skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The compression article was really useful for me when I was trying to squeeze a bit more performance out of our brokers at work. Any plans to revisit the article now that Kafka has zstd support?
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The system is failing to override the styles. This is an issue with the system not using more explicit selectors or not taking into account that their selectors will be overridden. In other words, the system has failed you.
Is there a body that enforced privacy measures on apt? What about on just random code on GitHub? Or web applications? Is a body enforcing privacy (even preventing people from consenting to give their data away) a good thing?

In grad school I did some research that involved a mobile app and people willingly giving some of their information to me (after a lot of notice and consent forms). This was relevant for legal analysis of some data collection programs. Should my app have been shuttered?
Still needs to be adjusted to reflect correlation, not causation.
US actually produces the most oil of any country now. I'd like to see someone do the math and see if it would be cheaper to leave the middle east and save money on wars and just subsidize our own oil production to make up the difference for any price increase consumers might see. Of course that won't happen because war is a industry now

What's also amazing to me is seeing this culture defended by the left, when if most muslims were given power in Europe they would strip away most rights for women and homosexuals that the left also fought for
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The citizens of the US and UK have voted time and time again for politicians that support these regimes, as long as they keep buying weapons and help support all the jobs at Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics and now the tech companies.
Our source code is open-source, you can view it here: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom

That's another way we're transparent. Anyone who knows code can see exactly how we collect data and what data we collect.
Their beer is way better though.
>While governments then pump most of their revenues back into their own militaries, welfare systems, and infrastructure, Apple pays its suppliers and its workers market rates and then counts billions leftover—$48 billion in profit last year alone. No country comes even close to running such a surplus, and no corporation’s is within $20 billion of that amount.

Numbers like this are why I don't understand the argument that "taxes are too high".
https://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/tips-and-tricks-automat...
VPNs also make recaptchas pretty terrible. If you browse without a login and have a VPN enabled they slam you with them.
The your local router strips the Ethernet headers (with the MAC address) before forwarding it out to another router
Yes. 100% this. Someone's just pushing pixels around looking for some numbers to increase without actually dealing with the experience like a human.
The math is correct but this doesn't factor in inflation, so you probably need to change the original salaries down to whatever $40k in todays money was worth in 2009. That leads to 34k*(1.18)^10 = 178k, which seems much more reasonable
Hah, I don't remember the packaging. I think I went in and asked for the one with pseudoephedrine and the pharmacist understood.
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I see your point, but I was talking about a controlled experiment with specific changes to a specific text at short defined intervals. The texts that historians study -- are they so frequently updated and such a well defined piece of text for a specific purpose?

Maybe some are, but from what I understand new editions are much more haphazard (there isn't a specific simple goal) and old editions are often lost. I wasn't aware of a specific long term language experiment specifically designed to keep revisions over a long term, but then I'm definitely not a historian.

Just a thought.
Nah, good old capitalists are rarely trying to create a religion after them, going around the country and taking pictures feeding baby cows.

Zuckerberg is indeed a good old capitalist, but one who doesn't want to be seen as a capitalist, but as a messianic savior.

That's why you create a for-profit company and call it an "Initiative" focused on "advancing human potential and promote equality".
> There is no 'fact' to this story beyond an interpretation of events.

Yes there is. Either the boys surrounded and approached the old man to stand intimidatingly close as WaPo reported, or they did not.

>> Do you think the boys surrounded and intimated the old man?

> that particular situation is not something you can clearly point to as fake news.

Yes it is. Things are real, or they are not.

You seem genuinely confused about the nature of reality.

Let's not continue communicating.
False. Facebook could retain all the Boomers, but coexist for awhile with other social media dominating the millennial market.
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> Silicon Valley has no intention of retraining itself in any manner.

Historically, no industry, once became major, intended to retrain itself to be more positive to the society. If any improvement happened, it was forced from outside.
Libreoffice (CVE-2018-16858) – Remote Code Execution via Macro/Event Execution
I was responding to the parents question

"why is the corrupt financial system we've propped up worth saving? "
Or you know, the game theory is different when you're already the dominant power. There when you use intelligence apparatus for economic espionage, you tend to use it to keep other nations down rather than giving it to your companies.
It's

San Francisco has more (drug addicts) than (students enrolled in highschool)

not

San Francisco has more (drug addicts than students) enrolled in highschool.

I'm ashamed to admit I had to follow all the way to the source PDF to figure that one out.
The point is that between the UK and Ireland there is a CTA, common travel agreement.

Yes there is, and it has existed since long before the EU or its predecessors existed.

This means frictionless border crossing between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

No, it means that citizens from either side are allowed to cross the border by default. Production of some basic ID documents may still be required. Checks may still be (and sometimes are) carried out. And the whole thing is based on essentially a long-standing gentleman's agreement and explicitly does not create binding legal obligations.

In short, the CTA does not require a completely frictionless border and never has. Indeed, that could not possibly be its effect, because its provisions only cover British and Irish citizens.

