skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you are saying, and agree with you in principle... but the problem is, I am none of those things. I have none of the qualities that I need to hide from anyone, rather neighbors or the government. While it kinda feels creepy to imagine myself being listened to, I can't imagine any real consequences to my private conversations being heard.

However, I know that there are lots of people who do have those things they need to hide, and if only the people who need to keep things private work to keep things private, than the very fact that they are keeping things private becomes a risk factor.

Just like how part of the value of https everywhere is to prevent encrypted traffic from standing out, everyone maintaining privacy helps prevent people who NEED privacy from standing out.

Of course, as an individual, there is a cost for demanding that privacy - I lose out on the benefits of things like the echo and facebook. And since I am not an individual who needs privacy, there is no individual incentive to maintain it. It is a bit of a collective action problem.
I shop at a Kroger (Ralphs Fresh Fare, one of their higher-end locations) and at a Whole Foods, also about a half-mile apart from each other.

The produce is significantly better at the Ralphs. More types of produce, more produce in stock, and cheaper prices. The only reason to even go to WF for produce is for the occasional odd-ball seasonal specialty fruit that Ralphs doesn't carry.

The meat section isn't even remotely comparable. Ralphs>Whole Foods. More types of meat, more cuts, better quality, and lower prices, for both prepackaged meat and butchered meat. Ralphs even has better connections to meat suppliers if you need a custom order. The difference is so large that it would be laughable to compare the two if not for the fact that other WFs in the LA area (like Venice) actually seem to have passable meat sections.

The bar at the Ralphs is smaller, and they have no meaningful selection to speak of (4 beers, 2 types of wine), but they're dirt cheap--the cheapest you can get in the area, and easily about 1/2 the price for the same-size booze at WF.

And I've never waited 10 minutes to pay at Ralphs. What sort of bullshit is that? At the Ralphs, the manager personally apologizes to people if they have to wait more than 5 minutes in line and mans a checkout himself/herself if necessary.
Are we trotting out that old trope again? Two words for you: Apple Watch. Nobody is even close to what they did with Watch and what they are doing with health. Look at the camera and photos app: on device ML. Look at the tech behind Memories for instance. They’re doing this without sending your photos to some privacy-invading server. Look at FaceId. Sure Samsung had facial recognition — but it could be fooled with a printed photo. Look at what Apple has done with AR. Their computational photography stuff is also incredible. But sure let’s lament the loss of a SCSI port and call it a marketing decision.
We would need much much better email organizing tools before this can work.
What you say is largely accurate, but it's worth noting that the president's ability to unilaterally terminate NATFA is a subject of debate. [1] [2] The short version is that Trump probably does have the authority to formally withdraw, but doing so without Congress's approval would leave the NAFTA Implementation Act in place, making it into a sort of zombie agreement. Certainly Congress will want to avoid things getting that far, and so the new agreement will probably pass. But as today's news demonstrates, negotiations in the Trump era tend to be... unpredictable.

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/26/16505508/...

[2] https://piie.com/blogs/trade-investment-policy-watch/can-tru...
Well I don't generally consider chess mastery to be a sign of genius. Or maths, or music either. Fundamentally they are not creative, generative activities. There's a reason they are called a prodigy and not a genius. Of course there are the rare genius composer (eg Mozart) or mathematician (eg Euler).
Asbestos might be making a comeback?
Ease of use and friendliness of the user interface is what the spirit of Apple Computers is all about. If I were to guess Jobs might be focusing on if he were alive would be the convenience and ease of use of Apple products. I think voice communications would be something he would use. That is based on his various biographies about him.
Whether this is ethical or morally right to have tech go this direction is another matter. Ease of use is the trend.
This is a popular view, and it's one I may go to sometimes, but I wonder if it's only popular because it's what we want to believe. Really, it's reasonable to think that lowering the cost or risk of an activity will lead to more of it.
this belongs on /r/politics not HN
I use VB on several different macs of various vintages and it runs Ubuntu and Win10 guests just fine. Be sure to install the Guest Additions in the guest OS, they provide a bunch of vital drivers - like video, which sounds like what might have been bogging you down.
WordPerfect use to be favored my lawyers. This is a group that tends to stick to their tools. I dunno if their still using it but that's probably a pretty nice niche.
Closed, Proprietary, Felonious: The Toxic Rainbow of Locked Technology
All this 'moon hype' of recent times is ridiculous.

Supermoons are not super - they are regular, and normal, and likely indistinguishably larger from any other full moon to any regular observer.

This full moon is not special either. It falls close to the solstice. This will happen again in about ten years time. I assume we should celebrate the full moons that are farthest from the solstice too, which should happen in about five years time. And maybe the ones that are half way, because, why not?

