skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Esperanto does change, in that new items of vocabulary are introduced from time to time. For example, 'mojosa', the word for 'cool' is only about thirty years old.
We keep harping on about privacy, and then shit like this happens.

There are two possible conclusions to draw.

One is that the general public actually doesn’t care about privacy at all. It’s a niche concern.

The other is that the general public cares but is completely and utterly clueless about how to defend themselves, to the point that an app can literally say “give us your name and face and we can do whatever we want with it in perpetuity throughout the universe” and people will happily oblige.

I don’t know which one is correct but neither one is great.
Facebook owns access to your face, body, name, friends, family, trips, events, conversations, location, groups, interests, political orientation, estimated IQ, payments, workplace, other sites you visit, etc...

Yet, Forbes & others talk about FaceApp.
Thinking in math first has been the catch cry of functional programmers (and their formal logic/verification friends) for decades. And there's nothing wrong with it, unless the problem you are trying to solve actually requires performance. Then, you have to think in "system" first. For example: Write a program that captures network packets and stores them to disk as fast as possible. There's no maths to think of here. The complexity is all in the "fast" part, and to solve that, a deep understanding of the architecture of the system is necessary. Fancy algorithms (maths) will not help you here. e.g. Will compression help? Depends on the properties of the system. Will batching help? Depends on the system. Will threading help? Depends on the system.
You can view the photo in Gallery, and then select to share with one of the actions at the bottom, and the app only gets access to the photo you select.
Dollars don’t really maintain identity when they are grouped into accounts and later withdrawn. There are different ways to do accounting, fifo, lifo etc, it’s mostly a construction ( though it is necessary to be consistent), not exactly “real”.

I would be less concerned about who paid for it, and more concerned on who would receive an effect as a result.
Hey, off-topic question. My father built the fare collection system for the Montreal metro in the early '80s. Do you still have the awful system they built that gave you two paper tickets (one for proof, one for transfer)?
Exactly.
See, marslegalcode.org.
CSS driven by JS is, imho, just a consequence of it not being treated seriously (the same goes for JS).
The only way I found to do some actual deep work in an open space + hotdesk office is to set all status notifications as busy, put some good noise cancelling headphones and avoid the urge to check some mail or chat notification. Come in early or leave later. It doesn't work that well but it's what I can get. I'm constantly being bombarded my emails, skype calls, slack queries, everyone schedules meetings and webconferences, etc, I barely can get 2 straight hours for "real work". Sometimes feels like I failed hard in personal time and project management but don't know how. Funny because I work as a project manager of sorts.
$(date -u | wc --bytes) says there is 29 bytes worth of output, which is 232 bits.

Are you telling me there is not even, say, 8 bits' worth of entropy credit in there? (Especially when hashed with other data?)

Remember: the context of this discussion is VMs (and not embedded systems without a battery-backed RTC).
> I use it myself all the time, but it just shows the weakness of the tooling that people have to resort to such measures.

It's not resorting to anything. It's a valid means of debugging. People use it even in languages like c and Java and in-browser JavaScript with very capable debuggers. It's quick, simple, and doesn't require intervention to record or examine anything.

> Why not borrow from Common Lisp's format and make it return the string if file=None is passed?

Because thatsa terrible idea because it's non-intuitive, verbose, and potentially confusing. Debug format strings are common in other languages, such as rust, so this isn't some half-thoughtout, python-only idea.
Monotheism was popularized to transcend kinship, in order to raise large armies. Prior, people were fragmented into close-knit tribes up from 100-200 people. They had their own lore and beliefs. Loneliness was not the issue they had, and not what monotheism addressed.

In order to wage warfare and conquer a region with large numbers, you have to convince others to fight for you. This was difficult. It led to the agricultural revolution and bureaucracy through centralization (to pump out more bodies), thus civilization, and the use of religion as a means to bring a larger society together under one banner.

All of which to say, loneliness as the epidemic we understand today is a modern problem. On one hand, the family unit has been decimated, and on the other we're more disconnected from larger society. The nature of work has changed, the way we operate in society has changed. More than just the Church has slipped away.
I actually have an old Genera manual, and added some figures from it: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MD-CgzODFWzdpnYXr8bE...
I'm guessing the &mut a stuff makes more sense to C folks. In C you have to deal with const, and it can go anywhere. A const pointer to a non-const item, a pointer to const value, etc. That's my guess anyway.
The only reason they will "let you undo it" (buying something for $500 instead of $5) is because goodwill is hard to buy and doesn't cost them anything in this case. It isn't like the company is "being moral" or anything like that, it's just marketing. Same with eating the cost here. They might have some legal recourse to get the items back or the money, but at the of the day, some amazon analysts are doing a math problem and trying to determine if they will lose more money (from bad press) than they will by just eating the cost. Morality doesn't come into either of these situations.
This article seems to be making a lot out of conflating peripherals with the computer itself. Seems to be a well-written article otherwise.
Maybe being part of a religious organisation helps to ward off loneliness, and maybe being religious helps instill values that help people trust and communicate.

