skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Translucent windows, drop shadows, and the "genie effect" are fun for half an hour tops, but these desktops consume additional processing power and memory and introduce latency

There's certainly some room for optimization in how desktops work today. I can see the obvious case for tear-free (v-synced) compositing when dealing expressly with full-screen (or close to full-screen) animation or full-screen video, since screen tearing is highly noticeable in these use cases. Wrt. everything else though, there's nothing wrong with rendering without vsync and avoiding that added latency. These optimizations can however be hard to make precise beyond very simple cases, like a single foregrounded full-screen app being enabled to take over the whole display. Tiled windows might be the next most obvious step.
Sure, I've read Mozilla's standard-position document and I understand their objections, I'm just saying that Webkit's objection is the major blocker to me personally adopting sxg (since Firefox is basically 0% of my mobile traffic)
It's because so far all of these crypto currencies use terrible technology that is destroying the planet. There's nothing "cutting-edge" about block chain, it was a neat idea 12 years ago but since then it's proven itself to be a completely shit database.
A very interesting and informative comment - thank you.
Any major smart contract updates over time, but in some cases they back themselves into a corner with a bug.
Generic Insulin Lispro is currently ~$50-60 per vial in the US, without any insurance or assistance from the manufacturer (though you do have to understand the system and go to specific pharmacies to get that price).

The reason it's not a big issue in elections is because lots of people don't vote.
The only activist shareholders I'm aware of, like Carl Icahn are activists for themselves.

Plus, you really have to have 50% + 1 to make a difference, and then there are still mechanisms against you. You just need to come up with half of $1.74 trillion as of today, and of course enough people who want to sell.

No, I think there are more effective strategies than that.
This coin made a mistake so its stakeholders pay the cost. People who had nothing to do with it are essentially unaffected.

In fiat world, if big industry or finance makes a mistake, the taxpayers are forced to bail them out instead of allowing them to fail, because of some perceived “systemic risk” that could take down the entire national economy.
Tbh they ran Skype into the ground and it just isn’t relevant anymore. It has great name recognition though so there’s always the chance they can resurrect it into something but it doesn’t really fit into their present day strategy.
Thank you! Didn't see it before I posted.
Thanks, that was a great read. Tangentially related, but I wonder what's the impact of Windows having a really bad search. Maybe people are thus relying more on the folder hierarchies, and that influences how they think?
A New Push to Make Ecocide an International Crime
Fears of political assassinations, car tampering and break-ins in NZ
Just a reminder that California has a ton of water. Plenty to supply all the people and lawns and a bunch of agriculture. What it doesn't have is enough to send a million tons of alfalfa overseas at $200 a pop. Each ton uses more water than a household does in a year. I bet you paid way more than $200 in water bills last year.

Yes, there are many locations that are actually short on water for real. Some of them are in very bad shape, with depleted reservoirs and aquifers and no prospect for access to more water resources. But the vast majority of Californians are getting their water from places where there would be surplus if the consumption wasn't so heavily subsidized. Read Cadillac Desert, it's a masterpiece and an eye opener.
The government typically doesn't mandate companies set their prices to a certain level. Instead, they add taxes that then raise the price of the item. For example, there's already a gasoline tax.
Cold Take: I never mentioned survival, so take this word back to your imagination.
> then someone builds an open source version

Damn, I went to dig up the URL for reddit's source and it seems it is no longer open :-(

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
> Temporal does not support parsing human-readable strings.

Well shit, that's one of the biggest things I want from a time library. There are about 15 different forms of human readable string formats that various APIs give you in their JSON responses and if they don't solve that, they haven't solved the biggest pain point.

I guess congratulations for not solving the problem and instead making Javascript even more complicated to use by introducing yet another date library that skirts around perhaps the most important feature.
Mica Material
In many cases, yes. But additionally, even with mostly reliable reception people don't want to have to depend on that reception. It's poor form and poor design to include an intermittent service (even if largely reliable for a large portion of your users) as a mandatory component when it is technically unnecessary.

Offline first is simply a more reliable way to build systems than online-only. Specifics long forgotten, but a few years ago (perhaps 10+ now) a lot of people got, understandably, upset when they found out their single player games couldn't be played without an internet connection in order to authenticate. Oops, auth server went down, players can't play the thing they dropped $50+ on.
Only if you believe that /dev/random is truly random.
I don't know about this place mentioned in the article, but there's a similar orginazation at https://cheapinsulin.org/ that you can look into.
GUI for git: https://fork.dev/ (USD$50)
Good news, my friend, you can see their sentiment right here in this very thread! Scroll up or down and feast your eyes.

