skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Content addicts need to realize that there is more objectively good content out there than they are physically capable of consuming in one lifetime. Therefore the question to ask is how much of your life do you want to spend on content consumption.
I heard the same thing from Alan Dershowitz on Preet Bharara's podcast. I think you'd certainly need to keep your phone dark for long periods of time prior to the event and possibly have someone briefly unsheath it from the cage for plausible deniability. Even so, you're only ensuring that the prosecution can't use that piece of evidence against you - you're not exonerating yourself entirely by any stretch.
Are you telling me that, if I already own bitcoin, I can't transfer it to another wallet without (additional) mining?
Alphabet also owns abc.xyz, but the author observes that Google Voice seems to censor it.
My first computer was a ZX81, then an QL. I still have them at home. Maybe I'll try to power them up. I've found some listings of programs I wrote in BASIC on the ZX81. They are only marginally easier to understand than machine code, maybe not :-) but they were the first step to bring me here. Thanks Sir Sinclair.
> You can't combine a few different ranked lists and expect to get results better than any of the original ranked lists.

I am skeptical of this application of the theorem. Here is my proposal:

Take the top 10 Google and Bing results. If the top result from Bing is in the top 10 from Google, display Google results. If the top result from Bing is not in the top 10 from Google, place it at the 10th position. You'd have an algorithm that ties with Google, say 98% of the time, beats it say, 1.2% of the time, and loses .8% of the time.
Without knowing who your clients are, or why they are being targeted, I have no idea whose side I would be on.

For example what you are saying could be said by Cassie at Crowdsurf against the #FreeBritney crowd. But given that she's helping the public image of an unconstitutional and abusive conservatorship means that I don't WANT FB to do what she wants.

However it could also be said by someone representing the latest person who has been canceled for failing to be sufficiently politically correct. And in that case I'd be sympathetic.
ive had issues with management paying me accordingly. lucky me in obsessed with mentoring
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But this would require eating plants.
I think you are in violent agreement with TFA; most people don't need to be convinced that meth dealers don't have their clients' best interests at heart...
> As it stands, true privacy is relegated to the technologically elite, the truly paranoid, or those that can pay to play. I would love for that to change, but unfortunately that's the current state of affairs.

Or the broke who can't afford the devices now more and more used against us.

Or those who are willing to forgo the conveniences of such devices in exchange for privacy. Or, simply for the sanity of not having to deal with them.

I'm firmly in the boat of "Could do any or all of those things" - I considered a PinePhone, have a PineBook Pro, could easily do GrapheneOS, and... I'm currently using none of them. I'm using an AT&T Flip IV that I leave at home regularly. If I have some fancy requirement, I can tether a laptop to it.

You start from the assumption that a smartphone of some variety or another is a requirement - and I'll counter that, while it's certainly the default option of modern life, the smartphone is really only a decade old, and there are ways of doing things without it we can go back to - and those things do generally still work.

I'm at a point in my life where both I can be a bit annoying about things like reachability, and, interestingly, I'm hostile enough to tech that people expect me to be a bit weird about things. Nobody was surprised when I showed up with a flip phone - but they were surprised that I still had things like email and Google Maps capability on it (KaiOS). At which point, the gears started turning.

Trying to find a way to de-evil what is looking more and more like a corrupted, user-hostile system through and through doesn't seem worth the time, when one can work towards not requiring people to be in that system in the first place.
Has Node undergone such scrutiny? Honest question.
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Where are they going to? I've been out of the Java loop for a few years, maybe they landed where I did.
When I had no computer, I wanted one of those <USD$200 ZX81s so badly – just from seeing it magazines, & maybe pressing some of its keys at the electronics counter of someplace like maybe a Sears.

IIRC the video output often cut out whenever a user program was running?

I'm sure I would have enjoyed having one, but was fortunate enough my parents picked up an Apple ][+ instead. Still, warm feelings towards that unit, & its series, as something that made home computing thinkable.
Absolutely. His systems did so much to democratize computing in the 8-bit era, and there must be countless greybeards who owe their careers to the access that Sinclair Computers granted. Likewise, many non-technical entrepreneurs who made tons of cash in the first dotcom boom would only be able to find programmers able to work for them because they had self-trained in skills that schools knew nothing about by staying up late staring at the family TV with one of these little machines plugged into it.

More democratising than other machines around at the time, because those less-well-off families in the UK who couldn't afford a BBC Micro or CBM-64 could more easily scrape together the funds to buy a ZX Spectrum instead.

My personal anecdote: I didn't have enough pocket money to feed my Pac-Man addiction in the arcades, and my family certainly wasn't going to splash out on an Atari console, so I wrote myself a Pac-Man clone in ZX Basic. It turned out that programming was so much more fun than playing the game in the long run, and almost 40 years later people are still paying me to do this! Thank you, Sir Clive.
The OP is a being a little sensitive. Though are lots of little tricks like this to get people to go up a level. They learnt it from restaurant menus and wine lists.

