skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this does is cause advertisers to look at more advances mechanisms to track users and make it 'mainstream' -- like browser fingerprinting. These are also not explictly governed by existing legislation, so they can also worry about things like cookie laws and there's little to no defense.
"progressive people, and their opinions, turn into reactionary conservatives with nothing but the passage of time."

I'm sorry - that line makes it sound like I am saying those people who were progressive become, themselves, reactionary conservatives.

What I am trying to say is that viewed by successive, future generations those people become reactionary conservatives. That is, simply the passage of time changes the view, from outside, of those people.

"Many of today's conservatives are quite young, and lots of liberals are quite old."

Agreed. What I am saying is that, absent a revolution or other reset of our current society, both of those groups will be considered, 200 years from now, quite conservative.

An example looking backward:

Find me the most liberal and the most conservative participants at the signing of the US Declaration of Independence - now let's sign them up to speak at Berkeley tomorrow and see how that goes. See what I'm saying ?
Do you have any evidence for that?

There are other ways of addressing fraud besides violating people's right to freely contract with other consenting adults, like punishing those who commit fraud to deter others from committing the crime, and public education campaigns.

The idea that the government has a right to deem a certain class of investors as "unsophisticated", and thus better off deprived of the right to decide for themselves what to invest in, and prohibit an entire class of interactions, on the basis that too many instances of that class are fraudulent, upends basic principles of liberal society.

The poorest households in the US spend 9% of their income on lottery tickets, showing that you can't legislate people out of misusing their funds. If anything, the attempt to do so deprives them of better investment opportunities, and better opportunities to learn how the investment world works.

And this isn't free market idealism. The crypto/token investment market has become vastly more sophisticated over the last 4 years. Token sales that would have raised millions 4 years get nothing today. People need to have a bit more faith in other people, and in freedom.
Yes - ease of competition forming naturally is a frequent reason for anti-trust. Granted, why Comcast still exists is anyone's guess.
Very cool - thanks for sharing, and the shoutout (consider also replacing 38rem/2rem with 70ch/2ch)!
A modern fighter jet is not a good glider. An F-16 can't fly without the computer. Have you tried to sit in the cockpit? The sticks don't even move, they are pressure sensitive only. You are right about the ejection, that's how the pilots survive a computer malfunction, with a complete hull loss as consequence.
Jetpack Compose - https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose
PWAs are (gonna be) cross platform
How do you mean? That's what a solar generator trailer looks like. Lots of companies make them.
> I recall when MongoDB introduced their “commons clause”, RedisLabs did the relicensing and ElasticSearch doing the dual license open source code, there was quite some outrage over here.

My problem with "Commons Clause" was never with the terms of the license, it was with the naming. If a company is finding open source licensing is posing an obstacle to the success and survival of their business, that's regrettable, but at the end of the day, they have a broad legal right to adopt whatever licensing terms they wish, and they have a legal duty to do whatever they believe to be in the best interest of their shareholders and employees.

Calling such a license "Existing Open Source License name with Commons Clause", however, is in my view deceptive naming. It makes it sound like it is the same thing as the existing open source license, possibly with some extra rights added; in reality, the "with" is taking rights away. (Also, when the existing license is Apache, it causes confusion with the Apache Commons project, and makes it sound like the overall license is approved by the Apache Software Foundation, which isn't true.)

CockroachDB isn't doing this. They aren't using any deceptive or confusing naming for their new license. And, they are committing to revert each version to an open source license three years after its release. I think it's regrettable the business climate forces them to do this, but (unlike the whole "Commons Clause" business), I'm not complaining about it; and I think that given they've decided to do this, they should be commended for the way they've gone about it.
Excellent write up. I'm also a software guy that experiments with hardware, so I love seeing these type of projects. How much time was spent on R&D for this? I'm sure there are plenty of reasons, but it's insane to me that something like this would cost $3k.
This fantasy of getting the VCs their money from Amazon rather than non-existent customers is not going to play out as they want. If we assume Amazon are evil, they won't hand over a slice of the pie they'll just write a replacement. So no integration, no money, and no users. But at least it's not the fault of "Open Source" I guess.
Indeed. If AWS makes a load of money out of Cockroach's hard work, why shouldn't Cockroach get a slice of it?
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This is very similar to my own experience. Most of my career was at small startups doing generalist things. So I could get back into that job very easily. But going to a large public company can give a 50% comp boost, but job with more restricted scope.
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The vast majority of folks will update right away.

