skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, you don't even need to do a search now. In my iPhone, as soon as go to google, two thirds of the screen are covered by obnoxious google ads about their crapware "google app".

Guess nobody wants it on iOS and they are going with the "spam the user until they comply", like they do with YouTube Pro. They are the digital equivalent of an abusive partner that doesn't accept "no" as an answer.
Scandinavian here.

It's not a political thing, maybe more as a side effect of living in a society that promotes well-thougth actions and good planing and gives you the tools to achieve things.

That being said, I consider the the Scandinavian "socialism" the perfect combination of communism-light and capitalism-light: you can get rich if you work hard, but your boss can't get extremely rich by paying you far below a living wage. In the long run it's a win-win for everyone.
That doesn’t really work if your holy speech is merely mediocre.

There is a reason people try to lump in any criticism with absolute insanity like the pizzagate conspiracies. They need the contrast to be as big as they can make it, so their story appears better than it is. Because on its own it really isn’t quite good enough.
What could Google do to fix this problem next time? Maybe make a commitment to buy back the hardware at purchase price if the service ever shut down?
Ask HN: Which search engine do you recommend?
With Google under high HN criticism, which search engine do you recommend?

I've used DuckDuckGo (+ Lite), StartPage, Qwant, Searx and recently got accepted for the Kagi beta. While I kind of like all of them, I'm looking for privacy, thus I don't trust any U.S.-based provider. I believe only Qwant is European-based.
Several trading sites (years ago now) had chat features on the side. They started out great and had mild spam and vulgar conduct. Over a few months they became so bad I could only look at it for a few laughs.

They hired more moderators to no avail and ultimately shut them down.
Excellent reply. And absolutely fascinating research. Thanks.
When will Google itself be on this list?

With the decline of Google search quality, it feels like they might have made themselves incredibly vulnerable to an attack against their golden goose.
but on the opposite side of the spectrum, worrying way too little about accommodating likely future requirements down the road in such a way that the giant hairy mess they create is basically impossible to change
There's been over 100 million switches sold and 26 million copies of Zelda. Even if every single person that bought Zelda would have not bought a Switch, that would still put over 75 million switches sold.

Even the best selling game - Mariocart - is on fewer than half of the consoles.
"Apple CFO Luca Maestri said that Apple's install base of devices hit a new all-time high as well, which helps drive services growth."

"Cloud services, Apple Music , advertising, video, and payments saw all-time revenue records, while the App Store saw a new June quarter revenue record."

"Services brought in $17.5 billion during the quarter"

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/27/apple-services-revenue-...

"The Company posted a June quarter record revenue of $81.4 billion"

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/07/apple-reports-third-q...

=> Services is already 22% of their revenue and their strongest growth segment.
> …parts of the country becoming more liberal (typically the people that profit from the current system) and other parts becoming ever more conservative (typically the rural areas)

What’s the “system” here?

Rural areas do benefit from government subsidies and redistribution the most, as far as I understand.
> Windows could certainly tighten the security by optionally only allowing foreground/focused apps to access

That would break clipboard managers which are very useful tools to have in various occasions. E.g. in a previous job i worked at, some audio designers used a clipboard manager to quickly fill settings in various tool fields.

Fun fact: most clipboard managers tend to use global shortcut keys for cycling through the recent N copies (or for pasting specifically tagged content, e.g. copy something and mark it to be used for pasting after Shift+Alt+1 is hit, same for Shift+Alt+2 for something else, etc), which is another thing that you'd hear security concerns for :-P
Making money from Ads?
It is against the law to run around with a swastika and raise your hand and do the Hitler-Gruß, it is illegal to display a SS-flag. It is illegal even to own such insignia. Denying the holocaust can also be illegal etc.

Yet many of the German Nazis still have those at home, they can be shown in educational contexts or in museums etc. Forbidding something doesn't make it go away, it just shows where the free democratic society you live in draws the border.

