skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
P.S.: It's ironic how many of the most vociferous critics of our current economic model are also the prime beneficiaries of its spoils.

And indeed, how some of the people being systematically screwed over by it are so supportive of it. Relatedly, I recall reading in Michael Lewis' "Fifth Risk" that some rural beneficiaries of USDA loans and grants downplay (or outright hide) the source of the funding that's making significant differences in people's lives (sometimes such basic things as access to water or electricity), because the very people being helped disagree with being helped by the federal government.
While the messages themselves might not be able to be read due to end-to-end encryption, the metadata -- IP addresses, time of access, to/from whom messages are being routed, possibly more from a mobile app -- would provide a LOT of information. And unless I'm mistaken, Swiss banks are a members of the SWIFT agreement... possible connection?
translation: why not both?

indeed. however, a naive physicist facing a reality (in the form of evidence that contradict their public stance) will adjust the stance, issue an apology, correct the message, etc.

so the answer is clear.
> The message here seems to be that if companies don’t like Apple’s policies, they’ve got other options. Go find your riches on Android or make a Roku app. But developers have a huge financial incentive to be in the App Store. It’s often been reported that iOS users spend more money on apps than people with Android phones, and Apple leans on that advantage.

Apple's argument would seem to be that this financial incentive is the direct result of their policies, so forcing them to change those policies would reduce or eliminate this financial incentive.

It's a reasonable argument, although I think it's unknowable whether it's true.

Legally, it might not matter.
Ouch. So sorry to hear. What are you planning on doing at this stage? If the contract you signed is airtight, what next?
Firefox had a certificate bug recently where all extensions, including adblockers, stopped working.

I'd imagine Google saw a slight increase of revenue during that period.

No wonder why they don't allow extensions on their Android browser. From everyone I know, only I am using Firefox on a Chrome device.
Tony Horwitz’s “Confederates in the Attic” Seems Even More Crucial Today
Announcing Swift Support in CMake
Similar experience at the company I work for, though we're mostly using Angular for FE.
Yep, the second that I can't install ublock origin on Chrome will be the second I stop using it.

Currently I mostly use FF for the web and Chrome for Dev and testing but if I have a tab open I'll use it.

If I can't use ublock origin I'll lock down Chrome so that I can only visit a whitelist of things I need to Dev/test and switch entirely to Firefox.
Yup, I did a literature review of this 5+ years ago, and that is normally how the term is defined in the literature.

I suspect that frozen burgers may be included in this (depending on ingredients), but ground mince converted into burger patties definitely isn't.
For me the bigger issue here is how one night at a bar might follow me around for the rest of my life. I get into an altercation at a bar and kicked out.. now I have a "record" that everyone can see? There is no due process here. No investigation. Nothing.. just a record that a future employer might be interested in taking a look at.

It's the Chinese social credit system but worse because it's privatized.
"they have a 66% market share", in that world. A 100% market share is not needed to have monopoly power.
Nice in theory, but maybe not as nice in practice.
They tell you "do the first 2 years at the CC, then do the last 2 years at the University".

What actually seems to happen is: "Spend at least 3 years making your way through CC, then somehow still take another 4 years to finish at the University."

Students who can actually manage to complete the 2+2 may be better off just doing the 4 at the University. (And might actually do it in less, due to AP credits and other things.)
Shouldn't, but can't ever otherwise be.
There is also a feedback loop on adwords and other CPC spends. Run ads that get few clicks and get penalized in cost or impressions -- in severe cases to the point of being off-lined. What business that runs CPC placements wants to show an ad with a lower click through rate.
Some information about fiber for consideration.

Dr. Zoë Harcombe - 'What about fiber?'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KrmpK_Lckg
They explain that they have two batteries (a Li-Ion and a Lead-Acid) but are going to stop using the Li-Ion and buy a smaller third battery so the web server can “shut down” rather than just using both batteries and letting the web server run 4 days without sun.

Neat, but this seems like it’s engineered to shut down, not engineered to stay up. I wonder if it’s on purpose.
The number of crimes prevented is an utterly irrelevant metric. This becomes acceptable when police abuse of power is statistically nonexistent.
>, a fee paid by the seller (to place the listing)

Right, and the print version of that in newspapers was actually called "classified ads". The listing is an advertisement from the seller trying to make the public aware of what he's trying to sell. The seller paid a fee to the newspaper to list his item.

>Lastly, we don't have to ban _all_ advertising.

Ok, that comment changes things. I was interpreting your previous claim of "the lack of advertisements" as literal absolutism and it seemed to contradict the concept of "classified ads" which you approved of. I understand you just want less ads.
> How can you tell what "God's true religion" is?

