skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“On Writing” is amazing and everyone should read it. But, I have one quibble with your list: I think he writes because he needs to.
Related to that, is there anything that allows to completely save the state of a modern website with all of the fetch requests and websocket related stuff it fired off?

I just want an ability to save and reopen exactly what I'm looking at. There are some cool websites which will eventually go down and I want to preserve an interactive snapshot of them.
Is Jim Carrey really a fair comparison? Most people know him first and foremost as a comedian. He's not even super prolific, has 60 acting credits on IMDB vs Day-Lewis' 30, and many of them are one-off cameo roles on comedic TV shows.

I'd be more interested on your thoughts on, say Gary Oldman's performance quality (credited with 90 acting roles on IMDB) in comparison.
Not to imply that there aren't strong feelings around the subject, but don't you think calling it a "religious issue" might preemptively poison discussion a bit?
I think I put the bulk of it on my Medium post you can read here. It was surprisingly not a lot of stuff.

https://medium.com/@jessamyn/suing-equifax-in-small-claims-c...
I get the sentiment, but what it tells, to me at least, is that it's an impulse-driven CEO and I'd rather stay away from business like that. Might as well go to a casino.
That's too bad, I wish R could be better and easier for these people, but I don't think it warrants your hyperbole. I can point to many of my own anecdotes where R has saved millions of dollars by empowering analysts to conduct data exploration and modeling that would have been vastly more complex undertakings using any other tool. They seem to handle the silent failures just fine (usually by double checking their results before presenting them). Poor rigor and coding practices in academia are practically a meme at this point. You really want to lay all of that at the feet of R? Suggest a code review step for their publishing process or use a different tool. R is certainly not perfect but the idea that "The world would be a noticeably better place without it" is silly.
No Moore’s Law for networks
I don't want to get into a political grudge match here, but I wouldn't say that Trump and Koch are polar opposites by any means. Trump's tax bill was a Cato (Koch funded) Institute special. If it turned out David Koch himself wrote it, I wouldn't be surprised.

The ALEC club may not like Trump's views on immigration or tariffs, but they're in perfect sync when it comes to more or less every other economic issue. And the administration's energy policy is another massive win for them as well.
> Once you take IP address and city out of the equation browser fingerprinting becomes much harder

That's not true, see all the values that can be used to fingerprint a browser: https://fpcentral.tbb.torproject.org/fp https://browserprint.info https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#finge...
This Test Shows Why Tesla Autopilot Crashes Keep Happening
Yes.
We were aware that this was happening on June 13th ( today ).
We were moving through the steps to upgrade ( finished on Monday ).
On Friday, client came to us saying "None of our transactions work!".
Contacted stripe, they said they decided to go ahead and get started with some upgrades.
We complained ( because we weren't done upgrading yet ), and I know the person in direct contact wasn't very happy with the responses.
They did reverse though, and TLS 1.0 was working for us again.
It wasn't me who was in contact directly w/ stripe, so I can get you more of the exact emails and what was said, but I know he was second guessing stripe at that point, as was I.

I'll try to remember to get you the exact emails tomorrow, and the account name, etc. What do you need to look into it?

I've always heard good things about stripe but like I said this was kinda worrying, because everything we read said June 13th.
Couldn't this post have just been a tweet?
I think what you're saying is mostly on point. I wanted to share a couple possible balms for your bugbears.

For attach metadata to an anything, why not use attributes()/attr() or the tidy equivs? Isn't that what it is for?

It might not make you feel much better, but data.frame is just a special list, c.f. is.list(data.frame()). So, if you don't want to use the connivence layers for data.frame you can just pretend it is a list and reduce the ways of accessing data structures by one.

You can paper over the distinction between data.frames and matrices if it comes up for you often enough. E.g.

