skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with client-side, in-browser encryption is that you cannot audit or trust the software. Without fingerprinting/certification of the entire javascript-source the server could serve a manipulated source code that exfiltrates data, targeted only at specific users, i.e. not the auditors. Think NSLs or sufficiently crafty industrial espionage. CSPs do not save you here.

You can't TOFU in-browser JS, you can't trust audits and if any 3rd-party code is loaded into the environment you can't trust the entire origin.

The browser is the wrong tool for the job here.
> Netflix is not available for rooted devices, for example, and probably won't be on uncertified devices either.

Note that you can use Magisk to get around the Play store not showing apps like this, but it's definitely not a solution for everyone.
> Any carrier will allow you to change your password or pin using other information .

If by "other information" you mean "come into a store and show a government issued photo ID" you are correct. That's a fairly high bar to clear.

That's the way my carrier does it, and I assume if they violate their own procedures I could evaluate my legal options... though as a practical matter I use a VOIP # which requires a 2FA protected login to port out for vendors that force me to use SMS 2FA.
I just proposed a patch to fix the problem on VLC 3: https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2019-May/12...

(proposed != merged)
Robert Caro Writes About Power and the Powerless
Due to the HN hug-of-death: https://web.archive.org/web/20190522135029/http://www.kitepl...
Central economic planning doesn't have an especially good track record. While one could certainly argue that market economies put a lot of resources into things that aren't important or good for the world, they've done better over the past 100 years at not having people starving to death.
Yes, but they might be customizable. For example Rust has rustfmt but you can customize it. Which is a horrible approach imo.
Super excited to test it, didn't intend for facebook piece to be a criticism of your app, which I highly enjoy and use regularly.
That's a relative measure, it could still be the case that the absolute risk is still quite low for each individual. It could very well be the case that the risk per individual is low enough to not cause serious rational concern, while the risk for the entire fleet is high enough to justify grounding it. In much the same way that golfing during a rain storm almost certainly will not get you killed, but if it became a trendy thing to do the number of people being struck by lightning would be significantly higher.

To put a finer point on it, I believe a 737-MAX is still safer than general aviation, which I think most rational people aren't scared of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_aviation#Safety
Most of these ice sheets are already quite close to sea level and distributed across vast areas - like most of the coastline of Antarctica. Hydro power works best with significant altitude drops across very narrow choke-points.
While we're hijacked...

Is F# still the red-headed step-child of Core?

Last I fiddled with it F# was looking pretty unloved, but to be fair C# was still having a hard time with Core itself.
The OpenStack Opportunity
Very cool, if you have a source that would be very interesting to read about.
I was happy to see this because of my interest in the subject, but I can understand that the title is a bit off-putting.

A bit off topic anecdote: a few years ago, while floor trading was still important on the Chicago Board of Trade, I was getting a tour of the floor during trading hours and my guide, a very experienced commodity trader, pointed out a fellow trader that had made the largest trade in history; it was a woman.
Thanks for pointing them out. They’re doing good things for prosumers and small companies who don’t need “enterprise” solutions yet.
The option isn't present on iOS 12.1.4, the previous version.
Articles about how hard you worked, how you went above and beyond and slept at work, etc. Sort of like comic books that are "torture porn": how long can Batman/ Wolverine/ Daredevil suffer like this before we get a cathartic end?

After a lifetime of Catholic schooling, the appeal to me seems deeply rooted in something about being crucified. Which doesn't really seem enjoyable, but YMMV.
EDIT: The title has been updated: it used to say: "Ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise to exceed 2m by 2100"

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Incredibly misleading title. The expected ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise are, per the article:

26 cm (Assuming CO2 emissions from the Paris agreement)

51 cm (Assuming CO2 emissions in line with current emissions)

69 cm (Assuming CO2 emissions in line with current emissions and incorporation of thermal expansion)

The 2m value comes from the large error bars in the predictions. Global climate change is a huge problem, but misrepresenting results from a scientific study like this is just presenting ammunition to climate change deniers on a silver platter. I suggest replacing 'to' with 'may' in the title, as that is a better summary of the article.
Avoiding Big Tech to Protect Your Privacy
Agreed and additionally people seem to hold their bachelor and master theses to vigorous standards. My bachelor thesis was better than my masters, but neither are worth anything. Not topically, not didactically, not scientifically. I hope nobody will ever read them again. I still got good grades.

I was already employed while writing both and really didn't put my attention to it. I doubt you can reasonably expect these works to be anything more. At least not if the focus isn't an academic career with further degrees.

