jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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> Queer indie-punk musician and Fight for the Future director Evan Greer has released a new music video for the song “Surveillance Capitalism,” ahead of the release of the album Spotify is Surveillance.

That raised a red flag for me. Why is this person's gender identity in any way relevant to the issue at hand?

In the same way the text calls out emotion recognition software as "racist pseudoscience" (then linking to an article about facial recognition) - which doesn't have much at all to do with the patent.

Bought to you by the "Union of Musicians" - the same people who claim Spotify make "enormous profits" (I wouldn't call them enormous) and want 1 cent per play.

They want Spotify to pay them, but they also want to damage Spotify's reputation? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot

Further to that, check out the Union of Musicians' subcommittees [1] - there's a "Classical Music Accountability" subcommittee (classical music = white supremacy?)... and a Police Abolition committee, of course.

[1] https://www.unionofmusicians.org/subcommittees
The UK has very definitely not ended our lockdown. We have started phasing out lockdown measures, but most are still very much in place.
What if you run gtalk on your blackberry, and I run gtalk on my android phone. Is that still Mobile - Desktop?
I meant community in business, work. I am middle-aged, with children. I do not make money from the community in which I live, I make it globally. It is an accident, not a matter of choice initially. I choose to keep it that way because I find it liberating. My work environment is spread between clients, algorithms, infrastructure, all global. My network of family is thankfully centered around my physical home, and my network of friends is global.

Sry to go on at length, but I found your comment provocative and I wanted to paint a clear picture.
It depends. For some applications it's going to suck, and suck badly.

OTOH, if you are primarily concerned with interacting with 3rd party HTTP based APIs, then you probably need to build that protection layer anyway. This is a scenario where AppEngine works really well - and once you've built that protection layer it isn't such a big deal to extend it to data access too.
Based on the literature such as from Plato and Aristotle, it seems ancient people were smarter than we are.
I also use Notational Velocity on the Mac. I sync with the iPad/iPhone app SimpleNote. The great thing is that sync'ing is automatic in each app. Now all of my ideas and notes are always on whatever device I have at hand. I tried EverNote for a while but it got in the way for quickly updating existing notes, IMHO.
The NATO commanders often sent their bombers in along the same routes, and didn't make a big effort to find out if hotshots like Zoltan were down there

Important safety tip: the enemy always gets a vote.
hopefully this will mean that they'll have updated ISOs on their website more often.

It's ridiculous that many people that get an ISO end up having issues with things like missing WiFi drivers fpr laptops and they're not able to download the updates to fix the problem unless they can get a hold of an ethernet connection to the internet.
engineers don't normally build whatever they think the best thing to build would be. they build what someone pays them to build, with some exceptions.

The author wants all artists to be like Elon Musk, in how freely they can pursue their craft.
> Don't like it? Build your own uh.........government?

It's been done before. I think the IPO was in 1776.
Only fascism or any other collectivist ideology?
Not showing to previous tweets of this account is really bad for history.
Please don't take HN threads further into this kind of ideological flamewar, which is equal parts dumb and inflammatory, and invariably evokes worse from others. No doubt the L-word was a minor provocation but the GP comment was at least trying to say something on-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's back, as of 7:31 EST, and no captcha. But it's still very slow. But so is hacker news, at least for me.

EDIT: oops, it's down at 7:33. I guess the landing page is up, but clicking on a discussion sends me back to a Cloudflare gateway timeout page.
I think the person who was blocked on twitter will perceive this as an escalation too.
Liberal ideas from the enlightenment are alive and well. Now if the government had banned Trump from speaking, then you would have a point. Twitter banning Trump is, at root, a business making a business decision.

Here's reality, and I'm going to date myself here, but there were, long ago, enormously popular digital spaces called BBS's. You could chat, play games (MUDs mostly), etc etc. They are, by and large, no longer with us. New and admittedly better technologies came along. So will it be with Social Media. As difficult as it may be for people to believe, 40 years from now, Social Media in its current form will probably not be with us any longer.

Here's the thing though, the government will still be with us. So it's the government that we need to constrict. And, using the tool of our Constitution, we do an admirable job of constricting the government's ability to restrict our free speech. That Twitter says a man can't talk on their private property is not a societal problem. That the government says a man can't talk anywhere in the country is a societal problem. There's been far too much conflating of these two issues, they are not the same.
The Android Team should build skins/themes like Windows OS. So we have choices.
I don't think their talking about destroying the Internet. Come on.
I think the best thing to do is to sit down and come up with a list of parts of the app that need to be touched to complete what they are asking for.

