skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the burn will come later, and we won't realize the stove is being turned up until we're the frog in boiling water.

Facebook is a bad company doing bad things (full of, undoubtedly, good people trying to do good things) and I'd prefer not to give them any information about me, as they've proved they will share it with whomever, whenever, and only change behavior after they've been caught. 10 or 15 years from now, when my daughter grows up a bit, I want her to be able to decide what pictures of her are online, how much Facebook (or the new social monolith company) knows about her, and who to share her data with.

I don't know what these companies are going to do with our data in the future, but they have terrible track records, and I know they are not to be trusted. I grew up with a gmail account that holds thousands of hours of gchat logs. I grew up posting stupid stuff on Facebook that probably still exists on their servers. I would gladly give up the meaningless interactions that took place in Facebook for just an ounce of invisibility back.

We don't know what the burn will be, but I can tell you it's coming. I'd just rather not have my hand on the stove when it finally gets turned on.
Autonomous Cars Can't Recognise Pedestrians with Darker Skin Tones
I would actually really like an answer to this question, I’ve often thought about it!
I can write a safe C++ app on my own

But only if you don't use any external libraries, once you link in someone else's code, you can no longer be sure your program is "safe".
KD4HSO here. I do RF circuit design for a living, but built the tube kit just as I have never messed with any non-microwave tubes. It’s a single ended class A with 300B output tubes. Have not measured the THD yet.

https://wallofsound.ca/audioreviews/amplification/review-ele...

I’m not worried about the whole spectrum as I only listen to classical on it, primarily string quartets. The speakers are folded horns, so bass response is reasonable.

Anything like Dream Theater or Iron Maiden is in the car. Would definitely be solid state with a subwoofer for that.
The state of nutrition science is so poor.

But intuitively eating unprocessed foods that are not made with artificial or chemical anything (including artificial sweeteners) is probably a good start.

Fasting is probably another good way to reset your gut.
The loudness buttons were more to equalize than to affect the dynamic range.

At lower volumes, we perceive mid-range frequencies to be more prominent than at higher volumes. The loudness buttons would add lows and highs and/or lower mids so that the music would "sound better" at lower volumes.

https://ehomerecordingstudio.com/fletcher-munson-curve/
Indeed, bug 936448 is a locked bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=936448
I am sure about that.

Your linked informational page leaked out when someone sent WikiLeaks a dump from a classified Confluence used by CIA’s cyber folks.

The tool itself, however, had not leaked.
At least my email doesn't have constant security issues and controversial practices.
It is indeed a common literary device in 19th century Russian lit. Usually with proper names to make them more "anonymous" but contemporary readers would know exactly what was being referenced.

For example, most of the place names in Crime and Punishment are redacted, but it's so clear where everything happens there are walking tours in St Petersburg.
There is magic, (caveat: I work here), but Instana (https://instana.com) will instrument most major languages and frameworks auto-magically. As in, I don't have to declare a dependency, change a configuration, or anything - our agent finds processes running on the system and bootstraps the libraries while running and monkey patches a huge number of standard libraries and frameworks with no restarts. (don't believe me, give the trial a shot)

There is literally nothing else quite like it in the market, and it gives you distributed tracing, automatic metric collection, and pre-defined alerts for a reasonable price.

https://docs.instana.io/core_concepts/tracing/#supported-tec...
apps? do we consider websites apps now?

but either way if you have the JS, CSS and HTML, you should know where to put elements.

Are nyc (news yc com) people part of the problem?
If they published the wallets everyone would be able to audit how much they have in trust. Its a lot more detail than you'd ever have with your traditional broker.
Does that matter? Don't devs cater to the outliers?
Yes, Chrome was a fork.
>Apps need it to determine where to place elements.

This determination can't be done client-side? In other words, if I resize the window, it's going to send the new size to determine where to place the elements in the "new" area?
I think he was abbreviating/f@c#ifying «морда ишака в говно» in the original Russian. The last word is a very old fashioned term for "shit" and it means "put their face in it" where face is really muzzle of an ass with similar connotation. The Polish translation I read used „pyskiem w g…” so it's more obvious ;)
SSRI discontinuation is really horrible and most doctors don't tell you up front the hell that it is. To me, its a sin up there with not telling opioid patients what that'll be like to stop.

I've been with two partners that stopped SSRI's after a long time. The brain zaps lasted for months, and the memory, mood issues, and sex drive changes were also severe. Both times it left an irreparable change to our relationship.
Facebook says their North American monthly active users have increased 1% since 2017. Edison Research says there are 6% fewer US users since 2017.

I'm curious to understand the reason for this discrepancy. Edison says,

We're saying, "Do you currently use Facebook?" Facebook is probably measuring it on, "Do you ever open the app, or do you ever use it on any level?"

