skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean of course that I have never had a tick which managed to suck anything, except once in 1955.

Also I remember being drunk and watching Ixodes Ricinus move along my arm and trying to stick its nose thru skin. Everytime it backed up real fast, like it found something nasty inside. Very much the same thing as American deer tick Ixodes scapularis.
the short version is: "NO", if there is no barrier to enter/mine/plot/whatever - then it'll be abused to no end.
Thanks for this!

It ought to be a lot easier than this detective-work to discover this plan. Like, we should probably all know about it, and stop using these user-agent modals now working to replace all use of them?

(rails-ujs, for instance, still uses window.confirm for opt-in "are you sure" on form submissions. not sure what a good replacement is honestly. This is something I would hope to see people discussing and figuring out...)
Rent control isn’t working in Sweden
> Has anyone experience with Sailfish? Can it run apps like Signal and WhatsApp? Is it stable?

I ran Sailfish in the 2.x days on an old Moto G Falcon. They did not support Android apps at the time, but recent versions are supposed to.[1]

My experience with Sailfish was pretty positive, but I have a high pain tolerance and don't need or want my phone to be more than a phone. (I need it to make calls and handle SMS/MMS. MMS messaging was iffy: reception was fine, but multiparty conversations didn't always thread well. I consider web browsing on the phone a bit of a mixed bag. Tethering is a bonus.)

It was pretty. I liked being able to SSH into the phone. I appreciated the easy way to change themes (and that they migrated settings like volume, etc.). It was a slick O/S.

Sadly my Falcon died, and I got a burner phone. It's hard to argue with $40 for the phone (KaiOS) and an MVNO that handles my comms on the cheap. I've toyed with the idea of picking up another one that's compatible and flashing the phone--but it looks like it's harder to get the OS onto newer devices these days.

[1] https://sailfishos.org
A lot of these cookie requests that are the most cumbersome are themselves GDPR violations.

You should have the options to agree or disagree to non-essential cookies presented equally, and then can offer the granular box ticking for people who really care that Google Analytics can use their data but Google Ads cannot.

People complain that the EU's own website have cookie banners, but if you compare the banner on europa.eu, to say, IB times which is another link on the front page currently. The europa.eu one has two equal options, no BSing about legitimate interest claims for tracking that wouldn't hold up. The IB times one on the other hand has a totally unneeded splash screen, you then need to click manage settings, and for each purpose you need to enter it and disable extra toggles for "objecting" that are basically another layer of opt out consent since they know consent is opt in (but to my understanding if you don't go to manage settings at all and just click the go away option, they will treat that as affirmative consent).

The ePrivacy Regulation is working to clarify the interaction with the ePrivacy Directive which leads to people asking consent for "essential"/non tracking cookies like shopping carts or the "Remember I didn't consent to tracking" cookie.
Technically there are third party clients, they just break tos and can get you banned if you're not careful. Ripcord has a lot of cool features, I just wish I could risk using it.
The rise and fall of storytelling platform Curious Fictions
Coinbase customers up in arms after hackers drain crypto wallets
Interesting idea, but I don't want to use my GPS location to try it out. I wish it were possible to manually input a location by tapping.
But does your browser block third-party cookies? If it doesn't, then ad networks are able to easily track all your online activity and connect it to your identity because most of the websites on the web have tracking scripts like Google Analytics.
If there is sufficient deviation from GDPR (who knows what will happen from this speculative article alone), the UK will probably lose its adequacy to transfer personal data, which will materially impact how international organisations can transfer data. In fact the recent UK-EU adequacy decision explicitly states this [0]:

'For the first time, the adequacy decisions include a so-called ‘sunset clause', which strictly limits their duration. This means that the decisions will automatically expire four years after their entry into force. After that period, the adequacy findings might be renewed, however, only if the UK continues to ensure an adequate level of data protection. During these four years, the Commission will continue to monitor the legal situation in the UK and could intervene at any point, if the UK deviates from the level of protection currently in place. Should the Commission decide to renew the adequacy finding, the adoption process would start again.'.

The impact of a loss of adequacy will be significant on UK service providers, as it will become significantly easier from a regulatory perspective to just host within the EU for both UK and EU customers than to deal with the hassle of using UK datacenters.

[0] - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_...
> They shoved their own harebrained video player down everyone’s throats and it constantly plays by itself without opening

I can’t even listen to music anymore while browsing Reddit because some goddamn ad or post I scroll past will hijack audio thanks to this stupid auto polar, which I’m pretty sure I disabled in the settings.

Prior to a recent update, I couldn’t even find a pause button to press while viewing comments.
The first thread is commenting on the preprint status of that paper.
There is at least one [science fiction] short story where this happens. Greg Egan, maybe?

