skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lot of it focuses on the negative aspects of Facebook conquering the world, but what about the positive aspects? Is there another app that, indeed, connects the world?

I would argue that Twitter does a much better job of connecting the world than Facebook.

Have you tried quitting facebook? I found it the easiest of all the social networks to leave because there's pretty much nothing to miss about it. Are you really gonna feel distraught over missing the bajillionth picture of your high school friend pretending to like holding a baby? Or fake macedonian garbage shared by your most racist family member?
> worst that can happen is you accidentally start a download

There's a potential DLL hijacking attack:

1. Accidental download of kernel32.dll

2. Ignore, who cares, do something else

3. Download actually_wanted_installer.exe, which finds malicious kernel32.dll in current directory instead of SYSTEM32

There are a few DLLs whitelisted for protection for this, but drive-by downloads are a real attack vector.

Also in the past, exploitable bugs in the thumbnailer if you browse to your Downloads directory (e.g. CVE-2017-11421 and others on Linux).
My problem with modern cars is that there’s no good place to put the keys. They’re uncomfy in my pocket when sitting down and I’m too warm for a jacket with pockets.

The old ignition hole was the perfect solution. You had a dedicated spot for your keys, you always knew where they are, were unlikely to forget them in the car, and it also happened to start your engine. Perfect
D will give you compilation errors in @safe mode if you try to index off of a pointer.
"Now, as its stock price declines "

I guess that is when they start to object to the things they were doing, or is it just that it hasn't worked out for them... but they were ok with what the company did?
Option two, we can stop emitting when it becomes obsolete. That means two unforeseen technical miracles could save us, as opposed to just the one of climate engineering that works. I bet it would be a lot easier to organize a "moon landing" program for fusion or something like it than it would be to talk the entire world into reducing economic activity.
Nowhere in this article does anyone from the military say "we're at war", nor "pick a side" or anything that could be paraphrased as such.
Of course, when managing my product or running my business, chasing discounts for and (re)negotiating with the vendor of one of the core components of my product/service are things I very much look forward to.
I think sleep is losing the war against staying awake, both in the morning and the evening. As a morning person, I often have a hard time participating in social activities when I'm trying to get to sleep by 9-10pm.
Just out of curiosity, what is an example of a tech firm that would be considered a "body farm"?
Absolutely not 99%. More like 1%.
My "allegation of bad faith" is a regular topic on HN, because it is plaguing most soft sciences in modern academia. Climate science is not immune - especially because of it's practical unfalsifiabity. If science is broken then it's conclusions must be treated with skepticism - even if researches are on average well meaning.
Interesting, never thought about that one. And it's also similar in terms of tons of unqualified people trying to get in, and a low barrier to entry (in terms of producing recognizable work)...
Author here. There were maddeningly few layperson details of the actual flaw and impact in the first few hours after the 9.8/10 CVE news dropped. If you're only tacitly following Kubernetes news from afar this article is for you.

If you're an operator still in the muck or need a quick way to test, check out our vuln PoC: https://github.com/gravitational/cve-2018-1002105
What is your experience of how employees are handling the barrage of major public scandals then?

Big tech company surveillance culture is well documented[1] and the outside pressure against FB seems INTENSE.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/silicon-v...
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This really needs to be the top comment. I don't understand how anyone is worried about any. other. problem. at this point.
> I never understood why it's THAT needed for a keyfob to open a car by merely being close to it.

It's convenience factor that makes a big difference for people that tend to get to their car with full hands.

> Whatever happened to key fobs you had to PRESS to open a car?

They still exist, handsfree entry is an upgrade (or an included feature but only on higher trim levels) on many models.
>"This is not about doing something that’s unethical, illegal or immoral. ... We are the good guys."

Had an immediate flashback to the absolutely baffled Erich Mielke.

“I love – I love all – all people/humans – Well I love – I still stand up for it"
alternative translation
"I love all – all Humanity! I really do! I set myself before you!"

https://youtu.be/1XBEqyu5Mck?t=34

The reality some people build inside their head is disturbing.
Trust is one thing, but if there is any truth to that story it is downright pathetic on their part.
Pro-tip: Guys who find that they need to remind you "We are the good guys" are typically not the good guys.

There are plenty of people whose personal ethics allow them to work on weapons systems. To the rest of us, let's stick together and find other ways to contribute to our societies.
RSS. Pick the news that you want to see, not what an exploitative algorithm thinks you will click on. Feedbin is nice. Follow your favorite youtube channels, twitter users, newspapers, blogs, and webcomics there, and never look at a news feed again.
IMO, there should professional licensing gated by an exam, similar to the accounting or actuarial professions. Anyone who can pass the exams gets in. But the flip side of being a real profession is you're liable if you store passwords in plaintext.
Depends on the union benefits wise.

