skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN,
This is a job borad for developers who like to work on products that could impact climate change.
I'd love to hear feedback.
It would be a legal battle for sure, but there's a chance that nullification could win [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_(U.S._Constituti...
They have a ton of other relationships to manage. Restaurants (Uber Eats), Uber for business, etc
"But Dr. Ben Neel, director of Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, told The Post that 'cancer is multiple diseases, and it is highly unlikely that this company has found a ‘cure’ for cancer any more than there is a single cure for infections.'

He said that 'more likely, this claim is yet another in a long line of spurious, irresponsible and ultimately cruel false promises for cancer patients.'"

https://nypost.com/2019/01/29/cancer-experts-react-to-claim-...
I understand the purported rationale for killing URLs. My comment was clarifying where the google spokesperson made a statement I interpret as “we are going to kill URLs.”
"and also rejecting requests for high resolution images."

That's a decision I don't understand. Would taking the pictures have been a big change in flight plan or something like that?
Isn’t this....kind of what the entire tech community has been PUSHING Facebook to do? Paying you for your data instead of acquiring it through shady means...?

I’m sorry but...it’s not as if they’re using this data to do evil things. They’re trying to target advertisements. Whooptie doo. So evil.
Impingement on quality of life by the seller of an organ can be, and is translated to a value statement. However, the paradoxical nature of human beings which relies largely on emotional responses dictates that while we can have people starving in the streets, because it would make society squeamish, they can't be allowed to sell their organs, for the sake of their own human dignity and quality of life, never mind that society stripped them of both anyway.
No, I can see that Google presents it as them backing off.

Who are the actual decision makers? What percentage are google employees?
Other way around. Hi I'm the Kubernetes 1.14 release lead, I work for Google, and I'm the guy who said "bumpy road"

During the Kubernetes Contributor Summit at KubeCon Seattle last year, I made lots of noise about using KEPs, and about needing non-technical contributors to help those of us who are "organizationally challenged". In what I hope was a response, people showed up at SIG PM.

See https://youtu.be/_7IIzH_4yUk?t=998, https://youtu.be/mwG2CzdCg_8?t=1389, and https://youtu.be/mwG2CzdCg_8?t=1893 if you want to see me rambling about it on camera

I think this conversation was really kicked back up in earnest as a result of Windows node support not landing in 1.13 due to a lack of clarity on what the bar was for release. There were other enhancements that could have had a smoother landings in this and previous releases, but this was definitely when we realized we needed to overhaul and document this part of the project.
I'm also pretty sure that they say that 100% of the tip goes to the driver when you place an order.
I agreed with TheSpiceIsLife, I don't see how those compare. Seeing someone naked is so completely different than having full access to what they do on their smart phone. In fact, on their smart phone there are probably naked pictures.
The article goes into that, they compensate the parent with the $20/month.
This writer doesn't understand the difference between strategic and tactical weapons or the difference between fusion and fission weapons.

He also doesn't understand that multiple warheads per ballistic missile is the norm.
Great landing pages. What tools are you using?
Unfortunately fb pissing over everyone’s privacy is invisible and intangible. So for most it doesn’t exist.

Disabling an app would be very noticeable and would anger many people.
Bloomberg had an article on this, last year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambl...
I addressed that claim in my earlier comment.

> The biggest argument against I've read was that the online drama took attention and resources away from the people in the cave. I find that absolutely absurd. The rescue team weren't checking their social media or waiting on Musk, or distracted in any way by the online drama.

Has anyone in the cave said that some engineers on the other side of the world were holding them up or in some way impeding their efforts? I find it extremely hard to believe that some shitty twitter drama got in the way of cave rescue efforts.
My apologies. When I first read the article it wasn't paywalled.
Doordash too, apparently:

https://notipdoordash.com/

I've tipped a lot on Doordash. I feel ripped off.

My company regularly used Doordash for years and made a point of tipping on orders. Crazy.
FB isn’t the service provider, they’re intercepting and recording private conversations they aren’t a party to... where not all the parties are consenting, and sometimes the party is not of age to consent... If it’s criminal, why should they be given “time”?
> They don't say anything about "dumb users", and I wish the conversation around this didn't even use that phrase. Hardhats aren't just for clumsy people, seatbelts aren't just for bad drivers, and memory protection isn't just for careless programmers

There are frequently tradeoffs between safety and flexibility/performance/value, and the proper tradeoff to be made can depend on the sophistication of the user. So are you just upset that that a derisive word was used, or are you arguing that in this particular case the proper trade-off is independent of user sophistication?
Yes, the spring drive is really neat. it was designed at the time when mechanical watches seemed "doomed" to quartz so neat historically as well.

