skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To me this injection crosses a line of interfering with content that isn't yours.

Sincere question from someone who doesn't understand why we're freaking out: Why is this different to you than a password manager doing the exact same thing with password fields?

Here's what I see: someone installed the DuckDuckGo extension, which now has a new feature. That feature is best implemented by having a little widget that allows creating a new alias. Users who haven't seen the widget before wouldn't know how to use it, so DuckDuckGo added an explanation for people who click on it without having set it up yet.

Where was the line crossed? Do you object to having a widget at all? Is the problem having an inline explanation introducing the feature? Is it the phrasing of the pop-up?

I see a lot of visceral reactions and condemnations, but I don't see anyone explaining what makes this an ad and not onboarding.
yes this is true -- it turns out that MSFT has easily measured the time it takes to download upgrades on a very large scale. This private data is mentioned in the Princeton study "No WANs Land: Mapping broadband connectivity"
The dns server has multiple answers in the database and has logic to determine which one to respond with. Normally it’s based on the assume location of the client based on IP of the query but it need not be. “Geo DNS”
Most often I am seized by an idea rather than vice versa
> Not just them saying to peers "My parents say I'm not allowed to do x."

Yes, that's the core of it. Working together on facing the issue while supporting increasing the agency of the child.

Anything forced onto them is just an external force to deal with. A decision made together, with own interest and long-term vision in consideration, with rules derived from these goals, are a very different thing.

One trains the child to submit + secretly subvert, the other nurtures trust and trains collaboration, openness, iteration etc.
I think this is just an incorrect assumption on the part of the blog authors.
The problem is that vast majority of users installed it before the ad was added.
Bing AI Chat Voice Search
Sort of? I've been at an Israeli wedding once and we literally had to shelter for fifteen minutes because some Gaza rocket was flying over the venue, people just shrugged it off.

There's people in the thread here saying American roads in suburbs are too unsafe, I don't think these folks have seen traffic in Jakarta, and yet kids still walk to school there. Most people on earth would kill for American suburb levels of safety.

America's paranoia is grounded in something else. The country has had bouts of hysteria over anything for many decades now.
If you want a dose of odd - this talk at Odd Salon from a few years ago on the Mouse Utopia experiments is pretty entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG2Xh2JCoMY
I've known gamers that laughed at console gamers because of how much slower the systems were. Now, I have to wonder if they just weren't PC gamers for the sole reason of being able to run these hacks? Know the personalities of some of them, it would not shock me at all
Edit: deleting comment due to the worthlessness of dealing with someone who is intentionally engaging in bad faith.

I can't argue against intentional misphrasings.
Not sure what constitutes "abuse" in your book, since it is an extremely vague charge and men and women tend to exercise their malevolence in ways befitting their own aptitudes (men typically with more brawn, women typically with more subtlety). But in any case, I hate to break it to you but divorce was not created for the purpose of "womens' liberation", it was created to justify serial monogamy.
Sonos has a remarkably good implementation of all of this.

For URL-based streams they buffer and NTP to sync. For live streams (e.g. gaming) they p2p multicast and tweak the wifi params in real-time to minimize drops.

The speakers create their own wifi and use MST network heuristics to latency-min route over that versus native wifi or ethernet if you've plugged it in. Sound drops when the wifi spectrum blinks (rarely), but I have never encountered the speakers being out of sync or noticing an echo effect.

And the speakers can use your phone's mic to scan the soundscape of a room to acoustically balance the sound when you set them up. I particularly like how consistent the sound volume is room-to-room even with very different speaker setups.

IIRC they've patented their specific mechanism. So ya, it's solved, but it may be expensive to license.

(Not affiliated with Sonos, I just have a bunch of them and like them a lot.)
Interestingly I got an email from my cellphone provider today that pretty much talks about this very subject, although in a less scientific manner. They made a video (link at end) and the description for the video says:

"Did you know 80% of Canadians feel happy after watching animal videos online? Introducing TELUS Critter Comforts. It’s like the fireplace channel, but featuring our beloved critters." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orJcrqBKLas

This is for promoting a charity, but the gist is similar to what the article is claiming.
Anonymous tips cannot be used as evidence at trial.
I suppose since there's only three buildings they can choose to charge whatever they want. I had a look on the hotels website and it was £700 per night. While I'm sure it's lovely, a room for the night is certainly not affordable for most of the UK population.
I would not be surprised if Adobe intentionally added monopolistic terms to their deal with Figma or acted that the deal was monopolistic in front of antitrust officials in the hope that they might block the deal, considering that they are paying $20B for something that, in today's market, is worth way less than that.

