skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, yes, surely this man killed and raped little girls because he was influenced by cartoons, and not because he was born with a deformity into one of the most collectivist societies on earth and then ostracized for his entire life. We're so lucky that sexually normative people never rape or kill anyone.

Sarcasm aside, this is one of the many, many examples of choosing a scapegoat to frame an entire sexuality, race, or any group of people with a common interest as evil while completely ignoring any and all context. People are not animals and possess some degree of responsibility and the ability to tell reality from fiction. Unless someone presents some hard evidence that stylized drawings lead to actual attacks against real children (and to my knowledge, this simply is not true; in fact, it's easy to argue the opposite) we need to stop with this puritan outrage like we stopped blaming computer games for any and all violent crime back in the late 90s.
I'm learning Rust because:

1. I want to add a low(er) level language to the ones I already know and use.

2. Though I did some C/C++ in high school, getting really into depth with C++ at the moment seems really daunting.

3. I don't need it for a job at this point so I can afford to learn a less popular language that can potentially have a future and which exposes you to new ways of thinking about code.
The problems with HTML email originate in the days when clients like Outlook would produce horrendous, non-responsive HTML that were basically entire embedded web pages; the idea that the sender should be able to dictate the font of an email is a bit ridiculous, not to mention the layout, and the result was often broken depending on the email client.

Emails aren't web pages, but they do benefit from formatting (bold, italics, links, paragraphs), all of which lead to better emails overall. After all, everyone has their plaintext style (asterisks for emphasis, or maybe underscores, etc.) and HTML formalizes those conventions in a way that has been standard for decades and even centuries if you consider typesetting in general.

I like the idea of HTML email better than I like the implementation. I'd love to see a minimal HTML subset that only included formatting (including paragraphs, indentation and blockquoting), images and links. No tables, no box model, fonts or styling. We can keep full HTML for fancy marketing emails, but letter-form email should be simple and impossible to abuse.

These days, of course, most email is HTML simply because that's the default for almost all email apps (Gmail, Outlook, Spark, Polymail, etc.). It's not true that only marketing emails use HTML, as the author claims.
Stereotypes exist whether we like them or not and they're always rooted in a kernel of truth. People form stereotypes based on what they see around them, nobody has the time or patience to figure out whether some dude gesturing in the street waving a bible around with a cardboard cutout saying "chemtrails" actually has a good and nuanced argument about whatever he's talking about, we just assume that they're another looney.

Hell, stereotypes are part of the what made us so successful a species today, we'd have been in trouble had our ancestors decided to figure out whether every sabretooth tiger they saw was actually just a kitten who wanted nothing but cuddles and love so the unconscious creation of them is a pretty deeply rooted defense mechanism.
The main motivation behind the project is that I'd like to have an easy-to-use SQL to Dashboard web application that I can use to solve my own problem. I did try search and use existing BI tools first but found that they are either too complicated to setup/use or the license/fee is not friendly enough. I believe they are designed for more advanced user cases for a good reason and don't seem to suit my simpler needs. Thy's why I build Poli. Yes, I am the solo developer on this project.
Probably because the first email client linked is his new plaintext and patch oriented email client aerc?

It actually looks pretty nice and supports maildir, so I might run a backup and point it at mine for a couple days to see how it holds up.
I agree with you, but if the GNOME devs can't change their "vision" the next best thing is to adopt the popular extensions the downstream distribution use and bring them in the main repository, at least you reduce the risks and maybe keep the extensions more updated.

I am a KDE user and to be fair during KDE4 days ,Plasma had a maintainer with big ego that had a similar mentality with GNOME devs, we could not get a patch merged in to hide the Cachew thingy. Makes me wonder if all this GNOME vision of removing non default options is just one guy with big ego and lot of influence
> these people understood the importance of soil management to fend off starvation

So they were in some ways more advanced than modern U.S.
If you block remote image loading (to thwart trackers) and be careful about phishing links, I don't see a need for plain text-only email.
Not allowing CNA seems to be the biggest issue. Long time ago we had issues where getting a new cve for an open source project was really rare and hard to achieve. Now anyone who asks gets one without validation. Two extremes, likely due to lack of resources, but they won't share the load...
If they can pick out individuals from the data, then the data is not anonymized. Sure they may have unassociated data spread across unassociated records, but if an algorithm can pick it out, then so could a human (though way more effort). That for me is not anonymized data.
> go watch obviously purely commercial 'blockbusters' at the cinema, etc.?

