skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they wrote 'person wearing blue shirt', fine. But if they followed you home, took note of the address, cross referenced that to find your name and other personal info, then stored all that data to a company that decides who gets loans based on shirt color - not fine. Etc.
If I had more time on my hands this would be okay, but when I'm developing web pages/applications, I end up using workarounds because Firefox is so often not compliant, rather than suddenly becoming a qualified Gecko developer and finding the time to fix some almost-Netscape-era bug.

The problems mount up over the years while it seems that meanwhile, Mozilla has a lot of frills and luxuries on the budget as an organization, when the core product is generally lacking in terms of compliance and quality.

It's frustrating, because I want to like Mozilla, but their browser is the most work to develop for, and the least fun to use (in my case in particular, since Firefox is generally worse on Linux than on Windows).

Added: I'm also frustrated that when I share my personal experience of the process with Mozilla, people won't have it (not talking about _yoasif here, good work on those successful reports!). I get that it's your baby, that you have a personal relationship with Mozilla that makes you want to defend it, but if you love it, you must allow it to face honest criticism, even if at the end of the day you'll choose to ignore it.
That's a really interesting insight.
I fall into the third category, I was not very academic in school and it wasn't until University when I really understood that I learn best by visualisation, by doing and or experiencing something.
Sheryl Sandberg Explains Why Facebook Covers Egg-Freezing
Unless things have changed since my IRC days, doesn't this a) require routed ports, so anything not a private controlled network is out, b) expose your IP address, which is a security risk, and c) is 1:1 only. It's also more of a side protocol than actually being part of IRC, right?

Whereas posting images directly into the chat window and having everyone see it is insanely useful.
Calling a statistician and entertainer is a rude insult, similar to calling a cable news channel an entertainment channel.
The MVP program has become a marketing program to encourage becoming unpaid shills of Microsoft and MS products, where the best way in is to evangelize and write articles and tweets promoting Azure. Your social media presence is more of a factor for determining membership than any technical prowess.

They've even used it to encourage members (behind closed doors) to shill Microsoft links [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/rickasaurus/status/636269822595235840
Ask HN: If not San Francisco then where?
Here on HN is not that unusual that a post about how dystropian or just how a very bad living option is San Francisco has become over the last decade. I was planning to move there from Barcelona over the course of the next year, but i'm seriously starting to think it might not be a so good option. As many others (especially living in EU) I have idealized San Francisco as the place to be if you are a techy with an entrepreneurial actitude. The place in which ideas flows and interesting conversation are happening, where artists and creativiy are perfectly combined with the technolgy and innovators.

So if not there anymore, then where?
The $100B number comes from a satirical post: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-....

The author clearly did not get the joke.
What problem for video does blockchain solve?
But that's part of doing business. The shareholders and employees (many of whom are also shareholders) might be in a lot better shape had the deal gone through. I'm skeptical that those people are better off with the Verizon deal.
Make it a right and make it universal stop splitting hairs on careers.
We had GOSUB for high level structured programming EWD would approve of.
Why are you suggesting that the black people should put themselves in poorer people shoes to understand your perspective? Shouldn't it be more efficient that they just put themselves in your shoes to understand your perspective? And you can do the same with them, understanding goes both ways and is not a one-side effort.
She majored in Symbolic Systems as an undergrad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_Systems

As I understand it, foundational CS classes are not a requirement for that degree. Although I do know people who majored in Symbolic Systems and completed such courses in undergrad, I assume they were electives rather than requirements.
If your taxes aren't complicated (i.e. you use the standard deduction), there's a service called "Free Fillable Forms" through the IRS that allows you to fill out your tax forms online and e-file them for free. Many states have an equivalent system as well.

Last year I went to an independent preparer, which cost me around $160 and took an hour. This year I wanted to save some money so I decided to try filing myself and it was pleasantly straightforward, only taking two hours. The only tedious part was copying over the info from the W2 for both federal and state.
Make it a right and make it universal stop Splitting hais on nature of career.
A few years ago I told my friend "If I ever add 'Microsoft MVP' to my Twitter bio shoot me"

I don't know why seeing this made me cringe so much. Probably because it was so transparently a ploy from Microsoft to make their most loyal devs feel special in hopes that they'd promote Microsoft tools more.
Let's just call a spade a spade. She was put in place by activist investors who wanted to make a quick buck on the significant Alibaba stake that was held by Yahoo. The goal was never to save Yahoo.

Said activists made a good return and sold their stake, and Mayer pretty much ran the company in the ground while being compensated well for it. Nothing wrong with that in a capitalist world, however, that's all it is.

