skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read Why some people will choose to sleep on the streets of Manchester this winter[0] for a bit of background.

To me the key paragraph is:

> When professionals help try to bring some structure and organisation into the chaos, it can take many attempts to
succeed and the biggest obstacle is not always about
providing a roof

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2012/dec/31/home...
One thing I dislike about how criticism of WebAssembly are formulated is that often they refer to the MVP as final product. Tail calls are important but not essential, many functional languages have a C runtime; the point is if they (or an equivalent alternative) can be added properly or if the standard is not flexible enough.
> Like if you told the French they should all start speaking english to better interact with the international business community, or if you told programmers they should start wearing dress shirts so they look like professionals.

Both of those are also true btw.
I'll note that both of those forum links are from 8 years ago and may not entirely reflect current practice. Their "Sources" page also notes their own crawler the DuckDuckBot, and references connections with more specialized searches like Yelp and Stack Overflow.

Just to give a bit of context, that forum discussion was 8 months before Snapchat was founded and 6 months before Google bought Motorola Mobility (which split off just before the thread in question).
Why does American law enforcement resort to such high profile raids if they know the suspect was dangerous.

Surely they have better tactics to neutralize someone without ending up in a gun battle.

A night raid, tailing the suspect, gas masks?

Note: I am a Brit not American, therefore genuinely interested to hear from law enforcement people on this.
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Here's Andy Hertzfeld's view of how the Mac pricing evolved:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
"An assistant to help with my X" is a pretty solid, concise description of Google's service suite, complete with the observation about privacy.
By far the best indicator of quality I have found is the acidity level. The higher acidity oils tend to omit this detail in packaging. I aim for 0.3%.

The higher quality olive oils have been sold in 'tin-cans', but that alone does not indicate quality.
That's not what everyone's worried about.

That's just low-level corporate espionage, some people are worried that Huawei are building back doors for the CCCP to hack anyone using Huawei hardware.
Cost cutting. The article points that picture quite clearly. They created the whole MCAS system to mitigate problems with the aircraft's design in a very short span of time, and needed the whole thing to be cheap.
UAE's Cyberwar on Civilians Employed Former US Intelligence Operatives
equifax is far worse, but they could do both
I don't see how. I thought the whole use case for FaaS is that you're only paying for the literally milliseconds of compute time you use, and nothing more.

But if you're already paying for the server, what's the point? I suppose you could host a lot more low-volume apps on one server?
I believe that the usual response to this is that the devices include some kind of unmodifiable time and location stamping, although that argument spirals out of control pretty quickly.
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tl;dr

IMO, if you need 19 steps to build a reading habit, reading is probably not your thing and you should concentrate on doing something else.

I am an avid reader, yet sometimes I stop doing my daily before-bed reading, which is a good indicator that the book I was in the middle of isn't that great, and I should just move onto something else.

So here's my recommendation for building a reading habit:

1. Find a way to easily consume books. I absolutely adore my Kindle, not sure I'd read that much if I had to hold for multiple hours a 1000+ page book in my hands every night.

2. Find a book that you like. Non-fiction isn't my thing, so I don't do non-fiction books, until the day I find one that holds my attention. Simple as that.

In October I've started the Wheel of Time series for the first time, I'm on book 5 now, and I can't wait till it's bed time to read what's next. I'll be thoroughly sad when it's over.
Huawei was already banned from participating in Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) infrastructure many years ago due to similar security fears.
It runs deeper than that.

With Huawei we have the first global company, in a strategic industry, that does not answer to the West.

This is a major shift and one that is obviously not very welcome in many circles.
Yeah, though I can see the case for additions that makes defamation using deep fakes a more serious crime than less competent caricatures.
Will Node.js forever be the sluggish Golang?
I am homeless in SF and have been to the 9th floor of Silicon Valley.

NOPE. No way, no how, am I enrolling in this.

The data trail that this will create makes my stomach churn.

