skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brave and Edge are better than Chrome if you care about privacy, but 99% of the code base is still controlled by Google and they don't really have a voice in standards committees. To support the open web it's much better to have engine diversity too.
Matter: A new kind of reading app
There is a psychological aspect to this, I believe. Switching between cheap and expensive is less of an effort than switching between free and cheap. Similarly, competition-wise, competing with however low number is easier than competing with zero.

I really think FB’s domination hinges on “free”.

However, changing business model like that cannot be directly required. What can be required is openness.
I think WhatsApp addressed this recently. It was an issue with both iOS and Android, where chat backups were not end to end encrypted. I think this was an absolutely absurd gap that betrayed customer trust, but it isn’t clear to me if Facebook is more at fault than Google and Apple or if it is the other way.

WhatsApp blog post on encrypted backups:
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/end-to-end-encrypted-backu...
Please no more lawyers running for president.

A CEO who built or run an actual value-adding business (e.g Flexport) probably has more integrity, intelligence and aptitude than the average lawyer-who-seeks-politics who very often turn out to be snakes.
I think many programmers left due to their stock appreciating in the $millions. The rest enjoy higher salaries.
>Twitter’s internal research is saying that certain tweets are organically more popular and engaging and more likely to be shown, not that the algorithm has an ideological bias

No one is claiming that there's a piece of code that detects a Twitter user being a right-wing politician and then showing it to more users.

Whether the bias is deliberate or not, it's still a bias. Right wing gets their message amplified more than the left.
> Hate to break it to you bud if you heard that from a woman they were probably just trying to stoke your ego, no one has a "preference" for getting a bruised cervix

People have preferences for all sorts of pain and discomfort during sex. It's simply puritanical to suggest that a certain subset of the population must not have a certain sexual preference.

And, in view of the story we are discussing, the woman in question was given that preference due to physiological manipulations made by AM; there is nothing I see cringe-worthy about the situation, unless you are off the opinion that women must not like a particular type of sexual interaction, because it makes you uncomfortable.
Calling that "caving in" is problematic, even defamation. They had a legal order from the court to log the IP next time that user logged in. If they hadn't complied who knows what the swiss government would've done to Proton. Proton is a company afterall and has to adhere to jts legal boundaries, if it doesnt it soon won't have legak boundaries because the government uses its tools to make sure there is no Proton anymore.
Lest we despair too much, it's important to remember that vaccination reduces the severity, even if you end up infected.

I remember at the start of the year, when the vaccines first came out. A doctor shared some lung X-rays of infected, presumably hospitalised, patients. The vaccinated ones were far healthier.
Didn’t intel release a Thunderbolt chipset for motherboard manufacturers to include? I thought some Ryzen motherboards had it to implement thunderbolt? Is it just not available in the low power-mobile category?
This is from April! I wonder why it didn’t get more discussion til now?

> Google has acknowledged that its previously secret 2018 advertising agreement with Facebook, code-named “Jedi Blue,” allowed the companies to terminate the deal “in the event of certain government investigations of the agreement” — behavior that state attorneys general have cited as evidence the companies knew they were violating antitrust laws.

> In a federal court document whose improperly redacted portions have been seen by MLex, Google also confirmed that the “network bidding agreement” was signed by senior Google and Facebook executives, including Google Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. The redacted document, filed overnight in a federal court in Plano, Texas, failed to effectively mask the redacted portions, but has since been refiled with the redacted parts hidden.
That RAW quote is simply incredible. Any idea what work it is from?
I hate podcast that have a guest and where they are going to talk to each other without any further editing because it means that you are going to loose your time.

Npr have the best English podcasts of the world where they really work on them and extract their story.

Guy Raz got me first with the 'Ted radio hour' and I followed him to 'who I built this'
I like also a lot 'hidden brain' and I check 'planet money'.

I got also story/documentary podcast for the entertainment but they are in French.
And old apps written in C++ and running on a Pentium 3 will beat the crap out the Electron app which will feel sluggish even on modern hardware.

The only reason Electron exists is to enable Javascript developers do desktop apps without learning other languages and frameworks. Electron is not a solution for desktop development, it's a solution for lazy developers.
It's becoming less open source now. And they lock away the APIs they use so that you can't reimplement the functionality yourself. Many interesting parts of the Python extension are closed source. AI autocomplete too. Remote development is closed source. What will they pick next? Conditional breakpoints? In-IDE HTML preview?
For anyone wanting to read the actual court decision (in French): http://links.weblaw.ch/BVGer-A-5373/2020

The judgments are customarily anonymized, but everything points to this being the correct one. Note that this decision is not final; an appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal may still be filed.
I don't use containers because they require a mozilla account
ActiveX was always signed, like regular binaries - if MS's Windows signing key leaks they probably have bigger problems.
Of course, but that's not the reality. The reality is that Google have positioned Firefox as a "viable competition" while having them mostly under control. Can you trust Mozilla as an organization, when you know that it receives over 80% of its funding from Google?
> people like people

Yes, and it's so profitable that someone will inevitably try to use AI-animated "people" to harvest market demand for organic people. Similar to cloning popular software or movies with lower-rent talent. Andrew Niccol, creator of Truman Show, Lord of War, Gattaca and Lord of War, made a film called Simone about a computer-generated fashion/celebrity avatar. Some of the dynamics in that film have already been seen on social media and will likely expand in future metaverses.
It is known viruses can damage nerves.

