skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a lot of people -- yes.

But this will affect the future programmers and tinkerers, too. It's as if they are no longer wanted. "But, " you could argue, "hobbyists and enthusiasts can buy specialized hardware". Well, many if not most of the generation of enthusiasts that made the computing world of today possible started with general purpose hardware, not special hardware. They took the common hardware of their day and built stuff with it, doing things that were often not entirely foreseen by the makers of said hardware. And they didn't ask for permission.

If the world of tomorrow consists of most people using gadgets like iphones and ipads, and in order to tinker you need special-purpose hardware, I think we're shooting future kids in their collective feet.
Good question. We are exploring options:

https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-a...

"Search engine companies typically earn revenue from advertising (in many different forms). Other sources of revenue can include APIs and partnerships, including site and enterprise search. Recently search companies have started to explore a subscription model and/or micropayments. At Mojeek we are exploring options for our business model and all of these are potential routes for us; indeed we have had small revenues from some of them without being focussed on revenue streams. In 2021 we will start to focus on which revenue options to pursue proactively. Enabling people to search on Mojeek without tracking (aka surveillance) is a something we will not compromise on, so any routes we go down will be guided by our privacy-by-design principles."
From what I understand, you claim there is a clear legal category of "assault weapon" you base the definition on. So where is that defined? Your link only talks about fully- vs semi-automatic, the NFA linked from there doesn't use the term, ...

Whereas past laws that used the term clearly considered it not to be fully-automatic only. E.g. the law that's commonly known as the "Federal Assault Weapons Ban" (1994-2008) literally regulated "semiautomatic assault weapons", a category which doesn't make any sense if you insist that assault weapons always are fully-automatic. So what's changed that you now can insist that including semi-automatics doesn't make sense? I won't claim I know all relevant legislation, but it seems pretty obvious that not that long ago, it wasn't as clear-cut as you present it.
This was totally worth turning on scripts for. I wonder if the images were tagged by hand or automatically.
> I don't see what's wrong with showing people content they want.

But ranked newsfeeds are not about showing people content they want, but about showing people content that will generate more revenue for the company.
This is being looked at. See:

- https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...

- https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/eus-carbon-bord...
b) is an oversimplification, but I'd consider it to be a thought experiment whenever a story about Google or Duckduckgo comes up.

You will always find:

><Search Engine> is <bad/good> and the results are way <worse/better> than <Another search engine>.

><Search Engine> is only a frontend for <Parent search engine> <but/and> does(n't) do their own indexing.

>Results for <Topic (usually technical)> (in <country>)? on <search engine> are garbage. Search results for <purpose> are poor.

What you will see as a response:

>You should use <search engine> instead! It uses <different parent search> instead so the results are better!

>I agree, I didn't like <search engine> so I had to go back to Google.

What you won't see:

>Nowadays I only use <search engine> for some search, most of the time I use <specific source(s)>.

>Maybe you should use specific searches for specific purposes?

The two that you cited are very valid, and I'm sure many people use specific sources for specific things (most doing it unknowingly via apps). The main thing seems to be that (on especially desktop) the single purpose all-encompassing web portal seems to be the way to find something. The phrase "Google it" is a catch all for 'do your research'.
> I never really understood the combination of noise cancellation and home use only. I think noise cancellation really shines when out and about in public, like the subway. But I can't imagine anyone using those things on the go, at least not where I live.

FYI here are some examples of why I swear by my noise cancellation headphones while working from home during a pandemic in a densely populated city:

- Washing machine and dishwasher running cycles during the day
- The fridge vibrating at higher frequencies (don't know much about fridge mechanics but this soemthing fridges to do maintain a certain temperature)
- Other people in the household talking, cooking, making coffee, fetching cutlery and plates etc.
- The high decible hum of delivery scooters/mopeds usually accelerating much faster than they should in what is supposed to be a quiet road
- Road noise from delivery vehicles which are heavier than your typical car

(ps admittedly the last two points are only a problem when I have the windows open but occassionaly someone revs an engine which can be heard through the windows)

- During summer months with the windows open, passers' by can be heard from my desk. I live on just off a "quiet road" in my city, my desk is on the first floor and is on the other side of the room from the road. Yet people's conversations are loud enough to make a noise.

Individually there is little wrong with these sounds (except maybe mopeds which I wish were quieter) but collectively they cause noises during working hours for which I am grateful to have noise cancelling headphones at home.

PS I guess Apple are also targeting people who will take these to the office eventually.
> "I don't like any available option" isn't really worthwhile writing, is it?

