skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Interesting that this site itself may use one of the described patterns."

Is it really interesting, though. For example, we have seen this as a very common retort in HN comments every time an author is critical of advertising, tracking/analytics, etc. Someone points out the author's site itself uses the thing being critiqued.

Is that supposed to detract from the argument being made by the author. That does not make much sense.

It is a bit like another common retort we see in discussing tech company behaviour: "But everyone else is doing it." Does that make it OK. Or one we see when discussing regulatory action: "They should be focusing on X not Y." Don't look here, look over there.

I am highly skeptical of comments that try to leverage these tactics. The message is what it is. Whether or not it is valid does not depend on who is voicing it, where it appears, or what's going on somewhere else. This is pure misdirection.

This paper might be a worthwhile read. It makes little sense to pre-judge it before reading, simply because it appears on ACM's website, and ACM's website developers try to get users to enable cookies. What if the paper is re-posted on a site with no Javascript and that does not try to set cookies. Does the content of the paper then become "legitimate". Why or why not.

It is easy to retrieve this paper without using cookies, from another site. For example,

https://web.archive.org/web/20210305175101/https://dl.acm.or...

PDF: https://web.archive.org/web/20200701025846if_/https://dl.acm...

Not trying to single out this one comment. It's fine. The paper is not really arguing for or against banners and other notice and consent mechanisms, just studying their use. I cannot even see the banner because I use a text-only browser.

The most interesting paragraph in the paper IMO is the last one. They ask why the client, e.g., through browser settings, cannot be in control of the legal consent mechanism. What if clients were to sed an additional HTTP header to indicate whether or not the user consent to cookies. For example, Allow-Cookies: no.

The online advertising companies have apparently fought against this, e.g., the DNT header. If you enable DNT in one popular browser deployed by an advertising company you get this ridiculous warning message. Why the heck is it a big deal if the user controls the headers sent and the server has to honour them. When you read RFCs about www development they always make it sound like clients and servers on are equal footing. The reality is quite different. These companies want to control how a user "consents".
This was a good explanation of CNAME trackers, but I don’t actually see the content describing how they “scanned the entire web”. Would love a technical write up.
> It is foolish to expect a profit driven entity

Yeah, this is the actual problem the left has: profit-driven entities. Nobody cares about groups of people working towards a common goal (ie, "corporations").

Of course profit-driven entities want to increase their profits at all costs. What's desired is systemic change and reorganization of production around different principles beyond just profit (or rather, eliminating it entirely). No leftists have a problem with companies themselves.
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Why is that the first rule of governance?

When, where, has there ever been a law that is not enforced with bias?
Another great example of BYOC is SQL. Even despite popular relational databases have slightly different SQL dialects, it's still possible to use different clients to query/view/design/update a relational database.
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Versus the bad custom linux flavors & UIs they currently use?

I'll take it.
Try starting with sketchnotes (visual notetaking) and go further from there.
At first, simple items (human, cup, ...) without any visual depth will give you a feeling about proportions and general characteristics. From there, you can add details and eventual some depth.
Not a surprise.

A cryptocurrency scam.

John McAfee scamming.
Neutral server ends up as a reconciliation engine for eventual consistency if unable to gain enough traction to be the source of truth.
Those regulatory burdens described there exceed profit margins on operations. Those margins ignore the sunk capital cost of the plants.

For new nuclear construction, these regulatory costs would be a small compared to the cost of actually building the plants. Of course, new nuclear plants would be outrageously unprofitable.
except paypal being the payment choice and making lots of early concessions to work with those companies in their early days is a well documented fact.

They would not have gotten off the ground in the early days without it.

oh, and pirates and global warming the canonical reference for your point around here :)
The Common Core for math just advances the curriculum forward by 0.5 years, and for any particular section, such as for some subject at some grade, the specification can be read in maybe 5-10 minutes. (I mention math specifically because it's recently been a topic of discussion with "non-racist math".)

Khan Academy, for example, conforms to the Common Core perfectly.

In the Age of Google, it shouldn't be hard to summon the relevant passages which are problematic so that everyone can discuss them. But the vagueness of critique is a tell that someone doesn't care to lead with detail.
regular non-superconducting solder joints. They conduct, just not nearly as good as the material itself at that temperature.

Still, interesting that that would not result in enough power to boil away the solder.
All the 50 years, 30 years, 20 years away jokes are silly, because the time-frame always had the caveat:
Given a certain level of funding.

Because the funding never came, the time frame was never going to work out.

It's like someone asking for a dev estimate, and then coming back in that time and asking where it is. If you were assigned to something else clearly it didn't get done.
Yep, even if I don't end up hosting on namecheap, I always do my searches there
As someone who's studied facial expression in cartooning and tried to track down how that's done through face muscles, this tracks.

