skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does WSJ have an editing staff? The copy reads like it was written by a bored intern.
Yeah, that's a dumb slide. It's true that most people don't need a blockchain, but most is not all.
> Download Oracle JDK (because that is what you've always done, and it is what the web-search tells you)

What I've always done is install OpenJDK from the system's package manager :P
We just made it TO Java 8.
Google is using AI to predict floods in India and warn users
If a glitch is severe enough it will result in a new category of competition being created. A glitch that saves a second here or there would likely be accepted in the main category. Frequently speedrun games also have categories for how much has been completed in the run, like Any% meaning you just got the end credits up, or 100% meaning you collected all the items on the way or whatever
Is there some workaround for this? Could I create a second and third accounts(that share their resources) to add other u2f keys?
I am trying to learn how to do this! Teach me!
Blaming the alt-right when the "SJWs" is literally and sucessfully abusing prominent open source projects to push their agenda. Great.
Ultimately, the person who originally created the project had a good idea and has a claim to the products [it is _their_ "original fork" anyhow, and anyone else can fork the project if they want.]. It is difficult for _any_ open source or self organizing group to come up with good leadership. The default is the originators and those who they think are contributing. That is what forking is for, if something calcifies, re-vitalize it with a new repository and your own control. Open source gives you control over things, either as a creator, or for your own purposes as a fork. You can fork it and put it under a CoC if you want, then see who contributes where. That's what the _free_ part of open source refers to.

It is difficult for _any_ group to not calcify into a leadership position, but I'd rather have the calcified remnants of those who produced something at some time, instead of having an arbitrary committee based on modern liberal ideals and pushed by an external group.
3 open source distributed tracing tools
Effective Communication Strategies for Better Project Management
How would that work between my laptop and phone?
one of the most distracting and
dangerous things I can think of

No worries there. You won't actually be driving your own car by then. It'll be driving itself.
Vivaldi has it from beginning because von Tetzchner came from Opera, which also did this back in the day. Their pre-chrome version was an MDI application.
Cloudflare partners with Microsoft, Google and others to reduce bandwidth costs
A few counterpoints;

>This establishes that nothing outside of the project has an impact on the project itself.
1. Clause 11 does. Let's abstract the example of the social pariah you gave, since as you pointed out, Godwin's already got your number. Let's say we were talking about the sub-human degenerates, the utter voids of moral thought and character, the unforgivable scum, that are pro-skub. Now, while I hate them as much as any upstanding conscientious person does, I have to grant that this code of merit does not give them a remit to advance their hideous philosophy through the use of the software (as long as the society they are in is civilized enough to ban all of the actions we hate these people for).

2. It is not a given that a private or open-source software project has the social duty to ferret out secret pro-skubists. If I, for example, were to allow my neighbors the use of my lawn for social events, am I responsible for validating that none of the, in their heart of hearts, secretly desires the spread of that plague upon our species? Should I conduct a personality test on a fellow before holding the door for him, to ensure that I never help one of these vile cretins?

3. Even if this "person" is known to be pro-skub, are we obligated to refuse them any access to our community? If one of them, like the proverbial monkey at the typewriter, can cease his endless spewing of nauseating ideology to write valid helpful code, am I under a moral obligation to refuse it? If so, why? As long as they keep their disgusting opinions out of the professional space in which said code is offered and judged, I can isolate them in my mind as a code fountain and think nothing more of them. And if they do so dare to proselytize their villainy, this code of merit gives us the authority to remove the post-haste.

4. On a strategic anti-skub level, I disagree that total shunning accomplishes a useful objective. Ideally, we want the to understand that they are wrong people with bad opinions. Refusing any interaction with them will not accomplish this, as they will simply be led into more extreme pro-skub echo chambers that reinforce this twisted, amoral world view. How will they ever be led to the righteous path, if every guide shuts the door in their faces?
Brett Goldstein's podcast, Films to be Buried With.

Someone's review: https://overhillsandfaraway.com/2018/09/19/films-to-be-burie...
The mechanism for that is really outside the scope of such codes, that is what the licence is for, and that's where the idea of the BDFL comes from: While the established structure recognizes someone as the de-facto leader, there is no mechanism for that leader to actually stay in power if a large majority of the contributors want them gone, because a Free Software licence ensures that people can just fork if the dictator isn't sufficiently benevolent in their eyes.
OpenJDK used to have some incompatibilities that tended to blow up in production (rare case "enjoyment") - is it now 100% compatible with original Oracle SDK? Otherwise companies would be forced to use commercial one in order not to disrupt their legacy systems.
True, but since ssb-viewer is the reference viewer maintained by Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium, my main question here is: what's the point of having a web viewer at all if 99% of users use default settings and don't explicitly opt-in?