If the UK leaves the EU then goods from the UK cannot just be moved into the Republic of Ireland if there is no join customs agreement.

It's a lot more complicated than that, but yes, the existing provisions for moving goods across the border are governed by EU mechanisms, including the Customs Union and Single Market.

So now you have to introduce a hard border with the RoI which goes against the Good Friday Agreement.

And at this point I ask you much the same question that I have asked others in this discussion:

What specifically constitutes the "hard border" that is required, and in what specific way(s) do any associated processes or infrastructure contradict the GFA?

If you don't understand the relevance of the GFA then you should read up further on or and the Troubles that preceded it.

Please don't be patronising. It is both rude and unconstructive. The GFA is widely cited by advocates on one side of the Brexit debate as some form of barrier to some possible outcomes, yet it appears that many of those people haven't actually read it and think it says things that it doesn't. It is not unreasonable, when someone introduces it as a new factor in a discussion that was previously about matters of sovereignty, to seek clarification about why they think it is relevant and whether their arguments have any more substance than a lot of the other ones we see referring to the GFA.
Say the member countries have 500 million people in a population. In order for them to spend 20 billion on LHC, you would need to tax those people ~$40. My intuition is that people would be willing to pay that to understand that some theory is correct or incorrect. Even proving gravity waves could not be done for 100 years after the theory.
Comments are hell - so I made this component that stores them in localStorage - so you can only see your comments.
Was for fun.

Example on CodePen: https://codepen.io/ctrlaltdev/pen/XPZNNP
Recent events highlight an unpleasant scientific practice: ethics dumping
It would be easy if much wealthier nations didn't support the religious authority.
There's an industrial estate almost literally a stones throw from my window (here in the UK) that makes all kinds of things, especially Aero related.
cameradust? that's clever if it means what i think it means, aka looking at artifacts in a photo caused by "gunk" on your lens.
> Looking at the google example, they are setting the font color. It just doesn't look good when dark-mode CSS doesn't take the existing colors into account.

Did you read the accompanying text? What you've said is literally the exact opposite of what is happening.

Google's CSS is not taking the default system colours into account. All of these sites seem to be assuming that the default system colours, implemented by the OS, are black text and white backgrounds. There is no reason to assume this, and indeed this is not the case on a minority of machines. The author's system happens to use white text and black backgrounds. So do I. Others are using low-contrast grey-on-grey themes, still others have a variety of multicoloured themes.

The author is trying to spread awareness that this seemingly common assumption about default colours is wrong. Hopefully this awareness has reached at least one person (yourself) ;)
Does the "?=" operator behave like ":=" or like "=" ?
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But you aren't allowed to do anything about it, until a jury of twelve peers convict them.

I wish my manager could not rate me 'needs improvement' without running it past a jury of twelve of my peers.
In my experience, they were abruptly killed. I remember when Asus pulled everything days after releasing a new model. Something happened, because I wanted to buy one, and then they mysteriously disappeared. HP is about the only company making them now.
Also, I think Eric Schmidt was not close to other Googlers ideologically, especially the founders.
> Google generates a little blurb, but it has to pull that information from somewhere. I'm hoping for Is It Keto to be the source that Google uses for most foods (it currently is if you Google "is propel keto" or "is pure via stevia keto").

This is a good point. I hadn't thought of it that way. Thanks for clarifying.
What's more simple than "add_executable(foo bar.cpp)"?
It's concise, cross-platform and hides all the boilerplate for you.

Sure, everything in CMake is not super intuitive, but I've led workshops were people got the hang of it pretty quickly for simple to advanced cases (including multiple targets and some scripting). Keep it simple, most of the time, you don't need the advanced features at all!

Can't say the same for Make, apparently, people need to write about it still today! And most of the Makefiles are just plain wrong and won't make any reproducible and reliable builds. That's a big no in my book for a build system!
Thanks for all that information!
I have yet to find a build system I prefer over Make. I use Maven at work and use a Makefile to run mvn. It lets me easily run a wide variety of commands locally as part of my build.
Still can be done. Just gotta stay private.
Would be cool, if websites would ask, if you like bright or dark website.
> javascript has a lot of power, and it acesses more than the browser, and none of this is remotely too complicated

While you can finger print a browser relatively well with javascript, it does not have access to a number of the things you list, like MAC, router MAC, CPU serial number, etc.
> "Well, it is medically proven that women are natural carriers of disease…"

Ok, fuck this. Woke up this morning and read the following:

- US is pulling out of the Nuclear treaty with Russia

- there's a huge cavity in Antarctic glacier

- your anecdote

I'm going for a walk, I guess I'm off the internet for today.
Yeah, same for us Germans. Leopard tanks and G3/G36 rifles are just too profitable to not export into a civil war region (which is actually forbidden by German law)...
Rethinking React State
> GDPR does not allow you to trade services in return for using your data for ads.