There is a fast quantum factorization method, Shor's Algorithm. As far as we know, it is not yet practical. However, there is ongoing work on post-quantum cryptography that would be safe against such attacks.

The most likely users for a fast factorization algorithm that could break RSA encryption are nation-states. They would obviously keep this capability secret.

Nation-states have compromised many systems anyway, without needing to break this kind of cryptography. We are not really set up to handle this either.
Nothing new here !

The vast majority of Today's software is built by "Corporate Developers" and "Corporate Business Owner".

Generally these people don't have any background in UX or UI or simply commonsense about software ergonomics.

An example would be Stripe , as an Architect in Banking I've spend years explaining to Executives and Business Owner to invest in
"Partner Experience" and good "Developer Ecosystem" , something they've always refused because the current model "Answer the Need"

This is the same problem , the people who are building are generally not using the product, the people in charge simply don't understand the "Added Value" of making a change to the current software so it's doesn't weight "150 MB" but rather "1MB" and has "auto installer" with it , "we have always done it this way , why change ?".

Add to that software legacy you end up with mess like those which are obscenely hostile piece of software.
wow, this hit the nail on the head.
The OP was mentioning J.G.'s case as an example of what could happen, too with rushed mRNA vaccines, and that the fallout would be bad.
Are you sure? There are already music albums that you can't buy in stores.

The free market serves only the masses. Everybody else can only hope to buy what they want.
So basically "Think of the children!". Their fingers must no longer be exposed to exhaustive clicking of EU-mandated pop-ups...

If eroding, still woefully inadequate, data protection, instead of simply mandating improvements to deliberately broken UIs, is the first thing future "Information Commissioner" intends to do, God Save The Queen's Browsing History!
I agree! Excel is fun to play with as long as you use it on windows, I forgot. VScode I only used in college, but it seems useful. I'll update my list, paint and excel I consider good products indeed.
Not special treatment, just a rules that allow for idiomatic programs. Of course I’ve said as much a dozen times now and you won’t engage with it, so I don’t expect you to now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Drought has been over for awhile now and it never really slowed chip production.
Elsewhere in this HN post I've seen people absolutely on track for this and showing all the danger signs. I think for some folks the ability to do the job is literally the last thing to go, and the defining characteristic there is that they cannot and will not dial it down, plus they're mad at anybody who thinks they should, and increasingly distrustful of anyone who thinks they're good enough.

I'll suggest that, historically, this is part of burnout and their brains are already not functioning/obeying, but it's because they're in the process of doubling down on the motivational state that will end up breaking them beyond functioning. Nobody wrecks themselves just because they're such Pepsi achievers, so I'd have to count that 'charge harder at the brick wall when it starts to hurt' as equally part of the burnout syndrome. Otherwise, people would stop :)
Programmers like Discord too. There are many great programming communities there.
no i convinced IT team to create excel plugin
> for their employer's adtech and dark UX patterns strategy

well, generally a JavaScript developer is just a frontend developer so I'm assuming at least some have experienced a PM saying: too many people are doing X which we don't want them to do, how do we keep them from doing X? And the developer then makes helpful suggestions.
If this was true for _any_ platform I would immediately throw it away.

But the point is that there is, for some reason, a pressure for platforms to be this way; convenience is not the cause.
If you decline to share your location, you can then search for a city.
Which part do want proof of?

Google "ticks in ontario increasing" for literally dozens of references.

The "probably climate change" is supposition, hence the "probably" disclaimer, but a lot of those references above blame "milder winters" or climate change directly.
That can be good for a user like me, because I can easily deal with an external set-top-box to watch TV channels (in fact I already have one, that also lets me record TV channels and even stream them on my LAN and outside with a VPN, that is cool since not every channel you find in streaming and also inside the house I don't consume my bandwidth).

But there are a ton of users, like my grandparents, that wants a TV that if they press the button 5 on the remote turn on on channel 5, without fancy menu and other stuff. That kind of TV is more and more difficult to find.

Next year they change to DVB T2 in my country (but in all Europe the transition is planed to make room for 5G) and thus we must change all the televisions or at least buy a decoder. I'm in difficult finding a TV for my grandmother, that is as simple as the one that has today, and without smart features, that are complicated and also useless (of course she don't even have an internet connection).
> You are in fact wrong.

I recall seeing George W Bush and Colin Powell repeatedly pushing for military intervention using WMDs as the excuse.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6WuTSTyS8
That's one of my biggest arguments (see my post history). I am super fortunate I am a software developer and earn a decent salary in the US. I pay $700/m for the highest plan my employer offer.

I know I am lucky. I've met many, many people who aren't as fortunate. I worked for 204 days from my little girl's ICU room. I was able to make ends meet. My fight is for the average American, the $30-45k earners, who don't WFH, and have sick kids in hospitals - and are forced to work to keep their benefits, while their kid is alone in the ICU.
The reason the GDPR failed and was more an annoyance than a solution is because of its lack of enforcement and the total incompetence of the ICO.

