skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The single biggest "success" of the whole leaks thing has been to help put Trump in office, which shows three things.

First, it's ridiculously easy for powerful and dubious players (example here Russian intelligence, not Trump) to twist this well-meaning idea into a horrible parody of itself.

Second, the most vulnerable to manipulation from this technique are democracies (and to a much lesser extent) public corporations, who I would argue, are less of a problem than either autocracies or super-rich individuals. You can't embarrass Putin out of office no matter what gets leaked. Anyone who tries to use it against him will fall out of a window and it will be forgotten. Nor can you easily make the Koch brothers behave, even if an award winning journalist writes a best-selling and award winning book about their shenanigans https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-History-Billionaires-Radic...). You'd pretty much have to leak photos of them holding severed heads to get the US government to move against them effectively.

Third. Often, it's politically dangerous for a leader to do the 'right thing'. This technique is just as useful to prevent someone from doing the right thing as it is to prevent them from doing the wrong thing. The difference is how controversial the action is, not whether it is right or wrong.

So, regardless of whether this can be done securely, it's really important to ask yourself how it is likely to be used, by whom, and to what end. People tend to forget that stuff when they have a cool new technology.
Either Apple disable "LCD font smoothing" for retina displays, or there is a bug somewhere. Because in Mojave on a non retina screen "LCD font smoothing" has got the same weight as before. And on your screen it clearly doesn't.
I'm curious: do you mean the colour tricks appear the same to you as turning off antialiasing? Or is it worse than nothing?
Well in this case the people who are wrong include most of academia, most of the popular media, and the former president of the United States. They were all touting the 77 cents figure I think that's a pretty big deal.
This is how we do it on http://www.rubyflow.com/ - a Ruby community link site. No voting, just in order and we delete/edit the items if they're not any good. Basically took the whole idea from MetaFilter.
I assume you're refering to the CONSAD reserach study which found a gap of between 95 to 93 cents on the dollar. That study did not in fact control for status chasing - nor did it compare men and women in similar roles with similar performance, they also found that the wage gap was not statistically significant enough to warrant corrective action
Yes, this is a major problem most people simply ignore and deal with in a one-off manner when it fails. The only way to do this safely that is practical is to create a jobs table which is written to in a transaction with the other writes. Another process reads the table and writes the job data into the queueing system.

For example, the process starts up, reads the highest ID it has written from Redis, then starts reading the table for jobs with IDs higher than that. The job itself is written to Redis in a transaction along with the ID from the database. Ignoring the fact that Redis can lose data during failover, you’re pretty safe and duplicates will be minimal. You can add some idempotency on top if desired.

Attempting to write to both a queue system and a relational database at the same time will fail at some point and you will be left to pick up the pieces of inconsistent state.

If the write to the queue is to send an email, maybe you don’t care care. If it is to calculate a very important value that happens to be expensive to compute and needs to be done outside the request... good luck.
Google relies for a great deal on advertising and gathering user data, unlike Apple. On top of that they don't have tight control over who sells Android devices, nor do they appear interested in doing so. Sadly it doesn't look like they're interested in delivering better data protection for their users.
Ok, so what are options in terms of external displays? I guess this will make my Dell 1080p monitor much less appealing... I planned to jump to 4k 24inch anyway... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's another issue here: many companies, when finding themselves in need of a proficient Eiffel programmer will just take one of their good programmers in other languages and ask: Would you like to learn Eiffel? And programmers usually enjoy learning new things, so someone will say yes.

I personally did that few times in my career: accepting job with technology I barely knew at the time, because I thought it would be fun to learn it.

You can imagine how that usually works out: software written by someone who was learning the programming language on the job.
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When I first read the title, I thought that they had mistakenly used the Statue of Liberty from the Man in the High Castle [1]. Now that would've been embarrassing.

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[1] https://i.imgur.com/5byF3NN.jpg
High-Skilled White-Collar Work? Machines Can Do That, Too
There's a small resurgence of those old tacky websites on Glitch https://glitch.com

And some more context by Anil Dash about the old web / Geocities web dying out https://anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/
Um, no, you cannot really rewrite so-called "published" history (one with the "public" phase). Both Git newbies and seasoned users could make use of such concept, should it be ever implemented (it probably wouldn't in vanilla though since the deafening silence in reply to anyone voicing ideas to prevent rewriting (some) shared refs).
I want to jump in and have your back on this one.

I don't think it's a big deal to block ads but I support your sentiment: Not blocking ads is a respectful nod to the site owners who put them there. Sure, some sites I visit may feel undeserving but there is plenty of content I do respect (web comics, youtube channels, HN, etc.).

I don't think anyone should feel super obligated but I get why you and others do.

