skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every now and then I rise above the temporal miasma of popular web culture and think: why is this surprising?

BBS, AOL, Netscape, MySpace, Tumblr, FB, Insta, Snap...

Why are we surprised by this progression? All "good" things go bad. The same lessons, rinsed and repeated. Power, money corrupts. We burn effigies and mark their passing. We move on.

Tempted to say a little more history and psychology instead of fiscal fixation would make a difference. Tempted, but no. It's not how humans work.
Title should be corrected: objects -> rendered objects
You've got Trump. Also the NSA.

Maybe I'll just work on a farm instead of this technology madness.
Or, realistically, Discord. I love open protocols but I do want a certain level of polish in the products I use.
> and raised in total $800.000 million from approximately 5,000 backers from around the world.

I assume this is a typo? Or did a blanket raise almost a billion dollars?
i wonder if this would affect other, non autstralian mail providers (protonmail for instance).
Microservices and Availability
Assistance and Access Bill Has Passed in Australia
IANAL, but ...

Programmers subject to Australian law will (once this bill receives the Governor General's signature) now face jail time if they refuse to subvert the security of software they develop on the demand of state police, federal police, anti-corruption agencies, or security agencies.

Similarly, device manufacturers and communications providers.

You cannot reveal that you've been issued with this demand, nor can you say that you have not (in an apparent attempt to criminalize "warrant canaries").

There's also an attempt to bring any services that have Australian customers under the scope of this law, where service explicitly can mean "website". So I guess if your country has an extradition treaty with Australia, you might want to check with a lawyer.

I kinda hope that every major website, software vendor, and hardware vendor basically refuses to do business with Australians now. I don't know what else will force this to be repealed.
This is why the standard interpretation of QM to me implies that there is a higher-order universe, which seems a high price to pay (in Occam units) for an experimentally successful theory, even if it is so incredibly successful as QM.
Why are you cowardly hiding behind a throwaway account? Why do you care? Everybody is entitled to their own personal opinion and you are free to disagree with it.
> Commercial compilers are still produced - IBM with its XL C compiler, for example, and Intel's icc. Both are good.

We have a few AIX machines and I’ve never heard anyone refer to xlC as a good compiler. It’s an aging compiler with idiosyncratic linker flags/behaviour and no support for modern standards.
Iran got their pallet of cash, they knew Obama was making the deal without the support of congress thereby giving the middle finger to US citizens. It would be diplomatic malpractice to not forecast the deal getting revoked, especially if they violated it (and they did)
All You Wanted to Know About Machine Learning
Yeah in this case it is like what you described. Updated.
Hardening Website Security – Part 1: HTTP Security Headers
His society is anything but "Open", given the state of affairs of his subversive endeavors and him admitting on 60 minutes that he cannot and does not care about the moral consequences of his actions.
Trump won't last forever and Apple and others have been staring down three-letter agencies for a while now.
By the way, I’d be very interested in chatting more about this sort of thing—-you seem like a thoughtful person. My email address is in my profile.
OTOH pointing and grunting may be preferable in unfamiliar territory, e.g., at a restaurant where you can’t read the menu but pictures are provided.
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Unauthorized Vulnerabilities in LoginPress WordPress Plugin
>There's never been a discussion about a European army, now it crops up, for example.

Haha, good luck with that. EU will always come crawling to grovel for US military support, don’t be naive.
Lyft Proceeds with IPO Plans
Not sure why so many negative comments here; I found her architectural style a breath of a fresh air comparing to prevailing trends favoring shapes that looked like being sculpted with a software from the 80s. So many non-distinctive boxes everywhere around, her work was actually inspiring and in some ways resembled trends outlined by Gaudi. I consider her one of the best.
G+. The slogan at the time was "one unified Google" -- to I think rightfully correct a mistake that Google had a very diverse set of products many of which did not properly interact.

As I understand it, GChat wasn't seen seen as able to integrate well into G+. So Hangouts was built on the G+/social infrastructure.

To that team's credit they did somewhat seamlessly move users over from GChat to Hangouts without many hiccups.

Of course, after the G+ effort disintegrated... we got Allo & Duo
I'm very happy with Runbox.com. No idea if they're on the level or not, but I figure, everything's already compromised.
but health care
When I google things the top results are a mix of advertising, advertising pretending to be content, the Danish wiki article and maybe a link to some short no-content post on Quora, medium, reddit or similar.

None of which is interesting.

Google is still good at finding specific things. Like when you commit an act of google programming or want to buy a book. But it’s really terrible and finding interesting content.

You could say that the web is flooded with shit, and be right, but HN is evidence that not everything on the internet is terrible, google just isn’t your portal to it anymore.

