skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The gifting button is only beside the upload button on mobile, and personally I've never hit it accidentally. To me it just seems like they've made it more prominent, I don't see any intent to trick people into mis-clicking.

Perhaps you don't remember what that UI used to look like. For most of Discord's existence, there were two buttons to the left of the chatbox in the mobile app. The leftmost of these was a camera icon (for taking a photo and immediately uploading it), and the rightmost was the gallery icon, for uploading an existing image. For the vast majority of users, the gallery icon would have been the most commonly used.

In 2020 they got rid of the camera icon entirely (now requiring an additional menu to get to it), moved the gallery icon, and then where the gallery icon used to be they added the Gift Nitro icon. Instead of using the empty space vacated by the camera icon they moved a feature used >10,000x more so that the Nitro button could benefit from everyone's muscle memory.

At the time it happened misclicks and feeling tricked was an extremely common complaint [1], to the extent that I do not believe for a second that a team of people competent enough to build such an otherwise excellent piece of software could possibly have not foreseen it occurring. That this is not an isolated incident but rather part of a pattern helps cement that judgment.

> Like I've said, I have no problem with them trying to make more money, they need to make a profit to keep providing a free service.

I do have a problem with it, because they're trying to make money by tricking their users. I'm perfectly happy to go back to IRC if the only way they can think of to keep their company afloat is to deliberately make their product worse to use.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=discord+gift+nitro+button+im...
Absolutely. However all these endless discussions have an implicit time frame, say 50-100 years backwards and forwards, during which time, old, well used stuff like HTML are expected to not suddenly remove stuff that's being used in the wild.

Because web pages and simple web scripting is often done by non-professionals, who cannot be expected to follow standards processes in perpetuity to keep their pages/scripts working. They often author a few pages and move on with other things in life, which is why browsers being ultra-conservative about breaking stuff is important for the robustness of the Web.
I dunno, why did the OP cite this?
25 years with Linux here, Linux is my sole OS for about 20 years, I'm so grateful for it.
It’s also due to a lack of content from the lockdown, however this trend will continue, people will learn to navigate it. For me, I’m going with the dude.
Why is Azure so far behind AWS in adoption?
Interesting. Hopefully the insane price will actually do good by incentivizing more gene therapy innovation.
Being an early adopter is for suckers
Is one of these examples showing why people think the universality of decay can be stopped? I was confused about that, because it seems to me like neither of them think that?
When Trump said he would be meeting with Taliban leaders, sometime after Feb 2020, did that meeting actually take place?
You have misunderstood the point I am trying to make. I’m aware he has said and been responsible for things that are pretty distasteful today, and potentially by a bunch of people in his day. That doesn’t nullify his contribution to history, it just makes him another flawed human
It’s very likely specified as an acyclic graph (because, without checking, I see no reason why it would not be). So if you made a cyclic graph it would be wrong. It’s possible, likely even, that a lot of git’s implementation and associated tools don’t check for that, because it’s very hard[1] to achieve, but that just means stuff would break in more non-obvious ways.

[1] Constructing a cyclic git graph means finding a hash collision, and git uses SHA1 which is known to have weaknesses. With another hash algorithm it might be “practically impossible” instead of “very hard”.
I live in a single family house, I've lived in apartments. For me quality of life is way better in SFH. Don't care if house price gows down or up, won't sell this house.

It's not a popular opinion here, but quality of life is important for many of us.
Firefox's reader mode is amazing, especially if you need to read long content; their text-to-speech tool works very well and I use Firefox in large part because of it.

On Chrome, a startup named Speechify has a (crappy/intrusive) extension. They also have a decent iOS app, for ebooks, PDF and mobile web browsing... but their pricing structure is ridiculously expensive (also their annoying marketing feels like a giant ego trip/self promotional mania from the founder/CEO). However their voices are slightly better than the OS's.
GitHub Actions: Reduce duplication with action composition
The following frames Cantor's argument in a more computational way, maybe it is of use:

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2019/11/06/fixed-points-and-diag...

Some of the references found in the above make for interesting reading as well.
Do you have to use it at all?

Or just look at it on occasion?

Do you work in 1983?
I think this conception of burnout rings true for me also after living the best part of a decade in a non-immigration accepting society. Sometime ones executive functioning just wont show up, and you lose the send of how to get more of what you want and less of what you don't want.
The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (2018)
The more powerful the state becomes, the more it attracts a certain type of person to rule it.
Fun fact: until the most recent versions (0.64 and 0.65), React Native has used JSC as its JS runtime. You can now opt into Hermes (a mobile optimized JS runtime from FB open source) for both Android and iOS (although better supported on Android for now).
>My location has no bearing on what I'm worth

of course it has. Your location determines your cost of living, and the salary you're going to bargain is a function of that, among other things. When your coworkers are willing to take a pay cut but you are not and remote work expands the supply of labour I'm interested in hearing how you're demanding a pay raise

The notion that you're being 'paid what you're worth' appears to be common among engineers because it has a little bit of special snowflake magic, but in reality you 're worth the lowest amount of money people in your profession are willing to do your job for.
Simple: don't store your photos on Apple's property (iCloud). That's the only time this fingerprinting will affect you. If you store photos locally, then no type of fingerprinting will happen.

