skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are unions, and then there are unions.

In Germany, labour unions are strong, but things like union security agreements are unheard of (and I was amazed something like that would exist when I first heard of it). The stories you read about corruption in US labour unions (admittedly subject to selection bias) are unheard of over here.

There are strong laws and customs around arbitration processes, and a culture of unions considering survival and success of the business above pushing through maximal demands. E.g. in a prolonged strike, if employers and union are unable to resolve the conflict, after some time arbitration by a generally respected elder statesman kicks in. They hear both sides, and then make a binding decision, which usually is generally accepted. It all seems a bit more balanced.

I'm not sure how much that transfers to other European countries. France famously has a different culture around strikes and unions, but doesn't seem to be representative (https://www.etui.org/Services/Strikes-Map-of-Europe).
> region noted for fake deaths

There is a place that is known for this specifically? Where can I read more about this?
Interesting results.

The results seem very useful when reasoning about coordination in programs, but I'm questioning how practically useful these results are when applied as methods.

In the GC example, for instance, you do need to find the garbage nodes. Any trivial way of re-formulating that search in a monotonic way would likely destroy performance. My guess is that it's no silver bullet to solving problems in distributed systems.
Global environmental catastrophe.
> As to your point RE: OPMs going on world conquests, I think that's part of Paradox's cross-franchise decision to move away from historicality and towards more "casual" gameplay (i.e., map painting)

TBH I'm actually fine with that, so long as the AI can end up doing the same. I'm still waiting for an AI Ulm to vassalize large chunks of the HRE and become emperor.
Which Spring AI was this? I don't remember any of them being any good.

I made a Spring AI back in the day (it wasn't very good either).
What an aweful thing to say. Today it's meth dealers, tomorrow it's Koran owners, then gun owners, people of a certain color, people with the nose of a certain length, etc... We stick to the Constitution because it protects us from crazy invasive government.
And that's silly because...?
Similar developer settings on the S8+/Note 9 - as soon as you connect to a device that doesn't support your chosen codec, it'll reset. I can tell the difference between APT-X and AAC, but I've got no idea if the AAC is being re-encoded.
Well, what does a CEO do, really? He's saying the right things, in public, which matters more than what he thinks in private.

It means at least some Facebook employees will be empowered to take action on it, because the top boss said so. We'll see what they end up building.
Yes, and Latvia had a population of about 2.5 million at this time. The article suggests that 24,000 people were recruited as agents and only 4,000 are found among these cards.

That's not quite high enough to be institutionally aware of every human in the country but it's not that far off. Discard the children, the sick, and the elderly and you're pretty much covered.
My point is even if someone has your password there are legal routes where you can go recover your money. The bank will then do that. The blockchain is distributed. Who do you go complain to?
Honestly, autopilot software should have checks and balances already in place to prevent use if the system is compromised. Regardless if it was compromised by human hands or general use / wear & tear
Acceptance criteria in the CS department of my alma mater is on a scale of 3-4 peer peer-reviewed papers, accepted in some journals. I would also be careful about what the point of research might be. The most important purpose of a PhD student is to produce a thesis in a foreseeable future, to qualify himself for scientific work. The success of the thesis depends on the advisor(s), and later the department and the reviewers. Thus, it's important to choose a topic, which is NOT an ultimate dead end. Even if your topic leads to a successful thesis, it might be a dead end later on. Because your advisor has no network, or because nobody is interested in your results etc. And even if you can continue with research, you are rather occupied with fund raising, networking and marketing. If I had to do a PhD again, I would try to figure out as fast as possible what is expected to do in the specific configuration I'm in, and then try to minimize all obstacles and distractions which might be in the way (teaching, assistance for the prof, fund raising, conferences etc). After that, if your're are lucky, you have 1-2 years left to write down your stuff.
It's weird because when you read vulnerability (or at least when I say it) the first phoneme effectively becomes 'vun' - but in the abbreviated form one feels the need to mentally enunciate the 'l'.
Great summary, thanks, that was genuinely helpful.
I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue.

Most of us drive cars filled with fuel from evil oil companies, why do we all drive cars?
> There was an element of this, but it was also broadly understood to be "civilizing" lesser cultures and bringing them into modern standards. There were quite a few arguments put forward that it was the compassionate thing to do.

Yes, I'm sure there were plenty of colonizers who thought they were doing the right thing, but there were plenty who did not, who had no concern about the lives of the people they destroyed through slavery and genocide. The fact that some of them might have had good intentions in midst of all the death and oppression doesn't change what they did.

> One could make a case that cultures who reject universal healthcare are uncivilized, therefore we should go in and force them to become enlightened like us.

I'm not sure what you mean by "force" here—are you talking about slavery or genocide? Military takeover?