Here's how Facebook defines monthly active users:

We define a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or used our Messenger app (and is also a registered Facebook user), in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement.

So is Edison's explanation reasonable? Maybe people only think they "use" Facebook when they scroll through the feed - and people are still using it for other purposes.
Why I Joined Amazon Web Services - Gerard Sans
I don’t think the product is bad, nor do I think it’s evil. The people who decide to use the service every day get value.

I think the negative fb news of late has really enabled people to strengthen their confirmation bias against fb.

For every super negative story that HN latches onto, there are a dozen internal projects that help the world in some way.

I guess I just see the intentions and a broader Perspective in some ways. When I saw how the sausage was made, I was actually impressed with the earnestness of peoples intentions.

Put simply, I don’t think anyone on HN has enough facts and measurements of outcomes to judge FB.
So, the ends justify the means. Was the war in Iraq worth it? Should I be proud of the torture and extrajudicial renditions that occurred to "keep me safe"? Sounds like the mentality of a coward. But we'll just have to agree to disagree.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
> Amazon (for all their warts) is much more adept at keeping customer experience in their crosshairs.

Except when it comes to selling counterfeit merchandise. This is more than just a nitpick, they are cannibalizing their core business. What I don't know, and I assume they do know, is how bad is the problem. Is it impacting 1% of customers who ultimately leave their platform (which could easily be offset by other factors), or are we at the tip of the iceberg and they're going to continually lose marketshare with time?
To add my own take on this, I think the reason that people who consider themselves "immune to advertising" are the most vulnerable is because they suffer from some sort of cognitive bias where they neatly classify things into "ads" and "non-ads" and never think to question if an instance of the latter is actually the former.

They see the "HeadOn, apply directly to the forehead" low-rent ads and glossy big budget car commercials that associate a sports car with sex appeal or freedom or whatever and think "that's stupid, who would ever be so gullible as to fall for that?" while classifying more insidious things like undisclosed paid reviewers or a subtle product placement as non-ads or even more dangerously, as genuinely informative material. They see effective ads as something else entirely and are thus less likely to resist!
To be clear, I'm not saying "Chrome should be rewritten in a memory safe language", I'm saying that Chrome is an excellent project to point to, say "Wow, no one does as much to secure a codebase as them", and to follow that up with "and they still got owned".
I work as a lead autonomous vehicle engineer and have designed a sensor suite.

Here's a few thoughts:

* They say it has a 95 degrees vertical FOV and 360 degrees FOV. The vertical FOV is awesome actually.
A Velodyne VLP-16 has roughly 30 degrees FOV. We need the vertical and horizontal angular resolution to make any first-take judgements though.

* One overlooked feature I want to point out is that the Minimum Range is 0. Many lidars perform well at far distances but struggle to see objects very close (<1 meter away). This poses a safety issue as someone or something is effectively invisible to the robot if they're too close. Of course you can use cameras to handle this case but this is a big win for the Waymo hardware team!

* They're going to be 15k+ (gut estimate)

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By the way, if you want to to become an autonomous vehicle engineer I put together a resource guide here: https://becomeautonomous.com
You can stop them from ever spending it. You can't take it from someone, but you can stop them from using it - I doubt most people would consider that much of a difference (they still suffer the loss).
"Instagram and WhatsApp are running strong with barely no competition"

Telegram is getting popular in some countries where WhatsApp has been very dominant.
Very cool. Thank you for sharing!
I've been using FF with resistFinterprinting on since it was available. Letterboxing does break a lot of websites and apps, sometimes making them unusable due to incorrect positioning and scaling of the elements.
Windows Calculator does not work on gnu/Linux
The best story we have on the invention of science as practiced comes from Al-Haytham's "Optics", of a thousand years ago, written while he was under house arrest and cut off from access to reference materials. It did originate in Egypt.
> Rust has unsafe all over the place

This does not match my experience nor numbers I’ve seen. What leads you to say this?

(Also, other than LLVM, Rust is written in Rust. And when cranelift lands, you could remove that too.)
I think it comes down to working with what your resources afford you and weighing the risks vs. rewards.

By involving friends it's entirely possible to avoid a mortgage altogether. Living mortgage and rent-free buys a lot of tolerance for others in my experience.
Nextdoor is awful. I think the idea was really good, but I've really just come to learn that by and large, my neighborhood is full of idiots. I guess the whole reason for social media is that we can choose who to be around, whereas we can't chose our neighbors. I only lasted about a month before the constant barrages of arguing over leash laws, petty snide comments, and self promoting 'handymen' drove me away.
I'm not sure what percent of people customize their dock height on macOS, but that setting uses a slider, which would cause a bunch of unique heights for a maximized browser.
> just because software does "math" doesn't change how people read it.

