skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Chrome:

* Got years of free advertising real estate on the most visited website on the internet, but hid the ads if you were using Chrome already

* Payed the likes of AVG, Avast, Adobe, Oracle and others to have their own software installers automatically install Chrome and make it the default browser unless you uncheck the boxes

* Repeatedly leveraged nonstandard and Chrome-specific APIs (Polymer v0) on their websites which caused other browsers to need slow and clunky polyfills.
I know, i tried to express that i feel they feel like they are somehow related… though that‘s not the important thing.

The issue i have is, exactly the paradox here… to me title expresses it very clear, but maybe i should rephrase to express it better. I will think about it and try. Thank you for your comment!
> we should try and find ways for the work itself to be fun

No. Those who are pocketing the $72 billion/year net profit should do that. Not you. If you are doing that yourself without being compensated for the value you generate, you are being exploited.
I agree with you on that Windows -> Linux doesn't have much appeal. I tried it 2-3 times and gave up because Linux was not user friendly enough.

However, I will say that Windows -> Mac is pretty awesome. IMO, the main benefits were the commmand line experience. Installing Homebrew on Mac was so much nicer than pointing and clicking everywhere in Windows to do things.

I see that Windows is getting better with their Terminal app, but the MacOS functionalities beat it.

If you value doing things from the keyboard rather than a mouse, then you'll see value in switching to MacOs. Otherwise, the appeal is rather muted.
> The Asian countries that do match the west for low levels of corruption (Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore) largely have a very obvious trait in common - wealth.

Okay, then an honest comparison would be wealthy "individualist" countries vs wealthy "collectivist" countries (not that that distinction is quite meaningful, but still). Poor countries have higher corruption that rich countries, that much is obvious and not very interesting.
people try to nail down definitions of words that are only loosely defined. You know the fight scenes in movies where a fight breaks out in a bar, and before you know it, everybody is fighting everybody? That's a battle royale. Is it a fight to the death? not usually. Have some people used that phrase to refer fights to the death? yes.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/battle_royal#English

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

books.google.com search "battle royale" in the 19th century, you'll see talk of ladies squabbling and how to conduct a mass cock-fight
Yeah if you value customizability at all, you should probably be using kde. I value simplicity and consistency.

I had issues with ubuntu's unity back in the day and I switched over to i3wm, but I didn't find I used tiling enough to make it worth losing the usability of a desktop environment
Not necessarily. Give a bacterial culture too high a concentration of sugar and the bacteria may even die from the resulting hypertonic osmotic pressure.
I'm pretty sure everyone has had to start over because of a game-breaking save bug. I know I have (but not with CP2077)

As for the respecting time thing... does TurboTax respect my time while showing me a false progress bar when it actually completes its analysis near instantly? Does Microsoft respect my time when Edge constantly pesters me with popups asking to be the default? Does Instagram or Facebook respect my time when they pollute my feed with their business objective bullshit? Does a cop respect my time when he pulls me over and spends 15 minutes running my information? (Like WTF is he even doing... he punches my info into cop google and it spits out an answer! Where is all that time going!) What about if they arrest me? Does the radio respect my time when it airs commercials?

Another answer is: temper your expectations. Take the L and move on. The sunk cost fallacy is real.
Meta->Joe: “Focus on yourself bro”
I worry that my phone’s battery gets hotter while charging so it’s getting double damage when it comes to lifespan. Maybe we should add a fan to inductive phone chargers…

(Doesn’t help that 99% of people run a case on their phones, and I doubt the manufacturer’s inductive
charging efficiency tests account for that)
what does which coast you live on have anything to do with the type of rap you appreciate? i don't know either but it does.
Note that hashquines, i.e., programs that print their own hash when executed do not depend on the hash function being broken. In fact, they are a fun little exercise.
Ask HN: What's the state of the art in AI generated music?
I had a good look a couple of years ago at AI generated music - there was quite alot going on.

Presumably however things have moved quickly since then.

Back then my goal was to be able to get royalty free music to use as backing tracks for videos. I couldn't find much to meet this goal back then.

What AI generated music systems can you recommend?
I know everyone hates Adobe (I certainly share some of the grievances about their pricing structure) but I have been using Photoshop for something like 23 years, working across half that many creative disciplines, and cannot overstate how much I value the consistency, reliability, and neutron-star density of its feature set. You call it bloated, I call it a Swiss army knife. I don't want every tool to be that way, but I love that some are. (The problem with this analogy is that Photoshop actually /is/ the best tool for many of the things it can do, where the Swiss army knife is solidly in jack-of-all-trades territory.)