If I am not mistaken, the fact that DOJ is preparing a suit means that the deal will not go through for at least a year or more, so Adobe can delay paying. They can also, intentionally, perform poorly in court to let DOJ get an easy win and avoid paying Figma.

In my opinion, the only losing party in this story is Figma. Adobe gets a chance to back out and DOJ gets a chance at an easy win. I am surprised FTC didn't jump on this, considering they are looking for wins, after their weak lawsuit against Meta's acquisition of Within.
Epik’s Mini-Monster
for those of us who ticked off at CPS, that's kind of the point. who you want "anywhere near children" should have nothing to do with my relationship with my kids.
> All suggestions are welcome.

They have to get an API key from you. What about a large warning at the start of that process telling them that this isn't a service you provide?
> Break the system. Flood it with bogus complaints until the people in charge learn why anonymous accusations are a bad idea.

I’m surprised this hasn’t happened already. Since it’s anonymous I would expect 4chan to flood all these stupid policies.

Maybe they selectively review and pursue.
Yeah if you ran with the software renderer in Counter-Strike I think the smoke grenade's smoke didn't work properly.
> The new trading relationship between the UK and EU, as set out in the ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ (TCA) that came into effect on 1 January 2021, will reduce long-run productivity by 4 per cent relative to remaining in the EU.

> Both exports and imports will be around 15 per cent lower in the long run than if the UK had remained in the EU. (OBR)

Trump never lowered trade by 15 per cent and most of what he did can be reversed. Brexit, which started on a cynical whim of David Cameron. can't be reversed.
Why waste time.. when you can sink it in the sea :P

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-sinks-rusting-...
I've had the same problem... invites never arrive.
I feel you, but this is clearly a “correlation is not causation” type situation. Infrastructure should be people-centric, and there’s nothing wrong with doing things to reduce car speed and make the built environment safe. It is unlikely that improved infrastructure resulted in people walking and biking less, which is what the wording of your post suggests.

(Also, love your username… I thought I was the only one. ;-) )
I don't. I've seen this[1] passed around as an evidence to show a much lesser prevalence of caste-based discrimination, but I haven't myself examined this in depth.

[1] https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/06/09/social-realities-of... (search for "Experience With Discrimination")

> Muslims report the greatest degree of religious discrimination by far (39 percent), followed by Hindus (18 percent), Christians (15 percent), and believers of other faiths (9 percent). Sixteen percent of Indian Americans report being discriminated against by virtue of their Indian heritage. And, finally, 5 percent of all respondents report having encountered discrimination due to their caste identity.
> as Google embraces "real estate efficiency."

Full time WFH and dumping your office spaces as fast as you can would efficiently remove those real estate costs entirely.

Kind of fun watching them flail so hard before they'll have to accept the new economic reality.
I completely agree, except for the last line. It is in my experience very hard to post-hoc get people to care about query performance. Organizationally and technically. In a complicated monolith at scale, de-tangling the ORM is a multi-years long project.

Edited to say: as for the average website, I do completely agree. For the unique website that will scale as well, I likely would still 95/100 recommend the ORM, but my experience has taught me that there be some pain on the road.
What do you mean, they don’t follow the same patterns?
You seem to be implying that Apple does not collect a large amount of user data at the OS level, but of course they do collect those data.
Any chance your IT/Infosec team has software running on your work machine? I've seen times when security software will chew up CPU when the machine is idle.

That said, my M1 has all sorts of gnarly IT/Infosec stuff running (banking industry) and even that doesn't seem to make a dent in my battery capacity (on top of using several Electron based apps all day long as well).
I feel like this comment should have been read out loud to me somewhere back at school. That's the most comprehensive guide to "how to interpret best by date on an egg carton" I've ever seen. Thanks.
That's if you could get a sizeable chunk of the population to accept the data. Unfortunately, as we've seen with covid there are all sorts of "the guberment is lying to us!" type conspiracy theories out there and it could take a while before the truth sinks in - from seeing friends, family and neighbors experiencing serious illness and/or mortality. But when it gets to that point it's kind of too late.

