skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have so many hundreds of billions of dollars in offshore accounts they don't know what to do with it, and they want to tax you to invade your privacy too.
Alphabet is not going to directly own any of the data. The proposals have been that it would be owned by the city, and only made available to partners in limited ways through a process with government oversight.
That is wrong for caches that are based on physical addresses.
Ok, now I see why the headline was changed before. Having the words "school" and "shooter" both in a headline really changes the mood.
Yeah... that's barely even what the article is about, based on a brief skim. They seem to disagree with what Manifest v3 is trying to accomplish, but the article doesn't even use the word "bullshit".

(Disclaimer: I work for a non-Google Alphabet company.)
Visa / MC rates aren't 2.5%.

There are multiple components to the final rate that a business pays, with the bulk of it being interchange, which goes to the banks that issue cards. Visa/MC only get assessments and dues, which are significantly smaller. (Visa's volume assessment is 0.13%, for example.)

We need to know which fees they're raising, and by how much, to know what sort of impact this will have.
Thus, I was being mildly sarcastic about the German scientists ability to speak German.
TLDR if you start thinking about tenure @41 you're a decade late. No one in her 50 advisors told her that?
Tumblr and iCloud also split up username and password onto separate pages.
Snowden very clearly demonstrated the issue with exactly this sort of situation.
Thank you for trying! We do offer different public chat channels that have different rules, channel 18 has quite relaxed rules compared to other channels. If you are willing to spend 5$ once you can get your own private channel where you can decide the rules and invite who you like and make them moderators etc.
> this would strongly favor comments in popular threads

Sum the total number of upvotes and score based on that. Track an independent score for downvotes. Display the two scores separately, in addition to the ratio between them. The MVP could be as simple as `votes_for_user_in_post/votes_in_post`. Scores would be intentionally low, you're looking for a track-record of greatness and not a once-off jackpot (or crackpot) opinion.

There could be further improvements with population distributions: if most of the comments are receiving between 2 and 10 upvotes, a comment with 20 is truly exceptional (for that post).

The problem that follows is that early comments that are mediocre will likely get more upvotes than late comments that are great. You're strangely aiming for the inverse of the HN comment ranking algorithm. StackOverflow has this problem: quick answers that are barely good enough typically receive more upvotes, and S/O hasn't solved that problem.
I wouldn't categorise this is SF; I would call it "beat" or "gonzo". Possibly Joycean, except it's not fictional enough. It's not speculative, it's observational; it really is a record of the lived experience of being Extremely Online. A travelogue of a place that's in your phone.

(I can identity most of the memes referenced, which probably means I spend too much time on Twitter myself)
You keep reading what you want to see in my statements.

You said you'd like theyachtguy to lose business. I contrasted his role starting out as a self-educated hobbyist with a paid model. He has migrated to a full-time job, because he produces content people like. I think that is still more useful than a paid model appearing in an ad (certainly not less useful).

I think we can agree that the problem isn't whether someone is self-educated or not, or what percentage of their income they derive from the activity, the problem is if they are claiming as true opinions positions that are really just paid positions. As we agreed above, disclosure is important.

As for me, I created an amazon affiliate account a dozen years ago but I don't think I ever got anything from it, not sure I have an instagram account, have maybe a couple of dozen social media posts in my life, and you're one up on me in modeling.
I have noticed that chinese owned apartment buildings in other countries tend to stay empty for very long periods of time and renting at too high prices. Instead of lowering prices and getting some income, they frequently just sit empty and not serving the communities they're in.
Thanks. I think page 20 has a lot of information I'd been looking for.
They're going to, it's in private beta apparently https://cloud.google.com/gke-on-prem/
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DNS adblocking sucks because it takes too long to turn off when a website breaks because of ads.
Why would the US care? There's no political capital to be gained by coming out against a policy that will likely make US software and surveillance firms rich.
Funding Comparison of TinySeed Indie and Earnest
What kind of data are they collecting?
Running Istio on AWS with Kops
Running Istio on EKS
I want to add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag to that list. That's what I plan to use if my life doesn't get better. (There is no indication that it will. It has been getting only worse and worse over the past few years.) Knowing that you have access to a painless suicide method is empowering in its own right. There's nothing those hotlines can tell me that I can't tell myself or know already. They can't provide the kind of help that I need.
Yes. And I recommend having https://xkcd.com/radiation/ handy as you read through those numbers. The units are consistent.
When your browser auto updates, how many key servers does it contact? How many cross signatures does it require before trusting a key?
> sh, docker, ansible, kubernetes, grafana, prometheus, etc... All coming from Linux/unix. This statement is clueless. Most of the cloud is not running microsoft, and for a good reason.

