skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to meet that criterion to fit the definition. It could meet clause 1 or (more likely on GP's examples) clause 3 instead).
<UpdatePanel /> see here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.ui.up...

I used it 13 years ago. It was fancy.
It doesn't. Some people retire, some people leave the industry because they prefer something else, etc. All that needs to happen is that not all of them are being replaced.
Here's the study: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121126/00590921141/dear-...
>> Another aspect is that I don't have an outlet to discuss intense topics in real life, so I jump at the chance online. I hope other posters can relate to this ;)

Dito! I have to say, I really enjoy your thinking and posting (except for the first one) style. You seem incredibly self aware and able to instantly contextualize yourself within a broader framework. Very rare skill - I hope you are putting it to lucrative use with a great employer :)
It feels like there should be an HTML-only feature for sourcing and replacing a subset of a page. A first-party "iframe" that acts like a div and reflows.
The market for dedicated external webcams is a little sparse because most people don't want to have more peripherals.

There's probably a good opportunity for home office external displays to incorporate smartphone cameras, studio mikes, and maybe even lighting elements to help people look good while working from home.
I agree. This seems complex but I am NOT a rails developer. The least complex stack I can find is Svelte (with Sapper) on the front end that calls out to API made in Spring Java.

That lets me have quick development on the frontend, server side rendering for fast first page load and use of a typed language for the backend. The client is also overburdened with a large JS framework.
Because in the education sector, the dominant ideology is some vague form of antiracism, and rhetorical appeals to the interests of blacks etc are the only way (or at least a prerequisite) to get anything done.
Trello is very nice to use.
And it’s pretty much legal as long as Amazon makes it (1) clear that it’s always on[a] or (2) puts it in the contract[b]. Basically, the FCC could try, but my understanding of the law puts Amazon in the clear. (Of course, IANAL; ask a real lawyer for a better answer).

EDIT: They’re also throwing in the “us vs them” trash by mentioning that Ajit Pai is a Republican. The article would do just fine without it. We already have enough division in this country.

[a]: A device can’t activate by a cue (“Hey, Alexa”) if it’s not listening

[b]: As bad as burying terms in the contract is, it’s still legal
If they made this a feature they would be admitting that their laptop webcams aren't very good.
I'd wager a big part of it is that they don't think it's cheating and don't bother to hide it. If you're looking for the percentage of first year CS students that cheat in some way or another I'd say around 30-40%, anecdotally, purely among non-international students.
The Fight for the Soul of Seattle
I don't understand how Nintendo has maintained its fun and harmless image while being worse than Disney when it comes to protecting its assets. You look at stuff like joycon drift, suing literally everyone who even thinks about emulation, or streaming, and they are still in the "good" light by most people.
So I'll push one step beyond that, and say that it's important to be able to pace your work to achieve the level of result that you want. By the end of my time in college, I could almost tell how much effort I needed to put in for each 0.1 out of 4.0 of my GPA. The mirror, then, is that I also need to instill in my kids a sense of high standards.
Unfortunately, it's packaged as part of an omnibus bill.

Basically some congresspeople wanted to pass the $600 stimulus check, and others bundled on the CASE Act with it. And this will pass because anyone opposing it "doesn't love America".
Lakehouse: New Open Platforms That Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics [pdf]
> Code is code, if it produces output, it is owned by the user :) (assuming the "code" doesn't produce copyrighted content).

Right, I'm thinking specifically of code like shaders that do produce copyrighted content.

> EDIT: Why do I treat code differently from assets? I have no clue tbh, but probably has to do with I can do code and thus can give it away, and can't do assets and thus can't.

I'll not claim to speak for your reasons, but in general the motivation seems to be defense of things like trademark/trade dress or restrictive franchise licensing and adaptations to other media.

Eg. If Doom's assets were entirely free of any and all restrictions, anyone could have produced a Doom movie (including an inevitable Rule 34 version), not to mention sequelae.
I am not the person who said they should be split up.

I am pointing out that they haven't currently been split up at all. They are still a part of the same company.

Most people who have proposed a splitting up Google have obviously not suggested splitting it on geographical lines, because most of them understand how the internet works. Typically, the suggestions have been to split on product line -- not unlike how Alphabet has internally organized their divisions.
I think you've got a minority opinion calling crystals "alive," although it does jibe with one definition of life that I heard: "any self-sustaining system that reduces internal entropy."
You don't rewrite the entire codebase overnight, or even in a single release. Instead, rewrite 10% of the code in 1 year, and within 10 years the entire product will be rewritten.
The Librem article I linked in my thread clearly states:

https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurd...

> The SPI flash will be read only so the firmware blobs can’t be modified without the user knowing.

