skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not wrong; but the implied alternative argument is that individuals should have a right to privacy, which as a right supersedes the privilege of small businesses to serve targeted ads. To me that's a lot more compelling than what Facebook is advocating.
Amazon just opens the package to see if the claims are true.
> I'm not really targeting people who will want to work from multiple devices and the app its self isn't really that important

So basically this is not a solution for 99% of all services. Thanks for clarifying
If Google doesn’t do this, people will move towards Apple as someone stated.
Plus, Google is evil! They themselves are adopting the subscription based model now over ads
Just you wait until their account is banned for some petty reason (like sending a message with a bad word in it, or supporting a wrong kind of politician, or using a wrong site).
Vaccines for sale on dark web as criminals target pandemic profits
Ah, that may be. Any iOS devs wanna weigh in?
On AMD the GPU driver stack is unlikely to be materially different from Stadia, I doubt Google is using anything else than (possibly customized/patched) amdgpu+mesa.
Is this supposed to be a parody of a Trump tweet? It’s pretty good!
I think part of the answer is that you have to have a clear long-term goal that is very important to you, and keeping that goal in mind when are tempted to quit.

If you don't know yourself well enough to know what goal is truly important to you, you risk abandoning your task when the going gets tough. So self-knowledge is also important.

I think that's part of the reason why so many young people don't do that well in school.. they either don't know what they want or think they want one thing when they really don't. Once they mature, understand themselves better and so know what they really want then achieving it could become much easier (assuming they're not burnt out or too old by then).

Also, I'm not by any means a master at this, so I try to look to people who are, and learn from them. For me that means people who've been able to achieve amazing feats of endurance, like Robert Owens[1] and David Goggins[2], or have overcome some incredible adversity, like Brooke Ellison[3] and Kyle Maynard[4].

From some of them, I remember learning to focus on the present, on putting one foot in front of the other, in a kind of hyperfocus on exactly and only the very smallest thing you need to do right now, then doing it again, and again, and again, and again.

Another lesson I'm now remembering learning from many of them is that they built up a stock of achievements they could recall when the going got tough. Knowing that they persevered and succeeded before gave them confidence that they could do it again.

You also have to have hope, be willing to try (and try your best, no matter what the outcome), and somehow overcome depression and other mental issues, if you suffer from them. Therapy works for some, medication or other medical interventions work for others, religion for still others, but ultimately there are no sure or easy answers here.

Having a strong support network and mentors also really helps a lot. It's very difficult to go it alone, though some truly exceptional people manage it (though even then there's usually something in their early life that helped -- often parents or other sources of guidance)... I'm thinking of POW's and concentration camp survivors. Speaking of which, I can highly recommend Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning,[5] as it's about why people endured in the absolute worst circumstances imaginable.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg9kJeule7Q

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78I9dTB9vqM

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alf_I1p7bds

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqRJ-178dVk

[5] - https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/...
That was common on early typewriters. Examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter#...

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/2b4y0d/why_is_...
He should put up a youtube video to help other 8-year olds.

That's how my friend's son was able to get one of those grocery-store visa cards, and then purchase nintendo games with grandma's birthday money.
text-align:center does NOT entirely replicate <center>. And has been a source frustration for many.
The “How Not to Die” cookbook also has some good smoothie recipies.
Why crippled? 1blocker works very well on Safari?
It seems like its mostly used for patching in tests, e.g.

def test():
SomeClass.do_network_call = lambda x: x
< test actual logic >
You're talking about GitHub monitoring what signed-in GitHub users do on the GitHub website, right?
It's a short document but basically all you need to go forward doing worthwhile programming from there.

And come back to as a reference to help you get the most out of the language within the limitations of that particular version.

There should be lots more pieces of hardware which are ready-to-program with at least a BASIC as minimal as this today, with concise documentation intended as a full reference first, with programming tips and examples along the way.
How Australia's drop bear came to be its most deadly – and most fake – predator
Pixel 5 is a great phone, albeit a bit overpriced in the US due to the extra mmWave chip. So is the 4a, depends on your needs.

Pixel 5 has 2GB more ram, 50% more battery, wireless charging, 90hz display and waterproofing. Now that may or may not be features you need, both they're both great deals.
Issue here is that any given product on Amazon may be sold by numerous different sellers (and the set of sellers could of course change over time etc.). There is no indication which seller a reviewer purchased from (unless they explicitly state, but I've never seen that), so it's completely possible that they ordered from the one seller that packages the product terribly for shipping & the rest are all fine.
Yes, it's sad.

