skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> after the whole Facebook debate, I think future social technology needs stronger privacy protection built-in. If the only option is to share with everybody, then I suppose that's a bit simplistic and probably not what people need/want.

I think one of the big problems with Facebook and the like is the idea that things can be uploaded to the Web but remain "private". It's an insidious lie IMO, and is one reason I refused to go near it.

Any "revelations" about data brokers, (mis)use, breaches, etc. are just confirmations that the premise itself is flawed (from a user privacy perspective; I know it's a lucrative business proposition).

Attempting to build "privacy" into a decentralised publishing protocol seems to me like a bottomless rabbit hole without any real solution (a bit like DRM). It's perhaps an interesting question in terms of fundamental CS research, but AFAIK no practical implementations exist even in centralised systems, so it seems counterproductive to burden protocols with constraints that aren't actually possible to satisfy.

Even encrypted email only remains private if both parties keep it that way. Privacy can't be "imposed" by an author/"owner". Consider that even proprietary silos like Snapchat have spawned tools to automatically strip their "privacy" features ( e.g. https://drfone.wondershare.com/snapchat/snapchat-screenshot-... ). An open protocol which encourages third-party clients (both human-operated and bots) would be in a much worse situation.
I doubt it leads to actual profits but the morons at the top think it will for some reason.
Food delivery startup leaving Australian market after workers rights challenge
When the TI took place in Seattle, there was a big screen in the park behind Key Arena where public could hang out and sit without buying any ticket. You can also always just watch online for free.
I strongly disagree. Political censorship that is supposed to keep rulers in power by shielding them from criticism is categorically different from the sort of McDonald's menu style censorship you're talking about.

Political censorship is meta-censorship if you will. It prevents people from openly debating and overturning other types of censorship or laws more generally.

Rules affecting the decision making process itself are never quite the same as other rules.
Leadership Behavior That Inspires Motivation
Fuse for macOS is signed by its developer, not sure what you mean "not get some nice things"? Or did you mean for windows? (Both windows and macOS require paid developer certificates to load kernel drivers)
I like to read the discussion boards for MaidSafe from time to time. [1] In their case at least, serving content would not be mandatory to benefit from the p2p aspect. That's for those running a vault. And even then a vault wouldn't know what it's serving to whom. Nor would the recipient be able to determine the IPs of any of the vaults it connects to.

On the performance side, I think that depends on what's being attempted and how. MaidSafers like to reiterate the notion that popular content will have chunks cached more broadly across the network, but that is only one aspect. There are other things that are not intuitive about how to develop a distributed application with no central authority. And their current model does not include sharing computing power (no Function-as-a-Service type of thing); just storage and bandwidth.

[1] https://safenetforum.org/
In my company they outright refused to pay for a test case management solution, so we are using this free plugin for Jira: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214038/qaspace-test-...

It works alright.
Mathematica also costs $320 if you want to use it individually for purely hobby products, $2700 if you want to use it professionally and your employer doesn't already have a license.
There was an ongoing prank in my high school (late 70's) to insert John Holmes' name whenever/wherever possible. For example, one trick was to ask someone in the front office to add to the end-of-day announcements "{popular girl}, John Holmes won't be able to give you a ride today". Eventually the front office caught on, and it got riskier and more difficult to do.

I was asked to write an Applesoft BASIC program to help the front office collate and remove duplicates from attendance lists taken first and second period. At some point,
I added some obfuscated code that would add John's name in when the total number of names was over some threshold.

Believe me, I'm very very ashamed of myself...
Show HN: Curated sports news delivered to your inbox daily
The root problem has never been addressed:

How do we manage identity and reputation on the internet?