Are you asking my opinion? My opinion is that the only way to tell is to ask God directly, study it out in your mind, and follow your gut. If God exists, he should be the only one that can tell a person what His true religion is and will confirm his true religion in a way that you recognize.

I believe it is also possible to have reproducible spiritual experiences/impressions confirming your choice.
Less than the chance of the original emergency killing you!

That’s what the full trim is for. It makes the aircraft pitch away once you let go of the stick.
No, it’s because of the perception of utility and self-sufficiency. Trucks are very similar to sports cars, they’re sold on the perception of capability and the way the driver perceives themself, not around how the vehicle will actually be used.

Also, sedans are safer than trucks, by a lot. Not only are trucks more prone to rollovers, but IIHS rates a lot of high selling trucks as having a “poor” structure likely to suffer incursions during a collision. Only 1 truck in 2019 got a IIHS top safety pick, a few minivans got honored, and well over a dozen sedans got picked.
> unless a background task like Windows Update is running.

That is his point. Even on the VM I run on my macbook for work, there is always a background task running. Windows Defender, Windows Update, a bunch of incoherently named things... the list goes on.
> After several days, we finally narrowed down the issue to a bad Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) instruction on a single CPU in our fleet

This isn't even the first time I've heard of an issue at FB being caused by a single bad CPU instruction. Working at a scale where "Problem X is a one-in-a-million edge case" and "Problem X happens several times per day" are synonymous is weird...
Interesting. I may be biased in the other direction after reading "The Epigenetics Revolution" and "Junk DNA" by Nessa Carey.

ENCODE is such an amazing project! Also, thanks for your research on non coding DNA.
The Amazon Echo Show 5 Puts Alexa on a Smaller Screen, Shipping in June
The government has distorted the market by subsidizing college with guaranteed student loans unable to be discharged in bankruptcy.

I’m confident that a fully private market would limit student loans to those with a positive ROI. Of course, that’s politically unpalatable in the US.
Even human doctors struggle with proper mental diagnosis, I seriously doubt an AI is gonna do any better.

Not to mention that every false positive would lead to the compulsory mental treatment of completely healthy people.
>because the writers of founding document of the United States didn't not foresee the level of control the rich and corporate would truly have in this modern era

They did, that's why they limited the power of the federal government to interstate commerce and defence. It was later generations that decided interstate commerce means activities that take place in a single state[0] and that we should use legal trickery to get around the protections they created.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
A countering viewpoint of fiber:

Dr. Zoë Harcombe - 'What about fiber?'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KrmpK_Lckg
You can annotate your types if you want and get a lot of editor benefits. Also, I don’t buy the “we need strong types for everything” argument, as optional typing in Clojure, JavaScript, and now Ruby gives you lots of benefits without having to think all the way through the app’s architecture.
Exempting newspapers from sales tax seems like a good idea. Perhaps the government could go even further and match subscription fees up X dollars per year per customer, as an incentive for people to subscribe. To prevent abuse (such as kickbacks to subscribers), the government could require that participating newspaper companies limit the benefits of matched subscriptions to (1) delivery of a physical newspaper and (2) online access to the content of the physical newspaper.
Presumably to not hang advertising on the back of a feature they can't really provide is the other side of that coin.

I wonder if they could do something like the canaries we see in other legal respects (not a lawyer); log in and get an account-specific banner in your inbox telling you they've never enabled IP logging for your account.
> Refuse to comply with the court order?

Was there a court order? I was under the impression there was not.
There are fairly few vulnerabilities discovered in docker itself.
The last one was in runc, the underlying container executor... these are very hard to get right.

This is kind of a stinky one, though because docker runs in the root context (unless you are experimenting with the rootless docker mode).

You could take this same argument to absurd extremes: the kernel is just an abstraction over the hardware, surely you could ditch the kernel and manage the hardware yourself and it will be more secure.

The reality is, in both cases, no you can't. Doing this stuff right requires expertise, and generally need more than one or two people looking at it.
Pointers in Python: What's the Point?
And would it be breaking any laws for a third party to pay for your ProtonMail account? Might be worth it to some people to pay 2x or even 10x the annual fee in cash to a third party to not have their financial fingerprints on the account.
On the other hand, germany is a bad place to have your servers.
Microservices vs. Monolithic Architectures: Pros, Cons
This is one of the kinds of behaviour that the GDPR is designed to protect against.
This is both awesome and so so discouraging. Does anyone have some direction on how to produce good search systems??
Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
Wow, this is certainly enlightening. I wonder how I can get food that isn’t filled with Nanoparticles.
Social filtering is often heralded as a great thing to improve society so that its citizen can learn to behave. Survival of the fittest in its greatness.