Not enough to convince my stakeholders that we don't need to support at least one major version back.

I'll probably fight that harder this year than in previous years - SwiftUI looks incredible and any AutoLayout code already feels like legacy.
Hoo boy. The answer varies wildly with scale.
I still don’t see how this suggests security is not a lively, profitable industry. The same anecdote could apply in spades to food startups, telecom startups, sports analytics startups, makeup startups and dozens of other types of businesses.
Of course. "Playlists" are a layer over the filesystem to make up for deficiencies of a traditional filesystem.

Playlist-like organization is useful for a lot of other types of content besides music, so why not bring those features back into the filesystem layer?
There's a Firefox DAT add-on
Speaking from experience, Safari seems to be very good at defeating current fingerprinting techniques
What did Ethereum delivery? What works on their centralised house of cards network?
He's probably feeling pretty chuffed about it and just wants to share :)
By writing views programmatically in Android they mean writing them in Kotlin or Java, not XML. Almost no one does this.

Though Kotlin has an interesting looking DSL for doing that named Anko.
My favorite talk on this is atomic<> Weapons by Herb Sutter... it goes a bit deeper I think:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Cpp-and-Beyond-20...

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Cpp-and-Beyond-20...
Also other cursors, and GOTO statements :)
You know, it’s only just occurred to me that all this time I had been googling to find a pdf of their policy but I never actually looked on their page. Thanks! What a major facepalm on my part.

And it is frustrating for sure. Not all footnotes are bad but all the bad stuff is usually in the footnotes!
Docker is not intended to be a sandbox in any way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087421
It depends on what you do on a daily basis. There are definitely things you can't do in Firefox - chrome://inspect, for example, which is how a JS dev can debug their Jest tests (though for these workflows you can just pop Chrome or Chromium open for a moment).

Otherwise, Firefox has the better API for add-ons and a more 'open' approach in general, so there are a lot more things you can't do on Chrome that you can in Firefox than vice versa. I have yet to see a decent tree tabs extension for Chrome, for example. (They exist, but none compare to the one available for Firefox).
Did you watch the end of the show? They explicitly mention that even though legends said the divers died of radiation, they didn’t, and two are still alive
Maybe the cups were smaller in those days :-)
Most academics spend the rest of the time they're not doing research trying to simplify their jumbled ideas so that academics in their field can understand it. Most of the "epiphanies" you'll see presented in TED talks or in intro guides on the front page of this site are far downstream from what cutting edge academics are trying to express, and often take upwards of decades to purify into an easy-to-digest message.

I recently spent some time trying to explain my research to my mother, and it took me about 30 minutes just to get her familiar with the general field. Thus, everything I explained to her could apply to the thousands of other people doing nearly the same research. If you tried to write "layperson" summaries of the papers, by the time you've gotten them up to speed on the developments that don't distinguish you from them, your contributions seem trivial or overly complicated. But this is because the cutting edge is thin and poorly understood by everyone, including you.

Publishing in high impact conferences and journals is the only thing that is guaranteed to yield success. The information will eventually get out there if it's good, but it takes many years to determine that.

Here's the flow: conferences -> journals -> survey papers/wide referencing -> advanced class lectures -> monographs/textbooks -> university class curriculums -> blogs/Youtube. Each step filters out the junk, of which there is incalculable amounts. I'd estimate that for a top conference in a field, only about 1-5% of the papers will have a serious broader impact.
# vim:set columns=96 expandtab nocindent nosmartindent ff=unix:

This is in basically every source code file just below the shebang.
Perhaps just a dose integrator with an alarm limit? There's probably a total dose above which you could likely say "this is a mistake".

A dose integrator would be a detector + an integrator independent of the therapeutic delivery software. If it goes over limit, it shuts the system down.
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Firefox has a setting you can enable to resist fingerprinting. It must do something because every anti abuse measure on the internet flags you as a bot once you turn it on.
I'm a firm believer in providing adequate and sufficient contex. Difficult enough given HN's 80 character subject field -- I've wordsmithed numerous submissions to fit. I've also stuck with numerous poor original titles with gritted teeth knowing HN's policies, sometimes addressing the ambiguity in a clarifying comment. And I've noted clickbait innumerous emails to HN, some of which you agree with, some not.

And yes, this is art not science: aimed at effect.

The Therac case study has acquired a recognition the contemporaneous article (and title) wouldn't have experienced -- the company name was then the more notable signifier. AECL has been far eclipsed by its most notorious product. Today, "Therac-25" should lead, on the same basis as "AECL" did in the original.