So we visit HN, but that means google has become yahoo, aol search and all those other search engines it replaced by being a combination of relevant, interesting and exploratively fresh.

I mean, 2018 was the year I adopted DuckDuckGo as my standard search engine, and it wasn’t because of privacy. Sure privacy helps, but to be honest, it was because it gives more interesting results. I’ll still use !g when I’m searching for something I know google will find, but if I’m just exploring a topic I’ll almost never use google.
Facebook is nautorious for silently banning anything right of center.
In this case, its a market of ~25million vs a market of nearly ~500 million people..

easy choice to make.
They were sold a false bed of goods by Ben Rhodes and he bragged to the NYT about how he duped people into thinking it was a ‘treaty’
You can pay for Postgres support as well.
I don't support the Iran sanctions either. But a key detail is buried in the middle of the article.

> Since at least 2016, U.S. authorities have been reviewing Huawei’s alleged shipping of U.S.-origin products to Iran

Huawei is free to export all their Chinese origin products to Iran. The allegation here is that us-origin products are not following us export laws. This seems more like a case of "when in Rome, follow Roman laws".
I didn't know 1984 had it first, interesting. Maybe it is finally the time for me to read it.
It will, metaphorically, if a lack of funding will kill the product (or prevent it from ever being made). Crowdfunding is a financing option, complete with the part where the financiers are exposed to risk.
The scale of the learning is interesting in itself. From a few months, to years old, to all the way to preteens, emotions are constantly being reevaluated and developing new ones as well.
i remember when i told someone to try allo/duo they laughed in my face and said to stick to whatsapp
Translation services dubai
So now you see there are two camps of advice:

1) it's all about what to do with the money
2) it's all about you

Rule of thumb in practice is don't take advice from someone who hasn't taken the time to understand more than what you shared. If you ask non-anonymously for advice to a professional with proper standards, you should get questions in response.
Apple stared down the FBI in a mass murder case, because it was possible for them to do so. They won't be able to do that in Australia.

I don't like the US shonkiness any more than anyone else. But these situations are not precisely equivalent, especially since this bill passed.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/322231573/zen-blanket-t...
==> SEK 4,149,969 or $460,4330 USD

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zen-blanket-the-blanket-f...
==>$806,268

so in total $1,266,728
The State of Surveillance in 2018 [pdf]
there is a "beta" version available for linux. This version seem to work perfectly fine on my fedora machine so far.
I don't use Android's Messages for SMS, I installed a special-purpose SMS app specifically to avoid mixing Internet-based messages with SMS-based messages. I have zero interest in intermixing the two.
I'd like to see some serious competitor for NVidia on the desktop/server segments.
I feel like a lot of the redacted content is not technical, but could be political too.
> There is no denying their products are not only of poor quality (competing on price)

Huawei Mate 20 Pro starts from 1049 Euro and Mate 20 start from 800 Euro, last time when I checked, 1049 Euro is almost $1200 USD, common sense tells that when an Android phone has a price tag of $1200 USD, it is anything but competing on price.

I have Mate 20/Mate 9/P8, the top ranking build quality has been repeatedly confirmed by numerous reviews world wide. I never ever had any issue with my Huawei Mate 20/10/P8. Labelling Huawei products as poor quality without proof is not helping on anything.
> We’ve seen how corporate mergers, such as Alien’s Weylan Yutani and Blade Runner’s Shimata-Dominguez

It's Weyland, not Weylan
Meh. On most non-Samsung Android devices, the back button is on the left.
I really don't know why Samsung swapped the buttons around.
Typically included in your benefits package as part of the job. You don't have to give up Australian citizenship to get an E3, so if necessary you can fly back to Australia for treatment.
I don't think there is an attitude of revealing as much as possible, if anything there is a bias to reveal as little as possible. I bet they only left un-redacted the parts that they were specifically forced to reveal.
I'm excited for Rust because it might be finally time for a better safer embedded language (no GC is basically required here) and I like using it for little tools where I process huge text files.

Zero copy (in a safe way) makes everything super high speed.
>lack the intellectual capital amongst the population

Well put, lol.

You make a good case for Switzerland.

What about the Nordic countries?
Help me with my landing page, is it ok?
It's a rubbish financing option. The financers on average don't seem very good at comparing their little upside to the risk they're taking.
Modern drives do a bit of remapping, but still keep a near 1:1 mapping of physical to logical sectors.

It surprises me, because the drive has much more knowledge of typical access patterns combined with the hardware characteristics, so could easily do things like store two copies of some data so that whichever is closest to the read head can be read. I guess manufacturers just aren't interested in speed optimizations anymore now that SSD's exist.
Messages mixes up SMS with chat, exactly what I don't want. SMS messages are usually used for couriers notifying about delivery, and spam. I use an SMS-only app on Android to make sure things don't get mixed up. I don't need SMS junk in my chats.
> You get to choose whether or not doing N units of Google AI training work where N measures how much Google hates you is worth using the services of the website.

