skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, we can't discuss North Face behavior without getting to the topic of The Joos and their attempts to take over the world with their dirty money. And of course since Israel recognized the achievement of Wales - who btw has zero control over Wikipedia content - he is forever tainted and everything he does is now part of the Jooish Conspiracy. Shameful.

> Paid editing is everywhere on Wikipedia, believing otherwise is very naive

If you spent about 10 minutes researching the topic, you'd know Wikipedia community knows that, and has specific disclosure rules, templates and requirements for acknowledging and disclosing paid editing and conflict of interest. Nobody pretends it does not exist. Undisclosed paid editing (known in Wikipedia community as UPE - use this to look it up) is what is prohibited and would get one banned.
For about a month or two, after existing stocks have run down and before local refineries have started up...

China's not the only source of rare earth metals...just the only location currently willing to accept the environmental costs of refining the ore to extract the valuable stuff. Within the past week, 3 mining companies have already announced plans for non-Chinese rare earth metal refineries, to be sourced from the Mountain Pass mine in CA that provided nearly all of the world's rare earth materials until the 1990s.

The mine is still very viable and was re-started several months ago. It was originally shut down because it wasn't feasible to run with environmental mitigation costs factored in...but now it's considered a strategic facility and so it can count on the federal government to provide any financial support needed on that front.
Until we can enforce use of/non-deletion of footage from body cams, I think policing and governing with AI is a tick out of our depth, as a society.
Spark is very much part of Hadoop. It uses Hadoop libraries throughout it including for the core part of reading/writing data

And that adage of big data can't fit in memory is nonsense these days. We run clusters with hundreds of terabytes of RAM which is very much big data. It's pretty easy and affordable with the cloud.
I would love a huge study done on say NY Times/Wapo and a few other sources and going back through their science reporting through 2000-2010. Focusing on articles like this and see if how wrong/right they were. Or, if it's so inconclusive, that we really shouldn't be letting scientists push out their work willy nilly without establishing better data/proof. Science journalists seem to take these education PR departments at their word a bit too often.
Quite the opposite - I know how easily those administrating a system can bias it.
Maybe because some mega corp will figure out how to offer it as a service, and they'll get nothing for it. I support them defending themselves with a way to maybe make money on it. If they can't eat, they can't update the code.
This is the academic paper that is referenced in the article: https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...
It's the default in Firefox for Linux. It's a browser setting, not an OS setting. And in order to turn it off you have to do really obscure stuff in the Firefox launch options, it's funky and makes no sense.
This could explain why some people pick and eat nasal mucus (a dirt colloid) when anxious
Probably the most useful thing I've done regarding bash history: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/persistent-history-in-bas...
OT, but their favicon is awesome
Sound recommendations, but what if I claimed that code reviews are overwhelmingly a waste of time? At best, they catch a handful of problems that should've been caught earlier, but they are far more likely to create more issues, especially interpersonal ones which are far harder to fix than bugs in code. All code reviews are ultimately criticism and while it's really hard to deliver criticism well in person, it's pretty much impossible to do so in text, even with the best of intentions.

A fundamental problem is that code review brings more human factors into the process. You pretty much never want that. Your whole job as a programmer boils down to removing as many human factors as possible. If that idea bothers you, perhaps you're in the wrong profession.

Instead, foster a culture of code ownership and responsibility. Assume that an owner can work without reviews, and that a reviewer is not realistically going to be able to improve upon that meaningfully while staying cost positive.

This goes against ideas like guarding against "the bus factor". You may consider guarding against the bus factor by occasionally assigning actual programming tasks (not just "code reading") to developers ordinarily working on other things, but those should be focused events, not part of the everyday process of actually getting stuff done. In any case, "bus factor events" are rare and humans are prone to buy overpriced insurance against rare events.
Non-Volatile Memory and Java: Part 4
Hypothermia (2014)
China is a big emitter, but they seem to be taking CO2 emissions more seriously than the US.

http://www.climateaction.org/news/china-has-already-hit-its-...

I find it interesting that they are in a better position to take action than most democracies. They can turn off heating for millions of people for the greater good without having to worry about election results:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/01/23/its-cold...
Getting a targeted advertising that is likely relevant to you is probably one of the few positives of tracking.

The issue people have with tracking is not 'what ad am I getting on a given website'. To get a targeted ad they need to maintain a database of privacy infringing information. 3rd parties having this data, and what they might do it with it (or who they might lose the data to) is what many people have an issue with.

Being served a targetted ad is just a strong signal that someone out there has this private data on you.