And Corona viruses have been with us for ages.
No the issue is lack of mental health intervention because the field of Psychiatry and our collective understanding of brain chemistry imbalances is very rudimentary, the science just isn’t there yet. So people with mental health problems can’t hold jobs and function in society like people with neurotypical brain chemistry.

Addiction can be linked to dopamine regulation disorder e.g. ADHD and risky behavior like gambling addiction, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, etc.

We need to address the mental health problem underlying homelessness
Excellent link to the Huffman example. I think it will take me a lot of study to grok it. I'll consider investing that effort.

> I tend to see lots of structs, bit-packing, and bitwise operations that don't make as much sense in APL.

That's why I mentioned "performance matters". Those things are common in algorithms where performance matters. If APL isn't interested, then it isn't good for most algorithmic work. Those operations aren't some quirk of current CPU architecture. It is less work in our universe to do bit shifts than multiplies. And bit packing reduces storage and IO, which also saves work at a fundamental level. The same operations are used in FPGA/ASIC designs where the architecture is much more free. Maybe quantum or analogue computers would change that picture a little but that's not what APL is for.

I'd say the main use for a symbolic thought notation is when working on performance critical stuff. If performance isn't critical then I use a simple algorithm and a simple implementation. Higher level system design stuff is usually better done as diagrams than symbolic notation. I guess when working on a large codebase I'm using the structure of the symbolic programming language to help me think about how distant parts of the code interact. But that doesn't sound like something APL would be good at either.
Pretty sure they don’t. I use them all the time, no account.
Getting to know Fuchsia, Google's open-source operating system
It would have to be the EU. Unfortunately anti-trust has been completely eroded in the US over the past decades.
That people finally can choose in which pseudo-world they will live, but they still do not because it’s much easier not to?
The Twitter thread doesn't actually explain how this plan was supposedly to be implemented, but does contain a link to the original document.
And it was eventually merged!
I did. It's ReSharper with an editor built around it. It doesn't feel better than VS.
I haven't seen any real evidence that Mozilla has made any decisions designed to explicitly benefit Google. They've been pretty antagonistic actually. The foundation is investigating YouTube and the Mozilla employees I've spoken to seem to hate Google.

For better or for worse, I would still say it's the anti-chrome. Find me another crossplatform browser with a stack that's still as independent as Mozilla's. They have the engine, the add-on store, and everything in between.

I would be using Opera right now but they threw in the towel years ago. Now the brand is being milked by a private equity firm.
> Second, the total available range is still close to my old gas cars

If the range is so huge, I see it might not be an issue.

We have a Fiat 500e, so forgetting to charge overnight (or if the timer didn't go on as intended for whatever reason) means a guaranteed crisis in the morning as there's no way to get to work.
> But last year neuroscientists discovered that it plays an important role in the reward response - one of the main drives that motivate and shape human behaviour.

There. That's probably what you came here for. Read the rest if you want details. But if like me you just wanted to know what "role" the headline is referring to.. There you have it.
From a quick Google map look, I'd ask the National Guard to take over runway 8R of LGB. That would still leave plenty of runways there, including 8L, usable under the same wind conditions.

There is also a huge amount of land at Palmdale airport, 1h30 north of Long Beach.

A glut of empty containers is a stupid problem, but the solution can be stupid easy, if we choose to make it so.
To me it didn’t really make much of a difference other than preventing me from easily copying the URL.
How would you enforce, e.g. hate speech, moderation if there are both left and right wing definitions for it?

Or Twitter's content policies could follow the law and reflect the political leaning of the governement, but then how do you enforce moderation on a free/liberal social network which by definition should be free from governement censorship?
Here's why FB is in no danger until at least 2024: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-furious-zuckerbe.... Don't hold your breath on this, at all. It's all for sale, and Zuck is buying.
Treat it like any other engineering project.

List your interests. List interests others have in college, not just CA majors. Explore other possible interests. This is what college is for.

Take a few non-engineering classes. Lit classes often have lots of discussions where you get to know people.

