skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oof, that's really bad if that's the case; it means that a mis-click can poison your search results and make them less useful.

I get that Google's all about saving clicks now, but I've noticed between maps and other apps (Google Music comes to mind) the extra inference sometimes just makes me scared to click on things.

Can you at least long press or something to remove a location from your history?
A TV station has limited bandwidth. They have a constant ongoing algorithm to choose what to fit in there.

YouTube could keep all videos forever. There can be no commercial reason to 'cancel' a YouTube video. So we know that this decision is almost completely unrelated to the TV Station reasons.
That quote sounds like something scumartists would say
>What are we going to do about all of the victims of the Drug War sitting in jail while weed entrepreneurs make bank amid the Green Rush?

This is one of the particularly nasty bits of hypocrisy our society has allowed to flourish over the past decade. We now have a situation where (almost exclusively rich white men) are making millions of dollars selling legal marijuana on an industrial scale, as red state prisons sit full of petty dime bag dealers (overwhelmingly people of color) doing decades of hard time for something that is not even a crime a few hundred miles away.
> Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption

What’s this about weakening WhatsApp’s encryption?
I found a number of sources online that disagree with you.

https://www.quora.com/Escape-velocity-is-supposed-to-be-24-0...

Multiple answers explain that there isn't a fixed minimum change in velocity required for an object to escape Earth's gravity.

https://www.quora.com/Does-rocket-always-need-the-escape-spe...

The first answer here explains the same thing, using basically the same example (1 m/s instead of 1 mph).

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4688/couldnt-i-esc...

The answers here overwhelmingly reiterate and support the same example in this thread.
This is no joke. It reminds me of when Skype used to be secure then somehow a backdoor was introduced following (or before?) the acquisition by Microsoft. History repeats itself, and humans have yet to learn from the past.
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A hash is (theoretically) an anonymous function.

How do you anonymously map your UUID to the anonymised signifier? Such that you cannot back it out yourself?

The properties that ensure this make the UUID useless.
There's something deeply wrong with a society when everytime someone gets diagnosed there is a call for money to be sent via patreon/gofundme

I'm not opposed to the concept really but you get that dumping more money to a middleman is more of a symptom than a solution
That's something I forgot to stick in there: it looks like Azlo doesn't do loans either. There is literally no way for them to make any sort of money being fee-free, not offering loans or credit cards, and not having minimum balances. It's all the good will of BBVA, which we know how far the good will of a major bank gets you.
Are you only half-way through the JS course at Code Academy? Afraid of being rejected for coding jobs? Do you know the posted requirements are BS, and you're confident you can grow into any developer role?

For the next 30 days, you can buy a "JobHunter Special": listing as "current employee" on a corporate website, live email replies from 2 "former" companies in case of a reference check, and 30 commits on a Github "project".

We also offer the "Personality Special" Wordpress vanity blog package! Choose between the "team compassion" ( two photoshopped weeks of volunteering at a children's hospital in Southeast Asia) or the "risktaker" ( a photoshopped 10 day canoe tour in the Amazon). All photos include valid EXIF data for dates and locations.

(/notreal)
It's interesting. I think we're at a strange period in history where personal speech can reach such a huge audience, thus new ways of suppressing speech are being invented.

Youtube is a private service, thus they can remove content as they wish. Of course, most forms of historical media have also removed or suppressed controversial content. But in the old days it was preemptive. There was only so much room in a newspaper, you had to own presses and a distribution network, and they didn't hire just any schmoe to write columns.

It was a proactive system of censorship. They got people invested in a career of finding the proper stories and promoting what was acceptable to the establishment. Obviously common people could say whatever they like in their daily lives, but their freedom to put content into a newspaper or television show for all to see was extremely limited.

We have enormous freedom in self-publishing mass media today. So much content is being created that no mortal person can serve as gatekeeper and pick and choose what gets published like a newspaper editor could. So on one hand, we're living in a utopia of free speech. But new ways are being devised to automatically manage content all the time. And even though human moderators don't catch everything, but they slowly do what they can.

There are some genuinely harmful ideas out there, of course. Some things that ought to be restricted. Who gets to decide? Is it right for a private company to choose? I doubt it, but private companies have always been choosing what gets into media. In the past their decisions were much more totalitarian than today.
It's a static site (built with Bloxsom, as far as I recall). I can't imagine HN could hug it to death and it's working fine for me right now. I'd want to blame something else for being unable to reach it.
One argument: SF and SV have more technologists, making it easy to hire particularly if you need to obtain specialized skills.

There are more, but that one us sufficient to falsify your claim.
Very nice work! This looks a lot like TalentWorks [0] which must be validation that you have a good idea!

