skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, this is also something that is not unique to the internet age. Academics have been (imperfectly) assigning credit to informal contributions since there have been citations (and before!). Footnotes like "I thank B. Johnson for this argument" have always been used.
Plus you can look like you are in the Matrix
The weird thing is that we seem to do just fine with singular you, so it's not obvious - at least, not to me - why singular they would be such a problem.
Amazon, fwiw, has giant revenue streams (AWS, retail) that they can pile on the privacy bandwagon and attack Google / Facebook / rest of the shitty adtech. In fact, it would be great if Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Mozilla et al all combine their forces and propose strong privacy friendly regulations.
That's great, I'm happy for you. I have not said that any particular group are all social justice types, I'm well aware that many people in all kinds of communities are perfectly rational human beings and interact in a perfectly rational way.

Claiming that the social justice warrior enclaves don't exist, however, ignores fact.
The tarantulas are out in the hills around the bay for the most part, especially the East Bay hills and down around the Santa Cruz mountains.

My experience with BW bites was my dad getting bit a couple times growing up out in the Central Valley. He had bad flu like symptoms for a few days from the bites. FWIW
Which has everything to do with the unexpected shutdown and battery issues:
https://www.apple.com/au/iphone-battery-and-performance/

And nothing to do with "planned obselesence"

Was that a mis-step and/or defect in those devices? Perhaps. But it's clearly not planned obselesence.

Honestly I'm fine if you want to chase them for the battery issue specifically but I think selling it as a general attempt at planned obselesence is complete crap.
The Anon's Dilemma. To dox, or not to dox oneself, as an anime fan, in order to advance career.
> I’m guestimating we have about 1/3 of that which needs to be pulled out to correct for emissions to this point.

For the moment, that’s a slight overestimate; we’re a little over 400ppm, and pre-Industrial levels were about 300ppm, so we “only” need to remove 1/4 (and we don’t really need to go back all the way to preindustrial levels, it was about 325ppm in 1970)
Except that you are arguing with dozens of people who have already accepted it.
Nope, I'm often up for senior Django positions and such. I've been using mostly Flask for a few years so will often not be able to answer highly specific questions about Django.

Once I did well with the first generic question, do not filter in application code, do it in database. (Thought that was 10x more important than any library question.) Next question how to access a field with F(). Needed to look at stack overflow, did within a few mins. No offer.

Also, they will ask questions across multiple fields which can't all be studied for. One Java Spring shop asked exclusively database questions after I spent weeks brushing up on Java Spring. Could only answer 90% of the questions, not bad considering. Even had a friend on the inside. No offer.

Think about all the pass/fail exams at University with two surprise questions from any technical field. Oh yeah, doesn't exist because it would be absurd.

It's endemic, bad interviews and coderpad.io. If you've got a network you can skip most of it, perhaps why many have not realized how bad it is from the outside.
That wasn't the point I was making.

My point is that saying it's all the consumers responsibility is a highly one-sided argument in favour of the vendor/service provider.

The amount of work a person would have to do to research every facet of every product they buy is insurmountable. There is no possible way for them to know everything about a product they are thinking of buying or using.

Expecting the average user to know which apps on any given app store are ridden with malware is a mighty tall order.

The customer will always have some level of ignorance about the product, so some measure of consumer protection is required.

It's unrealistic.
Using a programming language idiomatically is better than using it to match one's preferred paradigm. If the paradigm is more important, then use the right tool for the job. My understanding is that Guido and the community never intended Python to be a functional PL.
I disagree. The example in the GIF is something I've done many times, usually with a bunch of temporary files. Where the commands are side-effect free and relatively cheap, but the specifics are fiddly, this looks to be really useful. But not universally applicable, no!
This is why Lean and Agile are both failing in my place of employment.

Lean (on the production side) because they failed to take into account one of the most important concepts of lean: employee empowerment. Rather than letting workers improve their own processes (or identify improvements to be approved by engineers if they made sense, some shortcuts don't need to be taken), they had management, engineers (sometimes), and manpower specialists walk through the area and come back to the workers with a statement like: Put X here, and Y there, that'll shave off 200 round trips a day and save you 2 hours for the work. They may not be wrong, but they've intruded on the worker's area without really consulting with them. They also gave the impression that the freed up time would be used to cut staffing (because now they can do more with less), rather than take on more workload. This scared the employees.

Agile (on our software and services side) is failing for the same kind of reasons.

"I heard we should have daily standups, so everyone have a daily standup!" Some teams have used it effectively, others haven't. Their leads don't know what to do with the time.

