skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even this draconian bill I don't think has the power to make telcos mitm sites hosted overseas, does it?

But who knows, this bill seems to be the Christmas gift that keeps on giving! Merry Totalitarian Christmas, everyone!!
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Warrant canaries.
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That's interesting and thanks for the link.

I would have guessed SSDs surpassed HDDs already since 2 years on the Client.
With major redaction in the content that's nearly 50 years old!

I can't believe there is much government secret stuff from 50 years ago that it's still in the public interest to keep secret today.
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I wonder how much of that research could be automated.

What would be nice: an image search where you can search for images (and their webpages) containing a certain font (or the same font as shown in a given image).

A generalization of: https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Such environments are great. I sometime wonder though if they lead to a style of programming that can only be understood if one practically lives inside the environment.

That is essentially also Linus' argument against debuggers.
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Are we on the same website? For a US-centric site, I've always experienced HN as being pretty anti-US in keeping with the seemingly average Democrat attitude of thinking the US has been a detriment to the rest of the world for a long time.

And that's coming from a Brit. I have no horse in the Democrat-vs-Republican fight.
I will be down-voted to hell, but sometimes I feel that KR hides behind the illness to avoid responsibility. KR told that he's just "good at marketing" and has "cult of personality" [0] and I do not see an edit that it was "KR the maniac" speaking and not the "KR the normal guy".

Personally, today I'd better use `venv + pip` instead, of `pipenv`, but `pipenv` somehow was the "official" tool for package management for months, until people started discussing it [1]. I would like to have better packaging tools in python, but `pipenv` approach seemed really strange, now I know why.

If you had manic episode and did some mistakes - go and try reverse them. Revert/change the commits. Apologise for the comments you've made. But no, let's get into the position of a victim, when someone criticises you. I believe that KR may have psychological problems and/or illnesses, but his "normal self" seems to be rather egomaniac too and takes bolder claims that he's comfortable to handle. If it would be otherwise - there would be no drama, there would be no fake "official" tools. KR could just enjoy his fame from `requests` and save his time while writing responses on his blog.

[0] http://journal.kennethreitz.org/entry/r-python

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8jd6aq/why_is_pipen...
Considering most of my private E-mails are amazon order confirmations and other automated crap ... I really have to think about it.
Have you seen the current U.S. President?
Just as much as the poster I replied to.
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The speculation that Zuckerberg would be entering politics and probably pursue the presidency date to long before the 45th presidential election.

If memory serves, it goes back to when he began visibly embracing a particular religion, in contrast to a previously atheistic stance. It was pointed out in the media that this transition often occurs in the preparation phases of entering politics to attract votes.
Sure... but what's the value of a channel with no views in this example?

It won't be monetised, so you can't really compare it to TV?
The problem is that Huawei kit does not have GCHQ/NSA backdoor capabilities. Hence it has to be banished.

The story has not changed since five years ago:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/25/huawei_responds_to_...

It would be commercial suicide for Huawei to have backdoored their export products. For the Chinese domestic market they may have 'Great Firewall' extras to them but for export products it simply makes no business sense.

There is zero evidence in the public domain to support the hysterical allegations of the crazy folks in our domestic military-industrial-espionage complex.

In former times there was this quaint notion of innocent until proven guilty. It is time we grow up a bit and stop slandering our Chinese friends. Xenophobia has never helped.

Edit: Instead of downvoting, please explain the flaws in my comment, whether they be based on unsubstantiated claims, tone of voice or just personal grudge. Thank-you.
The Australian state now behaves exactly like an enemy of the people would. In the same way I would not use an e-mail provider in Iran, North Korea, the US or other facist regimes I will now also not use an Australian e-mail provider.
I wonder if solving captchas to train neural networks would be less annoying and more valuable in the long run?

All in all that's how the exact addresses were mapped in Google Maps.
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What can I do? Both sides passed this abomination.

I'll vote for privacy. Please give me an option.
I wouldn’t start a greenfield project with Vue and have no draw toward it. I’d go React. I think React/Vue are the end of the road in terms of JS, Vue for people who think tooling is hard, and React for people who don’t mind the tooling.

People attribute the JS presentation library churn to fadism, but I’ve seen it as a response to everything being pretty bad before React. Can’t blame people for desperately trying everything when everything is bad. React was really the first one for JS that really empowered people and every year it gets better.