The spring drives are "Grand Seiko", so tend to be 3k+ US.
Sorry i immediately set editorcmd but the edit was for some reason posted as a sibling comment that I then deleted.(I couldn't reply immediately afterwards because this website didn't have a reply button for your comment then)

Maybe ZZ could be stop then?
Google doesn't recycle Gmail addresses. For anyone moving to paid email providers thinking they'd be a lot better, there are some paid providers who are very quick to recycle addresses on their domains: Fastmail, Posteo and Mailbox.org recycle email addresses on their domains within a few months, thus increasing the vulnerability of their current customers (where you delete one of the aliases on your account) and past customers. There may be many others too, but these are the ones I know of.
This is a distinction without a difference. There is no practical difference between paying less "because tip" and not paying the tip. The legal system is not staffed by robots, either. I don't see how they can defend a class action regardless of what words they've written on a TOS.
I suppose it's a way to extract most value for lenders and shareholders. If a bankrupt company has little staff and no departments besides administrative, there are little liabilities, and little post-dissolution hassle. All remaining assets are reasonably liquid.
The Mandarin spam is not specific to Vancouver numbers. I live in Toronto and receive daily calls.
It's not at all laughable. It is as effective as the organizations people create and choose to follow.

There's nothing that makes giving an entity like a union or regulatory agency a monopoly that makes it more competent. There's no advantage in monopolizing a market under one quality assessor.

We essentially did that with credit ratings, by creating a special class of credit ratings agencies, that only three firms fall under, and making regulatory requirements requiring participants to receive a passing rating from one of them to be allowed to engage in various market activities.

The result in a non-competitive credit ratings industry with profit margins of approximately 40%, meaning they're extracting a massive amount of economic rent.

>>You're also saying in this case it is theft, and should be handled by the legal system, which in part is legislated by labor regulations.

I'm not endorsing those aspects of the legal system that prohibit contractually agreed terms. Only tort should be punished by the legal system.
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Dear god... Come on Apple, if that's all true that's pretty stupid/shitty of Apple. I guess maybe anyone filling bug bounty reports probably has a developer account so it's not a big deal? Also it's not clear if they mean a paid account or a free one. I'm guessing they just needed a way to let her submit the issue and open a dialog via their existing tools and workflows but maybe I'm being too generous to Apple.
In those days, you would answer the phone when it rang because most calls were legitimate contact attempts. Then telemarketing came, but it was kept somewhat in check by the need to have a human make the call. Spam robocallers are a very recent phenomenon; but they've made it so that the overwhelming majority of unknown-number calls people get are spam.
Just because it makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it makes everyone uncomfortable.

I agree with the previous user that it isn't that different than what Nielsen does to collect TV ratings.

Maybe Facebook's execution here wasn't the best, i.e., I agree that a better device would have some limitations as to what kind of data it could access.
Japanese government plans to hack into citizens' IoT devices
Sounds like Google is re-inventing EV Domains. EV Domains attempt to tie a URL to a business securely. Unfortunately, nobody pays attention to EV certificates.

Now we will be getting a proprietary Google replacement of EV Domains.
Read “never let me go” by Kazuo Ishiguro, or actually even watch the movie that was made of it (same title)

That illustrates fairly well why having an underclass who provides healthy organs to the rich is a utterly barbaric idea.
Q: What do you call an IT admin for 20 children?

A: A good trade!
Wonder if you could do a no vibration pattern also, I haven't turn my ring tone on in like 10 years.
Facebook Pays Teenagers to Install VPN That Spies on Them
Apples moves don't matter.

iPhones last longer and going rates for second hand ones speak volumes for themselves.

Also, Apple sells more products than the top of the line XS Max, they have plenty of middle of the road models like the iPhone 7, which is still faster than any Android phone ever made.

If you really care about it, why don't you talk about the regaining iPad? Are you selling Apps for themselves? iPad is the prime platform and with Photoshop coming, it will only do good.

Apple says they have now 1.4 billion active devices.
Have someone tried this method in other place? Does it work when the walls have sharp edges, sharps turns, and there are water currents flowing at high speed around it? (I guess NASA might be using that method inside a pool.)

What does it mean "glue 2 sides together"? Underwater? For 800m? Completely air and water tight?

Does untrained people be "confortable" to craw in a dark tunnel for 800m or the children would have freak out in the middle?
It is true. The only way you will see where you are is to observe DNS.

What the browser authors like Google are doing is further hiding DNS from the user. Many years ago Firefox was already hiding and highlighting parts of urls in the address bars to "protect" users. It will only get worse.

I often navigate by first doing automated lookup using only non-recursive queries, then storing the address permanently until it changes (rarely does), and finally after I have the needed address, navigating to the url. I see every DNS answer, and thus I can see all CDN use.

Fastly has really emerged over recent years and is very popular among sites appearing on HN.