The fact that this full moon ALMOST coincides with a meteor shower, and passes by a specific star in the sky (which should happen every month) does not make this moon special. It makes this a coincidence. I say ALMOST because the meteor shower occurs the night before the full moon.

How about for once we ditch the hyperbolic moon talk and just tell it like it is? "Hey, you like meteor showers and full moons? You might dig this!".

Ironically I would expect that the meteor will be less spectacular precisely because of the presence of the full moon.
I think you meant millions...
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On my Mac, Chrome will crash whenever there's not enough RAM to run.
I'd like to limit RAM usage of Chrome, how to do that ?
There is a difference, though. I agree privacy is important as a principle, and we need to protect the right to it. But privacy is also not important to me, so I can use services that require me to give up some of it. I want people to be able to maintain privacy if they want to or need to, but I might not care about giving up my own.
It is almost like letting people act with impunity by putting the state at an informational disadvantage in a hyper-connected and hyper-mediated age is going to result in pretty unpleasant stuff becoming more common and more accessible.

Goodness, who knew?
In the absence of any international organization with the power to remove criminal sites, the U.S. government has every obligation to act. Provided, of course, that there is a demonstrated and ongoing crime involved.
Nope, skin tight latex. It shows off the parts you don't want to see!
How has this gone on for so long? AFAIK most drones can’t fly for long periods without recharging/refuelling. Makes no sense.
Shower-thought: Maybe the problem to many people being assholes is just not getting enough sleep?
Hard to believe, but true. Wish I had a chart of the Corel stock price but from Wikipedia[1]:

"Corel Linux, also called Corel LinuxOS, was a Debian-based operating system made by Corel that began beta testing on September 21, 1999[1] and was released to the public on November 15, 1999." ... "Corel later discontinued the distribution, but did not remove the former Corel Open Source Development website until March 2002."

So at least I did not just dream it. Did you live through that era? It was very similar to the blockchain hype but lasted a bit longer.

Edit: Confirming the Linux hype:

"Red Hat's initial public offering was on August 11, 1999. A total of 6,000,000 shares were priced at $14 ($7 post-split) per share."[2]

On January 10th, 2000, four months later the price peaked at $140, which would have netted you one of the fastest 10 baggers in history. By July of 2001 it was under $4

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Linux
[2]https://investors.redhat.com/ir-resources/investor-faqs/when...
that's not going to solve the problem. Qualcom is the largest wireless patent holder and Apple would still have to pay royalties.
SE Asia is a mapping nightmare. There are frequent duplications, and Google Maps in unreliable at best.

My first gym appointment was on Mao Tze Tung Ave, Phnom Penh. I turned up at the correct number at the correct time, to learn that I was 30 mins ride away over the wrong side of town. This is common. House numbers relate to plot numbers, plot numbers relate to developers, street numbers relate to an original plan of the city that is unrecognisable now. Drench it in rain for six months and nothing looks recognisable or anything like what you started out with. There are three developers building the same number house on the same street now. You want a Grab? hahahahahahahhahhhahhahah
Not the same. Houses aren't a mass medium of communication.
> Arresting someone suspected of a crime is not responding to initiation of force, because the suspect hasn't been convicted yet.

If the suspect is eventually convicted (of something at least as serious as kidnapping) then that conviction retroactively justifies the arrest.

If the suspect is never convicted then arresting them is little better than kidnapping. If the police at least had a reasonable belief that the person they arrested would be convicted then it falls under the heading of accidental harm rather than negligence or malicious intent, which shields them from retribution, but that doesn't avoid the need to pay restitution to make their victim whole.

In short: Be sure you're arresting the right person, and don't do anything to them in the process which you'd find difficult to set right.
> While it's true a state sponsored entity would have more resources than a kid in a basement

In this case, according to the indictment, it was a few spearphishing emails with .docs attached, followed by keylogger and other malware installation. The companies should be held responsible for being silly in this case.
Somewhat related to smell, here's a fun chemical that you might not have heard about: thioacetone. Thioacetone (and some other organosulfur compounds) are extremely malodorous. During distillation of this chemical in the German city of Freiburg, it resulted in vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness within a radius of 0.75km of the laboratory. It's also reported to smell worse when diluted and the odor is referred to as "fearful".[0]

[0] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2009/06/11/thi...

Check out other works in Derek Lowe's Things I Won't Work With series for other similarly dangerous chemicals. I first learned of thioacetone from him and have seen other articles of his floating around HN as well.
> most companies that will be hit by the effects of climate change won't be significantly contributing to it.

