skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth here's what I do:

I run my own /etc/hosts file based on : https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

This should block the popular ad-ware companies.

I also browse with Brave, and use their inbuilt "shields" feature to block 3rd party/cross-site cookies. I don't install any additional browser plugins.

Would be nice to kill all the consent-popups, as you say.
Why couldn't they use AWS? They already do for iCloud.
Session is a "secure" messaging application designed in AU. Keep that in mind.
We Are in a Speculative Bubble
Cheap microcontrollers are not deprecated for a very long time. STM sells chips designed 10 years ago, AFAIK.
The reason I'm shadowbanned is because I replied to someone who was describing every "FVD" voter as egotistical nazi fascists, that this opinion was toxic, helping no one and he should consider why people actually vote for them. This was just after they won or nearly won some part of an election. I think I'm still shadowbanned for, I think, quite a reasonable comment.

Besides I think you cannot compare shadow banning, banning and down voting at all. Shadow banning should only be reserved for spam. Banning for obvious trolls. If you get down voted that's fine. It only shows your views don't align well with the group majority.
I think parent is advocating doing folding@home over stuff like PoW crypto since the former advances science and the latter (handwaves vaguely) doesn't.
Remember "Linux" is just the kernel, it is not an operating system itself.

Alpine or Debian including libC is more equivalent to the BSDs including it.
That seems like a reach.

>Current technical implementation limits scan only for images to be uploaded into cloud, which can be opted.

That is conflating policy with a technical limitation. Their changes negate the technical discussion at this point.

Their POLICY is that it will only scan for images to be uploaded. They no longer have a *legal* argument to not comply with government requests for device scanning of any data now, since the framework is now included.

That is a big change in that regard. Whereas in the past there was a layer of trust that Apple would hold governments accountable and push back on behalf of a users privacy (and there is a very tangible history there), this implementation creates a gaping hole in that argument.
Classic Research in Data Visualization / Toph Tucker / Observable
Uhh, no -- although your politics have driven you to salivate at the sight of an unvaccinated person in a deathbead so you can scream, "I told you so!", no -- I will happily go to the hospital if I need to. Why? Because "I'm willing to take the risk" does not mean that accepting death is a requirement (unfortunately for you).

Oh, and getting COVID and needing hospitalization absolutely does not mean that I will be taking away a bed from someone who needs it. You're so desperate to spew your hate that you actually made that strawman assumption; that's laughable. If you were actually honest, you would know that after the shortage of beds and ventilators, hospitals are now much, much better prepared to handle spikes in hospitalizations.

It appears the only ignorance here is yours, buddy.
Why scrum is becoming irrelevant
Presumably Apple gets some value from not going with Bing, and the price may meet in the middle to an extent.
I don't think so, the model numbers are specified:

> Sony Xperia X Single SIM (F5121)
> Sony Xperia X Dual SIM (F5122)

Get the compact model's number to check.
But even a significant portion of FLOSS can be legitimately called spyware. Firefox, Chromium, Docker (although Docker Desktop is no longer open source), Homebrew, Mattermost, Netdata, Bitwarden - all of these are common, popular FLOSS that embed spyware, oftentimes operating silently (other than a little notice at install time that the authors think constitutes informed consent).

The spyware epidemic is real, and FLOSS is not immune.
Maybe they're one of today's lucky 10,000. https://xkcd.com/1053/
New construction was exempt from rent controls. So people built aggressively. But later, all of that new construction got regulated again, and construction has never picked up to that extent, due to the 'recapture'
Out of curiosity, do you mean that your products generates template forms for collecting statistical sample data (like Minitab), or that your products collect measurements that are fed into tools like Minitab as data?
Is there a desktop OS with a clear business plan?

Windows is collecting data and milking a declining Enterprise client base, all the early "influencer" companies use macOS. Regular consumers essentially refuse to pay for Windows even if they prefer it.

macOS isn't installable and is subsidized by hardware sales and monthly services.

That leaves you with *nix, which is free. No business plan!

In 2021 I don't think operating systems are a good business to be in! You can make more money selling subscription sleep apps or budget apps which have way less complexity.
While auto-detection likely would not work in Windows, it seems to be it would be an interface improvement to allow programmatic control over whether output is enabled.

That is, why should `sgr_enabled` return `false` on Windows even if `mode` is set to `ALWAYS_ENABLED`?
Yeah, I had a broadly similar reaction. Some of the things the author points out seem like genuine attempts to make software less user hostile by adopting solutions that "just work" across all platforms even if the users have no technical knowledge. I think a lot of engineers think of user friendly as "I can configure it any way I want" whereas for the vast majority of people user-friendly means "just do what I think it should do and don't ask me any questions I don't understand".
I remember this! You'd ask Siri to search for something, and you'd get back Bing results. I thought it was odd because I had never (at the time) used Bing for anything at all.