Then we had people who insisted there's no planning in Agile (which is not true), and thought you could just throw things on the backlog and pull it off the queue and that'll be fine (they never go through the backlog and treat it correctly, prioritizing and grooming it). Which creates a bad result almost every time (surprise!). This leads to a bad impression amongst workers ("Agile doesn't work here.") and management ("Agile never works.") and customers ("We want you to lay out your 5-year detailed schedule because that 2-week at a time thing failed spectacularly.").

The two extremes of Agile Adherents are both present here. Those who mistake Agile for Scrum or SAFe and believe there's a one-true-way with heavyweight (but not Waterfall!) processes. And those who believe it's an anarchic free-for-all with no processes and no plans. Both have missed the point of it, and both have made my job and efforts much harder.
>It's not that nobody knows how to cite it, it's that nobody wants to cite things from outside of academia, perhaps because it lowers their own perceived prestige.

What makes you say this? Citing anybody does little to increase your personal prestige. I think the issue has more to do with 4chan not being peer-reviewed, and the proof being so recent that few papers have yet been written.

On the contrary, citing a hot new thing is what academics do best.
> APPLE LAGS FAR BEHIND AMAZON AND NETFLIX IN THE STREAMING MARKET

Sorry, I can't read The Verge anymore.

Yes, Apple lags far behind Amazon, Netflix, and everyone else too... because Apple IS NOT currently competing in the streaming market.

This level of retard comparasions, it's always "Apple vs Rest of The World", and if Apple doesn't own 100% of the market, it's a failure.

Just trash.
Mob grazing does not need more work, and it reportedly needs no fertilizer and less land, and it was noticed years ago - this is how it is clearly fantasy at this stage. The strategy would have transformed existing beef and dairy economics within years of discovery.
I'll go out on a limb and assume that the authors probably thought about that (you know, being scientists and all) and controlled for it, hence the reason it got published in the first place.
The first thing I show people that don't believe me when I say high level Tetris is hype as heck is the Grand master Exhibitions during Summer Games Done Quick in 2015 [1] and 2016 [2].

My jaw fell to the floor when I saw them beat the game at near instant speed with invisible blocks. I just can't process how fast these guys play.

Really glad this community is getting more exposure and more young blood is joining the scene!

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViwDUiCzPVU

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQFeMRXwmg
What? Opiate abuse is caused by pharma companies and complicit doctors and hateful governments and law enforcement, not operating systems and office suites and xboxes.
This is nice for linear pipes. But occasionally I find myself building more of a graph.

Bash lets you provide file arguments from pipes via the <() syntax (it's turned into a fd reference via proc behind the scenes). And you can also wire up additional pipes with fd renumbering, though this gets ugly in bash, some other shells are more flexible there, e.g dgsh.

A tool to iteratively build a graph of commands and pipes would be the next step.
The more people who do not have the latest version not only means a larger target area for unpatched bugs, but also means that developers only have the target the latest version of IOS.

The one app that I use that only targets iOS 12 with it's latest version is OverCast. Why bother targeting older OS's when every device that can run iOS 11 can also run iOS 12?
Put the filename into a shell variable, then sed or split it into characters and then concat.
My hunch is that it doesn't, so the fix was actually wrong.

The file here has the necessary initialization for params for this to work: https://github.com/GeoWebCache/geowebcache/blob/master/geowe...
I discovered earlier this week that Keybase.io also offers pseudo monitoring by emailing me the proof on my website was no longer valid due to broken https.
The usage of "you" is very ambiguous. The usage of "cold", or "warm", or "right" or "north" is very much as ambiguous as can be.

Ambiguity –or specificity– has nothing to do with why we talk the way we do. Sometimes, ambiguity is the whole point of a sentence.
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It's not me dictating anything. It's simply fact.
UptimeRobot is quick to setup and have a lot of options, including a white label portal [0] to monitor status
it's reliable and cheap ($54/year)

I'm not affiliated with them, just an happy customer

[0] E.g. status page: https://status.appdrag.com/
Out of curiosity - why was the above post flagged? It didn't violate any of the HN commenting rules. It didn't advocate for/against atheism/religion (this was explicitly stated), and it didn't state anything that was not factual.

??
>And I'm actually now curious if you know that you're != your, because you've done it again and autocorrect generally gets that right in my experience.

I just wanted to exercise the bounds of your pettiness.

> the statements I made are axioms

"Singular they is more common than not" is not an axiom. "Singular they is commonly considered correct" is not an axiom. "I believe singular they to be correct grammar" is an axiom compatible with what you keep quoting from Stallman, but I'm not asking what you believe, I'm asking why you believe it, and so far you've said "common usage", which again, I repeat, applies to singular they, despite all of your objections.

