skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The distinction doesn't exist in practical terms. The company controls the behavior of the app; the fact that an app has access for legitimate reasons doesn't mean that any given use of the access was for legitimate reasons.
I'm excited for kill switches, mostly the baseband one. Cell providers sell real time location data. I will be happy knowing that my phone is doing no communication when I want it to.
I have been excited about this project for quite some time. They recently released their Rust client, although without networking. I cannot wait to play with it further as it holds the most promise amongst all "Web3" decentalized platforms.
Is it not obvious?
Agreed. And politics should always be minimized so we get less of this:

>Even in science ideas don't win purely on merit. They require marketing and political support too.

Ideally the world would be a meritocratic place, while still offering both sympathy and dignity to the weakest members. Does anyone disagree with that? But still, politics and cheating always weasel their way into power structures of society. And it should be seen as morally reprehensible within science.
Algorithms are tools. Sure, maybe a hammer isn’t interesting in and of itself, but the things you build with one certainly are.
Hilarious!! Talk about "the road well travelled"

There is no good old idea, but that somebody else didn't think of it first. I bet somewhere out there is a statistician from the 1940s with a box of those cards with holes and notches you used as a DB "join" method over fields saying "...have I got a story for you..." (I used them in school btw. I had a real moment in DB class learning JOIN and thinking back to how we did selection over multiple criteria from these cards)
It helps if you've read the rest of his series on his history in technology and at Apple, where he adds more context. But it also helps if you have management/political experience.

Essentially, he was being "promoted" from the top of the engineering organization to the bottom of the CEO's political organization. This meant that in practice he had much less control over his own future and was now mostly accountable for his perception amongst his fellow political peers, who (as other people have already discussed here) were already "Yes Men" for the CEO and not interested or even able to consider contrary positions.
Another idea is a news summarizer vs aggregator, get me the facts and opinions across the outlets over time.

You can pick a couple of hot topics and do this manually to validate the idea
Please also fix the back button on the PDF reader built into Chrome; pressing the back button on my mouse seems to go nowhere.
Thanks for the example. That's a very nice use of OO, I like it!
Don't know why I'm downvoted, Chinese car joint ventures has been ran for a decade but still Chinese can't design a decent car.

EVs just dramatically lowered the barriers to entry, it's just "a car with a motor and battery", will people notice and even care the difference in 0–100 km/h time between in-house design and generic parts cobbled together?
Report: Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify access to private messages
ASK HN: If I use incognito in Chrome and VPN, my traffic it's still linked?
So I use Chrome on mobile and windows. Sometimes I want to check something and to don't be tracked back to my main Google account.
Using incognito and VPN is enough, or do they send some more information? Chrome has access to my system so I'm theory could get my hardware id or something similar. Also they could use some fingerprint technique.

Do you think they do it, or not?

Anyone actually checked what Chrome is sending back to Google?

Thank you
If we're going to nit pick, there's a difference between heavy and heavy metals. All heavy metals are "heavy" but not all metals that are heavy are heavy metals. And as you probably know, this term is vague and when talked about it is discussed in very specific ways. Though some of the metals are heavy metals.

Soluble or insoluble ocean currents are fairly strong and there is strong mixing. Solubility also means more mixing and thus more dilution. The amounts of 137Cs were fairly low, but this was one of the most dangerous materials because it is does distribute within the body, but that half life is 30 days. And consider the food chain. That actually depletes the 137Cs much faster than the 30yr half life would. Same goes for I. Also consider that the ocean currents will take that material away from Japan and into the open ocean (not towards another near by landmass).

But I want to be clear, I'm not saying that this stuff is completely safe. But that there's good reason to think that concentrations in the ocean around the area have plummeted, and should faster than on land.
Some premium brands include all scheduled maintenance in the lease. They want to ensure that the car is in good shape when the lease is over so they can keep the residual value high.
> Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Doesn't "giant collection of studies and anecdotal stories all around a central theme, in easy to read language" perfectly describe it? I know I am very much in the minority but I absolotely hated Thinking, Fast and Slow.
The difference is professionals manage amounts that can buy more than chicken tendies.. some strategies don’t work at scale.
You'd be surprised. A lot of this early-stage stuff is a game-changer for people who haven't started a business before. This gives them the base to leap off. And agreed - strategy is everything. But particularly if you've never done internet marketing before, going through the process of identifying what channels you're going to stick with, no matter what, until you find something that works is what most people struggle with. I find a lot of people think "Oh, it's Instagram" and then that doesn't work, so they switch to Facebook and then that doesn't work, so they switch again. Foundations first.
Though please not exactly like the Linux foundation, which is doing some pretty shitty things. Companies can become members of the Linux foundation and violate the GPL of Linux no problem, they are paying their membership fee after all. The Linux foundation is effectively the "Megacorps Linux user group". Its executive director Jim Zemlin famously doesn't use Linux himself.
Right now you can't close a tab with ctrl+w if the "Would you like to see desktop notifications?" dialog is up. For a second I thought this was a fix for that.
Ask HN: I am a deaf founder who never give up. How can I network and get funded?
I am shy with social anxiety and I almost always fail at networking during events due to both my medical condition and fear. On the top of this in the current world, everyone has a short attention span, everyone is busy, obsessed with being quick — while anything in life worth doing takes time.

