skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like this guy excels in his field.

Jokes aside, I can't fathom having to consult a thousand page manual to deal with this stuff, I can barely read the README.md for a framework that I want to include in my project.
Shh, don't tell anyone, but it seems like I've been put on a blacklist from seeing ads altogether :)

Honestly, I assumed the same. That I would be put on a shadow-ban list for reporting. However, the lifecycle looked something more like:

1. Reports went through without getting any response from FB. Definitely influencing their ML models.

2. A few months later, I started getting emails from FB acknowledging the report was investigated. I imagine that means manual effort.

3. Its been atleast 2 weeks since I've seen a ad in the FB Messenger iOS app.
Golang turns 9
Can you explain how that works?
Companies just won't advertise that they are made using exploitative conditions. The 'ethically made' technology label will have the same fate as organic, fair trade, etc. type labels: it will be priced out of reach for the vast majority of consumers.

Those in silicon valley with their Model 3 and sustainable earwax-based soaps will rave about their latest ethical laptops, while the rest of the country saves up income for years to buy the cheapest new model computer available and strives to make it work as long as possible. Most consumers are already well priced out of paying more for preference or good conscious.
If you use a confidence-interval estimates, you can choose how wide to make the confidence interval. I use 80% confidence intervals because that's what supported by the project management tool I use. 10% of the time, the project should take more than the high estimate (and 10%, less than the low estimate).

If you use a 99.9% confidence interval and miss the high estimate, then you're probably over-confident. (And your estimate was probably too wide to be meaningful.)
Hiking and camping in cold weather can be an extremely effective weight loss strategy. If done with good nutrition, enough sleep, proper gear, it can even be a healthy weight loss strategy. I'm surprised no one seems to ever discuss this, with so much of our culture seemingly obsessed with losing weight.
If your beliefs are consistent with a computable mind, then what stops you from also investigating the uncomputable mind? If true, then your beliefs are broadened, and if false nothing is threatened.
that puts the responsibility on the platform instead of the user

What did they think would happen when they started making editorial decisions about what content to show and what to ban or at least bury?

They made their bed, let them lie in it.
How the Media Gets Tesla Wrong: The David Pogue Edition
The advice is that it should only exist in machine-readable form and the reason why Microsoft does it this way is to ensure lock-in. See also MSSQL, for which there exists no complete machine-readable spec ANYWHERE (as far as I could tell when I spent 2 days looking a few years ago).
auto was taken in exactly the same way in C++ until fairly recently. They re-purposed it because it was obsolescent.

auto was already in vanishing disuse in C at the time ANSI C came out in 1989.

The C++ use of auto resurrects an aspect of the way auto was used in the C predecessor languages B and NB.

In these pre-C languages, everything was an integer cell. A declaration of local variables looked like this:

auto x, y;

the auto meant automatic storage (stack), but the real purpose here is syntactic: the auto is a declaration specifier, which makes the above construct a declaration. There is no indication of type, because it is implicit. Without the auto it would look like a comma expression with no effect.

This implicit typing survived into C for "implicit int" return values, like "main () {...}". But type specifiers were introduced and became mandatory in declarations, and so auto became unnecessary verbiage since all it did now was specify a storage class that was already the default one.

C++ resurrect the syntactic use of auto in a way: once again, it provides declaration syntax that allows the type specifier to be omitted. This time, of course, that type is inferred rather than assumed integer.
How to Install a Kitchen Sink Vent and an Auto Vent
That works with e-commerce, but not necessarily with advertising. If you were going to browse Facebook during lunch in the office (and be shown ads), but Facebook is down, then you won't necessarily just "browse Facebook later in the day instead." You weren't on Facebook to catch up; you were on Facebook because you had nothing better to do.
Stan Lee has died
Agreed. Or at least an option to pay, without email registration. It's not that I can't block spam - it's more: I'm not interested in some newsletter - and I don't understand why you want me to sign up. I assume there's some kind of upsell planned - but surely getting paid ten to twenty dollars (or more) for the epub is a viable option? If the alternative is a newsletter that goes straight to /dev/null?
Eaten by a Grue: podcast about Infocom text adventures and interactive fiction
That doesn't sound like failure to me. Newer generations of standards and protocols have features that won't be used by everyone. The goal is not maximum feature adoption, the goal is to reduce latency. There's a tradeoff between implementation complexity and benefit that changes as you incorporate additional h2 features into your web site. At some point you decide the additional features do not provide enough benefit to support the additional implementation complexity. This is normal and expected, and I'm surprised that someone would interpret this as a failure of h2.

