skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe this hasn't been brought up... but there is a massive conflict of interest here. And not due to the slimy but mostly above board reasons posted in the article.

It is deep rooted in the financial industry.

Misleading investors is not punished if you have a big business. Especially in tech.

Facebook stands to lose or gain billions of dollars on market capitalization based on how many people investors perceive to be on Facebook.

If Facebook is over-reporting users by any size multiple, they stand to get billions in additional valuation. The people using fake accounts don't want to get caught, as they make money from them.

Given the above, how can anyone realistically expect Facebook to really commit to cleaning up fake accounts? This isn't just for Facebook.

Big business has proven to be beyond prosecution unless they engage in the most outrageous behavior.
Your site badly needs a sample of what tettra looks like in action. I have absolutely no clue if you are worth trying out at this point.
You can choose to either take a foreign income tax exclusion (up to the first ~100k earned), and deduct income taxes paid beyond that point (like paying state taxes), or get a credit for foreign taxes paid.

So if you earn less than 100k, you need to file US taxes, but will only pay the foreign tax rate. If you earn, say 200k, then you’ll pay at least as much as the US would have taxed you on that income.[0]

There are still absurd pieces of this law: for instance, if you buy a home using foreign currency, then sell the home for the exact same amount, but the foreign currency became a lot stronger, you owe US taxes on the change in USD to your home’s value.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
Don't let them watch one minute of it, it's all trash.
I've looked at WebRTC as well, and it is a mess. Consider websockets as a protocol. So much cleaner and clearer. With WebRTC, you gotta know/implement SIP, RTP, RTSP, RTCP????
Too late, we already do that at a national level now. Bill Gates did say "whoops" the other day, though.
"Promised" but without any workable and remotely affordable prototype. It may happen soon, though: https://lilium.com/

I see both hand in hand. I don't think it will take off (metaphorically) without mandatory self driving AI near populations.
"She thinks kids should develop their passions and act on them early, instead of waiting to grow up to be “disruptive,” as the entrepreneurial set puts it."

Just wow! How about let them be kids before they grow-up. At this age their passion is transformers, paw patrol, my little pony and playing at the park. They do not need to be disruptive or being pushed entrepreneurial crud this young. That is just plain dangerous.

This would be a better fit for middle school aged kids.

Don't get me wrong. I think the education system is broken but I don't think these "entrepreneurial billionaires" have the right solutions. They are so out of touch.

Keep your hands off my kids.
This story kept popping up among various feeds and streams, without much context, before I looked at it. A very engrossing long-form read, and a well-written and researched story.

It's about genius, poverty, opportunity, lack, oppression, persistence, and a bittersweet resolution, for now.

Read it. And add Mike Mariani to your "writers worth following" list. I have.
From an article linked in the original: “I can guarantee with my life that the train will be called Trainy McTrainface," its marketing chief Per Nasfi told The Local at the time.

Dear Mr./Ms. Nasfi, unless your title is “Big Swinging Dick Who Makes All Final Decisions”, I would advise against staking your life on something that can change at the whim of a higher-up. See also: Boaty McBoatface.
Putin bathes in milk and honey and wears track pants that cost thousands of dollars. He has been making Oligarchs his bitches for longer and on a much larger scale than Bill Browder was ever able to uncover, and as you see, "uncovering" it backfired spectacularly. Anyone who cares that could potentially do something about all this, won't.
When using conditionnal arrival of dom object (I mean like using ngIf in Angular or simply using switching display none/block on some block) flexbox layout seem very difficult to anticipate. For that kind of things I still prefer using inline-block, that is more predictable.

A tip: Strangely Safari tend to need flex-basis value everywhere
I think legitimate users will see them, but so will bots or fake users. I think there is a lot of click fraud, and has been since the early days of ppc. But we're still here.

Now, I can't really answer your question, which was "Why" should you still buy ads on the platforms? I for one don't. But many, many people do. Just like they buy ads on TV knowing a lot of people are going to ffw through them.
Disclaimer: I'm not part of the team, just wanted to show it, because I think it's a major step
Users don't use thousands of sites. If a site misbehaves and users want autofill on it, they should be able to override autocomplete=off for that site.

Google could even make an extension for this to allow users to gather and share a list of sites that behave in a user unfriendly way.

But of course, it was much easier to fuck up half of the Web.

Public choice and mandates are great for things that require cooperation and agreement against race to the bottom (like tax havens), not against autocomplete fucking off.
Ask HN: How do you manage your life, which tools do you use?
I'm looking for a better way to organize my life.
At first I started with multiple ToDo lists, and after a few years I switched over to Trello.
I'm quite happy with it (well I'd like to self-host it, but didn't find a good solution), but I'm missing some features of a software project management tool like a better history, dependencies between issues, time tracking, fancy graphs and so on.