Edit: When I posted this the parent was downvoted to grey.
Show HN: Evolutionary Aircraft Design
Perhaps you just need to make the Sapper -> military pun more obvious (my gut feeling was that it was just some ridiculous marketing)
I was under the impression to have read that Chinese are mostly lactose intolerant. Does anyone if this is true? Is Chinese ice cream different from western ice cream which uses dairy?
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It's still there iirc if you disable separate spaces per display.
> Reading and understanding the Idris proof is actually more work than understanding the untyped Python version, therefore it's actually harder to say whether it's correct or not in a semantic sense.

That was your original, nonsensical, point (emphasis mine).

> My point is that tests and runtime contracts provide sufficient guarantees in practice.

That's your revised point (which I don't care much about discussing), after moving the goalposts sufficiently.
Remember why these guys were so eager to say their dead colleague was some homeless. Nobody investigates or is legally held responsible for killing unrelated pedestrians with motorized vehicles. But kill a worker and it's a whole work safety thing.
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So many down-votes, so few coherent arguments. :)

Maybe somebody can show me why I'm wrong in stating that democracies are asymmetrically more vulnerable, or that this can be used as readily by bad actors for bad ends as it can by well-intentioned people for good ends.
Why do so many salespeople forget the names of their customers?
Frank should get a part time job.

One issue with the current model is that Frank has to retire in due time. He cannot be allowed to work for cheaper while receiving benefits, otherwise he's taking the spot of younger folks who are supposed to be working there at a normal wage and finance his benefits.
Okay, this might be an unpopular opinion but I've always actually preferred plain AA (grayscale), not subpixel AA. That's especially on a low-res screen. I discovered this preference back in the flip phones days when a certain J2ME reading app offered a choice between grayscale AA and subpixel AA. I immediately noticed that for subpixel AA, there is a lot of red and blue even when the text is black on white. Those colors just make me nauseated. Grayscale AA makes the text a bit more blurry, but I can actually read that text for hours without feeling nauseated.

When I was using Ubuntu, I was offered four choices for font rendering. The subpixel rendering choice also looked terrible to me.

On macOS Safari (maybe Chrome too) exposes a CSS property called -webkit-font-smoothing. Many websites set this to antialiased, including many built by me, because I truly think this antialias mode looks the best.
No it is not but I remember a hospital in Central London which Facebook was blocked in. I'm not sure if it was a policy or they had an issue with their network!
> How many marriages are going to be ruined?

Not many, considering marriages are less popular among young people nowadays.

> How many politicians are going to resign?

Not many, considering older politicians maybe don't spent their time on internet, and younger politicians are aware of the state of privacy on internet

> How many future politicians will decide to never run?

Maybe we will discover than many more people are "cleaner" than we thought, and will become influencers

> How many firings and never-hirings will there be based on that history?

That's a good point. However, the mega-corporation isn't 100% of the employment. Small enterprises and freelancer just want the work to be done and get pay, without wondering about who did what in their lives.

As another comment said, maybe watching porn and being interested in more than one partner isn't that bad after all. It only shows the dumbness of the artificial rules older authorities (such as religion, army, states, etc) imposed on crowd to keep control on them.

Edit : anyway, I support the idea of a private internet space for everyone, where people can express their ideas and experience with new concepts without fearing retribution. Words don't kill people.
That's a lot of free time with a young kid. I find that weekend are pretty full of chores when not directly looking after them. 1-2 dishwasher loads. 1 washing machine load. Tidy house. Buy food. Clean all the mess. I have 2 children tho.

I do try to very occasionally get some surfing in. 30min drive to beach so not too bad.
Reasons not to use Netflix
I think we would need more than the 'truth' dimension to make this work. Writings can have great value even if what they say is not directly 'true' - think poetry, motivational writings etc.
Noted, and I'm very much notafan of Cato or the Kochs.

(Or, for that matter, Amazon.)

Regardless, the issue is real and concerning.
Daniel Day-Lewis is not a man, but a work of art
Show HN: Online C/C++ obfuscator
Having lived in Japan and China (shanghai) which are both wrong in the opposite way of Spain and lived in France and Spain, I find that living in the red zones is really much more comfortable and a lovely way to live.
Back in the day, GCC's Java native compiler "GCJ", had an alternative native method interface called CNI.

GCC recognized #extern "Java" in headers generated from class files. You could then call (gcj-compiled) Java classes from C++ as if they were native C++ classes, as well as implement Java "native" methods in natural C++.

The whole thing performed a lot better than JNI since it was, more or less, just using the standard platform calling conventions. Calling a native CNI method from Java had the same overhead as any regular Java virtual method call.

Ultimately, GCJ faded away because there wasn't a great deal of interest in native Java compilation back then, and too many compatibility challenges in the pre-OpenJDK days. But it's interesting to see many of it's ideas coming back now in the form of Graal/GraalVM.
It doesn't sound like the Republicans are more willing to fix this based on that article - the bill is held up at the House Judiciary Committee, which is controlled by the Republicans.
>>> I feel like there are a lot of choosing beggars, particularly in the tech industry.