It's really hard to do this, because it feels like cataloging and advertising all the ways I failed as a designer.
that's why they need to pass a law.

and if there's an invading, the US military will probably be operating on private property without permission too. But I think its quite clear that's ok in such a situation.
Of course, Edison said this after he screwed Tesla out of $50,000 (present value: $1.2 million) he had promised him. Was this the point you were trying to make?
. <-- The world's smallest violin.
"It owns no factories, manufactures no products and makes no shipments" Everyone below seems to see there is a problem but know one seems to be able to connect the dots. Somewhere, someplace, Chairman Mao is smiling.
I can name plenty. Apple and the iPhone are a couple. Google Search and AdWords, Visual Studio, and Mathematica are some others.

Are they perfect? No. Are the companies that made them flawless? No. But I can appreciate a product/company, yet not have my identity tied up with the product. I use an Apple product, but I'm not defined by that use any more than I'm defined by the fact that I use Sylvania light bulbs or Colgate toothpaste.
I love this kind of thing, and I'm going to disagree with this one:

2016, Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) replaces Blu-Ray

This isn't going to happen. In fact Blu-Ray will never even replace the DVD. DVDs will be replaced by digital downloads and streaming. Consumers are driven by convenience, and the most convenient way to move bits to your home is not via a disc.

In 2000, Super Audio CD was in a format war with DVD-audio. Who won? The MP3 did. It completely baffles me that the movie industry goes ahead to repeat history with HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray. Neither of them will win.
You're welcome to provide citations of gay individuals arguing against their getting marriage rights on the basis that government needs to get out of marriage.
What's the advantage to this over getting feedback from honest, intelligent friends?
Imagine if the Odeo guys had done this with their new Twitter idea.
Another way to say this: there's a hierarchy of ways in which cryptography fails.

At the very lowest level, a cipher can catastrophically fail, like FEAL-4 did.

Going up through the levels, your block cipher mode (the adapter layer that allows a fixed-size cipher to encrypt a whole message) could be improperly constructed. Your random number generator could be biased. Your messages could be unauthenticated. You can accidentally create an oracle from observable behavior. Your key exchange could be insecure. Your UX could be insecure, so it's impossible to tell who you're talking to. Your encryption could be off by default.

Of all the levels where modern cryptosystems are going to fail, a catastrophic failure of the cipher itself is the least likely. It is fantastically unlikely that a secure messaging app is going to fall because AES is broken. And the best fundamental attacks on the worst ciphers still make demands of attackers that are unrealistic for message apps.

So the whole idea of using a one time pad to secure a messaging app is alarming. It's like an engineer told you they were going to design a bridge out of, I don't know, lithium to save on weight.

There are lots of ways for a cryptosystem to fail. Unlike fundamental cipher breaks, which are so extraordinarily rare as to be discountable, some of them are very, very likely. In cryptography engineering, the way these problems are mitigated is to use standardized, well-known, well-tested constructions. Any time you leave the golden path --- an AEAD stream cipher construction --- you're risking lots of flaws across every layer of your cryptosystem. Doing that to avoid an AES break is malpractice.

Also, as this post points out: this app didn't even use an OTP. It used a stream cipher keyed by the HMAC-DRBG (iirc) embedded in JVM SecureRandom. So there's that, too.
Nice, I didn't know one could have multiple urls for the same remote.

This post does not specify what happen on a `git fetch all`. I suppose it takes the first one, and you have to specify other remote entries if you want to pinpoint the remote repos to use ?

Note that the deploy I mention will do a fetch, so this solution does not replace the fallback variable.
I am contrarian and rude, but you most likely worship quite a few people in tech who are also contrarian and rude but you say nothing. I bet there's a CEO you admire who is even worse than me and you tout his words like they're a gospel.

