skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When i try to think of what my ideal social media would look like, it always ends up sounding similar to an RSS feed, with the ability to lookup and requiring the other user's approval to get the actual content

That last phrase could add a lot of friction.

you could use different clients, some could give you recommendations for events,etc based on your subscriptions if you so choose

That would indeed replace Facebook. However, then you have a chicken and egg problem. Those clients won't be much good unless people provide data by using them, and people won't use them because they don't already have the data to provide good recommendations.
For that specific use case, maybe. Where it falls apart is in `searchUser`, where the methods (and performance characteristics) of digging through the respective databases are going to be radically different. In a newspaper's implementation, you're going to have to search by date, subject, keyword, body text string, reporter, etc. etc. In MongoDB, that generally involves creating an index on the combination of fields you'll be searching together. In SQL, that generally looks like adding a `where reporter = "Jane Smith"` predicate. The MongoDB version may be faster if you have an enormous amount of data spread across a cluster. The PostgreSQL version will be more flexible when your boss wants to know how many reporters wrote stories about candied yams within three days of the publication of any story containing the word "Thanksgiving".

Being tasked to come up with an abstraction layer that supports the speed of precomputed, clustered indexes with the flexibility of SQL - if I were in a content creation business and not a database engine writing business - sounds like the kind of project that would make me quit my job and go on a one year silent meditation retreat.
jg isn't non-technical.
I've compiled Trello's SaaS emails and broke down all their secrets
from people like you :)
Satellite study proves global quantum communication will be possible
This is just my opinion, based on my experience and personality.

Voice first running entirely on prem with no internet connectivity, sure I would go for that.

Talking to the internet? No way. Not even if I had root on the device with the source code to the OS, firmware and applications.
Its not allways about quality, its also about size, thickness of a steak etc
Well, the article directly contradicts your perspective of Crowley and Parsons beliefs with: beastiality, incest, and more.
World’s First instant crypto-backed loan provider becomes TrueUSD partner
Out of curiosity, what feature in the extension pack are you using with Vagrant?
This is completely off subject, but as a personal rule of thumb, 99% of articles that include the first person, such as "Why I [did xyz]..." or "How we can...", are clickbait.

Ime, the best case scenario is Acme Tech Co. "blogging" about "why we used abc codebase," but the reality is that it's simply rehashing well known information in narrative form for the purposes of PR, and worst case scenario is that it's just unoriginal op-ed garbage.

See: "We should replace Facebook with personal websites," which is currently trending at #10 for HN, above this OP at #16.

EFF is a great organization and can't say that it's surprising to see that this is the first time in a long time to come across an exception to the rule.
How to Migrate from AzureRM to Az in Azure PowerShell
Shifts in computing paradigms are incredibly rare. The smartphone is unlikely to be replaced for a long time to come. There will be plenty of head fakes along the way no doubt (smart speakers and voice bots come to mind), but the smartphone is simply too good and has too much utility to be easily challenged.

And you also have to make a bet that Apple won't come to dominate that area as well (even if they aren't first to it). AR glasses have some promise to be a new general purpose computing platform, but even then I'm skeptical that it will be able to mount a serious challenge to the smartphone.
Everytime people say "you should quit Facebook", I have two primary use cases:

1. Our high school class. Yes we used to use a mailing list but it's so much better with Facebook, with people freely sharing what interesting shit happens. We are a very closely knit class, at the 25th graduation anniversary like 25 of the 34 was there.

2. I have a group of friends doing all sorts of awesome shit (some of the more memorable include taking a medieval sword duel intro class, another shooting foam arrows at each other, there was laser tag, trampolines, Halloween mazes and much more) and the event functionality is just damn perfect: you create an event, everyone can post on it (I am coming, I am not coming, I need transport) all of the posts can be commented out. And people can just write posts into the group suggesting more events.

