skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>does it even make sense to trust a for-profit corporation with the world's supply of JS?

No. Javascript, despite its flaws, was already one of the freest, easily accessible and deployable programming languages in existence. It flourished throughout the web without any gatekeepers or centralized authority, and it never needed the ecosystem of overwrought complexity and BS that it has.

Not only does it not make sense for NPM to have de facto control over that language through a single, proprietary registry and a single package manager, it further makes no sense that in the intervening years, with all of the issues NPM has had, no serious attempt at competition or re-decentralization of the JS community has even been attempted.

Unfortunately, I feel like the baby has long ago been thrown out with the bathwater, and NPM's ubiquity and network effect has made it "too big to fail," despite failing constantly. Maybe we can just start over once NPM has finally burned to the ground and taken the web with it.
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Even the design is the exact same, though. Did you accidentally rip off Oath's design as well?
5 Types of bias and how to eliminate them in your machine learning project
> he won't get 1bn, that's not the point

That was my point, though. He’s abusing the legal system by asking for compensation he knows he will not receive to gain publicity. The issue involved is fine but I’m not a fan of exploiting and clogging up the legal system in this way. If this is “what it takes” I think we have a bigger problem we need to solve.
I don't think the big issue is the identity change between ticket purchase and checkin, but between checkin and boarding. I.e. no photo is needed when buying ticket. At the checkin step you show your face. When boarding you verify it. Otherwise, I agree with what you said.

This type of biometric check of "the person dropping the bag is the person boarding" has been in use for more than a decade e.g. on Scandinavian, and I think it's basically fine if they use temporary and secure data storage.

The biometric verification didn't take place at all if you didn't check in a bag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines#Fingerpr...
Maybe this is not general: I am mostly speaking about commuter flights within Germany. Typically I am flying without checked bags and I go straight to security.

I have definitely also flown from Germany to Italy and back without ever showing ID. I can also recall flying from Germany to Shiphol without ID, but I can't recall whether I was controlled on the return flight.
I have to admit my naivety on this, but: What exactly is the problem here?

Both the airlines and the involved law enforcement have a right or even a duty to know who you are when you are boarding the plane. They also have facial recognition data, either from a passport photo or putting a camera in front of the check-in, and arguably they have a right to that.

People walk around with their faces all the time. They post it on social media. Would it be a problem if a security guard lets you through a gate because he recognizes you? Is it more troublesome that all security guards of the airline now can recognize you at the gate?

I think we need to be more precise about what exactly is spooking us and why. Using facial recognition for boarding security is not as big as a problem as facial recognition being used for law enforcement or whatever they do in China now. But that's a topic for legislation and regulation. If companies are prohibited from storing personal data without consent, that should be enough to stop almost any legal infringement.

If such legislation is impossible, because your government is completely unaccountable, or because companies are unaccountable to such laws, then that is a much bigger problem than the potential for violations of privacy...

With regards to privacy I keep coming back to the conclusion that it is more important and effective to improve and enforce regulations than to beat up on particular technologies.
In JavaScript: if the parent is Error, it's not instanceof itself
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Don't let me get you down. After all, look at what HN users said about Dropbox when it launched :)

As a dev I am sick of marketing bullshit and believe none of it, prefer spec sheets and seeing the code myself, competent engineer support, when I see a newsletter popup I immediately exit, when I see adblock telling me it's blocking a hundred things and also seeing stuff trying to run flash my first thought is malware. When I see "unlimited backup storage for life" my first thought is that bandwidth and power and cooling is a recurring cost and that unlimited doesn't exist.

I would assume a "normal user" would convert better to newsletter things (otherwise why would they keep getting used), social media liking and group chat (I block all like buttons, follow buttons, etc.), click through happily and upload 3 GB to their "unlimited backup" plan..
NEMU: Hypervisor to run modern cloud workloads on modern 64-bit Intel/ARM CPUs
Thanks for sharing! I've never been on the pill due to the hormonal aspect as well, but I've also heard some things that put me off of copper IUD. I'll have to do more reading about it, but it's condoms for me for now. I'm also going to try out Natural Cycles, considering it's been shown effective and approved as a birth control method and I think I'm diligent enough to maintain the proper usage it requires. Birth control method aside though, even with condoms, if I get pregnant once in ten years I have no moral qualms about abortion. It's something I take seriously of course, but once incident in the span of ten years is an acceptable rate of failure for me.
desktop-GUI: I'm not a fan of Electron either, however the community seems not to be joking about picking it. It seems like most projects are going that direction. None of your arguments here are about a new projects, just about existing technologies.

Embedded: But how is that an argument for C++? I can do safe stuff in Lua without the hassle of C++ & then use C when needed.

Parallellism: Agree. Here we have a case.

