skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what "[having] enough feed content to generate [ads]" on Instagram even means. I suspect you must browse on desktop with some filtering? I think I follow fewer than 200 people, and 0 brands/"influencers"/"celebrities" ... and i get PLENTY of ads. maybe every 5th post. Using the app, that is.
How does it differ from https://github.com/xen0n/autojump-rs ?
I contribute, I utilize and I appreciate open source and the community of dedicated contributors. Open source software is great and "YES" frankly the vast vast majoring of those involved in the use of open source software are freeloaders. We (yes I include myself) typically sow way less than we reap.

This argument though is not about the merits of open source software but about the use of public funds. "If my taxes helped pay for software, should result necessarily be public source code."

My opinion is absolutely not.

If my taxes as a citizen of country "A" paid for the development of some piece of software then I do not have the slightest reservation that the citizens of country "B" have no kind of moral, ethical, or legal right to it.

If the tax payers, government representatives, and authors agree and choose to release their results and products under some open source agreement then that is up to them.
This is why Chomsky et al also look at access to administration leaks and special interviews, the patterns of career TV "analysts" that get brought on to "analyze" a current event, and the way language, structure, and frequency of print news stories paint a picture. I doubt anyone is presenting "# of op-eds" as some sort of quantitative signifier and is unaware of the shades of gray between op-eds and news stories.
Telemetry is for software developers to learn how you are using their product. This isn't as bad as what Google is doing. Google is interested in everything you are doing, and then they sell that harvested information to advertisers. Microsoft doesn't sell any of your info to third parties. That's not the purpose of telemetry.
That's news to me. Where can I get a PO box that is not bound to a physical location?
Of course this would be great, we'd all like this to happen. But your perspective is dangerously shallow and juvenile, the real world just straight up doesn't work this way.

If you believe in this enough, you're better off leaving the U.S. IMHO.

If you disagree, I recommend visiting a country on the verge of complete collapse. Do that, then think about how good we have it, think about how many people want to take that way of life away at all costs. Part of being an adult is striking a balance between your ideals, a comfortable life and letting one or the other take over.
Wouldn't a German town vote "nein" to Street names?
1. https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/

2, 3, and 4 are made by private companies. Not government.

5. Probably a good idea.
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I persume it's to bolster their battery tech and R&D dept. It just doesn't seem like anything obviously game-changing from where I'm sitting.
This is an old but worthwhile lecture on the topic by the, at times bombastic and over-the-top, James Howard Kunstler: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...
> Should the IRS, NSA, CIA, and FBI code all be open source?

No, works made by or under hire for the federal government should be public domain, from a copyright standpoint, not exclusively owned but licensed under an open source license.

But on the other hand, I think your real question has nothing to do with ownership or licensing, but whether or not they should be publicly disclosed. In many cases the answer is “no”, but lots of government work that is in the public domain from a copyright perspective is also not subject to unrestricted publicly disclosure (and may also be classified.)

But arguably the licensing can work the same way as disclosure; presumptively, all government software should be open source, just as presumptively all government records are publicly disclosable; there may be limited defined exceptions for the former as there are for the latter, and decisions to treat software as within an exception should be reviewable by courts just as witholding material from FOIA disclosure is.
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Processing and Storing Data in DNA Using Chemical Processes
Well good thing I use Safari
Depending on the site, I have a slight hack that I am sure most people know. Once I know the text has rendered, which is almost immediate, I stop loading the page (hit the stop hotkey or click on the actual X), and then I switch to Firefox reader mode.
Mobile addons, privacy respecting defaults, not wanting you to be logged into a Google account all the time?

I don't think "makes imgur gifs stop playing" is going to attract more users than it drives away. By all means have that as an option, but it'd be a terrible default experience.
Lean Startup.

This is an eye opener for me as a SaaS newbie. A must read for anyone trying to build a startup.
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I remember watching a documentary a long time ago that showed helicopters dropping edible rabies vaccine in areas where raccoons had a high prevalence. I can't imagine the hourly rate of a helicopter to be low, drones seem like a good alternative.
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Sure, all you have to do is either block by default Javascript or all images. Obviously those features belong in a browser extension, not the core feature set of a mainstream browser.
It's why GDPR came into being, and California's recent data privacy law. We have no reason to have faith in these companies to keep our data safe, or to use it properly. After 10+ years of having our credit card numbers, social security numbers, emails, passwords, and so on leaked again and again, I fail to see how one wouldn't have trust issues at this point.
She can't be a director of a company for a long time, however she still built a business, raised money, built a huge profile and generated a massive amount of hype. Someone somewhere will want that experience on their team, and be willing to ignore the rest of the story (provided she can stay out of prison).

