skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there are laws against possession and they are deciding not to prosecute, then that is definitely noteworthy, whether you agree with their decision or not.
> it is the policy makers, not the tech industry, who are responsible for these operations.

Organizationally responsible. Ethically, if you provide means to do X and can reasonably predict that someone (e.g. government) will apply X to do something unethical, then you are at least partially responsible for the final unethical result.
Exactly!

I'm not saying that Strava needs to constantly reinvent itself and add groundbreaking new features and changes -- I'd prefer they don't! But there have been the same long list of bugs, quirks, and limitations for literally years. Plus the same handful of most-desired features by the community have gone largely unimplemented and ignored.

In addition to your list, I primarily use a Garmin device, but I do occasionally use the mobile and watch apps and they have some pretty huge limitations for seemingly no reason. Like why are there so few activity types that I can record on my Apple Watch? I can manually reclassify them later in the web app, but why do I have to do that?

And why is the mobile app lacking in features like equipment tracking, something pretty basic that has existed on the web app for years?

Also the Apple Watch app has corrupted multiple activities that simply refuse to upload (rejected by Strava's servers), and Strava Support has told me "tough, there's nothing we can do or look into". They don't even pretend to care or ask for details to investigate.

It's one thing to have a stable, mature product with great support but Strava has not proven to really be any of those things over time. They've built up a decent social network of athletes and enthusiasts, but the tech & product side has completely stagnated.
Ask HN: Is there a interest/market for desktop style apps anymore?
As part of my slow migration away from Google Products (because of privacy, evil corp, etc), I've built a web app that run on my desktop that provides the functionality that I had with Google products I previously used. This web app integrates into any browser as use because it's a web server running in the background. With this setup, I get the benefit of being subscription free, ad-free and privacy protected and the only drawback I've encountered I can't access it on another desktop. My question is there any interest/market for these types of apps? The trend seems to be always online hosted solutions.

The replacement the following in my app: Google Bookmarks, Google Notes, Google Contacts. I've also added a Budget (finance) app into the web app.
https://www.ffcoalition.com/record-evangelical-vote-in-2018-...
Wind farms, maybe. I'm not seeing a lot of utility-scale solar (yet) around here. I'm in MN and travel to IA regularly, past the enormous wind farms. A wind farm has negligible impact on farmland use.
Helicopters bring us views of the tour de France
Yeah, if this was someone getting paid by Bird in any capacity, then I can see them being liable. I was imagining a user tossing a couple of nearby scooters in their truck so they'd have them at their destination.
> The policies that using Studies in this way violated are listed in my initial post.

You just claimed they had violated their privacy policy, not the shield studies guidelines. Your initial post doesn't say anything about their privacy policy. And as I said, your privacy wasn't affected at all if you didn't enable the studies yourself, so your point about rather waiting doesn't make sense either.

> You might think violating them was justified, but that they were in fact violated is inarguable.

You could argue that testing the fix meets the first two conditions you listed. I don't know if they actually provided that "Product Hypothesis Doc", but at that point you're really just looking for something to complain about.
Old Bailey, Old style mobile inaccessible website. Sigh.
Industries disrupted by 3D printing startups
Living in the wrong cities. I live in (near) a middle-sized to small city. I can talk to nearly anyone on the street or in a shop, and I often do. I can make faces at strangers' babies and get them to smile, and get a smile back from the parent. I imagine if I cried "Is there a doctor here who can help?" while standing over an injured person, two or three people in the immediate vicinity would instantly respond (if they weren't already hurrying to the scene).

Yes big cities can be alienating. That's why I opted out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414905
You're right - I misspoke. Voting eligibility is a subject with a complex history. There are many guarantees laid out in several amendments and acts. I simply meant to point out that something as conceptually simple as "just a national ID system" could have far-reaching effects such as disenfranchisement.
Note that none of these languages have dependent types and that feature is sometimes impossible to add in full generic power after the fact without completely breaking existing code.
This is way off topic for HN. Please don't post like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It can be useful depending on how the engine handles the match. The non-capturing group is the important part, the .* is just there so that the 'full match' isn't just an empty string, but contains the whole line the rule is being run against
We don't let websites access file:// urls, why should they be able to access http://localhost urls? Or http://*.local urls?
I feel like being r-x to the world is fairly extroverted.
Because FB accurately predicted the fine amount and doesn’t have to use any more money. The market are already adjusted to the FTC fine risk. The only risk measure by this point was if it would be higher than $5b.
> a vocal minority

More to the point, a criminal minority. It's mostly lawbreaking that makes this minority visible: assault, robbery, theft, dumping waste, etc.

> If these people were committed to mental health facilities I think everybody would be better off.

