skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most journalists have nothing to do with the business side of their company

Is that really true? It's the business side that pays their salaries, after all. Most people, in any business, are aware of where their employer's revenue comes from, who their competitors are, what threats they face, etc. This awareness is often heightened after being caught in a layoff, or working with others who have been. The news business has been pretty rough for a while so I'm pretty sure every working journalist has a pretty clear idea about these things.

There doesn't have to be a conspiracy here, and inferring one is a bit of a strawman. All that's necessary is plain old human cognitive bias. Availability bias: journalists are hyper-aware of Facebook because of how it relates to their lives. Confirmation bias: most journalists are predisposed to think ill of Facebook. These effects become even stronger when the journalists are all validating and reinforcing each other when they give negative stories about Facebook more prominence than they rationally deserve. Such stories are routinely repeated and exaggerated far more than other objectively similar stories that don't play into the same biases - not because of specific intent but just because journalists are humans.

Facebook is not the first company that has gone from media darling to media scapegoat. It won't be the last. Look at the extremely positive and extremely negative stories about any of Elon Musk's ventures. Or any celebrity. Anybody who denies that journalists play favorites isn't being very realistic.
My conclusion is that the janitor is on antidepressants.
> the long-term result could be increased distrust of American software companies by other countries, depending on how it's done

America isn't Australia. The NSA hoards bugs in software domestic and foreign alike.

One amendment to their charter which might make sense would be installing a public ombudsman. This ombudsman reviews the NSA's vulnerability hoard, takes into account the software's usage in the United States and then makes arguments to senior leadership for selectively releasing them.
> Compare for example the explicit Go concurrency model, that enables you to design a concurrent system, with Java synchronized methods, that for me represents “I have no idea of what is wrong with this messy multi-threaded stuff, so let the must lock all this stuff up”. That is not truly simple and it assumes you are stupid and have no idea of what you are doing.

This may sound inflammatory, but it actually matches my experience in multiple companies.

With one caveat. There are programmers that will learn just enough to be dangerous, who have ingrained the thought that "threads == speed", and will try to sprinkle multi threaded code everywhere. Said code will misbehave, which will cause them to spray "synchronized" keywords all over the codebase – until it stops misbehaving. Or, at least, until bugs cannot be reliably reproduced anymore. Now you have bottlenecks everywhere, even if it did make sense to spread the workload across cores, or when you'd be waiting for I/O otherwise.

So many people do not actually know what they are doing. And the prevalent concurrency model in Java doesn't help make sense of what is going on. Over time, cargo culting develops and there will be one single accepted solution codified in company policy. Usually, a sub-optimal one.

Go actually gives you better abstractions, so you can rely less on shared memory and more on message passing. Not only that, it makes it simpler to use this approach, vs. a Mutex and shared memory. Which means people will reach out for that first.

Go is not alone in this. There are languages that provide even better abstractions(Erlang for one). But Go features tend to be 'good enough'.
Wow this opus modus tool looks super polished. I'd not mind paying for it, if it ran on windows!

I've heard about other tools like this before ([1] for composition, [2] for synthesis, [3] for mind-blowing :-p) but somehow never heard about opus modus before.

* Where did you learn about it?

* Are there other similar prog-lang music production tools with similar level of polish?

* Any cross-platform / Windows supported tools? -- unfortunately opus modus only runs on macs :-(

1: https://github.com/ctford/leipzig

2: https://github.com/overtone/overtone

3: https://extemporelang.github.io/
No. I'll take the privacy I can get. However there's a subset of things that I can't hide because they're all over the place, so while I won't post my address here, I'm not particularly afraid at the prospect of Facebook using/leaking it. All my social media posts will be public sooner or later as those orgs inevitably get hacked at some point, so I don't expect privacy there either.

In cases where its realistic in the current world to get privacy, I'll take everything I can get: eg I still think there's a reasonable shot at eventually making cities enforce rules that prevent people from bringing a drone to my window on the 5th freagin floor to take pictures of my bedroom, and I'll certainly push for that to death.
The Mac would be a better comparison than iOS. On the Mac, developers are free to circumvent the Mac App Store entirely and keep 100% of the revenue (minus whatever it costs them to process the payments, distribute the binaries, etc.)

And in fact this change specifically excludes Xbox (and, curiously, all games in general), which is the (remaining) Microsoft platform that's closest to iOS in terms of being locked down.
> If domestic spying is what the people wants then congress needs to act on that.

And they have, repeatedly.

For all their bluster, the legislation that they've passed immunized the corporations who participated, left standing the punishment against Qwest (who didn't), and created new avenues to collect information in secret.

They held no one from either the Bush or Obama administrations, both of whom supported such programs, to account.

Congress did approve, modulo some theatrics, the actions of those administrations, because it's what people, that is, their constituents wanted.