Given this, I am very concerned about Adobe's continued march into web apps. For most of my UI and web design work, I use Figma, and quite like its feature set, but that I cannot use it offline and that I cannot work in a file that requires over 2GB of RAM due to its browser RAM cap is infuriating to me when Photoshop (the supposedly worse program) enables me to manually allocate as much of my system's 64GB of RAM as I please. It's difficult to imagine any web app stably and efficiently growing to Swiss army knife-levels of capability. Not just in terms of performance and resource management, but also GUI, keyboard shortcuts, etc.

I've long assumed my CC subscription would die with me, unlike many (most?) of my peers, but if the web-based Photoshop somehow became the primary Photoshop, I may have to cancel my subscription, and then kill myself.
It would be nice if it disabled itself when another password manager is installed...
Most of the sanitation workers I know would love it because of job security.

Maybe if we treated cops like people with jobs, we'd be able to hire some that work.
I don't know about faster but they all sure could use money to hire better UX designers and QA testing pipeline and do UAT/marketing.

But if their leadership just want to make another piece of software by niche enthusiasts for other niche enthusiasts of some topic then that money is wasted on them.

A good example of where such money has become useful is Signal. Fulltime devs close more issues.
> Many police still perform patrols around the city, and the data does not support the efficacy of that.

There's a lot of value in having patrols even in low crime areas. It means that when something does go horribly wrong, or even when residents just need help, that help isn't terribly far away. It also prevents "police free zones" which criminals would quickly discover and be happy to exploit. That said, police certainly should be patrolling areas where crime is more prevalent more frequently.
In my experience, white chocolate has a better chance of turning up the noses of chocolate elitists than not eating chocolate at all.
Given count of 7 users, are you perhaps the author ?
In my experience metrics aren't used to evaluate. They are used to justify decisions management has already made.

Management will never tell you, but they almost certainly have hidden metrics (or, simply, biases). But the discovery of such hidden metrics would destroy the image of the egalitarian work environment they like to promote. Much like in The Wire, you come to a conclusion and then work backwards with the metrics to find your support.
That’s really the question, isn’t it? The article makes it sound like hiring “open source devs” may be part of the strategy, which essentially amounts to anyone with a public GitHub repo.
No they don't. They only care when people they don't like lie to them (at least when we're talking about an audience that ostensibly includes you).

Selective outrage can only be sincere via ignorance. Tribal/partisan politics such as this is an betrayal of allegiance to one's country.
> This will be a bit controversial, but Kubernetes, because if people use it via GKE, EKS etc. then I won't have to learn their organically grown solution to the same dozen-or-so operations problems, and I have yet to see one that isn't a hot mess in some way or other. Also anything running on top of Kubernetes won't be built the very old-fashioned vi-edits-on-server way, great for sanity.

I appreciate this perspective. It's sane. But my consistent experience has been that the complexity permitted by the Kubernetes configuration surface area tends to be larger, more complex, and ultimately more difficult to wrangle than the complexity introduced by (reasonably coherent) home-grown systems.

I would generally prefer to be responsible for a bespoke solution, with all of its warts and pathologies, than for a Kubernetes deployment. The problems of the former tend to be at least tractable; wrangling Kubernetes to a reasonable level of availability is in my experience only possible if you dedicate your career to it.
haha, oh man

(For context: Reddit awards don't give the recipient anything except the ability to browse Reddit without any banner ads, and access to a special forum. If you make a big Reddit donation to someone, you're actually donating to Conde Nast, Spez, etc)
> American culture is much less corrupt when compared to the rest of the real world,

Does this mean that it’s the least corrupt place in the world?
Don't worry about it. It's just code for 'government departments only get to use software from giant corps with well known and unpatched bugs now'.
Ask HN: Heroku to Beanstalk?
Hi All - Our stuff is on AWS except for:
1/ Postgres
2/ Rails
3/ Hosting our React app

Since we're a small team, there is a lot we like about Heroku but would prefer to have one less moving part especially since Heroku has had reliability issues.

I'd love to know if you know of any deal breakers moving from Heroku to Beanstalk? Thank you!
The sour note comes from the lactobacillaceae and develops with a long (usually cold-retarded) ferments, not the yeast itself.

A short warm ferment provides very little of the signature sour taste. A prolonged (2--3 day) cold ferment can be quite sharp.

And a pre-ferment or poolish can develop a more sour note using baker's yeast.
What did IG do?
IMO Yuen Yuen Ang's unbundled corruption index is useful model for evaluating different types of corruption, all are "bad" but not equally so.

TLDR in this 2x2 matrix:

https://blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/57/files/2021/02/Typo...

And how countries stack up:

https://i0.wp.com/oecd-development-matters.org/wp-content/up...

Article:
https://oecd-development-matters.org/2020/06/25/unbundling-c...
All appeals to an ultimate authority are circular by nature. Its the philosophical equivalent of bedrock.

That being said, you can understand Christianity and the Christian philosophy/worldview perfectly well without faith. You need faith in the capacity and work of the true and living God, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah in order to be saved from sin.