[0] https://talent.works/
Is "doing business" in California really defined as living in California? What's your source for that?
It might be pertinent to see Koum leaving as a sort of canary. Koum promised to keep WhatsApp secure, and it's clear that with his departure he feels that he can no longer do this anymore.
Yeah, often the guess you have is something you have no confidence in.

Also, I am just speculating as someone who has had similar problems... I did not contribute to this app.

Another common case is the history of your behavior is fully remote and your instantaneous connectivity is out-of-sync. So the map falls back to this kind of primitive state more similar to TomTom rather than being intuitive and catered.
I would definitely not use a Mikrotik router, they just recently had an RCE [0]. And apparently they encrypt user passwords! [1]

[0] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7445

[1] https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=133533#p656301
How do we test performance in a microservices world?
As Paul put it in Romans:

>For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Thank God for Christ, to redeem us from our lack of thanks and honor to God!
Very interesting. Gonna read it. Thanks.
This reminded me of the Coding Horror blog post "New Programming Jargon"[1] - The Common Law Feature:

> A bug in the application that has existed so long that it is now part of the expected functionality, and user support is required to actually fix it.

[1] - https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
Making correlation vs causation mistakes could add years of health-related articles to a journalist's portfolio.
Well, they are the de-facto curator of the bulk of our civilizations videos. Lets be honest, if you aren't on YouTube your chances of being searched/promoted/seen are greatly diminished. Maybe to nearly zero.
That and for some reason the scale only shows up while your zooming and for a couple seconds after. I want to see it all the time, damn it!
Style guides are universally written for systems programming where RAM is in abundance. For embedded, memory usage matters and packing data in is a thing. It is ill advised because of the portability traps but portability is low on the priority chain if you just have to make it work. Any decent compiler will do what you want if you pad out the unused bits with a reserved field to guarantee alignment.

Reminds me of the C# jockey who complained endlessly about the bitfields (using manual masking) I put into an IoT data structure that was supposed to be kept as small as possible to minimize hosting costs. He had no clue about how to use bitwise operations to extract bits. They managed to bloat that into a horrendous monstrosity but I wasn't going to play their game. If they had their way, a half dozen bits packed into a 32-bit word would have consumed 20x more space with unnecessary schema boilerplate.
> Eighteen months later, the promise not to share data evaporated. Facebook pushed WhatsApp to change its terms of service to give the social network access to the phone numbers of WhatsApp users, along with analytics such as what devices and operating systems people were using.

Hmm... doesn't sound like the Facebook we all know and love.
I've returned my Comcast cable boxes in the past, but then they just ship you a new one because they notice you don't have any equipment on your account. It doesn't cost me anything, but when I lose it and later cancel service, you can bet i'll be charged for it.
This is so pretty!
But the rebound is very uneven and not yet walkable. Unlike other rust belt urban centers like Pittsburgh which is walkable (especially near the universities), Detroit's layout was shaped heavily by the priorities of the automobile, which famously have impeded pedestrian friendly ecosystems everywhere.

Until Detroit can carve out car-free zones that attract hip daytime hangouts that combine residential with retail, its urban costs will continue to outweigh its urban charm.
My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me (2013)
Spite. I've seen big players (controlled by pissed off influential person) chase down small businesses in my country relentlessly, to the point that the father of a family had to serve in jail for 2 years because he couldn't afford the fines. The lawsuit lasted 3-4 years and the poor guy was called to court basically every month... It was awful to watch.

Eventually some good souls gathered the fine money and bailed the poor man. And then the suers got pissed and tried to raise the fine, eventually had to pay for... I don't know the legalese for that, but basically they took it too far and the judge called them out on it and forced them to cover ALL legal expenses.

My point however is that for ordinary people even the nerves and time lost in a lawsuit are too big a price to pay. We aren't machines, these things get to us.
Maybe the government should pass a guaranteed jobs bill, and offer it also to out of work/transitioning/freelance devs to rewrite some of their out-dated systems/code.

It can take 3-10 months to find a job, if you lose a software job, imagine if the next day you just auto-start working on government projects maybe at a 20% reduction of your normal salary until you find a real job to replace the one you lost..
The Go compiler cuts out nearly all the optimization that LLVM does.
Websites have always been allowed to decide which facts to allow on their site. Right now, if I visited an anti-vaxxer forum, and posted "vaccines don't cause autism" in the comments, I'm sure it would be removed.

So why is youtube any different?
He's actually already left as per his Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/jan.koum/posts/10156227307390011
> There should be a social network for lonely, security-obsessed linux people who refuse to partake in social media.

