skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is it just me or is this a mountain-out-of-a-molehill situation?

It's just you.

The example of the journalist is a very good example of exactly why this is such an extreme issue, but it really starts with the small things. What if you want to call someone, and not tell them your name? well, f#$£ you then, the app already told them. Don't want everyone knowing where you work? well f$%& you again, maybe somebody added that with your name in the app (just as the example of the journalist).

So now you call, say, your beloved grandma and your number shows up as "Henry the drug dealer". Maybe you don't even deal drugs, but someone a) thought it'd be funny or b) wants to hurt your reputation.

Or even worse, imagine you call a company regarding an application for a job. It's already a big enough problem that someone else posting a picture of you doing something stupid while drunk can ruin your chances of getting a job; now we're talking about attaching random, possibly personal, possibly untrue information to your phone number for everyone to see without even informing you.

This isn't a molehill. It's borderline criminal.
I guess they mean the main structural mass is timber-based? It's really odd terminology but might simply crop up from details of the field's lingo which makes no sense to outsider.

Apparently CLT and gluelam are different methods of engineering wood: in CLT the boards are laminated in cross-frames (so one layer is laid north-south and the next is east-west) to improve structural resistance across non-longitudinal orientations; while for gluelam all layers have the same orientation so the end-result is closer in behaviour to regular sold timber.
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf for the uninitiated
Every large player has been wilfully degrading user experience in any browser they don't approve of for a few years now. This is a ship that has sailed - from the lack of antitrust suits we can deduce that there are in fact very few legal ramifications, if any.
I'm often critical of GDPR, but stuff like this is why I think it's probably necessary to have.
Ads are not designed to get you to buy stuff. Ads are designed to familiarize you with a product. So when you plan a party and have to think what drinks to buy, you already know Coca Cola is a drink that exists. Maybe you buy it, maybe you don't. It doesn't matter. And if you go to a party, you also know that Coca Cola is a drink you can expect to get.

That's what ads are for. To get everyone to know that they live in a reality where your product exists.
Would this not be just another form of kicking the can? In particular once these buildings are demolished and replaced with new ones, I don't imagine that the old wood would (or even could) be reused. Instead it'd be sent to a landfill and decay at which point its stored carbon would be released.

In favor of this regardless. Wood is so much more pleasant on the eyes, and creating an incentive for huge sustainable forests is an awesome thing any way you look at it. But unless I'm missing something, framing this as something that could effectively mitigate against increasing emissions seems to be misleading.
No, they don’t. And that doesn’t justify shutting down the pages of three(!) state(!) parties with sitting parliament members weeks before elections.

If Facebook has issues with commenters, then those commenters should be punished.
The thorium itself possibly becoming a valuable commodity if Gen III/IV nuclear reactors get built. It’s a very stable isotope (age of the universe half-life so far) and doesn’t emit hard gamma radiation (though its daughters do, but again very long half-life), store it up.
Who else read the title "Huawei", and wondered why they'd warn about such thing?
Learning and Solving Sudoku via SATNet
I'm not sure how transparent they are about their finances, but most of Mozilla funding comes from search engines deals to make them default in certain regions (Yahoo, Google, Yandex and Baidu).
Which is entirely possible, no?
If you're lucky enough to have a supernova, it's also probably a good idea to be very very patient while you wait for the various radioisotopes to calm down before you use your nice shiny new REEs.
If she's truly after "opsec" then why would she keep using a phone number she's handing out to randos?

Pretty laughable - buy a new sim every week, it's not even hard to do in india/south africa. You can buy a new sim almost instantly from the corner store equivalent. You might get called by the local police if you buy more than 5 a month though - happened to me when i was testing out different carrier's data/sim services and bought 6 sim cards at once in india. They just took down my details and never bothered me again
This is how OpenBSD lost their DARPA funding. [1]

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/29937/
Though it is a bit disappointing that a purported science journalism outlet contributed to the OPs confusion by calling the minerals and the elements both „minerals“ by e.g. claiming that the minerals are formed in supernovas.
Ask HN: What do you want to improve in your relationship with your partner?
HN folks who are currently or have been in a relationship, what area of your relationship do/did you want to improve?

1. Do more fun things together.

2. Resolve conflicts and differences.

3. Financial planning.

4. Manage responsibilities or household chores better.

5. Understand each others' likes and dislikes and be more considerate.

6. Anything else not in this list?

If you'd like to answer anonymously: https://forms.gle/e6zuguCixpmGrR9G7
I'm wondering about the process of ageing.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Python Web Development Companies in the USA?
> It does not seem unreasonable for a service like TrueCaller to notify people that user-generated information about them is being irrevocably added to a globally public repository.

