skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also stopped Netflix at some point early in the pandemic. More and more I was seeing good shows go away and nothing decent replacing it. Then they had all these weird shows (Cuties?) coming around that left a bad impression.

Ultimately my canceling of Netflix went along with canceling big tech as my disillusion has grown across the board:
* Amazon (this was hard to cancel, my prime subscription is still paid for the next 6 months)
* Facebook (still use the messenger app to chat w/ friends though)
* Google (search and Chrome - but still use gmail of course and at work)

I'm going to cancel something from Apple to do a full de-fanging of FAANG :)

Actually here's what I'll cancel: Apple Arcade. Everything they release now is just a "+" game from a non-Apple-Arcade title. "Somegame+" where it means no ads and maybe a little extra content. Originals on Apple Arcade are now harder to find and everything in my new/recommended/trending/etc is a "plus title".
Politics too. People are far too eager to cede power to these big tech companies just because it will hurt those on the other side of the political spectrum now - without realizing that that power is gone forever. DMCA takedown, demonetization and ad revenue scene, privacy - it's all the same story.
> You don't get any legal rights over the property even after long periods of time (as in some countries or US states that give you rights kind of similar to a tenant if you stay long enough).

Adverse possession actually gives title to the property, not “rights kind of similar to a tenant”.
Here's a more complete picture. Sweden is consistently among the least affordable across metrics: https://www.oecd.org/els/family/HC1-2-Housing-costs-over-inc...

> The median burden of rent payments for tenant households is highest in Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden (30%), Norway (29%), and Denmark and the United Kingdom (28%)

That said, it's not very different from its peers, so I doubt rent control is having a huge effect.
The scientific process is a means to an end. The only reason it has any value at all is because it gets better results than other processes. But this process is not equally effective in all fields of inquiry. Those fields in which the process is more effective are "more scientific". Fields in which this method are less effective are less scientific.
Even if I can't read it I like knowing what sites people think have good content.
The Taliban, not the West, won Afghanistan's technological war
Truth is lots of them are violent and have connections with the, ahem, underground. Not-well-mannered boxers, bouncers, neo-nazis...
It's not just that the courts are bogged down meaning people can take advantage of the slow eviction process. A lot of places have a growing housing crisis, Barcelona especially, meaning there's a lot of people struggling to afford rentand being forced to look at less legal means of living in the city.

https://www.bigissue.com/latest/barcelona-fights-housing-cri...

https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/how-does-ba...

https://www.uab.cat/web/news-detail/the-housing-crisis-terri...
Props to Reddit for not caving to this. I really do not understand anyone that calls for this kind of heavy-handed moderation. I certainly understand the impulse to want it, but upon thinking for like, 30 seconds about the precedent it sets and what the long term effects might be I realize it’s a pretty bad idea. Next time around, it might be the speech that they DO agree with that other people are wanting to clamp down on, and I don’t think they’ll just roll over and take it. That tells me a shocking number of people are not doing the basic due diligence of thinking through an idea even a little bit before jumping to support it.
It is fraud, but laws against fraud are not generally enforced against large businesses in important industrial supply chains unless they consistently and repeatedly flaunt it.

I'd be surprised if there is a class action or FTC penalty.
Amazon Veteran Charlie Bell Is Taking a Job at Microsoft
Mosaic was the first browser I used, and the first I wrote websites for (I still only test in one browser ;) ).

Something the article doesn't touch on is the fact that there wasn't really such a thing as hex colors like "#0000ff" back then. You could use them, but no one did because they weren't guaranteed to work properly. There was a list of 256 "web safe colors" that you could use that were the 8 bit palette that most computers supported in VGA graphics (at 640x480 resolution), and then a further list of HTML colors that could be used if the user had a graphics card that could use 16 bit SVGA graphics. Using 24 bit hex code colors didn't come along until a little later, when computers were likely to display them properly.

In other words, links weren't #0000ff. They were "blue".
I was quite surprised by this article. I have been out of the UK for quite some time and didn't realize the BBC had become a mouthpiece for the Tory. When did this happen exactly?
Cookie popups is another reason to hate the EU. The block is called a bureaucratic monster for a reason.
A company full of strongmen committing semi-legal violence against poor people has ties to the far-right movement? I’m shocked!
It seems obvious to me, but I've seen a number of people just sticking around in a voice channel after the chat was done.
People openly deal and use drugs on the sidewalk, in plain view of police, in the jurisdiction where the OP's grandparent lived. The police will do exactly nothing if you tell them someone is using drugs in a private residence.
You are saying known CSAM detection for iCloud Photo Library will launch before the Pegasus 0-days are fixed? The two are entirely different. If Apple was working on behalf of the government, they could’ve already shipped over the contents of iCloud for all the users targeted.

