skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL you just mentioned the worst thing that could happen to wordpress for client-side work.
These plugins are a hot mess of unneeded feature. The amount of code and conditions they create to do something you could solve in a line or two of CSS is appalling.
The markup they output is some of the worst, bloated, unreadable markup I've ever read.
What makes Lisp so good?
Hey prog5, you should check out Payload CMS if you need that type of flexibility and extensibility. Payload has Hooks that allow you to do exactly what you're saying.
don't publish a website if it doesn't work with all major browsers. that's not how the web is supposed to work.
Why the biggest streaming service is frustrated with India
Yeah I don't think search is actually the solution to the problem of discovery, it was just the first avenue I tried. Although the metadata from a search engine database does open up a lot of options.
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I don't think the comment was about corruption but about an oppressive political climate
That is the total amount spent not the amount that citizens took home.
I think tribe in this context is "social unit of size and type humans spent most of their evolutionary history in, are best adapted to".
Is there any way to fight SEO? That seems like a big problem nobody seems to be working on. Or maybe working on but failing. If we can reduce the efficacy of SEO then we can fight spam right? I understand its a feedback loop where once they improve something, someone will figure out how to beat it. But maybe it can be adaptive in some way?
Does it also scrub those sites from search results?
>The point is; Singapore doesn't toe the US line on China and therefore gets HRW and similar thrown after them.

Human Rights Watch isn't part of the American government. They've criticized the US numerous times. So much so that they are concluding that the US is trying to discredit them.(1) Singapore might simply not have been invited because they're not a real democracy.

>Which is absurd as Singapore is by far the best-governed country in the neighbourhood.

Best governed (according to you) != democracy.

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(1) https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/23/us-seeks-discredit-human...
> Collecting and selling digital data is not a legitimate business enterprise.

According to who, you?

> It’s spyware.

How is it spying when the people are freely giving away their data?

> If no one wants to pay for your product, the market has spoken. Too bad.

Very true, however it's not clear how a truism about something else relates to the topic? Was this supposed to be persuasive about collecting digital data?

> We must correct the insanity and digital economic imbalance that spyware businesses have created.

Fair enough, but that entails not creating or fostering an imbalance by constantly providing the internet with your personal information.
> They have a massive design flaw, and they didn't even mention that in the article.

From the article:

> This is why users who disabled Telemetry would see this problem resolved even though the problem is not related to Telemetry functionality itself and could have been triggered otherwise.

Don't spread FUD.
At first I thought the popup at the end was showing the distribution of everyone’s scores which would be cool. I’d rather see how well I did compare to everyone else than how well I did compared to myself. Especially since it was my first time playing.
Kinda odd why this comment is so downvoted, I was under the impression this was pretty common knowledge…
YouTube’s new censorship tactic is to limit streams that are too popular
> I'm OK with that as long as there is an equivalent HTTP header which means "NO! Do not track anything".

Why is there a condition attached to this? If I communicate clearly to Google that they should track me as much as they want and hide all popups from me, say by sending them a notarized letter, what legitimate interest do you have at this point to interfere?

Given how much of my time and wellbeing has been wasted the last couple of years with those popups, my instinctive reaction to this phrasing is honestly that the GDPR-fanboy faction would be well punished if they had to continue to deal with them for the rest of their earthly lives.
God I hate the modern web. Why the hell does my browser need more than periodic contact with any server other than my DNS provider and the host of the website I'm connecting to?
I don't understand the findings. The TCF system doesn't collect personal information. The spec is at [0]. CMPs are the popups responsible for creating the TCF string. The IAB provides a spec for how these should operate, but does not supply one of its own. These can absolutely misbehave, and the IAB has previously notified the adtech industry about known misbehaving CMPs.

[0] https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/GDPR-Transpa...
Doesn’t sound like a well-thought-out plan, at least not from the info you’ve provided. Update with reasoning for the move, it’ll make advice germane. Even the “20-minute drive from Sand Hill Road” trope would be one archaic reason, and would answer the question right away.
It's also extremely important that companies can't insulate themselves from consequences by outsourcing compliance functions to a "designated villain".
Google is not the victim in this. It is probably the prime tool in the presentation of reality. It fulfils the role that the legacy media used to do - ie newspapers.

Google wants to intermediate reality for you. A perfect example of that is how it tried to kill rss - first by making a fantastic rss client so that most people used it, only to then to stop the service. This was not due to budgetary considerations, - it was by design! RSS is puts you directly in touch with the content you like - this is a threat to a company such as google and whoever runs them.

If you dig deeper, you will see that google has long-standing associations with military intelligence.

