skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's understandable that residential property ownership is not for the weak or the squeamish, but portraying landlords as some heartless monsters is not professional (and simply not right).

It is a hard business to be in, no argument. And as long as you are certain that you are running a business and not a charity (different values, income sources, taxes, meetings, relationships etc etc), these "difficult" decisions come quite easily, to be honest. There are people depending on you, yourself (largely undervalued statement), your family, your employees, your employees' families, your contractors, your suppliers. There are a lot of nuances in this business.

It IS hard. There is no such a thing as "easy business". There will be tough moments and difficult decisions, and if you are not ready for that, quite shortly you'll be reporting an apology to your CUSTOMERS live on youtube, holding back tears, just like we saw earlier in one of the posts with the article from Bloomberg.
> The premise of this argument relies on assuming life arising on Earth and Mars are stochastic processes that each occurred independently

That isn't the premise. It's the premise of how it got there for a straightforward example, but doesn't avert the filter questions (regardless of how it got there).
I can't resist.

C conference: Address is past the end of the street.

C++ conference: Reading the address requires working out an elaborate series of compile-time templates that finally resolves to the actual address. You go there to find that it's past the end of the street.

JS conference: The address is "the last place we held it". You attempt to figure out what that means, but you didn't attend last year. After some research, you find a copy of last year's invitation. Its address reads "the place where we always hold the conference". After more research and a bit of guess work, you finally arrive, but nobody else is there. You have a sinking feeling the conference wasn't in Uzbekistan after all.

TS conference: As JS, but the invitation includes a helpful explanation of how to find where "the last place we held the conference" is. Unfortunately, one of the explanations is wrong, and you arrive in Uzbekistan.

Java conference: To calculate this year's address, you must first go to a JavaConferenceFactory on the outskirts of town. Talk to the JavaConferenceFactoryManagerSingleton, and give him your JavaConferenceConfiguration. He can give you a JavaConference, which you can cast to a JavaConferenceImpl. The JavaConferenceImpl contains a JavaConferenceAddressLocator, which when passed a WorldMappingSystem can give you a JavaConferenceAddress.

Haskell conference: There is no conference. Holding one could cause side effects.

Go conference: The address is given in a simple, predictable format: interface{}.
> The internal vs external distinction also maps to other pairs of concepts like synchronous vs asynchronous, pull vs push, direct vs inverted, opaque vs transparent and local vs remote or distributed.
This sentence is superfluous, as none of the listed _pairs_ are mentioned anywhere else ever again, besides sync vs async.
> This explanation serves to protect Zuckerberg and Sandberg from additional blame, even as Sandberg strives to show she’s not passing the buck by noting “I want to be clear that I oversee our Comms team and take full responsibility for their work and the PR firms who work with us.”

> Schrage’s defense of his bosses provides additional cover for Zuckerberg’s comments from a CNN interview that ran tonight in which he said he won’t step down as Facebook’s chairman and hopes to continue working alongside Sandberg for decades to come. The memo could have been aimed at quieting internal unrest about Facebook’s chief lobbyist Joel Kaplan. His ties to the GOP, support for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and involvement with Facebook’s latest PR troubles had led some employees to question his employment. Now Facebook has someone else to take the heat.

> Schrage is effectively jumping on the grenade here.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/schrage-definers/

For those interested, I did my own reflection into Facebook.

Inside the Bubble at Facebook: https://www.nemil.com/tdf/part1-employees.html
"Hey, it looks like you're writing a CV"
jinglemail is a very interesting term. Where did you come across that?
> Android and iOS both make substantial use of "long press" to access context menus, which require that the user wait hundreds of milliseconds in the middle of their command gestures.

> A related source is delays for disambiguation. For example, on mobile Safari there's a default 350ms delay between when the user taps a link and when the browser begins fetching the new page, in order to tell the difference between a link click and a double-tap zoom.

I really wish mobile devices had one or two modifier buttons on the side. That way you could have "right click", maybe even positioning a cursor without clicking, all sorts of crazy stuff, like being able to "mouse over" a link in a mobile browser.
I agree that the game of changing software and work is fun and interesting in a certain light, but not really meaningful.

