skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take the Big Lebowski thumbnail on his screenshot. While that scene is in the movie, it’s not at all central to the plot. It’s not that remarkable or even show the main character. There is no shooting. But a man aggressively pointing a gun gets you curious, more than the actual movie poster.

It’s clickbait because it is simply picking the image most likely to elicit a reaction - and misrepresenting the nature of the movie in the process. I think the article did a decent job of explaining the psychology behind it.

Another simple example: imagine the title of this post was “Netflix is dying - here are three reasons why”. No actual connection to the content, just something to grab your attention. That’s clickbait.
Read my comment, it already says that.
What is happening now is, for example, USA/Canada building oil extraction platforms, possibly with fracking, in Botswana. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/new-oilf...

Maybe the more developed countries should build or invest in power plants from renewable sources, or maybe nuclear, in less developed countries.
for me its just like irc. irc was used to organize tech and gaming communities for years and years and was not really more user friendly or organized.
You're conflating two very different things. The lockdowns are instituted at the state level, are different in every state, and are with the specific aim of (and in response to) preventing covid transmission. Adhering to a public health lockdown has nothing to do with Freedom, or lack of guns.

By making a false comparison between the two, you are muddying any argument made against the electronic freedom restrictions.
I went with "probably" or if laziness - a more definite statement would have required a bit if fact checking research as I don't want to be one of those people!
Really looking forward to this, though I cancelled my preorder (I got in too late and decided I may as well wait for release).

Honestly whilst the season of games sounds like, it really interests me for home brew games, I've said before but Im really hoping it ends up as something like pico 8 (something which desperately needs an official handheld but as of yet doesn't have one). As another commenter pointed out, these more restricted fantasy consoles can just be funner to develop for
> Serves them right, too, for giving up the last backstop on the government power: guns.

Genuinely curious, do you not think the US government has better guns than its citizens? How exactly would this work?
You win the fridge!
The idea is that these kinds of sources of error will be noise, since they should be random with respect to experimental assignment in any kind of A/B test. In a small sample you could imagine chance imbalances, but given that I'm experimentally assigning someone to see either a thumbnail of John Krasinski or Steve Carell, it's unclear why the "I misclicked" scenario is going to have a higher rate in one rather than the other. And experiments at large companies like Netflix are almost infinitely powered.

I would think a bigger threat to this approach would be being stuck in a local maxima.
Full of alerts.
Fastmail is an Australian company and I would love to hear their response to this. Even though their servers are not located in Australia I bet that wouldn't slow the government down much.
I believe making charcoal out of the biomass would be much more energy efficient, no?
>MSFT Teams

>Allow users to enable push to talk in group meetings

>2021-06-01

>Thank you for your continued feedback, we have not forgotten about this ask. The feature remains on our backlog. We will share an update as soon as one is available.

>In the meantime, you can try using the keyboard shortcut to toggle mute (Ctrl+Shift+M)

It has 3400 votes since 2017(!)

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su...

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and yes, this feature is important because switching between apps just to mute/unmute yourself is terrible experience and

this problem has been solved like 2 decades ago or more with PUSH2TALK.

It makes gaming or even coding and streaming and talking while having people at home

(especially now, during WFH/pandemic) annoying as hell.

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The rest I didn't check.
A simple string handling library for Microsoft Fortran-80
I suspect that one of the big reasons why native HTML widgets are not improved, is because everybody who needs something "fancy" (by web standards), just rolls their own.
Because it's not just the ADs.

For getting good targeted ads, you need to know a lot about targets. And that knowledge can be used for other things than just selling ads.

It can be used by politicians to target specific groups, it can be used by scam artist to get access to more susceptible people. It can be used by business, like payday loans, cc companies, lotteries, etc. to target people that are in already bad place, to dig a hole even deeper (and that already happens today). It can be used to target people who are whales in one microtransaction whatever, to spend on some other etc.
It can be used by bad governments to target people with specific viewpoints, smear campaigns, find dissidents etc.

They all need same kind of data.
And even if you collect that data for one purpose today, doesn't mean it cant be used for something else in 10 years time. Just because Google might not sell that data right now, doesn't mean it wont in the future.

I would have a lot less problems it it was just ads, but it's really not.
I don’t remember Tesla ever attempting it, care to provide a link?
You will really own nothing and you will be “happy”. Soma here. Soma there. Soma, soma everywhere.
It seems even worse than that. During my stints in social media, there would be ‘research projects’ that were simply fishing expeditions for meaningful data. Something like: which user demographics have a correlation to behavior x. And then you’d just search and search and search and hope you found something. If you didn’t find something, then you’d be encouraged by a team level manager to adjust or tweak some approach to take advantage of volatility to force the correlation. Maybe you shift the sample start date, maybe you skip a normalization dimension.

