skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was excited to explore the possibility of a job at Facebook last week. An opportunity to work with some of the smartest (and nicest!) engineers in the world on a problem space I've been intellectually invested in for several years. This latest revelation crosses a line for me.

> But this Soros thing is different. This is no passive failure. It’s a malevolent action taken against groups who criticize Facebook for things that Facebook admits it has failed at. It takes advantage of and contributes to the most poisonous aspects of our public discourse.
- https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1062932740729856000

Facebook's response is utterly confused. When the unseemly smears their PR/lobbying firm propagated come to light they quickly sack them but also attempt to defend the smear. Which is it?

> Lastly we wanted to address the issue of Definers, who we ended our contract with last night. The New York Times is wrong to suggest that we ever asked Definers to pay for or write articles on Facebook’s behalf – or to spread misinformation. Our relationship with Definers was well known by the media – not least because they have on several occasions sent out invitations to hundreds of journalists about important press calls on our behalf. Definers did encourage members of the press to look into the funding of “Freedom from Facebook,” an anti-Facebook organization. The intention was to demonstrate that it was not simply a spontaneous grassroots campaign, as it claimed, but supported by a well-known critic of our company. To suggest that this was an anti-Semitic attack is reprehensible and untrue.
- https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/new-york-times-update/

It clearly plays into the modern anti-Semitic conspiracy theories being pushed in right wing media and Republican campaign ads.

Someone senior at Facebook needs to take responsibility for this.
So this is part of a more general effect where low taxes on profits deter investment? It makes a little more sense to me phrased that way. You don't need to worry about increasing your future profits as much when they're higher now.
You literally can buy them on eBay.
there needs to be an avenue to challenge that as well though, a high burden of cause, and a venue to exercise or expect the constitutional right against self incrimination.
An algorithm to extract looping GIFs from videos – __del__( self )
oh please really? her excuse is she’s incompetent and didn’t know who she was hiring? and what about the fact that she yelled at the security chief for being honest about russia?
Being Malay? Explain please
Ask HN: What is happening with the Marriott union protests?
At the same time as having the 'Hague Invasion Act' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr... - and threatening the judges of the ICC with sanctions on the basis of their current investigations into war crimes in Afghanistan. - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/trump-administration-to-take...
How to manage Technical Debt
The only way the profits could be 0 is if people's salaries are too high.

Vet school costs a lot, almost as much as medical school. Yet the procedures are much, much cheaper. Probably because vets are paid half as much or less than doctors.
Wow - thank you very, very much!
it's in the code/comments
Someone that does not want to be tracked by facial or gait recognition, either because he's a criminal or a political activist, will always be able to do that. There might be a race between the recognition software and the circumvention technology, but a dedicated individual will always be able to avoid that. Normal people without any criminal, terrorist or activist intentions will be victims of this massive surveillance. I would actually hazard the guess that it will be easier for a dedicated individual to circumvent automated surveillance than the current status quo, being observed by individuals. A smart circumvention device will not be identified as such by a surveillance system, however, a human observer will.

Regardless of circumvention possibilities, the ultimate aim of these ubiquitous surveillance systems isn't really reducing crime, but social engineering: create a panopticon, an all-observing system, and the population that knows this will avoid potentially incriminating behavior in the first place. A system designed to make people censor themselves and self-reduce their social degrees of freedom.
There are many openly gay people in Singapore. I'm glad weed is banned, as is every other drug. Malay people are not stigmatized in Singapore.

I would quite literally live in any Asian country before choosing any Western country.

But hey, each to their own right?
Apple's dark patter: can't download all photos at once from web iCloud
I wasn't aware it was possible to die from apnea - does the body not wake itself up when oxygen drops?
I used to work in the embedded world about 10 years ago. There was definitely plenty of byte-level optimization then, but reading the tea leaves pointed to a very different direction (eg, embedded java, embedded SQL).

Makes me happy to hear folks are still hacking bits in 2018.
Optimize HLS design with just Vivado settings
At the company I work for they don't offer free coffee. The reason they give as to why not is so the employees will actually have to go outside to get one.
How does this matter? Most people don't personally use the products they work on.

I think Phillip Morris probably would be surprised if a candidate quit 3 years ago but still wanted to work there...
In his case it may have started out that way, but eventually devolved after he wasn't getting the attention anymore. He became irrelevant but still wanted the same fame. He might have shined some light on things, then he became a douchebag because of that fame. But honestly he probably was always a douchebag.
In practice - like you say - for non-DSP, non-mainframe this doesn't matter. For applications development, differences between the standard libraries and even compilers are much more difficult than the few differences in architectures. Endiness, strict alignment, char signedness and overflow are about the only things that matter anymore even if you want to support nearly every modern architecture used for popular OSs, and they are relatively easy to handle. Writing C that compiles and works on eg both Unix and Windows is far more about libraries and compiler quirks.
I've been waiting for something like this, except now I want it to be embedded in my bluetooth earphones. They all suck at removing background noise when I'm speaking on a call. Will this work well even if I'm speaking into my airpods?
I thought you meant like high seas pirate. That this is happening in modern times is ... interesting.
>C is C largely because its so stupidly (and impressively) portable; if you aren’t drawing that benefit, its likely a case of the wrong tool for the job.