Again, the goal of h2 is not to maximize usage of features in the h2 protocol. So judging h2 by that metric does not make any sense. I could just as easily complain that HTTP is a failure because few sites use more than just GET/POST, or because many of the headers defined in the HTTP standard are not commonly used.
Hairy ball theorem (“every cow must have at least one cowlick.”)
To play devil's advocate, I think there is a relatively small overlap of 1) very successful people in finance/tech/etc and 2) people that dedicate enough time to effectively communicate ideas in a book/blog

There are exceptions, Ray Dalio being a recent good example. But I think he is more the exception, not the rule.

Below is a related passage from Essentialism that touches upon this dynamic:

"Jim Collins, the author of the business classic Good to Great, was once told by Peter Drucker that he could either build a great company or build great ideas but not both. Jim chose ideas. As a result of this trade-off there are still only three full-time employees in his company, yet his ideas have reached tens of millions of people through his writing."

McKeown, Greg. Essentialism (p. 55)
For e-commerce that argument makes sense, but not for advertising.

They lost 30 minutes of primetime eyeballs from tens or hundreds of millions of people that would have seen ads but didn't.
Or use ESP chip and make it talk via USB serial (android host mode adapter < $5). Much superior to RPi+shitty screen.

But rooting can be a PITA if java@android isn't enough for you.
The Chip computer was way better, at just 9$.

The company (nextthing co.) dissolved, however. Haven't understood why yet.
> One goal was to build cases to terminate franchise agreements, according to former employees interviewed by Bloomberg and lawsuits filed across the U.S. The tactics could be aggressive. In a 2014 lawsuit, Adnan Khan, a leader of 7-Eleven franchisees in California, alleged that a company investigator followed him for months in an unmarked car and at one point hit and injured him with the vehicle. 7-Eleven settled the suit.

I mean, articles don't have burdens of proof so to speak, but it's not like they did _no_ research.
But a Xerox machine does not add any creative aspect; if you are going to shoot a painting and do it well, you'd need to decide on what lighting you wanted, then rig that - say, side lighting to highlight the brush strokes or a more head-on, softer light to subdue them.

In your jpeg example, I think (IANAL!) you might have had a stronger case if you artifacted the heck out of it, rather than faithfully recreating the original photo - the artifacts could be argued to be some form of artistic expression.
Has the rest of the world had to install nets to catch suicide jumpers?
Pretty sure ICE will enforce the law against anyone reported to them.
There's only one deluded person in this exchange pal, and it certainly is not me.
> I wonder what gave Malcolm the impression that democratic revolutions involve less blood?

It sounds like he intended to use the term "revolution" to simply describe a transfer of power, against the will of the previously ruling party.

Democratic transfers of power are unique in that they generally occur without violence. We might take this for granted today, but it is in fact something that must be cherished.
Security feature to brick a phone that someone is trying to break into.
> Can anyone recommend introductory material for programming in Verilog? I'm a software guy who wants to dabble in hardware.

I'm not really sure such a thing exists (or can exist). Verilog isn't "programming" in any way most developers are familiar with, it's a way of describing how logic gates are interconnected. An understanding of digital logic is necessary to use Verilog/VHDL successfully.

That being said, you might take a look at Brown's "Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design", which seems to cover the topics you'd need to succeed.
And OpenWrt users everywhere feel totally superior once again.

Seriously though: this is why you don’t let your device run unvetted firmware by vendors who don’t provide updates.

Load it with a Linux-distro you can update yourself to keep it rolling and secure.
I consider that the earliest strain of this thought that I am aware of is from Noam Chomsky, who wrote in 1988 the book Manufacturing Consent [1]. There is also the 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman [2].

I think it is fair to say the clarion call of "Fake News" has been around longer than some people think and spans across the political spectrum. In fact, when I hear people insist that CNN or some other mass-media outlets are the cure for alt-right and/or Donald Trump, I wonder if they remember the time not so long ago where they were considered the prime enemies of the left.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
Hiking and camping in cold weather requires a certain fortitude that most people don't have automatically. It's going to take a bit of willpower to subject oneself to cold and misery. haha. It eventually becomes fun though.
Facebook to let French regulators investigate on moderation processes
I don’t care about Google’s clout. I use them for less and less and where I use them I don’t care.

I use them for email. My email is essentially a curated spam folder. I seldom use it for anything of value. When I do use it, I could care less if the information was made public.

I use it for online storage,but again for nothing important. If I lost it all tomorrow my only care would be an outstanding, meaning not yet turned on, assignment for my ML class.

Everything else I accept in trade: my data for their service. I use Google Maps. I accept that when I’m driving they will track me. I hope they do. I want to know if I should get off the interstate due to a traffic issue.

I don’t watch TV. I have Ad Guard filtering at the network router level. I block Facebook and Twitter there too. I don’t use porn. All Google knows is that I’m a particularly boring human being that probably purchased a dobro given my uptick in how to play the dobro videos. They probably also infer I have mild body dismorphia given some Sapien Medicine videos/sounds I listen too regularly.

