skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, Netflix’ engine is the reason I left Netflix

That seems rather odd to me. I can believe it was a final straw after other reasons like running out of content you particularly want (absolutely or in comparison with other services), but not it begin "the" reason.

I don't particularly pay attention to the recommendations on either Netflix or Amazon, instead picking up things I might like to try from external sources (friends & family, discussions or records in various media, having liked something or some part of it looking into what else the performers/writers/directors/other have done it are involved in now, sometimes the does own external advertising).

I feel that the recommendation systems are more optimised for people who use TV/movies as background noise rather than actively watching. That would explain re-recommending long running series that they have already watched, amongst other things people have mentioned in this discussion.

Maybe my behaviour is a vestige from the life of piracy back when content was less readily available otherwise (somehow region locked, or simply not available on local channels yet, etc, so I often couldn't get things I cared about more legitimately for many months, if ever, and back in the scheduled TV days things were often in at inconvenient times). I seek out what I want rather than waiting for it to be handed to me by the service(s).
Funny that you bring the Nazis into play.

I've read somewhere that the Rohingya aren't liked that much in all the regions they dispersed into, because much of them worked as the shock troops of the British Empire, protecting its interests. That seems to be true even for the time when their home was called Arakan, and they weren't so dispersed.

So they are shunned where they did the shock trooping for the Brits, or tried to separate and do their own islamic thing afterwards, in multiethnic regions.

Karma is a bitch, isn't it?
What exactly due you mean by "West Asian"? Georgian and Armenian are left-to-right.
Do you have any source for that? Sounds difficult to believe for me as instantaneous heaters are known to be inefficient.
This is for the equivalent of Facebook Messenger or playing a F2P game, not fintech - bank requires even more, and linking a "real name ID" IRL bank account anyway.
Know them so well, you can deepfake them later and make their avatar say whatever you want. Nice job if you can get it!

(Kind of like the scarier version of the store cashier stealing your credit card digits - because you can’t just order a new one.)
Almost all interfaces use a flow-like layout model, “anchoring” components to some corner of the window or a parent component, and finding the first available space after laying out previous components. This is a model that works well with how we look at things.

Users of left-to-right, top-to-bottom languages are used to starting in the top left corner and heading right and down: that’s where our eyes naturally go, and how we interact with books and such. So in user interfaces, we anchor most things to the top left corner.

Users of right-to-left, top-to-bottom languages are used to starting in the top right corner and heading left and down. So it makes sense for RTL user interfaces to anchor things to the top right corner in the same way and progress leftwards.

User interfaces are largely built to match how eyes scan, because there’s not a huge difference between reading and writing prose, and reading and interacting with user interfaces.

(I’d say your cars comparison is not relevant; there’s very little inherent reason to prefer one side to the other. Scissors are only a smidgeon more relevant, being based on predominant handedness, and LTR is probably more popular than RTL for similar reasons, RTL being harder to ink cleanly if you’re right-handed.)
It’s not even a novel concept. The USSR instituted the NEP to attract foreign investment so it could develop after being invaded during WW1.

Both China and Vietnam have limited forms of capitalism in order to not be blockaded and be allowed to develop.
Show HN: CXXGraph Header-Only Library for Graph Representation and Algorithms
The big point is demand response in smart heaters allowing time shifting.

He also, confusingly, makes a second point about how efficiency can to avoid building powerplants/storage.

Replacing old inefficient heaters with new smart and efficient heaters is a double win.

If you power them from renewables it's a triple win.

Also night time energy is often low carbon because of nuclear and wind combined with low demand, but modern smart heaters can respond at a much smaller scale to use "excess" energy.
Let's call it regulated clearing houses then.
But the improvements they make wouldn't be open source so the open source version would lack those features, which means we would be stuck having to choose between an outdated Audacity and a non-free Audacity.
My relation with Autoconf, eh, let's say it's complicated.

Once you get it running it generally does a solid job. It helps to run your code even on systems that you have never heard of.

On the other hand if you wanted to change your configuration, you sometimes ended up trying to figure out some M4 macro's that had no real documentation.

In a historical context, it was a very smart piece of technology when it was developed, but I am glad that I do not have to use it currently.
Audacity may “occasionally” share data with its headquarters in Russia
So is CRT in K-12 just black history or not.
In my experience the problem with Scrum is that people are not able to implement it correctly. So maybe it's biggest flaw is that is not easy to understand for the people who has to follow it...

But I have to say that once I had a really good scrum master. He was extremely strict with telling the product owner and so on that a story can't go into the sprint if it's not 100% ready and also telling developers to not accept one story too much if they are not completely sure to finish within the sprint.

What happened is that product owner and other business people didn't like this guy because they felt he was stopping progress, but from my point of view, before him they were running in circles reworking the same features with things they forgot but they didn't realize. I felt totally the opposite. As a developer I was always finishing all my tasks without stress and high quality, reducing the amount of bugs and forgotten features, and I had time to help other teams, for instance the product owner himself, to complete their tasks better.