While you're at it, don't store them on anyone's servers, because they all fingerprint for the same exact reasons. There's no service out there that doesn't do this at some level.
After reading the article on my phone and hitting the back button to get back here, I'm instead presented with a screen showing more content and pleading me to stay on the site (Keep on reading!). Talk about the kettle calling the pot black.
In the case of DMD, it's a matter of when and which (typically heart), not if. The muscle fibers turn into fiberous tissues that aren't functional muscle. They fail.
I used to joke that once you had an X config working, basically print out few copies (provided you can get the printer working), laminate & frame them all and hang them in office, home, friend's home... Now I just fearlessly upgrade Linux / switch distros with reasonable confidence that everything will continue to work. We have come a long way.

Like countless others, Linux has really changed my life. And I'm eternally thankful to it for that.
I think it might be the the underdog or obscurity element, but pro-BSD (anti-Linux) comments are frequently upvoted here. More unusual I think would be to see one criticizing one of the free BSDs relative to Linux, surely?

Some prominent Linux developers and interactions in person or on mailing lists can be nasty, rude, even bullying. There are also a great deal of very nice people, and in the middle are a lot of people who can get frustrated or upset at times when discussions become robust, but are not inherently mean.

Exactly the same for the BSDs. The free BSDs have famously fragmented into several major groups, in some cases due to quite toxic conflicts including by some prominent members and leaders. BSDs are not objectively better than Linux in that regard.
Nah, `body { max-width: 400px; margin: 0 auto }` is the usual way of capping page width and centring it.
There should be a special case for patches related to systemd:

* train an ML model on all the systemd Debian flamewars

* for each merge proposed related to systemd, create random(0, 50) accounts and have them instantly simulate an entire flame for that merge request

* lock the thread after random(0, 100) posts

This system guarantees that the relevant dev arrives to the merge request after the flame war has subsided.
Direct link: https://twitter.com/onlyfans/status/1430499277302816773?s=21
That just ties back into "be afraid of what it could become", and isn't dependent on Apple making this system - Congress could have forced PhotoDNA to be shipped with phones since the inception of PhotoDNA in 2011[0].

0: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(11)60791-4
That's not how the UC application process works. You apply to the UC system but each school reviews applications independently and without knowing which other schools you applied to.

It is quite possible (although unlikely) to apply to UC Berkley and UC Merced but only be accepted to UC Berkley.
I believe Netflix has talked about thumbnail experimentation at length in some of their engineering blogs [1]. To me, it seems perhaps Netflix has figured out a running theme in the author's viewing habits... perhaps the scandalous, soapy stuff is what they keep clicking.

Same kind of reaction I get when a guy friend tells me they keep getting ads for women's bikinis or women's underwear in their Instagram ads. It isn't sexualization of Instagram... it is a reflection of your interaction with the platform!

[1: https://netflixtechblog.com/selecting-the-best-artwork-for-v...]
I mean, you know what’s happening here, I presume. The anti-vaccine faction will just lie about prior infection and keep spreading the plague. In exactly the same way as we have people forging vaccination cards now. There’s been a consistent anti-science and pro-disease stance on the right since pretty much day one. It’s breathtaking, no pun intended, to watch.
That's too harsh for Hu.

Hu didn't start holding all three senior offices together. His predecessor, Jiang, did. Not that it matters anyways - China's paramount leader before Jiang, Deng, was neither head of state (President), nor head of government (Premier), nor head of party (General Secretary).

Hu is generally considered not to be power hungry. He is well-known for collective leadership (by the Politburo Standing Committee where he is the top ranking member) and is praised for stepping down from all positions voluntarily at the end of his term (Jiang kept his position as the head of military well into Hu's term)
Here's a 2013 article about the interaction of alpha rhythms in the brain and a flickering wheel illusion:

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/33/13498#:~:text=The%20....
I was responding to:

> > I feel like in last 6-8 years, people have become far more intolerant regarding free speech.

> Which people, and what speech?

I responded with people and their speech that faced intolerance with total disregard for free speech. I doesn't even look like you are following the conversation anymore.

> Concretely, the far stronger social reaction to slurs against gay people go hand in hand with people now being able to say "I'm gay" without repercussions.