Usenet had no answer and so it withered. Facebook and Twitter are throwing large amounts of cash at the problem and enjoying moderate (but far from ideal) success. What we need is a real, decentralized solution. I'm not sure how that will be achieved, though I suspect the crypto folks have a lot of ideas. I would like to see a demonstration of one that is simple for ordinary users and that works well at scale.
By that standard, that stranger could be arrested for careless driving because the child in their back seat was screaming for a juice box and they were allowing themselves to be distracted.
Consumers love Uber.
We should care more about getting incapable drivers to stop driving than detecting insobriety. We should want safety police, not morality police.

And strictly on the morality angle, I don't think driving drunk is more culpable than driving over tired or over angry. I find those things are about as easy to detect in myself as drunkenness.
Worked quite a while for an "Internet Cafe" SAAS company. If you're confused by the quotes, these internet cafe companies basically sell internet time to users and with each minute purchased, you also get an entry into a sweepstakes where the prize is a jackpot. The sweepstakes entries would be redeemed electronically by way of slot machines, video poker, etc. They're basically legalized gambling. I suppose that in and of itself isn't unethical, but we didn't exactly operate by by the book.

In order for this to be legal, the sweepstakes games have to have a defined number of entries as well as a defined number of winners and losers. None of our games did, it was just too prohibitive. We did provide to our customers, by law, our average payouts and our games did adhere to those through averages over time. But there were many occasions where the games didn't pay out jackpots regularly or paid them out too frequently, hurting stores that were using our software. Our recourse was to provide them more "entries" to distribute to sell to their players, which of course cost us nothing.

Business was good for quite a while, but stricter laws and states cracking down really killed profits. I just feel like any type of gambling in unethical, it seems to really pray on people's dopamine addictions. And these internet cafes, in particularly, are largely occupied by retires who, I'd wager, can't really afford to be throwing their money way.

Years later, my Aunt and Uncle became addicted to gambling on those casino boats and have now lost the house my Grandmother left to them when she passed. I don't necessarily believe in karma, but that certainly made me rethink it.
It was hot in 2006 too, but people were better prepared than in 2003.
The Rise and Fall of Pixel QI
I believe there was a case in Colorado where a medical Marijuana user had enough THC in their blood to be considered impaired but they were able to pass a field sobriety test so they weren't convicted of a DUI. The problem is that the amount of THC you need in your blood to impair you is different for every person so it's hard to develop a test for it. A driving simulator makes sense to me, though once you have a bunch of adrenaline kicking in and are totally focused on not going to jail, you may perform better than when you are relaxed in the comfort of your own car.
If you are constructing things to fit convenient inch values, you can also construct them to convenient millimetre values. For example, pre-made cupboards and appliances for European kitchens are usually multiples of 150mm, which divides nicely.

If you're dealing with something that's already constructed, then you won't get a measure like 4.7625mm. You might measure 4mm or 5mm. (Otherwise I may as well say that 4.8mm ~= 7/37in and ask you to add that to 3/16in.)
I recently wrote a ranty blog post about how much I love the online “future of programming” community http://futureofcoding.org/essays/sissies
Looks like such a great experience!
How are you getting on power-wise? solar panels?
Internet connection? Mobile data?
If you have more power / control your behavior is generally more ethical.

/s
Heatwaves need to become more clustered. At the moment we get them every so often at roughly the same rate we always did.

As mentioned June ( very hot ) was 18th out of 350.

There were 17 other hotter Junes in 350 years... many pre industrial revolution and therefore immune from CO2 considerations.
In my experience (as a US taxpayer not a tax advisor) charitable donations in the US are a deduction from income, not a credit, up to a limit of 50% of your income, or less. However, if you donate more than 50% of your income you can carry it over for a limited number of years. It eventually vanishes, though, unlike capital gains losses.
media-agnostic?
> Funny how the freezing snap at the beginning of the year March-April was put down to “weather” and a hot spell is put down to “climate change”.

You are confusing journalism with science, journalists want to sell newspapers, ideally by telling their readers something true. What sells newspapers in March was, it is really cold, what sells newspapers now is, it is really hot! In march the editorializing was weather, because the journalist keeps up with scientific publications and calling it weather is true and does not hinder selling newspapers. Now, the journalist writes climate change, because it is true and does not keep anybody from buying newspapers.

