skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * hiring Republican lobbyists to make a good name for FB

??? There's an entire paragraph in her post about that.

> * Sen. Schumer’s apparently personal involvement in protecting FB

True, she didn't address that. It doesn't really seem to be one of the major issues people have found offensive.

> * the firing of Alex Stamos, who surfaced Russian Inflirtration

The NYTimes never claimed that Stamos was fired (and, afaik, no reputable source has).
The problem for us is the mystery of everything that underpins the service. For managers, auditors, regulators, the tickbox allows us to get on with our jobs.
How about regulating the holy bejeezes out of them?

This company does not seem capable to either learn or clean up it's act.[1]

https://www.fastcompany.com/40547045/a-brief-history-of-mark...
I wonder how many FB engineers read HN. In case some of them do: please, LEAVE Facebook.

Don't be part of the problem. Don't justify contributing to mass surveillance just because you can work on cool tech. Don't be evil, goddammit.
> Does Gnome under X11 allow you to set the desktop's size higher than the screen resolution and scale that down?

FWIW, this is possible under X11 directly. Try running:

xrandr --scale 2x2
Your plan is awesome! The language is pure logic and terseness (all those who want „gender neutral“ language, here you are, there is no article at all, you really have to ask „is this person male or female“).

I am a German native and there are some good books for Germans that I studied with.

Yet, there are some excellent English resources! First, in order to learn to write (and much more if you want to), there is the excellent site www.easypersian.com. which offers 180+ lessons for free I learned to write there (took me two days). Then, there is „Complete Persian“ as a good textbook in English. I remember my first private language teacher I hired used this and it was really good.
I’ve found that a really good proxy for how good an amp sounds is the number of line-items in he BOM. The fewer the better.

A lot of the classic designs that sound good and still sell have exactly what they need to get the job done well and no more. It’s almost like all the major (and boutique) amp manufacturers took one of three or so amp designs and just threw components at the schematic until you couldn’t recognize it right away, and sell it as some revolutionary design. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that it it all came from some RCA reference design in 1950
One way that I like is called _having the key to one's own freedom:_ if someone refuses to decrypt data under court order, they go to jail for contempt and stay there until they relent.
When I was in college and looking for an intern job I declined to interview with RJ Reynolds and several local alcohol producers on moral grounds. I wouldn't have accepted a job there no matter what they offered me. So, I can understand why people wouldn't want to work for a company and believe that there are people in the world that won't compromise their morals for a paycheck.
There is a difference between individuals and governments. Public servants like politicians choose to enter the public space willingly, and must be held accountable and responsible. The only safe way for a government to hold power is via transparancy and auditability. Of course those to whom we relinquish the power of life and death should be held to a different standard of lower privacy. Having the government secretly spying on private citizens is such a disgusting and dangerous reversal of how it should be, and your comparison is completely off base.
Additionally, would this incentivize pick-pocketers to steal more valuable items?
I couldn't read more than halfway through the comments before coming back to yours. It's such a shame. Kaiser's effort is quite impressive. Tulsa realizes that the best way to bust all of the stereotypes is to bring people in that will be that change. This will probably turn out well for them. I think that targeting remote workers instead of startups is a much smarter approach. We already have the incomes and once we've put down roots, we're likely to remain. Bring enough remote tech workers in and the startups will naturally follow.
Why video marketing is important?
> For many people an extra X amount of debt means nothing to them.

But for those people it also means nothing to the hospital. The hospital can only benefit from charging higher prices if someone actually pays them.

> They charge ludicrous amounts knowing that they'll either get the baseline from the poor people over time ($10,000), or they'll get the absurdly overpriced amount from people that can afford it.

Which is what price transparency changes. The people who intend bankruptcy don't care, but the people who would actually pay the debt do. If it was known that another provider charged $10,000 rather than $50,000, those people would choose to pay $10,000 and the one charging $50,000 would be left with only people who will file bankruptcy. Instead of getting 20% of $50,000 as they do now, they would get nothing while the other provider actually gets the $10,000 most of the time.

> We have Americans using emergency care more and more often because the cost of regular care is through the roof.

The cost of regular care is through the roof because prices aren't transparent and everything has to be laundered through bureaucratic insurance companies with tons of paperwork and overhead. There is nothing about a normal doctor's visit that should command a price which is unaffordable to someone making minimum wage.

> The market is broken much like how the ISP market is a sham and thinking that competition will magically pop up if we just implement one or two changes like this is folly.

The ISP market is broken because it's a natural monopoly. The healthcare market is broken in an entirely different way -- there is no monopoly at all, there are tons of providers. The problem is political corruption resulting in bad regulations that inflate prices.

