skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's nothing inherently wrong with selling all your data for $20 a month. If you know exactly what you're doing.

Informed consent is _impossible_ here because there is no way a person can know what future use the data will be put, and Facebook sure as shit ain't gonna tell, and they're even less likely to limit their future use of the data through an agreement made in the present.
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Because the topic of genes and race is too sensitive for many reasons, both right and wrong.

However, we should really be talking about this.

- We know that genes affect our physical appearance (hence races are distinguishable between each other).

- We know that different races have genetic predisposition to certain diseases (sickle cell disease and people of African ancestry, for example).

- We know that genetic studies reveal fascinating history of how people migrated across the globe and how nations are mostly a fictional invention.

- We know how genes affect anything from eye color to horrible conditions like Roberts syndrome

But we are too afraid to talk about anything beyond these few topics, and how genetic differences between races affect (negatively, neutrally, or positively) people of these races.
> I still remember downloading the first version of Netscape and it took just a few seconds. I almost fell out of my chair!

This is still how I feel everytime I download a large file in seconds. I guess I spent so long accessing the internet over dialup this rapid (and relatively recent) explosion of speed at the edges is truly impressive. It's a little ironic that our most popular protocols and services these days reject p2p so thoroughly.
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Could this have affected my ability to log into Skype for Business? I could log in with my home wifi, but not my cell phone hotspot. Didn't think much of it at the time!
I had the same experience. It is very liberating.

Piracy is increasing again because media companies are trying to silo their titles. Consumers want a diverse source of entertainment every month, but can't afford to buy the titles or subscribe to all streaming services. A Netflix subscription can be 1-3x the price of a popular TV series bought directly. I would argue that Netflix has devalued media in general.
With a standard case management system this can (and is at other companies) automated - so maybe an hour max for an acknowledgement that a case got created?

It sounds like Apple might be doing do this all via email, no case management software. That would be pretty bad.
Yes! I miss the tracking scene. Some amazing music came out of that format.
"What is there to be done?"

A $0.01 tax per ad impression.

Such a thing would not destroy the advertising industry, but it would do wonders for making it much less worthwhile to deploy massive surveillance technology to make .03 cents more per user per day, and leave only very high-value advertising behind. It would probably anti-decimate it or more, though (leave only 10% behind instead of destroying 10%).

$0.10 per impression if you're feeling feisty.
I've been writing SPAs for a number of years, and while I've become competent at it, I now use Jekyll for most of my projects.

There are some exception where a SPA is certainly justified, but for the most part a static site with some dynamic parts in JS is so much easier to produce and maintain. Also a lot faster to load.

It's easy to still use Webpack/Babel/etc with Jekyll. Here is a starter kit I made some time ago for some coworkers. It's for Vue but the same idea can be used for React, etc.

https://github.com/PierBover/jekyll-vue-webpack-starter-kit
For me this disqualified the iOS platform for any software development. When they can do that with Facebook then the rest of us is just fucked up. With Android and Windows I currently at least have alternatives for distribution.
The entire page loads instantly for me on Firefox and Chrome, admittedly on a decently fast connection.
I tried using it on Chrome with the 'slow 3g' network speed and with cache disabled - in a few seconds the old page is replaced with a blank white screen, in a few more seconds the red background of the header shows up, and a few seconds later all the text renders at once.

What seems to be happening is that the page waits for the woff2 fonts to be downloaded before allowing the text to render. I recall also reading on HN that Google AMP has an 8 second timeout before it allows the page to be rendered, unless the AMP js scripts are all loaded first (so people who use content blockers effectively have an enforced 8s delay).
Both are stupid techniques - sure, a user with good internet (and the web designers) will no longer see a split-second flash of text (on this website) or unstyled HTML (on AMP) before it switches to the new font - but it's effectively a mandatory delay for those who don't have this privilege. An improvement of 1% for the [rich and included] and a significant decrease in functionality for the [poor or excluded].
I think one problem you really highlight is that, at best, those higher number of devs who can only code in the frameworks think those frameworks are able to save them from themselves. At worst, they're lazy and don't want to take the time to learn the underlying technologies like DOM, CSS, JS, etc...
I think OP's stance is something like:

Given that Apple has the ability to control what software can and cannot run on your device (to a large extent), this is a praiseworthy use of this power, however, on the whole, it would be preferable for Apple not to have this ability.
> Otherwise you have resort to reference counting (or GC by another name), hazard pointers, RCU or similar.

Yeah. And atomic reference counting is expensive (20-80M contested atomic ops per second until all CPU cores are saturated), hazard pointers... are hard, and RCU can block.
I miss the days when people had their own websites, blogs, whatever, and then there were forums. Facebook has killed forums and I hate them for it.
Freebase sold to Google for $100M+(?).