Hmm. And how do you measure this? Yes, Company X ships the coal, but everybody uses the steel that is produced with that coal. Tax the coal, and the steel will be more expensive. Same for the cement. Or electricity. Companies that don't profit from coal transportation still enjoyed a good price for the steel and concrete of their headquarters and warehouses; for the steel structures of the bridges and the hulls of the ships that move their goods; for the machinery that produce all this stuff. The value of the salary they pay to their employees is measured in relation to what can be bought with it: make stuff more expensive, and the people will be poorer. Everybody is profiting from cheap stuff. Everybody should, and will, pay.
Check out https://app.talentpair.com - they work with experienced recruiters that have relationships + AI to match you with remote jobs.
I don’t know about garbage companies specifically, but all the major self-driving players have or are trying to get deals with various fleet operators to use their vehicles to gather data
They now just released Affinity Publisher in Beta as a replacement for Adobe InDesign. Already using it and very pleased!
Dragonfly implies they have been working towards that attempt for a while, and weren't too far away from it being launchable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

So yea, already happened, will probably happen again.
Maybe if you are young this seems harsh but most of us are used to google just suddenly turning things off. Was anyone actually using these?
> except google pulled out and revamped their practices

All while working behind the scenes trying to make a Chinese controlled Google (Dragonfly) for China, complete with the censorship tools that any government that wants to control its people would love? Several large American companies seem to be chomping at the bit to do these types of projects and help repressive governments in order to profit, until the light of truth gets shown on them... Or were you referring to the time when they were already in China and pulled out over censorship issues?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employe...

I'm not even sure why China needs google, they've already stolen the source code years ago. Maybe they're after updates to the algorithms.

> In a blog post, Google chief legal officer David Drummond said hackers stole the source code that powers Google’s vaunted search engine and also targeted the e-mail accounts of activists critical of China’s human rights abuses.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chine...
This is a "Google Tech Dev Guide: Grow Your Technical Skills…", not a "how to interview" guide. Particularly a "foundations of programming" section, in this case.

I don't know if it's a good interview question or not, but that doesn't mean it's not part of learning programming.

There's more to learning to program than learning to do well in interviews, just like there's more to learning in general than doing well on standardized tests.

I think it's odd that so many immediately jumped to discussing the _interview process_. Google's, or anyone's, interview process may or may not be effective at finding talent or being fair. (I have no particular opinion on Google's, but there's LOTS written on the difficulty of creating a successful interview process for programmers, and various different opinions and approaches).

But why do we in this discussion seem to assume the only point of this Google site is helping people _pass interviews_? It doesn't say that's what it's for at all.

I think it's actually a pretty marvelous free site for learning CS and programming of various sorts, for people of various levels and domains.
> And the internet is something that massively improved the utility of PCs and increased demand for them, it wasn't something that was going to replace it.

No, it just devastated the market for native PC applications.
There's possibility to decide what could be done by the company without saying they're completely responsible, or couldn't do anything.

In this case it was spearphishing infected .docs. If corp security can't deal with that, they've got bigger problems.
Doesn't the Dark Web have the same issues?
You could check the existing DNS of a domain, if they're GitHub or Netlify's DNS addresses / IP's then you don't stress those.
Interesting thread about the relative safety of cities, but wait...hang on: now simply looking at someone is perceived as threatening? Not catcalling or showing aggression... simply making eye contact?? I’ll take a note to avoid all eye contact in the future. I’m not a city person so I had no idea how little it takes to be considered a threat.
My thought is that the binary “do not manifest” decision could request delivery of a new set of similar thought forms which could then be manifest. There could be several types of thought forms that let us have the illusion that we are willing in related thoughts. Like an old iPod, perhaps. Consciousness is the most fun topic to speculate about, says the Buddha!
What we call "smell" in aggregate is a collection of responses to different molecules. There is no obvious way to add, filter or model these compounds. While all "light" (and sound) could be described in terms of frequency and amplitude, the simplest of organic compounds is an order of magnitude more complex.
No that's Russia.
Because the US created and still largely controls the internet, in practice if not in ideology. Also we have the largest military and law enforcement reach on the planet.
Did you counter-demand that they stop distributing their game? Seems like it would have only been fair.

Wait...Empire was published in 1987. Age of Empires was published in 1997. Are you talking about Microsoft?
No. They've earned it over the last 70 years.

China is making strategic practices of lying and cheating on every level, from small biz to strategic military issues, and they are vertically integrating all of it.

At the small biz level, it is well known among anyone that if you let any IP visible to a Chinese partner, you should have the full expectation that it will be in your competitor's hands within hours, and you can expect to see your products being sold out the back door.

At the larger biz level, it is a standard practice to demand that key IP is turned over to required Chinese 'partners' as a condition of doing business in the country.

Backdoors have been engineered into both consumer and military hardware.

