skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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There's really no difference between a "casual" eavesdropper and a "serious" one. In what world do you live in where the former camp even exists? No one is casually spying on your apt updates, and anyone who is "seriously" spying on your apt updates can trivially manage to identify them by size. HTTPs really doesn't add anything here.
you need money for that
I’m definitely in support of the scooters if they work with the city to ensure they stay out of walkways. The entire point of walkways are so that similar speed traffic is segregated together. Scooters are about 4x faster than a walking human.
I agree completely.

Someone living hand to mouth subsidence farming has about $0.

Someone who went to a top quality law school, or medical school. Who has a nice car on lease, and a hefty mortgage, maybe a bit of credit card debt. But who is also brining in 6 figures. could have -$X00,000.

In my opinion the second person has more 'wealth' than the first person. But on paper, the education and opportunities are not counted. But the debt needed to pay for these is counted.

You get the opposite problem when you look at just income. People who have a vast wealth, but don't work, would be counted as being very poor.

Sadly finding someone's 'wealth' is quite complicated, and doesn't make an easy headline.
> Because it's the stable branch, and it gets no major version updates for anything after release, nor any new packages, just bugfixes to the current version.

No, Debian stable doesn't get bugfixes, only if those bugfixes are for security issues! (or some really severe bugs)

Example: Debian's Python is still 3.4.2, not 3.4.9!
That being one of the hopes, decades back, for the internet.
Your name matters in the search for a job
AH Thanks for sharing this. SUPER fascinating. I've always loved B.F. Skinner (1955) after I learned about pigeon superstition from the intro to Mr Nobody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye5D1qdTh4Q
I think it is better that Gates has billions to distribute to poor people rather than each American millionaire having a couple of thousand dollars extra to spend on their vacations.
So my point with this comment isn't about Oxfam or charity really at all. It's about peoples sense of injustice and wanting to fix it now, now, now, now, and concluding the system is somehow broken because we can't have the fix now, now, now, now and harboring this desire to rip the system out and replace it with something that will usher in the just world.

Hence I liken that particular notion to a toddler who is upset and is unable to understand that his food is coming he just needs to wait as there is a process that takes time and there isn't any other way to get his hot food than through the process.

I'm getting worked up over the error in cognition that we can have it all now, now, now, now. My point to those would be revolutionaries who want to rip it out and replace it is - it's coming, just wait.

I personally donate monthly to charity water as I think it's a super practical problem that is at absolute bedrock for society and it just requires capital, labor and time to be thrown at it. I do my part to promote it here and there. I am amazed by the progress of access to clean water and I am stoked that the trajectory looks like in the next few decades everyone on Earth will have clean water. It just doesn't make sense to get upset and think things are broken when we have never used a process that has worked so well. Yes, progress is slow, but damnit it's working and I prefer to focus on what we have achieved and not that we personally don't have 12 Ferraris and a mansion and a few individuals do.
Thanks for not dressing it up with an affiliate link, seriously.
Honestly, I think what they offer might be the best solution you can hope for: one button "I don't care", one button personalize and in it one button "disable all". People who don't care and just want the site to work aren't lost, people who care aren't lost, people who want to personnalize aren't lost. If you care, it's two click total to disable everything, and it's very easy to find (the bright right "deny").

Should they have "refuse all" along with "accept all" ? Yes.

Should "refuse all" be the default and thus features be disabled ? I'm not entirely sure (see what they list in the personnalize, it's youtube videos and twitter cards ...).

In terms of the intent of the law (give control to the user and make it easy to opt out), I would say they are doing fine. As opposed to all those shitty websites where you can't find how to disable, or you have to disable a bazillion things by hand.
> The most important thing for non wealthy is organization. Sharing issues and knowledge.

What value does that have to the destitute in Rio, or on the streets New Delhi?
Not only that, but you don't even need to click the 'accept' button, just navigate elsewhere on the site. What about screen readers or custom CSS? I doubt this is informed or specific consent.

Of course, these are different magnitudes of offences, but they do indicate how insidious and normalised are the patterns established by companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and co.
Yeah why not? I configured it on all my consoles and ideas. It looks good, is dense and good readable.
Seems like those professors should be recorded and then put on YouTube. They could inspire and reach many more people that way!

It’s funny because the marketing from Universities often highlight the professional value of a degree, essentially casting it as a “choose the best career ROI” decision. That and the high tuition naturally result in these sorts of outcomes.

As a former STEM major I never took liberal arts classes after high school, even though I enjoy history. I now get my inspiration and delight through Great Lecture courses and other content on YouTube.

