skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many reasons why:

- Convenience of just going to a site and not installing anything.

- Cross platform, if you have a browser most web apps will work.

- Being relatively certain that by just visiting a web app you're not going to end up with malware or other unwanted software

- Being able to access your app from other locations without admin access.

- Updates are ready and available instantly

There are of course many many more benefits.

I get that not everything has to be a web app but it's disingenuous to imply that they have no use cases.
If you like OP's site, you may also like this one. I keep returning to it whenever I need to mess with pathfinding. It gives a great step by step of the efficiency of each when it comes to specific paths:

https://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/
Well you obviously know more than I do, but I guess my question is - were these kids anesthetized?

If so, I would agree ketamine is much safer. But if you’re just trying to keep them from freaking out, 5mg is diazepam will do the job and respiratory depression isn’t much of an issue.
To the poster it sounded like he didn't want to hand that info over. I don't know the reason, I was just providing a fairly simple solution.

Also dob is frequently used as a verification. So it is kind of a big deal.
Apparently in Kaiser's recording, Nix (then CEO), described CA's capabilities as voter suppression.

Does the article link the recording? I wasn't able to find it while browsing by phone.
Visual programming is fun.
Audio programming is fun.
Hence, programming microcontrollers with visual and auditory outputs is also fun.
(Not the author of the post you're replying to)

Apps Hungarian is, to a first approximation, a way for your program to use a type system not supported by the language. It's an ugly hack, in no small part because the type-checking is done visually by the programmer, rather than automatically by the compiler. People only use it if there's substantial value in the type system they're bringing in... which generally only happens if the language's type system is inexpressive.

Regarding Pascal, it's important to note that the array length is not an optional part of the type. An array of length 10 is type-incompatible with an array of length 20. A function whose input is an array must specify the length of the array it accepts, and the function cannot be called with an argument of different length. I assume the author's overall point is that this type system, while strong, is not useful for meaningful work.
Regardless of any of that, it sure is interesting to be alive and human. We feel emotions, can talk to one another...it's all very, very wonderful and strange.
Well, the browser publisher can simply make a setting or a fork (because that change looks large), and see what wins.
I came into the link ready to nitpick the choices (for some reason which I really should examine), but it's actually a nice birds-eye-view of the field that is rare to see. I feel like mathematicians, perhaps more than most, tend to stay siloed within our specialized subtopics.
Love the Huff read. +1 to that.
With most types loss of engines on approach is FAR less dangerous than engaging your reversers in flight.
FYI lock-free programming does not mean "free of locks" but rather "free of lockups", as in, there isn't any possible arrangement in which two threads could end up blocking each other indefinitely (as could happen with mutexes and deadlocks).

From [0]: "An algorithm is lock-free if, when the program threads are run for a sufficiently long time, at least one of the threads makes progress (for some sensible definition of progress)."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-blocking_algorithm
Declaring a region blighted is a method for triggering eminent domain.

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/eminent-domain-can-we-defin...
Is there even evidence they don't keep anything?

Edit: Okay, you can't really have evidence of absence, but good reasons to believe they don't log?
Keep in mind my experience was almost exclusively with communications systems, which are important but nowhere near as vital as things like autopilot. Things could very likely be better there, or at a different company. And even many of the things I worked on were like you describe. There is a lot of red tape and testing to make certain changes, and the industry documents are often strict. But it wasn't always clear how much of that actually made things better/safer and how much was just fluff.
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Even if Apple was just putting several billion dollars into a bank account somewhere (and that’s not what they are doing), what do you think the bank was going to do with the money?
And that, kids, is why forwarding emails is illegal.
The trick here is that the authorities will (somewhat reasonably) advertise their need for these tools under the "reasonable suspicion" label: they want the backdoor or whatever it is they need to conduct their surveillance once they do have reasonable suspicion.
I think "fiscal responsibility" is absolutely a code-word for "minority party obstructionism".
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FWIW, Mono.Options is a decently widespread solution for command line parsing
I had this problem a few months back. Meditation fixed it.

For 5 mins a day, try to focus and observe something. The standard is breathing because it's easy and always existent. Just watch your breath go in and out.

You can try guided meditation too, like Headspace.

Meditation can feel extremely difficult at first. You'll feel that the time is better used for something else. Your mind will bounce all over the place.

It will most likely get even worse too at the beginning. Some people actually scream.

Some places will suggest doing 30. I don't. We've seen people start at 30 mins because they think it's easy and all, and then they go into the office all stressed out.