`%matrix_mult%` <- function(x,y) {
if("data.frame" %in% class(x)) {
x <- as.matrix(x)
stopifnot(all(is.numeric(x)))
}
if("data.frame" %in% class(y)) {
y <- as.matrix(y)
stopifnot(all(is.numeric(y)))
}
stopifnot(dim(x)[2] == dim(y)[1])
x %*% y
}

d1 %matrix_mult% d2

... but I'll grant that isn't the language default.
What's the core distinction between this/wiremock vs selenium?
There's no such thing as objective criteria.

It's all a matter of personal opinion, much as some gatekeepers (like critics and academicians) would have you believe otherwise.
It seems like you're describing a single page web app. I don't think anyone could answer this without knowing more about what you mean and what you would want to accomplish. Sounds neat, though.
You're being obtuse. If losing a loved one before their time isn't "bad" then your definition of the word "bad" is useless, or at least irrelevant to our current discussion.
Completely agree. And moreover they don’t need to match you with 100% level of confidence. Even something as low as 10% is probably enough.
Your whole premise is wrong. The credit's expiration is based on # of cars sold for use in the US. Not, in any way, on # of cars built.
I highly recommend this 2016 paper by Stephanie K. Pell: "You Can’t Always Get What You Want: How Will Law Enforcement Get What it Needs in a Post-CALEA, Cybersecurity-Centric Encryption Era?".[0] She’s a former prosecutor from Florida, who now teaches at West Point.

She agrees with security experts that maintaining such lawful access, against pervasive "strong" encryption, would require the introduction of vulnerabilities, such as backdoors or key escrow. Which would expose users to malicious adversaries. She argues, basically, that law enforcement has become lazy.

She also raises the possibility of lawful hacking for smartphones, "infecting them with malware capable of capturing voice communications and keystrokes before they are encrypted." That brings to mind the FBI’s use of network investigative techniques. And of course, all those NSA tools.

0) https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
Are you unfamiliar with the Dark Tower series? King is no stranger to "hella complex worlds". Though tbf, it did take him quite a while to finish the entire series. But he was writing things in the meantime (or getting hit by a truck) for the most part. If you sum up the time he spent actually writing, he still was able to get them much faster.

Edit: Another fun fact, many of King's non-Dark Tower books tie into the same universe, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(Stephen_King)
For real? I'm mostly a lurker, now I wanna hit 500 points.
> But most importantly, the way a good therapist works is by reflecting and empathizing with you.

In my very humble opinion this is the way a bad therapist works.

I've gone to therapy to deal with real problems - attention issues, a bout of anxiety - and having somebody mostly repeat back to me what I said was so, so unhelpful.
The problem with articles like these is that they leave out the fact that non-wage benefits are consuming more and more of the compensation growth that may have otherwise gone into wages.

Particularly healthcare costs… largely accelerated since the ACA, which NYMag supports wholeheartedly and is IMO a glaring omission in an article like this.
> and I am pretty certain this is right. Happy to follow a link to the actual law

it's not: https://www.irs.gov/irb/2009-48_IRB
Less NAT means less household/workplace/etc-level traffic mixing means less plausible deniability for users.
You'll have to cite evidence the ACA is accelerating it especially when the majority of health care economists disagree with that.
Alternate URL (no Javascript required):

https://github.com/Netflix/pollyjs
AI made a movie and the results are horrifyingly encouraging
I don't seem to suffer from slowness with my FF setup. My home connection is 400Mbit/50Mbit unlimited. I surf heavily/code/SlingTV all the time. I also keep a similarly locked-down instance of Vivaldi on hand for email and banking only. Everything else goes through FF or OpenSSH.
My understanding of zocdoc is that is is a marketing service for doctors, not a legitimate review site.
This whole current moment rhymes too well with 2000 and 2008. Who are the Ken Lays, the Bernie Ebbers's, and the Madoffs? I suspect Bezos and Musk are going to fall hard.
Only some people get blackout drunk
Websites can fund themselves with ads without having to track everything you do. One idea might be to tailor ads on a particular page to the content on that page. Obviously the reader is interested in the content, else they wouldn't be right there looking at it.
Also NASA:

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum (2014) [1]

NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses (2015) [2]

etc etc etc

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reach...