You are mixing up causation. People didn't accept homosexuality because certain words were banned, people stopped using words because they didn't like what they represented. And then it has gotten to another level where even statement of facts or simply making a point involving those words, in entirely different context causes outrage can cancellation.

The idea that words should get banned to make certain ideas or concept disappear à la 1984 is a very immature notion as other words can be forged.
If they want to get in, they need the big names. If they bring the Michael Jordan, then it guarantees millions listening to podcasts on SPY and then other podcasters all haul over as well to make the critical mass.

Spotify is not powerful enough otherwise.

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't aka Microsoft with their Twitch challenger and ninja, but every circumstance is different.
Yeah, same here. I am using 2012 rMBP and usually upgrade OS and update quickly after release. No significant issues with the machine. It is still chugging along on Catalina. Only issue in last 10 years was replacing battery once.

But I am waiting for Mx version of 15”+ MBP to upgrade, just need more storage and memory at this point for heavy duty work.
In which world do companies use rust and not over 20 years outdated c++ libraries to make your argument work?

I'm sorry, but the likeliness of zero days in a c++ program that was too stupid to handle char arrays or multithreading is way off the charts vs heap spraying bugs in a VM.

I'd argue that native applications therefore are far more vulnerable than web applications.
People have attempted building QtWebEngine, yes, but it still has a surprising amount of OS-specific code within it. I think it may have gotten so far as displaying webpages but then crashed incessantly. Plus, I'm not sure what browser shells that use QtWebEngine are still actively developed; Falkon looks to be dead...
Finally! one that can import PDFs, a must have for tuning. For example, "Print to PDF" from the browser and import it in an editable format.

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My question, as you made it a PWA, why bother with Electron?

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BTW, I bet you have it tasked, but having a shortcut profile selector with AI and Inkscape ones would help.
The CDC study doesn’t control for behavioral differences between the two studied populations, though, which weakens their conjecture that there is a clear causal relationship that confers more immunity to those who’ve had Covid+vaccine compared to those having had just Covid. It seems entirely plausible that people who’ve refrained from getting vaccinated after having Covid are probably not especially careful about their exposure, which can lead to higher rates of infection.
>The most livable societies I know are all open societies.

If by "open" societies you mean societies in which no form of "censorship" is practiced by any entity, at any level, then no, you do not, because such societies do not exist. Even the United States has limits placed on speech at the Federal level (the level limited by the First Amendment) and elsewhere. Even public squares are regulated. And on top of everything else, society itself imposes "censorship" through cultural and social norms.

Certainly speech on private property can be regulated. You can't go into a restaurant and start campaigning or venting about the government. Platforms on the web, which are also private property, have always been likewise regulated by their owners. I guarantee this is the case in whatever livable societies you're referring to.

>Once you start censoring this you might also want to censor that and the misinformation here, and this doesn't sound right either... Maybe your own comment is misinformation.

Yes, the slippery slope argument, all forms of censorship must inevitably lead to arbitrary censorship something something Orwell something Stalinist purges. At this point it's been invoked so often that it's become something of a thought-terminating cliche. All I can say is I don't believe that the ability of site owners and moderators to police and control content - an ability they've had forever mind you - will somehow inevitably lead to the boot stomping on our heads forever. If you disagree we'll have to agree to disagree.

After all, as stated earlier, there are no societies in which no form of censorship occurs. If the slippery slope argument were valid, all societies would currently be dictatorships. That societies exist which you consider "open" suggests that

>Should I lobby for your speech to be deplatformed, as you call it?

Lobby whom? We're talking about the policies of specific private entities, you're the one who predictably brought up CCP style authoritarianism despite no one actually arguing for governments to "deplatform" anyone from society. But sure - if you think my speech is doing real world harm in the same way as Alex Jones or anti-vaxxers, feel free to "lobby" the mods about it. That would, after all, be your free speech right would it not?
A spritz instead of a jab? Future Covid-19 vaccines may go up your nose
There is however a bijection between the natural/countable numbers and every number that mathematicians, physicists, and any other scientist have every used in all of human history (or will ever use). Start with the computable numbers, and then generalize to anything that has been written down in symbolic text.

It's very hard to point to a real number which is not in the set of computable numbers, and for the few examples (Chaitin's constant(s) etc...), there are countably many of them.

From this point of view, I'm curious whether the computable numbers are sufficient to do integral and differential calculus etc... (basically all "normal" math that engineers or applied scientists might use) Maybe it requires a different definition of limits, I dunno. What number are we interested in that can't be done with computable numbers?

At what point do we need Real numbers and their mind-blowingly weird properties?
Yes that could very well be the dilemma Apple is in.

