skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the biggest dangers is to forget that organizations, be they companies, governments, or whatever else are made up of people. So you're not voluntarily conceding your information to some organization beyond the base interests of people. As an example of this one of Snowden's revelations is that the NSA would regularly grab and share sexually explicit photos with their friends. [1] In another instance, NSA workers would spy on their 'love interests' frequently enough that they had a tongue in cheek label for it - LOVEINT. [2]

You might support actions such as the NSA spying on the porn habits of Islamic 'radicalizers' planning to release the information in efforts to discredit them. [3] But consider that who governments consider good and whom they consider bad is something very much subject to change. For instance are you aware of the now infamous letter the FBI sent to MLK in an effort to blackmail him and even drive him to suicide? [4]

These are the people that you'd so happily give your information to. The notions of a black and white, good and evil, world is something out of Hollywood. In reality there are good and 'evil' sides to every nation and organization. And when you submit yourself to any, you don't get to pick who your information is made available to or how it will be used.

Finally there is the matter of risk:reward. You stand an extremely low probability of being victimized at any given point in your life. And even if you are victimized it will be likely to be a petty local offense such as burglary, robbery, assault, etc. These are not the sort of actions that national intelligence agencies are tasked with preventing, which is more along the lines of terrorism and national security dangers. By being so happy to turn over all information about yourself you expose some risk that that information will end up being used against you. How does this increased risk compare against the decreased risk due to whatever value your personal information provides? This is not really possible to measure, so each individual must decide for himself. But I find it difficult to imagine that this is a beneficial exchange.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/us/politics/edward-snowde...

[2] - https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-offers-details-on-loveint-that...

[3] - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128 (unfortunate source, but it is a well written and sourced article)

[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensor...
If a guy can be convicted for traversing a URL ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev ... then just about anything can be prosecuted if the "victim" and prosecutor are determined enough and the perpetrator is unlikable enough.

His conviction was overturned on incorrect venue, not because of a problem with the charge.
I think subjective/objective makes more sense than obvious and not. Subjective danger is things that feel dangerous but aren’t. Objective danger is things that don’t feel dangerous but are.

For example: a rollercoaster is subjectively dangerous but objectively safe. That’s its whole design objective, feeling dangerous while being totally safe.
That was their adaptation to Google's rules. Initially answers were behind a paywall.
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A lot of comments here bemoan "Full Stack Engineers" as being Jacks of All Trades but Masters of None. But that misses the point. Don't forget that the full quote is:

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”

In a startup or smaller organisation an Engineer with a deep understanding of a single area (frontend, backend, devops etc) is far less valuable to the business than an Engineer with "T-shaped" skills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills), a solid understanding of fundamental best practices and the ability to quickly understand new things as required.

This article nails it:

https://angel.co/blog/what-skeptics-get-wrong-about-full-sta...
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Why do you have nazis in your timeline in the first place?

I never understood the people that always complain about nazis on twitter. Like seriously what are you clicking 'Like' on that your twitter is fully of nazis?
I know of a very good resource [0], although it is in Russian. But I think you can still make use of the comparison table [1]. Here are the rough translations of the columns:

* brand;
* model;
* description;
* price (RUB, divide it by 65 to get USD);
* power in watts;
* luminous flux in lumen;
* efficiency (lumen / watt);
* power of an equivalent incandescent lamp;
* color temperature, K;
* CRI;
* light cone angle in degrees;
* flicker coefficient;
* supports switches with indicator lights;
* overall rating (from 1 through 5, with 1 being lowest);
* warranty in months;
* can you still find it for sale?

There are lots of information on each lamp if you click on the model name.

[0] http://lamptest.ru

[1] http://lamptest.ru/results/
I guess it's the LightSwitch of this tech hype cycle!
"As a result of this decision, I will continue to not pay for this thing that I have never paid for"
To understand the tech lords, look to their libraries
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It is now called Resilio Sync and it still works fine. Unfortunately, they have focused more on enterprise customers and now have more enterprise pricing.
Google's just trying to help their customers succeed.
Yeah. All this noise about explicitly disabling itself on ZFS made me kind of disenfranchised with Dropbox.

It’s no longer the universal solution it used to be. That was it’s one selling point its competitors didn’t have. Good job ruining it!

If my next phone is an Android, I’ll probably move everything to syncthing and call it a day.
This really happened a couple of months ago, and really sucks. There aren't that many alternatives to Dropbox if you require both Windows, Mac and Linux client support. I ended up settling on Nextcloud (ownCloud fork) hosted by Hetzner[1].