Intellectual understanding of the claims of Christianity and belief in its claims are totally separate.

This is one of the reasons you should speak to those who are competent teachers. You might try and ask Dr. James White if you have specific questions. I'm happy to continue the conversation here but the format is 'limiting' to say the least.
I assume he's referring to fresh loafed bread, rather than the bagged, pre-sliced sandwich bread. I've definitely noticed the same thing, because sometimes I just want to have a simple bread-cheese-wine dinner, and all I can find is sourdough.
It's not what puts bread in my mouth though. I don't work there now and don't work on anything related to ads or messaging.

CA happened but that has nothing to do with this. The policies that allowed CA to collect data were very public, Zuck enthusiastically talked about the open knowledge graph all the time prior to CA, much to the dismay of many investors. Facebook didn't lie in that case, they misjudged the potential to misuse open data access, and the potential for negative PR as a result.

By analogy, it's like you're the landlord of an apartment building and you don't lock the front door. You put up a huge sign saying "this door is unlocked, everyone is welcome". You sell ads for your building embracing the unlocked door policy. Then somebody walks in and photographs all the tenants through their windows. Suddenly people who didn't care about the unlocked policy are now very angry, and rightly so. But this is completely different from collecting data, lying about it, and operating a massive conspiracy to conceal the data use from literally tens of thousands of employees who would normally be able to see it.
Perhaps 'loving to be alone' is a wrong self-representation?

Perhaps try 'loving not to be alone' as a self-image for a month and see how that feels.
> With a tax cut, US consumers have more money which they spend on imported goods.

So the dollars go overseas buying imported goods and then partially those overseas dollars buy USA treasury debt. This puts the price inflation, if any, overseas and then "sterilized" into Treasuries. This is why USA consumer prices and gold didn't go to the moon after 2008 bank bailouts.
My guess is that the government realized that FAANG makes for better bedfellows than sworn enemies. They can wave economic incentives in front of their face in exchange for international power beyond what other countries can offer. Having Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft under your thumb gives you control over ~80% of the internet and <95% of all PII. There is obviously a domestic interest in controlling that, so it would make sense that our intelligence agencies trade surveillance capabilities for SEC mulligans. That also explains our bipartisan indifference towards real data regulation and privacy legislation.
The minimalist style of most of his products is essentially a demonstration of lack of taste, probably with the purpose of playing it safe and not clashing with any potential customer's taste.
Sounds like Peta found a good way to get a bunch of free publicity.

Was there any other real goal?
Bimbo "bought" Mrs Bairds, but that was because Bairds got in trouble for price fixing and Bimbo bought them for pennies. I don't remember any of the details, but I wonder if some of these other brands were caught up similarly?
That's interesting. I don't think we've run across that before, definitely send us more info!
Has somebody used Render and Fly and can comment on the differences? I switched from Herokku to Render, and really like the good UX and docs. Never tried Fly though.
If someone pays you in cash, how do you know the money was not stolen?
Hopefully something like this catches on w/ smaller podcasters. Listening to shit-quality compressed internet audio in a podcast interviewing someone really interesting is just such a shame!
Casting Perls Before Splines
Except how many users do they have? If I were a VC fund looking to give them another round, I’d want to know their metrics, whether that’s users, downloads, or revenue. Judging by their blog, it’s been a year since they raised the money. Have they produced anything other than a bunch of code? Because code isn’t worth much without users.
Correct.

Sourdough is wild yeast (usually Saccharomyces exiguous) and lactobacillaceae. Today's commercial yeast is usually Saccharomyces cerevisiae (instant, active dry, .

The leaven you talking about is called "mother dough", basically a chunk of dough from previous baking.

I find the article wanting.

To make sourdough starter one needs water, flour, and time. That is it.
Demoralizing public school teachers and making them feel like death sounds like a win to me. The best possible outcome is they all quit and the public schools shut down. Until then, squeeze them, deny them any concept of free speech, let them know they are not to be trusted. These are government agents who have laws compelling parents to put their children in their presence. Public schools are literal prisons for children.
You might want to experiment with pre-ferments or poolish:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-ferment>

(Discussed in several of the better sourdough cookbooks, Tartine and Flour, Water, Salt IIRC.)

I've yet to try this myself, YMMV.
If apps are written correctly, they can use the Custom Tabs protocol with your default browser (which can be Firefox, as it has support). You'll get the same embedded browser experience, support for add-ons and ability to pop out the site into a separate 'window'/activity.

Of course, many apps don't properly do this and end up hardcoding references to Chrome...
> Whereas police having real-time data means that (at least in principle) they can be where the criminals are.

From the article:

> The SFPD will also be able to access private camera footage during large-scale public events such as protests, even if there is no suspicion that a crime has taken place.