CDNs are popular but not all sites on HN or elsewhere use them. There are still many, many sites that do not use CDN's nor share IP addresses with other sites.
The same ETA movements (e.g 2824) have different grades, so higher price watches generally are using the higher grade even if the same movement. That being said still agree with the general sentiment on the value of a $500ish movement.
"Early UNIX". Ouch. The events of the book took place in 1986, at which time UNIX was more or less like what we use today. Except for the absence of modern scripting languages, a modern user could use UNIX from 1986 with very little problem. I tend to think of "early UNIX" as things like V6 UNIX from the 1970s, but to be fair to you, much more time has passed from 1986 to now than did from the dawn of UNIX to 1986.
_Honestly though when you get Linus flaming your behavior you're doing something really wrong._

Haven't been around here long, have you? :-)
The issue had to do with the fact that that shuttle mission was doing some classified stuff for the military IIRC.
Your provider/mvno should allow you change that one easily. I just did with mine that some spammers had. Works great except new one is on the school districts notification list with no easy way to opt-out. But that one is easy to block.
God damnit Hacker News...as someone who recognizes the artwork in the header image because the artist is a good friend and was at my wedding several months back...

This is straight up surveillance that will cannibalize what it's observing.

They're quite creative, they're gonna dazzle your machine vision. Why build tools to hinder/distort/build paranoia into something you're interested in if you genuinely are?
The existing safe browsing system is more like a blacklist and it sounds like this new system will be similar. https://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/all-about-safe-browsing.ht... But if the machine learning model is small enough one could imagine building it into the browser.
Noone said they were equal, just that informed consent is important.
There's your problem right there:

> It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. https://wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
Even if we accept your premise that OS vendors are inherently malicious actors rootkitting your devices, how does that justify Facebook’s own unethical activity?
Here’s a link to the upcoming GPD MicroPC: https://liliputing.com/2018/12/gpd-micro-is-a-tiny-299-lapto...
They probably think the money is fungible.

“We gave the driver 100% of the $10 from your tip, and withheld our $10 from their wages.”
Military stuff.

Secondly, there was a strong prevalence of the idea that, even IF they had found something, nothing could have really been done, which was probably true according to the post-mortem.
The ACLU, psychiatrists, and other reformers are more culpable than Reagan. Deinstitutionalization started long before 1980. See, e.g.,

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html

Some amount of reform was needed, but the deinstitutionalization that occurred was too extreme, too rapid, and lacked adequate backstops. Politicians were just doing what they were told by lawyers and psychiatrists, and they were eager to comply because it meant huge cuts in spending.
Are you saying that wealthiest state in America, the one that also houses the largest tech companies in the world, doesn't have the competence to buy facial recognition software from amazon?
Thanks for the pointer to this extension. I'll check it out. One of the things Lazarus provided (at the cost of adding some effort in maintaining privacy) was to save the history of form fields across sites and across restarts. In my knowledge, Firefox allows saving text fields, but not text areas. Periodic saving and history were quite helpful especially when writing longer walls of text like on HN comments or posts on other platforms.
Definitely an odd wording. However, I have some speculation as to why it is this way.

Maclean's is a Canadian publication and I think many Canadians have a special interest in the UK, and I think the demographics of Maclean's readership likely reinforces this.

Additionally, I would guess that this is some semantic ambiguity introduced via morphological clipping where the author is using European as a shortened form of Continental/Mainland European. It's a fairly common device used to remove excess verbiage especially when reusing the same terms over and over. Pragmatically, when in context being contrasted against Briton, it becomes more clear that the author means Europeans other than Brits.

A similar example could be "all squares have equal sides whereas rectangles do not". It is pragmatically more likely that I mean _non-square_ rectangles even though my wording is ambiguous or straight up incorrect taken at face value.

So I'd guess it's attributable to the psychological primacy of the UK amongst the readership of this publication, semantically confused via a common morphological device, and ultimately disambiguated by the pragmatics of contrasting a part with its whole.
I’m led to believe a whole bunch of intellectual heavy weights agree that privacy is so important it needs to be heavily regulated fairly immediately.

I tend to agree with them.

Come to think of it, is there anyone making a strong case for weaker privacy protection? I’m prepared to put aside my existing assumptions long enough to read an article or two.
My name is James, I work for Community Phone, a nationwide cell phone company.

Show of hands: if we opened up this feature for you to control this filter for yourself or your loved ones, holding all else constant (price and coverage), would that be sufficient to cause a switch to try out an alternate provider?
> Yeah definitely not how I would talk to the employee,

I actually prefer that my superior talked to me like that.
My main unanswered question here (I admit I haven't looked particularly hard for the answer) is what the false positive rate was. How many times have similarly major concerns raised, about things that were not ultimately an issue? Where the NASA administrators bombarded with such concerns for every launch, or were reports a relatively rare occurrence?

