skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just replied elsewhere in the thread regarding this. Consent to collect was acquired, but nothing actually says they're processing this data for marketing purposes if you haven't opted in to it.

I've seen this pattern quite often: The opt in/out flag is stored somewhere and companies invalidate the data they have based on that in the marketing tooling itself; collection still happens regardless. I've not used it but it's even possible Braze has information on the optin/optout and the ability to immediately reject data about optouts.

The reality is that, while the clean and intuitive privacy practices we're talking about are compliant, they're not required for compliance. Companies go the least-effort route. Deliveroo has clearly done a GDPR pass on their practices so I highly doubt they're using the data in question for marketing (even if they're collecting it).

But I'm still encouraging you to go and talk to them about it. I promise you if you're polite and clear about what and where the issue is, you can likely get some changes done. It's pretty fulfilling, too :)
You would be right:

> The troopers told the pair that VanderWiel’s dog “alerted” on the vehicle’s back side. However, the spot where the dog alerted was out of the frame of the video from [the troopers'] vehicle, the lawsuit said. Convenient. And not at all uncommon. And drug dogs are notorious for false alerts in the field.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/03/...
Terrible clickbait title, at least the actual article mentions Facebook so you have some idea of what it's about.

I found it kind of funny towards the bottom when he said:

>We’re a pretty analog family. Aside from the requisite phones, laptops and iPad, I don’t have a lot of gear.

We've gotten to point where if all you have is smartphones, laptops, and tablets, you're considered pretty "analog".
Lobbying is talking to legislatures and regulators in an attempt to change laws/policy. Arguing in court is trying to do an end run around the legislatures and regulators. Big difference.
Very prone to fire it seems.
> No, it's not that clear cut. ... the question is, is the data sent to Braze exclusively for marketing?

I'm not sure you're actually disagreeing with me. See -

> Actually, under the GDPR, they must gain permission to process your information for any marketing purposes.
This kind of reflex journalism hate makes me uneasy.

> If anyone would contact the this paper saying company X has fraudsters leveraging their service (which is not uncommon), this article would never have been written.

You don't know that. The New Statesman is an excellent magazine and has run plenty of investigations in its time.
And to think....all I want is a 6/12 channel stereo mixer with 3.5mm jacks so that I can combine my PC's and ham radio(s) signals into one common set of speakers.
Isn't that a good thing? Eating for the sake of enjoying eating seems more like a problem than a solution here, eating should be more something you do because you need to rather than something you do for fun.

If you want something beneficial, teach people to enjoy cooking rather than eating.
I wonder what this says about their company culture or enforcement of ethics.
This article is credentialism at its worst.

The best programmers I know are self-taught, because they have a passion for it. I know people working at minimum wage, never enrolled in college, who got decent programming jobs after a year or two learning CS on their own.

These people will always (I hope) form the core of the profession.
We are great at coordinated actions on varying scales, but I wonder whether we can also do coordinated actions at global scales that outspan an individual's lifespan. Like in preventing climate change. Or in making sure that we don't nuke each other. The nuking experiment has been running for a few decades only. Can we avoid rocking the boat so hard that it keels over?
It does, but it's an interesting question why it always does. Knowing universities that lost their best lecturers because they insisted on a high-impact research record to consider giving them a permanent position, more flexibility in that regards looks like it'd be a good idea.
> There's not a ton of overlap with boot camp grads. At least here, only the bottom barrel of CS grads even apply to positions that are good fits for boot camp grads.

That is not true at all. Maybe if you are in the upper-echelons at the Stanfords, MIT, and CMU's of the world doing advance research in AI/ML/Robotics/Security but for the most part most CS grads are going to school to get a job -- I was one of them.
I paid €600 a year for my bachelors in Belgium. Where did you get a student debt of $50k?
You realize this is an opinion right? That even the stance of "let the people this affects make the decision" is a position you're choosing to take.

Also: NOBODY thought that was a pun. Ew.
Airbus Threat to Quit U.K. Over Brexit Adds to Risk of Exodus
Agreed, I think the way its prepared definitely matters.

For me, I think the Impossible Burger seems "better" because I've only had it prepared by restaurants whereas the Beyond Burger I've mostly made myself from the grocery store.
Does it matter? The simple reason they are there is to protect my interests. If they can't do it for a few quid, how can they do it for larger sums of money?

The Moral of the Story: Money institutes may not cover you like you think they will.

I've learned my lesson.

Again, be -very- careful.
Yeah - it boils down to ye olde case of people reusing passwords. Half of the article talking about GDPR and the ICO is irrelevant.
What's happened is she has an easy/reused password that's ended up in a breach, fraudster locks her out of the account and offers discounted deliveroo orders to their customers and she gets charged. That's it.
No. You wrote "there is no security dependency on it [a CBC IV] being random". That is plainly false --- in fact, it's Wikipedia false --- you can literally just go to Wikipedia and search for the word "unpredictable" to see why. People do indeed use random CTR nonces as a way to ensure they never reuse them. But that's not why they randomize CBC IVs. There's a Cryptopals challenge about this if you'd like to play with the concept more.

