skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One popular way that has already been ruled as legal is to offer two plans: a paid plan with no ads and tracking, or a free plan with ads and tracking (in essence, it's a paid plan and you're paying for it with tracking).

Where has that been ruled legal, and do you have a link to the ruling? I've only seen German newspapers do this, so my assumption has been that it's just the German authorities turning a blind eye to it. If it's really a legit option, it seems like a miracle that nobody else is using this.
Unfortunately, the radical left's contempt for the bourgeois nuclear family is only exceeded by their far greater contempt for the traditionalism of extended family structures, which often entails "staying put" for multiple generations in comparatively rural towns and villages - far different from the inner-city concerns of the rest of the BLM movement, and the leftist progressive movement more generally. So, while there's much to say for what you're advocating here, it's not the kind of change that BLM is going to meaningfully pursue.
I am not replacing my paper wrapped plastic straw for a plastic wrapped paper straw......

For styrofoam, It was not shame, or environmentalism that caused that change it is price and convenience.

styrofoam sucked for most of the uses in fast food. Plastic and Plastic coated paper, was cheaper, more durable, and preferred by most customers.

Want to stop plastic, invent something better. Something that does not break down in liquid or grease...
This article makes me wonder if rapid cooling could help save you from brain damage in case of a stroke or similar.
Pluto's Orbit Is Surprisingly Unstable
Ask HN: Android browser with reasonable private browsing mode?
Hi, I'm used to leaving my main browser open in private mode. It keeps tabs open across app/os restarts, but aggressively clears cookies in a bunch of circumstances. It also disables annoyances like autocompleting searches from browser history (since there isn't such a thing).

Is there something similar for Android? Vandium and Firefox nuke my private tabs on app exit, which isn't what I want. Basically, I want a web browser that is incapable of persisting state beyond the list of open tabs (and whatever crap they think they've persisted). However, since it is a daily driver, I want tabs to stay open until I close them.

Bonus points if each TLD gets a completely separate set of "persistent state".

Finally, I suspect I'm asking for too much, but buttons or gestures for "force reload" and "forward" would be amazing.

Has anyone managed to get something similar working?
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29588883
The question has to be, why is there open hostility to the nuclear family by this and other movements? Why is there a negative statement about it needing to be disrupted/dismantled? Why can't there just be a positive statement about supporting different arrangements where it makes sense?

Yes, there are some social norms around the nuclear family in the West, but it isn't a requirement in society. Nobody is stopping anybody from living how they want as far as who you can have in your life or whether extended family/community can support each other. Nobody is not hiring people because their parents are divorced.

There IS evidence that growing up with both parents greatly increases the likelihood of success. Does that mean having 2 parents is the only way to live? No, it doesn't. But why be hostile/negative towards something that evidence shows is positive? Why not just be positive towards something else?
Complete Anatomy (Elsevier)
Always wondered if these are part of money laundering operations.
https://community.kde.org/KIO_GDrive
Stepping out of the house I always bring my own unscented soap. Perfume allergy is a reality for thousands of people. If I accidentally wash my hands with scented soap I got 20-30 minutes of itchy nose and wheezing before the smell wears off :/
Nokia tried with Maemo but the product kind of sucked.
The only thing that matters about cookies is whether they are necessary, not whether they contain identifying information. Even duration doesn't matter. They should be explained to the user, but consent is not necessary.

Some cookies are even mentioned specifically as allowed. The example given is keeping track of a shopping cart across visits. Do that, and you have your uniques. While hinted at, it does not specifically mention those have to be session cookies: you could have a banner with "accept cookies", then use session cookies whether or not accept is pressed. It even seems to be common practice to hide explanations behind a "more info" button.

https://www.privacypolicies.com/blog/eu-cookies-directive/

I'm pretty sure "uniques" stats don't require you to violate the EU cookie directive.
I'd hazard a guess that that is precisely why it's toxic to plants. It brings to mind things like Lead poisoning for us, because it takes the place of calcium in the body to horrific effect. And it just never really goes away. Meaning it doesn't really react with anything much, since that would reduce it over time. IIUC of course.

That said, I'm sure lead isn't the best example, since I am merely hazarding a guess right now.

For the Eucalyptus plant, sending the gold to the leaves is probably a good way to get the gold out of the way for more important nutrients to get where they need to go. Worst case scenario for the plant, it loses a few leaves. Which is something it already had to deal with before through Koala bears.
Roots obviously don't pick up solid gold. Gold salts are toxic to biological systems.
Landfilling or incinerating are some of the best uses, but they sound bad.

