skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> paid search engines, [...], maps

Can you find me one? The only one I know about is Kagi which is in beta and invite-only.

The problem with the current status-quo is that as long as advertising powered by illicit data collection is possible in practice, it's not viable for a paid service to compete.

> Just change it for yourself and then you’re good.

It doesn't matter what you do if ad-tech scum will track you anyway and create a shadow profile by tricking your friends into giving out information about you such as how Facebook infers social graphs (including non-users) by sneaking into people's contacts lists.
Hey, if you're interested in working on reducing emissions in supply chains (Scope 3), reach out (no email in your profile).
Google turns off maps nav search history if you turn off web search history. Maps could easily switch to local to the device instead, since you usually nav with the same device over and over and could rebuild common history if you got a new device (or transfer history), but it feels like they want a carrot and stick.
again, you are removing all nuance. It is not an issue of "bad drivers", it is an issue of local driving norms. If every single driver is doing something, it is not an issue of removing bad drivers.

if you are driving under 70 mph on the 101 at 6:00am , you are endangering yourself and those around you.
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Bitcoin has elements of environment destroying ponzi scheme that can be a legit complaint against it.
My (non google) browser stores my history just fine.
How to check if search problem has no solution in depth limit search?
Depth-limited search can be terminated with two Conditions of failure:

Standard Failure: it indicates that the problem does not have any solutions.

Cutoff Failure Value: It defines no solution for the problem within a given depth limit.

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2021/02/uninformed-search-algorithms-in-ai/

https://www.javatpoint.com/ai-uninformed-search-algorithms

I checked for cut off failure. But I don't know how to check for standard failure. Can you guide me a bit?

[CODE=python]

# Python dictionary to act as an adjacency list

graph = {

'7' : ['19','21', '14'],

'19': ['1', '12', '31'],

'21': [],

'14': ['23', '6'],

'1' : [],

'12': [],

'31': [],

'23': [],

'6' : []

}

goal='6'

visited = [] # List of visited nodes of graph.

def dls(visited, graph, node,depth):

if(depth>=0):

if node not in visited:

visited.append(node)

if(node==goal):

print("goal found")

print("path to goal=",visited)

exit()

for neighbor in graph[node]:

dls(visited, graph, neighbor,depth-1)

print(node)

# Driver Code

print("Following is the Depth-First Search")

res=dls(visited, graph, '7',1)

if(res):

print("Path to goal node available")

print("Path",path)

else:

print("No path available for the goal node in given depth limit ie cut off failure")

print("visited=",visited)

[/CODE]
Hmm. I got an email yesterday saying my Heroku database was automatically upgrading, something I’ve never seen before. Maybe related?
This is an excellent question.

What I’ve noticed is that developers are incredibly annoyed when their tools don’t work well. Developers use their tools a lot, and when a tool starts “misbehaving” (resource hungry, sporadic failure, non ergonomic design etc) they are exposed to that failure constantly. This constant exposure can create intense feelings (either love or hatred) and nowhere to express them, so it will spill out on slack and on HN threads (eg count yourself lucky if you’ve worked somewhere that nobody has ranted about terraform).

So take these criticisms with a grain of salt. The creators of tools and the users aren’t always aligned on the most important thing to do next and you only have so much money and time to execute on as a company so you have to make trade offs.
Every computer I use seems to eat keystrokes somewhat.

Probably the worst one is a 2011 Mac Mini Server running MacOS which just can't keep up with how fast I type.

I have some Windows computers that seem to eat keystrokes and have other obnoxious keyboard-related behaviors, but I think most of those have to do with more complex situations like the focus not being in the right place, the 'end' key being close to the 'insert' button resulting in the 'insert/overstrike' toggle being wrong about 50% of the time, etc.
> Isn't it more poststructural?

I'm not an expert, so it might be. Although I tend to think that postmodern is a rejection of any objective authority truth. Whereas from what I understand about poststructuralists, they still believe there's some sort of Truth you can attain, they just disagree with structuralists about how to get there. And in this case I tend to feel it's more of a post-modern "tearing down anything that seems like an authority truth" than anything else.

> Though I think this is more just the subject of 'history' and figuring out what exactly happened.

Agree.

> Some people seem to get defensive when they find it the history they have been taught is challenged. Why not be wearisome about the flawed system/culture that keeps promulgating half truths?

Agree. but I think you can replace some people with most people. And it's very understandable to feel scared and angry when someone challenges what you think is true about reality.
Hard disagree. Having that in the hands of the OS is a separation of concerns issue. I want my OS people focusing on OS stuff. The versions of installed apps is up to the developers of those apps, doubly so on something like a browser that updates rapidly.
In general, even outside of a strictly academic setting (e.g. books), there would seem to be a lot of good reasons to attribute when possible. Does that mean that every concept needs to be traced back to its origin--even if that's possible? Mostly not. But especially if you're lifting a paragraph wholesale from someone, yes you should footnote it or otherwise attribute it.