Anyway in the sense that Reactive rendering is apparently a core element of flutter, all I care about is that the future is React-like, and in that sense React will be around for a long time....
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The same way as MFA works. Every time the key generates different token that can't be reused. This renders replay of signal useless.
Or Apple could just fix the problem.

In the meantime I love my echo for timers. It just works.
It doesn't matter why, the fact of the matter is that no one uses SMS in these places, which is also true wherever I've lived.

People use Whatsapp primarily, or facebook messenger, or (in my bubble anyway, not so widespread) Telegram. These products have the network effect already established, and no one is likely to go back to crappy SMS, even if it is dressed up.
Looks decide the first impression and the attitude people associate with you.

In the public, no one associates leadership and composure with Zuckerberg.
"The documents also reveal that, in 2015, a permissions update for Android devices, which users were required to accept, included a feature that continuously uploaded text messages and call logs to Facebook."

Wow, that's some sleazy wording. While users were required to accept the permissions update for the simple reason that Android at the time didn't offer any way to pick and choose what permissions to grant, the very email they're basing this claim on says that actually accessing and uploading call logs was opt-in. Ironically, the coverage of this has demonstrated exactly why this was (as the released email put it) a high PR risk.
what are you talking about?
People underestimate the importance of leadership all the time. Google is a company built around being the smartest person in the room, but where are the leaders? A good leader is not necessarily the smartest (in a Google sense) person in the room. How does that person get put in a leadership position in a company like Google?

You mention Jobs. Was he smarter than Woz or a better engineer? No, but he was a much better leader. He inspired people to work, and relentlessly drove his vision. Obviously he didn't always make the right call, but I think we can say with confidence he would not have let this messaging mess drag on for close to 10 years now.
Do you have a source for zero day exploit costs?
More like, biz opportunity to make products competing with Jira, Confluence et al.

Wonder how many banks and other security sensitive orgs use Jira and store all their tech specs in there.

All of them?
Other articles have indicated that Google is going the RCS route because they don’t want to rock the boat with mobile carriers, who do not want to see a proprietary chat system like iMessage on their networks.
Their stock is down 4.3% today and their market cap is around $20B
it's an interesting theoretical question, but I'm not sure why you'd want to. I can't think of a reason to choose process A over process B:

A: implant womb in person, implant fertile egg in womb, carry baby, c-section deliver baby, remove womb.

B: implant fertile egg in surrogate, carry baby, c-section or give birth to baby.

Or: it's just surrogacy with extra steps.
I'm patiently waiting for their proposed method of reading end-to-end encrypted messages without introducing a systemic weakness.

I imagine that they ask for some tailored malware to be delivered to the specifically targeted device/user.
So what was the mistake? Why pay full price when it's worth the lower bid that would have won anyway?
>>why can't people think they don't like their style appearance on a scooter

They certainly can. Calling something with a particular epithet means it bears this particular quality, which is not subjective. The opinion is, but the characterization is not.
It's also very unreliable if you're messaging abroad. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If you're roaming and so is the other person, it becomes even trickier. At least data works and within the EU is pretty much free.
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I’ve never worked at a company that didn’t offer family coverage, whether they pay for it or not varies it.

But, people get too emotional about insurance costs. It’s just a number that you have to take into account when calculating total comp.
We are infected and contagious.

We can't be trusted and don't deserve technology. Take your business elsewhere.

Please quarantine us so our sickness can't spread.
So they just uploaded everything, "just in case"? Your description doesn't sound any better than the article's.
The Cold War never ended. Nor has much else. Further, the importance of cryptology has only intensified - greatly.
It's not bad planning, it's about being _first_ on market. Yes there's lots of BS about 5G, but it's still filling the headlines. Also, island-wide field test makes sense before commercially deploying new tech.
I've never understood why Soros is such a bogeyman to so many people. As far as I can see (from my position as a believer in so-called "western values" like freedom of speech, rule of law and fair elections), his goals seem entirely noble.

I get why despots like Viktor Orban hate Soros, but what about all the others? Do they hate him because he's rich and spends his money on politics? Because he comes off like a meddler, butting into other countries' affairs? Because he's (apparently?) Jewish? What is it?
If people can readily refute this then citations would be appreciated?
Isn't this pretty much the same as the US and their National Security Letters? They can compel engineers/companies to do pretty much anything, and the veil of secrecy is the same.
Yep, we already blogged about this. It's shit legislation, but it is unlikely to affect our customers at all. Public perception on the other hand, it's going to hurt that plenty.