I'm working in medium sized embedded systems (not embedded Linux, but also not the smallest embedded systems). I've only rarerly worked on 8 or even 16bit Microcontrollers. Most of what I work on is 8bit chars, 32bit, Little Endian normal Microcontrollers.

I really don't need the portability, the targets are all the same, however they only have C/C++ compilers. And we can't use GC. Rust would be a very nice choice at least for the application code. I'm not sure how to write low level drivers in Rust, but with FFI I would just push that to the boundaries, and make at least 90% of the applications Rust. But there's no LLVM backend for most embedded processors I work with, and even if there is, the maturity might not be there, and no company would switch to that considering that the next target might not have a backend.

We have to use C, because it's the only thing that we are offered. But for desktop applications I see no real reason to start something in C nowadays.
FB broke the anti-poaching agreement between all other Silicon Valley companies and at one point made Google give everyone a 20% raise.
I have the 256gb phone, and the phone was uploading all the original photos to iCloud, and leaving the optimized version on the phone. Now my 5gb free storage is filled up, and I have no way of downloading 1000 of my photos unless I go and shift click through all of them...
Is using a crack easier than dealing with bureaucracy?
The European public sector is moving into the cloud and we’re picking either Amazon or Azure.

Azure is really far ahead on security compliance with EU regulation, perhaps mostly on the image side of things though. But that’s important too, because when I ask our data protection officer and our lawyers which way to go, they point to Azure.

Which is great and bad. I really, really like Microsoft and Azure is awesome for .Net. Only we’re doing less and less .Net, and more and more of the development pool I have to chose from in hiring situations live in AWS.

Our main cloud will continue to run in Azure, because that’s where our 365 platform is, it’s where our IT crew is certified and Microsoft has been a good partner for decades. But I do want the option for us to use smaller software houses that are AWS only to develop minor systems that we operate in AWS ourselves as well. I think this will help AWS in that regard.
I think the biggest fault is a lack of virtual rendering. Slate renders the entire document so if you're doc is too big, slate starts to break fast. Virtual rendering (like in the Ace Editor) solves the problem.
I don’t really get this. If you’re already replacing shared libraries, how much more difficult is it to replace the full application? Seems that replacing shared libraries on an ad-hoc manner is exactly the behavior that leads to the infamous incompatibility problems down the road.
He's talking about network frames, not graphics frames.
* Make sure your payment processes automatically provides a business tax invoice / receipt with full details. It's surprising how much of a pain this can be for even business oriented services.
Totally, people from Romania are the same that people from Netherlands. Only minor differences like history, culture, language, life expectancy, religion, etc. are different. :)

Btw. I did not say that all 13 nationals are from Europe, in fact they are from: India, Pakistan, Algeria, South Africa, Australia and United States. They did not have a rough time to come to Munich and they love it here, have kids, speak German and integrated into the society more than I am (I am from Europe). I am not sure how they managed to dodge the racist Bavarians.
Firefox Monitor Adds New Desktop Browser Feature
If I'm reading this correctly, you have to build your own Chromium to test it, which is what you had to do for Firefox... until today. Now you can just download it.
Technically, the GG only bans preparing an offensive war. But what kind of German would improvise that kind of thing?
https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...
Researchers have tricked fingerprint-based recognition system using AI
Or if not achieve critical mass, just slow down the shit show.
They might, but ISPs still aren't in a hurry to support v7.
This seems like it would be useful as a pre-processing step before feeding audio to a speech-to-text engine.
Now only if NVIDIA would start working on GBM and support Wayland...

Many would say to just buy AMD, but the power consuption story isn’t that great
deploy jammer in area/cut network lines to disrupt access before destroying infrastructure
Labor protection laws limit options with direct employees, they do not interfere at all with a company's relation to suppliers. That's why subcontracting exists, it's employer-side redundancy insurance.
So in layman's terms the orangutan's thought process is like so; I just saw a Tiger. The last time I saw one it was hanging around the area for X minutes.

I'll wait till then before I call out the safe noise.

I wonder what happens to orangutans that cry wolf?
Trees are a crop that have a nasty habit of burning. Firefighting is another example of government subsidy for industry.
Great anecdotal experience. Now have a look at the wikipedia facts:

In July 2017, Munich had 1.42 million inhabitants; 421,832 foreign nationals resided in the city as of 31.12.2017 with 50.7% of these residents being citizens of EU member states, and 25.2% citizens in European states not in the EU (including Russia and Turkey).[16] The largest groups of foreign nationals were Turks (39,204), Croats (33,177), Italians (27,340), Greeks (27,117), Poles (27,945), Austrians (21,944), and Romanians (18,085).

