skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But whatever method we chose, it should not ignore the actual people living there, their intelligence comparable to our own and their fight for survival.

A couple of years ago I attended a talk on lemur conservation, and this was one of the key points they brought up. Habitat loss from slash-and-burn agriculture is a huge problem for lemur populations, but from a conservation point it's not effective to visit Madagascar and tell people not to do it. To the Malagasy you're just a rich tourist telling them off for living without offering any help.

So instead they focus on education. Two of the initiatives they mentioned were teaching people more effective methods of cultivating food (such as setting up fisheries), and providing them with plans for more efficient wood-burning stoves.
Signing in doesn’t remove the limit. They want you to download their app.
Intelligence, population density, and friendship affect happiness (2016)
Trexo Robotics (YC W19) Is Hiring
I think removing the IDFA is great but .... most people probably login via the same IDs, either the same email address or facebook login, google login, github login, etc...

Once you've done that your app activity will be exchanged behind the scenes associating your data with your email or account so I'm not sure how many people this is going to really help.

IIRC Apple was trying to fix this hole too by having login via Apple give each app a different user IDs. Unfortunately that's not useful for the majority of people who need to be able to use non Apple devices.
Autoplaying videos. Especially when places in "popup" boxes that follow you down the page.
As instant as in the keynote video. IIRC around the time of Lion I started seeing a progress bar as it was coming out of sleep.

Now, especially if you require password you need to wait a second or so after it wakes up, because input is no longer immediately available. And then it takes some time to actually wake up and start the window server etc.
And make stolen credit card numbers even more valuable?

(I like where your head is at, fraud is just hard)
Say what you want about Apple but they are by far the most privacy focused big company. Their income is from selling physical devices. Typical megacorps in 2020 are leveraging economies of scale to sell their users' attention. Apple has a unique value add in that when their users benefit they benefit.

Sent from my Thinkpad.
You are right, Aaudio is available since Oreo only and the device is 3 version older. Additionally Netflix 's video playback is not a low latency use-case, so it shouldn't use Aaudio even on recent devices.

My comment was about the parent's affirmation that low latency apps should be scheduled by interrupt.
there are extensions that force old.reddit.com that u could use on most of the browsers
I have forgotten endless scrolling. And now I remembered scroll hijacking.
Amen brother. Try voicing a balanced perspective on China some time...
I use just

trap EXIT

With

set -eu

errors in subshells should lead to an exit anyway, so my exit handler is called. Or am I missing some case?
I meant that’s what has happened a lot in the world with e.g. mines so it’s not a perfect solution for environmental problems, because bankrupt companies are handled by the public.

For tech there is obviously no environmental “cleanup” after bankruptcy.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/10/ask-ars-whats-the-di...
(addendum: actually, I can't help but feel that although it's been around since before I was born, I fully understand how it works and use it on a regular basis, regression still is ai magic ;-) )
I said it before I will say it again:

The new thing, and the key point here is scale.

You can discuss persuasion or cognitive bias away until everyone gets an aneurysm, sure. Some example: You can't not communicate. So even not persuading is persuading. What if the presidential candidate would just not give a scheduled speech? How do you communicate information objectively? Casual language creates bias, so does scientific language, simple language, passive language, active language. "Cognitive Bias" might as well be called "Cognition", since it is just how the brain works. You have to think "tree" immediately when you see one, even before you validated that all leaves are real and that the whole thing is not a projection on an transparent screen. Otherwise you can't function.

But: Big tech throws us in a situation where a small group of people influences our perception on a massive scale. Facebook changes a sentence on their homepage and a billion people read it. Youtube raises some parameter (yeah I know that's not how AI works) by 0.01 and the political opinion about the Grenfell tower disaster changes ever so slightly - for 30 million people. Google's filter has a tiny hole and some troll broadcasts wrong medical information about gout to 200k people.

Every time one of these things happen, the world shakes. Dozens die or survive. Demonstrations form and elections swing. Opportunities are wasted and ideas surface.

I am not arrogant to actually propose an easy solution to this, and I don't think there is one. Just be aware that "I can always go and stab someone" is not a good argument when you are discussing a fully automated drone swarm with kill authority.
you kind of imply that this is legally or morally wrong.

please complete your argument, if that's the case.

from where i am standing, I see no wrongdoing of any kind.
The highest bitrate EVS codecs finally get there I think. Though you'll need sufficient signal strength and networks which support them at both ends of the call.
Assuming that the labour market is efficient, which is manifestly not true.
Thanks for the tip, I will check it out. :)
If you want a game that treats the pad as a 3x3 grid that's entire possible with a trackpad.
I don't want to own hardware and OS I don't like, even if I can control it fully.