All I need to get off the street is $1500/mo to meet my needs and interview, well enough to make a first impression. I am there as of Jan with fam and friend support.
When US intelligence goals directly oppose US business goals then the enemy has already won.
They had in particular a fleet of 42 Teslas S and X, in addition to Kia Souls and Nissan Leafs. They published a postmortem (in French) here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/production-teomtl/memoire/memoire-p...
Also keep in mind that there are (roughly) two schools of thought on what counts as fair: One group thinks fair is when everyone gets support so they get the same chances. The second group thinks fair is giving everyone the same amount of support. Neither is really more correct, but it might help understand people a bit more.
this sounds like big brothers + homeless people. while the intention might be noble I don’t see it working. and i have to wonder how else are we going to try to tackle this issue next. maybe microchip all the homeless and detect them wirelessly so we can build a real time map? /s you know what? let’s do that for all people.
Yes, developers can request permission to access your inbox "offline" (i.e. at any time, with a long-term access token). The scope is clearly identified in the OAuth authentication process, and the consent screen clearly asks for permission to (IIRC) "read, write, and delete emails." There are a few well-known applications (Earny and Unroll.me come to mind, off the top of my head) that are known to work with consumer research operations with the resulting data.
> I think that the problem with Firefox right now is that it does not have something unique to offer.

Sounds about right. Because they are not tied down by allegiance to a platform, they're going for an ideal. This might pass the smell test if Chrome was anywhere near IE6 share levels or was generally a bad web citizen, but they're not really - save for decisions that come from Google thinking about its ad businesses and how to enable more of that through Chrome.
Wow! Another stupid project from tech geniuses.

In place of taking care of the initial problems (« soaring rents and the difficulty of treating substance abuse, mental illness, and other health concerns » as mentioned in the article), let’s create an app to track people whereabouts! Everything is fine... At least the article tell us this shit doesn’t work.
Here's a video from a few years ago of two student pilots handling a trim runaway in a 737 simulator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pPRuFHR1co&t=154

You'll notice that it's a loud, physical event, with a very simple solution.

This happened over twenty times in the accident flight, and the pilots never disabled the problematic automatic stabilizer system.
Bird is trying to land (pun intended) in Amsterdam, but from what I've heard they're already losing so many employee scooters in the canals that it's becoming a problem. I already predicted this would happen when I first read about Bird online... I hate that Im right about how shitty people are.
A lot of times my clients did not have IT staff and were not running any sort of password managers so it was interesting.

So two things I had them do routinely are below, though some would still just send me an email with username/password in it (always felt dirty).

Best overall option, have them create a user account for you with a temporary password on whatever service you need access to. That is safe to send via email then you immediately change it. Then when you are done with their project they can just remove you.

If it is for a service that they can't create more user accounts, I would have them email me the user name, and either tell me the password over a phone call (choice 1), or text me the password on my cell phone. While still not the most ideal, it would minimize some of the exposure of just having a username/password in a single email.

I also advised all clients to change the username and password often and especially when I was complete with the project. I told them they should do that in reference to any company or freelancer they use.

All this for the 95% chance that you will still receive passwords like "password1", or their company name with some date appended etc. Point being any middle schooler could probably guess the password. I'd usually always send an email about password security in these cases as a helpful service but also a little bit of a CYA in case anything ever happened. So I could point to them that I warned them to change weak passwords.
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It’s amazing what can come out techies brains.
>Does anyone think that that static links are better than flyouts?

Only end users, but who cares about them?
FWIW, the CEO of Rogers (large Canadian telecom and media corp) was an engineer by training. It's not much different. (Though I'll give him points for pushing for improved customer focus, while focusing on growing the network infrastructure, and for choosing Ericsson equipment primarily) But still. They're not well-liked in Canada—though maybe less hated currently with the recent heat on Bell.
> That's just low-level corporate espionage,

Considering the national security implications, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the only thing that could be readily disclosed to score public legitimacy without revealing sources/methods.
> If you take a picture of a person naked on a beach without their permission, is it ok to use that picture as you like?

Sounds like a straw man argument. People voluntarily upload/submit their data to Google, Facebook, etc
When i say prove, I don't mean colloquial definition of very likely true. I mean in the mathematical/logical sense.
> Creating a deep fake of a celebrity hardly counts as expressing your opinions...

On its own, sure. It may still be one step in the process, however. On their own merits, renting out an audience hall or TV broadcast slot, or operating a 3D graphics program, are not "expressing one's opinions" either. These things are only a means to an end. However, restrictions on such activity would still impact your ability to effectively communicate your opinions to the public.

Use of "deep fakes" (or shallow ones) in a commercial context to trick someone into purchasing goods or services or otherwise agree to a contract under false pretenses is fraud—which in the end is just a form of theft, and deserves to be treated as such. That doesn't violate the 1st Amendment because it's not the speech per se which is being punished, but rather the act of taking someone else's stuff when its ownership was never properly transferred to you through a valid contract. Contracts require "meeting of the minds", which is precluded by fraud.