There's definitely value to be created, but the catch is focusing. Someone will pay for the best data on their problem. Very few people are interested in buying 100 dumpsters full of random text: I can't see general services like Quora ever being worth much.
I’ve spent the past 5 years processing such an experience.

But that doesn’t change my main point: non-clinical diagnoses of psychiatric illnesses - and extrapolations based on them - are both unethical and most likely inaccurate.
Just to point out, in Brasil seatbelts are also required by law, so it´s not possible that "there are no seatbelts because it´s cheaper".
Ask HN: Building a virtual SOC for non-profits, activists who wants to help?
Hey everyone,

I just wanted to see if anyone knew of any UTM, EDR, Next Gen Antivirus companies that have non-profit programs or discounts? I know that Crowdstrike has a foundation (https://www.crowdstrike.org) that I am reaching out to (haven't got a response in the past 12 months unfortunately) and some vendors have very basic endpoint offerings (https://www.techsoup.org/security).

So a little about us. We are a small human rights organisation that specialises in working with high risk non-profit, NGO, activists, media etc all over the world. Ranging from small community groups in the US to large well-known international organisations and to lone individuals protecting rainforests. We work to protect a few dozen groups and hundreds of individuals every year all over the world.

As you are well aware, such organisations are often targets for very sophisticated spear-phishing, malware attacks, APTs from countries like China etc. Unfortunately most are woefully under resourced and lack the ability to have basic monitoring systems (and most importantly, someone looking at them) in place. So often we can find the same basic attacks repeating themselves even when IOCs etc are available to block them.

We are currently experimenting with building a small virtual SOC across a number of at-risk activist, media, human rights and environmental organisations (from activists in Zimbabwe to rainforest defenders in Brazil) to help them pool their resources and manage security in a more effective way. So tools like CB, Falcon etc. Obviously it's highly expensive stuff so we want to do our best to make sure it is available to people doing good work on the ground in a lot of high risk places.

Also, if anyone is interested in maybe helping out with some advice (experiences/positive/negative) about using/setting these tools up, running or being part of SOC, the people we are working with a pretty inspiring and your knowledge would go a long way to help protect them in troubled times!

Feel free to reach out to vsoc AT secfirst.org

Thanks!
I think the underlying point is "which intelligence agencies would be allowed to compromise devices like this"?
I was bummed when I clicked on "Space song" thinking "Cool, they have the demo tune by the Silents!" and got something else instead. Luckily, it took just a few clicks to get to the real thing by Jesper Kyd (who later scored Hitman and Assassin's Creed):

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

And so's 4mat's classic 28KB chiptune, aka L.F.F.:

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

Memories! All that's missing is a way to build a playlist, although, of course, a lot of MOD songs never end, technically speaking...

[I wrote a MOD player back in the day, IIRC it supported most of the standard commands and it was less than 8KB of 68K code.]
I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say Apple and Facebook are competitors.
Apple makes its money selling stuff, Facebook by selling attention.

That being said, the incentives for Apple to become more like Facebook are quite strong and you can see it in the direction Microsoft has gone with Cortana and in-OS ads.
In this case the punishment fit the crime - break terms of enterprise distribution cert, get enterprise cert pulled.

However, it's very possible that if a smaller company did this that all of their certs, apps, and dev accounts would get pulled. Facebook does still get some special treatment.
Nice try trolling. Nobody can possibly be this shitty.
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> Why are companies so bad at coming up with a system that keeps more competent people and eases out less competent people but that also doesn't hurt morale by being a dystopian nightmare?

It's called the "dead sea effect" and it can be a tough problem to solve. I think every company has a certain percentage of low-productivity, low-competence employees that are hard to get rid of. Doubly so if the employees are unionized.

We have dead-sea effect to some extent in our company and honestly it seems our solution is to just wait until the underachievers retire and then be more rigorous and diligent when hiring their replacement.
It's absolutely true - "Breakfast" means to break your fast, so the first meal after fasting is your "Breakfast"
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Flagged - not because I think this doesn't happen, but because, at the time of writing of that comment, no other comment actually made any kind of "conclusions".

Or, in other words, the above comment is making broad-brush conclusions out of zero data points. sigh
It is not just that. Some people in this field just have questionable ethics, unfortunately.
Some are just childish and have this close minded ignorant macho attitude that though men, as they style themselves, should not care about ethics.
Then there others who just don't care either way as long as they get paid to play with their toys.
We are only a few years away until GWAS studies finish identifying the genes linked to intelligence, and that scientists confirm what sociologists have known for the past 100 years. It's high time for society to maturely start discussing this topic.
> Seems to be an ironic mischaracterisation of the parent’s point, which was precisely that one coubtry’s terrorism is another’s gay rights activist or high ranking foreign official.