I'd rather have hardware and OS I like, even if I can't control some aspects of it.

Of course a hardware/OS I like and which I control fully would be the holy grail (if the tradeoffs involved, e.g. it being FOSS, and thus underfunded for example, allowed for such a thing). Absent that, somewhere in between there is a nice balance for each person/business case.
Probably doesn't need to be fast, but reliable. Something with high latency or that drops packets would still give garbled audio, whether it's at a high or low resolution.
thank you so much for posting this, I lost my notes and was looking for TLA+ for months
This is (kind of) a non-issue.

The hard coded su password only exists in the TPG (an Australian ISP) version of the VR1600v software. The main admin user is unable to set VOIP server details and authentication etc.

If you get a vanilla TP-Link VR1600v, you'll find there is no such hardcoded password, and the normal admin account has full access to VOIP and CWMP settings.
Yeah: I almost never want that... if you remarkably want to source files relative to the script location instead of the working directory, I will argue you usually want to do that with a variable for the directory, except in very even-more-special circumstances (in which case I have done something similar to this article).
It gives cover to those who dismissed the concern pre-covid.

It's common for a pragmatic 'Cassandra' to point to the newest evidence as permission for people to finally wake up to the problem rather than berating them for not paying attention any earlier.
While it's not quite the same, remote has the benefit that you can do that with people not working in the same building too. (e.g. where I work spontaneous screen share sessions are totally normal)
MIT Releases a Free Machine Learning Course
App privacy labels now live on the App Store
Off-topic: Does the same thing exist for shell programming?
> Added to that is the aversion of consumers in many markets to eating anything that might contain an ingredient derived from genetically modified microbes.

Which is exactly why those of us who care deeply about natural habitat conservation from a scientific point of view wish that the public were more influenced by scientifically-minded conservationists and less influenced by organizations like Greenpeace, who oppose GM on a basis that can only be called flimsy hippy ideology.
I agree with the main idea of the article. Google setup the rules and the legions of clever SEO consultants fly 747s through the loopholes. Google closes them, SEOs pivot, and the tit-for-tat goes on.

Meanwhile legitimate businesses suffer.

Meanwhile users suffer.

Google has one view on the world of content -- namely "one big index to rule them all" and "remove humans at every step of the way"

This has made the behemoth blind to their next existential threat -- the real threat to their search dominance will not come from Bing, or Baidu, or another other big-ish play.

The threat is on the bottom. In the niches. In curation.

Curation from enthusiasts and subject matter experts who will run their own micro search engines.

Just as we look at "influencers" for what software to run, makeup to buy, and books to read -- I think one day we might like to use Paul G's search engine on startups and entrepreneurship.

Or perhaps a hyper-local search engine run by a consortium of small business owners and civic-minded people?
I think that's very unlikely, really; Itanium just really wasn't great. To a large extent, if AMD64 hadn't existed it would have been necessary to create it (either that or Intel could've gone off in a RISC-y direction and made something along the lines of a DEC Alpha, I suppose). But in any case, it's hard to see an alternate universe where Itanium was actually successful.
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If palm oil farming becomes less profitable, then local people will transition, and some of them will transition to ecotourism or other forms of economic activity that are less damaging. I'm not sure that you need to sound so negative about developing artificial palm oil.
Indeed, shouldn't that be the point?
Calls are unusable in Signal: they drain a fully charged battery in about half an hour.
If you have to parse output from one binary as input to another, I find it is way less error prone to use bash. There are subtleties to flushing output from processes in python that can lead to surprises.
Covid 19: Christmas relaxation will overwhelm services
In Firefox desktop, an user has to enable DRM manually per-site.
Improving Vim Workflow with Fzf
Dichotomy of Product
If this feature is going to be well-known and too easy to discover - it is already doomed. As soon as too many ordinary users start using it, advertisers will invest in workarounds. Ad blocking only worked well as long as the majority of people didn't care to use it. Ad blocking and privacy-enhancing features should be off by default, requiring you to dive deep into config dialogs to turn on so only those who actually worry about being tracked would use them - this way this can have a chance to actually work.
Depends. In an embedded system I prefer not to have to install Python at all.
When even one cent difference in cost equals millions in profit, its much easier to pretend you are dealing with numbers and not people.