And most non-cloud, non-sv, real businesses that do actual work are still running AD, Office, and Windows. And for good reason.

> To automate, we have python, which has a much better syntax.

Subjective.

> And it takes a microsoft head, without knowledge of programming language's history to say that powershell's ideas actually come from powershell.

I don't believe I said that. I get it, you're a UNIX fanboy and you're butt-hurt that some idiot on the internet has a dissenting opinion that offends your religious affiliation with an operating system, but I'm not a Microsfot fanboy, especially these days with their user hostility and embracing the worst parts of open source and UNIX culture.

> Also, some attempts have been to implement posh clones on unix. Being redundant with either perl/python or bash/zsh, none succeeded.

Yeah, but we're talking about a culture that still uses X11, they aren't good at change. Also, I've seen the various attempts to shoe-horn a newer paradigm into the old one and I'm not impressed either. This isn't something you can hack together, you'll have to rebuild a lot of the tooling and UNIX people just aren't interested. Meanwhile Microsoft got it done, and then ported it to Linux.
Istio and Kubernetes: Developer Productivity and Freedom to Deliver Your OKRs
I also liked the detailed analysis of the initial Earnest proposal [1]

[1] https://medium.com/swlh/the-cost-of-raising-earnest-a-review...
Google reaped millions of tax breaks across US in secret expansion
like this? https://github.com/ssloy/tinyraycaster/wiki
table of contents is in upper right
The presentation of this project alone is a visual tour de force to say nothing of the technical quality. Beautiful and easily digestible post. As with any interesting, non-toy applied ML problem, the dataset generation is really where the innovation is. It gets a neat little graphic at the end. As far as how the author characterizes the problem, I think the word he's looking for is "semantic segmentation" - he's trying to classify each pixel of the spectrograph as vocal/non-vocal. I'd be curious if he could drop the dataset into pix2pix-style networks and achieve the same results.
Lets Talk About Our Preoccupation with Identity
If you’re going this way, might as well put all of that as a stored procedure in the database. At least it Simplifies your infrastructure.
It's true that they don't change prices daily, but it's also not particularly uncommon for them to do so. Visa raised an assessment I think last January? And interchange fees have changed several times over the years as well.
This is so delightfully insane. I love it.
Be Kind to Extraterrestrials
FWIW, Chromium devs have just responded[1] to the massive amount of feedback they got on the mailing list, like [2] and [3].

One of the main pain points raised was the lack of any way to dynamically add rules, as well as the low maximum number of rules allowed (30k). Seems they've decided to support dynamic rule addition, as well as increasing the number of rules, though probably not by orders of magnitude by the sound of it.

Proof is in the pudding though.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

[2]: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

[3]: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...
I have PGP keys on the keyservers but don't actively look random people up and send encrypted mail on first contact (perhaps something that can be automated). I'm surprised how often the reply I receive when contacting some German (.de) open source person is PGP encrypted.
I believe there is still hope for you to enjoy life and experience joy again. I'll stop short of recommending things to try since I'm assuming you've tried it all already, but you never know what the future will hold.
How would you use the device if you blacklisted its cloud?
On a physical level, unbounded deadlines and unlimited resource constraints don't exist, so I've learned to distrust anything that assumes "it scales forever".

It's just a lot simpler to plan a static capacity target for each system resource, test and enforce around it, then review it when it falls over. Otherwise you get scenarios like this one, where the bug permeates the whole system and you get "dead allocations" that float in the ethereal void of the system's plumbing, where they are hardest to trace. Leaks can happen in all sorts of environments as soon as you start putting in some layers of indirection, whether it's UI listeners, memory allocations, processes, or whole computers in a network. The indirection is usually done with the intent of optimizing a near-term development goal, but it burdens every future goal with a thing to design for or design around.
Stasi is not that long ago.

People tend to forget what the problem was during WW2.

See rise of right wing parties (also in Germany...).
I mean in theory your web browser doesn't have to respect the address bar, it can do whatever the fuck it wants. The point is what Chrome is already doing is not good behaviour.
DeclarativeNetRequest change may end uBlock Origin
I think they are taught the same that the rest of us are, but their country has the first hand experience that enables them to see and understand on a deeper level just how important civil liberties and privacy is.

Nazi Germany passed laws restricting the public and private lives of “non-aryans” and other groups of people that they deemed lesser. With such laws, they turned the country from a democracy to a dictatorship. The nazis proceeded to kill millions of people, most of them Jewish.

And after that, there was like the parent commenter said the Stasi in East Germany, who was subjecting millions of people to mass surveillance.

