skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Firefox is irrelevant on mobile

That's pretty sad, considering the fact it's the only mobile browser not only with the support of extensions, but the same extensions as the desktop version.

Future might not be that grim for mobile Firefox actually, with more and more modern Android smartphones and tablets support more and more RAM, and 4GB is pretty much standard.
I have a hard time equating Tumblr with CloudFlare. The latter is purely a utility, like a phone company, while the former is a website. While I understand that websites are also considered utilities by some (and the irony that Tumblr is now owned by a phone company is not lost on me), it seems like a blurrier line than for CloudFlare.
Do you have any hobbies? If so, what is the king you wished you had for that hobby. Make it for yourself, then sell it too.

Mine was making cool gifts for people. Now I have a art-piece that I sell: www.finewordclocks.com

It’s not a lot of revenue but it’s fun, gives me an excuse to buy cool “toys” aka tools, and I get to teach my
Kids about making cool things with fancy tools.
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Future Left – Ep. 109: Organizing and Mobilization in the Tech Industry
I don't see how it's any different to the situations with NSLs in the US. There's a veil of secrecy and no real limits on the scope of request with very harsh penalties for non-compliance.
The post for anyone who hasn't read it.

https://facebook.com/notes/mark-s-luckie/facebook-is-failing...
The face people put on publicly vs their inner monologue can be vastly different. Words and actions can and do regularly diverge.
Some commentary: if large Chinese funders decide to throw their weight behind Plan S, that would be great news. Those who follow the Open Access world will have seen that the traditional publishers are in full swing trying to discredit it, crying foul about academic freedom and reporting widely about the petition by academics concerned about Plan S [1] and not as much about the one by its supporters [2] - the latter of which I'd encourage all supporters to sign.

The main goal of Plan S is to transform the publishing industry, whereas the main fear of concerned academics will be that they will be unable to publish in the journals that are (currently) important for their career perspectives. That fear is mostly rooted in a) fear that Plan S will not achieve its goals, i.e. that the "big name" journals will not go open access and that they will be blocked from publishing there, and b) that non-European funders will be less likely to give them tenure/grants due to them not having published in said journals.

A major foreign funder helps alleviate both concerns, and will put additional pressure on the US to follow suit - which would all but put the concerns to rest. Except for the traditional publishers, of course.

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/plansopenletter/open-letter

[2] http://michaeleisen.org/petition/
Interesting view on the matter. A bit harsh with the words, but it raises some valid new points.
I see your point. Python however does not have a bad reputation. It's very positively perceived.
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Which other western and non-English-speaking countries are doing similar things? This democratic-authoritarianism seems to be unique to the Five Eyes nations.
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There's no loophole in Plan S that would prohibit redistribution of unmodified copies, is there?

These articles keep referring to the ability to "immediately read." Sounds great but I wanted to make sure there's nothing up the term's sleeve that I'm missing.
> At least those browsers are compatible with the web. Websites will work in them because websites are built to work in Chromium.

That is a poorly drawn conclusion. Edge is compatible with the web. Developers are solely developing for Chrome and not caring for cross browser testing. As a Firefox user I sometimes encounter this myself.
Oh well. Please petition your local representative to outlaw irrational numbers. We don't want these hysterical numbers breaking rational Australian laws.
Oh their are plenty of racists in software development don't be fooled by the lip service companies dole out.
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It may be important for readers to know that Electrek has some kind of financial interest in Tesla.
This is exactly on point. The whole thing is that to "win" the game, countries need to grow and keep growing. If we found a way to change the paradigm and incentivize sustainability instead, then it would better. Imagine like a blockchain contract between countries where the "spoils" of economic activity were split between them with regard to how efficient and sustainable their economies were. GDP -> GDS - Gross Domestic Sustainability
>the [internal] Black@ group

Imagine if there was a White@ or Azn@ or Jewish@ group.
If you ever tell a judge that the company refused to let you negotiate terms, review the documents with professional legal counsel, or make a copy for your own reference, I'm sure that will go over well in court for the company trying to pretend that they represent contracts~ Then you can discuss whether you actually received anything of value specifically for signing any particular document.

Smartass or not, if you are asked to sign anything that you are not allowed to show to a lawyer, the company is trying to abuse you, so feel free to mark it up a bit. Cross out single words that completely change the meaning of clauses that would put an obligation on you. Likely candidates are "not", "must", "shall", and "but". Write on it "This is not a contract" in small, hard-to-read print above your signature. Photograph it with your phone. Anonymously let other people know the company is doing this.

Chances are, if you asked any question at all about non-competes during the interview, you never would have made it to the empty room where they showed theirs to you.
You could say this about anything though, so it's not very damning criticism of Kickstarter. Also applies to Hacker News and everything, individually, at the grocery store. And all the Amazon boxes piling up on our doorstep from holiday deals.