However, the journalist is not the one who dedicated their live to understand the atmosphere, he is merely reporting on global warming.

> Last heatwave is 1976.. 42 years.

Nope, read the article. Last heatwave as extreme in Europe was in 2003, there was not a single summer as extreme as these two in Europe in the twentieth century, not even in 98, the hottest year in the last century.

> Time will tell if this is a blip or a trend.

That was a reasonable position in the 1970ies, since then it is clear enough that the climate is changing that the UN did a thing, founding the IPCC in the 80ies, politicians don't do something like that if they aren't pretty convinced that there is a real problem.
It’s cute that you think it’s cute.
I still think they could have charged for less than the full month. The goodwill and trust that would have engendered would probably have been more than worth it in the long run.
In my view, the impact of the replication crisis is to leave us with a science that embraces scientific methodology but has not produced a reliable scientific knowledge base and is burdened by an unscientific past. Digging out of this mess could take a long time, and is not guaranteed to produce results that are interesting to the general public.
Dota 2 player here, they "timed" it well because human players were in the vision. Humans can also do that by precasting a spell.
Honda Took Pride Doing Everything Itself. The Cost of Tech Made That Impossible
Non-paywall: http://archive.is/j6f3G
To be clear, I mean no one is being convicted of failing a field sobriety test with no breathalyzer or blood BAC results.
I wrote code to automate my 15 hour per week grad assistant job.

One or two clicks and some php magic.
For another datapoint, this year Tokyo experienced the coldest winter in 48 years [1] and is now in the middle of the hottest summer ever [2].

[1] http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201801250019.html

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/23/asia/japan-heatwave-deadl...

Cold extremes are becoming colder, hot extremes are becoming hotter.
I'm surprised no-one seems to mention this view;

I enjoy the service. I dislike the Uber company morals.

Personally Ive tried using a local version of Uber (Gocatch) mutiple times and it's just not as good. I really dislike continually immoral behaviour of Uber and would like to support an alternate. But the service has to work and in Australia there doesn't seem to be an option. I feel this is a huge business opportunity if someone can get a competitor right. But I've never seen good marketing to pull people from Uber and it seems to be getting ever harder position to break. I think in my region the guys really missed an opportunity as Uber seem to be cleaning up their act and giving free press to competitors.
Sounds like Beezid. Worse than payday lenders IMO.
It's "obscure" to me (and also my favorite) because I had never even heard of it before I tried to find out what the most natural 3-dimensional analog of the hexagon was. :)
Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks a lot!
Fediverse is the closest thing to Usenet nowadays.
Even disconsidering organic results, only AMP pages are eligible for display in the carousels at the top of the page. The end result is the same as being upranked.
Are we never allowed to have a hot summer ?

What about the very many hot summers that are recorded in 350 years of records that pre date the industrial revolution and therefore CO2 emmissions.

The hottest June on record is 1846...
https://www.ft.com/content/926a66b0-8b49-11e8-bf9e-8771d5404...
Mozilla too apparently. I just checked and the one I'm using —"Sci-Hub Links"—is no longer listed.
Thanks, I will try a 2 day IF too. I also had a quite healthy lifestyle, so hopefully the change will be smooth enough.
Let he who has never scraped throw the first stone
I could've sworn decisions like these were for the people of said cities to decide, even if only by representation from their elected city officials, but I guess that's no longer true in Corporate America.
But those 'extremes' increasing never stand up to scrutiny.
> Also didn't accept credit cards

Credit cards aren't so widely accepted in Germany, that being said I was always able to get a taxi that takes credit card if necessary.

> Ended up walking several miles with luggage

I find that hard to believe in a city with such dense and extensive public transport? I lived there for 30 years and don't think I ever had to walk several miles, provided I was still within city limits. Where were you that you were without public transportation?
Jazzband: a collaborative community for maintaining Python-based projects
> decentralization imposes performance penalties most deem unacceptable for common use...

