skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase
of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president
used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection."

-- http://www.ams.org/notices/199610/page2.pdf
> Having people mindlessly scrolling on social media represents a real economic loss.

As opposed to a useful emotional blowoff valve attached to circumstances likely involving a difficult job or an annoying team, and projects to be completed in that mess during a terrible time? Show your work, please.
> Zuckerberg appeared visibly frustrated. “Um… all right,” he stammered.

My comment history will prove that i am the first to shit on corporate twats. Also i am not much of a sucker for “fun” 12 hours days.

But he’s got a point there. Company's switching to war mode. If all you care about is time off and perks then move on. Personally i like to demand and get paid but i also like to offer sweat when time comes. I mean you know money dont grow on trees and it goes both ways.
You began your engagement with me by saying that if I resigned from my current position, it would be best for the company and for the team of direct reports I manage. Is this a good example to follow if I want to be civil on Hacker News?

Or perhaps, are you suggesting you're actually the one at fault here? Would it be fair to say that given your advice, I should not have said anything back to you in the first place?

I cackle at the notion that "uncivility" (sic) is not welcome, and that one should not engage with it. You just got done telling me that the extreme incivility forced upon workplaces all over the globe by horrible companies that force their engineers to utilize horseshit like Dropbox, Slack, and Microsoft was desirable. In fact, you claimed it was more worthwhile than retaining a competent manager who cares deeply about the happiness of his direct reports and in so doing, eschews such needless garbage with extremely positive results.
I don't think I am. A good recent example was the ACA under Obama:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition#:~:text=The....

This is a big reason why Roe was never codified imo
Outside of fraud and security mitigation I have yet to see a legitimate use case for fingerprinting.

I very much do want the bank to fingerprint the hell out of my devices, front page of my local newspaper? Nope.
My problem with Edge is that the ultimate intentions are still the same (data collection) since the product is free. Microsoft's recent behavior with Windows 10 also confirms the business model has shifted from "selling software" to data collection and "growth & engagement".
or even simpler, stop being on a side, then you don't have to do mental tricks like "reversing the polarity". you can just see things for the way they are, without personal identity invested in the situation. this is exactly what being independent is.
The strong version basically says that a person's worldview is just about completely determined by language.

This was pretty much tossed in the trash bin, partly due to an interesting study into how a language's lexical entries for colors influences perceptions on color closeness and categorization.

Instead of the strong version there's a reasonable consensus that language influenced things but does not wholely determine them.

An interesting example is that speakers of tonal languages are more likely to exhibit perfect pitch.

Source: my increasingly hazy recollections from a post-graduate comp ling program.
ITP only has an effect on Safari, and we're talking about how Chrome handles cookies.
Soon all of America will be like this and we cant wait. No more white privilege for you ;)
FWIW I'm not suggesting that people do any of this today. But it is how it was actually done - it wasn't the case that advanced web apps that required per-client state management weren't possible at all without cookies.
Microsoft’s exFAT Linux grant also doesn’t extend to other free software. The patents expire approximately now (2022), though, so maybe it is a moot point finally.
Unfortunately, some IRBs are notoriously bad at preventing unethical research practices, since in practice they are often more focused on ensuring adherence to various bureaucratic requirements.

The issue isn't that they were misleading anyone; the issue is that they were, for research purposes, trying (successfully) to influence the outcomes of court cases without the subjects' consent.
FWIW, i just almost wet my pants laughing that that :).
SMART will report expected remaining lifespan. Another thing you can do is write k TB per drive where k is 0, 1, ... N-1 where N is the number of drives. This staggers the endurance so they don't all fail simultaneously.
In this case, the majority of my income depends on the edit server being online (thus the decision to go basically RAID10 + hot spare). I have a full backup plus an offsite copy, but they are over 2.5 Gbps on spinning disk, or take 6+ hours to restore from offsite, so they're emergency use only.

I'm also trying to get my homelab set up to be a bit more robust / automated / reproducible, and trying out a bunch of different ideas. I'll likely settle on something else in a year's time, but the main motivation for now was to get all the storage into my rack on my 10 Gbps network.
This! Weirdly I think this anti-cookie movement is actually really bad for smaller Web properties. They will no longer be able to track you much if at all. The likes of Google, Facebook, Tiktok or Snapchat will still be able to just fine though..
Common Lisp has it too, via https://stmx.org/ I believe it supports the Intel TSX stuff if present and falls back to a software implementation if not present.
Elon Musk Launches Fragrance Line ‘Musk by Musk' (Satire)
This isn't generally true in my experience. Wikipedia values secondary sources, even outright wrong secondary sources, over primary sources. It often happens that all secondary sources are wrong (for example reporting on popular personalities like Elon Musk) and the very clear and obvious interpretation of the primary source is ignored, for all of the secondary sources that twist the words of what was said.
more crudely, i'd say..."you feel the second derivative in your gut"
I think I just told you what good watches offer - they are tailored to the hardware (inch wide screen with a crown and another button or two), vs a 6 inch screen. You can’t just handwave that away.
Snap, or jounce, is the fourth derivative of position.
First: Thank you to take the time to write these Wiki pages, especially about deaf sign language in NZ. Maybe you can repost and HN can do some "Internet battle" to keep that page alive? It would be an interesting "Internet fight".