But you still have to believe in some magical being(s), and so do all your mates.
It’s the Swiss German suffix for forming diminutives (as “booklet” is to “book” in English): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-li#Alemannic_German

And that’s because those codecs are developed at Google Zürich. Knusperli, Brotli, Brunsli… those are all pastries (Brot means “bread” in German).
I think the calculated wall time incorrectly.

>> The timestamp is the number of seconds since 1st January 1970. If we convert 1563188141 to more human date we'll get "2019-07-15 10:55:41" — that is the time in UTC timezone. Then we add "03" hours and "00" minutes to that time and get "2019-07-15 13:55:41" — that is the time the commit author can see on his wall clock when he did commit.

Usually the +0300 indicates that the times tamp is at +3 hours from UTC. Eg. the timestamp is already in local wall time. The offset can be used to convert it to UTC.

So if the author did what they wrote. Then I reckon all the data is actually in UTC and not local wall time.
We took the closure syntax from Ruby/Smalltalk, and the lifetime syntax from OCaml.
How many requests does IG handle per second? I am not even going to guess a number but I am sure 1000 specific requests would drown in that. So you would need a dashboard that specifically visualizes this kind of thing. Do that and you are now protecting yourself in one type of scenario. But there are endless other scenarios that you still wouldn't see.
> ACA did increase costs as insurance companies couldn’t suddenly refuse service because they are actually sick

Insurance companies are in business to make a profit. What the ACA did was ensure insurance companies have captive customers. A plan with a $6500 deductible vs pay a fine, nonsense. I should be free to choose between the plan or no fine. If it's all sick people in the plan pool because healthy people opted-out, that's the insurance company's problem, not mine.

Now that the individual mandate is gone, we can watch the deductibles climb ever higher and push people out of insurance.

For many people $6500 might as well be $50k.

I would support a full repeal of ACA and replacement with government payer for all, so long as private insurance is not outlawed and can go back to pre ACA form (I'd like to see more changes, but that's a starting point).
go back to your farm you dirty hippie
Did you stick purely to NPR styles genres? Or did you try two dudes talking podcasts and all that other sort of stuff? If you did then apparently you just dont like non-music audio entertainment now, which has more to do with your preferences than with the nature of podcasts I would think.
Find another person. or get a dog.
I'm amazed at the responses and downvotes to this comment. Is everyone terrified of small talk with their neighbors?
Scientists in Finland find "practically no anthropogenic climate change".
Do they work better, or do they just feel better about it? I mean I can imagine that there's a segment of people who feel that time spent on discussing things can also be productive. And to a point / in certain situations that makes sense - why waste eight hours writing code when you could also talk for five minutes and do half of it?

But I get it, I too tend to measure my productivity and whether I've had a good day by the amount of code or functionality I added, not so much the softer skills.
What Happens to ‘Smart Cities’ When the Internet Dies?
That's some hole! Imagine if this were used to get access to a celebrity's IG account. A lot of "damage" to a celebrity brand could have been done.
Travel would totally mess this up. I don't bother to update `timedatectl` when I am on the move.
>asymmetry of moral expectations and entitlement.

What does morality have anything to do with the market expectation of "When I shop with firm X I want to have a good experience"?

If a consumer has to always second guess whether or not a seller will try to clawback their goods because they miscalculated their asking price, that's a horrible consumer experience. If I want to contract with a firm (say a credit provider such as a credit card network) that will defend me if I signal I'm going to default on a payment because I'm unhappy with a price, the market can sort those needs, desires, actions properly.

I'm pretty sure the free advertising Amazon is getting from this "gaff" (Was it a gaff? was it guerilla marketing?) and the customer loyalty they gain if they provide "When you shop with the Amazon firm you have a great experience" will be worth it.

Markets don't survive because they adhere to a mosaic of subjective beliefs about morality, they survive because people uphold their commitments.
I wouldn’t say they’ve gotten better, but there’s a lot more at or near the quality level of Radiolab or 99pi.

You can fill your day/drive with well produced podcasts on a regular basis, rather than just the occasional hour.
in both cases, it was teams/users within Microsoft and not Microsoft itself, was it not?

Dunno, I'm glad there are teams looking at things outside of Microsoft developed technologies. NodeJS receiving kudos for being so good at serving requests lead to articles about how it could be done in ASP.NET (with some rearchitecting of the ready bake application code) which apparently gave way to ASP.NET Core and I'd say if all of that is true, we're all better for it (ASP.NET developers, anyway).
get a hobby.
Open offices photograph better, have been on the right side of the modern&cool™ narrative, are more flexible to rearrange, a bit cheaper to rent and maintain and there's always a sense of busyness going on.