China has been hacking everything from the US Office of Personnel Mgt (stealing info on every USG employee, including highly classified info on intel agents, & info on everyone that could be used to compromise them), to major and minor companies, to private citizens.

China is continually and as a matter of policy expanding into and encroaching upon its neighbors from Tibet in the 1950s to the '9-dashed-line' in pacific waters today.

I know many perfectly honorable Chinese people, and there are probably more of them than the entire population of the US. But, to regard official or business China as anything better than anything but a thief who will stab you in the back at the first opportunity is to be a fool.

We in the west thought that we were exploiting China's cheap labor. Meanwhile, China was exploiting our myopic weakness for short term profits to seek massive strategic business and military advantage. This will go down in history as one of the greatest geopolitical blunders of all time.
>It took me a long time to figure out what .njk files were.

Nunjucks is a very popular JS templating language (more or less a straight port of the even more popular jinja2) - it's not an odd choice at all.

https://github.com/mozilla/nunjucks
Pine.blog: The social combo of a feed reader and blogging app
Ethereum Constantinople Hard Fork – ALL You Need to Know – Explained Simply
File names of the images give clues about the locations.
I had a friend who read a biography of Robespierre, and I was very surprised when I learned that as a young attorney he vehemently opposed the death penalty. A very ironic thing. One can only wonder what the young Robespierre would have thought of the older Robespierre.
Oh totally. There are lots of other examples. Issac Newton was into occultism and alchemy too, and Thomas Edison tried to build a machine to contact the dead using radio waves.
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In some states this is pretty much how it works if your guns are stolen.

Edit: Moral of the story, since perhaps it's not obvious to all, is secure your dangerous property, cars, guns, band saws, computer networks, or otherwise.
What do you expect the outcome would be in a scenario where a company is living up their responsibilities to deploy reasonable measures, deploy defense in depth, and work to minimize the damage of a breach in the face of a sustained nation-state attack?

More to the point, in what ways are the companies allegedly breached failing to live up to their responsibilities to help minimize the damage of a breach? What should they do in a scenario where investigations may be ongoing and potentially involving law enforcement?
I’ll need to give it a try.
I hope this doesn't go the same way coding bootcamps go.
I get like 8-9 hours of sleep and I’m still an asshole
Not just a little heavy-handed. If that's what they did, they probably picked up users that just happened to use the service from one of the countries at some previous point in time. And, at that point, the sanctions may not even have been in place.

Now, I admit that visiting the countries on the list aren't on my to-do-list, but if for example I decided to make a vacation trip to Cuba I really shouldn't lose my account at any US-based service just because of that.
> That is through a set of additional plugins.

Which are compiled and enabled in several distribution packages.
Yes but it isn't a single company.
Apple doesn't give apps the ability to read raw rssi values from seen list of ssid(s). Also their WiFi Mac randomizing can cause issues depending on how you've got things setup.
Whole Foods has more inertia than Trader Joe's, and also a much wider selection (TJ's tends to have a singular product for many items, where WF will have a selection). Don't know what New Seasons is. The local co-ops in my area are shit.

Not sure why anyone shops at Whole Foods in your area, but not every area is your area.
Shot composition is great, but I'm pretty tired of the post processing going on there. There's way too many people taking city shots, desaturating it, and ramping up the blue and purple, and it's all starting to look the same. People go out and buy tons of CineStill 800T attempting to recreate the look from the film used in the original Blade Runner movie, too.

If you like this style you can find plenty more on the cyberpunk reddit, though.

You can do tons of amazing night city photography without the colors getting so unrealistic. Just look at the lighting on https://2um6b944etm332zlf4pb7a19-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-... - color is so off on all of the interior lights that, IMO, it really detracts from the photo.

But, hey, it's art, so this is all just, like, my opinion, man.
The NHS is gigantic - it is the umbrella term for publicly funded (universal) healthcare in the UK. There are lots of agencies within this that will have a web presence who can now (if they like) use this UI library for accessible and usable components.
>no jokes?

Did we read the same piece? It was pretty dry humour, but funny AF
> Doesn’t describe my government.

... yet? :)
I thought the same, then visited family who use it constantly and it all made sense.
Sorry, but most people don't care. You can pretend they do, but they don't. get out of your box and stop trying to sell to yourself.
It's worth noting that whilst the cost of producing something in the private sector is cheaper than the public sector, the cost of the public sector acquiring something from the private sector is orders of magnitude larger than the cost of doing it in the private sector. I always think it's rather odd that people who propagate the idea that the private sector can do things much better than the public sector simultaneously need to believe the public sector is better at negotiating contracts in order to believe that contracting out work makes sense. I think the key here is that the British government have reproducibly found of way of creating high quality sites. That should be examined, embraced and extended.
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