Germany has been a democracy before the Nazis took over in the 20s and it is one again today. However many Germans are well aware that this could change again in the future. You might have heard about the paradoxon of intolerance: if you are tolerant to fascists, because tolerance is your highest value, one day they might come to power and create an intolerant society — therefor if maintaining a tolerant society is our goal we paradoxically have to show intolerance to those who want to abolish it.

This means Germans weigh the value of our democracy surviving fascist uprising higher than even freedom of speech.
Amazon reportedly circling exercise bike maker Peloton as company flounders
Custom plan: $599/mo. Really ? Eject!

There are thousands of open source apps that do this things free and better (D3, Datavis etc.). Just needed a little effort.
By March we will release our OpenXR SDK. Our website for now is https://lynx-r.com
We'll see a lot more advances in non-invasive diagnostic measuring the next few years into products. Just now, as a consumer, i try a 24/7 blood pressure bracelet (https://aktiia.com/uk/) which works remarkably well. Diamontech and others work on qcd-laser-based glucose-monitoring, etc.
Was news to me!
Meeting new people is underrated.
Is there a Little Snitch/open snitch/Lulu type tool for Clipboard access?
I am not a software engineer so I am obviously not the target audience

Still, what is said here really applies to any type of engineering. I've encountered pretty much everything mentioned both for software engineering and electronics and mechanics. Just replace the software-specific lingo with their generic principles (e.g. PR = review by others).
That, and $100 million.
Firewall are useless if you don't run badly coded daemons? And no need to put a strong password on a database if there is a firewall anyway?

Security measures are not all or nothing. It's about reducing the risk.

Even with a testing mandate some infections might not be detected. And wearing the mask, even 50% of the time, might reduce the risk of contracting or transmitting germs during the flight. It's a minor inconvenience that helps keeping the risks somehow under control
I'm not sure how the US wireless market works, as I don't live there. Still, centralization and consolidation of service providers is always a bad thing, and ideally anti-trust legislation should reflect this. This problem exists in my own country as well.

Still, this seems like a separate problem to me - one is consolidation of different service providers into fewer ones; the other is extending your market position in one space (smartphones as hardware) into another (smartphone software). I doubt the exact same legislation could cover both, as acquiring/merging with competitors is different from creating your own market monopoly.

I don't know enough about how these things can exactly be regulated to propose actual legislation. I can only say that the current situation is bad and getting worse, and that allowing huge mergers, and allowing companies to control all activity on the hardware they sell, are both negatives that need to be legislated somehow.

> Separately, you mention Mentor Graphics above. Did you mean to refer to chip-level design tool software?

Yes, it was the first thing that came to my mind as Unix-based commercial software. Honestly, I have no idea if it actually runs on a Mac, but the exact software was immaterial to my point, so I didn't do too much research.
If child sex trafficing rings are so common among the powerful then that then that should indeed be a top topic of conversation. If there was a more reasoned voice than Jones who wants to talk about that continuously then they should be getting a lot more press.
Safe and Secure OTA Updates for Embedded Linux
Not sure this is the exact kind of books you are looking for but here are some recommendations:

-For a whole picture of the Nintendo business since the beginning (1889), I would recommend the books "L'Histoire de Nintendo" from Florent Gorges. The books are in french but there are English translations of the first two.

-For product design I like the "Reverse Design" books from Patrick Holleman. As the title imply it's not from the creator of the analyzed game but I think the books contains good analyzed of how different gameplay elements works together.
> The McMinn County School board noted the book's "unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its depiction of violence and suicide" as the reason for its removal.

I’m wondering if schools under this board are allowed to carry the Bible in their libraries.
Ask HN: Favorite UML Modeling Tool?
Hi HN. What's your current favorite browser-based UML modeling tool? Is there an industry standard standout at this point?
For anyone wondering where this video was shot, it's here[0], which is about 600km / 373mi from Hokkaido, Japan.

