skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More dangerous... god, better not set a foot into this country again :)
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You all must have missed me. Well, now I'm back. Not really. This was a tribute to great programmer Terry A Davis.
That was compared to aluminum(!!!!) ladders. Aluminum loses strength far more rapidly when heated compared to steel.
I've enjoyed using pev[1]. It's based on this tool but lays out the plan graphically.

[1] http://tatiyants.com/pev/#/plans/plan_1550754076978
"falsehoods programmers believe about X" is shorthand for "assumptions about X that some programmers have not examined prior to deployment in production code".

Any system that has an input with a single "telephone number" field that is both required and cannot accept multiple entries fits this pattern.

Think of it as a list of antipatterns to be avoided. Some of them were deployed intentionally, and others pop up because a programmer took the spec they were handed and implemented it without thinking about it -- or they did think about it and their attempt to fix it was overruled.
> What is the single feature you hate the most in Ada?
> As for hate, is the userbase a feature?

Proves himself right in the same sentence.

The previous interview (https://tomekw.com/ada-programmers-luke-a-guest/) provides more insight.
> otherwise citizenship is worthless

Would that be such a bad thing?
Only in the 2nd circuit, I guess, but good call.
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That’s a good point.

I wonder how many people are willing to eat less beef vs how many are willing to give in their once a year or less long-haul-flight holiday.
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Yeah, it's actually moving away from the Earth at something like 4cm per year.
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Algorithmic trading means the same in chicago new york tokyo hongkong or london. Even in singapore and sydney. Same thing: slicing the order to minimize the impact
Per capita?
FYI: "Feeding cows seaweed cuts 99% of greenhouse gas emissions from their burps, research finds" https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cows-seaweed-metha...
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I think Google is the culprit here. Not just for wifi scanning, but also for Bluetooth, Google demands location permissions.

In last 5 years or so, I have had a Garmin, a Fitbit and now a Garmin watch. I never used to have to enable location with my first Garmin tracker untill I upgraded Android os. After that point onward all my fitness trackers now ask to enable location in order to connect to my phone.
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Most of us here on HN have done a startup, been an early employee of a startup or hang out here at least in part because we dream of doing a startup. Given those biases I think the default is leaning that way.

On the other hand you already appear to be living the alternate dream talked about often here on HN - good job at a tech giant at least if it is one of the FANG and not one of the older school tech giants.

My own experiences would indicate that one should not underestimate the likelihood of market failure. When we say "high risk high reward" many of us focus much more on the second half of that phrase and discount the first half. We assume that we are smart enough to avoid the risks and persevere till we reap the rewards. And, sometimes we are, but often we are not.

Just the other day I ruminated with a friend that I almost certainly would have been a lot better off financially picking a boring but useful domain and getting really good at that rather route that I did take. Focusing on R&D, innovation and a couple of versions of startups. On the other hand I feel like my life has been pretty interesting.
Is there a virtualization app/service that can sit between the OS and an app that allows me to see or restrict what an application actually sees? For example I may allow it to see my public contacts rather than all contacts. Or, I may provide it with a location once rather than whenever they request it.
On a practical level that doesn't seem very viable in a "mountain lion vs housecat" way. Accountability is certainly needed though.
"Would mind"?
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Why not read chapter 4 of the book? Free link on wiki.
Please don't assume people's browsers. For example in Firefox reading view is toggled by F9, and in Microsoft Edge it's toggled by Ctrl+Shift+R.
Puts religion into context, human/anthropology/history-wise.
Why "pee"? The word is urine.
Hello !

I made this tool because I feel like there should be a much simpler way to quickly generate/customise common SVG icons for my project, especially while doing bunch of front-end development. You no longer have to open any design tool just to resize or change stroke style/color. You'll be able to do that and copy the resulting SVG code directly from this tool!

Let me know what do you think about this project

Most of the icons in this project are optimised version of feathericons.com by Cole Bemis (huge fan )
I’m more interested in incidents of cancer among younger people.
Is it rising or falling?
Dublin, Ireland, senior developer with 15+ years

Very easy to jump jobs, though permie jobs have more hoops to jump through. Most jobs are big corporate, very few startups.

Working as a contract developer (rolling 6 months) at $11,500 per month (25 days holidays factored in). A similar permie role would pay about $8,500 a month + perks (health insurance, pernsion, etc.)

The work is generally not that challenging - a good dev with 5 years behind them could do it.
That's like complaining that your web browser gets full access to your browsing history, or that your IM client gets full access to your plain text conversations, even when using E2E encryption no less!
The important bit is the granularity. Scary text about permissions that I don't need could be avoided if the permissions were more fine grained.
Ah. Excellent point.
100%

There's also some debate on what should be considered "cancer." DCIS, is stage 0 breast, but any diagnosis is a very emotional event.

https://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2018/04/12/dont-tell-me-my...
For good reason! There's many online services where you can put in a wifi MAC and pretty much know within 100M where someone is.