Where do you think you are? ;)
> a legal definition for "medical advice"

If you're talking about the FDA, the basic rule is that you can't claim a product treats or cures any diagnosable condition it hasn't been certified for. Claims like "improve concentration" and "improve sleep" are generally permissible, where specific statements like "helps with ADD" and "cures insomnia" are not.

Based on those video titles, I don't see anything which constitutes medical advice in the narrow sense. Someone could well have decided the overall effect was tacit medical advice, but these titles in isolation aren't clear violations.
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It would be remiss at this point not to recommend websequencediagrams[0].. been using it for years (and convinced multiple workplaces to shell out for the self hosted version..). It's great :)

0: https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
So, start small with a niche? Thanks.
Just like in Google Search, it still makes sense to show the results he was interested in previously even though he's not been there.

Maybe he looked at a location first for information, and to know where it is, and needs to look for it again at a later time to actually go there.
New Ask HN thread: where are creators migrating to in lieu of YouTube?

Vimeo? Twitch? Facebook? Metacafe or Dailymotion? There are also also already dozens of dapps for streaming like dtube, lbry, viewly, lino, flixxo....(etc, just see https://www.google.com/search?q=decentralized+youtube), but I don't see any particular venue rising above the rest, as a lot of creators seem to choose "all of the above" as an answer, syndicating content across as many domains as possible.
> they have cameras to see and a computer to do rigorous processing. We can compare this to a human, who uses their vision to perceive the outside world while driving

My phone also has cameras and a processor. Are you implying that my phone is as equipped to drive a car as a human?

A monkey has eyes, a brain, arms and legs. Are you implying that a monkey is as equipped to drive a car as a human?
I will. Thanks!
FWIW, the IRS.gov IT docs make reference to "Assembler Language" as if it were a proper noun:

https://www.irs.gov/irm/part2/irm_02-005-003

> The scope of this directive is Servicewide. This includes software developed by contractors. Where the guidelines apply to Assembler Language, COBOL, C Language, C++ programming, and Java programming, these guidelines shall be followed respectively.
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> which isn't really feasible in the middle of driving.

That makes a lot of sense to me. I typically only use my GPS while walking, but now I'm thinking of a use case where I couldn't stop for a few seconds and pan around the map with a finger, and I think I would want a list in that scenario.
Until Waze routes commuters off busy thoroughfares to these quiet sidestreets.
What is "wealth"?

If car built in a factory is useful for 10 years without repairs, but useful for 30 years with repairs, the mechanics add 20 years of useful life to the car. Does that not increase wealth?
Ada uses a garbage collector for the free store (or just uses unsafe code if it's disabled). Ada's memory management model is not really different from any other typical language.
Hah. You are making the case that a flat tax is regressive because current income taxes are progressive. So moving from progressive to flat is regressive.

Its a tautological affirmation on progressive taxes being progressive. A flat tax would make a $24,900 pay $3,735, and if you made $249,000 you would pay $3735, your taxes increase just as proportional to your income. Its just..flat.
The first chapter by Google translate:

Road to Road, very Avenue;
Name, name.
The beginning of the unknown world;
There is the mother of all things.
Therefore, often do not want to observe its wonderful.
Often, they want to see what they are.
Both of these have different names.
With the same meaning,
Mysterious,
The door of the public.

Baidu translate:

The Taoism, the very way;
The name is famous and very famous.
The beginning of the nameless world;
Yes, the mother of all things.
It is often not, to view it.
Often there is a desire to view it.
The two are the same names.
The same predicate of metaphysics,
Mystery of mysteries,
Many wonderful doors.

Hapless algorithms can only struggle with this!
Ugh. Another one bites the dust, I guess.
Fair point, but I personally wouldn't ever do that. There are well-known solutions to the problem: the user's cookie after authentication is not persisted on the server and only an ID is used (the key is derived from the password, otherwise this wouldn't ever work). Then another part of the cookie serves as an ephemeral key that the backend uses to decrypt and serve the personal data back (through HTTPS). Again, that second part of the cookie is never persisted on the server.

I am not asking anybody to take my word for it, just saying how my ethics and tech education tell me I should be doing things.
The reason for pretty much any bug found in software driven by a huge company is that there is a large disconnect between fixing bugs and profit. Fixing a bug almost never excites users, and even if it did in this case, they won't see a measurable increase of users of their software, so you can't prove a profit increase.

Even if a bug is fixed, the effort might be wasted when a large overhaul of the system happens because they want to add a huge feature, like a new searching system or some internal backend refactor. Fixing the bug might be much more difficult than you think due to the scale and complexity of their database or some other reason. Then the change needs to flow through the review and testing pipeline.