Regarding bizarre pages that remain (but yours does not): a daily cloud -- yes, read that right... a cloud(!) -- has its own Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_(cloud)
>> crash reporting, render time, and privacy preserving analytics

Those aren't the only times FF wants to "phone home". Personally, what made me jump from FF to a fork of the same, is Firefox Suggest. To me, this is a disgusting feature. Firefox with this feature says to me, we, Mozilla, want to become more like Chrome/Google.

It makes me not want to share even the tiniest bit of information with Mozilla.
> I'm not advocating a position

Oh, but you do. As soon as you propose a comparison and adorn the left side of it with a very visceral image, and leave the other side without any epithets.

Just take a look, with the offending part italicized by me:

> Mrs. X dies in agony drowning in her own dissolving lung tissue - vs. -Young child misses two years of convenient daycare.
I used Reolinks in the past... Had them save locally on the camera's SD card and upload via FTP on the server on my local network... I also blocked their internet access
That may be true, though the problem with releasing such a high profile exploit is that it's patched quickly. So IMO anyone with access to hardware / talent required to crack the xbox is probably sitting on that knowledge and extracting as much value as possible from it, instead of taking it public.
Bezos, Gates and Jobs all did not have a majority of voting shares and yet they had a lot of freedom because they did a good job. I think Zuckerberg would have the same freedom today without the majority of voting shares-- he's done too good of a job.

But what about ten years from now? What if his wife or kids retain control and act against shareholder interest? Giving different voting rights to share is a terrible idea in the long run.
And for some people, who don't identify with that impermanence, it defines their call to non-existence.
https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/default/files/files/file1/edpb_...

2.3 Household exemption

As far I understand it, if the cameras are pointed towards your home the exemption applies. If there is even a partial view of the street it would not apply (like the case is with many doorbell cameras). If there was a fence and the camera did not see above the fence it would likely apply though if there is a gate on the view it might not.
ITP has been mirrored in FF and Brave and potentially others. Their marketshare may be smaller than iOS Safari, but the tech is still there, regardless.
Where is the part where we know its a scam or a hoax? Could it be this person is legit selling their covid infected blood and saliva?
> The SQLite site runs on SQLite and it has considerable traffic.

The forum and source code trees run on sqlite (via the Fossil SCM, authored by sqlite's Richard Hipp). The main sqlite site is static HTML with a tiny sprinking of JS.
That's: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/topics/
I've never had any issue with gnome 3 or unity or gnomeshell or whatever its called. I started out on linux with Slackware and windowmaker. It was beautiful! And fast! And copy and paste didn't work between applications. I grudgingly used kde for a while and GTK. I then went osx for a while, and when gnome 3 and unity came out it had all my favorite bits about osx without the clutter. I went online to find oodles of hate. I never have understood it.
It's nice to see what's contained in the svchost process. Incroyable!
Deploy to GitHub Pages Directly Using GitHub Actions
OpenGL is such a pain in the ass. You'd know if you tried it.

I'll just repost my desktop linux rant from last year since nothing's changed:

---

1. Update glibc and everything breaks

2. Update Nvidia drivers and everything breaks

3. 99% of laptops have at least one device with missing or broken drivers. 802.11ac is very old in 2021, but the most popular ac chips still need an out-of-tree driver which will break when you update your kernel. Have fun copying kernel patches from random forums

4. Even the smallest of changes (ex: set display scaling to something that's not a multiple of 100%) require dicking around with config files. Windows 10's neutered control panel is still leagues ahead of Ubuntu's settings app. (Why are the default settings so bad? High DPI 4K monitors have been out for a decade now. Maybe they've fixed this since I've last checked. Or maybe all the devs use 10 year old Thinkpads)

5. Every config file is its own special snowflake with its own syntax, keywords, and escape characters

6. Every distro is its own special snowflake so it takes forever to help someone unfuck their computer if you're not familiar with their distro. Releasing software on Linux is painful for a related reason: The kennel has a stable ABI, but distros don't. You have to ship half the distro with every app if you want it to work out of the box. Using Docker for GUI apps is insane, but sometimes that's that you gotta do.