For both you'd need more than thirty people install a new app (remember how few apps are actually used) and actively use them at the same time or you will be missing events. This won't happen.
Our company still have a lot of guys on irc so a bridge was put in place to mattermost :)
I find one of the most useful and basic aspects of Facebook is sharing photos. I launched NanaGram (https://nanagram.co) a little over a year ago to try and bring my 94-year-old grandparents into the fold. It's a service that makes it super easy to mail printed photos in the mail by text message. Something I didn't expect is my family and I started using it like a private social network. Knowing everything is private, we're much more willing to share intimate details and photos. All of us youngins get notifications of the photos we're posting. I also created a "Saturday morning digest" email which is a nice way to delay gratification. At the end of the month, our grandmother gets physical copies in the mail. I subscribe myself to a copy of the photos for QA which is pretty neat. Sometimes I also mail select prints to my siblings.
being single is a bless sometimes.
They own Winzip

Some were shocked to learn Corel was still around, whereas I'm shocked to learn Winzip is still around. Especially since Windows finally got around to adding native zip64 support in what...XP SP3 I think it was?
It's basic engineering mechanics. All bending equations come back to the second moment of area [1], which for a rectangle is b*h^3/12. Double the thickness and your object becomes 8 times stiffer. Second gen 10.5" iPad Pro (can't find dimensions for 3rd) is 6.1mm. Change that to 7.1, and it becomes (7.1)^3/(6.1)^3 = 1.58x stiffer. Not indestructible, but a massive improvement for a small change.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_moment_of_area#Rectangl...
Any amount you want to bet...ill take the side that there will not be an "iPhone 25."
I check mine immediately, because it's in my hand since I just turned the alarm off. I almost can't not check it, since I'll see whatever notifications are on the home screen after I've touched the cancel button unless I go out of my way to look away.

Not that the alarm wakes me up very often. I almost always wake up a few minutes before it goes off. Even in different time zones. Not sure how my body does that. So technically I probably don't check it less than a minute after waking up, just a few seconds after the alarm goes off.
Do you have evidence that Apple pays AI researchers less than those other companies? Honestly I'm not sure that you even understand the argument you're trying to make. The rest of us here certainly don't.
This why, at least, Techsavy people should avoid depending on centralized services for their work.
The speed and quality of the rendering is insane. I would love to know how it is done.
Ha. Sure. It's going to keep happening, and on a larger scale. Then people will (again) aruge it's no big deal. Stil relatively early in the conditioning stage.
Isn't "attacking the motive" a logical fallacy?

https://study.com/academy/lesson/attacking-the-motive-fallac...
1) Nobody can prove that. It's always listening and you have to assume always recording and transmitting.

2) My phone is a $12 throw away that speaks voice and sms (text).

3) Loose lips sink ships.
... aaaaaand, there it goes; the spammers already ruined it ;)

Like they did with email. Then you have companies come with robust AI tech and filter the spam, and also give good recommendations. A few of those companies come to dominate the market

... aaaaaand, there it goes; we're back to the situation we have now with Facebook and Google.
> There is a risk that she will run for president without having had the time to adapt her views to match one of the dominant political parties.

She's a rising star in what has long been a major faction (and which may be taking over as the dominant faction) of the largest, by self-identified affiliation (and by vote total at some levels in recent election cycles, though often strucurally disadvantaged in terms of the outcome that produces) political party.
Agreed. Appalled that someone down-voted the comment. You can't just shout "racism" and make it so. As outlined in the screenshots - the countries that Slack claims are sanctioned vary greatly, as do the races which occupy them.
I note this script takes two existing PDFs as an input and produces two new PDFs that collide with each other as output, but they do not collide with either of the originals. Thus this does not enable the obvious attack of creating a PDF that contains different text but collides with an existing PDF that you do not control. It does enable some other forms of duplicity, but only if you are the source of both documents.
> With increased atmospheric CO2, plants grow faster and end up with a much higher calorie:micronutrient ratio.