I've had Yelp and AirBnB remove reviews. I don't know what to do about it. They Yelp one I can't verify the service (a dentist) didn't get better. The AirBnB one I can tell nothing was fixed because the issues are verifiable in the listing itself.
It's a common mistake, and the above fact is going to be extremely difficult for many people to believe because of the comfort-zone of entrenched beliefs and confirmation bias, but RV is actually not a grift and is a real thing.

If you're still having trouble believing this, but consider yourself an open-minded person I encourage you to try RV for yourself. I believe there is a subreddit that is not terrible. For RV, I don't think you need to believe it works, nor have a theory how it could, in order to get results, however keeping open-minded is useful to getting and interpreting the data you receive in RV.
Once both parties decide to part way, I don't think it's reasonable to think that you will get to choose the exit date at your own liking.

Either party can choose an earlier date, but not a later date.

I don't really care if she left or Google fired her. But framing it as Google is evil for firing her seems dishonest when she was the one who gave the ultimatum.

Google is evil, but not for this activity.
But all of them are safari core, Apple does not allow other browser runtimes, they're only the custom UI around the webview. [1]

All of the core browser bits including adblocking are safari still in every iOS browser on the app store.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

(i.e. ~safari webview)
so... compete on rhetoric?
> What's the reason that it can't act like a filesystem image, and keep everything in one file?

I suspect it's mostly because putting everything into one file instead of two isn't really necessary for most use cases, and it would significantly complicate the implementation.

The main SQLite database file is organized into numbered fixed-size pages, which are used to store B-tree nodes. The B-tree structure itself is fairly complex, but the journal file format is extremely simple: it's essentially just a list of page indices along with their old contents. (WAL mode is very similar, except that the new contents are stored instead. See https://sqlite.org/fileformat2.html for the details.)

The catch is that both the database and the journal need to be independently resizable. So if you wanted to store them both in a single file, you would need to either reserve a fixed amount of space for the journal up front, or allow the journal and/or the database itself to become fragmented across different byte ranges of the file. The latter option would require you to keep track of an extra layer of indirection to know where the journal data is stored, and that metadata would itself need to be efficiently, atomically updateable.

Essentially, you would be building an entire rudimentary filesystem just to store two logical files in one physical one, when the OS already has a perfectly good filesystem available for you to use.
thanks! perhaps because we're new to open source maintenance, but early on we tried to help each and every support request from self-hosters and it quickly turned out an impossible task. we do help every paying subscriber so tried to do the same for self-hosters but unfortunately it gets very difficult with our limited resources. so now we're simply setting expectations straight so people know what they can or cannot expect
Unfortunely those are the ones that keep the crunshing culture alive and push people aside from the industry, feeding on 20-somethings that want to prove themselves.

My sympathy goes to the iGDA members trying to fix this.
Get the iPhone. Everything just works. I have the non mini 12. Its damn near as perfect as it’s going to get.
The problem is that a lot of the lucrative demographic is leaving or is at least not actively engaged with Facebook. Advertisers like to know very specific details about the demographics they want to target and all that juicy user data from other apps is just too hard to give up.

Note their competition: it’s Google. Google does the thing where they try to track everything and if Facebook doesn’t do the same their platform loses value. And so the arms race continues.
Apple only allows their browser engine
Thats why I actually like that Cyberpunk 2077 seems to have a fairly focused mission structure. (I haven't played very far, mind you). It always bothered me in e.g. Bethesda's games that I was supposed to be on some all-important world-saving quest, but it's no problem if I want to just spelunk in ancient dwarves ruins for a few months instead.
Mitigating the AI Carbon Footprint
> it’s still complex to do simple things that everybody wants.

People underestimate the complexity of layout. Take vertical centring, for example. The immediate assumption is that it’s easy; you just find the mid-way point between the top and bottom. But the top and bottom of what? The web is a document-based system, with text flowing from top to bottom. The centre in this context is not the centre of the window, but the centre of the document.

Okay, so let’s find the mid-way point between the top and the bottom of the document. The top is easy, it’s zero. So where’s the bottom? Well to find that, you need to know how tall the document is. How do we do that? Well, the height of the document is defined by the height of all of its contents. So let’s render its contents and find the height. But wait – the thing we are trying to render in the centre is part of the contents, so we’ve got ourselves into an infinite loop.

There are various solutions to this – hard-code the height of the document (to what?); take the thing being centred out of consideration when rendering the rest of the document (and now it can’t affect / be affected by the rest of the contents), etc. But which solution is best depends upon the context – and this is how you end up with complexity. It’s easy to say “just put it in the centre”, but it’s not as easy to figure out what that means exactly or which solution is best for doing so.

> Is this why the web is less successful than it might be?