It is, because it tells product designers that there is a gap in the market that no one is serving, and that they could release a product to fill that void.
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or we could just, you know, write better software. I'm not going to go on a whole rant about the link between software quality and hardware speed, but I will say this:

If we can write an app that does the job for a low power device, we can write the same app for a high power device and not make any compromises. I wonder why we don't do that. As in, why don't we develop software that runs as fast as it can? Some companies do, and it's really nice to see, and especially game developers are notoriously good at this. Yet, if I want a cross platform chat service, I usually have to put up with code running in a JS interpreter, through a JIT compiler, in a sandbox in a sandbox in a browser, burning CPU cycles so hard my laptop thermally throttles.
Typical Objective-C code is mostly C (and sometimes C++). It doesn’t use message-passing in the hot loops.
All about market rates, but to me those are a function of batna. My pitch is more depth and skill with ability to execute than a big-5 team, at half the price. I focus on a skill mix that is sufficiently rare that I can leverage it for a small premium. Other thing is strategically, I need to charge enough that the clients will actually listen, as if they don't, it's going to cost me long term, and if they can afford to ignore me, they aren't paying enough.

It's a niche where I can legitimately say if you can afford less you don't need the value multiple I bring, and it's just straight contract labor, not consulting.

When the chips are down, sure, I absolutely do market work to survive, but when they're good, I can afford to do a value based pitch. Certainly a dynamic. :)
It's a shame the UK government allowed it to be sold to Softbank.
YouTube is probably the best place to look for old, obscure music like this, since users can just upload anything they like. If the label didn't bother to put it on Spotify, they probably didn't bother to put it into the YouTube Content ID program either. You won't find everything, but it's the best spot I'm aware of.
Public health and epidemiology professionals say otherwise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/sunday/coronaviru...
It would be hard to argue that the PC world won't at least make some attempt at shifting to ARM. Apple has demonstrated far too large of a performance and power efficiency savings to not try. Of course, even if that becomes successful, x86 will be available for decades.

Right now, ARM Macs are going to just be lost for any kind of gaming (except Catalyst versions of mobile games). This is probably ridiculous, but my dream is that the M-series chips become so compelling over the other options that the NEXT nextgen consoles would adopt it. Then we could get back to having at least a few of the biggies getting ported to Macs. But I can't even get my hands on the current new-gen PS, so this is a looong way off, even in the best case.
It's an advantage to have peers who are also upper middle class and who can afford to take 3 years of risk.

But it's probably a much bigger advantages to have 'Harvard' on your resume.

And FYI it's not 'the money' quite as much as the 'stability, support and fallback cushion'.
>I do not like not be be aware about the world around me

I don't even like wearing earbuds on a forest path. I really can't imagine over the ear headphones around a city, even sitting in public transit.
Except there aren’t many options for devices right now. It’s either Google spying on you or Apple babying you.

More importantly, means that as developers your distribution options are severely limited.

Let them buy another phone, or let Apple ship open and closed variants, or bury a switch in settings.
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Update installations are dropping so ms tries to reinvigorate interest in them. Well, Edge proposes to open the file after download.
It's not just a matter of parsing lots of information, you also have to collect the information, and interpret it correctly. Maybe one day in the future, a real AI will be able to do better than markets (by what metric, though). But not yet.

Show me the computer program that knows how to create a pencil? And then a toaster? How does it know how many toasters will be needed? Is a toaster more important than a smart watch?

Also, if you have such a Computer program, you could use it to beat the markets. You could use it to compute the perfect prices of futures (because you know the future demand and supply). So I guess there is your answer: if you had such a Computer, you could beat the markets, as long as you don't do that, markets are better.
Well, for obvious reasons no one in Sweden wants to maintain clear crime statistics that would capture perpetrators' backgrounds, but there's this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45269764

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50339977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden#Birthplace_of_p...
I don’t think people generally call him a fascist when/if he defends freedom. I’m not sure how familiar you are with them, but his political positions don’t exactly portray him as an advocate for freedom.
That is exactly the article I was thinking of! Gotta love the internet.
> took YouTube by storm

> japanese Bob Ross

sounds a bit exaggerated considering he only got 600k subs on youtube

CNN.. what's in their agenda? they want to fabricate celebrities?
Indeed, for some reasons the two books are very near in my memory and each time I think to one of them memories of the other comes.
They do actually. Outside Apple heavens like US, Windows tablets and 2-1 laptops are the to go option, as Google keeps failing to move the Android ecosystem beyond phone apps on bigger screen.
The "the local crime rate is apocalyptic" personality tendency knows no borders.
> I used to tell people that first class tickets on planes are a waste of money because: You're still on a plane, it's still noisy, you just get better food.

You also get more legroom and a less cramped seat.