> Do some people genuinely find these things really enjoyable?

Of course. But come on, you can't possibly be seriously asking this.
Thanks for the reminder, the links are fixed now.
I'm pretty much the opposite. I can get along with people and I never have problems with others, but I just can't stand being with people. It completely drains me, and I tend to become depressed for a few days afterwards. It doesn't matter if the interaction is "pleasant" or not.
With the US AG agitating for back doors:

* https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/tech-firms-can-a...

* https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/23/william-barr-consumers-sec...

I figured it'd be useful to remind ourselves that we've kind of been through this before. At least with open source software, the old solutions can perhaps be revived if needed:

* https://wiki.debian.org/non-US
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Just joking, but how about 'nonymisation' or 'non-nonimysation'
Data parallelism mostly.
Second try at launching... that is literally what happened. I feel like you are just projecting with your interpretation. Second try means literally that... a second attempt. Which is exactly what happened because technical issues forced them to abort on the first attempt...
On the plus side I find Fork to be performant and clean. I prefer it over Kraken and Tower and I find it vastly better than SourceTree. I also find it somewhat similar to GitX-dev on the Mac, which is a good thing.

On the minus side (and it's a big minus), it's not open source. As a developer of commercial software I basically have to trust the Fork developers not to do anything fishy with all the source code / IP that I am opening up to the app.
'Pseudononymization' is how my brain read it. It's a fairly self-explanatory portmanteau with little chance of confusion on the root.
True, maybe call it "redacted with a highlighting pen" as appears to get the same results.
Facebook are 100% not going to lie to you through their experimentation platform. The whole point of it is to help people accurately measure the results of their ads.

In general, it will be extremely difficult to run accurate tests on FB (or indeed Google) ads without using some of their infrastructure, as these platforms can balance users appropriately in terms of likely response to your ads (for instance, ensuring that both ads are shown to people with approximately the same click probability).

Without this, you run the risk of making bad decisions because one ad got served to users who were far more likely to convert.

Of course you should definitely run your own tests, but I wouldn't completely discount the platform's tools as they do have advantages which are impossible for you to replicate (i.e. balancing users in terms of response rates in each condition).
Homomorphic encryption would be better:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/google_releas...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-s...
The only way to get higher-order control in CL is through whole-program rewriting, e.g. SCREAMER https://www.cliki.net/screamer so I think this qualifies as "can't".
That's official, I know nothing about the gamedev scene...
Socialism for Big Ag so they can insist on cut-throat capitalism for the rest of us.
>But they refuse to talk to us. Why?

Because stonewalling is SOP for government bureaucracies when they screw up.

When you're the government the various systems the people you screwed have for recourse work slightly differently so stonewalling works better than spewing out a ton of deny and distract PR like corporations do.
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Hi. One of the author(s) of the article here. The plain article with information-only is over here: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr/winnti-101.html

We released a longer version, because we do hear very often that people don't understand how these intrusions are actually working. Also, we tried to show the scale.

-> both long form and shorter version

hope that helps.
Thanks for the links. I'm still a little confused by how differential privacy can be applied to non-aggregated fields. Can differentially private algorithms also be applied to mask/anonymise non-aggregated fields?
Reminds me of something that happened to a friend of mine once. He was booked on the last train from Cologne to Brussels for the day, but missed his connection due to a delay on an earlier train.

Due to EU passenger rights regulations, train company was on the hook to get him there somehow, so they ended up paying a taxi to drive him across the Netherlands into Belgium.
You should be able to request any personal data to be deleted. If the company in question leaks anything, they are responsible. Here the bonkers american style punishments might actually be the way to go.

That aside, I would like the option that says "do not collect the data". It wouldn't even be hard.

Sure there is knowledge and advantages in that data, but that doesn't even come close to the benefits of privacy. Think the general public opinion about X is pretty stupid? If so, you'll need it too.
I have never related to a comment more than this one. Socializing can be exhausting at times, and even if it does make us happier at the end of the day it can become tiring.
I love git extensions [0]. It's definitely not as pretty, but it's open source and very powerful. Development is very active too. Devs is happy to take PRs.

[0] https://gitextensions.github.io/
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Cool! Just signed up for the 100 websites service.
Looking forward to the results.
Not a bad idea! It sounds pretty similar to k-anonymity [1], which is not a terrible privacy heuristic. But it does have some specific weaknesses. Wikipedia has a good description.