I agree and in particular, even the invisible majority. Talk to anyone who knows anything about the homeless problem and they'll tell you that homeless people are very frequently victims of crimes themselves. They don't have the shelter or resources to protect themselves, so they are easy picking for criminals.

So getting this small number of actively harmful homeless people off the street — remediating them or not — will help improve the quality of life and safety of an even larger number of other homeless people.
Perhaps in the sense that they have a session cookie that tracks impressions of sites which reference them on the web, and that information they have that their users uploaded that happen to also reference you.

But not anything like in the sense of a logged in user and the level of knowledge they have about actual users.

Facebook knows a lot less about non-registered users than Google does, for instance.

And in the sense of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which is what this fine is about, my understanding is that non-users were entirely unaffected.
There's a 50,000-member subreddit devoted to hosting your own software - https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/
No way is it the bulk of the funding and I bet VCs do well on the aggregate, which is why they are using their services. These institutions would all abandon ship.

Until the CA pension goes bust due to VCs, I'm still OK with what they do.
In most jurisdictions its just as illegal to ride a scooter while drunk than it is to drive a car while drunk.
Denver local here, similar to sibling commenters. I definitely hear you about the scooters littered around. They're constantly left in the middle of sidewalks, randomly on the Cherry Creek trail (I ride that to/from work so I see it a lot), in people's lawns, etc. I realize this isn't the company's fault per se, but rather because some of the people riding them are inconsiderate jackasses. Still, it is super annoying.

That said, on balance I'd rather have some annoying scooters rather than a whole crapload more cars, streets, parking, etc. And I'm hopeful that over time the culture around scooter usage will improve - particularly since the early users seem to be skew towards drunken barhoppers.

Of course what I really wish is that people would just sack up and ride bikes. Even better for the environment, better for your health, etc. But it's pretty clear that many people will never sign on for that, so something between that and a full-on car is welcome IMHO.
I wish I could find the article - there was a report on the effect of installed solar panels and the cost of AC on the (single-family) properties they were on. Would have been in 2016 or 2017, maybe.

But in any case... The overall reduction in energy use was about 5% better than calculated. The article stated that this was discovered to be due to the improved airflow between the roof and panels. Because the panels are installed 40mm-50mm above the roof, they leave effectively a narrow wind tunnel between themselves and the roof surface. This means that with the panels heating up, they cause an increased airflow over the roof.

This increased flow, in addition to the panels heating up instead of the roof, was enough to further reduce the energy required to cool the house down.

You must have been experiencing the same effect.
> Perhaps Franprix is a bad place to buy wines?

In Paris yes it’s a bad place but in the producing regions they can have a nice local selection.

> $3 wine in France is universally regarded as 'decent' is not one I can vouch for.

You are right, even higher priced wines are hit or miss. Choosing wine in France is very complicated, compared to the US where price is a good taste indicator. But you can definitely find very good $3-5 bottles in France.
It was a video. If you just listened to it you missed a lot.
On IOS, go to the person in Contacts and choose Share My Location. Let’s you choose to share for 1 hour, 1 day, or indefinitely.
The import tax is around 50% and still have to pay sales taxes (like VAT but different). Here the cars are sell with nice seats and radio, instead of must have security features... You know, to die with style.
Oh, yes San Jose smells bad, but most people avoid going there unless really needed.
Social lock-in.
I have nothing against being narcissistic, provided you are honest about it. If I say that you are trying too hard with your "No u!" game, will you accuse me of trying too hard?
I laughed at this quote (tl;dr) from the article: "about a 4K movie every two seconds".

Hope that doesn't qualify as a spoiler.
Ford, VW team up on tech, autonomous vehicle development for US and Europe
Netlify Is Down
> That authentication is done by IP-Address

I think so. most universities have well known static ips
AgileBits offered a feature and relied on a third party which is pretty different.
Dagstuhl: learning and teaching programming language semantics
It's sad how every such article is flooded with excuses basically amounting to "it's not identical to the our situation in every single particular, so it couldn't possibly work for us." The world would be a much better place if people were willing to learn from people outside their bubble.
They could, but then the costs will just be passed down to the tenants (i.e. increased rent).
People seem to think they can just break the loop by dumping insurance companies because hospitals have done a very good job of painting themselves as the victims.

If we try that, I'd expect medical expenses keep going up and confused_pikachu.gif until people figured out that hospitals were never on their side. If this takes long enough, "bring back insurance companies" will be the solution, and then it won't work, and then we're back in an infinite loop with a longer cycle.

Hospitals need countervailing price pressure, and anyone who doesn't accept that is liable to vote for catastrophically bad policy.
Yeah... but it's security theatre.