Guess what: This scrum master was an ex-developer
Show HN: I built a React.js slot machine on Djit.Su
Djit.su is an open source project, which is a website and a desktop app where you can write build and deploy React web pages all in one place. No set up, no dealing with command line install, just productivity.

Here is demonstration of the power of Djit.su deployment using a slot machine I wrote:
http://djitsu-slots.djit.me

And here is the NoteBook (or repo) from which it was deployed:
https://djit.su/d586LnHDnKKp9qqPBfIV9

If you have time to play around in Djit.su, here is an empty NoteBook to get started with:
https://djit.su/create-new

Let me hear what you think in the comments!
I have a bit of a problem with this mindfulness craze, I’m not really precious about Buddhist practices being solely for Buddhists, but these mindfulness programmes are taking a very small aspect of something that has been practiced for millennia without really having a way to deal with the results… most people will feel something after 8 weeks or so of such a practice, however usually after this point, if they’ve not given up, a lot of stuff bubbles to the surface which really you need a proper zen teacher to work through…

Someone selling you an 8 week programme to “fix your anxiety” or such, probably doesn’t have the same depth of experience as someone who has practiced Zazen for several decades, there are no shortcuts and it could be harmful.

If you really want the real deal, I can recommend you read a couple of Brad Warner books before you commit.
Any HTTP header can be used to build a fingerprint. Should we remove HTTP headers because of that? No.
One thing I wonder is that I saw several vertical Japanese writings in the web (TtB inline, RTL block) but virtually no vertical UIs. I believe there is not much technical difference between two. I'm not a native Japanese speaker so my experience might be not representative though.
That means you want less pain, not no pain at all.
Also noted in this article:

"Audacity is now a Possible Spyware, Remove it ASAP"

https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/
Who are the best personalisation retailers
The roadmap as presented by Apple at WWDC 2019 was that after an userspace replacement for a kernel subsystem gets presented, there is one year deprecation until it gets removed from the kernel on the following OS release.

So there is one year to try out what might still be missing and give respective feedback.

The long term roadmap is that macOS will eventually be much more microkernel like.
They Don't Need a New Website
Not so much infosec, but "the boy who cried wolf" is the folklore story to go with it. It's one reason why audible car alarms are phased out - they go off so frequent and falsely (e.g. because of a cat) that they don't have the desired effect of people looking at what's going on or deterring a thief.
This is quite an interesting topic, and as a non neuroscientist recently I've been going down the rabbit hole.

Although depression is not well understood, there are some theories/interpretations of the data. One of which is the differences of mechanism behind 5-HT_1A and 5-HT_2A:

SSRIs are (stronger) antagonists for 5-HT_1A which is theorised to increase "passive coping".
Psychadelics are (stronger) antagonists for 5-HT_2A which is theorised to increase "active coping".

The original paper that proposes this is "Serotonin and brain function: a tale of
two receptors" by Harris and Nutt, hopefully my simplification has been accurate enough.

This is quite interesting as it mirrors not only what I've experienced but also the conversations I've had with other. The following is obviously the anecdotal opinion of a single person.
Firstly neither SSRIs or Psychadelics by themselves "fix the problems with the world" - if being in debt living paycheck to paycheck or having a bad relationship is a contributing factor then taking medication doesn't magically make that go away.

Whilst on SSRIs, although there was an objective decrease in symptoms subjectively it it became increasingly difficult to continue the course of medication. This is not uncommon, as can be seen in "Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis" by Andrea Cipriani et al.
In contrast psychadelics and the "mania", flexible thinking, decreased pessimism they induced combined with the subjective contrast was extremely insightful - "oh yeah, I can be happy". Although objectively my actions did not change much, subjectivly they were no longer "shameful", I didn't need to ruminate and accepted them.

But it should be said, taking psychadelics when not in a good mental state is incredibly dangerous, especially if it is the first time. This is mirrored in this review of a review (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/on-cerebralab-on-nuttc...). To quote the original review:

> I found it curious that people who take psychedelics for introspection usually end up as religious cranks or burnouts. While people that take psychedelics because "they are fun" don't seem to experience many negative side effects. Under this framework, it makes perfect sense, activate highly conceptual functions in the cortex and tell them to solve an intrinsic and emotional, you'll end up with some very weird conceptual scaffolding.
I'm personally a huge fan of Waking Up! Have been a long time user. I'm looking to bring a different experience to the table to address the underlying needs of why anyone would want to use a meditation app, or even start to do meditation without one, in the first place
As I understood it they're on the list because their laws permit capital punishment for drug crimes. The article is saying that only 6 of them routinely exercise that possibility. I read through the notes next to the countries, but didn't find anything interesting.
Hi! Cool product :)

2 questions:

- Are these really 1-to-1 calls? Looks more like a room where many could join?