Yes it does. If users consent to it in a lawful way, close to everything is possible under GDPR.

> A website can't deny you service if you opt out of tracking, so EU has decided that business model should not be viable even if both parties agree.

As far as I can tell, this is based on some pessimistic reading of the law, and no clear jurisprudence is available in that area yet. It will likely be available soon, but this isn't as clear cut as you make it seem.

If the EU had decided that this business model should not be viable they could have clearly outlawed personalized ad tracking in its entirety in unambiguous terms. They have not done that at all.

Even so, personal tracking ads are still available for those who consent to it. Many, I expect, will like them. In the worst case (if jurisprudence decides you can't deny services for opt-out - which we will need to away before jumping to conlcusions), it will be a bit harder to gain as much revenue out of it per user because you need to go through the revolutionary step to ask your users if you can track them. You can still show contextual ads just fine though!

But really, consider it ethically. If it turns out people lose revenue because people decide against tracking - as they now need to be explicitly informed and given the decision - how can you really have issue with that?
> Unfortunately it's been increasingly hit or miss ever since and now their process seems to be along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw5UzBjgCiI

Wonderful. I've been thinking about an excuse to post this even before clicking the discussion link.
BTW stop creating voting cadres, it is trivial to trace them back to the central login and ban that too
Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables
But then there are also plenty of small and small-ish economies that haven't done so well from EU (particularly Euro) membership, aren't there?
There have been a few high profile cases of women leaving and trying to get asylum lately, but there's a weird case of two Saudi sisters who were found dead after they had tried to claim asylum.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/saudi-sisters-whose-bod...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-crime-sisters-sa...

""""
Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 23, who had previously been living in Virginia, were found along the rocky Manhattan shore of the Hudson River with duct tape around their waist and ankles. A New York Police Department official has said they likely entered the water alive and were said to have preferred suicide over returning to Saudi Arabia.

Their mother told detectives the day before the bodies were discovered that the Saudi Embassy in Washington had ordered the family to leave the United States because the daughters had applied for political asylum
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I've been using iSH on the iPhone for my portable SSH client, it works pretty great for server maintenance even with the on-screen keyboard.

https://github.com/tbodt/ish
How would you access my CPU serial number or my router MAC address from JS? I would think you’d need a zero-day to accomplish this, and it seems dumb for Facebook to be burning browser exploits on fingerprinting when they could make much more money selling them.
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using uMatrix extension for firefox i've been able to specifically block GA while enabling captcha.

problem is im sure they use captcha for fingerprinting too (and google fonts but that's a whole other can of worms)
It just entered into force today, that's why it's in the news.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-785_en.htm
Hey everyone! I'm Brice, full-stack engineer at Aula since April!

I must say it's quite an exciting company to work with and
I'd be glad to answer any question you might have :-)
Same with the Gmail app. For the nth time I don't want to use chrome! So infuriating!
> There are about 24,500 injection drug users in San Francisco — that’s about 8,500 more people than the nearly 16,000 students enrolled in San Francisco Unified School District’s 15 high schools

That didn't clear it up for you?
There was also a NA release of a SNES game, so it was popular enough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranma_%C2%BD:_Hard_Battle
"App on the Apple store collects user data in droves. Installed by 5m people".

That's the headline. People won't read to the part where it requires a login. Just that whatever store is allowing this app to exist.
"1600s climate change possibly connected to European genocide of Native Americans"
Apple introduced Dark Mode expecting all major websites to maintain some CSS just for a small percentage of macOS users. I don't think it's going to happen (and it's not happening)
What about using Python (with system calls) to build the project? Much more understandable than Makefiles.
The article even states: "Don't set the colors at all, let the browser use the system default color".

That’s just one of three options. Setting “both the background color AND font color” is another.

Also, the third option might give you a hint that the author’s tongue is in their cheek.
They don't need to explicitly save and store a history of every voice command to do voice recognition.
I think there's a much simpler answer than some sort of "deep browser fingerprinting" or other scary voodoo.

1) User requests account deletion. Facebook does not delete it, keeps track of his phone number via shadow profiles. (Mike is still mike@gmail.com, 800-555-1234)

2) User creates a new Proton Mail address. (Fakey@protonmail.com)

3) One of his friends adds that email address to his contact. (Mike, mike@gmail.com, fakey@protonmail.com, 800-555-1234). This user is on Instagram, Facebook, or has some mobile app that uses their analytics.

4) Facebook makes the association after scraping his friends contact list.

Essentially, his friends betrayed him, likely unintentionally.
> good resources to learn about some no-nonsense marketing topics?

- John Jantsch > https://ducttapemarketing.com/podcast-all-star/

- Louis Grenier > https://everyonehatesmarketers.com/

- Seth Godin > https://www.akimbo.me/
I don’t understand the second forumulation. What is (drug addicts than students) as an entity?
I get my weather straight from UK met page for that reason.

It has much more detail which helps as a cyclist, there is more than just average wind speed and temp.