In any case, I’d happily take the other side of the bet at even odds that the security issue is patched after the child safety program goes live.
Native track pad functionality doesn't work (2-finger swipe to go back).

Please stop hijacking native scroll functionality in an attempt for clever designs. You're breaking the web.
Oh, they do notice.

In Spain people have difficult saving money, and when they finally can, they buy property, as the financial markets in Spain are undereveloped, the spanish indices perform really bad, and until very recently wasn't easy to put money in other markets.

So most property in Spain is owned by regular folks.

Squatters come in different types. We could divide them in three groups.

1. Politically motivated. Only a tiny fraction, typically anarchist types that go after abandoned properties and the like.

2. People who "buy from mafias". There are people who look for vacant properties, break in, and "sell" the propertie to someone, for prices around 500€. This typically ends up with poor people living in, as the spanish institutions fail spectacularly providing either a good legislation for the market or provide public housing.

3. Drug selling points / conflictive people. They break in in whatever opportunity they have. In some areas they use the properties to sell drugs.

If a Squatter breaks in, the problem is not only for the owner of the property, but for everyone around. You have to take into account that in Spain most people live in flats, and squatters break into flats, because flats are more abundant than detached houses.

So if you live in a flat and somene breaks in near you, it may not be much of a problem with the type two, but there's definitely a problem for the other ones, specially when there is a drug selling point.

So everyone, not only the owner, pressures to get this situations solved.

Also, an empty property may not be possible to rent. It may be in bad shape so you can't rent it legally, because you don't have the money to repair it, and you don't find a buyer (a situation that happened in my family until very recently, that lasted for many, many years), or the financial risks are too high for the benefits you might extract, specially if you already have a low or unstable income (not rare in Spain), making it safer to just leave it empty.

So in summary, this is a self-inflicted wound for Spain. The regulation is awful, as the market is basically controlled by municipalities, making land scarce and expensive, leading to only few high profit developments, almost non existing public housing, and high costs of property ownership for large swaths of the population.
Almost like there are laws of reality (economics) that are stronger than human desires to force things against said laws!

At the top are the laws of physics - nothing can beat them.

But below those are economics and human nature.

And only at the bottom are law, politics and whims/fiats of human imagination and wishful thinking, in that order. The final lowest level: the mad ravings of the individual in his/her own mind which are most powerless in the big picture and long term.
If that's the case then it would seem like this attack would be especially beneficial to the Taliban. It would put enhanced pressure on the US to withdraw while also allowing the Taliban to show Afghans a domestic enemy from whom they need the Taliban to provide security.
Why You Have So Many Junk Emojis You'll Never Use
> Everything you mentioned "has" to work, day in and out.

Agreed, but this is true of housing as well. Housing "has to" work, or you end up with a huge commuting and homeless population (and the state of being homeless is effectively a crime in the US).

> In fact, it's a perverse incentive: the locals love the lower rent, and there is no one to vote out the politicians that like rent controls.

It's not perverse, it's a good incentive. Locals love lower rent from rent control, so the commuters who don't have it should be incentivized to also vote for rent control, and it's a great idea that should continue to spread. In a ideal world, every rental unit in the nation would be under a strict rent control (just like how power/water/sewer/natgas often is).
Thank you. That fish has sailed for me.
If enough people signal interest, products that do not ship with bloatware/adware could put a "no special software required" on the box/description. I would pick those in a heartbeat since vendor software is usually complete shit (even without adware).
Consider this to be the only function that modifies locations and metadatas. It is the function that is supposed to maintain that invariant. You can pass in location and metadata (or make this a method on an object with those values as private members) without changing my point.

Under the rules laid down by the original poster in the link, functions which only modify well-encapsulated types via their public APIs cannot violate invariants.

My code shows that there are "invariant[s] that must be externally enforced" even in code that only deals with well-encapsulated types via their public APIs. And if you don't have explicit error handling, it isn't obvious that the invariant can be broken.
It's not like pixeldrain has been hacked or anything. I have been serving ads for this company for almost a year. It's just that they decided to serve full screen ads all of a sudden without consulting me.

I have removed them completely for now. I'll just be operating at a loss until I find an alternative ;-(
CoFounder Quest
Maybe, but I also think basically saying "well, it just spits out Bing results" is over simplifying. There's probably somewhere in the middle, as I said, I suspect Bing results are a pretty large chunk of it but I also try not to just hyperbolically state things ya know?
HPV also causes vulva, vagina, penis, anus, and oropharynx cancers as well.