Maybe learning to write something formal is worth it, but the results are expected to be disillusioning from a scientific standpoint. Or maybe it is the exceptions that are the goal here.
Jamie Oliver's empire collapses as 22 UK restaurants close
Empirically speaking, how did they do with dart?
I'm lucky, I live in an area with high amount of post-glacial rebound (yea, thats a thing).

The land here is on average rising with 1 cm per year out of the ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
If you're interested in getting involved in addressing climate change, here are two options for citizens to get involved:

1) The Citizens Climate Climate Lobby has been around ten years, and it currently has a bill in Congress that has bipartisan (1 Republican) support: The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (http://energyinnovationact.org/). With this plan, all the revenue from a carbon tax* is directly returned to citizens as a yearly check--no enlargement of the state. This is the organization cofounded by NASA scientist James Hansen, who first testified to Congress about the perils of climate change over 30 years ago.

2) If you're a millennial/gen Z, and you're more skeptical of a market-based solution, the Green New Deal and Sunrise Movement are making waves. Rather than a concrete policy in Congress, they have a set of principles/values that they are pushing forward. This includes economic and social justice issues.

*Carbon pricing (which can come in the form of a tax or cap and trade) is the single most effective mechanism to address climate change. The idea is to internalize the _real_ costs of climate change into the price we actually pay--ramping up the price on carbon over time until it is prohibitively expensive to use fossil-fuel-expensive products, and incentivizing the economy to adapt. That fundamental price signal, where renewable energy becomes cheaper relative to fossil fuels (and similarly less fossil fuel-intensive goods are cheaper relative to fossil-fuel-expensive ones) reverberates throughout the economy. However, it's worth noting that while this solution should theoretically appeal to Republicans, almost none have stepped forward...
It could be one of the other sentiments you expressed.

Personally, I think it makes no sense to complain that some large company is selling an option that you don't want.
Requests III Development Update
I don't think it's just overwork that has this effect. Work, in general, along with the constant pressure to remain "employable" forces us to structure our lives in a way that leaves very little time and/or energy for other meaningful endeavors:

> I begin with a simple-sounding question: at what point does a day’s work truly end? Whilst our jobs might contractually oblige us to work a certain amount of hours per day, it is clear that we do not simply step out of our workplaces and into a world of freedom. This was brought to light by Theodor Adorno in a short but poignant essay from the 1970s called ‘Free Time’. Adorno questioned the extent to which workers are truly autonomous in their time outside work, arguing that the covert aim of non-work time is simply to prepare people for the recommencement of work: free-time is not free at all, but a mere ‘continuation of the forms of profit-oriented social life’. This is because it involves activities which often have a similar quality to work (looking at screens, doing chores), but also because more alienating or exhausting forms of work produce a powerful need for recuperation. By draining people’s physical and mental energies, work that is alienating ensures that much of the worker’s non-work time is spent winding down, retreating to escapist forms of entertainment, or consuming treats which compensate for the day’s travails.

https://www.zedbooks.net/blog/posts/free-time-pressures-empl...
This is the perfect description of Gary Vee.
This seems like an expensive risky overkill to trust Apple, when JavaScript solutions work on every platform.
> the idea of wanting to be in business but they don't have an idea, skill, or plan.

Speaking as someone who just does what he enjoys doing and ended up with a marginally successful business as a result, I have to say that I genuinely don't get this mindset.

Then again I don't "hustle" either. I (and my employees) just write code that solves problems and creates value for bigger businesses and they pay me good money for it.
> After a certain time, many C# developers find themselves writing in a functional style

If you can't move to F# or find its tooling abysmal and slow then I have a library [1] that makes the inertia flow positively in the functional direction in C#

https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/
It's worth pointing out according to poll Hillary was supposed to win as well.
Agreed. Prettier, BTW, is specifically low customization.
Stripe Is Holding Our Funds Hostage, Resulting in Overdrafts
I created a Stripe account for my new business, vehiclereports.net, about 30 days ago.

Everything was going fine until we received an email saying we have a 100% hold on our funds because our URL isn’t working from the Stripe reviewer’s location. This statement is patently false. Please visit our site for yourselves to verify this.

First, the reviewer claimed that we need to resubmit our website in the settings with https:// in front of the vehiclereports.net. We did so.

Then, Stripe claimed the website isn’t working a further three times, despite my developer and I verifying that this is again, patently false.

Eventually, we got a reviewer to admit that the website works. He claimed that we would be notified of Stripe’s final decision on our funds within 24 hours. This hasn’t happened.

Instead, we received an email saying we need to provide links to our social media accounts. I already did this when registering the account with the built-in Facebook and LinkedIn feature.

At this point, Stripe keeps asking me to do things I’ve already done and is refusing to lift our hold.