Better would be to replace as many places where it’s used as possible with other materials.
I can’t get it to work on my home network, but that might be because I have a pi-hole.
Ron Gilbert’s Return to Monkey Island announcement a joke ‘18yrs in the making’
How to Connect with Anyone Straight Away
Were you not about to use the import function in Mac OS Photos app? If you connect a phone via cable, it should present a list of photos and let you import them to the Photos local library.
Unconsenting Media
Posted because I'm curious to know if/how other HN'ers use this app.
ask sea world how that’s worked out for them
Definitely rings true of tech enthusiast niches. Mechanical keyboards and retrocomputing may not offer huge volume, but it can probably offer fat margin.
That's all very interesting...

But the harmonic or inharmonic content of the instrument does not address the original question.

And it leads to confusion; putting your first and last sentences together implies that a piano is not a western musical instrument. We know that's not true.
FTFA:

"Steel rails lasted ten-time longer than steel rails..." - WTF?

Why post this article to Hacker News? Parent site dozr.com appears to be spamming HN.
The thinking was probably more along the lines of "no one ever got promoted for filling out the basic feature set of a file share me too service" and that promotion is what's standing between them and an extra 9000 pizzas a year worth of salary. With a bonus hint of "nobody cares what somebody promised that left the team a year ago after a year of working on it".
Haha. Anyone remember the monster cable thing? “Bro you get your monster cables?!”
For greek and roman classics I also recommend: http://classics.mit.edu/
Eh, I think he's right. On the ground, the "centrists" are mostly the Clinton/Obama wing of the party who are very fluent in identity issues and the "leftists" are mostly the Sanders wing of the party who are more focused on economics.

Maybe ironically, as one of them I wouldn't say "centrists" center anything. We tend to see the whole thing as a milieu. Not that economic issues aren't super important, but there's no serious way to analyze the US without taking both economic and identity issues into account.
How much was that, when it was available?
Similar concept, different market. People pimping out PC's have some disposable income. People pimping out Honda Civics have more disposable income.

People dropping 5k on a single cable for their audio setup have a lot of disposable income. We are talking setups nearing and into the millions of dollars.
The article is over-the-top in lots of ways, which is a shame, because slide rules really are worth learning. I love them. Always have. I've designed several for calculations that are specific to my research field.

I would love to get my students using slide rules, but it's difficult to find physical ones for a reasonable price. Virtual slide rules, like those at http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/, are just not quite the same as a physical thing, which requires force to slide, and good light to see the details.

I miss the days when you could go into any university bookstore and find sliderules in a wide range of prices. Another fond memory is watching my high-school teacher using a broomstick to move the slider on a giant sliderule he had above his blackboard.

What do students miss, using calculators?
1. Concrete notions of the difficulty of measurement, each digit being much harder to obtain than its predecessor.
2. A intuitive feeling for the propagation of uncertainty.
3. The ability to carry the exponents of 10 in their head.

Lacking this sort foundation seems to make it hard for people to connect their calculations, or numbers they read, with reality. This makes it hard to spot errors. It also makes it hard to remember things effectively. For example, I've found that students remember the mantissa of Avogadro's number correctly to 3 digits, but they have no idea on the exponent. The same goes for the speed of light in a vacuum. These errors were rare in the sliderule age, because it was imperative to keep the exponent in your head, as you worked through a calculation.
Tell HN: Have just discovered that I can use any key as Ctrl on my keyboard\
Sorry if this is silly but today I have discovered that my (pricey, I know) Ergodox-ez keyboard (but I assume any other "programmable" keyboard should work likewise) allows for any key to be programmed either for "press" or "hold".

And after more than a year using an uncomfortable configuration for my wrist (I use emacs a LOT), I have set 'j' to behave as CTRL when hold.

And then my mind has blown up.

No more weird thumb positions, or elongated pinkies.

I had done this with one of the large thumb keys for space when pressed, Meta when hold, but I had never imagined using 'j' (or, say 'f') for that.
Yeah it doesn’t want that, but annoyingly if you disable it on your WiFi (you can per network); it keeps re-enabling itself. F-ing annoying.
Please don't descend into flamewar like this. That's not what HN is for, and it destroys what it is for, so if you'd please not, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How do you solve people problems without eugenics?
> TDPs do not seem to have gone up, at least not when looking at data sheets...

Data sheet TDPs seem to have less connection to reality with each generation.

But with all of the boost clocks and what not, the more heat you can disipate, the faster the chip will go, and the power usage/temperatures can ramp really quickly too. Fans are so effective in most situations, that it's hard to leave them off and accept the performance difference. Personally, I'm ok with most fans, although I had to replace the PSU fan in my most recent build cause the included one had a noise profile I couldn't stand. For things like NUCs and Desktops, running longer cables and hiding the noise source is probably a good option too.
It's not a matter of motivation. Programmers reduce the verbal understanding of their work to non-verbal symbolism. That's necessary to work efficiently in long complex projects where many ideas have to be manipulated. It is very distasteful to re-verbalize work that has been reduced to symbolism.
https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875/

"The data controller responsible for your information is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, which you can contact online or by writing to:

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd.