So far it's pretty good. Photo sync works from Phone works perfectly, and the desktop apps are decent enough. I did get bitten by a recursive folder-sync bug [2], which is certainly not of Dropbox quality but at least pull-requests are welcome.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/nextcloud

[2] https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/1000
I've been thinking about datetime APIs and how most of them become extremely tedious when you have to account for daylight saving, countries changing time zones et cetera. I was actually planning to write my own implementation for $language using unix timestamps as internal representation and requiring a timezone whenever parsing or printing. But then I considered leap seconds.

I don't know if there are libraries that can handle leap seconds or is everyone just counting on NTP sync fixing things whenever a leap second occurs.
Yours is a fair argument, but you are being downvoted for a contrarian view. I too have two devices I ideally have to sync between.

Also, why do we expect corporations to dole out free goodies for everyone? Dropbox has a good product, they should be able to charge for it.
Fair point. Abstractions, leaky or otherwise, are helpful! It does seem a bit like we've successfully abstracted the conversation into oblivion though. hehe

Anyway, I feel like your original comment and my reply are kind of doing the same thing at the meta-conversation level. We're stretching a metaphor in order to make some counterpoint argument. My intent with the excessive pedantry was to highlight the farce of conflating rough metaphor with substantive insight.

Anyway, internet conversations are hard. Thanks for engaging!
I see. So is "the container on top of Borg is used for scheduling and management" the Borg equivalent of the K8S kubelet then?
Subjective danger is things that feel dangerous but aren’t.

That's not what the word "subjective" means. Language is malleable and all that, but "subjective" doesn't mean "feels like but isn't". Not even close.

Objective danger is things that don’t feel dangerous but are.

And wow, that's really not what "objective" means.
Bitrix24 is another decent Dropbox alternative for group accounts. Available both on-premise and in cloud - https://www.bitrix24.com/features/docs.php
Yes, that's the issue of their pricing, I don't need that much space.
Yep, I know of Weev's case and think it was a heinous miscarriage of justice. Companies outsourcing the consequences of their misconfigured servers as externalities to the legal system is how we wind up with massive data breaches that firms simply brush off and consider business as usual. But that's a whole 'nother soapbox.
The app looks good! I didn't liked the fact that I have to create an account to use the app on my device. Are you planning on adding a web version or something to support multiple devices? That's the only reason/benefit I can think of for the account registration.
So you deleted the free service you were using when the service provided decided to charge for it?
Brennan’s...sigh
All the previous noise about explicitly disabling itself on ZFS (non ext4-filesystems) on Linux made me kind of disenfranchised with Dropbox.

It’s no longer the universal solution it used to be. That was it’s one unique selling point its competitors didn’t have. Good job ruining it!

If my next phone is an Android, I’ll probably move everything to syncthing and call it a day.
We (USA) do go and destroy places and institutions/governments and rebuild as benefits us, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r... or

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/2....
Yes, they are supposed to.

The problem is that it gets taken to extremes when it's done at the framework level.

The pattern tends to encourage overly decoupled abstractions that are nigh impossible to wrap your head around.

Dependency injection is useful when you need to decouple for testing. Other than that it's rarely useful.

If your trying to decouple everything because "coupling is bad mmkay" your just cargo culting.

IOC is just anti OO. And I'm anti OO. But when you use IOC for every class yove got a huge fucking problem.

The only time I've seen IOC work well is across module boundaries in a system where modules were boundaries that could not be crossed without the IOC.

Within modules usual namespacing and new constructors were used liberally.
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It is not the same thing. SyncThing's model of having to add every host to every other host (possibly with introducer nodes) is much more complex. With Bittorrent/Resilio Sync, you can just give someone else a read-only or read-write key for a folder, and they become part of the swarm. Also, Resilio Sync supports encrypted-only nodes, which participate in the swarm by providing bandwidth, but only see ciphertext. This makes it possible to use e.g. an untrusted VPS as an always-available node.

Unfortunately, Resilio had to ruin it with complex enterprice-y license schemes.
also gmo mixing up between different plant species
>The hate isn't "spreading through social media" the hate and the fear were already there.

Well, hate and fear maybe we all share. But the idea to express them in terms of killing innocent people is factually "spreading through social media".
Also, who's arguing?
You yourself said that offering generous benefits inspires low end workers to tend to work for less because they can live on it and ultimately drives down wages.

