skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was not intended to be read as a literal quote or an attempt to make it appear as if you said something you didn't. That's a fairly common way of picking a message apart to make a point, on some parts of the internet. Sometimes people paraphrase instead of literally copying words (esp. if there's no good short sequence of words to borrow), but quote marks are still used. I wish we had a better notation for this. I'm sorry to have caused confusion.

Anyway, the point was just to express my disappointment in that people keep supporting a company even after complaining about their horrible dark patterns. And I don't really mean to single you out personally, it's everywhere: people complain and then keep using and rewarding the service(s) they complain about. IME this rarely leads to them becoming better over time, they just get worse over time because they can get away with it. Abuse users until the very end. It seems to work, we have so many users and more are rolling in!

Of course if you're actually giving them feedback, all the power to you. I respect your opinion too.

To give you an idea where I stand, a few days ago I was thinking of buying a keyboard for my workshop PC. I have a couple Planck EZs and they're decent keyboards. So I went over to the ZSA site, started reading about their new keyboard (Moonlander), and... MODAL POPUP ADVERTISING A MAGAZINE[1]! Now I remember the time when browsers started adding popup blockers built-in, and everyone (except scummy advertisers) rejoiced. So I find it disturbing, disgusting, and extremely disrespectful to bring back popups in the form of modals. I kinda try to put my money where my mouth is, so my reaction was to unsubscribe their magazine (the way they presented it when I bought my plancks wasn't so bad) and take my shopping elsewhere.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/9bCDNMl.png
There's probably a dataset size tradeoff with small enough number of documents, but even then this could have the option of if db is < x MB total, fetch all in async task and then use that.
Telling the truth for a living may be a drag, but playing on the readers' emotions and biases for ad traffic revenue seems far more soulless by comparison.
I'm a big fan of RSS too, and I appreciate what you are doing. Thanks.

On the other hand, it sounds like you are staking a position that the web is for docs not apps.

Not sure why we are often presented with apps vs. docs - why can't it be for both? I feel that those that don't want it to be for apps are taking away some of my freedom: I need some apps and if I can't get them on the web I'll probably have to turn to a proprietary platform.
"While the SMS integration is going away soon" - thank you for the warning!

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/03/09/google-voice-wont-f...

I use SMS-via-email very frequently, and was rather worried. Thankfully that will stay.

SMS forwarding to a local number's SMS hasn't been possible for me anyway, because my local number is not in the US. At one point I had a setup with Google Calendar forwarding my emails to SMS, but that got shut down in 2019 (to my dismay).

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/19/google-removes-sms-notific...
> 4/ As CEO of a Series A startup, I learned a lot of different skills that make me good at other jobs. But my resume would be 8 pgs long if I listed them. Instead, it says "raised X from Y"/"built a team of Z people"/"had these customers." All irrelevant to most hiring managers.

This just sounds pretty arrogant. Change your resume then, and list the skills you think may benefit getting hired. I mean that's just basic sales.

Also what's with the middle finger on the profile pic. The whole thread makes you come off as both entitled and a victim, which is a weird combination, but definitely not attractive for hiring.
The trick there is to use your adblocker to pick the consent box and hide it, and then edit the custom rule to apply to every site.
I'm running magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico) on my VPS. I currently have an index of 1.6M magnet links stored in a 5GB database.

SQLite is most interesting not when the database is small, but when there are very few writes and all you do is reading. You can also look at https://datasette.io/ and see how SQLite is perfect for representing a lot of datasets and querying them
I'd think the competition would be safety deposit boxes, not a mattress. So it depends on how much the smallest safety deposit box costs per year.
How does Firefox stop the "impossible unsubscribe" dark pattern that NYTimes uses?
You shouldn’t have savings. You should spend it to help the economy /s
Assuming you know about stuff similar to obsidian.md (markdown left, rendered right) and Typora (rendered where you edit), what is missing for you in terms of editing/viewing MDs?
What makes current stuff bad?
That's interesting, but it lost me at " all you have to do is choose which sites to search".
I think this used to be true, but these days tube amps can be very faithfully modeled. E.g., the fender tone master amps sound great.
I pay for the Guardian mostly because it's the only paper I know that covers global stories and gives climate breakdown anything resembling the degree of coverage it deserves. For a while I subscribed to The Times, but felt dirty supporting a Murdoch-owned paper.
Connecting to a Microsoft Teams of Office work account from home gives you the fantastic "Use this account everywhere on your device".

It has 4 effective choices [0] with no clue about what's going to happen to your windows account and what data or remote control permissions will be sent to your organization.

[0]: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/HomePCsud...
Do the mortgages also have a negative interest rate or are they cappoed at 0?
Funny, this type of shit you describe is why I quit Windows and Mac--unconsented changes in how everything works.

However, as you've noticed, many distros offer a similar or worse experience.