The directors would ask about things like normalization and if things were measured over a ncertain time period, but if you had some excuse or answer prepared, it was enough to get a nod and some recognition for your presentation. Heck, sometimes your team manager would do the presentation on your behalf to lay claim to some of that precious impact.

Then, after the new review cycle starts, priorities change and you never have to follow up on the holes in your data. Or, you can even admit it has holes, you already got credit.
A killer use of Discord... push-to-talk audio connection to everyone else in the room.

If your team is on-call and incident management could be improved, just try putting your team in a Discord room and see what happens. Don't put managers in there, just the engineers.

It works great.
I misread the 13 for an 18. It is 13x with a relatively wide confidence interval. Another commentator pointed this out to me.
Yeah turned it off and iCloud too!

I was all in on Apple. Now got a System76 laptop on the way. Transitioning off iPhone to Linux will be tough but something new to explore.
I thought you were talking about search results and not algorithmic recommendations.

I think most recommendations for video services is done through collaborative filtering and similar ML techniques, meaning you get recommended what other profiles similar to you have watched. It may be possible to infer a profile of "people who like the Office (UK) but will not like the Office (US)" but I imagine it may present challenges, especially if the intersection of people who like both is large.
As much as I love Fastmail, I think it's time to move elsewhere. I don't feel safe trusting a Australia based company with my online identity after all those hostile laws.
How so? 2+2=4 was known before humans even existed, many animal species understand this concept.
IMO: paywall links okay. but please share the 'bypass' link also somewhere in the thread.
can't close the subscription box on Firefox mobile, making the site unusable
But the waste heat would escape within minutes/hours whereas the greenhouse effect lasts for decades or even longer.
Now I'm enjoying to disable the cookies and tracking options.
And don't forget the Big Blue Gang.

Funded and empowered by the state, and totally unaccountable...

“I have said before, if you write a ticket, and you get it wrong, I understand, and I won’t hold you to account for that. We have to shape the behaviour of people to get out of lockdown, and I know all of us want to be out of lockdown by Christmas, so please take the challenge.“ -- NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller, https://www.smh.com.au/national/police-commissioner-says-off...
Kick this mob out.
Have you written anything about your experience in "Going open source and Patreon-supported"? Most of the examples I've come across seem to be receiving trivial amounts.
I'm not certain what you mean by human factors, so correct me if I've misinterpreted.

If by human factors you mean basic heuristics based on human intuition, that fails too. It might satisfy 50% of viewers but there's too much diversity in taste for this to be a good model.

I'm not defending the metric as described, but there's obviously good data driven approaches and bad ones. The trick is to find a solid proxy for the business problem and to try to weed out any dark side effects by applying it.
If vaccine injuries were a problem on the same scale as bad outcomes from COVID infections it would be impossible to hide.
Recently there's a strong tendency in the Python ecosystem to wrap perfectly fine idioms with even higher abstractions. Not sure if I like this, in the end it leads to a lot of cargo culting and people writing code they don't fully understand because it contains a lot of metaclass and runtime magic. But I understand that a lot of developers find this attractive, and type annotations really provide a good channel for realizing such functionality, so maybe I'm just being grumpy here.
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It would be exceedingly unwise to do so.
> how similar this attitude is to anti-immigrant rhetoric nationally, which is ironic coming from someone who has connections in liberal Berkeley

If you live in the area, you'll quickly realize that the typical Bay Area Nimby is no less Xenophobia than the Trump supporters they vehemently despise. "All are welcome (but just don't move here)"
I know this is annoying, but why % first, and why 2 leading zeroes. It just looks odd. :D
Has the government of Australia given any rational for banning Australians from leaving? What is the public discourse like over this?

I also heard that Australia was making it very difficult for Australians who were abroad prior to COVID from coming back, is that true? Has that changed much? Again, does the government give a rational for this decision? And the discourse?

I think that Australia and NZ were right to lock down hard and stamp out COVID but I'm a bit baffled by the fact that it has managed to get in a few times and more specifically how it has managed to get in.

It seems to be that once if you're an island the size of Australia and you've eliminated domestic transmission the simple solution is to route all international flights to an airport in remote location (not one in a large city) where absolutely everyone involved in the process be they passangers, crew or quarantine staff must stay for two weeks with zero exceptions.

If you did that then you could easily repatriate Australians living abroad.
I'm curious could you unpack what this means for me? "big proponent of privacy and have always been a Snowden supporter"

Given that, my assumption is this would click for you, but as you said it doesn't. What does being a big proponent mean to you? How do you support Snowden? What's important to you about privacy?
Curious to hear your logic, I bet there are tons of people who have the same concerns (or lack of).
Just a night owl Californian. They seem like a fine idea, but there's a lot of doom and gloom in places, even here, about being able to make an impact due to our current and trending rate of carbon pollution. Not so much a question, but it makes me sad, and a bit wonderous.
I use discord only for gaming but the entire app was full of text strings that made me cringe. I'm glad they have got rid of them.
> designed to increase user happiness and wellbeing?