Nobody is arguing that the existing market works. It's a total farce and people are dying. But the primary problem isn't how people pay, it's what people pay. The cost is too high. It's no solution to just pay for it out of taxes -- that doesn't lower the cost if you're just funding the same corrupt system from a different pocket, and it's already bankrupting the country as it is. Something has to get the cost down. And once it's down to something people can actually afford, people can afford it on their own.
I see an opportunity to create an apparel or accessory line to hide you from being recognized by facial recognition software
How to rank YouTube videos?
Sounds better than Zuck and whatshername. Maybe they'd ship features users want once in a while.
There is no objective standard for "exploitation". We design arbitrary ones, and even those have to be enforced (minimum wages, for example).

And you are right, higher prices lead to less consumption.

Basically any employee contract is a cooperation between two parties leading to a shared benefit of that cooperation. How that benefit is partitioned between the two parties is a matter of negotiation and negotiation power.
Sins of the father..
It is interesting that in Russia people who criticise Putin and expose corruption are often called American agents who are paid by US Department of State (Department of State is an incarnation of evil for propaganda) to weaken our country.
People don't want wars, but they feel powerless to change things. And these feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness are perpetuated among society and create a self-defeating attitude.
At a certain point, their excuse of being naive or ignorant have to stop being believable. They’ve gone to that same well over and over again.

Either they don’t know about major decisions of their own company and they’re too incompetent to lead, or they do know and they’re too corrupt to lead. Either way, they need to go.

It’s literally becoming farcical to see these people apologize over and over again while displaying the same pattern of greed, tone-deafness, and recklessness.
> I did not know we hired them or about the work they were doing...

If true, was this by design, to have plausible deniability, much like the willful ignorance on the part of the military top brass when it comes to massacres etc.?

Regardless, some lack of coordination seems real even as now the scandal unfolds:

> Our relationship with Definers was well known by the media... [https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/new-york-times-update/]
It’s not as surprising when you realize that the problem allows reflections of the shape, removing the need for a symmetrical cover. There are lots of lopsided shapes that will barely fit on one side but leave room on the other. With an asymmetrical cover you can handle different classes of shapes with each side, while a symmetrical cover ends up overcompensating and being too “one size fits all.”
Supporting Assange or expressing skepticism about the Russia narrative on HN is a good way to get shadow banned, but it depends a lot in which mod gets involved.
https://cvdazzle.com/ has got you covered.
Someone could have made the same argument against mobile phones, saying that they wouldn't compete with landlines because of the increased handset costs.
> lack of IEEE754

Course for 98% of use cases IEEE754 is broken.
A social media company getting the Senate leader of one of the 2 major parties in the US on their side is a huge fucking deal.

The Stamos firing is mentioned prominently in the article. He seems like the only person with the guts to speak truth to power... and he was fired, his career basically ended, for exposing the truth of a foreign Governments malicious interference? Come on man... this is HUGE. The message She sent with Stamos’ firing was: if you get in the way of our growth, we will git ya. And she hasn’t addressed that in this post.
"Yes we can so this", technically, facial recognition is now there.

"Why are we doing this?" Singapore is an already incredibly safe place with pride in the effectiveness of the rule of law.

The screenshot, as captioned:

> SenseTime surveillance software identifying details about people and vehicles runs as a demonstration at the company's office in Beijing, China, October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo

Improve people's lives how?

> plan to use cutting-edge technology to improve people’s lives and has pledged to be sensitive to privacy

All of this is possible without using personally identifiable information.

> The government also hopes to use other sensors on the lamp posts to monitor air quality and water levels, count electric scooters in public places, and collect footfall data to aid urban and transport planning, GovTech said.

Should a European citizen visit Singapore, would this be GDPR compliant?
> There is no peace movement, there won’t be ever again.

There's no draft, nobody feels any personal danger so they don't care - the peace movement of the 1960s was a direct result of young white men fearing the draft, deciding that made them an oppressed group, and looking to the recently successful black civil rights battles as inspiration to start marching and occupying places.

Now, they just fear brown people in their neighborhoods, bombings by people who dress funny and write in squiggles, and international pedophile rings - things that, if anything, threaten them even less than wars they will never see. Some of them fear that wars and mass imprisonment will end, because they're employed in the industries that supply those things.
Doesn't Qt creator fill this need for Qt? (real question, I've never used it)
facebook applying for a privacy-invading patent is absolutely news which belongs on a "news for hackers" site
Most siloed messengers are XMPP.
I actually liked the idea.. until you made the HQ2 comparison.