If they live in Europe, as far as I'm aware, they should actually also need the users consent if the information contains anything like a name (which it most likely does) and a way for users to have their personal data erased permanently.

Maybe there's some exception why they don't need to do this; can someone provide some more info on this?
thanks for the tip.
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Burnt Out and Loving It
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> This is why I don't use WhatsApp despite the fact I know many people who use it. To use the app, you have to give access to your entire contacts list. Even if I'm okay with them having my information, I don't feel comfortable consenting for those in my contacts list who don't use WhatsApp.

Fun fact, that has technically been illegal for a while here in Germany. There's quite a few videos / articles on how "Using whatsapp is TECHNICALLY illegal". Of course, nobody really complains, so no legal action was ever taken against any user, but it's still a good excuse for me to say "I'm not installing that. It's illegal."
Which is hilarious, given how expensive it is to run analytics on AWS. My current company looked into recreating our internal analytics environment on the cloud, and realised that it wouldn't be cost effective.
Why American Costs Are So High (Work-in-Progress)

1. Engineering part 1: station construction methods

2. Engineering part 2: mezzanines

3. Management part 1: procurement

4. Management part 2: conflict resolution

5. Management part 3: project management

6. Management part 4: agency turf battles

7. Institutions part 1: political lading with irrelevant priorities

8. Institutions part 2: political incentives

9. Institutions part 3: global incuriosity

> Canada is not much better than the US. Americans’ world is flat, with its corners in Boston, Seattle, San Diego, and Miami. Canadians’ world includes the United States and Canada, making it flat with the northern ends of the quadrilateral stretched a few hundred kilometers to the north. A study of a long-overdue extension of Vancouver’s Millennium Line to UBC has four case studies for best practices, all from within North America. This is despite the fact that in the developed world the system most similar to Vancouver’s SkyTrain in technology and age is the Copenhagen Metro, whose construction costs are one half as high as those of Vancouver despite cost and schedule overruns.

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...
They do not use carrier aggregation between band 25/26 and 41.

There is not enough spectrum to run band 26 on more than 5mhz in most markets. This means it is slow and congests easily. The rest is used to support CDMA2k clients. As the parent post said, they don't have enough spectrum to run a proper dual network.

The stopgap solution at this time is to get a Magicbox[1] from sprint that will grab band 41 signals from outside and relay it as a new tower on band 25 or 26. Then the phone will just fall back onto 1X for calls.

[1]https://business.sprint.com/magic-box/
I'll be waiting for my Volkswagen job offer
MapR Seeks a Buyer to Avoid Shut Down
(Readable version - https://outline.com/eYGUCw)

If you do "no deploy Fridays" you're saying you don't trust your deployment process, and it won't be easy to get back to a working state if something goes wrong. Fix that problem.
Huh, TIL. Last time I tried was ~2 years ago.
There are exceptions to freedom of speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce... some of the things on your list are on this and hence do not fall under free speech. Also, note that I don't necessarily agree with all of these exceptions (for example, my personal opinions to your questions tends to lean towards "yes, in many cases" regardless of their legality. In this case I would instead be fighting for your actions to become protected under free speech).
I had simple questions you can answer with text on my site for years, and I had no spam problem whatsoever.

I am not convinced that training google’s image recognition algorithms is the only way to solve the captcha problem
"People I know that work in security" is vague and non descriptive.

To be fair, you did follow it up:

> as they claim FF is always the first browser to fail in the hacker games

What are their sources? I also "know such people" and I am unaware of such claims. If one uses Kali Linux, it has Mozilla Firefox as default browser. The same for Debian (on which Kali is based upon).

The thing is, you can harden your browser after installation. The first thing I do with a browser is installing uBlock Origin and uMatrix.
Obviously because you can make more money selling it then keeping it to yourself. If the purpose of the machine is to make money why chose the least effective way of making that money just to prevent others from making money as well?

Incidentally this is also the reason that people sell profitable companies even though they are “printing money” every year.
Enough people with enough bots could probably do it. Is it realistic? no. But possible? certainly yes.
This is likely unrelated, but your comment makes me think of clasp: https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp
The journalist in question here has access to an "opsec" team, seems like it would be their job to handle things like this and they dropped the ball
It seems absurd to me to consider data about a person to belong to that person. If I learn that Chloe is a reporter for The Inquirer, what law restricts me from telling somebody else? And if there is one, what else can I not say about her? Can I mention she is a brunette? Can I tell the story about going out for coffee, or am I violating her privacy by leaking the fact that she prefers coffee to tea? To get really ridiculous for a moment (brace yourself) does she have a property right on the region of my brain which holds any of this information about her? Clearly there is a fundamental incongruity with other basic social notions.

