skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe no one really knows anymore why the feature was implemented that way in the first place.

I think the post-mortem has shown that the biggest problem of mozilla is fragmentation of decision-making, and the existence of probably >50 small teams that do stuff without communicating.

It is highly likely that the certificate problem isn't the only negative consequence, and that we'll see more evidence of mismanagement in the future.

I have the feeling that for some reason mozilla has established a culture where information does not flow efficiently from top to bottom and vica versa, and it even looks like the management doesn't really exist.

When a small team is formed around a task without central oversight, reporting back to someone, it will tend to justify it's existence, even if it means doing unnecessary work.

I heard the last CEO who wanted to streamline the mozilla hierarchy back to efficiency was Brendan Eich and many people got uncomfortable when he started to demand that people actually work productively.

I think a honest post-mortem would have come to a painful conclusion: That the Mozilla of today is in no way able to compete anymore, and many employees have stopped doing real work. The company only lives on because it lives off it's massive market-share of the past.

I am convinced that, within 2 years, mozilla will be confronted with massive lay-offs, threatening the gecko engine. This incidence shows me that they haven't done anything to address their structural problems, probably because most people in the company are content with the place they have, and comfortable living off the massive google revenue.
Well, the theory says that the judge can only apply the current law as is written. And as written his interpretation is that the FDA has regulatory jurisdiction (and therefore obligation) over E-Cigarettes. But the judge doesn't create the law. If Congress wants to change the law they can. There is nothing legally that prevents Congress from passing a law that specifically exempts E-Cigarettes from FDA approval. I am not saying that politically this is feasible - the point is only that one judge is not the only party capable of making a decision.
Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s road signs
Macho: Programming with Man Pages [pdf]
FWIW, California is requiring solar on new homes, in 2020:

https://fortune.com/2018/12/06/california-solar-panels-new-h...

Maybe not as cheap as large-scale solar, but cheaper than natural gas?
Yeah, years ago. Nothing new here. Running "exiftool FB_IMG" would reveal the same "structural abnormality" (not an abnormality though because its part of the valid IIM block of the file). See https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/IPTC.html
FYI as hinted at the top of the page, this is a recycled (duh) version of a much longer article published 5 years ago:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/tales-trash

It feels weird to see a journalist republishing the same content just like that, but my guess is he has his book to promote and not that many angles to introduce the topic.
I mean, unless only those who interpret it wrong would respond, then I must be the one reading it wrong. Because these responses aren't lining up with how I read it or what I meant.
Wow. I added 'site:.au' and on the first page was an old doc related to the Australian Defence Force's position on the Wikileaks release (2010):

http://www.defence.gov.au/foi/docs/disclosures/054_1213_Docu...

It's both marked as "Declassified" and "UNCLASSIFIED - Document not for public release". Hilarious!

That said, there's some great commentary:

> The potential for the leaked documents to adversely affect the safety of deployed forces, or operational security more broadly, is being assessed by the Defence task force. It appears unlikely at this stage that ADF or coalition forces will be directly endangered by the leaks. The information examined so far is tactical information that is now sufficiently aged that it poses minimal threat

It's interesting to see how despite the apparent "minimal threat" Julian Assange is still under quite a lot of heat from strong political forces over this (& other releases).

EDIT: formatting
Yep - agreed. The "Pardon the interruption" and "We value your privacy" is pure nonsense. "We value your privacy" must be the biggest piece of misinformation on the web. Tip: Turn off Javascript and all the extraneous crap disappears and the web returns to peaceful normality.
Have you looked at just using IFC? It’s the canonical “building as a graph” BIM format. Whether the in memory IFC allows querying I suppose is up to the implementation, I have only used xbim
https://github.com/xBimTeam
Do you have a source for this? Thanks.
I wouldn’t say that Julia is gradually typed in the same way that Cython or Numba is. In my experience you usually improve performance by ensuring that your functions handle different types generically. One example of that is making sure the compiler can infer the types of all your variables to something more specialized than the Any type. Another example is being careful to avoid accidental type changes by e.g. summing a Float32 with a Float64 literal.

As I’ve learned the language it’s become pretty easy to avoid those pitfalls even on initial implementations. That said, providing types in function signatures is still very useful for multiple dispatch and providing a more usable API in libraries.
There's a great horror novel called The Fisherman by John Langan that heavily involves fishing and the catharthic solitude it can bring, even (or especially) in times of tragedy or stress. I highly recommend it, but besides that, this piece reinforces to me that the author of The Fisherman was conveying some wider and real truth in that. Coupled with beautiful scenery and good weather, fishing can become transcendental somehow.
In this case, what have you used for caching?
And then filtering for a lot of crap and false alarms the tools and supporting infrastructure throws

I kinda lost count of how many times Nagios barfed itself and reported an error while the application was fine
Nah, is extremely useful for them to know when a picture is being re-uploaded so I dont believe for a second they "forgot to strip it"
S Stands for Shock: The European Funders’ Proposal for Open Access
I did.