Not only that, it is hackable, and somewhat mutable… and I think that can reflect back into one's general attitude on life. I'm going to share some personal notes on my own face hacking done to serve my purposes as a youtuber and open source coder…

The key phrase here is, "The highest predictive power was afforded by head orientation (58%), followed by emotional expression (57%). Liberals tended to face the camera more directly, were more likely to express surprise, and less likely to express disgust." People will respond to you based on what your face is doing, and be more or less favorably disposed to you if you 'match' where they're at.

Guy Kawasaki's on record as trying to maximize his ability to Duchenne smile (crinkle the outside edges of the eyes as your cheeks go up) in order to better influence others. You can make special efforts to dry your skin there, the better to form heavy wrinkles that can come into play, signalling affability and well-disposedness as a proper Duchenne smile would do.

But there's another area. If you fret a lot, or glower, your brow comes down and wrinkles form where your brow meets your nose. This signals suspicion, disgust, hostility. My face-hacking involves putting Nivea cream there and on my forehead, keeping that skin more flexible and mobile, for a more open affable look. But if you're targeting a conservative audience you can do the opposite: look at Tucker Carlson sometime. You can cultivate a world-weary scowl and it will increase your trust with people sharing a similar facial expression, and tend to concentrate your viewer's expressions into ones similar to your own (while you tell them scowl-worthy things), so long as you have their basic trust to start with.

This is all very malleable. Very hackable. You can do it on purpose. I don't know if Tucker Carlson does scowl exercises, but I know if he botoxed his brow scrunch, he would be less effective as a political commentator, because he would be telegraphing the intended reaction to his information more weakly.

We're looking at a general connection between human resting facial expression, and human overall outlook on life. I didn't expect to run across this study but I find it absolutely plausible. Almost axiomatic. You can even frame it in ways that appear to favor one political side or the other, but the underlying principle tells us a lot about how political orientations arise.
Shoutout to the Remarkable2 (a new eInk tablet) - it's not for everyone, but as a replacement for a paper notebook it's been great for me. Relevant to OP, it's actually rekindled my drawing. Each week I complete one drawing that takes up about 1/3 of the page while on calls. Because it's eInk it's easier to work with IMO, and I'm noticing improvements.

To be clear, I'm not doodling - I'm drawing a scene/object/etc each week. At the start, I decide what I'm going to do and then throughout the week I work on it.

Really satisfying and fun.

Echoing one of the other suggestions, I've started taking pictures of things that inspire me (a cool scene, a shape, etc), and then will take elements from those pictures to attempt in the weekly drawing.
That’s Clojure, not the JVM. In certain configurations it can unfortunately take that long. It’s getting better though.
Sounds like that's a system that requires parents to take the initiative and book the conference. If you don't book, are you forced into a slot?
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This week I reconnected to the MUD I used to play 20 years ago. I'm amazed it's still running. I've forgotten nearly everything.

I've been having a blast these past few days exploring the vast world.

There's nothing that Google can tell me about it. There's still people playing (and building) it, so I can ask for help - my old clan is still going even - but there's no instant fix on everything.

I don't know how long it'll last, and the time it will take is too much to fully immerse, but I've already started making some maps and trying to tackle some quests.
Hey guys, it's estimated that 72.6% of people will access the web only via their phones by 2025.
Most people end up sharing templates with thousands of others, only because their website builder didn't offer an easy way to make them unique.

This is a website building platform with a mobile first approach, and is focused on building unique sites.
Linux audio can be real bad but the one thing that could possibly make it worse is taking anything from Android. Android is the only computing platform I have ever used that was unable to play a simple audio file through without the audio dropping out at least once (I had the same experience on multiple devices, 5+ years apart).

Have you looked at Pipewire?
The main takeaway is that TikTok is labeling videos that they determine are misleading.

Just what the Western world needs: a Chinese company determining what is fact or fiction.
> Will we enter into a tipping point of materials science that allows magnets strong enough and suddenly we get fusion and it becomes ever better as we make better superconducting magnets?

I think that's the idea. Iter is about as small as it could possibly be and still work given the magnet field strength they had designed around. With stronger magnets, we can make smaller reactors, which are cheaper to make and (if I understand correctly) have better power density. At some point it stops being practical to make it any smaller as the limits become "how thin can we make this shielding material?" or "how much heat energy can we remove by pumping fluids around?" And then once we've proven the concept and we've settled into an optimal size the engineering focus turns to "how cheaply can we manufacture this?" and "how can we reduce the total operating cost per megawatt hour?".
"Forbidding this fully is impossible" applies to all crime. The correct inference isn't, "so fuck it", it's, "We need enforcement sufficient to keep the crime in check."