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/basic_info/cancers.htm

>In general, HPV is thought to be responsible for more than 90% of anal and cervical cancers, about 70% of vaginal and vulvar cancers, and 60% of penile cancers. Cancers in the back of the throat (oropharynx) traditionally have been caused by tobacco and alcohol, but recent studies1 2 3 show that about 60% to 70% of cancers of the oropharynx may be linked to HPV. Many of these may be caused by a combination of tobacco, alcohol, and HPV.
We seem to have settled on the worst possible equilibrium in a lot places where housing prices are market rate but also we have a huge tangled thicket of regulatory processes which severely limit the amount of new housing we can build.
I used it as a journal. Starting in 2007, I wrote myself one email for each day of 2020. I didn't write very frequently, so it took the entire 13 years to finish. It made for a nice present to my future self. :)
May your grandfather rest in peace. Sorry for what you have had to deal with. Far too many states have laws that protect these criminals to the extent that it takes years to do anything, and by that time the property is entirely destroyed.

I was very helpful to homeless people for a long time. Last year I let a homeless man shower and sleep on my floor. Even after a shower, the man's stench was not gone. It literally seeped into the wooden floor, could not be bleached away, and the floor had to be pulled up and redone, costing thousands of dollars. This was just one thing in a slew of many marks against the homeless that made me realize my efforts were not of any actual value. Almost all the homeless I befriended and talked to were just drug addicts who did not care to change their lifestyle. I vowed to never make the same mistakes and no longer waste my time helping them.

One of the homeless I knew, got so high he fell asleep while smoking a cigarette and lit his alcohol soaked squat on fire. He ended up in the hospital burn unit, despite not having health insurance. I felt bad and guided his homeless friends to the hospital. In the burn unit, he was laying there with bugs jumping around in his hair. His homeless friends, despite being told to put on hospital garb, were pretty much contaminating the whole unit with the amount of bacteria and bugs they harbored. These people are literally, a plague, on society. Sure, we can feel bad and source their current situation back to past trauma, or whathaveyou, but let's be real -- there is no way to help these people in the way that those who have never dealt with them think. Pretty much all of them hate capitalism and pretty much just live off the rest of us. In a small community like a tribe, they would be kicked out immediately and their fate would ultimately be their own.

When I heard that states were giving free hotel rooms to homeless folks, it made me cringe. Many of the hotel rooms are going to require the entire carpets, mattresses, and other items to be destroyed. The hygiene of a majority of the homeless is so atrocious that they do nothing more than spread disease while destroying their bodies through drinking and drugging.

[1] https://abc7ny.com/7-on-your-side-investigates-investigation...

[2] https://abc7news.com/walgreens-san-francisco-sf-robbery-haye...

"California's Proposition 47, which voters passed in 2014 and lowered criminal sentences for certain nonviolent crimes like shoplifting and check forgery, is being exploited by those who want to commit theft. The initiative set a threshold of $950 for shoplifting to be considered a misdemeanor, which doesn't prompt law enforcement to make an arrest, rather than a felony, which could incur harsh penalties like jail time."
Drug abuse is a health problem. Breaking into people's homes, damaging their property, and then extorting them is a criminal problem. You don't get a pass on lawbreaking because you have health problems.
> It seems to be working for now - they've had 619 emmy nominations

I canceled my Netflix sub. Maybe this is why? Netflix became desperate to be legitimized by "big Hollywood"/"big entertainment". It used to be the new thing that didn't need to conform with its titles.
I keep seeing this number again and again. 20%. Sometimes 25%. Sometimes 15%. Usually no lower than any of the three.
I don't understand it either. It might be hard to quantify the affect of their Prime streaming business on their sales and thus they don't prioritize it ? That's my only guess, it feels to me like their most public product and its received the least attention.
> or have any pressure on your landlord to improve the property

Not sure what you think that has to do with rent control?
Same, it's a horrifically negative and terrible user experience
Bitcoin onchain payments are still faster and cheaper than using something like Western Union.

The lightning network is even faster and cheaper than that.

https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1428429890957848591

(tweet text, also includes a video and some more info)
"With @Bitnob_official's Lightning Network integration, we now have free, instant, non-reversible remittances of any size to and from the United States, Nigeria, and Ghana.

$10 in my US bank account became spendable NGN for @bernard_parah in seconds.

Monetary history."
>a few expensive years of research and they can get back into it.

I haven't kept up much in the last couple of years, but back when I did, I was under the impression that AMD couldn't actually afford to do this. I know their condition has improved with the good fortunes of Zen, but is it enough that they could get back into semiconductor fabrication?