Often, the best teachers are not at a research-intensive university anyways. Because, guess what, those professors are too busy writing books, working on their research, tooting their horns, to care much about teaching the next wave of undergrads.
There may be patterns, but who says they're good patterns? I see more badly-run teams than well-run teams.
That would me that you alone has more money than the poorest 3.8B people, making it somewhat clickbaity to bring up the billionaires?
But it does, because HTTPS can ensure you always get up to date data.
They have a solution involving timestamps for HTTP, but that is still clearly less secure than the guarantee from HTTPS.
As an European: <3 <3 <3

Also:

"This is the first time that the CNIL applies the new sanction limits provided by the GDPR."

I'm super happy the law is hopefully finally starting to get some teeth. I sincerely hope it gets successfully tested in court, and that lawyers will smell money in slamming down on companies trying to blatantly fake their way out of GDPR by cheating users into "accepting" the pre-GDPR status quo.
Early adopters show blockchain’s big potential for Latin America
I guess I’m too cynical to believe that any attempt to go after those 26 people will land on them rather than on me - I’m comparatively well off but much less able to defend myself than a Donald Trump or a Bill Gates.
That is very important to include in this metric. Society has people with negative wealth. That’s a hugely important contrast to billionaires!
Cost Comparison of Deep Learning Hardware: Google TPUv2 vs. Nvidia Tesla V100
So you think we're not intelligent enough to discern what's fake and what's real but you are. Wow.
> Those in high-risk, high-sensitivity situations should assume that a “secure-erase” of a card is insufficient to guarantee the complete erasure of sensitive data.

People in such situations should be encrypting anything sensitive that goes onto external storage anyway, you shouldn't be in a position where you have to "secure-erase" anything.
>12 years. It's all been very usable for 6 years. So you had 6 years to use the six or python-future lib, and 6 years to remove it. 100k lines, it's a 2 weeks job if your code is properly tested

It took Flask several years, complaints, and a custom change for their use case, to port over.

Some people have actual production code which they don't rewrite for the fun of it (and even less with comically underestimated "2 weeks per 100K" runs), because the core decided a non-backwards compatible version is the future.

>But good news, you don't have to do it. Python 2.7 will still work after 2020. We, the community, will just stop working on it for free. You can start paying us, or do the job for free like we did since 1991.

Well, you're not the "community", at best you're one committer. The community (not necessarily the core devs) will fork and maintain way beyond 2020, and it will be for free too.

>I'm tired of hearing complains, given how good you have it.

Sorry, didn't know people must walk on tiptoes lest they tire you with their complains...
What I'd like to see more in these articles is an acknowledgement of how power laws work (or perhaps log-normal distributions or stretched exponential distributions https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0212).
Debt is a liability on the balance sheet. Assets-liabilities=net worth
That probably violates the terms of your lease unfortunately.
I have a pair of 27" 4K monitors and a pair of 2560x1080 monitors below them (ran out of budget and didn't want to buy a new multimonitor stand).

My monitors run at 100% scaling, and while I still wish I had a grid of 4x4k monitors (upon which I'd probably want more anyways), I am fine with how it works. With respect to the 100% scaling, most people look at the size of the text on my screens and think I'm nuts, but I have single vision glasses that allow me to see clearly for the distance range between the closest and furthest points of my monitors, so I don't get any eyestrain at all.

With respect to window management options, I use something called DisplayFusion on Windows. It lets me create monitor profiles that separate regions of each monitor that emulates physical monitors. The software is fantastic and well worth the price. Weirdly enough, the best way to buy it is via Steam.
Type-Driven Development – Replacing Unit Tests with Types in TypeScript
CEOs under more pressure to save society
What, Why and How of Robot Simulation Software for Offline Programming (OLP)
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All of the places I’ve rented did not permit me to change the locks. I did change the cylinder on one place despite the contract and I changed it back before I left. I’m sure I could have been evicted for this but more likely I would just be liable for repairs.
It says the top 26 billionaires own as much as the poorest 3.8B, not that they own more.

Unless you're worth more than the top 26 billionaires combined, you don't have the net worth to match 3.8B people.
I think this happens because of technological development creating and enhancing positive feedback loops due to specialization and economy of scale. Can we have similar levels of technological development without such super concentration of wealth?
I used to think that, I love the utopian idea of just walking on any public transportation for free, and I would happily underwrite a little extra via taxes to make that a reality. But the counter argument really is that the minute you divorce a service entirely from payments, it is at increased risk of rapidly diverging from the needs and desires of the customer (user, consumer).

If I choose to bike or walk or take a cab because the train is being terrible, that is felt directly in decreased revenue. I think that’s important for keeping things a little more honest.

