skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate this, but I'm having trouble determining if the declaration has teeth or not.

"The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada plans to take the matter to Federal Court to seek an order to force the company to correct its privacy practices.

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. reserves its right under the Personal Information Protection Act to consider future actions against Facebook"
Yeah, I am shortening the story. The interview lasted longer than that one sentance and we discussed the technology. I was aware of a lot of the principles behind it (and I had read up before the interview), I had just never used it. Like you say, for senior people that's probably the case with a lot of tech.
What security podcasts do you list to and why?
I suspect the nuances, attacks, and mitigations around this would be a good topic of conversation at a conference or something if we ever run into each other.

Unfortunately there's not much that one can say in public around specifics of CLS etc :/
Hmmm, this article might be a clickbait, this is super normal to do in latin America

Is not about legalizing gangs, most latin america countries have been using culture/cultural movements and even sport to drive gangs members into the society.

Hiphop, street art, basketball, etc, are just easy and cheap methods to fight the delinquency problem, same as in the US.

You can go to any place filled with gangs, and follow the basic recipe: build a basketball court, build some cultural center and have it filled with organized neighborhood vigilance and in few yours you pretty much removed a big part of the problem, you will end up with some famous basketball players and some famous rap artists emerging from this community.
that's just a natural step in the "thinness is the top priority in a laptop or phone" direction they have been following for years, I'm afraid.
What alternatives are there to the black slab? A modern smartphone is over 99% screen, all you've got is bezel and the back to play with. And on the other side, what alternatives are there to actually buy?

Also your quote doesn't seem to support your argument. You can't claim that design is customer led, and then use an example where it's led by something else.
The market decide the prices. The value of something has very little to do with the price. You can not charge for something if a free alternative exist. The crux is that Google and Facebook are still profitable, even if it's free, so if they used their huge market share in an attempt to increase the price, competitors would pop up and bring the price down.
Something being free also lowers the friction to use. A paywall is a barrier to entry.
Forgot one of the most obvious:

- Positive voltages tend to be above negative voltages in a schematic (ground is usually more negative than the power rail) nodes between them on the page tend to be between those voltages
How Dreams Allows Everyone to Make a Game, and Why This Is a Gamechanger [video]
"All you have to do is breath. Two words: Just breath. That's all you need to know about not dying from asphyxiation. Just breath, I'll guarantee you'll not die from asphyxiation. It worked for me. It worked for James LeBron - no asphyxiation signs on that man! But remember, just breathing will not work unless you actually just breath." - Dr Rudi (probably) to an Asthma patient
This is much worse than not having reserves. In reserve banking there may be insufficient liquidity to handle a significant withdraw event but theoretically the money in the bank balances, it is just not liquid because it is lent out.

The situation with tether is much much worse. About 30% of the money invested in tether is gone and unlikly to come back. The books do not balance, it is not a timing issue, it isn't a liquity issue tether or bitfinex is insolvent.

This is important to realize, tether or bitfinex is insolvent/bankrupt if that 850m is truly gone. It is covering up this with loans between related parties, but the legality of those loans is probably questionable at best but bitfinex and tether are intertwined such that they likely have shared liabilities legally.

Someone is bankrupt right now. Maybe both.

The fact that tether or bitfinex isn't dropping or outright dead confuses the hell out of me. Is it so critical to crypto now and so central that even if it is involvement we have to believe in it or the sake of this whole market? This market isn't rational or I must be missing something.
> Or if you are a taxi driver working with half the day spent waiting for a fare.

This is a good example. Suppose the driver spends 4 hours waiting for a fare out of total 8 hours working day. Now, they obviously cannot reschedule their time as to drive 4 hours non-stop and then take 4 hours off. In that sense waiting for a fare is also work.

I would define work as everything that holds you back from doing non-work.
How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess
The GP is right about Germany, at least.

Probably not right about Ireland or the UK though.

Can't speak for any other European countries.
A ‘Hoop Dreams’ Sequel, Written by Gun Violence
Thanks for posting this. I'd been trying to remember this short story's name for a while now, and seeing this image immediately put me in mind of the "basilisk"!
They still serve it in Germany sometimes. It's called Schmalz.
Can recommend the History of Egypt podcast:

https://egyptianhistorypodcast.com
The issue is probably the dynamic range of the sensor or film. Our eyes are incredibly sensitive to brightness and not very sensitive to color, so as a result, we are kinda good at seeing things with different illumination very well and the brain corrects in the color if it's missing it (in fact, most of your vision is black-and-white being colored in by your brain).

Cameras on the other hand have one sensor that is only color and not black and white. And with low brightness, noise becomes a huge problem with the electronics. The modern smartphone sensors is incredibly small and even moderate lighting conditions already require some post processing or special capturing methods like HDR to cook up an acceptable image.