Other than that narrow scope, the law has no business being involved.
I do not think this is a good analogy.

Firstly, there is no single equivalent to "slamming on the brakes" for uncommanded nose-down. This could be caused by a variety of faults, and pilots are trained to respond in a fashion that will be effective for even those in which the first thing to try doesn't work. There is a standard procedure in place to use in this type of situation - arguing that the pilots should only be expected to do one thing with increasing desperation is essentially arguing that they will not be able to respond to a whole host of emergencies causing uncommanded nose-down.

Second,

> Information from the flight data recorder shows that the plane’s nose was pitched down more than two dozen times during the brief flight, resisting efforts by the pilots to keep it flying level ... The standard checklist for dealing with that sort of emergency on the previous version of the 737 focuses on flipping the stabilizer trim cutout switches and using the manual wheels to adjust the stabilizers. [emph mine]

your argument essentially hinges on the assumption that pulling hard back on the stick is a sufficient solution for all the problems that may happen with a plane with the exception of a fault with MCAS (the new system). I don't think that is accurate. Even prior to the the 737 max! It sounds there were a lot of things that would require further action that pulling back on the stick.
The crime is not well-defined. Meanwhile, there's this out without further explanation: "No person shall be held liable under this section for any activity protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.’’
> There has to be a balance between publicly available information and private information.

You're arguing that more data should be public so you can privatize it?
It's a reasonable space to have disagreement in, which is why US and EU law differs here.
The current Huawei situation and earlier sanctions (quickly revoked) vs. ZTE really highlight how powerful the US still is on the world economic stage.

There has been lots of ink spilled regarding the US backing away from global affairs and China's inevitable rise to overcome the US. But if the US can put this much pressure on two huge Chinese multinationals, some of the few that have been able to have success internationally, it says a lot.
I regularly volunteer in a shelter. I have had a few of the attendees go a long paranoid rants about staying off the grid, big brother and so on...It seems like a large number of people that I've met want to be on the street.
Anyone have any thoughts or data to support or refute that?
Here in the US it’s incredibly easy to find where anybody lives if they are registered to vote. You can plunk my name into the Idaho voter website and it will spit my address out, no fuss.
What if someone produces a deep fake with the disclaimer, but then someone copies the video, edits out the disclaimer and then posts that edited video? Is the second person guilty of creating a deep fake or guilty of something else?
The Chinese state retaliations for this investigation and arrests suggests very much, indeed.
>If I collect data on a person in a public location, I believe I own that data, not the person.

Where do you define 'a public location' in terms of internet use?
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I don't think there's any defense to this. If you look through the open issues you find stale issues, feature requests with no planned work, already resolved issues left open, "we'll get to it in a couple of releases", etc. Nobody is managing the queue.

I know it's a big corporate product, but this is a sign of bad project management, imho. At the very least they could offer to let a community member go through and clean it up if they won't do it themselves.
Except when they dont: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_porn
Brave stole a lot of bitcoin from people by converting it into their useless/worthless BAT.
This is a misleading title. The article shows that relational databases can be built with NoSQL, not that NoSQL databases are de facto relational (because they aren't).
What's the best way to write code that relies on this deterministic order and prevent it from running incorrectly with older python versions?
True, but irrelevant. Dark glass is more likely to mean that someone is trying to get extra profit from the unsuspecting at the supermarket.
Valuable to whom? Those false narratives gets lots of likes, shares, and comments. It almost seems that facebook is financially motivated to encourage things that are viral. These things make them more money.
This was ok before the aggregation came. My presence on the street at point X,Y at time T is public information and I don't object to it being captured once, say, by a tourist taking a photo. But aggregated over a week at 10 second intervals? That's a breach of privacy.

Quantity makes a huge difference.
Does that mean that e.g. numeric user ID should also me strings since adding them is meaningless?
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> Sorry, nobody is denying the benefits of free trade and specialisation, come on.

Then explain the current resurgence of protectionism right now. This redistribution argument has very little to do with trade, and actually undermines it. You don't have to go very far to see the impact automation has had and will have on certain segments of the population, so why are we muddying the waters with the downside of free trade here?

Now I agree with you that those affected by trade (and technological advances), or who are vulnerable should be helped. Since there's always some other threat out there to our collective prosperity, there's really no reason why we can't talk about tax policy, UBI, education at the same time. But we can't kill these geese laying the golden eggs.
If it was written in a compiled language you could just copy the binary over to your system. You wouldn't even have to mess around installing the language or build tools.

