower cost.
No one's talking about taxing the amount of wealth that counts as a middle-class family's "nest egg". Every proposal I've heard starts up in the tens of millions, or even higher.

Taxing wealth isn't some kind of rigid principle, where if you want to be able to tax Jeff Bezos you also have to tax Jane Millennial the same percent. We can, and should, and at least the vast majority of people talking about it want to, ignore regular people trying to save, and tax mega-wealth higher than moderate wealth.
Show HN: Poly Capture, a macOS screen time-lapse maker
Of course but obviously they don't and probably will never allow you to replace MacOS, rather just to run something else on top of it in one form or another.

Notably the PC standard meant things were interchangeable, not "interlayerable". You picked a CPU, you picked an OS, you did not have to emulate or virtualize whatever you wanted on top of what was imposed on you. Imagine that 30 years ago someone pitched a PC that only runs a specific OS and the only way to run anything else is on top of that like an app. You'd think "ridiculous".

Today having a device that runs as sealed monolith both HW and SW wise, and all you can do is run stuff on top of that without the ability to replace anything is considered a good sign. Tells you where we're going.
I’m far from an Apple booster but I think what it does is pretty relevant to the industry worldwide. They may have only like 20% of the market share worldwide but they make far more than half of all profits of smartphones sold worldwide.
>I hope that the possibility of an industry-wide switch to ARM doesn't take away the flexibility we now have with the PC

I think that ship has long sailed as we failed to treat smartphones as handheld computers and subject the smartphone/OS manufacturers to the same scrutiny as computer/OS manufacturers.

This is a missed opportunity especially to those countries where smartphones are the first computer to majority of the population, now their computing can be held hostage by couple of companies just like their data.

Now computers with only manufacturer approved OS, only manufacturer approved software (even content?), arbitrary security updates/ OS upgrade cycle is already becoming a reality.
Sometimes I wonder if I should learn COBOL just so maybe I can get my first real programming job. (and no, I am not joking...)
Good lucking getting China to agree.
It's neither "complaining" nor a "take". It is stating what the various pros and cons of different options are.
There are opaque watercolors, otherwise called gouache.
Thank you for sharing this. Yes, that's my understanding as well after that reading. I'm interested to learn if there is a new trend happening right now that wants to replace Docker not only as runtime but for container creation as well, or if the Director's opinion is just an outlier.
> I believe that democracy is a mistake and we should be ruled by an authoritarian king. You probably believe this to be a lie

That's an opinion, not a lie. A lie would be saying "pigs grow on trees", "in a monarchy the king is chosen in an election every four years" or "the earth is flat", to put some examples.

> So why do I believe it? Because it makes sense to me.

What is it then, people believe lies because it makes sense to them or because other people lie?
'Rape' is a very grey crime, and it depends entirely on so many factors.

So 'rape' is the crime that's really not worthy of easy comparison between nations.

Like if you were a grad student, literally doing a thesis on it - ok, but otherwise, it's just a chunky one.
Being cheaper than similar specs is not enough, you have to have cheap devices and apple does not.
this is why techbros shouldnt go into the arts. kys

addendum: i am jack's fighting spirit and the greatest thing about being even in the arts is that its very mean spirited and critical and people want that in the arts because it makes for good work.
the weight of human-made materials like the concrete, asphalt and plastic used in the buildings of the New York City skyline, for example, may now exceed biomass on Earth.
To be fair all Apple products do come with the handy caption "Designed by Apple [for] California"
This is a pretty common complaint, I've seen numbers as high as 18-20% feel some sort of pressure, and upwards of 50-60% of those people feel enough discomfort that they don't use ANC.

I feel pressure almost immediately but it doesn't the level of even mild discomfort until 7-8 hours of continuous use (my employer provides a pair that have an ANC option). Even then I can deal with it for longer if I'm watching a movie or something after work.
Hmmm, sounds like Stockholm is way more dangerous than NYC? Or is just your neighborhood really dangerous.
We can and we do automate it. Given enough sample data and context of the data source and how the cleaned dataset will be used, you can write a script that can automate the data cleaning for a future sample which has the same context. You might get some errors if you future samples are very different from what you used to build the script or if you just missed some edge cases. This is still automation - build once, run multiple times with no additional effort.