The largest foreign resident groups by 31.12.2017[17]

Turkey	37,998

Croatia 36,655

Italy	27,060

Greece	26,360

Austria 20,990

Poland	19,456

Bosnia and Herzegovina	18,987

Romania 17,415

Serbia	13,758

Iraq	12,124

Bulgaria 12,035

Kosovo	11,114

France	9,983

Hungary 8,621

Spain	8,614

Russia	8,603

China	7,624

India	7,440

Afghanistan 7,234

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich#Demographics
When you get into DSP 24bit isn't too weird. But then you also expect that going in.
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Companies have successfully convinced themselves that anything software is some form of black magic that can only be procured by the IT department and through a small army of Business Development Managers. In my job I have fairly broad discretion to purchase things, generally up to $100,000 I need only write a one-paragraph justification of what I'm doing as long as I'm working within an approved budget.

Except 'IT'.

I can't buy a $5 mouse at Best Buy. Or a Lightning cable to charge my company-provided iPhone. That will trigger long chains of accusatory emails from Accounting and Procurement. Software and 'IT equipment' has to be purchased according to the Policy, which to be quite honest I've never successfully figured out how to do.

It's come to the point that I'd rather buy small things (<$50) out of my own pocket than persecute myself by spending days going through some convoluted process and knowing at the end of it that we paid 3x the market price to get it from our 'Preferred Supplier'.
If you really care about canned tuna, you can buy high quality stuff for $6/can that starts to approach the fresh stuff. No one does though. They buy the $1/can stuff that’s mostly junk.
> This was a lightbulb moment

I knew it from the get go. I also know most people here are left leaning but that people haven't really thought about why they take the positions they take. There is a lot of indoctrination. This is by no means an attack on OP or you personally. Survey most people here (HN) without bringing up guns and they will agree with what OP said; people are the problem and not the tools.

Bring up the issue of guns and because it is the 'progressive/liberal/democrat' thing to do, guns(tools) become the problem. If we weren't polarized politically and instead took time to think about issues for ourselves, then our convictions would be consistent and hold true across the board.

I am a black non-american who absolutely agrees with and loves Trump. I look at the data on economics and what he's done for America and wish more people could see the same and forget about what the media says about him. His policies on immigration are common sense and exactly what I would want for my country; people have to come in the right way and some places have to have more scrutiny than others. That doesn't mean I hate humans but rather that I understand that people are different and some worse than others.
I agree that makes sense over the long term (100+ years), assuming that natural triggers are less frequent than fires put out by people.
Compiling C# to WASM with Mono and Blazor Then Debugging in Chrome DevTools
This string made me chuckle

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...
>There's probably some safety concerns

Apparently dry nose and skin irritation. I wouldn't worry too much about it. But if you can get a doctor's appointment you might get an insurance to pay for your experiment.

https://shop.edensleep.co.nz/how-does-cpap-work/#
> Facebook's core utility as the web's primary identity provider, and the network effects underlying that position, form a tremendous "economic moat."

Maybe its just me being extremely privacy-conscious, but I only ever had Airbnb and Spotify linked to Facebook. I never wanted to link Facebook further into my life than I had to. When I deleted my Facebook account it was simple to convert my Airbnb account, and I just let the fb-linked Spotify account die with it.
If this is true I am going to lose all my confidence in Boeing.
> Should a European citizen visit Singapore, would this be GDPR compliant?

Has the GDPR self-pleasuring circle gone too far now?

After sites blocking themselves (lol) now we have that questioning. People are just out of their minds.
Not in its current formulation. It uses a different representation of the tensors. However, a new version/algorithm that will be available in a few months can be used in TF and PyTorch.
So sad to see all this effort to "kill the messenger" instead of first prosecuting the ones that committed murders and war crimes.
Literally every other nation isn't captured by the medical/pharmaceutical industry. Our pharma industry is equivalent in size to the sum of every other pharma industry in the top 10 put together.

Do any of those other countries have a policy that their government is not allowed to negotiate drug prices? Our medicare system has that rule.

We have a system so incredibly captured by the pharma industry that it could actually approve a proposal that the government shouldn't negotiate drug prices with our own tax dollars. Even though everyone knows Medicare is going bankrupt, somehow we can just keep overpaying for drugs.

The problem is that the biggest industries in any free country always take over politics and dictate the policies around their industry. That is why single payer will not be a panacea for us, it will be a feeding frenzy of government money being transferred to private industry.