In a fictional world without minimum wage or assistance a low wage employee can't afford to work for less than would be required to live for very long so one would expect the wage to float to somewhere in that neighborhood. Lets completely arbitrarily set that value at $10 an hour without worrying what the actual value would be. Imagine that the company expects to create $15 of value on average for each $10 paid out.

Note that in this universe even without a minimum wage the wage still can't float arbitrarily low because people can't live and certain people who truly don't create the needed value are STILL pushed out of the labor market by more employable people. Without any benefits they just die.

Now lets add welfare! People with enough to eat, free medical, cheap rent can indeed afford to work for less even if the company is still generating the same $15 net on each labor hour. Say the person effectively gets $7 an hour in benefits and companies average out to pay $5.

This means that in the original arrangement customers paid out $15 and the employee collected $10 the employer $5.

In the new situation the customer paid out $15, society kicked in $7, and the employee collected $12, the employer collected $10.

One could have achieved the same societal benefit by giving the employees $2.

Nations that provide sizable benefits to poor are obliged to set a minimum wage to avoid the situation where the social safety net represents a net transfer of wealth to low end employers by allowing employees to offer below living wages.
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It's a foolish strategy for mass media but makes sense for topic focused publications that usually are not mainstream or elite publication that try to exclude.

You were always the product. Newspapers, magazines, year books, church bulletins have ads directed at you or a group you are part of. Certain people buy a publication for the ads.

Free isn't the problem. Taking free away means less people read their paper, less talk about it, less get invited on cnn, less word of mouth. The need to move to clickbait titles increases.

Remember these media sites do not create the news but present it in a digestable format and provide commentary.
Linux support is already effectively dropped if you use anything beside ext4, so it’s no longer the reliable cross-platform champion it used to be.

They’ve certainly lost my goodwill. What a shame.
There is not one single way to publicly fund media. Hell you could just leave the whole system as is as provide no strings attached grants or tax credits to all publishers. The point is, there is no technical solution to this, we need policy change.
Can you recommend any good materials for making this switch practical? I imagine I'd have to rethink my shopping lists, learn recipes, change the kitchen appliances, adjust social habits... Seems overwhelming and hard to do all at once.
Read the migration notes for the last few releases. Anything that requires you to change your code is a breaking change and the reason you can't skip versions.
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Co-founder here,

We build Social Reech we got frustrated by the fact that several companies didn't reply to our tweets. Digging deeper, we found there we several complications of handling tweets. We build our platform on the basis of easing this process.

Not only managing tweets, we also handle if any of your company's name or keywords gets mentioned across the web. Our integrations include HackerNews, Reddit, Web Articles from across the web (we use a crawler).

We are also on process of launching our blog. There we'll be posting how we built this and our journey and the road acquiring customers.

Want a trial, try https://socialreech.com/register/?trial=true and you should be good for 7 days without a CC

Have any questions feel free to contact us at @socialreech

Cheers
Your last three sentences are in stark contrast to the first part of your first sentence.
I think plonking is generous. They really chunked or slotted it in (I think, I haven't read the paper).

Running with it: They didn't do a sed in place, they split the file and did the sed in place in chunks.
I switched to Nextcloud about a year ago and I've been very happy.

Firstly, I now have as much disk I need, and secondly, the warm fuzzy feeling you get when you know your files are now in your own control :)
Except they have no mechanism to "wipe out" cervical cancer not caused by the specific strains addressed by whichever vaccine they use, and even their benefits generally require three vaccinations over a 13-month period.

The best possible result would be prevention of 90% of infection exposures, which is hardly a wipe out.
It's e coli. Theyre like weeds, plus we coddle them in the lab.
> If I then proceed to do something unlawful as result of my judgement, then that is my own fault and I will be held liable for it.

I am A-OK with that stance right up until it infringes on the rights of someone else. Taking illegal drugs in your own home vs taking them and then driving are both your "fault", sure, but one of them runs the risk of hurting others. But then how do you legislate for avoiding the second without infringing the first?
I've used this MIT licensed toolbox at work to build a closed-source recommendation system and a chat bot and on my spare time building a open-source search engine. It's a pretty diverse set of APIs that you can use to build and deploy pretty cool stuff. Models support online training. I have tons and tons of ideas around this framework but so little time. Feel free to chip in. PR's and ideas are most welcome.