> NSA is a traitor to the American public.

This kind of rhetoric when people didn't do what you personally wanted, but which much of the public did, isn't helpful and is a large portion of why the current politics are so toxic.

As far as anyone has been able to document, the NSA largely spends their time fighting terrorist organizations and hacking other nation-states -- doing things that legitimately keep safe Americans, in a world that isn't all that nice of a place.

It's trite to snipe at how the guards do their job, safe under their watch and without anything at risk -- particularly when you're also safely the minority, so don't run the risk of your opinions being put into action.

> can't even begin to imagine how blackmail will be used to silently and invisibly form the political landscape for the next 50 years

Good, I'm tired of lizard people.

Also, "Hoover-esque" comes to mind. Of course, the real danger for your conspiracy is the private consultancies and large corporations, which have considerably better access to information and substantially more sophisticated systems.

I'm personally considerably less worried about the NSA (or other government) archives and systems than the privateer ones, particularly in the age of rogue billionaires with aspirations of nation building -- to the point I'm willing to risk it to enable the nation to defend itself from, eg, another 2016-style PSYOP campaign.
> It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving

Email hasn't had any new features added in decades, and people still use it.

For me, Facebook is a tool. I use it to organise events and groups, and communicate with people.

There's no other tool that works as well. I can have all my messages, groups, and events in one place. Almost everyone I know uses Facebook as well, so it's centralised.

Speaking of event management, one very useful feature that Facebook has added recently is integrated payments for events. You can set up a Facebook event that has tickets, and people can purchase and pay for tickets through FB without having to go to the external ticket sales platform (moshtix, eventbrite etc.). I'm not sure if you can do ticketing directly through Facebook or if you need an external service, I haven't set up any events with tickets. Anyway, it's a very useful feature as it saves me having to sign up for different ticket platforms.
Thanks for the pointer. I'm largely on Linux and my wife largely on Mac, but I'm sure I can spin up a VM somewhere if the software is worth it.
Agree on the lack of features front.

I actually preferred the simpler design FB had back in 2013 or so before the big redesign. After that everything seemed to get busier and louder. Usability took a hit after that IMO.
EV startup NIO abandons plan to make its own cars
This is an ambitious rhetorical style. Most of us are probably going to fail your test and not realize it. Some of us will realize that the test itself is a heads-you-win-tails-we-lose pointless exercise anyway. If you are seeking to persuade, you could be more explicit.
0days are not magic. Stare enough at code and you will find them. E&Y and the other Professional Services companies have a big pentesting team, and they would have made discoveries on their own regarding system security. Any company with a large security / research team would have 0days. What they do with them, (report, sit, burn, etc) is up the organizational and individual ethics of the operator.
I made my choices carefully and consciously. As I said, I entrusted Google with my data, my emails, pictures, history. I know that my data is never sold to anyone and always kept secure. Google is probably one of the most careful companies when dealing with private data in the world. I can delete or take a copy of it if I want as well.
Needless to say, I disagree with the "you are the product" polemic.
I suspect there's a very real fear that their surveillance capabilities will completely go dark and they'll have just no way of going the extra mile on intel gathering when it's sorely needed.

I'm not a supporter of this but I do believe there is a genuine, good faith act here.
Well there's Livox with a $600 unit: https://www.livoxtech.com/ Initial reviews[1] on the internet show it looks pretty decent for the price. There are certainly better sensors, but I would argue we have indeed entered the sub-$1,000-lidar-phase of the SDC era. As if Andrej Karpathy needed anything more to worry about.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/UAVmapping/comments/aimnik/livox_mi...
Havent they thought about not broadcasting the window size... wtf. We are doomed apparently.
Deleted FB account over a year ago.

Always wondered if we could create a lurker account that everyone shares — we share the password and just agree not to change the password, post, etc.
Clearly it will be eaaier to figure out who are undesired individuals if one has access to everyones Facebook feed.
Ask HN: Has anyone here purchased a website from Flippa and grown it afterwards?
What the utter shit is an SRE service?
I couldn't agree more and don't forget about "aggregator" type accounts that just steal original content from other users. I am predicting that Instagram will last another 2-3 years before people get tired of the non-stop ads and spam.
The whole shebang may be reducible to something as simple as 42, as we all know.
Coming from Facebook? Yeah right. I'd say I would believe it when I see it, but given their shadiness I still wouldn't believe it.
I just unsubscribed from all of the folks on FB that post political stuff.

Maybe they should make that a global option, something like "Hide Political Stories" or something.
I know, I have Android. They will disable features until you give them some over-broad permission or enable tracking on your account. Another example is Google Maps won't let you use its "home address" feature without enabling "Web and App" activity tracking.

