skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a masters degree thesis project from 2012, what would you expect?
OK, put another way, errno is using a global variable to return an error code from a function call. Alternative: don't use a global variable to return an error code for a function call.
How, exactly, is it partisan? You could argue that he in himself is a Republican stereotype, given his actions, but that in itself doesn't make it partisan.

Are you saying that taking away subsidized broadband plans for the poor is a partisan thing? If so that doesn't portray the Republicans in a good light at all.
I've recently had to deal with a sort of similar environment, though for different reasons.

I ended up setting up a persistent ssh tunnel to the production server with autossh, and then writing a miniature daemon that would regularly poll tables in the production server, figure out recent changes, and write the changes to a log. A secondary process would read the log and copy the changes into the development environment.

By "regularly", I mean that it ran every minute.

autossh was used to keep the resident sysadmin from complaining about thousands of ssh logins. It also made the first daemon a little easier to write, since from its perspective, it was still connecting to a local database.

This worked surprisingly well. It wasn't fiddly or glitchy at all. Anytime there was a connection problem, things would stall for at most a few minutes until autossh could re-establish the connection, and then the reading daemon would happily work its way backward through the tables.

Essentially this is just building out a master -> slave database relationship, but with application logic instead of reconfiguring the DB environment. It didn't require a very large time investment to get it working.
Really surprised it is not using Servo.

That said, i really wish Netsurf would polish the SDL variant more as it seems to be more forgiving to get going than trying to get it to agree with GTK...
Card Data Stolen from 5M Saks and Lord and Taylor Customers
They already ship a perfectly good hypervisor with macOS that is able to run a Linux kernel (and is used by Docker for Mac and many other projects).
Today’s lazy person is tomorrow’s AI task that’s trivial and universally applied. When publishing to the net, think of your future.
Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode
Ive heard great things about swedx, never had one myself however. Theyre also not IPS/HDR.
Also, its important to use the pixel policy 1, there are some dead pixels otherwise.

http://swedx.se/index.php?cPath=133_149&language=en
I would expect that the wholesale change from Darwin to Linux would introduce an amazing number of new and awful bugs. It's not like their development processes will suddenly be fixed when it's been touched by Linux.
That's impressive. My AT&T wifi router caps bandwidth at 300mb/s (instead of 1gbs on ethernet) and add 10-20 ms to latency. And this is standing next to it and using 5ghz.
This is what Walmart does and all they get is people complaining about it.
Sure, if it were a summary. You conveniently left out everything but the title, and ignored entirely the points of the anthroplogists/archaeologists, instead caricaturizing them as “afraid of the results.” As an engineer, this is disappointing.
Someone shared this lovely iOS app yesterday:

DNSCloak • DNSCrypt DoH client by Sergey Smirnov
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dnscloak-dnscrypt-doh-client...

It supports DNSCrypt, DNSSEC and DNS-over-HTTPS, the IAP are for tips :)

It works via running a VPN server on your device.

To change your normal plaintext DNS resolver just tap the circle-i on your WiFi network.
Not a psychological theory. And certainly not a "revolutionary" one. This article is a crude, philosophical "argument" for the non-existence of qualia. It follows from his conclusions that sunsets can't really be beautiful, citizen kane can't really be a good movie, and so on.
You can't claim users don't care about their videos not being deleted--the fact that they do care is exactly why this is in the news. They may click past a screen because they think that they don't care, but that's only because they don't understand the implications of doing so. Part of the reason is that a lot of people naively believe that a respectable company like Facebook wouldn't try to screw them over, and would behave with their best interests in mind.

It's unrealistic to expect that users will read AND understand the TOS of every website AND all of the changes to the TOS that occur over time.
> these services could not function without this information

Why does Kindle NEED to know how long I've stayed on each page?

Why does a smart TV NEED to store hover events in a persistent DB?
So it did fool you.
Well, I probably should have said, "nearly non-stop during waking hours". I leave them out at night.

Also note that my "all-day" earplugs are these certain ones that have lost a lot of their effectiveness due to aging or something. I go through enough earplugs that I end up with a lot of these. I'm guessing I get about 10-15 dB out of them, and my ears/brain have adapted to this level of attenuation so well that my "plugged" hearing is functionally as good as other people's unimpeded hearing. For example, I listen to music and TV at the same levels as everyone else, and I'm not asking people to repeat themselves any more than anyone else.

The habit of keeping them in at all times during waking hours just ensures they're in place when I need them, like when I drop a dish, or a sticky weight falls on a weight stack at 24-hour fitness, as in the top post in this thread. Shit like that happens all the time to me, and I got really sick of saying, "damn I should have had earplugs in."

