skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google should at least let people CHOOSE whether they want to use their products at the cost of privacy.

Why should they let us do that? No other company is doing that. It's a tacit agreement between providers of free-to-use services and the people who choose to use them: the more personal data you give, the more you receive. If a company has a very good offering or is currently trending, they can even demand your phone number, credit card number (of course you can cancel the service anytime, but they will have a strong verification of your real name then) or even your passport/driver's license. We all came to accept that as a given, nobody questions these practices any longer. It's as if people collectively just stopped giving a damn about their privacy.
Specifically, they had point-to-point fiber links between their datacenters that theoretically couldn't be intercepted, so they didn't believe they needed to encrypt data transiting between datacenters.

The NSA proved them wrong on that belief, and they started implementing encryption on those connections.
Why has the framerate dropped so much?
In addition to the other commenters phone rebuttal, for only £3 you can buy a fob that seems to work much like an oyster card for the bike system. I can't say I've tried them yet, but if it allows auto-top up like oyster, seems more convenient than even a smartphone app!

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/santander-cycles/register-f...
Propaganda is separate from fake users though.

I haven't seen a claim that fake users played a large role in spreading propaganda or fake news. As far as I understand it the issue lies in what people were sharing and what Facebook identifies as trending news.

That's a pretty different issue from Twitters fake accounts.
As long as they keep making film (instant and regular) I'm happy. :-)
You can take a look at Joe Lonsdale's Affinity [1]

[1] https://affinity.co/
starti did not exist before, and specifically addresses a StackOverflow question of mine from ~3 years ago: https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/8724

ptype already existed, but did not print out offsets. This is incredibly useful, and something Windbg does with dt. Pwndbg does this in GDB by adding new commands.
That is true in the absolute sense, but untrue in the relative sense of day to day life. If there is smoke, there must be fire - people know that. We apply causal reasoning in day to day life. It's probably a cultural thing, though, it does not appear spontaneously in the brain, it's learned.
https://viewer.heropunch.io/channel/heropunch

we also have a git-ssb gateway at https://git.heropunch.io

sbot isn't super fast so be patient but don't worry about overloading the server we have plenty of extra capacity
I would really like to see a formula class that has no human pilots and no one on or near the field so the cars can go as fast as they possibly can, no limitation based on human reaction speed or human safety, no arbitrary rules around tire material or suction fans under the car etc etc.
Strange, it seems like you're implying that if I agree with one person's position, I have to agree with every position that person supports.

Considering how frequently politicians change positions, that would make hypocrites of us all. Instead, I'll support Trump for the things he does well, and I'll disagree with the things he doesn't, same as I would for anyone else.
I see that this person has opted not to use python 3 because it is 'less-suited to shell-like problems' than python 2.

In an effort to understand the reasons for actively choosing against 3, does anyone know what problems those would be?
Indeed, the only Typescript feature I can think of that isn't purely for type checking or lifted from ECMAScript is Enums, and Enums have been around forever.
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Examples other than the Nazis?

Like, I remember in the original gulf war, we were told that soldiers were taking infants out of incubators at leaving them on the floor. An Iraqi refugee testified before congress that this was happening. Turned out to be total bullshit.
First, thanks for your work on IPFS.

I've been trying to get into IPFS recently. One thing I can't wrap my head around is that IPNS only seems to persist for about 12 hours and then stops working.

It seems to defeat the purpose of a truely distributed name system, as my computer that needs to keep republishing the name becomes a critical part of the system?

Am I missing something or are there plans to resolve this in the future?
> they're buying those from 3rd party data brokers I believe

Huh, why would they need to? The first time you load an element from Facebook (be it a like button, comments or something else) you just get a unique cookie and there's your Facebook profile. Now it's a waiting game until you log in and they can connect it to a person, or you do something else that allows them to identify you (maybe visiting friend's pages, and they already have WhatsApp data so they know who talks with that specific set of people? Idk, there's just so much data and so many options). Or they can never connect it to a person but they can still show you good ads based on that browsing history.
'Dear Reader' is supposed to be funny (in a dark way, but none the less funny).
https://atlanta.curbed.com/2018/1/29/16946010/amazon-hq2-hea...

The five primary criteria driving Amazon’s decision, per GBH, include:

1. “East Coast presence.”

2. “Thriving engineering/surrounding university infrastructure and student pipeline.”

3. “Transportation hub with major growth potential.”
...
It’s damn effective, harder to believe pain is felt by most (all?) animals than that it isn’t. The default assumption should be that they feel pain, not that they don’t.
Not a network person by any means, but I think that this points out to what I think is the fatal flaw of IPFS: the apparent "one-wayness" of addresses to content.

Yes, I know that is supposed to be its main feature, but (again, naïvely speaking) it seems to induce a huge, possibly even intractable overhead... Think of, say, programming in C without being allowed to ever rewrite memory contents, or change what a pointer points to!