I went from pack-a-day Newports to Vaping at 36mg/ml. Within a week I was down to 18mg/ml. Within a year I tapered all the way down to under 3mg/ml (I mixed all my own juices).

I stayed right around 3mg/ml for about a year, then I moved jobs and could no longer vape in my office. It seemed quite pointless to go outside and vape since I didnt really have the urge, I was still vaping in the evening after work for another 2-3 months. I finally reached the point where the trouble was more than it was worth, and just stopped entirely.

So yes, I'm a big fan of vaping. Is it "safe?" Probably not. Is it less harmful than cigarettes? I dont think that is even in question, at all. Vaping is, at worst, a significant harm reduction for smokers and those around them. At best, it is a method of quitting cigarettes and have proven successful for MANY former smokers.

I really hate the direction things are going with regulation, because to me it looks a lot like PM and friends are using regulatory capture to ban everything but menthol vapes that they can afford to get tested, thus perpetuating their existence and granting them a lock on the market.
One part of the puzzle: anti-camping laws have been found unconstitutional when the homeless cannot find shelter [1]. Therefore, police are sometimes powerless against tent cities.

[1] https://www.curbed.com/2019/4/5/18296772/homeless-lawsuit-bo...
I’m afraid it won’t be the case for most of it.

For people aware of the breaches problem, like most of us here, it won’t because it’s been a long time since we use twice the same password.

But for everyone else...
If the photograph is copyrighted, how does this modification and embedding of tracking data by a third party affect the owner, if it does at all ?
The World According to Mad Magazine
If you make small changes to improve the article, you won't get reverted. The issue is that many people want to add their opinion, but Wikipedia is based on third-party reliable sources, not on random people's opinion.
Is not only so the data doesn't leak, is also to make it as small as possible so is less likely to be corrupted unintendedly by third party software or protocols.
Machine Translated Recipes?
Hello

As an American living overseas, I am constantly having to translate cooking recipes ( temperature, weight, volumes) although there are calculators for this type of thing (the weight in grams of one cup of flour is different for example than one cup of sugar) I haven't found anything that will just do it in bulk, or for a whole recipe. I realize that it's kind of small potatoes (!) compared to other applications but I was wondering

1) does something like this exist?

2) how easy would it be to make ?

Thanks
Obviously, since they use the same CDN.
> Security and abuse are of course special little snowflakes, with configs that need to be pushed very fast, contrary to all best practices for safe deployments of globally distributed systems.

Once upon a time, I worked on a system where many values which would otherwise be statically defined in similar systems where instead put into a database table. This particular system didn't have a proper testing and deployment pipeline set up, so whereas a normal system would just change the static value at some hard-coded point in the code and quickly roll it out, this system needed to keep it in the database so that it would be changeable in between manual deployments (months or even years apart). The ability to change the value facing the user by changing the value in the database inflated the time it took to test a release, thus exacerbating the amount of time it took to release a new version, but well, it worked.

My point is that if security and abuse rules need to be rolled out quickly, then the system needs security and abuse systems where the entire range of security and abuse configurations (i.e. their types) are a testable part of the original pipeline. Then the configurations can safely be changed on the fly, so long as the changes type-check.

It's easy to understand why it's never been built though - you'd need both a security background and a Haskell-ish/type-theory kind of background. Best of luck finding people like that.
> one of the SoftBank fellas said that autonomous cars will be ‘won’ by those who can outspend everyone else

This may not be true if there is still a fundamental leap to be made
Writing some documentation is definitely the first thing to get familiar with the code. Are you a C++ developer?
This is what I did for a webpage I made about books I read. Just have to add a row to the sheet to update the page. Also I should read more books. https://mnky9800n.github.io/booklist/
This isn't something new, it's been known for years: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/726-Fa...
Someone in the year 1583: God I wish I could be alive 436 years from today to write a post in HN about self-driving cars :)
What do technical CEOs need to know about selling enterprise software?
I’m curious, but are we biased here on HN or is it literally every piece of news that’s coming out on that company is about another nasty privacy invading practice at Facebook? Although I admit there are some posts about FB open source projects here too.
Is it possible that this is for finding out who is re-posting private pictures, like on ex revenge websites and co?
True story: in one of my neighborhood boards, a young woman claimed to be homeless. She and her 8 year old are living with her grandmother in a tony part of town. The city counts her as homeless because she doesn’t have utilities in her name and is living with a relative.

This is bizarre to me. I grew up with three generations under one roof. We were a family and none of us were considered ‘homeless’.