They explicitly want access in cases where there hasn't been a crime. The EFF posts on this legislation also points out that this is likely to not be particularly effective in addressing crime, if the rules laid out are followed. And members of the police commission even asked for this vote to be delayed. This is not actually about stopping crime.

> One of those is a sensible outcome

No, the outcome which involves all the non-criminals going about their daily lives inside a panopticon is not sensible.
>When you arrest the same person over and over again and they are just let out by the DA, you may just not arrest that person again.

Great, so everyone agrees the current approach doesn't work. Now we need to come up with a better solution.

Option 1 is to throw these repeat offenders in jail and consider the situation fixed.

Option 2 is to take the money that we are paying the cop that now refuses to arrest anyone and instead pay someone who is willing to work with this repeat offender and help get them a home, job, treatment, or whatever else they need to stop living life like this.
Nevermind copyrighted material, what would happen if you got child porn on there?
The problem is our egos get in the way of real facts. Experts are humans and they are just as vulnerable to being wrong as the rest of us. Its great that there are people who dedicate there lives to a discipline, but sometimes experts use there positions of being right to distort larger truths, especially in areas where we don't have all the facts, but think we do, and when careers are on the line, experts can ban together to protect themselves. Id rather find my own way to the truth, then to rely on an expert that may or may not have an interest in protecting themselves from career breaking situations.

Expert positions can create a false sense of security that we know all there is to know about a subject, and that is just as damaging to society as not knowing the truth.
Oh I know it’s a myth, you’re not wrong. I was simply using the myth we keep hearing as a foil for how bad an idea this is. It’s a perfect example of imbalance that results in burn out.

I do appreciate you pointing out that this is a myth. It’s important people don’t think this is somehow manageable, even for “just a few years”.

All that being said… you’re still going to keep hearing it on the news, in books, from movie stars, etc…
Do you know what they call it in the Netherlands? My wife is Dutch and we've been to the Netherlands a bunch of times and I'm trying to picture what it is you're eating. Most of the bread we ate there, or that my wife's family eats is a pretty unassuming white bread (a grocery store italian loaf wouldn't be a bad comparison) just buttered, usually with a slice of gouda or ham.
I love using LXC, Finding documentation and such online regarding things however is an absolute pain in the ass in trying to figure out if the LXC commands they are talking about older depreciated syntax's, LXD which uses 'lxc' for their command line, Or the modern version of LXC which you are trying to make use of....
People like Friedman are either paid mouthpieces or complete loony-toons ideologues. That’s the only way to make “libertarianism” make sense.
A previous employer had the same issue, and solved it by writing the application to kubernetes and deploying minikube to the clients that didn't have their own kubernetes cluster.

To be fair, the situation ended up being: bunch of clients running minikube, 1 major client with their own kubernetes cluster, and a lot of other clients using the multi tenant, cloud hosted, offering. Made it a bit of a pain to support that one client with a cluster we could not control, but it was one of our biggest clients, so, them the breaks.
This has existed for years. I use 1Password for all my passwords and it shows up as an option when entering or creating a password in any browser on iOS. Furthermore, all browser can access the keychain if the user authorizes it.
Smart TVs in general use IP address to try target devices across households, which is against the privacy policies of a lot of ad tech providers because IPs are not redactable/resettable by an end-user.

The best way for small ad tech providers to compete with "big tech" has been to cross lines that the bigger companies won't cross, this is an example for why there are a lot of profitable ad tech companies in the connected TV / video ads space.

Even if you use a VPN, the TV itself likely has a unique ID for ads, so someone just needs to see one request with both the true IP and the unique device ID and then remember that for the future. It's all very shady. TVs are very far behind the level of user control that phones and browsers provide because there's less scrutiny and its more fragmented across manufacturers (all of which want to get in on ad tech).

You can usually find some opt-out of the identifiers if you dig deep enough into the menus, because multiple laws and regulations require them.
I would have agreed with that 15 and maybe 10 years ago. Nowadays, do you really think this is still true? At the university I work at some of the administrative staff with little to no technical knowledge are using Ubuntu and doing essentially the same thing they would on Windows or Mac, and that really not only web browsing, nor LibreOffice usage. For example they have to use custom horrible tools developed years ago that look just as familiarly awefull on Linux as they do on Windows or Mac (I'm talking of Apogée if any French academics pass by).
It might take a few attempts, but I would try to find a good therapist and work with them to figure out this state-of-being and how you can change or augment it in a way that both meets your desire to spend time alone and to resolve your loneliness. For example, maybe you need to find a specific type of life partner who also needs lots of time alone (e.g. an artist with a studio). Then you could potentially continue having stretches of alone time but with companionship during times you and your partner don't want to be alone.
Giving money for the project must be someone trying to kill it off
It's a great way to exfoliate the roof of your mouth.
Except that it might have always been worth doing, but the team is underfunded. ie, the ROI on doing it was positive/high