The post you link to is full of wishy-washy fluff, but does not answer the direct question that the user posed in the OP, about the DDR timing code flash being writable.
This makes me realize that torrenting is absolutely under attack here.

If you look at (3), an activity doesn't even need to be for commercial gain if it's "intentionally marketed," and moreover it does not need to actually perform a work to be in violation - it simply needs to be marketed as such and "offer" a service.

Which means that even an individual leeching a torrent (sending no copyrighted material in outbound packets) might arguably be in violation of the act, simply by sending out packets that advertise their membership in the network and the potential for them to upload copyrighted material.

IANAL and this would need to be tested in court. But it's dangerous ground.
Agreed. My comment about scaling is simply that a lot of other companies use rails at scale, and alike that of hey.com (which I presume is heavily used) it is probably built to... scale
The idea that the regrets of others can teach you about how to best live your life has pretty strong foundations.

Investigation into the playing of imperfect information games has revealed that one way to get a Nash strategy is by: playing in proportion to regret, then taking that strategy space which will oscillate around the nash strategy and averaging it. If you play the average of that set of strategies you will play the nash strategy.

Meanwhile, if you look at the world's richest human, his financial situation is a direct result of a decision made on the basis of regret. He made the decision to found his company on the basis of thinking about what he would regret. So we can also find a focus on regret as a successful strategy in the case of an outlier success.
AAPL and Lidar stocks up on latest Apple Car report
Daily stand ups, retros, refinements, planning, always striving for smaller tickets, deadlines every two weeks, not enough time to deal with tech debt, not enough time to focus on chunkier bits of work, story points, back to back to back to back never ending sprints.

I don’t necessarily believe all of the points above are negative but scrum can be an exhausting way to work.
The law expressly says "as limited by sections 107 through 122 of title 17". Section 107 covers fair use, so this new law does not override or otherwise conflict with it.
Extract or Die
"Too many of those acquiring our data want it for nefarious purposes: to betray our secrets to insurance companies, employers, and governments; to sell us things it’s not in our interest to buy; to pit us against each other in an effort to destroy our society from the inside; to disinform us and hijack our democracies. The surveillance society has transformed citizens into users and data subjects. Enough is enough. Those who have violated our right to privacy have abused our trust, and it’s time to pull the plug on their source of power—our data."

That's a decent quote, not really anything new for most of us around here, but I think that hits on quite a few points in just one paragraph. I think this post is part of her book on Privacy?

It's always funny to read stuff like this when it's on a site that shows almost 50 things blocked between Privacy Badger and uBlockO. I know it's out of the author's hands, but I wonder how she feels about being on a site that's part of the problem she's writing about.

"The internet is primarily funded by the collection, analysis, and trade of data—the data economy."
I like my praise without the p.
Sorry if I'm missing something here, but how does my enjoyment of a big budget movie correlate with I want to build school systems where kids learn to understand their world. What harm am I causing these kids that I am apparently unaware of?
Part of "access to decent education" is a school with well paid, highly motivated, and properly resourced teachers that can develop those relationships with kids who need extra help.
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Lately i've been de-googling my android phones.

It's a shame that we are now back to the times when microsoft made IE4 (or 6?) part of the OS and completely impossible to remove it.

On windows98 and later I would install windows, open IE, disable every single setting to make it completely broken (no JS, no activeX, require latest SSL or bust, etc... pretty much made it impossible to use or be exploited in the background) ... win10 still insists on opening Edge when I click a link from the settings application despite firefox being my main browser.

Now I try (and fail) to do the same with google on android: Reset my phone, disable a bunch of System apps that completely break everything (i have to press OK twice on a "google service stoped working" every time i enable wifi) And I still cannot prevent any app that want to access the web directly or via chrome "web view" and load anything they want and keep cookies no matter my say on the issue. ...not to mention that it makes it a pain to get updates to the bloatware apps I still have to run to make the phone minimaly functional as the app store insists on me having those Advertisement services running to get updates to the bloatware i already bought with the phone.

So, yeah, you can install APK without Google blessing and their captive store, but that is an option for less than 0.1% of users that will want to put up with that.
This is the job of the architect though right? If the architecture of the app is properly constructed, you shouldn't have the issue(s) OP pointed out.

IMHO in most of the large corporate environments where I've worked, managers are constantly bucking for a promotion. It always seems like the design and IA are left out in order to keep budgets low with a focus on delivery.
If the law is passed it will be used as a sledgehammer to stop anyone from doing something they don’t like. It opens up the possibility of being interpreted as a for-profit platform.