Citation please.

> We also consume vast quantities of industrial waste products now like "vegetable oil", HFCS and soybean by-products.

Naturalistic fallacy. "Industrial waste" isn't necessarily harmful.

> Famine wasn't as common as you seem to think it was, unless you include impoverished states, in which case famine is killing more people now than it was back then.

"More people" is an irrelevant metric, what matters is the percentage of people relative to the total. That's a meaningful measure of progress.

> We suffer plenty of nutritional deficiencies

Such as?

> and we suffer huge amounts of diet caused diseases like "type 2 diabetes" and osteoporosis.

The latter of which was either common back then also, or uncommon because they didn't live long enough to develop it. As for type II diabetes, it's a disease of abundance, which proves my point. You can't overeat if you don't have enough to eat.

> They were producing significant surpluses of food, enough to feed massive armies.

That often starved during campaigns.

> And while they worked hard in spring and fall, they essentially had summer and winter as vacation time. They had more holidays/vacation time than modern Americans do.

During which they had to ration food, developed nutritional deficiencies, and died of exposure. Some vacation. You're awfully selective about how you compare "like to like".

> We literally have hundreds of thousands of people killing themselves entirely because they have no social bonds.

Citation please.

Also, there is very little real data on historical suicide rates [1,2]. It consists mainly of conjecture from the writings of artists at the time, like Dante speaking about hell and suicide. So your claims that modern rates are higher are also pure conjecture.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...

[2] http://psychiatry.queensu.ca/assets/Synergy/synergyfall12.pd...
> The iPhone is going to keep printing money for the next 15-20 years at least.

How? The improvements to the iPhone are less compelling every year, while the prices are going up. The company recently stopped reporting iPhone sales numbers.

> Apple is a 40 year old company, and they're still raking in the dough from their original product category.

Are they, though? Aren't Mac sales insignificant compared to iPhone sales? Haven't the latest Macbooks suffered from significant feature regressions?
A number of years ago, The Onion did a great parody piece [1] on how Facebook is ran by the CIA

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiPaTy2iJTM
Always possible. As a counter-precedent of success, https://www.opus-codec.org for WebRTC came from the IETF, Skype and others.
I agree on all those points.

We might disagree on the prevalence of each group.
Seems like a terrible title for an organisation. It presumes women and not men are doing housework. The equitable thing to do regarding sharing work housework childcare etc will depend on the couple and should be talked about as two equals.
Not when the device is locked and screen is off.
The Alexa app lets you play back your own recordings.
Every device that supports 3D Touch is highly resistant to bending, because AIUI the way 3D Touch is implemented basically puts a metal plate inside the phone. This is why the iPads never got 3D Touch, because they’d end up too heavy with a metal plate that large.
As an example for #2, when I got an Android somehow I was either automatically opted in or accidentally opted into location sharing. Two years later I found that Google Maps could show me every location I had been to for the last 2 years. I could review, day by day, everywhere I had gone, what time I went, how I drove there and where I went to next.
Apple cannot hire 'the best of the best'; those people are freaks and are probably not publicly presentable. The shareholders would not approve.
If your coworker thinks that any version of Windows is "the best OS", then said coworker needs lobotomized (or might already be lobotomized).

LTSB is (IMO) the best version of Windows since 2000, but it still ain't good enough to be my daily driver.
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I'll take good recommendations, thank you.

I'm surprised so few people here have picked up on the fact that "filter bubble" is a rhetorical trick about as obvious as the "pro-life" and "pro-choice" dichotomy.

People like getting good recommendations, and they'll always like them. "Filter bubbles" are here to stay.
They might just rename it before that point to just “iPhone”.
Where did they say “it’s a feature”?
Think about all of the things that you don't have to carry with you if your smartphone is good enough: camera, wallet, keys, pieces of paper (containing
printed maps/directions, emails etc).

