skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exactly. I haven’t had to take time off work for any personal reason or because I was sick in years - and then I was actually in the hospital. I can work from home, catch up on the weekend etc. But my wife can’t exactly work from home as a special needs bus driver.
In response to What could possibly go wrong?.

That has nothing to do with whether or not it’s a good idea, just that I believe very little can go wrong I’m the context of Mossad oversight. I’m certainly not endorsing the deal.
Performance for Google or Cloudflare isn't going to be better. Where do you get that idea? Do you think all DNS simply lives in their caches?

"your ISPs can't see what you are doing". If they're analyzing traffic, they can, and if they're doing that, they can see to whom I'm connecting, anyway. But you say nothing about why we should trust Google or Cloudflare. I trust my ISP to be big and dumb. I trust Goole and Cloudflare to want to make money.
Why are there family run countries still in 2019?
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Yeah, I didn't know this because I run a customized nightly I forked, so I'll be keen on keeping all the files relating to this feature when I eventually merge with the upstream nightly so I can still have my cake and eat it too.
How does dropping rates make any sense when gas prices are on the rise?
Perhaps a collective makes more sense here.

Someone should explore doing it.

I like the services, and many drivers like the work, but almost all of them hate the pay and overall relationship.
Before I started ignoring unknown numbers entirely, every time I got a scam call I would just tell them I needed a minute, ask them to hang on, and mute my phone while I went back to work. They'd usually stay on the line for 5-10 minutes. A bit tougher with this guy's scheme where there are regulatory requirements for transparency, etc. he's fined for not meeting, but I felt quite satisfied knowing that for 5 minutes, a scammer was taken out of circulation while I just went back to honest work. Required almost none of my actual time.
Let me start with saying that in no way do I think the Saudis are not nefarious or clear of any guilt in this case.

However, the original post asked how the digital material was obtained. The post, and many others, imply some technical wizardry was used to obtain said info. Who is to say the Saudis did not employ traditional human intelligence to learn that the brother had access to the ‘dirt’?

My point is simply: just because the Saudis knew which stone to turn over does not mean they used some technical prowess to turn over said stone.

[edit] clarify my stone turning over analogy.
> is it as easy to learn SmallTalk and do small tasks with it?

BASIC would be better than Javascript.

C would be better than Javascript.

Literally anything else, would have been better than Javascript.

http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/javascript/excerpts/javascr...

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

http://www.javascriptgotchas.com/gotchas/common-javascript-e...

https://medium.com/javascript-non-grata/javascript-is-a-dysf...

https://whydoesitsuck.com/why-does-javascript-suck/

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2015/12/09/javascript-t...

http://blog.thefirehoseproject.com/posts/why-im-angry-at-peo...
China is letting its domestic Uyghur population know that leaving the country is a prison/detainment camp sentence for their immediate family. If this sounds like the exact method that North Korea uses to try and stop defectors, that's because it is.

Though the direct intimidation may only be reported in Australia at the moment, the general atmosphere of intimidation is worldwide. Anecdatally, I have met Uyghurs in America that have been warned by their families not to return to Xinjiang and participate in the mentioned obligatory police station visit.
Never heard of Workplace before. Does it have ads like normal Facebook UI?
I dunno, Sony has never really been very good at software. Look at the PS4 OS — it actually repeatedly warns you not to unplug the machine without “powering down” from the software first. Imagine if your phone didn’t have a reliable filesystem layer.

Now, Nintendo... that phone would be cool.
Hey i'm working on a News Aggregation platform / RSS reader, aktu.io.
It doesn't have the features you need but if you'd like to give it a try anyway, would love your feedback.

You can check out the main features here:
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Yeah seriously, my issue isn't that the phones failed. My issue is that the company has a terrible repair center and leaves you over a month without a phone to use. Then when it's an obvious engineering defect, they don't offer a replacement to a model without the issue (or a refund)

I've been lucky (for someone that buys phone direct) that I usually have a backup and a backup for the backup. Many don't have that luxury. I remember I had a Xperia Neo V cook the 3G portion of the radio and get denied for replacement under warranty (corrosion). All this leaves a terrible taste in my mouth.

To contrast, my Phillips 43" monitor had the screen go (backlight mura), it's a comparable $600 device. Know what they do? Advance replacement, I had a new panel in 2 days and could ship back the defective. Sony could do this, but they don't. Since they lack local repair centers you're just left without a working device.

Years back I had a friend with a 40gb ipod photo. It kept failing on him, Apple would replace. Eventually on the 3rd time they upgraded him to a 60gb ipod video, at no cost. He never experienced another failure. To date, he is still an Apple customer, still upgrades to their new devices every couple years. Sony doesn't even try in the US.
Sure it has.