Yeah, the message could be made clearer about what's actually being allowed, but in the end I'm glad it's there. Maybe a generic system for when you request a permission being able to provide an explanation string or something. I know some apps made a pop-up before the prompt but I found that rather verbose especially when it was incredibly obvious why they needed the permission.
Rikers Island is operated by the New York City Department of Correction, not a private company, and 85% of Rikers' residents have not been convicted (at least not yet) so how are your suggestions supposed to help with any of the issues outlined in the OP? If anything, moving away from plea bargaining would mean more people in jails awaiting trial.

More generally, what is the value or repeating things like argument-less slogans about prison privatization or "if you don't pay for it, you're the product", especially to people who must have read it dozens of times?
> "sit around" and wait till you die.

Accurate description of life :)
Use some of it to subsidise insulation and better standard buildings, cleaner air and power, better railways etc.

Fund a UBI.

I'm fascinated at downvotes for this suggestion. What's actually wrong with spending part on lower impact infrastructure and part on a replacement for a broken welfare system?
"just as much"

This part of your statement desperately requires citation and supporting logic.

Among other things to consider -
Compare moving a ~80kg person and a ~13kg bike at 18kph

vs

moving an 80 kg person in one-300th (ish) of a ~300,000 kg plane (call it 1000 kg of plane per person) at 960 kph. 777 GTOW is ~335,000 kg

Now considering that drag is roughly proportional to the cube of velocity, and compare 18kph on a bike to 960 kph on a plane. We'll call it ~50 times faster to keep the math simple. Drag is now 50^3 greater for the plane, or 125,000 times greater.

So you're moving about ten times as much weight and need to overcome 125,000 times as much air resistance while doing it. I think it's fair to say that you can got a lot more miles per burrito on bike than plane.

(https://www.quora.com/Why-is-air-resistance-roughly-proporti...)

This is a shame, because I love traveling to faraway places. But it comes at enormous cost. A low-frills slow cruise ship (think cargo ship with beds, not the Queen Mary 2) might manage all right, but even that's not fantastic. Better electrified rail to replace overland flights would be a good starting point
I like the ability to optionally participate in a work culture, in fact, looks like you could pick and choose between a few. The forced culture of most companies is pretty tiring.
>some parts even cringeworthy...

Indeed, "work shall set you free" is not a great reference to include.
I agree. Fascinating, but its not exactly 'Signal' (end-to-end encryption with perfect forward secrecy) over IMAP. That would be something I'd jump on, fwiw.
One step from being fluorine? That's a nuclear reaction. Elements can't change during chemical reactions.
> Comments are the only visible indication of the predatory behaviour

Strange, because the post bugging the limitation of blocking contents identified other visible manifestations of predatory behavior.

Admittedly, they may be ones that are difficult to distinguish in a single act from acceptable behavior, but there is no reason an automatic detection system needs to consider each action independently in isolation.
In my opinion fundamental NN theory hasn’t really advanced significantly since the 1990s. I guess it was phrased ambiguously in my comment

But there has been a great deal of new techniques that make NN work better in practice like dropout, ReLU for vanishing gradients, CNNs and GANs for specific problem types, transfer learning, etc. The recent work with Neural ODEs show that the field is advancing in terms of ideas.

This is a good trajectory IMO. Many engineering fields work this way — find out new ways of doing things that work and then take a step back to see if there’s anything fundamental that links everything together. Practice precedes theory.
One interesting definition of sanity is “the relentless pursuit of reality”. If this definition holds, then Holmes is clearly insane. A long prison sentence might motivate her to begin a journey on the road to sanity, but I doubt it.
The XMPP-IRC bridge Biboumi is great tho, https://biboumi.louiz.org/

But any bridge will be restricted to the lowest common denominator, often you get into weird corner cases where the two ends of the bridge work subtly different.

A Telepathy dev wrote a long post on the subject a while back, worth reading:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2017-Sept...
This is only true if they have access to a ssid database. This is very expensive to build, I guess Google has one, I think they don't give you directly access to it.
When did it become acceptable to straight up disrespect someone to their face for their personal choices? Although I'm 29, I still remember a time where there was at least the pretense of civility. Civility was the oil that kept this machine running smoothly, now it's sputtering left and right. We don't even use formal names like Mr./Ms. as much as we once did, if at all. I felt that was an important part of creating a barrier of civil respect, distinguishing personal relationships from civil relationships. We threw a lot of cultural things away that were actually pretty damn important.