(Edited to explain licensing.)
Mines 6,409 but one could still easily argue.
But we do build our entire society around sports seasons.
What are your favourite paywall blocking software and extensions?
Incognito mode is still working fine for WaPo, in my hands (chromium/ubuntu 16.04.) There are people in the HN thread she links to substantiate the claim, which also report it's working fine for them.
The thing that people might find hard to understand these days is that computers - particularly mainframe or minicomputers - were really unreliable. The hardware was often/always custom built and it would often just stop and the manufacturer had to come in to work out what was wrong, and fix it which typically involved replacing boards until the problem went away.

I should note that I'm basing this experience of being involved with company in the late 1980's - not the 1940's which is the topic of this post. Although I can imagine that back then the machines would only run for a matter of hours at best before breaking down and needing debugging.

It was the same with networking which was particularly unreliable when it ran over coaxial cables like RG58 which had an array of problems that would lead to the whole company network going down and taking all the connected PCs with it.

Modern computing is incredibly reliable.
I love grocery outlet. I actually inquired about how to franchise one and they are serious about who gets to open one. The capital requirements are around 1MM to get started.
The US blacklisted Huawei because it's closely tied to the Chinese government. So it's arguably relevant.

But regarding the Whatsapp exploit, the association with Israel is arguably less relevant. The company is closely tied to Israel, but the US has a far less adversarial relationship with Israel than with China.

Edit: I was just stating the obvious, I guess. Doesn't mean that I agree with it, however. Just sayin'.
How does it handle it when you add something to the middle of a file and every block afterwards has shifted data?
That's non blocking, not async as in the async that rust is developing.
I love it!

This is basically the environment I grew up in for a good portion of my life (and I'm so happy for it).
I came here to make the point that there was too much friction in subscribing and logins across devices. To prove it I checked a major publisher and - wow, ApplePay, TouchID, done. Five seconds and I'm a subscriber, $8 a month. And iCloud sent the password from my MBP to my iPhone, probably Google-users get the same or better.

I checked a second publisher and it has slightly more friction, asking for my name, but still makes payment much easier than before.

There was a time where digital was about upselling print, but to my surprise publishers seem to be doing things right. I just now got two subscriptions, it feels good to support journalism.
I'm getting 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
No, stormfront was a ... racially charged... website that Cloudflare actually did refuse to host.
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any chance that code is up somewhere? Sounds interesting
I'd separate use cases. If you want to talk to/about yourself or if you just want to rant at somebody, post memes, etc then Twitter is easy and natural to use. If you want to have meaningful nuanced conversation, Twitter is useless. So you end up with a dichotomy where for some people Twitter is a fine fit and for others it's completely unusable. Both are correct.
I'm guess its to prevent people from getting a bunch of free accounts and sharing folders between them to create a unified view of larger effective quota.
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At the time I commented, the HN submission had no URL.
> The U.K. gave it conditional certification contingent on the addition of a stick-pusher to be able to operate in U.K. airspace.

Boeing 727 was clearly from another times: "As of July 2018, a total of 44 Boeing 727s were in commercial service" "Many airlines replaced their 727s with either the 737-800 or the Airbus A320."

> both legal, and practical precedent for it exists.

Does it? The devil is in the details. Speaking as an engineer, both the measurements of the ranges in which the changes happen and the characteristics of the responses to controls still matter. I wouldn't be surprised that it's still 737 MAX that would be "a precedent" with worse characteristics when the stall is possible (and without proper MCAS-like help) than those measured in 727.

It's the conditions under which the problems occur and the response diagrams that the regulators are supposed to verify, not the binary "has or hasn't" a problem near the stall. I'm quite sure that the technology at the time of 727 introduction was already more than capable of producing the relevant diagrams, so they can be compared. Thanks for specifying your arguments in the answer.
Is there a way to remove publications from Google News sources? If I can't read the article for free, then I don't want to see their links ever.
Despite trying to like Grocery Outlet, I can’t say I do. The lack of reliable inventory is incredibly annoying. There have been many times I have gone shopping there only to find they had no peanut butter, or no mayo or something equally as pedestrian. For me, it’s not worth the savings to forgo consistency.
>It also falls under the US supreme court test for obscenity and is equally illegal in the US

I fail to see how a shooting video appeals to the prurient interest in any way.
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I love this place, and I love to hate on this place. We used to go in and not be able to find vanilla (!!!) ice cream. Or there’d only be whole wheat pasta. There’d often only be two people in the store and one of their best employees was deaf (just hard to locate.)

On the other hand, the prices were unbeatable, and it turns out strawberry shortcake dairy free frozen dessert is pretty solid.
It does. But here you're free to speak your mind and sources with all sorts of opinions are available. In China, the state supported line is the only opinion you'll find. Information not favorable to the party is widely suppressed