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Khabarovsk,+Khabarovsk+Kra...
There is no sharp line between censorship, curation, and mere omission for unrelated reasons (e.g. limited shelf space, or unawareness by the curator that a work even exists). But this example falls close enough to the censorship side that it can be called as such. Because if this doesn't qualify, then it would take a literal government ban to count as censorship, which is a uselessly narrow criterion in our corporate-dominated society.

Edit: To elaborate: To suppress a work, government censorship is simply not necessary. If Amazon refuses to list it, Youtube removes it and Google downranks it, Spotify and Netflix drop it, or Twitter or Facebook ban it, then it'll reach 1% or less of its audience than if it were treated generically (ironically this doesn't apply so much to Joe Rogan, since he already has an established audience. But it does for less known creators).

Notice I've only listed 6 companies.
> If you punch a person in a supermarket, you are not banned from supermarkets.

If you punch a person in a supermarket, authorities can be summoned to take you away. If you do that on a plane, that can't be done. Planes are safe because things are heavily regulated and expected to go according to an extremely strict plan. Any aberration increases the risk of a catastrophic event.
The entire world saw that one coming. Oh well.

It's sad for me, because I actually did buy a Chromecast + Stadia controller and have been having a lot of fun playing Cyberpunk. Played GRID before too, during the 3 month free trial. The tech works, at least for me, and being able to get a "console like" experience with much lower initial capital cost has been great. Also great that you can play with absolutely no fan noise.
Lysenko was a fraud and a disgusting human being who cheerfully saw scientists condemned to death to further his take science.

Lamarck's theories were unsupported by the evidence available at the time. Current research indicates that inheritance of acquired traits, if it does exist, is in its details quite unlike what was described in Lamarck's theories.

So no, neither got a raw deal.
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No, I'm sayin that even though it's not a monopoly, but a duopoly, they should be regulated as a monopoly, because there are no real alternatives, and the barrier to entry is really high.
The details can be debated, but to ordinary worker instances both shareholders and management inherit from RichAsshole class who both have the same implementation for the Empathy interface:

def caresAbout(self, other):
if type(self) == type(other): return random.choice([True, False])
return False
New 'game-changing' technology removes 99% of carbon dioxide from the air
But would you pay $120 / month ? Because AFAIK that's what Google makes using the current version.

Disclaimer: I work for Google but in no way related to search, business models, or product decisions. My words are my own.
Yes, I noticed that sunglasses help, but they still darken the screen a bit because of their tint.

This is a video I took last summer on this: https://files.alinpanaitiu.com/ff-polarized-macbook.mp4
Now that they are taking every spot above the fold for ads for any lucrative query, it will be much harder to maintain YoY % revenue growth figures that exceed viewership growth. Or bigger video monitors, I guess, that make the 'fold' taller.
To give a point of reference, an employed senior engineer in mechanical/aerospace in western Europe makes about 250-300€/day, before taxes. So 175-200€/day after taxes.
Ok, but then I get the same thing on Android, more or less - which is why I was talking about an oligopoly.

And while I could use F-droid on an Android, I would lose access to important software that clings to the Play Store, such as MS Office support and many banking apps - though, admittedly, that is a different issue to tackle and less Google's fault. And I'm not referring to the fact that they may simply be unlisted there, but the fact that they will refuse to run unless the phone is locked down using Play services.

Edit: Not to mention, the point is to improve the iPhone (and Android phones), not just to seek for alternatives. We can look at as system and decide as a society that we want to do better, we don't have to wait until someone provides that better thing and then "vote with our wallets".
If you do that then why can't the program invoke methods on that object whenever it wants to?
GoFundMe reverses all donations to the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser
The antiscientifical revolution and mathematics (1998) [pdf]
Probably because most people actually don't give a shit and that it would be really user hostile to list a lot of content that actually don't exist (on the platform).

If you cant play it then don't bloat up the GUI with it, it's as simple as that.
Hey there, thank you for posting! Alexis here, the creator.