The issue is most likely fixable by making HDR a standard feature on all cameras and extending the dynamic ranges even further so that darker skin tones are appropriately captured in all lighting conditions.
I used to be a practicing attorney, where we tracked our time meticulously. My craziest month was 360 hours. I remember it well, I didn't cheat on a single hour, if anything I may have under-reported. That was a hell-month, but I do think many other people could do it for one month.

I later started a company, where I also worked insanely hard, but did not keep track of my hours. The big difference is that with my startup, I loved every second of it. On countless nights, I would get upset whenever I saw the sun start to rise because it meant I probably ought to go to sleep soon. Five hours can go by without looking up from what you're doing.

All that said, without a time sheet, it's impossible to know for certain which job I worked more hours.
I grew up in really shitty conditions. People at the bottom are usually there not because they suck as people, but because they started there, and the deck is stacked against them from the very beginning of their lives.
Very true. About the only time I find net labels acceptable is buses (otherwise the multiple lines clutter the schematic) and multi-sheet connections. Can't find it now, but back in around 2005 I found a basic 555 circuit for beginners with every connection to the chip besides power & ground being a net. IIRC, the pins weren't even laid out to match the chip. Every time I run across a spark fun schematic I have flashbacks to that. Which is a real shame, since the company's goal is to educate newbies. And it isn't impossible, Adafruit generally does a good job of this.
Ask HN: What is the best mobile news app for CS/SE related trends/tools?
I use hacker news and reddit but is there any mobile application for software engineers so they keep an eye on new trends, tools, libraries? I use hackernoon sometimes but almost all of their articles are related to blockchain, crypto which I don't like.
Calendars are too structured and disconnected for my own liking
I have always found calendars to be too structured and disconnected for my own liking.
What I needed was a place where I could jot down ideas, notes and tasks that are event related, without having to switch between apps.
This is why I decided to build Matterbase - https://matterbase.io
John,

The depth and breadth of your knowledge is fascinating. I first replied to a comment of yours here years ago about Nagle's Algorithm.

I've gotten deep into EE lately so this is very helpful to me as well. I didn't even realize who wrote it until I saw the GitHub username.

Just wanted to say thanks for sharing the wisdom.
By that argument shouldn't you be using Android 1.0?

Or a 90s Nokia?
I often catch a cold the day after a crunch period
Because it's a dishonest article.

This is better:
https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2019/04/25/scrut...
How was this made?
> to properly assess the risk of their clients

I've sat through a lot of these insurance company cyber risks assessments. It's absurd. You get asked a question like "did you pay for a firewall?". Then you say yes. Then you get asked to prove it by showing them an invoice. Repeat the question for antivirus. Throw in password expiry question and boom, you're low risk.
Fastmail the company is based in Australia, while Fastmail's servers are located in the US. Take that for what it's worth, considering Five Eyes!
Thanks for getting back to me, I have been moving those messages back into the inbox, I'll take a look at the whitelist. Overall very happy with the service and ProtonVPN too. Keep it up!
I think the problem here is using solely color to distinguish connections. Ive definitely seen schematics where, if printed in B/W, are impossible to read.
Posting a viewpoint, sincerely held, which you know will be unpopular, is not trolling. They seem to believe what they're saying.
I've always known is as "I Seem To Remember" and I thought it was in common use. It's been around for as long as I can remember, apologies for assuming.
https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
Depends on your contact with your employer. If you're exempt and not hourly, they don't rent your brain for a period of time, they rent it to solve a set of problems. The volume those problems, and the rate they expect you to solve them at is up to your employer. Their only limit is to not assign you so much work you quit. That's it.
> While it's true that photography in the past was racially biased, it is unclear why modern photography is still racially biased. It may just be genuinely harder to photograph dark skin

Perhaps if those with dark skin were a majority, far more R&D spending would go into dealing with dark skin tones than say, better zoom lenses or image processing speed. As a practical example, I suspect HDR would have arrived much faster than it did.
If you are using a current version of your C compiler and can consistently reproduce those numbers just by adding something like -O3, you should probably file a bug report. Optimizers can go wrong and sometimes pessimize things a bit, but an almost 50% slowdown from enabling optimizations would be treated as an important bug to fix. (Though people are saying that significant amounts of time in the benchmark are spent in random number generation and output, so maybe try to find out first if the problem lies in one of those.)
Why are the schools allowed to select students based on test scores? Rejecting students just means another school will have to pick them up so what is the gain to the overall education system in doing this? If this was removed then the system would be much fairer.
How to Become Thanos
Step 1)
Go to Google.com
Step 2)
Search Thanos
Step 3)
Click on gauntlet icon
Step 4)
Fight the avengers
Hello new account! You'll find you're on HN, not Reddit. Try to live up to that please, thanks!
MSFT had a demo/concept of a foldable device with a stylus many many years ago.