Teaching ... not so much.
Earth's atmosphere doesn't care about geo-political boundaries either

Countries won't solve it. If Americans can own up to the fact that per capita reduction in co2 emissions by them, will have a huge effect on co2 emissions in the world (because that means practices/regulations/technology that'll trickle down to largest polluting countries.), then it'll mean genuine difference.

American media has no right to point fingers at countries that has never been among the highest per capita polluters in the world, and has been so historically. Sadly, Americans (those who are into virtue signaling) are too hung up on stuff fed by NYT to realize that they have been polluting the most, and them pontificating to others will help no one.
There is no free lunch... To paraphrase a friend from high school: "...when you start to play and don't know who the patsy is, usually it's you..." ;-)
I said nothing about HTML though, did I.

JSON and XML are both difficult to edit by hand, so don't do that. JSON, arguably, is harder to edit by hand because there's no CDATA, so you have to know how to escape characters, especially newline.

Both are tree-like structures. Why would one be better than the other? Well, XML has a long history of use and development for text documents, whereas JSON does not, so right there, that argues against JSON.

Does XML suck for WYSIWYG editing? I don't see why it would suck more than, say, TeX. LyX -a WYSIWYM editor for LaTeX- exists, and it can output XHTML using a LyX-specific schema. I'm sure LyX could easily have been built using an XML format from the get-go. You've not made any arguments as to why XML suck for WYSIWYG editing -- the example you pasted surely is meaningless in a WYSIWYG editing since that kinda implies having... a WYSIWYG (GUI) editor. And surely JSON will take more ceremony to express 'bold and italic' than XML, and not much less ceremony than XML to express 'use this specific font' (where the font's name alone is lengthy enough).

All you've done is expressed a preference for encoding details that no one really cares about, and you may not have stopped to really learn and understand XML, so your preference is leading you into making a number of mistakes the most important of which is NIH reinvention. Each NIH reinvention adds a fair amount of cognitive load for the rest of us, and adds development and maintenance burdens that never go away. Please don't do this. Innovation is very important, of course, but don't blindly reinvent to innovate.
Stock compensation at a lot of companies (definitely at Facebook) is in the form of RSUs, which are shares of stock that vest over time. So employees vesting X number of shares over 4 years are watching those shares go up and down in the public markets without actually having the ability to sell them.

That's not an accident: the reason stock compensation is given is to further align employee interests with the long term performance of the company.
Perhaps you should educate yourself on trans people.
That person sounds Despicable. :)
Your comment would have been more valuable without the jibe at the person you were replying to.
I'm pretty sure they'd have no problem setting up their own cell towers at the facebook campus/offices.
Ahh, I was getting a bit confused from photons distorting spacetime off their wavelength and plank's constant, given they also apparently have no mass. Thanks for that. I have to go and re-read a lot of stuff now though. ;)
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I purposefully did not say "most favorite ally", because that would not be correct.
I imagine with something like Google Scholar it might be more of an issue. I'm much more likely to go very deep into the results there.

I wonder how often that's an issue for users. With the amount of testing and research google does on user experience it's probably vanishingly small. But I wonder if, when it's a problem for a user, is it a really big problem?
sell it short now, cover with the vested shares :)
You could flip this around and also say that otherwise rational, sane people are irrationally defending a corrupt, click-bait/profit driven media.
As mature comics can attest to, it’s not as simple as black and white, but there is lighter grey and darker gray. At the end of the day it’s better to help thjngs become lighter gray.
There's lots of great videos to prove you wrong on that one, actually.

The most dangerous time for a can of gasoline is when it's just been emptied- because it's actually full, just of air and gasoline vapor. It's a bomb at that point if you aren't careful. Rockets? Similar problems.

Watch what happened a few years ago when another Falcon 9 fell over because of a faulty landing leg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr7GcpFGWd0
I didn't know about that, thanks for the link.

Here's my beef, though: People still did that. Facebook isn't your daddy, and Zuckerberg will never be a different person.

Facebook isn't the problem. We are.
> a group who see the entire narrative — including the portrayal of the company’s hiring of communications consulting firm Definers Public Affairs — as examples of biased media attacks

Of course they are biased media attacks. The tech industry in general, and Facebook in particular, is an existential threat to the legacy news media and will be viciously attacked for that reason alone. That's why Facebook, which made a little bit of money selling targeted ads to Russian trolls, is being blamed by the mainstream media for an election result that had more to do with those same media outlets doing 24/7 coverage of Donald Trump's antics for the entire 2016 election cycle.