Maybe you'd agree with that. I just never was a fan of the "oh, it's those people who are doing it wrong" as we ourselves indulge in a different set of the same thing.
"Silence is consent" has a long established meaning: if you do not object to something you can be construed to approve it.

I'm not asserting it, I'm asserting that the lack of activism at Facebook is still a political statement because it can be construed as consent.

Pretending not to understand common idiom in service of misogyny does not address this argument.
Is there any upside to staying private if you're profitable?
Oh man. Being liberal doesn't by default make you perfectly non-discriminatory.
See Larry Niven for SF speculation around the implication of transfer booths.
Oh yeah, sorry about the confusion. iMessage through iCloud.com
That was pretty good as it didn't have a floating point coprocessor at launch and was entirely software implemented. You could buy a card with an AT&T WE32206 copro for it which made it pretty damn fast. I think they had dedicated copro socket later on. I didn't buy one because all of them were stupid expensive.
Sometimes it's good for people to have the chance to simply vent, tbh. Don't need to assign blame, or come up with "solutions". Sounds like GP has had a tough time and we should maybe simply sympathise.
I wish this had gone the extra step and defined how code is easy to change:

- it's easy to identify and make the change

- it's easy to test and verify the change and ensure nothing else has been broken

- it's easy to build and deploy the artifact containing the change

The point being it's not just about code.
While true, Switzerland now shares banking data with the EU and US when required for their respective nationals. So foreign governments can and do exert pressure on them successfully.
I see the argument for simplicity, but I think it would be much more impactful to have a well-known URL for automated password changes.

It's common to see advice to "change all your passwords" following incidents like Heartbleed or Cloudbleed or after having a personal computer hacked.[0]

This advice is useless -- it's way too time consuming, and also comes too late. If you need to change all your passwords now, you actually needed to do it six months ago.

A well-known URL that specified password requirements and an endpoint to hit with username, old and new passwords would let password managers reliably and routinely update passwords instead. To the extent "change all your passwords" is ever good advice, it would become advice you could follow automatically instead of never.

[0] Example of the form: https://securitywatch.pcmag.com/hacking/322494-heartbleed-fa...
I don't believe in good faith arguments when it comes to services operated by big corporations: regardless of the good intentions of the humans originally involved, the corporate machine at some point takes over, and rules are enforced in such a way as to maximise share/stakeholder value and/or to minimize their risk.

If something is not explicitly allowed under the rules, I wouldn't trust that it's going to be allowed by some discerning human of goodwill.
So in short, don't hire Australian employees because they may be compelled to spy on my business by their government.
I think there is also a distinction in the granularity of the data harvested and what it was used for.

Knowing someone's location, age, etc and using that to classify whether or not someone should reach out to them to remind them to vote is one thing.

Harvesting everything they've liked on facebook to classify them by big five personality type to predict how to use disinformation to manipulate someone (often by scaring them into thinking they needed a gun to defend themselves, or that they needed to deport immigrants because they were gangerous, or into thinking islamic extremism was a real threat to their lives, as people high in neuroticism are more heavily motivated by arbitrary negative emotional impulses) into skewing their political preferences is an entirely separate game.
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Because there’s already plenty of places on the internet to host a censored photo blog for free. And because some people (myself included) resent the implication that watching porn is deviant behavior. And because there’s actually no conclusive evidence that’s it’s harmful to children.
It's worth mentioning that there are much faster JSON parsing libraries than the default in Ruby stdlib. I still don't think Ruby is the best choice for doing raw JSON parsing. Last time I had to care about JSON speed we were transforming billions of events and the Ruby JSON lib was becoming a bottleneck
I don't get why people sign contracts that have broad non-competes in the language. I always have and always will scrub those out of a contract before I even contemplate signing it. No company that thinks it's okay to prevent me working is a company I want to work for. If they want me badly enough, they'll agree to a fair and balanced contract and that includes removal of any contract that seeks to infringe on my ability to fairly support my family.

I have NEVER had a company balk at this when I do it. I tell them exactly why I'm removing it and why I will never agree to a contract that includes it.

I've never had any company bat an eyelid at this. They've all thought my reasons were perfectly fair and valid.
I wouldn't say that the industry leans left, I'd say the industry more of leans to this murky libertarian brogressive sort of amalgamation where people end up saying one thing and doing another when their bottom line is at stake. See Google.
Well, since password managers already tie a password to a specific domain, presumably they would use the same logic for determining the scope of the well-known URL. I do agree that the spec could probably benefit from clarifying this, but I bet "the same domain as one of the recorded login URLs" is sufficient. (And the password manager would never even know to check evil.example.com if you hadn't ever put that password into that subdomain).
> I was born in '93 so what happened 100 years ago isn't much of a concern for me.