At the moment I'm seriously considering setting up a self-hosted Jira instance (for 10$ as I'm the only user) for tracking my personal life (short-term appointments, university assignments, ToDos for my homelab, random thoughts I want to look up later).

What are your tools and workflows to keep your life organized?
BMW, Daimler, Ford and Volkswagen team up on high-power charging network
Can you provide an example present day of a company successfully subverting the US government? To my knowledge, they're even pursuing companies successfully outside of their jurisdiction (Kim Dotcom/MEGA).
I'm curious about this too. There's also a physical connection between the joycons and tablet which can be used instead of the Bluetooth.

I believe the main issue is that it's very easy to electrically simulate button presses and be confident that the rest of the system is functioning correctly. Once you start simulating the entire controller and its protocol for communicating with the console, you start to enter a realm where it may be possible to trigger inputs that are not physically possible with the actual controller hardware.
Intel and AMD Working on Power Sharing Across CPU and GPU for Optimal Performanc
Attackers Hacked Nepalese Bank's SWIFT Server
Are they still just sitting in the wallets they were sent to during the hack? Have they not been tumbled and distributed?
Re: billions of views:

"Once again, the view numbers of these videos must be taken under serious advisement. A huge number of these videos are essentially created by bots and viewed by bots, and even commented on by bots. "
All discussion of ICOs suffer from a common misunderstanding of the word 'risk'.

"People should be allowed to invest in high-risk/high-reward opportunities" the crypto community will say. But that sentence involves a sleight of hand: Financial markets are made to manage and quantify "risk", yes. However, the risks of financial markets are almost exclusively those of future events unknown (and mostly unknowable): Will people like this movie (once it's made)? How much oil is in this or that field? Is it possible to deliver pet food over ethernet?

ICOs' "risk" is about facts that are currently known by some people, with those people being the ones selling you their tokens: Will they actually build a product or abscond with the $500 million they collected in the ICO? Is a has-been boxer a good investment advisor? Does this company's CTO, one "Loyd Techmanski, PhD" actually exist?
> The "standards" are created by the browser makers

You're half right: standards are created by W3C & IETF, which includes browser makers.

> It is up to them to decide what the standards are by choosing what to implement

Kind of like IE and ActiveX, right? Right?

............Right?
can't even use restore NuGet :( damn.
Catena: SQL on a blockchain
Maybe that's the key, and why they don't care. I tend to stay away from that kind of service though.
I work for a Fortune 50 and we use Confluence. For us it works well, because we have more teams here than I can count, and people move between teams (and teams move between business units) all the time. So the standard rule is that if you build something, you are expected to document it in the Wiki.

About the only downside is that sometimes documentation gets outdated and you have to hunt down the current version of a process, but that beats the alternative, where nothing is documented.
We won’t do that because it’s terrible tax policy and would damage this country even more than our current bad corporate tax policy does.
I too would like to know! I have yet to find a way display flex rows that are different heights and that align left to right. It seems the only options are to align by column, or use Masonry.js which seems like overkill. Even Bootstrap 4 only supports column layout.

Anyone been able to accomplish this with CSS-Grid or Flexbox?
DailyGit – Tips for web developers Fade in and fade out audio with HTML5 API
Exactly, they have zero incentive to remove fake accounts, and several incentives to keep them. This is all just a show on their part.

But I doubt that only 10% of facebook accounts are real.
Thanks Greta – App demo
If you have 1-2 switch, there's a game in there in which you have to guess the number of balls "in" the joycon. It's a great demo of the HD Rumble feature.
I'd heard of it, but never used it. The reason being that we were an Apple household, and so used MacPPP!
Fair enough. We currently document such systems details in Confluence, which I can't recommend for all the reasons given by others here.

> We could have the documentation in a separate repository, but if we are going to be making this leap, we want to be sure we are using the right tools for the jobs.

If you haven't considered this yet, it would be very easy to set up a Mkdocs[1] site for testing, using all of your existing documentation. Should be as simple as making a new site and dragging your current docs folder contents into the docs dir. It has good search built in with Lunr[2]. Try the Material theme[3] if looks are important.

[1] http://www.mkdocs.org
[2] https://lunrjs.com
[3] https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
Samsung subverts the tax laws of the US every day, forcing repatriation would just give our foreign competitors even bigger advantages.
>> How does this happen, when many/most good ideas in cpu design(a mature industry) should be patented by now?

The RISC-V instruction set was designed to be free of any existing patent issues and with no specific implementation in mind. The opcode formats were designed with hardware implementation in mind however (minimizing the number of multiplexers and such). The big ideas in implementation have been around for a long time. Boom is a multiple-issue out of order core, but nothing about it looks particularly novel yet. It could still benefit from result forwarding and some other things, but that's an old concept too. I think lot of patents in processors tend to revolve around things that are specific to the ISA rather than broad concepts. The reason for that is that we've been making computers for 50 years now so many of the major concepts are rather old already.