Keep trying, and go smaller. Even Mint is better than Ubuntu, for example, and many can install without systemd.
Ah, interesting. The only people I've actually talked to before about the pagers were from Ontario and the healthcare is mostly managed at the provincial level. So not sure if this was a problem in Ontario or not. I am sure at some point all the hospitals were doing this and eventually switched over to the new way that doesn't do this.

However being a 911 dispatcher for the EMS system here I can say that our radios are not encrypted and can be listened to online by anyone. We mention addresses, chief complaints, and anything else that may be relevant for the paramedics. Patient names would not be given over radios nor would other private info like if the building has an access code. Anything that is private like that is indicated to the paramedics by saying something like "call for access code". Then they call the landline and get the info that way.

In my opinion though, knowing addresses and medical conditions going on can still be a bit sensitive in nature. The police here recently switched to encrypted radios. It was nice sometimes to listen to the scanner, but at the same time it's understandable why it's less than ideal having open radios.
The horror stories I had shared with my boss are as relevant today as when they happened.

His is from the early 90s, the RAID card on the backup server was bad so it was just randomly flipping bits on the files being stored... nothing was ever tested until they needed one of those backups.

Mine was about a tape setup that followed the correct 3-2-1 setup... one of the CLI tools had an update and the agreement was waiting for user input so it would just drop and the rest of the script continued... no one had ever tested a backup so the tapes being shuffled around were empty.
My point is in *either* case you're planning on it breaking .
Probably the most obvious explanation. I suppose that both attacking a diplomatic staff with a knife and just intentionally serving them contaminated food that puts them on the toilet for a couple of days would lead to some response. If something that can be easily identified with technical means produces no diplomatic response, then, despite the consequences, it's not considered an attack. Seems to be part of the job description. Most likely, they couldn't even ask politely, behind the curtains, to stop that because the answer would be “Sure, if you stop doing the same, too”. And none of that can be discussed openly because of the secrecy of spying technologies, so they have to invent stories about non-lethal weapons when the case could probably be described as “Major Ivanov, increase the power until we get a clear signal”.

When you start paying attention to these stories, it becomes clear that these secrets are kept first and foremost from the general public of the native countries, mostly for both public image and non-accountability privilege. It makes no sense to deny something that has been known to secret services of every developed country otherwise. It's quite ironic that before Snowden, military insurgents trained by this or that superpower, and mafia bosses who hired ex-special-agents had a more clear picture on, say, phone surveillance than law-abiding citizens.
The Ethereum 2.0 network has its first major incident
Here is the best PCA explanation I ever read on the web: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2691/making-sense-...
> I don't think polite and respectful are in opposition to open debate.

Nor do I, hence the scare quotes. In fact there was nothing polite or respectful about it—it was an environment of fear.
This is commonly referred to as a “soft ask.” The reasons for it are not always nefarious. On some platforms you cannot provide any commentary on why you want to send push notifications and so the soft ask provides a way to give more context on the next (real) permission dialog.

I’m not saying this isn’t abused all over, but when used effectively it can provide the user with more information to decide if they want to accept or not as well as allow the website to request it again at a future time possibly for a different reason.
There have been over 30 million tiles sold worldwide, so there’s a sizable market. Many people are distracted and absentmindedly will leave valuables behind or in odd places, sunglasses, keys, wallets, umbrellas, hats, remote controls. Most of this is stuff on your person. Even if you have a proper place, sometimes stuff just drops out of pockets or bags.
Don't forget GNU Hurd, which had its first release in 1990. Had Linux not taken off it is possible Hurd would have taken a more practical approach and become a production OS.
Over high latency links most anything interesting is virtually unusable, so stop using it as a high horse to stand upon.
Not that I dislike your idea or unions at large, but mission creep will be inevitable: limiting hours and mandating benefits to ensure physical and mental health of the drivers will be linked to safety, and the whole host of benefits for worker wellness in the name of safety will follow. What you are asking for is what OSHA is for.
That's because you're making the wrong assumptions about the "amount of various
emotions I put into my comments".
this piece starts very low by quoting Kevin Rose the chief censorist anti free speech activist from the nyt and continues in that vein, very underwhelming.
Long pressing and opening in a new tab works for expanding child comment threads (but not for viewing all 500+ commends under a post).

Once that stops working, I'll have to always use old.reddit on my phone, which won't be great UI on mobile - but I suppose it can't be too hard to make a Stylus stylesheet to make it usable. And once old.reddit is gone, well, that's the end of Reddit for me.
> Could it be there is some way to target a location with multiple radio beams such that the damaging effect occurs at the point of interference? Maybe just constructive interference from multiple weaker beams? Something like this would need to be aimed precisely of course.

Yes, a phased array [1], which is likely what the GGP was referring to by "What is unproven though, is how one would ever shrink the size of an electronic weapon like this."