If someone can do a private shuttle bus more cheaply than the public transit, and it also offers better service, that should be made obvious. If the public service is entirely paid for by taxes, it would be really difficult to see what’s going on.
It's just YAML files, there's nothing to build.
But the irony is so good! She's being a dick to the people she's supposedly trying to inform, telling them that their misguided acts to try to "save the wasted food" are for naught, and that they are classist. Yet claiming everyone who isn't informed has "a debilitating level of ignorance" and is classist, is classist itself! (And ableist!)

I think social media is designed to perpetuate superiority complexes. The vocal minority that post most often seem to think a lot of themselves and not much of everyone else.
This page is wrong, for example they claim there's no privacy increase here but quite clearly there's a huge difference between an attacker being able to tell "you're downloading updates" and an attacker being able to tell "you're downloading version X.Y of Z package" - worse, that information could actually later be used to attack you based on the fact that the attacker now knows what version to find vulnerabilities in, including non-exposed client software for email, documents, browsers, etc.

It's a relatively insignificant security benefit for most, but could prove an important one for those who targeted attacks are used against.
> Even if you’re already using RAD frameworks, start building yourself a library of boilerplate and utilities on top of it that you can reuse in multiple projects.

I would suggest fork one of the existing ones and modify it. Rolling out your own boilerplate library can be a time sucker in itself.
Boohoo. Buy a copy of Factfulness and enjoy how well the world is doing.
Does this mean that the consent Google has already obtained from users is invalid, and so they must request consent again in a GDPR-compliant manner?
Works terrible for me with Safari or Chrome. Can't start with <?php, can't copy/paste some code.
I wonder why they shot at the tidy bed but not the unkempt one. The narrator seems to imply he knew hiding under the unkempt one was the better option. Why is that ?

Also, what's with "holding the bed with my toes and fists" ? I don't picture that really well.
I'm all for higher DPI screens, but you need to take into account that typical reading distance for screens is larger than for text on paper. It is not really DPI that counts but dots per angular distance as seen from the eye.
A LESS library helping you scaffold your webapp
In the article the author says there is more demand than supply for senior developers. I’m saying if you hire remote and pay a decent wage there is more supply than demand.
The marginal tax rate might help the American poor, but for the rest of the world, where the majority of poor people are, this, on its own, isn't really going to do much good.
This is an interesting case. So France is essentially arguing that not only should opt-in be visible (as they mention it is on Google's create account page), but that configuration should be immediately visible as well.
This will screw over much more than google should it be upheld.

It's interesting that this wasn't brought up to my employer in sweden. We had default data collection settings checked and in a separate view accessible by a similar "more options" toggle and it was deemed okay as long as we had a visible blanket opt-in checkbox and a link explaining the settings, how we use data, and how to adjust. Our regulators said it would be enough as the goal of GDPR is to make every use of data reasonably known, adjustable, and revokation with good faith toward the user. Yet here it seems France is arguing that it is about immediate showing of all settings to the user and that every website should tell in the user's face about every single configuration of data usage. It's possibly a good approach, idk, I feel it is a bit too annoying of a precedent and that they are nitpicking a bit.

I can't wait for this to fully play out. Regarding documentation and informing the user, I disagree with their findings entirely about the frustration of finding data usage info as all of Frances concerns were lost on me upon visiting https://safety.google/privacy/data/. To me it seems that google has made a good faith effort at least in documentation.
How about a heated pouch with a bluetooth keyboard inside it?
Yes, and it's been mentioned both here in this thread[0] and in the article itself[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18955029

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18955102
50M euros seems far too little to me. It's a major violation against a fundamental regulation in their core product and compared to their revenue, 50M is nothing. A magnitude more will probably get google thinking, but I doubt this will.
It works fine in many other countries (UK, Norway, etc.).
The all caps for readability likely comes from handwriting vs block print.

I know for my self, when writing for others I block print rather than use cursive so that they can understand it easier.

This likely has moved over to type as tradition rather than actual usability.
>most soldiers just look like guys forced to do pushups every day wearing well-fitting clothes.

So, your statement was actually "most soldiers look like guys who do a bunch of push-ups, so do a bunch of push-ups and you'll look like a soldier"? Hmm.

Sure, I get that most soldiers don't technically look like Rambo, but if you weren't using that phrase as a figure of speech to convey "extremely fit", then it's kind of meaningless right? Like saying a "professional boxer's physique", then saying you were thinking of Butterbean.

So, yes, if we lower the bar to say "slightly above average", then your point is "more valid" though a good bit less revelatory. You're essentially saying "exercise will help you", which I think we can all agree on.

But, the broader point you're now making that doing anything is much better than doing nothing is certainly valid and worth emphasizing--especially for us in the HN crowd.
That doesn't make it better or worse. That would simply show that this statistic is irrelevant and clickbaity.

Just in the US 17M households have negative net worth.