My pet hate currently is opaque “credits” and value based billing.

I saw an ETL tool earlier which charges on a per column basis. I’m sure that backfired over flat tiered plans.
Which specific crimes were committed by which specific Sacklers? I'm sympathetic to the idea that they might have done something wrong, but the impulse to throw people we don't like in jail now and figure out what they did wrong later is very dangerous, and even if other people are treated that way it isn't an excuse to further indulge it.
(OP) thanks for the list!
> His computers weren't aimed at middle aged adult engineers.

Maybe not Clive Sinclair's products specifically, but you'd be surprised with what professional engineers could use these 'toys' for. Keep in mind that machines with comparable featuresets could sell for huge prices well into the early and even the mid-1960s, and were used for real, sometimes critically important work.
If you’re in Canada, and send an SMS containing the string “special message” to or from a Telus customer (or one of their sub-brands), it will be silently dropped. Telus is one of the big3 telecoms here.
> So you concede you are NOT going to be honest

There's nothing dishonest about not hiring someone who says they're not going to keep their word.

> I will stick to my end of the bargain to the exact extent of you sticking to yours. This is how people who actually have honor do business.

No, it isn't. Contingent honor is not honor.

For example, people who steal items from work, and justify it to themselves because they believe they aren't paid enough, or the boss disrespected them, or whatever, are thieves.
The right prison is a good approximation of hell. Not federal prison, but state prisons certainly
I bought a $500k home in Pierce county, property taxes are 1.2% here vs .93% in King County. I'm paying about $6k/yr in property taxes and they would pay about the same +/- $1k for their $750k home.
Is that the equivalent of a country club jail?
If you happen to be on mac, there's an app called finicky that does this. It can also pattern match on source application which is pretty handy.
I also refuse to buy anything that ends in ".99". And I also refuse to buy any product with advertisement because those manipulate me too.
Also my first computer, bought as a kit and I soldered it together. Mine lasted a long time. It was so limited though I learned Z80 assembler, which turned out to be really cool. The ZX-81 was a wonderful machine.
The only time I've ever used it in programming is FizzBuzz.
Nicki Minaj says she's in 'Twitter jail,' will never use platform again
People should not expect pleasant discourse on social media. You have every single statement, opinion, or reasoning scrutinized by robots or vastly under-paid contractors - none of which understand nuances of conversation like context, sarcasm, etc.

Social media is a cancer that's growing on society. We need to go back to smaller online presences instead of a "global village" as it were. Too many things to worry about in the world, and too many companies want to sell you fear with advertising.
Or perhaps the correlation between obesity and low fertility is not causation, obesity could very well be a symptom of whatever is causing it, alongside low fertility.
Here is what works, from my experience:

Any development which involves multiple teams (or multiple developers for tjhat matter) must start with definition of the API. Write a Word document, assign a version, distribute to all involved.

Then, create mock calls and mock data according to the specification (this answers your question). FE devs can work in parallel while the back end implement.

Any modifications to the interface result in a new revision of the API spec. Repeat.

Swagger is not an API spec, as it does not allow to see what changed from 2.1 to 3.3, for example. Use Word, discuss the changes before committing to modification of the API.
bit per second is a pretty standard way to measure network traffic. Just be glad they aren't listing baud!

The networking community historically follows a tradition coming from telecoms, which is why there is a bit of a cultural split between networking folks and other computing folks (software and hardware folks have more cultural connection to each other than to networking!)

Apenwarr actually traces this cultural and historical split forward [1] even to the difference between lower levels of the stack defined by IEEE standards (e.g. 802.11) and higher levels of the stack defined by IETF (e.g. IP).

[1] https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
The Purdue (et al) dosing schedule was engineered for maximal addiction similar to how cigarettes chemistry was. We used to dose these things on 4 hour intervals and the move to 12 hour was done for business reasons: neurology gets more addicted that way.

must read: https://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1
>Taiwan is a province of China.

De facto, it is not.
Will the Bus Driver Ever Come? Or the Substitute Teacher or Cafeteria Worker?
I used to agree with you back in the 90s, when the only people who paid for an internet connection were somewhat technically aware enough to know what speed they wanted, but not enough to know the difference between bits and bytes.

Today? I would argue 95% of people don't know or care how many kilobyte per second their Spotify uses, or how many gigabytes per minute watching Twitch at 1080p uses.

1000Mbps might as well say "1000 fastitude".
Read reciepts or delivery reports?

I'm not sure if SMS supports read reciepts, but I didn't think so. The MMS standard allows for read receipts ("MAY" not "SHALL"), I was unable to get it working, and I suspect it's due to no carrier support.

