skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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E.g. for months now when casting play button is >play< instead of >pause< and you can pause music only after you minimize it

Or the fact that adding something to the queue prevents you from using app for 2 seconds waiting for info popup to disappear.

It's a play and stop music app being used on the most popular hardware and software. I don't even know how are they able to screw that badly.

And it keeps putting podcasts on top of my music which I am not using spotify for.

And yes I'm lazy, migrating my music preferences to another platform seems to never be the thing I want to do right now.
Beware the Allure of Training Technology
Not sure that follows. If (big "if") interest rates go up a lot, then a lot of investors might not reach for VC or PE to enhance their returns at even close to current allocation (and growth would be heavily discounted).

Look at how the telecoms industry looks now compared to the heights of 2003 or so.
Where have you worked where there were enough resources to effectively document all of your backend code?

My job is currently mostly detective work, and it’s neither a function of incompetence nor laziness, it’s just a function of needing to prioritize business objectives over sacrifice-able things like documentation.
People who interact with Spotify using the search feature as the entry point won't ever interact much with podcasts. The home screen, though, is filled with them. Given it's what every user sees when starting the app, it is indeed a big focus.

That said, the contents of the home screen heavily vary. I've never listened to a podcast on their platform, but Spotify still suggests me lots of podcasts on my Windows desktop and my phone. For some reason, it never shows them on my work laptop. Maybe it's because I set the laptop's language to English instead of using my native language - I've noticed Spotify only suggests me native-language podcasts.
The network part seems to be disabled in the corporate environment. Downloaded files check: it has't worked for me since a very long time. Almost all virus infections that i saw in the last 15 years were through a downloaded file.
Yeah, that’s true especially for modern cars with memory seats. That said, afaik the actual seat controls can still be used with nothing more than a 12v power source. I have not personally tested this on a newer car seat though.
I remember noticing that Python 3 interpreter startup was significantly slower than Python 2 a couple of years ago. I wonder if these improvements have reversed the situation.
The only device I could find on Amazon that fits the description of an inflatable desalination device is https://www.amazon.com/Aquamate-Solar-Emergency-Purification... and it reportedly produces between 0.5 and 2 liters of water per day. That’s great if you have none, but the device being discussed here produces substantially more. So it’s not just a novelty thing.
Since gray is every color with no saturation between white and black, blanket statements like this aren’t very useful.

Pure black text is not needed everywhere. Make sure to keep the contrast levels nice and high, but experiment with low brightness grays and they may work better than pure black given in certain situations.
PyDaddy: Discovering Stochastic Dynamical Equations From Timeseries With Python
Browser Extension That Adds Likes and Dislikes to Every URL, Search Results
Google will be blamed if someone's data is misused even if that person authorized giving permissions to that app. If you want evidence supporting that, take a look at how much flak Facebook received with the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
My biggest question behind all of this is how interconnected is the tech bubble, and how self-perpetuating will a downturn be?

The venture-backed startups that I’ve worked at have themselves utilized tools built by other venture-backed startups. It seems like there’s an entire cottage industry of SaaS tools designed to make it easier to scale up small companies. What will the effect of a startup downturn be on companies like Carta (high revenue but no profit from what I could find, and whose revenue likely comes from other companies with no profit…) How many Cartas are out there, whose customers are primarily unprofitable startups?
This problem is so much bigger than low-contrast pages. Almost all technology of any kind selects in favor of aesthetics over equal access.

I have moderate amblyopia and severe astigmatism. For a frame of reference, I only barely pass the driver’s license vision test when I renew my license (don’t worry I don’t actually drive).

My vision has good days and bad days. My ophthalmologist thinks that I frequently have eye strain from looking at screens which further (temporarily) degrades my vision.

Examples that I’ve run into _in the last 24 hours_.

- Why can’t I choose the colors of web sites and applications?

- Why can’t I choose (and override) the default typefaces on mobile browsers?

- Why can’t I change the default system font for my iPhone or my Mac?

- Why can’t I change the font size in modern video games?

- Why do most desktop applications fall of the edge of the screen below 1080p?

I rely on hacky tools to get by — e.g. momentarily dropping HIDPI or jail breaking devices. No one would want to use technology the way I have to. It sucks and it’s constantly getting worse.
pip uninstall pip also works, I found out the hard way.
“Oh look, I am a rebel ignoring what they taught me to do in third grade”.

It certainly is a “style”, cheap.
So which is it? If it's a just for fun project why take feature requests and donations? I make a feature request I get told "well you're not paying for it...", yet they provide no way for me to pay for it. Why not have a bounty system to fund that work if that are your terms?