I built QuickDown for myself for "keyboard-first, local markdown note-taking"

I _personally_ use Obsidian afterwards to connect, edit and publish my notes, but it works just as well with other editors (for example: LogSeq, VS Code, iA Writer, Zettlr, TiddlyWiki and any other plain-text based writing process, really)

Any questions please feel free to ask!

PS: To avoid confusion regarding platform – Can you please change the title to macOS instead of iOS. Thanks!
It doesn't matter how much research I do, I'll never be as knowledgeable as a medical professional. That's due to the sheer fact that they have internal mental models based on first, second and third-hand experience which make them capable of intuition on their specialty.

Something that seems incongruent to me might be a product of those intuitions. Intuitions I can't build from reading alone.
lol they blocked my account without any reason given. Sure. Do what you preach.
Decapitated Roman skeletons found on HS2 route near Aylesbury
I need to change it so it doesn't shuffle letters in an order too close to the solution. Maybe 3 letters in the same order is too similar?
What's funny is that this supposedly alt-right figure literally endorsed Bernie Sanders for primaries in 2020.
LaTeX source file can be found at https://www.pdmi.ras.ru/~arnsem/Arnold/arn-papers.html
CadQuery Comes of Age
Pixel-perfect integer-ratio scaling with no blur
Too bad Sony then decided to get rid of the video output in the PS Vita even though it was possible (the dev kit had HDMI) and contrary to the PSP it actually made sense as at this point mobile hardware was so much better due to the smartphone industry. One of many small mistakes that made the Vita much less enjoyable overall.
Sure, but that should really be a permission you have to grant explicitly.

For global keyboard shortcuts an app should make commands available and it should be up to the user to tell their OS which shortcuts they want to give an app. Not just for security, but also for customisability and to avoid conflicts
Digital Signal Processing in Modern Communication Systems (2nd Edition)
This looks pretty interesting to me, especially the effectiveness and tiny size of their prototype. It's quite frustrating to see quotes like "some scientists have cautioned that carbon capture will not be enough to avert the climate crisis" in the article though. Of course it won't, no single thing will be enough, we have to tackle the problem from every angle possible and the more approaches we have the better.
Statements like "vaccine does not protect against infection", or "vaccine does not stop transmission" are obviously true, because vaccine cannot be 100% effective.

But the data clearly shows that spread and 2nd order effects are reduced in a heavily vaccinated population.
So many Google products that I only discovered existed after they've been cancelled. I wonder if there's a marketing problem here.

As a side note I genuinely couldn't tell you what the name of the current chat app they're promoting (Hangouts, Meet, Duo, Allo), or what they're currently calling their smart speaker this week. Sorry but "Nest" is a thermostat and always will be to me.
Why is the Kyle Kulinski episode removed, though?
You do know you can read the api documentation right? Also you can read the code. The guides are not supposed to have every answer to bugs you encounter. 1% of the solution space? Please, youre so far off it’s laughable
Totally agree, man.

Alex Jones served a function.

Apart from exposing the global alien-reptilian-humanoid conspiracy to enslave man/woman-kind in a prison planet mined for loosh--

he made amazingly entertaining content. Bring Back BadAlex!
Download play was absolutely brilliant. I remember being on a school trip and playing Mario Kart on the bus with 7 other people, with only one person having the game.

It had to be good for sales too - I bought the game after that. The download play version of the game only let you play as a single character, and I wanted to be Bowser.

It’s sad that they don’t do it any more, but I suppose the games are too large to transfer in a reasonable amount of time nowadays
> Fake it to you make it

I would class that story as deception.
IMHO, they can't fix it. If products are priced cheap enough then some people will buy them despite the reputational problem, but no public commitment or flashy marketing is going to convince people that a new Google service is a safe bet for the long term.
Curious timing, then.
This really resonates with me, I'm currently bootstrapping an Algolia alternative too, albeit with the Saas business model instead of open core. All the best!
It is rather impractical to travel extended distances without access to airplanes, seems like an unreasonable burden.
Thanks for the Wikipedia link. I was not aware of the Flight of Dragons book. Looking at the wiki page, Dickinson's "pseudo-scientific monograph" is somewhat divergent from the known biomedical science, which the Thoughtco author (who holds a PhD in the area) made a very readable, if simplistic article on.