Say I’m selling highly profitable, highly addictive opioid painkillers. Hydrocodone has been around forever, so what do you do?

You use your access to workers comp and insurance claim data to find doctors treating conditions likely to require pain treatment. Then you find populations with high densities of patients and market heavily to their physicians. You buy ads that appeal to insured people who aren’t working.

Result: $$$
I don't really understand this argument. Uber didn't create the conditions causing these people not to be able to find better jobs. If Uber stopped "preying on" these people, would they be better off? It seems like they'd just be unemployed.
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That Wikipedia page you linked to explains that small caps are used almost exclusively to emphasize or distinguish text from text set using the usual mix of uppercase and lowercase letters. So pointing out that small caps are a well-established typographical practice does nothing to explain what TI was thinking by including small caps but not lowercase. And no matter how innocuous you consider it, it is clear that the decision strikes many users as odd, and that it comes across as something of an unattractive technological limitation, akin to the then-recent systems that only supported uppercase.
I can’t tell where the government puppet his ass begins, and where the robot ends.
Of course gains are to be expected when switching from Java's default GC to something specialized.

> 25% GC overhead in older versions of Go, that's utterly terrible.

25% overhead of what? And compared to what? Just throwing numbers in the air and saying it's terrible makes no sense.

The only 25%'s if could find in the slide were these: https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote/image6.png

2014 Go: 25% of CPU used by GC

2018 Go: 25% of CPU used during 2x STW GC of < 500 microseconds

So even if STW GC occurred as frequent as every second (which it doesn't in my use cases), this would amount to 0.025% of the CPU being used for GC, not 25%.
I'm talking about a dock where there is a small lightning jack fixed to the bottom and the phone naturally plugs into it when it's positioned on the dock. Something like the old iPod docks, and (hey look!) the AirPods charging dock on the very product GP linked to.

How is that an additional cable, and how does it interfere with one-hand operation? It's literally neither of those.
Were you using recreationally or as prescribed under the supervision of a doctor?
Would stingrays accomplish this kind of breach?
Credit reports are nothing. Insurance companies can identify things like whether you watch porn, gamble online or go to a gym.
I think that's the point of the argument you're replying to. Assuming Uber drivers are rational, it means they're better off driving with Uber than they would be otherwise. In which case, why does Uber attract so much criticism? I'd understand if you criticized the general economic/social system that causes shitty jobs to be people's best option, but why criticize specific actors within it that (1) didn't create it, and (2) aren't making anyone worse off?

People are totally free to live in a world without Uber, by refusing to work for them or use their app. If that would cause them to be homeless or destitute, then what exactly is the issue with Uber -- that it's not bringing as many people as far out of destitution as you might like?
If you're human, you are susceptible to addiction. The prudence prescribers have towards handing out addictive substances might save you from being the person who abuses their medicine.

Much like any other potential side-effect, addiction is a risk that must be heavily weighed and mitigated against. Addiction causes harm, and even death. It isn't a question of personal morals, it's a question of ethics.

This is the same country that has experienced a decade-long opioid epidemic because addiction risks of prescription drugs were intentionally covered up, and in many cases, the drugs themselves were overprescribed.
You can be defensive all you want but facts speak for themselves. The pharmaceutical industry provide bandage fixes that lead to much deeper health problems down the line.

Having a healthy Ego does not mean defending stupidity and ignorance.

And you are proving my point exactly. People want a quick fix and not a long-term solution, so perhaps next time when you want to be snappy - add that as a disclaimer for your opinion.

Also, I would love to hear your spiritual journey over those many years. Have you shared it in writing? Always open to reading a sincere story. :)
With that logic, how could anyone remotely privacy conscious use any service on the Internet?

There’s a lot to worry about w.r.t. privacy online. Virus scanning, spam filtering, and debug logging aren’t high on my worry-list.
Please name and shame.
Does NSO make software other than Pegasus? That software exploited a bug in ios prior to 9.3.5, which was patched in August 2016.

I’m wondering if there are new exploits, or if Bezos or his girlfriend ran really old ios versions. The latter seems unlikely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
Thank you!
It’s widely accepted and known in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries that NSO is used by their dictators. Not sure why israel gov, the only democracy in that part of the world, is helping dictators by approving NSO to be sold to counties like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Mexico!!

It’s just shocking to see some people not only reject that its NSO but go beyond and above their ways to defend NSO, like the commentator we are relying to..
So many comments here are again insisting it’s the brother who leaked it when this article was SPECIFICALLY written by Gavin de Becker to say it’s the Saudis and not the brother...

please when you make a statement or reject an accusation cite a reputable source.

Check out this psygroup proposal to blackmail people name/shame by Psy-group.

It says in the proposal that these methods of blackmailing often work to silence target.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-a-private-israe...