Would a title such as "A worker earning minimum wage owns as much as the 17M poorest households in the country" be honest journalism?
There has to be a balance between humility and confidence though. If no one was ever confident (or even over-confident) in what they were doing, they probably wouldn't have enough motivation to get the task done. In addition to this, some tasks require you to exhibit your confidence in order for you to fulfill them (like showing confidence to win over votes in an election).
Variety of Architectural Decisions
At this point fb doesnt care about losing small authoritarian regimes. Heck it doesn’t and will never be allowed to have China. I think it’s attempting to fight for legitimacy in the US.. ie trying to raise its brand. Without holding the American cultural ground and inherent approval of Americans, a company based mostly on brand (I’m sure a small shop of extra talented engineers can hack a fb clone together using distributed cloud machines on awe and google), will suffer from user attrition both in the USA and worldwide, as anything not inherently “endeared by Americans themselves” will be seen by the world as the black sheep of America.
Yes, as Google's argument was "...but we already got permission".

>The company GOOGLE states that it obtains the user’s consent to process data for ads personalization purposes. However, the restricted committee considers that the consent is not validly obtained for two reasons...
Says the person who has benefited from it for free for 25 years and doesn't have to pay the price for maintening it even further.
One glaring fact in support of the original post is that even the companies who make quantum computers don't claim that they are useful for solving any real problems. The problems that they can "solve" have to be constructed to fit within the limits of the machine.

In other words, quantum computers are less powerful than Turing machines which can solve any problem that any computer can ever solve -- including one's we haven't seen yet.
I'm no economist, but isn't one of the primary problems here that they don't have a well enough developed and diversified economy to invest in, and expand their economy and benefit their society in a virtuous cycle of investment and growth? They have the option to invest in western companies, but isn't that rather risky? And it's also ultimately just monetary gains; they haven't gained materially as a nation unless they also spend that money on products and services from other nations. Eventually, it's left their economy and been frittered away.

Also, how much is invested versus being spent lavishly on their princes and populace to keep them happy?
GraphQL Is Taking Over APIs
That still doesn't make it free & legal to distribute as a web font so that it displays to people who don't run Windows (or otherwise have Consolas installed), so it would be more than legally dubious to include it in this site without express permission from MS (or who-ever they licensed the work from, if it wasn't created internally).
No, if you replace it they don't have a key, and you don't have to give it to them.
I see, i thought work means study.
In fact, aside from its weird glyph choices for some code points, SCR is very much like Consolas or Inconsolata of one point size up, but with a scan line removed -- e.g., SCP 9 is pixel-for-pixel a squashed Consolas 10, with trivial alterations. So it might be said to be "Consolas Squat with some weird glyphs".
It does, but at that price point you can start paying lobbyists and politicians to help make sure it doesn't happen. Likewise, at that point you can have your money stashed in a tax haven or other financial constructions to make sure you don't have to pay taxes, even if there was such a tax rate.
Wasn't expecting to see Sesame street on the list. You could indeed argue its a system for broadcasting information to young children. But by that definition would a teacher with a standardized textbook not apply as well (only less technologically advanced as it uses paper instead of radio waves)?

I fondly remember the first time I did a computerized spelling exercise at school. Especially in what I didn't learn (spelling) and what I did (Windows 1.0 when I minimized the application and started clicking around).
What, creating things the 26 may want to spend on? Or trying to squeeze out some profit from 3.8 billion poor?
Except the signing key was also downloaded over plain HTTP so all bets are off.
I just wanted to chime in and comment further on your statement.

>that at smaller scales, composting isn't awful.

And note that in cases like this, having worked on an organic fruit farm, it is often very difficult to actually compost the unused fruit seconds. Very acidic fruit in large quantities does not generally make for a good compost. It requires a lot more work to deal with a mountain of lemons for instance in a compost to get a usable soil composition. Most people don't ever encounter issues like this because a households normal compost is varied enough that you won't have this problem.

A lot of times nothing will grow or you won't get a very good yield out of really acidic soil for the most part.

All this is to say that the fruit in your example is probably literally being put to no purpose whatsoever and is almost assuredly not being composted.
Vegetables are really usually seed oils like sunflower oil and so aren't vegetables at all really. Although you can get oils from the vegetable part of the plant. They are called vegetable oils though and not seed oils as a marketing ploy to help sell them. To make them it involves an extreme process which leaves them volatile and so when cooked transform into so many strange and potentially damaging components.

Hence you would rather use more stable animal oils like fat or oil from process that aren't so extreme like olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil etc.

Calling them vegetable oils is a misnomer to help sell them. I bet just like in the original article, and just like transfats, it will come to light that these mass selling "vegetable" oils are also damaging. It took 90 years for them to admit transfats were bad and now replaced animal fats with vegetables oils.