> Homogeneity Attack: This attack leverages the case where all the values for a sensitive value within a set of k records are identical. In such cases, even though the data has been k-anonymized, the sensitive value for the set of k records may be exactly predicted.

> Background Knowledge Attack: This attack leverages an association between one or more quasi-identifier attributes with the sensitive attribute to reduce the set of possible values for the sensitive attribute.

Optimal k-anonymization is also computationally hard [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity

[2] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1055591
Vaporizing water is hard.
> Given that on an 8 hour shift the extra cost is just over $60

Don’t other labor costs (e.g. payroll taxes) scale with pay? So the daily savings are more than $60.

And $60/day conserves $1,800 a month, which is a decent amount of cash for a restaurant. If it’s a lunch-rush shop with marginal dinner business, $2,000/month could be the break point for that shift and those jobs.

Absent zoning reform, however, these wages are more likely to flow into higher rents versus consumption or savings.
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Wow, this is great! If only you could unlock the org charts for HN users, that would be great! $400 a year (no monthly option) for the org charts is a tough sell!
I had some healthy relationships with bosses, but every employer I had who was a decent human ended up being fired by shareholders.

And yes, the strength of free market and capitalism is to transform greed and all the behaviors that come with it into a fuel that helps the economy for everyone. It does not transform these into virtues though...
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Very related: Toilets around the world:

Dollar Street (by GapMinder.org)

https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/matrix?thing=Toilets
I consider support for HTML e-mails which is enabled by default a major bug in a mail client.
Crucial business stuff in a spreadsheet (let me guess, Visual Basic?) secured with a shared password (let me guess, over plain text email?).

I think that the persons who need attention are the managers who let things like this to happen, not the contractors who they hire as scapegoats.
"Pseudonymization but with an extra syllable" sounds just as confusing as the other two. I wouldn't be sure which of those words I was looking at on first glance, which is what you'd need for it to be casually readable.
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What are the websites where you post my project? Can I exclude some of them where I have already placed my project?
>The revolts did help usher in federal policy changes that prioritized local input, historical preservation, and the environment

Which seems to be leading to infrastructural stagnation as no city or state seems to be able to please the local stakeholders enough to build anything (not just highways).
Last I know is they use Trident, though it's possible they switched considering that IE is going the way of the Dodo.
> People avoid SV/USA due to the current President

_some_ people do. Others allow themselves different opinions to this president and even to their prospects in SV

> and London due to the Brexit uncertainity

True

> before Johnson drives everything into the ground

... but also here there are different opinions concerning the nature of this uncertainty
So input costs rise, some business cut services, some raise prices, causing inflation. Not sure what the news story is here.

Anyone interested in the truth will tell you that raising the minimum wage will destroy at least some jobs.
Unless you violate accessibility laws or your email client is shit, there is a text part or the HTML part is screen-reader compatible.
Still no Show HN. You've been here long enough to know that.
Yeah it reads like a clumsy hit piece - not that the industry doesn't have problems but it falls so short of professional writing standards you have to ask if they get paid for it.
I searched for John McAfee boat to get some background on his latest stunt:

"John McAfee is running from U.S. authorities – and running for President. On a boat."

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/john-mcafee-is-running-from-u-s...
> maybe ask Ubuntu to cease shipping "VLC"

I want applications to be packaged by my distribution. Updates are up to maintainers (dependencies included), as it has always been.

If MITRE wants to assign a CVE, warning people that they need an updated lib, that's fine. The issue is the trustworthy and handling of CVEs (... plus reporters).
Look up stuff by Rupert Spira, Michael Langford, Nisargadatta (already mentioned a few times in this thread), "The Ashtavakra Gita", "Dhammapada".
I actually received a response from Vimeo support (later in the evening, yesterday) to the request I submitted. It echoed what Matt (muglug) wrote. I don't know if my request just happened to make its way through the Vimeo queue quickly or if it was expedited because of this discussion. Regardless, I'm pleased with the response.
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And how do you feel about a function that takes a (mutable) reference to a robot and raises its hand?
I always thought it made sense that the improved efficiency comes at a cost. Our (human) kidneys are not as efficient, and we require a lot more water intake. Then again, we don't have as many kidney problems. This kind of argument certainly _feels_ right ("no free lunch"), but that does not necessarily make it so.