From the included bio, Dr. Helmenstine teaches at the high school through graduate levels, and I expect this informs the level of difficulty (or rather the lack thereof) in the article.

Personally, my experience developing software for a large university financial services group gave me a lot of sympathy for the plight of non-tenure PhDs (who are often on semester non-renewable contracts with no benefits) and, while Dr. Helmenstine may have been familiar with the book you referred to, I don't think it would be appropriate for the sources cited.

I found the article to be a light but interesting look at biomedical science couched in the beginning of a multicultural treatment of the folklore of the dragon, which is why I submitted it.

On a side note, the etymology of the English "dragon" and the Sinitic "long", (the Mandarin reading as I'm not sure if HN allows CJK unicode ideographs in comments) which the author introduced by way of contrasting species of flying lizards and flying snakes (both of which occur in Asia) is an area of inquiry that I would have introduced on the Thoughtco page, if they had comments..

If anyone is interested, I would be happy to share what little background I have from my volunteer experience translating between Chinese, Japanese, and English and the graduate work I am doing now (with no hope of ever getting tenure) in Chinese Japanese English machine translation.
You can stop, yes. You are allowed to.
> All those things are covered under "free speech". There's no legal definition for "hate speech", or "anti-vax speech" or "anti-science speech". They are all ALLOWED.

In the USA, and not everybody lives there. Heck, Spotify, the company in question, is Swedish.

Hate speech has plenty of definitions in plenty of different countries, with varying levels ( e.g. in France blatant overt racism is illegal, in Thailand it's "stoking negative feelings in people" or some other bullshit ).
You need actual cost and benefit analysis. The situation can actually be different if some measures prevent spread by 1%, 10%, 50% etc.

Cost and benefit analysis can be ineffective or unwanted in beginning stages of a pandemic.. but for COVID-19 it's been few years already and we can do such analysis.
Well, it only tells me that the decentralized internet is increasingly imminent. The only question remains: who is going to pay for it?
Big Data sounds so retro now.
Dependant on CPU, I guess, and not just the hardware. Last time I checked (couple of months back), nested virtualisation wasn't supported on Windows for many (all?) AMD CPUs, even if they had the right hardware instructions.
I think the most impressive hardware-wise was the Turbo Express. It was released in 1990, just a year after the Game Boy and Lynx and same year as the Game Gear.

It had a 400x270 screen vs 160x144 in the Game Boy and Game Gear and 160x102 in the Lynx.

It was basically a portable TurboGrafx and could run Street Fighter II (which was also released for the Game Boy but it was miles behind).
I don't try to convince you to like Ruby, but I don't really understand how you can know in other languages if something comes from a plugin or not by simply looking at it and not knowing the std library or using an IDE.

Maybe in the case of a language with a very small standard library, this could be easy: as the best assumption could be that it is in a plugin/module. But I think looking at a piece of code and direct knowing from _which_ plugin some methods comes from has more to do with naming conventions than with the language itself, especially in languages where either overriding or overloading or a form of them is possible.

In the case of Ruby, I recommend RubyMine and just to go to definition. 99% of cases it will correctly open the definition from the gem of std library.

I agree that in Ruby - maybe more than in other languages - one can really make some behaviors hard to discover. But most of the libraries are straight forward and Rails is very well documented in code. I usually prefer to just go to the definition and read the method than browse the API docs.
It does feel like a bargain, all things considered. Plus you get YouTube Music.
And Trump used to be a Democrat.

Your point is?

These are drifters who are cashing in on the current political environment. They will say or do whatever to make money or stay in power.
I agree, but I would limit this reasoning to co,panties that essentially are infrastructure although policy makers refuse to treat them as such ( Google etc).

Spotify imho is not in this category.