Worth mentioning that the smear campaign against Bezos on twitter is identical to what proposed to trumps son in his meeting at trump tower with George Nader
Here is psy group proposal

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/politics/rick-gates-ps...
OK, so we're talking about users who have unlocked the system themselves and enrolled a user key onto it, but aren't going to notice if it changes unexpectedly? Suuure.
My grandfather routinely has nurses make home visits (including for blood tests), and I'm fairly sure he can request a GP's visit if one were necessary (NHS).
How would you do something like this in the US? 900 number?
How can China get away with this? Why can't United Nations do anything about Uyghur concentration camps?
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> not some bullshit a reporter made up on the spot

This article wasn't written by a reporter, which doesn't bode well for your reading comprehension skills.

> You are being fed a narrative. You should recognize this when it happens if you don't want to continue being a sucker.

You're making a really big assumption about what I am, or am not, taking from the article.
Because those families control a lot of oil, guns, drugs or money.
Huh? People communicate about work all the time in my office and having the ability to initiate conversations fluidly means more efficient collaboration. Fewer meetings, and easier to keep all parties in the know.
I agree. For Uber both riders and drivers are their customers. So keeping drivers happy and paying them well would pay off long term.
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This is a great question and I'm having real difficulty putting together a good list that's generally applicable, but not so general that's it's useless in practice. I'll give it a try (from the perspective of defining what matters):

1. There usually are just a few critical pieces to any project. You should try to start with those and get them locked down first. These can be critical because they are either technically unproven or just plain difficult. Once you know the hard stuff is handled then you can fill in the easy stuff from there on out. (You'll also feel less inclined to fancy-up the easy stuff, in my experience. That's another source of trouble).

2. Use quality tools, become an expert with them, and hold on to them as long as you can. What does quality mean? To me: reliability, stability, and efficiency of both my time and the machine's time. Knowing how to do something because you've done it before, seen the problems and worked through them, and come out the other side, is _huge_. Rarely rarely rarely, a new technology comes along that overwhelms the advantages that hard won experience provides, but it's super rare. This is a whole topic in itself, but in my 20 years the list of situations in which something new clearly brings enough benefits to switch are surprisingly rare. Off the top of my head (and just to make everyone mad in one easy sequence): moving to Java from C/C++, Hibernate ORM instead of endless hand crafted SQL, S3 instead of a probably-about-to-be-full attached volume, Heroku instead of running my own machine, Unity instead of my bad custom game engine, and most recently Flutter instead of native Android/iOS (although this one is still early days).

3. Be honest about what you're actually spending your time on, and optimize for that. A lot of the fancy programming languages of recent years have been spending huge amounts of time optimizing what, for me, weren't big usages of my time. I realize this is vague, but an example for me might be Scala. The stuff that they were improving looked fancy in examples, but it didn't make a material difference to me (as a Java programmer) in what I actually spend time on. It also came with a bunch of downsides, which is itself worth an entire post.

4. Don't be afraid of simple looking code. It might be slightly embarrassing to check in, but it's probably going to be clear how it works to you any other other person who needs to read it in the next few years. The urge to appear smart in the way your code looks can be deadly.

5. Be specific about the upsides you expect when examining a new technology. Are you looking to work faster, are you looking for performance in a specific category, etc. Failure to properly define your criteria leads to adopting things that are a bad fit for your situation (helllooooooo microservices) or at least provide minimal benefit in return for the _huge_ expense of throwing out experience in another technology.

I'm pretty sure there's lots more examples, but that's all I got at the moment. I will add more if I think of it. I guess this should all be a big blog post at some point as well, if it's something people find interesting.
How does that make a difference if you don't exhaust the work-available-to-do?

You could work just 1 hour a day; but you can similarly just work 10 minutes out of every hour you bill. If you're saying "well, yes, but it's not considered ethical on hourly rates and considered ethical on daily rates" - then our experience differs.
The UN is currently trying to get people on the ground to investigate. [1] Whether they can do anything about it is another story entirely.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-un/bachele...
The Nintendo switch could’ve /would’ve been an even better device with apps.
> I think the scrubbing/exoneration scenario is straightforward, and the physical anomalies you mention (for the incriminate overlay attack) would be handled by CG or 1:1 offline model recording.

You could but it would take a lot of effort even if you just wanted to scrub the data of one. You'd also have to know what you're about to scrub before you even do it. You'd also have to make sure there weren't other nodes around too. Keep in mind, every few months the power requirements of the models increase. The next model will have semantic segmentation (https://medium.com/nanonets/how-to-do-image-segmentation-usi...) so by Eon 1 things are going to be much, much harder to fake than Eon 0, which we're at now.