If you're flying "only" five hours this may not be a big deal. If you're flying >10 hours (e.g., across the Pacific), then it can make a huge difference to comfort.
Not without various third-party adapters. Even then it's not a given that peripherals will work, or work consistently.
I agree that good closed back over the ear headphones work well. The issue for me is that I travel light and never take something that big and heavy to use when flying.
You want a click refund ?
> it will not take days and months. one heat wave will kill hundreds of thousands of people in their sleep.

Peak temperatures don't occur during the night. How do you figure heat wave will kill people in their sleep?
This isn’t about the control over users, but the app market.

Saying just buy a different phone misses the pony entirely. I, as a developer, have no control over what phone you, as a user, buy.
I never log in, since I mainly use the only sign-in-mandatory service, Gmail, on my phone. DDG and Bing suck balls compared to Google, sadly. Google has been worse too over the years .

The past few years, I'm sure I've wasted a lot of time searching on the net, looking for relevant articles while Google spouts out BS.
Lack of monads is not a super huge pain point, but GATs do solve a big pain point: they're needed in order to have async methods.

To be clear here, you don’t need to write any of this stuff in the blog post to write an async method, but the desugaring of an async method involves GATs, so the language has to have them.
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Nevermind my last question, I've found your project on github that you used to test the fingerprintability (fp-scanner) [1] and wanted to let others know.

[1] https://github.com/antoinevastel/fpscanner
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So firms that sell speciality hardware direct to consumers? Are they big players?
If the users didn't like, they'd log off. Facebook optimizes to avoid that scenario.

I know you don't like it, but this very clearly is content that people want to consume.
> I think this entitlement controls only the ability if you are not running as root.

Indeed, but why can't it be granted by root?
For one headphone maybe, but I’m finding it harder to imagine a maneuver to grab one from each ear while you run past someone.
It's difficult to compare, the UK had a lot of dirty coal power stations in 1990 whereas France was mostly nuclear. We had some low hanging fruit to pick and started doing so for cost reasons more than anything else.
The problem is with the word 'disable'. It's the negative form of 'able', and is therefore considered socially to be an inferior condition.

If we had another, standalone, word for people with various conditions and limitations it wouldn't be seen as something to pity, and people would be more open about who they are and what they can and cannot do.
Case in point: hate speech like death threats can be so harmful that is made illegal almost everywhere in the world.
The difference is in Facebook amplifying the content's reach just because it is controversial and generates interactions.

Most serious media outlets care about the truth of the content they share. Facebook simply does not.
bookmarks are not synced and stored anywhere. if you remove the app on ios, you can’t get them back.
I have done this[0] to varying extents for different distros, though I've been distrohopping a lot lately and the scripts haven't quite caught up. I have a similar set of scripts used to provision workstations and servers in my lab.

I find that having a fully automated setup makes tech problems much less stressful. If something breaks, I can just re-install the system from scratch and be up and running again in an hour or two. It also makes changing hard drives or setting up a new machines very straightforward.

0 - https://git.sr.ht/~charles/provisioning
Me too, at first I thought it was a follow-up to that post the other day about Linus Torvalds' 'more elegant' linked list implementation using pointers to pointers.
I have a C background from graduate school and a Python background from my professional work, but I've never explored how Python is implemented in C until I came across one of your previous parts of this series.

I don't have any questions. I just wanted to let you know I think you do a fantastic job writing these up. The thinking process is very clear, and the resource links are well placed for followup research. High quality stuff, for sure.

Thanks for making these. I look forward to future installations.
This has already happened, outside a few niches, most consumers have moved into laptops, and they are increasingly more integrated.
Same type of claim, that is not supported by data. If you have the data, please provide it.

In the same vein, you could assume Democrats are more at risk because they put too much faith in masks, thereby entering more risky situations. Not saying that's the case. The point is, your expectation of who gets infected is merely your partisan belief, not anything rooted in evidence.
I like Bing, I'm not avoiding Google to get privacy, just get some competition.
Daggerfall is 32-bit app (or maybe even 16-bit?) so it could run on Windows ARM edition for a few years.

There is no official support for full Windows 10 on RPi though, only stripped down IoT version or unofficial loaders: https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/01/27/windows-10-arm-on-r...
Possibly switch to this URL? https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/introdu...
This is really interesting! What data do you collect and, more to the point, what data do you pass on to others?
True, but Germany has a lot of coal.
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Is this man seeking help?
>getting a sitting space in a crowded bus, even if there are old people around

Why? Giving up a seat to an older individual is a show of respect as well as a recognition that standing for seniors is a bigger burden than it is for a young 30-something. Why would ADHD change that?
Pure correlation... flagging.
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In the case of HN, what is the bad effect?