Scientific: Yes, someone needs to write the underlying libraries for Python & Matlab, but if you are starting a new project, do you actually start writing a library first or do you use an existing one?

IDE tooling: Yes, good tooling can be a good argument in itself to pick a technology. With C++ maturity is as a clear advantage, however some of the languages that i listed do have quite nice tooling today, e.g. C# & TypeScript.
This only makes sense if he can prove that he was “damaged” to the tune of millions of dollars, which I think we agree he likely wasn’t. I’m all for privacy and restrictions on the use of blanket facial recognition but trying to scare companies with out-of-proportion fines seems like it’s do more harm than good.
Looks very nice, but not yet available in brew on OSX?
Bodleian's Digital Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays
"You'd change your opinion on a trivial matter if I paid you a giant pile of money" is a very strange way to argue a point...
My bad I thought they use their own CDN
That's just over €2.2k per month (after USD->EUR conversion). It's on the low end for junior devs in Berlin but not unheard of (although even among entry level positions many would start higher than that). I earned less when I just started working as a programmer (albeit awhile ago).

However, after a couple years you can expect to earn significantly more: within about ~15 years I went from ~€2k/m to ~€6k & I'm pretty sure I haven't yet reached my salary ceiling.

I'm sure in "bad" markets (Southern Europe and/or smaller towns) you will have worse pay but I would bet in most or all major (North-)Western European cities my experience will not be untypical.

I think the main issue is that the term "Western Europe" couples the badly paid south with the better paid north.
I didn't say they made the world a better place. They weren't trying to.

They had one clear goal: make a lot of money for themselves. And they have, for many years, achieved this goal splendidly, through hard work, financial and business skills, reputation, innovation, connections, lies, market manipulation, government bailouts, etc.

This is considered success, and earns respect, in both Western and Eastern cultures. There are people who hate the way Goldman makes money, but they are not the majority even in the general population. For example, take a look at this: https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-reputation-sco... or http://www.vault.com/company-rankings/banking/vault-banking-...
When I was in Texas, I used to buy Disk drives in bulk through auction from PC manufacturers Compaq and Dell that didn't meet their QC, test these drives and sell the good ones to retail shops, PC repair shops and individuals. I stopped once competition became tougher, bad to good ratio of disk drives increased, and disk drives became cheaper.

In Japan, several people asked me to teach them English. So I teach them English, some pay me in food and drinks. I also figured out that I was good in helping others prepare for standardized exams TOEFL/TOEIC/GMAT/GRE/USMLE so that became my primary side gig.
Right, but Nokia's 5G backhual infrastructure is far more capable of doing Mobile backhaul than a GPU, you don't get the head of Nokia standing up in a press conference telling everyone his team has designed the best chip in the world.
Climate change and its denial by right-wing media
You're not disagreeing with colanderman:

> (and IMO the correct decision)
Fails to detect TorBrowser with scripts enabled and ublock disabled on MacOS 10.14.4

Edit: Fingerprint seems persistent though
Intel's update: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28673/SSD-S4510-S4...

Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4499612/intel-ssd-d...

> Note There is no counter or other attribute that reports drive idle power-on hours. Intel recommends that you use SMART 09h (drive power-on hours) as an approximation of the idle power-on hours. Therefore, Intel strongly recommends that you update the firmware as soon as possible to avoid the risk of unrecoverable data loss. The new MR1 firmware will not resolve any read-uncorrectable errors that existed before the firmware upgrade.

Dell: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/ilbsdt1/drivers/driv...

Lenovo: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht507987

> Intel S4510 or S4610 SATA SSD (only 1.8 TB and 3.84 TB are affected) can experience the following issues after 1700+ cumulative idle hours.

> Users can see critical errors under certain use conditions. The drive may report BAD_CONTEXT_2033, BAD_CONTEXT_1042 or excessive LBA mismatch (SMART attribute B8h) after 1700 hours of cumulative power-on idle time.

> Once the error code is triggered, the drive will fail to respond on the bus.
> That's how one grows a language, through building successful projects, staying positive (and having an entire platform behind it). Not through doomsday scenarios and a constant barrage of criticism.

This is exactly what the Rust community is doing! RIIR is something that's only really insisted on for relatively small pieces of security-critical code. With huge codebases like Firefox the rewrite is done piecemeal, to put the rewritten code in use as quickly as possible. The "doomsday scenario" talk about memory-unsafe languages does not come from people writing Rust, it mostly comes from the security community, even at places like Microsoft - because guess what, they've literally been running around with their hair on fire for decades, and they're sick of this especially now that something like Rust is available!
I wonder if there is any value for Apple to make an RSS reader comparable to what Google Reader was, and have some way for readers to pay or donate to the publications they subscribe to?
Sharks are said to have not evolved for tens of millions of years. This is probably true of their basic physicality - they are the apex of the sea predators - but I bet they have spent tens of millions of years evolving to not die from all the other things that can kill you.
We've been working on ChurnKit for the last few months as an internal tool, to find out who has removed our javascript code from their website - to collect their feedback.