They will just use memcpy_s with the dest len and the len set to the same var. Or strncpy with the limit set to strlen(src) etc. These guys will tell you it's suddenly using 'modern security practices'.

Conversely depending on the code strcpy / memcpy can be 100% safe.

I think these guys are selling static analysis, so they find themselves using these oversimplified metrics... it's a shame because it looks like there was no lack of real issues.
Seat belts, air bags,
bumpers, crumple zones,
defoggers, windshield
wipers, and on and on. We
have laws that require a
basic level of safety for
these potentially dangerous
machines.

I’d like to introduce you to a mind-blowing concept vehicle: The Motorcycle.

Anyone over the age of 17 can ride one. They have no seat belts, windshields or bumpers, and they carry high rates of fatalities relative to the accidents that involve them, when compared to all other vehicles on public roads.

You are free to choose them over ordinary automobiles at your option in most countries.

Many vehicles are street legal, but not sold by commercial dealers, and still find their way onto public roads. People find ways around the implicit suggestions pushed upon any given market place. The market doesn’t always offer the best choices, but flexibility is a good thing.

Anyway, this is really about over-funded, near miltary yet still “civilian” law enforcement operations cutting across every jurisdiction to do whatever a handful of unelected people think ought to happen and carry the leverage to push their whims anywhere they want, simply because there’s no realistic counter to their privatized intent.

Think tanks sit around and muse about this and that, and then private militaries come out of the woodwork to advise federal employees about... whatever they want.

It’s going to keep happening. And unless you’re a billionaire, you don’t even have a seat at the table.
> But I still have the suspicion that a good chunk of the political Left will be dissatisfied

Only in the somewhat specious sense that a good chunk of the political X is continually dissatisfied, for all values of X.

I'm on that mythical "Left" you're talking about. No one would be happier to see carbon emissions plumet than I, and for any reason. That doesn't mean that I don't think some kind of regulation is inappropriate or unnecessary, in particular because I don't see the revolution in the linked article as inevitable as we might hope.
I do agree in principle that web browsers probably should not allow non-local web sites to make requests to local IP addresses.

However, I don't really see that as the fundamental problem with the Zoom web server. They just happened to use local web requests to externally trigger the Zoom application, because it's probably the most convenient to implement. But couldn't they have, at least in theory, had the Zoom application snoop on the display output until it finds an image of a QR code and open a conference call based on the data in that QR code?

Obviously that's a more intensive listening mechanism, but my point is that the fundamental problem seems to be that their application installs a backdoor that is designed to expose the webcam without confirmation based on user actions that do not necessarily imply intent (like clicking on a web link). The local web request thing is really just an implementation detail: one that probably should be fixed by browsers, but far from the only way Zoom could have implemented this feature.

After all, the Zoom client could just have a socket connection to Zoom's servers, and start a conference call whenever someone requests one. That's how all native apps for conferencing/message work. They just usually require confirmation from the user, and they usually (I hope) uninstall that process when I uninstall the app, so people tend to be less upset.
Tell that to the talent that no longer wants to work for Facebook and the executives fleeing the company.

And there are thousands of college graduates who will spend months learning LeetCode and be glad to take their places and get a total comp of $250K+ a year. You severely overestimate how few people care more about the “greater good” than collecting a nice check.
And you still export the gpx and upload it to relive. Relive constantly making these videos after every single ride was annoying to me, I would much rather make 1 or 2 a year, but it was all or nothing with strava syncing.
It hard to get a sense of how Smart RMS is, because he invents his own terms or he repurposes existing well understood terms (such as the term free) to confuse the issue.

It is something I have little respect for and tbh it doesn't matter how clever it is when he spends most of that effort on for want of a better term intellectual wankery.
I think you might be conflating your overarching desire for the dismantling of Facebook with the actual case at hand, which is for specific actions taken by Facebook which violated certain aspects of their users’ privacy based on a practice (API supported friend scraping) which is no longer allowed.
Why not? We have enough sunshine and wind to power the Earth many times over. If you take the battery part out of the equation there is no advantage left for nuclear and many many disadvantages,

- is hugely expensive to design, build and run (requiring eye watering government guarantees that encourage builders/operators to cut corners).

- takes longer than the climate can tolerate to build

- needs water for cooling that access to will be problematic once construction is finally complete (France is struggling to run it's reactors already, Britains will be under water in 50 years)

- byproducts we cannot deal with and haven't even figured out how to safely bury.

- insane de-commissioning costs that everyone pretends don't exist

- small risk that there will be an accident and Hollywood will make a shockingly inaccurate hit tv series about it

- huge geo-political risk that constrains use to countries that are not going to be de-stablised by global warming in 60 year life time of plant (name one...)