I have complicated feelings about the roles of business in our lives. I'm not entirely certain that's a metric I'm concerned with them optimizing on, nor do I believe we can even remotely quantifiably capture it in any meaningful with with human-computer interactions.
>Genuinely curious, do you not think the US government has better guns than its citizens? How exactly would this work?

How exactly did that work in Afghanistan?
Could this force or encourage people to provide backdoors that could ultimately be used by parties outside of Australia to spy on people other than Australians?
Yeah I also find it really weird that push to talk only ever surfaces in gaming focused voice chat. It's useful for any situation with more than a couple of people, especially when they're typing while on the call.
>Adhering to a public health lockdown has nothing can do with Freedom

Regardless of what the justification given is, limiting people's freedom of movement and association is by definition a restriction of their freedom.
After my sister died, my brother in law was in a deep hole. I wanted to cheer him up somehow, and so I ended up giving him a 2TB hard disk connected to an old laptop. Then plugged a gen 1 Chromecast into his TV, and installed Plex onto an old tablet. He said it was a life saver. It helped get him through a really bad winter. I can't even think of a way I could have given him that content "legally". Some of it was great but obscure stuff ripped off DVDs that I bought over years. It's not just the complexity of multiple apps and devices - some content just isn't there. Like a shitload of really decent TV series and movies from the 60s onward.
My Covid experience as 2 times vaccinated that got the disease
Actually you reminded me. There was one very funny lecturer who's bit of a rogue figure whose lecture became popular among the univ students. He used a lot of analogies in the class and the many 'innocent' innuendos all in the name of 'bring socialist values to students'. It was so lighthearted almost like a free stand-up comedy. A little colourful brushes in the dull boring political courses.
This would have been a great chance to extend notebooks and make them the development environment for great looking reports (through a transform step from the completed notebook).

I think if you ask whether analysts enjoy coding in markdown vs in a notebook with SQL support you get a pretty unambiguous answer.
US citizenry is certainly much better armed than the Taliban, which has proven to be more than enough. 2nd amendment is so high on the list for this exact reason.
> Desktop applications can track, Web always tracks.

Desktop code cannot be verified. Web code can be verified. This argument goes both ways.

If we're talking about the web-equivalent of Desktop Apps: There's electron, which can do far more than HTTP requests and WebSockets - but that on the other hand is also too bloated, right?

Sometimes I wish people would just make up their mind, stop complaining, and start trying to fix it. We had servo, and we had a nice modular and privacy respecting future for everybody; and then we messed it up because apparently nobody really cares about it.
I think the story of google messaging apps is actually making a very good argument why companies the size of google should not exist. Any regular company would have folded many times over with the amount of massive failures, instead for google they amount to barely a blib to their performance.

On another note, I think by now it is too late for google to ever make a messaging product to compete with the others. Mainly because amongst tech enthusiasts google has lost the "cool" reputation of not being evil, and they have been burned by too many cancelled products. These people are early adopters that often push others to a platform. Google would really need to come up with something much better than everything else to outweigh this. I am doubtful that is even possible, especially for google based on their history.
Unavoidable is the word you are looking for!
The sad part is that I am probably in some minority and hence no one will care to fix scenarios for me. The only time I now watch Netflix is when I want to watch something specifically and I search where can I watch it and it turns out it exists on Netflix (of course, never recommended to me). I wonder how much long term will Netflix be impacted by the fact that their Originals are of way lower quality than HBO originals. I never want to watch Netflix Originals because whenever I tried it was horrible and HBO always has amazing quality. I'm afraid it's just cheaper for them to focus on the group of people who you can shove the shit down the throat to keep them happy as it's a way maintainable audience.
I live in a sfh in a Bay Area suburb and a lot of my neighbors have multiple cars for fun/hobbies and family. One of my neighbors has a household of three (two parents & a 10year old kid) and they have FIVE cars. I never realized how big "car culture" was in California until moving out of the city and into a suburb. In my experience living here, you can pry their cars out of their cold dead hands.
Movie posters were ubiquitous in homes, a favorite of teenagers, often the racier the better.

I see your point, but I don't see a problem with Netflix content using sensationalism to drive clicks. In fact, it's probably one of the vanishingly few legitimate uses of that type of visual manipulation. They pull visually stimulating stills from the content itself, combined with text that gives you a quick indication of what's in store. I take issue with low effort or misleading titles, but it's a constrained medium in a commercial context. Not a lot of ways to vary the interface.

The article just seems like a silly take, to me.
And yet try the popular websites on browsers from a couple years ago. Like a tablet stuck in 2015.
This is why I quit my Netflix subscription.