I'll admit, it's never going to be perfect. But as you mentioned, we can find ways to make it better. But one thing I believe we can guarantee mathematically is that if someone's going to make an attempt to submit fake data into the Merkle Tree, we're going to make them have to pay out the nose just to attempt it. So they have to have a lot of resources at their disposal. But in the end, they're also involved in raising the value of Grassland's currency for everyone else. Because they're funnelling more compute costs into the system, trading their money for Grassland's coin. So everyone else in the network is, in a certain sense, rewarded from the penalty extracted from the attacker's dishonesty.

> Maybe the network needs to report on cases where sensors disagree and visualize/surface these n different versions of history.

Yes, I'll think about this... Do you have further thoughts on this?

> Any thoughts on leveraging something like Golem for the compute and Streamr or Erasure for the payment/sponsorship?

I don't really know much about them. Most of the 'blockchain' stuff out there seems quite overly complicated to me and I'm not sure what they even do to be honest (Not to disparage these systems in particular. I think I've only ever heard of Golem before. And the other two I've never heard of). But I'd rather work with systems that I know and aren't going to be changed from under me because of the whims of some other dev team. And Grassland has quite a unique problem space so it was necessary to build the system from the ground up so I know exactly what each piece is doing and what it could potentially do because I don't put in any more code than I need to.
I made an attempt to answer that question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19533062

I don't think I quite captured everything, I might take another shot at this again sometime.
I have a cheap $25 Walmart backpack I got from another HN thread and it's worked surprisingly well - no signs of wear after ~2 years of daily use.

Found a link: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Outdoor-Products-Quest-Backpack-D...
Based on their FAQ (I don't use Workplace myself) "There are no ads in Workplace." https://www.workplace.com/workplace/faq
Safari, music, notes, reminders, mail, health, activity (apple watch), breathe (apple watch), calendar, shortcuts (acquisition), messages, maps, clock, calculator, weather,

I use all of those regularly and they work well. I also use 3rd party apps for some of the same categories.

I use maps for routing, but google maps for search and points of interest
I thought most people were mounting things noatime for performance these days.
100 MB/s sustained is very slow these days. Even a Barracuda budget 7200 will hit >150 MB/s real world and it goes up from there.
Its hard to find these days a decent company that is run properly and that really cares for its employees.

i just finished a cycle of interviews and hiring managers viewed long stay at a company as a definite positive. They in fact disliked job hoppers (every 2-3 years new job) as it damages companies in the long run according to them.
> Why can't United Nations do anything about Uyghur concentration camps?

Because there's only one part of the UN that has real teeth, even in the case of human rights abuses - the Security Council. Guess who holds a permanent seat at the Security Council, and can veto any of their decisions?
Thanks, visitors to the EU should get a print copy of your comment.
It would return an equivalent value, which is the important thing. You can specify `AT TIME ZONE 'UTC'` (or whichever timezone) when consuming it to get a consistent look. On the other hand, it’s not clear from just the value what point in time a `timestamp without time zone` represents. That’s why I agree that it should be used when you don’t want to represent a point in time.
If you click customize/add to cart you see a breakdown with the CPU listed separately as: Ampere eMAG 8180 32 core 2.8GHz 3MB L3 (Turbo 3.3GHz) .

So you are right.
It's hyperbolic but Google has moved many basically-required system services into the Play Store, and they randomly push updates to them. A little while ago they pushed a broken Play Services update out to everyone on a friday night and it rendered a bunch of phones basically unusable. The only way to opt out of these consent-free updates is to disable all app updates, and then some things won't work. There's no way to uninstall those services.

Not hard to use that same update pathway to put a back door or snooping stuff into an update. (I find it unlikely they would, of course)
You just have to do what you always had to do. Check the reputation of whoever made the apps you install.

Blindly downloading things from the appstore isn't quite as bad as downloading blindly from the internet, but it's not great either.

Oh and permissions. Sure they help a bit, but everything asks for everything and their are ways to infer data you didn't ask for so it's not a complete solution.
A slave owner gives an otherwise hungry man food and housing. That doesn't mean slavery is at all justifiable.

Uber pays people who otherwise might not have a job at all. That doesn't mean paying them incredibly low wages is something that should be free of criticism.
Apropos to nothing, here's a paper from 2005 about Big Tobacco wanting the government to regulate it, titled:

Understanding Philip Morris’s pursuit of US government regulation of tobacco

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/14/3/193.short

Cause hey, if you're going to get regulated, you might as well write the rules yourself.
I don't understand why they would chose markdown instead of a true WYSIWYG input. The website post input already uses Draft.js, which is the editor that also powers the Notes product. All the pieces are there.
I'm going to screenshot this comment and send it to my high school English teacher.
No, you also have to include users who would like to run "stock" Chrome OS and continue trusting Google's keys. How do you protect them?