Again, not an expert; and I'm sure with all the money they raised, people with actual technical expertise in network protocols are hard at work on this and can vouch for the design... But I'm curious anyway how this is not an obvious dealbrealer, given the extreme latency requirements in networking..
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> Programming languages are not like your Word or Excel where more features is better.

I‘d contest that even for those categories adding more features is necessarily better. In fact, Word in particular is an excellent example of how adding features can result in a worse product.

On the other hand, I like programming languages with either a “batteries included” philosophy or a large ecosystem of easily usable libraries that allow you to solve common real-world problems quickly.
Your dog can get a vaccine but you can't.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dogs-can-get-lyme-disease-...
Minimal Linux Live Running in a JavaScript PC Emulator
just curious but why not sell them now and buy newer ones later for non-inflated prices?

how is it possible that AMD seems to be at the limit of production for their GPUs but barely beat estimated earnings this quarter?
I wrote instructions on how to creep 10,000 people out with Google
Non-bash compliant shells suck from the Google, copy, and it works perspective. I even shy away from using zsh because most setups assume bash.
Sometimes I think it is perfect. Hard to beat a sunny day on the side of the lake, with a snack and maybe a kid, if you like 'em.

There's many other perfect situations, too, like the cover of a river runs through it.
Ok thank you, I also found a short answer[0]. It seems the carbon comes from the conversion of glucose; that is, from food.

[0] http://www.smh.com.au/news/big-questions/we-breath-in-oxygen...
Do you have anything to say about rc https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man1/rc.html ?
Where does it stop? If "healthcare is a right" and "food is a right" and "shelter is a right" who is going to pay for all of these services for all of these people when they have no vital need to go out and support themselves? Who's going to maintain the sewers and take care of the trash and all of the jobs that most people don't want to do?
Or could be using ZFS
This is getting into tea leaves reading, but i am fairly certain that he isn't aware of or simply never uses a shortcut for it and clicks through the cumbersome dropdown every time. My evidence being that he's happy to show off multiple access modes for "fill down", but does not do that for "fill by values". Possibly he might also be aware of the keyboard chain to reach it, but doesn't mention it because it's fairly cumbersome itself too.
At the risk of being naive - Xerox hasn't been doing much with their IP and branding so they were to my mind on the way to being the next Novell - a former tech powerhouse bought out and reduced to irrelevance. This merger gives them a chance at continuing relevance by expanding their worldwide presence and perhaps finally trying to leverage the Xerox IP and branding to do more than cheap printers.

I'm glad that Fujifilm bought them rather than a completely unrelated business like, say, a patent troll or Oracle.
I believe this exactly is the thin line that delineates people who make the world a better place and those who don't really care and their aim is to just live a nice life. If anybody is wondering where all this global warming and pollution came from, it's just from that: you calculate the net result, you know what using that electricity means, but you choose to ignore that. Maybe you even rationalize that you contribution is too small to mean anything. When millions have that attitude, the whole Earth suffers.
> I believe under so many seconds doesn’t count under copyright infringement laws

Careful here. This appears to be referring to the concept of fair use, but firstly there are multiple criteria used to judge fair use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors), secondly these criteria are (intentionally) subjective and up to a judge's interpretation, and thirdly fair use is US-only.
That is best done behind closed doors.
From the post:

> I encountered a nice blog post, Replacing Shell Scripts with Python, which, in my opinion, inadvertently proves the opposite point. The Python version is more difficult to write and maintain.

Here's the link: https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/bashing-the-bash-r...

I think, roughly speaking, the fact that Python 3 is much closer to a sane language for engineering means that it's less suited for scripting.
Most on the internet too. Every image meme and reuploads of other images are basically also copyright violations.
Okay, who puts time on the Y axis of a graph? Honestly.
I think it’s because RedHat has thrown its weight behind CRI-O instead of rkt:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-cri-o-10
FYI Kindle purchases can only be made via one-click. I hated when Amazon forced me to enable it to get a copy of Traction.
Monitoring with Prometheus 2.0
You could plausibly get a nearby asteroid into a wide orbit of the Earth for 500 m/s of delta v. But getting it from there all the way down to LEO would take 3 km/s. So I expect most asteroid mining would take place fairly far out as a practical matter since the products of mining would be lighter and easier to move. The main downside would be days of travel time to and from the mining site. And there is a market for the products of asteroid mining in GEO in the form of commsats who might want to be refueled or someday maybe even have some parts make from asteroid stuff.
I didn't have anyone to play with until late high school and college. So I collected rule books, figuring out how the systems worked.