Assuming true, that would be limited to the silicon valley and new york area.

Try to work in tech in smaller cities and you will quickly realize that there are few employers and they can be picky.
Hmm...not sure we are disagreeing.

You:

"the better companies are at the tech..."

"categorically ignoring quality and security"

That is about doing something about quality and security, and I agree wholeheartedly.

Me:

"having those sorts of features [in the language]"

That's whether having some specific language features is determinant for doing things. I don't think it is.
This where I tell couples "it takes a village". In a healthy working "village" there is always someone around who will compensate for weaknesses in both partners that aren't easy to fix. Modern couples have this highly misguided notion that between themselves they can work their way through complex things they aren't trained to handle. The larger their support group (parents, in laws, family, kids, friends) the better the outcomes.
Worth a read if for no other reason than that the phrase "surveillance capitalism" should be as widely known as possible.
>The agony is from body aches from sitting in an uncomfortable chair and not getting physical movement for a few hours.

That sounds no different from my regular day at the office -- except that even cross-atlantic flights are shorter.
I had a friend who was in Egypt during the Arab Spring 2011 and he told me they have been organizing for the revolution since October 2010 using Facebook via groups to spread the idea to everyone also using events to organise the marches.

Note that the government to deal with this had all communications cut including landlines and started to pay attention to these groups and pages since then so it's safe to say that your government maybe on to you if you use public tools like Facebook.
I wish I had taken js more seriously. Read something like "you don't know js".
Just curious, why does Liberapay use a .com domain? That usually indicates a for-profit organization.
Understanding Text Pre-Processing for Topic Modeling [pdf]
Well, the dock is the worst task manager/launcher of any major desktop UI, for starters.
Who is buying the MacBook Air right now anyway? The pro is lighter, smaller, faster and better performance for the money. They are very similarly priced I am not sure why anyone would purchase the air given the updated 13 MBP is available.
>I'm being that pedantic guy now, but I think you misunderstand opportunity cost. The opportunity cost of eating food wouldn't be the negative consequences of eating food. Rather, it would be the negative consequences of not doing something else that you would have done if you hadn't been eating the food.

Thanks, I know what opportunity cost is, I just digressed when I gave the example into a "too much of a good thing" case instead of "what else you could be doing in that time" case.
So why a new spec format when there’s already OpenAPI, API Blueprint, RAML, ...? Is it just to support GraphQL?
I have just started exploring it, but how to validate xml responses?
In my opinion; It's important that people try to innovate diverge and make things different. Like the theory of evolution in nature, ideas change and merge, some die out some live on.

But, each new iteration of an framework, library or distro will provide some new insight of what can be done better ... or what should not be done.
I do get a little burned out every 7-8 weeks, which then for about a week my schedule falls apart and I'm just super lazy for that week.

3 hours without a screen is actually a long time tho. It feels like forever.

I've noticed people have a similar schedule to mine although they get much less sleep and increase the amount of tv or video games. I'd rather get more sleep and have less of that type of free time.
>As far as I can read, it states the purpose of the language is correctness, and developer productivity?

Yes, but _while_ being as fast as C or faster (e.g. without aliasing issues).

With those two goals they do not imply they'd sacrifice speed for them. They had stated elsewhere that speed and no-cost-abstractions are extremely important for Rust.
Google sells their own phones and could introduce hardware driven indicators next to the camera and microphones for when they are on if their goal was not to be evil.

It is a general problem that no one makes strong claims about indicators, so making a software driven camera led is not bad for a manufacturer's reputation.
if you happen to be in vienna, austria, the ice cream festival is this week-end at the augarten
Last time I checked GamerGate has no leader and that is by design.
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Build a Thread network with Nordic nRF52840
I actually met a friend of mines recently and unfortunately due to a head injury lost his ability of smell. The doctor’s didn’t realize it and neither did he for quite while till one day he got sick eating fish from his refrigerator that was stale and he couldn’t figure out. So, it definitely plays an important role. On the positive side he doesn't detect any bad odors, but that means he wouldn’t know he is stinking either. He makes sure he is well cologned/deodorant-ized :) Also, he misses the smell of delicious food and other good things!
Awesome. I wonder how well this works on a stock JDK10 using graal.

Whenever I see a speed boost to do what is conceptually the same thing I'm always curious where the fat was cut. What did we give up? You can dump the resulting assembly with
-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+PrintAssembly and diff might be revealing.

My hunch is that the line from the tutorial: `@CFunction(transition = Transition.NO_TRANSITION)`
makes all the difference. Explanation of NO_TRANSITION from [0]:

No prologue and epilogue is emitted. The C code must not block and must not call back to Java. Also, long running C code delays safepoints (and therefore garbage collection) of other threads until the call returns.