4 Grand Canal Square

Grand Canal Harbour

Dublin 2 Ireland"

The "contact online" link leads to the following form: https://help.instagram.com/contact/186020218683230

I would send the request both online and by tracked post with a proof of delivery. In the end your lawyer would do the same thing and charge for this at an hourly rate.
Yes. I think clearly wrong and/or fraudulent people should not be held up as equals to experts. We have in fact learned some things in the last few centuries.
This seems to be a good tutorial.

https://sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Course.htm
As a tech company you know what outcome you want your ML algorithm to produce and you presumably have some way of figuring out whether or not it’s producing that outcome. Presumably you also know what’s being fed to the ML algorithm as training material.
Disabled in the countries that need it the most.
Noticed this just now. It is.
"First, it's not federal minimum wage, it's minimum wage for each jurisdiction. So Washington state being $11 or whatever it is, not the federal min."

The BLS data was only tracking federal minimum. I would like to the state minimum wage earners, but that wasn't in that report.

"so I believe rich city liberals need to change zoning to allow cheap housing to be built."

I believe it's all due to preferences. The preference for sfh, preference for better schools, preference for low crime, etc. It's pretty cheap to live in many north Philly neighborhoods. Many people don't want to.

I agree with the final part. I turned down jobs in college due to the commute cost.
Are there any updates on that anywhere, by the way?
I try to increase how much damage I can take before it becomes a threat. For the most part, it means having enough savings to power through and recover.

To me, the worst isn't something you can buy tools or insurance for. These problems are small pebbles for overland travellers. My motorcycle packing list is a -5° to 45°C survival kit. It's meant to handle worse problems in worse places, and it's field-tested.

I'm more afraid about things getting really bad - war, economic collapse, 5 star wanted level, StackOverflow outage - then it becomes a lot trickier. Then you can't rely on anything. Borders shut down, bank accounts get frozen, ATMs and petrol stations run dry, money loses its value, shelves go empty. Then what?

This happened during COVID. It's happening in Ukraine. Even Russians are getting a taste of it. How do you prepare for that?

For everything else, liability insurance, an ADAC membership, a mechanic dad on speed dial, a well-furnished toolbox, your trusty towel, and lots of field testing ought to keep you prepared.
I've been saying this for years. For background: I started my undergrad in 2003, studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. I ended up switching to Computer Science in 2006 and graduated in 2009, which is also the year I started working as a software engineer.
I then did my M.S. in Computer Science while working full-time.

I have often made the comparison that Computer Science and Software Engineering have a similar relationship to Physics and Electrical Engineering. When I was studying EE, I remember that we had a course for Electrodynamics that was offered by the EE department, but the Physics department had their own version of the same topic. Engineering courses are usually more oriented towards tools and applications, and less theory.

I can totally see a Software Engineering degree (or dept) that might have courses with the same titles as those under CS but with a similar shift away from theory. For example, I would imagine a CS Algorithms course using the CLRS book while the SWE version might use something like the Algorithm Design Manual for a textbook instead.

I would see the SWE degree having CS electives and vice versa, but I would still imagine different required core courses. A CS degree might need more math pre-reqs, but I don't think SWE needs as much. I think SWE needs to cover more topics like software testing (I feel like that's almost non-existent in schools), and process management (scrum, kanban, story estimation, CI/CD), technical design and documentation, and more applied practice.

And I don't believe bootcamps are the answer here. Maybe if they were longer, but I wouldn't call them bootcamps at that point, just a trade school.
Fedora is a bleeding edge distro, I thibk it's okay to disable legacy stuff there.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is what sprang to my mind.
Do you find Barbershop music to sound "very unusual"? The defining feature of the style is just intonation (and microtonal just intonation at that, because a harmonic seventh can't be adequately approximated by 12 equal temperament).
'KMS' (kernel mode setting) probably disambiguates 'DRM' for most of those who are familiar with desktop Linux.
Outside of skincare cosmetics and homeopathy, I'm not sure there's an area that's got as much pseudo-scientific snake oil on it as audiophile equipment.

No, I don't think you really need a rubidium master clock for your CD/DAC combo. Nor do I think that your directional, stranded-silver cable is going to work any better as a digital interconnect. etc
They’re standardizing the checkbox hack! This is fantastic. It will make so many simple no-JS state changes so much more accessible.
To be fair Digital Rights Management displays are a real thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...
Publucations, radio, and TV were profitable without identifying unique users. Why does a website require this?
it's weirly naive to assume I don't know about pip as a python user as it's a bit ubiquitous.

That said: This is very much a developers take on the packaging situation in python.

Running virtualenvs is "fine" until you're not connected to the internet, a less-and-less common scenario thankfully.

pip itself (without virtualenvs) will "dirty" the system, or you use the --user flag and make it work only for one user.

