skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With it sharing your artist name, it makes me suspicious (I don't think you are doing this, but if I randomly stumbled across the website I would) that the goal is to promote mostly your own music, and create an ecosystem around that. I don't have a problem with that at all, but in my mind, it's a very different goal than Unsplash for music.

Wowa and friends vs open music platform.

Regardless, I think it's a great idea and look forward to exploring it more. If you do change the URL, please make sure this redirects, or has a link to the new site so I can find it again!
Yanofsky and Manucci's "Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists" is a smooth intro if you come from a CS background.

Nielsen and Chuang's "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information" is more thorough and advanced from a mathematical point of view. But it contains a primer on the linear algebra required.
Extreme pre-emptive strikes like that have bad optics. One of the elements of modern international diplomacy for non-superpowers is making it look like you're the defender/victim, which is hard to do when all the enemy's bases get nuked simultaneously by smuggled cargo containers.

For superpowers, it's easier to disguise a few warheads as spy sats and leave them in convenient orbits than go through the trouble of smuggling shit through land borders
Raid is not backup... Your data isn't backed up unless there are at least 3 full copies in 2 physical locations. I have to admit I'm slightly paranoid about it... 20-something years ago I was working in tech support for iomega (mostly os/2 and jazz calls). Nothing taught me the importance of true backups more than that job.

I do leverage a few things though... for the most part, I keep stuff on my nas. Projects are in git remotes as well as several local copies. Serial numbers, access keys etc are encrypted and stored in dropbox and copied to google drive.

These days since most of my work is in source control, I'm less worried about that aspect. That said, however, RAID is not backup.
personally I find his writing tiresome. it's literally the same setup and joke, with little content.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say pretty much all the minorities have always been a part of the workforce.
Uh, I don't think so? Pretty sure they either gave up, decided it was unconstitutional, or both.

Either way, "make", not "export". I'm almost certain it's illegal to export missile guidance systems under ITAR.
Getting people who are willing and able to act in the long term best interest of the community to avoid propagating their genetics might have some downsides...
The problem with that thinking was that those games were engineered in a way, where those kids couldn't even realize that they got fleeced for real money.

And Facebook handsomely and intentionally profited from that.
Canada is a huge frozen country most of the year. Comparing warmer countries to Canada doesn't make sense emission wise.
> Nah, there are plenty of countries that operate fine without cheap imported labor.

This is not true. Farming has always relied on exploited labor in some form. Once easily exploited labor disappears with no machinery to replace them, so too does an agricultural industry. Lots of developed European nations are facing this exact problem.

Paying people proper wages will either cause food to get massively more expensive, or will migrate production to crops that are more readily harvested by machines. So grains will still be dirt cheap, but meat and vegetables will be very expensive.
FB also magnifies the worst posting from these outlets. You get the ultra incendiary stuff shared by everybody, while the more chill stuff doesn't get as much engagement and is ignored. I've been shown "Look at this awful thing!" stories more than once.
Imagine actually getting paid with cash. To my deep regrets, I almost never use cash anymore; is it any different in California?
[Edit -- misread comment.]
Aside, but as peeke’s here: your articles are great. Any chance you could add an RSS feed so I can follow easily?
The port of New York and New Jersey is the third busiest United States port, and the busiest on the east coast. The United States economy basically lives on import and export of goods through sea freight. Bombing the NYC harbor also is an attack on US prestige in a way that bombing other harbors such as Los Angeles and Long Beach wouldn't be.

The US has a lot of busy ports, so maybe blockading one isn't too disruptive, but it still has strategic value. Of course, it also depends on the effectiveness of the bomb.
And that's not what the article says, either. Black scientists are in a peculiar place to recognize it, because it actually happens to them. One of the reasons whites don't see so much racism in society is because it's something that happens to someone else.

I saw this same article from a different direction, through an old friend of mine who happens to be black (and a large, dark-skinned man) and was a doctor. He was totally bonding on the article, and quite upset about the situation it describes, something he's experienced himself. And it reminded me of when he was in med school, back in the early '90s. He was in his dorm, doing his laundry, and someone assumed he was stealing laundry and called the cops. He was beaten by the cops enough to break ribs, and of course arrested. For doing laundry in his own dorm while black.
You seem to be suggesting that all values that don't contribute to long-term evolutionary success are not worth pursuing.

Perhaps in the thousand-year timeframe it's irrelevant what it means to be a "have" or "have not" in today's society. But does that really mean that we shouldn't care about the lives of the people around us who are living right now? In fact, why should any of us care all that much about who's still got descendants long after we're dead?
why is my weatherman always wrong? :(
I'm a little unclear. If the account is owned by the parent and the child is using it to play the game, how does FB know it was a child?