That said, I haven't used an iOS device in some time, and didn't know if that ever changed to Google or another service(Siri search results).
Anomalicious Python Packages Found
Take a moment to think about having to go through six layers of menu tree to access a frequently requested feature. Now imagine explaining this step to someone who doesn't intuitively understand computers and whose children bought them a Roku for Christmas.

I'm not fussing at you, just thinking about this first-world hell.
If you take any investment money, then you're beholden to investors and investors want growth.
The “compile in an old version” thing was IIRC more properly done with linker scripts telling the linker to use an older symbol. I think lsb-gcc does it for you — not that the Linux Standard Base is still widely respected at all.
The post has a section called "Alternatives to alpine-glibc"
Twenty Anomalicious Python Packages Found
Don't forget that during WW2, the availability of construction materials was heavily curtailed due to diversion to war production. A fair amount of that homebuilding would have been making up for the lack of homebuilding in WW2 and consequent housing shortages.
I think deforestation-based carbon credits are a particularly easy place for scams, or even accidental double-selling, or selling acres that wouldn't have been cut down to begin with.

I think buying credits from GoldStandard [1] is a safer bet. While I'm sure there's some of the same shadiness occasionally, I think that a lot more work goes into vetting projects. The majority of the projects I fund are small solar, wind or hydro plants. While many of these plants might get built anyway, I think the funding from GoldStandard may make the difference for lots of these small projects.

1. https://marketplace.goldstandard.org
The network gets more efficient, but harder to attack. Each incremental spend on a miner incrementally increases the network security.
Can you say more about your "podcast workflow" with Castro?

I've been using Castro for around a year now and loving it. It reminds me of my favourite Android podcast app, Podcast Addict, with the reams of customization options, but packages it up in an Apple-y design.
Could you set it as your home-page? Obviously not as nice as going via the URL-bar, but at least you'll be able to get a taste of it.
consumer co-op* (owners are the customers) might be an alternative

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers'_co-operative
Note: Axel Springer Verlag is not Springer Verlag.

Springer Verlag is the reputable science publisher.

Axel Springer Verlag is a huge newspaper conglomerate, but best known for the German tabloid "Bild" which easily wins in all niveau limbo contests.

Satirical engagement (but with the original front page!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L41Yxm2JZWo

Literary engagement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Honour_of_Katharina_B...
It has been recently found that you can inject it subcutaneously using insulin needles, which makes taking it much easier. Works just as well as intramuscular.
The original poster says that these functions can't ever have invariants broken:

> Functions that only mutate instances of well-encapsulated types through their public APIs. That includes nearly all functions that are not methods.

> Methods of well-encapsulated types that only mutate non-member instances of other well-encapsulated types through their public APIs.

This is incorrect! Consider the following function (in psuedocode):

func insert(id: Int, object: ThingInSpace) {
ids.update(id);
var location = get_location(object);
locations[id] = location;
var metadata = compute_metadata(object);
metadatas[id] = metadata;
}

If compute_metadata or get_location throw, then even though we're only modifying dictionaries or sets through their public APIs, we can still invalidate an invariant that affects our program correctness. This function is safe if and only if get_location and compute_metadata cannot throw. If they can throw, this should be rewritten as

func insert(id: Int, object: ThingInSpace) {
var location = get_location(object);
var metadata = compute_metadata(object);
ids.update(id);
locations[id] = location;
metadatas[id] = metadata;
}

Adding "try" to the original function makes it clear that this function can destroy the invariant of ids, locations, and metadatas, and it needs to be rearranged to be the second function in order for the code to be correct.
Apparent suicide attack rocks Afghanistan evacuation as Biden's deadline looms
That's one of those metaphors plus what you have been taught about how negative numbers work. It's a product of Cartesian geometry (which had to be invented).
Sorry for this, it doesn't add to the conversation but it's lose*. Not loose, lose.
Right. I completely agree that human clinical trials were required, but the essay claims that the results of the trial were “predictable” and “might seem pretty obvious.”

There’s a saying that it’s a great time to be a mouse with muscular dystrophy. It does seem like using mice as a model hasn’t worked very well, but I am not sure what the alternative might be (chimps?) or why researchers continue to use mice anyway. Edited to add: It would probably be emotionally/ethically more difficult to use chimps … they do some pretty awful things to the mice, making them run until they collapse repeatedly and then killing them at the end (for example).
> Do you need to install special vendor software to use your bluetooth devices? No

Logitech and Samsung would like a word...
Kabul airport 'basically closed' as Americans told to shelter in place [video]
I know it's oversimplified, but as a poor man's explanation I couldn't really think of a better way to articulate it at the moment
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/ticks-spreadi...

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publ...

