skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this is 100% correct. In particular: the amount of choices that have become "career killers" and therefore unacceptable is terrifying.

Choose a degree that appeals to you, where you will learn what you like, instead of one which acts as a stepping stone for a higher paying job? Even in countries with sane tuition prices (read: not the US) plenty of people will blame you, and that decision in particular, for any financial problem for all your life.

Become pregnant, and/or plan to work fewer hours for some time to take care of your kids or any older relative? How brave of you. Here's your prize in the form of reduced pay for the next 10 years or so.

Decline that managing position because you like your current job better and you know you won't enjoy being a manager? Cue the disapproval stares from people close to you.

Stay in your job for 15 years because you like the people, the work itself or some particular perk? When you finally leave, your next job will pay less than if you had hopped around each 2 years. That's if someone wants to hire you.

Sure, every decision counts and very often there is a tradeoff between trying to find happiness and trying to find a job that sustains you. However, lately the tension between those two is so high that any small decision towards living the life you want to live may very well end in financial misery for the rest of your life. This is not hyperbole; I know people who fucked up mildly once, fifteen years ago, and are still paying the price. And I'm one of the lucky ones... I haven't fallen through the cracks. Yet.
I'm not American but I've read laughable things like "trump is a russian agent", "children are being kept in concentration camps at the border", and more I can't be bothered to remember.

You have to understand that these beliefs (the ones you and I have described) are held by almost nobody. And only very crazy people are going to act violently about them. And they would eventually find any other excuse to act violently.
SSG rocks! Unix needs a modern equivalent.
Do you think the content owners wouldn’t take the marketeers $1 if you paid $1? You pay for a printed newspaper and it has ads as well.
And set fires in the stairwells.
Would a face be considered private in countries/cultures where women cover their face most of the time, or particularly in public? This is an honest question, I really do not know what I think.
It is amazing that this simple logic escapes most people. Sad!
> Because I had special skills it meant that I was being relied upon more to do work that no one else could do.

This is a textbook example of a bad system with a single failure point/bottleneck. One way to be considered "10x" is to be the only person with the know-how to keep a critical function afloat.

We really don't learn from history. Eli Goldratt wrote about this in his book The Goal--publication date 1984. Context was manufacturing but it's easy to see the principles at work and consider them in other contexts.

Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr wrote about this in a DevOps context in The Phoenix Project--publication date 2013.

These are just two examples of individuals who wrote books with mass market appeal that read like novels to illustrate their points. Many, many other people have thought and written about how to avoid building bad systems. And yet still, in 2019, as this 10x discussion flares up again, it's a myopic view of the individual without a scent or sight of talking about bottlenecks or systems.

Sometimes I'm in awe of Startupland and Tech World's accomplishments. Other times I'm in awe of what it doesn't even know it doesn't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...
I quite recently learnt about “Residential proxies”, for a scraping idea I had. Seems like that can be useful for attacks like this.

It’s surprisingly cheap to get access to services which fan out your requests over millions of normal residential IPs, making them (I assume) hard to block.

Of course their use can be highly objectionable, as well as how they got the proxies installed in homes of people in the first place (semi-malware?)

E.g https://oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool
Offering strangers liquid drugs in hopes of "some action" was probably creepy back in the day too. Alcohol and hookup culture are not mutually exclusive to loneliness.
The Rise of Coffee Shaming
Is there evidence they are actually state sponsored?
I've done scraping distributed over many IPs. I used luminati, bought X IPs, ran a bash script to download all IPs to a file, read the file in from python and spit out a new thread for each IP. Just used as a proxy, all activity was controlled by a single server.

Re Amazon, I've done that too and the way it works is you start up an EC2 instance that does the work and sends back info. In my case I sent the info to an S3 bucket and then pulled all the info from that bucket elsewhere once all the machines finished. Ultimately you pay for what you use, and if you only use an hour across a ton of machines and use the cheapest machine it's pretty cheap.

FYI: luminati will give you unlimited bandwidth for like $1/IP/month.
So I’ve heard about this feature before but I’m not sure it actually exists? From the Photos app you can only share specific photos with specific apps that add themselves to the popout menu. If you disable Photos access to any of these apps they will just ask that you re-enable full photo access.
Your links are truncated.
You are right that this article isn't going to enable someone to setup CORS correctly.

