skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do these alt-media companies have accredited journalists, held to objective professional and ethical standards laid out by journalist organizations? Do they cite credible sources and facts with every article?

Because that's what we're losing. The idea that JoeBlowKnowsTheTruth.com holds the same level of accountability, rigor, and seriousness as an actual news organization is what's gotten us into this mess.
You can export to static pages (one for every blog) with a plugin. You'll lose the comments functionality, but views will work.

An easier/quicker solution is to just stick a cdn in front, that way you can cache pages and still have to back-end work.
As a US woodworker, I'm unfamiliar with how the Euro-style sliders are actually used in practice. If you have a video you could post a link to that shows some of the things that are done with them with safe technique, I'd be really interested.

I think part of the appeal of a table saw for woodworkers here is that if you can set up a jig, you can do a lot of pieces with good repeatability. I cut bridle joints to make seat frames yesterday, for instance, and once I set up the jig, I could cut them quickly and accurately. Ditto cutting tenon cheeks.

This is definitely one of the sketchier things you can do with a table saw, in large part because the workpiece is standing on end (supported by the jig, of course), but if you cock it out of vertical, you've set up a situation where kickback is quite likely. This is something I'd love to hear about a safer alternative.

As it happens, I have an old Unisaw, and I have an original sliding table for it. I would really like to see what I can do with that above and beyond the obvious.

Thanks!
>You on the other hand are hosting a website with some sort of form that people input PII into.

That's what cloud providers do! If there's a spirit-of-the-law that is supposed to protect them, this would be a good time to write that in!
Dark matter may not exist – and our alternative theory can be put to the test
I'm guessing this includes updating your source code for the new library/methods
FWIW, I'd love it if you made my app unnecessary. You can consider my site a list of feature requests :)
Or just register the Jackson Java 8 datatypes module.

Then you can create a standard immutable class with a constructior, and Jackson's object mapper can then serialize and deserialize.

The only catch is that you must add -parameters to your javac args.
If it were possible, many more companies would sidestep the app store like how Fortnite did that with the android play store.

The only reason Fortnite used Apple's app store is because Apple has made it practically impossible to side load apps.
Users with spyware should be dealt with by their admins.
It’s more about a single massive company having such in-depth control over billions of personal mobile devices. That’s a worrisome situation.
They even charge venders for the service of destroying the items. But if you want you can pay amazon to ship it back for you. This was true when I dabbled in book sales.
Woman uses DNA test, finds sperm donor – and pays a “devastating” price
Cardd – Community driven business card collection [OPINIONS NEEDED]
http://enigmatic-lowlands-87051.herokuapp.com/ (DOMAIN IN PROGRESS)

Hello hacker news community! It feels so good to finally be making my first post.

A couple of weeks ago a friend a I started building a fun side project to practice our front and back end skills. We decided on building something fairly simple; a website where you could find a share business cards collected by people all around the world.

We sure did learn a lot from this experience and we would love to get some feedback from all of you :)
Hi, this is Adam. I'm a founder at Tonic.

As others have said, we've found a lot of smaller companies will test with production data because of their need/desire to move quickly. But we've also seen much much larger companies use production data in their dev/staging environments. Sometimes there will be production-like safeguards and security measures in place but not always. People shy away from practices that slow down development and testing.

We think synthetic data is the right solution for a few reasons. Most importantly, we believe it provides the right level security, while still allowing your team to be productive, i.e., your business logic and test cases still work. It also allows you to scale really easily since you effectively have a ruleset for generating data of any size. Finally, it’s a great way to share data throughout your organization and can help facilitate sales and partnerships. If you’re curious about scaling, check this post out: https://www.tonic.ai/blog/condenser-a-database-subsetting-to...
People who have been hurt by the fact that synthesized data often doesn't exactly match real data.
I subscribed to a year of Washington Post and received a ton of spam-ish content, notifications, and pleas to renew during the entire period. Lesson learned, cancelled with predjudice.
Not sure about anyone else but every time I read an article about something I'm actually an expert in or few times about myself or a company I've worked for I see at least a handful of factual errors and/or exaggerations that aren't real.
"The impact on journalism has been clear. Just within the past week, we have seen over 1,000 planned layoffs at Gannett, BuzzFeed and HuffPost"

I had never considered the click-bait outlet "HuffPost" as "quality journalism".

"We can start with the fact that “free” isn’t a good business model for quality journalism."
Well, paid journalism is not a guarantee either:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/claas-relotius...