And like I said, they have the first hand experience, so it certainly is more ingrained and near to life for the people of Germany than it is to everyone else.
How is it possible for so many people to read the words "not remove" as "remove entirely"?
Google has probably the most tedious logins of all services, with multiple pages and maneuvers you need to do to login with another account without automatically linking the accounts. Often it’s just easier to clear all google cookies than try using the login interface
From the point of view of the radiation, there's a lot of empty space between lead atoms and a lot of it will just slip through and not interact with the lead at all. A fraction will slam into lead atoms, a fraction will slam into your atoms, a fraction will keep going.
I'll agree that processing is surprisingly lightly-regulated.
Ok, yes, but that's just the kernel, and it's cheap only relative to a full VM. A container may or may not be cheap depending on the language runtime and whatever helper apps you're bundling. Bundling the python interpreter or a Java VM into every app isn't cheap.

This reminds me of early web servers and CGI's. A CGI can be relatively cheap to run as long as you write it in C and don't link in too much; not so much for a scripting language.

Redundancy can happen at multiple layers, so deduplicating at one layer might not be enough, depending on the situation.
Hey, I know who made this. This is a pretty simple tool to convert markdown documents with indented code into runnable programs, simply by deleting the markdown and un-indenting the code. AFAIK the simplest literate programming tool on the market. It should work with basically anything because of that simplicity.
Aren't a lot of these addressed with IRCv3? https://ircv3.net/

Some of these are already in place, eg. IRCCloud can render simple markdown, supports push notifications, can show inline images, supports display pictures, Slack-like threads, emojis, etc...

An example: https://twitter.com/IRCCloud/status/971416931373854721

Hopefully longer term we won't need to use IRCCloud/a bouncer to keep chat history. AFAIK an IRCv3 server should be able to offer that natively (to an IRCv3 client).

As for unencrypted TCP... a lot of IRC networks seem to offer TLS these days.

Not saying this is perfect -- far from it, but people are working on improving IRC!
One of the hardest concepts to explain to non-programmer friends/family is that deleting anything in an app is usually flipping a boolean flag in the database from False to True. And even for the rare cases of actually deleting the record or updating the field value, it likely exists in backups somewhere.

It's never gone.
One starts looking at things differently as years pass. I've been working with computers for >25 years now, and I've learned that long-term thinking is important.

Remember '.bz' files that were all the rage? Yeah. Bzip1, not '.bz2'. Good luck trying to read that.

For my data, I will stick to things that have been around for a long time and that are likely to stay. Those fancy 'nacl/box' thingies? I'm willing to make a bet that they won't be around in 5 years time.

As to PGP, it is hard to understand, so people don't use it and are not interested in developing it. Which is a shame, we could all use more good end-to-end encryption.

I also find this article rather funny, as I'm happily encrypting/decrypting data with OpenPGP, using the agent to authenticate to my SSH servers, and keep my keys securely on a YubiKey. I do hope these "modern alternatives" have good answers for storing my keys on a YubiKey, because otherwise the whole thing isn't really worth the effort.
Background: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897... : a proposed change to Chrome that would limit adblock extensions.
GAO gives Congress go-ahead for a GDPR-like privacy legislation
Thank you for the feedback, changed the title to match the title of the blog.
Long distance phone service was also involved for those of us not located near enough to a service provider.
I believe suicide should be seen as a beautiful release for some people.

It's twisted and bizarre that this is such a taboo in human society, almost globally (I appreciate exceptions like Dignitas [0] in Switzerland.)

Why do we endorse "My Body, My Choice" when it comes to decisions like abortion, but take that choice away when it comes to suicide?

Why is the termination of life support for terminal patients seen as a mercy, but vehemently denied when someone who is otherwise healthy rationally chooses to die?

What if someone is simply bored with life? Would you force someone to play a game they don't enjoy, or can't ever win at?

I'm afraid suicide may never be universally accepted as a human right, for primarily these two reasons:

1: It acknowledges the possibility that life is pointless, which threatens many of our entrenched belief systems.

2: Money. If people could cleanly (without pain, guilt, taboo etc.) end their life anytime they want, it could seriously disrupt the economy. When people are no longer forced to live, many industries would make less money than they do (finance, healthcare, therapy, anything that relies on cheap labor, and so on.)

[0] http://www.dignitas.ch
Pretty sure that's the case in MeWe too.
I’m investigating crossing over as well, but via animation. Am currently making an interactive kids story. Thinking about some animated shorts also, but curious about differt potential distribution opportunities of software vs straight video.
This is giving me some good ideas for my homelab... Thank you!
The application process is really smooth! Kudos to whoever built it.
It does so in India for rural communities. I've always wondered why it cannot do low cost banking in US. they already have the infrastructure and the manpower.
I have no strong conviction about the merits of their view, really. I'm just pointing out that painting them as hypocritical in regards to the Amazon deal, as in your original post, is not really well-founded.
Why do I have to be a student to qualify?
> perhaps something that can be automated

This is solved using WKD. Thunderbird already supports this with enigmail enabled
(Un)fortunately, TLS 1.3 will prevent MITM from working unless you are able to install a trusted root ca cert on the device, which I doubt is possible on Chromecast devices.
How does the world go on relatively okay considering the general level of security and correctness in software? Why aren’t we all completely owned, etc?
What about signing my git commits to prove I authored them? As far as I know, no alternative exists for GPG there. If it did, we'd need also tools like Github to support it before it's adopted.