At the core of all of this is something that people here just don't seem to want to wade into (understandably): capitalism does not have an ethical foundation. Capital is limited, for some to have, some have to forego (usually not by choice, or laziness, but by systemic force). That is not an ethical or moral system. Yes, we are talking about software here, but so many of the points made here boil down to those that are comfortable with capitalism and (so-called) democracy.... and those that see the major major flaws in it and are trying to actively pursue something better.
What a wasted opportunity to not arrange the festival in the actual town of Hammerfest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerfest
Huh, doesn't making it publicly known before patching it in PHP constitute a 0day? Or by unpatched did they mean patched upstream but not here?
Reminder that you can support Dragan's work on Patreon, if it's acceptable to post here:

https://www.patreon.com/draganrocks
That's a surprising expectation to an older developer coming from the days when a home computer was less than a decent used car and a developer's workstation was more than some new cars.
Couple of corrections because I got several things wrong:

- credit where credit is due: the technology was developed by Microsoft;

- it was developed as a generic image recognition software, hence the neutral name;

- it is a hash, not a bloom filter; not sure why I remember it as a bloom; it doesn’t appear to be able to recognise new images;

- the technology is widely used, but it was donated by Microsoft to International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) which isn’t loosely connected but, yes, has close ties with all local law enforcement on those questions.

It is available on Azure Marketplace, so widely available. The technology is still being expanded to work on videos and could be used to identify terrorism-related content. Because it’s meant to be resistant to alterations but not infer new content, it is not able to flag new content: that has to be manual. (Someone at the ICMEC has a horrifying job.) I would assume that it is generally implemented by flagging some images in uploaded albums and sending the whole album, or images from the same uploader, for manual verification. That would explain what I’ve heard about some images being potential.

To come back to the original story: it seems more likely that Tumblr’s problems are related to new images.
Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Fooled the Nazis and Saved Lives
A bigger plane would need to ionise larger nitrogen molecules.
There has been a lot of stuff in recent years arguing that cats domesticated themselves, whereas we domesticated these other animals.
> you can’t un-write to disk

Why not? (Experimental) versioned file systems exist.
I wish somebody would fix the GCC/G++ this way. I was stupid enough to try installing webkitgtk from aur (as I couldn't find what binary Arch package would make it work in Python), many hours have already passed, I have already written the program I wanted with Qt instead of Gtk while waiting (although the whole computer works annoyingly slowly during the process) and it still is compiling...
It’s a not-uncommon position that landlords are morally obligated to give lifetime free rent to any sympathetic case, as lost investment income and a lost home are not really comparable. The “housing should be a human right” camp doesn’t have any specific proposal on how to pay for it; existing landlords are as good as any funding source.
This could be just the tip of the iceberg.
I thought your house being under is only defined by you owing more than it's worth, not by your ability to pay the mortgage or not.
It may just be because I'm super tired but I'm struggling to see how this is different from an open SMTP relay.
Whenever I'm severed from the internet or news there is no withdraw symptoms what-so-ever. I don't even think twice about it. It's strange.
Several interesting internal documents about FS have recently surfaced at Bitsavers. See http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/futureSystem/
It is a bit more expensive, but not much, for the same quality (aka less bitrate). For same bitrate, it's 25%/30 more expensive.

No actual measure, just feeling from what we've seen.
GitHub: Why chinese dev wrote docs in mandarin?
Hi.. recently we found so many repo documented in mandarin.

I mean they fork a repo originally in english. Why did they conribute back in mandarin ?

It give us one more barrier to learn a new things.
you seem to want to make a distinction between the dopamine hit you get from driving for uber/lyft and from the pat on the back or the kind word your boss gives you every now and then. but our whole lives are contained in the vast quantities of neurotransmitters thrown around by our brain by such actions, and it's difficult to single out one manipulative instance from another.

what i would suggest is better is to bridge the information asymmetry between contractor and contractee in ways that meaningfully allow people to make considered decisions about work. so instead of trying to protect the worker from a dopamine hit (you can't), demonstrate to them how gamification really works (from both sides). in addition, let's create a real liquid labor market so that the worker can legitimately evaluate and choose a different job if this one sucks.

then, if they choose to drive for uber/lyft, it's a considered and affirmative decision made on a level playing field. yes, this is really hard, but we can do it.
> Is there a need to seperate VideoLAN and VLC?

Yes, the community are not joint. VideoLAN has numerous people not working on VLC.

> Raspberry pi/odroid will ever be able to play 1080p AV1 Videos.

rPi? no. Recent o-Droid, yes.
CPAP breathing machines send data to manufacturers and insurers
C doesn't evolve that much nowadays, what would a C conference be about then?
> Numbers for Ryzen 2400G would be nice. That's my main computer and they make a great HTPC.

No access to those machines, so I cannot guess...
You need to go further and accept that programming languages are also not tools.
The quantity of doublespeak is off the charts.

"Many of you have raised questions" (our employees are disgusted, ashamed, and close to open revolt)

"We’ve been looking into this" (as if nobody at FB knew what they'd done until the NYT story dropped)

"diversify our DC advisors after the election" (kowtow to the same ultra right wing forces who corrupted our platform to begin with)

"Like many companies" (everybody's doing it, deflect blame and accountability)

"want government to regulate us" (insist that FB clean up the catastrophe it created)

"became particularly acute in September 2017 after we released details of Russian interference" (after the public learned that we'd given our users data to Cambridge Analytica without consent)

And that's just the first six sentences.