The reason not to legalize this specifically is that the more people perceive a market as rigged, the less they'll invest. Our capital markets, for all their flaws, make it much easier for people to create economic value. If you legalize scams, etc, not only do you harm honest participants, you harm the economy as a whole.
On the other hand, they will almost certainly have tritium leaks far larger than from fission plants. A single 1 GW(e) DT fusion reactor would burn enough tritium each year to contaminate 2 months of flow of the entire Mississippi River above the legal limit for drinking water. Leaking even a small fraction of that could have serious consequences.
Mathematically, it's not terribly deep -- at risk of being glib, it essentially follows from 2 and 3 being the only primes divisible by 2 or 3. It's pretty cool, but I wouldn't expect deep insights coming from this.
WIN32 isn't de facto it is the canonical API for Windows. It always has been, since like the 1980's.
yes, blame the SEO mantra of "mobile-first" which has poisoned products that are "mobile-rarely".
As a native Android developer (who is also doing Flutter atm) I look at compose as a seismic shift in the Android space. Flutter wont be able to compete
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Batteries experience a drop in voltage when a load is applied. The magnitude of this drop varies based on the design and chemistry of the battery, and the load per cell is obviously lower if there are more cells.
I think that an argument can be made that it will always be economically competitive. That reasoning includes the 'fuel cycle' is non-waste producing, the economics of other energy sources continues to rise thus creating a wider window for economic recovery, the liability associated with fusion will always be less than the liability associated with fission, and as the carbon externalizations of fossil fuel are priced into its production it will become in-economic as well.

Well designed fusion power should come in at or below hydro-electric power without the environmental impacts or risks associated with dams.
The GDPR added a data export feature to many websites. I have used it so much. I think the pressure is being felt by companies. Otherwise walled off platforms like apple are starting to open up.
Thanks for the feedback! In your opinion, what would be a realistic figure for the Bay Area?
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> Then Windows 10 apparently lacks a native GUI toolkit, because it's certainly not "designed for" just one.

Windows 10 has several native GUI toolkits. The same thing happened in MacOS, which transitioned from Carbon to Cocoa.

If the widgets are drawn by a toolkit that isn't bundled with the OS, it's a non-native GUI. Of course, this isn't always a bad move.
Oakland is grappling with rising crime, drug use, unemployment, businesses closing, schools not reopening etc and the city council dedicated their time and money to address this inane issue
So I take it that no independent 3rd party audited this smart contract? Because defining a constant twice is already big enough of a code smell to warrant spending more than 10s on them (enough to distinguish a 0 from a O). They didn't even try that hard, e.g. "SLΟT" is way closer to "SLOT" than "SL0T". This speaks volume about how much you can get away with in this ecosystem.

That's also a vulnerability which should have been exposed by tests (again, run by an independent 3rd party).
At least in the UK it’s very easy to it’s costly if you use the Royal Mail one there are others but I wouldn’t trust them all the ones I’ve seen look rather dodgy.

https://www.royalmail.com/receiving/po-box
Homebrewers use them, for yeast culturing or making starters. I guess that's fairly lab-like, but they do it in kitchens.
It would be nice to have the ability to weave in WebViews with the native UI. I see this lib but it's still marked as WIP: https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui-plugin-webview
Even so, if they could make it work it would be quite amazing. After all, miniaturization is a different challenge from getting the thing to work in the first place.
I second DrawABox. Excellent resource to learn.
oh that can't backfire at all *sarcasm

here is another idea: proper ranking of player abilities! crazy right? something so simple should be a day-one feature right? that would put all the hackers together and they could even compete in their own hacking league... 100% of clients satisfied!

now think about game companies failing to put that single feature to work correctly, what changes do you think a AI that detect human behaviour have or working well in that space? :(
As a non-native speaker, I appreciate the feedback. I have yet to master the intricacies of this language :)
Unlike the sealed beam headlamps however, this law isn't requiring any particular technology. It's just outlawing a known harmful one.

In some ways this is nicer because a company doesn't need to do specific emission and noise testing certifications to comply with a single municipalities regulations. So people in Oakland can have potentially more choices while achieving a reduction of combustion emissions.
> The funding problem is because of the safety problem.