I don't work for Facebook and I don't even particularly like Facebook, but it's hard not to see a Two Minutes Hate for what it is.
Disgusting HN censorship as usual... We're not even allowed to reply to dead comments. And there is no excuse! Plenty of replies and nothing mean. HN is incredibly political - it is part of fake news and censorship since so many political pieces get to #1 and so many comments that don't break the rules get censored.
As you described it, it is easily broken with a replay attack.
This is at the "would lead to FTL" level.
It’s not just a story they smell, its $40B in advertising the traditional media is losing to Facebook in addition to people using FB as a news source — once the domain print, radio, and TV.
Well, I'm glad you got something decent out of it. I have a bit of a visceral reaction to bad actors in agencies since their actions had consequences.

It was very informative at one place I worked where a ticked off employee released a spreadsheet with all of the hourly rates for all the consultants. I was rather amused to lean how many bad actor agencies there were (although gratified that I worked with the honest sort). It was a bit amazing to me that people were baffled that I didn't really want to look at the spreadsheet. I knew my rate, was pretty happy, and was a bit worried it would impact how I viewed others.
Also note, "Facebook hired PR firm that wrote negative articles about rivals: NYT" [1]. Really makes you wonder how much news is actually corporate propaganda. Reminds me of pg's article called, The Submarine [2].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/14/facebook-hired-pr-firm-that-...

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I am not sure how you or I or US can focus on developing economies. We should focus on ourselves. Do our part first and negotiate with the rest of the world second.
It's quite simple really. The aether is real, but has been suppressed for the sake of "national security".

When this insight goes mainstream (almost 200 years after it was discovered), stuff we reckon as science fiction today will become reality.
Tim Ferris makes his living doing it, in the four hour chef you will learn DiSSS & CaFE that teaches how he does his work which will answer your question.

If your looking for more online course.

Try Ramit Sethi's How to talk to anybody or Instant+Network.

As with any successful relationship, it's starts with creating a value or usefulness to the other-side. The two above will help you with that....
True. But then you lose the ability to generate a new sequence by cutting out a piece of paper...!
In other talks Java language devs mention it as a conscious design choice.
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Where T-SQL is not enough, one can use basically any .Net language, but there are some restrictions to it, and I have never used this feature.

Embedded R in SQL Server as well.

Postgres is my default database choice, or SQLite if it's small, but SQL Server is a solid, high performance product and I'll gladly run it for the most demanding workloads.
It makes sense for leftists to oppose the US military and refuse to engage with it. It's the best way to ensure China and Russia become stronger and eventually maybe even get to spread Marxist values inside the US.
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If we weren't perpetually in a state of war, that phrase would have more gravity. Maybe we should figure out how to have a few years of peace time so that people learn how to care again that we're at war.
I have a humorous thought. Maybe it's that excel models require humans to run. The code and data is way messier and it's partially locked up in the heads of the people running the sheets. It's harder to copy, so it's harder to steal.

One cyber-breach and all that really nice clean code is readily understandable to your competitors.
What is the problem with nipples? I thought it was about porn.
You haven't seen how AWS operates. Their agility is truly something else. Microsoft is trying to shift within their Azure group to be more like AWS, but it's a DNA/company policy/pace of work thing. Can't speak for the other FAANG companies as I don't cover them. If you work for one of the old large companies - IBM, Oracle, SAP, etc. just know that AWS' pace of getting things done and shipped is probably 5-10x (with comparably low retention)
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How about the 4th amendment?

Yes, I know their bizarre theory that collecting all of my digital data and indexing it for later lookup isn't a search until someone actually pulls my records. And their even more bizarre theory that their analysts should be trusted to always do the right thing despite a complete lack of effective oversight. (Because collecting data on how many times their analysts are pulling records on US citizens would itself be a "search", so they can't do that.)

I don't know under what theory they think it is OK to give all of their data on me away to 4 other countries who aren't restricted from searching it all that they want. But the fact that they do certainly means that they aren't protecting me from unreasonable searches. Even if you just limit searches to their own bullshit definition.
I'm not entirely sure what you're arguing here re unopionated, but SGML (on what HTML is based) has had automatic recognition of Wiki text delimiters and producing XML-style canonical markup from eg. markdown and other Wiki syntax since before 1986. Kind of the best of both worlds for both easy editing and rich and sophisticated structuring. It's also odd that we're still discussing these things after all these years; so long so, in fact, that we've forgotten how those before us tackled these issues.
I’d agree with this. Imagine if instead of a civil war France or Britain came in and sorted things out for us.

Simetimes nations have to go through that crucible themselves and figure out what works for them, provided they aren’t being belligerent against peaceful neighbors.
> because our evidence comes from geologic and fossil records that simply do not have good resolution past 1Ma or so.

That's not true. For any point when oceanic life was common, their sediments give WAY better resolution than that.
One of SSMS's strengths, as opposed to a generic database GUI IDE, is that it only works with one database: SQL Server (and variants like Azure SQL).