Did the specific employees cited learn from the lawsuit and then make the "whale" comment or did they say this and have the knowledge that it was a child before the lawsuit?

--Edit--

It looks like from the chat logs that the employees had the information that it was a child.
There's a collision here between Ubuntu trying to do the right thing automatically (that's part of Ubuntu's design philosophy AIUI) and the author's need to have nothing done at all.

I think the Ubuntu live image is therefore unsuitable for this kind of work. What was needed here is a more specialist "rescue" system image that has a "forensic" mode. For example, Finnix has this: https://www.finnix.org/Forensics
As basically a complete novice in encryption, it was interesting to learn about the unbreakable "one-time pad" method.

"The one-time pad (OTP) is an encryption technique that cannot be cracked, but requires the use of a one-time pre-shared key the same size as, or longer than, the message being sent. In this technique, a plaintext is paired with a random secret key (also referred to as a one-time pad). Then, each bit or character of the plaintext is encrypted by combining it with the corresponding bit or character from the pad using modular addition."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
The most important thing that needs to be changed about the H1B program is how the green card is linked to your particular employer. The H1B program is almost like indentured servitude for the vast majority of workers of Indian or Chinese origin because of the delay in getting a green card. It would be impossible for any employer to exploit H1B workers if the visa was not linked to an employer but to the tax paid by the worker. As long as the worker stays in a particular (federal) tax bracket the worker should be allowed to engage in any work that they desired.
Odd. I had never heard of Web Applications UK, nor of the fellow who did the interview. I'm willing enough to believe that Craig Dean is a jerk. On the other hand, I would not have advised Ms. Bland to write of herself as "a young girl", nor to give us the backstory on her previous abusive relationship. She would have done better to focus on "why you should read this" and less on "why I'm writing this". Anyway, I wish her luck.
I personally don't subscribe to this line of thinking, but a a fair share of people figure that it would happen anyway. So if someone is going to do it, then why not make sure you're the one to profit from it?
He also left out driving in a car which was not covered in vomit from the previous rider.
Humans are not good drivers with two eyes. I constantly have to take my eyes off the road to check mirrors. I hope while checking what is behind me that nothing happens in front. I hope while looking in front of me nothing I need to worry about from the sides/back of me matter. Of course most of the danger is in front of me so I spend most of the time looking there, but there are times when things not in front of me are dangerous to me.

By giving a car more than two eyes it has the potential to become a better driver than me because it can watch more. By adding more than just visible light cameras it can see things that I would never see. I want my next car to be safer, the big limit is not seat belts, brakes, crumple zones, airbags, and such - the big limit is the limited human in control. There is potential to make some of the above obsolete if the control system is enough better.
>how do we create a society where this can't happen?

By compromising on some other value we hold dear. These things are always trade-offs. Exploiting kids for money will be something we don't permit but ultimately tolerate.

We don't permit or tolerate accidental nuclear explosions as a contrasting example. We've create a society where that just doesn't happen or can't.
I reckon if standard of living improves, so does my dollar per unit of happiness ratio improves, then a flat real wage isn't a terrible thing.

Of course, this belies the fact that wealth inequality increases. This means though the median may stay stable, the tails get fatter: or, in other words, the standard of living isn't necessarily getting better for everyone.
That's a lot different than what I got from the headline, which to me implied that they were regularly categorizing children as "whales" (high spenders) based on their age and susceptibility to marketing. In this case, that 5 year old is a whale. I doubt many are
Facebooks earnings are because advertisers spend more

Every court case, summons and data breach are instructions manuals and tools for advertisers. These are public and much more useful than an outdated Udemy course selling shovels.

Advertisers will continue spending more after each scandal, and they will be better targeted ads, making Facebook have more utility to users at the same time. Any proposed legislation ought to make advertisers spend more before the gravy train is over.

Facebooks share price increase cant be seen as validation from its profile creators which are the product. These numbers didnt jump they offset and stay the same.
Are you saying that Medicaid doesn't cover preventative care?
Children are more expensive now because of societal pressure to raise kids to a higher standard because people have less of them.

Imagine all the hand wringing that would ensue if at lunch with my colleagues (which is a rough approximation of the HN demographic) I mentioned that I got a 5yo hand-me-down car seat instead of buying the latest and greatest. Generalize that pressure to pretty much every child raising related expense.
Anecdotally I use Facebook to coordinate social events with friends and find that it's been a helpful tool to easily keep in touch with friends. I've reconnected with friends through it too. I try and avoid political things and post a lot of cat pictures from a local cat shelter that I volunteer at, which people seem to enjoy. I dunno, I just try and keep my feed filled with mostly positive/upbeat things so maybe that helps?
In that case, I hope they at least ask if you want to use it as one-click in the future.
TME doesn't help much against local attackers, the memory controller isn't smart enough for that (yet), especially because the hypervisor still controls the keys.