May impose such penalties; can also provide improvements (closer to point-of-use data, greater resiliency etc).
WHAT a WOMAN'S VAGINA REALLY LOOKS LIKE
I have no commercial incentive to hate them. I'm also not in an area where I'm forced to take them due to lack of public transportation options, fortunately.

Buses run on time. Every taxi I've taken here is clean. Pricing is upfront. An app exists so I can order a cab, but in the center of town, I know exactly where to find a cab if I'm out at a bar. I can also walk the 45-55 minutes home from there, but I don't always want to in winter.

I prefer a system that doesn't screw over drivers. I don't want to be rated by the driver on whether or not I'm a good passenger. It seems trivial. I want someone driving for pay to have a special driver's license endorsement.

I don't want to willingly give money to a company with a culture such as them. If I were in an area where another such service was available instead, I'd choose the one that is willing to work with lawmakers and cities instead of flagrantly avoiding them.

That's not to say that taxi service is good everywhere or doesn't need change. I'm a supporter of public transportation and wish it were expanded. I'd only take Uber if there was absolutely no other option whatsoever, though.
There is nothing against you taking toxcore and adding a push wrapper+app UI to it. Seems like you could make at least the app side of it non-free, if you'd wish to do so.
I’m keen to use it but I want to know it won’t disappear overnight - can you tell me more about the team behind it?
> I wouldn't consider a local bank or a credit union, because I like being able to find a branch anywhere in the country

Wrong. Many credit unions are in a co-op shared network.

https://www.co-opfs.org/Shared-Branches-ATMs
Bd – Quickly go back to a parent directory in Linux
You are right. Sorry everyone!
When I was in highschool there was an online competition every week.

So one week there was this very hard problem. I didn't knew how to solve this but I figured out that there is one answer per 10 tests.

I bruteforced easy tests and send program with different answers std::cout<<30<<endl; ... So I send like 500 different programs. Then I just combined correct result with size of test ;p.
I use while true to figure size for every test ;p

I passed every test. Week later my solution was removed and I got very nice e-mail about what I did and how wrong It was to exploit platform.

I still managed to be in top 10 at then end of competition but It was mistake huge mistake

Ps. Competition was with very good prizes but still I am ashamed of myself for that.
Err, it can, but the binary will no longer be MIT.
The video and voice chat is kinda like webRTC, but over the custom data channel.
The fediverse is really awesome. I've been using my mastodon account with Tusky on my phone and social media is tolerable again.
I could see tolerances being an issue there are a lot of fine structures - even if we could shape the protein scaffolds successfully lungs would be far more complex than say a bladder.
How can I come stay with you for a spell?
So you are saying that since the recipient of an email can forward it to a third party, we should abolish the privacy aspect of email altogether, and make all emails public?
> All? Of course not.

I can't think of any. Do you have any examples?
The tests for obtaining a license allow for multiple attempts, and are administered by officers trained for that job, and aren't based on a video game installed in a cruiser.

> It'll illegal to drive dangerously though, surely.

Yes, and for all but the worst offenses (say, 30+ miles over the speed limit) the penalty is merely a fine and points against your license.
On top of that, even if this is something you might have seen before it helps to put a name to a face, so to speak. Structural Inspection is a good name for this anti-pattern.
I forgot to mention buckyballs and nets as souvenirs.

What I meant is Disney doesn't mind shelling out more money for quality goods. They just pay horribly slow (90days IIRC) and require vendors to have really high insurance policies.
Brave on Android is the way to go. Literally the best browser.
> it is clear enough that the climate is changing that the UN did a thing, founding the IPCC in the 80ies

circular argument... the various religions did a thing and founded priesthoods... does that offer proof of their various gods ?

they even did a thing and founded their priesthoods before the IPCC... does that make them correct ?
I would like to know how this works. THC is an oil or resin. For it to appear in your breath it has to be a vapor unless it is rolling out of your mouth as smoke. What is the vapor pressure of THC?
How is this unethical?
I used to do this defensively when submitting 8-bit games for publication back in the 80s.