Just more "Delay, Deny and Deflect" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...
I think there's a third one: To generate hype. C is already established - it's been around long enough that it doesn't need advertising.
That link refers to a totally different incident which occurred over 6 weeks ago. They were quick with the info when they could pin it on an employee. Now Scamazon is being closed lip for some hidden reason.
>You can generally "mail the keys to the bank" and have no further liability.

No. There is Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure, which sounds like what you are talking about, but that is not a unilateral option you exercise by mailing keys...you need the banks permission, which they usually don’t give, especially when the property is underwater.

If people could unilaterally turn in keys and escape the debt you can be sure the banks would have gone under during the Great Recession. As it was the Federal Bailout essentially covered the legal fees for banks to foreclose on these toxic assets and recover what they could.

Still even then (like parents hypothetical) if a bank foreclosed and $300k was owed and they sold the property for $130k the next step was a separate filing for deficiency judgement (the difference or $170k in this case).
Quantum cryptanalysis is no help. It doesn't exist, probably never will and people should stop pretending like it is inevitable to crank their citation count up.
On the intensity you certainly have a point, but on rate, I was recently surprised to see that between 2016 and 2017 there were 970 recorded offenses in England and Wales relating to a 2009 law criminalizing production or possession of a category of Japanese hentai manga. Agree with the law or not, that's a huge number, especially for a topic which is, to the say the least, vigorously debated. For comparison, a similar law in the U.S. was stricken down as unconstitutional (to my knowledge) in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Alliance.
I think the analogy of Schrage jumping on the grenade it apt. Here is the quote from the linked article where he explicitly takes all of the blame:

> Who knew about this work, and who signed off on it?

>> Responsibility for these decisions rests with leadership of the Communications team. That’s me. Mark and Sheryl relied on me to manage this without controversy.
Emotet Returns Stronger Than Ever and with a Thanksgiving Theme
Could this technology be used to create a wind turbine with no moving parts? I have very little insight into how this would work but it intuitively seems applicable and would probably be way more useful.
I think that's what I meant by "rocket sled", is it really feasible to dig a tunnel all the way up a mountain?
I'd recommend Patterns in Network Architecture by John Day. I had him as a professor at Boston University and loved hearing his war stories from his days working on ARPANET. https://www.amazon.com/DAY-PATTS-NET-ARCHITECTURE-_p1/dp/013...
C is not a product unlike everything you mentioned. Even most programming languages are products these days.
> ... neither art nor science knows anything of moral approval or disapproval.

Science at least aspires to moral impartiality in some contexts but how on earth can this be ascribed to art? Can you see Guernica morally impartial? Or even American Gothic? Let alone art forms such as movies, music, video games, comics, etc. Are any of these forms notably thin on moral approval or disapproval? Morality seems to be common as dirt in art, if not actually essential to it.

In what sense can this quote not be nonsense?
I'm not a roboticist, but have some familiarity with the field. This looks to be a practical course covering the more important topics in high level robotics.
Networking: A Top Down Approach is a great and clear read.
History of the Oceans Is Locked in Whale Earwax
What I don't like about high energy astrophysics like this is they keep ignoring obvious routes such as anything that involves electric charge or anything that isn't gravity.
>Ruby is used in a lot of places where Rails isn't, by a few large companies.

And indirectly by many more who use chef
I am not a lawyer. I was going to reply to rhizome (sibling post of yours) saying this really differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but in my understanding, in most US jurisdictions the lender has no recourse (either none at all, legally speaking, or tends to get nowhere in practice). Is my understanding really untrue and the banks can go after your other assets in all US states?

Edit: A quick google told me that there are 12 "non-recourse states" for "most residential mortgages": Alaska, Arizona, California, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. https://www.arklawgroup.com/blog/how-do-i-know-whether-my-mo...
Just a billing/customer name but no address. Email communication goes via Amazon so they can cut you off from the customer and also so they can remove email addresses and link, but they can't do much if a seller wants to call up or send promotional material in the package.
If you want to serve some content that's illegal and someone
a) offers you hosting, and
b) doesn't know who you are,
then you absolutely host there because it's zero risk to you.
GDPR isn't a US law.
A collection of pre-trained RL agents using Stable Baselines http://stable-baselines.readthedocs.io/ developed by Antonin Raffin(https://araffin.github.io/) and Ashley Hill(https://github.com/hill-a).
I think it has to do with the sense of participation in imagined communities (https://people.ucalgary.ca/~bakardji/community/imagined_comm...). That's kind of why I read the news from my home country even though I don't live there anymore.
Undumping TeX
A Strange Question about Recovery from Depression: Why Get Well?
Not undefined behavior unless more than 1 element past end of the array. ;)
Do people still care about MSVC outside whatever is left of the traditionalist Microsoft ecosystem?
For what it’s worth, that tone ——rather formal, precise, factual and willing to address one’s responsibility head-on, in this case, being fired, once the case has been made—— is the closest that I’ve seen publicly from many internal notes. I find it ironic because I’ve always assumed that Schrage was the one preventing those notes and their tone from being shared more publicly.