7. The desktop Linux community seems to only care about performance on old crappy hardware.

8. Audio input and output latency is really high out of the box. That's one of many things that require tweaking just to get acceptable performance.
A Short and Simple Crypto Staking Newbie Guide
That's true, though the intent behind posting the referendum was as a reflection of (lack of) direct public support for potentially personally painful measures. Getting something done through legislative channels obviously isn't worthless or meaningless, but it's not as direct of a reflection of a willingness to incur changes as a referendum is. In a unipolar state like WA, the actions of the legislature can be pretty divorced from actual popular sentiment, and runs the risk of being undone by referendum - which has a lot of precedent in fairly recent WA history.
Gonna stay out of gab, thanks: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYr3HYCWAAE6A6T?format=jpg&name=...
.doc and .xls stopped literally every single business I ever worked in from dabbling with Linux desktop for staff.
Website doesn't really work on mobile, unfortunately. The text doesn't match the screen size and is padded to the right by a bunch of empty space.
I think you're confusing some awkward phrasing from the poster. They were taking the meeting with the CEO in their home office, and the squirrel was running around presumably outside causing the dog to bark.

But I can see how you read it as thet were having a meeting and the dog brought a squirrel into the home office and ran around.
However, RISC OS (Acorn), 1987, with an icon bar. :-)

Project lead Paul Fellows is quoted in this article [1] as follows ("Arthur" being the code name for one of two competing projects, which became RISC OS),

> "I found this page I was very pleased by: 'Apple acquired the Dock from Steve Jobs' NeXTstep OS which stole it from Acorn's Arthur Operating System of 1987.'"

and,

> "There was a guy at Colton Software with us… who joined Microsoft in Seattle, and it was shortly after that that Windows acquired an icon bar. I know how that idea got there."

And on the rationale behind it,

> "In case anyone ever asked where it came from, we were sat in a room thinking 'how do we design this to be different, so we don't get sued by Apple?' The Mac had a menu bar of text across the top, so we thought 'we can't go across the top, we'll have to go across the bottom – and we can't use text, so we'll have to use icons.' That's why it's like that,"

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/how_risc_os_happened/

Edit: That said, Xerox PARC had the Cedar development environment in the 1980s and this featured sort of a task/icon bar already. Notably, the second, long ongoing project for an Acorn operating system, written in Modula 2, was conducted at ARC (Acorn Research Center) in Palo Alto, next to PARC. There may have been some exchange (and inspiration) involved.

[2] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-83-1...

[3] Video, "Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar", CHM YT channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4
no, because the amount of carbon in each energy input doesn't directly correlate with the amount of pollution and harm, and it's a courser measure than taxing the polluting components relative to their externalized impact on health and wellbeing. we need to directly tax each of the things we don't want proportional to harm, rather than trying to simplify the problem and thereby creating unintended distortions and consequences.
I posted this because it had one very relevant statement (to me, since I am one of those who is being advised to take Vit D supplements) from the article:

"So, for the millions of Americans who take vitamin D supplements and the labs that do more than 10 million vitamin D tests each year, an editorial published along with the paper has some advice: Stop.

“Providers should stop screening for 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels or recommending vitamin D supplements and people should stop taking vitamin D supplements in order to prevent major diseases or extend life,” wrote Dr. Steven R. Cummings, a research scientist at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, and Dr. Clifford Rosen, a senior scientist at the Maine Medical Research Institute. Dr. Rosen is an editor at The New England Journal of Medicine."
Yeah I don’t buy it either. If there were Windows 95 design patents they were more than 11 years old by 2006 and had only a couple more years of life left.
Wikenigma Is Down
This site was shared and made it to the front page here some days ago. Unfortunately, it is currently over its bandwidth limit.
My name and number got on a list for small business loans and I’m always getting texts and calls from companies trying to give me “capital.” They never identify themselves correctly.

I’d love a service where I just forward the text or voicemail to an api and they give me half of the settlement.
They have several different proposals for replacing cookies in ways that attempt to preserve the economic benefits of cookies without the privacy impact. The official announcement discusses this some [1] and there are more details on the privacy sandbox website [2].

(I used to work in this area)

[1] https://blog.google/products/chrome/update-testing-privacy-s...

[2] https://privacysandbox.com/open-web/#proposals-for-the-web
It was pre-mined. That is the very definition of shady.
Gnome 2 was peak for me too.
Show HN: A simple tool to easily create complex Midjourney prompts
Train your dog to piss or shit. If your dog likes food it should be very possible.
> Ubuntu used Unity, alienated a lot of people who only knew how to use Windows-like desktops.

Nonsense. It was alienating because it was slow and clunky, and for the people that choose Linux over OSX because they don't like OSX interfaces it was just being forced to use an inferior version of something they already didn't like.

The usual OSS intransigence where they couldn't actually figure out what UI they were trying to implement, like the blue-yellow-red buttons on the upper right, but also a close box / menu on the upper left and then also the right click for optional behavior of the window was also just straight _bad_.

