skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an engineer and I love going to trade exhibitions. These shows are full of cool new tech once a year (Messe Dusselldorf, etc) and not only do you interact in a positive social way, but the people you meet you end up building long term customer-vendor relationships.

Perhaps it doesn't happen in the software but I work in Semiconductor industry. You can ask the same to anyone say in Fabrics industry or Electronics and they'll say the same. Trade shows are amazing and that's how advertising should be done - with respect, mutual interest and consent.
> I just want an architecture agnostic binary format for Linux executables.

What would you use that for, if you had it?
Reminds me of Futurama's commentary on "Ads in the 20th century": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g

"Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky." (And that was in 1999. The 2018 version would have to be extended: "And in our email, and in the Windows start menu, and in our phones, and on shopping carts and subway turnstiles, and maps, and video games, and in photo albums, and even inside of other ads. And the ads watched you as much as you watched them. But not our dreams.")
Thank you!

I was fortunate to have completed all prereqs through my bachelor's degree. I worked in software for 3 years or so, then left to go to med school.
You know what gives me the creeps? People who watch that video and read those facts and choose to focus on the tone of the closing tweet.
Their Privacy Policy seems to suggest this:

https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/

They have two main modes:

"Basic browser mode" - for not signed-in, or for signed-in but sync disabled

"Signed-in, Synced Chrome mode" - for when sync is enabled

And the basic browser mode doesn't send anything particularly interesting to Google.

Still, it would be nice to get an official statement about that.
San Francisco closes new $2.2B transit hub after crack found in support beam
I'm pretty sure it's been like this for a while though. I distinctly remember going through that when I was moving recently.
It depends on how useful the advertising is. It's not the tracking or privacy the regular user is most concerned about, it's the everyday experience that tells him advertising is still stupid and annoying.

Despite all the billion dollars ML systems with gazillion of factors analyzed on petabytes of data, all we've got is 'hey, you googled for a 10uA accuracy bench multimeter yesterday! now for two weeks we will show you all the $15 multimeters ever existed! (and most of them will be the same two Chinese models with different OEM labels)'.

Look at this (don't worry, it's short one-page) thread for example of how it might be instead - https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/benchtop-dmm-advise-n... - and what if the message from Tek engineer that closed a deal was actually advertising? He just posted a link to relevant appnote, that's it. What if automatical advertising system showed the same link to the same appnote as an advertising to the same user?
Can you uninstall Google Maps from an android phone?

It's because that private corp is so big that it is starting to control much of the internet and devices so this is an issue very much in the public purview.

It's not as simple as take it or leave it. The corp in question spends billions to insinuate itself into your life, make you dependant, eat competition, and then you can take it, but you definitely can't leave it.

Its time for google to be broken up.
Just observing a few dozen machines over the years. Almost nobody sets up multiple accounts on their machines.
Pure functional programs work because what kills you isn't shared state, but mutable shared state, and if you have no mutation, then you have not mutable shared state.

Unix processes work on the opposite side: you can mutate everything, but very little is shared.

With threading and impure code you need to not mutate shared things, and limiting yourself to message-passing is a good way to achieve this (of course you can't message-pass shared pointers or you've missed the point).
Leaving my small(ish) town and taking a chance in the Bay Area.

I wanted to validate my skills after being passionate about building software as a kid; it worked, I convinced a unicorn startup to hire me and moved into management where I'm able to save much more money. I went from 60K to 285K with over 500K in options vested in 4 years.

I've had so many growth opportunities and now I manage multiple teams with influence over the strategy for the company. This has allowed me to develop the skills to see software as more than just engineering, but a business, and understand the hard problems of motivating very smart people around me. I would never have guessed this was possible for myself.

You'd be surprised what you will learn if you just "go for it".
I was part of the stampede to Firefox because of this. I guess we're all having an effect.
Quitting my job to try to start a startup. It went nowhere, but I was able to put my career in the right direction afterwards.

I also learned a lot more about what I want to get out of my career.
> and a huge number of free developers

Why do you think the search engine is unable to build a model leveraging a huge number of free developers?
Grad school is a great thing to do if it suits you. If structuring your own time leads to side projects and deep diving in a technical area, then you've probably got the right drive and self determinism to do decently in grad school.

Just avoid dreaming too much about tenure track jobs and you'll have a great time. (Well, so long as the program doesn't suck. Do your research...)
So true! When you experience sudden group layoffs you realize rescuing the balance sheet matters far more than retaining good talent. I once had a boss tell me “Working here should be your career. Don’t treat this place like just another notch on your resume.” Sorry boss, but it might be just a footnote on my resume. I’m only staying here as long as the work and the pay is satisfactory otherwise I’m already interviewing someplace else. Nothing personal boss, it’s just good business.
> I'm not sure why linking third party code is a concern, it all must live inside the sandbox provided by the runtime.

Some runtime stuff implements operations not expressible in JS, and not permitted in the sandbox. You may not want that code in the kernel. Anyway, if random kernel functions can be called from the sandbox, it would be easy to misuse them. Untrusted input might trick code into misusing them from in the sandbox, via nominally valid operations.

Does webasm protect against integer overflow, or unaccounted unsigned wraparound? Not all exploitable bugs are pointer violations.
> Try being a cell phone OEM who wants to use Android but without Google integration. Impossible.

Tell that to Vivo, Oppo, Honor, Huawei, Xiaomi, Meizu, OnePlus, Lenovo, Qiku, Smartisan, Amazon, etc.
Ask HN: What's wrong with Safari?
I'm hoping to quit Chrome in the next couple of months and migrate to Firefox or Safari. Is there any reason not to move to Safari?
> How can an advertisement not be bad? Ultimately it's always the goal to get someone to buy something they otherwise wouldn't.

Brand/product awareness. Sometimes you don't know what you want. And sometimes you don't know if certain product/solution exists for the problem you are facing. Believe it or not, one of my favorite apps is MyFitnessPal, I downloaded it via an ad because I was looking was health/fitness category product but never heard of MFP (few years ago before they were popular). I thought I will give it a shot and downloaded and solved my problems plus I discovered few more use cases for my health/fitness related interests.

Another example (rather misconception), "Google became famous via word of mouth". No, Google had prominent ad placement (aka powered by Google which was part of their contract) as a part of their deal with providing search on AOL/Yahoo portals. When non-tech savvy users searched on these portals they were exposed to Google and were exposed to much more superior search engine than that was available.
We just tried with a self-signed attestation certificate and it doesn't work.
That did rather depend on Netscape creating and open sourcing the first versions of Phoenix in 2002.
Sorry for the broken link! It should be fixed now.

I'm talking about your posting history being primarily focused on ideological and political arguments. I get that it feels like you're simply correcting misstatements, confronting hypocrisy, and biting back with the venom that others have already spread. The problem is that the others feel that that is just what they are doing as well. Both sides are sure that the other person started it while they are merely reacting and not behaving nearly as badly. This is the recipe for internet war. Both sides also feel that the mods are failing to punish the other side for flagrantly breaking the rules.

From a moderation point of view, though, what it boils down to is that the vast majority of your comments have been doing some sort of political or ideological arguing. That's an abuse of this site, and we ban accounts that do it. There are plenty of other places to do it, and it's deeply destructive of what this site exists for—which is intellectual curiosity, as the guidelines say.

Since some amount of political topics is inevitable, and there's nothing wrong with commenting on those occasionally as long as the comments are civil and substantive, we draw the line at whether or not an account is primarily using HN for that purpose. Yours clearly has been, which means that we need you to change how you're using HN if you don't want us to ban it. If you visit the above link (now fixed) you should find lots more explanations of how we approach this and why.
Impact of WWII bombing raids felt at edge of space
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom on the Platform He Built for One Billion Users
"The government statement makes clear that all these men were arrested, and that they will be given a trial."

See, you just ditch "enjoy" and "fair" parts and it goes neutral. You don't have to be neutral, but news do.
Cupid's advice to women about how to avoid abusive relationship (Six)
But where did the poor people end up? Has New Jersey and other surrounding areas seen an increase in people under harsh conditions?
Those are facts, not opinions. What's the issue?
See my edit. They have confirmed it is not going live in 70.
I’ve found Safari to have masssive start time (time from open app to home screen shows up). This seems to be related to extensions. I only use a few extensions, but I found myself waiting for several seconds for my very simple, locally hosted, homepage to load. During this time I got the spinning mouse wheel in Safari. After disabling extensions it was better, but I’d rather not disable extensions.
I would imagine this has to be.

I was trying to imagine how this would work in my apartment building in Manhattan. The building is 15 floors, 10 units per floor and two elevators, which are neither particularly fast or large. It seems like it would be completely unfeasible for everyone to try to deliver their trash to the street at the same time.

Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding the process.
I didn’t realize you’d graduated from trolling Raymond Chen.
They pay for similar services when they buy an Apple device. That’s why Apple Maps exists: to give people reasons to buy their hardware. iWork is free and not ad supported when you buy a Mac. Yet, when you buy a Chromebook, are Google Services ad-and-tracking free? Apple has proven that you can do “free” and respect privacy. Is ad-targeting/tracking happening when you use Google Services on a Pixel?
> It's called SaaS, which stands for "Software as a service"

In other words, you're not buying a copy of the code and running it on your computer. So the provider has all your private information.

And if that's "software" then how is Google not a "software" company? All their services are that.

> Google generates 84% of its revenues from ads[2], Microsoft generates 95% of its revenues from software[3].

It's understandable that you missed this, but the distinction you're making is arbitrary. Microsoft can book ad revenue under software and service categories because the software/service is what generated the ad views. They definitely make more than 5% of their revenue from ads.

Percentages are also useless in general. If Google merged with Amazon (which has much higher revenue) then most of their revenue wouldn't be from "advertising" but how would that change their incentives at all? If anything it would be worse -- now they're providing more non-advertising services to you and have the incentive to spy on you via those services to increase their ad profitability.
Still better than nothing
But the Cameroonian government statement includes those words. Ditch them and it becomes inaccurate, or at least incomplete, reporting.
I love maps in books. What's particularly disappointing is when editions are published without maps. For example quite a few of the editions of more recent Terry Brooks Shannara series don't have maps. What the?!
Just Google?
Choosing to watch ads is a way of patronizing the media you enjoy.
What's wrong with Chromium 65?
As a salary, that would be high. As total compensation (salary + bonus + RSUs/options) it’s not uncommon for managers or senior individual contributors at large tech companies.

The stock compensation is a big deal after several years if the stock does well. The initial grants can become worth a bit more than they started at. Also, at senior or management levels the raises get smaller and the stock grants get a lot bigger.
Can somebody who follows the electrification project explain why diesel is bad but electric is so good that they have to upgrade?

We're talking billions of dollars for less than 50 miles along an existing railroad right-of-way. I don't get it.
You also can't use Google Home to control iot devices (in my case just a wifi plug) without having that setting enabled. I know most folks concerned about this tracking wouldn't have a Google Home anyway, but it was annoying to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Microsoft has UserVoice at least.
Tips for Reproducing ML Projects
The Nissan 126x from 1970 is one of my favourites. It was also a popular Matchbox car in the 70s (As Datsun 126x)

http://oldconceptcars.com/1930-2004/nissan-126x-concept-1970...
I mainly copied the "bad" wording from the parent comment. However, I think my last sentence wraps it up best for me: "The goals of the advertiser and the consumer are inherently at odds".
They’re creating a need, but that doesn’t mean they’re creating a market opportunity. Google has taught everyone that all this stuff should be free, and that’s no accident: it’s a deliberate strategy to suck up all available oxygen away from potential competitors. Someone (Ben Thompson maybe?) described Google’s strategy as not just building a moat, but scorching the earth for hundreds of miles in every direction from their castle. It’s unbelievably difficult to build a direct competitor to Google unless you’re starting from a position of huge capitalization (and even that’s no guarantee... I don’t exactly see techies flocking to Bing after they complain about Google)
Career wise: Investing in myself. After many years of complaining about companies that wouldn't send me on training I paid for it myself, studied myself and left those companies for better jobs with more interesting people on higher salaries.

Personally: Taking time out of the office for my family and myself. I'm happier and healthier.
it's so sad that from where i live (SEA), 3 times average gdp per capita is no where enough for retirement.

insurance and healthcare system is a joke. so whenever you got health issue, be prepare to spend butt-load of money.

i have no idea how gdp per capita is so low yet people have so much of money (unreported income, corruption probably)

I make about 25 times the national gdp per capita yet i'm just above average in my country.
4.7% of your users, but what percentage of web developers?

If that second number is substantially higher (and I personally suspect it is, but I don't have data backing that up) I think it would be very reasonable for Mozilla to prioritize MacOS. Getting web developers to use firefox makes firefox work better for everyone because it makes more sites work well with firefox.
Well, for one thing, search is a tightly-coupled problem that revolves around a big and expensive data store. That's quite different from a browser.

Blekko did get volunteers to help edit our slashtags, and duckduckgo used to have volunteers help out with their duckduckhacks.
I had to follow a bunch of the links before I understood what this was. Very interesting stuff!

This link was the most helpful: https://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz139.htm
From the outside, it seems to have reached a tipping point in the past year that is now getting quite dramatic. A whole string of heavy-handed, anti-user, and privacy-hostile decisions. What just happened to the culture that would allow all this evil behavior? Or did we misunderstand it all along?
I would just note, for anyone else coming on this, that in Terra you can also call back into Lua. From an implementation perspective, sure it goes through the C API, but as far as users are concerned, it looks pretty much like a normal function call (except as of the 2016 release you have to cast the Lua function to a specific type, but I don't think this is a terribly big deal).

The bigger issue is that as soon as you call from Terra back to Lua you've made a circular dependency, and so you can't then dump an object file and have it be entirely free of the Lua VM. This for me happens to be one of the big selling points of Terra, because I know that I can write as much code as I want and (usually) can still come out with clean object files to link into any old project on the other side.