Anyone with half a brain could have done that, myself included.
I'm not sure what the logic here is compared to AWS Outposts and Azure Stack. AWS Outposts and Azure stack support a very large number of Azure services and Anthos just supports GKE and Istio? So there's no first class story for basic things like queues and blob storage? How many people really use Kubernetes without needing a persistent volume claim?

I like the idea of something you can just install and run on your existing hardware, but that doesn't seem to be the goal of this either as they only support a single router and a single proprietary virtualization platform. That seems even worse than just giving you a box you can plug in like AWS and Azure.

Bigger question is what is it going to take for Google to offer anything more than this? Google has very restrictive source code policies internally, so I'd guess they'd be extremely reluctant to let the binaries for things like BigTable which run all of Google and GCP leave their network. Do they rewrite all their services or let BigTable run outside of firewall and throw an atomic clock in the box?
The article suggest that this isn't true. You can't regain situational awareness instantaneously:

> The researchers specifically found that cell phone users are:

> - 9 percent slower to deploy the brakes

> - 19 percent slower to return to normal speed after braking
Show HN: A Receipt Platform for Businesses
For me, I need to read something and form it into some visual system and then I can understand it and how to manipulate it better.
Oh I get that but it also illuminates the shallowness of their position given that the reason they are against wind and solar and hate fossil is because of CO2.

Nuclear is literally the best combination of the best features from each of the other forms of energy.
"innovating existing technologies so that they become more efficient"

But that is what 5G basically is, no?

And no, I don't think I'm a "victim of the fallacy of eternal growth". System-wise, any system that relies solely on continuing growth to keep itself going is certainly brittle and will start to contract or collapse once the prerequisites of increased growth are disturbed, or removed.

Furthermore, I don't think it is meaningful to abandon technological advancement just because some people think that people expect a global climate change deus ex machina from a university or corporate lab.

On the contrary, technology can really help, and I don't mean this in a blindly religious sense. We need solutions which scale and we don't currently have them. The solutions won't appear out of thin air or by magical thinking, they have to be willed out of the laws of physics and chemistry and mathematics and so on.

A good example is technology for capturing carbon dioxide at a price of under 100 USD a tonne. Add Fischer-Tropsch to that and you have fuel.

The slight problem is that the system which produces these advancements and, more importantly, can scale them to planet-wide scales is precisely the system that feeds on "eternal growth". If one disturbs or destroys that system, possible beneficial solutions won't be able to spread to all corners of the planet, thereby hindering the adoption of an innovation that takes non-trivial components to build.

To get out of that dilemma, the system must be transformed. Decentralization and distribution of for example manufacturing is required: once it's possible to print a functioning solar panel in your garage and use it to power your house, we're heading in the right direction.

Also, it's not just one dimension of waiting for technological advancements. "Reduce consumption", farm your own food, use your computer only on weekends, never fly anywhere, these will also work.
Netlify has been pretty great so far. My team was able to use the promise of a super quick CMS integration with Netlify CMS to justify getting out of building another nasty WordPress site (what our editors are familiar with). The actual Netlify setup caused no trouble at all and let us seamlessly move off of GitHub Pages, and now we can put in an integrated build process with NPM or whatever else we need.

Netlify CMS itself is a lot more raw but I see huge potential there, especially since it's open source. Our InfoSec folks loved the idea of content changes as commits. And the maintainers on Gitter are super open to help folks and work through changes. Already submitted a PR that was accepted and has made it into a release. And we haven't paid them anything yet, even with Google Single Sign-On integrated.
I wonder in what month the survey itself was answered. Because if it was in the spring, I wouldn't be surprised if the Finns were above average happy at that time. The harsh winter will sure lead to a more extreme sine-wave like happiness pattern than in other countries.

Other problems may involve social signaling, because the Gallup world poll, on which this report is based, is conducted via telephone.
While I still want to see the actual data, I would love this as the background for my weather display. For the same reason I like analog/digital watch combos: if you're just walking by, you can get a useful approximation, but the very precise data is still right there when you want it.
With our existing trend of moving everything to the cloud, I wonder why development environments aren't going in the same direction as well. It has so many benefits. I code on my digital ocean server (vim and tmux) and it gives allot of the benefits that netlify mentions like streaming live. If I don't have my computer I can just borrow anyone's computer (or use a public computer in the library) to make quick fixes or even implement features, all of which will be immediately live even if I log out of the system. If my laptop is lost or damaged, I just get a replacement and pick up exactly where I left off. With tools like react native, I can also dabble with mobile development in the cloud.
Dozens!
NTFS Status Debugging
Design a metal mesh to install over the entire car that acts as a Faraday cage haha.