For example, chances are that google has a pretty rich database of your location history. If not you specifically, they do for most people. You can probably imagine a few different scenarios where someone else obtaining that data could be bad for someone. You're trusting google with it, but is that trust warranted?
acid + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monazite
Except for those that obstain. Of course, not all people can eat cookies either, I suppose.
Yeah the DC Metro and BART aren't pretty
Calling something a "hollow and meaningless gesture made only to raise one's profile in the eyes of like-minded individuals", is undeniably, irrefutably, uncontroversially, a hollow and meaningless gesture made only to raise one's profile in the eyes of like-minded individuals.

I do not believe that stating an opinion or taking a position on a matter, regardless of the reason, is a hollow and meaningless gestures. Opinions and positions are opinions and positions.

People who believe that "virtue signalling" is a thing are doing it themselves.

It is not a thing.
Web applications becoming browser specific is not really surprise.
As a new web developer the amount of time I spent getting my site to work on mobile, chrome, IE and Firefox is about the same as I did in designing and first running the site. I’m still learning frameworks but so far I’m really tempted to just say screw it, I only support Chromium.
Huh? So we are going to jump on smaller corporations, make them bigger and leave them for a smaller one? I believe the keyword in his idea was decentralized.

Disclaimer: I don't care personally.
I worry that this could cause one's Google account to be closed.
zbarimg: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/zbarimg.1.ht...

1Password X extension also has a builtin QR Code Scanner.
Then find yourself a partner and go on your merry way.

Humans are not capable of creating such a thing, they will create something like it but it will not be what you desire.

Bad examples could be any of the following:

> brilliant and hard working

Introverted thinker. Works long hours, does not challenge authority. Chinese work pretty hard for next to no pay, why can't you be more like them?

> resistant to depression

Lobotomized individuals are pretty resistant to depression as well.

> physically fit

Sure looks like a body builder, and has all sorts of rage issues from the excessive testosterone in her system.

> physically attractive

We all look pretty good compared to chimps.

> cancer resistant

Sure let's engineer humans to better tolerate the pollution in our cities so we can pollute more.
From the title and the domain name I was sure this was going to be about his 2011 article rationalizing that iPhone 4's 3.5 inch screen was a better size than larger Android screens of the day.

https://dcurt.is/3-point-5-inches
Pretty sure the people yelling witch ended up on top.
Apple is the surviving of the 8 and 16 bit home computer cultures of vertical integration.

The PC only escaped that model due to Compaq's reverse engineering trick and IBM's failure to take it back.

Something that most OEMs are quite found of having back as per current Android and laptop models.
I'm not sure if this represents a personal fault, or something any self-aware, self-critical person would experience (I hope it's the later) but it seems to me that when I look back on anything I wrote 4-5 years ago (or longer) then 1/3 of it is at least vaguely embarrassing, with my views becoming more nuanced, more scaffolded with experience and information as time goes by.
I don't know for sure in this case, but WebExtensions are normally forbidden in the browser's own pages.

To get around this limitation, one could set up a personal speed-dial start page.
Yeah, because it only looks for GTK themes, not whatever theming engine windows and mac desktops have, which is further evidence of the absurdity of their wontfix explanation.
Wouldn't be a problem if GDPR worked in US too.
That is fantastic! Any way to integrate other chains?
I am serious too. Actually being somewhat informed takes some work. Distributing that among friends, trusted peers helps. And doing it this human way is timeless, effective too.

I have a set of these running with people all over the world.

Forums, discord, Reddit, other places. The phone! Something happens, and I know who is gonna call. They want to talk all about it. What do we know, what can we infer, what might it mean?

Those are the best!

We all look at what was published, then discuss.

Some groups are focused too, sometimes doing research, timelines...

The value in those circles is huge, some cultivated over years. I know where I can go for a question, others know they can come to me. Each of us has domain knowledge, or experience, or cares enough to be valuable.

You could just use TYT, and contrast that with a few major newspapers and networks.

Talking with a diverse set of others, who will do that to seek being better informed really does help. Not everyone can though.

As for "not bringing politics into it", sadly everything is political.

Pure tech and science has the very least, but it is still there.

Even getting the info is political as you have seen.

No easy outs on this, also sadly.

I feel your frustration. I dealt with it two decades ago in this way. I have much less of it now.

The hard truth of it is most of the time when people are looking for who to just trust, that trust gets abused.

Eventually, they resign to avoiding the lot of it, and doing that is OK do not get me wrong here, or they seek peers for that need in their life.

Politically savvy people tend to trend social, but they also can understand people who are not.

Make a few friends. You know stuff. They may not. Trade for mutual enlightenment. No joke.

That is how I got started. Tech issues, copyright, etc... I could fill in blanks, and did. They could take current events and boil that down into a useful discussion.

I love most of those people and would miss those conversations terribly.

Edit: One other thing: I definitely do not agree with the politics all my conversation partners hold, nor they mine. That is OK. We are all good minded humans looking to make sense of things, maybe act when we need to, or understand we really do have common cause.