I laugh in the face of your thousand page interface manual.
Yep. And this is important, it allows people to move most JS projects incrementally to TS projects. If they fall far behind the features that many JS projects are using, that won't be true anymore, and those people will start using Flow instead (flow.org)
'Anxiety Cells' Identified in the Hippocampus – Neuroscience News
This is a fantastic solution to the issue, and could help solve the issue of bikes getting dumped everywhere. Combining the dock and dockless models!
I've read the whole transcript - the word "communism" appears exactly once in a whole discussion. Overall the amount of ideology in the article is minimal and they focus on describing the situation of North Koreans.

Additionally, most of the talking is done by Michael Malice, who is an author of the book in question (Dear Reader); is he, too, affiliated with that think-tank (honest question)? I don't know him, but from what I read just now he doesn't seem like a rabid ideologue.
JUMP bikes have a u-lock built in to the back computer contraption, and unlock when you request the bike; they have an agreement with SFMTA that they can lock to any of the bike racks on the street, unsure if they're limited to certain locales or if it's city wide.
Maybe the camera would do an advanced version of that peace-sign detection that some Japanese phones do where you can program it to snap the photo when exposure, etc. is good and everyone is smiling, eyes open, and looking at the sensor?

Yeah...that's a reach, you're right.
I think the podcast was designed to shock you. The person interviewed in the podcast has a name, which you can google. He seems to have made a career out of shocking audiences of news sources at how bad the DPRK is. It appears that most is sourced from the accounts of defectors. There are some truly horrible accounts, I think we can agree on that. However, we must accept that we do not know the motives of the defectors. If they are paid for defecting with a story, then it is in the defector's interest to produce a story.

Most residents of the DPRK do not defect. Defectors are not necessarily a representative sample of the DPRK. We cannot know from defectors alone if that is because they desire to and cannot, or do not desire to.

Incidentally, we were both led to that podcast by an account that is 48 days old, has at the time of writing contributed not one comment in this community and is one of many accounts that only posts links to only this domain.

Before you dismiss this as ad-hominem, the point I am making is that this is part of an agenda. The agenda is ostensibly not about making money, but promoting an ideology. This is quite overt, yet it seems that source evaluation is not entering into critical thinking any more.
The 404 seems to be geo-related; I used a US VPN and it loaded.
https://www.operationroi.com/2017/09/amazon/understanding-am... (not my article but describes what it gives you)
NASA Confirms Long-Lost, Presumed-Dead IMAGE Satellite Is Back
High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease
Just wait until Google engineers threaten to unionize. I'll need a few buckets of popcorn when that happens.
Paleolithic culture in India 385,000 years ago reframes “Out of Africa” models
This is an example how philosophers work:

if I understood you correctly, you state that one must have empirical evidence to back up their position. If someone claims something without giving empirical evidence, their claim should be refuted (or at least ignored).

However, your claim that empirical evidence is required to make a position valid, is itself not backed up by any empirical evidence.

I can even give counter-evidence, e.g., mathematics works very well without empirical evidence, so it doesn't seem to be required to gain valid knowledge. (just to back up my philosophical argument with empirical evidence)
A Slide Rule for Real Programmers
No, if you run ipfs, you only host what you choose to host and things that you have recently requested. Your node doesn't passively accept content from others to host. (Otherwise, a joker would probably saturate the entire network's hosting capacity with /dev/urandom, or everyone would saturate the network's hosting capacity with their own encrypted backups, etc.)

I think there must be something wrong with the way ipfs presents itself, because I see this misconception (that just running ipfs causes you to host anything) often.
Why won't this proponent of philosophical education provide me the education to assess the quality of the claims on its behalf?
Who did that cartoon? I recognize the style,....
(author here) I was hoping I would have time to write part 2 of the FAQ before this hit HN, since that is definitely a FAQ.

tl;dr I used Python for prototyping; it will be removed.

Consider it an implementation detail -- building and running Oil does not require Python, as a portion of the interpreter is bundled in the tarball. Python 2 vs. 3 doesn't really matter. It was in Python 3 at one point.

More discussions here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/7tu30...
I used to work at the Wilsonville, Oregon campus testing printers. At the time, years and years ago, it was the best paying job for a teen. Something like 15/hr. Anyways, the engineers there are really smart. The problem is that the printers just weren't nearly as robust or as good as the HP ones. And except for some paper heavy industries like the Law I think they're suffering from the same fate as the postal service when e-mail took off.
I think it may have been you that made it about you: "I disagree..."

Regardless, they are advocating for policy on half the numbers and someone is protesting that, you seem to be opposed to the protest due to their numbers being inconclusive or incomplete, which is a related but different argument. Or am I mistaken?
Outstanding. Ben Thompson writes such interesting analysis and this was no exception.
> Google Docs is far worse, but relatively speaking nobody uses it.

How do you mean "nobody"?

In any case, at least for now, it's relatively easy to make automatic backups of your entire Google Docs collection, and all these documents can be exported to different formats, including ODT.
I don't follow the logic of why intelligence should be the decider of "its ok to kill" over sentience.