It's very easy for managers to keep track of their herd, see which face they don't like and flex to the colleague/competition using the always important "how many workers I have under my wing/foot" metric.

I think the only downside of open offices is that productivity takes a significant hit and makes worker health and morale a nightmare. But other than that they are fine.
PyPA, not the PSF.
Measuring the Perception of Latency with a Haptic Glove
Agreed on Django, and if you want it "boring" (i.e. function over appearance, not doing anything fancy), avoid front-end frameworks.

I prefer Linode to AWS, but you can use AWS if you are required to by employer or something. I find that AWS is no longer simpler than POL (plain old Linux).
WFMU and you didn't wind up hooked to the Best Show for at least a short while?
Yeah, the dates are an approximation of when it was developed, but many screenshots come from much later, especially for pre-web tools.
I don't disagree with you that there are meaningful analogies between humans and animals. But we are much closer evolutionarily to dogs, and dogs definitely need to wrestle in the den at the end of the day. I don't believe there are panaceas for societal evolution to be found in synthetic technological networks. Though I'll be interested to see where neuralink has gotten in 20 years.
You can also use `git commit --amend` to clean up a WIP commit.
Weirdly I've only played vanilla survival but this genuinely sounds precisely like my experience. First we built a zombie farm. Which gave us some weapons and xp. Then a chicken farm, for food. Then a spider farm. Then we found an underwater temple. Guardian farm time! Oooh, and an ender pearl/xp farm, iron farm, gold farm etc etc etc.

We spent days and days in game automating away as much resource gathering as we could. Until the server was basically finished - there really were no more farms to build.

So we started a new one :)
Coinbase Presents Three Trading Signals for the Users
Poor whites think government is the problem. Wealthy people have private insurance from their employers. We are stuck with the current system, there is no impetus for change. Just a lot of stupid coming out of the white house. Sad!
A random picked number to somehow win Internet discussion points I guess.

Anyway, InteliJ, SwingUI Weather app, any app using Substance, Alloy, JGoodies or Synthetica theme libraries.
FAANG style employees get the best salaries in the world AND the best perks in the world. What exactly is the tradeoff here, if salaries is all you care about? Also, if all companies in the bay area moved to giving each employee an office, where do you think that money is coming from? It will cause depression in salaries.

Open offices work in favor of your salary. And despite the weekly posts on HN about open offices, hardly any employee uses it as a bargaining chip. Microsoft has open offices, and yet not once I have heard anyone on HN saying they would chose MS because of that.
Could you have written that system in a mix of Java and or another scripting language such as JRuby[0]?

[0] http://wiki.c2.com/?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers
It wouldn't surprise me if you end up with something of a bifurcation. Relatively simple podcasts by people doing it for fun or supporting them professionally on the one hand and professionally-produced podcasts that make money on the other. Of course, that's an oversimplification and at least some number of people will devote lots of time to podcasts even though they're just making a few dollars from fans through Patreon or whatever.
To be clear, Rust does not have "implicit returns" nor does it use semicolons to indicate return values.

Expressions evaluate to a value, and semicolons take an expression, throw away its value, and evaluate to () instead. That's it.

The other behaviors you're talking about fall out of these semantics, but are also different than what you've said; functions evaluate to a value, so the final expression's value determines the value it evaluates to, but you cannot "implicitly return" from the middle of a function by dropping a ;, for example.
Consider the stupidity of the average human.

Then consider that half of the population is stupider than that
Why throw away your computers? Why not remove/disconnect the batteries (if portable) and just store them somewhere in case you eventually no longer suspect a hardware hack, as in this case?
Are you saying that the modern loneliness epidemic has been deliberately created to prevent this?
The Screen and the Job have displaced almost everything else is our lives. Loneliness is just a primary symptom.

The Screen, whether it’s TV, computer, or phone, has supplanted almost all social interactions. This manifests itself in things like SitComs on TV (just a bunch of friends or family hanging out) or Social Media on phones. It’s very easy to fill the social needs of right now with a Screen. But under even a minuscule amount of self reflection these are revealed as hollow substitutes for real human interaction.

The Job has completely taken over as a driving force in evaluating choices. The average person has to consider all options in the light of both the current employer and the specter of tomorrow’s. Moving across the country for a high paying job? Great! Moving to be closer to friends? That’s a career killer.