Stopped reading after this. Whining does not suit the NYT well. It is an outstanding newspaper and has basically, also thanks to the internet, a world wide audience. It is better prepared to the changing business model as most other newspapers. Whining here about google and facebook is rent seeking.
There is no feature of paying for news that makes it more real. The NYT and WaPo should stop mixing news and editorial and relying on "anonymous administration officials" and intelligence agencies; that would set an example to other outlets.
So they’re going to build their own search engine? Siri doesn’t do anything outside of your own data.
I believe the parent was referring to Google having "abused" Apple's Enterprise Cert program - which is the central crux of both this article and the majority of commentary here on HN.
> I signed no contract.

True, but you entered in a contract with the app developer and they are bound by one with Apple.

Apple’s right to act on iOS devices is in virtue of them being a service provider to google more than the company that sold you your phone
I've successfully responded something like "It's a 25 character random string beginning with A#fx and ending with ^tx% - would you like me to read the whole thing out?" to customer service reps. (I've never tried to see if anyone will give me access to an account just by saying "a bunch of random characters", but I wouldn't be surprised if they did...)

These days I just use 1Password's 4 or 5 word password generation option where it works. "What is your mother's maiden name?" "I answered 'griffin accolade stallion catboat' to that question."
Can you ELI5 Why?
Your work is awesome as is your excellent detailed writeup. Appreciate the links and refs to the background papers also. Thank you for helping make CRDB even better. You should be very proud of this work.
It's worth having ads unblocked on Twitter to get the weekly-or-so NYT ad in the form of a sponsored tweet, click on it, and see that out of hundreds, sometimes thousands of replies to the sponsored tweet, literally zero of them have anything positive to say. Allowing all replies to sponsored tweets to be visible seems like a poor marketing strategy but at least it provides ample entertainment.
Nasa's flying telescope SOFIA chases down a moon shadow
Going into effect in a year? Seems like a business opportunity. Someone let me pay them $X and review my systems every so often and give me a seal saying I'm compliant with all these laws, and include some insurance up to $Y. Especially given the selective enforcement, there's money to be made from the chill alone. Compliance audit companies can probably just roll this into their package.

Also, I'm a bit annoyed at laws only affecting companies of a certain size. At some point right at crossing the line, there's a negative effect to having 50,001 users. (really I'm annoyed at how these data protection laws are implemented in general and I wish the discussion would be about that instead of being idealistic and only looking at the supposed intent)
100% coverage is easy.

diff old-program.c new-program.c

Done. Every line in the program is covered.
The idea behind '2' is to avoid having all your backups dependent on a single point of failure.

For example you religiously have three copies of data but they all came from the same tape drive that silently went bad months ago and has been writing garbage. Or you recieved a batch of bad tapes etc...
At least as I understand it, it more means explaining things to the person you're talking to as if they don't know anything about the conversation topic, even though you have no particular reason to do so.

It doesn't necessarily have to be done by a man or directed at a woman. That's just how it tends to go. And obvs is a bit more fraught when it is going that way.
"I don’t understand people who are acting offended that Apple is enforcing the clear terms of service it laid out."

Because there should be no 'terms' as to what software you can install on your devices.

BMW can make 'terms' so that if you mess with your audio system, it's not under warranty, but otherwise it's your car.

Also - 'the terms' are never very clear, and they can change on a dime.

Apple feeling some competitive heat? 'Just change the terms'!

Consider the collusion opportunities:

You want to use an Android - you have to give everything to Google. Don't like the terms? Apple colludes and does the same!

All of this is starting to get very close to anti-competitive kind of stuff, both between the big powers - and among consumers.
"Legal hacks" are rarely, if ever, as clever as their proponents think. Scepticism is natural and warranted.

Judges aren't complete morons and will take a dim view of "hacks". There could be loopholes somewhere but you'd need a lawyer to spot them.
Seriously...

They offer you any sort of stock as compensation, and are privately held and won't show you the cap table it is a polite thanks but no thanks and exit.

Any company that isn't comfortable sharing that information isn't going anywhere fast -- or they are about to go public (but you would know that already as well).
Seems like companies like the New York Times doesn't either, so what is the difference.

The big MSM companies know they have the power to spread fake news and have a good amount of people blindly believe.
I play in firmware whenever I have the opportunity, absolutely. SPI is fun!

Do you?
“He started worrying about data privacy after talking with a Google engineer and spent nearly $3.5 million in 2017/2018 to place an initiative on California's November ballot.”

That Google employee must be somewhat nervous these days...
I dont consider BuzzFeed as quality either. Wishing a meme producing site wasnt sharing the name as whats supposed to be a news site. My other issue is when they dont properly check the source of a story like the MAGA teens whom they claimed were doing things they clearly were not if you saw the full video.... Fake News goes both ways... If the "mainstream" media wont check sources better then they are just as much a part of the problem.
I don't think so, the article linked talks about the other ways the program worked. That specific one refers to the free router they would send users. That has nothing to do with Apple whatsoever.
I understand what it’s doing. I’m curious why it’s necessary to do it explicitly. Wouldn’t the optimal sizing be the default behavior when passing in the collection that will populate the set?
I think banning human drivers will be unpopular in most areas as long as we have a significant proportion of the population who has grown up in a society where the ability to drive a personal car is viewed almost as a constitutional right. Technology can change quickly, but people's attitudes change much slower.

What I expect in the next couple of decades is that we'll have certain individual roads and neighborhoods where human-drivers are banned, and maybe certain roads and neighborhoods where AI-driven cars are banned. Most roads will allow either, because it's not practical in most cases to maintain two separate road networks.

Being able to drive a windowless car by head-mounted-display is something we could accomplish with maybe some minor tweaks to current technology. I doubt such a system would be safe or legal, though, because a software failure could be fatal and we're really bad at making complex software that is also reliable.
Because it is super-risky to consider these things on their own merits if you are not the kind of person who regularly interacts with judges and juries. Laws are something that are applied within a particular kind of, ah, culture. You have to be familiar with the body of work of that culture and how they will likely interpret the law. Trying to interpret laws in ignorance of that culture is likely to lead to interpretations contrary to those with the power to enforce the laws, and land you in a lot of trouble.

In other words, laws aren't code or mathematics. They're not pure exercises of abstract thought to be considered in isolation. Trying to treat them that way is going to lead to trouble.
So roots of this group are in sellers selling products via Amazon using their FBA service. As a seller on Amazon, you can not exclude the certain state from destinations you ship to. (This is one of the arguments to why Amazon should be considered a seller and not third-parties, but this is totally different topic altogether)
OK I did not understand they only issued one cert.

Still, with a company the size of Google you'd still think they would have multiple certs under different legal entities even if they werent doing anything wrong.
> Not sure about anyone else but every time I read an article about something I'm actually an expert in or few times about myself or a company I've worked for I see at least a handful of factual errors and/or exaggerations that aren't real.

News is only the first rough draft of history [1] [2].

Newspapers are definitely not perfect, and they definitely make errors, but there's no better way to get such a breadth of timely, relatively reliable information to a general reader.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Barth#Legacy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Graham#%22First_rough_dra...
BitGrail Founder Ordered to Reimburse Users $170M for Stolen NANO Cryptocurrency
Siri isn't a search engine, it is a front end to a search engine[1]. That used to be Bing but now it is Google (see: http://fortune.com/2017/09/25/google-bing-default-iphone/)

There was a time when the Siri folks approached Blekko (which was an actual search engine with its own index, crawler, and ranking Etc. to discuss partnering with Apple (personally I think they should have bought us :-)) But, according to people who should know, there was a cultural mental block at Apple about providing web services at the time. The biggest thing like that they had done was Apple Maps and it was a 'mixed' success. Apple didn't see itself as being a search company.

I used to point out that Microsoft had a phone (Nokia), an operating system (Windows Phone), and a search engine. Google had a phone (Nexus), an operating system (Android), and a search engine. Apple had a phone (iPhone) and an operating system (iOS).

Since that time Microsoft dropped the OS and phone, and Apple never did build a real search engine.

[1] More precisely it is a front end to a simple knowledge base, a local index of things on your device, and when those things are exhausted an internet search engine.
The query demolition "drop a building" yields a plethora of results.
I never claimed it wasn't crap, I said it's hard to tax imports of it.
It's very easy for a small company to get in the habit of using data cloned from prod for testing. This practice, easy as it is to start, gets progressively more difficult to move away from as the application and service grow in complexity.

As a result, you get shockingly mature companies that do exactly this obviously absurd thing because it's a ton of work to stop. Work with no obvious reason to do this instead of feature work.
Afrofuturist Portraits Created with Deep Dream Algorithms
It's an Op-Ed.
There are 2 massive companies, not a single one and Google has far more marketshare globally with Android.

Details matter. Don’t leave them out.
It sounds more like a statutory damages thing, although note I have not read the law.

The idea with statutory damages is that determining the actual damages can be difficult and uncertain, so some laws allow plaintiffs to elect to ask for damages from a standard range, and the court will decide where damages should fall in that range based. It's basically saying "just give me about what is typical for cases like this one".
Probably because anyone who isn't a lawyer has no hope of considering this reply "on its merits".

My gut feeling is this "legal hack" wouldn't work, because if it did someone would have used it by now against some other law that provides for damages, and someone else would have figured out how to neuter the hack. Which is to say, there's probably an existing law that prevents this hack from working. But you'd need a lawyer to be able to say whether that's true or not.
Funny you should ask. This just popped up the other day over here in Norway:

https://www.dagensmedisin.no/artikler/2019/01/27/brukte-virk...

