skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s an extremely obtuse justification for immoral behavior.

Consumers are informed, and they say “no” when given the choice. Respect their “no”.

Tracking builds a massive, exploitative, dangerous information asymmetry. You claim the cost to consumers is small; the aggregate cost is very clearly not small.

This should be an existential issue for websites, and it should force the closure of websites that can only exist through exploitative abuse of consumers.

The cookie banners exist because of bad actors on the web who have become too dependent on abusing user’s data. The problem is with them, and their use of dark patterns to purposefully confuse and mislead consumers.
I was expecting one of those music YouTubes where they take some sample and process it so much that it doesn’t really matter what the sample even was. But I’m pleasantly shocked (ha!)

They really evoke the feeling of electricity. It reminded me of the soundtrack to the Chernobyl miniseries. It’s… powerful and eerie and calmly, effortlessly, sluggishly intimidating.
hehe yea, nothing makes you learn to rest better than seeing the 'progress' you made when coding in the negative productivity zone
>I’m unsure if your comment is genuinely curious; I’ve tried to assume positive intent.

This part of your comment is unnecessary and degrades the discussion. The first half was helpful.
Agree, I shouldn't have used the word "proved". But there is a lot of robust evidence for it going back to the 1800s. Many of the studies are linked to on the wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacing_effect
In this particular case, Infy wanted to hire non-Indians for executive positions so that they can sign more deals.
SimCity 30 Years Later: A Retrospective
it’s worse than waiting actually.
Because client A might write value « 1 » and after client B write value « 2 ».
Then client C can read Value 2 for 5 minute and then cassandra internal read-repair eventually put value 1 on all replica and value 2 is lost forever.
It is pretty darn interesting how the form factor of the Wave Glider mentioned in the article intuitively looks like it could be an earlier or otherwise modified version of this boat found near Sevastopol.

My favorite speculative analytic photo is the one that includes a "Starlink Antenna??" label [1] and it's kinda fun to speculate about whether Elon Musk's ambitions have entered the Project Azorian-style covert operations arena. And I mean, in some ways why wouldn't they, it's Elon after all.

(I also really want to see more gear from this category of "inadvertent catalog-ready photos of stuff that was supposed to be secret")

1. https://twitter.com/grahworin/status/1572759958113878016/pho...
Intel Confirms Aldler Lake BIOS Code Leak
The chipmaker has admitted that 6GB of BIOS source code which leaked are legit. Researchers and hackers are combing for vulnerabilities.
No. Having enough energy in your body speeds recovery, which eating helps with, but storing vs burning fat is almost purely down to calories in vs calories out. You can end up storing less fat by using energy to recover (intentional) damage to your muscles, or by just spending it (increase calories out) but that equation is still all that decides which way the valve flows.
It's a bug. Nowhere in any of the rationale you lay out is there anything about competence and active involvement/oversight on the part of the government. Neither major political party in the U.S. focuses on this, though the Republican mentality is largely that the government can never be competent. However, at a minimum, the government is the buying agent of the people in procuring infrastructure or infrastructure improvements. It sets the requirements, oversees execution, and signs off on the delivered products. Companies perform work, but their interests are not aligned with the interests of the taxpayers. Incompetent or unempowered government employees cannot prevent the abuse of the taxpayer by companies, nor can they establish boundary conditions for successful project completion. The checks you indicate, e.g., environmental review, are procedural devices that can have radically different outcomes depending on the competence of government employees.

The U.S. system will not get appreciably better until we focus on government competence. The layperson's go-to explanation for these outcomes is something in the tree of corruption but the truth is likely closer to Hanlon's razor.
I collaborated with an AI on a short story and then interviewed the AI about it
It’s also only $0.46 in singles at DigiKey, so hardly something crazy wasteful in any event.
I think some folks think that not every available treatment modality was tried and there's a possibility that one could have worked so euthanasia was perhaps premature.

How is that handled inside the ethical framework that governs euthanasia? It must be a consideration.
TS on frontend feels like devs making their editor choice (VScode) a hard dependancy
It's super shitty to just autoplay that sounds as soon as you open the page. Firefox on Android.
Except that gdp has no conception of the impact of improved productivity.

For example, cars are an incredibly inefficient and expensive transportation model from a capX and operating cost perspective. Switching to a public transit model would increase quality of life, but would shrink the gdp, because the operating costs for public transit are orders of magnitude less than car-oriented transit.

So even though public transit would improve efficiency, the 1st order effect would be to reduce gdp.
> My son just finished an undergrad CS degree at a major university and I don’t think he’d meet this pre req.