What’s more problematic is they’re holding revenue we ALREADY PAID FOR. By this I mean we’ve paid Google Ads upfront for about $10k worth of clicks, and we haven’t been paid the sales from these clicks. This has resulted in an overdraft.

This behavior is completely unacceptable and no one at Stripe has been able to rectify the issue. Does anyone know what I can do in this scenario? I’m truly lost.
Living Portraits: Animating Still Images via Deep Learning
Doesn’t Earth’s being a spinning oblong sphere mean some places will experience only minimal change while others will see significant change? So all this is “average” rise.
My current project is totally ES/CRQS from the core to the UI. It's an email service with users, messages, client sessions and other entities. Please see my top-level comment about the joy of implementing it with Kafka Streams. These state of the art is still emerging, so it was a lot of work to figure out what tools to use and how to model things, but once I did, I can't look back update state in a table again.
A non-trivial part of the reason this environment exists is that we are being enticed into these big centralized platforms, with centralized identities, because it benefits the witches, not us.

When there was no central big service, there was no ground for these massive centralized pushes to exist. Bad stuff happened, but bad stuff happens in real life, too; as long as the scales are roughly comparable I'm not inclined to go too ballistic trading freedom for safety. The risk of all those things exists today in such an outsized way because it benefits Facebook and Twitter to centralize everything.
Tradebans and Computational Freedom
Can't we make solar powered ice makers on a huge scale and just re freeze it?
> go to Barcelona or Rio de Janeiro and you get a bunch of friends the moment you walk out of the door of your apartment

I lived in California for a while, everyone is seemingly your friend, but really no one is it's just the bro culture (for a lack of a better term).

Smiling and sharing a beer isn't being "friends". Now yeah, if your definition of friendship is socialising with random people in the street avoid Munich.

> Germany is also the only place I am aware of where two colleagues sharing the same desk at the same company for 20 years still address each other formally in Höflichkeitsform all the time

Dude, really ... did you work for the Deutsche bahn in 1982 or something similar ?

If anything my social life is better both in and out of work in Berlin than it was in mountain view / LA. I'm not saying it's bad in other places but Germany isn't as you describe it.
Manufacturers (like Russian Yandex) cannot use Google Play Services / store infrastructure and replace Google's Apps with their own. It's either all-in, or full China mode.
The concerns of the people in the article isn't that Huawei is spying on them, its the uncertainty over how long they can keep using Google apps and Play services on the phone. While it's certainly possible to live a 'Google free' existence on and Android device, it's not something most Android users (certainly outside of China) are interested in.
Totally - it almost inevitably doesn't work out positively, but even amongst the survivorship bias of the stories we're spun by these people they focus on the all-nighters and the sacrifices of the successful.

Obviously on the flip side there are the other snake-oil salesmen selling you "work from a beach doing nothing" crap, but there's definitely a middle point of highlighting the success of people who did the minimum they possibly could to succeed.
> In practice we'll only get a chance to find out who Go really belongs to if Go core team members start leaving Google and try to remain active in determining Go's direction. If that works, especially if the majority of them no longer work for Google, then Go probably is their language, not Google's, in the same way that Python has always been Guido van Rossum's language regardless of who he worked for at the time.

This is laughable. Anything built within Google belongs to Google. There's no way the company will let anyone from the core team leave and take the language with them. Keep in mind, Google's version of Go and the community might be vastly different, as the former has different needs versus the latter.
We looked at them all and went with Hikvision. Ubiquitous does not at the moment make a comparable camera. I can get 4-10MPixel HKV cameras and the unifi G3 tops out at 1080p.
I'm ok with reduced taxes in general. An extraordinarily small percentage of our tax money goes to essential services: police, fire, EMS, etc. The efficiency of the US government (deliverable per dollar) is very poor. It may not be like this in every country, but for now, it's likely best to keep those dollars in the hands of individuals and businesses rather than a forced transfer elsewhere.
we was samurai and sheeeit
And it's a legal easy way to force you to update. And every update introduces some slowness. They use all these tricks really to make you feel needed to buy a new faster device. Apple does it since years.
> "Just regular people workin," Ice-T wrote. "I ain't mad at them. Just sayin. That ... ain't safe."