Like basically all of Australian tech right now, we're super disappointed in our politicians and their games. I spoke to a couple of senators' offices today, and they were sure it would die in amendment hell. Genius.
Reading that book now and would be interested in hearing more about what you're doing. Coding your principles in a decision tree?
So something has changed, because there used to be a weird little collaboration/supervision operation going on between BT, Huawei, and UK Intelligence at Martlesham Heath.

https://www.eadt.co.uk/business/martlesham-heath-huawei-pled...
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IIRC shares will be held in trust for the benefit of the employees, a little like the John Lewis Partnership.
Please consider that software engineering roles almost universally have little in common with happy hacking at home. They’re frustrating, tedious work. They still might be a better fit for you in the end than business roles, but I’d recommend finding some software engs who would be willing to speak to you candidly about the job.
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No, I think the parent comment is making the distinction that the Android permissions model at the time wasn't very granular, so Facebook's app had to request more permissions than it intended to use, and that FB offered a separate opt-in within their own app.

I don't use the FB app, and I have no idea how this was presented to users and whether it was a legitimate choice or a "dark pattern" to trick users into handing over everything.
the Axlotl Tanks were living Tleilaxu females (women? Can't remember if they were humanoid) though.
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It's interesting to see China aligning EU with on issues like this in the context of US-China war of words.

Somewhat related, I remember watching Japanese animes where the the world is divided to imaginary nations that resembles US (big Western super power), China (big Eastern super power) and EU (group of countries combined to form a substantial power).

In these animes, nations form alliances but turn against each other the moment their interests are no longer aligned.

I am starting to see how this is also true in real world.
I wonder when Facebook is going to get disrupted. It seems to me their key feature is having everyone connected, and while anecdotal, my friends list sure hasn’t been affected by these scandals.

What has been affected is the perception. It’s no longer considered cool to have a Facebook account. Meet-ups and interest groups are still heavily used in my social circles, but it’s almost always with an apology for being on Facebook.

Instagram has suffered less, but instagram isn’t really useful for anything but wasting time.

Facebook on the other hand serves as a modern day yellowpages and meetup combined, but with its popularity dropping and people slowly adopting privacy concerns, it seems like the right company with the right business model could displace Facebook.

Of course you could say something similar about google and how it’s search engine is so terrible at finding anything interesting.

Maybe it’s my little anecdotal world playing tricks on my perception, but to me, the whole web seems ripe for another revolution.
If you are an Australian software engineer, you have one advantage that other nationalities do not: the E3 visa. It is a US working visa that is specifically reserved for Australians and consequently it is much easier to get than an H1B.

My advice is that the Australian tech industry just got nuked from orbit, so come work in the USA. The pay is better, the work is more interesting and the tech companies actually have sway over policy here.
This is a bit strange. There are a lot of exceptional people who will not get anywhere because they are poor. So it's nice and all, but don't just say her exceptional wealth has nothing to do with anything.
Don’t forget about his road trip.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/technology/zuckerberg-har...
It's not because there may be a conflict of interest that he's wrong. He's mainly just explaining the legal background of this event.
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Does it matter? The correct answer to "decrypt this person's data now" is "sorry, we can't". Not "won't", "can't".
> More importantly, new Product X, whatever it is, helps to attract new top talent. Top Talent is going to want to fix old things, they want to build new.

Is that really true? I would personally chose to work on Facetime than Google's new messaging system, all else being equal.

Facetime is really solid and I'm sure I could learn a ton from the expertise there; as well as working on something new within that product.

In contrast, Google's messaging systems just seem like a mess. I would feel like it could be cancelled at any time, that we didn't have the best talent (because it's spread across the various systems) and honestly would be slightly embarrassed to talk about it ("yeah, I know, yet another message system from Google").
if you're going to move you really should get out of the anglosphere because the US is dragging down everyone with it and there's just not enough sentiment amongst the populations to move away from the US, even now.

Switzerland probably remains the best country in the world and has strong privacy laws and a culture of neutrality. As a plus you get to be in Europe. Tech salaries are high. The anglosphere nations lack the intellectual capital amongst the population to remain critical of encroachments of privacy in the name of protection from terrorists.
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Googles ad market is a 2nd price auction - ie. the winner of the auction pays the price of the runner up.

Many auctions only have a single bidder, and in this case, the price is a 'reserve' price set by the publisher (website). That is common in ad slots which have strict targeting criteria banning nearly everyone else from being eligible.

In those cases, often the advertiser sets a super high bid, just to make sure they win the auction. Assuming the eligibility criteria keep all other bidders out, that's not an issue.