Wow, that's somehow sad : - |
PaaS is cool but IaaS sells
I think you might have missed out on learning about the 2d Fourier transform and the meaning of "frequency domain". The standing wave patterns of the feedback loops are exactly the wave patterns you want to decompose the image data into. The waves have a characteristic frequency inversely proportional to the length of the loop. One can apply a decomposition into a wave basis just as easily on the space domain as one does on the time domain. The convolution in the original domain just becomes multiplication in the frequency domain. Sharpen and blur filters are literally just high pass and low pass filters applied to the 2d Fourier transform.

I highly doubt there is one big pipeline to which the original sensory inputs go through some fixed filters and then return back to the main start point as feedback. It's not exactly like pointing your camera at the projector, or holding the microphone too close to the speaker. Rather, there's many possible paths for neural inputs to loop back, and none of these loops is the dominant "pipeline". It's more like a microphone is near a whole wall of speakers, each with its own characteristic delay and amplification factor. The repeating spatial patterns of whatever length directly translate to a standing wave in neural loops with the right amount of loop length.

The transform to a convenient wave basis doesn't need to be implemented as a layer in a pipeline because the loops themselves are the transform.

A transform into frequencies (in some weird basis) is almost an unavoidable consequence of connecting neurons at random. Just like any old metal sheet is a bell if you hit it with a hammer, any old clump of neurons is going to have standing waves of activations that resonate with some sensory input pattern.

If you randomly poke at some neurons, possibly altering their delay time or adding/disabling connections, statistically the longer the loop the more likely it is to be affected. This view also nicely explains the other effects of LSD. Your sense of time is wrong for the exact same reason your perception is distorted: the timing of all the loops have been slightly detuned.
eventually they will converge on a « random » value!
that’s why we say it’s write quorum is not consensus it’s offer very weak guarantee
It wasn't at the time. Mobile Apps didn't work but it showed them as green.
>It's definitely not worth an engineer's time to resolve random customer issues, especially as Stripe has grown from ~500 people to ~7000 people

That's true if you assume a constant rate of incidents.
But when engineers are responsible for customer issues, they become aware of problems and can change the product to reduce those incidents.

In services like this one, letting engineers do the customer support is the closest they can get to eating their own dog food.

If incidents are handled by another department then it's more rewarding to implement another bonus-relevant goal than to reduce the number of problems.
Yeah, I don't blame the person for leaving. It's either the company increasing margin too much, or more likely the executives in this country not understanding the full implications of this model on tech projects. It might work for call centers where you read off a script, but building software is different.
Hey @ilaksh Let's talk over email. We have a lot of different options and details re the API that we're still considering and trying to improve with our partners
> I'm not sure there's much that can resolve it.

But there are many examples of companies who can and do, at volumes which are orders of magnitude larger than Stripe's B2B business.
Maybe I'm overanalyzing, but some of the terminology in the article is weird. Mr. Cameron is described as a snow expert who does research. However he says he's not an academic or climate scientist. Is he just a humble guy? Or is BBC referring to his tweets as his research projects?
Our corner of the world also has a similar saying: "Keep the breakfast for yourself, give half the lunch to your enemy, and let them have the dinner."

However I have a sneaking suspicion this grew out of generations of peasants who needed almost 5 digit daily calories early in the day to sustain their backbreaking farm labor, and helped along by moralizing against lazy people who would get the village in trouble with the local lord or the imperial tax collectors.
5min video explaining it:
https://youtu.be/DoQoeK53bP8

or:
https://www.supermemo.com/de/archives1990-2015/help/read
Yeah, if it's done with that in mind from the beginning, you can get some really interesting things (and the cost may not be that much more than a one-off set and removal, too).
And 18 floppy discs to install...
Historically when everything was working maybe. That day not because services that were green clearly weren't working.
What country then?
Sounds like this company is a software farm for cheap contract work.
Let's say hypothetically you were teaching git to a group of 30 high schoolers. 25 of them struggle to grasp beyond a few commands and 5 of them do ok with it. As king for a day, what would you do to simplify git so that as many of those 25 kids as possible could become proficient with version control? Or would you just push forward with the 5 kids and tell the other 25 to find a different path in life?
I don't always pay for ads, but when I do it's to troll billionaires
I found this via a Markup newsletter which provides some more context and criticism of the lack of centralized policy. https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/the-seven-year-...
Yeah makes sense. Simple but very effective.

Edit: actually a git postcommit hook would be good. Then you could cache deps against a commit hash, and then load them as soon as you see that hash in origin git.
Your response is a no true scotsman fallacy while also moving the goalposts, though what you've described is either a single-user single-task operating system, or you are conflating the limitations of current conventional single computer technology, which has already been solved with conventional clusters as well as quantum computing, and probably also with modern GPUs. Parallel computing has existed at least since the mid-1960s.
Good data, core hours, and being (kindly) clear can retain top talent
I guess this thread discusses 2nd order effects. The most important factors are still the food you eat (Mediterranean diet in this case) and the number of calories (portion sizes).
Just because they have experience in C and (hopefully) some non trivial work over the course of the entire degree doesn’t mean they have non trivial experience in C.