EDIT: Also, cut them in half. Much more usable for me, they're almost as effective, and hardly noticeable. Very rarely does someone notice that I have them in.
It's more of an Old Testament "thou shalt not steal" worldview given that people on basic income would be mooching off of people that work.
> did you know that when you purchase an ebook using kindle software amazon knows exactly what page you've read to and how long you've stayed on each page. They also know exactly what books you have purchased.

Yea :'(
That's why i always purchase ebooks with my Laptop, then use Calibre + DeDrm plugin to send the ebook to my Kindle through usb. Also, my kindle is ALWAYS in airplain mode and has never been connected to any wifi.

It's so sad we are forced to do these things, and most people probably don't even realise they are being spied on and have their info/profile sold...

By the way, i hope my Pi-hole blocks all the smarttv trackers... but i'm not sure.
> And this is where I wish that dumb panels were all the rage, and that the only "smart" functionality was external to the display itself.

Could you not simply turn off WiFi on your smart TV and use an external device anyway?
Ask HN: Any compilation of practical tech guides for the less tech-savvy?
Two things have led to this question: 1) Recent discourse regarding FB/CA and how many people may be unaware of how their data is being used and 2) My learning about things on HN/Reddit like password managers, better ways of blocking ads through uBlock origin, etc.

I consider myself far less tech-savvy than most HN users and so these topics usually require me to search for much more background information before I can implement whatever helpful tool I come across. Then I wonder what it must be like for some of my friends/family who are even less tech-savvy than me.

So, I was wondering if y'all know of any resources out there that may have compiled simple guides of practical tools for people like me. Or, if you know of a guide that might fit this description, posting it here would be much appreciated and maybe this could become such a compilation. Thank you!
These are a few contenders in the countries around the Mediterranean - rather suspect that the building shown won’t last thousands of years.
I recognize many of your thoughts and observations (but not your achievements) as my own, and agree on most points.

A corollary you do not make explicit: the university is to students/diplomes as the prestigious publisher is to papers.

The student/researcher is expected to pay tuition and self-educate, and make an intellectual contribution (thesis in case of university or paper in case of publisher), for which if you pay the right price (enough years of tuition as a student, or underpaid labour as a PhD in case of university or the review and editing etc costs for a publisher) they are willing to issue a paper branded with their certification mark or prestige.

Your examples illustrate we might effectively cut out the middleman of universities as well.

Especially in the case of mathematics, it would seem that correctness could be mechanically verified by a proof verifier, novelty by the lack of the theorem and proof in some decentralized system (which only admits verified proofs) and significance I will leave open to the readers personal preference of establishing.

Perhaps significance could be established by challenge? i.e. before publishing your proof, you publish the theorem, and as time passes the reward increases, so if the problem is hard nobody else finds a solution and your tradeoff is low yield impatience or higher yield patience. If one or more people submit a solution (or its hash) then there is a deadline (say a month or perhaps a year) at which point everybody is expected to reveal the solution (original claimant last, so if people bluff they can't force you to prematurely release the solution). If multiple parties found a valid proof the rewards are split by some predetermined method. Just thinking out loud how at least pure math progress could be decentralized... The rewards you get could have a financial value, or you could use thee crypto-value for rewarding people to formalize supposed proofs from a text (if you have loads of texts that might interest you if only you had the assurance that the proofs check out, i.e. perhaps a substantial number of papers are bogus results!)

My condolences regarding your wife, that is a very sad story. And a perfect example of how universities don't do what they are supposed to do: foster and develop an individual's skills...
For maximum honesty, they should just rename all of the Delete buttons and text to 'hide' or better yet, 'hide from friends'.

Short, simple and to the point.
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> the non-existence of qualia

Or that they are crude approximations of more fundamental neural activations. Like how clouds follow the laws of physics.

edit: (i seem to be restricted from posting)

i m not claiming clouds are an illusion, that's a strawman, but that studying the shape of clouds is the wrong way to go about physics.

I also don't understand the arguments for 'inner life'. as far as neuroscience of the brain is concerned that's an interpretation of brain dynamics. It has been given too much undeserved attention in philosophy imho. Inner life is defined as opposed to what? outer life ? as far as the brain is concerned there is no external world, it processes neural signals that are generated entirely inside the organism, sometimes in response to external stimuli like light. Why would it be impossible for it to process the neural activity of itself the same way that it processes the neural activity of the retina.
Why are you surprised?

At this point, it is a well-known failure mode of the Tesla Autopilot:

It does not notice tractor trailers.
It does not notice street sweepers.
It does not notice fire trucks.
It does not notice lane barriers.

All happened in daylight, and in good conditions. The Autopilot just continues in high speed without even attempting to slow down - Controlled Flight Into Terrain.