It looks like what happened here is the 'Yellow Ad' found a way to be eligible for far more auctions than normal, and had a very high bid. That meant it was now a 2nd bidder in lots of auctions where the price was normally set by the 'reserve' price, and the final hammer price was much higher.
George Soros is very open publicly about what he wants to achieve. If you read "The Open Society and its Enemies" by Karl Popper, that's the intellectual foundation of what Soros is shooting for. THat's why his foundation is called something like the "Open Society Foundation". So: Democracy, scientific reasoning, strong institutions etc.

He has been extremely critical of the large tech monopolies (eg his Davos speech covered here and elsewhere https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/25/george-soro... ) so it's no surprise that Facebook would do "opposition" research on him. Facebook has a very large pavilion and visible presence at Davos so the criticism must have been particularly embarrassing in that context.
A conflict of interest would mean that they have an undisclosed interest in pushing that narrative (say, that they have stock in Huawei, that they're a Chinese official or something like that). The parent comment discloses no such thing. Having an opinion is not a conflict of interest.

At worse you could argue that the poster is biased, but then in this types of geopolitical discussions who isn't? Certainly not me.
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I think the average customer doesn't really care. The information about the surrounding wifi APs is (ab)used to speed up the time to get a location fix. Time to location fix is important for the customer.

Apple claims battery life implications are a myth: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-12271
> Perhaps there are technicalities to demonstrate a law in the US is broken. This makes sense for bureaucrats. For the rest of the world, it's just abuse and plain wrong.

(Almost?) All countries have a similar approval process in the parliament. Usually the president has enough votes in the parliament or has an informal arrangement with the opposition leaders to ensure the approval.

For example, Iran never ratified the 2013 treaty with Argentina. It was approved by the Argentinean Parliament, but it was never approved by the Iranian Parliament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_understanding_be... more info in the Spanish version (autotranslation): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=es&tl=en&u=htt...

[Disclaimer: I'm from Argentina. I didn't like the treaty, but nobody asked for my opinion.]
the US has already been doing this stuff for a long time, without it being legal. They can always pressure you and threaten to ruin any engineer's life if they don't do what they want. and who do you think came up with this legislation? It's US Intelligence. Australia is their testing lab, just like Macca's does.
>I've never understood why Soros is such a bogeyman to so many people.

Anti-Semitism.
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Well, to be clear, that article just says that Huawei has an R&D Centre on Ad Astral Park. There are about 100 companies there.
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Fastmail, don't forget.

With a somewhat heavy heart, but I shall be cancelling my service there.
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Amazing that some people value their time THAT cheap. Seriously, a couple bucks for 3 hours? Do you want to work for me?
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What's the recommended Python solution for deploying Python scripts/applications off-line? I am deploying several scripts on machines with no access to the internet, so I can't exactly pip install -r requirements.txt. My current solution is to cache all pip packages in a packages directory and then export PYTHONUSERBASE=$PWD/packages, but it feels like a hack. Virtualenvs are no solution because they aren't portable (hardcoded paths).
Intuitively I wanted to say "Yes 1000 times, unless you REALLY need to hire NOW, the effects of a bad hire are going to be a lot more negative than a no hire".

But what about a very good hire that you end up missing that has been a very expensive mistake?

I think we have a pretty high bias here. Organizations can see the effect of a bad hire and have more data on what went wrong during the hiring process, retrospect why that person passed and put more "tests" to prevent to repeat the mistake.
But organizations can never measure the differential between the impact on the company of a candidate that was not hired and the present condition. There is simply no data about the impact that that person could have had.

I heard a few detailed stories on "the guy that should not have been hired" and I can add my own stories. But the stories on the cool people that should have been hired are brief and rarely go beyond "I thought that guy was very smart."

So I think we should make sure we check our hiring processes against negative positives. How? To be continued...
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It has to be under suspicion of a crime that attracts over 3 years jail (which is almost anything).

They mentioned oversight of a "retired judge" and a "technology expert" in the autoplay video at the bottom of https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/inprincip...
Yes. We have a choice of 4 plans and pay part of the premium for personal coverage. Family coverage is available under any of the plans but costs significantly more, and the company’s contribution to the premium is fixed. So the employee’s premium cost increases.
Makes sense, unfortunately commercial products universally abandon those open protocols at some point.
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Skip to the Appendix and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

Also, I'm managing the "5 Step Process to Get What You Want Out of Life" in the same spreadsheet.