- It's not limited to twitter, is it? I could share it anywhere, right?
We must watch different heist movies then. The device used in most that I remember is the IR lasers, lol.
Reminds me of Danny Fenster who is a US journalist being held in Myanmar. His family went many weeks without any sign that he was even alive an the US government seems utterly powerless, or disinterested in flexing their power. He is totally at the mercy of a rogue newly installed government.
But it still isn’t bad advice. To be honest the difference between 8.5k and 10k is not that much (maybe 10 to 15 minutes if you are on a walk anyway).

I also think that 10k can serve as a psychological goal.

Anyhow recently I heard a someone say: Don’t become a slave to the metric, the glass is half full. If you did 7k steps, that’s still better than 3k. It’s not about fulfilling the 10k, more about searching for opportunities where you can get your steps „for free“. Ordering food? Maybe get it as take away. Using the elevator to go to the 11th floor? Walk up the first two or three.
i don't think they're a part of the EU. don't quote me on that though
Not in my experience. To me, Scala feels like a kitchen sink language - like C++.
The site demonstrates the problems in two ways:

① Setting `text-align: right` so that you can feel the weirdness that `text-align: left` will produce for RTL languages.

② And for BiDi: setting `direction: rtl`, and using a mixture of strong LTR characters (e.g. letters) and neutral characters (e.g. punctuation). This combination results in the neutral characters going RTL, which is why you end up with things like “.solve them” and “→ ?What is this” rather than “solve them.” and “What is this? →”.

It’s demonstrating things that are commonly done wrong the other way (when the document says it’s LTR, but contains RTL text).
Weird, horizontal scrolling works completely smoothly and as expected for me on Firefox on Windows. I tried:

* Two-finger scroll on my touchpad, moving horizontally

* Middle clicking with the mouse so the scrolly icon thing comes up (it shows as a left-right icon rather than the normal up-down one) and then gently moving the mouse left and right
A Tether but for TSLA?
... and? I mean, this idea has been around for a long time.

It took a bit of hunting, but I think I found the source paper. At the very least, here's an arxiv.org preprint submitted 14 Sep 2020 titled "Assembled Kinetic Impactor for Deflecting Asteroids via Combining the Spacecraft with the Launch Vehicle Final Stage" by Wang et al. and with three of the authors affiliated with China's National Space Science Center.

What's new is: "In order to improve the deflection efficiency of the kinetic impactor strategy, this paper proposed a new concept called the Assembled Kinetic Impactor (AKI), which is combining the spacecraft with the launch vehicle final stage."
Protease inhibitor increases survival of mice with a fatal SARS-CoV-2 infection
Ask HN: How do you know it's time for a new job?
Does loading certificates allow you to MITM apps? E.g. to discover/reverse engineer an API?

I suppose certificate pinning could pose problems.
Your demo reminds me of a problem that M&B 2 Bannerlord had, they created a destructable castle, but couldn’t get performance network enough to sync the destruction (bricks and stone walls) to all players.
>and what would "solving" most of them even mean?

One step further. If the universe has a purpose and we somehow solve the universe (maximize entropy or whatever), wouldn't humans cease to exist?

The truth is that we are beings of constant motion. We can't sit still.
The GDPR is explicit about that: non-functional stuff should be turned off by default. No, marketing isn't functional. If companies follow the law, the default is set at "I don't want to participate in your bullshit".

It's just that a lot of companies are employing dark patterns or getting it wrong on purpose, and it's working because people are now annoyed at GDPR instead of the companies doing this.
Very. Absolutely all of it is built on top of a few financial gateways, that are going to be closed.
Yup; over-eager virus- and malware scanners have much to answer for in that regard. And Windows' attempts at security in windows Vista I believe it was - by having an intrusive "admin approval" screen - is another example where after only a few "false alarms", people already automate hitting OK when something like that pops up without reading the details.
It’s not a joke, that’s the whole point of the exercise. Showing you “when you get it wrong, RTL content experiences weirdness like this”.
You see this as a debate, but it’s an opportunity to step outside the mainstream liberal ideology. At least read “The People’s Republic of Walmart”, if you won’t read research.

You’re right that it’s pointless to continue, since you’ve been reduced to picking on my non-native English.
I fault the press for letting this slide. Most people just read headlines and figured he was alright and their theories were proven false. The press should have for skepticism because they act as the middle layer between the public and the reality of what is going on. They have a responsibility to get us the relevant facts.

These days seems like the press has sold out and seems like they are in someone’s pocket…
Out of curiosity, what makes you skeptical about the evidence?
Making a post on HN asking how people know when it's time for a new job.