('garypoc managed to relate this downthread completely in just one sentence, because they're better at this than I am, so maybe track that comment down for more information).

It is actually not a big deal that you're wrong --- people get the properties CBC IVs (which can't be monotonic counters) and CTR nonces (which can) confused all the time. It's why I get hives when libraries refer to the CTR nonce as an "IV".

But you didn't just get this wrong. You said the person who reported the bug "didn't know what they were talking about". Again, it was you that didn't know what they were talking about. Consider apologizing.
Part of that first paragraph seems like it contains a direct paraphrasing of what I once wrote at https://hackaday.com/2015/01/25/hackaday-links-january-25-20...
I have a name. They can look for that.
To be fair, the American justice system is not the only one:

> Clark's first son died suddenly in December 1996 within a few weeks of his birth, and in January 1998 her second died in a similar manner. A month later, she was arrested and tried for both of the deaths. The prosecution case relied on significantly flawed statistical evidence presented by paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, who testified that the chance of two children from an affluent family suffering sudden infant death syndrome was 1 in 73 million. He had arrived at this figure erroneously by squaring 1 in 8500, as being the likelihood of a cot death in similar circumstances. The Royal Statistical Society later issued a statement arguing that there was "no statistical basis" for Meadow's claim, and expressing its concern at the "misuse of statistics in the courts".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark
> You don’t have to click, because if you're exposed to the same content over and over it’s like brainwashing.

This theme is repeated throughout the article but is missing data on actual behavioral change.
You can add as many additional parallel builds as you want to AppVeyor for $50/m each - is Azure CI pricing comparable to AppVeyor with only two concurrent builds?
I was expecting the article to link to that post. For those that haven't read it, here it is: https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...
My AT&T iPhone wasn’t blocked when roaming in China, it seems they make exceptions for foreign phones. They’re censors are very clever at knowing where the limits are.
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It honestly makes no difference. Bing search in China was absolutely useless the last few times I was there. Searches for any keyword, including technical terms, just returned a list of unrelated “news” articles.
Yeah, I originally wrote that as "the same thing" and then thought for a moment and scaled back to "something similar" :-P
Unified Memory: The Final Piece of the GPU Programming Puzzle
It was already fairly clear by then that major employers require a 2:1.
I would agree, that CS isnt special here, its something common to at least STEM. And personally I dont know why the first 1 year isnt optimized for that. I dont think for example, that there is any reason to teach Math 1 for CS every semester with a Prof in a room limited by how ever many students might fit in. Its simply basic knowledge, that just doesnt change but that you need to know as a prerequisite for understanding later stuff. There is absolutly no reason to waste the time of Professors, or students for that matter, on that. Instead of making admission to college dependent on prior work, why not simply provide the necessary books and film it once. You learn the fundamentals yourself. Admission would be a lot fairer, we wouldnt waste an incredible amount of time of Professors and they could in turn teach actually interesting stuff.

The whole thing got quite apparent when a former roommate of mine studying mechanical engineering asked his father to help him study for a first year course and they figured out, that his father used the exact same literature in his college days as my roommate did at the time. The content hasnt changed, yet we keep throwing time at manually repeating it or going even as far as reinventing it with everyone writing their own script on the topic.
I never realized how oblivious people are force feedback from the steering wheel until I was passenger in a car on a windy day. We got out onto an open space and I could see him really correcting. I remarked about how much wind there was and he asked what I meant.

My point is I have never heard about self-driving cars having an understanding of crosswinds. I just hope they aren't as oblivious as my friend.
Apple bought Shazam, and their recommendation system is quite good.
Or maybe the starting point is that sapiens' DNA really is shaped for ruling.

That sapiens mostly preferred 'Abrahamic religion' to others is then a consequence to this starting point.
I watched "Enemy of the State" again on the weekend. Its 20 years old and a great movie. It was talking up about what the NSA could do 20 years ago with CCTVs, satellite imaging, bugs, wiretaps, voice recognition etc. I remember back then it was a bit far fetched. Now it looks trivial and basically there is no hiding anywhere any more.
It says you have to pick groups of 20 as your target advertising audience, but you can select 19 men and 1 woman and say the as should only be shown to women to effectively target a single individual.

The practice is called "sniping".
Building an Online IRR Calculator with React
The Chinese don't follow an Abrahamic religion and yet they've built huge urban empires.