It basically felt like a notebook and was super interesting, even without having a foldable screen. Sadly, it didn't go anywhere.
Could we have a thing that opens up like a deck of cards/fan?
How about we use that back side for a low-consuption always on screen?

I refuse to think phones are "solved".
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't one of the provisions of the GDPR that regional privacy commissioners may take over - exactly to avoid cases of regulatory conflicts of interest like this?

E.g. I think one of the recent fines was put in effect by the french privacy commissioner, even though, going by headquarters, the irish one would have been responsible. However, because french citizens were affected, the french commissioner was allowed to overrule. (At least that was my understanding how it worked)

I mean, Ireland's unwillingness to regulate internet companies is not exactly news. I imagine it was well-known when the regulation was designed (whether or not it actually influenced the design).
Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela
After Scanning Cookie of some top sites from Stockholm only Facebook got an “A+”
After Scanning some top site from Stockholm, I found something interesting：

Frontpage sets Cookie without user Consent:

- Amazon.com: 9 Cookies
- Reddit.com: 9 Cookies
- Netflix.com: 6 Cookies
- Ebay.com: 5 Cookies
- Google.com: 2 Cookies
- Facebook.com: 0 Cookie

I'm really confused, some websites set Cookie before I click the "Accept", other set Cookie after I click the "Accept".

Some sites provide me a very very detailed cookie usage checkbox, others not.

So, what is RIGHT of GDPR compliance ????
>> The game theory is to find the people who believe this, and to get rid of people who don't.

> Companies prefer to hire suckers if they can, yes.

Pretty cynical, no? Obviously employers make more money off their employees than they pay them, otherwise they wouldn't be in business, but that doesn't make an employee a sucker.
Thanks for the link. I have fond nostalgic reminiscences of these gone wrong interface experiments when skeumorphic design was king. There was an aspect of being patronising about the thinking that went with this, an implicit assumption that users were stupid. Nowadays these design patterns have great retro feel.

To a certain extent everything goes in phases and fashions. The Windows XP style buttons were all the rage for a while, nowadays everything is flat. They won't be flat forever.

As we move further away from the analog world the interface mistakes of the past that hark back to skeumorphic analogues of analog devices have a special quality, maybe not for everyone or every thing, but, if you wanted to design a game and set it back in the last century then things like the QT Player or Microsoft Bob provide great inspiration.
Matrox reminds me of Sam and Max. Good times.
Have you tried reading articles before you snark about them?

> A new study finds that the Greenland Ice Sheet added a quarter inch of water to global sea levels in just the past eight years.
Looks like there is an ear in there
Wall. Floorboards. Done.
And Snow Crash!
> Why are the schools allowed to select students based on test scores? Rejecting students just means another school will have to pick them up so what is the gain to the overall education system in doing this? If this was removed then the system would be much fairer.

Putting children with similar learning abilities in the same class-room is better for everyone. Placing an advanced child with a challenged one can hold both students back.
I’m all for thinking outside the box but many of the complaints described in that are blamed on UNIX when in fact they were also adopted by a multitude of other non-UNIX platforms and reason they became common was because it simply made more sense for general computing.

For example their “file system” (for want a better description) approach was tried on an IBM mainframe and it proved more cumbersome to maintain than the typical file system approach we have currently.

Also when talking about address spaces he acknowledges traditional memory management exists for security reasons then says that’s not needed in his OS without actually proving how his method either prevents the same attacks nor new ones that effectively result in the same kind of vulnerability (I could think of a few very easy attacks against his OS design).

Similarly the way he combines physical storage and system memory into one device completely overlooks technical limitations of the hardware, the risk of data loss if you don’t manage things correctly, the vastly different storage capacities between the two, nor the fact that basically every OS does this to some extent already via caching.

While it’s nice to go back to the drawing board and rethink certain idioms, this felt more like a half baked rant at UNIX than an objective look at the past and current OS designs.
That looks like a sketchy denialist source to me. I don't trust it to accurately summarize scientific results.
Stress just kills focus and creativity. Then, when you can't focus or imagine, you have to somehow find a way out.