Merit is overrated anyway, so all people have left to do with their lives is sorting and filtering people to pretend they can enjoy a better evening.
Religious freedom as USA practices it lets parents indoctrinate their kids. In my eyes that is not religious freedom at all, where I come from doing that is illegal. Some people still end up religious but most don't.
“Now, if the church took someone accused as a child abuser (that somehow the law neglected to convict) and moved them in another country in a church position they still work with children, then sure, we can condemn the church authorities.”

This is exactly what happened many times.
That's correct. If someone wants a vocational program to get a job, they should go to a vocational school or program. I didn't spend four years studying computer science to become a C# or Javascript code monkey.

Aside from that, in class I learned theory and was tested in that (actually we were taught how to program Java too). If I wanted to manifest that theory in an application, the expectation was that I do it in my own time.

I have no desire to see CS programs dragged down to the lowest common denominator because some companies want low-paid Javascript monkeys but require a Bachelors for the position.
for real? Is RegEx actually a FSM behind the scenes? or are you trying to say something else
Crazy stuff. To think that society at large has become so self-unaware as to bury themselves in the illusion of attention and acceptance. It speaks volumes about the attitude that 'we' have towards people outside of our families and immediate circle of friends.

The good news is that this will, and likely has already, spur a lot of positive change.

Sometimes, it can take a while to notice shit swept under the rug, but once it starts to reek, you have no choice but to clean it up.
The way it was structured would have allowed him tax avoidance on the investment, but also not be considered an investment but rather a silent cofounder, which would allow me to accept a low valuation without having a negative impact on the next round. Otherwise, it needs to be explained why the valuation was so low.
You are mistaken, the market is not at all in control and has not been for a very long time now. It's quite baffling even that anyone would say something like that considering the government not only guarantees most student loans and has flooded the market with every lower qualified loans and pushed every more people into ever lower quality schools while simultaneously also importing foreign national "immigrants" that drive down salaries as well as wages.

If the market actually worked, you would not be able to get a student loan for a nonsense degree at a nonsense school that dumped you out into a job market in which you could not recuperate the loan within the term.

It's quite literally and PRECISELY because the market is NOT allowed to function that the whole system is so perverted and distorted to insane and illogical and irrational levels, which is rather ironic considering Universities are where the smartest people are supposed to be.

But I guess when your salary depends on not knowing something...
I agree, I just think that trying to prevent people from collecting publicly available information is the wrong way to stop it. The bar has a legitimate reason to look at your ID.

Instead how about we just make a law that bars can only ban people for incidents that occurred in that bar. That seems reasonable to me and would hold them to a similar standard as the justice system (no hearsay).
This is pretty comparable to the low wages the majority of people will receive just out of college, except the trade job is much more likely to build career skills and relationships without the huge debt burden.

It wasn't until I had about 5 years of solid experience before I started being able to significantly increase my income regularly in my field.
> There are reports of 40kb reduction in bundle size, which is a lot.

It would be for libraries like react or vue that are already small. Angular is still big enough that even after being 40kb slimmer it's still fairly huge (I think the typical build is like ~550+kb).
Why I'm Charging for React SPHO
I agree that avoiding type-related issues are not a particularly big selling feature. I, however, like typed languages because the tooling tends to be substantially better, as tooling is much easier to build when you have type information available. Tooling makes my job a lot easier, faster, and, in my opinion, results in better code long-term. We're getting much better at building tools for dynamically-typed languages, but there is still a gap.
I disagree, and I am confident most other people would too.

We are educated on the merits of maintaining digital privacy, but most of the world isn't.

If you were able to prove that a system like this was saving thousands of lives a year I think it would have resounding support among the general public.
High antidepressant use could lead to UK public health disaster (2016)
Right. These are the precise prevalence numbers that have been addressed in multiple studies showing that the change is attributable to increases in public awareness / detection efforts, and broadened diagnostic criteria.

Thank you for digging up a link.
Thinking of Deepfakes Like Advertising
I think it is worth reiterating that regardless of (insert application) provider used, one should assume lawful intercept and low friction compliance, not to mention eventual data leakage from hacks, bugs and competence issues.

If PGP is difficult, people can use a simpler route of 7-zip encrypting text files with a pre-shared passphrase. Share your passphrase out-of-band when feasible. i.e. physical notes, sftp, voice chat, private chat server (mumble / murmur super easy to set up), etc... Use different passphrases for different circles of friends. Example: [1]

[1] - https://tinyvpn.org/e/c/6/ec6ef8690422c94f17da3b2caa60a5c1.7...

Created using:

7za a -mhe=on -p ./SECRET.7z ./SECRET.txt

pw

akduygajygrvads____________lgidufh^-_adliuanj^^^42^^^^^^^onijhoijg__1__
This is a good point, I hope so.
> 84% of apps are free, and developers pay nothing to Apple.

