skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loved the ending. Self-disclosure is a big part of humanistic psychology. Sidney Jourard[0] explored this in depth:

You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have engaged in enough mutual disclosure of self to be able anticipate how he will react and what part he will play?

If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to know him. This would seem to be obvious. Yet most of us spend a great part of our lives thinking up ways to avoid becoming known. Indeed, much of human life is best described as impersonation. We are role players, every one of us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Jourard
Very interesting audit trigger. Would like to try it w/ partition table instead of doing separate tables.
A small glass of juice or soda a day linked to increased risk of cancer; study
I mean, these things hurt MY ears too and I'm 30. I will frequently just dry my hands on my pants. She did a great job!
We need to eliminate actul emissions. As in, actual exhaust gases coming out of cars and planes and snokestacks, not just mathematically offset "net" emissions. There is no way around that. Then, on top of that, an additional 10% through this scheme looks pretty useful.
> these days most apps (device drivers aside) uninstall fairly cleanly

Citation needed.
I don't use stickers either but with this technique, I could give it a try for a few months.

Totally unrelated: I feel the same about tattoos.
You might not know how good the cosmetics are until you buy them. But whether a t-shirt fits your style is plainly visible (unless they were selling plain tees). Very different product categories
Feud between Japan and South Korea threatening global supplies of memory chips
My sense was that bike transpo culture was much more robust in Osaka and Kyoto compared to Tokyo. If memory serves, there was TONS of sidewalk parking so no issues there(the subject of this post just seems inflammatory TBH) but also the sidewalks were quite a bit wider than what I'm used to in cities I've been to in the USA(like SF). Also, you don't really worry about your bike getting stolen on Osaka.

EDIT: Tokyo is ginormous though and I haven't really been on the ground in more than like 5 or so of the special wards :|
International Organization for Dew Utilization
If you visit your friends or relatives, you cannot fully protect yourself from this data collection by simply choosing not to own these devices yourself.
Damn this seems fun.
Not after Catalina.

Future versions of macOS will require signed software (notarized as per Apple terminology), even outside of the store.

What is new in security at WWDC.
Huh? Why is it ok for Apple or anyone to do silent installs on my computer? As a customer, why am I getting this information from YC/Techcrunch and not Apple?

What else have they pushed like this? Is there a transparent log? Can we verify if their track record is clean? How many times have they silently broken and fixed their own things? How do we know they won't abuse this?

Isn't this the same dark pattern that we criticized zoom for? Did I consent to Apple doing silent editorial changes to my system?

For having exercised this editorial privilege, will Apple take accountability for every thing that is done by every app on my computer?

It seems like we are being slow-boiled into accepting outrageous things as normal.
Surely 'no straw' is an obvious alternative to straw? In a generic sense, 'no X' should always be the first option if plausible.

If your car could run without fuel, we wouldn't need alternative fuels!
Seems like this is the only solution that works, since it makes it a zero-sum game. I like it, good braining.

The resulting cat-and-mouse game would double as a replacement for SatoshiDice. Also, it'd let the network clean up dust and recover money sent to invalid addresses.
Until Catalina, which will more aggressively use permissions and require all software to be notarized.
I don't have first hand experience, but my impression is that the best co-founders are those who you've got some history with, who you know and trust. That doesn't happen overnight.

Kind of like an actual dating site might be a good way to meet potential marriage partners, but you'd look at someone pretty weird if you went on a date and they suggested they want to get married right away.

But who knows; those guys see a lot of founders, maybe things work out differently.
At work, my laptop is the only one with a Ryzen sticker.
I read the previous post on this that appeared on HN a couple of weeks back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20282837

My 3 year old used to close her ears anyways when near any of these hand dryers but now i warn her when one is about to turn on.
Everyone should be using musician style earplugs at concerts. They're designed to as best uniformly attenuate the volume to safe levels.

And in my opinion, a good pair always makes the music sound better.

And I never leave with ringing in my ears
Because it's no longer just a wall of noise.
Good point on the churn, but perhaps it's not a fatal problem. In fact, it might encourage faster adoption of more space-efficient schemes like Segwit, which is one of many ways to improve scalability.
And not the same as the Rust ecosystem today.
Wild speculation: I wonder whether loudness is actually a design goal, to make the dryer appear more powerful. A sizable number of people are skeptical of electric vehicles, because they perceive an earth-shaking vroooom to be an essential part of the driving experience. Could someone with industry experience chime in?
Ah, sorry about that. Yeah there are quite a few stats maintained on the ssca.org website. Harvard also maintains statistics about coffee consumption, and Huffington Post did a big expose on it, as well. There's also a lot of good information from the National Restaurant Association, Statista, Mordor Intelligence and Mintel.
The point of CORB (i.e. cross origin request blocking i.e. what browsers are doing i.e. what CORS relaxes) is effectively to stop authenticated requests from going from a browser with multiple authentications to a protected server on the basis of a request produced by third party.