The situation for systems administrators is to do things that do not mess with the developers, if I install a package, especially with a version lock, and it directly conflicts with a developers (less and less of a problem with containers!) then they're going to be very cross with me.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your to-dos? longer-term projects?
In 2022, what tools are you using to keep track of your to-dos?

What tools are you using to keep track of progress on longer-term projects?
A complete side tangent: How does one prevent pingbacks from content-less "blogs" (which seem to be optimizing for clicks)? (I see 3 pingbacks from lzomedia.com, makemoneyonlinecom.com and imoneyhub.com at the above link)
How fine grained detail do you actually need? I can't see how knowing if one person or two people in a house visited you're site helps. They could have easily just switched to their phone.

For logging, just hash it with a salt.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31144313
I get what you're saying, but:

- The specific actions of a company will _always_ come from a specific subset of people who are interacting with and sometimes constrained by the broader organization. Should this mean that we can never talk coherently about the actions or statements of a company?

- Isn't the company overall responsible for creating the organizational constraints and obstacles? Why is that team that size? Why is that their remit, and how has it changed since _someone_ decided to say "hang tight"? Why do they have the staff they have?
Started with Open.film (visit the site) which is a mini doc and then doubled down on production. Now have a educational media pipeline along with sports sponsorship project and a few others in the works. We have a 6000 sq ft studio in Centennial, CO. Full time producer (via the Fallon show) and full time DP/director. Just getting started.
At least it's clear what Republicans mean by "Defund Planned Parenthood".

If you have to keep explaining "when I say X, I really mean Y", you should maybe stop saying X.
You used to be able to get bar "soap" that was based on detergent, not soap. Detergent is identified by things like sodium lauryl sulfate etc. Remember "you're not really clean until you're Zest-fully clean." because Zest was made from detergent.

Soap is listed in the ingredients as being based on tallow or lard. When my family moved to a hard-water region, I looked at ingredient labels, and discovered that you can't buy detergent based "soap" any more -- even Zest is based on soap. This could be due to a glut of those materials triggered by rising meat production.

So we switched to liquid hand and body wash, which is detergent based. It's not as luxurious as soap, but I'm the one who cleans the bathrooms, so I make the rules.

Soap scum is calcium stearate, which is not soluble in water, and remarkably difficult to remove from the inside of bathtubs and showers. And your water softener has to work remarkably well to completely eliminate soap scum.
a phone is different, it is a constrained device

windows get away with it, and as a result the base OS needs 40gb of disk drive

apple has to make sure they ship tiny updates, and don't eat too much storage

every bits the OS can save, is super important

i'd rather have devs maintain their apps yearly, so the OS doesn't need to carry a bloatware of legacy bits

also development becomes easier, nobody wants to make apps for android, it is a shitshow, in comparison
The web app works fine. In fact, it works better than anything OneDrive related for example (which never seems to sync properly).

Chrome and all of Google's services make being in Linux-land way easier...
It’s so offensive when companies offer the two options “let us track you, or: go through this weird menu to disable tracking”.

You know wouldn’t it just be kind to the user to make it easy to go un tracked? Upsetting that they have to be compelled to do it.
Maybe they just wanted some extra time to do A/B tests of different layouts.
i'm not sure i follow. human child raising can be done by any number of parents of any gender for varied lengths of time.
This has a name: "Audio-homoepathy"

The basic idea is that the sound gets better the more money you dilute it with.
Most have been using DRM/KMS for years now, so there won't be any noticeable change for them.
I am partway through the calculus text, and it really is good. 25 years after finishing my engineering degree, I finally understand why the derivative of 5x^2 -6x +2 is 10x -6. Amazing!
I appreciate this back and forth, thank you. I’m disappointed in the BBC reporting here.
Direct Rendering Manager has been a part of the kernel since 1999, before the 2.4 release. At that time the term Digital Rights Management as a catch-all for CSS, dongles, etc wasn't widespread.
Your snark is annoying, but I'll play along.

> Which dark pattern

The cookie consent forms that were a direct response to EU laws.

> most of the population will get told what their rights are?

Internet users need to be a) educated about the value of the data they produce (and ideally compensated for it[1]), and b) be provided with tools that safeguard this data and give them absolute control over it. So, yes.

The web should be user friendly, not hostile and scammy at every turn. It should be impossible for companies to abuse user data, and regulations are clearly too slow and ineffective.

> any ETA when the technofix will be ready?

Some already exist, and others can be built. The incentives are just not there, as tech giants rule the web and law makers are both influenced by and playing catch up to their schemes.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/10/30/sh...
I think the BLM group and the BLM movement should be differentiated. While many progressives may have supported the BLM movement I don't believe the openly Marxist organization is as popular. Also, just cutting the quote at the dismantling part without including the rest of that statement seems disingenuous.