I'm sure she still has friends, and some of those friends are perhaps wealthier than others. If your friend fell on hard times and you happened to have a spare guest house or apartment in a city you rarely visit, I'm sure you'd help them out if you could.
That is the fundamental idea behind powershell. PS accesses the .NET world kinda like that. Many people love it. I would want one similar for JS and mainly fixated on the linux world (but works in Windows). Whereas PS works in Linux, I would say .NET isn't a great target for the linux audience.
> On another note, I'm not sure I agree on the electrical grid or traffic controls being open sourced ... could imagine some nefarious things happening as a result of that

Any more nefarious things that can be done with your Linux OS server talking to your Open Source Chromium / Firefox web browser?

Open Source doesn't necessarily mean less secure.
At the very least publically funded code should be open between government departments. There seems to be a lot of internally developed work that is unnecessarily replicated or lost just due to having no obligation or available resources to share or collaborate. Maybe there needs to be some system in place to have some sort of internal NDA or need to know check, but this seems like a good first step.
Agreed, safety and essential infrastructure should probably not be open source. That said, the main points of infrastructure access and configuration are probably larger issues at hand over the actual systems source itself.

As to TFA, I have mixed feelings. I'm actually more concerned about research and related patents and data surrounding publicly funded study. I do feel that Open-Source should be given some level of preference, but not that all publicly funded software should be open source itself. It's a blurry line imho.
Doing this and not expecting to get fired is idiotic... Seems rhetorical to me...

A tech job isn't a right it's a privilege. Plenty of other people would love to have a tech job at <insert big tech co. here> and have enough sense to not tweet "fuck <insert big tech co. here> on twitter...
Yep, fellow Bloomingtonian (IN) here as well. I'm the one who stood in city council and asked 6 questions (and emailed as requested) regarding corruption of Mayor Hamilton and Police Chief Diekhoff. If you dig deeper, you also find things like how a sitting judge over criminal proceedings is also the police cheif's wife.

It's moving the overton window that more violence is normalized alongside sliding military tools into civilian countermeasures.

But hey, they brought out the bearcat for a "possible gun domestic disturbance". And the sliding window goes further to fascism.
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Maybe you aren’t cut out for it as you say? I have a sideline I would have liked to have been a business but it remains a sideline and I’m ok with that.

Sometimes we believe we can achieve anything we want. This is compounded by reading and listening to all the hero stories online.

I would say do nothing in this space for a while and let your thoughts get themselves in order.
Yeah, I am tricking them into sending me a copy of their resume during an interview. I hope they see through this garbage manipulation and fight the man.

I wonder what they think of FizzBuzz tests!
That would be way too complicated for the average user who wants their gifs to play. Given what you want is atypical, isn't it reasonable to expect you to configure it manually? Why should everyone else have to manually enable gifs when that is by far the more common preference?
No, 99% of my time spent on Instagram is on my phone. I have never seen an advertisement on there or on the desktop site. My hypothesis is that they have some threshold that "every N posts we insert M ads" and because my feed doesn't meet that N-post threshold I've never seen any ads. That's only a guess, though.
There may even be a good coding analogy way to think of this.

Consider that the user base already has a set of pre-installed libraries and callable routines for most UI functions. These were effectively created by MS and Apple by their design process, and installed in the user base by endless familiarization, then extended by Apple & Android on mobile devices. Those libraries are now well embedded and installed.

Make calls into those existing libraries.

Don't force the user to rewrite and reinstall new libraries (unless absolutely necessary).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19070295
I believe the data being compiled in the first place is the privacy problem - especially when it is in the hands of government officials with the power to jail, seize, and execute.