Being wrong or different is not a big deal. Unless it is. In most of my circles, it isn't. Group knowledge has info in it that individual knowledge does not.

Can't get it unless we actually talk about stuff.

That is all I got man. If it does not help, no worries.
The most useful thing Cloudflare could do is allow us to disable the `__cfduid` cookie. That's one of the big reasons I stopped using Cloudflare on a public-facing API/CDN.
This was really cool to look at. This was really educational having grown up in a rural area where (I thought) no one of consequence came from. Thanks for sharing!
I really like this idea - alot.

But aimed perhaps at everyone, not just the CTO.

In fact the CTO probably needs one thing on their checklist.

Checklist item 1: Hire an outside security auditing firm to report on the state of this checklist quarterly".

And if the company has the financial resources:

Checklist item 2: Hire a second, independent outside security auditing firm to report on the state of this checklist quarterly".

I don't see any value in relating anything to the financial stage of the company because it's irrelevant.

Security also needs a time and priority aspect to it. For example if your company hasn't done anything on the checklist yet then what should come first, what is most important? Also it would be good to know what are the biggest typical weaknesses - a security chedclist can have so much stuff on it that it becomes hard to know where to focus.
Safari supports multiple user profiles because it’s running on a Unix operating system that provides full user accounts.

If you’re switching browser because google is breaking ad blocking, it absolutely makes sense to switch to one with a blocking technology that the browser vendor specifically added, rather than grudgingly allowed.

It also makes sense to use a browser where the blockers don’t get access to what you’re actually browsing. What’s the point of blocking trackers if the blocker just tracks what you do?
$2.4M in Prizes for Schools Teaching Ethics Alongside Computer Science
An article from popsci cannot be wrong, right?

The truth is somewhere in between as always. Some people find it really hard to follow a Keto diet.
What has worked for me is to cut out sugars and refined carbs completely from my diet. This paired with Intermittent Fasting (IF) works wonders for burning fat. You can do 16:8, 20:4, OMAD and/or extended fasting.

When you're fasting your body will break down fat as it really has no choice.
I wonder if these fingerprint checks look for the more stealthy and sinister approaches, like localhost port scanning [1] and specific CSS selector behavior...?

[1] https://twitter.com/davywtf/status/1132026581038190592
Awesome work, and it's great to see more tools in this important area.

How do you handle the "Forgot Password" problem?

Say, if a user clears out local storage and forgets their password. Is there a way to recover it from what's stored on the server?
Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
Backdoors come in red, white, and blue colors too besides just red and yellow. This isn't just whataboutism, as wannacry and the like show. We have no more accountability here or there. Traffic can be encrypted end to end anyway. Paranoia can be counter productive. If 5g became worthless during a military confrontation with china there are many other choices for emergency communication. Even mentioning this has me worried with a loose cannon in the executive.
Fecal transplants are still going on, and are showing good effectiveness for certain serious problems, like C. diff infections:

Duodenal Infusion of Donor Feces for Recurrent Clostridium difficile

New England Journal of Medicine 2013

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1205037

There are plenty of more recent articles as well.
Actually it did play out that way.

Most enterprises these days will have a massive distributed file system (S3 or equivalent) that has most of their data. And most will be running a decent percentage of data transformation jobs using Spark or some SQL layer e.g. Presto and then running BI tools like Tableau using Athena/Redshift Spectrum (or equivalent) as their SQL layer.

It's just that this is all playing out on the cloud instead of on-premise with some vendor. But you have definitely been seeing the decline of the core enterprise data warehouse.
Only if everyone allows it to.
Are there any updates to the Cloudflare Registrar?

Would be awesome to have marketplace or master/sub accounts. That is, launch a saas say a landing page builder and then allow my customers to also purchase domains from my saas (under my brand account) and have them automagikally configured. Instead of having the user to use namecheap/godaddy and mess around with their crappy control panel. Maybe have an opportunity to raise the price by a $1 [to the end user] and have revenue stream?
Nice maybe Ill go back for Android. I couldnt figure out why it was so slow, its seemed almost like a DNS issue because the first page load, even if it was local, took 10+ seconds. Im a huge FF fan and supporter, I'd like to go back.
That would probably just end up being a map of economic conditions in any given section of town. The seedy parts will be lower rated overall (even if there's a highly rated ethnic food joint or whatever), while the swanky parts will have nicer things. That's my guess, although I think you should still do it, because I might be totally wrong. And interesting patterns might still appear even if I'm right.
Google is bad, but at least they normally let you control your device; Apple lock things down so much that you can't even do that.