I think we're in a vulnerable space right now where in some ways the divisions that were exposed and heightened by the covid pandemic leave us less able to deal with another serious pandemic in the near term. Add in pandemic fatigue and it's even worse.
I think some of this will take care of itself with attrition. People who lack the knowledge to fact check on the fly will give up after repeatedly getting wrong answers.
The best way to get those protections is from a union, which I acknowledge different people hate for different reasons, but any competent union will give its membership effective due process rights by turning at-will employment into employment governed by a bargaining agreement. The power of these "mere accusation" campaigns rests on the ability of the employer to fire based on a mere accusation, which goes away if there's a bargaining agreement in place which mandates actual hearings.
There is no such thing as a sanitary chicken.
You can paste this snippet into the javascript console (ie F12). It's my 5 minute attempt at artsy dark colors. Code blocks are red as in Sith (star wars). And as a warning that code is dangerous.

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interesting. Just registered a couple ccTLD's.

I have a .com. But its super long and I dont really like it. Its also the primary domain in workspace since i have had it since gsuite was free but before they closed the free tier registration ~2012.

Now that I'm a paid user (by forced attrition) im looking to honestly just migrate the TLD of the workspace to something less cumbersome to type.

.email is really the primary at this point.
Fellow younger Gen-Xer here, when I was growing up this trajectory was already clearly starting.

My parents were oldschool Italian immigrants and let me run wild, often accompanied by a relatively small subset of neighborhood kids whose parents also didn't worry.

But there were already plenty of boomers panicking about child molesters reported in the news, locking their kids up inside. Then as minorities started moving into the predominantly white racist midwestern neighborhood, the fears went into overdrive.
Generally HN doesn't require a year for articles less than 6 months old or so.

Though yes, this story dates from December and was covered at the time (from a different source):

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095107>
Okay, but it does work against a lot of other cheats such as the one this article is about. You are limited to only things that are physically possible to do.
Sure, do you ever feel like applying for a job is an impersonal and soul-crushing exercise that feels dehumanizing? If you've felt this way then congrats, there's a name for it: alienation.

Human's are complex social beings and each individual has a unique set of strengths and talents. However, this complexity is incompatible with how the labor market works. Specifically it's incompatible with how labor is commodified.

Let's use a tech parallel to explain how labor is treated as a commodity. Take Docker for instance. Docker commodifies applications by wrapping them in a uniform interface. The whole point is that packaging up the whole app into a standardized container makes it easier to work with. You don't have to care about the internal complexity of the application, you interact with all Docker containers the same way.

Commodification of goods goes hand in hand with the mass production of goods and the ability for markets to function. Think of commodity markets as an example. Oil is traded in barrels, a standardized container for oil, and at regulated grades. This makes buyers confident that they are getting what they're paying for when they buy oil. One barrel of sweet crude is just as good as any other barrel of sweet crude.
We trade commodities as a means to an end.

The problem happens when we do the same to people. The debasement we feel during the hiring process is due to how people are treated as a commodity. Take the resume as an example. The resume is an abstraction of you as a person. It helps HR and hiring managers sort through candidates because of the way it abstracts labor. But at the same time, it reduces a person to a list of bullet points on a page or two at most. There is a stark contrast between the whole person as a living breathing human being and a list of bullet points. Some people find being treated as a means to and end humiliating.

I think by now you can choose others parts of the hiring process and use this lens to see in which ways people are treated as commodities.

I expect to get reactions along the spectrum from "that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Of course that's how it works!" to "Huh, I never thought of it that way before." Both are fine. I've heard it all.
I thought maybe I had imagined this!
there better be a turd scrap or some feather on my eggs

edit: i'm getting down voted for saying that i want eggs directly from a small farm
This took me way too long to understand. :)

But I get it now. If the four prizes are ABCD, then if you calculate your chance of only getting two balls in five purchases, you can do it by calculating your chances to get "A or B" five times in a row. But those include the AAAAA and BBBBB scenarios, which aren't two balls.

Repeat that for AC, AD, BC, BD, and CD.
> has been equipped with whatever leftovers NATO was getting rid of anyway

That’s really inaccurate; a lot of what Ukraine got is modern kit. It’s true that a lot of the really heavy equipment was ex-Soviet gear that was (or is now, if it wasn’t before) being replaced by more modern Western gear, and some of the rest was for speed current operational gear that the operators could do without even if it wasn’t planned for imminent replacement. But even some of the heavy gear (especially more recently) is new and modern, like NASAMS, and that seems to be more than case with announced and upcoming deliveries (heck, for the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb – a funny name for a long-range artillery rocket – they are not merely getting new and modern Western kit, they are going to be the first operator.)
Is “unhoused neighbors” your term for homeless people?
"False" is your assertion. You have the burden of proof in that claim. If you just wanted proof you should have asked for that rather than make a new, different assertion. The person you replied to took the 3rd option of the tri-state, which requires no burden, which is to merely remain skeptical.
>intent on misunderstanding/misrepresenting my point