It is actually kind of weird that it's in here, because the other things they talk about add more security, but if you don't need CORS and you decide to just add it to your configuration for no reason, you actually now have less security. Especially if you return * for the allowed origin.
Could not find any unsafe usage in Ian Jackson's, and it depends on no other crates.

https://lib.rs/crates/rc-dlist-deque
Spring Boot Project-Creation-Tool, Spring Initializr, Gets Several New Updates
Will there be an edit function? No? Still nothing like that in 2019? Well... twitter will go down. It's just a question of time at this point, imho.
> this code doesn't contain any list comprehensions, for example

It does contain a generator expression though, which is the same as a list comprehension in general structure, but slightly more confusing because it doesn't have the relationship to lists that square brackets in a list comprehension would have given it.
These are federal charges in a federal court. There is no getting reduced sentences for good behavior in the federal system; that’s only for state courts. If he gets 20 years, he has to serve at least 16 by law.
Azul Zulu JDK 8 now provides TLS 1.3 support
I think you're really stretching it when you say "there's plenty of precedent," arguably there is none as the decorator syntax is pre-clause and thus poses no indentation reading issues. So too for the proposed switch statement syntax. Then there is the fact that the decorator syntax is perhaps the most alien of all Python syntax, sometimes criticized for being Perlesque, perish the thought (on account of it being introduced by creative interpretation of a single special character though, so perhaps unrelated.)

My main gripe is the indentation. Your code reads as if the while condition is tested after the loop finishes. What if the while statement was part of the loop and could be placed arbitrarily?

do:
body1()
body2()
while x < 10
body3()

IOW `do:` translates to `while True:` and `while x` to `if not x: break`.

Addendum: I would also entertain forcing the `while` to be at the end of the loop -- as I'm not sure what this would do

do:
if foo():
while x < 10
That belief is promulgated by the media corporations fighting for strong copyright of "intellectual property." They have themselves drawn on the public domain culture, and use copyright as a tool to claim private ownership over it.
There’s nothing intrinsic to rust that makes it better suited for “foundational components” over anywhere else in the stack. Just because it’s capable of being used lower down doesn’t mean it’s a better or worse language higher up the stack. It’s probably got all the APIs or great crates you need for your work.

It’s not a language “for” anything per se, it’s ergonomic anywhere up the stack.
Back when people had up to 6 months of time off a year?[1]

[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
It’s really pretty simple. Politicians have one tool: the hammer that is your tax dollars. So everything they see looks like a nail.
Yes that's what those systems do.
The general public may have the knowledge and imagination - they just don't give a shit. Life is complicated enough to be worried about someone being able to match my face to my name. As if this weren't possible today with social media. Who knows?

Am I really going to change whatever is going on in my day because maybe, someday, some evil corporations will match my likes on twitter to my real-life preferences?

I'm aware of all that can be done with the data. I program for a living and have an 'internet' business. It's just that the claims made here in HN make it sound as if everyone is retarded for giving away their 'privacy'.

We are asking the general population to give up tangible benefits for hypothetical downsides. It's just not convincing enough for people to change their habits. Get in their shoes. HNers mostly can't because we cannot imagine what it's like to see technical details as a burden. Most people don't have the knowledge to make safeguarding their privacy 'a breeze' (multiple identities/passwords/oss/avoiding gmail/etc).
IIRC, the arsonist set fires in all the emergency stairwells.
Sorry, but you're just being wasteful. You were looking for an excuse and you know it.
Anime fans don't have that long of a memory, because most anime fans drop out of the fandom after three to five years. So while I agree that they were famous for those shows back in those days, it's also a reality that the current generation of fans most likely doesn't even know something like Clannad exists. KyoAni is currently famous for slice-of-life shows with implied homosexuality.
Is there a FF version tho?
But people who believe that earth is flat will always exist, it's just a question of how to deal with them. Letting people doubt and experimentally prove fundamental ideas is healthy (and how many a revolution in physics started). We just have to ensure these people don't get shut in echo chambers.
I typically read industry vertical publications to keep up with the industry trends, currently I am in healthcare so I keep up on relevant industry publications there and FDA/FTC announcements. I also own a small business in the Marine industry (boating/yachts etc) so I read professional boat builder and other industry publications there.

HN - mainly for what is the startup world talking about, trends and just cause it is fun.

Techcrunch - again, mainly to keep up with startups and fundings

CNN/Fox/NBC/CBS -- I do read articles from them all when the articles are business or world related. I personally dislike Fox and CNN but just because I dislike them doesn't mean I shouldn't read what they are putting out there and form my own opinions. Keeps me well read to also stay up in current event type conversations.

Forbes, Fast Company, Fortune -- Mainly again to keep up and learn what is being said.

Github code -- I read a ton of code each week not only ours but other open source projects so I can both learn how problems are being solved and see new languages being utilized to solve real problems not just "hello world".