It may not be common in your cultural circles, but widely circulated newspapers are about as "common usage" as one can get. If you don't like singular they, that's ok. But please admit that, don't claim that it is incorrect when, in most circumstances, it is not.
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Terpenes like linalool are also found in other popular plants. I hope to see our understanding of these substances continue to grow.
Apparently because it's short for nipples, and Americans don't like to be reminded that they exist.
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I think you misunderstand the population of 4chan. Across its diverse boards, there's all kind of people, and they don't fit into a single mold. For example, all kind of skilled laborers and handy homeowners, many with families, frequent the /diy/ board. The technology board /g/ is host to a lot of talented, high-earning programmers mixed in with tinkerer types. /toy/ is full of all kinds of folks, from teenagers with a few anime figures to parents with children, the only commonality being liking some kind of toys.

A lot of people who use it simply like the lack of filters or reputation that anonymity provides. A post doesn't come with the baggage of a username that people can hunt through, so it can really only be judged by its content, not by the reputation (good or bad) of its author.

Just because 4chan shows up in the news when its users are stirring up trouble doesn't mean its all a bunch of edgy teens. Even if thats how it began, an edgy teen from 4chan's inception is now old enough to be a part of the adult workforce.
I basically add a /global-health endpoint on my server. It executes a bunch of checks programmatically - e.g. database connection, rendering working, etc. It would be easy to add in "fail if cert expires in next month".

Then, I monitor just that one endpoint with Stackdriver (because it's easy). If any of the checks fail, it logs it, prints details, and sets a 500 header code. Adding new checks is just a code change.
I like the sentiment, but unfortunately predefining a set of categories doesn't prevent the issues. Even without access to a specific attribute like "wealth" or "race", the learning algorithms used here can still be used to target poor people, minorities, etc. by leveraging correlations within the dataset. Without these features, the bias just gets dispersed through other correlated variables, and makes it harder to detect that an algorithm is disproportionately targeting poor people.

Additionally, even a modest list of attributes can be sufficient to uniquely identify someone.

I think limiting collection is a good thing in general, but to meet your stated goals, we unfortunately have to do more.
Dozens. Absolutely. 1.5 Billion people speak English, 360 million+ as a first language.

Dozens doesn't really make a dent, does it?
Is this planned for the Suspense API?
Recommending cough drops because echo heard you cough is hardly useful considering the cost.
Are you saying there is an equal probability that an iPhone is recording everything and that an Echo is recording everything? Just because the two things might be happening doesn’t mean they are equally likely.
If they are the same thing, why does the parent commenter prefer Functional?
The distinction for me is that Google is an advertising company, and Amazon a retailer; they both stand to make non-trivial amounts of money by listening, storing, and analyzing every little bit of audio they can from your devices.

So far at least, Apple claims to be privacy focused and makes money hand over fist by selling essentially luxury goods. Aside from selling your data to some third party (which seems unnecessary for a trillion dollar company), there's not much Apple could do with it.

TL;DR Personally, I have more trust in Apple not to "spy" because they seem to have nothing to gain from it. Amazon and Google have plenty to gain from spying.
I don't disagree that a language barrier exists and that it is exclusionary to non-English speaking/reading people. However, what do you propose as a solution?
The UK is absolutely full of Victorian buildings which we go to great lengths to preserve. It's, I think, a reaction to the sixties when we were going to great lengths to pull them down.

The problem is that you end up living in an architectural monoculture. There's literally millions of Victorian terraced houses in the UK now and endless endless rows of drab 30s semi-detached houses. It's a shame that there's less of a drive to build new things. Yes, you end up with failures and architectural mistakes, but you also end up with gems and truly interesting buildings.

I don't know exactly what the answer is, but I think empowering more local small scale development, even if it means we lose a small percentage of Victorian terraces or semis, would be a start.
saw this tweet this morning.

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Good morning to everyone except @paulg, co-founder of @ycombinator, who just donated $150K to defeat a measure that will prevent 7,000 households from homelessness through eviction defense services & rental assistance.
According to the non-existent authority of the English language?
I struggle with Apple's China situation as well, but the more I turn it over in my head, the more I think it's that Tim is pulled between two parties:

1) His team + Apple Directors that I firmly believe, both in words AND in their action, are strong proponents of privacy of the user

2) The Apple Board + Sharedholders that would revolt if the privacy principles from (1) prevented access to a market of ~1.4 billion people, and potentially gave a competitor like Huawei a further leg up.

In this scenario, I don't see it as "grand-standing," but more of a necessary public act that US should move more in the policy direction of the EU, in spite of steep lobbying from most of the Valley / FANG group that would benefit from less-strict privacy regulations.
In much the same way, you can fuel a Diesel engine with a free waste product (used deep fat frying oil), which some people would even pay you to take away.