Now I'm trying to find a reason why subsidising young, educated, upper-middle class professionals is morally defensible, considering there are still millions of children in the US alone growing up in poverty and chronic food insecurity.

I understand the cash flow may end up net positive for Tulsa when/if people end up staying. But that's not guaranteed. In fact, this is a self-selected group of people defined by exactly their willingness to move when there are opportunities elsewhere.

And there's the risk that it just sets of a competitive race-to-the-bottom. I guess we'd all like our taxes to be cut in half. But US tax rates are already extremely low.

The sort of targeted tax break for a very specific slice of the population also feels...icky? It's no longer progressive taxation with everyone contributing according to their means. It's "I'm young, single, and work with buzzwords. Therefore I don't pay taxes." (10 years later: "I have children and my wife is sick. They know I can't leave and my tax rate quintupled".

Edit: just noticed it's privately financed, undercutting the meat of my complaints. But only until some other city uses public money to keep up.
I'm talking about companies with difficulty hiring enough employees. Almost never are these the jobs close to a reasonable poverty standard.

So minimum wage is an entirely different topic. Increasing minimum wage will not solve any hiring problems, it only bolsters negotiation power for those at the bottom. Which is a good thing, but no solution to the stated problem.
well, the term is at rest. so an index in memory is probably not encrypted, just as they decrypt the data to be send over the wire (also encrypted, e.g. via HTTPS, which I think the SDK uses under the hood).

this isn't a big deal since sensitive/user data usually is a terrible choice for a key. (you get hot spots.) but i'm sure there's someone out there using SSNs as a key...
Node.js api experiment using hapi.js
“It's not that Wall Street will take over. It's that Silicon Valley has become Wall Street but it doesn't realize it yet“

1000x yes. This is exactly what happened.

An entire generation of impressionable youngsters, essentially brainwashed into believing to the depths of their soul that Silicon Valley is a utopian meritocracy, composed solely of founders out there saving the world by exploiting zero day vulnerabilities in the individual/social/collective/national psyche.

Like a burning-man-gone wrong style acid trip, where everything starts out peachy and Friendly and then somehow, imperceptibly, so slowly that you never even saw it coming until it was far too late, the place for your friends turns into the circus, like LinkedIn but even more shameless self promotion and rampant fakery, and one day you wake and realize to your horror that real people’s lives are being destroyed due to this tone-deaf technology juggernaut. Shifts in global politics. Bullying. Teen suicides. Cognitive bias amplified by the collective intelligence of some of the greatest and most misguided minds of our generation, all united behind their leader’s vision of a world of programmable social interactions, backed by an absolutely ruthless win at all costs mentality.

The war on reality has begun, people. It’s actually been going on for the last 14 years, but the masses are finally starting to pick up on it.

Facebook employees: it’s time to pick a side and engage in some public collective action like your frenemies at Google. The #techlash is upon us. Ethics is coming back into fashion. Take a stand. Not only will it help save the world, for real this time, it will look good on a resume.
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The United States is a democracy, and the Constitution was framed with the expectation that citizens have the right and even the duty to be both locally and federally involved.

If someone's mental health is at risk, I'm right there with you - throw out Twitter and see a doctor. But being angry at the federal government is just about as American as a cheeseburger, and it's not useless. Demonstrations work, anger works. If for no other reason than so kids 20 years from now don't ask "and everyone was just ok with that?"

I appreciate you're trying to help people but I disagree with your prescription. It whiffs of "your actions don't matter, peasant."
Standup Meets Bagel
No. In capitalism its a question of supply and demand. Usually the jobs that most people love, are in low demand, and high supply, so they can pay less.

If you love a job that only very few people love, you can still make demands and request a high salary.
Would it follow that in countries that didn't have elections at all in 1972, the corruption of their current elections could hardly be a threat to democracy?

It's only been 50 years?
That's only the case when profit margins are so low that the minimum wage extinguishes the marginal benefit of a worker.

At the bottom of the wage spectrum that's mostly not true. Profits would allow for higher wages, but the negotiating power of the employers is such that they can hold wages down. In these cases minimum wages do make sense and don't result in higher unemployment. And implementing minimum wage laws has shown that it does not affect unemployment in a big manner.
@dang.. why has this article disappeared from the front page?
I like to imagine that random Bobbies patrol the embassy, in the off chance he steps outside.
Yeah. The $10k is essentially a relocation package for anyone with a family and a house. Clearly those folks are not the target audience, sadly.
As usual, context is critical. By the end of the primary, DWS was a lightning rod of controversy. Hillary recognized DWS was an obstacle to the Bernie wing rallying behind her and so she made a deal with DWS to get her to step down without a fight. She wasn't "forced" out due to wrongdoing, it was purely a political move to put the primary fights to rest and look towards defeating Trump. Had DWS stayed and defended herself, that would have severely weakened party unity. In such cases, truth takes a back seat to reconciliation.