My personal story: When I interviewed for a job at Amazon many years ago, all the recruiter e-mail kept going into my trash. I finally realized that I'd just directed *@amazon.com into my trash years earlier because they kept filling my inbox with so much useless bullshit, and I'd always hated the company. Turned out, though, that when presented with the chance to make twice as much money by working half as hard, those feelings became very malleable.. "Well, we're a bunch of assholes, but nice guys finish last"

Really, I'm just following orders every day at my job
I wouldn't worry too much about the topics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666763

To add to that, topic modeling/content-based filtering is only used as a starting point anyway; as you rate the newsletters you receive, your recommendations will start to be dominated more by collaborative filtering ("people who liked X also liked Y", without thought for what X and Y are about).

Also, the "21 days" thing is pure marketing/explanation :). It's just an attempt to help people (especially non-technical people) understand that it'll adapt to your preferences over time. It'll start adapting immediately, and it'll continue adapting after 21 days.
Why not allow patients to buy generic insulin from overseas (from India for example) ?

If I could just you know, ask a friend of mine to fly to India and bring a monthly supply of cheap India made generic of Humalog, that would be great, right?

and if insurance company kicks in a few bucks for me, that would drive down the cost of care for insurance company as well
This makes a request to server to get the result back. Hacker News hug of death has already happened.

I wish this was deployable to browsers so it was fully stand alone.
> Yet, we did progress without it.

No, we didn't, and claiming so merely demonstrates your profound ignorance regarding the most basic fundamentals of our field.
> you'll do it better if you understand hardware.

Oh for sure. I agree. That's not what we're arguing though.
Isn't DDG somehow related to yandex, hence all the Cyrillic results?
Overlapping windows also require learning and discipline, perhaps more so than tiled screen splits. We are just more used to the former than the latter.
> Is there a private organization in need of 16 million addresses?

Plenty of mobile phone networks have well over 16 million subscribers, and they typically don't have enough public IPv4 addresses for everyone. This has led to really hacky stuff, like using DOD IP ranges as psuedo-private space, or re-using private IP addresses in different regions (which can't be fun to maintain.)

Some networks have fixed the problem by using NAT64 - forgoing IPv4 altogether internally, and translating to public v4 at the edge. (Works surprisingly well, T-Mobile US has been doing it for the better part of a decade.)
If you have limited exposure to JavaScript, that’s great. Try to keep it that way. Personally, the article/quiz reminds me what an utter shit field web development really is and that shaving my face with a lawn mower and hot sauce might be the preferable alternative. Also, reading the sibling comments here describing JavaScript as having characteristics like “great defaults” and “reasonable rules in place” make me wonder what fucked up alternate reality they’re all living in where those are true.
Yeah, I remember that, too. :) I think I read that even before I first tried Linux.
The formula keeps changing over time. Pre 1906 it had cocaine in it.

Here is the recipe.

Extract of coca leaves, caffeine, plenty of sugar (it specifies 30 unidentified units thought to be pounds), lime juice, vanilla and caramel make a syrup.

Into that syrup, the all-important 7x flavourings are added: alcohol and six oils – orange, lemon, nutmeg, coriander, neroli and cinnamon

Knowing this won't help you beat coke. It might have 100 years ago but how coke tastes isn't as important as the leases they hold in key retail spaces.
> …but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page

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The side by side against other algos is pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLYg9Waw72U&t=125s
There is approximately 0 unbanked storing wealth in Bitcoin.
The articles gets things right as well. Cuomo's decisions were atrocious and clearly wrong without the need for hindsight. School closures in the US are odd, and varied to the point of following no science and in large part being politically driven. And the cost of lockdowns is fairly well known, and deserves critique.

The articles's tone is distinct and specific, and going to rub some people the wrong way, but tone shouldn't be confused with the correctness or incorrectness of an argument.

I'd say unfortunately, because tone is far too prevalent in online media, but the horse seems to have bolted on keeping the tone neutral, and I'd wager a strong tone likely leads to higher "engagement", so people have collectively decided with their actions how they feel about tone.
Traditional notions of market share were companies selling commodities (oil, rail travel) with undifferentiated products.

Now everything is extremely differentiated so it's hard to find any products that are clearly competing apples to apples. The markets of these things overlap funnily such I almost wonder if the graph of "quasi-competing" products is fully connected.

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The institutional power of these firms isn't just in the things they sell. It is also in people's dependence on the non-fungible free services, etc.

We do need new laws so issues with the courts in some sense are good to force the issue.
It's not that 1% isn't astounding, it's that choices, human and automated that go into deciding which 1% is cataloged. Are the Harry Potter books really more valuable than 99% over everything else humans know? Or does Google simply provide a catalog of the things that can be pressed into service to generate revenue, either for themselves or their ad-buying customers?
Contracts need to be written in a specialized language not a general purpose language like c++.
See, but this line of reasoning doesn't make sense, I can apply the same argument to get the conclusion that Biden isn't "establishment", because many of his policies aren't getting done, despite on paper Dem control of the house and senate. This would make...Joe Manchin the "establishment", I think, and everyone else in the democratic party, something else.