As a society we have most definitely moved in the direction that data about a person is somehow under their right to control: the right to privacy, the right to be forgotten, etc. We've subsequently run into numerous difficulties with this notion, such as the inability to warn our friends about bad actors, leading to different rules for "public people" versus "private people," arbitrary dividing lines, different rules for minors, different rules for individuals vs companies vs really really big companies, and a number of other abstruse rules about when or where you might be violating somebody's privacy, which seem to change significantly over the years and from jurisdiction to jurisdiction with no hope of ever settling down (because IMHO there is no rational obvious place for this to settle into).

Even if the laws were clear, universal and watertight, privacy is still fundamentally your problem. Laws will not control everybody else, and depending on everybody else to behave doesn't seem like a sane strategy for anybody. So you'd best keep your secrets to yourself and those you trust.
I've never felt the need for chmod UI, especially with ZSH's Tab completion (https://asciinema.org/a/249373), but… well, why not.

How does it handle multiple files?

edit: oh

$ remod tmp/*
Unexpected arguments!
I work on an email startup in private beta.

While developing our antivirus system, I was surprised to find that most email providers do not block ZIP attachments containing SH shell script files, nor ZIP attachments containing extension-less files with the executable bit set, nor ZIP attachments containing symlink traversal paths, nor any attachments which start with the shebang "#!" shell script signature, nor any which start with ELF or MACH O signatures.

In addition, for a recent sample of 15,000 attachments, we found 700 viruses, of which less than 50% were detected by the top 30 engines on VirusTotal. In particular, ClamAV, which is used by most Linux systems, had a less than 1% success rate. Ironically, most email providers know to block EXE attachments, even in ZIP attachments, but now its Linux and Mac users that are being left behind.
Sure there is selective enforcement. But selling a car to someone you know will commit a crime with it is a crime itself:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Holle
Do anyone know of any project to genetically engineer trees for producing better timber?
Right, so is your point that everyone experiences bias?

I was not disputing we all have an internal bias built up by our experiences. The crux of that point is you try to minimise your own bias and try to further reduce that bias by including the bias of the remainder of society.

I don't think this is a terrible way to select a political candidate.

As an aside I don't understand how a political discussion could exist without bias. What is your model of politics that would allow it to exist without bias?
From what I've seen of their recent revenue the overwhelming majority (95%) comes from royalties received from search engine companies (Google, etc), while only a fraction (~1%) comes from donations.
For clay tablets 3D scanning is too imprecise and too expensive (in terms of labor, equipment and time).

RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) [1,2] is a much better alternative to these "flattish" artifacts. All you need is a decent camera, a flashlight and a small piece of freely available software.

The result is an extremely high-res 2.5D scan of the surface of the object. Here is a (thumbnail-sized) example of an RTI'd Greek wax seal: http://cceh.uni-koeln.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RTIgif_x... (from [3,4]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_texture_mapping
[2] http://culturalheritageimaging.org/Technologies/RTI/index.ht...
[3] http://cceh.uni-koeln.de/2019/04/26/rti-dome-am-cceh-erster-...
[4] http://cceh.uni-koeln.de/RTIBlogpostFiles/web-image/
AFAIK they are fighting for the right to live of palestinians
Ask HN: What Is the General Magic of Today?
I just watched the General Magic documentary and I’m wondering if there are any startups around today that resemble General Magic (e.g. have a similar culture and high concentration of talented people working extremely hard on something that has the possibility to be hugely world changing). I know most startups would claim they are like this, but in my experience they don’t really have the same culture and ambition portrayed in the movie.
I wonder how much ecological damage is done by humans trying to protect their communities from disease borne mosquitos.

I grew up with parents that urged me to prevent pools of standing water, but don’t lots of non-mosquito insects need standing water to breed?
Reading this with my morning coffee, it sure hits hard. I feel for your situation, comrade! I don't have any advice, just wanted to share my experience if you happen to read this.

I've been a Hikikomori, more or less all my life, maybe with autistic tendencies. The thing is, I'm one of the happy ones - like a stray cat who's been taken in by a kind home. It's been fortunate that the condition evolved into a socially acceptable form, with a healthier balance of inside/outside, self/world. But I was very lucky in terms of family, work, relationships, and life could have dealt me with a tougher hand - so much of it was due to "chance".

The word Hikikomori breaks down into 引く (hiku: to pull) and 篭る (komoru: to be confined, to shut oneself up, to hide). This latter word contains some psychological insight, and there's even some positive aspects to "komoru".

One of the meanings is, during war, to go inside one's castle and fight from a protected space. So it's a strategy in a hostile situation.

Another meaning is, to voluntarily withdraw from the world and retreat into a temple, for spiritual search and contemplation.

There's no blame or judgement, it's a personal decision and stance, and there are many ways to go forward. There are people who care about you (or would, if you reach out).