The other question is: is this a good precedent to set for the community. I'm imagining a lot of less tech-literate SSB users could interpret this opt-in feature as a guarantee of the privacy of their SSB posts, which it certainly isn't.
Really I think the best thing for Java at this point is getting it out of Oracle's greedy clutches. They are debasing the ecosystem of the language as a whole at this point.
The link says:

> Passphrases are optional. Your synced data is always protected by encryption when it's in transit.

Data is protected when in transit and passphrase is optional. How is this a good feature?
Firefox is spending millions on political goals, failed OS' etc. Only a small portion is put into the progress of FF - speeding up rendering a notable exception.
We need a better way of disabling this physically - by removing the 4G/LTE connectivity in cars.

Remove connectivity, and that data collection is moot.

I'm looking to buy a car in the coming months / year - and I've narrowed it down to the C43, S60 and G70 and all those cars come with "connected features" that I have no need or want for. (find your car anywhere, unlock and remote start your car, send maps to your car, set climate control, check fuel/servicing etc. via an app / website). I partially blame Tesla for starting this trend.

It's absolute madness that we have cars companies that generally don't know a ton about software building technology that's generally insecure, will not be updated and mass producing it at scale and being used by 10000s (or even 100000s) of people worldwide. This is a recipe for a easily avoidable disaster waiting to happen and people who've paid 10s or 100s of thousands of $ are the victims. (and ofc they'll use this as an excuse to add more tech instead of less making it a house of cards - Eg. Oh you want secure features - guess what? we've added 4G/5G/LTE support. oh we'll also take in all your data to pay for it anyways).
interestingly, openjdk is the top link on google for me for "java 11" search.

did google do that?
Parser Combinators in Go
Watch the video — all sorts of glitches
There's a follow-up post explaining the problems of naive parser combinators and how to work around them: https://medium.com/@armin.heller/parser-combinator-gotchas-2...
The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/QAhell/Parser-Gombinators
"You're right, but the percentage of Google users aware of how evil they are is probably less than 0.5%."

Not unaware of, just don't care. Most people aren't persnickety, anal, border line autistic nerds so Google/Facebook knowing who they know or where they are, when they're using software to tell their friends where they are or are using maps to literally work out where they are right now is just not an issue.

If you really don't want to be tracked you shouldn't have a smartphone, not worry yourself with what Vn+0.1 of an app is doing which Vn wasn't.
> who's going to gravitate toward projects with a Code of Merit

Nobody. That doesn't even seem to be the intent; it's not so much something to be adopted on its own merit as it is a passive-aggressive critique of real codes of conduct. Note how it repeatedly addresses what one may not do to address any kind of conflict or bad behavior, but it doesn't spell out any mechanisms to enforce even its own rules. Contrary to another commenter who says this can and should exist alongside a code of conduct, I interpret this as (intentionally) undermining any such companion.

It's just a not-so-clever way to imply that people who believe in codes of conduct don't believe in meritocracy (paragraph 4), lack technical prowess (para 6), seek disruption and deviation (paras 7 and 14) - all without actually having the guts to come out and say so. Thus it falls afoul of its own injunction to "discuss or debate the idea" (paragraph 9) because it doesn't even mention - let alone address - the arguments in favor of what it seeks to destroy.
I tried Vivaldi a year ago. It was nice to have greater amount of customizations and I liked it very much. But, I couldn't use it for longer as it had memory leaks, so, if you opened and closed lot of tabs, you had to restart the Vivaldi from time to time.

But, this might have been fixed and i should recheck.
The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
This to me looks like the "all lives matter" equvialent.
It's basically an idea that no one can object to on face value, because there is obviously nothing objectionable about it, but when being presented as an alternative to something else it makes it completely different.

This type of code will be chosen by the kind of people that were angry about the linux CoC. So sadly even though this document has nothing obviously wrong with it, it will be a huge red flag on a project.
>The American system of throwing lots of great things into unlocked dumpsters does wonders for the poor. It's much more effective than non-profits, who might only help citizens/legal residents/etc. When I was broke in California, I ate food from dumpsters for about 6 months.

That's a little bizarre perspective though. "Yeah, we have a messy waste disposal system, but at least our many starving poor can eat off of the garbage".

How about we should ensure that we don't have either?
Also very similar discussion at the Workplace StackExchange: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/61431/how-can-...

The most voted (and accepted) answer has this:

"Sudden VP and director-level resignations. (C-Levels usually ride the ship down.)"

Which is not what you are experiencing, right?