Having autocratic control of the government and policy isn't what makes you establishment or not, because politics is complicated. It's also not clear what "establishment" we're talking about now. The decision to ban trump was derided by pretty much everyone on the right, even the people you've called "establishment" GOP politicians. So if Ryan is "establishment", and Google was acting against Trump and Ryan when they banned him, which "establishment" were they working with?
TIL

Thank you!
Stretch goal: No password authentication whatsoever.

Target goal: No cleartext password authentication. (No telnet as it was, no ftp as it was, no smtp as it was, etc., yada, and so on....)

Fallback goal: Get HTTPS right far sooner, with cryptographers working on SSL 1.0 from the beginning, with funding, and eliminate HTTP as soon as possible.
This is good, but distributing the mining fees evenly across all lawyers will result in too low a fee for the work involved. What if, instead, the parties of the contract would each pick a small set of lawyers ("representing" lawyers) to receive their fees for enforcing the contract. Rather than relying solely on the mining lawyers for this contract to participate in consensus (as that number is now small and adversarially motivated), we would expand the consensus pool to all lawyers who participated in sufficiently similar contract enforcement in the past, using their votes on previous enforcements as an immutable record.

In this design, determining the threshold for similarity may require the participation of a third-party "oracle" or "judge" component.
The Federal Reserve decides what a nominal dollar is. It's the real dollars that are in question.
The no-direct-cost PBMs price generic Humalog at $50-$60 now.

Generic Novolog is also ~$55 at Walgreens (more at other places).
> there’s a lot of value to purchasing medicine from regulated sources. I’m not against upstart competition against big pharma, but I worry that you might literally kill someone if you don’t include these product quality steps in your process.

Where are you getting this from? This goal of this isn't to have every diabetic brewing insulin in their garage so they evade the IP police in a distrubuted fasion. The goal is to create open IP needed for creation, purification and quality control that will allow labs around the world to create insulin in keeping with local regulations.
Bibliogram is an unofficial front end to Instagram. Among other features, it won't prompt you to log in. Here's Ollie's page on Bibliogram:

https://bibliogram.art/u/polite_cat_olli_official

Reddit on mobile is also beginning to require logging in to view certain pages, in which case you can use:

https://libredd.it/

Or

https://teddit.net/
For anyone else who was wondering what the hell

- Syntactic Simplications: In-line comparison (Equals in {} in Writeline can be simplified to just ==)

was supposed to be about ... They misunderstood what was being talked about. The feature in question was that structs can be records too, now, with their associated features.
What would be the content other than a simple joke?
The whole conversation is a lot easier if you just define Facebook as a monopoly.

#1 is assuming the argument, really.
#2 is stating that old law doesn't work and implying we need new law to let us do what we want...again, assuming there is a problem, making no attempt to determine whether there is a legal problem
Features define the market.

Spray paint manufacturers aren’t in pen market even if you can “recorded text and images in a durable fashion with them.” Lighting a couch on fire sure produces a lot of lights but couch manufactures are not part of the home lighting market.

EDIT: But let’s ignore that. Sure, YouTube has roughly the share of social networking market as the number of people posting vacation photos on it. That might just add up to 0.0001% market share.
There is a difference between social consequences (e.g. ostracism) and legal consequences (e.g. fines, imprisonment, corporal punishment).
How very on-brand
Big difference though. VW created the issue and then ran a program to develop and implement a way to hide the problem. Malicious intent. I don't think we can say the same for Intel with a security bug that is uncovered after the sale. Now, if someone could show Intel knew about Spectre or similar bugs and hid them, then you are off to the races.
Of course there would be amazon (widespread e-commerce, if not literally amazon.com), android, kindle. None of these are ad-driven products.

google as it exists today, an advertising company hoovering up private data while masquerading as various services, all in the name of pushing more ads, is not a net positive to the Internet. Having it not exist would be wonderful in this alternate universe.

Of course there would be search engines though. There were plenty search engines before google, before ads, and those would've evolved along a different path from where they were in the mid 90s.
It's amazing how much of a positive effect that short comic has had on my life.
You may be looking for iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome, the chrome repo has the firefox extension as well, fyi.
Coming up next: body cams leak footage of upcoming Apple product.

No, I don't think so...
Even if you could come up with an "objective" definition of what counts as an advertisement, what incentive do site owners have to be honest about it? Likewise, why would I want my browser to tell the site that I'm blocking ads?