This is of course harder in other media.
I don't want to cite, don't want to be cited, don't want to care about any of it. If that means I have to subset my code down, so be it. It's worth it to not have to care about all of that unproductive mess.
This is especially timely and relevant as a recent John's Hopkins study reports: https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2022-02-02/a...
Well in theory it could even be done with the station keeping capable modules, a very gentle push indeed, it would just take time and maybe refueling..
> The “mother of all short squeezes” theory has been debunked over and over again

Could you post a link to a good piece that debunks?
I can't speak to the claims about potential profitability of GameStop's business ventures, but one theory endorsed by a lot of the /r/wallstreetbets and /r/SuperStonk redditors is that hedge funds still have significant undisclosed shorts and we have yet to see the "mother of all short squeezes" (MoASS), in which case the stock price can be well in excess of what is justified by future profitability.

Related to this theory, a lot of them believe the ease of closing short positions is facilitated by shady phantom shares and are trying to stamp that out by directly registering shares with the broker Computershare.

Disclaimer: I own GME stock.
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1. We’re talking about people who have already switched it off.

2. There is no need for any tracking to implement this. It can be done on the client.
It's a historic railroad bridge that was originally designed to allow the passage of ships. Both its original use and the accommodation afforded by its design show deference to the city's industrial economy. I'd bet 10:1 that if the original designers were around today and you asked them what we should do they'd say "Just remove the middle part, that's why we built it that way" and would have no qualms about it.
HN is just a web site where people can post opinions. "HN" doesn't complain --- you can't reasonably attribute one post to "HN".
Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)
We gathered around daily at 1pm ish (GMT) and debated whether to buy JNUG or JDST calls today, shitposted about $4 AMD shares and called each other homosexuals.

It was perfect
There are many options, as evidenced by the replies here. I've used Zoho for a few years now, no issues.
Germany Blocks Russian State Broadcaster RT
There should be enough people in those billions to sustain a paid alternative.
Hey, if you're interested in working on reducing emissions in product supply chains (Scope 3), reach out (no email in your profile).
PeerTube has livestreams, and they're even P2P load-balanced; this reduces the cost quite a bit.
Did you open a bug report with the said document? You might never know, the corner case with your specific document might be fixed by a willing developer.
Yep, Bard is part of BD, which is a large beast. Abbott/Abbvie always has something going for them. UnitedHealth has done well for years and years as it has grown. There might also be a stable industrial I am forgetting like a chemical company or 3M.

But overall, giant companies with 30 year runs of knockout growth and/or dividends like Intel are Cinderella stories. Google will be the next one to qualify in a few years I suppose.
> If a gov't approached your employer and asked for whatever they have on file

Which is why people don't want Google to keep it on file.
> Most of this content is only there to solicit an ad impression, not enough people would pay money for it.

Exactly. There’s no issue.

> There's a reason you don't see a Patreon or other way of paying for the vast majority of clickbait content.

The vast majority of content, clickbait or not doesn’t have a patreon to begin with. Most patreon have social media presence which includes ads. Sounds like the worst of both worlds.
Using radars with only distance and relative speeds data, no direction at all, to identify equipment has a long history in the military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_MASINT#Non-Cooperative_T...

Humans come in greater variety than airplanes but recognition, especially with things like gait analysis, should be quite possible. Now, I'm skeptical that a photo of a person contains enough information to allow for mmWave recognition though, but I'd assume video does.
> Companies always prioritize a strong referral, ignoring mediocre interview performance, and will even skip the reference checks so I don't have to bug my network.

I've never found this to be true.
>morally counter intuitive

That is the insight that is why I started this comment thread in the first place. Honestly, I was hoping for more interesting discussion on HN from it than I got.
When you wrote "bridge", I assume you meant either the "Johor–Singapore Causeway" [1] or "Malaysia–Singapore Second Link" [2]. There are two bridges that connect Singapore to another country -- both lead to Malaysia.

Are you familiar with LBGT rights in Malaysia? Just a quick look at the Wiki page [3] says: <<Penalty: Up to 20 years imprisonment with caning, fines, and deportation. Muslim citizens may be charged in Islamic court. Vigilante executions and beatings are also tolerated.>> That doesn't sound like a good place for LGBT people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johor%E2%80%93Singapore_Causew...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia%E2%80%93Singapore_Sec...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Malaysia
The idea has some theoretical merit to it, but the math doesn't add up at all when you run the numbers. The size and strength of the parachutes you would need would be massive. Much bigger than anything today. Don't forget you also need to bring up the parachutes and somehow attach them to the iss in a way where the stress of the deceleration won't snap the iss in half (hint: not possible).