It's unlikely this is a factor.
Coil whine seems to be a problems with lots of current gen laptops - work colleague had to return a brand new top-of-the-line Apple laptop a month or two ago because the coil whine was ridiculously loud.
Thiel doesn't have a moral high ground. Just look at how much he talks about the importance of making a monopoly for creating money. I respect him for not saying that he's making the world (or especially U.S.) a better place by going for government contracts.
I've had some smoking and a bit of rancidity using olive oil to do roast potatoes at 450F (230C) - 400F and lower usually works no issues.
To use an equally contrived example of my own — there's plenty of jurisdictions where arguing something along the lines of "look at how she was dressed, she was asking for it" will get you off the hook on rape charges. Would you still argue that an attorney who makes that argument is merely "advancing the most effective defense of their clients"? Or would you find that conduct reprehensible both for the attorney, and the client who allowed the attorney to use that line of reasoning?

Ultimately, it's your own choice what lines of arguing you present, and you don't get an ethical freebie just because it's "effective".
I don't agree. I lived in the Caribbean for a while and the longer i was there the less i cared about spiders or flies crawling on my face.

If you see other peoples freak out from spiders, you think thats the correct reaction and so you do it.
Related: in a grand piano, the hammers strike the string at a node of the 5th harmonic (thus avoiding excitation), which reduces the beating from thirds that do not match the harmonic series (due to equal temperament)
"a string quartet or a choir doesn't use equal temperament."

But they are still fairly deeply influenced by the fact all our ears are generally tuned to equal temperament, so I think it's still fair to say they use equal temperament + some local deviations, rather than some other tuning. Music that is "truly" not based on equal temperament sounds "wrong" to most people nowadays, or at least requires a significant adjustment period.
One of the problems is that a candidate might sit on an offer for a long time. The best candidates want to wait until the interview season is over to evaluate all their offers. On the other hand, some schools give one week deadlines on offers but any good candidate will turn those down.

It is hard on both sides. The entire process was about 6 months when I went through it, and I had offers expiring before I even finished all the onsites.

Disclaimer: I’m a CS prof at a R1 university in my first year.
What is evil about expecting a work email system to be used for you know work?

There are many other forums employees can use to organize. Coercing a company to allow employees to use a company funded and provided system to actively organize against the company is closer to being evil.
Sorry if I wasn't clear; I'm saying that the data sent to Braze is not necessarily used for marketing, or only for marketing. It's possible (and in my experience not unlikely) that they collect it for multiple purposes including critical ones, and restrict more specific processing based on an optin/optout somewhere else in the app. This is still compliant.
Listeners should be implemented that allow post-valid calculation, recalculation based on field change for a true reactive experience.
In a city evolved with dependencies of automobiles and without adequate public transport, this idea seems incredibly regressive.
> Bing,..., is active on 320,000 unique devices monthly, according to third-party research firm iResearch. That’s dwarfed by Baidu’s 466 million and Sogou’s 43 million.

Wow, bing is even less popular there than it is here relative to google.
Why would they do that anyway?
The legal system treats them as entities very similar to people. It's not a statement of principle, it's a statement of process.
It could be a factor everywhere else I mentioned, though. This is a logical fallacy.
Within 5 seconds, I went from being disturbed by the headline, to laughing at this. Social media news ellicit this contrast of (evil) possibilities and frustrating injustice.
I'm not saying it'd be easy, but it's a much less complicated topic than applying regulation to all of online privacy and advertising at once.
Is saturated fat bad for your health?
Apparently it's just technical problems: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/china-is-...
What’s immoral here? You know someone who can’t work so you let him rent your phone so he can work. I mean it’s not respecting the law, but it’s no more immoral than companies renting out cars, houses, or tools used by others to earn a living.
>you shouldn’t have to harvest lots of data for intelligent AI

That shows they don't understand how AI work. That literally like code for traditional programming. It's literally impossible based on how modern ML works.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-...

https://www.choosemyplate.gov/

Both use a pretty similar graphic and both dedicate 50% of the plate for fruit and vegetable.

I'm Canadian and the milk industry seems like a much bigger political issues (and it was already one after the USMCA).
I want to get some of my co-workers a campaign like, "write tests!"
Hydrogen Fuel Cells Can Power the World
Amazon Go Has Attracted a Host of Cashierless Imitators
Make flossing even more painless and easy with a waterpik.

Using the waterpik for the first time, it was like flossing for the first time in a while. I could taste nastiness that has been brewing in between my teeth. The crevasses are now effortlessly cleaned out.
> At some point, memory management becomes an automatic process, you just don't think too much about it.