You know what else "ain't safe", Ice-T? Defaulting to shooting people you don't recognize!
China, Leverage, and Values – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Wow. That makes me happy. The last thing we need in Golang are generics.
c and c++ are still great choices when you care more about performance than correctness.

a media player doesn't (or shouldn't at least) modify any of my essential data, so the worst it can really do is crash every now and then. for a program like vlc, mild instability is not a bad trade-off if it means less dropped frames on old computers.
Ask HN: Alternative Visualization of Comments
Have you seen interesting display alternatives to the thread format? I have only seen FeX recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912550)
Maybe something like this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm

I don't doubt humans are affecting the climate. I do doubt that humans can extrapolate the effects of what they are doing out into the future very well.
Scientists Modify Viruses with Crispr to Create New Weapon Against Superbugs
Thanks for the heads up, I went back and edited my comment.
Though it's important to note that using Tor directly rather than the browser bundle means that your browser fingerprint is even more distinct than it would otherwise be.
Powerful 'mechanical trees' can remove CO2 from air to combat global warming
Good thing he didn't, because even in conservative states merely trespassing isn't enough to allow you to use deadly force. Some states allow you to defend property (shoot someone stealing), or to shoot someone who when told to leave refuses, but nowhere in America can you shoot someone dead simply for crossing your property line.
"Fraud" presupposes a surveillance advertising ecosystem. The data is not being used to verify transactions, but to figure out if your ad impression should count as bogus or real. Change the business model and a lot of incentive for this highly invasive tracking goes away.
IQ is not equally distributed across the human population, and we are constantly discovering new genes which are responsible for fractions of it (or the opposite - aggressiveness and violence).

If you move someone from say Sudan, with an average IQ of 70, to Sweden, with an average IQ of 99, then the average in Sweden will fall.

https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php

IQ being unequally distributed makes sense when you consider that population groups have been separated for 10s of thousands of years and exposed to very different selective pressure, and the unequal level of achievement of different human groups historically and currently.

This is also precisely why high-IQ couples should have children - to pass their valuable genetics and culture (to describe the high-quality upbringing that they could provide) to the next generation.

Fortunately genetic engineering and molecular biology is advancing rapidly, where we can identify specific genes related to behavioural traits eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_A and eventually add and remove certain genes, or at least select certain embryos, based on desired changes.

Richard Lynn has also written extensively on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_Global_Inequality
Google App Store is not a monopoly. You can build Android-based OS with your own store. Google spend some resources attracting developers. Huawei can do the same. May be even attract some exclusive software.
It's a very different language than Golang though, very expressive, generics, no GC, etc.
Please explain how you put "reflectors in space" without putting them into orbit.
> If a drone is flying around you're not exactly allowed to interfere with it anyway?

Are there laws for this? Why would I not be able to remove a drone (or any other foreign object) from my own property?
There's no compiler warning for incomplete matches, and without discriminated unions it's pretty verbose to write pattern-match friendly types

C# has support for most F# features, they're just often awkward to use
Got the exact same ad after disabling my ad-blocker and refreshing once.
The paper deals with the issue. It is measuring genotype score, not IQ, so failure of IQ measures is irrelevant.
> Or all the knowledge happily taken and used from Mendelesque cruel inhuman 'research' done in concentration camps. AFAIK no researcher was morally above and simply refused to work with those data.

So I've had cause to research this one in the past.

"All the knowledge"--most of the Nazi concentration camp research was absolute garbage. Turns out junk-science sadists create junk-science results and it is generally accepted that the overwhelming bulk Nazi concentration camp research was useless or near-useless as actual scientific research. I am unaware of any value being derived from the Josef Mengele work that you seem to be referring to--Gregor MenDel died sixty years before World War II, but please correct me if you're referring to someone else.

Some research from the Nazi concentration camp experiments is occasionally referred to, low-pressure/high-altitude research out of Dachau being arguably, as I understand it, the most valuable. (The other common cite, Rascher's freezing tests, were on nonrepresentative subjects and indicate that the moderate freezing that is safely and ethically studied is amplified, but does not step change, when freezing becomes extreme.) Where this data is used, it does not generally form the main body of research and mostly confirms what is known from other sources.

"Happily"--in the (rare) cases where Nazi findings are used, it's used with reluctance. There are evolving and hardening ethical codes around the use of this data as well, particularly from the 1980s onward; today, the use of any of this data must be explicitly detailed and the method of its collection is universally condemned.

Most troublingly for the pursuit of truth and some kind of decency, this argument typically is used as an ahistorical tu quoque, as is being done in this case. It's not a particularly good argument, though--even were it more than if-you-squint-and-pick-and-choose true.
Perhaps Dirlewanger means "drone" as in "worker bee" i.e. delivery driver?

Amazon sometimes uses drivers who don't have uniforms, and who drive private cars.
Current estimates, before this finding, are that it's rising by about 3mm/year, up from an average of 1-2mm/year for the previous century. About 55% of that is estimated to be due to continental ice melt and 30% to thermal expansion of the oceans.
True enough, however through my mistakes we have established that all self righteous theorizing should take into account that the data is pre-smartphone ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak