skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah I actually thought it would be clear as crystal that when I speak of the crimes committed here we're not talking about those that pay their taxes, and struggle to get access to health-care ... Most are themselves immigrants so how on earth would anyone suggest it's the ordinary citizen here that's guilty[0]. I do acknowledge that my comment was "un-American" (not that I give a hoot).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Untold_History_of_the_Unit...
I might not have been clear, but this is exactly what I'm talking about.

When you buy a WiFi connected IoT device, they don't know your WiFi credentials, so you enter them, and they get stored on the device so they can be used to connect to your network, just like any other device.

Of course these are not encrypted, because the device need them to connect to your WiFi.

When you build a home made IoT device, using an ESP32 for example, your can take these easy route, and hard code your WiFi password into the code before your write the firmware.

To avoid this in a user-made IoT device, you'd need to configure it to set up a WiFi hotspot, unprotected, so you can connect to it and tell it your WiFi password, like one does with a Chromecast, and like the device in the article and any other sensible production device.

It then stores this in EEPROM or NVRAM, and "reboots" to connect to your network, disabling its hotspot in the process. This unencrypted storage is what the article refers to and is largely unavoidable.
Dead on, though I can't remember when experts-exchange wasn't garbage, even before they added the hyphen (haha).
Facebook just hired a handful of its toughest privacy critics
I still get regular spam calls, but I can always look and identify them. My cell phone has a 315 area code, and the only other person I know with a similar number is on my contact list. Absolutely anything else from a 315 number is spam. If I get something from the same number twice then I add it to my "SPAM" contact which is blocked.

The Hiya app also helps somewhat. I didn't realize how good a job carriers like T-Mobile do at filtering out the Spam calls until I switched to XFinity Mobile and went from 1-2 calls per week to 5 in the first day. Hiya brings the number back down inline with T-Mobile, and might be the same database T-Mobile uses on the backend.
see my reply to module0000 from just now here. I thought that this would be a given, but clearly I was wrong.
Dataset.
AI is nothing without high-quality datasets: without ImageNet, there will not be deep learning.
there already is one when an app is still listening to your microphone in the background, a giant red bar at the top of the screen. The difference with this bug is that the facetime call pre-initializes microphone and video to reduce the initial connection delay.
Simple, not everyone share the same concern regarding privacy or those sjw stuff, moreover fb has vast amount of data and also funding, it's very suitable for AI research.

Even if he refuse to work with fb, pretty sure a lot of other people will be happy to replace.
Judge snuffs Yahoo's attempt to settle 2013 megahack class-action
HN is a type of social network that seems pretty trustworthy.
It doesn’t sound like getting a new cert is an easy task, it’s not a fully automated process from the sound of it.

I wish Apple would revoke all of their certificates and show they are deadly serious about protecting user privacy.
Ditch the protocol and show a lock or not. My parents don’t know what “https” means.

Or ditch the protocol and not render http at all by default.
> I mean, that book was looking at technical analysis and charting

Trying to predict the future by looking at candlesticks is pretty much the definition of charting.
> trying to explain me what they read on Wikipedia this morning.

Often feel like resume padding is the underlying motivator too.
I can tell you that the trend to offshore is still pretty ongoing in full speed.

Naturally those developers are also entitled to have jobs, the question is how it is actually done in practice.

Sadly a large majority are sweetshops.
Not Everything Makes the Cut – Amazon Super Bowl L111 Commercial
It’s Time to Hop Off the Chat Treadmill
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If he gave away all the profits he made from Facebook and put out the book for free, then maybe I'd consider his feedback.
I know plenty of mediocre developers making 6 figures. I'm talking "reading your code gave me an aneurysm, for the love of god learn how to indent". People who would need 300 lines to do fizzbuzz. People who would rather die than test their code before they check it in. Being paid a lot as a developer isn't about skill. Just fake it til you make it.
The lowest-paid shutdown workers aren’t getting back pay
Same. The header and footer give me visual claustrophobia. If the article is something I really want to read, I right-click on each and do Inspect > Delete.
Staying with the boys is great but this article is about the actual divers.
PfSense 2.4.4-p1 Cross Site Scripting
Knowledge services make for horrible VC businesses.

The exception to that rule is Stack Exchange, because they have a business model that is unique to the space and impossible to replicate for a site like Quora (Genius, Answers.com, wikiHow, et al.).

Quora has to allow low quality content on their service in order to keep the volume up, to drive traffic & clicks, to drive ad potential, to avoid the dreaded down rounds and eventual drift toward forced sale. There's only so much legitimate high quality content for a site like Quora and it's nowhere near enough to validate a $2 billion valuation (much less higher).

Consider for a moment that Yelp - which is a real business in a highly monetizable segment, that is also profitable and will hit an annual billion dollars in sales soon - is worth $3 billion. So if you get a $2 billion valuation as Quora, where are you going from there? It's obvious.

Genius is facing the same exact fundamental problem that Quora is. Take a lot of money from VCs, get a big valuation, find it impossible to live up to it. Turns out normal people don't want to annotate everything and could mostly care less unless it's a more narrow passion segment (music).

There are only two paths for knowledge services. Stay small and very lean, aggressively limit costs, and use an ad model - that's wikiHow. Or go the Wikipedia route. Anything involving VCs will end in disaster and or forced sales. Knowledge services properly have to think very, very long-term (if they're actually trying to fulfill a knowledge mission and aren't just traffic fronts), they need a decade outlook or more. VCs think short-term, they look at ~5-10 year type exit outcomes. High quality, long-lived knowledge services are fundamentally opposed to a focus on exits in any manner, as they have a higher calling than looking for an exit for a VC - and any deviation from that must inherently destroy the community.
You all are being duped into contrived outrage. The example given in the OP link is very misleading and it is quite obviously cherry picking (to spark emotion) and is actually an outright lie. The truth is that Insticart actually pays a $10 minimum per delivery (this isn't even mentioned in the OP link) So how did this person make 80 cents an hour? The delivery was 0.7 miles and took 69 minutes. Ironically, under Insticart's previous policy, this delivery person would have made essentially the same amount. People making deliveries in dense urban areas (especially during traffic hours) can actually make far more than they used to.

I am not sure why delivering 6 bags of groceries took over an hour in this case. It is entirely possible however that they made several other deliveries in between Wegmans and this location (making a $10 minimum for each). It is possible that this person actually made $50+ during this 69 minutes.

Source for more details of new policy: https://www.miamiherald.com/site-services/new-newsletters/bu...

So is not a typical scenario. I could put together an article just as misleading showing that Insticart pays a mint...

I don't like when people try to mislead me. Perhaps the fact that the tip is not going directly to the delivery person is offending some of your sensibilities. This is quite legal. Many states have done this for the past 80 years. I don't know how residents of states that practice this are surprised. All restaurants and other service industry locations you frequent do the same.

Being a food delivery person, a restaurant server or for that matter a McDonald's employee is not a skilled labor position and has never been a job someone should aspire to feed a family off of. We have people busting their butts, putting themselves through college, working their way up the ladder. We have 50k skilled labor jobs vacant in this country that pay a good wage and even offer training. People used to move across the country for these jobs. They used to leave their grandma's basement and go make something of themselves. Now we just have them making a bunch of noise over McDonald's not paying a Living Wage. Grow up. This world should not reward the lazy, it results in ever increasing mediocrity.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/605092520/high-pa...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2018/08/30/dirties...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/the-us-labor-shortage-is-rea...

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+us+has+vacant+skilled+la...
I was always amazed by the old jazz recordings that were never released on CD but were on Napster. Somebody cared enough to convert vinyl to mp3.
In a perfect world people would succeed based on merits and not identity, their parents, how much money they have growing up, etc.

We do not live in that world. We have clear structural challenges to having women succeed at the highest levels of business in the United States, and the tech industry is particularly disappointing because it grew up as women supposedly had equal access to the idea that they could have a career, as opposed to being their spouse's property.

If you think the answer to that is just continuing as is to maintain unimpeachable fairness for you...I disagree.
There are very few people in the world that can dive like these guys do. If I was that good at something, having some Silicon Valley billionaire show up to "help" with some outrageously stupid idea, that would also piss me off. Although he should have known better than to throw the first punch.
Killing or obfuscating the URL is really only good for Google. They don’t want people going directly to any website, they want you arriving at it through a Google property so they can pitch ads to you or at least track you through that funnel.
The difference is that when you have a big red destroy-the-species button, "virtually no individuals", "almost no real world use" and "probably very low" and "handful of real world cases" just isn't good enough. It only takes one person doing this once to affect the whole world. Can you think of a single offensive technology that hasn't been used even once?
The Universe’s Fate Rests on the Hubble Constant
> I don't have any proof for this

That sums it up nicely.
> This can already be solved outside of the network by setting up a VPS and chaining it after the exit node (you still have to figure out a way to pay for it anonymously and it's a PITA to set it up).

This isn't really a solution. Not only do you have to pay for it "anonymously", but any slip up at all suddenly correlates all your traffic. What do you do when an adversary compromises your VPS, will you even notice?
Trello would certainly work.
This video is for you then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlyK_elUmIw

Not the author - just wanted to add to your nostalgia kick.
Thanks! The frontend is made with React and Typescript, backend is AWS serverless
Here’s How Much Ice Antarctica Is Losing
Nobody said that. But having too many competing overlapping products does mean more fractured effort spread amongst all of them.
It's pretty telling then you went for male pronouns to describe your hypothetical doctor.
Business as usual. They’re like the bad guy in a crappy cartoon that does the same bad stuff every week.
Here's one. They abound, look through the NASA archives.
Other commenters refer to various satallite images, but the keyword here is "taken by a human". Borman, Lowell, and Anders were indeed - on their outbound journey - the first humans to view the full Earth.

It used to be these images, more than the Earthrise one, which were considered instrumental in the rise of a new global awareness.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/36019/earth-viewed-...
>a subpar programming tutorial to have "online presence"

As someone learning programming this hurts so much. I've read so many medium articles that are sort of correct .... but also not and imply things that are straight wrong.

They clearly aren't that many steps beyond my ability and their writing implies they are ... but their work way not.

Really frustrating when you see an obvious template or pattern that is just a bit "off" used in medium post after after post and the code works, but is way not handy to use as you can't really build much off of it / alter it with ease.
Try getting out of a gym contract! I'm only half-kidding!
But you can still get the domain/subdomain requested, which should be enough to find out service used and time/frequency of use. That will change with encrypted SNI (https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni/), which is not yet mainstream, but large services Facebook is tracking have dedicated IP pools so that's not a barrier.

So for the reported use case, "hey, tiktok looks good, let's find out how many people use it before we buy it out," it would seem that non-MITM would be plenty (and technically easier/lower resource to do, VPN could be kept on device and the pre-anonymized data sent up to the cloud, saving them server costs and bandwidth.
Maybe simple minded is not the right way to put it, however from other talks even modern Java is considered too feature rich for such target group.
'Metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water
Dubai has no banking treaties or extradition treaties with the US.

So combine that with it's oil wealth and a lot of dollars sloshing around to begin with - they have created a zone that attracts zillions of ill gotten dollars, a lot of it related to oil.

Since the mid 20th century there has been some transparency on resource extraction among nation states, like the US, UK tc. Then regional nationalist leaders have sought to take those over 'for the people'. But in reality those leaders are often more corrupt than their colonial overlords.

So they, shady bankers, and all sorts of actors need to do their banking somewhere.

When you hear about the Afghani Army General who is not paid very much is actually a millionaire, where do you think he keeps is money?

'Cleaned' dirty money makes it's way to London, Switzerland or Hong Kong, but while it's obviously attached to someone or there is no legal cover, it sits in places Dubai.

And FYI all of that money drives a lot of 'legit' expansion, particularly in real estate.
So say I don't buy the iPhone because I consider it unethical to pay only $100, but since I don't actually need a new phone, I'm not going to pay $200+. The seller dies because they were $100 short of some essential medicine they needed, or whatever. Is this really the outcome you want to see?

In an ideal world, I would just pay the person $100 and not take their phone—but, c'mon, this isn't the world we're living in. People die every day in the US—never mind the rest of the world—because they couldn't afford medicine/shelter/food/etc
I'm not trying to be BOFH here... but it's not unreasonable to expect web users to have the same basic knowledge of a URL that they have for a telephone number. Most(perhaps nearly all?) of telephone users in the US know that in 123-456-7890, the "123" is an area code, "456" is an exchange, and "7890" is the line number. URLs are not that different. A similar knowledge of URLs would serve users well.
How is T-Mobile or AT&T coverage in your area? We offer them as well.
> Apache Flink, Flume, Storm, Samza, Spark, Apex, and Kafka all do basically the same thing.

That's like saying C++, Java, C#, Scala, Python, Clojure... all do basically the same thing
Fault lines are no barrier to safe storage of carbon dioxide below ground
Clusters and membership: discovering the SWIM protocol
p.s. I'm glad we agree about that experiment
Awesome! How long did it take to solve, and for how many years did you have the problem before solving it?
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Ask HN: How do you handle jealousy of well-compensated software engineers?
This post is mainly targeted at HN readers who are good at programming but are not professional software engineers, with a focus on academics and aspiring academics. I know there are plenty of us here.

Say you were exceptionally smart as a kid and dreamed of being the next Einstein, Gauss, etc. You went to a top college, by which point you should have realized that you're not really a child prodigy, but you're still among the brightest. Then you went onto a top grad school (in a non-CS field), by which point you realize you're now competing with equally smart people, and there are bound to be losers.

Meanwhile, you discovered programming at a young age and love it. By the time of your grad school career, you've been programming for north of a decade and you're pretty decent, but don't have flashy projects to show for since you've been focusing on your main academic area for the most part.

However, you have software engineer friends/acquaintances who started programming only in college, who are probably less technically capable and less passionate, who nevertheless got into FAANG or similarly well-compensated companies right out of college, pulling in six figures right off the bat.