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...
The Strange, Fading Call of the Narwhal
ScriptSafe is light years better and easier IMHO than NoScript. NS tends to break most sites, whereas SS doesn't.
Fair point, i agree
Only if you don't use full-disk encryption, since the entire filesystem, including passwd/shadow, is editable.

In fact, the same principle can be used to reset and extract windows user passwords. Something I did many times as an IT support technician.
Is this a new concept? Aside from interviews at Google which were 100% whiteboarding, I’ve always talked through a technical project or bug in interviews.

As an interviewer I always open with some form of this to loosen the candidate up, assess the validity of their resume, and sometime soon just to satisfy my own curiosity (tell me why you did x in z, compare framework a to b, how do you like working in z?).
> It seems likely that R could have been designed to have the same strengths without having so many weird and arbitrary quirks.

Not really... at least not practically. R is a successor to S which was written in 1976 (fun talk on the history: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/rick-becker-s-ta...).

Many of the arbitrary quirks started out for the sake of backward compatibility with S. All that being said, yeah, you could probably design a 'modern R' without the weird and arbitrary quirks.
> Might as well just browse with Lynx instead of using a standard browser.

Then you make their job even easier since you are the only person within a 500 mile radius of your geolocation to still use Lynx. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What economists say that increasing interest rates reduce either existing debt or public debt? The cost of borrowing is increased, so obviously there's less new private debt issued, but the cost of debt service for both private debt and, crucially, public debt increase, which means greater budget shortfalls and more (compounding) public borrowing.

If your point is "well, the economy is a very complicated system", that's an argument for avoiding a large drastic action done to that system against the vast majority of expert economic advice, not for it. This tax cut wasn't even the typical "We need to do something. This is something!" fallacy, it was "We don't need to do anything. This is something!".
I love the name! "Polly" repeats everything... and wants biscuit every now and then :).
itt: crying about some rando's opinions.

dude's venting (on his own blog) after what sounds like a legitimately frustrating experience and trying turn it into a productive exercise.

if that offends your delicate sensibilities, i'm sorry. consider logging off instead of grandstanding about "grandstanding."
If you have tried R and found it painful I can’t say enough good things about the “R for Data Science” book. Great overview of Tidyverse, ggplot. After 50 pages I was further along than my previous 5 years of googling and cursing.
No, it wouldn't. Trade windows exist for a reason.
Net force, sure.
I don't know. There's a certain level of cognitive dissonance required. They will say...

Tether was FORCED to print, even if they didn't have the USD. The amount of FUD, and active attacks from the traditional banking system suppressed the price of bitcoin. Tether were trying to SAVE us... and so it goes.
Let's just have one media / telecommunications company and get it over with. We could call it the big brother.
You can't frame it as a loan because it's nothing like that. In fact they can only get $18B because landlords know if WeWork goes under they aren't getting paid the rest of the lease (lucky to get much at all). The point is, they don't mind. It's not lost money it's lost contractual revenue on a building that can be turned around immediately. The risk profile is not even close to the same.

If I was an investor in WeWork I'd care 0 about the total amount and almost entirely on what their trajectories look like, and the terms of those leases, etc. The $18B number is a red herring.
Nope. I clicked "Download This Paper" several times, and nothing happened. But then, I don't have an SSRN account, so that's not too surprising.
I agree it might have been too snippy, but I was hoping to offer pause before somebody jumped in to explain how black and white the issue really is.

I hope that addressing these strong feelings may help temper the issue, rather than poison it.
Hopefully it can save kids from dying, only to make them extremely disappointed with the lack of detail in the vague explanation of how the cooler works.
This won't work for WebSockets, really websites that use WebSockets require some interaction to generate the transmitted message which is often dependent on the servers response. Private websites, or websites that require a login are hard - but it can be done. Would suggest HTTrack.
You only hear it on businesses that have substantial future cashflow obligations, which most startups don't. That's levied against anything with capital. I've heard it used against scooter and bike rental companies, I've heard it used any time a company has its own datacenter instead of AWS, etc.