I am not defending anyone only pointing out that maybe we shouldn't have entities so big that dissociation of mid to high level management decision's to reality is so easy. Where guilt and responsibility is pushed down the ladder on daily basis.
Amazing how humble these bigwigs have become suddenly.
Google would upset a lot of people, but I think quite a lot of people would be quite happy with a Facebook ban. Even quite heavy users of Facebook/Instagram seem to recognise the unhealthy effects it has on them.

More likely the EU would negotiate with the companies rather than outright ban them.
The one from Malmö to Stockholm arrives at 6, but you can stay in the train until 7. Ideal.
I did not assume it, but apparently you took "brain in a jar" literal. That completely invalidates any argument, since the Chinese you're talking about, are not brains in a jar.

> There's no reason to assume an experience like love can't be replicated

There's all the reason, if only because a "brain in a jar" lacks organs for hormone production (e.g., adrenaline and testosterone). And no, you even haven't got an idea of how create an artificial adrenal gland or scrotum, and how to hook them up to an brain in a jar. There's all the reason to assume it can't be easily replicated.

And even if it could theoretically be replicated, there's absolutely no reason to assume Xiaoice can do that.
They also do do normal diplomacy to some degree too, which is basically the obvious part of advancing one's interests - but a lot of stuff is definitely going to be easier to work out face to face.
I like Dash, I bought it. But unfortunately the version upgrade from 4 to 5 introduced some mandatory UI changes that made documentation lookup much more cumbersome. Looking up a function now takes several user interaction steps, instead of just one in Dash 4. I'm still on version 4. If anyone have alternatives, I'm all ears.
Does this help big tech or hurt big tech? One way to create a monopoly is to regulate competition out of existence. Lawsuits against big tech are becoming the latest form of semantic satiation.
Thank you so much for the feedback :) . I spent more time on this than on my usual post, so it is great to hear that that has paid off.
Kate is 20 years old
Mozilla is still around, though?
Not a lawyer, but is there a way to try to institute more stringent legal ethics at the bar level? It seems unethical for an individual lawyer to bring spurious lawsuits as a matter of practice.

If my elderly grandfather goes to a doctor and says “here’s $100k please chop of my leg because I want to” the doctor won’t do that. If they did they may lose their license.

Seems like similar issues would exist for a company saying “here’s $1M please file lawsuits to block a company’s funding rounds.”

While it’s legally allowed, it seems like professional ethics should prevent it.

Of course it’s really hard to show what’s spurious.
And Harry potter a medieval world remind me again where the steam train is in Malory :-)

And Tolkien's successful campaign to put old English at the heat of English studies is well known by this point if you read any biography of Tolkien.

True Tolkien and Lewis where "of their time" but they are no Lovecraft
I'm sure we can spare one dose for him.
That's very doable, but tedious to make and it's probably on of the selling points for Reason. Writting React code with OCaml is very tedious.
Collateral damage becomes a certainty when you start planting bombs everywhere. How could it not? One does not approve these missions thinking the chances are low (and I doubt one would care much if the civilians don't live anywhere that'll be able to kick up a fuss.)
Many of our internal users and tools experienced similar errors
Programming languages are like any other language. If you use lots of complicated words every time, nobody will understand you.
I had a successful hour-long video call on Signal recently using my aging iPhone SE (1st gen), which has battery-life issues in general but I made it through without needing to plug in. First time I’d used that feature of the app.
I think my situation is quite different. I do very little coding actually too! I am quite independent and a purely theoretical physicist. I've already put out a couple of papers and would be able to continue well without my supervisor.

Although I have had really bad periods of procrastination throughout my PhD, but in general I work in short sharp bursts rather than sustained periods. You mention flow, it's hard to get into the flow when you are deriving new equations or approaches to things!
Yes, in fact I do! My whole country!

(and other countries on the Balkans, it's all Huawei all-in-one GPON CPE everywhere!)
There is a lot of difference. Morally, why European people should be responsible of regime that oppressed them and against they rebel multiple times ? Economically, European peasants that were the great majority of population didn't get any advantage of all of this, and some of them in southern/eastern Europe were victims of similar behaviour from other countries. Why someone from south of Italy whose ancestor were enslaved by Ottomans should pay for crimes of kings of Britain, Spain and Portugal ?
That's a project that we all wished was in a perfect shape in order to make Reason more approchable with jsoo.
What license is the author releasing it under? I had a look on Maciej's blog and the gist, but couldn't see. I want to save it to possibly use in my projects.
Wow. I only knew the term from fantasy role plays and fantasy overall. Would not have guessed it to have a real world connotation.