Or do you mean something like "show them the results, and convince them it's a good idea"?

> seems to pre-suppose that there is objective morality, or objective good and bad, and that the viewpoint you have arrived at is the only objectively correct view

That's also a straw man. You don't need to believe in a single objectively correct view to decide that "affordable medicine" is better than "400 years of brutal oppression". If my ruler can't determine which of two lines is longer when they're less than 1mm different, that doesn't mean it can't determine that a 2cm line is shorter than a 10cm line.

> It sounds like you are saying "it's too hard or complex" because they are different political bodies (please correct me if I misunderstand you here) so it's not worth doing.

Not that it is, or isn't worth doing—just that it's a very different thing. Is it too hard or complex? Well, it's certainly a lot harder and more complex. Too hard or complex, I have no idea.

> If you truly cared, would it not be worth taking over their political body to force them to be more compassionate to their people?

That sounds like one of those foolish "if you could go back in time to kill Hitler" thought exercises. And it has the same answer—if you could do that, then you could also stop him without killing him.

Similarly, if you wanted to convince people that more affordable access to health care is a good thing, you don't need to take over their country.

> what if someone in a heavily Christian southern state, who knows that they have the truth of Jesus Christ on their side (i.e. they are certain of their morally superior position), decides that New York is immoral and calloused for permitting abortion. Would you support them working at a federal level to ban it nationwide?

I'm not sure if you've been reading the news lately, but that's what they've been doing. So they're definitely not waiting for my permission.

> Would you support them working at a federal level to ban it nationwide? Surely they believe not doing so is callous. How do you argue against that?

I'm not sure why I would need to—yes, they think it's a lot worse than callous. Them being convinced of their morally superior position doesn't mean that I am convinced of their morally superior position.
You do raise a fair objection, but "black swan" events are a known issue where it comes to sampling.

For example, an answer to your question could be: "you asked us to find the average wing span to beak size ratio for male and female swans. Including the black swan doesn't change it at all, and the massively larger sample set doesn't improve our accuracy".
So microsoft should just ignore all the lessons that we've learned over and over about being data driven?
Next time you see a shortened word, you can just assume it's useful. Because they are.
SingleSpot: meet singles in bars and cafés around you
u r n0t 1337 h4xx0r

This sounds like it was written by the same guy who started the "Hacker known as 4Chan" meme
I'm not sure that bomb is the right analogy. Maybe thermite would be a better analog? EVs will burn long and hot (though not as hot as some imagine), but do not tend to be explosive.
Why? An assessment of technical competence/relevance seems to be a cornerstone of the upvote/downvote system on HN.

I find ESR to be ferociously overrated from a technical standpoint and resent the fact that he absorbs oxygen from people far more talented but far less "adept" at self-promotion. In addition, the "technical" ideas that he promulgates occasionally have to be actively undone by those with stronger technical chops.

Why does verbalizing this run afoul?
Looks to be completely free.
Well most of the current predicament is that it was never decided how Brexity the Brexit should be, I don't think it follows that just because we voted for a Brexit, we should jump off the deep end and go for the most extreme version.
Do most Electron apps make use of CSP? eg: is it an inherent part of the build process, or is it something that the developer needs to explicitly add?
Could you please not do this here? We're trying for somewhat better than internet median on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think people who don't know what 0-day actually used to mean use it in a sense of "new security bug". Classically, no 0-day can by definition have a CVE, for example. But right now any new bug which is widely exploitable in the wild can be called in the press "0-day", despite the fix being released.
I've typed it, but I dunno if I've ever said it out loud. Kind of like i18n.
I actually think there would be value in having machine-learning / AI in a game that would dynamically try to match the human player's skill without overwhelming the human player. The goal would be to maintain parity such that the human's player response would always be "I was this close, and I could have done X, Y, and Z" as opposed to "I had no chance".
It’s /usr/bin/true on Mac, and the OpenBSD source for it is at https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/true/true... .
> Is it a shock that these processes have exposed these vulnerabilities in our society?

No, not at all. The entire premise of capitalism is to exploit labor.
Facebook growth numbers haven't been strong lately, but it's still growing [0]. With 2.3B monthly active users 15M isn't much to worry about unless a specifically profitable sub-population is doing the leaving.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
This write-up is not helpful and says nothing about how one would be infected. it just says it can do code execution but no evidence anyone has been infected in any way or how would would be infected. The worst 0day possible is un-sandboxed code execution that is activated by merely visiting a webpage or clickinig.
> uses up all your resources
> is enormous in size for no reason
> javascript

Ok, agreed.
These companies are literally small businesses. They're not about maximizing profit or utility, they're about blowing venture capital in the search of biggest fool to pay the highest price in an IPO or acquisition.