Locast is a non-profit platform that streams local channels. It’s been sued left and right by broadcasters. So far unsuccessfully. Is this law the next step in putting pressure on them and others?
I don't think it is effortless to refute. Wild theories are effortless to construct since they can be devote of facts, and variants are also effortless to create. Refuting requires gathering facts and evidence. Additionally presenting them in a way that's relatively easy to digest for the audience is also difficult.

Take the recent US election for example. Very effortless to claim fraud and stolen election; just a couple of tweets in fact. Debunking them rather more difficult. Then there are the more specific claims, such as:

- China and Venezuela worked together to do this
- Voting machines flipped votes
- There were vote dumps at midnight
- Dead people voted for Biden

All very easy claims to make, all rather more difficult to debunk sufficiently. Then, when one is debunked, another one easily pops up. Don't get me wrong, I think it's well worth the effort and we should fight disinformation, but effort it does take.
Distributed is not the same as decentralized.

A decentralized system is a distributed system that still works _when nodes are owned by multiple different (even competing/malicious) parties_.
I agree, in the past I always heard that HTML based application are not as fluid as native app, I think it is not true anymore for modern smartphones.

HTML applications also allow you to do great thinks like WebGL and WASM.
'HTML over the wire' is an unfortunate tagline, but it does actually seem interesting, I'd suggest looking at the 'Turbo' docs before reacting.

I have thought in the past I wish I could have a frameworky component-style frontend, but where the component is HTML rendered by my rust (or whatever) backend. This would seem to get me a lot closer to that.
If you want really good sound quality, you should be using separate audio gear. No on-camera mic is going to perform well due to various cost and physics based limitations. Look to what podcasters use, and buy that for the audio half. You can put a better mic into a webcam, but it'll always have background noise issues compared to a mic that's closer to your mouth.
The downside of this is very high coupling between the frontend and the backend. However, many companies have been successful with strong coupling to Rails so maybe it's not a problem.
I agree wholeheartedly. I know it's dismissed as a flippant response, but I believe a lot of the problem is people wanting things like React on their resumes, and so force fitting it because they don't have other opportunities. There's just so much bloat for things that should be HTML and some small amount of JS.
> Here, you're not dexterous enough for that, but you can fiddle the result anyway by alternating between two processes. This is a more powerful approach!

What you're describing is called "Magician's Force", and its certainly a powerful component of many tricks. But a lot of people are wise to that, so you need to have a backup plan.

Or, you can rely purely on slight of hand / dexterity to get things done.

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Really, a good magician uses all the tricks in combination with each other.

If you "lead" with Magician's force, some members of the audience think you're just doing psychological tricks. If you "lead" with dexterity tricks, then by the time you pull out Magician's force, you can trick them into thinking your magician's force was another dexterity trick.
And what do we do with a new variant that pops up? We've debunked dead people voting, now the claim is voting data is being sent to Germany for processing.
Let’s talk about securing open source projects
I had a similar thought when I saw this that there may just be way too much to be working on. The two instances of widespread cheating that I have seen going through school were the results of:

1. There was absolutely way too much to do. Classes within a major did not coordinate large projects/tests and students tried to find a way to cope.

2. The teacher was so terrible that they felt vastly underprepared for an upcoming test.
Ask HN: Botanical Books for Kids
Hi,
my kids are very interested in nature, and wanted to give them some literature related to plants to support their activities with plants in the yard.
Can anyone recommend a good book to give them general knowledge about plants, mushrooms, etc

Thanks!
I don't see how adding a currency makes this easier. Even if I don't want the currency you have, I want XRP less.
Honestly, my experience is that most webapps aren’t that heavy for what they actually do.

Web sites are heavyweight, serving megabytes of useless nonsense just to display an article. With a bunch of ads obviously.
Interesting you use the word “agency”. I have used this exact word when trying to reconcile how scrum works. Some tickets are so detailed on acceptance criteria that if something is then missing I don’t feel like I have the agency to deal with it my self. I’ve used the analogy of fitting a kitchen, if everything is spec’d to super high detail and then it simply says “a cooler” no one in their right mind would just grab a cooker, they would ask the home owner/client what cooker they want.
> constituents are pissed at their greedy selfish representatives

And what I'm saying is this never happens in America. Politics is a team sport and voters just blame the other team. We've just had the worst pandemic in living memory and the worst economic contraction in a generation and nearly every Senator won re-election despite months of inaction.
You could, you know, just stop paying attention to sports you don't find it worth paying for. I did that with nfl when they upped rates. Just watch the recaps, so you can chat about it.

Baseball, which I like, seems to be a pretty good deal to me, ends up being about .97$ a game for 3 hours of content. So I choose to pay for it. My only real complaint is I can't watch it offline.
> Again, I cannot fathom how one can fail to observe how class privilege bestows automatic success to certain people regardless of the speed at which they move.