All the annoyances that seem caused by the GDPR such as the annoying and misleading consent popups are explicitly forbidden by the GDPR and do not count as compliance.

If the ICO was doing their job and was using the powers the regulation is granting it (such as the fines everyone was fear-mongering about) it would've quickly forced those websites to comply and stop the annoyances.
I find it useful to avoid explaining others how to set up their computer, which is indeed extremely useful ;)
UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
> "Also, doing performance review cycles 4x/year is completely insane. What a waste of everyone's time."

So at CK in particular I know they used to have "annual cycles" and you had to "overperform for two cycles to get a promotion." I.E. You had to be outperforming the role you were hired at for 2 years to get a promotion. So unless you were underhired, you basically wouldn't get a promotion in a normal software tenure.

It was a big point of contention.
At this exact moment you have 2048 HN Karma.
Abdul-Jabbar may very well ve referred to Mayim Bialik. Should we just assume he meant Burton because they are both black?
>The only place still with national lockdowns are NZ and Australia because they were able to contain and control the virus earlier on.

You literally supported lockdown measure with this comment. I'm not sure why you're backtracking now.

You might wanna backtrack on the whole AUS NZ thing since they've essentially become authoritarian police states over the COVID cases everyone told them they would get hit with. Turns out it had nothing to do with their measures and everything to do with the fact they're giant islands that can stop anyone coming into their country.
This is absolutely hilarious.
"Blatant misinformation" like "COVID-19 vaccines are not safe". I'd be upset but you're making the best case possible why this entire farce was such a joke
Who decides what is important? Who decides that steel is more important than small farms is more important than cryptocurrency? What are the metrics to decide "important" and how do we avoid this just becoming another subsidy to funnel money to cronies in your home state?

Does the government then get to set the winners and losers across broad swaths of industry?
Kinda, but that "almost the same" occasionally counts for some significant differences.

Australian politics is dominated by the two major parties, but the minor parties form a reasonable percentage of held seats, and occasionally neither major party holds a majority, which leads to a hung parliament where the balance of power is open to negotiation.

https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Senators/Senate_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_House_of_Representa...
This is where my layperson's intuition totally breaks down.

Matter goes into black hole. Black hole destroys everything because too much gravity and spacetime itself might or might not literally have a break in it. Eventually the remnants of said matter radiates out as random particles.

That seems totally logical and not paradoxical at all to me. My uneducated mental models of black holes and information theory are so crude that I can't even see what the problem with this is. All I can figure is that the conclusions of a theorem in Research Area A turn out to violate an axiom that is used and dependend-on in Research Area B.

I did however find this very interesting document that seems to cover some of what I'm missing: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-singularities/. I'll have to make my way through it over the next few days, maybe it will benefit other people, too.
Taiwan drought has been over for awhile now.
Thanks for your friendly reminder :)
We don’t vote them in. Walmart and Amazon place them there to uphold the status quo.
F# Pipelining vs. Composition
Revere Health under Phishing attack
> People will react not just to what they hear, but what they're actually seeing in practice.

That's a pull quote from the article that the editor has chosen to highlight. Is tech leadership so intellectually and ethically bankrupt to not understand that if you promise something and fail to deliver it, the people who you made promises to may no longer trust you? Why does that even need to be said, let alone be highlighted as if it's some sort of profound insight?

I just imagine some guy somewhere hitting himself on the forehead and saying "Ohh so I SHOULDN'T be duplicitous!".
Transaction fees will always make it economical to mine. They currently make up a small fraction of the block reward, but within a decade or two (5 block subsidy halvings), we can expect them to dominate.
Btw, not all cryptocurrencies are deflationary [1].

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
> However, the problem is becoming much more endemic lately, with everyone on the hunt for more data, more accounts, and a level of access to a computer that would make it seem like they’re using it as a giant bullseye for everyone on the Internet.

And I would argue that the main driving force for that is for selling your data to advertisers on software that is free (and sometimes paid), and maybe to increase sales on software that is paid. All this, quite possibly, at a privacy detriment to the user.

I don't think the fault lies directly and singly on developers, as mentioned in the article, but many are reacting to the way the software market currently works, and attempt to gain that edge. A lot of the big-name software may also likely be designed by committee, one of which may include the marketing department, growth analytics etc.
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The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5
I wore a mask and don’t leave the house, but other wise agree with you, Reddit is mostly an echo chamber for the worst aspects of both the left and right socio-economic ideas.
> Currently, it is available for Xperia 10 II, Xperia 10, Xperia 10 Plus, single and dual-SIM variants of Sony Xperia XA2, Xperia XA2 Plus, Xperia XA2 Ultra, Sony Xperia X, and Gemini PDA.