I'm generally a follower of Jacob Nielsen on microcontent:

Well-written, short text fragments presented out of supporting context can provide valuable information and nudge web users toward a desired action.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/microcontent-how-to-write-h...

Mrtimer J. Adler does not fully condemn content concealment in book tables of contents, but his lips are clearly pursed, and nose wrinkled:

It used to be a common practice, especially in expository works ... to write very full tables of contents, with the chapters or parts broken down into many subtitles indicative of the topics covered. Milton, for example, wrote more or less lengthy headings, or "Arguments," as he called them, for each book of Paradise Lost. Gibbon published his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire with an extensive analytical table of contents for each chapter. Such summaries are no longer common.... [P]ublishers have come to feel that a less revealing table of contents is more seductive than a completely frank and open one. Readers, they feel, will be attracted to a book with more or less mysterious chapter titles-they will want to read the book to find out what the chapters are about. Even so, a table of contents can be valuable.

-- How to Read a Book, p. 33.

The same argument applies to article titles at HN.

You've made the case (and commented on comunity failings) for defusing titles on hot-button subjects. That's valid.

This isn't that circumstance.

Pandering and information concealment as a deliberate policy, again not the case for the article as initially written, in the cotext of its time, is overtly manipulative, to no real gain.

Please don't do that.
There are so many earthquakes all the time. We probably were each hit by 100 this year, they just don't have a high magnitude, so we don't feel them.
This has a nice map about hazard areas and other data: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/anss/
Yearly overview: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/hazmaps/conterminous/ind...
What the individual stations show: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplot.p...
What entity are you investing in when you purchase ETH?
Telecoms are not ignored, compared to Big Tech they are highly regulated.
A clerk sitting in a patent office with a PhD or without a PhD?

To be more specific: Do you have a degree in the university? In which field? Is it related to what you want to publish?

In which field yo want to publish? In physics they like papers in journals. In computer science, they like conference presentations.

Beware that there are many predatory journals that publish any article if you pay the fee. Nobody cares about them, it's borderline a scam.

From the other comment:

> Proofs and working systems are good, criticisms of common methodologies are bad.

I agree. Be very clear about what is your new result. It is very difficult to convince people about something like "Quantum Mechanics is wrong" unless you have a big trajectory or a very solid proof. It is easier if you have a new algorithm that outperforms the 2 or 3 more popular algorithms in the 2 or 3 more popular benchmarks.
>I read a quote recently,"We're not here to stop our kids getting hurt, just to stop them getting maimed or killed".

I agree with this wholeheartedly, but unfortunately the most likely thing to kill them are the cars that are everywhere they might go. My kids are too young for this to be applicable right now, but someday I hope to give them this kind of independence, but I don't know how to do it with the sheer volume of traffic and terrible drivers. I even don't feel safe biking myself.

I'm perfectly happy letting them take risks where they might break bones, but I just don't know how to deal with a world where they're reasonably likely to get killed if they're on the street with a bike.
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The -e option is pretty useful for security researchers, so it would be common enough for people trying the POC
From the website, I gather this is for US national parks.
It happens when you use tabs as bookmarks. The solution is to use bookmarks.
Hey thanks for commenting!

This is mostly an academic exercise for me personally. I’m not familiar with different concurrency models as I’m starting off in my career and don’t get a whole lot of exposure to it in production. I was inspired by Paul Butcher’s book on seven concurrency models in seven weeks, where we actually does solve problems with different concurrency models in languages that have good support for them. So I thought if I could write down my thoughts and explain it to other people I will have gained some sticky understanding for me.

I think Paul took a year or more in order to research and write his book, and it shows. Conversely it shows how my posts are sort of link aggregations because this series has taken about two months so far. Python’s also not terribly great for CPU-bound concurrency work in Python code.

As to your points, I saw MPI and async await as primitive constructs on top of which you could build something like CSP. Not all software is portable; one example, if you want MKL acceleration in numpy, you have to use Intel CPUs.

The next blog post I’m writing I’m writing about is hardware-based parallelism. IMHO this is Python’s bread and butter, and I should be able to demonstrate how Python comes in handy with code samples.
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You might have malware injecting content into your pages.
I'm surprised everyone is saying it's clear, because I think it's sort of vague, so maybe someone can talk me out of it. :)

If I build a service that lets customers define object types by dragging form widgets, and I turn that into a CRUD app backed by CockroachDB, and they just get to pick a CSS template and occasionally get Excel dumps, are they controlling the schema? They don't write any SQL, they certainly don't ever type or see the words CREATE TABLE, but internally I create a table for each of their types with a schema generated from their input, does that count?