Edit: Also, my karma is now a binary number. Please don't up vote.
If I understood it correctly, only your side needs IMAP.

From there outwards the protocol (degrades to/can use) regular mail/smtp, so you can indeed connect with any address capable of receiving email.
Sounds like lawmakers need to enforce warnings labels on such products: „works only with sensitive data collection“ or similar.
"How do you tell which markets are growing fastest? Use instincts as a young student."

Welp, I'm over 22, guess I'm never starting a company.
This is a real concern in politically- or publicity-motivated prosecutions. And it gives prosecutors a wide avenue to abuse their powers.

But are these a significant per cent of cases that lead people to Rikers? I'm gonna guess no, they won't add up to even a single per cent.
I think his point is that if you are in a Starbucks and you figure out what's on the server, all the other people with hoodies in the Starbucks now know as well.
Really? How long ago was this implemented? Last time I was at Yosemite I just bought a pass on the way in and drove all the way in to see things. Is this not the case anymore?
I'm surprised there's not more discussion of passwordstore in this thread. In light of the parent article, I want to point out one of it's killer features (from my perspective). As it's built on top of PGP, you can move your private key to a PGP smart card and then decryption operations are done entirely on the smart card. Your private key never leaves the card. If you're using a Yubikey as the smart card, there's also a feature where you have to touch the card to approve of any operation (even when already unlocked by entering the smart card's password).
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I checked your demo and the login workflow with email is kinda hostile. Remarkbox, whose founder commented here, allows me to leave a comment and log in later using magic links. Your product insists on providing details before allowing me to post my comment. And modals could clash with other sites.
Um, no, that's not correct. SSIDs aren't tied to geographic location. The mothership might infer location by looking at the list of SSIDs and checking it against a geotagged list compiled by a mapper, but that's a completely different thing that saying if you let an app look for an SSID you are allowing to it to know your location. You might as well say that by giving a camera the ability to know the time, you are allowing it to know your location, as someone could look at the sun's shadows or weather and infer location.
My charge3 (basically, the same as a charge2 but truly waterproof) connects to my phone when I enter a "Walking" exercise and it uses the GPS data to plot my route AND to optimize my average step length distance. They do sell trackers with embedded GPS (that eat battery life, as you'd imagine)

I'm just saying fitness trackers have at least one legit reason. Unlike a remote control seemingly having no legit reason to scan local wifi.
Geography and dialling codes aren’t necessarily aligned. So none of those countries share a border - it doesn’t mean there was never a weird issue with international dialling codes at some point (and, after I did a bit of searching, it seems that there was)
Inspired from it you also have pev if you prefer something more visual : http://tatiyants.com/postgres-query-plan-visualization/
Hah, I just discovered this one independently after submitting this URL!
I'm guessing someone crafted their own raw TX, and mixed up the transferred amount and the fee paid. It's not the first time.
Or just use https://wigle.net
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It's probably easier than that: TSMC got hit with WannaCry a while ago.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/06/tsmc_malware/
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I'm struggling to agree with this.

Take a... Syria during civil war society and compare it to... Norwegian society.

I'd argue Norway has vastly more security and freedom. Increasing one didn't increase the other. And both metrics are pretty close to maximum.

Using your example of security vs freedom, yes there are measures you can take to increase security at the cost of freedom.

But there's also many measures you can take which do not compromise freedom. As a very basic example, having laws against murder. These laws (I can't imagine) effect "freedom" in any meaningful way, so I can't agree that they're fundamentally opposed in some kind of inherent way.

What we call security and freedom (and utopian for that matter) are just words, definable in any number of subjective ways.

But a theoretical Utopia is something theoretically perfect, which while technically possible, we probably agree is not practical.

I suppose my point is that subjective, indefinable properties like "infinite security" and "infinite freedom" are not fundamental, literal forces that increase when the other decreases and vice versa.

They're just words, and anything is possible, including a society where everyone enjoys maximum freedom and maximum security (by some definition)
What I don't understand is why there doesn't seem to be any initiative in Western Europe to reintroduce large fauna like bears and wolves. It is very convenient indeed to hike through the Alps without any fear of bears, but in this context it's almost hypocritical of Europeans to talk about conservation in Africa when their own fauna has been wiped out, without any effort to repopulate it.
This got me thinking: do the environmental cost calculations for food waste include calories consumed in excess of daily requirements?

What about alcohol consumption?

Is confectionary, eg. chocolate, lollies, ice cream, considers food waste for environmental purpose, given they are highly processed and completely uncessary from a nutritional perspective?
Norfolk is often similar, some insanely beautiful beaches but very few tourists there.
Yeah it was like that with my dad. He was super fit, didn’t drink, probably worked too much but that was about it as far as vices. But all the same the cancer came and just swallowed him up. We tried everything but it was just the disease was totally indifferent to our efforts.