I personally would love nothing more than to have the industry flush everyone who behaves like that totally out of it, but as long as people like you hold those with no power to different standards than those with power, it'll never change.
The "Mario" character is copyrighted.
OK, so in the 17 days I have the $58.20, let's say I can make a completely optimistic 5% APR return risk free on my float. I've now made a whopping 13.5c extra on top of my $8.20 I made providing the service. Excuse me if I'm not getting excited over squeezing out an extra 1.6% profit.
I'm embarrassed to be on the same site as nonsense like this getting posted honestly.
Being gay doesn't make you progressive any more than blue eyes make you progressive. Actions are the key not one's genetic characteristics.
I like how you renamed your app to http://apps.facebook.com/profilecollage/ and made your old app URL redirect there. It's very professional of you.
The Istio one hits home. It is the single scariest thing to work with in our kubernetes clusters. We've caused several outages by changing the smallest things.
> When the pandemic is over, it will sell back these bonds the banks it bought them from.

This remains to be seen, the market had an absolute fit when they said QE was tapering in 2013, and also had an absolute fit when Powell was raising rates in 2018, particularly in December.

The Fed may have painted themselves into a corner here, nothing is certain with regards to unwinding QE or raising rates.
I am SO glad you asked this. Meditation is amazing for people who struggle with attention. Essentially what you are doing in meditation is training the brain to be able to stay focused on one thing and that, just like with any other muscle, makes your brain better at this over time. The kind of meditation that is the most effective for helping with focus and things like ADD is called "Focused Attention." In this kind of meditation you focus on an object of focus and dont let you mind drift away. In Chorus we do TONS of focused attention techniques. Essentially what you want is a "concrete object of attention" - so something like a mantra (a phrase you repeat over and over) would be more concrete than say, just feeling your breath. We designed Chorus to give people super concrete objects to focus on so its easier to get into that meditative state.

Since starting to meditate myself I have become way better at reading speed, comprehension and overall focus has improved dramatically.

Here is a study that talks about it:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/108705470730850...
A major convenience in Sweden is using Mobile Bank ID for everything, which authenticates you using your smartphone. File your taxes? Start a company? Check your pension? Log in to your bank/transfer money? More and more private companies are integrating with it to a point where we don't really need accounts or passwords for anything involving your real identity. I don't see why it couldn't be used to buy alcohol or prove that you have a driver's license too, it's just a matter of time. It started as a PC thing in 2003, but turned mobile in 2011. Now penetration is 94% of smartphone users, which is pretty much everybody.

Scary? Yes. Convenient? Very.
Emily has a name, and I don't see how you've come to that conclusion.

Her account of living resonates with a lot of my reflections when I left my previous job. Perhaps you haven't yet been lucky enough to have a job that has been similarly fulfilling.
How did you discern that she knew?
He completed his Electrical Engineering undergraduate degree in 1951.
The 're-mirroring storm' occurred when all free space was exhausted. At that point, the EBS storage resources were oversaturated.

Then the 'EBS control plane' started to fail because 'slow API calls began to back up and resulted in thread starvation'. At that point, the EBS processing resources were oversaturated.

Then other nearby systems got wet.
I can't speak for Canada, but in the United States it's all in your employment agreement. I work as a contractor for a Fortune 500 company, and I have a project on the side. I made it clear to my contracting agency that I had a side project, and wouldn't take the position if there was a potential for conflicts as far as IP or product ownership.

My agreement is pretty straight-forward. Work I do at my 9-5 belongs to the company, and work I do outside billable hours and not using company time or resources is all mine. I also have to watch what I do in relation to specs covered under NDAs, but for me those are very unrelated to the side project.

Ultimately, my advice is to have a lawyer look over the employment agreements and any other things your friends have signed to ensure it's safe for them to pitch in.

Good luck!
This is nice, but it would be really nice if the scores could be normalized against the mean of the top 10 front page scores on the date submitted (or some such). pg, would this be possible?
Can anyone explain the "'51" after his name? Is that class of 51?
I'm sure there's a quick fix for the iTunes purchased albums I still have, but the long-term solution is definitely to avoid purchasing from iTunes. For me, at least.
After reading the comments, I come with a surprise that there're many stock traders on hackernews!
E-corp is at it again
My feeling is we (developers) should be able to figure out how to use a function reliably and safely from just the signature for 95% of functions...if you can't then the API is badly written.
Thanks. That's interesting, though I have to admit I'm not excited about the prospect of using it.
We moved from Seed to Azlo when Seed shut down. What do we move to next?
Just received an email that Azlo is shutting down as well. BBVA not holding back.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything above. Two additional and related thoughts:

1. The original documentation tool I wrote for Atom, Biscotto, kept track of the number of undocumented classes / methods: https://github.com/gjtorikian/biscotto/blob/59f48ba2621a92ae... . It was hooked up to CI, and if the count fell below a certain threshold, the test failed.