I have yet to see convincing evidence of this. It seems like an excuse. Perhaps it's code for "the regulators won't let us get away with screw ups", which is what happened at Flamanville.
For anyone interested in even smaller reactors, I'm working on a device that believe might be able to scale down to the size of a button cell battery.

http://www.ddprofusion.com
You have a point, but my main concern is just the inevitable internet-connected app ecosystem for expensive and cool devices that are going to have a security patch lifecycle of 18-36 months with an expected lifespan of 15 years for second and third owners
I saw a lot of people in Europe with the mentality "I am not paying the cable guy that much money", even if the "cable guy" was a highly skilled software engineer that was building the core of the company. Europe is also more egalitarian, doctors are also paid less and progressive income taxes and other factors are shaming people into earning less.
You’re one of the people on HN whose comments I follow. I’d be curious to hear your opinions on

DeFi: Sounds really interesting but feels like something really niche not like the next Reddit.

Drones: Drones are really cool and programmable. Fully agreed.

Self driving: Potentially transformative in 10-15 years. There’s not much most of us can do to be a part of it. It will be dominated by Tesla, Waymo.

Robotics: The eternal dream. But right now it’s hard to even make a robot that prepares Amazon packages. Might definitely change at some point.

EVs and climate tech: Very important work but it’s hard to get rich quickly off of it. That reduces interest.
Here is an even more recent (last month) update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8uYNhevRtk

tl;dw: SPARC is on track to Q=9, and there will be a magnet demonstrator in June, this year
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That was amazing.

One of the best tech talks I've ever seen.
I think we need a bigger appreciation of noise pollution in general. People fly private planes and helicopters over while we are trying to enjoy nature, or trucks go beep beep beep when we are trying to think, or unnecessarily loud vehicles rumble when we are trying to relax.
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I was chronically late my last semester of high school. Didn't impact my grades any (I finished in 1998, roughly the start of the 'lock down' era and was fortunate enough to have a first hour teacher that didn't really care). I was probably late more than 1/2 of the time.

(the point being that the count of 'late and absent' probably doesn't paint enough of the story)
It is entirely possible the school didn't communicate well, but be aware it's typical for a parent with a grievance to report not having received messages that have been presented to them several times via several different channels. And that's not even considering the ones who'll simply lie (every teacher will run into some of these), but just the ones who don't read anything or respond to phone calls.
at this rate we might get fusion before James Webb space telescope becomes fully functional!

ref: https://xkcd.com/2014/
> a mix of Firefox, Chrome, Brave or even Opera

That is chromium X 3 though.
March 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: Off to an early start
security updates this week to address four zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065.
Unless you can choose to move data instead of copy data from service to service then all this is doing is making it real easy for every service to get access to all of the big pool if data that every other service has on you.
The Economist response is that Okta just rewarded their competition with $6.5B.

This is a serious incentive for anyone to launch a new company in the field.
Would it be possible to use Deno for JS runtime? That should add some sandboxing limitations for apps.
Yes, it's magical thinking born of frustration, not something that one should truly expect.
check out The Orville, it is more of a classic star trek than the new official star treks
Probably not, that would make it very obvious that the vast majority of device sales are not going to the official target audience: education.
I started recently learning visual notetaking a.k.a sketch notes from books (they are in German, so this might not be helpful)
It really improved my skills in augmenting the wriiten word by highlighting key elemets with a drawing.
Starting with simple items without visual depth, you will learn about proportions and shapes. Going from there it’s details, depth and layout that make the difference.
So, the ability to do work for free for YC?
>Today we generally think about BYOC at the “app” level. But can we go finer-grained than that, picking individual interface elements?

Maybe will will end up re-inventing OLE from the 1990's for the web. In OLE 2, there was a standard OLE Compound Document file storage API/format. Different apps could all work with different parts of a document. You could even change which app you wanted to handle a certain type of feature. It was complicated, but when it worked, it was pretty neat. This was done during the time when most people had maybe 4-8MB of RAM. With much more powerful CPUs and vast amounts of RAM, we could probably come up with something even better.
All cultures tend towards replacement rate. But replacement rate for pre-industrial societies with significantly higher infant mortality are much higher.

The problem is that there is overshoot - when you watched half your siblings die young, you don't simply take the doctor's word for it that your kids are all going to grow up strong and healthy. It takes a few generations to adapt. During this period of time, you have excessive population growth, and then even if these people have children only at replacement rate, the population will still increase as the more populous younger cohorts replace the smaller previous cohorts.

Eventually people start having sub replacement rate children as there are just too many people. In theory this is good, but soo too here will there be overshoot. If you were an only child and your parents were only children, it's hard to start having large families. Even if you wanted to, you need to support a lot of older generations, which puts a severe strain on your ability to also have lots of kids. Eventually yes, things will turn around and the population won't go to zero, but decades of population shrinking and the associated economic issues will do a number on the population. India will have to deal with this problem in a century, much of the developed world will have to deal with it a lot sooner.