It's notable that a combination of Apple Watch + Airpods can fulfill most of these needs, with the exception of being a high quality camera and a few other things that require a larger screen. But that just shows you that if anyone is going to disrupt Apple, it's going to be Apple.
Because Moore's law has ended.
Shoutout to Fakespot[0]!

[0] https://www.fakespot.com
And unlike the "private" data of Facebook, Equifax data has serious real-world consequences beyond mere embarrassment.
You should have learned this paper last semester, as the paper is from 2015 and is relevant if you study DH.

Anyway, for an application developer (as opposed to a crypto engineer), just use libsodium when you control both sides.

If you need to interop with someone else, use TLS 1.3 if you can, or TLS 1.2 but only with ciphers that support PFS and AEAD, i.e. in practice x25519 and P-256 ECDHE with RSA signatures with AES GCM or ChaCha20Poly1305.

Same primitives are available in SSH.

If you can, don't use IPSec, use wireguard.

Don't use pgp/openpgp/gpg email, use signal. You can use gpg to sign packages and encrypt backups, but the email integration and UX will kill you.
Seconded. Parallels has some nice features, like being able to run windows apps in OSX, but it's noticeably slower than booting directly into windows. Plus parallels lets you run your bootcamp partition from OSX if you need to.
Step 1: deploy crappy system, let everybody mock it and quickly forget.
Step 2: update software so it actually works. People think "how accurate can it be, it was crap just a short while ago"
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit.
>I am baffled by how many people have no problems adding always listening and recording Google and Facebook devices to their living rooms.

I am baffled by people that think anyone cares about their conversation about Jeff at work or what Monica and Ross just did on the 75th viewing of an episode of friends, or that they talk to their stuffed rabbit named Bun that they've had since about a week after they were born about how miserable their life is and how they should just pack up and run away together... I mean...

"oh no, big bad google knows I shouted 'oi shut the fuck up' four times instead of three at the neighbors today" and "oh no, Amazon knows I asked what we want for dinner"

I guess I must be weird and other people are having extremely sensitive, if not classified, conversations in their residence but I just don't see what the big deal is.

Most of the people I personally know that find it bizarre people would have such a device have rewards cards, smart phones, take every damn quiz that myspace and facebook have ever had, checked in religiously with foursquare, tag their friends in every photo they upload seven times a day from every place they've been that day, check in everywhere they go on facebook and have 2+ streaming services monitoring every single thing they watch. Like, hellloooooo you're worried about a microphone that can't even get "hey alexa" "hey google" right half the time and actually trigger?
Germany to ban some iPhone sales following Qualcomm patent case ruling
Have you never taxied at an airport waiting for a gate to open or had a flight delayed/cancelled?
Maybe a naive question, but how are they any worse than having phones with non-transparent hardware/radio drivers in your living room? We seem to have accepted that risk, and even carry phones around everywhere.
The concept of conscious thought was only created with subjective observation, people had simply assumed what their experience was. We still don't have solid evidence one way or the other but the evidence we do have seems to be pointing towards it being an illusion.
But with Apple's entire ecosystem being closed and intentionally locking you in, is Apple really a better choice. All it takes is one decision from the board that it would be more profitable to start violating privacy.

The board's legal mandate is to make as much money as possible. As soon as privacy is no longer a fad that makes more money and growth than the opportunity cost to not violating it, Apple will flip a switch. That's their duty as a for profit company.
Obviously a typo (why would you post an obvious typo in your header?)

But for some etymological fun assume / were の leaving ワール alone, which turns out (check Bing translate or at Monash) to be J-shorthand for the ancient Indian city Haridwar, which in Sanskrit equates to 'Gateway to Lord Vishnu' (Wikipedia) which in turn would leave you with a site header suggesting 'Japan's Gateway to the Lord Vishnu' which probably wasn't what the site author had in mind. :-)
A library for enabling automatic updates for sideloaded UWP apps
None of the major web services (Geocities, Tripod and Angelfire) required anyone to know FTP, and they weren't any more difficult to use than Wix or Wordpress, which target non-technical users today.

