skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eagerly wait for any big brand to refuse to release on iOS at all due to the tax and being unable to bypass it by an app installation via a web-site. This tyranny that takes the whole margin should definitely end. It's especially painful for any media business where a piece of content has only so many views and stores just take all the margin while adding absolutely zero to distribution, hosting, developing, promoting or engaging with users. It's like Samsung would start demanding a cut from anything used on an iPhone where there is a Samsung display. Stores do not even add value in app discovery and getting new users. They just demand even more money to promote an app in a store to later take yet another cut. Insane situation.
But it would be like judging people who work in the field, spending the entire year on the centerpiece and then burning it to the ground after the festival.
I actually don't think it needs to be criminal. We just need civil laws that make these kind of leaks incredibly costly.

Maybe liability for private information loss could be $10k a user. So, Equifax would owe the public 1.4 trillion dollars. Of course, they wouldn't be able to pay that, so the company would be chopped up into bits and sold for scrap.

I think that would catch more attention than some mid-level manager fall guy going to jail for six months, as would likely be the case with criminal proceedings.
As someone who had both a Handspring Visor and a T-Mobile Sidekick (Danger Hiptop), I just don't think this is true. I get that nearly every single thing the iPhone did had an antecedent of some kind in an older product, but putting them all together the way Apple did matters--and if there was another product of that era or any previous one that provided the same level of UX responsiveness the first iPhone did, I sure never saw it, and I traveled in some pretty nerdy circles.

We can debate about whether that's "evolutionary" vs. "revolutionary," but if it was evolutionary, it's the kind of evolutionary success that leads to epochal shifts.

To bring this around to the actual OP, I'm dubious that Magic Leap is going to pull that same thing off, but that's because I'm dubious that AR in the form of "things you stick on your head" is ever going to be a mass-market phenomenon.
I will give it a try, glad to see a new approach.
Measuring Model Goodness
You can't, unless very specific measures were taken beforehand (which doesn't happen normally). You need to testify under oath that you did and the other side needs to hope that the punishment for lying under oath is worse for you than the consequences for them when it wasn't deleted.
What has it got to do with root ? You're talking about custom ROMs v/s OEM ROMS. Yes, custom ROMs will be faster with updates, but that has got nothing to do with root. What you mean is phones with unlockable bootloaders can flash a custom ROM. Unlockable bootloader =\= root.
Like FB's Oculus? :)
Observability signals
The party in power is notorious for hypocrisy. Are no-bid contracts "free market"?
Thanks, this was very helpful.
Agreed. The app's intended design purpose was to leak private data. The data breach happened as soon as the software was installed; the exposed S3 bucket is irrelevant.
The lack of value semantics for composite types is a huge problem in the language itself. It is often hard to get a Java program to have the same memory layout you would get writing idiomatic C/C++.
Oh! took me a second to realize it was a typo... FRYing machines, not DRYing machines ;-)
My guess is there was some tell that they were using to predict the timing.
BuzzFeed has been on the HN homepage quite frequently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buzzfeednews.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buzzfeed.com
This story would have been relevant some years ago, today it's old news.
Hey, at least she has one in her life. That's one more per year than most people.

I'm not trying to pick an argument, or imply most people are emotionally dead inside, but _come on_. You really gotta take an expression about enjoying an escaping from the humdrum of day-to-day life and use it to snark about a person's entire existence?
Since everyone mentioned SSDs, I'll second getting a gigabit local network connection. Now I store everything on the server in another room, and my laptop, desktop, and consoles can load and share files almost like the hard drive was connected to each directly.
Google Maps has a location sharing feature. It goes to great lengths to notify the device owner through both on-device and off-device methods that the phone is being monitored, and by whom. That's the only way to run a legitimate monitoring system.
+1 for experiencing a noticeable improvement with SSDs.

One more I would submit is the transition from DDR2 to DDR3. I do not yet have a DDR4 machine, but I am anticipating some kind of "aha! so this is what I have been missing out on" moment when the time comes.
This. Many of Zuckerberg's public statements, which are presumably largely considered and vetted, display a profound (I would say willful) naivety–political, social, psychological.

The presumption that it's "just business" and that the culture at large should if it wants different behavior change the rules is going to prove the epitaph of this generation of "technology" companies.

The sad part is that absent internal regulation and correction, the inevitable result will be regulatory backlash and the quelling of the next generations' wiser efforts.

It's already well underway in the EU. Once the traitors are out and with them that -sshat Pai is gone, you can expect a time of reckoning cum payback and there is no more obvious shiny target than Facebook.

The unrelenting drip of scandals, married to tin-eared and hollow-sounding reassurances, is building up quite the pyre.