They've also worked around their own permissions model. Google Play Services demands a massive amount of permissions, and will yell and scream and try to scare you if you take them away. IIRC, a lot of Google's own privacy invasions are conducted indirectly using that library.
Changing your user agent will do terrible things to captchas. I actually change my user agent specifically to test the fail state of captchas. I'd suggest only turning that on if you know what you're doing.
I like how the material was presented. Anyone know what program was used to create the illustrations -- these are fantastic for explanations!
I want to see all journalists at least mentioning this whataboutism, if they really want to solve a problem. They’re just gaining traction and views on Facebook’s negative momentum, and they don’t even mention the bigger elephants in the room (such as google analytics, for instance).
At least 20 states have proposed anti-vaccination bills
> Chrome was released in 2008 but was likely in development for some time before that.

Well, sure, didn't it end up taking WebKit from Safari, which was C++, because it came from KDE Konqueror's KHTML?
Will this kill Steam? I suspect that's their main adversary as in mobile space they are non-existing, yet they can't dominate gaming space on PC.
It's easy to not delete and stop using to serve your purpose. I loathe facebook et al., but some employers (fewer and fewer these days) want to see my online presence. To not have a facebook was considered strange, so for that reason, I keep it around. However, as far as maintaining an identity, or holding on to your custom facebook url, that’s a non-issue. Delete away, and create again—facebook is intelligent enough to reconnect you to all those people if need be. Personal identity is strengthened by other's endorsement. That's easy to get again with FB, especially if you're who you really are. It's difficult to take someone’s identity in that sense and it be valuable to the person doing it.
Oh yeah definitely, it's got nothing to do with privacy, it's just not a platform geared towards younger people, because it's a platform that caters to older people.

Kids these days don't give a shit about privacy. Why would they?
Yeah, I was going to say... it would make zero sense for an attacker to waste a Chrome RCE 0day on tracking people who read academic books about Honduras!

Although, I'm not sure why they'd do that in the first place, even. Anti-piracy? Seems a lot of effort..
Can entangled qubits be used to probe black holes?
if you think C or C++ programmers are ever going to admit this, you must never have met one
Ex-mountain rescue for a busy agency out west. I would say our books were "reference" books. They are for theoretical discussion in a classroom, not an on-the-job resource as I would consider a handbook or textbook.
Slaves.

He's talking about slaves.
>Or "suspicious people"

The bane of Nextdoor. Every person within 100 yards is suspicious, especially if they have "Hair color: african" (I kid you not, this one is from my neighborhood Nextdoor).
I've found that drinking more water throughout the day has helped my nightly dehydration.
How sad. Trebek has been one of the few TV personalities that have been part of my daily life for most of my adult life. Nothing is forever but somethings you wish would never end.

Pancreatic cancer is hard to beat but I wish him the best.
Facebook could charge different prices in different geoip zones, like IP licensing does.
I know you're not asking for advice, but in this case I would use LiveReload against multiple windows covering the breakpoints. Then you'll only need to wiggle edges to check breakpoint transitions.
The article says:

"[...] does not quite cover the entire theoretical dynamic range of the human ear in ideal conditions."

Note the words "theoretical" and "ideal".

In your post it sounds like you're claiming that you can regularly hear a difference under normal listening conditions - which contradicts my reading of that sentence.

My gut feeling is that the difference you're hearing is placebo.

To put it another way - either the article is making an inaccurate statement, you're mistaken - or you've got golden ears and only ever listen to music in specially prepared environments.
I haven't noticed any change whatsoever since 2016 and Facebook continues to work great for me. But then I don't live in US.
Analysis of 40k YouTube Trending Videos with Python [Jupyter Notebook]
Would s["one"] = 1 raise an exception? Or convert the set into a dict? Or change the sentinel value for all the set elements?

None seem like a good design since it means either the instance change its class on the fly (which Python does support) or that a dict does not act like its parent set object, breaking the is-a relationship most people expect from an OO design.

It seems like the circle/ellipse problem, and the current implementation is the "drop all inheritance relationships" solution to that problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle-ellipse_problem#Drop_al...
The number of people required was a function of the "this complex" qualifier.

I can write a safe C++ app on my own. I can't write Chrome on my own.
If i was to guess, i would guess that it was Bitlocker vuln, CVE-2018-12037, where the bitlocker crypto implementation is left to the junk SSD 'self encrypting' feature which is found to be broken. I have my doubts they cracked Veracrypt, LUKS or filevault2 with operator supplied keys. Or they got the keys from Microsoft/Apple (filevault2 and bitlocker will escrow the keys to the OS vendor in home editions).
If I'm buying a used piece of furniture or whatever, I don't give a shit about prostitution going on elsewhere on the site.

What's really hurt Craigslist is all the scammers. You can't post anything of value on there without some scammer responding and telling you they're going to send you a cashier's check and have a personal assistant pick it up.