I do see GPG being replaced in so many areas, so I'm not opposing the OP. Just saying that I use it for signing commits every day and my engineering team is required to sign all commits; Github helps us enforce this by requiring that PRs contain only signed commits.
They might be liable for not adequately protecting the patrons, for example. My uninformed personal opinion is that they are not liable in this case since they did have a security guard, but that guard is also being sued (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/0...).

Otherwise yes, it is quite possible to be liable for whatever happens on your private property. If drug deals are taking place between third parties in your house won’t you be liable? If you allowed those parties there you most definitely will be.
Definitely the case for some, I know a lot of developers love Stripe's documentation. But some others just plain equate simplicity and low cost. They have no idea how to read their complex merchant processing statement, there are all these rates and fees.. Square or Stripe comes along, bundles everything into a simple-to-understand rate, and they think it must be cheaper.
How do you feel about student loan debt, specifically about someone saying, "I can't do XYZ because I am so broke from loan debt."

In terms of accountability, things we choose to undertake and are then responsible for, it absolutely matters whether or not things were a choice.
Update: I finally got through to Akamai. Got a tip from someone to email carrier-support@akamai.com instead of abuse@. I received a response within a day or so and got the domain unblocked by Nomium.
Google, the worlds largest advertising company, abuse market share to crush those that would stand in their way. I stopped using Chrome when this was proposed, and you should too!

Article provides evidence that Google's pretext of performance doesn't hold water.
- As pointed out in the previous comment, with DNS based blocking users often have to choose between convenience and privacy.
As an example: Blocking ads on Youtube with DNS blocking is very hard, unless you block youtube* itself.

- It does not give you fine grained permission: Like, if you only want to allow a particular third-party on a specific site.

While DNS based blocking is fast but at the same time it is also difficult for an average user to surf the web anonymously using the same.
This article is very strange.

> Sidewalk Labs, which provides urban technology infrastructure, is planning a 4.9-acre smart city along Toronto’s harbor front, a project that has already faced opposition from locals over concerns of data privacy.

> [...]

> Sidewalk Labs outlined its project for a light railway transit, 2,500 homes where 40 percent would be below market price, and a tall-timber factory they project will create 4,000 jobs.

So is it a "smart city" or just a light railway, homes, and a factory? If it is the latter how does that invade privacy? If it is the former then the article is super light on details.

This article is just all over the place. Hard to form any kind of opinion on this without more facts.
What app? :-)

You mean Google/Android Pay or Apple Pay or anything else? (such as the wonderfully low-tech solution of placing a miniature NFC credit card sticker on the back of your phone or in your phone case).

I'm not sure what you mean by "getting adoption", but when I stand in line in Warsaw, almost all payments are contactless, and probably 1/3 are done using a phone.
As well they should:-)

But IE 11 has been given a stay of execution until 2025 I believe.

And sadly most of my users are still on it (government and healthcare)
Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near
There was a similar demo (I think from Google) here on HN sometime last year that was far more impressive. I can't seem to find it though. Anybody know what it was?
You must not be a biochemist. Hormones exist
Someone hasn't heard of hormones
FAA Updates Drone Marking Requirements and Airspace Restrictions
The entire project will be a giant social experiment that would make BF Skinner cream his pants. There is not one bit of info about the residents that they wouldn't want to have. Every doorway will be fitted with state of the art facial recognition. Google will know everything about who comes and goes and why. They will know how often you use the bathroom and nag you when you keep the lights on. But, most of all they will know how you think, and how your thinking affects your actions, and which of those actions they can monetize.
If climate change truly is incompatible with global civilization, I would rather have some defunct coal plants laying around than spent nuclear fuel. Nuclear maybe would have helped us avoid the worst of climate change if we had adopted it at a broader scale sooner, but at this point I think we have to be planning for post-civilization scenarios.
haha. user.is_deleted = True...

A lesson on how to delete user data but still keep it. RE the headline, i'm not sure. "News flash, mega tech corp thats business model is based on accumulating data has been accumulating lots of user data."
I think your humor detection algorithm needs some enhancement.
This feels similar to the VRFY problem in SMTP. Input an email address and find out their auth provider?