The thing with Rust is that this becomes literally true. Because the borrowck pass runs automatically with every Rust compile, and tells you where it could not prove that you're managing memory correctly. And yet, the single biggest obstacle for C/C++ developers trying to move on to Rust is that they keep "fighting with the borrow checker", with only a very low understanding of what it would take to fix their code so that it can pass the automated checks. This does not inspire much confidence.
That’s a bit exaggerated but we do know from psychology about the availability heuristic, which is the underpinning of modern advertising.
Jira: Change the string “all-open-issues” to not include the word "x"
Amazon don't sell hearing aids, and cannot legally. They can sell "hearing assistance" devices or other loophole names (or just foreign sellers that don't give a darn). In the US a hearing aid is only available from medical suppliers via a doctor's prescription.

The person above wasn't being hyperbolic when they said it can be $3K e.g.: https://www.healthyhearing.com/help/hearing-aids/prices
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The problem is not that his bill is too low. It's that the others are way too high.
It's not journalist hate, and I'm not attacking The New Statesman, I'm criticising this article.

If the article would be about the growing problem of online fraud (which is growing quite steadily), and not only about Delivaroo, I would be happy.

Yes, I do know that, because as I said I've been on the other side and the number of articles covering individual companies being targeted by fraudsters is low compared with the number of cases.

Regardless of the motives that sparked the article, it still brings attention to the topic, which is positive.
It works quite well, but you need a host that isn’t blocked, and they tend to block AWS IPs, so you have to change the IP every now and then. For browsing SwitchyOmega works well with ssh.
>If a tiny spider would crawl up the leg of a lion they wouldn't give a bit of a shit. A lion would remain calm, knowing that the spider cannot do anything and it wouldn't even bother to entertain the spider for a split second.

> However if the same tiny spider would crawl up the leg of a human there's a real chance that this person would start jumping up and down, perhaps trying to kill the spider or maybe even rush out of the room until the spider is gone.

I think there is a chance this might be a bad comparison. Do non-human primates not fear spiders?

Some interesting read:

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/cd/12_1/Ohman....

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-07628-001

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1985-05872-001
The argument may be that contractors aren’t technically government employees. As part of the shrink-the-government-privatize-everything mania, a lot of positions are now filled by contractors from Booz Allen, Kelly Services, and a million other firms, large and small. These people work in government facilities, often side-by-side with “real” government employees whose paychecks come straight from Uncle Sam.

However, this argument totally misses the point. Some of these contractors aren’t getting paid either—and I’m not sure if contractors always get back pay. They are also limited in what they can—-and are allowed— to do without their government counterparts. Finally, the bigger picture is that these folks, along with federal employees, are part of a broader R&D ecosystem. Like a real ecosystem, if you keep destabilizing it, it’ll eventually fall apart.
Funny detail, it turns out the complaints were filed against conservative ex-googlers alleging that they were discriminated against by the progressive activist majority inside Google.

The people filing NRLB complaints probably disagree with you about the morality of all your bullet points above, and they're claiming they were discriminated against for disagreeing with the consensus.

I wonder if that changes progressives' opinions on the topic?
My current job has various .NET/Windows-based software products that can run as PaaS projects in Azure - from what I've seen it wouldn't be practical to run them on AWS/GCP without managing VMs.
Yeh most company anonymize it because "data snooping" makes your algorithm worse. But try telling a layman that.
As they explained it, they wanted people who "went above and beyond"
Very interesting! Early 2000s UIUC had it reversed - the BS was "practical CS" and the BA was highly mathematical/theory based.

Then again, despite being a top 5 program, it only received accreditation while I was attending.
> there's no distinction between an en masse data leak and someone being able to access your personal info without authority under GDPR. Both are a data breech. It seems like many people have been affected by this too so clearly Deliveroo doesn't have the mechanisms in place to protect user information. The fact unauthorized people can spend your money through Deliveroo is even worse

Well, the distionction can be as easy as someone hacking the company vs. guessing your password. What is the company to do to protect against the latter?! After all, the password is the authorisation, so I would even claim it's not unauthorised access...
They've also set trucks that can reliably drive around private roads, mines and loading zones without having to handle much in the way of novelty or people as a practical near term goal they'll probably make a commercial success of even if fully autonomous cars are decades away or incapable of ever being viable for regular unsupervised road use.

Obviously it helps that they're already a leading truck manufacturer, but it's interesting to note how many other ventures have gone for the "eliminate the taxi sector and reinvent car ownership" over the low hanging fruit for [semi]-autonomous vehicle markets.
I know people who have taught themselves for 2 years as well. They may be passionate, but that doesn’t necessarily make them great developers.

Since everybody and their mother currently needs developers, they’ll still be hired somewhere.
Not without enough people willing to enter the related forensic science labor pools, to make a point.

Even after you’ve filtered for all the cases you could want, you’re probably going to end up with a large number. Rechecking all of the evidence in each case to either reaffirm or exonerate the people in prison because of that evidence is a labor intensive task.
On the Power of Aligning Incentives
Aren't they running trials now