Here are a few sources with two mins of Googling.
They don't block all mining, just specific algorithms. It's easy enough to mine some other coin and convert to the one you want. In fact, that's often more profitable.
Google search is completely gamed, as are Bing and others that rely on the same list of ranking factors. Besides the visual difference between Bing/Google results page, I doubt iPhone users would be able to tell who was serving the results.
Not sure this author actually drinks their own medicine based on this comment. One would have thought that someone who just wrote what I read would not have tracking enabled _by default_ and everything would be _opt in_.

> Respect user choices. If someone doesn’t want to send telemetry (or any data for that matter), give them the option to not do it. At the time of writing, this blog collects anonymized data with Google Analytics. Don’t want to send it? Have your browser send a Do Not Track request and no data will leave this page. It takes an if statement to do this, not a month of engineering work.

"Respect user choices (unless it's my blog and I want to collect metrics)"
Pentagon confirms multiple US and civilian casualties in explosions around Kabul
And how will raising interest rates make housing more affordable? If you have enough cash to buy a place outright, maybe, but normal people get mortgages. Raising interest rate will make monthly payments higher, which will exactly compensate the drop in house prices — this is in fact how raising interest rates reduces asset price.
I mean, ideally I don't want a Stockholm metro area that's (even more!) segregated compared to today's situation.

If I could dream, my ideal Stockholm area would be one where I (and other's like me) would be interested in living outside of the city center. Where the whole Swedish model of Soviet-style housing blocks along the subways didn't really happen, and instead that the city grew organically outwards. More like Aspudden and less like Solna centrum. Imagine if Vasastaden style of housing extended outwards!

But I also feel that the current system is very inefficient in alleviating the segregation. For starters, the most socially exposed people haven't been in Sweden long enough to even dream about a rent-controlled apartment (anywhere in Stockholm). Then we have all the people who have been standing in queues for decades, while living in a villa in Bromma, and now sells it to move into a large flat in the city center with a rent that is a third of "what it should be".

Finally, my opinion is that nothing good comes out of pretending that attractive locations aren't more expensive. They are! If we want to give low-income people the chance to live in expensive areas, we should do that directly. Perhaps by subsidising their rent or have the government owned property companies save X% of apartments to people who are less well off.

Pretending that market forces don't exist and forcing Swedes in their 20's to borrow hundreds of thousands from their parents, or moving every 12 months is not a good solution either.
Shark Tank Helped Bad Birdie Turn a Side Hustle into $7M in Yearly Revenue
Procurement vs. Purchasing: Similar but Different
I understand that you may feel affronted (and apologise for making you feel like that), but I'm actually criticising the web development as an industry and as a set of broad trends, rather than individual developers. Sometimes developers may have leverage, but from my experience in backend dev, that's rarely an option.
I live in Sweden and I can attest that rent control is a disaster.
Lofty political aspirations aside the simple truth is that the middle class does not want to live in the crime-ridden suburbs and will do anything to stay out of there. As that is the only place where you can rent they're forced into taking huge loans and buying something in the city, or they can try their luck on the unsurprisingly flourishing black market. The effect of this is that Sweden now has one of the highest private debt burdens in the world. As long as the prices keep going up the system keeps limping along, but if that would
ever change there could be some interesting consequences.
I don't understand what the difference is, at least you can get an apartment in Finland. Prices in Helsinki (even if its a much smaller city) is a lot more reasonable and you have a lot more rights than you'll have in Sweden.

If you think old people can get an apartment in Sweden, that is just laughable. Even in smaller cities the queues are like 10 years. You'll have to pay up
> They must have lost a fair amount of sales?

(Anecdotally) Not from me. SMR or not, their easystore drives that you can shuck are cheap. Between buying a cheap drive and buying something else, I like to spend less money, so I'd choose the easystores.

Granted, I don't know how much has changed with the easystores since the SMR debacle since I've not really been in the hard drive market for a while.
> I think rent control and where poor people live has nothing in common.

So you really think there is no connection between housing politics and segregation?

> All you're doing with rent control is to give incentiment for people to hold on to their contracts no matter what, cheat the system or buy/sell contracts illegally

Holding on to a contract is not necessarily a bad thing, if you enjoy living in your apartment and it is priced according to its size (giving incitament to switch to a smaller one if you don't need a big one anymore). Of course people try to cheat the system, but it is illegal ... and tenants paying illegally high rents can take the contract owner to court and get all excess rent back.

> Even worse is the situation if you buy apartments, you cannot rent it out to whomever you want or for how long you want since you don't really own it.

This has nothing to do with rent control and depends on which BRF you live in. Considering the lack of interest for äganderätter I'm not sure if so many people are with you on this opinion.
One of the interesting things (IMO) about programming language design is how the designer can choose to make some concepts harder or easier to express, and how those decisions shape the kind of programs that are easy to write with the language.