"Both Brin and Page were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library" and it was funded through the National Science Foundation, among other federal agencies.[9][10][11][12] Brin and Page were also part of a computer science research team at Stanford University that received funding from Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS), a program managed for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) by large intelligence and military contractors."

from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google

If you look at the CIA's venture capital firm - In-Q-Tel, you will see that they funded google too:

"In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.[10] The shares were a result of Google's acquisition of Keyhole, Inc, the CIA-funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

(Why In-Q-Tel require a funding arm at all, is another question you can ponder.)

When the Edward Snowden fiasco was running, I also recollect reading about 3-letter agencies having offices in google's offices - no questions asked.

TLDR

If you think that the 3-letter agencies are about keeping you safe from the world, you have this the wrong way around. They are about managing the people - they cannot allow information to be unrestrained. Google is an essential part of the infrastructure.
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I think you just found a mission statement for NASA that congress can get behind: Welfare for Billionaires.
>>So in your opinion it was the companies fault that they didn't purposely leave a competitive advantage on the table while their competition surely utilized it?

Yes, absolutely. People who are making money hands over fist should not be lining up for corporate welfare just because everyone else is.

It's too bad so many people are OK with disgusting behavior - just because 'everyone is doing it'.

How much better could we take care of people that truly needed assistance, if we didn't have to worry about making sure that the large numbers of people who don't actually need the help, weren't also lining up at the trough.

Amazing to me that people will continue to make excuses for rich pr*cks that abuse the system to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense.
Obama couldn't extradite a man out of an embassy of a country that was not cooperating.
> I think it's likely that most of the tic-tac things were some kind of projected image.

A projected image that is perfectly represented in three dimensions, viewable from multiple angles simultaneously, and giving off appropriate radar signatures to match its position in real time? That in itself would be something quite astonishing, and would certainly be a matter of national security.
I kind of like this one, but it doesn't seem to support keyboard input, which is a bummer.
The observer effect has nothing to do with observers, it's just that entangling with large systems decoheres small systems where you can observe quantum effects.
Thats an interesting way to look at it. Picking a specific culture war, I’d like to examine gay conversion therapy. Who would you say are the covert interests pulling strings on either side?
> [...] it is true that we 'make truth', but we do not make it as we please, as truth-making at some level is a discourse with physical reality and has to cohere.

I love this. Thank you.
Even Hitler's Germany was considered well-governed by some, until it wasn't.
It seems that mass media, in reaction to the Internet and facing the increased competition, went with the approach where they increased the frequency and churn of the news articles and content, at the expense of quality.

However, this is a very print-centric approach, where you print something and cannot change it afterwards, and maybe throw the old newspaper away that day. I wonder why they cannot adopt a different journalistic paradigm, similar to for example Wikipedia or Wikivoyage, where instead of publishing hundreds of articles about a topic, one a day, they would instead create a sort of curated portals which would be fine-tuned and updated over the longer time periods, focusing on quality of information.

The same goes for most online discussions; they are extremely ephemeral and stupid points are argued over and over. It would be nice to summarize the main points in a particular discussion from time to time and then continue.

So I think there is plenty of space to innovate like this.
How is anything enforced? I don't see this as much different from anything else that companies have to apply with. You can never reach 100% certainty that anyone complies with the law. Be it GDPR, work environment law, product health req, etc.

You do inspections. You demand proves of compliance, and when said proves are deemed inadequate you sanction them until something adequate is provided.

Like everything else with law its fuzzy and ongoing.
I recently had to research and compare analytics services for work. Type in Heap vs MixPanel and look at the results, the entire first page is garbage comparison sites. I really struggled to find any impartial, real reviews.
Uhm, sorry but Yandex of all things? Given that this is a Russian company with Kremlin having a "golden veto" power in?

No, thanks. Google may be evil but moving my data from Google to the Russian government spooks is really not a solution.
I feel like throwing it in their face that lots of recruiters reach out to you is unnecessary.

I also suspect asking for company name will scare off most recruiters because if you go around them, they dont get paid.

They do say keep interviewing to keep the skill sharp. So perhaps there is something to be said here.

Here's the one I got today, when I try to reply it just says 'you're replying to a mailing list' so really I'm nobody to this one.

>I am reaching out to see if you would be interested in exploring Executive Level opportunities.
>I have reviewed your LinkedIn profile and found your skills and experience to be impressive and relevant to the job position.

>If you are interested in learning more about our company and the position, we would love to set up a quick phone call. We would be pleased to answer any questions you may have and give you all the details about the job.

>Please reply to this email with an updated copy of your resume.