Aside: a close family member who had personal access to MZ quit recently. Their take is quite different: at the executive level, many people know exactly what they're doing and why it's unethical shading into illegal.
Buf!

Good to see you're still around. :fist-bump:
While I don't disagree that they're effective, I'd say "best" is not true. They're not any more effective than (enforced) regulation. The only difference is where the money ends up -- private sector lawyer pockets or the public coffers. All else being equal, I'd rather the latter.
The website says "Dgraph is available under an Apache v2.0 based liberal license", and Sir_Cmpwn says it should say "Dgraph is available under an Apache v2.0 + Commons Clause license" to not be misleading. Are you saying you don't want to make that really simple change?
Raising €235,000 for foldable origami canoes
I think your fourth point is brilliant. You’d instantly gain context just by looking.
Try seeing if local religious centers have donation centers. They typically will contact the people who need help directly in their neighborhoods.
Heh, you've given me a great idea for a weekend project (a free directory where you can put your info in, and you'll show up in Google search results). Think Gravatar, but for all of your contact info.
I don't think that what MZ thinks is the right thing is the right thing. That's what evil means.
I remember watching that Netflix documentary on Burning Man and it looked like a great time. I really don't understand all the hate. A younger me would probably think its cool to poke fun at Burning man, but in reality its not like I'm doing anything more interesting sitting at home.
"The art of trying" sounds like a very interesting concept.

Wouldn't mind reading an article on that, if you ever feel like writing it :)
I don't think it's fair to say only this website takes it seriously, though perhaps this website is a good cross-section of people that do seem to take it seriously. You can also find those people on reddit, twitter, lesswrong, IRC, etc.

The question is, who's failing to make the whole WORLD care about it? Or at the very least, the politicians? I can count on shitty lobbyists at least ensuring that, like, the economy doesn't fucking burn us alive, because they lose money when that happens. Why aren't the fatcats also getting that about netsec? If the NYSE gets hacked, they stand to lose a lot of money. If someone opens the hoover dam gates through a hack, that's a lot of money lost. We can ignore the morality and privacy issues, and just speak their $$$language$$$ here, and it still doesn't make a lick of sense that politicians aren't eviscerating Equifax right now.

So, are we supposed to like, lobby sense into their heads? I mean, why? Because we're patriots? I guess?

Then again I've got motorcycle riding friends in Houston that don't wear their helmets, and I still have to force people in my backseat to buckle up sometimes, so I don't even know. Why don't people take any kind of safety seriously?
Show HN: Apply for python.org/jobs from command line :)
Programming can be very relaxing, you forget about the real world for an hour or two.
If you have children you can take turns. And let the kids get used to fall asleep alone, it will feel like torture at first, but when they get used to it you will get an extra hour of free time every evening.
You need comically gross negligence/criminality to lose your license as a doctor. Stuff like making dance videos during surgery, or raping a dozen patients, or smuggling $1M worth of drugs.
Certainly, the people here, who worship him, don't see any criticism of Jobs as valid.
> Epic Games will be launching its hit game Fortnite for Android on its own website, and fans will only be able to download the game there, not on Google Play ... while the setting that blocks third-party installations can be disabled on Android phones.

If they are talking about disabling it system wide vs disabling it for a single application, is this not pretty irresponsible? Lots of kids play Fortnite, saying "hey to play your favourite game just disable this security setting" to millions of them seems risky.
I thought the consensus was that jobs was a jerk, but since he was a brilliant jerk its OK to idolize him.
Not believing in evolution is not the same as not believing in science. It's simply not agreeing with the conclusions of certain scientists
This has been discussed a few times before on HN and I shared the anecdote that I have attempted to report multiple serious security issues to Google and Facebook and have been completely ignored, 100%.

There is a tiered internet nowadays, if you go real name and have a following you are treated quite differently from everyone else. You can't even get a response to emails or forms, much less paid out a bounty if you're not in the former group. The algorithm has made everyone who isn't a minor celebrity irrelevant. I don't care how much it benefits the corporations interested in marketing to me, I don't want a following, thanks.

Fortunately being able to "crash google" at will during cocktail parties and job interviews always impresses people, so I guess I'll just keep on doing that until they fix the problem.
Yeah you can add drive to the array at the top of https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/blob/master/src/... So build an ISO using imgburn or something and then mount it?

Source: https://twitter.com/felixrieseberg/status/103265669554824806...
Excellent, hopefully this trend continues on all platforms.
The adult business model of Deepfake AI
If people had perfect information and were rational.
Jesus. Just when you thought maybe he’s not that flawed of a person and this comes out.
Doesn't mean he wasn't a jerk.
Hello (World) XDP_DROP Writing Your First XDP/eBPF Program Video
Now there's a name I haven't seen in a while.