Wired has a piece trying to explain why it cannot notice stationary objects [1].

It's like the joke about the dancing bear. We are impressed not by how well the bear dances, but by the fact it can dance at all.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/
Maybe over simplifying but could you filter the network traffic for the spying chatter and while letting it still get major updates? I’m assuming there would be a way to see what spy traffic is and then route the requests to a dead DNS host file.

I’ll agree in advance you shouldn’t have to secure yourself from inside the home network like this but I also assume there will be more and more smart devices exfiltrating data that you didn’t really want.
A Short Talk About Richard Feynman (2005)
As with any child prodigy, they are guaranteed to fall short of expectations. Either those of others or their own.
Fascinating. Another name for me to search. Thanks!

I was thinking Sun Tzu: appear weak when you are strong.
If the gaming focus is as strong as implied, odds are the SHIELD interface will just be another input rather than the driver.

NVIDIA isn’t manufacturing the TVs themselves, they’re probably just going to do what they do with GSync, give OEMs a box and say “Hook it up to this type of connection and we’ll certify it”
Philippine central bank has thrown an alert after WIFT hackers hit Malaysia bank
And Apple is in the forefront of pushing for a integrated "SIM", effectively going back to the CDMA days...
As others have pointed out, this is really two problems. The first is an organizational one, and is more important to solve. Why can't you get better uptime? Why can't the corporate db be upgraded? I think you need to explore those issues first and figure out if there's a way forward to solve the root issue. This should be a discussion including the dbas and whoever your SLO is to, and probably your boss. Address these issues with minimal blame and focus on what success looks like for the organization. Maybe the old db has been unsuccessfully upgraded in the past and the dbas need more resources. Maybe your app isn't as important as keeping the old db running. Who knows?

If you can't reach a political solution, then you can add a band-aid with a technical solution. Just realize that this is only a patch and that in a few years someone (perhaps you) will be cursing the creator for not fixing the root issue.

You didn't specify if your app only reads from the old db, or if it writes to it as well. Either way you'll need to stand up some intermediary. What kind of intermediary really depends on throughput and data size, so we'd need more information to give useful advice.
Put this DNS in your home router and not directly in your PC. Now your PC will fetch DNS at your home from this fast DNS and on pubic wifi, it will use theirs.
>> > "They could have designed for privacy and real-time deletion of data"

> Actually, they could not. If data is geo-replicated across multiple clusters, spread all over the place, divided into hot and cold storage layers - it's crystal clear you can't perform "real time deletion of data". Instantaneous deletion of all data, leaving no trace behind, can not happen under such complex constraints.

Yes, they could have. Your post is just a description of a design that can't delete data quickly. That doesn't prove that no design exists which can delete data quickly.

If Facebook had been designed with "we need to allow users to delete their data quickly and permanently" as a constraint from the beginning, it wouldn't look like the system you've described.

All you've done is pick all the things that Facebook did and say that if you do those things you can't delete data quickly. Yes, that's true--which is why Facebook would not have done those things if they cared about allowing users to delete their data.
Off-Topic.

Could you elaborate on commuting by plane? Do you go to work every day? How long does it take? Why did you decide to work that way?
No, the elephant is definitely Facebook and friends.

"Its the generations of people who have, over the last 10 years, grown up to assume that their personal lives are of interest to others, and wish therefore to capitalize/profit on exposing their life to strangers." - Say what? Most people aren't looking to capitalize/profit on anything, they just want to share bits of their life with others that they count as their friends.

Most people are definitely not aware of what happens behind the curtains. The fact that there's a big gorilla in the room watching everything they post and profiting of that is the problem.

And that gorilla is Facebook.
In the 1930’s, it became a crime (in a certain large country) to think that plants had genes that gave heritable traits.
Thousands of scientists, biologists, agricultural researchers and others were imprisioned or executed for disagreeing or previously having held the wrong view. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

Sure, there a lot of evil and stupidity said on Twitter, and through human history. But not everyone who is punished for what they said was saying something wrong.
To add to #1, your ISP can also see that you're using OpenVPN or another VPN protocol.
Hah, "could in theory" vs "could in practice" -- depending on the hash function, it could take hundreds or thousands of processor-years. Maybe Google could do it.

http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E64+things+%2F+%281+bi...
How’s that? The tradition of free speech has been standing on a public square and announcing your views or attending a public meeting with officials to tell them how you feel about their policies. The concept of privacy itself is very young, and the idea of anonymous speech even younger. Can you point to some anonymous speech traditions in the US or elsewhere ?