When you don’t know something in engineering, one option is asking friends. The next is take a class. For this problem you have asked HN, good start. If you are still stuck in a few months, take the next step and pay a social coach to give you real feedback.
They don't? I've gone as far as disabling all account functionality with about:config and am using containers right now.
Identity laundering bot/avatar MLM networks will be fun.
Don't you care about an open internet?
Slight nitpick I know but decrypt here is the not quite the right word. The communications are still encrypted in flight but they are necessarily decrypted (by WhatsApp) on the end (your device). This unencrypted file is then provided to drive if you select back up with Google drive in WhatsApp.

I'm in two minds about this one. I'm not really a fan of Google but realistically we're talking about backing up messages from a Facebook app. It is also possible to opt out and I know non technical people who have done so on the basis they don't want "more Google".
Reviewable is an example of a product that put in the extra work to support rebase. Its interface is more complex than GitHub s but that's partly from the rebase support and partly just the decision of their designer.
I also think our terminology overly politicize this. Left-wing activists should actually read "dangerous, crazy people". Right-wing activitst "different, conflicting flavour of dangerous and crazy people".

Both have some political points but their head maialse absolutely dwarf these.
> We underestimated the number of developers that are dependent upon this capability in their environments across scenarios, and how the CLI was being used alongside Visual Studio to drive inner loop productivity by many.

This doesn’t sound like the full truth to me..
In fact levels.fyi shows an L4 Google SWE earning about $270k. GP's story of someone earning $300k in 2017 is certainly an outlier.
Maybe it feels like an IDE for people used to text editors like VIM. It's probably middle ground between a text editor and an IDE.
its all just 0s and 1s. on or off. an electron passing through billions of gates going down a path until it hits its destination.
The Mathematics of Cancel Culture
I don’t know if it “free” but I do know that monopolies that abuse their market position makes for a less efficient market.
> the amount of money ($1B+) SF spends on homeless yearly

> TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, 2013-2019
> 7,008 (2013) 6,775 (2015) 6,858 (2017) 8,011 (2019)

Are both of these figures correct?

Wikipedia[1] says it was $241M in 2016 but notes

"However, much of this spending is focused on housing the formerly homeless, or those at risk, and not the currently homeless"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_San_Franci...
I believe the U.K. government is the guarantor on all student loans in the country.

If so, it could be argued it’s legitimate for them to only offer loans based on courses that offer the taxpayer a return on their investment.
But that 95% of streamers also like just put a couple of hours into it, no? Or just turn Twitch on while they're playing without actually doing anything. The question is, out of the ones trying to make a living as a creator what ratio succeed.
"we as an industry" hurts.

It's funny how I feel questioning JSON here on HN is like starting a discussion about politics in a family diner.

I'm forever grateful to Google for demonstrating that all "the industry" is not fully committed to HTTP, JSON and scripting languages. It's honestly a relief to have encountered some sanity somewhere.

Oh god please help me, I just did it, I questioned JSON on HN!
Yes its strange how right-wing bias is "problematic".
I'm not aware of big tech ever finding left-wing bias a problem or even being prepared to admit it exists.
That's not the definition of bias, in either the colloquial or statistics sense.
Could we make a similar observation about mobile apps.

For example, how much do the "95%" of walled garden, mobile app developers make.

The discovery process for such apps is also interesting. Does the arrangment of apps into "Top 20", "Most popular", etc., type lists, as seen in Apple's AppStore, boost the success of the "5%" at the expense of the "95%" that become less likely to be discovered.

There is also an analogy to SERPs. Users are encouraged to consult only the "top result" on page one. This structure plays well with an ads sales business, where advertisers compete for a spot on the top of page one. Search results not in the top 5 are like the "95%", unlikely (and not intended) to be discovered.

To me, these "businesses" resemble a lottery in some respects. Winners are promoted but "99.9%" of players are not, and will never, be winners.

Granted, this is a subjective viewpoint I have had for a long time, and the necessary evidence to prove/disprove it is not made public, but the Twitch discovery seems to support the idea.
Surprising that Volkswagen and Boeing can be under scrutiny and pay massive fines but this EvilCorp gets a pass at everything.
> imagine AI overlords will be appearing in the next century

If early AI overlords were used to manipulate human perception, would most humans even know it happened?

This began in the early 2010s (e.g. Cambridge Analytica), if not earlier.
Nope. China has the steel. China has cheaper labour. China has more efficient logistics systems to move container from place it's constructed to a port.

The answer to China being better at 99% of manufacturing isn't subsidies, it's efficiencies.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t write the headline. It was provided by the site. I posted this link with this iOS Shortcut I found a while back.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e9c0fb1966ae433c828e1c6d414...
I also think self-hosted solutions can’t compete. Luckily, if hosted platforms (either non-profit or with true paying users) offer open API, there would be no issue interoperating with Mastodon et al.
Visual Studio's community edition is something entirely different from IntelliJ's community edition. IntelliJ is open source[1] but Visual Studio is proprietary with tricky license terms[2] that limit it to companies of a certain size, among other things.