No wonder we are lonely. We make choices in the short term that optimize happiness, often at the expense of our relationships. Ghosting is not just for dates now. Then turn around and make choices in the long term that optimize employability at the expense of all else.
> BTW, in my opinion, Japan is ~20years "ahead" of socilogical problems of the West - such as extreme isolation of elderly, young glued to the screens not even leaving a flats because everything can be done online, etc

Both of those examples highlight issues with human social constructs being incompatible with human technology and progress, globally, not just in Japan.
I don't know about that. My parents both knew their neighbors very well(which made a lot of sense in times where you'd need a network of people to find some of the more rare goods), while I have no little to no relationship with mine - and I was born just before the previous system collapsed.
> inserted code that allowed them to capture plaintext passwords as they were entered by users at the time

Huh? I get if you 'lose' a database backup, but hashing on the server side has always been the wrong way to do things. If you hash it in JS before the request is sent, there is no possible way for you, or any attacker to get the raw user password; only if they literally change production code to send a new request to another endpoint.

> users we confirmed to be affected.

So everyone who logged in during the event?

> resetting passwords for all accounts that were active at the time of the 2015 incident

That's what should have happened the first time. Once you have attacker modified code, you cannot trust what you have on file is accurate or not already taken.
It’s always hilarious to look at ads and try to figure out why they think I’m the right audience for them.

Facebook keeps showing me ads for a cup with a hidden compartment for alcohol in the lid, and for various gun safes. Apparently they’ve decided I’m an alcoholic who attends a lot of festivals, and a gun owner. Neither one is remotely correct.

The other day a different site showed me an ad for a capsule containing a 360° panoramic camera that a proctologist can use to inspect people’s digestive tracts. I’m not any sort of doctor.

It would be one thing if all this abusive technology was used to show me relevant stuff. But they do all this nonsense and end up showing me ads for butt cameras?!
In-depth research and storytelling are pretty expensive (lots of time needed for research and editing), and it's not clear if there's enough money in the ecosystem for many of the interested amateurs to make those sorts of shows on a full-time basis. They'll probably continue to exist, but my guess is most shows like that won't be able to maintain a regular release cadence, since the creators will have to keep their "day jobs".
Hardware-as-a-Service: are we there yet?
Religion was created as a tool to control people and explain natural disasters. It's no coincidence early hierarchies were headed by whatever the priest class was in that particular society, even going back to the first civilizations.

Modern religions (not even all) may be about the bond between practitioners, but that's only because we can explain weather patterns, and the governments of most states don't rely on things like the "mandate of heaven" to function.
"Human beings" =/="personhood".
the only real difference between snap and faceapp is the media gave faceapp the russian tie in so now they're using it as that combined with federal investigation titles [1]

snap is a scarier but most people dont care since its so ingrained into their lives... for whatever reason I never understood.. but my friends used love it even while I warned them how stupid it was so use snap in the first place if you cared about privacy

what happens to snap.inc/your data when the userbase drops off completely.. inevitably like every other social media..

1. https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/faceapp-gets-federal-atten...
I fail to see the point.

Either the developers are able to use the tooling at their disposal to deliver awesome products or not.

Skype was originally coded in Delphi, so yeah.
Lots of profit to be made (and marketing budgets to be spent) on products that sell for 3-4x+ their production price.

Especially when they’re a several hundred dollar expense, or annually recurring.
What do you feel is missing in anchor?

And do you think more podcasts will be done with remote guests? Any good tools you recommend for getting good audio or video in that case?
Short answer yes.[0]

> In Manifest V3, this API will be discouraged (and likely limited) in its blocking form. The non-blocking implementation of the webRequest API, which allows extensions to observe network requests, but not modify, redirect, or block them (and thus doesn't prevent Chrome from continuing to process the request) will not be discouraged.

Longer answer, there are multiple good changes coming in V3 (in particular, the introduction of active-tab permissions, which would let you have an extension that can only run code when you explicitly click on it), but those changes aren't really part of the blocking/observation argument that's been happening.

I thought about doing a blog post going into more detail about this at one point, but I figured it was unlikely to make anything change, and that the controversy was old enough that anyone who wasn't already informed wouldn't care any more.

If I'm wrong, maybe I should take a week and write something more detailed.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPu6Wy4LWR66EFLeYInl3Nzz...
In many ways universal basic housing makes more sense than universal basic income.

Of course the devil is in the details, how do you avoid it becoming a ghetto. Probably not by putting it in its own neighbourhood.
Qualcomm hit with $271M EU fine over predatory pricing of baseband chips
"nothing in the past few years innovations beats the efficiency of a single Linux box & approchable/crude languages/frameworks..."

Yes. Most of the past few years' innovation (that we hear a lot about in the web space, anyway) is aimed at the problems of FAANG or people who wish to work at (or become) FAANG. Using them for "a boring web application" is like getting excited about SpaceX and deciding to buy a Falcon Heavy rocket for your next car.
Option 3: No one read the terms of services, and 99% of the app users are not even aware of that, didn't even give it a passing thought.