https://github.com/sievehq/Manual/blob/master/manual.md
What does the above problem have to do with the pigeon hole principle? I’m all for CS foundations, I learned the pigeon hole principle as an undergrad, I never used it (in work or during my phd) and have since forgotten it, but I’m glad I did that. But the above problem....just feels like a Googly interview question, whether it is just diff or not.

What really gets me riled up is that these companies don’t care about my specialty or actual experience at all during the interview even if this is why they want to hire me at all in the first place. Nope, it’s all brain teaser coding questions that have nothing to do with what they would actually want me to do if hired. I get why they do it (one size fit all interview process), but I don’t think it is at all better.

There are now whole undergrad courses at universities like Stanford devoted to gaming the interview process at google and Facebook and other big techs. I don't think this is desirable or sustainable.
If you can plainly see the gun on their belt, is it really concealed carry?
It's a long-ass story that I don't intend to share with the internet :) I consult on eCommerce and early-stage traction. I wouldn't be presumptuous enough to say I know how to grow any business beyond what I've grown myself.
School should do this with other areas of science, I remember being taught about atoms and how 'absolutely true' it was that they were the smallest possible things, despite the fact it was known at the time that was not the case in other areas of research.

It would have piqued my interest much more at a young age if we were taught 'this is what we have found out... so far!'. There's still so much left to discover!
I had hoped I included enough of a "disclaimer" referencing the pitfalls to avoid this comment. Alas.
I think the idea is not to turn the CO2 back into carbon and oxygen, but to store it somewhere other than the atmosphere. That is not thermodynamically impossible.
I mean, aren't SPAs kind of a hijacking of how browsers are intended to be used?
His arguments are really weak. He uses both SPDY and QUIC as examples of Google behaving badly. From my perception, Google basically said "this major web standard is inefficient. If we make these changes, the network is faster (especially for people with poor connectivity." They validated those hypotheses with real traffic on real devices over real networks, and then proposed standards based on that work. The standards bodies started there, and made adaptations until there was consensus, and new standards were minted.

What part of that is bad?
This sequence of exposes and revelations doesn't speak to Facebook's credibility. It would be one thing if it was just the incidents surrounding the 2016 elections, but the pattern in all these news reports seems to be that Facebook's design doesn't simply doesn't respect its users.

Too many features and plugins Facebook has seem to be leaky in some respect. Messanger does not use default end-to-end encryption for whatever mysterious reason. If Facebook owns the endpoints, it can just as easily obtain the data for themselves before encrypting and submitting the message if it were enabled anyway.

How could I have any faith Facebook doesn't collect messages intended to be sent in confidence if collecting them suits Facebook's purposes?

I'm not sure however if Facebook's sketchiness is intentional or not. We have few examples of companies that were early movers in the inception days of the modern internet. And the decisions made early on prefigured everything that was to come.

At this time I would look to other others for inspiration about the correct way to make use of a data jackpot. Facebook's own totally unrestricted laissez-faire mentality in the relentless pursuit and utilization of its data is undermining itself.
$917/day -with Free Traffic and Affiliate Marketing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine

Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known. Cigarettes may indeed be more powerful, but people are obsessed with nicotine because it’s addictive qualities are so well known.
Ars takes a first tour of the length of the Boring Company's test tunnel
I'll tell you my true experience with my LEAF.

I bought my used 2013 leaf at a sticker price of around ~9,500 USD before taxes and fees. A few months in, I began to experience an issue with the braking system. After depressing the brake pedal and slowing to a stop, the pedal would sink slowly, and the car could creep forward again until I applied more pressure. After enough cycles of this I'd have pushed the pedal all the way down, and there would be no way to hold the stop. I immediately set up an appointment with the local licensed Nissan dealer for maintenance, and began putting the car in park at intersections.

I noted that the brake fluid was very low, but not empty, when I brought the car in. I figured all it needed was to be refilled, but there were some other minor squawks I wanted to have them look at.

After service, the rep sat me down and explained that the part that balances brake force between the regenerative and friction braking systems "had failed", and this part was going to cost nearly $2000 to replace. He clearly represented to me that the maintenance mechanics had uncovered a problem with this part, that it was failed, and absolutely necessary to replace. I paid for the appointment and said I'd have to think about the replacement part.