That's just false, every developer has to pay 99 USD per year to be able to publish apps. Even if you only publish free apps.
Hmm I was just the other day contemplating moving my domain and email off of Google/Gsuite nd ProtonMail was one alternative I was considering. Now I'm hesitant - what other options are there?
Algolia looks good, but are there any OSS alternatives for those of us trying to bootstrap a search system
If that is the concern, why “free college” rather than “free college for people whose parents make less than 200% of the poverty line?”

Free college for everyone wont have a leveling effect. Indeed, it will make degree inflation even worse. For lower income people, living expenses, opportunity costs, and lack of college predatory K-12 still serve as huge barriers. Middle and upper income people will still account for most college attendance, so in the end it’ll be a big handout to the middle and upper middle class.
Unless there is an aggressive public education campaign, most people will likely be ignorant as to the purpose of the card scanning and the privacy risks.

Consumer boycotts are very often ineffective and shouldn't be relied on. This may distress libertarians, but regulation is the only real answer.
From Protonmails website:

> In addition to the items listed in our privacy policy, in extreme criminal cases, ProtonMail may also be obligated to monitor the IP addresses which are being used to access the ProtonMail accounts which are engaged in criminal activities. Under no circumstances will ProtonMail be able to provide the contents of end-to-end encrypted messages sent on ProtonMail.

To be fair, I don't know if this provision was added after they had reported the instance in their transparency report.

However, I think at some point the customer should use a bit of common sense. Anyone who believes that a government may compel a company to start IP-logging their mail should be considering that in their threat model when they are looking for an e-mail provider. I don't think it needs to be plastered on the front page - especially not with advice on how to circumvent government authorities lawful requests.
>I don't know how they'll get magic transparent updates when their model is to always require restarts.

When the only thing stored locally is $HOME and everything runs on clusters on MS servers you will never know when the 'back end' reboots. The 'Future' is the same as the past but with updates.

You are (your smartphone) and will be running a dumb-terminal. Instead of one computer you are now using a very-large-cluster of servers. Each time you boot-up 'Your instance' may be a unique VM that gets spun-up in micro-seconds. When it's time for an update the patches can get all pushed out to the VM's and when you reconnect (i.e. wake from sleep-mode) you are now connected to an 'updated' VM with all the hard work happening on the backend.

This very of the future is really fucking COOL, and terrifying. It also pretty damn doable.
Agreed, where do a I sign up. With the proliferation of license plate readers and other surveillance cameras in the last 5 years it's a matter of time before this creeps out to full algorithmic 'risk scores' for when you have encounters with enforcement. For some that may mean just getting shot [0], while they think someone risky might be in the vehicle, based on association. Or other harassment.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-no-charges-lapd...
Their comparison of other apps in the store is quite disingenuous.

Yes, you technically have other music players, but they're not as integrated into the OS as Apple Music is. We picked Apple Music for this reason, even though it's a rather bad UI.

Same with Maps. Not that I want to give Google more of my location data but others that want to use Google Maps as their default maps app, can't right now without all kinds of third party hacks.

So yes, the competition does exist, but due to deliberate actions BY APPLE to stifle their APIs to keep them heavily restricted, these apps really aren't first class citizens on the OS.

I largely favor Apple's approach of minimizing data sharing, but their apps are often inferior to the third party alternatives. They should use their app store stick to instead have a MFi-like certification program for data. If you want to be a first-party app for Maps, Mail, locations, etc, you have to demonstrate that you won't abuse that data, and have the right infrastructure to protect it.

Update: Look at web browsing. All those browsers use WKWebKit, so they're all actually just Safari. And Apple's fine with telling the public that they have choice here. That's just blatantly false, and I don't see how their legal team allowed them to make such a statement.
Farming has been mechanized...something like 3-6 major corporations provide the majority of the farming for america.

Something like electricians are at the mercy of the market, isn't sexy, tends to use a person's body up by the time they're 30, and is greatly affected by the local economy. (Electrician in Detroit vs. Electrician in Denver where things are booming.)
I don't know if this law applies retroactively. But anyway, its a good step.
Yes, that sounds like the plan.
There are a lot of fuzzy edges. One big one is managing different aspects of "sameness" for a file in different contexts that makes sense. You mentioned the problems with binary hashes; there are others, like comments in scripts and config files. If distro-X just spams boilerplate at the top of the config file, is that the "same" file? What if they add or rewrite informational comments in a config file?

I think the answer is that sometimes they are; it depends on the question.

I also noticed that it is really easy to end up wanting to pull data from source repos and bug trackers, but down that path lies madness.

Anyway, I don't have any plans to start building this. But it is an interesting project to think through.