Brazile's case is trickier. Taking everything she says at face value (which is a mistake), the main thing she demonstrated was that Hillary's campaign saved the DNC from bankruptcy before the primary by assuming its debt. Hillary (reasonably) put some controls on the DNC's finances in response to the mismanagement. Brazile had no evidence, nor did she claim that Hillary or anyone directed the DNC to act against Bernie. Besides, with the unfiltered look into the DNCs emails and Hillary's campaign's emails, you would expect to see mountains of evidence of Hillary manipulating the DNC against Bernie. But there was no such evidence whatsoever.

The other issue is the fundraising agreement that combined DNC-raised money with Hillary campaign money. But the fundraising agreement was standard and Bernie's campaign had the opportunity to sign the same fundraising agreement but declined.
My guess is that it's seems rather complicated and intimidating to non-tech users. I've been using and testing Notion for a while but when I consider my non-tech-savvy colleagues I imagine I'd have a much easier time explaining Basecamp and Airtable to them. Airtable feels more inviting compared to Notion.

Or put differently: I think we overlook how many people might be overwhelmed with building their very own specific todo list in something like Notion or to a lesser degree Airtable, compared to a solution that provides a fixed, rigid set of fields.
Great!! Is it useful in an audio recording in a noisy area as well?

I'll give it a spin and see if it helps.
Yeah. That has been my experience. AWS has way better customer interaction and will refund "small accidents" with credits. Google makes it hard to reach a person and won't budge at all on similar issues. On the flip side, the documentation on Google Cloud seems a lot better than AWS.
Couldn't Amazon license their technology? Making it another AWS service, but with custom hardware?
Chimborazo in Ecuador has an altitude of 6,310 meters (20,703 feet). Mount Everest has a higher altitude, and Mauna Kea is "taller." However, Chimborazo has the distinction of being the "highest mountain above Earth's center."

This is because Earth is not a sphere - it is an oblate spheroid. As an oblate spheroid, Earth is widest at its equator. Chimborazo is just one degree south of the equator. At that location, it is 6,384 kilometers (3,967 miles) above Earth's center, or about 2 kilometers (about 1.2 miles) farther from Earth's center than Mount Everest.
When students acquire student debt to go to an expensive college, or get the same money from their parents, they do so because they expect to come out with a benefit over going to a state school.

And, maybe unfortunately, given some due diligence, that decision is still most likely the correct one. And yes, there are fraudulent schools and diminishing returns etc.
Weird? 68000 is hardly weird -- the original Sun machines were 68Ks. The MIPS CPUs were designed to run C from the get go.

And the reference in the manual to the Unisys machine not having byte pointers: the PDP-6 (the original 36-bit machine as far as I know) had byte pointers that allowed you to specify bytes in the width 1 to 63 bits wide. It was common to have six-bit characters (you could pack six to a word) as well as 7-bit ASCII characters (you could pack 5 to a word).
I've read the first few pages. Looks like an interesting paper and I'll read it further. Only flaw is that it doesn't cover Steve Russell being the first to discover/invent continuations. Steve Russell was the first implementor of LISP, and gave it its final syntax after McCarthy did his design work on it.
psst, your personal website is returning a 502
Isn't this true in general? This protects against someone walking into the datacenter and stealing a harddrive (which is Amazon's responsibility anyway).

If you want to be sure the data is encrypted, store encrypted values/blobs/files/etc is generally Amazon's stance (for instance, for S3). For S3 they call this "client side encryption".
11/15 Wired article: 'How California needs to adapt'. https://www.wired.com/story/how-california-needs-to-adapt-to...

"Last year, that conflagration came in the form of the Thomas Fire. But Montecito had been readying itself for decades.... They really focused on defensible space around homes, particularly the homes that were closest up against the wildland areas.... When the Thomas Fire hit, Montecito couldn’t rely on aircraft to drop water, but seven homes were lost—not 500."

Of course, a fire-related mudslide soon destroyed many homes there. So a related thought: some places should not be occupied.
To worry less.
Wikileaks didn’t break into the server. No one knows how the emails were obtained. Your reply demonstrates your hypocrisy nicely. Clearly you just don’t like what Wikileaks has to say.
To be fair, they underwent Denazification
If all non-Americans that work for non-American governments have to declare that fact to America, then there are a lot of criminals in the world.
Ah ha! Great!! It reminds me my Grany stories in childhood. Huge memory disk, Floppies and room-sized mainframes.

Worth to read it.