HN's formula may be hidden but I think we have a good sense of its inputs: recency, upvotes, moderation to remove crap, and perhaps some boosting to promote YC interests.
I work on the tech side of Mojeek, thanks for the feedback it's appreciated.

We have been tweaking our language detection and intend to roll out some changes in the coming months to give heavier preference to the user's preferred language
They are not appliances. When I buy an appliance I expect to know by the marketing brochures in advance exactly what it will do, and I expect it to do exactly that until it wears out. When I buy a phone or game system I expect to install new functions on it: things not even thought about by the manufacture.
The price delta is usually in the thousands of dollars though. That said, especially for trans-Pacific I'll often try to get an upgrade using a combination of miles and dollars.
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I'm not sure I understand the question. Partisan is not a verb.
just write a little GET request and do it manually, then you print out the html source code and interpret it by hand. It's how I do it, and it's far superior to Lynx. Lynx is just a multitool, not really good at just GETing and rendering.
This section of Wikipedia article refers to data from 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden#Birthplace_of_p...

Is this recent enough?
That’s because iOS devices are locked down for security. iOS apps are given a promise of a trusted computing base which must be kept. Otherwise your company, government or criminal gives you a MacOS laptop with SIP disabled and can now trivially circumvent the privacy protections built into all iOS devices, including for data sync’d over the cloud with your other secure devices.
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Without AirBnB you would need to convert a house into a hotel in order to use residential real estate to tap into hotel demand. And regulations typically make that hard and expensive. Plus you would need to do some construction work, which also adds to the expense.

So strong hotel demand certainly does push up land value overall over time, but it happens much more slowly and to a lesser extent than with AirBnB.

AirBnB gives investors a way around hotel regulations and construction costs. You can buy an existing house and with very little friction or cost start generating revenue from tourism demand.
Even Android is better in regards to default security configuration.
If they have expenses but it's free, then you're the product.
Yeah I get text messages from weed dispensaries in BC for dried mushroom deals.
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I had expected that too and before I knew it I spent time looking for Drake's approving finger from the meme or Uncle Sam's "I want you" gesture. I couldn't find either.
> Every other pair of over-the-ear headphones I’ve ever used feel a bit cheap in comparison

This has always surprised my as someone who's owned a couple of pairs of B&W P-series headphones (P5 then PX). Portable headphones should be built to last, not just flimsy plastic. B&W got it right with metal construction (and with the newest PX models forged carbon fibre), no surprises Apple is building robust headphones too.

What B&W provide though, is a really solid benchmark (of many) (with the exception of spatial audio - which from Gruber sounds like it still has some shortcomings to overcome). They're £200 cheaper, really substantial and solid construction (with a proper hard carrying case - although similar limited folding), the newest carbon models will be noticeably lighter (if still a substantial 310g).

Obviously the Sony XM4s and Bose 700s are well in view too (although plastic construction can make them seem a less premium alternative).

I expect these will sell relatively well, but I can't see them flying off the shelves like their in-ear namesakes in such a crowded and competitive market, even with Apple's software bonuses.
Brave is absolutely dependent on Google, now and in the future, continuing to release their millions of dollars of engineering effort on Chromium to the public for free. If Google were to stop updating Chromium, Brave could re-architect onto... what, exactly? Firefox becomes a less viable competitor every time Mozilla issues a press release. Perhaps they could revert to Webkit, which would make them 100% dependent on Apple instead. It's sad, but there is no way for a modern browser vendor to be independent of FAANG.
HN's "bubble"? Absurd.

We are talking about the most valuable company in the world, and the M1 release was covered enthusiastically the world over. The notion that it's US-only is absolutely preposterous.

Apple is a significant player in mobile in the entirety of the West. Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands. And it's PC saturation is virtually the same in Canada and Europe as the US. Even in European media it is incredibly common to see Apple devices (phones and PCs) as the placeholders.

Apple even has 20% of the mobile marketshare in China. That's incredible. It has 60%+ in Japan.

The corporation buying a fleet of low-end PCs for seat warmers aren't going to buy Apple (nor are they buying Surface Pros. They're buying the junkiest HP or Dell they can get). But there are as many "artsy" people, or people who care about the experience, in other rich countries as well.
Side note: I have the highest rated review [1] on Amazon for the Gro Clock so I was slightly disappointed not to see it on the US site. It even got a comment underneath from the man who invented it.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R126KGC1KEZQHY?...
No. The rest of the world still is dominated by Android / Windows 10 years in.

As long as Apple is not selling cheap devices, no chance that this changes.
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