That, and it was really slow and clunky. FWIW, I actually used fluxbox a lot for VNC installations and found it to be more pleasant and snappier (especially remotely) than Gnome.

I recall the switchover and don't remember hearing _anything_ from _anyone_ about liking it, but the reason was never that it wasn't enough like Windows.
I was bummed to see that. Is bandwidth for something like a text-based wiki still that huge a problem?
That’s definitely not how French law works. What is not proscribed is permitted.
In contrast, I'm so so happy that UX has largely settled on "this works and people know it" researched best practices. We don't need to be reinventing the steering wheel or AC controls for no reason (looking at you, Tesla).

The 90s and early 2000s were a hellscape of design nightmares between geocities, MySpace, iframes, and everyone and their grandma trying out new designs. 99% of it was trash. The bog standard website doesn't have to be someone's art project anymore, and that's a great thing for usability.

UX isn't stagnant, it's just matured since its infancy. (edit: for example, consider Google's material vs Apple's design systems, where they agree or disagree, even though they are both pretty mature by now. What should a primary call to action look like so it's obvious? How should you navigate a multi layered app? How should notifications work? Etc. Still a lot of interesting problems, they're just more nuanced now. Or look at some of the best selling design apps with complex features and UIs, they are innovating plenty. Or dashboards. Or DevEx stuff. Lots of fun new developments out there, even though some of the older problems have been satisfactorily solved!)
Yes but with negligible mass to avoid slowing down the spherical horses
The link seems full of MS distrust rather an objective review. DirectX overtook OpenGL thanks to the mess started by GPU manufacturers that introduced their own proprietary extensions and ARB sleeping.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/88055
I think of the abortion issue as like a necker cube. You can view the optical illusion as extending inward or outward. But it is difficult to see it both ways. You could easily see it as flat, but then you aren't really seeing it at all.

Partisans may object "but in the abortion case it is objectively extending inward and the other perspective is the optical illusion". But that objectivity is a moral illusion.
It is called "third party cookies" not "ad cookies". You can have ads without third party cookies and third party cookies have other purposes than ads.

I know that ads currently are the main use for third party cookies, but I think that everyone who has any interest in these news know what a third party cookie is, so why not use the proper term? I actually thought it was some ad specific Chrome feature, like the Advertising ID in Android, but no, it turns out these are just third party cookies.
Can watching cat videos be turned into productive intellectual activity?

The answer to my question is yes, however, I don't quite know the answer to yours, as enjoyment is somewhat subjective.

However, watching cat videos creates data(and also uses the intellect, i.e., to identify cats, and make some sort of vague judgement), and that data could potentially be leveraged to make algorithms, which makes it a potentially productive activity.

As for what algorithms?
Well, algorithms that find out which videos people are more likely to watch, so they can watch even more cat videos.

You are correct, it is an opportunity, and one already leveraged, by the same people who caused the problem.
I can't wait for my kids to start questioning everything I say. So that I can let them figure out the why by themselves with me nudging them in the right direction. I won't have to do all the thinking and they actually learn to think critically. Win-Win.
Your first two sources are just comparing spending to returns. It doesn't address the hard question which is about causality.

A better explanation for The American Jobs Creation Act is probably the fact that republicans support lower taxes, and they won in 2016.

Regarding the Microsoft case with the IRS, perhaps the fact that everyone hates the IRS is a better explanation?

>Public preference has almost no impact on what legislation gets passed.
Why would it have a significant impact? We don't pass laws by poll.

>Not to mention all the gerrymandering
This one seems real from what I've seen, but I need to look into it more, and I don't think it should be tied very closely to money in politics.
As someone who's work gave me a brand new Dell XPS 15 with broken Wi-Fi drivers out of the box, I kindly disagree with this. Linux is an absolute shitshow unless you happen to have "well supported" hardware. I've had far more problems getting and keeping even Ubuntu stable (oddly, Arch has been the most stable so far) than Windows. Windows still sucks for a lot of reasons, but drivers are not one of them.
Is anyone still seriously pursuing that? I thought it was a burst bubble by now.
You're preaching to the choir: I personally agree with much of this (lived in metro Tokyo), but that's honestly quite irrelevant. The point of contention isn't whether it'd be better in some absolute sense - it's whether you can convince enough people of the correctness of your vision to attain the support required to implement it.

It's not like your average American isn't aware of these arguments; they're just not broadly convincing (even if, from your or my perspective, they are). If they were, population flows would be headed in the other direction.

I'm pushing back here because your solution appears to be to continue to make the same arguments that have, so far, failed to convince enough people to deflect us from our current trajectory. More of the same, but louder? And given the urgency of the position, it's not like waiting on natural generational shift is much of an answer.

That's more or less why I take the exact opposite position and am bullish on anything that involves supply-side efficiency and bearish on anything that involves people having spontaneous moral awakenings.