Yeah, in practice it seems the only thing that will really work is license suspension.
racists are mad they're getting deplatformed and convinced it means the platforms will die
Isn't Apple introducing the same autoplay-trailers to their devices once Apple TV+ launches? I found this from MG Siegler:

"Trailers also now seem to autoplay inline, just like on Netflix, which many people — including people I’m married to — hate with a passion. Good luck with that, Apple."

https://500ish.com/apple-unveils-the-ifawn-11c00912a686
A punishment can often be used as a form of learning. By punishing the individual, he gets a chance to better understand the costs associated with doing such acts. At the same time, if it becomes public enough (or teachers decide to anonymize and make it a use case), others may get a chance to see an example of what not to do. The case can also be used by the school and other entities to improve security, etc.

The biggest loss of all would be to put it under the rug.
I was also at Google when the AOL deal was signed and remember the decision and outcome quite differently. It was definitely a high risk deal, deliberately so, but in no way was it only "the best-case scenario had us breaking even". Nor was it the case that "all of our models were wrong". The product manager in charge of ads at the time had a clear understanding of exactly how the deal could be hugely profitable for Google because of the value of extra advertisers attracted to the Google platform thanks to the added AOL inventory. It was by no means a sure thing, but it was a likely outcome. Fortunately the decision makers believed him, they took the risk, and it paid off enormously.
Are there examples where an alternative client was successfully sued? Seems like it would be like suing Firefox because you want your users to use the browser you provided.

I would think that worst case, slack could kick users off for breaking their terms of service (assuming there is a clause for that). But a random software maker is not subject to slack's terms.
I hate it. It just more of Canadian government paternalism, taking away people’s agency: “you cannot be trusted to make the right decision, so we’ll make the wrong decision more expensive to do.” The worst thing isn’t even the paternalism, it’s the hypocrisy. “This tax is to protect you and everyone around you” but in reality “oh yeah please don’t stop drinking because it’s bringing in so much tax revenue.”
>There is no good whatsoever in hindering people from copying, distributing, publicly performing, or creating derived works from existing laws or regulations.

This isn't true. Let's say we decide that our copyright registry requires the submission of a full work to the government for archival purposes so we can compare a given work against the registered copyright. We'd obviously want someone to be able to check the register, but not gain the right to print someone else's registered work for sale commercially. If we didn't have any hindering, we couldn't actually run the registry at all!

The discussion here presupposes that all works which relate to regulations or laws do not have any independent value outside of their legal function, which isn't necessarily the case.

That said, when it comes to the text of legislation or a building code, your assumptions hold true. Just don't design a policy solution ignoring the other edge cases, though :).
$100b, amazing.
> If someone considers relationships with other people to be an "incomprehensible minefield," then the problem is with them, not the nature of human relationships.

Is it a reasonable position to tell a disabled person who considers a society with no handicap accessibility that the problem is them, not with the nature of society?
Good question. From the article, it states, "DLive is built using Lino, a fully blockchain protocol whose creators say offers enhanced transparency and decentralization." But I wonder how, specifically, this will solve big problems.
I can see a ball of plasticine revolving, changing shape and shaping colour at the same time very strongly with my eyes open, I can move it around the room, bounce it on my hand etc., yet I still can’t draw for shit. I can’t even draw the legs on a side view of a four-legged animal without it having three left legs, so I agree with the premise of the OP and don’t feel like artistic ability is really linked to this.
Any way to get the list of these domains to put into something network wide like pihole?
They've got lots of compliance requirements, but I don't think they're all that strict.

As a consumer, do shop around for someone who has good security practices, and point non-tech people towards them.

Theoretically, in any fraud you can get all your money back, but if the bank decides it was your fault, you have to take them to court.
> And doing so would be a net loss of value. Making people less educated doesn't help anyone.

There are a tremendous amount of public schools which give incredible educations. Much of the value of private schools is in social capital. While we can certainly point to the education levels of the worst of public schools and compare them with the best of private schools, the resume boost from a private school and the networks which are formed amongst parents and students have a much bigger impact on where a student lands than the actual differences in educations received.
Because it's dangerous!! Figure out where you're going before driving off! If you get lost PULL OVER!
It's really not that difficult and it shows that you actually care about people in the world other than yourself.
You are free to define 'us' any way you wish - it will not eliminate the advantage of races that define it to their benefit. Unless you believe other races have left racism behind them.
I'm responding to OP's comment, not the article.
Aren't you at fault though even per your own version?

You pulled into a driving lane that the other vehicle was already in. Your justification for why you shouldn't be at fault is that he was "speeding" but there's no set speed limit in a parking lot, and you're meant to verify it is clear before locomotion.