This idea reminds me of the Evil Bit: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3514
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This commenter is correct. Things like radiation tolerance and power draw are much bigger concerns. I've seen a number of projects using RT systems entirely because they were based on earlier systems that were RT and therefore the engineers just used the same kernel despite having no RT requirements.

PowerPC is popular because there are a couple companies out there that are taking these parts and running them through radiation beams to certify them for spaceflight (essentially profiling their failure modes so devs can account for them). ARM isn't popular yet as they tend to make it difficult to license designs for lower volume silicon but RISC-V in particular is gaining traction here very rapidly.
Subjectively it's the difference between "why am I getting ads for pregnancy tests and skirts, I'm a basement-dwelling troglodyte" and "wtf, they're actually showing me things I'd want to buy (if I had money)".

Joke's on them either way, they somehow haven't figured out I'm broke! But the difference is between "spying + garbage ads" and "spying + a bunch of cool shit I didn't even know existed" I'm gonna go for the latter.

Obviously the correct answer is neither: just use Adblock and/or pay for services you use and enjoy. For example I paid for YouTube premium so I could get an ad-free experience on mobile (because YouTube ads are somehow both horribly intrusive and horribly irrelevant, despite Google's apparent omniscience!).

By all accounts Google should know much more about me than Facebook does, but somehow their ads invoke a response somewhere between mild irritation and outright rage and disgust. Meanwhile on Instagram: "hey, I really like this backpack", "wtf they're selling psilocybin in capsules now? And I can just buy it? Nobody even told me that existed! Thanks Instagram!" Like I said, that was a pretty surreal moment for me.
Heinz ketchup is indistinguishable from Aldi ketchup. If you are buying Heinz you are just paying for some suit’s Bentley
Don’t we grow food specifically for livestock though? That must consume a lot of resources (oil, water, etc). I think the argument is the cut out the middle man (beef / chicken) due to inefficiencies.

I personally suspect the real ratio is less than what’s being cited just because I’m a cynic, but there seems to be some logic to it no?
At that point we're basically talking about Factorio.
> This is the implied agreement. You understand it, or you don't.

I'm fine with businesses who use that model and make it clear. Those kinds of tactics are galling coming from a company whose literal mission statement is "Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together."

If you want people to make an account, make a more compelling business proposition. Gatekeeping seems like the most vulnerable, monopolistic position to take.
Typo : s/alepha/aleph/ (didn’t realize until today)
Oulton Park has opened up to cyclists in the past, but doesn't look like there's anything except a duathlon scheduled for this year.
All you really need is a newsreader or email thread with catchup
Does it strike anyone else how inelegant this new API is? With the plethora of accepted date/time packages out there with wide usage, this is the most cumbersome API surface of them all.
According to https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmi..., 6' 1" reaches 25 BMI at 190 pounds. That seems about right to me for overweight. If you are very muscular it might be inaccurate, but most people aren't.
I keep on trying to get one, but being well controlled, the ins cos won't approve it. And its pretty spendy out of pocket. My biggest use case would be an alert that my glucose levels are tanking while exercising so I can do something about it before I drop out. I find myself not doing things like long bike rides that I'd really like to do because of it.
The gold standard guide by a hacker turned Snap VP:
https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
I wonder if Typescript would make a great first language, since a subset of it runs in the browser, but the IDE and compiler can prevent some very bad bugs.
One unexpected mention of attorneys, but no explanation of how deeply or often they're involved. Strange. I expect that factors into the emotional manipulation, but we aren't told how.

I'm surprised that simply publishing their communications isn't more common, to avoid that fake sense of leverage. That's what accountability is about.
What is the deal with those weird names? I have a lamp called the "Deunbr". Maybe there's an AI creating Amazon shops and randomizing the name every time
This is the sort of thing I think would be a mistake. I posted a clear explanation of what I did and why. I believe that's enough to satisfy the community. It does leave a tiny minority unsatisfied who don't trust what we say, but they are not satisfiable. If we added the feature you're suggesting, how could you be certain that we weren't secretly overriding it sometimes? You would either have to take our word for it—in which case why not just believe us in the first place?—or you would need some other system to validate that one. This is how you get systems upon systems, with no actual solution, for a problem that doesn't even really exist. The same issue would recreate itself at every step.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying "just trust us". Trust is earned. But the way to earn it is to always be open to questions, answer them as well as we can, and when people point out mistakes, to admit them and fix them quickly. That's what we try to do, and it's informal and social. Formal/technical methods are neither necessary nor sufficient for community trust, and it would be a big mistake to think otherwise, because it would steal resources away from other things, like human-to-human communication and making the site itself better.
Send data into the void? Consider https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
The same happens when you use Linux as your desktop OS together with an ad-blocker. I guess it trips off some anti-bot rules.

My favorite is Google's captcha where they let visitors solve their machine learning classification problem by asking them to classify images.