Before the standard of "web development" became "learn the terminal, Git and some Linux, unit testing, install and learn Node, learn Docker or some other container, learn ssh, learn a framework and any of several languages that compile to javascript" it really was simple enough that plenty of "normal" people grasped it without any issue.
House Passes Bill to Create National Quantum Computing Program
When YC experimented with applying/voting with YC applicants on HN, this was a part of my idea...tomorrowbook ;)

It’s part domain registration, web builder (simple website with fees you add content to via text message), part automated dns records, part social media/search engine.

So imagine these personal websites are all connected, one website can follow another, that’s it. You own the content, traffic, ad revenue. You could search content across these distributed websites with the tomorrowbook search engine, you could use tomorrowbook to register a domain (built in dns/website for the nontechnical) or use your own registrar and embed the tomorrowbook feed into your site.

Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11473190
We are doing both (and have already hired from our own training). We plan to be one of the biggest hiring partners from our program. We're posting externally due to timing - we need more help now, and our first public batch of candidates starts Jan 7.
> Nobody can prove that. It's always listening and you have to assume always recording and transmitting

Uh... packet analyzers, IP logs, bandwidth monitoring tools etc...

If instead of transmitting occasional bursts of data when you say the wake word it's been sending back tens of megabytes an hour, or tens to hundreds of megabytes a day, you can go "hey, it's probably transmitting everything it hears".

There are people that religiously watch what these devices are sending back just to try and catch one of the companies doing something fishy. There are people that religiously watch their network traffic period looking for something nefarious.

These devices aren't like your phone, where simply having it on can have all sorts of services/apps using data in the background or you open a webpage and tens or even hundreds of different servers are contacted and data pulled/pushed to/from them. It's a device that should be periodically checking for an update and sending very small audio files back in nearly-real time. If they were recording regularly, or especially all the time, and transmitting it back to a server it would stand out like a sore thumb.

Never mind the fact that keeping it secret, and not having a whistle blower, would be damn impossible. Someone's going to mention it to a loved one or friend, or flat out go online "I discovered my Amazon/Google device is actively listening and recording and sending to these IPs in these intervals" when they just know it as fact and didn't have to 'discover' it.
If you don't think information that subjects an entity to massive legal liability is sensitive, then I really don't understand where you're coming from.

The entire point of these emails is to bypass established channels by getting random employees to leak information. If they want licensing information, there's an IT point of contact for that. Or Contracts. Or Legal. They are literally fishing for information leakage that would give them grounds to sue.

> I doubt Oracle is disguising themselves as the company's IT department or something.

They wouldn't. At this stage the point is to convey a false sense of authority without being outright fraud. You have to wrap everything in vague but threatening insinuations-- "help us or you could face fines of up to a bazillion dollars, and/or you might go to JAIL."
Can't say I ever thought too much of Zuckerberg, but anyone who annoys politicians can't be all bad.
A manufacturing defect implies it’s an unexpected outcome. This is an expected outcome.
We've settled the 1984 versus Brave New World debate with the answer "yes, please."
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/fb the title for the stock is: "Facebook Inc. Cl A". With the particular font they use, the lowercase "l" and uppercase "I" look the same.
I read the values right out from the AP and sends them to be stored in the DB. I had to build up a proper set of data (about a weeks worth) before I could go and "back fill" location. Uses some simple MA algos on the signal/noise. Working on "predicting" next location based on historical data.
I think the observation necessary for appreciating this article is that most sites that are built as SPAs these days aren't really web apps, they're still web pages. They're more similar to BBC and Springer Nature than to Google Sheets or LucidCharts. That's a property of the problem they're trying to solve. Building a web app where a web page would do shows total lack of interest about providing value to the user.