My point was that issues like this should be mediated by courts and existing legal systems, not the unilateral decision of technologists.

And that society is going to insist that be the case, hence the most effective way to protect those persecuted minorities is via cooperation and steering how that process happens — not fighting a losing battle.

Finally, that the way to increase the effective security is stop fighting ideological battles on the issue, and find a politically workable compromise which still prevents remote exploitation — the main danger of encryption bypasses.
That was my first serverless app and really enjoyed it. It has some quirks but gets you up and running in no time. FYI I used serverless.com
It’s kind of ironic that I can’t read this article on my mobile screen. Have to scroll left and right.
That quote is attributed to a former NSA employee. Something being "like Christmas" is a popular American phrase that doesn't indicate one's religion.
>The story behind this particular report seems muddled quite a bit and the history of the report is quite weird.

That's, pretty much, what I'm getting at. Everyone wants to jump on the "Apple's done a shit job with this" bandwagon, which - if you hate Apple - that's your perogative, but to go from reporting it, to a tweet, to full drop of the exploit publicly in less than a day from the actual tweet isn't going to end well for any company - no matter who it is.

>Maybe they wanted to have dibs on the report as Apple does not have a bounty program?

That's - ultimately - what I believe happened here.
Facebook does still get some special treatment

I am pretty sure others have had their entire accounts nuked for less.
Wouldn't the police have a "right" to know if a person has any weapons? Detaining everyone and performing a full cavity search for any and all infractions is just the police exercising their "right" to such information. Will you be the first to bend over and spread for the cops "right" to peace of mind?

"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."
In reality it's more like 'agree and submit' to the manager/pm making the proposal. Don't want to do the work because you find it goes against morals or personal beliefs? That's fine, they'll pivot you out of the company real quick.
In a way, that seems like the best counterstrike by Apple. Minimally disruptive to the public at large, massively disruptive to the bad actor.
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This is an example of the walled garden working exactly as intended by Apple. In this example I approve of it, but I agree that if you are developing for iOS you should be aware of the power Apple can exert on the platform.
is there a similar site for sound effects?
There's also 'value in learning' to build and flash coreboot, and you'd end up with a better 'product' in the end.
Yeah. I agree with you.
isn't the solution then to make a database table that contain just the ip addresses and nothing else with no relations to anything therefor the ip addresses would be completely useless but still logged none the less.
And send every unknown to Jolly Roger phone company
Really?

Do you not think such a culture is actively detrimental? How can you ask anyone to give 110% if they might be getting sacked next year?

If you have a tremendous number of low achievers, maybe its because the only people you can retain are people who can't find jobs elsewhere fast enough. I know I wouldn't be waiting around for my turn.
iMessage <-> WhatsApp. But that's a pretty minor business segment for Apple...
Flagged - for being pretentious douche.
I assume you are trolling for fun/boredom and in reality don't have this naive and outright dangerous early soviet-style mindset. Or maybe you do (and don't share basic values of western civilization), and then I would kindly ask you a favor - could you please relocate to North Korea, at least for some time? I struggle to find any other similar paradise on the face of earth these days, they seemed to crumble despite their apparent greatness but this one is still holding a bit and showing off to those evil capitalists how masses cleverly run the show... right.

When I meant tangible returns, it is in vein of giving say 4 millions $$ to the state and seeing nothing actually coming back in form of better roads, schools and hospitals or anything else in the area they live. The money just disappears in bottomless bit called state budget, where corrupt officials take a cut or two, then it gets paid either in salaries of state employees (which many view as ineffective bureaucrats) or in messed up overpriced contract work to maintain/improve, of course only to overly friendly companies.

It is a bit of a caricature of functional western society but so is some evil uncle Scrooge, reality looks a bit differently. The more we move towards this caricature the more real the culprits on both sides will be, including types you like yourself to pose in.
One IPhone you can turn Do Not Disturb option and only allow calls from your contact list. All other calls will be muted. Also, I do not answers numbers which I do not recognize and send it to voicemail, If they don’t leave voicemail I will add that number to my block list.
If you heard someone had illegally chopped down a tree, would you be extra upset if the tree were an endangered species?
This is exactly the kind of thing I want them to decide that I'm not allowed to run on my phone.
Editing a layer and changing the number of filters, stride or kernel size effectively changes the shape of that layer, but it should cascade a re-calculation down the path, which currently doesn't happen at least on my screen.
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Were you explicitly told to find people on your team(s) to get rid of? Or was in at an org-level? Were there actual quotas?
> my vanilla app loaded in 4 seconds and started rendering after ~2 seconds, while the React/Redux app took 50 seconds to first render

I'm all hands up for vanilla JS development, but I really don't think this drastic load/render time difference is caused by React but rather by the poor coding.