More seriously -- when you become the smartest person in the room, assuming your job isn't being a researcher (or a similar level of autonomy).
The most annoying thing about these streaming platforms is no IMDB rating being displayed. I have to type in every suggestion one by one which is annoying, or use a third party search engine. It'd be such a huge UX boost to simply include the rating, and better yet allow filtering by rating, I really don't get it. Perhaps they're trying to build network effects around their own rating system but it really detracts from the UX.
It kinda depends; did he steal it for himself or was it "to order", in which case it depends on whether he can help convict the bigger fry. Was it damaged? Etc. Motivation matters a lot in a case like this, I think, and of course damages because a lot of money has been spent on police and museum investigation, possibly insurance money, restoration, etc.
Rethinking Note-Taking on the Web: Fluid Transitions Teaser
i wish this was c# instead of lua
Firefighters in California had a law passed that prevents cell phone towers from being placed on fire station property[0]. They complained of headaches and nausea from living near the antennae.

As a species and a culture, it seems we're just finding out about the precautionary principle. We should be more careful.

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml... (search for "fire")
If your wireless carrier enables it, you can create a wifi hotspot under Settings > Personal Hotspot.
That seems to be an issue with chinese institutions, not with concept of trust in general.
Currently we use your browser's language and time zone settings to derive applicable legal regimes such as GDPR, CPRA, and LGPD.

This method even supports the nuance of detecting a EU-likely user vacationing in California, affording them both CPRA and GDPR protections. You can try out this API by typing `await airgap.getRegimes()` in your browser console on this blog post.

This method won't scale forever as more states and countries enact new privacy laws so we do plan on eventually falling back to IP geolocation as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/ocggbv/comment/h3u5j2e the Reddit comments from Huntress Labs contain more concrete interim technical details from their investigations.

* `/dl.asp` authentication bypass

* `/KUpload.dll` file upload, likely using authenticated session

* `/userFilterTableRpt.asp` command execution on previously uploaded file
I wonder if it's even possible for Chinese citizens to play rouge/nethack.
Fundamental is whatever the politicians and the rich decide it's fundamental. For example the right to live is fundamental except if you live in a conflict zone (US with its shootings included).
But even the non-MSM / alternate online news has let this one slide.
Via Negativa – Less, but Better
Applying Via Negativa practices across domains - Tech, Love, Health, Happiness, and Life.
> But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in.

Who cares for its value "to people who study art"? It's also contigent on BS cultural norms. It's not even some objectively impressive artwork. Not to mention that Picasso mass produced tons of them after he got famous, for easy money...
Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (1969)
Cool! Very interesting development given how bad reputation microkernels had for a while. (I’m thinking of Linux vs Minix/Hurd.)
So it is okay then.

Then when EU will start running concentration camps for thought criminals, we will say it's okay China already do it...
Well they are legal in most other parts of the world, so what does that tell us? Is a block chain a national thing?
You could just put the 3 words without the => between them into some search thing and get many hits. It's significant.

Maybe less so if country roads with low traffic as poster downwards suggested. But tyres are soft, so it seems only logically they are abraded faster by gravel which is harder and has sharper edges, than a more flat surface.
>See how that works?

Great? You kind of made the parent's point.

>Just because you don't care, it doesn't mean that it isn't important to a lot of people.

And just because it's "important to a lot of people" doesn't mean it should be.
Death of a Project (1965)
Why our work culture sucks
It does still need to be flashed. ESP32 are blank on arrival
> As a counterpoint, we in America certainly do not seem to be immune to sticking with flawed social constructs that impede our progress/happiness.

There are definitely counterexamples within the US, but in my opinion they are much milder, and often in pockets. Generally speaking, if I take and practice advice in a self-help book that goes counter to the American norm, I don't get social rejection, and I often get more encouragement than negative vibes.

Oh, and sports-worship is everywhere - wealthy and poor :-)
Expected socially, not mandated. You're not mandated to drink alcohol either.

It's also a top public spending priority: https://www.athleticbusiness.com/college/the-highest-paid-pu...
I cancelled Netflix subscription because I was not finding anything worth watching.

I tried downvoting unwanted featured movies, they continued to be featured.

Once my listing was filled solely with already watched or downvoted movies I cancelled account.

I suspect that Netflix had some movies that I would gladly watch, but if they show what I explicitly marked as invented...
He was quoting the article, but he messed up the formatting so it’s not very obvious that “today” refers to 13 years ago.
National medicines regulators across Europe fail to protect patient interests
Evolution. Animals suddenly gain all sorts of competencies when the competitive pressure is on. Most animals already have linguistic ability, I don't think human language is all that special. We can do all sorts of fancy things with our brains that seem to defy explanation through the simple mechanics of evolution, but communicating the state of your brain to another of your species, that feels like basic stuff to me.
Well, first of all, his intention was to quit their job in the first place, with app or not. The app was created to support the quiting, not vice versa.