Transparent at least allows everyone to go through it and undermine it and the system throughly. "The judge has more corruption data points than the accused sentenced, and this newborn with a Han name has a far higher rating than this infamous connected embezzler!"
What do I get for sending in a malformed e-file that breaks the mainframe? There's some REALLY old code in the IRS processing systems and it would surprise me if any of it stood up to modern security designs. Also, you don't want to reveal how you determine who to audit.
I never said you can't have trust issues or that GDPR isn't necessary, I'm saying neither of those implies they are invading your privacy when they show you ads based on your emails. This should be pretty clear?
accept that you're a minority

This seems like an assertion in advance of evidence.

To be sure, the entire internet-using public does not get a vote on the issue, aside from browser configurations and plugins (which the people who deny us a vote pay PR agencies to hate). Just like in other instances of disenfranchisement, those who aren't allowed to vote are indeed considered to be "minorities," even if only in the amount of political power they wield.
Fellow martian here. You may get some satisfaction from reading Khaneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow". Most everyone is BSing themselves. As to the 'why?', Sagan's "Demon Haunted World" lays it out pretty succinctly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
Interesting, I like it.
People apparently can get very annoyed by an extra click between them and content that they have already indicated they want to see.

Look at the number of complaints people post about EU cookie warning banners, which usually don't even block you from consuming the content on the page, even though they usually can be dismissed in one click. Or the number of complaints if a site puts a sign-up or logic request, dismissable in one click, that obscures any of the content.

Sure, with an extra click to play video, as opposed to an extra click to read an article, it will save annoyance on sites where the person is not there specifically because they clicked a link to see the video.

There are probably more sites where the auto-playing video is an annoyance than where it is the thing you came to the site for, and so blocking auto play is probably a net win for most people--but will they perceive it that way?

You are more likely to notice that something has annoyed you than to notice that something has not annoyed you. With blocking auto play I think a lot of people will only notice it, therefore, when it makes them do an extra click to see something they came to see. They aren't going to notice that it saved them from having to click to mute or pause some ancillary video on a page.

That doesn't mean it should not be added. It just means some care should be taken into how it is presented and configured.
RetDec: open-source machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
Sure there are. Plenty of folks are looking for easy fixes to make to software, or are trying to learn to code. When I was in college, I looked for little projects like this all the time that had approachable, easy to grok bugs.

I love being a gardener, cleaning up cruft, tackling todos, working through various bug lists, and generally tidying up a codebase.

Simple CRUD apps are full of this stuff. And I'm sure I'm not alone in looking for easy ways to participate and feel a little more connected.
How else could it possibly work given current constraints?
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Water doesn't have the capacity for cruelty.

The world is also a much nicer place to live for everyone when people behave in pro-social ways, whether or not that is our nature.
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From the applicant side: Why are you hiring for this role? Is it a new position, or did someone leave it?
The root of the issue is that if they _are_ invading your privacy, you wouldn't be able to tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box
It's not an awful way to do things, provided your app can run comfortably in a lambda. You get dev ergonomics (run locally like a traditional app), and you avoid cold-starts for infrequently-invoked endpoints.

You still get all the "serverless" benefits of FaaS, but don't need to architect absolutely everything around that paradigm. If in the future you want to move to running the thing on instances, you can do so pretty trivially.
I had the same thought as I scrolled past a Pijul HN submission[0] around the same time as discovering this announcement. I am hopeful sr.ht will succeed, as it seems to be a sincere attempt at filling what I imagine is an important niche.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19070172
Right. I forgot about those.
And private software that only needs a 3-5% modification for government usage? Should that be required to open-source the entire software? Should the government have to pay tens of millions and years of waiting to re-create said software?
politics. US car market is protectionist in nature.
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By hiding the code, it makes security through obscurity far more possible. If you force the code to be public, very poor security will be discovered far faster and be more of an issue to the public.

While this will also make abusing security flaws easier, I think there is also a real benefit to forcing it to be public that could potentially outweigh the risks of doing such.
What do 50 million drawings look like?
In Part 1, the author claims that WebAssembly is not a stack machine.

In Part 2, when discussing `goto`, he says, "WebAssembly is a stack machine."

Part 2 contains no explanation about the contradiction with Part 1.
That page says "Hi there! Join, the springboard for women to excel in tech." It's probably supposed to say "Join Elpha, the..."
That's a good title. Golang is referenced many times in the text though, it's even plotted in the two graphs.
Warranty coverage is not that great and dealers are few and far between once you get into exotic stuff. The German stuff available at the Model S price points is not much better (in terms of warranty). The line between exotic and not gets kind of blurry because a lot of the lower end exotic stuff shares a platform with something else so most service can be done at that dealer network.