I find the minimum dose is 7 consecutive days. Try to do 5 minutes, 7 days. Once you can do 7 consecutive days comfortably, you can start adding more minutes in. Increase the dosage gradually, especially if you encounter significant discomfort.
Typically when children participate in a study, it's also been previously approved by an Institutional Review Board, and the IRB expects to either see that the potential harm is minimal, or that the potential benefit is easily great enough to justify the risks.

It's hard for me to see either of those cases being a slam dunk here. There's at least some potential for serious harm in the event of a data breach. And the potential benefit - an already rich company getting even richer - doesn't carry a whole lot of moral weight.
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> When they see the actual engineers' answers of "NO" on the traceability report, then NASA would have stopped right there as a blocker and push hard.

This is completely unsupported by the extensive investigation and reports of the catastrophe. NASA simply would not accept NO, and all evidence available says they would have found a way to justify ignoring any weather + seals evidence that would have stopped the launch.
IANAL, is this enough to prosecute?

It seems like enough to get a warrant.
Simple: stop loading those PNGs or strip them of all not-image content. The fact that you can inject code into an image sounds like a security flaw waiting to happen.
what are your in-laws saying now about this?
I would claim a materialist perspective that views the mind and consciousness as arising out of material processes is also a non-dualistic (monist) perspective just as much as an "everything flows from consciousnes" (idealist monist) perspective.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/

Quote: "Because common sense tells us that there are physical bodies, and because there is intellectual pressure towards producing a unified view of the world, one could say that materialist monism is the ‘default option’."
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> If you want to use javascript but feel like a particular website is using too much resources, then the answer is simple: dont visit it. You have choice.

You don't know how many resources it's going to use until you've already visited it.
Besides the fact that this article is a clickbait, "killing URLs" is a actually something that is happening. I'm surprised nobody put this in relation with the fact that google has a search engine, something much more important to this topic than the fact that it has a web browser. Hiding URLs and making them 2nd class citizen means nothing alone. The reason it is done is to promote an alternative way of accessing/finding things, with the goal of controlling how people move/navigate (since this is directly translatable to ad-money and behavioral data collection). Just think about every single ad-based (eg lock-in based) social network/service/web-app: they want you to navigate through their searchbox and result page, because they want to control what you see and keep you from going away.

So killing URLs isn't much about this particular action from google or about web-browsers, it's actually embodied by the much broader trend towards searchbox-centered ui and "related stuff"-based navigation (instead of an absolute classification system like trees, tag hierarchies etc). Please f*ck off with your search engines and recommendation systems, just give me some tools to build taxonomies so i can organize myself. I know what i want and i know how i want it classified. IT was meant to organize (and process) databases please just stick to that, i want a library not a bookshop.
Isn't it explicitly refusing to ascribe a particular feeling (caring) to the universe?
This means that Google has the login details for your bank. You are almost definitely in violation of the bank’s ToS by divulging them
I don't see how saying that it doesn't exhibit a feeling implies that it exhibits feelings.
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That's great. I'd emphasize this both in the privacy policy and in the FAQ. It's not bulletproof, but it goes a long way.
The search is not great at Reddit but you can do a search and then look at which subs the "most relevant" comments appear in.
Not America shouldn’t complain, rather America shouldn’t claim a moral high ground. Complaint is part of serving your own interests, totally necessary and justified.
I think the difficult part of all this is that "experience" has been irreducible so far and extremely difficult to isolate as some kind of physical substance or variable. We can analyze the "actual stuff" in every dimension we know how, and still come no closer to explaining why it feels like something to experience green (borrowing from Thomas Nagel here). A starcraft-playing neural net can make a comparison between some of its earlier "memories" and what it's seeing now, but that says nothing about its Awareness.
And funny enough.. my point was JUST proven [0]

Google does the SAME DAMN THING! and yet apple did not go heavy handed, because, well, money???

But its great to see how an informed crowd like HackerNews behaves just like any other inflamed mob.

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-da...
True, but JS with a really inefficient loop can do the same. That's the problem in judging by KB, it isn't really very conclusive. Browsers already alert on long-running scripts, maybe the threshold on that should be brought down instead.
I wasn't feeling fulfilled by my work either, so I started working on a side project to scratch my creative itch.

Over the last few years I've been building a sequencer (https://github.com/sparkled/sparkled) that synchronises LEDs to music. I love both the artistic and architectural challenges it presents.

In my day job, I love it when I can add tests to existing code or refactor code to be more readable/maintainable/performant. I'm currently working as a contract software engineer, so I get to move between projects quite a bit, and I find that helps to keep things interesting.
That doesn’t follow at all. Rocks don’t care about us, and the reason that’s true is that rocks aren’t capable of feeling any way at all.