Some practical things from the answer that I find interesting:

"Accounting staff re-arranging their offices to keep workstation displays hidden."

and

"Office consumables (pens, paper, coffee, etc.) inventory not being replaced."
I love RWhiteGoose and the GoldenEye speedrun community generally. There's a core group of 50 or so people who've spent literally man-decades optimizing that game. If you haven't seen his "speedlore" series on YouTube I recommend it, he goes through the history of optimizations of a particular level. There are many parallels with the experience of optimizing software systems and the cycle of breakthrough and consolidation we go through there.
No. Both the original author and the gentleman providing exposure were both dead before arxiv was a thing. Unless, one of the various scientists who were involved in looking at the subject matter has put it in an available spot, I don't think that there are any publicly available sources. Though, I can try and see if the Wayback machine has any copies. That will require me looking at my off-line records though and that will take some time.

That is a neat little machine. Thanks for that.
As odd as it sounds given how things used to work, in the new model you are generally expected to go from 8 to 11. So you're not especially behind. That said, this transition will be rougher than most because of modules.
Spray-on antennas made from nanoparticle MXenes mixed with water
I decided to be honest with myself about what I do and do not like, to work my ass off at the things I do like, and to be vigilant about checking my feelings and following my gut. It's paid enormous dividends. I taught myself to program and have gotten good jobs because of it, and I've also avoided going down a lot of blind alleys. I quit academia after completing a Master's rather than chase a PhD I didn't really want and saved myself enormous heartache there. Several times I've started developing skills only to realize, "I hate doing this." So I just stopped. I left numerous jobs where I was unhappy for various reasons and have stayed at one where so far I've been happy. And overall this attitude has kept me growing and pretty happy in my career and life generally.

EDIT: As a part of this: I was honest with myself that I cared about money (to a point). For a while I stayed in a job I liked that didn't pay me well, trying to convince myself that "quality of life" was more important than money. The reality for me is that money is part of the quality of life equation, and I'm glad I admitted that to myself. It was also sort of a canary that I wasn't being challenged and could do tougher work that paid better.
SavedYouAClick: because he is a billionaire.

I am amazed at just the plain stupidity of some of the writers of well nown papers.
Decentralization is critical to cryptocurrencies, but that's just one use case on top of an entire blockchain ecosystem. Not all blockchains need to be decentralized, and not all blockchains are cryptocurrencies.

This specific instance grants assurance that neither Walmart or anyone in-between is tampering with the database.
> This to me looks like the "all lives matter" equvialent. It's basically an idea that no one can object to on face value, because there is obviously nothing objectionable about it, but when being presented as an alternative to something else it makes it completely different.

Sure, though note that this description could just as easily apply to "Black Lives Matter".
Agreed. I didn't mind ReCaptcha when it was helping digitise books because it felt like there was some kind of social benefit beyond padding Google's bottom line (even if that wasn't actually true).

But now when I'm asked to select all the squares containing road signs or storefronts or whatever it feels like I'm being forced to work for Google for free just so I can go about my day.
Well, putting:

{
"SyncDisabled": true
}

into /etc/chromium/policies/managed/test_policy.json (for debian linux) seems to do the trick for now,
unsure how long it lasts...

see: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#SyncDi...
What scientists have learned from 50 years of drilling into the ocean floor
For many games the community create additional glitchless categories. Other common ones are warpless (don't use intended level skips) and 100% (collect/do everything).
What consequences does the maintainers violation of the "Code of Merit" have? It explicitly does not take such things in consideration for standing in the project.
'Zulu', right? What's their angle?
If a senior contributor is systematically making time to read PRs by green-skinned people but not PRs by purple-skinned people, but hasn't said out loud that they're doing so, are you allowed to say anything about it?

Also, why is "fair game" a concept that applies to whether misbehavior can be challenged and not to the misbehavior itself? If the contributor tweets, "Ew, all these incompetent purples keep making trash PRs," why should that itself not be considered outside the bounds of "fair game"?
Really depends how blatantly obvious it us the company's cooking the books.

Also, if that bad accounting is leading to the death and torture of humans.
Ever since they forced out Brendan (co-founder and creator of javascript no less) because of their political intolerance, FF has really started to go down hill. Each release you have to go through more about:config settings to turn off all their "helper" apps (ie. spyware partnerships).
The shows and movies and articles and websites often only exist to pull in people to view the ads. There's far to much content for the sake of content where the goal is not to inform or educate, but merely to wrap around the ads (or in a lot of cases, be the ad).
I'm not sure Java is worth the effort at this point. If I'm going to have to keep updating every 6 months, I would rather use Go, which seems to have all that Java has to offer + the backing of a huge corporation.
What data is it that Google collects without telling the user? Granted, they don't issue some pop-up notification or e-mail for every piece of data they collect, as the collect it, but every user has full access to all of the data points Google collects. They are highly transparent about the data they collect and even give users the option to delete that data from Google's records.