It absolutely does. Different problem domains (and different communities’ treatment of problems) involve differing types and amounts of formal structure, differing conventional notations, etc., and in practice the code looks substantially different (in organization, abstractions used, naming, ...) even if you try to standardize it to all look the same.

People who are reading “math” code can be expected to understand mathematical notation, e.g. to be capable of reading a journal paper where an algorithm or formula is described more completely including motivation, formal derivation, proofs of correctness, proofs of various formal properties, ...

Mathematical code is often quite abstract; unlike company-specific business logic, the same tool might be used in many different contexts with inputs of different meanings. There really isn’t that much insight gained by replacing i with “index”, x with “generic_input_variable”,

or to take it to an extreme, ax + b with add(multiply(input_variable, proportionality_constant), offset_constant)

or sin(x) with perpendicular_unit_vector_component_for_angle(input_angle_measure)

The extra space overhead of the long variables and words instead of symbols is a killer for clarity.

If variable names are “cryptic” [as in, can’t be guessed at a glance by someone working in the field] then that is indeed a failure though. Short variable names should have limited scope (ideally fitting on one screenfull of code) and obvious meaning in context, which might involve some explanatory comments, links to a paper.
Patients have been saying this for literally decades. I remember blogs written by people who learned to do this themselves without any support from their medical professionals, networking and sharing info with each other on the best way to do it, in the early fucking naughties.

Also, it took decades for studies to be done on minimally effective doses for SSRIs leading to uncounted (and unlitigated) cases of people suffering and dying needlessly.

I hope people here are aware of the sheer number and scale of issues in this industry, from bribing prescribers to false advertisement and covering up of studies, with vast wings of the companies dedicated to 'PR' "managing" these issues.

The explanations I've heard from medical professionals of "why" these drugs work are comically full of holes. They don't really know what's happening with them, and this institutional arrogance, and the 'incidental' buckets of money, are why it's taken 5 decades for this basic, basic, basic fucking research to begin to come out.
I was thinking you need a jump to cash somewhere, but even that would lead to _someone_. The coins can't just disappear.
The genetic algorithm currently isn't in a working state unfortunately. I did a big architectural rewrite recently and haven't gotten around to GA stuff - but I'm looking forward to applying some more modern results in neuroevolution from the last two or three years.
Those "mandated-by-law earth leakage device[s]" are only mandated for those circuits where you might most easily electrocute yourself, locations where water is present (bathrooms and kitchens), in basements with concrete floors, and exterior receptacles.

The rest of the circuits are not mandated to have GFCI (the correct acronym for those "earth leakage device[s]") interrupters, and so those circuits /could/ kill you if you were not careful. Yes, it becomes marginally more difficult without easy access to water or a concrete floor, but is still quite possible.
>A fair price is one that both parties agree to.

There's this lovely fiction in law that contracts should be upheld because two consenting parties both get ahead by reaching a bargain. All transactions are positive, so we should uphold bargains as a default. Super duper.

But then history gave us a ton of examples of contracts which are negotiated in the context of a power or informational asymmetry. Boo.

Contracts for labour are predominantly contracts which are negotiated in the context of power and informational asymmetries, which is why developed nations have backstopping legislation to prevent wholesale abuse.

I guess your original statement being untenable forced you to redefine fair to mean 'whatever they agreed to' which is tautological. Yes, the agreements will be what was agreed to, but does that actually address the post you were replying to?
lol facebook is probably just deleting a few troll accounts....
In the US, sure, but globally they are still growing in almost every demographic.
I think that's a bit of a mixed bag, really, and depends on the organization and how the post-doc is funded. Some are pretty dire, others quite good.

That being said, being a post-doc with independent funding (e.g. a national fellowship) is perhaps the best gig in academia, except that it can't last. You can actually spend all the time on research a PI wishes they could, and any leverage people have on you is not financial. Burning bridges could still hurt you of course.
I agree with the other guy, there is way more interesting stuff to read than there is time to read it.

I find it helps to really have a goal when setting out to learn new stuff. Rather than just "I want to learn more about blah" Think "I want to make a grid based turn based strategy game" or whatever, and then figure out what you need to learn to make that happen.

I try to do this, I still have lots of interesting unrelated things I try to learn about too, but I find this overarching goal helps focus everything, even if that goal changes every few months and is not always achieved.
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way", to save others a google.
Sleep increases chromosome dynamics, reducing cumulative DNA damage in neurons
> What I'm saying is that Chrome is an example of a project with more security funding than just about any other project out there, and it still can't save users from the footguns of C++.