My point is to explain that software gets harder with scale, which might cause a bug like this to cost tens of thousands of company dollars to fix, while the benefit to each user (and therefore the company) would be a tiny fraction of a cent, so both managers and financially-aware engineers would easily brush this off as "not worth it." Any argument of the form "why not just fix it?" would be countered with "you could say that for any of the 40k open bugs."
News at a 11, Startup founder leaves a year or two after being acquired by much larger company. Say it ain't so.
Only in some cases, supposedly as a fallback.
This is huge. While WhatsApp is not as big in the US, it is the de facto messaging platform in most of Europe and even Latin America. It uses the Signal encryption protocol. If this fact changes, people deserve to know.

It feels like there have been surprisingly few internal leaks from Facebook employees, compared to the rest of FAANG. Now would be a good time for someone to blow the whistle.
That's one way to look at it.

Alternatively, I'd think middle management people are doing exactly what they were hired for. In most cases, their job is to simply act as a buffer and propagate upper layer's wishes to mere mortals, without them losing face or being directly involved in any kind of conflict.

It builds a culture of uncertainty and doubt and more layers of management means less perceived value and power for individual contributors. I can definitely see the value it provides to those at the top.
I appreciate the advice you've given through your blog and podcast. Thanks for taking the time to create those things. They've been inspiring.

I'm wonder if a US LLC would be better for me? I'm a mISV in Canada. I use Stripe & PayPal and make almost enough to live on. I have a US bank account but Canadian everything else (sole proprietorship, business license, tax id, citizenship, etc.). I don't plan on ever being funded, selling the business, taking on partners or making more than a 150k/yr.
Wow, very interesting.

I'm familiar with Prolog and its implementation, but definitely didn't know all of that.
Yeah, the article is super-vague about that:

> In 2016, WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption, a security feature that scrambles people’s messages so that outsiders, including WhatsApp’s owners, can’t read them. Facebook executives wanted to make it easier for businesses to use its tools, and WhatsApp executives believed that doing so would require some weakening of its encryption.

Not sure what this means. "Weaken" is kind of a confusing term, FB either has access to the message content to feed in to adsense's gaping maw or they don't.
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I also have Sonic in the East Bay, and it has been pricy and disappointing. It is rebranded AT&T FTTN, I'm subscribed to 50mbps but am lucky to get 24mbps @90/mo after associated fees.

Still, its that or non-rebranded AT&T or Comcast with data caps.
Not to mention much of Southeast Asia as well.
This is usually true for any big website you browse on the internet. Any click on Facebook or Amazon is influencing the content you're going to see.

Google has a user history website where you can see everything they recorded from Search and other apps, and you can delete the entries
Original submission, 330+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6416161
Worth noting that the other founder, Brian Acton, already left Facebook last September (and in fact tweeted #DeleteFacebook recently), so it is pretty obvious that the relationship between the two groups has been less than perfect.

I'm pretty certain that they didn't want to sell WhatsApp in the first place, and knew the privacy risks that having Facebook as an owner would bring...but of course $19 billion is enough to settle a lot of issues.

I personally consider WhatsApp to have the same level of security/privacy as Messenger. If you need E2E encrypted messaging use Signal instead.
I've wondered how particulate pollution affects this, also. Discussions on this topic always seem to always focus on light pollution, but anyone taking a flight can see a haze just about anywhere from pollution. I'd imagine it diffuses incoming light from extraterrestrial sources and it reflects light pollution, for a double-whammy.
> Koum and Acton were openly disparaging of the targeted advertising model. In a WhatsApp blog post in 2012, they wrote that “no one wakes up excited to see more advertising; no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.” They described online advertising as “a disruption to aesthetics, an insult to your intelligence, and the interruption of your train of thought.”

So very true.
This is a really interesting example for comparison. I think I could come up with a clear explanation of which data is kept, and for what purposes. A compliant user can have all of their data deleted upon request, with reasonable "are you sure" prompts. An abusive user will have evidence for abuse retained, and enough information to prevent spamming accounts.
Consent is not the only basis for legally processing data. There is not enough information in the above comment to determine which basis this company has determined their processing falls under.
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> Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption

Finally they found a way to start me looking into alternatives. Spoken messages was already a regression for me, then they added a terrible VoIP service people accidentally kept using but those were just minor niggles. This is the point where I might start thinking into bailing out.
Google Maps apparently thinks I'm Prompto from Final Fantasy XV, and will send me alerts of points of interest (usually restaurants) suggesting I take pictures of them.

Uh, no. If I want to go somewhere, I'll ask you, Google Maps. It's shit like this that makes me glad I switched to OsmAnd (despite the latter lacking in features, such as finding an optimal foot/bus/train route).
...like someone important messaged Stormy Daniels...
I really hope signal vets a UI redesign (at least for android)
are you more likely to sustain an injury than someone who is mostly idle?