We invest in acquiring new users, we try to make them signup and try our product by adding a small JS code to their website. But then, 10 days later we found out our code is no longer installed on their website.

Such a waste!

With this, we managed to recover several uninstalls + collect valuable feedback since we started using it internally.

If your product or service involves adding a small snippet to a website to make it work, I'd love to get your feedback on this.
No one said they didn't track anything already. But they don't have the full picture yet. Many people pay cash for things. Currently no tracking if you just visit somewhere and don't pay for anything. Not everyone has GPS enabled on their phone.

Ubiquitous facial recognition fills in all of this missing data well enough, and without you doing anything but walking out your front door.
It's disappointing to see that the 1 billion figure is what really grinds people's gears in here. That's the thing you should be the least concerned about.

edit: typo
In the particular case of Sri Lanka there is the problem of periodical violence between religious groups. Buddhists against Muslims and Christians, mostly.

I think a temporary ban on social media is appropriate to mitigate such violence in the immediate aftermath of such a terrible attack.

Immediately after the right-wing terrorist attack in Norway people thought it was committed by Muslims. Some people began utilizing the attack to blame Muslim immigrants. Some incidents of violence and verbal attacks have been reported.

So, in the particular case of the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, I'm not yet ready to judge the government action/inaction.
Just fill in anything. The form just gives you download button after submitting, without even verifying e-mail…
2^32 milliseconds.
What’s a fair price for being responsible for causing a false arrest then?
Some video of demo rides from someone who was at the day:

Lane change on crowded freeway: https://twitter.com/hamids/status/1120472369762590722 - It manages it if not quite as smooth as a human.

Summon in parking lot: https://twitter.com/hamids/status/1120446405410205701 likewise.

There's also an official Tesla sped up demo vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlThdr3O5Qo - hard to tell really.

Same video slowed with the display magnified and some Reddit discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/bgb9or/fsd_dem...
Everything you said sums up with 'R is a very good language for statistic because of the packages' which is pretty much in agreement with the GP comment.

R has nothing going for it except a rapidly dwindling number of packages that don't yet have a direct python equivalent. It doesn't make sense to invest time into R if one already knows python unless one specifically focusing on academia pure stats type stuff.

Even then, the incoming generation of undergrads are increasingly proficient with programming and are shying away from R the same way that they shied away from Matlab after scipy matched it for 95% of their tasks.
Not to mention untrustworthy countries like the UK, Germany, and France.
Man, I'd forgotten how much the artstyle of Wasted Talent changed from the first few comics.

I hope stuff's been going well for Jam since she ended the comic.
That post describes two vulnerabilities: one is in the JIT, but the other one is in regular old C++ code. More generally, JIT bugs are a relatively small minority of browser vulnerabilities. More often you see issues like use-after-free in C++ code that interacts with JS, such as implementations of DOM interfaces, but the issues are not directly JIT related and would be avoided in a fully memory-safe language.
There’s an aspect of compensation to it, which is obviously lower than a billion. Then, there’s “punitive” damages, I. e. The wish to hurt the company in excess of individual damages to discourage future behavior.

Obviously, actual damages are too low for a company like Apple for a matter such as this to even escalate to the decision level. For me here in Germany, I’d say $10,000 would be around my over/under for being wrongfully arrested. For a black teenager in the US justice system, you’d probably have to double it, but that’s still nothing in the Apple scheme of things.

The US is somewhat rare in piggybacking on individual tort law to also regulate corporate wrongdoing, and people often chafe because the individual gets so much more than what seems appropriate. The alternative is empowering agencies to seek fines that go to the government. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is one such attempt, and also an example of what can go wrong with it.
Just my opinion here, but I don’t think our lizard brains are quite so highly evolved.

I don’t compulsively check my phone because I “value” the content. I value what I read in books far more. But my attention span seems to be in free fall and I haven’t picked up a book in months.

I think it is _very_ possible to want something (I.e. a return to old school forums), but not act in a corresponding way.

Social media is digital drugs.
He should sue for 10k so Apple can dismiss him, not feel any repercussion and no one will talk about this anymore. /s
The whole opengraphics.org thing doesn't seem to be up either. I checked on Archive.org [1] but couldn't find anything.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/*/opengraphics.org
Getting arrested has a nonzero risk of death.