Which is probably great for BLAS-like calls. This lines up with my understanding from Cliff Click's great talk "Why is JNI Slow?"[1] basically saying that to be faster you need make assumptions about what the native code could and couldn't do and that generally developers would shoot themselves in the foot.

[0]: https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/sdk/src/org.graa...
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoyBTqkSkZk
I don't entirely agree.

Reddit's success comes from how it has been moderated and tailored to attract new communities (other that geek and IT communities) in an open, accessible and non-anarchic way. It takes time and patience to build such an environment, and the most crucial capital of reddit right now, is its subreddits, and its army of moderators who are applying the reddit etiquette and keeping the site balanced, clean and interesting.

If you look at voat, it's a cesspool.

In short, you cannot easily create a community, it doesn't only require a website and some rules, it also requires community building, and tailoring rules that can make a good user experience. It's not easy.

I think that reddit's founders have been sailing away from money making for a long time now, because they know well that their users can quickly discover they are being used to make money. They owe the success of reddit to not giving to money interests, and frankly that's why this website have been so successful.

So I don't think you can "move" to another clone of reddit, it would still require community building and time. Also the expertise required to make load balancing work just fine on a new clone is not negligible.
Telangana History 1948 to 2014 – Indian State
No, Amazon isn't! It's the company/government/whatever that implements a service Amazon is offering to everyone.

All it takes you to do the same is create an AWS account, fill in some info so they can bill you for the services you use, a bit of code and some camera's.

I know it's very popular these days to quickly blame it on the big tech names, and yes they are doing a lot of shady things, but articles like this are simply name calling and not explaining how things really work.

Besides that, this technology is not new. Xovis camera's for example have this ability build in for a long time already. Those camera's are installed in a lot of public places like shopping malls, railway stations, airports etc and they are used to track you. Just because Amazon made a scalable central version of this doesn't make them track you.

People who write articles like this should do some research first ...
One sad aspect of this is that the streamer in question (Deroir, also a longstanding official studio community “partner” -- he even has an NPC in the game named after him) was a fan of the employee whom he ended up clashing with. There’s a video of him pre-incident gushing over the contributions by the employee in a recent Reddit AMA: https://clips.twitch.tv/CrypticMistyStingrayDxCat

Never meet your heroes.

Also, one-sided articles like this make it really hard for me to take TheVerge’s brand of journalism seriously.
There's something that was magical about jailbreaking iOS, because of the way Objective-C allowed you to modify the system by swizzling methods. This can't really be compared to people modifying their Android devices, it's just not the same because it's such a pain to compile Android and flash it everytime you want to change something.

Jailbreaking is dead, and Swift does not allow swizzling. I agree, smartphones are boring, it's too locked down. Not many people had the skill to write quality apps in Objective-C, so now we're stuck with apps written using React Native. This makes smartphones more complex, but the quality is worse.
Pirates Are Increasingly 'Going Legal' in France – TorrentFreak
Weekends I wake up same time.

I usually leave my phone at home and bike to a park first thing in the morning and just bike around until I'm tired of biking.

When I get home and realize I only biked for 2 hours and theres still 12 hours of the day left and I don't want to use electronics it's a pretty crazy feeling.

Weekends honestly feel like a bit of a waste since I'm so focused on productive tasks all week long. I try to do one thing every weekend that I haven't done before, maybe watch a broadway play or go to a farmers market, go on a free tour etc.

Another thing I've been doing lately if since I get to work by 7, on the weekdays I can leave early like 4 if I want to, so in lower manhattan there are a ton of museums on certain days they are free. So I just leave work at 4 and go to those museums
What about GraphQL mutation API
Is Mill Road considered a town or gown area?
The guy said 'allow me to disagree slightly' after complimenting her on her thread and she lashed out at him in a highly unprofessional manner.

Thinking you can interact with customers of your employer like this in public even on a private account is naive.

Trying to turn it into an oppressor/sexism shitshow is being a toxic employee and a liability.

Hard to see a scandal..
I haven't been to the site in a while, so maybe they changed now. What turned me off the first few times I clicked a link on HN was the constant stream of "subscribe-to-our-newsletter" pop-ups and "hey-add-your-comment-here" bouncing boxes.

Reading academic papers requires focus and concentration. While I like the idea of comments on papers, I found that site too full of petty distractions to serve that purpose.
Reconstructing Scenes with Mirror and Glass Surfaces
In Colombia avocado is called Aguacate / Ahuacate, which supports your hypothesis.
The social justice aspect can include the idea that income derived from resources belongs to everybody. This is reflected on American Indian reservations that distribute revenues even from casinos to all members.

As far as the issue of "encouraging laziness", anyone who has read the Bhagavad Gita is familiar with the idea that alongside the tendency towards rest is an equal tendency towards movement and action.