This is a painfully ignorant statement. Every facet of your life is shaped by the actions of those in the past.

> or on what currency is used to buy petrol.

This literally is the thing regulates how every currency on the planet is valued/traded. EVERYTHING is based on the relationship between the dollar and the price of oil, including the USA/EU trade relationship, and every other trade relationship for that matter. Is that a good thing? Depends on who you ask, but it is nevertheless the current reality.

> What? Is this just a roundabout way of telling me I'm dumb?

No, but you aren't exactly making a great case for yourself.
CSP formed the basis for a good chunk of my graduate work.

One concept we explored was using CSP as a 'formal backbone' that handled communication/parallelism in complex systems while allowing stand-alone 'business logic' to co-exist without the need for the same level of rigour.

If you're reasoning about a concurrency problem, doing a quick CSP spec on the back of an envelope is a great way to 'check your math.'

Steve Schneider's book is a very approachable text on the subject: https://www.amazon.ca/Concurrent-Real-time-Systems-CSP-Appro...
You can throw lots of money at kooky, far out bets without having to answer to shareholders?
Sure. You're not nearly as beholden to shareholders with short-term investment horizons. See e.g. Dell going private.
I am not sure that migrating will help. If I read the bill right, it implies that every person providing any service used (or "likely to be used") in Australia is under legal obligation to insert these backdoors. I don't think it specifically mentions software developed in Australia.

The bill seems to be a nightmare - it even says that the technical assistance request can be given orally. What the bloody ....?

To me, it reads like this - if you're a Nigerian developer working in Germany and refuse to do this for some software (after all, every software is "likely to be used" in Australia), you are still breaking the Australian law. But you need not be prosecutable if Germany does not have an extradition agreement with Australia. If you are an Australian anywhere in the world however, then refusing this makes you a criminal, probably later a fugitive. This is my understanding. Can someone confirm?
Are you suggesting that Google decided to risk the trust they've built over decades (worth billions) for a one-time infusion of a few million dollars?
I'm not sure what you're getting at here, but this just sounds incredibly accusatory.
Because it's well-documented.
The biggest Huawei competition is from Ericsson in Sweden and Nokia in Finland. The US feels very uncomfortable having it’s civilian and military networks serviced by Huawei because of the connections Huawei has to the Chinese military.
Reducing international relations to schoolyard concepts like “bullying” leads to a child’s understanding of something that’s actually quite complex.
> No, but you don't attribute any particular significance to a mere step in the chain, be it moral or whatever, when it was inevitable due to earlier steps.

Why? Assuming universe is deterministic we do it all the time.
On the build your on basis, there are a number of nice atom/xeon-D micro ATX motherboards with 10G Ethernet and 8+ sata/sas ports. Combined with something like the old silverstone DS380B (8 hotswap 3.5" drives, + couple internal) makes for a nice small form factor NAS.

Why would you build your own? First, because the NAS vendors charge on a non-linear scale for drive slots and 10G Ethernet. The latter is basically a $50 additional charge on a motherboard, or a $100 add in card, but will easily add $500+ to a off the shelf NAS. Then there are the drives, today you might be happy with a two or three drive NAS, but in 5 years adding an additional 8-12TB drive (or three) will be just a hundred dollars or so, vs buying a whole new NAS.

Then there is actually using it. Running a NAS a 400-600MB/sec is a far cry from using one at 80-120MB/sec which is where you will peak out with 1Gbit ethernet. This becomes really noticeable when your copying one of the 50GB 4k video's you record during the kids birthday, or just running a machine backup to the NAS.

Frankly, at the end of the day, I find the flexibility to be the largest advantage. When I got tired of my old NAS's plex encoding perf, I swapped the motherboard for $300, without having to copy any data because i'm running a stock linux distro. Much of the old advantage on NAS's were the 3rd party marketplaces to get things like plex/crashplan/etc. Now those things are frequently found in docker containers, so a bit of setup and your application installs tend to stay continuously updated, rather than hoping your NAS vendors market place is remembered.
Another way to look at it is that these games have less obvious causal relationships. If the game is Pac-Man, it is immediately obvious that eating a dot makes the score go up, because the effect always and immediately follows the cause. The further the effect is separated from the cause, the more possibilities the machine must entertain. Imagine, in a different game, you activate three switches and a door opens. Why did the door open? Maybe all three switches must be activated for the door to open. Maybe the final switch controls the door and the other switches control something else. Maybe you must always activate the switches in a particular order as a security measure. The game probably gives context (e.g. the third switch is labeled 'open door') that a human can use to eliminate the many possibilities, but the machine must experiment before knowing what is relevant. When you separate cause and effect in time, the machine must deal with many possible 'switches'.
This is the problem with putting the onus for regulating speech on Facebook. It sounds like it'll be all rainbows and unicorns when you think it will prevent genocide (hint: it won't), but as soon as Facebook is responsible for removing any content that anyone, anywhere might conceivably object to Facebook as a platform for speech becomes useless.
That would surely have to imply they trusted the creators of the Android OS to be as security- and privacy-concerned as the iOS creators, no?
Ibram X Kendi speaks about this in his book "Stamped from The Beginning." The concept is called upward-suasion, and was designed 200 years ago to dispel common myths and stereotypes about blacks at the time. Essentially if you're twice as nice, then white people will accept you as an equal.