Overall I'm a voracious reader of most all things to do with business, technology and financial matters. Books, magazines and blogs are always on the list, but I am cautious on the source of the content to know if I am reading a press release disguised as news etc.

Also, I keep tabs on twitter on specific people and companies to see what is happening and read links they post etc. Always follow my competitors and anyone I find that might have interesting content.
Instagram doubles down on test to hide likes
Then it’s clear: wait for the new model.
This works with many messaging apps, but I don't find it works with apps that don't have a textbox meant for pasting photos; the UI assumes the only way the user wants to share photos is by enabling Photos access.
My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users
> to run these Apps in a VM like container?

That's what Xposed Framework does exactly.

> allow it access a dummy, empty folder to read from

That's what Xposed XPrivacyLua plugin does exactly.

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua
For people who haven’t seen the twitter thread, context is needed here.

The thread was written by a VC on what he thought a “10x Engineer” to him was, and he grossly summarized pretty much the opposite of that. https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328?s=21
Ok, I'm a little tired of this constantly coming up; it's not a political position to rebut something that is objectively incorrect. If Party A bases its platform on the idea that "All Circles Are Secretly Squares", this is objectively false, and me saying so isn't me "biasing their political views in a way I like", it's a simple matter of fact.

The earth is not flat. This is relatively easy to prove, but people can be influenced by the right rhetoric, and they vote.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't be allowed to believe in dumb things from a legal perspective, I just don't think they're entitled to a platform.

Would you apply this logic to ISIS recruitment videos? "It's their choice! YouTube shouldn't pull their videos because if they do democracy has failed as a concept!"
It's honestly trivial for me. I use a budgeting app (YNAB) that downloads transactions daily, and spend maybe 15 minutes a week total on it. I don't even record most transactions on the fly, but I know where we've used our cards and 95% of transactions I can quickly verify as correct.

That said, the frequent download is a crucial part. If I had to do this on a monthly basis it would be much harder because I'd have to put in an hour of work all at once.
How soon the public forgets about Equifax data breaches, but goes into a panic when they opt-in for face filters.
There was a story here a few months ago that seems pertinent.

> A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19971294
If you wanted to escape it you could use something like This Person Does Not Exist and submit large numbers of fake people with your name to the app such that nobody would be able to tell which was the real you.

Of course, to do it well, you'd probably want to start doing it before anybody submitted your real photo, then just submit a fake picture at random intervals for perpetuity.

An alternate variation on this is flooding them with fake people and fake names to make their real database worth less.
A UF Air Force Recruiting page was compromised on FB last week and was posting a bunch of racist stuff.
Neither of the links to deleted blog posts appear to be working
> Avoid any company doing “Hot desking”

Is this real? I'm so messy, there's no way I could hot desk. I'd leave a trail of destruction behind me in the form of scribbled notes on legal pads, weird gadgets I'd fiddle with, mousepads, pens, postcards... How could anyone not have a "space" for themselves at work?
I mean I agree with you to some degree, but this is probably not the best place for that kind of discussion, kind of derailing the original comment.
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They don’t have to prove it. If they detect it you are a customer they don’t want so they can just tell you to take it or leave it.
I think the reason for confusion is that you seem to say that people doesn't even commit their work when they work, but only when they're pushing as well. dchest is (seemingly) asking why don't you commit when you're done, but delay the pushing (according to your policies)?
Problem is, there seems to be no one, or no one willing, to pick up such a hot potato under the auspices of the central government.

But yes, business as usual sounds pretty good to Beijing for now.

BTW, it's Xi Jinping or Xi Jin Ping.
Would that not skew questions toward Rust, where people rely on online resources to learn the language and cannot first ask questions ~~during office hours~~ on piazza?
There is also a very thin difference between “technical debt” and “genius programmer”. If I invented half the programming concepts Carmack did and wrote it at the company I work for, it would be considered technical debt immediately. No one else would be able to understand it and no one would be able to fix it when it broke. But for various reasons (mostly since Carmack is actually a programming genius), people stopped what they were doing to learn from him and adopt some of his techniques. Fast inverse square root is genius but it would just be way-too-clever technical debt if Carmack hadn’t written it and others didn’t learn from him.

No one would take the time to learn from my way-too-clever code. They’d throw it away for more obvious code in a heartbeat. Because I’m not famous, I don’t work with other geniuses, and of course I’m not a genius so my way-too-clever code would just be annoying and uncharacteristic.
The one for Chris Lattner is definitely off: https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/1150992062365310977
The "NOTICE ADVISORY TO GALILEO USERS" (NAGUs) are also all caps (here the announcement of service resumption [1]), like NOTAMs ("Notice to Airmen").