The definition has becoming so broad to include so many different kinds of people that the cynic in me feels like the homeless activists and non profits and govt bloat benefits from inflating the numbers somehow with their ‘census’ taking..
This is a great summary. I'd be interested to know which packages broke their APIs. Most that I'm familiar with are meticulous about their deprecation cycles and easing the user experience of upgrading.
Leonard Susskind who actually worked with Feynman recently said Feynman had ego of the size of mountain.
Not sure if there are necessarily fundamental leaps needed.

Rather hundreds or thousands of small leaps. For example solving problems like this:

https://sites.google.com/view/lidar-adv
The value derived from this post is not it's "recentness" but to make aware of a practice by fb to the users of this site, specially in the light of fb importance on privacy matters and global politics in recent years
Yeah, it's pretty much this, except also with a sort of class element to it. A lot of people from poorer backgrounds flat out don't know their worth, or how much money they should be making according to market rates. They're so used to friends and family having low earning jobs that they think that's the baseline, even in fields where you can earn three/four times that by shopping around, negotiating and knowing who to work for.

It's also probably why many immigrants work for low wages; because they're too used to the amount of money they would have made in their home country to realise that even double/triple that may be significantly less than market rate in their new location.
> the number of younger people starting to smoke cigarettes because of it ?

Just ban cigarettes if that is the problem.
Ask HN: Why are there so many queue services but almost none support scheduling?
I have recently gone down a rabbit hole trying to find the right queueing service for dealing with scheduled tasks. I'm a bit befuddled as to why there are so many queue-like services and applications out there that all seem to have near feature parity.

There's AWS SQS, Google PubSub, Azure Service Bus, Kafka, Nats, IronMQ, StormMQ, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, ZeroMQ, even Redis and so many more.

And yet, not a single one of them seems to support scheduling as a first class feature. Some (like Google pubsub) mention hacks like de-queing, checking a stored timestamp then re-enqueing if the time hasn't passed yet. But that just seems crazy. (I guess it makes a lot of sense if you are charging by data transferred). SQS allows you to delay a message for a maximum of 15 minutes.

What solutions are out there for robust scheduled queues? There must be something.
I think Facebook is biased itself towards doing a whole bunch of nasty privacy practices, not HN in reporting them.
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I've had a near identical experience over the last 30 years. Every point in the article rang true and I sympathise with every one of them.

Regarding the second point: One of the hardest things to swallow is a programmer with 2 or 3 years experience pointing out code smells in my work simply because he's read Clean Code (I've been a professional, full time programmer for 30 years). Sure, there are code smells in my work - I won't deny it - I'm not a clean coder and I accept that my coding style leaves a lot to be desired. But I work hard and solve difficult problems to a clients satisfaction.

Is it just me or does anyone else think that 'code smells' is a demeaning expression?
What you describe sounds like 'Economy 7' in the UK.
For our marketing analytics product, we are using AWS Neptune and very happy with that. First we started out with Azure cosmos graph, but due to incomplete tinkerpop support many queries were not supported. You can give AWS Neptune a try
I think Seattle is Dying is more about mental illness/drug crisis than about homelessness.
I have a very similar setup what you have. I think what event bridge offers, is the ability to integrate with anything which can reproduces event. They are trying to expand their base beyond AWS ecosystem. Datadog, Zendesk, OneLogin are great services which could be helpful, to begin with. Still time will tell how popular it gets.
I do not know if it is right for your use case, but you could have a look at https://github.com/Tulip-Dev/tulip for visualization.
You have to be the expert in you.

You should be the one that cares the most about your health. Yeah your wife cares, your mother cares, and even your doctor cares. But you must care the most.

<My story>
When you are told what to do about your health care, and you follow it without understanding then you have abdicated your caring to another.

I had a thyroid issue. I complained to my doctor. He said I was fine, I accepted it. He then decided I had other issues. Issues that he himself had and was very sensitive to the symptoms. He then went heavy handed in curing it. As opposed to the common light handed initial treatments to fix it.

A different doctor then found the thyroid problem. Turned out my thyroid was 'technically' putting out enough, 1% lower and it would have been too low. But my pituitary gland (which drives the thyroid) was pushing the maximum to the thyroid to produce. Turns out doing the ratio between the two numbers is a common practice, which my original doctor did not do.

From that I learned to understand my blood work. I get copies of it and check for items slightly outside the norm and discuss with doctor. I also read up on all medication the doctor gives me. Some meds I have been given will address the symptoms, but can actually make the problem worse.