In other words, it's to stop the developer of fakegoogle.com using your web browser to access google.com as if they are you.

Therefore, if you've written an app which will only ever contain cookies and authentications you've permitted, and only ever access servers that you've specified, then yeah, sure, CORB is irrelevant and you can safely ignore them. You and the malicious coder can both write code that runs on Android or iOS safe in the knowledge that there's an absolute sandbox between them - nothing the malicious coder ever does will ever leak your user's secrets to your server.

Likewise, if you're a malicious coder and you convince the user to give you their legit google.com secrets, you can safely send them wherever you want.

If you're writing a web browser equivalent app, that will run arbitrary code from untrusted third parties and store and release private or secret information, CORB makes sense and you should pay attention to the CORS headers.

CORB is solving a problem inherent in web browsers - they run untrusted code and code can cause your secrets to go to your server. It is annoying to you as a web app writer in the same way that locked doors are annoying to plumbers. It would be so much easier for the plumber if they could just come around to my house whenever it's convenient. And it doesn't solve any problem the plumber has (if some random steals all your gold, how is that the plumbers' problem?). Inside your house you don't lock every door. But you do lock the doors that separate trusted and untrusted people, and no amount of difficulty to plumbers will change that.
The plane is a 32 years-old MD88. It lands at Raleigh/Durham and went to a gate there (https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N906DL/history/20190708/...)?

It flied to Charlotte today https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N906DL
China's major air pollution progress. Wuhan protests show still long way to go
Ohio's butterfly population fallen by a third, findings spell trouble for bees
I'm hoping for this, but it could be USB 2.0 over the Type C connector, which is unfortunately a thing.
I wonder how sanitary they are, considering that they are basically using a bunch of bathroom air blasted at your previously-clean hands, too.

I would hate those things even if they were silent.
Yeah, the commitment to print publishing is the part I don't get. He's tying himself to the mast of a sinking ship.
Isn't diminishing lead value over time a pretty well-established thing? Just look at any drip campaign's engagement/conversion
How do you write this article without mentioning youtube?

I watch far more youtube, than traditional Hollywood. And I don't mean random clips, but high quality content.

He's worried that Hollywood won't criticize China, or the military. Instead you'll find that on youtube.
I notice this, in general, American way of life are more centered around power and freedom. Rarely I see a problem solved by the Americans as elegant. Though nothing wrong with not being elegant. Just my observation,
I am pretty sure it is just cost; after all, places install them to save on consumables cost and staff to periodically refill towels and empty the trash.
Apple or anyone cannot silently pushing changes to my computer without my explicit consent – especially on unrelated things.

What Apple did here is also a dark pattern. We cannot commend them and normalize this behavior.

This is a dictatorial one-sided decision by Apple. What else can they do? Can nation state governments compel Apple to push stuff silently? Can this system be abused by hackers?

Why are we dependent on the good moral behavior of Apple business decision makers for the well-being of our digital lives? Haven't we learnt anything at all from all the incidents in the recent past w.r.t trust in corporate benevolence?
>But the issue is that you effectively building in your assumptions about what is 'representative' into your sample.

Even if I agree with your premise, Google is not going to build a custom voice model for every individual anyway. There will be simplifications made. There will be assumptions made, and they will end up with a representative model anyway. So you're actually just bolstering my point. It makes a ton of sense to record people in a known, controlled environment and tweak variables one by one- such as the size of the room, the location of the microphone, introducing varying amounts of background chatter, etc etc. This is how normal science happens all the time, and it has worked for us so far. And we haven't even addressed the ethics of spying on people in such a blatant manner. That is a whole another conversation.

> It doesn't work very well (imo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis) and usually is reflecting back to us something about our assumptions in how we sampled. But thats just it.

Modelling aggregate human behavior/psychology is not a proper science. The same is true of macro economics and other such non-exact fields. Problems in those fields do not apply across other fields.
My 3 year old covers his ears in any public bathroom regardless of whether anyone is even in there.

Hand dryers are one item but there are some toilets that are also excessively loud as well.
But they're testing the participants to see if they actually understand. Re-read gp
Google Translate’s instant camera translation gets an upgrade
It will trigger preflight if POST and not a form content type. (E.g. a POST application/json)
> allowed us to farm and afforded us the leisure time

The error in this is the thinking that the gains from agriculture accrue evenly to everyone. In reality, the "us" who are farmers and the "us" with leisure time are not the same people. You can see this by looking at the economic stratification for every single agricultural society... ever?

I would highly recommend reading James C Scott's 'Against the Grain' [0].