It does however help to mitigate a number of attacks such as freezing memory to extract encryption keys and similar.
> Facebook. Yes, they are evil. Most of us always knew. But this flood of news items lately, isn't this just mass hysteria?

If Facebook is "evil," then not having a flood of news items is just giving them a pass on their behavior.
In general, many people waste time on internet. The internet and all of its available information is hard to resist (at-least in my case).

I've come up with a fix though! I simply have an addon in firefox that refreshes the web-page in 20 seconds! It is just enough annoyance to give up (especially after I am over halfway though an article..)
A five-year-old also doesn't have any money of his own. Ultimately, the parents are spending the money and also the ones responsible for changing the situation.
> "Yes. You can go into settings and remove it easily though."

Hopefully, will be the next mechanism to be phased out via legislation.
> however using a Chinese or a Russian alternative instead is just plain stupid.

No, it is not. By using non-american alternatives, you ensure fragmentation of your personal data, thus making it harder to build a better / more accurate profile of you.

Moreover, I personally don't like the fact that using DuckDuckGo still helps the other major search engines - they still get data from DDG that helps them improve their search engine, thus contributing to their monopoly.

> The US is a functional democracy ...

Good for the Americans, then. Not for us who live elsewhere. The US government and courts have repeatedly applied different legal yardsticks when it comes to a citizen vis a foreigner.

> as companies found to violate the GDPR will get screwed; GDPR which also makes the export of data very complicated, so US companies are increasingly keeping EU data on EU servers

I don't see why you think this doesn't apply to Chinese / Russian businesses too. Ultimately if they want to do business in EU or elsewhere, they will have to follow the law of the land. Right?

> Speaking as an EU citizen, the NSA is not my enemy.

I disagree. The Five Eyes spying program is designed to indirectly spy on the citizens of their country using each others government agency, and sharing that data.

> Speaking of which, DuckDuckGo can exist in the US, but not in China or in Russia,

And this brings another important aspect on this debate - we shouldn't be trusting private companies to protect our privacy rights and instead should be pressurizing our own government to legislate laws on this.

Most Americans somehow seem to naively believe that Apple and DuckDuckGo (for example) are working more to protecting your privacy, whereas all they are doing is slowly trying to gain your trust to get you to share more data with them. And ultimately, like Google betrayed all of us and went fully "evil", so will Apple and DuckDuckGo.

(And notice that they have already started being more invasive).
Probably not the popular opinion here but the way I see trump is he was campaigning hard against “illegal immigration”.

He didn’t explicitly say he’s against highly skilled immigration.

Trump may be an idiot but it seems people incharge of immigration have their head straight and H1Bs are in sore need of a revamp.

I hope the trend continues. America works because hard working and talented people want to come here and make beautiful things people want and build their dreams.
Relevant part:

> Gillian: Would you refund this whale ticket? User is disputing ALL charges…

> Michael: What’s the users total lifetime spend?

> Gillian: It’s $6,545 – but card was just added on Sept. 2. They are disputing all of it I believe. That user looks underage as well. Well, maybe not under 13.

> Michael: Is the user writing in a parent, or is this user a 13ish year old

> Gillian: It’s a 13ish yr old. says its 15. looks a bit younger. she* not its. Lol.

> Michael: … I wouldn’t refund

> Gillian: Oh that’s fine. cool. agreed. just double checking

Clickbait headline makes it sound like they were trying to recruit whales.
There’s a good site that does this called Blinkist. https://www.blinkist.com/en/about/
Google launches new design for Gmail application on Android and iOS platforms
Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store?
I want to set up an online store.

What services and technologies do you use when you'd like to quickly build a small online store?
Nearly half of all U.S. adults have some form of cardiovascular disease
It’s true people will share the most toxic of the content. Still, I blame the source that created it more than any other party, and it’s rich to see one of those sources claim to take the high ground and not even mention their own outsized role in the situation.
“They stole $1.7M” – content creators, MCNs, and business on YouTube
This book follows the recent trend of: find obvious slightly un-talked-about idea, create a fancy sounding term to describe it (preferably with as few words as possible - one is best, like Blink or Outliers.) These words should be vague and have hundreds of meanings - 'work', 'deep', or 'source', for example. Then, while you could summarize the idea in a single page, write 100+ pages framing the issue as a fundamental shift in one's perception. Finally, go on a media tour to promote it.
Did you read the article before launching straight into victim blaming? It’s not about supervision, it’s about dark patterns. Parents were aware of what their kids were doing, but weren’t aware of what FB was doing.
This is really good. It takes me back to my Amiga days !
BTW: VLC can also play MOD files.
Here's the scenario :

Kid asks parent if she's allowed to buy 10$ worth of gaming stuff
Parent agrees, enters cc info, which is stored by FB without any warning
Games are designed in a way that you just click some cuddly icon without even realizing that you spend real money

That's not just only the darkest of patterns it's also geared towards vulnerable kids. Intentionally and by design.