I may be off base here too. I wouldn't be surprised if things like a micro-op cache are still patented, but I also wouldn't be surprised if that concept is 35 years old either.

It may be that getting top performance does require patented ideas, but I'd be thrilled if Intel or AMD gave it their best shot. It would probably perform better than their x86 offerings on regular code.
Statistical primitives backed by Pytorch (Pyro) and Tensorflow (Edward) is a great analogy. Thanks!
Seriously? Even before the macbook pro GPU issues, the very first gen models had like... 10 hardware revisions because of how many issues they had. I know some people who went through 4 machines before they got one that lasted.

This also leaves out the second gen white macbook issues with the bottoms falling off and failed motherboards, and so many other things. Although i could definitely dredge up more G3-G4 era stuff that wasn't mentioned(tons of tibook issues, other ibook g3/g4 issues not mentioned, failing imac g3 power supplies/displays in huge batches, imac GPU failures in the first few c2d generations, core duo imac display failures, etc)

I remember there being huge online discussions about these issues. A number of them generated tons of pissed off people online, and apple was resistant to fixing a lot of them at first or would only do it on a case by case basis until it became overwhelming.
It doesn't create a barrier, except possibly for people from CS. I learned math before programming and it really struck me how much more OCD programmers are. Math notation is fine, ambiguity is not an issue, it's a strength. People only have philosophical objections to it.

Contrived examples of ambiguous expressions like in the article are pointless, since there are always non-ambiguous ways to write the same thing.

The flexibility of math notation makes it flow much better, you can vary the level of verbosity to suit the context. There are even conventions around variables names, so that no one would misunderstand an expression such as f = x^2 and think that f is a constant.

It's a beautiful, intuitive, highly efficient system evolved over millennia. It might not be perfect but if someone had come up with an improvement it would have been implemented already.
Or people staring at a form that is two screens long...

Easy to miss things.
Does it tell you that align-items by itself doesn’t make sense regardless of the value, of the element isn’t otherwise set to use display: flex or grid?
Bluemix, I hardly knew ya
Comcast says it's been resolved for most customers now: https://twitter.com/comcastcares/status/927636388517838848
Stop telling me to do or not do something, when the companies are at fault.

Does not exactly help me not to update my firmware and live with blue-screens and crypto malware.
No, We need to eliminate corporate income taxes. They are a tax on investment and job formation.
I passed a WeWork space (on Market) this weekend with a friend, and I tried explaining what they do. But now I think next time someone asks that, I'll have to respond "I have no idea."
iOS 11 before 11.1 was worse than iOS 4 on the iphone 3G

Seriously. Even though that was super laggy, it had less issues and i never had to hard reboot my phone. At least you could press the home button and bail on things.
I'd love to see something similar for ADSL. There's no audible part to ADSL, but there are still two modems talking to each other, and from what i understand of it, there's a rich and interesting process involved in setting up the line - tone ordering and so on.
I understand that people offering the tokens ("promoters") may be breaking the securities law, I can somewhat understand that exchanges listing them may be breaking the law, but under what conditions can buyers/investors be breaking the law?
I don't understand why tech people have this disposition that entrepreneurship > everything else. That may have worked for some, but people find fulfillment in their lives in so many other ways. Arts, love, other careers, etc... I'd say the vast majority of people don't want to be entrepreneurs and well, also don't the skill/personality set. I'd guess that most Kindergartners won't benefit much from "entrepreneur school", since most won't (and don't want to) become entrepreneurs anyways.
NuGet is down
Why I Bring a Clown Nose with Me Everywhere
Ok, wtf moment here, is this snark?

FTA: "Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale, and it forces me to question my own beliefs about the internet, at every level."

All the examples are basically just kid-crack but I've watched these with my kids and they're (mostly) relatively harmless - exception being the weird/slash versions involving scary or sad versions of Peppa pig, paw patrol, etc.

What trauma/abuse is being inflicted here?
Tech, housing boom creates homeless crisis on West Coast
> The same site says virtually nobody, aprox 2-3% is using edge.

What? Do you know how many people that is?
FWIW we are moving out of MediaWiki after 10 years. The search function is horrible and the readability on any devices is not great either (understatement). The latter is with our theme, not sure if you can theme properly. Long sentences, no proper image positioning and scaling, mobile support is lacking, etc. Also versioning is a problem when you need both versions of the page to be readable (e.g. 1.0 and 1.1).

It is great for one thing, everyone can edit it with just their browser. Today, however, you have more options that can do that with a Git+CI backed auto deploy on change.
How can they generate more than 5% yield on an asset which provides no cashflow?