Just feels what this project is shifts into whatever it needs to be to ensure it doesn't ever get any better or progress in any meaningful way.
Search for ethernaut for a good overview of exploitable solidity bugs.
Apparently Linux was quite welcoming to Oracle and IBM contributions on the early days, back when big iron UNIX ruled the POSIX world.

> 1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

Maybe they could stop giving that 2.6% as well, https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/
Anyone else think ft.com is pretty close to ideal? Black text on parchment/sepia paper?
Nice, bookmarked it.

For anyone on GNOME I'd recommend Spot

https://github.com/xou816/spot
As the article says, there was something called a pandemic in 2020. So yeah, more crashes when more people are on the road. Shocking, I know.
I had started to receive pop-ups. That was one of the last in the series of annoyances before I decided to cancel.
> Plan 9, for networked graphical machine.

Oddly enough, I quickly googled, and it seems AT&T decided to target the embedded market with Plan9 which feels like a bit of an weird niche to put it.

There’s no way I can see a new operating system dethroning the NT/*nix world at least not without somehow catching up to decades of hardware no one but those two support.
From now on, any countries without nuclear deterent via a treaty (like NATO) or directly (for instance ukraine, taiwan, south korea, etc), which happen to be "eyed" by an hostile "nuclear" country is in trouble.

I still don't understand ukraine and this story of the azov neo-nazi batallion. Isn't "wagner" such a neo-nazi PMC???

yeah, I don't understand why those people are dying.
The only reason there is a recession is because people believe there is a recession
"Amazon Deletes Negative Reviews and Gets Away With It ..."

https://www.inc.com/hollis-thomases/amazon-deletes-negative-...

"Amazon shoppers are recording negative experiences with with third-party sellers at highest levels ever"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/21/amazon-...

(The Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bazos.)

My suggestions:

- Cancel your Amazon Prime and Amazon account entirely.

- (US): File a complaint with your state Attorney General's office or consumer protection agency. You should be able to search your state's agency and typically can file online or via email.

- (US): File complaints with the US Federal government. See: https://www.usa.gov/consumer-complaints Typically the DoJ and FTC are the governing organisations.

- Write your local, state, and national representatives. City, county, state, and national legislators have leverage over comanies which abuse their citizens and constituents.

- EU: https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/consumer-right...

- Australia: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22consumer+complaints%22+site%3A....

- New Zealand: https://www.govt.nz/browse/consumer-rights-and-complaints/

- Ireland: https://www.ccpc.ie/consumers/how-to-complain/

- UK: https://www.gov.uk/consumer-protection-rights
Clickbait. All talk, no action. If the author actually believed what he wrote, he wouldn’t use medium. But he does, so he’s just trolling for clicks.
Hacking for Beginners: From Novice to Ethical Hacker Overnight
I'm generally not a fan of these kind of high-level tutorials that tell you "use X library to get Y result" - it's just not good for learning. But any content that tries to sell you on learning ML/NLP/etc in a few weeks is just that. I understand people want to make money by targeting a large audience, but it makes me sad when I see (the vast vast majority) of practitioners not having any understanding about ML (or NLP) and just blindly applying libraries.

I don't think you necessarily need a linguistics background for NLP, but I think you need either a strong linguistics OR ML background so that you know what's going on under the hood and can make connections. Anyone can call into Huggingface, you don't need a course for that.
> If you think that all other OSes are more complex, then I suggest that you investigate the fairly rich space of other OSes designed for single-user workstations.

The problem with a lot of these alternate OSes was that they were still too opinionated. Plan 9 tried to abstract away individual computers and impose a particular approach to sharing resources. Oberon was as you say type safe and object oriented and tied to a particularly peculiar Ui paradigm. Netware was barely an OS, really just a highly optimised network file system.

Tellingly a lot of the services and applications that were parts of these OSes made their way into Unix. That’s because these were application level services that had been tied into the OS at a low level. Too opinionated. If you wanted to access compute resources using a different model to Plan9, then Plan9’s implementation got in your way. If you didn’t want to run software using the Oberon language, the Oberon OS got in your way. If you wanted to do something other than access files using the Netware protocol, Netware got in your way.

To the extent any of these OSes were simpler or easier to develop on than Unix, their advantage simply wasn’t enough of a win to make it worthwhile.

That’s the historical argument though. For the forward looking situation, there is a lot of interesting work being done but it’s all at levels above that of the OS. Network services, storage systems, programming paradigms, resource abstraction. There’s plenty of innovation in these going on, it just doesn’t need to be done as something baked into a new underlying OS. There’s nothing wrong with building it as a service on top of Unix.
Bandcamp has been my go-to place for music every since they launched. My musician friends like it as a distribution platform. I like it as a place to discover music. I love it as a place to buy (and own) music.
I quite like how spartan and transparent Bandcamp is when it comes to most things. Discovery through other users has been great and (afaik) there is no blackbox algorithm - "this user bought 12 things you have", great I might find something by looking at what else they bought.