I could be mistaken, however, so I'm curious - what data does Google collect without telling the user, at least by making that data collection transparent?
What tech stack?
>You may not: use the Programs for any data processing or any commercial, production, or internal business purposes other than developing, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating your Application;

From what I understood, I as a student could still use java 11 from Oracle, as I wouldn't be using it for "production". Is that correct? Or are there other implications that I am missing here?
> If a pedophile or any other kind of criminal

Pedophilia is not criminal (in "civilized" countries), it's just a sexual orientation. What you might be thinking of is child abuse. Please don't confound those two, because being a pedophile is neither a choice nor does it make you a child abuser, nor is all child abuse done by pedophiles.

edit: lol, downvotes for this? Really? I'd really be curious how those downvotes correlate with support for CoCs.
Agreed. It seems there's no business model for third party email clients to ensure its continued development.
How about those remote work websites? Upwork and the like?

And you could start from non-related to IT work (you've done some anyway) like waiter, assistant etc, and with the salary, grow from there (try to find side-gigs, do some personal projects, etc).
While I appreciate the political work, I would like to see better leadership at Firefox, and less spent on side and failed projects.
And that's probably one of the situations where you would precisely _not_ want synchronization. Now not only Google but your employer has access to your complete browsing history!
I suspect you're right, but does Oracle JDK really add any appreciable value over OpenJDK, for a student?

I'd go for OpenJDK simply to form good habits.
There was some discussion of that post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12505615

It is quite amusing to be that you bring up that post, because the 2nd comment thread (admittedly started by me) is about how the blog poster's own art looks like it was poorly downsampled from higher fidelity art, which is sort of the whole point of this post (except for the "poorly" part, obviously).
From 2012 to 2014, Microsoft (under Ballmer) had launched a program called "Scroogled" - an attempt to in effect destroy the google brand.

The budget? 1 billion dollars. It was run like a presidential election campaign, with Mark Penn hired to run it.

It feels very similar to this. I am guessing that the goal is to trigger anti-trust action against Google, by creating this buzz around it.
After Google Chrome and news about discontinuing Inbox By Google ill definetly leave google products at all.
Like I've said, the EU said the same thing about an EU army and that army is nowhere to be found. Even on the petty insults Europe falters, like when they all got pissed about the US leaving the Paris Climate Accords and yet the US lead the world on reducing climate emissions.

The unfortunate (for them) truth about the EU is that outside of its economy, the EU is irrelevant on the international stage. People want access to their market, but Europe cannot project any force outside of their own borders. Outside of maybe Iran, there isn't a single country in the world that curbs their actions due to fears about what the EU will do. Even countries inside the EU act without fear of what the EU will do, just look at Poland.

I'd even venture to say most people in the world don't even know it exists. People know about Germany, France, and those countries individually, but people only know about the EU because of the news Brexit caused.

The United States has allies AND leadership in every region of the country - Europe doesn't. If all this commotion has to do with the Iran deal, the other major players in the region (Israel, Saudis, and UAE) all have close ties to the US and will be following American leadership and ignoring whatever Europe says. So I don't even see how Europe successfully protects Iran in this case.

So sure, Europe can talk all it wants about how they want to get rid of US leadership. But American leadership is felt all over the world, and major countries in almost every region will follow the US and not Europe.

Sometimes having a big ass army, economic and cultural hegemony, and a history of being in other people's affairs gives you some clout.
Like the CoC was a red flag for others. Given, I doubt that anything significant will change with or without its adoption. It was political though and therefore leaves a bad taste.

It is something, but it is clearly not about inclusion or anything. Not that harassment was ever a significant problem in any repository or mailing list I visited.

I think a general request for being polite is always a good thing. Mandatory behavior expectations are not. And this CoC reeks like it.
>This specific instance grants assurance that neither Walmart or anyone in-between is tampering with the database.

We've had this discussion a billion times before on HN so I'll avoid a huge wall of text but it always boils down to the same conclusion: blockchains (as in bitcoin) are about being completely decentralized and trustless. It's an "and" not an "or", if you remove one of these imperatives they're completely pointless. Detecting tampering can be achieved trivially using public key cryptography and a good hash function.

So you're either saying that what IBM is doing is not a true blockchain or you're fine with anybody using PGP and sha256sum labeling their product as a blockchain. In the latter case it means that bittorent, linux package managers and Windows Updates qualify as "blockchains".

At any rate this is obviously a huge marketing ploy to get free advertising, like "web 2.0" or "cloud computing" before. The problem here is that pumping the "blockchain technology" also means pumping the entire ecosystem of cryptocurrencies which is 90% scams at this point.