What we can't do is create a generalised function called clean(data) that can be applied to any dataset. The reason is that your original format, data source, goals, domain knowledge, personal judgement vary so much that it makes it pointless to even try.
Honestly, americans who are thinking in all seriousness that "we can have democracy or we can have Facebook" are just deluding themselves.

I wonder why facebook usage isn't "sowing discord" in Netherlands or, say, Germany, or other EU countries? From what I know, Facebook makes some real euros there, so adoption rate is quite high, but still, democracy is not "under attack" in these countries because of "automated newsfeed".

Consider these countries as a control group for "facebook being bad for democracy" test.

Maybe US should take a hard look into a mirror and accept the fact that it is very polarized country, not very cohesive society, with very little common ground (if any at all) between different factions, and facebook just shows this fact.

Don't blame the mirror for what you see in it.
Bootcamp is not virtualization, so your point is moot.
CSS post-processing using autoprefixer in a React app
We have, there are quite a few data wrangling, or 'data munging' tools out there.
I know, often the prices are absurd.

Absurd means in the 6000$ range from Europe to Asia and I agree that's over the top compared to, say, 700$ economy with a reasonable airline.

Then again upgrading is an option and sometimes really great bargains can be found.

I flew Zurich Bangkok return with Oman Air in business for less than 2'000 in February. In my opinion a very reasonable price for a great product.
How many of the people that think the virus isn’t real are critical thinkers though (meaning Occam’s razor, the scientific method, etc)? It’s not just education per se that we need, but education in critical thinking, and also history.
Seeing this at the top of any piece of code running in a production environment is enough to induce an anxiety attack :(
Sanofi suffers major setback in development of a Covid-19 vaccine
Is there a way to bet money on them wriggling out of it when the time comes for hard decisions as opposed to posturing and finger pointing?
> they want to fabricate celebrities?

If you are the first to identify it (or make it up where it doesn't exist) you automatically have an exclusive.
> Are people upvoting articles without reading both the article and the comments

Absolutely. It is much less of an issue here than on, say, Reddit. But lots of people upvote posts because it sounds interesting, not because they have gone through it and determined it to be high quality.
Differently abled is one that I've heard. And it seems fitting since most hope to grow old, which inevitably means at least some changes in ability. Hopefully gaining some with experience even if losing others to entropy.
At least they will pay you well.
You do realize that Steam is available for Linux. Steam is not open source. Steam has many flaws. Yet Steam is really popular amongst many Linux users. Don't spread FUD.
Except for the fact with journalism you know who's responsible for the bit they publish. And that the publisher can't hide behind the fact that they're 'not responsible for user generated content'.

In most countries media is regulated, you're not allowed to advertise everywhere or publish lies.

When Facebook says 'free speech' they actually mean 'free enterprise'.
Seriously.

> Any normal person would have given up already. They’d been funding the company with credit cards. They had a binder full of credit cards they’d maxed out.

I'm all for being gritty, but that sounds entirely the wrong thing to glorify. In this case "survivorship bias" sounds ominously not like a metaphor.
First, congrats! Search is super-ambitious and a new index getting traction could be game changing for lots of people. It appears that Mojeek is indexing translated documents, which is exciting for unlocking knowledge, but really leads to a bizarre initial user experience. If indexing translations is what is going on, this is kind of exciting... but will be challenging to deliver better user experiences than single language indexes.

Stemming (grouping similar terms like "mortgage" and "home loan") seems bizarre. I did a search for my last name, and it came back with mostly results where the name was using the German spelling, which made the results mostly worthless. (the difference is the German spelling ends in "l", the French version ends in "le" and the English spelling ends in "el"). So, the resulting search results were mostly useless.

Hope to see more of Mojeek!
COBOL, Assembler, and FORTRAN are actually kind of cool.
a chinese artist appropriating rural Austrian life. what a world.