His thesis is that agriculture came in quite slowly, as part of a semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer society. It was only once the natural environment was depleted and agriculture became the only option to feed yourself that fixed, sedentary agriculture took over.

This is all tied to the rise of states, which could only obtain stability once their taxation base was locked in place. It's the best explanation I've seen for why "we" would choose agriculture.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34324534-against-the-gra...

(Incidentally I think it's much better written than his first book 'Seeing like a State', if you've read that.)
I’m not being snarky, and we’re not talking about some random device you have. We’re talking about the camera on a Mac. The bet is that you can’t turn it on and off so fast as to be un-noticeable because there is a noticeable delay between that light turning on and getting an image from that camera. So I’ll gladly take the other side of that bet.
A few days ago someone posted on hackernews about about noise canceling shapes I wonder if that can be used to muffle such sounds. Using architecture to expand or muffle sounds has been used for centuries but sadly we have stopped using them much because of easy availability of electronics.
BA used to have 737s, though.
Err, try tilling the soil, planting, and harvesting with a sprained ankle? No thanks.
Hand dryers need to die.

Their primary benefit is lower cost of operation for the facility, but other than that, their environmental impact is at best marginally better than paper towels, and worst is their hygienic aspect.

Various studies have found up to a two-fold increase in bacteria count on users' hands, as well as a risk of contaminating the surrounding area with bacteria blown off of the user's skin:

"In 2009 a published study was conducted by the University of Westminster to compare the levels of hygiene offered by paper towels, warm air hand dryers and the more modern jet-air hand dryers. It found that after washing and drying hands with the warm air dryer, the total number of bacteria was found to increase on average on the finger pads by 194% and on the palms by 254%; drying with the jet air dryer resulted in an increase on average of the total number of bacteria on the finger pads by 42% and on the palms by 15%; and after washing and drying hands with a paper towel, the total number of bacteria was reduced on average on the finger pads by up to 76% and on the palms by up to 77%." [1]

The noise aspect discussed in this article is yet another reason air dryers need to die. I hadn't even considered the effect they might have on kid's ears, and I'd imagine most adults probably haven't thought about it either. I find them positively annoying, but having your ears at the same height as these monstrosities must be horrible.

Kudos to Miss Keegan for her wonderful research!

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_dryer
As someone who just re-wrote his project (from python) in rust I will say that it has been an incredibly rewarding and pleasant experience.

C++ is fine, but most projects are riddled with ugly macros and #defines for features / platform specific code. Rust solves this in a fairly elegant way. Also, not having a package ecosystem in C/C++ is frustrating as hell.

Cargo was the thing that pushed me over the hump to learn rust instead of just opting for c++, and it has paid off.

It's not quite as ergonomic as go, but overall it has won me over and is my new favorite language. I'm excited to see how the story for rust plays out over the next 5 years :)
I used screen cleaner gel to clean up some old macbooks with pile of years old stickers and it worked without any trace left I can notice. And I guess it is already safe for electronics. No special formulas needed.
Would the olivine actually need to be (rough) sand or would pebbles or, say, fist-sized rocks work almost as well?
I have at least 2. Git and vim. It seems fitting then, that vim should be the default editor for git's commit messages.
It’s one of those things that’s obvious and intuitive, unless your baseline of normalcy for the human condition is an ivory tower in a WEIRD culture.
There is no such thing as a bad programmer, only bad tooling. C++ is bad tooling.
Should Google Photos Delete the Doctored Nancy Pelosi Video If Shared Publicly?
"We" don't have a shred of proof because that information is highly sensitive and not shared with the general public. I see a lot of people linking articles in the thread: the numbers range from 30% effectiveness in tests to 5% effectiveness based off of vague statements made in a closed press meeting. Every article reported a different one... from the same meeting?

The MSM is full of arrogant morons desperate for clicks, hating the government is popular, reporting on classified programs is hard, and the TSA has every incentive not to release accurate information - I would bet good money those numbers are wrong. The government does a lot of dumb things but I do not think the entire TSA would exist if it was only 5% effective.
> What if I'm covering up the free advertising built into the machine?

This is what I do. My current MacBook has a single unbranded sticker of a hop (from Double Mountain Brewery) to cover up the Apple Logo.
The most disappointing part of AlphaStar to me was the fact that each game was played by a completely separate AI. I was sad to see that each intelligence seemed to only be able to converge on a single strategy/unit composition. It was a failure to settle on a more generalized intelligence, as well as an indication that many of its victories in reinforcement were potentially achieved as a result of having composed units as hard counters to other compositions.
As an employee I can opt into having my Home recordings reviewed to improve quality. I’ve never heard about this being done for regular users.
The title on this article should really be something like "Global Leaders Threaten..". The article actually covers a range of countries like India and the UK, not just US and Turkey.
I love that we're not alone in this. CORS is an antimeme, confirmed: http://www.scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub
The Vietnamese traffic you describe sounds like a Darwinian system where only the most skilled have survived and dare travel.