- build more than a few and we will struggle to supply the uranium (it's surprisingly hard to find in high enough concentrations for economic strip-mining)

And now that batteries are becoming affordable the last argument left for Nuclear is evaporating.
There is effectively an unlimited amount of uranium dissolved in ocean water which can be mined at a much higher cost, but which is an insignificant cost in the operation of a nuclear plant. There's no reasonable reason to delay consuming uranium, and absolutely ridiculous to consider saving thorium (not that we can actually consume thorium yet).
Facebook reaches $5B settlement with the FTC
Yeah, that is true in most cases. However, here is Cloudflare was using Cloudflare on dash.cloudflare.com as well.

This calls for not using Cloudflare for their web dashboard.
It amazes me they are only 1.5yrs old.
https://www.gq.com/story/inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-ma...

> There's no telling how many guns we have in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. On purpose.

> That's been a federal law, thanks to the NRA, since 1986: No searchable database of America's gun owners. So people here have to use paper, sort through enormous stacks of forms and record books that gun stores are required to keep and to eventually turn over to the feds when requested. It's kind of like a library in the old days—but without the card catalog. They can use pictures of paper, like microfilm (they recently got the go-ahead to convert the microfilm to PDFs), as long as the pictures of paper are not searchable. You have to flip through and read. No searching by gun owner. No searching by name.
and you can't download your data from strava? https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918437-Expor...
Well, without COBRA you'll have to pay $2500 for the same coverage.
$5B is already the increased consequence, they've been violating a consent decree for 8 years. Presumably in another 8 years the FTC will fine them $10B ... I'm sure that'll fix it right up.
Enough time is millions of years for the earth to make oil.

If it makes you happy, i’m willing to ration the uranium so the earth’s supply lasts 10,000 years. If our exponential knowledge curve can’t solve the problem by then we might be in trouble.

The singularity should be within the next 10,000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Computer_Science...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(1963_computer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370_Model_165
I'd say we have a reasonable expectation that fusion will be viable this century in the sense of working. Whether it will be cost effective remains to be seen.
Simply too expensive, and large scale can undercut: "We know that residential rooftop solar is much more expensive than grid-scale renewables. At least 4 times more expensive, according to Lazard estimates.", from "Does Rooftop Solar Help the Distribution System?" https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2018/06/25/does-rooftop-s...

Also the home owner takes on the financial risk of the install. If a utility installed on homes they would need to have a lien on the home, legal costs, marketing costs, and they would still have other risks of default.

The article mentions one place it does make sense: "Cohen and company find capacity benefits exceeding $60 kilowatt-year in the top 1% of all locations. This is about 10 times what they find for average capacity benefits. It makes sense that, for example, certain circuits are very close to needing a capacity upgrade, and that benefits would be large in these places."
Real or nominal?
1080ti is 11GB, not 12. Titan is 12
Strange article. All it does is recite the statistics but it doesn't explain why anyone should care.

It seems from the comments here that solitude is equated with isolation and with loneliness but this is not necessarily the case.

I think the problem for many who are lonely is that they feel, perhaps correctly, that they have no choice, no power to change the situation. For me solitude is a necessity but of course if I cannot choose it but instead have it thrust upon me then it would eventually become a burden.
Even if nuclear only lasted 3000 years it would be more than what fossil fuels will last.
How independent are they? This number sounds ridiculously high. The right question to ask would be how expensive it would be to keep coal/gas going when it is clearly more expensive than just about anything else, even right now. It's a reason coal plants have been closing for several years now; and even some gas plants are shutting down way ahead of their projected end of life. They're just not viable anymore. It's not about the cost of decarbonizing but the cost of not doing that. There's a point where putting enough solar and batteries in your house gets cheaper than consuming coal produced electricity.
Me dropping cash on a scooter was just an interesting aside. I'm one of two people in town I've seen on a personal e-scooter.

Most people don't want to own. It's less useful for bar hopping and you're on the hook for maintenance/repairs/charging/storage. I'm more handy than the average person that rides these. The average person living in downtown Denver likely doesn't even own a set of tools.

A rental business is much more attractive to VCs, if they can make it profitable. Has a niche retailer has ever received VC attention? Honest question. That doesn't feel like it scales like nearly on demand rentals.
> If I saw a private IP (192.168, 10, etc) or a .local domain, I'd assume that was a LAN address, but that's a convention and depends very much on routing being set up properly.

This convention on the address is actually backed by RFCs. eg. rfc 1918. There is similar for ipv6.

However, blocking traffic to private IPs without careful consideration seems like it could block some legitimate use. So one does have to tread carefully when special-casing those.