But i don't consider it E2EE if you are scanning content on the device first.
I worked at Facebook for some time, and did a bunch of data work. We had this culture of building something, looking at the results between the experiment groups, and then choosing the statistically more successful one -- i.e. a newsfeed algorithm that had better engagement.

This sounds great at first, and certainly is straightforward if you want a promotion. But behind the scenes some of us had this thought that our observations only amounted to short-term gains. Although we had small long-term experiment holdout groups, the truth is they were rarely reviewed because it was unsexy.

My current thinking is that features like the echo chamber effects from Facebook's algorithms, Snapchat's snap streaks, and clickbait like this, all serve to optimize short-term engagement. Yeah, I want to watch that sexy new show or keep my streak going or have my opinions validated. But there's a diminishing return on clickbait, hollow articles isn't there? I can only fill up so much time with garbage like that before I'm bored. I can only like so many posts before I feel like they're all the same. And once my snap streak is broken I hate snapping.

The data/engineering/product loops at tech companies favor boosting short-term metrics; The employees are incentivized to do so and this is what they measure, so this is what they build. That's why we end up with features like this. That's why Snapchat fell off. That's why Facebook fell off. And that's why Netflix feels increasingly stale (despite there being a lot of quality content if you dig).
> I can load any Wikipedia article, go offline, and still successfully expand all sections.

This definitely has not been the case for me. If I don't expand the sections while online, I can't do it when offline.
>they have the same (and sometimes higher) viral load as unvaccinated and can infect others.

The higher part is categorically untrue. The 'same' part is only true in a very narrow sense. Yes, vaccinated individuals have peak viral titers that are the same level as unvaccinated. But vaccinated individual titer levels drop off substantially faster than unvaccinated individuals. So, while an immunologically naive individual might be infectious for 5 or 6 days, a vaccinated individual may only be infectious for 1 or 2.

This is exactly what one would predict based on our understanding of the human immune system. Memory B cells that respond to the antigen would start kicking out antibodies. Some will also undergo further affinity maturation with the Delta antigen. Affinity maturation of these B cells will occur much faster since the target is already very close.

>And the vaccine is waning off in 3-6 months. So I don't see how me getting vaccinated is "for the common good".

As stated above, you would be less infectious having had the vaccine.

One thing to consider is that the outcome of COVID is not 'alive or dead'. There is a spectrum of outcomes that are not captured in official mortality statistics. While it's not clear exactly what that spectrum is (e.g. how many long covid cases really exist), I would note that there are a lot of anecdotes out there about athletes that can't climb a flight of stairs 12 months out after covid.
> We've already pumped gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Way, way more than than mere gigatons. FTA: "Last year, about 31 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere." That's tens of gigatons in one year.
I author a CSS 2.1 rasterizer, and a partial implementation of it is used in a game engine my company's open source organization publishes.

There's such a small number of people who have written their own pieces of visual web client technology, and an uncountable number who consume it.

I've entertained the idea of writing a partially compliant web browser and releasing that for fun. It's still totally possible to write your own web browser today.

You will of course need to put in effort than an exceptionally small number of people have, and even after you do that, you'll only have something partially compliant. But it will be valid!

Hell, you could build an HTML5 valid web browser that didn't even use CSS. Invent your own thing. Make JSON style sheets or something.

Anyway. We don't have enough people toying around with web tech. For years, I've only ever seen people toy around with the easy. Things like making little web clients to help you with API requests instead of turning to curl, or rehashing a CSS framework for the nth time.

And frankly it's sad to see because its so uninspired and boring.

Where are the people creating basic web browsers that use C# as a programming language instead of JavaScript? Or people inventing a new hypertext markup language as an alternative to HTML that still uses HTTP as a transport protocol?
Same here, really worked exceptionally well with our child. We just chipped away at a couple of lessons in the evenings most week days. Worked surprisingly well.
This is not out of line with the price of fuel in some countries already; I think it demonstrates that the technology is quite possibly on the edge of economic viability for closing the carbon cycle of gasoline, even if we don't get hundredfold improvements in the technology. That's pretty good news for everybody.
It makes sense to use HPKP to pin to a CA (maybe a CA's intermediate, I can't remember what they let you do) or better, multiple. Depending on your expiration, and what terrible thing happens in the PKI universe, you should probably be able to resolve an issue if you've got multiple independent CAs pinned.
What's simple is that if my natural-immunity levels are better than your vaccine-only immunity levels, then you are the greater risk to the public.

And that's whether I decide to get vaccinated or not.
Agreed - this allows me to run WhatsApp on Linux (as much as I don't want to, everyone I need to interact with is using it) in a chromium window like an app.
Yes, it's an issue created by a random person on GitHub.
Is there a way to somehow compile this with just cc, without installing go first?

(On a machine with no admin rights, and no git, but cc is available.)