Designing processes to appropriately address such concerns seems to hinge on the answer.

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Your friend hasn't paid any attention to the scale of this problem.
They are vital in the same way mosquitoes are vital to the ecosystem. You try to assume they must serve some higher purpose greater than blood-sucking(eg food for fish), but nope that's it.
Why Are Most Impact Craters Perfectly Circular? (Rather Than Ovals)
Very readable article with the fun of first-person problem solving.
Is it possible to set this up to work like charles proxy?
So what DOES pinning protect against? Certs generated by state actors with access to CA’s?
You are right (slaps forehead), and I was not thinking about the historical context.

The earliest tables were based on "valence", or the ratio with which an element tended to combine with other elements in compounds. Two of the most consistent and easily obtained compounds are those of hydrogen and oxygen, which nearly always combine with other "monovalent" elements in ratios of 1 and 2, respectively.

When a new element was discovered, the ratios with which it formed oxides and hydrides could be determined, and this would allow its placement on the table.

A student from the late 1800s would only be able to think in terms of equivalents, not electrons and their orbitals - as you point out. The inclusion of hydride and oxide formula templates would have been an integral part of using the table.
The story people read in Feynman's autobiography was that General Donald Kutyna came by and made some very knowledgeable suggestions about areas worthy of investigation. Kutyna revealed after her death that Sally Ride clued him in, and he in turn passed the knowledge on to Feynman.

Kutyna: On STS-51C, which flew a year before, it was 53 degrees [at launch, then the coldest temperature recorded during a shuttle launch] and they completely burned through the first O-ring and charred the second one. One day [early in the investigation] Sally Ride and I were walking together. She was on my right side and was looking straight ahead. She opened up her notebook and with her left hand, still looking straight ahead, gave me a piece of paper. Didn't say a single word. I look at the piece of paper. It's a NASA document. It's got two columns on it. The first column is temperature, the second column is resiliency of O-rings as a function of temperature. It shows that they get stiff when it gets cold. Sally and I were really good buddies. She figured she could trust me to give me that piece of paper and not implicate her or the people at NASA who gave it to her, because they could all get fired.

Kutyna: I wondered how I could introduce this information Sally had given me. So I had Feynman at my house for dinner. I have a 1973 Opel GT, a really cute car. We went out to the garage, and I'm bragging about the car, but he could care less about cars. I had taken the carburetor out. And Feynman said, "What's this?" And I said, "Oh, just a carburetor. I'm cleaning it." Then I said, "Professor, these carburetors have O-rings in them. And when it gets cold, they leak. Do you suppose that has anything to do with our situation?" He did not say a word. We finished the night, and the next Tuesday, at the first public meeting, is when he did his O-ring demonstration.

We were sitting in three rows, and there was a section of the shuttle joint, about an inch across, that showed the tang and clevis [the two parts of the joint meant to be sealed by the O-ring]. We passed this section around from person to person. It hit our row and I gave it to Feynman, expecting him to pass it on. But he put it down. He pulled out pliers and a screwdriver and pulled out the section of O-ring from this joint. He put a C-clamp on it and put it in his glass of ice water. So now I know what he's going to do. It sat there for a while, and now the discussion had moved on from technical stuff into financial things. I saw Feynman's arm going out to press the button on his microphone. I grabbed his arm and said, "Not now." Pretty soon his arm started going out again, and I said, "Not now!" We got to a point where it was starting to get technical again, and I said, "Now." He pushed the button and started the demonstration. He took the C-clamp off and showed the thing does not bounce back when it's cold. And he said the now-famous words, "I believe that has some significance for our problem."

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a18616/an-oral-histor...
"I believe it would be better if the ProtonVPN app on my Macbook is just connected and at the same time disconnect the one on my Android tablet automatically."

I think that's a horrible choice, silently removing VPN protection for an existing connection.

I do think a better message stating that such a collision was attempted is warranted, though.

I encountered a different but similarly cryptic error with this same collision last year when first trying Proton. I was so impressed with Proton's communication (for a free product), I pay for it now.
I don't know about that. I had pretty OK grades in high school (2nd in my class, got a community college degree while I was doing it..but so did everyone else) but only managed a SAT (1500/1600) that could only get me into local schools in-state. Without having a compelling personal narrative I think getting into the elite schools is difficult.
Unfortunately we're in the opposite of a capital-constrained environment. There is far more capital chasing yield than there are worthwhile investments to make.

That plus financialization of everything has short-circuited part of the money treadmill. Too much is circulating at the top with too little at the bottom, where most spending is done.

Businesses need more customers with more money in their pockets, not more tax cuts.
To make matters worse, 40 years ago most people didn't even have answering machines... most of the time the phone just rang and rang. Somehow we muddled through. Your point is spot on re: not being reachable 24/7 by the entire world.