Golang and Rust are both very cross platform and compile to Mac/Linux/Windows natively.

The main benefits to using a more modern language would be:

1. Easier distribution (like I said, just copy a binary)

2. Better performance (but like you said, often doesn't matter)

3. Much better code (subjective, but static typing offers real benefit as does having a very nice standard library).
I wouldn’t necessarily say Meng being indicted is “nothing at all.” Nonetheless, the story does a great job of illustrating what type of activities LE must do during a type of operation and investigation of this magnitude.
Yes, there should definitely be visual and auditory warnings as well when MCAS is engaged. When the autopilot is doing something so important as struggling to prevent a stall (and in its mind, failing, because of the faulty AoA sensor), it definitely needs to be raising alarms.

Also, given how important the AoA data apparently is, it may not be displayed prominently enough. In clear weather, level flight flying, it should be really obvious if this is drastically wrong.
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It’s not guaranteed that using the liveness implicit in the SSA that falls out of a stack language is going to give you better code in less time than a block-local register allocation with locals live at block boundaries spilled to the stack.
> I know it's a bullshit game. But I play it well, and all the software developers on my team get paid and promoted because I am so good at it.

On one level I have to take my hat off to you because you sound like exactly the kind of manager - one who has your team's back - that a lot of people would want to work for.

On another level you're part of the problem: you're wasting organisational resources that could be better and more profitably used elsewhere.

Still, needs must I suppose, because the real fault here - as the article itself hints - is in the determination of what the most valuable use of everyone's time is. I.e., if projects are going to be late (and they are) then you ought only to deploy teams to work on the ones with a putative 10x ROI.
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I see this and wonder how many people will leave legacies akin to Fritz Haber's.
Lots of legislation effectively leaves it to courts to hash the actual specifics out. Courts can only rule on specific examples, so it prevents a genre of legal stupidity.
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German inefficiency at its best. :)
That's a useful thing to note. Kubernetes has a huge surface area, and you will definitely run into issues using it. That complexity is not the right choice for every org
If it affects flight stability especially in an emergency, then pilots should be trained to understand what it affects. Period. Not doing so to save money or get more sales is beyond stupid. Watch Air Disasters to see what happens when highly trained pilots fail to do the right thing because they hadn't trained to deal with what went wrong because the problem was something different than what they knew. Flying is easy when things are working, pilot training is the difference between dealing with an emergency or being dead.
Yeah, better establish a great system of universal healthcare and built social housing mixed with normal housing everywhere around the city. And get the poor a small basic income to get them off the streets until they find a new dignified job themselves.

Europe does stuff like that in case they need some examples to copy.
Why should I need their permission when it is a public location? If they don't want to be photographed naked in public, don't go around naked in public.

If I'm a skilled artist and I see a person naked in public without their permission, am I allowed to recall those thoughts and recreate the image in my mind onto paper using my artistic dexterity? Or am I breaking some privacy law by doing so?
> There are as many permanent housing beds as people who need them.

That does not match what I've read elsewhere.
> It's not a strawman, it doesn't matter what the reason the person gave was. I'm not trying to make my hypothetical person supply the easiest answer to attack, I'm not even trying to attack them.

Well, maybe, that depends on which path of the equivocation we follow.

> It's not possible to have beliefs that aren't based on assumptions. I guess you can think that's bullshit, but your belief doesn't make it so.

Yeah, that's the equivocation I am talking about. You didn't say "you've made an assumption", you said "you've basically made an arbitrary assumption".

Let me guess what you are really trying to say:

"It is just an assumption that reality is real, therefore, if you think that that assumption is acceptable, you should also not have any objection to the assumption that god exists/gave us morals/some other unjustified supernatural claim."

Right?

It's not that there isn't an interpretation of what you wrote that is indeed true (kindof), it's just that that interpretation is irrelevant to the argument that you are trying to make, which relies on a different interpretation, which unfortunately is not true.
This is everything wrong with SF thinking. An app that can be as automated as possible, as impersonal as possible, but solve nothing because it doesn't actually facilitate anything. I suppose it could facilitate something: Oppressive governments might want something like this to help track the undesirables.
Ok so then you need to invent a new word for what is lost when companies further cross the line from [using your data in a totally internal and in fact internal to just your account]. Because it seems like a big step from treating your data as a tool to affect your experience to selling it to other companies to do whatever they want with. What is the primary word associated with that step if not "privacy"?