From proprietary crypto trading?

Selling and investing in high-yield junk bonds?

It can't possibly be just speculation on a rising price.
> and _all other_ product names on the store

Not true. Nobody fakes random products. It's the top scoring ones that are getting faked - for the obvious reason that this is what people are looking for. If you're not in top N (100, 200, whatever), faking you is useless, you just replacing nobody with nobody (exception may be bank apps, where even faking relatively obscure ones can be lucrative, but let's not get into niches for now). Just scanning against the top ones would kick the floor from under the most current fakers.

And of course you don't need to continuously re-scan the data - you need to scan only once, when the app is submitted or the name is changed. So, in summary, when adding app or release to the store, you need to check its name and description against a list - let's be generous - of 1000 strings and maybe run a basic text classifier if you are feel in very AI mood today. Is that impossible to scale? Nope, it's fairly easy.

> but the next day someone publishes the same app

So your argument is because simple checks are not perfect and do not cover 100% of possible fakery, let's not do anything and allow even the dumbest fakers to run free and fill the store with trash. Does it make sense to you? Because it doesn't make sense to me. Probably you decided since your argument won't be perfect anyway, there's no point to even try for it to make minimal sense?
Imagine if you will that I do freelance work for a client. In addition to the CRM system that they paid for, I also put a little mining module in there that mines with otherwise idle CPUs.

My question is, would I simply be sued by the client, or do the Feds get involved with some kind of “hacking”/“unauthorized use” charge? If not the latter, how egregious does it need to be before da FBI comes a’knockin’?

Point is, if I put unauthorized code on a machine I don’t own, I go to jail.
These files are necessary to setup the dev environment if you want to compile. I use the link myself when setting up a new build machine.

If you don't trust the files that's perfectly fine. You could pretty easily, I believe, find them all from repositories you trust.

Also yep Win XP only! Keeping it authentic lol. :)
I guess there are two sections to it.

There is now a lot of media self created media for gay teens and young adults. Media in that YouTube realm occasionally leaks or crosses lines for folks. Depends upon the channel and upon the particular video. Some channels clickbait with decidedly adult thumbnails and descriptions. For example "Davey Wavey" their channel is mostly NSFW. Issue is some folks don't mark their videos as adult and thus are in younger audience streams. It's really on a channel by channel basis. I haven't dived into that space recently. Though I can see that market effect coming in play incentivizing folks to be more provocative in their thumbnails in return for more views. Nothing necessarily new or unique to the gay community. Main issue is creating lines between adult content and non-adult content and recognizing that channels are inclined to purposefully gray that divide. Channels want to be in larger more public non-adult area, but want to include adult/"clickbait" aspects in there videos to improve view counts.

On the propaganda bit I don't think this effect comes really into play with political/activist videos other than them not accruing as much attention.

On another end. There has been criticism within the gay community and it's objectification of relationships.

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/zmbb45/how-gay-couple...

This would fall closer to the off/oversharing "Family Vloggers" who shoot daily videos of their families in hopes of turning a profit. Relationships like individuals are spun into brands and are monetized.
What part is trauma/abuse? I don't get it.
>a "Search Everywhere" box, and you can type filenames, symbol names, actions

>Just type "align" and usually webstorm pops up autocomplete with the right thing

VS Code does both of these things, and is FOSS
>it doesn't sound like this idea is going to be popular on hacker news, in spite of its blatant rationality

An hour later, this statement is proven hilariously accurate given the number of "rules as written having loopholes doesn't mean anyone's breaking the law" replies to this post.
I understand the distinction, but how do we expect them to do both? If they can't enforce a real-name policy (by backing it up with required ID) then how can they possibly remove fake accounts which often use fake names?
If all we do here in Europe is giving subsidies to each other and living off that, who or what is then creating all that value in the first place?
> Example 2: Sending email SPAM to all Google-users where they are advised to install Chrome if they ever sign in to their Google-account on a new machine using anything except Chrome.

Cite? I've never seen this, and I use Firefox regularly.

> Example 3: Installing Chrome unasked as drive-by installers when you install anything lots of freeware, because Google paid third-party developers to host Chrome as a spyware-like installation in their installer.

Again, cite? Because, again, I've never seen this.
>This line also stuck out. Seems horribly dystopian to me and yet is presented without comment.

The comment is her next sentence:

>“My kids are in the office. I’m doing what I _love_, he’s doing what he _loves_, they are observing that, and they are doing what they _love_.”

The author is talking about the passion for a life hobby being one and the same as work. Instead of being dystopian, it's actually the utopia many people are striving for.

She's not talking about having a terrible job where you peel potatos and then go home and peel more potatos to bring back to work the next day.

She's also not talking about working 100 hours a week and having no life.