You can certainly make that argument but this doesn't seem to really be a compelling example. They had one security issue caused by a use-after-free over a decade. That's... a pretty fucking stellar track record and does not at all scream "you cannot use this language safely!!!", now does it?

I would certainly argue for something like Rust instead if starting from scratch, though, but just because A is better than B doesn't make B unusable trash, either.
By that logic -- kissing a depressed person could just as well be a cure for their depression. Cheer up! (Pucker up?)
Yeah it's so obvious, that I'm sure that is the first door they knocked on, and continue to monitor.

If he's got the cash, he's probably not spending it or acting like he's got it to the point that it ruled him out as a suspect.
That's why those businesses never start up in France in the first place.
How many remotely exploitable bugs in Java apps (that don't run arbitrary Java code†) do you see that arise from Java compiler bugs? I can't think of a single one.

†I explicitly say "not running arbitrary Java code" to emphasize the difference between this scenario and JS engine vulnerabilities. JS engine vulnerabilities are a problem because JS engines execute untrusted code, but I'm talking about compiler bugs in trusted code that can nevertheless be exploited remotely.
Facebook is quite good as a contact list. It’s a good way to get ahold of random people you might have trouble getting in touch with otherwise. Email, phone and addresses change but a Facebook id typically does not. They can keep their “engagement” though.
Every time there's something about online privacy with browsers, it's mostly Firefox or Safari. I wondered if Chrome had resisting fingerprinting on its radar (guessing that it wouldn't be in Google's interests to add any feature that would thwart profiling users online), and I found this [1] confirming my guess (emphasis mine):

> Since we don't believe it's feasible to provide some mode of Chrome that can truly prevent passive fingerprinting, we will mark all related bugs and feature requests as WontFix.

I haven't read all the analyses in the links in that article, but this sounds defeatist and lazy, much unlike a stance that Chromium would take on security or performance on the web.

Contrast the above with what this article says about Firefox:

> Firefox's upcoming letterboxing feature is part of a larger project that started in 2016, called Tor Uplift.

> Part of Tor Uplift, Mozilla developers have been slowly porting privacy-hardening features developed originally for the Tor Browser and integrating them into Firefox.

If you value online privacy, your best choice is Firefox (though it requires some additional manual configuration). Safari comes second (its extensions directory could use more love). The choice where you can add more of your influence to is Firefox — by using it, evangelizing it and by donating (if feasible) to it.

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
How are you measuring this utility function? What is the evidence that facebooks objective is to hack endorphins?

All the conversations I’ve heard discuss how to make products better for users. Even if it hurts standard metrics.

For example, the goal of the feed team hasn’t been to increase engagement for a couple of years now. The metric of choice is meaningful interactions.

The outsiders perspective of FB seems to be a couple of years out of date, compared to what I’ve seen.
http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/staff/alexh/teaching/auditoryTu...

http://www.roger-russell.com/hearing/hearing.htm

http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~bsapplec/frequenc.htm

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261767650_Extended_... (table 2)
"the The"

It's so important it requires two articles.
This is what I've done as well. Fake name, profile, wildly random answers to profile questions and thumbs up to anything if I remember of have times. I only use the account to follow a couple of local businesses. Facebook is welcome to all the income that account provides them.
It's much more than that. According to Apple's iOS security whitepaper, the SEP is supposed to enforce escalating time delays in between attempts -- up to one hour after the 9th attempt. And survive restarts.

It certainly seems like GrayKey bypassed a fundamental SEP protection, which would constitute a very serious flaw. The SEP protections are supposed to be a whole 'nother level (which is what this article gets at.. it's Hard to even get at the firmware).

If that aspect of the SEP is compromised, what else about it is? This is extra disturbing because Apple's "fix" was to disconnect unauthorized peripherals -- not, apparently, a fix to the SEP itself. This is why I am stunned there was not more coverage of this. It's smoke that indicates a really fundamental flaw in the SEP.

[1] https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.... (page 18)
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Carbohydrate quality and human health: a series of systematic reviews
How well does it work? The aforementioned exchange with Ilfak came after my poor experience with collabREate, a previous plugin that claimed to do the same thing.
Link to pdf: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31809-9
As a user with an ultrawide monitor I have several browser windows open and arranged in various configurations at all times and often resize them.

Probably not a super common scenario, but not ultra rare either.
Light truck bumpers do not 'mate' to car bumpers at stock ride height. No lifting required.
Not sure why nobody else does this, but with easyDNS you can setup an iCal feed with your domain expirations.
But the important point that it lost on the tech crowd is that being unconcerned about their privacy doesn't make them wrong. Tech people think because they know more about the details of the system and they've deemed it a clear and present danger to civilization, that everyone who disagrees is wrong or stupid. But this is nothing more than extreme hubris.