I think this is better demonstrated as a smaller scale thought experiment. Consider the various space capsules over time, from Mercury & Apollo all the way through to dragon. They all use parachutes, but not until late in the landing process. That's because they all use the upper atmosphere as a method of slowing down, and they can't use a parachute up there because, again, the numbers don't work.
The DPAs are not in the business of pre-approving, much like your local court won't pre-approve your pre-nup and so you might have to fight over it in court in an acrimonious divorce.

You can of course retain outside help to advise you but there's no guarantee that they are right and many of the consultancies and providers were incentivized to compete on maximum opt ins. Maybe the CMPs and the adtech companies can fight it out in court over whether the CMPs misled the adtech companies or they just gave the adtech companies options which the adtech companies misused.

The ruling is not just "fix your language", though that's what the industry will be incentivized to try, again. They all bandwagoned on hiding secondary opt out checkboxes under "legitimate interest" and this wrist slap tells them it's not ok:

> Fails to properly request consent, and relies on a lawful basis (legitimate interest) that is not permissible because of the severe risk posed by the online advertising tracking (Article 5(1)a, and Article 6 GDPR)

> Fails to respect the requirement for “data protection by design” (Article 25 GDPR)

The route to complying is clear. Don't track without opt in. Know where the user data is going, not just "whichever vendor happens to be in the winning ad". Don't use dark patterns to encourage the opt in. It's the industry's attempts to bury its head in the sand because it hurts their bottom line and their search for increasingly convoluted workarounds that is making this complicated.
How F# is perceived in the industry
> modest research gains

You also have to add in the PR benefits of each. If children aren't interested in space today, there won't be any government funding for space missions when those children become voters.

In that light, dropping manned missions entirely will probably reduce interest in space quite a bit. Probably moreso than a rover on mars that figures out the composition of some rock.
You can just divide the number of possible jobs for one human by the number of teams.

It's, wait for it, just like the realization that you can't know "black people", only some finite number of them.

You're showing motivated reasoning, because you're smart enough to follow that argument and chose not to. Not my problem, I'll never see your name on this site again.
Over 15 years, across dozens of machines in various homes and organization? Unlikely.

I do have a big difference of stability depending of the OS and app though. Windows LO is more stable than Linux LO, and Draw is more stable than Calc, which is more stable than Writer.
You almost never need to reach for advanced typing unless you're writing a generic library.
Stablecoins are a vital part of decentralized exchanges (DEXs). Since there is no central party running the exchange, it is impossible to store or account for a FIAT money. With stables, you can pull out of crypto on a DEX and hold some (virtual) inflationary FIAT with very low slippage and fees. You're free to re-enter at a later time, or swap 1:1 for FIAT on a CEX.

Stables have the transferability properties of crypto (borderless, fast, no counter-party risk) without the downside of the erratic price fluctuations. A common critique of crypto is that it's too volatile to be paid in, or spent day-to-day, which is fair. Stables solve that mostly.

Other issues with backing/reserves and who is getting rich off the interest are important but I feel that stables are a valuable piece of the financial space and I hope they can be regulated lightly to eliminate some of those black-box characteristics.
> the cost would be astronomical

Absolutely. But, I think we may be also be underestimating the size of the market for things like this... Just search for Enron coffee mugs or pokemon cards on Ebay.
Those are pretty common. Definitely unrelated
Rotterdam bridge to be dismantled so Jeff Bezos’ yacht can pass through
The SEC report confirms that shorts closed their positions and short interest dropped significantly over a year ago, and it has remained low since. You can't have a short squeeze without significant short interest.
To be fair that's just and adaption and extension of the "Can't stump the Trump" and "LibCuck" thing from 2015.

Reddit really, really cant let a joke die.
I think the elephant in the room are political ads, and in some regions personal civil rights.

So the screwing is not done by the advertisers but by the kind of ads and the third party access to data.

Also companies like Google seem to have a very clear stance wrt to both, while companies like FB in the past have been pivotal in political landslides, screwed-over level personalized political influencing...
It's kind of the opposite for me. It takes much less time to understand what Ada-written code is doing compared to any of the C-type languages, or even Rust. It is very plainly written. Verbose, yes, but much more plainly written.

Just take a look at this, and tell me it's not legible: https://github.com/joakim-strandberg/advent_of_code/blob/mas...
The efficient market hypothesis is bleeding out in an alley.
Well, if we start killing the greedy ones now, perhaps in a few thousand years. Or we can just find non-evolutionary ways to keep it in check.
Do you know how you don't pay capital gains tax? You leverage your assets and are given credit. That way you don't need to sell the assets to make use of them.