Plus if you witnessed them "speeding" you would have known you were pulling out in front of them, which makes you in the wrong anyway. If you didn't know they were oncoming you couldn't have known they were "speeding." It doesn't make basic logical sense that you could have both known they were speeding AND pulled out into them, because to know that you would have had eyes on their car.
I still use Trillian

I hate what Google did to GTalk and Hangouts
There are a million legit reasons a person would need to use their phone while driving a car.

But for some bizarre reason, most drivers find it unthinkable to simply pull over for 2 minutes to handle their business.

If I need to fiddle with a map or respond to a text, I pull over. It's really super ridiculously easy to do and takes almost no time at all.
Nearest exoplanets could host life
I like to think of these things as "removing the sand".

It's coarse, rough, irritating and gets everywhere. It's the stuff that makes each tiny step that little bit more annoying. Checking how to set permissions on S3, looking up how to make sure things are redirecting to HTTPS properly, setting up a pre-live stage, etc. Each thing is pretty minor, each tiny interaction not a major deal, but together it's annoying. Netlify has not been annoying.
Well, then perhaps I won't be getting Apple TV+. It's also possible that Apple will be more receptive to people's public hatred than Netflix has been:

https://kotaku.com/netflix-s-auto-playing-trailers-are-just-...
Funny, most people have the opposite question: they can't understand what it would be like to have aphantasia.

The way you're describing "knowing what a sphere is" and being able to describe it, is how I explain to people what aphantasia is like.

Consider the possibility, even if unlikely, that you yourself have aphantasia. It is common for people with aphantasia to not realize they have it until a conversation like this -- they simply assume they are experiencing what everyone else is experiencing, and that the concept of "visualizing" something is more metaphorical than it really is.

Can you really see a sphere when you're not looking directly at one, in any sense of the word? Or do you just know what a sphere looks like?
May have solved the problem of finding investors.
So my wife works for general code which was acquired by ICC and she gave me her inside scoop on this. It's a tough gray zone because of how ICC's business model is structured. They are not government funded and to write the codes take a lot of people a lot of man hours. Unlike general code, they write code for the entire state and offset cost to the people who access it professionally.

On the ICC v. UpCodes battle, UpCodes just ripped the content from ICC and used it to create their own app. The ethical gray zone I see is this: if ICC can't fund the process of writing the codes, how will they get written? Can a for-profit company like UpCodes be trusted to take up the reigns on that if ICC can no longer justify creating the codes?
You can do the same with Netlify functions. Here's an example:

https://github.com/netlify-labs/netlify-functions-express
Destin's bias and hypocrisy makes it hard to watch his videos.
Netlify is amazing:

1. Free
2. Good support
3. Custom domains with SSL
4. Takes care of most important backend stuff (forms and webhooks)
5. Functions (Lambda with zero config needed)
6. Abstracts server stuff like [redirects](https://www.netlify.com/docs/redirects/)

Lambda and redirects are the best. I can just put my scripts in a folder and they automagically work.

In my LinkedIn profile my website address is not clickable, so people are copying it to browser. This gives me bogus source data, but with Netlify I can do a one-liner:

`/li /?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=profile`

If you go to [patrykkalinowski.com/li](https://patrykkalinowski.com/li) from my LI profile, you'll end up on patrykkalinowski.com/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=profile

Zero javascript redirects, zero nginx config, zero S3 settings - one line in text file, git push and I'm done!
In my experience with banks that did this it was to allow a mapping to 10digit keypads for bank by phone access. I haven't tried it recently, and they allow complex passwords now. When I noticed this several years ago I was able to log into my bank account via the website with the 10digit equivalent password. At least your bank balance is insured...
How would you prove that?

Here's a simple counterexample to what I understand your theorem to say: consider an infinite search space: 𝕽∞ and a utility function: 1-|x|. There's a single global optimum at (0, ...), and the gradient of the utility function would find it quickly.
One way to think of the composition versus inheritance debate is to view inheritance as a relation specification, while composition is how you implement (ie mixin=copy some props from A-to-B) the relation.

The problem is that languages such as Java mix up the specification and the actual implementation, as a result you end up with an inheritance model that is rigid and doesn't account for the messiness of the real word, in other words things in the real world are not often related in a neat parent/child way.

Granted, Java does provide interfaces which can be viewed as a way to specify composition even though that doesn't appear to be it's intended use.
Sport is where a bunch goes, coaches get millions a year.

https://thebestschools.org/magazine/highest-paid-college-coa...
It would be interesting to understand how Google and the open source companies are going to share revenue.
Trillian isn't dead though. I still use it, despite the internet becoming more and more of a walled garden.
Trillian still works just fine with Google hangouts, and facebook messenger too, as long as it's not a group chat.