In any case, price determines whether technology is given the benefit of the doubt when it fails. Someone breaks a Harbor Freight tool and everyone blames the tool. Someone breaks a Mac or a Snap On and everyone blames whoever broke it. When Walmart has to recall food it's Walmart's fault for not choosing better suppliers. When Whole Foods has to trash a bunch of lettuce people blame the lettuce makers.

When cheap things break, act weird or somehow go wrong they get blamed. When expensive things break or act funny that's how they were meant to be and if you don't like it you were using it wrong or your expectations were wrong. People will do all sorts of mental gymnastics to avoid making expensive things look bad.
I guess that depends on how you define 'up' (are you looking at the entire planet or standing on the pole)

As I understand it these days they grab all samples and are now able to distinguish 'downward' coming neutrinos from cosmic rays in software
Will second that. I definitely view autoplaying gifs and videos (no sound) as a really nice feature. I'm glad for it.
Or could they even be structural and offset some other components’ weight.
Could you be more specific about what you can imagine? People looking at the code and finding exploits that way?
The NHS (National Health Service) in the UK open-sourced their website frontend library[1] to allow all of the different hospitals, doctors practises and clinics to create their websites in-line with a centralised brand/accessibility standard.

[1] https://github.com/nhsuk/nhsuk-frontend
There is more than one country in the world. Let's say country A is paying for some software and open source it, the rest of the world can get it. That may be fair if everyone is doing the same and contributing fairly (hard to assess that), but if countries A,B,C are the only ones contributing (paying) and everyone else just use, then it is not fair or sensible.

More than that, there is no "public paid", just "tax paid". That makes the tax payers entitled to some of that code, not someone else. With taxes paid on so many layers (federation, state, county, city) the ownership and entitlement is also layered: if a small town pays for some software, should the entire country get it? Why?
I do in fact use YouTube that way: read the notes (or ideally transcript!), sometimes the comments to see if video is worth watching. There are of course cases where video can be useful (showing how to access some part of some device, perhaps) but for me mostly it's too low a ratio of info/unit time.

I do understand that not everybody feels this way.
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Sorry but how could Boeing design any plane if they can't assume pilots will follow the manual or any checklists?
Having government acquired code be open source licensed from the vendor to the government doesn't even mean the government publicly discloses the code.

It does mean the government is free to do so, or to hire another vendor to work on it without restriction.
I think it would have to be a requirement of any money the government spends on code. Otherwise, they will easily defeat the requirement to make it public by passing it through a private company.
Oh, I'm not a Trump voter if that's what you meant. I have plenty of issues with Trump, especially his Twitter behavior. I like some of the bills he's signed, and what he might achieve in opening foreign markets to American exports, esp. China.
Fair enough. Compare it to a new golf cart. Those sell for $5-10K. http://www.costowl.com/b2b/golf-carts-new-cost.html
"our perception of the world is"

When: wanting it to be different than it is.
Fixing Social Platforms
What made real life unfair is that people could inherit wealth and privilege from the parents. This lead to massive economic distortions!

What destroyed Facebook is that the playing field became uneven once everybody just started posting photos of their fancy lives, then suddenly people couldn’t keep up and the playing field became uneven because that took money

For VR there is a opportunity to keep the playing field even by giving everybody the same entry point! And preventing wealth from accumulating in the same line!

We can even introduce inflation to prevent the super rich

Essentially the longer we can keep everybody on the same playing field the longer the platform will relevant!

Lets talk :)
Thanks. Later part of the course looks really good on first look.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769178
Where do you draw the line between publicly funded and publicly licensed?
This statement returns a syntax error. But I get what you mean. For

if (a := 1) or (b := 1):
print(locals())

since a is truthy, it gets bound and is in scope, whereas b is not, which makes sense to me.
After seeing The Philippines, I don't see how anyone can argue against net neutrality...
Yeah I don't get why so many other commenters seem to think a direct listing means the company's all of a sudden about to die or its product is all of a sudden going to turn to crap. If this is the best way to achieve liquidity, that sounds good for them.