I'm sure it works, but probably at a cost of a lot of lives, and probably a lot of people who just stay out of it.
I read 'Debt' a few years ago. Am currently reading Niall Ferguson's 'The Ascent of Money' which dives more into the details of how our banking and monetary systems arose. Only two chapters in, but I would recommend already.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Money
I’ve broken several iPhones including one the same day I got it. The breaks always seemed to happen randomly. Relatively low impact. But once I dropped one, tried to grab it, and ended up flinging it up and across the room where it hit the wall about ten feet up then fell anyway... it was fine. Another time I was hiking and stupidly had my phone out. I fell, landed with the screen side down beneath my hand onto pebbles... not a scratch.

Anyway... I always buy a case now.
Stylistically, it's hard to imagine anything as stereotypically 80s as this collection of furniture and lamps. It's like the early days of 3D rendering in physical form.
That's almost 20 good new movies in 1 year. I feel like I have trouble finding 20 good new movies for the recent years.
You don't have to.

C# has value types incl. user ones, they are not nullable.

If you don't like inheritance, don't use it. I sometimes write pages of code without any non-static class.
When doing OO, if you want polymorphism but don't want inheritance, use interfaces. They are not base classes, you can implement many, or implement on a value type.
How to debug InnoDB lock waits (2007)
What is often the most disturbing about these revelations is that these are contractors, who have that amount of access...
Mine is the one with no stickers
It makes sense to impose such heavy limitations to AlphaStar in order to have it demonstrate its mastery of the strategic aspects of starcraft.

I am looking forward to seeing it applied to a problem where we don't tie one its hand behind its back though.

There are probably real life situations (hopefully not war, although that will happen for sure) where being able to focus on 10 things at the same time and react extremely quickly without any fatigue would make an AI way more performant than humans.

Come to think of it, fatigue might manifest in thermal throttling unless we conceive its chassis better than we do our phones and laptops.
I expect that among many of the bike friendly policies mentioned in this thread one technological advancement specifically the cyclist / pedestrian avoidance systems that new cars have started coming with will greatly improve the safety for cyclists and ultimately increase the number of cyclists that feel safe sharing the road with cars. I dream that it might actually lead to a tipping point in areas where cycling make more sense than cars
> It's not spyware, this was not something that was intended to be abused

Do you have a source for that. It doesn’t peek around my computer a little and/or send back any telemetry? I’m being serious, I’d like to know.

I had to install Zoom in school in 2014, I ended up uninstalling it the next week and reformatted after the quarter. I’m with Apple here. It’s shit insecure non-consenting software that wastes battery 99.99% of the time.
Yes. I do know that, but Amazon is particularly eggregious because they offer "author search" as a lead-in and work their damn hardest to hide the 'exact match only' option.

If this was a library catalog, search would not work this way!

In your example, Google has (they were made to by the FTC) distinguish between paid responses, and search responses. And, the likelihood of a 'in the style of john grisham' author being shown before all the john grisham as author works is low.

Amazon don't care. They know you wanted to find books by John Grisham, and they did show you the top five (and not in publication order, or series order, or anything useful) but they also intruded with no distinction unrelated works.
A package manager would typically have removed the web server, too.
Perhaps you yourself have been diagnosed or Nutonen have a family member friend or acquaintance riding in this same leaky boat. You are not alone! It is estimated that nearly 19% or over 23 million people in the U.S. are diabetic. Add to this about 5.7 million undiagnosed cases and 5.7 million listed as borderline. Most sources generally agree that diabetes is caused by either the total failure of the pancreas to produce insulin (type 1) or it produces insufficient amounts and/or the body cells reject it. The task of the pancreatic insulin is to convert carbohydrates from sugar into glucose. Glucose is the fuel that provides energy to the body's cells.

https://consumerscomment.com/nutonen-review/
Fair enough. I had algorithm related questions for an ETL developer position.
Really annoys the crap out of me, when I spend 1 hour doing shit that it wholly irrelevant to the job at hand.

On the other hand I had an interview with 4 hours worth of different algorithms questions - for a job where algorithms mattered. And that interview was pretty fun. Even though I didn't get the job.
I put stickers on my Dell, too.
Dropbox is one. It always prompts me for my password whenever it launches. I always cancel. It works perfectly without it.
Many sites do.

It's clearly always possible to detect whether an ad was seen. Often, the content owners do not bother putting such measures in place, but the advertisers definitely do. (It's even easier from their perspective to check if the ad has been served or not, as many ad blockers prevent the ad from even downloading by sending all requests to that domain into a black hole and so the ad is never even requested from the server.)
It is enabled by default and if you don’t like that you can disable this behavior.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204536