The algorithm seems to have picked up the fact that I like watching SciFi and Zombie movies, so my Netflix homepage was this dark place filled with Sci Fi and Zombie movies.

One problem with this is that Netflix only has a handful of good SciFi and Zombie movies, and I've seen them all. So the homepage was filled with movies I've seen already, or the dime-a-dozen copycat movies that just rehash some ideas from popular movies in a slightly different way.

The much bigger problem is that even though I like watching Zombie movies, I actually enjoy lots of different movies. But somehow the Netflix algorithm only ever shows me this one genre.

So I cancelled my Netflix subscription, and went back to occasionally renting a film on iTunes or Amazon. I watch less now, but I end up watching more diverse and more interesting films.
Agreed! If of interest, I gave a talk on carbon removal and doom/gloom here:
https://www.ted.com/talks/tito_jankowski_take_carbon_out_of_...
Thanks for explaining. As a foreigner (to you US folks) this was not obvious to me. I always assumed "Inc" meant for profit like "SA(RL)" does in France. Around here non-profits have different legal statutes.
Guess we’re sharing how our Macbooks do

I got a rMBP 2012, used it daily for work for 7 years - never had any issues.

Got a MBP 15” 2019, used it for 2 years so far - no issues.

Got a MBA M1 day 1 - no issues so far.
I don’t regret a single line of code. Which is a nice feeling!
I wonder if either of these would work for a nagging tennis elbow? I'm 50 and I've tried pin-firing and it doesn't seem to have cleared it up.
Who needs government ID when you're volunteering for a cool project? 8)
Their datacenters are in the US and they have always complied with legal requests. So this, like the backdoor law, doesn’t seem to change much.

Both the US and AUS can access your e-mail if they just get a judge to sign a warrant (which, if Germany is any indication, is barely a hurdle).
It is indeed opening doors for international cooperation:

>"I think we've started to fill a void, a niche for the Americans to get around a few legal hurdles domestically"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-10/nsw-operation-ironsid...
> Saying that just because they could have, we ought to be okay with them actually doing it is nonsense. If you apply that line of thought to a non-updatable product, it becomes pretty clear.

That is not the argument I made. The argument was that if they could be corrupted we should assume they are already corrupted. And since they already have control over the device an already corrupted Apple could have been spying on you already. It isn’t excusing their behavior. It is pointing out the naïveté of the current outrage.
I really don't understand what would be the threat from Apple to Google if they don't pay. Build their own search engine as they did for google maps ? Send users to Bing ? Mac users would not be thrilled ...
But this breaks when you compare say, the set of integers vs the set of prime numbers or the set of powers of 2. The intuition say naturals are more granular and the others more sparse, but they are infinites of the same size...
I like those solutions! We aren't doing that because few people are working on solutions. About 1,000 people work in carbon removal worldwide.

The solution space is large. Lots to work on.
> A killer use of Discord... push-to-talk audio connection to everyone else in the room.

Slack just added this recently: https://slack.com/intl/en-de/help/articles/4402059015315-Sta...
> where absolutely everyone involved [...] must stay for two weeks with zero exceptions.

You might be infecting some more people during those two weeks, which means you'd have to prolong the quarantine.
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Things that have bitten me (combinations of actual breaks and things where it seemed that progress was happening in a particular direction and then it changed):

* use of geolocation & crypto APIs on http hosts

* websql

* changes in how browsers provided accelerometer data

* multipart/x-mixed-replace
> I enjoyed hearing electric cars called "external combustion engines" given that in most countries (at least mine) the electricity used to charge the car still mostly comes from fossil fuel.

I will point out, as I usually do when this is trotted out, that this line of thinking is formally called the "long tailpipe" fallacy.

You can find more with that search term.

Yes, it is a fallacy.
Does it, though? We still use some APIs from >50 years ago at this point (parts of C stdlib). I don't think the industry has been around long enough to make any definitive conclusions. FWIW, given how most software development is done these days, I think we'll just keep building layers upon layers, with lots of legacy CRUD baked inside, invisible but still necessary for the whole thing to work.
> I also heard that Australia was making it very difficult for Australians who were abroad prior to COVID from coming back, is that true? Has that changed much?

As an Australian living abroad - nope, nothing has changed. It's near impossible for us to get back although at this point, why would I want to..

> And the discourse?

Australians overseas are distraught with many being forced to watch friends and family go through tragedy from afar. The ones living at home don't seem to give a crap at all - "you left, serves you right" isn't an uncommon sentiment.

It's been discussed in other posts recently on HN about Australia - life there is pretty good and Australians are generally laid back to a fault. If a problem doesn't affect an individual on a personal level, it doesn't exist.

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The thing is facebook is an ad company first as well, but doing much better with in this respect.