All this I, a consenting adult, allow them to know in trade for their service. If you don’t like them, there are free means to thwart them. Google will provide you the means to figure this out with their search. As a result, no I don’t care for this kind of worthless handwringing.

Go after the leaks at the credit agency. I have no choice but to participate with them. No banner would allow me to opt out.

Don’t go after some social media company that we all know is going to sell your data that you traded to get their service. We scientifically know that social media is bad for us all. Why regulate straws when that pandora’ Box of depression is allowed to continue? Grow up. Be an adult. Take responsibility for your choices and entitlement.
The Heroic Sincerity of "Womp It Up"
It is very hard to know exactly what the client wants. Also it is possible the client will change its idea in the middle of the project. You basically use your experience to have an idea of how much will take you to develop the project and then add a safe margin. Where this safe margin usually is multiply per 2 or 3 of your initial estimation. You should also consider how big/complex is the company you are going to work for, the bigger the more difficult is to get what you need from them. So you multiply again per 2 or 3 if the company is big to account for the delays in getting what you need from them and other bureaucracy stuff.

The other option is to charge per hour with a range of hours you will work on the project. And if they want to make changes or add things you just charge more hours.
And six years of waiting for generics! ;-)
If an honest conversation relies on you understanding the legitimate reasons why we don't listen to what James Woods has to say, then what are the odds of an honest conversation?
> I did read somewhere that one of the founders said the aim was to integrate apps/companies into Whatsapp, but for me "No!".

This was from the Forbes interview with whatsapp founder Brian Acton ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive... )

"An SMS has just come in from his local Honda dealer saying “payment received.” He points to it on his phone.

“This is what I wanted people to do with WhatsApp,” he says of the world’s biggest messaging service, which is used by more than 1.5 billion people and provides ad-free, encrypted messaging as a core feature. “This was informational, and useful.""

"

"Acton had proposed monetizing WhatsApp through a metered-user model, charging, say, a tenth of a penny after a certain large number of free messages were used up. “You build it once, it runs everywhere in every country,” Acton says. “You don’t need a sophisticated sales force. It’s a very simple business.”

Acton’s plan was shot down by Sandberg. “Her words were ‘It won’t scale.’ ”"

Edit: someone else also mentioned this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18431281
Thanks for the explanation :) This comment should be higher up for people to read...
How can it be creative if it literally is attempting a faithful reproduction? You are confusing work with creativity. It might not be easy, it might require a lot of effort by specialists, but it is not creative. Therefor should have no copyright protection.
Direct link to the book without having to provide your email address: https://flaviocopes.com/page/javascript-handbook/
I always like to start with a small side project to learn a new language. Google what you need to get the absolute minimal achieved. Keep this approach and you can stay focused to learn what is really important to get things done.
Rule of thumb: if the estimate is >= 2 weeks, the estimate is worthless.
Would it be possible to know, ballpark, how much a similar security assessment can cost? I understand it's hard to say in general, but given this output I assume it's possible to "get a quote".

In an ideal world, all security-related OS project should have periodic scans like this, but clearly the cost may be prohibitive. Maybe there are ways to get funds, or to form groups of projects that get analyzed together, for example I'm thinking that while Cure53 is analyzing Bitwarden, they could do a similar work for other password managers that buy in.

Independently, a big thank you to Bitwarden for sharing this, knowing which were their vulnerabilities will help a lot everyone in the space. I'm personally very sensitive to these problems, I'm working on open source security products too.
Although you are obviously right and YTs censorship is well known, these are two unrelated things and an argument like that to justify bad law (which will not only affect YT, but other platforms as well) is inappropriate.
Stan Lee dead at 95
Thanks for filling me in. I can definitely see how that history and culture could make fan death a fact.

Follow up: while critical thinking isn't encouraged or taught, does knowledge of the widespread usage of fans and the lack of associated deaths elsewhere ever come into conflict with their worldview?
> We're at the lowest level of unemployment in decades, and wages are barely moving up.

This has everything to do with corrupt politicians gaming the US economy and tax code for their patrons, and absolutely nothing to do with immigration. Study after study shows immigration has very little effect on wages.

> Some immigrants want to integrate with American society, but not all

What does this even mean? There is no single American society. If you don't believe me, compare Savannah to Oakland, or St. Paul to New Orleans.

Your comment repeats a lot of incorrect and dangerous information about immigrants. I encourage you to do some research.
Colin Obrady is a close friend of mine. I was visiting him in march of last year when he told me he was considering this journey (The other trip he was considering was a solo unassisted row across the entire pacific ocean).

As someone who has been paying close to attention to this trek, along with quickly chatting with him right before he left, I had no idea that another person would be attempting the crossing at the same time until I read this article. Definitely a interesting plot twist, but hoping for a safe journey for both these courageous athletes.
Is your "Always show global auto-type entry selection dialog" option checked in the Options \ Advanced \ Auto-Type section? Mine is unchecked, and for sites / applications that only have one entry, it just enters it without showing a dialog...
The bottom image, its a Reddit screenshot.
Web.dev by Google
At work, I use JIRA and labels to track most stuff for my team.