I looked over the paperwork very carefully and there were no error codes in the testing results. I've been driving the car for over a year since with no issues. The problem with the brake pedal resulted from low brake fluid, which they topped off during the maintenance.

I've resolved not to take the car to the dealer for any issue unless I absolutely can't handle it myself, which I'm guessing means "never".

So I definitely give credence to the idea that the electric cars are a threat to maintenance revenue.
Who is we? Ever since they came about, professionals we're screaming these were untested, that nicotine is a deadly chemical, and that they had no oversight. I know of no person with relevant credentials who deemed them safe or advocated them as a safe alternative to cigarettes.
No it didnt kill a lot and i would urge you to find that evidence. Furthermore the amount of people who died from chernobyl in all the time after is a fraction of the people who dies of natural phenomena from nature every year, add on top of that the other reasons people die and chernobyl is not even worth mentioning. Again you guys have your proportions completely wrong at a fundamental level.
Ask HN: How to start learning React and React native?
I am a novice developer. I am currently learning Javascript from Udemy. I want to learn React and React Native to get a job in these technologies. So can anyone guide me about some courses or walkthrough about how to become a Reactjs and React Native Developer??

Thanks.
Agreed, it was hard to read from all the jargon. Also seems overly complex.
> Aston Martin, for example, has an electric conversion program so you can keep driving your vintage car after the bans are introduced

Are those bans really going to be that strict? I would hope that they'd exempt genuinely collectable cars. From a preservation/living history perspective, it seems wrong to force such drastic modifications.
Statistical atlas of the United States (1874)
When is the FTC getting involved?
> You said yourself, they released an extension for this.

Oh was there an official one? At the time, the only extension I could find was some slightly-sketchy third party one that allowed you to set hot keys for many things.

> This requires too much page context. A search field being partially filled is very different than a long registration form being worked on.

Fair enough.
Radiation is a strange subject to get from the news. There's a quote I heard from a nuclear scientist "Those that know the most fear the least" (note, that he didn't say "don't fear"). A lot of this is reminiscent of cold war era and nuclear weapons (a VERY real fear). And because radiation is such a difficult to understand subject, and since scientists aren't the greatest communicators to the average person, things get fuzzy. And lastly, humans are bad at understanding risk. Like that more people die per year from coal production in the US than have ever (or ever will) from any (current) nuclear disaster (see linear no threshold models). That's a crazy stat to me.

We do need to do long term storage, but we (the US) stopped the long term plan of Yucca Mountain.

What worries me though is that we need nuclear more than ever. The IPCC agrees, it's the only current technology that we have to address (not solve) the issue.
Exactly, making the card is half of the trick to remembering. If you can’t commit to making your own materials you might as well forget about using things like this. Yes it’s harder, but no there is no shortcut for learning in life. Just like exercise you can’t fake doing the work.
Thanks for elaborating on the delisting process; that does seem somewhat more reasonable.

> [A reverse split] doesn't improve the fundamentals of the company at all.

It doesn't improve the fundamentals, but doesn't worsen them either. What's the harm?

> It's an admission that you have no idea how to create more value and are merely buying time.

Not necessarily. The company might have decided that its best option is to take a calculated risk, like creating a new market, introducing an unfamiliar pricing scheme, betting on economies of scale which don't exist yet, etc. In that case Wall Street analysts might maintain a low valuation, but the company isn't doomed, it's just risky.
> It feels like in this instance the reflexive reaction of the developers is what made the passing of the proposal more likely by putting the committee in a psychological position where they're dismissing large amounts of feedback, making them more likely to throw out the proverbial baby.

Thank you for putting that into words. That's what I was initially trying to express when I talked about "mudding the water", but the second paragraph sorta took my train of thought in a different direction.

I can't help but think that if there weren't so much discussion about the syntax, and consequently so many people willing to throw their support behind any alternative proposals merely because they avoid that particular syntax, some of the more substantial concerns about this proposal might have gotten a bit more consideration due to the higher signal-to-noise ratio.
Based on the salaries at Facebook, I would hope it’s intentional.

If not, what the hell are they paying top-of-industry salaries for?
It's a keyboard shortcut man relax
Hyundai is (or will be soon, depending on where you live) selling the Hyundai Kona Electric and the Kia Niro EV. Both have the same powertrain, have good range, and are price competitive with other electric cars ($36,450 USD before incentives for the Kona):

https://www.hyundaiusa.com/kona-electric/index.aspx

https://www.kia.com/us/en/content/vehicles/upcoming-vehicles...

How can Hyundai do that if the dealerships are a problem?
Except "reduce the intake of nicotine, with some self discipline".