Moreover, even if the universe could properly be said to have feelings, that doesn’t entail anything about the existence of a “higher power”. Humans feel things, but that by itself is not proof or disproof of the existence of a “higher power”
I know of a lot of apps that are attached to having an active patreon sub (via testflight downloads).

The only thing I can think of that would be a problem for that 16 year old kid (or alternatively, a sneaky black hat) is permissions. Maybe a color coded permissions model where green means can only access the most basic systems, yellow means could access some personal data, red being can access very important or practically all your data, you must trust them implicitly before installing.
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I belive it's because math is such a "clean" field that it doesn't take many people to 'clear' a topic and advance a subfield or branch into sub-subfields. So you don't have a large number of people all rooting around in the same area speaking the same language.

With complex sciences like biology, or worse, wet lab experimental science, it takes so much drudgery just to get data to work with, that you can have 100x people working in the same area, trying to cover the data/processing requirements to support theorizing and cataloging discovered entities.
If anyone is interested, I made a site to show all the fun and weird things developers are making.

https://justforfun.io/
Stumbleupon was a good resource for this.
I bought a good number of games from xbox store but got out of the habit and didn't log in for a few years. Went through the pretty painful process of logging in to my account again recently on a new console, no sign of any purchases and if I tried to download them from store I was prompted to pay for them.
This is not a self-contained exposition, and a lot of the interesting implications of the theorems seem to be omitted (why are these theorems fundamental; and fundamental to what?) It begs the question: why not instead post a list of links to Wikipedia articles? That would allow the reader to click through to definitions that they are not familiar with, as well as explore what these theorems are (practically or theoretically) useful for.
This is under the authority of the Rule 41 revision (2016) - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/rule-41-would-ma...
Very few things in science can be directly experienced. I can't see an electron with my eyes, I have to rely on the reports of machines and infer the electron. And even the reports of my eyes aren't, ultimately, direct experience. That our investigation of consciousness has to take place indirectly is in no way novelty for scientific inquiry.
I also like that DevFlight works with individual maintainers, rather than with projects. Many prolific maintainers work with several projects. They may not have created any of those projects, and they may not run them either. When the spotlight is on the project (and by extension the founders of "top dogs" of that project), those valuable maintainers get ignored. I'm glad DevFlight is focusing on the individual.
re:suicide nets. Their employee suicide rates are equivalent to China. Its just that they employee so many people, its cost effective to place the nets. If only the rest of China was as cost effective.
They should implement permission controls so users can choose what functionality the facebook app can access.

It sucks huge amounts of power, I assume the facebook app is collecting all sorts of nefarious metadata off phones at no benefit to the user. Fine grained controls would allow users to prevent facebook from accessing their information without the user's explicit choice, which would be a huge improvement.

There should be a big "Facebook wants to read and analyze ALL of your contacts. OK or Cancel" prompt before each read, or you should have to explicitly allow "Allow Facebook to read and analyze all of your SMS messages at any time"
We treat the copyright on print material in the same way. The laws are the same for a technical reference for an exotic piece of hardware as they are for the latest Dan Brown novel. In reality they aren't related at all except for the fact that they are a collection of words put together. They may not even be on the same media (one may be a PDF and the other a chunk of dead tree with ink stains).
If we cannot trust our experience of free will then we cannot trust our experience of anything and there is no such thing as "basic physics". After all, basic physics requires that there be a physical world we can observe in such a way as to make true statements about it. If we cannot trust interior observations about choosing freely between alternatives then we certainly cannot trust exterior observations that are mediated through imperfect senses.

Furthermore, if there is no free will there is no morality, since all things are determined and you cannot do otherwise than what you do. (There is no morality involved in the bouncing of a cue ball off of a pool table wall).
How would Apple be able to enforce any of its user privacy policies without having some control? Write the developers a sternly worded letter?
I don't think it's a given that love, truth, and morals can't exist on top of a materialistic universe. When I download a cat picture from the internet I know it's just a lot of electrical impulses interacting, but this doesn't stop me from seeing the cat.
Then you're not describing the same system that Amazon does. The point of that system is that there's a certain fixed percentage of people who will get the lowest grade, no matter what.
Also worthy of note is Cambridge Analytica's trolling of Nigeria's 2015 presidential election:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/04/cambridge-an...