I found regular hiking made the biggest difference to me personally. Wish my list of remedies was longer than that but... Yeah. Mountains
isnt it very common to use github repositories as a library? I seem to recall that this was the way to get libraries, though it has been a few years since I looked into go
What makes git different from a blockchain? A blockchain is a data structure, and a data structure doesn’t change based on who has permission to write to it.
Peter Watts' science fiction novels Blindsight and Echopraxia include "vampires" that co-evolved with humans. The vampires' aversion to crosses is described as their brains "crashing" when visually processing right angles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echopraxia_(novel)
My biggest issue with Tutanota is there's no IMAP support. I don't wish to jump through hoops to get my mail out easily and in standard formats if I want to leave a service. That's why I won't use it. Same goes for ProtonMail, which is slightly better but has a tedious IMAP bridge to be installed and used for paid accounts.
Most Common Programming and Coding Mistakes
No what? You didn't actually disagree, you just went on an unrelated rant.

FreedomBox is just another way of expanding your attack surface. People won't run servers because of this, and pretending like all hardware are"servers" diverts from that point. They're too much work to keep safe, and complain all you want about that work already being necessary, it's irrelevant to the conversation.
It does not. With Parcel for example it works out of the box and it even installs the dependencies automatically for you.

I still love SASS since it solves many existing problems at once like you mentioned.
Is there any way to read that not being logged in?
The text shows US and international symbols for things like resistors. But when it comes to logic gates don't mention the IEC standard gate symbols. Like these:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:IEC_Logic_Gates
Posted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t...

From the thread's title:

> This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything
FreePascal/Lazarus : cross platform native GUIs out of the box. Super small executables. No bloat.

For the love of God, check it out.
I know there is some small proportion of the population who physically cannot refrain from overeating. That doesn't change the fact that for the vast majority, eating less IS an option, which is good because it's literally the only way to lose weight apart from surgically removing things from your body.

All that aside, yeah, Dr Rudi probably would say that because he's a satirical caricature.
I think for facebook, cookies are only useful when any user has registered with them and they only ask when someone is not registered yet so once user is registered, they unleash their true power and track the hell out of him.
I know of two truckers personally who fell asleep at the wheel because of that attitude/culture/expectation, leading to crashes. They were okay but it was scary stuff.
You think they gave up? Heh ..
I've recently been working a lot, but not all of it has been desk time. I think it's fair to include time spent thinking about work as work time - once I've worked out how to solve a task I can churn it out, but something particularly complicated might take a few days of thinking (fast and slow) to work out.

A survey like the one in the article may be too simplistic because I could be in the gym while mulling over a problem, out for a walk, doing my shopping, playing games, etc. but in the background I'm still mulling things over. It's not pure relaxation time like when I'm not trying to work something out, but still leads to that "Aha!" moment, even if it happens in the shower or while doing the washing up.

I think it's reasonable to include all that thinking time as work time.
Who's "we"? Thousands of people have lost this fight, it's like one of the big negatives about a Walmart being built nearby...
Of 2 A.M. Conversations And My 3 A.M. Version
The Qt Python bindings (PySide2 and PyQt5) do not need much documentation as they are just generated wrappers of Qt classes with the exact same API.
Easily with XAML/QML.
Rahat Indori Shayari which will make you fall in love with words
> Also, beach scenes. Snow scenes. Cameras and film often (counterintuitively) underexposed those.

The snow being under-exposed is the camera is trying to balance out the image to 18% grey [usually]. This means in a scene with mainly bright white snow it will expose to make the scene grey, unless you override it. The camera can't [with current technology as far as I know] know that you are shooting snow. If you're shooting in snow then you probably want to adjust exposure by +2 as a starting point.

Photographers used to carry around a physical grey card and would use that to take a light meter reading from. That would give the base standard exposure for the ambient light so the scene should be correctly exposed. [ it's more complex due to dynamic range etc but that covers the basics ]
Lard is still very popular here in Romania. It's used extensively for cooking and frying. It's also consumed as a bread spread (salted and topped with onions, paprika etc).

Meat and sausages stored in lard are also a delicacy. The lard preserves and tenderises the meat.
Well... Samsung probably put a lot of pressure on the supplier of the phone. That supplier then (probably) begged ifixit to take down the article.

Both the supplier and ifixit acted against their own original intentions only because Samsung told them to. I'd say that qualifies as "forced".
They didn't name anything, they just provided a description.
Not at all, Fuchsia has evolved for a pluggable UI via Scenic.
Yes, that's the surprising bit. Tether USD backing seems to have been fine.

But Bitfinex screwed up, I guess partly due to panicking because they couldn't get a proper bank connection.

It also seems that the money is lost, just not accessible, at least at the moment.
It's not work time in the sense that you will be paid for it though, which is usually the metric people use. Unless I am missing something.
A plastic bag
I would guess something similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream or any other system that tries to invert a convolutional neural network by 'maximizing' the match.
To clarify: Samsung didn't directly force ifixit to take the article down. It was apparently a case of "do as I say or I'll shoot the bunny!" (the bunny being the supplier).

Still "forced".