Mark’s more recent note [1] too: the length, the speculative tone not precise in their detail, but clear in their vision, all that is quite representative of notes that comes out of certain key teams (typically Core Data science & Research). I’m happy those come out more. It’s also ironic because you would typically be asked to summarize those for a notoriously attention-constrained executive.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-blueprint-f...
Stay Confident During Your Job Search Focusing on the Process
Whats the darkweb version of google?
Or explain why Swahili was "required"
That is absolutely not true. Being underwater is having a Loan to Value ratio > 100%.
A community-driven FAQ for RPKI
I believe this is supposed to have a title starting with "Ask HN: "
When I submit a link, it doesn't show up. Does HN penalize Tor?
A quick search says yes! https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:81221f03...

This from 2011 Does anyone know if something like this exists at large scales today?
Like a pressure release valve for Mark and Sheryl. I do think the pressure for Mark to step aside will grow stronger in the coming year. Even though the class structure prevents a hostile removal, the social pressure will be substantial.
He does rock!
Solar and Onshore Wind Now Cheapest Source of New Bulk Power
This is why jumbonium was invented.
Check out the unit tests around the parts that are interesting and dig into the codebase from there understanding how things are used from the tests.
This is one that people have been getting wrong for decades.

"A zero-day (also known as 0-day) vulnerability is a computer-software vulnerability that is unknown to those who would be interested in mitigating the vulnerability (including the vendor of the target software)" Patching and knowing about the vulnerability are different things.

And so, this is not 0day.
Is income inequality rising around the world?
I'm loving the ability to buy articles a la carte on Blendle. No relationship with the company.

https://blendle.com/i/wsj-com/a-decade-after-the-housing-cri...
It's honestly not my style, but they do look beautiful. I'm certainly surprised about the price... a little more expensive than what I thought it would be but they do look high quality. Congrats on finding something that you guys love to have in your house. I think a lot of people go through life never having that type of thing and just haphazardly collect things.
The analogy is very apt but I don’t think him presenting it that way is disingenuous: both Mark & Sheryl have a lot to handle and couldn’t possibly be involved in those decisions, not until it’s on the front page of the NYTimes. I’m not sure that Schrage would be able to pick it up either (as he points out): it was very likely only raised to him as a problem, possibly only after the Times published.

Schrage’s decision would at most to admit to it publicly and pro-actively or not, and when.
The article does say that it became widely known only the day before the attack.

Day zero starts counting from the time where either the developers/maintainers of the system or the general public are informed about the vulnerability. If the vulnerability has been discussed in some private forums or exploited by a NSA for many years, it doesn't matter, it's still day zero until it goes public (or privately disclosed to, in this case, maintainers of PHP). And as the attack was something like ~24 hours after disclosure, it's close enough to call it a zero-day attack.
Why is it morally acceptable for a landlord to be able to evict a tenant from their home if their payment was not received for a reason out of the tenant's control, like being lost by the post office or stolen from the landlord's mailbox?

The grandparent comment was responding to starting eviction process one day after rent was due. I don't see how contacting the tenant and waiting a week equates to giving lifetime free rent.
Not if the content is cryptographically signed by the author, so at least some content can be served safely. I'm not sure if it's possible to have a dynamically generated website that encrypts or signs all content without having the signing key accessible to the host, though.
I discovered this when I moved. Fortunately Apple maps suffices.
> good ai can do things like predict what you want, understand your speech, understand your intent, etc.

It can be used for those things, or entirely different things that don't have anything to do with private data. It's not hard to not do these things just because it's possible to do them.
Usually jurisdictions have some grace period of a few days to account for mail delays around the first, but you can just start the process a couple days after the first. When I first moved to my own apartment, it had a no-nonsense manager. My roommate and I would usually deposit two checks together, but once he couldn't pay his rent on time so it was just my check for half. A couple days later I came home to a "notice of eviction, vacate before date x" on the front door, which is what is meant by "begin the eviction process". That is them contacting the tenant, now it's my turn to contact them and maybe the excuse is "I mailed it already days ago, maybe it got lost, let me mail another and let's set up an autopay system so this doesn't happen again." In my case it was just me hoping my friend would deposit his check soon. I took the notice and another check down to the property manager and explained, and learned a lesson myself on what joint liability really means. I had no ill will for the property manager enforcing the contract.