Before that experience I never really got what the big deal with cancer was. But when it clicked that it’s basically your own cells evolving to destroy you: well it’s pretty dark if you think about it.
What does UBI have to do with carbon emissions?
I designed and built a wooden remote control[1] so I know a bit about why this is.

My iOS app asks the user for location permissions because without it the remote control app won't know when to attempt to connect when you walk in the door with your iPhone but your remote is sitting at home, waiting for you to hit it to turn on your lights or play music on your Sonos. If you hit the button and nothing happens, that's a horrible user experience!

I used to have location set to Always even though I don't store the location (and I'm explicit about that, even going so far as to open source the entire app ecosystem[2]) but then Apple pushed back and said that always having a location was against their ToS for remotes. I then switched to a geofence, which is still a location based permission but takes less battery life.

For Apple the tradeoff was not privacy but battery life. If I were to store your geofence information on my servers (which, ick) that would be OK as long as it was in teeny tiny text in my privacy policy. So while other remote control products are happy to take that information and sell it I decided to not double dip since you already pay once for the product. This is similar to my news reader which also has competitors that sell users' data. The tradeoff for me is that I earn a lot less than I theoretically could, but again, I don't double dip. Benefits of indie technology vs. venture-backed technology.

[1] Turn Touch: https://turntouch.com

[2] iOS source code: https://github.com/samuelclay/turntouch-ios
> Google, in its wisdom, has tied "Location" into things like BLE Scanning and WiFi scanning

That line implies Google made a "stupid mistake" here, when to me it seems like it was very much a calculated/malicious move.
Is this the same for bottled flax oil?
I am under the impression that flax oil has similar properties to fish oil.
Or https://location.services.mozilla.com/ or one of the multiple paid APIs.
I like to stimulate the appropriate photodetectors directly. I have a bank of blue leds aimed at my white ceiling. They are on for 12 minutes every 2 hours for the 12 daylight hours (7 times a day). The first lightcycle in the morning is for 24 minutes as the 12 minutes did not seem to be enough.
> > Blanket tax everyone.

> Give that money back.

Uh, what?
My Sonos system is by far the biggest slice in the “Blocked” pie chart of my PiHole dashboard. I have no idea how much dat still ends up on their servers because I didn’t bother to dig too deeply yet.

Next step is different VLAN with no internet access.
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Yeah, yeah. This time it will be really sorta almost self driving, not like last time it was promised.
Works best according to the best available data we have.

I dont have data on whether or not the system will function well as a big country or not because the data doesnt exist. The nonexistence of said data unsubstantiates any claim I can make or you can make and pushes it into the realm of speculation.

But speculate we shall. Military seems like an arbitrary choice. Socialist countries can choose to either spend on military or education and they have chosen the latter probably because there has never been a century where human society is more at peace than ever before according to all available data we have.

Why has the current century broken all records for peace on earth? Perhaps it's because, unlike previous centuries, war no longer offers spoils as it once did. A country that goes to war in the past had a net gain in wealth while a country that does the same in modern times will have a massive net loss. Information and technology have replaced territory and gold as our treasure and such a treasure can only be destroyed during war. Either way, data shows that conflict as a percentage of human population is currently massively smaller than all previous eras.

Still america chooses to build a huge army. Probably because of something called the military industrial complex. Powerful capitalist entities infiltrate a deliberately weak government and proceed to manipulate it into building an impressive yet uneeded military. Maybe? Just speculation.

Would such capitalist powers be able to influence a socialist government? What industrial complex tells Scandinavia to redirect those tax dollars towards free education instead of war?

All speculation.
This is worse, in a way - from what I can tell at the point of purchase the system didn't have the problematic data collection - that was added later in an update. Even a savvy consumer who researched which product to buy would be screwed in this circumstance.

It does seem to me that once a product is purchased, it ought to remain usable and supported under the terms it was purchased under, but that seems a long way from the current laws around user agreements.
Art imitates life I guess (or the other way around).

I always thought the book had its own set of ironies, in that this perfect beach existed, and it was the people that brought their troubles and fucked it up, regardless of how ideologically superior they thought they were.
They do: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation...
> There's many online services where you can put in a wifi MAC and pretty much know within 100M where someone is.

Minor nitpick, it’s the BSSID that’s used to lookup the location. In some cases the BSSID is the same as the MAC address (usually with cheaper consumer gear), but it’s not the case with APs that are broadcasting (or have capability to broadcast) more than one SSID. As one example, think of APs that have “Home” and “Guest” separate networks.
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The whole point of YouTube for m it's inception was to share videos with the internet.
This isn't some shady hivemind hatching an evil scheme.