The web is one of the most successful technologies in the history of human civilisation. It seems quite odd to talk about it as if it were a flop because you have to think for a moment before centring something.
I was looking to buy a kindle for Christmas

The ones with adverts which are pushed were available for next day deliver. The ones with no adverts which I wanted weren’t available for months.

In the end I didn’t buy a kindle. What is it with companies that want to splat adverts everywhere.
1. Buy a Product
2. Give 5 star rating as Verified Buyer
3. Return the Product

Amazon doesn't remove my review;
1) how do I update to x.3 if the latest is x.6?
2) do you think we all have free broadband growing on them trees?
I like the way you think. :)

Though I think 720p is towards the low end of resolutions this'll work on -- the cimbar code itself is 1024x1024, and while there's some wiggle room (hamming distance between the symbols), in my experience it gets pretty iffy below 900x900.

Also... I should probably update the overlay to auto-hide when a file is selected -- it helps a lot to have the full color range.
Interesting.

Looking at Minds, I already see a big flaw: All posts are under the /newsfeed/ namespace.

So instead of

/username/1234

your posts are here:

/newsfeed/1234

I don't think users want to get "robbed" of their posts like this.

There also is no embed functionality. For Twitter type shoutouts it is absolutely vital that they can be embedded around the web.
Hemorrhoids+–+Causes,+Symptoms+&+Treatment+|+Health+Lines
that's fair, but <center> and this post are still not equivalent at all.
Bitcoin can't even handle the currency transaction needs of a large shopping mall. The bitcoin blockchain is limited to about 7 transactions a second.

That's the main chain only; Lightning Network and side chains have no such limitations. There are over 36,000 lightning channels that can clear bitcoin transactions without using the main blockchain.

In a shopping mall scenario, most people would already have open channels with their favorite stores, similar to how store credit cards work today.

A cryptocurrency of some sort may eventually become a threat to the US dollar but bitcoin is clearly not it.

If it's going to happen, bitcoin will most certainly be it. The dollar is starting to lose its place as the world's reserve currency; Russia, China, Iran and other countries are cutting side deals to use currencies other than the dollar when they can [1].

Sure, smart people will continue to buy their morning coffee with dollars but they won't be saving for a rainy day in dollars.

The Fed has already printed trillions and trillions of dollars, with no end in sight; it's just a matter of time before we have either negative interest rates or noticeable inflation or both. Regardless, it's losing its buying power daily.

That's why a company like MicroStrategy borrowed $550 million at 0.75% to buy more bitcoin—and that's after a $425 million purchase a couple of months ago. Mass Mutual—an insurance company—just bought $100 million in bitcoin [2].

These and other companies wouldn't have done this if they were confident that the dollar would retain its value.

It looks like the beginning of a speculative attack, which was predicted 6.5 years ago [3].

[1] https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/

[2] https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/microstrategys-bitcoin-debt-...

[3] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/speculative-attack/
AFAICT Stripe is one of those that aggressively ROFRs. I’ve been trying to invest in them for a while, but no luck.
Chromium cli?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/puppeteer
Sorry if this came across as harsh to some people. Next time I could try replacing "arrogance" with a less confrontational word. I think my goal was to convince a couple of people, but the unfortunate thing about words like "arrogant" is they put people on the defensive, which makes them unlikely to change their minds. Next time I might try a different approach.
Chaland is something unrelated, it's a slow delivery barge from which derive two meanings, one for a shop being well-stocked (bien achalandé, because it's well served by the barge) and the other for visiting things at a leisurely pace (because the barge is slow and makes many stops).
Enough extra value for an ad campaign against Apple.
So maybe they get more information than you think.
Your wife should file a chargeback. It's not a difficult process and it somewhat favors the cardholder.
Pixel 5 has bunch of issues which make the performance worse than pixel 4a 5g and comparable to pixel 4a. OP talked about iphone 12 mini so I thought they cared about small size which pixel 4a rocks.
First, bias happens. A journalist should aim to be objective but they are not saints of objectivity. Second, it's not unreasonable to editorialize a little bit when discussing statements that appear to a reasonable person to be made in bad faith or are self serving. If I routinely made claims of fact about the honey-like nature of the heavens despite frequent demonstrations of my claims' absurdity and falseness, it would not at all be unreasonable or "biased" to point out a priori that I still had not produced any evidence of my claims. It's certainly not unreasonable if I run late night TV commercials asking for money from pensioners to launch a mission to collect sky honey.