Until we make moves to clear out the corruption, granting the government more power to transfer our taxes to the pharma companies is just going to be a blood bath.
Digital Transformation Is Exposing Companies to Higher Cyber Risks
Dogs have been genetically selected to process human food scraps. They have succeeded as a species because they eat what humans throw away. It’s not reasonable to think humans could extract proper nutrition from animal food (but if you’re starving, you’d probably deal).
No quality HiDPI support just yet. Not with GL acceleration, anyway. There is a patch on the bugzilla (in the 'wayland' tracking issue) but it's very buggy.
Repo maintainer here.

...can someone explain how the repo keeps resurfacing? I haven’t promoted it in a long time. (Looking at the repo traffic, it recently spiked on the 6th, but nothing since then.)
So people can avoid sponsoring creators that already have a fair income level.
Where in the USA is Julian Assange?
>Sure, messing with any medical device could be fatal - but so can the medical condition itself. I would like to live in a world where I can make those decisions on my own and improve my life by taking calculated risks, as opposed to a world where my death is an acceptable trade-off for an overloaded and risk averse medical establishment.

>That being said, the regulations around medical devices and healthcare have evolved in a certain cultural environment where blame is the name of the game: if any treatment ever fails, the public and political uproar against the healthcare industry is always vicious and patients will never accept any personal responsibility. It's understandable why the medical professionals react by removing any kind of control away from the patient - you cannot assume responsibility for something that you do not control.

I completely agree. I think there should just be laws governing this though. It needs to be an adult making the decision that is sufficiently smart to understand the risks. And then you sign something that absolves others if you take that personal risk and can't sue if it harms you.
How about simplifying it further?

When individuals get into positions of unaccountable power and have access to infinite resources they don't do as great a job as we think they can.

In politics, military...even science, the arts and entertainment again and again we are seeing we overestimate what people at the top of the food chain can do.

With speed and scale technology produces larger and larger interconnected networks that can be exploited.

Our traditional power hierarchies that get propped up to make this exploitation efficient are highly efficient only during the growth phase.
Could we let other apes and animals evolve over millions of years under our supervision and eye?

If so, could a more advance species have done the same with us and is now observing us from a distance?
That's actually a very sensible way to put it.
Kinds of Oversized and Event Badge Holders
An extradition from Sweden would involve both Sweden and the UK government, which is likely to co-operate. Extraditing him from the UK would involve both the government and the courts, which are a less certain thing. I mean, it's still a bit of a conspiracy theory, but it could've made the US's life easier.
I'm not sure what you think you're trying to prove with those numbers. Aside from the fact that nationality and race are not the same thing and cannot be conflated in this context, those numbers don't mean anything.

40% of people from Mississippi are black. That doesn't mean that they don't face serious racism in Mississippi, from everyday life to their own elected officials.
Have you taken a look at https://zenkit.com/ ?
Quite the opposite, I guess you haven't been paying attention to the developer sessions.

They are building the infrastructure to place Win32 apps inside the same sandbox model as UWP, to the point they can share the same container model.

Project Centipede and Desktop Brige were the first steps, the most recent one is the new MSIX package format.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sgern/2018/06/18/a-closer-l...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/MSIX-Blog/MSIX-Packag...
“Brain drain” suggests there is a leak, makes not much sense to try attracting new brain without fixing the leak first. Identify who are “brain”, track their needs, provide intervening opportunities when they feel theyre not satisfied.
Can you elaborate? What was Facebook's role in this? Do you blame Facebook for not filtering out any potential fake news or did they take an active position in the matter?
>admit their teams are far better qualified to make those decisions than they are

But he still needs to know what they are talking about.
It saddens me to see so many people I consider “progressives” who are cheering this on like a crowd of mobs about to burn a witch.
> Case in point the old joke about the biggest divide between Israelis and Palestinians being the way they pronounce “hummus.”

Yeah, so... that's a really offensive thing to say.

I know you don't live there, but if you're trying to prove that Munich is both ethnically diverse and not a place where Arab and Muslim people experience significant racism (which are two separate points), you really could not be hurting your own case any more.
PSA: there's fractional scaling for text even with Xorg, and most applications scale their UI accordingly. I like to set Gnome's full scaling to 1 and text scaling to 1.5.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 1
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.5

Some applications also depend on Xft and X root window DPI.

.Xresources:

Xft.dpi:	144
Xft.hinting:	1
Xft.hintstyle:	hintslight
Xft.antialias:	1
Xft.rgba:	none
Xcursor.size:	48
Xcursor.theme:	Adwaita

xrandr dpi (in my i3 startup config):

$ xrandr --dpi 144

I have a smaller secondary monitor. I just render it at 1.5x resolution and scale down:

$ xrandr --output DP-2-2 --scale 1.5x1.5 --pos 0x0

At least for me, the result is perfect HiDPI support (Chrome, GTK, Qt and IntelliJ respect it).