Of course, it didnt work. Regardless of how nice and polite W.E.B. Du Bois was, the state department still revoked his passport for his uncomfortable habit of reporting systemic racism in America to European and British intellectuals.

Dont feel like you owe people anything. Be yourself. Speaking as a card-carrying white male who works as an engine mechanic, the thing that makes an industry suck (or anything for that matter) is racists. Rebuilding the drivetrain on a box truck is hard work, but its doubly unpleasant having to listen to some old grease-monkey lecture you on what they think about "the negro."
Creating and sharing private Python packages
Another quote, from Tony Blair, I saw today.... felt is should go here:

"For the first time in my political memory, parliament is operating like a shadow government. It has taken effective charge of the process surrounding Brexit through the Grieve amendment, ensuring that all options can be voted upon. It has asserted itself with a vigour and clarity of purpose frankly missing from the actual government. It is articulating the different outcomes with a blatant disregard for the government mantra that it is this deal or no deal.

I am heartily thankful that parliament is doing so. There is as much leadership on the back benches as on the front. At a moment of supreme importance for the nation, with so much at stake and such bitter divisions in the population, they’re doing what I always hoped they would do: behave like leaders, recognising that at this time, party whips can’t matter more than genuine appreciation of where the national interest lies."
I feel like this makes it sound worse than it is. I run El Capitan in a VM on a 6 year old ThinkPad with a 3rd-gen i5 and it's fine. I use Safari with developer tools to debug web stuff and I've not noticed any unpleasantness. I don't use iMessage so maybe it's particularly graphics-intensive or depends on a lot of GPU acceleration (would seem strange in a chat app). Video chat might be affected I suppose? Anyway it may well be worth trying so I didn't want people to be unduly put off.
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Pornography is not just removed from the app, but also the website. Previously, apple users could browse to the website. Now, they no longer have this option. This is worse.

Also, the burn-down-the-world response to child pornography by removing every single female-presenting nipple is such an overwhelming response it's hard to believe this is appropriate. Even assuming they could do it correctly - their current implementation flags pictures of chrysanthemums as lewd content.
Yeah it was really widely reported, not just in the Guardian if you don't like that paper.

Here's 4 other sources. There are many more on DuckDuckGo News.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/18/elon-mus...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44870303

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/elon-musk-apologizes-blam...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/elon-musk-apologizes-to-brit...

From CNBC:

> The apology comes after the spelunker, Vern Unsworth, who was involved in the early days of efforts to save the now-rescued boys’ soccer team, threatened legal action against the billionaire executive over the comment.

> Musk said on Twitter late Tuesday that he had made the claim out of “anger” because Unsworth had criticized his idea to rescue the boys with a “mini-submarine” made out of a SpaceX rocket part.
> but I bet "the same domain as one of the recorded login URLs" is sufficient.

What is that a quote from? I cannot find it in the spec here:

https://wicg.github.io/change-password-url/index.html
Isn't this the exact thing that China has in law that is causing everyone to dump Huawei over?
CNET has the worst ads in tech news. The screen is over 50% ads and videos. I could barely read it
I mean, really you only have to look at the knee-jerk defensiveness against the idea that there could possibly be any racism in Silicon Valley on this Silicon Valley-centric website every time something like this is posted, to come to the conclusion that there might just be a problem.

No community is THIS defensive about something that's a non-issue.
That's why the car should stop after less than a mile, or even not go into drive at all, rather than driving 40 miles. In your scenario, how will the driver discover that the key is missing without turning the car off and then finding herself unable to turn it back on?
So it cost $66 million and saved $40 million.

That's impressive. I assume most of the saving is from grid stabilisation, rather than supplying/storing energy but still.

Why is this not more wide spread? These figures suggest this is a no brainer. Am I missing something?
Indeed. Electrek is a biased source, and to be taken with a large grain of salt. They openly admit it.

"Some writers of Electrek maintain positions in $TSLA and other green energy stocks"

Https://electrek.co/about/