Of course Uber and Basecamp and Reddit and Dropbox and other unicorns don't have this kind of criticism, because they don't have the same amount of heavy plant capital that WeWork has.

Look at any thread about a company building/buying a datacenter and you'll see the same argument. It's a bad idea because if they shrink in the future they're stuck with capital they can't pay for and now they go out of business. Only in this case, they can't shrink any more because they're already massively unprofitable, PLUS they have ungodly amounts of debt obligations.
The original article, btw:
https://sci-hub.tw/http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/06...
I have a tin roof, metal front porch and a large metal rear-facing verandah at my house.. This effectively becomes a massive faraday cage as far as my phones concerned. The things that you wish you'd considered in hindsight when choosing construction materials.
The nice thing is that it's all fully documented. If you download the kernel src.rpm[1] and install it, you'll get the kernel RPM spec file in your default RPM build environment paths (or use rpm2cpio $KERNEL_SRPM | cpio -idmv). The way the RPM building works is to take a vanilla kernel and then apply a LOT of individual patch files to it, each with their own entry.

Well, at least that's how it was a long time ago when I messed with this stuff more, but it looks like it may be a bit different now (I just did what I proposed), at least with the downstream CentOS kernel. I stopped having to care about this mostly back around the time when Oracle forked RHEL/CentOS into Oracle Linux and RedHat wasn't happy about Oracle piggybacking on their kernel testing for a paid product (as opposed to CentOS). I think maybe RedHat ships the kernel tar mostly pre-patched in-house now. I may have some of the details wrong in that, but it sounds right to me. It's easy to blame Oracle for why we can't have nice things anymore, because usually it's true. :/

Edit: Ah, I found one like what I was talking about[2], it has 5697 patches included! The most recent 5 series kernel (5.11) didn't have a lot of patches, but 5.6 did. There might be some 6.x series ones like that as well, I don't recall.

1: http://vault.centos.org/centos/7/os/Source/SPackages/kernel-...

2: http://vault.centos.org/5.6/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-238.el5.s...
Html5 timing API + chrome devtools performance tab "user timing" section is a great workflow in my opinion for frontend.
How much does Netflix spend on Amazon AWS?
I agree this is a good approach, though it's not always possible. It works great for community's like reddit which are interest-based. It isn't so helpful for news websites that cover local events.
That’s a good point, the difference between vacuum and atmosphere isn’t so significant, but then it’s not really a new tech or “lightspeed internet” it’s just a satellite link.
Sounds like you aren't running your scripts as scripts. If you source a script or run it via Rscript it will halt when it hits a failure (unless you've changed a default). Copying and pasting in to the REPL will hide errors like you describe.

The other part is that it sounds like you don't have a standardized R environment. I admit that R's tooling there isn't the best, but there are options, e.g. {packrat} & {lockbox}... or better yet a Docker image.
Unemployment sinks to record levels, is this celebrated?

Not at this 'news' source. Here the argument is twisted to be about tangential issues. Odd, there was none of this a few years ago...
There is also Panopticlick

https://panopticlick.eff.org/

My only complaint is that if you have canvas fingerprint randomization turned on it still counts as unique.
If you push the fare comparison back to 1972, before the Arab Oil Embargo, rather than 1979, the heart of the Iranian embargo, the fare picture changes markedly.

A jet airliner's takeoff weight is over 50% fuel.

Robert Gorden inThe Rise and Fall of American Growth:

surprisingly, the period of most rapid decline in the real price of air travel occurred before the first flight of a jet plane. As shown in figure 11–10, the price of air travel relative to other goods and services declined rapidly from 1940 to 1960, declined at a slower rate from 1960 to 1980, and has experienced no decline at all in its relative price between 1980 and 2014. The growth rate of passenger miles traveled has mirrored the rate of change of the relative price except with the opposite sign, because lower prices stimulate the demand for any good or service.