You? Your grad school stipend is peanuts, and in a crowded field you're looking at multiple terms of postdoc even if you're modestly successful. You're nowhere near any achievement you dreamed of, the future is unclear and probably unexciting (statistically speaking), and your paycheck sucks. It's hard not to feel jealous, especially when research is going nowhere.

So, how do you deal with this? I'm interested in perspectives from both people who stayed in academia, and people who left. Other comments and observations are of course also welcome.
Facebook has had its enterprise certificates revoked by Apple [1]

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3427520-apple-banning-facebook...

> "Facebook has been using their membership to distribute a data-collecting app to consumers, which is a clear breach of their agreement with Apple," Apple says. "Any developer using their enterprise certificates to distribute apps to consumers will have their certificates revoked, which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.”

[1] I previously posted this development as a story, but it got flagged as a dupe. It seems like this is the more truthful angle. since Apple seems to be the real agent that caused this shutdown.
Good luck Robespierre!
Just for information, it just crashed on the Space Debris song for me (FF on linux), had to close my browser for the sample to stop looping.

Retried on chromium, no problem, and it's cool !

Bringing back memory from when I was a student :-)

I'm going to open an issue if it can help
MATCH_RECOGNIZE: Where Flink Sql and Complex Event Processing Meet
I'd love to try Write.as, but it seems that their free plan is no longer available? Not to me at least. The cheapest plan I can choose is 12USD/year.
I started using ghostjs recently for personal writing. It's probably the most enjoyable writing experience I've ever had. Makes me want to come up with more reasons to write.
That is your opinion (and I would also appreciate being able to do anything I want with my iPhone), but it's clearly not how Apple sees it.
Background: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/132-negative-mount-ple...
Or how he shutdown the drones gaming unit, and his constant efforts towards peace in the middle east by refusing to destabilize countries, etc. Great man.
Medium == Not Well Done
If she has a clearance and can write code I can get her hired within a week. Nobody cares about age here.

Feel free to hit me up if you're in NOVA and she's seriously looking for work.
Since my genre of choice is dance music, I use Soulseek, which I think has done a great job of carrying Napster's torch.

The trouble is that many of the tracks I'm into come from the personal collections of assorted DJs or diggers on Youtube, so obscure tracks are often in poor quality: I've had to resort to using Discogs to purchase the original vinyls and recording them through a sound card. I am not yet a pro at digitally cleaning up some of the minute crackling that occurs, and buying a brush to clean the records hasn't helped much...
I don't know how many websites like Medium it will take for people to realize that for quality content a website needs:

1. Well-defined subject.

2. Some standard for quality.

3. Editors with a stake in the website who filter out things that do not fit 1 and 2 and deliberately cultivate the reader base and frequent writers. (I.e. not Wikipedia-style "editors".)

It doesn't have to involve money. It doesn't have to be closed for the public to submit content. It doesn't have to mimic old media in any fashion.

Websites like that used to exist in late 90s early 00s. Web 2.0 movement waged a war against all 3 bullet points above for the benefits of technocrats at the expense of everyone else. Now we're enjoying the consequences.
On a similar thought the IT department of organizations in the past was neglected. After all, they don't add any value, they are only needed to shuffle around dead hardware for new hardware.

Similarly a good manager provides auxiliary value; it doesn't directly add value to the organization but if it's not there then the overall value decreases.

Not everything in an organization is immediate positive effect.
I understand this is a manifesto, but really the dialogue around Facebook and social media has truly become unhinged. Facebook is just a symptom, it seems

What is there to be _done_? Pandora's box is open, so to speak. If Facebook disappeared overnight, are we really going to assume the problems they're in are going to go away?

Everyone is potentially connected to everyone, everywhere, on the entire planet. There has never been a technology so powerful as the centralized internet.

Furthermore, outside of media companies and the HN bubble, people _do not care_. Your average person doesn't care about decentralization, preventing social media addiction, gamification, or polarization of online communities.

To the contrary the market shows that companies like FB are massively successful.

So what are we to do? The world has been changed, drastically. Were we ready for it? And if we somehow were rid of Favebook, are we ready for what follows?
I also remember his campaign to reign in 'bush era spying' over the next 8 years the knob was turned to 11.

I don't expect much from a person that won a Noble piece prize then proceeded to drop 26,000 bombs in 2016 a bomb every 20 minutes.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/americ...
Agreed, glad to see Steem get some love on here.
It was open to adults as well, but yes. However, they had no duty to specifically enumerate that particular case anyway lol. And technically that is a crime under US law to distribute porn to minors, but its not a crime for the users to view it, so if they connect to a website intended for and operating in another country without such laws, there is no legal issue.