To be fair, most doctors only have a limited time with you. You have to be the expert in you.
Isn't it the same as printers watermarking printouts? I don't see this as a necessarily bad thing. In a public forum in a far from perfect world there should be a place for accountability when people distribute photos they shouldn't.
What's the main difference for you between using their store vs. your own server?
Have you tried running rclone on a VPS? Not exactly Takeout data, but you can sync across cloud services

https://rclone.org/
The panels stay generating even if the shop below has closed. The building remains owned by someone who has a financial interest in keeping them running.
The knowledge that people can ref things by their hash is a serious problem for power centers.
> In any case, this is commercial litigation. Not protesting per se.

By this, what were you referring to?
According to Elon [1] Tesla will have this by the end of 2020. At some point reality has to kick in or not?

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-full-self-drivin...
This is very interesting!

Recently, my colleagues used Voronoi graphs to show how each player controls the field during a football (soccer) game [0].

[0]: https://www.exasol.com/en/blog/controlling-space-in-football...
+1 for Bitwarden. I recommend not saving recovery codes inside Bitwarden. For 2FA I recommend getting a Yubikey. For websites that don't support U2F, I recommend using the Authy app in single device mode with a strong sync passphrase.
Interesting! As long as there is no other OS software with the name PISA it should not be too confusing. Thanks for pointing out.
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Electric motorcycles aren’t a thing I knew I needed yet (despite scooters existing)... I imagine they’d be quite fun
Historically, trade wars escalate to wars.
Not sure how many Data Scientists you know but I've worked with hundreds over the years and have never met a single one who was irrationally optimistic about the work they do. In fact generally it is the opposite.

But you know the sort of people who are wildly optimistic and prone to over-exaggeration. Executives like Musk.
Is spanning multiple continents a good thing?
They cause it themselves but you should always remember that HN is not representative of public opinion.
The HN policy of using the title name makes it difficult to appear interesting.

I posted this prompted by a comment discussing the cooling property of solar panels:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=20424275
From a self driving car
This will change everything!
Of course. Which is why many of the key members of the Autopilot team have recently left.

https://bgr.com/2019/07/09/tesla-autopilot-team-elon-musk-sh...
I honestly thought the post was about the Cairo graphics library and how it used GC
Strange you can lock people up in prisons but not give them help they need... I understand why it would be illegal but jails are far worse for people with mental illness and it won’t work as a deterrent for them either; they come out worse than going in if they survive. So that should be forbidden too then.
It provides awareness to differences in rules, signs and road markings which may help expand.
Some years ago I tried to create an exponential time regex in Perl, and only managed a quadratic time one after a bit of experimenting.

But, as you said, quadratic is often already fatal on realistic data.
> power centers.

What does this mean here?
Once, thieves stole an entire bike rack outside my apartment. Another time, a thief stripped my bike, leaving their old components disgorged on the spot.

In the 90s, my city offered distinctive and solid bicycles for anyone's use. Painted the same, ugly chartreuse; I wasn't the only one hoping local demand would plummet for cheap, dubiously acquired bicycles. It was willfully naive, but harmless to consider that maybe thieves stole bikes because they didn't have a bike of their own. So, the reliable background level of theft surely must drop if we simply devalued them as a commodity and instead demonstrated them as a spontaneously shared mechanism of public transportation. Because we imagined an underground economy of bicycles, where the bicycle was a scarce resource and also a mode of transportation, was like the horse to the plains Indians.

But it wasn't like that. However distinctive and labeled, the city free bike program bled inventory. Once, less than a year into the program, I was riding by a nice house with it's garage door open. It was packed with city bikes. Before the program, everyone who wanted their own bike already had one. And the few bad actors were gorging themselves on this public good. Police everywhere are notorious for deprioritizing stolen bikes. So, when a rumor spread that the police had accidentally stumbled upon a box van, en route to the West Coast, filled with bottom-tier, weather-beaten, ugly chartreuse rehabbed cruisers, no one was surprised. In the 80s, police in Miami found six freighters taking stolen bikes to Haiti.
A Summary of Concrete Problems in AI Safety (2018)
I have contemplated using google sheets as storage for parts of the data that I have. It would allow me to procrastinate on many admin UI things, and it would even feel much more transparent. It just feels too fragile somehow, which isn't really a rational assessment. Does anyone have experience with it in a SAAS context?
I'd imagine that thins out your choices quite quickly, in my area it seems landlords love storage heaters.

I think some of the Scandinavian countries have banned these heaters.
How AI and IoT Is Reforming the Manufacturing Industry
Develop lightweight and fast desktop apps with Njs
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Are you a professor? We professors are adults and can chose what to do. I, for one, am glad to take such "risks" publicly on behalf of Alexandra Elbakyan. Scihub is the modern Alexandria library and I don't want to let the bastards burn it down again.
less useful for bar hopping and you're on the hook

People using motorized scooters for bar hopping (inebriated use) is a specific concern.
In other words, you can't just throw money at the problem.