FTFY
https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/specials/compare/jira-vs-...

https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
Conda has no lockfile. The management commands are horrible to use and inconsistent. The "pip integration" is just "produce a requirements.txt and install it", so unless you're using some conda only dependency (thankfully those are few and far between) what's the point?

Conda is also annoyingly outside the python ecosystem. It seems to want to replace pip/pypi instead of working with it.
DarkVishnya: Banks attacked through direct connection to local network
As an American, I am so ashamed that we did this to your country.

The humanitarian toll of US policies is hard to fathom.
Pet owners at risk of toxoplasmosis
A lot of your post is wrong. By just reading the initial bit, emotions aren't fuzzy. Ekman's work and many others were very based on quantifying them rather than qualitatively identifying them. You should look up the work is done for clinical psychology with emotion recognition and the muscle system for measuring facial movements. You'll see it wasn't so fuzzy as one may think. It's very precise.

> In general, psychology doesn't seem to be based on many of the lessons acquired in the physical sciences over a very long period of time, and there doesn't seem to be much math involved.

This is just so wrong. Ten years were spent developing a mathematical system called the Facial Action Coding System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System. This system is used to add together all the muscle movements of the face. When this is done, you can discern from the muscle movements what emotion is being displayed.

Emotion science is known to be a field of psychology that really thrives from science. I can't think of any other field where BA's and BSc's can work together on their research and where MD's can reliably use the work they develop. There's very little fragmentation and the work each group does and contributes to the other is valuable.

Emotions are so deeply tied to the sciences that you can see them occurring in the brain as you give it an MRI. The amygdala activates and registers uniquely for each of the six emotions.

All basic emotions originate from the amygdala. All basic emotions are displayed universally and symmetrically (perhaps with the exception of contempt, but a whole article can be done on that), all basic emotions on the face, all basic emotions are universal, and all basic emotions register as we see other basic emotions.

The last one is interesting. When it comes to clinical psychology, we can actually see patterns in emotion recognition and tie them to mental health disorders. Borderline Personality Disorder scored on par with a baseline, but they selected anger as the emotion when defaulting. Bipolar assumed more emotions were happy during mania periods and sad during depressed periods. Anti-Social saw people who failed to reach par with baseline with either failing to recognize fear or failing to recognize disgust in other individuals.

On top of that, we also know that displays of emotions are important as well. Major Depression saw individuals display a wide array of emotions; almost like they were screaming for someone to see their feelings. And then, psychologists also saw Major Depressive people exhibit minimal emotions with slight movements in the upper face. These people were in a completely different segment and were at a high risk of committing suicide.

We can derive from the muscle movements, the activation of the brain, how these expressions are universal, and how we can mathematically that this science is not "fuzzy". There is a lot of hard work and much consideration from all facets of research that contributes to these results.
One thing I find consistently underwhelming is how much money is actually being paid for individual ad locations, both digital and especially physical space. Ie, a sizeable city's public space being fully plastered with (nowadays animated) ads _might_ add 1% to the city's spending budget, but even that number seems high, and the proportionality is totally screwed between the public benefits and downsides.
Glad that I'm not the only one noticing it. Last time it was Uber. Now they moved on to Facebook.

Uber didn't change much, and so won't Facebook, because the media will eventually pick another target (I wonder which, I'm guessing Google) which makes people click their links. They don't really care about reporting or about making things right, they just need a dead horse to beat.

I am happy the power of the media dwindles year after year, they should have no right to do something like this against certain people or companies they don't like. They are bullies, that's all they are.
Nice article.

A few high performance C++ systems use variants of the dispatcher approach. For example ScyllaDB and I know of a few HFT systems like that. Boost.asio is similar (the serializer is, or used to be, called strand) and so is the dispatcher proposal in C++.

A few systems I have seen strictly map each dispatcher to a thread (which is in turn exclusively pinned to an hardware core), so the serialization is implicit. "Active" objects expose their home dispatcher and to interact with the object one would post a lambda to that object dispatcher. In practice this is a form of async message passing. To get the answer back either a response callback is posted to the original thread or some future/promise abstraction is used.
Scala 2.2.18 released under Apache License v2.0
It's always good to know the other parties agenda/ideology as that will (consciously or unconsciously, often the latter) influence what they feel deserves or doesn't deserve being mentioned.
Trust? In terms of competency of the exploit?