You don't have this problem at all on Facebook AFAICT. When someone responds to your ad on Facebook Marketplace, it's a real person who actually wants to buy your old junk.
Their egos have priced them out of a lot of stuff though.

The Chrome team is great but when you're surrounded by people who think they're god damn gods on Earth it's hard to question orthodoxies, especially old ones.
I realize it's a controversial topic, but I would welcome a bot that posts outline links to paywalled content.

Usually someone posts a link anyway so it would not make much a difference.
> It's becoming boring

Unless Facebook figures out a way to address this, it's the start of a death spiral. The only thing that makes Facebook interesting is the people it can connect you to. If a few of them leave, the place becomes a little more boring than it used to be... which leads a few more of them to get bored and leave, which makes the place a little more boring... which leads more people to get bored and leave, etc. What started as a few snowflakes turns into an avalanche.

It's kind of the photo-negative version of the positive feedback loop Facebook enjoyed on its way up. Back then, each new person who joined created an additional incentive for other people to join, which gave them tremendous upward velocity. But the same dynamic running in reverse could send them downward just as quickly.
I just started unfollowing (for people I actually interact with, or might need to) or unfriending (for people I will never see again, and don't want to) people who post overly political bullshit.

I don't mind a bit of politics, Australia is going to hell in a handcart and the least people can do is raise awareness. But I don't like inflammatory (and often completely fake) bullshit.

I can now scroll my newsfeed (which I don't actually do that often) without getting high blood pressure.
Waymo’s Move to Sell Lidar Units Is a Bet on a Bigger Market
Concurrency bugs in Go study is a good place to start on the last one: https://songlh.github.io/paper/go-study.pdf
If you combine Instagram they haven't really lost anything.
Again, this is not to rosser specifically, but to the general sentiment on HN.

I used the word imagination to consider the likelihood of an identical overwhelmingly positive response, yet directed at something that is not autism - say minorities for example.

To state that very clearly: I believe there is a differential treatment on HN for some topics such as Asperger, autism, ADHD, burnout (etc).

This can be seen by the responses it generates: keywords (regardless of their pejorativeness or the importance of the concept) are different, and some things that often don't fly do appear to fly.

If you believe it is in my imagination, do a sentiment analysis using the text of the comments for group1=(autism, Asperger, ...) group2=(minorities, women...) , then check with a t-test if the response is different.

I reject the null.
That worked for my wife and me as well :). To be fair, my advisor went on sabbatical for a year and I helped manage the group while he was gone. I learned a lot... My wife was an organic chemist working with some nasty monomers (not good for pregnancy...), so we swapped some tasks. She did my literature searches (this was before easy access to data bases) and I handled her last few reactions. Everything worked out well. The salary for a research scientist was very welcome at the end...
It's the same shortcut on Linux and *BSD and probably everywhere.
Why can't bots wear capes?

I bet a raspberry pi case with a cape would be pretty cool looking.
We sell advertising space which is not affiliate driven. Our readers are primarily architects and designers who are purchasing products through furniture dealers as opposed to online so affiliate stuff doesn't really work (I've tried).
Apps need it to determine where to place elements.

If it wasn't you would still be able to reverse engineer it by sticking elements outside the viewport and seeing if they're hidden or not.

Turns out anonymity is super freaking hard. :-/
The grad student writing it up had to take leave
Sure, but I also didn't know I would live in my city as long as I did. So I should have bought earlier. Bad predictions can work both ways, you do the best you can.
This has been up a while and has a lot of comments, and there is no mention of Cambridge Analytica? A lot of people talk about polarization on Facebook around 2016... that was the intended result of deliberate and concerted efforts. Whether or not user metadata disclosure was done intentionally, the data was then used to radicalize target populations on certain political issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

Of course people are leaving and don't trust them.
"Playing to Lose" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcuQQ1eWWI

Personal preferences aside, they specifically talk about how to make the game "fun". For example, they try to account for things like real-world leader's personalities. "Gandhi" shouldn't just attack his neighbors unprovoked, but maybe "Caesar" should.

And why do the AIs even bother to ally/trade/help the player at all, since the player is the only enemy that really matters anyway? Because the player is also the only person that matters in terms of having fun, and making the game too hard isn't any fun.
Arachne for DOS
Snapchat is the most annoying platform I have ever experienced for messaging. Disappearing messages (with no option for them to stick around) is literally an anti-feature.

Instagram is just annoying, because it's an image sharing platform being used as a messaging platform. I actually get annoyed when people message me on Instagram, because it means that their messages to me are scattered over different platforms.
I am still praying that some day soon AWS will announce that they are joining Opencensus (along with Google, MS, Datadog, Prometheus)[1] in the hopes that we can move towards standard tooling for observability.

They also seriously need to give CloudWatch a UI/UX overhaul.

1. https://opencensus.io/introduction/#partners-contributors