Thanks for that mobile work all those years ago! :D
Faast SWAP API emerges as competitor to ShapeShift
100GW laser governed by Facebook CEO and VC. What could go wrong?
> Hacker News be like: "Speech should be free and unlimited!!!.... Well, unless...

This isn't a real argument unless you can show that the one person you're actually responding to has held both these positions. This is just a forum where a bunch of people opine; it's not a political party with a documented set of beliefs.
I'm not terribly familiar with the language and framework around HSP, but I can identify with many of the traits listed here: rattled by pressure, accurate but quite slow, having to steel myself very deliberately to get through PR reviews, etc. I've been doing a lot of work with the Enneagram (highly recommend it, it's about understanding the trap and coping mechanism that is your personality and transcending it to get to your true self) and I definitely come down as a 4.

You can succeed in tech. Tech is so, so vast. There are so many areas and facets to it that have nothing to do with FAANG or the Big 5 or whatever.

What's worked for me, and what may work for you, is to stay away from "sexy" tech. I'm at a relatively unsexy tech company in an office on the east coast, and I've found a group that's working on cool stuff without the pressure and ego of stereotypical SV ("move fast and break things"). The environment and culture is rigorous but much more relaxed, and my team places a lot more value in correctness and runtime speed over development speed.

Not everyplace in tech is pressure cooker. Not every person is ego driven. Even though I'm in a relaxed environment, I still struggle with comparing myself to my colleagues and dealing with feelings of inadequacy, but because I can recognize that tendency in myself I can do things to address it. Many of those things end up being spending my time away from work _truly_ away from work and finding my identity outside of my job. That might be antithetical to running startups, or it may not.

My emotional intelligence is ultimately a benefit to my team if I can keep it in check, just as the drive to get things done from one of my colleagues is a benefit if kept in check, and the cautious nature of another if kept in check, and the devil-may-care optimism of another if kept in check, etc.

We all need the strengths of each other, and your sensitivity, if kept in check, will be a benefit in the right environment.
You'll always find the freaks in society if you're authentic about your freakish nature, to address one point in your comment.

It's simple but I really do have this kind of emergent, creative, slightly anarchist experience in every day life simply by stepping out the front door. As long as I have the presence of mind to recognize myself in someone else (and empathy, and genuine other-love with that self-love) something fantastic will happen, something strange that changes me and others.

Other than this I really don't know what you're saying about burning man, but I think the concept as I understand it can flourish under modern city-conditions, maybe only in such conditions. There never will be a time when the dam isn't about to burst, unless it already has and we're in that moment of filling up again. That's what's wonderful, there is no permanence. That essential property underlies everything, there is nothing to worry about, no potential lost just funneled elsewhere. Maybe when people recognize this they won't go looking for love at burning man. I'm sure it's still worth it for the surrealism.

edit: and you can't get by on just a feeling and a quick session of analysis.
One of the reasons could be that most programming languages do not have immutable datastructures by default, and most students are taught to progam within a "mutable" environment. Isn't of the first things they teach at schools about "variables", symbols which refer to locations in RAM which might change their contents at any time (at languages like C, Java and C#)?

I think Rich Hickey calls this "place oriented programming" ;)

It is funny how mathematical formulas do not have a "return" statement, they are just evaluated. Math doesn't have an assignment operation either.
Ruby adds support for non-ASCII letter as a first character in constant name
1GHz is easily in range of RTLSDR, but required 40MHz bandwidth is problematic. LimeSDR for 300$ could be suitable.
Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer
Alibaba and the Future of Business
It's just less than people would think because all they get to see is the $100 price tag.
Google finds evidence of attack linked to Iran state media
Facebook reveals foreign meddling from Iran, Russia
I recall reading an article a few years ago about how every year, people declare burning man “dead” or dying. People write articles about how it’s not how it used to be. How the message is lost. Every year.

When I talk to people who go, most of them seem to suggest it’s still an amazing place. I guess it largely depends on who you are. I really dislike the society we’ve built. It feels too focused on work (I live in the Bay Area) and not enough on community. So burning man sounds ideal for me, it’s just been scheduling issues that have so far prevented me from going.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that apparently these articles come up every year. Take them with a grain of salt.