[1] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

[2] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/mlt031819/
I think in this case it's more like "let's not implement something for one language".

In VS the Solution Explorer lists Project Items, not files. Eg it lists DLL References. This means the entire tree view goes through the IVsProject interfaces and you open Solutions and Projects, not folders.

VS Code works on files only and doesn't have a project system that can specify file nesting rules. The simple ask in the PR could be implemented, but it seems arbitrary and other languages will ask for their own rules. (Vue?)
The Guardian is one of the few good news sources left in the UK, after the Telegraph and others went full tabloid. Op-eds are often written by insane SJWs, but if you skip them the articles are often very good.
A monopoly is fine if it doesn’t hamper competition and doesn’t use its position to impact unrelated markets.

Shimano has a near monopoly on bike parts, and it’s mostly fine. DJI dominates the pro drone market, and it’s fine. All monopolies aren’t evil.
Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker
Huh? Doesn't exponential mean a self applied multipler? 1.0000001X a year is also exponential growth, as is 1.4x (40%) or 2x. Anything that grows on itself (the next is a multiplier of the previous number) is exponential.
How exactly are you earning 10% interest?
Challenges We Faced While Building a Super CI Pipeline
So that's why they quickly de-trend anything to the right of Karl Marx?
You can download the pdf and print it at a printers, and send the author a token of your appreciation. It's a gorgeous project!
Why is no one addressing the underlying mental health issues affecting homeless and not being neurotypical affects the ability to hold a job and function well in society which is a vicious cycle without psychiatric intervention for neuroatypical individuals.
"Fix: easy - don't use Twitter."

Externalities are a problem still. When you're a truck driver and your employer gets 100 angry emails and phone calls because someone tweeted a picture of you doing an "OK sign" to a passing motorist, then you lose your job, not being on Twitter wasn't an option.
VS has enabled fast and lazy development for me. I don't have to memorize if a type has a method or property or what parameters a method has. I just type a dot and the IDE will tell me everything I need to know. It's good for concentrating on business logic instead of details of frameworks and libraries, but less good for interview questions if you come around people which have fixation on details.
ProtonMail needs to come up with technologies such that it’s not in possession of user’s data in the first place.

Instead of, being in possession of user’s data and sometimes providing data to governments sometimes appealing.

As an example, can you implement a VPN service such that you don’t hold IP or DNS records at all (ie, not both simultaneously)?
Rogan already discussed the problem of homelessness with several experts, and the topic is something he cares a lot about. I wouldn’t dissmiss his opinions basen on the fact that he is „goddamn podcaster”. I don’t think he ever disputed that there is correlation between socio-economic status and addition. What he however questioned is the idea that giving addicted money and housing will solve the problem. San Franciso spends more money than any other city and gets the worst outcome so it seems he may have a point after all.
Another introvert here, working fully remotely since before COVID. I couldn't imagine working on a product I wasn't passionate about and genuinely wanted to succeed. Most of my motivation is based around doing interesting and socially valuable work. This doesn't have to be groundbreaking, but knowing I'm helping put out some good in the world is a large factor in choosing and staying with a company.

The team is also important, of course, but it's minor compared to the product as the way of working remotely is quite different from being in an office. To me it's mostly for the better, since everyone is focused on the product and not on some pointless team building events, company gossip or drama.

I hope you chose a more fulfilling industry than advertising. It's interesting that a sibling comment also mentions working on ads. I wonder what the breakdown of resignations per industry looks like, and how relevant remote work was in that decision.
I did some napkin math when the Twitch leak happened and it’s something like 0.04% of people trying make a livable wage. If you count all the people active streaming it was 0.01%. Will look up the post and edit it in.

Edit: And I was off in remembering by quite a bit the figures are 0.008% and 0.002%.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28771960
Design your day with the knowledge of your future capacity to perform
Prdikt will be a subscription app that helps you schedule your day to maximise flow and performance, not attendance, by monitoring biomarkers closely related to your ability to perform.

The service will then allow you to accelerate your performance by using a holistic approach to optimising your routine, helping you move those biomarkers (and your ability to perform) in a positive direction.

We are radically open and unreasonable believers that we can help create systemic change in how people worldwide use time and their abilities in the most powerful way.
A platform promoting one side of the political spectrum over another is not bias? There's no deliberation needed to meet the definition of bias. Every person have unconscious biases, and any structural system, including algorithms that promote content on social media can have unconscious biases as well. Simply stating that it's not bias does not cut it for me.
A Philosophy of Software Design, 2nd Edition
Beginner’s Guide to Docker – Part 3 – Debugging a Docker Build (Continued)