React is tiny, and you can see performance degradation like that only if you don't use it right, don't understand the life-cycle or over-engineer
consider it as a feature request, but if you really plan to match github pages, I hope you will eventually include an on the fly renderer for org-mode files too, like GitHub. Markdown serving packages are dime a dozen, I am yet to see something that will serve org files without having to export first.
How the heck did we both decide to submit this today? Hahahaha
I believe I used the same thing in college (also 2005); something that let you share and download files from other people's Itunes libraries. I was blown away by it the first time I used it; totally seamless.

Thank the lord that Slsk is still running. There is simply soo much material out there Spotify and the like will never have because they were unofficial live bootlegs, weird studio outtakes and obscure EPs and singles.

Case in point:
anybody ever listened to "Towering over the Rest?" It's a 20+ track compilation of Radiohead's B-sides and live cuts from 1993-2000. Never officially released, since the tracks were always available inside of individual singles, EPs and 7"s. Listening to it gave me a completely different perspective on the band's output, which I mostly knew through full albums.

Discoveries like that now have to happen via Spotify playlists, and even then you couldn't reproduce that entire compilation simply because Spotify wouldn't have the license for some of those releases, which came out 25 years ago and on labels that no longer exist.
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And: seatbelts have negligible downsides, and are very hard to use for any purpose other than accident restraint.

The analogy to hiding the URL would be something like a seatbelt that only unlatched at the car's stop only in neighborhoods it considered "safe".
I'm casually experimenting with this too, to improve AQ in my home office. Do you recall the surface area in the 6-inch-deep bioreactor (or total volume)? The only hard numbers I've found are from the Russian BIOS-1,2,3 experiments, which suggest 18L/person of Chlorella will 75-100% compensate for a person's CO2.

I have 18L of Spirulina, which appears to be having some effect, though not anywhere near a complete offset. Though, my setup is quite sub-optimal, and I've seen articles that suggest Chlorella is a couple times more efficient at biofixation than Spirulina. Continuing to tinker :)
Isn't Cambridge Analytica enough proof that harm has been done by Facebook's data collection and allowing others to access it? That's the very tip of the iceberg.
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I see what you're getting at but the point you missed was the week (I believe it was) between when they opened the report and then the tweet happened. Then, not surprisingly, the exploit is fully published publicly (the next day, I think?).

So, to explicitly say they weren't aware of 'x', when it doesn't match the timeline, is also - in and of itself- possible disingenuosus. Do you, at least, see where I'm coming from on that angle?
I agree with your point, but having worked extensively with React, it really does make development easier for me. While it feels like there is always a new shiny front-end framework out there, the ones that stick out like Angular, React, Vue, etc. all have real value that developers like! So I don't really see it as a bad thing.
Somewhat related - I think write.as has a huge opportunity here to sell to businesses. When I've done content marketing my core problems were:

1. I want to write a draft, solicit comments to improve, edit, spell check, and run through tools like Hemingway

2. I want to publish to different platforms like LinkedIn, a blog (static site using markdown or Wordpress), an email tool like Drip, and Medium. Maybe missing some others.

3. Formatting the posts for each service is a PITA. Need images in different sizes and need to place them in the posts.

Ideally I'd like to be able to do all three using a single tool, connect my publishing platforms, click publish (maybe schedule them) and would have drafts in LinkedIn, Medium, Drip, etc.

This would save me so much time that I'd easily pay $50/m for this (and we're bootstrapped and cheap/"capital efficient"). Looks like write.as is heading somewhat in this direction but sadly doesn't hit the major platforms (yet?) Huge market, painful problem, selling to businesses, can build a great tool around content marketing workflow. Got the hallmarks of a great business.
> This is getting into some dangerous territory because it because implies so some sort of contract literacy.

We already have laws forbidding certain types of deceptive contracts.

The average user can't be expected to understand the consequences of installing facebooks 'trusted' root certificate.
OpenBSD doesn't include the Apache HTTP server, so while their default settings might expose Apache bugs if you choose to use it, it's not fair to say it's a vulnerability in OpenBSD
You really trust the government to regulate tech fairly?
Facebook still has this power on android. If you don’t want the protections of apples walled garden feel free to swim in the unregulated waters of android
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