Edit: here’s the article.
https://journal.burningman.org/2016/10/philosophical-center/...
Perhaps www.bogleheads.org or even AccountantForums.com would be a better place to ask this.
It never ceases to amaze me that people seem to be under the impression that there's no good jobs anywhere that isn't the coast. Oh well, I guess we silly flyovers can just keep this affordable and comfortable living situation to ourselves.
Thank you for that. I believe the source i read included marketing in the expenses, but that was long ago.
So how do you pull this off? How much time do you spend in coding side projects? What do you do when your kids try to grab your attention during that time?
I didn't realize there were major features missing from this version, and I understand your desire to defend the integrity of the hard task you did yourself

But also, this is just a cool project, and you could probably stand to chill out a bit and just enjoy that fact :)
I think there's a bit more made than what's burned, but I believe we can agree that you can also think of it like a sand mandala[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala
It's possible they're using the uncomfortable security risks as a play to get better terms out of Google.
I'm fairly familiar with the space, and my office picked up a Magic Leap to tinker with it. It feels revolutionary if you haven't tried its predecessors; if you have then it feels like the logical next step. If you've tried the Hololens, it's a nice step up in both the control department (the controller is miles better than the crummy'stare-at-it-and-pinch-fingers' Hololens interaction) and the field-of-view department (It isn't perfect, but its a far step beyond Hololens' "tiny viewport if you look straight ahead". In general it feels more polished, and at a lower price point as well, I can't think of any reason you'd waste your time with Hololens now.

It is, however, over-=hyped. I hear the engineering team at Magic Leap hates the marketing team for hyping it like it's literal magic. The hardware team is supposedly steaming ahead, and compared to the one they are currently working on, the released version is pretty dated, but what are you gonna do when they want to finally release a product after all this hype?
Not an Android nor Fortnite user, but I believe from other reports there is a prompt to re-enable the setting after installing the app.
Doesn't this violate the App Store guidelines?

> Section 3.1.3(b) Multiplatform Services:

> Apps that operate across multiple platforms may allow users to access content, subscriptions, or features they have acquired elsewhere, including consumable items in multi-platform games, provided those items are also available as in-app purchases within the app. You must not directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase.

To me, it sounds like Netflix is, "directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase." I'm not saying they should or shouldn't break the rules, I'm just saying that they are.
Joint families a la Asian families. Grand parents live with you and help out with the kids.
Alphabet Chronicle to tackle cybersecurity industry
I just see a lot of very bold assertions without statistical references to back them up.
Caseta is 50 devices. RA2 Select is 100 + 4 extenders and is backwards compatible with Caseta dimmers, so that's your upgrade path.

After that, you go with RadioRA 2 and an installer, which is no fun for DIY.
Description in that article is very bad. How can you get correlated photons from some classical light source? Like, you get two random photons and they happen to be correlated?
Good point. My comment is purely anecdotal and there are probably a lot of people who volunteer because they have enough or find joy in it.
Volkswagen's weather-altering tech causes storm in Mexico
OSS is our best bet because the users can be the creators. Firefox is a mixed bag on this.

What I want is like the equivalent of fiduciary duty [0] but for AI and software. This is why I don’t like the idea of “free” agents driven by ad revenue.

Currently I have to manually review and build my own stuff. Not sustainable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary
An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64
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A small remainder: German police also confiscated donor lists for anonymity projects like Tails [0]

In that context, I consider it highly unlikely that this data wasn't already shared with all kinds of institutions. Sure, CCC and Zwiebelfreunde can do a bit of legal dance and make German police pretend nothing like that ever happened, but one would be naive to take their word for it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17483393
Is it not irresponsible for the platform to force the choice to be that coarse-grained?
Yeah I decided to grow my beard out into a full one my freshman year of college and I got in the habit of picking at it. Very often I ended up with a big pile of hairs in my dorm that I'd have to sweep up. I've since shaved to a much smaller, cleaner beard and I can notice a few patches that I'm almost certain are from picking. I'm really hoping they eventually fill in. It's been several month since I shaved to a much thinner beard.
"Crash Google" in what way?
This was my #1 turnoff for Haskell as well. All these operators and functions, each with possibly varying precedence as well as different fixities. I was constantly having to lookup how the function was actually being called -- which of its surrounding entities were a part of the function call, and in which order did the calls take place? In addition to this complexity, the functions are often cryptic little characters (operators) that just make the readability worse. Programming languages should make our lives as developers easier, right?
It would certainly be good to have some professionalism imposed at critical junctures.

I don't think criminal penalties are appropriate but civil penalties for data breaches should simply have no limit, the possibility of shareholders and debtors forfeiting all value should be included.

At the same time, the problem is "professionalization".

The problem of when one needs "real software engineering" is incredibly hard to solve. It's an incredibly fuzzy line and any organization would have a strong incentive to be on the cheaper, non-professional end of the line.
What does a "Ponzi Unit" mean in this context?