I was unable to get read receipts working at all, and I suspect it's because the carrier doesn't impliment it.
Any idea why a state prosecutor hasn't tried to get a felony criminal charge on some of the Sacklers? At least tried to get them in jail? Seems like it would be low risk. If you succeeded you're a hero and if you failed nobody would be surprised.
Yeah, this is the other thing that is bonehead about this. Forums at least got indexed but the discoverability of useful discord servers is impossible for information you cared about. A forum is still useful when indexed and you don't sign up and login, and you also can find the fringe discussion/subforum area you actually care about and sign up and join in then.
Which is what, exactly? A Miami Beach penthouse condo, with a 500-acre manor in Hawai'i for the winter months?
Glenn Greenwald: photos maskless Met Gala expose 'crude cultural segregation'
> When I'm on my phone I stop commenting on HN midway quite often because the effort is not worth it. On a computer, it's too easy to type.

With longer comments I usually quit because the editing required to sound like a halfway intelligent person is way harder on a phone. I imagine some other people can nail their first draft, and others just don’t care how they come across.
It seems like you could fix this trivially by switching "Hobbyist" with "MVP".
> That deal "avoids costly litigation"

I guess it would be worse if this were criminal litigation and not civil litigation, but it's still kind of incredible to see such a naked admission that if you can outspend the attorney general's office, you'll get special treatment.
Not for some of us. Really good marketers know how to market themselves.
If the email provider says "Would you like us to add a set of rules people tend to add?", is that censorship?

There's a very fuzzy line somewhere, on one side of which a provider is helping users get what they want, and on the other is blocking content they don't want users to receive. I'm exploring where that line is.

While you have a right to send emails to me, I have a right to sign up for a service that automatically blocks emails I don't want to receive. The line is crossed when that service starts blocking emails I would like to receive. I'd say there is a pretty competitive market of email providers, and the rules are reasonably transparent about what's being blocked. Thus, it seems that "censorship" is a rather strong accusation here.
They also like to put dark UX patterns around this. More than once I’ve had to request a refund after seeing a monthly price and then being billed for the annual price.
I love Google Location History.

If you're trying to make a point to someone about how much of a problem data collection, use, abuse, etc, is - link them to the place they can view their own history. It's even more fun if you're with them and can watch the expression of utter horror form as they realize just what, exactly, literally everywhere they've been can tell someone else about them. "Hey, isn't that the kink club out there?"
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OpenGL 2D Facade (29): Z-Buffer and point light – Design Patterns and Video Game
Design the API first. If you're talking about web, you can use OpenAPI spec.

From there, you can mock your APIs very easily and frontend is unblocked.
This is a huge qualitative difference beyond just the numbers.

With a battery life that is longer than 24 hours, I can just have a single charger at home, and go through the entire day without worrying about charging.

It basically removes battery level from the things you have to be thinking about as you go about your day.
Wikipedia has a blanket ban on .xyz domains unless specifically whitelisted. I'll likely move finl.xyz to some other tld eventually.
Cops care deeply about what privacy laws exist. That still limits what data they can legitimately get access to. In this case they could of used a Stingray or equivalent but:

* They would not of known where to place it before the crime took place.

* Even if they somehow got the data about the location of the cyclist under the table they would have had no way to parallel construct anything.

Since there was no other evidence that would of been it.

This is not a new thing. The authorities can open and read your mail as much as they want using bamboo splints and/or the steam from a kettle. But because it is very illegal to do that it greatly reduces the abuse possible from such actions.

Privacy laws are a prerequisite and are essential.
Ahh, gotcha. I appreciate the response there as I wasn't aware of that notation and even then I can't think of any time I've used a cross join. Not sure which syntax I would use personally.
I wish I still had my original Osborne 1, and my Sinclair QL...
For its time and price vs. performance, the Spectrum might have been the best personal computer ever made. It was my first machine, and I loved it so much.
Algorithms: From the Ancients to the Internet [audio]
Please, do elaborate
>I feel like this position is unrealistic.

I'm not sure it's unrealistic but the tradeoffs for ditching a phone entirely day-in day-out wouldn't work for most people.

As you say there are alternatives for smartphones and one could presumably alternatively carry a feature phone that can't be easily tied to their identity. (Although there's an increasing assumption that you have a smartphone to accomplish various tasks.)
Nope, you want information to go from userspace to scheduling decisions. Where the code resides is implementation. Having userspace tell the scheduler what it needs avoids the round trip if it applies to more than one scheduling decision.
They sure do have a social network! iMessage, FaceTime, etc. Even email is a social network. It doesn't need to look exactly like Facebook to be a social network.
They were probably trying to cash in while the market was hot, but as in all things, once everyone is doing it its not cool anymore.
At 2 am last night a bot impersonating a family member added every one of their friends on facebook & sent them messages. I reported it as a fake account, a ticket which was instantly closed.