The quality of the recommendations is high, because 90% of music can be listened to in full in advance. So users only make purchases when they have a genuine interest. And fake results are less likely, because you can see purchase history.

The official recommendations from the Bandcamp articles tend not to be of interest to me and the chart categories just get saturated by passionate fans of niche genre artists in my experience, but the user graph is refreshingly simple.
Also for example, search died in 2020, which broke Spotify support in what was my favourite player, Clementine.

But it was the only way for desktop apps to use playback, without going electron and negotiating a widevine license to use the web SDK
I'm still running the Sony Xperia Compact Z1. Have upgraded it twice with an iPhone 7 and a OnePlus. Gave both away away to people who enjoyed them WAY and WAY more than I did.

Think I'm going to carry my Z1 till it literally stops working. So far, I can still do 1 to 1.5 days with my battery easily.
In many ways that’s a good thing. I don’t want to have ignore entries for 10 different text editors in every project’s .gitignore. Put that stuff in your personal .gitignore. In general, I don’t want commit history to contain any of these “just for me” changes even aside from .gitignore. Project .gitignore should mostly just ignore the stuff that your build/CI produces, which itself should hopefully be just a single `build` directory.
The big six matrix factorizations
> Defining the activities of an organisation is management.

while being a developer myself and thinking that 70-80% of all management decisions are well undercooked, i believe that there is so much more in here that is not what developers do or want to do.
Yes, we write how software and - in the long end - companies work, but to actually specify this there are so many factors to be included.

What is the market doing? How do the customers react to certain approaches? What are our ressources? How competent are the users in our company with using processes/software/communcation?

IF we are the new managers, we should try and raise our heads from time to time and look at the whole company.
I've seen so many developers producing good software, but software that is not working with and in reality (being a running business with people and real life problems).
I'm only a recent paid subscriber to Spotify, but, like you, will drop it like a hot potato if ads make their way into premium.

I've previously stated I'd never pay for a subscription service again after Google Play music shutdown, effectively losing any record of the 'license' for some music I actually purchased from the platform. Whilst I have broken that promise, I have stayed true to my commitment of purchasing the equivalent of the monthly GPM subscription from Bandcamp, however.

Footnote: I just checked, and I'm ~$30 behind, gonna buy those two psych-rock 50+ minute album-songs by The Asteroid Belt: https://theasteroidbelt.bandcamp.com/. Gotta support local first!
I've seen worse laws. Politicians not understanding how websites count users is a given.

"It also excludes email and chat apps (though it’s unclear why)."

Because they're not common carriers. I can't read someone else's email or chat messages. They are invite or whitelist based and therefore not public (common) information.

"First, even if there is a good and justifiable reason for moderating the content — say it’s spam or harassment or inciting violence — that really doesn’t matter. The user can simply claim that it’s because of their viewpoints — even those expressed elsewhere — and force the company to fight it out in court. This is every spammer’s dream."

Death threats and spam is not opinion. I'm questioning the author's honesty when he thinks calls to violence are protected and make for good court cases. And I dont think spammers are going to court anytime soon either.

" “disclose accurate information regarding its content management, data management, and business practices.” ... it also is going to effectively require that websites publish all the details that spammers, trolls, and others need to be more effective.

Shadowbanning and throtteling comes to mind on this one. They are essentially requiring transparent policies like how HN [dead] tags work. This might indeed help spammers be more efficient. but who knows

"“qualified immunity” for blocking certain commercial email messages, but only with certain conditions, including enabling a dispute resolution process for spammers"

This borders on pure bait. 'certain commercial email messages' is known in the industry as spam. Which they are therefore still allowed to block first and resolve later.

The email section of this law is just pure bliss. If enforced, no more bouncing emails with self-hosted domains, if its spam filtered there's finally a resolution procedure. less monopolistic walls to enter the market.

What social media companies are ACTUALLY required by this law to state biannually:

A) content removal;
(B) content demonetization;
(C) content deprioritization;
(D) the addition of an assessment to content;
(E) account suspension;
(F) account removal; or
(G) any other action taken in accordance with the
platform's acceptable use policy

This codeification isn't bad. My only concern is not the law but the absolute state of how social media companies operate. We've already seen the weirdest implementation horrors of GDPR sometimes outright geoblocking entirety of europe which is silly and a minor inconvenience.
> - Why can’t I choose the colors of web sites and applications?

For what it's worth, Firefox lets you edit them:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserContent.css&pr...

Not terribly easily, but you can do it for any site. For example I fixed a GitHub bug for myself: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8098#discussi...