As for evidence of an event occurring, you'll also notice journalists go out of their way to second source statements of facts. They want first-hand accounts from named sources in order to put an identity and reputation up for scrutiny. Ideally they also want a second named source but failing that they will often accept unnamed sources (to whom the journalist knows the identity but does not publicly reveal it). This is a common practice specifically because journalists are rarely in the room when and where events occur.
This is a very conspiratorial vision of things.

Really, it's just that social networks work by having a lot of people, and lots of people are on Twitter because other people are on Twitter (I think there's an audience thing as well).

Though, to your point, I think Twitter has outsized influence for the same reason Google Reader did: loud nerds and journalists were always using it. Though now the politicians using it probably count for a lot too
the closer they get the to the brain, the more important it is to have user controlled software... aka open source system, no javascriptable "content"
I've used Apple products "full time" since the late 80's and I definitely care. :) I have probably ~20 Macs in my home. Though, you're right, a pretty big percentage of people just don't seem to care about this kind of thing, at least consciously. They may dislike some specific frictional aspect of these limitations, but never quite understand the technical/practical reasons behind them.

When I first got into Macs, my first experiences of dabbling with the system was being able to edit literally anything on the computer with ResEdit, renaming key system-related files and menu items, or the shutdown message, or change key-commands of menu items in programs I used. I felt like I could do anything. This sense of control and ownership over my computer has slowly decreased as they become more abstract and DRM/gatekeeping/security seeps into every inch of their architecture.
When you say GitHub is collecting personal data in a JS request, what data do you mean exactly? IP address, browser, screen resolution type stuff?
SMS can be delivered days late. It isn't any better than email.
Correct.

To quote @Travis_Kling:

Bitcoin is a non-sovereign, hard-capped supply, global, immutable, decentralized digital store of value. It’s an insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility from central banks and governments globally.
That does not make sense. Presumably your stocks will still grow/give dividends wherever they are. Cash would be locked to the low return rate of Chase account though.
That makes sense to me, and I would like it if this was what was being argued, rather than trying to paint the company as evil or hypocritical.
This may be extremely dumb question, but given a snapshot of a wave, what properties of that snapshot tell you which direction that wave is moving in?
I explained it right below.
I see some might like it that way for security reasons.
Show HN: Install Homebrew (native) on Apple M1 (bash 1-liner)
I just got my Mac Mini M1 and wanted to run Homebrew in native mode to be able to do CLI benchmark comparison. I put everything I learned about that process in an easy bash script that can be run in a 'curl | bash' line.

It takes care of installation of command-line tools, Homebrew, .zshrc/.bashrc and allows for easy uninstall.
Mine lives on my keyring and is smaller than my house key or bike key, and I'd argue holding it against the back of my phone is actually more user friendly than typing in a number from a text message.
The Hardness of the Lemmings Game, or “Oh No, More NP-Completeness Proofs”
A new WoW signal from aliens?
A tentative, but exciting signal from Parkes, which has been in the thick of aliens search using radio-signal search. In 2016 they started this new effort, which appears to be getting some results.

This may be a false signal still, so understandably all astronomers are very cautious before going public.

I will wait and watch!
Our company will never transition from SVN to Git because the transition tools fail on our ancient SVN repo. Learn from us: switch now because switching later may not be an option.
> i.e. horizontal centering is easy because that's a natural thing to want to do in a document, but vertical centering seems to make less sense and is thus correspondingly more difficult.

It’s because text wraps horizontally and flows from top to bottom. The width is constrained by the window but the height is defined by the contents of the document. This means that if you are trying to vertically centre something in the document, you need to know the size of the document before you can render its contents, but you need to render its contents to know the size of the document.

There’s various ways around this but they all have different trade-offs, hence multiple solutions to the problem of vertical centring in CSS.
Yes, I’ve used both over the past few years to invest in SpaceX, NextDoor, and Cerebras. None of those have gone public, but I believe that once they do, the shares are transferred out of the SPV into a brokerage account.
Typically, the right to remain silent is associated with the right to refuse self-incrimination in a criminal proceeding, which is part of the fifth amendment.

The law can compel publication, but that power is typically used for material arising in judicial proceedings or documents of inherent public interest (like the Watergate tapes, etc.). So, it would be unlikely to apply here.
Being a “risk” feels like a stretch? Clearly my phrasing could use work, because my goal here is a higher level of scrutiny.
Apps like "Eat This Much" can simplify meal planning by helping you make dishes that last multiple days. It lets you optimize each meal for time to prepare, variety, cost, etc. It also prepares a weekly shopping list. (Seriously, great app, few rough edges though and onboarding is not friendly)

Also, sauces. 1 day making bolognese is 3 days of main courses.

Ideally you are only making 2 or 3 main courses during the week.