By your comment I learned from the Wrestler, but more importantly the Ku Klux Klan reference and meaning. Thanks for laying out a bread crumb to follow for new insights.
> so one injustice wouldn't slide

Amazon has pending lawsuits about this in multiple countries. Meat packers are staring down lawsuits about this across several states. These lawsuits cover millions of employees.

If you are trying to argue that there was just a single instance of this kind of offense, you're in a world of fantasy.

And it's a tossup as to whether they're going to get more from the lawsuits or from government assistance--both are going to be woefully inadequate.
Here's some more:

* https://dabeaz-course.github.io/practical-python/Notes/Conte... by David Beazley --> covers foundational aspects of Python programming with an emphasis on script writing, data manipulation, and program organization

* https://python-patterns.guide/ by Brandon Rhodes --> inspired from Gang of Four book

* https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython (this is more of a collection) --> Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets

Also, my ebook Python re(gex)? covering re and regex modules is free to read online: https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_regular_expressions/ (pdf/epub is paid, available via leanpub/gumroad)
The labels 'genius' and 'gifted' look convincing until you read about 'accidental genius' - genius acquired after a serious illness or injury.

'genius' is just a particular configuration out of millions or billions in which a brain can form. Brain's real estate is malleable like a city's. So, no reason why one cannot configure it to one's liking. Now, the procedure to do so might not be as easy.

I also think that there is not much difference between an alcoholic (any addiction for that matter) and a workaholic genius. The reason is that both do not know what drives them.
Apple has a unique power here. They just add a line to their ToS stating that workarounds are a violation and your app will be removed.
It’s recently in dispute, but calling it a “myth” seems strong as it was the medically agreed upon stance for decades.
This may seem like a good idea, but it gets problematic since you need to always use isinstance checks. Its actually discouraged to return union types by the mypy team: https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/1693
The massive palm oil plantations of Malaysia and Borneo are not being planted by poor locals, but by wealthy landowners.
Why he is not "Trusting science!"? Such a denier
Petition to have Blast Radius Awards per year among top companies pls
plus or minus?
Yes, if it was that easy to predict failure, it would be easy to avoid it.
> Chrome at least would never be viable as a standalone product (as the fates of Mozilla and Opera have taught us).

Firefox has been viable as a standalone product for over a decade because Google pays for being the default search engine. This is roughly viable with Chrome being around, it would be even more viable if Chrome was not around.
The problem with all these anti-fingerprinting tools is you show up as a firefox user who went in to the settings and turned on fingerprint protections which no other user did so you are unique again. You need lots of users to have the same setting enabled to blend in.
The night train? If I remember correctly, when it still ran it stopped in Berlin around 4:30 AM; not a fun time to get up. I did use it to go to Dresden though; got out at 7, had breakfast, then a train to Leipzig. Excellent way to travel.

Although since you mention using the Internet and also the Eurostar, you probably meant the day train, which is fine but the 6 hours to Berlin take a chunk out of your day. (I once took the one at 5 AM, but that turned out to be too early for me and I can't sleep in a chair.)
"Not existing" seems kind of misleading considering that article...
I'll flip this one back to you in the same spirit.

Do you think iPhone users care that Apple is implementing anti-tracking?
Amazon can somehow put those displays in a Kindle for what... 90€? Maybe they have some mix-calculation going on with book sales, but in comparison a Kindle should cost around 400-500€ when looking at those numbers here.
The government authority is a human. That's why it's a problem. People aren't perfect and might speak about what they saw.

And no, it's not normal to be required to have a business plan, much less disclose it.
But their hiring practices are pretty similar (perhaps except Netflix, don't know anything about them).

In one of my interview rounds at google I was under huge time pressure, despite coming up with an optimal solution in seconds. That was an outlier as the interviewer was not aware of this solution, so explaining it took a long time. But still.

The valuable part from the competitive coding background is not the coding, but "inventing" solutions. In quotes because it's mostly a pattern-matching process. And it's a _huge_ advantage.

Personally I'm perfectly happy with the current process, as I took about half a year to become good at it, and the payoff is nice. :) But I'm convinced that's what this process selects for first and foremost - amount of preparation.