What Apple did was insane, and they ought to be punished.
Anonymity is not the same as privacy. Mark Zuckerberg is known worldwide and has no ability to be anonymous. However aspects of his private life (his Facebook messages, for example) are far more private than the average person.
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I don’t think they can ask that, but it doesn’t take any mental gymnastics to imagine a false arrest leading to false incarceration if the accused can’t afford a good lawyer. Or even being fired from a low-end job when they miss some work because of the arrest. Could be 10-20k in damages right there between legal fees and missed work
> The apple's false accusation resulted wrong arrest.

But it was only false in hindsight - someone came in, used his ID, and their face was associated with it - that's perfectly sensible and normal behaviour from their systems.

> The arrest warrant included a photo that didn’t resemble Bah

That part is definitely on the police, not Apple.
Sounds like you should manage your metrics and refine your model using false detection/classifications (which you should try to catch and measure).
How big does the penalty need for it to actually make avoiding it in the future a priority for Apple?

Putative damages need to scale with the size of the defendant or they're meaningless.
One assumes "to make sure it makes it into the news to try and force/shame Apple into a quick settlement rather than taking it to court where it'll probably get tossed."
> ...where $1,200 worth of goods were stolen, took place.

Did they only steal ONE iPhone X?
Such technologies always have an error rate, and these error rates are taken into account, by and large.

There is a huge potential to harass people using such technologies, particular such people whose complaints are most easily ignored. But that is more of a problem of holding the government accountable for such behavior in general, rather than trying to stop them doing their arguably necessary job in this particular instance.

I'm generally against regulation or restriction of migration, by the way. But I'm also in favor of the authorities having a general idea who's coming and leaving.
I feel the need to defend "illiberal democracies" once again: They didn't implement this shit. They would certainly like to, but they are not the problem. The current problem is the EU as an institution that implements policies based on fear. Not some fringe parties with limited success...

You just don't point the finger on someone incontinent while your pants are soaked. Totally not classy.
I evaluated it for my needs about 6 months ago, but ended up not using it because it didn't address my biggest need: streamlined workflow. The workflow (at the time) was too much mouse oriented and didn't accommodate facilities for doing the same thing over and over again. For example, I often need to do the same video effect again and again and again with just small variations in parameters. OpenShot is just too slow for that. I ended up using Blender because while the UI is weird it is incredibly economical. I never sent this feedback into OpenShot, though, mainly because I figure I'm not their target audience. I figure they are looking to help people who are making relatively small numbers of changes to video and who require ease of discoverability over economical usage. I might be wrong.
Are you saying that people trying to bring privacy issues to light will just be considered to be “crying wolf”, and that would hurt legitimate efforts elsewhere? From my experience reading about privacy issues, this already happens when people bringing privacy issues to light and attempt to be reasonable.
Whether they reduce the need for testing overall is arguable. But what matters in this discussion is that types can guarantee memory safety, meaning that the cases that you forgot to test – and there will always be such cases, no matter how careful you are (just look at SQLite) – are less likely to be exploitable.
What you're describing is securities fraud.
Why are you downvoted?
Your Ansible explanation is indeed correct. It's SSH default problem not deployment toolkit one.
No idea, that’s something that will be decided if the the lawsuit ever goes to court. But I’m pretty sure that the final value will be significantly less than a billion dollars.
What do you mean by clogging up the legal system? It doesn't matter how much he asks for really. This should be a valid case and it should cost Apple enough to hurt them.

We can't tell what the arrest was worth to the teenager. Depending on timing and results on his life, that could be anything between mild inconvenience and 1bn.
I wonder if in the UK the BBC's anti-branding guidelines make a difference; they will almost never refer to a phone as an iPhone unless it's specifically relevant.
Such a large figure means Apple actually had to take it seriously, even though it's only ~0.5% of their cash on hand.

If he sued for some trivial sum, they'd probably just pay him to go away.

And yes, publicity is the point. This is how you get new precedents established.
Do you mean Bombardier? The aviation company with $16B in revenue and 65k employees? Looks like there was a tariff imposed on one of their models due to a complaint by Boeing but was overturned 4 months later in Jan 2018.

If this is the company you're talking about, can you describe what you mean by "literally was ended"?
Or 12 USB adapters.
yes damn, if the HN represent the modal tech worker, we might have big problems.
I see SL quite widely used in research computing. People tend to stick to one of its point releases corresponding to RHEL initial releases plus security updates of some sort (e.g. 7.1 round here).
As far as I can tell, this is strictly supposed to be compensation for hardship. The size of the entity that is causing the hardship doesn’t affect the amount of suffering. So why should the payout be different? (Otherwise I’d just seek to be wronged by the organization with the biggest pockets?)
Thanks, but I removed the popup instead :-)
The demoscene has its ups and downs but is active and vibrant as ever.