Someone else asked about hiring a sysadmin consulting service. If I go to them and say, "Hey, my consulting firm will install and maintain your production servers, pay us $N/hour for routine changes and $kN/hour to page us," but they have their own developers who write code and can cobble together dev infra if needed, can they choose to use CockroachDB? In my reading of the license, they have the right to make it available to us as their contractor, but we don't have the right to download and install it and make it available to them for them (or us!) to run their CREATE TABLE statements on.

(I appreciate that edge cases are hard, and that while "just leave it open source" provides easy answers to these questions, it obviously brings other difficulties that you care about avoiding!)
So let's make more people respond to such questions. The answer is not to say "it's biased" but to fix the core issue.
The SEC does not decide the law. Courts do.
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FWIW I don’t see anything extraneous, neither in the source code nor on the page. Browser extensions can inject content, of course; that might be what’s happening here.
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I didn’t realize unlock origin works on safari. This is very helpful. Thanks!
Not that I’m aware but if you were to build such a thing I’d most definitely be an enthusiastic user.
That is everything I'd hoped to see as a developer and digital ocean customer. Good response.
You may want to check your computer and browser for malware. Possibly also your ISP but as someone else pointed out that'd be hard to pull off on https.
> We try to keep Talkspace.com safe, but you use it at your own risk. We are providing Talkspace.com “As Is” without any express or implied warranties. We do not guarantee that Talkspace.com will be safe or secure.

https://www.talkspace.com/public/privacy-policy

If you plan to use this service understand you get what you pay for. They seem to have no duty of care with your data. I'm not sure how they are able to get away with this without violating HIPAA though.
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> Nascar, to me, is a celebration of pointless CO2 emissions.

Doesn’t have to be. It could be a celebration of pointless conversion of electric energy into mechanical energy!
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That data transfer takes time. Load less and, all else being equal, your site will be faster.
>Radu at Rise applauds such a people-first sentiment, as long as it doesn’t interfere with his job

I am sure a lot of people feel the same way.
I disagree with your assessment that people are more acceptable. I think it's just more along the lines of the people that care are "over it" and have learned their lesson now.

Those that genuinely care about the free software movement either have or will stop contributing to these projects and stop signing CLA's[1] so their work can't be abused in the future (turned into a proprietary product).

I personally don't think there is much more to argue about.

[1]https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/05/Dont-sign-a-CLA.html
Sorry, but this thing, head on, is pure FSM.
That's a blindfold, not a solution.

If I told a personal assistant "I want any kettle", they would know there's an implied <among buy-it-for-life high-quality stainless steel in America with a non-garish finish>.

They would also know me well enough to provide options when it's a non-commodity context, ie pressure cookers where the same implied values hold but I want to actually made the feature tradeoffs as a poweruser.

YouTube went down then global optimization path, and the experience was terrible...
> That’s a bit much. I’ve worked with many international students that were just as good as anyone

They get screwed over more than anyone by the lax standards when their resumes get dropped in the international student bin.

> Social and traditional media get on the howler about this issue,

This is from personal experience working with graduates and managing our intern program, which I wasted a great deal of my personal time on. Social media is more focused on the abuses of the student visa that is also rampant.

> but it isn’t fair to cast it as a problem that only exists with international students.

It's certainly not exclusive to international students, but they pay a lot more and universities have a financial incentive to keep them studying regardless of the grades.
It's more likely that he has a browser extension that is doing this. I have DarkReader installed, and I similarly saw a bunch of style tags at the beginning of the page related to DarkReader (which applies some CSS rules to make everything "dark mode"). To the GP, you probably want to double-check your browser extensions (unless you were actually kidding).
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I'll honestly be shocked if Microsoft doesn't buy Valve in day for Steam. Obviously current ownership would be against it, even with Nadella, but one day it just feels like a guarantee.
Noticed the same thing and found that it was caused by Ghostery.
I am not a Googler and have been a long time critic of any business model that is not “I give you money and you give me stuff.”

That being said, I defended Google’s choice of implementing ad blocking extensions using an approach similar to Apple’s because I inherently don’t trust random third party extension makers that can intercept all of my web browsing. I also don’t trust VPN providers to protect my privacy but that’s a rant for another day.