In the UK, a lot of vape liquid is sold with no nicotine. You state your preferred level of nicotine, and someone behind the desk tells you how much nicotine to purchase to get that level of nicotine in the vape.

You can vape as is, with no nicotine, but what's the point unless you're quitting?
>because they are essentially owned by the local factories.

And who own those factories, if not people?
I definitely recommend doing this! UX-wise, I do wish that Chrome surfaced the option a bit better. Seems that a "never ask me again" checkbox, or even a shortcut to the relevant settings page, would be a nice touch.
I think you hit the nail on the head with regards to centralization.

I think there's a more important aspect here: there is very little demand for transacting in a second currency worldwide, and almost 0 demand within stable economies. As an American who does 100% of his transactions with other Americans in USD, why in the would should I introduce exchange rate risk into my daily transactions? The lightning network might be all the hotness, and I doubt that, but so long as its marked in a currency that I don't get paid in and my landlord doesn't take, I have no earthly incentive to tie up any of my hard earned money in a second currency in some lightning channel.

And that's not even starting on the absolute trainwreck that is general crypto UXD. Open a channel and tie up some of my money somewhere so I can eventually make a payment in the unspecified future? No thanks.
> If you’re a crackhead with a gun or whatnot do you stick up the crazy with a gun on their belt? Or wait 5 minutes for an unarmed victim?

Since I'm not a rational long term thinker, I shoot my victim and take the wallet from the body, why give them a chance to shoot back?. This is the end result of the arms race you advocate for.
My personal favorite is https://vertx.io because it is a little more transparent in how it works and the Rx abstractions are something I was familiar with when I started using it. Not to mention springboot did not offer reactive programming until fairly recently whereas vertx has been reactive from day 1, rxjava or not.

I will take another look at springboot just to see what the fuss is about. I am a bit surprised that netflix did not come up with their own light weight backend framework based on netty.
this is great, though I wish it had year-by-year lists too (instead of week-by-week)
You should find any evidence of your own position before you start calling other people religious. The risk of nuclear is not even comparable to the risk of things you do everyday and take for granted are not worth worrying about. Find the evidence that show nuclear is even a fraction as dangerous as you claim. Dont take my worth for it, educate yourself. Then come back with the evidence and i will rally up behind you.

Wind and solar are not even close to being able to deliver like nuclear and they deliver a fraction of the worlds need (1%). More people die from setting up solar and wind, way more animals die because of wind, both wind and solar pollute more. Its pretty obvious who is the religious person here.
The fraction of engineers at Google to which these conditions apply is tiny. It's absolutely absurd to interview based on some fictitious need. The real reason Google interviews the way they do is not because they need a high bar. Their interviews are structured to preserve the egos of the interviewers and because, like the gaming industry, they can simply due to the sheer number of applicants.
> fuck this whole "it's so cool to shit on Java" thing. Grow up.

Hey! Let people not like things, guy!

I put my pants on, go to work, pick up my heavy JVM, and crack away in the Java mines for 8 hours.

When I finally get home, tired, broken, achy fingered, and filled with disappointment for only making it to the AbstractAbstractFactory, rather than the AbstractFactoryFactory, I think I've earned a few "Yeah, with other type systems you'd be able to..." style complaints.

Greener pastures and whatnot.
Why would systemd be frowned upon, and why would it be questionable for something like this?

To my knowledge, most of the problems people have with systemd are because it replaced an extremely old and well known and understood system generally implemented with shell scripts and replaced it with a more complex and engineered project to get speed and extra features (pre-opening pipes and re-spawning listeners on the other end when a client want something from them, etc). In an effort to provide a more seamless boot, traditionally external projects ended up being subsumed (DHCP, and DNS resolution to support robust network support on boot).

I'm not sure if it was ultimately the right decision or not, but since to my knowledge almost every major distribution has adopted it, I assume it's viewed as worthwhile by qiute a lot of people within the distribution planning community at least.

I'm not really sure how any of that relates to this project specifically, so perhaps you're referring to some other aspect of it?
Body odor is probably mostly genetic. As human genome sequencing gets cheaper I expect someone will eventually start a dating service based on genetic matching. With a large enough training data set of successful long term relationships you could probably figure out combinations of genotypes that are likely to be compatible. (Or maybe it will end up being no more scientifically valid than horoscopes.)
You can also decrease the concentration. I smoked for years and eventually switched to vaping for a few months while decreasing the quantity I was using.

The problem with cigarettes is that you have to buy 20 of them at a time and they're all full-length which makes reducing your intake harder as an addict.

It seems like a dangerous gateway for non-smokers to get hooked but I do still think it can help smokers taper off. I haven't smoked (or vaped) in two years after tapering down my intake and quitting.
Nicotine is a "deadly chemical"?