Also, Twitter is not anonymous.
Right. I wouldnt exactly say that the pippin controller is bat-shaped.
What you say makes sense, but I wonder if the amount of money they make re-selling our data would allow them to actually undercut the cost required to produce a "dumb" TV. So it's possible it would cost more for a dumb TV because it isn't subsidized by data reselling (I'm purely speculating here. I would guess dumb TVs would drive down the cost of smart TVs as they eat into their profit margins to maintain market share, which is important to the value of their data).

Nevertheless, a dumb TV marketing to me like that evokes an immediate "take my money!" response.
I'm sympathetic to all Nick Chater's evidence that our conscious explanations for behavior, as expressed in natural language, have nothing to do with their actual causation. But it doesn't follow that humans don't have "beliefs" and "motivations". The human brain implements a policy which can be seen as maximizing some utility function: that's where the "hidden motivations" of e.g. Freudianism come into play.
I download profiles I'm interested in of course. Not everything. 70 profiles with 75000 tweets take 5GB for JSON + images + linked pages content + 60GB for videos.

I didn't optimize for space at all, twitter's json is quite wasteful.
Fun fact: they had never issued an IPv6 SAN before (which Safari fails to validate due to a bug).

Try browsing to https://[2606:4700:4700::1111] with desktop Safari. (It's a known issue and we're working with Apple to get it fixed.)
Great points and I mostly agree with what you stated. I have been experimenting with serverless apps a lot lately. The example code is meant to be a treatment for when you don't have (or don't want) a server to configure. Example being using Firebase hosting with Firebase functions (or AWS Lamda, Google Cloud Functions etc).

Obviously client side routes will never be secure but that is not the point. The example code shows a way to protect your user from accessing routes/components that would not function properly without an authenticated user (Universal User Id and or unique email address).
Wrongful Termination of Internet Protocol (IP) Packets
Independently coming up with the idea and independently implementing it are two different things. In college I independently came up with the idea of representing shapes as equations for decreased size and infinite fidelity, before I learned that vector graphics existed and were exactly that. But I had no idea where to start on implementing it.
Research:When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up
“When Silence Dims the Stars Above” – An executable short film in 64 kilobytes
Here's how to use it with DNS-over-HTTPS on OS X / MacOS:

brew install dnscrypt-proxy
Change line 25 in /usr/local/etc/dnscrypt-proxy.toml to server_names = ['cloudflare']
sudo brew services restart dnscrypt-proxy

Then change your DNS server to 127.0.0.1 (run Network pref panel, unlock, Advanced, DNS)
What are you thinking of besides FB? MySpace you can count. Sure Friendster came first but its popularity was pretty small compared to now. Is there any other example if you’re excluding Instagram?
The Duck Duck Go privacy blog has some good practical posts from time to time - https://spreadprivacy.com/
Assuming you are in a very large organization.

1) When the system is down and you're asked for an explanation. You deliver a post mortem putting the responsibility on the database. The database is down. The database team is working on it.

2) If you are facing repeated major downtime. You keep track of failures caused by the database. You make a chart with a health check to the database every minute.

3) You report to your management that the database service doesn't meet expectations and it's affecting your services, supported by the previous reports you just created. It's the responsibility of the database and the management to run their services and decide where to allocate resources.

4) Make it clear that your service depends on its database. Any question about downtime or better SLA should be replied with the postmortem from 1 and/or the improvement plan from 3.

All you can do is report. You probably don't have a say. Your manager probably doesn't have a say. Maybe the database team doesn't have the power to fix anything either.
It's not fully true that 127.0.0.1 is the same as 0.0.0.0. For example, binding a webserver to 0.0.0.0 make it on the public network while 127.0.0.1 is strictly localhost.
Average tweet JSON object size is 5300B.
Except he didn’t. He told russia to replace their 60 diplomats. That’s pretty much ,in relation, the equivalent of a threat to bitch slap you.
it isn't on Netflix in USA. So far I can only seem to rent it on either iTunes, Amazon Prime Video and YouTube rental. $6.99 to rent.
Here's a similar tool that I built for fun: http://www.deletehub.com/
Ah, the state of Georgia—not the country!
I remember hearing about some smart TV that remembers your WiFi password even if you tell it to forget the network.

I plug my TV into Ethernet to update it and disconnect it immediately.
https://dns.watch/ this is also good one. Proved to be better than Google for me.
And as Cambridge Analytica has shown, mass surveillance can be leveraged against you by private parties for a pittance. There are now vast numbers of small private entities dabbling in what was the exclusive domain of the state.
From what I hear, at Apple you're not allowed to contribute to open source projects (unless it's part of your day job) even in your own time - in contrast to Google (from what I hear) and Facebook (personal experience) where you can but you must clear it with legal and it can't be related to your day job.
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