There is a world of styles out there: https://userstyles.world/
Isn't it a grey line whether GPT-3 creates an original work or a derivative of potentially thousands of works?

There was the famous example where Copilot regenerated some John Carmack code verbatim with cussing comments, presumably because that code had been copied many times already.

Somewhere I read about GPT-3 committing clear plagiarism in English text, too, i.e. drawing way too much from one source and reproducing it.
Is this still true in an era where most NLP problems use language models as a solution?
Is it a custom operating system? Some of their competitors use Android which is the last thing I want.

Is the screen on the Fujitsu lit?

Does the note taking application index your text so you can search? Is it easy to get the notes off? Can you highlight and annotate books and then easily export your annotations and highlights?
True I never been much into the template phase and forgot about it.
Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit
Surgery done by no one on record. They don’t exist. They’re a ghost.
"underestimated vulnerability" that also has been fixed since 2021.

I remember reading about this back in ~2016 if not earlier. Was also featured on HN at least twice (via https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/ where I think I read about it first):

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11553740

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16226800
disney plus should interop with noscript/basic (x)html browsers: with the <video> HTML element and a streaming protocol which standardizes seeking, for instance via the URL, since the <video> configuration data could be passed to an external media player.
Raspotify uses librespot and should keep working
https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify
Businesses have been forced to bake cakes. Precedents have been set.
I disagree with a lot of what you are saying.

OSes these days are a lot, a lot, more complex and richer than the "original" old ones. Sure there is some compatibility with Posix because it is a nice common factor to start from, and it incorporates some ideas about multitasking and multiuser systems but everything is substantially different.

POSIX permissions coexist with ACLs and much stronger security models, code signing, sandboxing, etc..

Compressed memory, copy-on-write, snapshotting filesystems, graphics as a privileged citizen, OS handling of energy efficiency, and so on and so forth...

We have long outgrown the "original" OSes and today commercial OSes have a ton of man-hours behind them that make every hobbyist OS pale in comparison.

It's not lipstick on old pigs, POSIX is an old lipstick to make the new pigs somewhat compatible with one another.
That's rather my point, yes? Public schools are not the worst teaching alternative.
Yep.
Same here.

Oh, and not to mention, how easier... is to just poke things?
At least with Clara HD, don't have to fear about bricking it, because worst case scenario, I can just reflash the system image, and have it working again.

And few days ago I just went and replaced internal microSD card with a bigger one (First making image of original one, then flashing it to bigger, and extending partition) and it just worked.

Sadly or not, I like to hoard things locally, on the reader itself. And that includes manga. So yeah, being able to replace microSD Card was very convenient.

And the device itself is a tiny bit more responsive overall too, alongside better transfer speeds :D
In the dotcom boom in Canada there was a sub-boom in fiber optics and related stuff in the Ottawa area. Nortel et al were hiring and paying big salaries right out of school, and people got used to it and thought that was how much money they could earn.

For years afterward there were people who had mentally anchored themselves at a certain salary bracket that couldn't find anything (especially in Ottawa) that paid anywhere close.

I always assumed this will happen any time with machine learning, I don't think it will be as bad for software overall though.
Hi, so I'm the creator of this extension. It adds the option to like/dislike any URL, and shows the current like/dislike ratio in search.

I've created it because I feel Google Search results order is pretty useless in order to discern between low quality marketing and quality content, which this extension should easily be capable of (with enough users).

Currently I'm planning on paying for the Firebase costs using donations (if it gets to the scale where I ran out of Google Cloud free credits).

Currently the only login option is "Sign in with Google", since it was the quickest to implement (I decided to publish early to see if anyone else is interested in the idea), but you only need to sign in if you want to rate pages, seeing the current ratio in search doesn't require a login.
To help with "making everyone follow the standard", why don't you start describing what those "standard" screen settings are instead of only talking from the point of authority?

Still, any standard prescribing "standard brightness" for office environments is bound to be nothing but a decent average or default. Even if there was biologically optimal display luminance, it would still depend on the environment lightning (which changes during the day if there's a single window in the room), and on the state of the viewers eyes (age, any visual problems or even temporary issues like tiredness), type of display...
Indeed, it reads like this, but the visually impaired minority is actually mostly part of the majority of people without calibrated screens I was mentioning. So I actually included them.

I'm sure people with calibrated screens can find a setting where black on white is comfortable, even temporarily, while most people just can't fix contrast lowered at the source. Including not visually impaired people in not ideal environments.
Agreed. I also set up my IDE (Jetbrains) so that it switches between light and dark themes according to my system preferences (which reflects available daylight)
Because reading code on a light theme is so much easier on the eyes during daytime. I don't understand why "coders" insist on dark mode everywhere all the time.
There are others.

I am happy with Deezer - no ads as far as I can tell.