Guess who typically does this? The very wealthy. Guess who doesn't do it? Less wealthy people.

Many of these tax laws that are enacted end up affecting people who are upper middle class and don't affect the mega rich at all.

> No one is going around breaking windows to give window makers jobs.

Not literally no. But metaphorically it does happen all the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window#O...
You asked for anecdotal evidence against this belief of yours and you got it. What do you want now?
you are describing my job security. I've had a career spanning 25 years speeding up other peoples scripts.

For example once $LARGE_BIOTECH retired its inhouse supercomputer (A TruCluster composed of multiple GS1280s, the epitome of classical UNIX power) and replaced it with Linux and NFS. The principal engineer noticed his pipeline never finished on Linux but how no idea where to start.

Within five minutes I noticed that GNU/Linux sort uses $TMPDIR for large sorts (multipass). They had pointed TMPDIR at an NFS mount and were doing a multipass sort over NFS. On TruCluster, tmp pointed to an ultrafast cluster diskl.
Did it have subject line

> Maintenance is required for your database

If so, they're pretty common; almost certainly not related.
Why would the one imply the other? The Spartans were the most military driven nation in history (possibly excepting the Mongols, who are another fine example) but they weren't exactly open-arms to foreign soldiers..
Ask HN: Is Google Chrome Blocking Me from Downloading an AdBlocker?
I tried to download Adlock via a webpage loaded in Chrome and I noticed there was no download button. It seemed like bad design, but then I went to the same webpage on Safari and noticed that the download button was prominently positioned on the same page multiple times (https://adlock.com/adlock-for-macos/). Do you think this is due to a design issue on the website, or Google actively making it harder to block Adsense?
> What does a transpiler have? What is the common factor between all transpilers?

High to high translation. Limited lowering.

> Who decides on this layering of which languages are higher level or lower level?

You know it when you see it.

Who decides what makes a book a 'horror book'? There's no authority on that either. You know it when you see it.

> C2Rust doesn't call itself a transpiler, it calls itself a translator.

Yes a translator - a translating compiler - a transpiler.

> This term seems completely useless to me.

Not sure why the term seems to wind people up so much - it just add a little extra info.
It wouldn't be able to control anything on the backend, but neither can it control the tracker behabvour in the cookie popups. That's where the border between technical and legal issues is crossed.

My idea for consent would be a sort of challenge/response protocol, where the sending party sends a request for consent with all the details they need and the browser approves or denies it. Preferably, this would be done automatically based on the user's settings. It could even be part of the CORS system, leveraging the browser's "firewall" to ensure no data gets leaked to misconfigured trackers and forcing companies to comply.

The thing about consent is that it must be freely given. Therefore, it should always be opt-in. The user can opt into certain stuff from some kind of simple control after reviewing the requests the other party sends, but that stuff should be hidden and denied by default.

A general declarative method would probably lack some finesse. For example, when your user account has a certain country set, a server might load in payment providers on the fly, and the manifest should reflect that. The manifests we have today would get cached way too quickly, I think.
I spend my last weekend setting up Home Assistant using VMWare on my spare machine. To say that it has been very rewarding is understatement. I am completely blown away by the possibilities that it enables. For instance, I have all my unsupported devices magically supported in HomeKit via the HomeKit Bridge integration in HA.
You know what I like? When I’m reading something and some window pops in my eye interrupting me with a beg to subscribe to some bullshit.

No wait. I hate that. Why would you think people want that? Why do we build crap like that? Why do we tolerate it? This is our community, we are the ones who build it.

Let’s take back control and crush crappy behavior like that.
If a site offers the choice between either funding via "good" (Non tracking, no malware etc) ads, and a fee, then I'm completely happy with their business model.
A lot of sites however, don't do this.

Of course, the reality is that if they _did_ use "good" ads, then the free version wouldn't make enough money (at least not in today's ad market). So either the free version couldn't exist, OR it would need to be subsidized by the paid version being even more expensive.

But this problem could go away if "bad" ads weren't allowed or possible. Because then the price sites get per impression on those ads could go up, as advertisers can't simply pay more for precisely targeted ads.

Now, there are a few risks with this: 1) There is every risk that money on the regular web dries up, as targeting is more effective in apps and other siloed environments. We have already seen this to some extent 2) If online advertising is less efficient because of worse targeting, then traditional advertising will again be relatively more attractive, so some of the money would leave the internet economy that way, returning to traditional advertising.

1 and 2 taken together might mean that a lot of "free" content (and I use scare quotes) will simply disappear. And I think that's a risk we should be willing to take. And not only that: I'd go so far as saying that even if 90% of internet users answered in a survey that "I don't care about tracking ads, I just want free content", that's not something regulators should care about at all.