Advanced radars work by creating a concentrated beam of RF with constructive interference and scanning it across the sky, but the installations are huge. A smaller directed microwave weapon would be meters across, hard to hide, and noisy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array
Technology+Common Sense+Dumb Aircraft, Spectre Returns, Mars, SEALs, Detectives
In Austria the Supreme Court of Justice (OGH) specifically ruled that banks aren't allowed to do it. At least for private people's savings accounts. Banks are pretty happy to raise various service fees though, so I guess they'll get creative about getting their money back.
The browser is designed so that a website gets one chance to ask for that permission, rather than nag every single time you visit.

If it's not a dark pattern to ask again every time you hit Deny, then why don't they do it again every time you hit Allow?
Chase collecting money from a depositor for maintaining insufficient money seems like the opposite of Danske Bank collecting money from a depositor for maintaining too much money.
I'm actually surprised how low the threshold is... 13500€ isn't too much.
Crying wife is a good lifehack!
Yeah, I read

> We did not have the option of abandoning it, due to a meaningful fraction of the company’s revenue riding on its success. We did not have the option of more resources for the usual reasons. And we did not have the option of more time, because executives had already de facto announced when it would be done.

And immediately concluded that the company has already committed to suicide and it's time to start sending resumes. Cross-team sabotage is icing on the cake but actually doesn't change anything here.
Great tip, thanks for sharing!
That's one smart book
That's pretty bad that they don't have pronouns correctly identified by their case. El and ella are nominative, equivalent to he and she in English. Him and her are objective/accusative/dative (since those cases all use the same pronouns in English). As far as I can remember my Spanish, lo (and la for feminine nouns I think) would be the equivalent of him and her.

If someone out there is less rusty and sees an error in my explanation, please let me know. I learned cases in Russian 10 years ago and it's hard to turn around and apply them to languages that use fewer cases.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDs3o1uLEdU

This is awesome, thanks for sharing.
In this issue:

— Sinking containers

— China targeting foreigners

— We might have another Spectre/Meltdown problem…

— Dumb aircraft designs

— Trapped on a cargo ship

— Even with COVID, Google wins

— Bellingcat’s latest amazing detective work

— Childcare is a business issue

— A new mission for the Ingenuity Mars helicopter

— Tenth anniversary of Operation Neptune Spear

— Another shocking credit reporting vulnerability

— The magic behind Daft Punk’s “One More Time”
Thank you! I almost universally use the mobile website but it just keeps getting worse, presumably on purpose. I installed the official app but it’s very bad. I’ll download this one now!
that notion is why I imagine Google added a threshold before a channel can be monetized. So the payment details here are moot unless you are already an established channel who should know this. Regardless, this is less about a random user "making money off music they don't own" and more about the potential that users aren't instead going to Vevo to make the music company ad revenue.

I have my qualms on DMCA as a whole, but this is ultimately tangential to the real issue of the lack of consequences for perjury.
Are you in da club? Alpha Exploration is born and it's where ya wanna be. It ain't where you go for delusion, it's reality. Gonna get reason, you'll find me in da club, bottle full of cause, it's got what you need, if you ain't into makin' love. So come give it a chance, if you into verity.
Buy sunscreen people!!
https://www.tuleap.org/

https://osticket.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_tracking_system
My general advice is not so much about the software as controlling your corporate appetite for customization. There is just an incredible cost to bespoke customization, while the use cases of it are often things like executives' vanity at getting live dashboards or something else. You can have an in-house team build some forms atop a database, and you can even make that work, but only if you rigidly fight feature creep. If you can't fight the feature creep, might as well go with one of the big solutions so that features are reflected in bottom line costs and have to explicitly be paid for out of your business budget, rather than implemented by making requests of your in-house dev team.
U.S. aircraft flying a mission in the Middle East used the call sign “PIKLRICK”
Telcos have historically written some very successful technology. Unix from bell labs, Erlang from Ericsson to name two examples.
I've used the subtitle / first line from the article, rather than its actual title which is "Valid Points: More Ethereum Upgrades to Come After Proof of Stake, Buterin Says".

Also, the article states that the incident happened on "Saturday", but it was published last Wednesday, so that was technically over a week ago now.
> And the general situation is that Linux is almost nonexistent on desktop.

It is not the same as "Linux desktop is nowhere"

2% in total population is tiny but not "nowhere".

And in some populations (like programmers) use is much higher, 25% according to SO survey.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
You have to consider as well that the typical down-payment for an apartment is around 40k EUR. So it's incredibly frustrating for those that are looking to save.
> Meh -- they've done themselves such harm in recent years by embracing activism and deliberate bias that it's hard for me to feel too bad for the industry.