At home, I still prefer to use a notebook to write things down. If I upgrade my phone, have a harddrive failure, or lose a service, I do not have to worry about losing my notes.
Iceland and India are either the best or the worst places to be to avoid this exploit. The map doesn't have a scale, so it's hard to tell.

Aside from that, it's very interesting and a good, quick read. Makes me sad that Apple got out of the router business.
It varies widely, but a code review I was party to came in at around 60k.
I think the point was to avoid the need for a bunch of copy paste by making the code simple to interact with in the first place.

He isn't really advocating never using helper methods either. In fact he gives an example where the helper methods hide some irrelevant values.

If I were to rephrase it as "repeated code isn't necessarily bad in tests" does that make it more palatable?
The Codable protocol in Swift is game-changing. Max Howell (homebrew author) recently started a series of articles[1] in which he used Codable structs as the shared data model in both the backend and frontend of his new app Canopy. Even though communication is through HTTP and JSON, he never even has to touch it.

[1] - https://medium.com/@mxcl/server-side-swift-making-canopy-2ed...
The SoC on this board appears to be intended for use as a DVB TV receiver with all of the relevant video decoders onboard, and there are a bunch of receivers based on this chip on Alibaba. I'm not sure why anyone would want this thing without an antenna connection.
The types of fun seem relevant here.

https://www.tetongravity.com/story/culture/the-three-and-a-h...
Maybe I have the wrong picture but I thought wirebots required 4 poles and diagonal wires, which would clutter the view and feel like band aids over the field (no offense, again, I do not know how it is in reality).

Yeah I didn't mean big machines, don't laugh but I have wood+lego (small, simple blocks, cute) in mind when I think about automating farming with devices. Slightly larger, not toy size, but nothing like the usual farming scale utilities.

Hard to communicate this over text (especially since i'm only imagining). I'll draw some stuff one day.
Inspiring?

Having watched Everest and read Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth my view has changed to that these people are selfish glory seekers who can potentially cause a lot of grief and heartache for the people they leave behind when they screw up. As well as huge expense for rescue operations (which then put other people's life at risk).

I sort of understand your pov, but in this day and age they're literally making up dangerous challenges for themselves and have been for decades now.
In a similar vein there’s also this book called “An Anthology of Chartist Poetry: Poetry of the British Working Class, 1830s-1850s” whose title says it all. It can be read online through Google Books at this link: https://books.google.ro/books/about/An_Anthology_of_Chartist...
Are you drawing a comparison between what the US did to Native Americans and what immigrants might do to us? That is such a dangerous, slanderous, ignorant comment that I really have to question your motives.
This group at Princeton conducted a study into whether influencers disclose their relationships with advertisers to users. Turns out the vast majority do not. Interesting read.

https://medium.com/acm-cscw/was-this-an-ad-an-investigation-...
#DONOTOPTIMIZE (sigh..)
> Who maintains this server

Ideally any hosing provider selected from a robust market of hosting services competing on cost/bandwidth, cost/server-{storage,cpu}, uptime/support guarantees, and any other actual recurring or per-use costs.

Any software running on the server (a database, HTTP service, etc) should be a separate concern. Maybe you roll your own. Maybe a small fee to license a software package that includes updates/fixes. Most people ideally should be able to a community maintained package. The point is that someone needs to be able to select a hosting service like they select other common services (e.g. utilities, cable TV), plug in the URL of any other services they want to use (or select a suggested option), and be free to change their mind at any time.

If data storage and software is packaged in an interoperable plug-in style, it would be easy to, for example, move your comment database to another provider by retaining their services and notifying your main hosting service of the change.

Of course, this will never happen in our current environment of businesses that prioritize trapping people into walled gardens and view interoperability as a threat to their surveillance-based revenue.
Traditionally in the newspaper business advertising revenue paid for paper, ink, printing and distribution, and sales of the paper itself paid for journalism. Cut off the latter and what’s left?

I recently cancelled my sub to the NYT after nearly 20 years; now they are trying to tempt me back with the slogan “debate, not division”. But they still employ guys like Charlie Blow who just vomit bile across the page to drive more clicks so that’s a no from me. In retrospect they have been on the decline for years, and paying customers like me saw no fewer ads and were subjected to no less tracking than free readers.

On the back of Carryrou’s work on Theranos I have a sub to WSJ now. I am totally willing to pay for content, but I won’t tolerate piss-taking.
You would need stronger unions to fix this. China does not allow real unions and US has weird union laws that make their relationship with companies confrontational (really: Unions in Europe and US are very different).