I completely addressed your point - you claim somehow there is a fundamental difference between LLMs and AlphaZero, and you made many claims about why. They were all demonstrably wrong, which is why you misunderstand that there is no fundamental difference, and certainly not the one you claim. Both learn using a fuzzy metric, both can reuse previous things from their own learning, and this is opposite what you claimed.
"Van Oosterhout, a professor of evolutionary genetics ... warns that our highly bred livestock cannot keep pace with the evolution of parasites, such as viruses, due to the animals’ lack of genetic diversity.

As a result, livestock act as “mixing vessels” for the emergence of new infectious diseases that can then make the leap from animals to humans.

In combination with habitat destruction, the illegal wildlife trade, and mass migration of both animals and people, Prof. Van Oosterhout says this has created a “perfect storm” for the development of pandemics, such as COVID-19. He concludes that emerging infectious diseases are “possibly the greatest existential threat to humanity.”"

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/excessive-animal-f...

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/coronaviru...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2020/...

https://sentientmedia.org/animal-agriculture/

We should stop eating meat. For most of the world it's not a necessity, but a personal choice. We "grow & harvest" 80 billion land animals every year.
I'm very in favour of improving the state of application distribution on Linux. Targeting an abstraction like Flatpack seems like a no-brainer if there are no regressions in experience to the end user.

I am not sure if this is the case, but in theory I love the idea that the app sandboxing can allow the Flatpak engine to be a source that can prompt users for permissions access (e.g. "app would like to access your location").

Last time I tried Flatpack I experienced a lot of integration issues, from GTK theming issues to applications missing features due to sandboxing.

Would love to see a high level medium-dive explainer on how Flatpack works to alleviate some of my concerns; predominantly around the limitations of sandboxing.

e.g.

Can OBS have unimpeded screen recording access? How does OBS compare in Flatpak compared to natively installed.

Can VSCode access any part of the FS without any performance overhead, what about language servers and that sort of thing?

Can applications like Discord that feature a voice-activated mic work? Can Discord access what game you're currently playing on Steam and set that as its status?

Originally, I thought Flatpack was much like old win32 applications where if you put a dll dependency next to the executable, it will use that rather than the system one. I got really scared of Linux app sandboxing engines when I tried Snapd and it started making virtual network devices and my system theme wasn't applied to the application - seemed very convoluted.
The ones in its name are in the open already.

Maybe there are some straw donor ones that aren’t public?
That isn't shorter though because it doesn't have a.co - and it doesn't look like it works like the google one did or does, or the github one used to work

I think the tool used to get the a.co put the ref= there and there probably isn't a way to turn it off because it's just a simple thing like copying the link.
Weird, not on topic but the quote you mentioned made me think of the poem "The Blind Men and the Elephant" [1]. I've only heard it (poem) before and never really knew what "Industan" or whatever place was being referenced until seeing "Hindustan" written here. Weird how spoken/written language dots can connect randomly after like decades

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_poems_of_John_Godfrey_Sax...
> But say you stick those fresh unwashed eggs in the fridge, when you take them out moisture will condense on them and absorb into the shell along with anything on the shell, so general wisdom has always been to never refrigerate unwashed eggs.

Do you have a source on this? I'm having trouble finding anything that says refrigerating unwashed eggs has any effect other than simply helping them last longer.

Maybe the general wisdom refers to taking eggs from the fridge and storing them on the counter, rather than using them?
> Modern world requires eggs to last longer, could be 3 months before an egg hits the shelf at the grocery store, so we wash them and keep them refrigerated

Far from true everywhere, including in the UK which the article is about.

Here in Ireland, it would even be illegal to sell washed eggs in a supermarket.
lol
Sometimes I forget our language colloquialisms can be really alien to others.

Chook is such an every day usage word in my part of the world..

"Cooked chook" (roast chicken)
"silly chook" (silly woman)

etc etc
That’s interesting, do you have unusual hardware?

As a fairly begrudging Ubuntu user (I put it on a laptop because I didn’t want to screw around with finding drivers, memories of trying to get wifi working on Arch with some dongles haunt me), I have to say I don’t really like it much overall but they’ve got the “getting to the desktop” experience down pretty well.