Facebook sent a notification later to them that the account was not impersonating anyone, no action would be taken, and there was no way to appeal.

Interestingly, messenger did splat a bunch of pretty good warnings on top of the DM they sent me: https://i.imgur.com/gigUA7G.png
So say the NIH finds that some compounds in our environment that get in our bodies are causing this. Leeching from plastic food containers, chemical pesticides, soy, whatever it is. What do you think is going to happen? The government is almost certainly not going to destroy it's chemical or agriculture industries to prevent this. No matter the findings nothing will come of it.
There are plenty of ways, strictly in the legal realm, where the Sacklers can go to jail. But I haven't seen any state try.
When Facebook talks about "real accounts" they mean only accounts that are not very obviously fake in a way an algorithm can detect. It's unquestionable that it is easy to set up a fake account in FB and it always has been. If they tried harder-- and they almost certainly will have to due to political pressure-- it will still be pretty easy to find more sophisticated ways to fake an account.

With an advertising model there are always going to be incentives to fake accounts, and disincentives to FB to close any account. The simple way to stop fake accounts would be to introduce even a small cost to have an account which would make faking accounts not cost effective. But that's not their model.
Don't put it on a computer, don't say it within earshot of a computer, and don't have it visible to any computer's camera: getting pretty impossible to follow this advice.
I hold many dangerous ideas. I also am not terribly shy about spreading them.

But if this:

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e09ac35bd7596e18cb21562bcb4b0...

ever becomes my chosen way of doing so, I can only hope someone censors me. And takes me to a nice, comfortable assisted living facility where I cannot hurt myself or others.

P.s. Ever heard of the Gish Gallop?
Instagram chief uses awkward comparison with cars to defend social media harms
Author need find purpose of taking pictures. If he doing it just for faceless audience, he'll never get into creative process of photography. Finding alternative social network like Twitter for picture sharing is pointless.

As pro photographer I personally find out that following other photographers won't help me with improvement, it actually shape my work to mainstream. So only place where I decided to put my work is my personal portfolio. I don't care about hashtags, I don't care about how much people like it or not. I just create what I like and talk about my work with others personally. My mind is much more focused on actual creativity then thinking about how others would like it or not.
Where’s a startup selling Kaczynski shacks when you need one?
I had a Sinclair Scientific too - so small with hard clicky keys! Back then it was a wonder to type numbers that looked like words when you held it upside down.

I expect more people here will remember the ZX80, but what about the minimal SC/MP-based MK-14 that came before... I skipped that but got a NASCOM-1 kit the following year (1978).

I worked at Acorn in the early 80s and Sir Clive attended a couple of our infamous Christmas parties (since he knew Chris Curry).

The good thing about those old computers was the simplicity. The only thing on a NASCOM-1 between your assembly code and the hardware was 1KB of monitor program.
An attempt to capture customers leaving ExpressVPN makes sense.
"Safety as a priority, not an afterthought

Our community has no space for hate. Glass is committed to creating a safe space for photographers. Members are required to follow our Code of Conduct. Blocking, reporting, and account deletion are day-one features."

I thought photography is art, which would challenge peoples ideas or thoughts, and this policy seems to indicate they will delete your account if they think it's offensive?
genuinely appreciate your anecdote, it is interesting to know, but perhaps a bit distasteful in reply to his death.
If you aim for this point alone you're headed in the right direction:

Think like an adversary, but be nice about it. Try to “catch” authors taking shortcuts or missing cases by coming up with problematic configurations/input data that breaks their code.

The article is a great overview and goes into just enough detail - here are a couple more good points:

- Comments: concise, friendly, actionable

- Think about how you would have solved the problem. If it’s different, why is that? Does your code handle more (edge) cases? Is it shorter/easier/cleaner/faster/safer yet functionally equivalent? Is there some underlying pattern you spotted that isn’t captured by the current code?
>Purdue, the company, has pleaded guilty to two crimes. Presumably there is plenty of evidence of criminal activity.

It's much easier to convict the corporation than its members.
Chibas are a huge problem. Who thought it was a good idea to breed Chihuahuas and Shiba Inus?
I would agree you made a prudent choice but it does seem like a drop in the bucket as any kind of exposure to modern lifestyle in childhood correlates with similar issues of perturbed microbiome, autoimmune disease, reduced fertility, and metabolic syndrome. Exhaust particulate, herbicides, plasticizers, PCBs, heavy metals, and the like are universal.

Even the background level of 410ppm CO2 which a child can never escape is extremely unnatural.
We are going to have to agree to disagree here. Anything that eats a full month of my time is a big deal, and I expect companies to be more efficient with my time than this.