I've wondered how the security experts privately regard nation state security personnel and teams? For example, no government was competing to employ Barnaby Jack. And of course government is notorious for inefficiency and incompetence when producing goods and services.

Of course nation states also have enormous advantages over any other individual or group.
While America might have the Espionage Act, we have an law (passed a year or two ago) that gives mandatory minimum sentences of >15 years for revealing information about ASIO. And sharing the information (even if it's public) carries the same penalty -- so re-tweeting such revelations is a criminal offense. As is viewing it.

Chilling effect? More like dipped-in-liquid-nitrogen effect.

I hope Australia will have its own Edward Snowden, but the immediate repercussions would be far more severe in Australia.
I think a valid point of criticism is that this increases the centralization of the web.

I think it's already a notable shift that an HTTPS server must periodically connect to the internet in some way to get a renewed certificate - but with OCSP Stapling, the requirement seems to be that the server queries the CA in realtime, i.e. has a permanent internet connection.

All of this is clearly necessary to keep HTTPS secure (as the article described very well) and wouldn't be a problem if the end goal weren't to make HTTPS the only option to serve web pages - but as things are going now, together with DoH, it really feels that browsers have changed from being tools to view HTML documents to front-ends for yet another platform.
Why Xanax should be bought in USA over buying it online?
Thanks!

So usually with Lambda, you want your jobs to be as atomic/quick as possible, as Lambda is stateless and has a maximum duration of 15 minutes.

As for the warm up times, the decompression of Chromium with Brotli takes about 700ms on a 1.5GB Lambda (this is faster than Gzip/Zip). Launching Chromium itself and opening a new tab takes another 400ms or so. If you keep your Lambdas warm (by registering a scheduled ClowdWatch event every 15 minutes for instance) your startup time will effective be those 400ms.
Unfortunately it's going to be way harder than you think because "Five Eyes" expand beyond just "Five Eyes" like "Nine Eyes", "Thirteen Eyes" etc.

Pretty much any "good" country is affiliated with "Five Eyes" in one way or another.
The US policy is deeply embarrassing and abjectly cruel.

I am so deeply ashamed by how the US treats the people of Iran.
Anecdotically my experience in Italy is that everyone and their dog have WhatsApp, if you go into the over 50 many have WhatsApp and not an email (or at least never check it)
Quick quiz ? Could someone please let me know what is the new brand name of chat that loads with Gmail Web ?
I think it would be reasonable to assume they sold user info to anyone who could afford it.
I don't think they were amendments -- they are included in the first reading of the bill (Sect 317ZF.13).
Clues in Marriott hack implicate China – sources
"Tell HN" would've been more appropriate.
Neymar Jr is not really the selfish player as claimed by the media
Well, they almost certainly _are_ "backdoored" in some sense, because the UK (like almost all countries) mandates that law enforcement be able to wiretap calls. It would never have been deployed in the first place without it.
I am annoyed that I missed out on the opportunity to do so. Running ad-blockers has its downsides.

Incidentally, we have archive evidence of print adverts and they tell as much about how we used to live as what old newspapers do. With digital adverts there is no trace or evidence that the adverts ever existed.

Different times, different attitudes. The rash of crypto-currency adverts from last year promising untold wealth would look utterly crazy at any other time than then. Someone needs to save the adverts - including yellow squares - for posterity.
How do machines really learn?
To be honest I think the average person outside of tech isn't bothered enough by data misuse stories to lose access to their friends' list and shared photos.

I think Facebook's more likely to lose out because apart from messaging, its organization and events and business finding tools simply aren't that good or well-surfaced within the app because Facebook has prioritised the world of feed clickbait. Don't think it's security concerns that have my friends doing event invites via Whatsapp group threads as often as via Facebook's dedicated event invitation service. But the average person having a number of old friends whose only reliable contact information is their Facebook is a pretty big moat.
Yes.

This is a civil rights nightmare.
British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning Facebook documents
Yesterday there was the HN thread on DDG's filter bubble study of Google search. Quite interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608306
There are many reasons to move off iphone (not least the lack of earphones), but imessage is so integrated with SMS that I don't know anyone who considers it different on any level other than geeks knowing it intellectually. On the other hand there are benefits to the ecosystem - find my iphone for example. Personally I, and wife, and motherinlaw, are on SEs because my mother's android phone is crap. It's just stopped ringing again -- last time required a software update.

iphones still Just Work. In my experience of people with half a dozen Androids over the last 6 years, they are Just Shit. People buy them because they are cheap, not because they are good. People buy iphones because they are good, not because of messaging lockin.

However that aside, across android and iphone, people constantly use whatsapp though because of groups and simplicity.
Note, however, that FOIA legally requires the opposite approach: everything is presumed public unless there is a specific reason to withhold.