Economist Gregory Clarke has found that social mobility is/was about the same in modern America, modern Sweden, medieval Europe, ancient Rome, and the Communist bloc.[1]

If the specifics of a society's class structure had a substantial effect on most or even many people's ability to pursue economic opportunities, then we wouldn't expect Clarke's findings to uphold. Instead there's hardly any variance in long-term social mobility between human societies. Certainly modern democratic socialist Scandinavia must impose less overt class privilege than 16th century aristocratic Scandinavia. Yet the two have nearly identically low mobility.

(Note that social mobility and inequality are two different things. A country like the Soviet Union, may have the rich be only slightly richer than the poor, but still makes it hard to move from the latter into the former.)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/04/social...
I’d argue nostalgia. Nintendo helped save the video game industry after the crash in the 80s while also portraying itself as a “fun” company. Even then, their legal department was still aggressive, but it just wasn’t as publicized. Today, it’s more known, but nostalgia carries a lot of weight in public opinion.
Because Sam Altman—who I have yet to find which tangible contribution has provided, sounds likes he knows little from a technical point of view, and who during a Tyler Cowen's interviews he answered the question "So what becomes the most important work of humans?", with: "Love, creativity, how we treat each other" (please listen to the interview and get the ridiculousness of the tone, in addition to the words)—fails to understand, like many others in his position, the importance of agency for human fulfillment.

Working hard for yourself, for money, for the love of your craft or something you believe in, it is fine and dandy. But thinking about working day and night for the dreams of others, dedicating the vast majority of your time and energy to a faceless corporation who can dump you like a bored boyfriend, or doing menial, pedestrian jobs that pay little to nothing and would be unbearable for even the most flat-lined brained person living today, well, it gives a different vibe, doesn't it?
Right. Obviously, you can't value every stream as a loss of of face value price.

But its not 0% of face value either.

And a lot of piracy battle is to ensure the movie/tv industry does get "Napstered." Napster annihilated the public's perception of the value of songs because even my tech illiterate mother could pirate.

Right now my mom pays for netflix and cable. But if a pirate streaming service was as easy to find and use as netflix is, she'd start using it. So the current laws and enforcement do protect a lot of value now.
"lets prove we're not too big by teaming up to become bigger"

Not only do are they doing the exact thing they are being accused of, but they are doing with the worst company. I can't think of anything Google could have done that would be further from "Don't be evil."
The untold story of Upstart's quiet rise to IPO
Can you post some good examples of non-single page applications with good usability and speed? Emphasis on >applications<, not websites serving mostly static content.
There's something interesting here; I can't quite put my finger on what it is yet; but it would seem to me that generally speaking, there are two methods to construct apartment buildings:

1) The conventional method, which also includes the use of 3D printers...

2) Pre-making the apartments or housing sections, then lifting them into place with a crane.

Pattern #2 doesn't just include mobile homes; it includes everything pre-made that can be hoisted into place via a crane.

It would seem to me that via Pattern #2, apartment complexes could be created at scale, more cheaply and efficiently than via Pattern #1, with a lot of room for future innovations in this area...

In other words, there will be a future Elon Musk style innovator, maybe several, of the second construction method...
No one asks for it, and it would be a technical challenge to distribute that much footage. If data speeds and storage densities keep going up it wouldn't surprise me if it eventually happens.
We need a modern open-source barcode reader
We need a modern open-source barcode reader. The best thing (zxing) is in maintenance mode, and the newer barcode scanners (scandit, mlkit) with niceties like neural scan, 90° scan, bortched barcode scan… are all closed source.
Just as a final note, that chart of EU vs US spending paints a very incomplete picture.

1. That's in "millions of national currency units" (except in Japan which is in "hundred millions of national currency units") so the Japan bar is in 100M JPY, the Europe bar is in 1M EUR, and the US bar is in 1M USD. It was clearly not meant for comparison against regions, just over time.

2. Not only is the currency inconsistent the values weren't adjusted for purchasing power parity, i.e. how far a national currency unit goes in that country relatively.

If we convert the values to USD adjust for PPP the picture changes completely. All values in USD, PPP adjusted:

2016 - USA: $52.4B

2016 - Europe: $46.16B (PPP factor 1.225, EUR:USD factor 1.11)

This is about a 13% delta, not the seemingly 53% delta represented on the chart. Also, this is limited to EFPIA member companies.
> mega complicated

I would argue it looks a lot simpler than the average SPA framework or library.
You can definitely find cosmologist who believe this kind of thing, though it's rarely formalized.