Octopuses are incredibly smart but eaten by most Japanese, sometimes even alive.
Pigs are cheap and no one cares if you kill them.
> Appignani contends that atheists are one of the few minority groups in the country to still be widely ostracized by society.

What is a "minority group"? Drug Dealers are a minority group that are ostracized.

Yes we should be very open to different beliefs and different cultures. Yes we should embrace diversity. Some politically correct terms hold almost no meaning and their ambiguity can be exploited.
My company uses SAP as an ERP. They’ve been trying to push HANA on us for ages, promoting their cloud service as a manner of lessening the sticker-shock.

When news came through of Google and SAP ‘partnering’, upper management saw the writing on the way and went into full money-is-no-object mode and mandated the firm have a plan to switch away from SAP to alternative solutions (that I am not at liberty to discuss) within twelve months, with and that this plan must involve switching over within no more than ninety days including integration tests. Much preliminary work and change requests have been formulated and even implemented not even knowing if they will ever be needed (i.e. if data-sharing policies change and/or an actual acquisition becomes a real prospect).

Why? The reason is simple: the last thing a company that values its IT and operational profiles wants is to find itself in a situation where it can be data-mined by a publicity-driven juggernaut such as Google. Any expense is suitable to head off that threat.

No major corporation would be willing to shoulder this risk. It's the stuff upper-management's nightmare are made of. And decision-makers in positions of power within SAP and to a lesser extent Google are well aware of this. They won't precipitate a nuclear war with their own clients.
I do some of the feature planning / prioritization for TypeScript.

The strict class property initialization check was the one of the highest-voted, most-commented, and most-duped "unfixed" issues on the issue tracker.

Definite assignment assertions are a necessary co-feature for class property initialization checks to work ergonomically.

ES module interop is just TS keeping up with the evolving ES6 / CJS interop story. TS has to support ES modules.

"unique symbol" is type system support for the long-present ES6 symbol concept.

Cleaner/prettier console output should be uncontroversial as an incremental improvement.

Numeric separators are an ECMAScript feature that need to be supported. TS has to support ES syntax.

Fixed length tuples were a long-standing proposal (nearly 2 years old) that had a lot of positive feedback from the community. Among people who were using tuples, the prior behavior was seen as very much wrong and we were convinced by the use cases. People not using tuples are unaffected, naturally. It's more of a bugfix than a feature.

Better narrowing under "in" and "instanceof" were also long-standing issues. The "instanceof" behavior in particular just looks like a bug; only from a spec-lawyer perspective is it really a feature per se. It's more of a bugfix than a feature.

Smarter object literal inference again basically amounts to a bugfix; TS was allowing extremely broken code, essentially due to some implementation details of how types' representations are optimized. It's more of a bugfix than a feature.

It's definitely understandable that the most exciting features are already in the language, but I don't see anything in this list and see "bloat".
Very interesting. Was the build environment all inside MPW?
Gotcha. Thanks for the link
This is pretty damn funny.
Tyson, Goldman Sachs dig into meat-free protein in 2018
2017 California Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Reports Are Out
Yeah, and Amnesty International is a group with a "clearly stated agenda" to promote human rights. We still tend to trust their reports.

I can't believe you're equivocating the Cato Institute with a pro-DPRK think tank. It's not possible to defend the North Korean state honestly - by contrast, an organization dedicated to libertarianism has the motive to expose North Korea's unbelievable human rights abuses. They're not even the same ballpark.
I'm wondering about secure dbi connections with gigabytes of data behind a firewall followed by not crashing the browser. For me if observablehq has this covered then going the observablehq route over any type of notebook would be pretty close to ideal over anything I currently use.
Don’t forget Archive Team!
Sounds like we'll have to agree to disagree about a lot of things! :-) Having types specified statically is a recipe for generating untold many different versions of the same thing, plus untold bits of glue between them, which leads to huge codebases that need hundreds of people to work on them. Python was designed to avoid huge codebases and let smaller numbers of programmers be more efficient. (Of course, so was Haskell, but that's mostly a straw man, given how few large-scale users of Haskell there are in industry...)
Kendrick Lamar Reveals Track List for Marvel's Black Panther
I would say the USSR, but thanks to people like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, we already knew how bad it was.
Hi Mark. What's the underlying database used there?

SSB in the browser is a subproject we're pushing forwards sometimes, but it's progressing slowly. One of the main obstacles is IndexedDB which seems to be much worse (in many aspects) than LevelDB, upon which SSB used to base itself. Nowadays SSB is based on FlumeDB, which is often backed by just the filesystem. Then there are other obstacles like building P2P connections through WebRTC.
Mobile, yeah, but going by the above two references, both the Alexa and Samsung examples _are_ doing something with continuous upload or they wouldn't be in the news.