There's no way he 'reviewed my linkedin' while also just mailing list form. In fact if I look at it. The mailing form only really has $FIRSTNAME and that's about as much effort as they put in.

Yet they want me to produce an updated resume and join a quick call? Oh man that's asking.
Demonstrate you're living more than X months in your yatch out of jurisdictional water.... profit!
Ahhh thanks for the shout out to Payload! I'm one of the founders. seanwilson, Payload is technically open source and completely free forever for up to one admin panel user. There are no restrictions at all besides that and the code is fully open on GitHub.

Would this model work for you, or would you like to see changes to our current model?
> Why is there a condition attached to this?

Because the law explicitly wants to avoid companies being able to annoy people into doing this, and thus requires to make the opposite action equally possible and easy.
This is not really accurate.

The enforcement of GDPR is still up to national civil services/judiciaries, in this case it was a cooperation of multiple national protection authorities.

Even the legislation itself necessarily involved national governments and national civil servants in national ministries

GDPR being an EU level legislation has more to do with the absolute nightmare it would be for the internal market to have 27 different standards and the drastically lower leverage available for enforcement than disinterest in the subject
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that can be challenged in court though.
Indeed. Then again, I'm pleasantly surprised by those rare web sites that, even when using some standard "consent" dialog, default the legitimate consent bit to objected. Thanks for not scamming me, I guess...
I read the parent comment as a joke
The browser would have broken the next time a malformed http3 request happened. Read the quote again.
We designers must reasonably but seriously convey the user-hostility of these patterns to higher-ups at every available opportunity. Sure, you'll get overruled by the dollar-focused Jr. Marketing Exec. On the other hand, the folks who say things like "Refuse! It's a designers job to say no!" probably have much bigger savings accounts than I and most others do... but not saying anything implies consent, and that's when behavior that's bad for your users and bad for the world become a silently absorbed into your corporate praxis.
I lived in the second gayest city in America for a good while and I wasn’t walking in on gay orgies. I don’t recall a single instance of gay public affection despite being outside often, but I also don’t recall any straight instances either because I don’t care about it. I have good success finding desirable partners and don’t hold feelings of jealousy or anything so any instances of PDA leave my mind because I don’t care about them.

It seems like either a personal problem, or a problem with lawlessness in general. Would you be happier walking in on straight orgies? Is that legal in Singapore? Seems wild that they’d allow that, but your post implies it.
Come on. Christian is not ethnicity. It’s entirely self-identity. If Jesus existed, his followers were Sephardic Jewish Christians too.
It depends on the sexual activities undertaken.

HIV/AIDS is extremely rarely (maybe never) sexually transmitted in female-female intercourse. The CDC notes a "negligible" risk of transmission from sex toys.

HIV/AIDS is contagious through vaginal intercourse. Transmission is fairly low, though certainly not risk free, because most people aren't bursting blood vessels during typical vaginal intercourse. It does happen, though.

HIV/AIDS is most contagious through anal intercourse, and especially for the receptive partner. This is, as far as I know, regardless of the sexual orientation of the participants (presuming there's an actual penis involved and not a toy).

The CDC has data at https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/riskbehaviors.html

Long story short, it's probably not worth it for most people unless they're engaging in unprotected anal sex with people who have unknown HIV status.
I just upgraded to LibreOffice 7.3 after seeing this post, and the upgrade fixed a problem that I had with LibreOffice on Windows 10 that I haven't encountered on other platforms (macOS and Linux), where typing text in LibreOffice Writer had a noticeable delay. After upgrading, the delay is now gone. Thank you LibreOffice developers for resolving this issue; I've been using LibreOffice ever since it forked from OpenOffice.
Blurry icons on macOS: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122113
Crash with Skia on macOS: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145843
Crash on intel macs on macOS Monterey: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146759

LO needs more general QA testing and more dev time invested towards macOS the neglected OS. All this needs to be financed and things are not so easy finding solutions for this decade old problem.
I've heard many times that it's a difficult book that I'm thoroughly put off. Can you give me a sales pitch on why I should read it?
> which anyone doing anything remotely related to HTTP knows is a mistake.

Only if you haven't updated your knowledge since HTTP/1.1 days...
No need for that if they just complied with GDPR.

Consent must be given consciously in informed way - therefore NOTHING can be pre-checked by any dialog to make it comply with GDPR.

They just need to somehow ban dark patters, or standardize the dialog. To be honest, just one high profile case that interprets dark pattern as 'uninformed consent'(therefore not legal under GDPR) would be enough.
YouTube: Due to limited creator history we're limiting the number of views
A drag and drop page builder can churn out a page in a fraction of the time and many plugins generate fairly decent HTML, it’s rarely worth coding from scratch any more.
445 million people.
HN has too much politics these days.
well, not profit, but at least that should mean a few tax breaks. Though not sure you'd make a profit when taking into consideration the cost of the yatch
Electronics devices are full of protective features against low-current high-voltage events. That's exactly because you can fry some parts just by touching them, and people do not want to entire devices to be that sensitive.