The non-gamers at the publishing company seemed to feel they had to get back to you with a handful of changes. If your game was really polished, the changes would be pointless or even harmful things. I quickly learned to leave in a few obvious things that were trivial fixes, e.g. blocky bitmaps, misspellings, jarring colors.

Instead of coming back with:

> we really like the game, but couldn't the snake be an F-15 fighter, and couldn't the scrolling be vertical instead of horizontal?

...it would be more like:

> Change that color, fix that icon, correct that spelling
That is interesting, it, would be good if there was a lossless mode that automated this.
It is a trend. You are deluding yourself if you do not believe the overwhelming scientific concensus on that conclusion.
Interesting. This is the first time I have heard the name. Based on the Wikipedia articles you cited I'm not sure I agree with his criticisms of scientific method.

It's not so much that there are alternative methods of achieving knowledge but that scientific theories with robust experimental confirmation and obvious utility can simply be shouted down by people who have political or economic reasons for not accepting them.
> Private ownership of the means of production doesn't add anything of value

It absolutely does, because it decides where to allocate scarce resources.
Roko's Basilisk
to me, Pro == making-a-living-at

How does one be Pro at AoE?
I'm pretty sure the Android client is 3rd party.
I suggest toxic on a bouncer, accessed via mosh for better usage. If you handle it right, you can get push via the terminal receiving the bell character and reacting accordingly.
And then some pinhead starts cheerleading 100% code coverage. Usually long before you’ve gotten your test quality high enough to be sustainable.
To feed everyone's inquiry/discussion of diet, nutrition, and western disease (though not fasting per se): two particular researchers/authors had much mindshare and influence in Bay Area circles a decade ago. They've not been mentioned on HN in several years, so this will bring forward and tie in the references and discussions for newcomers.

The China Study - by T. Colin Campbell :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Colin_Campbell

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - by Michael Pollan :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Defense_of_Food :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan

The China Study is notably a retrospective of primary research on diet, nutrition, and disease spanning nearly a century. There are many breadcrumbs for further reading. Campbell was a top-tier government/academic researcher for several decades. The summary conclusion is that western diseases (e.g. diabetes, cancer, heart ...) are strongly correlated with increased ratio of animal product consumption, especially in presence of environmental toxins - a binary poison cocktail one might say. Genetics are a factor, he says, but not so pervasively as the other two.

Michael Pollan is iconically known for the phrase, "Eat Food, Mostly Plants, Not Too Much". A prolific author and journalist, he is on about many of the same things Campbell is: cautioning about a) over-reliance on reductive analysis of food nutrient components, and about b) over-indulgence in foodstuffs that passed through some industrial process on way from earth to earthling.

Edit: formatting
Worked for a company that was contracted by DOW to make an app promoting some extremely toxic agrochemicals, such as Forefront. They talked about this being so poisonious that if animals eat grass sprayed with it, then crops grown with their manure will be unsuitable for human consumption. Was also asked to fake ("round up") the calculations of how much money you'd save if by those chemicals.

Read up a bit about DOW and the Bopal disaster and started to feel horrible about my work.

Tried to gently bring concerns up with the management, and was laid off immediately.

I feel really bad about doing that work, but trying to make up for it by not eating animal products anymore.
The trick was to corrupt memory at a slow enough rate that the crackers wouldn't notice it (and so wouldn't defeat it), but their users would.
If there are any OpenAI folks hanging out here, I'd be really curious to hear about the (apparent) tactical pause by the AI in game 2.
More about intentionally breaking it.
Sometimes I wish I was one because it seems like in a tight knit community like that you can make some really good friends that will have your back and help you out.
It did indeed happen https://imgur.com/a/KZ5AeGo