Despite our imperfections, societal/civilizational immaturity - I hope you find healing somehow, to rediscover that it's possible to love being alive, to love people, to love the world. If all that fails, at least I wish that you find peace in your heart.
Because if they suggest anything to remove the whales then their paymasters will veto it?

The people who would pay for a subscription are surely some of the most valuable for advertising to, and FF in its current form exists because of advertising.
The link to the Sega Fish Life preservation project: https://segafish.museebolo.ch/en/
The rule limit will be increased:

"We are planning to raise these values but we won't have updated numbers until we can run performance tests to find a good upper bound that will work across all supported devices."

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/chrom...
> It has come to a point that traditional text/sound captcha challenges are trivial to bypass today

I have yet to see a general-purpose tool to which you can throw any text captcha and it’ll solve it.

Just because there are academic papers that demonstrated it once doesn’t mean there’s still a huge barrier to entry in implementing this solution (which spammers won’t do as long as it’s easier to move onto another target).

There are paid captcha-solving services out there and even those are still powered by humans even though it’s in their commercial interests to automate the process. Them not doing so further suggests that AI is not there yet.
it is not about something or someone i don't like. it is about stopping people from ruining people's lives: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48458850
Or just divide your calls into confidentiality classes. Whoever added the journalists number to the app clearly didn't consider it much of an issue; so that probably was neither a very trustworthy nor particularly vulnerable contact.

Also didn't she tell the contact that maybe it'd be better if they didn't tell anyone she's a journalist? Sure, it's a pretty obvious thing, but I feel like in her situation, you'd make sure that they know, just in case, that it's a huge dickmove to make that sort of information public.
it is not about something i don't like. it is about stopping people from ruining people's lives: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48458850
In my personal blog I am using "Riddler" Drupal module, and have had good experience: https://www.drupal.org/project/riddler

You can create your own Captcha questions / answers. I feel like this is the preferred way of handling spam posts, creating your own custom Captcha implementation.
Officials noted that a person in one of the latest confirmed cases became infected in December of 2018 after purposely swallowing a slug on a dare.

Leave it to human stupidity to always find a way.
it is not about people i don't like. i don't have any feelings either way about them. it is about stopping people from ruining people's lives: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48458850
Actually, the technology for voice recognition used on the Fish Life is very similar to the one for Seaman.
I'd rather they took on Jira.
Same in Android. I reluctantly keep Whatsapp installed, but don't give it access to my contacts.
GDPR is 100% necessary and fundamentally a good idea. It has a lot of problems that just show how incompetent politicians can get on a bad day, but that doesn't invalidate the core idea.
Ignore Misconfigurations at Your Peril
> 99.9% of customers don't even know Qualcomm is a thing a won't care if you told them.

Sure, QCOM is not a marketing/consumer electronic company they way Apple is. Your 99% of consumers buy the iPhones over the iPod because of QCOM's wireless functionality, not because of their branding.

And how many of those 99% of consumers do you think would pay $1000 for a OLED iPhone XS without QCOM's patented wireless features that allow to make phones call or data? Or how many would pay half the price? or even a third? The iPhone 7 without OLED, the most popular selling iPhone in many countries, still costs at least twice as much as comparable iPod Touch and sells multiples of the unit sales of the iPod touch.
A shell script with an SH extension, possibly (my guess) delivered as an email attachment.

The article does not provide details, but does list a few steps to the exploit, the first being Linux users (as opposed to Linux servers) with poor antivirus.

For example, ZIP email attachments can contain extension-less files with the executable bit set. This would be one easy way of getting the initial payload bootstrapped.
Does there have to be a law for something to be distasteful and ethically dubious?
I hate them as much as you do, but you're wrong. Those storefront and traffic sign captchas are not useful for training ML models. If they were to be useful, they would be much more varied, like the original ones (used for OCR).
The official Go brand book [pdf]
It's quite bare-bones, at this early stage, if anyone is feeling the urge to build it - might as well wait for the released previews.
AMD Puts Epyc in the HPC Driver’s Seat
The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy
they already have breathalyzer starters for cars for repeat offenders.
Ask HN: Do linguists experiment with new languages like computer scientists do?
I've been looking into a lot of new programming languages lately, they are usually designed for a specific domain. I was wondering if language students are experimenting with new languages for specific communication purposes? for example, simple languages that can be learnt in a week? Langauges that are easily translate physical sign? Languages that are more concise on a qwerty keyboard?
New technology has opened up new possibilities far beyond what your word of mouth example has. Megacorps are sucking up data on a mass scale and using it for evil such as manipulating elections, tricking you in to buying stuff and reporting your every action to the government.

For this reason we need to think beyond the old ways of dealing with data.
Possibly you could avoid emissions involved in creating cement and concrete which is ~5% of total CO2.