This is important for accessing the specific features that distinguish that database from others, e.g. indexed views, clustered columnar indices, user-defined types, functions, linked servers, replication, HA, etc.

There are so many cool and interesting features in MS SQL Server. I don't go for Microsoft products in general, Microsoft really got SQL Server right.
> (I will be interested to hear how Mozilla integrate it with their C++ code!)

There was a good blog post about this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588543
What a great solution! I've been on the lookout for a basic (non-bloated) local, html-based word-processor to replace RTF (for myself and as a recommendation for others). HTML-notepad is loading very quickly on an older dual-core 1.2ghz laptop I'm using right now (xfce, debian 64bit). The resulting html is remarkably tidy.

Love the fact that it's portable! Plus... no data-mining:)

I have a large set of local html pages that I use for bookmarks, PIM stuff, etc. It's my goto personal organizer. Mostly html 3.x, lots of tables. HTML-notepad has handled these pages without issues. To my surprise, it even displayed a search form embedded on one of these pages elegantly. Really like the way you implemented the editing of links to minimize the steps: click on link, pop-up to edit.

Also integrates into Firefox as a "view source" editor - nice (since it handles my local html pages so well)!

The only basic tag that's missing is the HR tag (horizontal rule). It displays fine but doesn't appear on any of the menus. Tables are very well behaved but... minor point: I expected that pressing TAB within a TD would jump me to the next TD.

It doesn't seem to care about html tags it doesn't understand - basically leaving them alone. This is pretty awesome, since I use the following a lot:

<details>
<summary>
Title (data)
</summary>
Expanded, multi-line (data)
</details>

I've been "playing" around with html-notepad for about an hour and so far, no issues whatsoever. It's not often that a new program appears that could potentially become an integral part of my daily workflow. Thank you for sharing this!
I've perused the literature on the subject (but have not conducted any research of my own). The deficiencies of the five-factor model are well known; I don't think that's a particularly controversial statement among the researchers in the field. See, e.g., this publication in the American Journal of Psychiatry with 283 citations:

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.161.10....

This is a much better model, but going from research to clinical practice seems to be a very slow process.
And particularly, if you always host the old versions then you can rollback by updating index.html - rollbacks are otherwise hard when you start thinking about caches.
Not a physicist.
If negative mass exists, is it featureless, or is it composed of units which can combine to form analogous negative mass atoms, negative mass molecules, etc?
Sorry, it came off that way. Yes, HTML is not XML. I meant any XML-ish representation of rich-text contents. Which means every formatting block makes the tree grow one level deeper.
You can use: ways to make +"nan"

Disclaimer: didn't test it, but I often use this trick to force G to use some word, and to use it exactly as written.
The media portrayal of Facebook feels roughly equivalent of how Microsoft was seen ten years ago. The tech industry seems to live on these ten-year rollercoaster cycles in perception. (Zuckerberg isn't Ballmer though – I don't think he's going anywhere. Besides, although the tech press likes to credit Nadella for everything because it makes for a convenient rags-to-riches, Ballmer laid the foundation for Microsoft's present success.)
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OTOH keys can be cloned from a photo nowadays, so I gather.
Apple claims that they use time-of-flight for their "Unlock with Apple Watch" feature on macOS, so it seems like something that a car maker/supplier could pull off, especially if they're willing to throw dedicated hardware at the problem.

That said, the fob is much more battery-constrained than a watch that you charge on a daily basis.
I think this article helps me clarify a great point, mainly in these sentences: "The yearslong decline in U.S. emissions has been widely credited to the oil and gas boom. Power plants increasingly turned from coal to natural gas as innovations in extraction technology resulted in lower prices."

Lots of people talk about carbon emission reductions, but there is a much simpler way to think about it. There is a lot of carbon stored in the ground in the form of coal, natural gas and oil. What's the probability that a great deal of that carbon will be left there, permanently? The only way this will happen is if the production costs of non-emitting forms of energy (mainly solar, wind and nuclear) are fundamentally less than the extraction costs of the carbon forms in the ground. That may be possible for some high-cost carbon sources like coal, but the cost of production of some traditional oil sources (like Ghawar field) are ridiculously cheap, and tech like fracking has made other carbon sources like natural gas also cheaper.

Thus, the idea that reducing the production cost of natural gas is good for the environment is ridiculous. At the end of the day you've made another huge carbon source that much cheaper to extract. It may temporarily switch from some more polluting source, but at the end of the day all of that (now cheaper) gas is coming out of the ground and going into the air.

So instead of looking at emission rates, we should be asking "What is the probability that non-carbon-emitting forms of energy will eventually be made cheaper than carbon-emitting forms of energy". If you do the math on this one, even leaving a lot of uncertainty that tech on one side or the other will change the equation a bit, the only conclusion you can come to is that there are still huge amounts of carbon to be released. We're inevitably fucked.