2. Right now, we're exploring into working with JSON schema as a means of providing both testing validation and accurate documentation. If the schema says "This REST method expects a parameter of this type," it becomes very easy to write a test to enforce that behavior; documentation can be easily generated from it; and of course your production code is safer for it.

I'm a huge fan of introducing more cross-overs between testing and documentation. I think a lot of time is spent on "clever" (and subjective) validations like http://www.hemingwayapp.com/, but not enough time is spent on basic content checks. It's very easy to drift code, tests, and docs apart. We need to start thinking about all three of them working together.
Vista was a catastrophic death march until it launched, though. It was pushed back year after year after year. The long gap between XP and Vista was not intentional.
"When the three of us [Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer] got started, it was pure research. The three of us got together and decided that we hated C++. [laughter] ... [Returning to Go,] we started off with the idea that all three of us had to be talked into every feature in the language, so there was no extraneous garbage put into the language for any reason."
Don't break the web with your presentation framework.

Since you do, I cannot take anything you say about web development seriously.
On Rust:

An interesting language, but rather than taking
an opinion about how software should be built,
Rust just seems to throw everything at you. You
can be functional, object-orientated or procedural.

You can write functional and procedural Rust code. It's really, really hard to write object oriented code except in the "object oriented C" sense. For instance, there are no classes or inheritance as such.

And Rust seems to have a pretty strong opinion about how software should be built, mostly centered around correctness and safety, which seems to be an underserved niche.

Perhaps the author should read through the Rust Guide, which has been recently written and is a great intro to the language: http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html
Of course, I was just pointing out it's not always necessary to use alloca - I've written a production-level path-tracer without needing to allocate stack memory dynamically.
I was involved in a state department funded project. It was all around human rights and security, so it had some real virtue, but on the other hand, people in that sector are frequently nasty; apologetically rude well past the point of being 'bluntly honest,' very full of themselves around their 'mission,' even when other approaches, like outright commercial ones, work better, and in this case tiresomely sexist and ultimately being and fulfilling a hierarchical top-down world (not surprising given the funding source and eventual status in the buddy network) while making all kinds of noise about being a progressive organization.

After a few years working on the project I'd put in some good ideas that led to $1M+ in funding (mostly grants) and lifted the company from hand to mouth to a real thing. And in general I really helped to shape the organization in positive ways. Unfortunately the person with the direct connection to funding really didn't understand development, wanted me to be something I wasn't, and really had poor people skills as evidenced by the trail of people he'd burned over time. So early this year things got so heated that I left. I've been around for a while and from experience might have left without burning bridges, but while I wasn't rude, I made it very clear that I didn't appreciate what was happening.

Eight months later it still bothers me, because I should have seen it coming, and because I wasn't able to change it, nor did I find a way to turn it to my advantage.
Owners will just pass that expense on to market renters, since there isn't much in the way of alternative rental housing.
I'm really trying to understand the issue with the card itself, but the tweet has no further context. Did he only give these out to women? Were they given with other social cues that would indicate he was handing them out as a way to hit on or make a sexual advance towards women? If either of those things are true then I'd understand. But the cards alone look like a business card from a person with a slightly odd sense of humor.
> yet every other service is doing far worse behavior

Please provide specific sources of AWS, GCP, or Azure leaking file names and sizes to a third party.
I thought this was a sarcastic comment from someone else. It works equally well as a facetious comment.
It was so much a relief to me too, and I’m glad I could help in that way. I’ll also tell you it saved my life. I had coped pretty well for years, but for a variety of reasons it deteriorated. I was in such bad shape before I sought diagnosis/treatment. Not saying that’s where you’re at but just validating that it can be seriously debilitating. Please feel free to reach out (same handle everywhere, personal site link in my profile, contact easy to find from there) if you want to talk more or any kind of direction on resources.

Edit: also if you do want to reach out and it feels daunting in any way, you can literally just say “HN” or any other recognizable thing and I’ll understand.
The only apps I pay for on Linux are cross platform apps. Usually Linux specific apps have good open alternatives. The Ubuntu App Store has sell functionality but I never buy from it. I buy direct from the vendor.

I’m a 20 year Linux user now and I haven’t met in real life anyone who acts differently as a Linux user.
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