It's indicative of an era of cheap and dumb money, where FOMO is driving investment - just like before the dotcom bust.
Its not just advertising, its curating your impression of the digital world
> we currently have 88k CJK characters assigned

If you also count the Unihan variations registered in Unicode's ideographic variation database by various Japanese outfits, encoded using the VS16 to VS255 characters after the codepoint they modify, there's another 8k or 9k unique characters assigned.
I was on Paxil for almost ten years. God, the zaps, the nausea, and the memory loss when coming off of it!

I just read a book the other day that I’ve had for awhile but hadn’t read—or so I thought. While reading it, some of it seemed familiar but I just assumed I had started it but never finished. I went to post it to my Goodreads account only to find it already there complete with a review that I had written. I have no memory of writing that review, much less of ever actually finishing the book.

I realized I had read it towards the end of my time on my medication.

That’s a prosaic example compared to the conversations my wife and I have where she’ll mention something funny or endearing about our children who were toddlers at the time but I simply can’t remember them.

If you’re thinking about using SSRI’s for anxiety I encourage you to find a therapist who has an evidence-based practice like ACT.
Which is a massive security issue in itself--Electron documentation even warns you about this.
Does anyone know why is Tolstoy's name usually in English anglicized as Leo? I know it's customary to do for Pope and kings, but I don't know of any other writer. Fyodor Dostoyevsky is Fyodor, not Theodore or Fred or whatever, so why has Lev become Leo? Publishers?
Because shaving off a minute of sleep isn't necessarily a profitable business that needs venture capital, which is the point of the article.

There is no moat in moving something from a billboard to a smartphone app, there is no obvious way in which this 'appification' industry is actually profitable or a viable business.

One particularly prominent example being moviepass. Is there some potential gain for customers in there somewhere, yes obviously but does that mean that sending you a credit card and having investors subsidize your cinema habits is a viable business or even worthy of being called 'technology'? No.
If you could actually use that 1 more minute in a productive way, then yeah, that would be huge. If you're just forcing people to stay awake and stare at a wall then no that is not productive.
Discless Xbox “Maverick” Could Arrive as Soon as May
GPS Week Roll over Issue [pdf]
Walmart in particular seems well-positioned to pivot to competing with Amazon in retail in the US. They maintain what are essentially warehouse facilities within a short drive of a huge percentage of the population. Outcompeting Amazon in terms of a pleasant and trust-building web-shopping experience should be achievable--Amazon's UX has been getting worse over time, and achieving truly fast delivery outside of huge urban areas should be more possible for Walmart than anyone else. That said, I don't think Walmart is ready to be anywhere near bold enough to transform their assets into a true Amazon competitor because it would necessarily involve taking big risks and scaling back on the formula that has gotten them to where they are.

So I'm not hopeful, but I keep thinking someday some new CEO might just make it happen.
Not all heroes wear capes, but you probably should
Foreign actors hacking some servers and systems and placing malware is one thing -- that's been going on for a long time, and it's not unexpected -- but having the insight and expertise to run a campaign that exerts more influence than the entire media and PR industry put together, well that's something else. That would require something above and beyond -- we're not that fragile.

Consider this...

NB: These are the same questions I posed in a thread a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19282809).

Do you know the size of the Russian economy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia

How many individual US states have an economy larger than Russia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states...

And the size of the PR industry? https://www.statista.com/topics/3521/public-relations/

We invented the modern PR industry, AI, and social media. And the PR industry has been perfecting the design of campaigns for 100 years. That's our bailiwick.

You think Russia outclassed us at our own game, at home on our own platforms, on the biggest stage, in the highest stakes game of all?

And then to pull that off with no one noticing or countering it in the most measured world of all time?

That would be like the Russian basketball team [0] beating the US Dream Team [1] in all of our major sports combined, at the same time. Not gonna happen.

And to what extent would a feat like that even be possible for someone from the US? And if some super-genius person or group of US citizens with the combination of intimate understanding, sophistication and skill did exist, then why wouldn't they just work for the campaign? And if one in the US could pull that off, why think Russia could?

[0] Russian Basketball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_national_basketball_tea...

[1] US Dream Team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_men%27s_Oly...
> Some consider that the reframing, in USA, of HIV as a general problem -- rather than being transmitted primarily amongst promiscuous male homosexuals -- as a great harm

I don't know what kind of fantasy land you come from but that's preposterous. I come from a city with one of the highest HIV populations in the world and it isn't just gay people who have it. My favorite author died of AIDS from a blood transfusion.

> A group choose to do something that exposes them to greater risk of disease; society steps in when the impact on others increases.