I really hope that there's a real market out there for people who want to own their phones and control their destinies. I really don't want to live in a world where my only choice is which feudal lord I serve.
I was half expecting the $50 for 2 spoons, 2 forks and 1 kitchen knife article:

https://dcurt.is/the-best
>Terrorism is especially terrifying in this regard because if left unrestrained, I think it is pretty intuitively obvious that there is no realistic bound on the amount of deaths that it would cause.

I think you rebut this one yourself - terrorism has a natural limit in the ability of terrorists to launch attacks. Not a hard limit, a statistical limit, but important none the less.

It is important to recognize the order of magnitude of the probability of the risk. At CERN they don't publicize that there is a long-tail risk of causing the destruction of the world because the probability, though non-zero, is exceedingly tiny (and people freak out, unable to think about tiny probabilities.)
> "If you have a non-gmail account, why are you using gmail at all?"

Convenience, speed, reliability, and (above all else) excellent spam filtering.
I wonder if there's a correlation between rural kids anxiety.
May usually means 'has some evidence behind it'. Heuristic: the probability of it being true should be high enough to be worth talking about.
Alone, it's not a huge deal. However if not controlled, such behavior would erode and eventually ruin the trust in the community, and as such should be nipped at the bud, before it becomes the real issue. If non-huge-deal instances would receive solid pushback then there would be less likely to be huge ones. And let's also not exaggerate the other way - other than temporary public shaming, there's no huge consequences for the perpetrator too, so the punishment meets the crime here.
Split and join is worse because it allocates N junk strings, all of which have to be fully copied only to be copied again and then thrown away. This is the same problem as the "Array.push() is 945x faster than Array.concat()" post from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19991339

As I commented on the other post, all programmers really should spend some time learning how memory, pointers, data structures, heap vs stack, etc. work. Even if you aren't writing C++ at your day job, that stuff matters.
Why would anyone use split/join?
Absolutely. Especially because my target has always been "the biggest screen that will comfortable fit in my pocket". I strongly look forward to the coming times of folding screens. Sadly, the Galaxy fold isn't going to cut it. One or two more generations at least.
> One feature I would love is a global code search...

that can usefully search code for more than function names.
Average household size hasn’t changed much in the past 20 years. It’s down by about 4% in that time, so that doesn’t explain it. The percentage of the workforce that consists of women is also pretty much flat over that period, and in any case if we’re talking about households and household size hasn’t changed significantly then more women working would increase, not decrease, the median even if they’re underpaid.

Is it all down to underpaid immigrants, then?
Pledge to Use Microsoft Edge Without Chrome Extension Manifest v3 Ad-Blocking
Did the friend know that your partner added lithium to her drink?
It DOES use a "think of the children" argument. I mean... it's right in the title.
I don't think popularity contests (which is pretty close to what this is) are meant to be fair.
Have you ever owned a house? Would you be ok with everybody drawing on it whatever they'd like, including things you personally hate?
Wrong! You didn't read the full thread:

> And it may even be a quick ‘n dirty deliberate hack to exclude Chredge this way, just so it doesn’t pollute their telemetry / testing of new website features.

That test proves nothing without seeing the Google's code. Feature detection is incredibly slow, requiring JS and multiple round trips. Whereas user agent strings are instantaneous.
Great question - see my response to "atomical" in this thread for more detail, but short answer is no. Thanks for checking out Hedgehog!
This is multi-layered problem with no simple answers but many comments here touch on solutions, note there will not be 1 solution. Here are a couple of concepts I know are being worked on

- Secure Data at the Source -

Public Created - I have seen some demo's of phone apps that put video and pictures from phone directly on the blockchain with gps, time stamps etc.. Also have heard of dongles being added to phones

Professionally Created at Device - have read about hardware getting processors to secure data directly on the blockchain at the device.

Created at Editing Software - This could be connected to the identity of the original on the blockchain and then the edited version has notes with it and added to the blockchain as an edited version of the first.

Security cameras for Customs and Border Patrol are getting blockchain capabilities added per this quote - " Factom (blockchain) has integrated their technology into two brands of cameras used by CBP at border locations to ensure data collected from these cameras is tamper proof" - http://www.activecyber.net/dhs-st-lays-out-a-broad-yet-innov...

IoT Devices - This micro processor can be added to an IoT (raspberry pi and the like) device and secure data the source - https://iot-sas.tech/

Professionals (media) and citizens can then have proof of what and when they created the video and potential a certification can be added in manor and tool for others to check the video is in fact the original.

-- Identify Fakes --
Two articles from universities working on it
https://jsis.washington.edu/news/deep-fakes-fake-news-and-wh...

https://medium.com/jsk-class-of-2019/six-lessons-from-my-dee...

None of the above completely solves the issue but with implementing these and having standards the public can start to trust what they are watching is authentic.
Facebook shareholder meeting cements Mark Zuckerberg's power – again