Only thing is, once a significant number of people started doing that, it generally stopped being free — people started charging money for it.
Large corporations are inefficient also. People work all day sewing clothes but all the profits are siphoned off by foreign capitalists.
I'm a fan! Same goal, different execution :)
I have uptimerobot.com send me an email when it’s down. That email is forwarded to my cell phone via text using [phonenumber]@txt.att.net.
What about using LD_PRELOAD to load a FS shim that prevents writing to the FS?
Even an incomplete blacklist might be helpful, just in the interest of keeping perfect from being the enemy of good.
this has been on the front page for hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18290927
I agree with you, but is it not better that the "talking head" follow the company line rather than their own moral compass? IOW, whether the CEO believes it or not, the company's moral compass says "we're all about privacy for the time being" and the CEO speaks as appropriate to that topic. But if it's the CEO using their personal moral compass, well, that could change with the next CEO. Additionally, the CEO might say one thing, but have a board fight them tooth and nail over it.
Black coffee with a touch of honey.

Raisins.

Bland but doesn't upset my stomach.
I know on Android there's an option in the developer menu to double the animation speed that can make an appreciable difference. Maybe something exists on the iPhone side too
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Surely a rock or other heavy blunt object would be more effective.
What is SIMD?
I was laughing when they started the procedure months ago.
First of all I'm more keen to the "Apple should be less paternalistic" idea, but despite what i think about their behaviour i need to explain to all non-italian folks around here that the AGCOM (Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni/Authority for Communications Guarantees) is a crappy authority, it is really a joke and I'll list a couple of cases to highlight its quality:

- Fined tv journalists for how they managed their airing time every year in different ways, most of the time the decision is based on who's leading the current government

- Wanted to fine WhatsApp\Telegram\Etc because they were "free to use" despite the mobile carriers were STILL charging for goddamn TXTs

- It developed an antediluvian software to misure your internet bandwidth and line quality that used to work only on Windows, that should have been left alone without interfering for 24/48 hours and most of the time was not working (instead of asking for fucking *DSL minimum attenuance/SNR/QoS levels by law)

Believe me, they are just trying to abuse of their power for some juice and I hope Apple and Samsung will go via EU legal routes just to let everything fall apart

p.s. I really hope our cousins from the other side of the Alps will do much better, no matter what's the stake
According to common usage among the 1.5 billion people who speak English.

You fall into the trap of confusing your tiny enclave of English speaking cliques as being representative of the rest of the planet where English is spoken regularly.
If by medium size your thinking ~1km^2 then sure. But, much smaller than that you you start talking about billions of these things. Keeping them properly aligned and not shading each other would be a non trivial challenge.
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looks like ranger does it. i'll have a closer look at that
Which becomes a QA nightmare. What happens when you have new features that migrated all kinds of data, further adding new types of data, then go back to a major OS or two ago? And then if you want to go forward again because you’re missing said data?

It also means you lose security updates, and generally hold your platform back. Part of what makes iOS so much better to develop for is the general availability of modern APIs to most of the user base. If you increase those on older versions, then you hold back development of the platform as a whole.

iOS 12 was a major step forward in performance and battery consumption. Moves like that — making it a company priority - are a better way forward than allowing people to go backward.
The assignment (=) operator cannot be overloaded. Thus the PEP 572 controversy. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/
"Companies should simply not be _allowed_ to target people based on categories like..."

But what if they just use good enough proxies for those categories? e.g. "X% of people who chose these 3 hobbies have a household income of..." you are just making it so they can't leave a paper trail that points to them saying some words along those lines. They can still come up with the theory in their head and test it and end up saying "we don't target people based on household income, we just advertise to people who chose these three hobbies."
Good to know, thanks. In fact, now I think I remember reading that Python got the idea of comprehensions from Haskell.
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anyone interest?
That was before California woke up.
You know how my phone is configured? Mine doesn’t respond to any of those phrases, so I conclude there is a small, but nonzero chance that it is listening to everything I do. Conversely, the sole purpose of an Echo is to listen to its environment and take actions based on what it hears. There is a high probability that it is listening at all times. You don’t see the difference?
But I also said:

"This is where I think the decentralized part becomes really valuable. How can we own our own data but exchange it with others and build trust over time just like we would in the real world."

So not sure why you are asking about about something that is only part of what I wrote when I elaborate further down.
normally i'm against heavy handed government, but in the case of cell phones and other electronic devices being slowed down by companies/made unusable I am greatly in favor of this!
Why not just re-read RISKS?

* https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7/69#subj5.1

* https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7/73#subj4.1

* https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/9/68#subj2.1
> And every Reddit client ever, or Reddit in general. Shameless amount of cookies and a horribly bloated UI just to do the same thing they were doing 10 years ago with double the client resource usage.

The amazing/sad thing is reddit with other clients can be blazingly fast. I just tried redreader from the f-droid store (android open source store) and using it feels like the content is loaded locally.