What a disgusting outlook. Everybody didn't decide at the Annual Gay Convention that they wanted to start introducing HIV into their population.

It's great that you think sexual promiscuity is comparable to the anti-vaxxer movement, but that's so far from the truth it's painful.

I care about each individual affected by the anti-vax group, including the involved children, not just those outside the anti-vax group it affects. I'm not only concerned when it starts affecting people I consider to be society's desirables.

I care about each kid involved in this crazy movement to mutilate your children's genitals at a young age to "switch their gender". Even if it doesn't affect me or other people.

I care about each person who has contracted HIV, not just homosexuals. I want them to be able to live happy lives despite living them different from mine.

That's called empathy. Caring for people outside of your immediate circle. It's something you should consider trying.
> But that doesn't solve the monthly mortgage cost.

The space can be rented out to someone else to cover the cost, possibly at a profit to the remaining owners since the renter isn't taking on any risk.

The bigger risk in this arrangement is to the party that is leaving since a share of a house is illiquid.
It's free, open source, and no watermark - so QuickChart compares favorably in that regard!

In terms of functionality, ChartURL is also built on Chart.js, so charting capabilities should be roughly equivalent. They've added the nice feature of being able to save your charts to a short URL.
Sorry, but you are stupid and ignorant.

KGB tortures aren't something cool to want.
It was exploited before the vendor was aware; IMO that earns it a permanent "Zero-day" title. Obviously it's not currently a zero-day, given that we're hearing about it from the vendor.

The moniker is pretty paradoxical otherwise, the discoverer writing a post about a zero-day would make it no longer a zero-day.
I'm not surprised so many people only see this issue from one side, which is some version of "Keeping all of your data locked up is the most important thing in the world and ads are always bad. If you disagree with that you are either not technical or stupid."

It seems that nobody ever considers the other side, which would be that people are now targeted with ads that they want to see instead of poorly targeted ads that just waste their time. Another plus is that small advertisers can now afford to advertise alongside companies with much larger budgets by micro-targeting. I've engaged with lots of ads on Facebook and its not because I'm stupid, it's because they are showing me things I'm interested in. There's nothing wrong with being concerned with how data is being used but this constant dialogue from the "never ads" crowd is pretty tired.
Please google "Ashton Manual"

The process you're describing is well understood. What your folks are experiencing is extremely common. The Ashton Manual not only describes the process, but also details procedures for mitigating withdrawal-crash-relapse cycling.

I'm not a Doctor. The author has solid medical and research credentials along with decades of experience specifically treating and studying benzo addiction. The manual is published by a public research university and has withstood many years of scrutiny.
Most shells optimize it to avoid the overhead of spawning a process for something as trivial as that. But yes, it's an actual binary even so, just in case - try `which true`.

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/true...
Mark Zuckerberg lays out new 'privacy-focused' vision for Facebook
Viewing Matrices and Probability as Graphs
I notice he didn't deny the use of dev mode debug devices. I personally don't see what the big deal is apart from implying magical hacker skills - reverse engineering even from a debug device is still impressive work.
Pedantic, but travelling is not a privilege (assuming, of course, that we're talking about most people from most countries). Some people don't have the resources to travel, but they are not otherwise prohibited from doing so.
> If you believe him, what does that mean for labor?

It means you are fairly compensated for your work and you pay fair prices for the product of other people's work.
I think the key may be to very, very slowly wean yourself off. You might have to get pretty radical, like 1mg reduction per week. (That's ~2 year taper - obviously an excessive example but these drugs are weird.)
Ha - yes. Also have you seen this 1865 news article from the New York Times about The Tenth Avenue Juggernaut? https://www.nytimes.com/1865/03/26/archives/the-tenthavenue-...
There are several documentaries on YouTube exploring how easy it is to fake death certificates in, say, Delhi. Search for ‘quacks’
Looks cool, do you store all the speech data?
It's good that you have knowledge to contribute here. And I understand how provocative downvotes can be. Nevertheless, please follow the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). That's actually just why we have that guideline.
So they are gonna open source everything so that the community can contribute to it and still charge us for using it. Cleaver move Microsoft
The VCs funding these companies are about as much to blame for the "servant economy" as they are for the weather. They're a tiny piece of the computation and a minute fraction of the resources being deployed. They might be at the vanguard but they control what comes next just about as much as a surfer controls the waves. It's not their fault.

It's humanity's for not aligning the incentives of these great systems properly.
Looks like a small summary of:

https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/tech/exclusive-look-n...
except we already know that in groups, people act differently than they would individually.

the GP statement is, by that argument, strictly correct. 'composed of' humans is not the same as 'being' human.

He did go on to say, this exposes the weakness in society, which is a collection of humans.