The accompanying figure shows not merely a modest rise, but a sharp spike in airline pirces in 1979.

https://i.imgur.com/uykLMUa_d.jpg

Among Gordon's economic specialisations is the aviation industry.
>It's not lost money it's lost contractual revenue on a building that can be turned around immediately.

That's the whole point though.It is lost revenue because in an economic downturn, when no one is trying to rent office space, the landlords will be left with no recourse but sue if the leases aren't paid. There are underlying construction and mortgage loans on the buildings being leased that must be paid regardless of whether the lessees bail out. At a certain point someone is left holding the bag.
Sure. But how prevalent is FDE?
Well ... if you're going there ... there's no machine "learning" either. It's just a clever kind of numeric optimization. It's nothing like human learning, which is incredibly adaptable. No comparison.
At the same time, how much of the information that Musk gives out is wrong (especially on time frame?)

They were already supposed to be at 10k cars a week. Live by the prediction, die by the prediction.
There's a substantial difference between grub password protection, a feature which I've never seen anyone use in practice and the ubiquitous login prompt.

The OP specifically said the login prompt was defeated by backspacing alone.
While this was almost certainly a joke, to the downvoters: Did you know about Foldit [0], the protein-folding game that actually contributes to scientific research?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit
You can't. And intelligence agencies and police are corrupt the world over--in the US and everywhere else. So the only defense regular people have against any of it is true, strong encryption.
These are the basic basics for tweaking FF's about:config. There are many more. Try these and see how you fare...

layout.css.visited_links_enabled set to false;
geo.enabled set to false;
media.navigator.enabled set to false;
media.peerconnection.enabled (WebRTC) set to false;
network.http.sendRefererHeader set to 0;
privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true;
privacy.firstparty.isolate set to true;
network.dns.disablePrefetch set to true;
network.prefetch-next set to false;
webgl.disabled set to true

Don't forget to also use something like uBlock Origin, Token Tracker Stipper, and Decentraleyes. Pass is all through a Pi-hole and VPN and you're pretty safe. Make sure your VPN does not expose your NAT'd IP with WebRTC. Both uBlock Origina and ScriptSafe can help with this, as FF will sometimes crap all over its about:config settings with updates.
Truth on such matters gets you downvotes!
> ideological authoritarians

I wouldn't limit it to ideologues. Look at Mobutu, Suharto, and many other plain old right-wing authoritarians.
> making it just difficult enough to copy that most people will consider it not worth the bother

I don't think that the analogy holds up. The deterrence only applies to uploaders and not consumers, because the processes for removing DRM and distributing videos are independent. It just takes one person to make a video available to the entire world. It does seem like torrents are available for most of the Netflix catalogue, so I'm skeptical that DRM is useful for popular shows.
> It's all a matter of personal opinion

I'm all for "enjoy what you want" but to say that there is no objective difference in the writing of, say, Don DeLillo and Dan Brown, is ridiculous.
I don't mean to be a jerk here by constantly raising counter examples because I think you have some good points. But apps like Signal prevent all that data from being collected. It just stays on the phone, locked by the secure enclave.

> Perhaps law enforcement is angry...

I wonder if what they're truly feeling is worried. Would that change the way you thought about them?

I get that whole thing with "COINTELPRO", and Watergate where there were abuses. But assuming everyone is of the honest type here, wouldn't you want them to have more tools?
And this polly would love some cookies too.
Hmm. That's... sort of useful, you could probably script something interesting with that.

I wish. (I'm imagining a filtering system that either prevents you from seeing providers not on your insurance, or flags them appropriately)
I can understand Tesla's position in saying that the driver should still be aware of their surroundings. But. Avoiding stationary objects should be the first objective of a system like this in my opinion, especially if the object is directly in the projected path the vehicle is travelling in.