Journalism's financial problems predate "recent years," and perhaps those problems have actually lead to or exacerbated the problems you're complaining about. E.g. investigative journalism is hard, time-consuming, and expensive; an underfunded, short-staffed newspaper may turn to other, cheaper things to fill its pages and attract readers.
I think the nokia lumia line handled this pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf1fRu9YgfE

My lumia 800 went through hell (including being dropped from a third floor balcony onto asphalt) but still looked good.
I started reading the article and immediately had a question...

"This is a transcript of my presentation over at the European Microwave Week 2020, actually held in 2021."

What's a European Microwave Week? Well, it's a conference put on by the European Microwave Association.

"The European Microwave Association (EuMA) is an international non-profit association with a scientific, educational and technical purpose. The aim of the Association is to develop in an interdisciplinary way, education, training and research activities."

Ok.

"The European Microwave Association (EuMA) is an international non-profit association with a scientific, educational and technical purpose. The aim of the Association is to develop in an interdisciplinary way, education, training and research activities, including:

"Promoting European microwaves

"Networking and uniting microwave scientists and engineers in Europe

"Providing a single voice for European microwave scientists and engineers in Europe

"Promoting public awareness and appreciation of microwaves

"Attaining full recognition of microwaves by the European Union..."

So, uh, how far down this rabbit-hole do I have to go to find a meaningful term...

"EuCoM 2020 Events:
"GPR and Electromagnetics for Sensing Soil, Objects and Structures: Forward Modelling, Inversion Problems and Practical Aspects" - Lecce, Italy, January 29 - February 01, 2020 - Org.:R. Persico et al."

Whew.

[Edit]

I wrote the comments above before I read the article. Now that I have read it, I came to an epiphany:

*It's exactly what he is talking about!*

EuMA doesn't do microwave things. It's an organization about microwave stuff, but what they do has nothing to do with microwaves. The schedule things, they write contracts for venues and catering, and they send press releases of various kinds.

Wouldn't it have been slightly refreshing if EuMA's web site was written by someone who actually knew something about microwaves? Someone who could spice things up with meaningful examples? Even a little?

Anyway, there are some issues with the article itself.

"And we fight for all technology, even the stuff that is not core because we are attached to it, we love what we do."

What is core, and what is not? And after you've eliminated everything that is clearly not core, what is clearly not core among the remaining things you have left? If you've outsourced the springs, knobs, cords, and cases then those start looking an awful lot like something else you should get from outside. Especially since your manufacturing facility is now just running one shift a day. Or a week.

At the end of the article, he mentions, "JPL at Caltech in the US", which is an interesting (and appropriate) phrase. If you follow the Mars rovers or any of NASA's other unmanned exploration missions, you'll see JPL mentioned a lot. NASA is very proud of JPL. Which is a little strange since JPL and NASA are only loosely related. "JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech", as their web site says. The launch vehicle, by the way, was a commercial United Launch Alliance Delta II. (Not that I'm bitter in any way.)
How to Improve First Contentful Paint
Before the Sears catalog you instead had local monopolies by general store owners who could be absolute tyrants since there weren’t any cars. Getting what you need has always been difficult unless you literally live where it’s being made, which these days is Shenzhen or Guangzhou or somewhere like that.

The Rise and Fall of American Growth [0] is a fascinating book that talks about how much the Sears catalog revolutionized commerce in rural America.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-American-Growth-Princeton/d...
That's true, but it also means that random access will always use at least that amount of data even if it only has to fetch a tiny amount. I did a few (non-scientific) benchmarks on a few queries and 1kB seemed like an OK compromise.

And note that the request chunk size is bound to the SQLite page size, and to change that page size you have to rewrite the whole DB. So it can't be set on the fly unless you have multiple copies of the database.
Too bad 500€ notes have not been issued since 2 years ago... Makes it much harder to store money as cash...
>To answer your question succinctly, no, you don't want "other youtube" you want something sufficiently different to avoid youtube's pitfalls.

I argue "other youtube would suffice". We see this with Youtube streaming needing to actually compete due to Twitch existing, and vice versa. There's still the likely issue that they both fall into legal troll pitfalls, but I argue that they will avoid more of them in an attempt to compete for a better service.

With video hosting, Youtube doesn't need to compete.
I ran into this as well with NYT (grabbed a sub for election season only). You can cancel if you chat with someone during business hours - and immediately shoot down any attempt to to extend etc.

Related, I really hate Apple taking a permanent 30% cut of iOS subs, but I will use that route whenever possible. Canceling an iOS sub is always a painless single click experience from a known location. In fact I usually subscribe and immediately cancel so I’ll renew only if I actively choose to do so.
Good example of this is where you can only unsubscribe via phone so they can route you to a 'specialist' that attempts to talk you out of it. i.e. you can subscribe via software but but unsubscribe via phone.
Capped at 0 and you pay all kinds of fees on top.
Some actually do