I understand that the Telex network used a 5-bit code with only caps [2], but today? Can't we use Unicode, or even some ASCII variant?

[1] https://www.gsc-europa.eu/notice-advisory-to-galileo-users-n...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#ITA2
What, because of no edit function?
For me it is a rather paradoxical situation. On the one hand I am a very lonely person and on the other hand I like being alone. When I am alone I tend towards depression and crave social interaction but not all social interaction works. For instance, if I spend a day with my family it is usually great for about 2 or 3 hours and then all I can think about is getting home so I can be by myself again.

For me it is not enough to just be with people. For instance, when I was in HS I would never have characterized myself as a lonely person. I believe that is because those relationships, long forgotten, had serious depth. I also had more confidence when I was younger making my intimate life easier to progress.

However, now a days I have neither and I have lost the confidence to strike up the band. I honestly find it hard to even look a women in the eyes much less ask her for her name and tell her mine. Tbh, even if I was going to force myself to make a new friend I wouldn't know where to start.

Luckily for me I have pretty damn thick skin and have learned to deal with my loneliness, depression and anxiety. That being said, at 32, I find myself feeling as though dying young and alone is a probability. However, I take heart in knowing that it could be worse, for many people are simply dying of starvation and so, on the whole, I am a pretty lucky guy.

If loneliness is a problem that someone else can solve I just don't see how. From my perspective, this is a problem that, like a snowball rolling down a hill, builds up over time and eventually takes on a life of its own.
I agree that that is the pragmatic approach given market constraints, but the market is not providing greater value in driving this hack-and-patch approach.
From your situation it seems like the system in place that provide alternatives to driving could benefit from being expanded, increased, and optimized.

I hope your local politicians agree with me that expenditures going into making these alternatives are money better spent then waiting for the technology to dedicate highway lanes for autonomous vehicles.

That is I hope they agree that your situation of not being able to go to the doctor within a reasonable amount of time takes precedence over people wanting to sleep during their 8 hour highway trip but are unwilling to take the bus for some reason.
I think we're not giving the general public enough credit. These discussions always seem to come down to "no one cares about privacy" or "they care but they're idiots." I think many people care about privacy and generally understand the issues, but are making conscious trade-offs that make sense for them.

For the vast majority of people—who are boring, non-activist, law-abiding citizens—the value they assign to privacy of things like name/face/products they're interested in is nonzero, but very low. They know their name/face, along with far more sensitive information, is already in a lot of databases that matter more than anything some random app developer can do, and they get some greater value from the marginal privacy impact of that same information ending up in one more place.

There's a good bit of research to support this. For example, there is a study showing you'd have to pay someone on average $1,000+ [1] to give up their Facebook account for year, suggesting that's the value they assign to the service. At the same time, if you ask them how much they'd be willing to pay for an ads-free, more privacy conscious version of Facebook, studies show only a small fraction would pay even $15/month [2]. In other words, people are making a conscious assessment that their privacy is less valuable than the services they can get by giving it up.

We make these kind of trade-offs and decisions every day. It's much the same reason people can be both deeply concerned about child labor in the Global South, but still make the decision to buy the cheaper version of a product rather than the one they know is ethically sourced, even if they could afford the latter. These decisions certainly have societal impacts that are worth contemplating and being concerned about, but it's wrong and infantilizing to simply dismiss people's conscious and rational (for them) choices.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
[2] https://www.vox.com/2018/4/11/17225328/facebook-ads-free-pai...
I completely agree with you, slaves were a major cultural and economic motivation behind technological innovation (or lack thereof). Consider the aforementioned example of the cotton gin, which used rather simple tech to replace slaves. This device was only invented when slavery became legally dubious. If Romans (or Greeks, or Egyptians, or the Chinese, etc) of antiquity could have opened their eyes beyond the use of slavery as a source of power, technological innovation would almost certainly have improved
Laws aren't so easy to sunset even if they have sunset clauses. Whoever benefits from the legislative mistakes will grow to be more powerful than whoever is being pinched by them, and then they'll lobby like nothing else to keep the laws the same. One example would be H&R block, which was created by a complex tax code and works very hard to keep it that way.

As for the tragedy of the commons, if your mining operation negatively impacts mine by messing up a shared resource, I can sue you right away. The lack of a legal framework doesn't mean that everything is legal, at least under US tradition; it means that the civil courts decide.