Amoral doesn't begin to describe these people.
I agree, but in that case you're fighting against the typing system more than typing itself, whatever you are doing with that thing and however you would abstractly define that type (maybe as "We expect this thing to have the type of the thing that terrible third party library usually gives us back") you will make assumptions based on the fact that that value is actually one of those and you never want those assumptions violated. In this case the typing system is too restrictive and it might be a case where duck-typing would come in handy (since you can usually post-apply types in that sort of a setting).
Important detail - The agreement says that Apple may do this for the exact reason at hand here - Preventing misuse/abuse of enterprise certificate.
You could get address proof from local municipality or BDO (if rural area).

And you could get India Post's address proof. Very little known feature but excellent. I have used it once in a city where I was there just for 5 months.
ha, a few weeks back a very similar post came up and i expressed that i felt the DDG results were letting me down. I just actually switched back to Google yesterday, i tried hard, but it just got too annoying having to search for 50% of things twice.
And yet for every one of these sadists, a Viktor Frankl pops up to say "“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
That and Nintendo installed an incredibly touchy DRM chip that demanded a cleaner signal than was strictly necessary for the game to work.
Now now, this is plain ole capitalism.
Domain resellers that have been caught doing this sort of thing in the past have also been criticized. In particular I remember a lot of criticism some time ago about the practice of watching for WHOIS queries to see what domains people are interested in, then buying the domain and trying to sell it back to the original searcher for more.
Nope, I'm in my late thirties. They're so desperate they're approaching old losers like me.
..or not requiring physical hardware to test?
Exactly what I feared. It looked suspiciously too well written to be from someone not versed on the topic. I stand on my opinion: this proposal is antithetical to the web itself. (Doesn’t change the fact that I’ve always admired all their work, now that I know who is he)
There's the cluster hat which supports 4 Pi Zeros on a Pi Hat. Good for hobbyist tinkering anyway.

https://clusterhat.com/
There is no pure direct democracy at scale. You're still going to delegate authority to people doing things, and rely on their expert opinions when it comes to what to vote on.

But in any case, in a direct democracy, if enough people want to vote on something, they can, regardless of how stupid it is. That would include Brexit etc.
> Attempts to equate the two is pure bothsiderism, as insulting as it is wrong.

I'm not letting the irony escape here; you've found the time to express a strong emotional response, but not enough time to actually explain or argue.

> There is no comparable anti-intellectual

As I hinted at above, how are we defining anti-intellectual today? Because a very quick check suggested to me that "anti-intellectualism" is defined as "republican party policy". Eg, I found a Quora article [0] where someone attempts to spin homosexuality as an intellectualism issue (second point, ironically dismissing the opinions of a neurosurgeon as unscientific in the process). That is off the rails; being homophobic is just plain bigotry. Homophobia is a symptom of intolerance, not anti-intellectualism. The scientific status of homosexuality is probably irrelevant to most bigots.

If we define anti-intellectual as anti-science, then it is plague on both houses territory. Both wings of politics have hot-button issues where any attempt to use science will result in angry crowds forming.

If we are defining that as right-wing people don't like academics then that seems plausible to me, but also not exactly a problem. Academics can be wrong politically just like the rest of us (academics were famously pro-communism as a body, and look where that went!). With that in mind, it isn't anti-intellectualism as such rather than a recognition that academics aren't supporting issues that right wing voters think are important. Pretend that 60% of plumbers associate right wing - nobody on the left is anti-plumber because they are on the other side of the political spectrum. At worst their political beliefs would be ignored.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-think-the-GOP-is-anti-in...
I think a lot of people haven't realized this yet
Try reading The Selfish Gene. Altruism is not always how it seems.
Pretty sure they were an integral part of pushing purely fraudulent conspiracies like Pizzagate, bolstered by Bannon's very own media arm's ability to amplify.

> Breitbart is known for its anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-feminist sentiments, as well as for promoting far-right conspiracy theories like Pizzagate.

> “We were testing all kinds of messages and all kinds of imagery. That included images of walls, people scaling walls. We tested ‘drain the swamp.’ Testing ideas of the ‘deep state’ and the NSA watching you—the government is conspiring against you,” the former Cambridge Analytica employee, Christopher Wylie, told CNN late Monday. Wylie said his work for Bannon went back to 2014.

https://www.newsweek.com/watch-did-cambridge-analytica-use-f...
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It's not at all odd when you consider the bandwidths of the various channels involved.
Informed consent is kind of a grey area.

I was surprised recently to learn just how grey.

The company I work for used to have a big full-page opt-in form for text messages. Then one day it was pulled from the web site. Why? Because our usually very privacy-conscious legal team decided that if anyone gives us their phone number anywhere, it counts as consent to receive text messages.

Very sad, and in my opinion slimy. I’m glad I’m not on the social media team.
Can you actually do that from a router? Wouldn't you have to put that tls cert on every laptop and phone?