I’d love to hear what the author considers nontrivial but I’m going to guess it has something to do with pointers, and familiarity more generally with the memory model of C.
Outside perspective.

Market knowledge.

Experience with the structure and requirements of a story, especially a long story.

Contacts.

An indifference to the 'darlings' of your sentences. They'll kill without mercy.

Self-editing is completely doable, and some are very capable, but a professional editor is just that: a professional.
There's some debate about the role of practical instruction at engineering colleges. One one hand, you have people who say "no. we shouldn't be teaching basic skills like C programming." Their point is a university level education is supposed to teach people how to think about the concept of computability and algorithm analysis. They will frequently say things like "we are not a trade school!" The other side of this debate are people who are like "Meh. It's embarrassing our grads can't write a C program." So they teach them Python.

Either way, the only way you're going to graduate knowing C programming is to realize it's something you want to do and spend a bit of your own time learning it.

And then they completely fail to teach concepts usable as a gigging coder.

I think if you ask the academy "what are you teaching young software engineering students?" the response would be something along the line of "We're teaching them knowledge and skills that will be useful for being a grad student."

It would be cool if there was an organized course teaching kids the basics of version control, what continuous integration and continuous deployment are, what agile methodologies are supposed to do (as opposed to "agile is whatever is in the JIRA manual"), the basics of logic programming -- you'll never use prolog but you'll be rewriting it in C++ or C# a couple of times, the basics of functional programming -- you'll never use lisp, but you'll be pretending function pointers are the same thing when you're writing that big C++ program, software project estimation, how to invert a binary tree -- you'll need to know this for a google interview and how to actually design data structures.
> shut down on 2 September

That seems unfortunate; the employee's best chance for collecting is if the employer continues to have business operations in the Netherlands.
Ask HN: Why are JavaScript dependencies so messy?
I love JS, but every once in a while a new bundler comes along that "solves everything". And it works, for a while. then it breaks. Why? Why are there so many edge cases? I don't understand it. We only have a few module types (AMD, CommonJS, ES modules), with a few types of import and export syntax. How hard can it be to get it always right?

Like parcel. It worked. For a while. And now if you check the GitHub there's 690 open issues, and I had issues today getting it to work when running after an 'npm i' done in v17 or v18, yet it's fine to run in v{16,17,18} if 'npm i' is done in v16.

And snowpack: v0 (or 1) worked great, but the next version broke so many things (compared to the prior version) that I need to keep the dep version locked to the earliest ones for packages where I use that. Tho I guess that's more of an API problem.

What I'm really talking about is: why can't we just have a bundler that works always and everywhere (and I don't want to 'wait for' deno)?

Why would parcel start to get bugs...how hard can it be??? :...(
Just a wonderful (and terrifying) quote:

> explode like a piñata filled with responsibilities

(The idea is to not be that piñata.)
This seems to be the norm among modern tech companies (and maybe others). I think that a good deal of "value" (market cap) has been created over the past 15+ years around preventing customers from getting help, and therefore increasing retention and lowering headcount. There are even large help desk firms that basically specialize in software to prevent people from getting help from a real person. If we took this away and asked companies to actually support their customers, I think we'd quickly see that many businesses would no longer be viable
The basic deal between the US and SA is, in exchange for supplying the global oil market, the US will overlook SA's dictatorship, human rights abuses, and involvement in 9/11, and will supply them with weapons. If SA stops upholding its side of the deal, I would expect the Arab Spring would suddenly find its way to SA. Or, perhaps first, the US would support a coup against MBS to replace him with a more compliant member of the House of Said.
sorry to disappoint you but there is a reason Cassandra tried to add LWT using paxos.

it mostly work but it’s extremely slow and still have many bugs.

https://www.datastax.com/blog/lightweight-transactions-cassa...
Identify the right things to work on.

80:20 .. Find the tasks that give 80% of the return.
Fiverr Hosted 'Coronavirus Healers' and Dodgy Mask Sellers
Yeah but such a horrible solution. After the pain of reporting it and getting it changed, now you get to update a dozen or more auto-pay accounts. You're sure to miss at least one and have something (probably important like your internet or phone bill) cut off on you at the worst possible time. Plus you get to spend days without usable plastic. Hope you have a spare card or cash.

Would much prefer a solution simpler/easier/less devstating than dropping Mjölnir on it.
> Ireland’s TV licensing law

Can you expand on this? What is this law? What's the impact on a TV vs. a monitor?
Is there a difference between a dumb tv and a smart tv that you leave on hdmi1 input ?
And orders of magnitude more use Anki: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

I’ve been seeing HN submissions of various quality to extoll the virtues of SRS in an attempt to sell Anki clones or Anki for X for almost 15 years now.
If you live in a state, that allows ballot measures, then get involved. Looking at whats happening in legislature in the US it is unlikely they will produce anything with sensible approach to privacy.