In my book we're slowly in executives should wind up in jail territory when it comes to this evil carbunkel of a company without any morals, whatsoever.
Or maybe the kernel would have to except some memory for MMIO from being encrypted. That way the PCIe bus gets access to the memory without needing the keys but also can't read what it shouldn't.
Default – Quanel X
It's probably part of their metrics and counts against them come review time. Just a guess.
What Happens When a Startup Goes Bust
The facts should stand on their own. If one feels it necessary to take the facts and "dress them up", it most certainly devalues the argument when it comes out that someone's been telling half-truths.

So, yeah, it kinda matters that we not let such sloppiness slide.
No, I said 'Neither.' You presented a false dichotomy.
> brutal 2 hour interview

I’m sure these people are terrible. But I pray this person never has to interview at a standard US tech company, where two hours just gets you in the door.
E2E testing using a headless browser controlled by a framework like puppeteer. Scaling up with many different OS/browser combinations gets difficult and expensive fast though, which is why services like browserstack exist. Testing CSS is sometimes done by diffing screenshots but I personally don't think it's worth the effort unless your app has hundreds of pages.
> Leave had a bus, with a slogan.

Not just any slogan, a slogan that was blatantly misleading to say the least.
It might be a good read but at best its pop science at worst complete bunk (close to the latter). There was a book about this topic written by an actual historian much earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_Imperialism_(book) and where Diamond tried to answer very broad questions and his broad answers break down in detail, Crosby makes similar points but approaches as a historian, limits his arguments and actually practices proper scholarship.
Setting aside the fact that the UK has a veto over pretty much any important EU decision...

> Of course that is one of the most important discussion within the European Union.

Is it? Why?

> Nothing to say against that.

Why should the sovereignty of the UK be paramount? Why not the sovereignty of (for example) London, Cornwall or Scotland?

The UK is a mix of geographically-close former countries, inhabited by people with different backgrounds who speak different native languages and used to be at war with each other.

I fail to see why the UK should have any greater claim to sovereignty than the EU or a subsection of the UK...

> Most new laws are enacted by the EU in most member states.

No idea if that's true, but I do know that the vast majority of laws enacted by the EU are done so because it is more beneficial for the UK (and other member states) if the EU enacts them as opposed to each EU state enacting their own version. Much simpler when it comes to trade etc.
Hm maybe; I think "Ottoman occupation in the early-20th Century turned from oppression to mass killings" has a slightly confusing word order, probably "in the early-20th Century" should go at the end?
FSB does not operate outside of Russia. It is the equivalent of FBI in USA. Foreign intelligence agency of the Russian Federation is the SVR and GRU
Non-five year olds barely understand in-game currencies intended to obfuscate the real price. That's why they're used.
There is no choice to be made, that is the problem with this line of thinking.
Well don't let Hacker News overhear you. The specialized lang they used to make and run the site, Arc, is written in Racket.

Moreso than being mainly created for teaching, Racket was created mainly as an environment for creating languages. Its forte is language development and implementation. This is useful in education, because it allowed them to easily create a number of 'teaching languages,' which are all essentially Racket with training wheels.

But that doesn't mean the base language + environment is only useful in education. I might even call it the most usable and productive LISP currently in wide use. (I greatly prefer it over Clojure, for instance.)
One of the core improvements over traditional books, is portability.

I can carry around 100s of books whenever I travel - without having suitcases packed with them.

To compare this with ebooks is pretty strange, considering the portability is 0. It's basically saying "you can have multiple books open at the same time which keep their reading position".

Great, you have multiple tabs in a browser open now - you've achieved it.
Porn star running for president throws in the towel
Worse than that: most adults (in developed countries) don't understand the law of 72 (doubling time) yet own multiple compound interest debts (credit cards)
Right, early smartphones without social media were far less addictive. Games were less addictive because it was things like Snake not Fortnite. The other missing piece is "What would people do instead?". If you get rid of your smartphone and replace it with six hours of Netflix, you are probably not any healthier or better off.
Watch ing Star Wars in Postgres
Is it illegal to market toys to kids?

A kid can walk into a store and buy as much candy as they want. The problem is that usually they don't have a credit card in their hands.
> You have to have a focus on strong families. If the child has parents or guardians who are aware of what they're doing and will stop them from doing it then there wouldn't really be a problem in the first place at least with five year olds

You're half right. We have to focus on strong families who would raise kids who, as adults, will have a strong enough moral compass to 1) say no to being involved in stuff like this stuff at Facebook, 2) blow the whistle when they find out about it, and 3) take urgent action when they hear the whistle being blown.