In summary, when doctors were testing a new electronic patient journal system, they used real social security numbers (our version of them). And just for kicks they tested in production, so the persons used got all kinds of prescriptions for stuff they didn't need etc.
Paying does not stop people from lying to you,as long as there is interest in it. The crowd has been manipulated throughout the history, and is destined to be so, because there's interest in it. If you want not to be part of the crowd,use your own discretion, which you cannot outsource,by paying.
Same here, last year I devoured tons of writing on mimetic theory. And now I'm moving on to think about how we reconcile mimetic theory with theories of origin of consciousness, so this article was quite useful.

Where I would push back slightly on your comment: what's described in the article isn't scapegoating in the Girardian sense of the word. Because if when a man kills multiple others, then is killed for doing so, he actually is guilty (and a scapegoat isn't). But... it is likely rather the source of the development of scapegoating.

I think that scapegoating then develops when there is chaos in a society that isn't caused by the actions of an individual or the individual responsible can't be discovered. These primitive humans has seen already that violence/chaos can be stopped by putting an end to the cause of it, such as in the case of a violent man. There's chaos, there must be a cause, so who do we blame? Violá, our scapegoat.
I'd say it depends on which ML derivative you're talking about.

I've found F# to be pretty good in all of the areas you mentioned. Although not enough to literally provide an order or magnitude boost like the post you were replying to suggested.

I think people use "order of magnitude" a little too freely. Developing with Java (and to a lesser extent, C#) feels slower than with F#, but not 10 times slower.
I don't; but the world is a better place because of people that have that skillset.
https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news
Seems like they reinvented siege warfare. Caesar did something similar in the Battle of Alesia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia
For actual enterprise users you probably have a distribution profile set up and are pushing them out anyway. For outside users, they would selectively install the cert for the app they use one by one. Anyway it still strikes me as poor operational practices whether or not they were going to do anything nefarious.
Whoa hoss. Bit of overkill there.

I can already write to file with 'window.(something).createObjectURL' ... which queries user. I simply suggest that 'future javascript' open() (or whatever) supports that with no-more-code needed.
> Apple has simply decided that privacy is a tenet of their value proposition,

Yeah, that's just marketing. If they really cared, they wouldn't accept a 9 billion dollar payout per year to make Google the default search engine for IOS.
Most of that persons tweets are anti Musk/Tesla
I pay for the NYT but only after getting a 1 year deal where it works out to $8/mo, after that it jumps to $20/mo. If newspapers want to compete for paid online subscriptions they should be more in line with Netflix and Spotify and be a flat $10/mo
Apple restores Facebook’s ability to run internal iOS apps
There is a fee to ICANN in the case of .com's, although its tiny compared to the fee you're charged - $0.18 currently.
Because they don't own the pictures, plain and simple.
I do still have a lot free, when I replaced the StorVault it was about 75% full (3TB out of 4TB), I'm up to about 5TB now. But there are more things on there as well. The Postgres data for my local gitlab instance for example, and time machine backups of my Macbook pro. So it isn't all library stuff.
the other story about this, more of the how

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-spying-karma-exclusive...
I'm a WaPo subscriber (digital) for a few years now and have received virtually no correspondence from them at all, payment-related or otherwise.

Did you not unsubscribe to their emails that you didn't wish to receive?
How did the other response to this comment get [dead] within _one minute_ of being posted?
CLickbait articles where you have to click for each page of the article are the worst. You know they do it for advertising revenue and not for journalistic integrity.

Some of these alt-media sites are political and put a spin on stories as well.
I think that’s called the Gell-Mann Effect [0].

I think these articles are pretty comical coming from the New York Times, a for profit company, that has been cutting costs amidst really serious editorial failures.

I would believe this much more if it was from an independent news source. It’s like a car salesman telling you great buying a car is.

It’s reasonable that the Times would have such a biased, unfounded article. But not so much that anyone pay attention to or make decisions based on it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
It can be crazy dangerous. Once a big plane is dropping like a rock, getting back into a climb is very difficult.
Feast: Feature Store for Machine Learning
Yeah, when I first got into building PCs it was fun to do the most cutting edge, overclocked, using all possible features setups I could and then 3 years later have no memory of how things worked when I had to replace or fix something. Now I do absolute absolute bone stock simple idiot proof builds and get 90%+ of the performance.
I'm just incredibly baffled by what you're proposing the solution is if its not a cultural shift towards paying for content? In an exclusively programmatic ad based market, the only long term winning strategy is to write click-bait and fake news.

We should all be extremely concerned about what the writer is getting at. If you're going to call it whining, and say they need to change their business model, what should they change it to?
IMO the biggest difference between CCPA and GDPR is that GDPR does not distinguish between large and small companies. Everyone needs to comply. At least with CCPA you can bootstrap a company and not have this be another thing you need to worry about, on day 0