California had couple of iterations of CCPA and so far it is not looking that good either, but worth trying.
I've been warned about snarky or trolly responses, so I'll just say that you are correct that my comment did not consider handgun hunters.
That's kind of the point of splitting CS degrees into general undergraduate basis and specialized graduate level. In undergraduate you have to learn the basics of everything and can start to specialize on projects or bachelor's thesis if your uni has one, then you finish your specialization during graduate studies. You can be a very good software developer without ever touching a command-line interface or having a working knowledge of C these days. On the other hand if you want to become a C/Unix developer, there are enough courses and projects available for you to learn.

Also I'm fairly sure you can start a course like this even without matching the prereqs, it's just gonna be a bit harder, but university is all about challenging yourself...
Mostly the calories. Number of meals is a non sequitur, especially with the insane caloric density of the typical American meal.
Yep. Anything greater than 1% is leading to trouble such as huge fees or being kicked off a card network.
No, that is literally impossible.

If value 2 is newer than value 1, value 1 will never overwrite value 2. If a client reads value 2 at QUORUM then it will always be seen by all future queries.
> Parental leave should be measured in weeks, not years.

slavery ended thousands years ago
> free speech is meant to protect you from government censorship to ensure the balance of powers

That's the 1st amendment of the US constitution, not "free speech". Since this is a United Nations report, the context is wider than just the US.

> Not everyone deserves a voice, but even if you do we don't have to listen.

Ah the old "we". Only in practice it's not "we" or "I" deciding not to listen, but some other entity deciding on our behalf what we're allowed to hear. Sometimes a government, but most often a multinational corporation. For most of the world, a foreign corporation.
California to discontinue plastic grocery bags
Dev edition also makes it easier to run both Firefox stable and a non-stable install since they default to separate profile folders.
One has also got to hope that Temporal offers all the features a well built daytime library does offer. What good is it if Temporal is lacking that one feature you need, so that you end up including another library as well.

By then you can assume that the other library will be a lightweight wrapper around Temporal.
Show HN: Simplepdf.eu – a browser-based PDF annotator / editor
Hi HN!

I've been working on SimplePDF to solve a problem I encounter weekly: filling out non-editable PDFs [1]

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# About SimplePDF

- The documents you load, edit, fill never see the light of my server, everything is processed locally – no remote uploading anything. This includes the PDF generation.

- There are no analytics / third party tracking your every move (I do collect usage data, but it's fully anonymous and processed and stored on my server): therefore no annoying cookie banner. You can read more on the Privacy Policy [2]

- If someone before you has filled the same document, upon opening it you'll see fields already set, ready to be filled-in, think crowd-sourced fields positioning – saving you time and effort.

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# How does the crowd-sourced positioning of fields work?

When a document is loaded in your browser, a fingerprint of the document binary is made, and sent to the server. The document table consists of: document_id, fingerprint and created_at.

As soon as you start editing a document, a template is created, containing metadata about the fields (x, y, width, height, type of field, background color...) that is then tied to this document you created. Once you save, this template gets sent to the server.

The template table consists of: template_id, document_id, fields (the metadata) as well as created_by_customer_id if you're a customer.

As a result, someone else on the other side of the world opening the same document will see the fields you positioned already there – you just saved them the 5min it took you to position them.

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# What's the tech stack of SimplePDF?

- NextJS on the frontend

- Koa with GraphQL on the backend

- Postgres (Managed Database on Digital Ocean)

- A 10€ droplet on Digital Ocean

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If you have any questions, comments or feedback (good or bad), I'm all ears!

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[1] The assignments my estonian teacher gives me are usually scanned documents that do not have any editable fields in them.

[2] https://www.simplepdf.eu/privacy_policy
I wouldn't trust it. Tons of Europeans eat early and very late and are perfectly healthy.
Working alone could be the reason too.
If you use some extreme examples then sure living in the US can be very expensive. But for most of us the things are not this bad. I am a professor and even with the academic pay I save about 30% of my salary even after paying all the expenses. The key is to live in a lower cost US state where the salaries are still quite high compared to most of the world.
Bad regulations by a slow, bureaucratic government do that, yes. Meanwhile, the free market people always claim will solve everything? That same free market "solved" mobility by pushing car usage through the roof, resulting in extremely inefficient space usage now that population demands are changing.

Neither bad regulations nor the free market are going to solve a lack of foresight. Worse, those regulations are largely devised by politicians in power voted by a majority of homeowners and a few ultra rich lobbyists. You might as well make a "always has been" meme out of it.

Same goes for every other of your points. If free market capitalism would solve it, it already would have.