Here, Swift (it seems) makes an implicit suggestion that a developer keep their error handling tight and bounded. If you don't, the language softly penalizes you with the need to add keywords to be explicit about changed flow. Go does something similar in eschewing try / catch error handling for a single panic / recover system and very explicit error handling via return values (this was a very intentional design to address what the language creators perceived to be common failure modes in code they were maintaining at the time in other languages, see here [https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...] for details). In Go, it's harder to make a certain category of mistake, but at the cost of the user writing more code to handle the error path (and assuming the implicit cost that every line of code could introduce a different mistake).

Every language feature in every language we use (static type declaration vs. implicit types with casting, variable predeclaration vs. implicit creation on first write or read, GOTO vs. function calls vs. try/catch vs. continuation passing, etc.) makes these tradeoffs.
> One thing I heard is that the drought (worst one in 50 years in Taiwan) has really affected them ...

This is the one aspect of manufactuing of chips that many are actually ignorant about - it needs huge amounts of pure water.

This is the main reason why India doesn't yet have any fab, despite having the human resource for it and investors and government showing great interest to setup one.

Two or three decades back Intel desired to setup a fab in India, but the deal fell through because it would mean India would have to divert a huge amount of water from agriculture and potable water for the population to such fabs. TSMC has approached the indian government many times (even this year) seeking permission to setup a fab in India. But the indian goverment has remained non-commital.

The indian government believes it is in their long-term interest to wait for fab tech to evolve to use less water. Indian states already squabble over sharing water resources, and India has to feed a billion people, and such a diversion of resource doesn't make sense in the long-term.

(Perhaps the James Bond movie was right - we'll all be fighting for fresh water in the coming decades. :)
This problem was created by believing in the lie of representative government; believing in it harder won’t solve it.
Discord has also joined the ranks of tech companies censoring speech. Which essentially means they can and have eavesdropped on various groups and closed groups. No thank you.
Digital media asset management with dynamic updating, cryptographic verification, blockchain verification, social media integration, and more:

https://tovera.com

Cloudflare facing the Internet
Marketing website and user dashboard with Next.js
Both hosted with Cloudflare Pages
API served with Node 14 on Azure functions
User attribute store in Azure Cosmos DB
User asset storage in Backblaze B2
Share implementation with Cloudflare Workers
Blockchain and IPFS via Infura
Uptime monitoring and alerting with UptimeRobot
(Probably others I’m forgetting)
The renewable energy nonsense is just that - bullshit to distract.

Knocking a single coal mine offline in China famously cut bitcoin mining activity by a third earlier this year.

https://fortune.com/2021/04/20/bitcoin-mining-coal-china-env...

Now, the claim could still theoretically be true, but I really want to see some hard numbers with sources from the next person trying to defend that claim.
I don't think my ideas are uncontroversial, but for the small amount of time I have been in these pages I have found a good deal of respect.

Is it possible that the ban trigger was in the way of expression of said ideas?
I don't think a disagree. I think this is exactly what makes this so tricky. On the consumer side, users have a choice, pick their favorite, occasionally switch when they buy a new phone, and are generally content.

However on the supply side, there are 2 disjoint monopolies. You reach iOS users through Apple's monopoly on iOS distribution, and you reach Android users through Google's [near-]monopoly on Android distribution.

To continue the hurt analogy, it's the difference between there being 2 restaurant chains in every town and there being 1 restaurant chain for the Eastern US and a different chain for the Western US (and moving across the country cost $400-$800).
What are those microtransactions doing? Crypto mining?
There are pretty good talks from various tech conferences including CCC and FOSDEM. I heard there was a vending machine accepting GNU/Taler payments as a trial at one of these events.

In summary, GNU/Taler is a standard for interoperating existing currencies and banks in a privacy-friendly manner: your bank can't know who you received money from or sent money to, but can know how much you received so that you can be taxed according to local regulations. It's a bit like electronic cash if you will.
This whole switch to Linux is not a solution.

Privacy advocates need to be like second amendment activists. We need to use their playbook. They raise a big stink about anything, no matter who big or small, that could curtail their rights. No number of Sandy Hook events will result in meaningful changes in laws.

Pushing everyone to Linux will eventually lead to all hardware falling under some national security law, allowing hardware to be imported if only they allow certain OSs to be installed on them and boot loaders will be locked.

Free market has no impact here, the masses don't care. And privacy supporters are too logical to whip up any type of movement.

Till privacy advocates come up with emotional reasons why privacy is absolutely necessary (like grandma is gonna die without it), this is a losing battle.
Concord, obviously
Cerebras Extends AI System to ‘Brain-Sized’ Algorithms
Housing is produced because there are buyers are willing to pay an amount $X that makes it attractive to build.

Anything that reduces that value $X likely has a negative influence on marginal housing construction.