As a rule, you need both voltage and current to kill a device. For MOSFETs, that's indeed very little current, but most components are far more forgiving, and the MOSFETs are always protected.

Also, resistance causes the voltage to drop. How much it drops depends on the details of the device protection, but you certainly won't get a 1MV drop inside the device if you have many Mohm of resistance outside of it.
"Tesla has been accused of inflating its sales figures in Australia after a report released by the electric-vehicle lobby group claimed 15,000 examples were sold locally last year "

The word "examples" here, is that what we'd call "Units" here in the US?
Unlikely, types intentionally cannot affect the emitted JavaScript. You can always get raw JavaScript from TypeScript code by blindly erasing the type annotations (and transforming a few special syntaxes).
The latest updates from httpie have an insomnia type rest client workspace thing.

https://httpie.io/product
I'm sure everyone is used to typing:

'VanVan motorcycle starting issue reddit'

'FJ Cruiser clutch chirp forum'

Adding the "reddit" or "forum" tag makes the results way more useful. Is there a way to tell Google to only include forum-like results?
> Real tech people don't blather.

The issue is that some people confuse being polite with blathering.

https://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html
depends on the scale of your tax bill
Despite the headline the details seem eminently reasonable. The bridge isn't going anywhere. They just asked the town if they can R&R the middle section of the bridge because the boat can't pass under it. This is a movable railway bridge so the R&R procedure is very, very simple and non-intrusive compared to any sort of bridge with a static span where the middle may be integral to the strength of the rest.

This sort of temporary removal of infrastructure is bog standard in the "hauling absurdly large and heavy things" world. It'll probably be a 9pm-5am closure or something like that and the locals will get to look at a larger than usual boat moored just upstream of the bridge and a large marine crane moored downstream in the days leading up to it.
127m being meters, not millions (although heaven knows how much this thing costs).

And the dismantling being limited to temporarily removing the center span of the bridge as well, in case that was ambiguous.

I don’t have any affection for Bezos, but this doesn’t seem that ridiculous to me. The municipality wants the jobs that come with building yachts, the trade off of having to sometimes adjust infrastructure to make it happen seems reasonable.
I definitely agree that mobile is the way to start but I'm sitting in front of my computer most of the day and definitely don't want to be picking up my tiny phone to use the awkward keyboard. I'm definitely going to hold out until the web ui launches.
> Our national elected governments are not interested in actually fixing things like this

Data protection laws existed before GDPR. GDPR itself is not that different from Swedish data protection laws, for example.

Everyone ignored them for years (in case of French laws, for decades, apparently). So, the next step is to pass and enforce the law through the EU.
Sure, that's why I said that mine isn't. I know that's not the case for everyone, but it is for me and many people I know, at least. Its obviously not the case for everyone, many people will have a phone tied to an address, but many people also don't. My phone is tied to me, but whether or not the provider has an address depends on if I have a bill phone or not (many people here do not).

I also wonder EU countries, including Sweden, would actually allow telecom providers to share that information with other parties such as emergency services or whether that would be against data protection laws.

Besides, prior to the pandemic, there was also a high likelihood that I wouldn't be at home, if you called me on a random day at a random time, so even if my phone were tied to my address, it wouldn't be a good idea for emergency services to rely on that.
That's the dream. We will see if it ends up being a reality. But for the last decade we've seen a similar pattern as various chains become popular: fee costs rise dramatically.

ETH intends to be a global computer for everybody. Imagine if the number of smart contracts went up by 100x. 1000x. 10,000x. This isn't the sort of thing that you can scale by simply buying more machines in a datacenter. Maybe people will solve the fee problem, but if they don't then this is going to become an even bigger problem as virtually nobody will ever want to transact on chain because of incredibly high fees.
Ah... to be this rich where a bridge is dismantled for you!
Firstly, Windows is getting progressively more complex. Each new version seems to have a new ux. I help some old family members with their computers and they have a hard time knowing what’s what when I bring them a new pc.

Secondly, I found it very difficult to install another browser like chrome. It wouldn’t let me install chrome unless I downloaded a specific app from Microsoft store to allow my machine to use another browser besides edge. All the while closing annoying pop ups about how edge is just like chrome.

I’m done with their products.
Aldente for battery management.
I'm sure Jeff's taxes must be interesting.