I definitely get the appeal of a system which is intended to integrate with the same VM. If it weren't for some of the constraints of my current project, I'd definitely be thinking about it, so I'm glad that people are putting effort into exploring both approaches.
Ask HN: Who has the most comprehensive low-latency weather data feed?
Looking to see what providers are out there for ultra low-latency weather data feeds. There must be some providers to the HFT, hedge fund, commodities sectors.
There are a lot of products that I’ve either bought, recommended, or put up on my “list of things I’ll keep in my mind if I’m in the market” based solely on ads - mostly podcast ads:

BackBlaze - I think is s great service.

Hover: Anything is better than Godaddy.

Linode: I’ve recommended it to people who wanted cheap hosting.

Casper: recommended to a college student. His parents were happy with it.

SquareSpace - anytime someone wants a website, I recommend them first.

Ting - I recommended someone check it out.

Betterment - I did my own research but I first heard about it on a podcast.

Synology: on my list when my hard drive fills up.

Eero - I don’t need it, but if someone asked me what to get, it would be the top of mind.
Wait, can't something in this list of techniques handle a NAT on both sides? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal

If not, please pardon my ignorance; not a networking expert.
Your MyFitnessPal example seems more like luck to me than the norm. Ideally Google (or something similar) would naturally suggest MyFitnessPal to you based on your search history and ideally you'd get a comparison with other similar products. If Google knows you are interested in the product, why do they require payment from the vendor to tell you about the solution to your need?

Of course advertisements lead to spread of new products. That just means they work, not that they are necessarily beneficial to users. Every advertiser might believe that their product is beneficial to the user and therefore they are helping the consumer by telling them about the product. In reality that cannot be true for most advertisers.
I give a shit, and I'm highly incentivized to make you give a shit too.
Juicy Potato (abusing the golden privileges)
Sundar Pichai is now CEO. What else do you expect?
Which is largely understandable, but shouldn't ci-info have obsoleted is-ci?
How is this comment related to the article?
Micropayments used to be great idea, but didn't get traction.

By the way, for example of not-ad-driven internet you might look at China, where podcasts is $7 bln business (direct fees and subscriptions), video blogging is of course full of celebrities promoting big brands, but for the main part is still about direct "gifts" from viewers to tens of thousands of bloggers.
How does this compare to tinc-vpn.org?
My company's security policy doesn't allow us to have more than one key.

If I have one key and someone takes it, I know it immediately.

If I have 2 keys and someone steals my spare, then I might not realize it for quite some time.
Yes that is today.
Can you stop breaking Gmail, Hangouts and Google Voice UI and apps? There is literally a 20 second lag on Google Voice on iOS. It's absurd.
I use it for private repos and convos. I want to use it a lot more. It just makes sense. Unfortunately not a lot of people I know use it.

Add me if you care to make a pen pal. https://keybase.io/dfischer
Try https://notmuchmail.org/ with emacs
This is not very least-privilege of them. I would measure a company's trust based on the error:

|whatTheyAskFor - whatTheyNeed|/whatTheyNeed.

This number should be << 1. Being error-prone doesn't make you look very good. Stop asking for more than you need, it shows that you don't really care about your customers. You look less competent when you require more permissions than you need to accomplish a task. Don't do that.
Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing
There is a simple solution. What if I tell you that there is a simple hand posture will take all the gas from your body?

Read about Apana vayu mudra. Do it for 10 minutes when you have a gas trouble and see what happens. Hint: you can’t stop burping and farting.

Some random site I found online which has a hand picture of how to do the mudra:
http://www.healthmelody.com/heart-health/apana-vayu-mudra-he...
In my second job, the company was not doing well financially. They stopped 401k match, reduce salary by 5% across the board etc. I still stayed because I liked the work and the people. Then they started laying off people who were with the company for 25+ years. One of them was my good friend. An asian guy who worked day and night and treated his work like his baby. He had two kids in medical school and a house with mortgage. He also was the only bread winner in family. I could see the pain and anxiety in his eyes. He had to sell everything and move back with his family to be with his brother and extended family.

That was it for me. I found a much better paying job within two weeks and never looked back.

The next company I worked for laid people off on schedule even though they were growing like crazy. In my four years there they went from 2b to 6b, but laid off many employees every year or so.
Why on earth would you think Google would sell its most valuable asset? Google does not sell user data, it builds on it. The more data they get, the better and better their AI will develop.

Looking back, when they announced they were going to become an AI-first company these sort of drastic data-grabs and privacy issues should have been apparent. But hindsight is 20/20...
DoorDash customers say their accounts have been hacked
I guess that may be right. This is what you get when you put an MBA in charge of anything you care about.