So, EU-only (and 2 or 3 morecountries) and limited devices.
If anyone needs an organ donation in Europe, I can provide it if it's a match.
A big factor for burnout, at least for me, is the never ending treadmill that is Agile. There are zillions of different things people call Agile, but the core of nearly all of them is the never ending series of Sprints (side note: I hate that the industry has settled on two week sprints, they make them so unbearable, 1 month is the best sprint, imo). I like a lot of the thing Agile thinking has brought to the toolbox, and before Agile there was a lot of horror and suffering, but what I do miss from that primordial time was when you finished a project you could stop and think and breath for a while. For a few days, even several weeks. Just stop and tinker and think about what you had just done, and what you want to do. When you actually train for running and other athletic activities, and you actually sprint, there is a recovery period where you let your body regain and recover from the effort. It improves performance and it improves your training.

We either need a recovery period built into Agile, or, my preference, get rid of Sprints. Actually, keep sprints around but turn them into a more fitting analogy. Infrequent periods where you focus and work harder on something. "Ok, it feels like we don't have traction on project X, let's do a two week sprint where we push aside all other concerns, cancel all meetings, and just focus on the project."

Right now it feels like I haven't had time to stop and think for 18+ months, it doesn't help to have my family sitting in the house with me full time. No quiet periods, no reflecting periods of recovery.
Can you point to references about Russian gov involvement? I see from the Sailfish page that it's deployed widely in Russia, but Jolla themselves are Finnish (https://jolla.com/about/), not exactly the most Russia friendly country around. That their OS is used in Russia isn't the same as it being Russian developed, which it doesn't appear to be(?)
Why would it need to be end-point to end-point? Just have routers continuously build up entanglement with their neighbors, do entanglement swapping along packet-switched paths, and then use the entanglement to teleport via the classical internet.
I really think you underestimate how hard it is to "roll a search engine" the size of Google or Bing. Even a company like Apple couldn't do it in anything under maybe 7-10 years, regardless of how much money they throw at the problem.
The issue is that there's a reason software is so user-hostile: it increases profits for the software's developers. If we want to get better software, we need an economic system that changes the incentives.

One way to get there could be to encourage widespread adoption of copyleft licenses like the GPL, which would encourage more corporations to release their software as FOSS, thus exposing them to competition from more user-friendly forks.
It's interesting, because one of the earliest lessons I was taught in college was that greedy algorithms tend to lead to sub-optimal results.

Is the problem that they're not teaching that in college anymore, or is it that the people in charge of these things are non-engineers who don't necessarily even know what a greedy algorithm is, let alone that the principle might apply to business practices and not just software implementations.
I wonder if Sailfish or a scrubbed Android (GrapheneOS?) would be worthwhile to give a test run for. Hard passing Apple is going to be painful, but I’m having trouble stomaching the direction where they see implanting end-user devices for LE purposes, so I might need to give it a spin. Any experiences on what would be the biggest pain points as a daily driver?
Yeah GitHub/TypeScript kinda don't count. I have an ignorant question though : do people use c# or f# in a non-windows system, by choice ? Otherwise, wouldn't that be a self fulfilling need ?

Edit: typo
With 75% gross margin, it would bring the opt out price to $120/year. Would you still want to opt out at that price?
Unfortunately:

- A lot of free software either sucks or is entirely non-existent for many use cases

- Free software is not entirely immune to this behavior either
The manufacturer of ivermectin, Merck, has in trial a patented and very similar formula that is doing quite well. Ivermectin is off patent.

IVM cured my long covid and r/ivermectin was helpful when my regular doctor said to just wait it out. Much of that sub is real people describing their success with it.
Irritating cookie popups are not mandated by GDPR; the opposite is true and most cookie popups are non-compliant with the legistration.
If the ICO (UK regulator) actually did its job then this would be solvable under the existing powers, but it's done very little:

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
Turns out most people don't like that idea, and appreciate chat history.
Somnath temple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnath_temple
Neat, but do you think it may ever be possible to build these kind super tunnels somehow? How wide?
Up till now I was thinking this seemed very interesting and the price point of getting it wasn't bad at all (quickly searched amzn to see what the Xperia 10 II price was) but if what you say is true then it would be kind of worrying.

Edit: For some reason I missed a bunch of words when I posted.
Database modeling, stakeholders and their concerns
This strikes me as extremely generous.

I agree that on an individual level, developers may be just following an industry-trend path of least resistance. The trend is putting the developer first.

But as a general phenomenon, it's exploitative. The goal is to capture as much of the user's time, attention, and data as possible.

Sometimes I feel silly for prioritizing FOSS highly, but sometimes not. At least I don't ever put up with this kind of stuff.