I have no doubt Intel can afford to, though.
Lol, this got me good
I am not an expert, but I thought it was more like a few expensive decades than years. Intel is already in this business and they have only been able to fall farther behind TSM even given billions in investment.
I can't stand Netflix's recommendation engine. Here are a few of the sites I use because my homepage is completely filled with junk.

instantwatcher.com - One of the first to do it.

justwatch.com - There was a time when IW stopped working with Netflix over API access licensing. This is almost as good.
New species of ancient four-legged whale discovered in Egypt
Apple could buy duckduckgo to go along/try to regain their privacy branding. Yea, duckduckgo has a lot of work to do to get to google level(afaik they're just a bing skin atm), but it'd be a decent start.
I clearly don't understand all the dynamics here - but this seems completely ludicrous. So I go away for a weekend, someone breaks into my home, and when I come back I am homeless? Where is the delineation between "someone breaking into my home" and "squatting"?
I might be naive. But I think high property taxes help keep house prices down. Either you pay for a mortgage or you pay property taxes. The speculators may still buy property, but at least the taxes go to the community.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Z6r0M?kreymer=true

https://archive.is/p7so8
I like SFOS because it has coherent ui and flexible styling. From meego to here guy, though. I actually like the SDK, even if it's a bit stale. I maintain c , js and pytheotherside apps. It's fun over here.
Yup! Good old times. That's actually where 2048 started.
Huh I'd never heard of this.
Druggie squatters and shiftless cops? It sounds like your area has a cultural issue that you might want to work with neighbors and community officials to rectify.
>"You can not inspect quality into a product." ~Deming

Yep. This applies double to software. Putting software under load and trending health measures to look for two standard deviations variance is very similar to how Deming instrumented production lines. The neat thing that software enables for both automobile manufacturing and software products themselves is that those exact same health measures can be trended and analyzed after they get into the hands of consumers.

If your quality apparatus is purely inspection based, you will live your life one escalation to the next.
Covid-19 Antibody Discovery – Neutralizes All Known SARS-CoV-2 Strains
Does anyone know of a solution that can go down to the 5khz range? Older (...and even newer) gym equipment uses the gymlink protocol for heart rate monitors instead of low power Bluetooth and friends, and very few monitors support it anymore. I wanted to try to make a converter but couldn't find anything to output in that frequency.
Yea, it would be refreshing for a company to say, we nailed this product, we are going to now just refine it more and more perfectly to streamline it even more. But instead everyone wants to cram more things into it. The old saying was that a SAAS product isn't complete until it has it's own email server baked into it.
Correct, my point is I don't believe the quantity of carbon capture which can be deployed will get anywhere close to the amount of carbon being released without a different fundamental economic model.
I really love hearing that it's had a positive impact in your life, that's heartwarming :)
Dear Mr. User, a whole year has passed, in order to keep up with the latest trends we now require you to give permission for mining your user data via our new microservice every time you enter our site, we have made sure the experience will be a pleasant one, as we added 5 mb of JS and a full screen video to keep your browser occupied as we process your requests.
Be aware that nothing substantial has changed, only the UI has again changed for no apparent reason, the site is now once again trice as large and hangs twice as much on previous generation mobile devices.

Dear Mr. Software Developer, as you might know all useful software now runs on the web. Writing a web browser is no small task, this is why at Google and W3C we pride ourself in growing our spec beyond any reasonable proportions to make sure you don't try to create a competitor to render a simple HTML5 page. After all, why would you?
Stealing is a mundane crime. Poisoning the meat supply would be an example of an extraordinary crime.
I'm a little surprised by some basic facts the article gets wrong.

- WorldWideWeb was not created in 1987. Tim Berners-Lee released it in December 1990, based on a proposal he developed in 1989 [1].

- Windows 1.0 in 1985 did not have hyperlinks. It also did not have overlapping windows. [2] That second screenshot is of Windows 2, (from December 1987) showing the "Help" system, which did use underlined hyperlinks, from 1989.

It makes me question the thoroughness of their research at all.

> What happened in 1993 to suddenly make hyperlinks blue? No one knows, but I have some theories. ... I like to imagine that Cello and Mosaic were both inspired by the same trends happening in user interface design at the time. My theory is that Windows 3.1 had just come out.

What? No! These are grad students working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the 1990s on big powerful Unix workstations [3]. I highly doubt the UI choices of Window 3 were relevant or closely watched by that team.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee#Career_and_res...

2- https://www.filfre.net/2018/07/doing-windows-part-3-a-pair-o...

3- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)#History
Or add an item to a shopping basket. But yes, that's about it.
I love how people who drive cars, fly on planes, use plastic, get goods delivered by truck, etc etc, act like oil companies just pump oil out of the ground for fun then light it on fire. The mental gymnastics are impressive.
I'm probably responsible for a cumulatively significant loss in worldwide productivity!
I don't mean to pick on you specifically, I know this is a common genre of comment, but you really can't draw conclusions about the motivations of people who say one thing because of downvote patterns in a HN thread about some other tangentially related thing. How do you know they're even the same people, much less why they downvoted?
The question isn't whether people like their mobile OSs. It's whether there is meaningful competition in the mobile OS space.

The only two mobile OS providers of any significance colluding together is not a good indicator of meaningful competition.
Even if they do that, they’re still running it 24/7/365 for possibly years at a time. Wouldn’t that be some serious wear and tear? Genuine question - I have no clue.