I feel that repeated inbreeding can (but does not have to) cause issues like sensitive kidneys in cats, but it probably also has to do with domestic cats growing relatively old. Things like faulty kidneys (or thyroid issues, or diabetes) bound to show up eventually if cancer does not get them before age 10.
End recipients can always overwrite, no?
The rest of the stuff seems to be heavily localized, I don't see a point in addressing points that don't pertain to my culture. Most of my countrymen's generation knows a lot about food and cooking. I knew how to make 6hr dishes at 12. Most of my friends are very capable of cooking. We only eat fresh vegetables and beef/chicken because it's cheaper than anything else.

On the life choices, again, this is stuff that we all do in my country because we're poor. We all recycle, we don't have fast fashion chains, we don't constantly buy phones, etc. I grew up buying things from "dispensaries" i.e. you take a bottle to get refills, and you pay for the content because it's cheaper.

I'm not disagreeing that you can't do anything to be slightly more green. My point is that the reason vegans get mocked is because instead of trying to propose solutions that help other people they make assumptions about other people's (especially the poor) lifestyles instead of trying to work with them to find a good, sustainable solution.
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The problem isn't the clients, it's the senders. And as someone who uses Mutt, the vast majority of HTML emails don't have usable plaintext versions.
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Increasing minimum wage is unrelated to inflation. Inflation is purely a monetary phenomenon.
> That for me is not anonymized data.

What matters is that this is what most online companies (and their terms of service) would call anonymized data.
> Or just bundle local versions of dependencies yourself and stop relying on shared libraries.

That’s what VLC did, Ubuntu/Debian patched VLC to instead use their, older, shared libraries.

I’m not sure what course of action you suggest for developers in such a situation
Put another way videos uploaded by the average user earned vimeo 'x' dollars over the last month.

Without any revenue they close up.

How many customers can they afford to lose? 5%,10%, 90%

If they don't support the free tier users they will lose them. At one point vimeo was making a serious run for global marketshare.. now it looks like they are in a different market..
My view:

The entire cryptocurrency ecosystem is fundamentally a grift, so it's not surprise that we see lots of unsavory behavior: power grabs, people cashing out early, an unwillingness to work together, a lack of coherent vision. And that's not even getting into the outright fraud and massive theft we've seen at other crypto exchanges.

When there is no long term, because it's all just a scam, you do whatever you've got to do to make your money in the short time available to you.
This was the 1950s. If it was even slightly conceivable that Communists would take a city somehow, after an amphibious landing across a distance the world had never seen, and the city had not already been reduced to rubble by incoming ICBMs or strategic bombing, it would have been destroyed by a stay-behind nuclear mine.
Some people sending plain text mails also wrap them manually.

If my window is small (maybe because I am using a small screen), the text is painful to read.
And a non manually wrapped plain text is not wrapped at all in some cases.

By all means, send me plain text mails, it will be lighter for my self-hosted inbox, but don't wrap them manually.

If you are going to abuse /this/ kind of `formatting`, however, you are making your mail harder to read for me. These are tags anyway, just not HTML tags. I'd prefer you use the real formatting that is correctly handled in most cases, but I will adapt.

> There are two main types of emails on the internet: plaintext and HTML. The former is strongly preferred

You will need to back this up because this is not what I observe.

My email client takes care of my privacy and my security, and you can use it too if you are concerned, it's a cross platform maintained free software. It's okay.

My problems with HTML emails is colors: if you want to use something like a night mode, you will see emails with hard coded white background and black texts, or worse, only black texts.
You may be able to ignore colors but people will assume you can see them. Maybe an extension like dark background on light texts when using a browser for reading emails who do the trick, but I don't.
The QC35 is what I tried before but never in an office environment. How does the ANC deal with talking colleagues? :O
There's a startup in London called Synthesized working on part of this problem space.

Given a source dataset they create a synthetic dataset that has the same statistical properties (as defined at the point the synthetic dataset is created).

I've seen a demo, it's pretty slick https://synthesized.io/
Good article. I am not so bothered by the effects, I think they complement the article well. I sure like that what may seem like decoration to some readers is actually real - I find it very interesting to find out that they find the malware using nmap.

Now where do I get that script? More detail would of course always be nice.
This is why I stopped using Linux. Fuck dependency hell.
> 480p streaming

Why are they doing this though? Saving data streaming cost?
Yeah, it's very very difficult for brands which are bought offline.

That's why Google are working with mastercard to get hash credit card transactions.

Additionally, Amazon are probably in a really good place to do marketing for CPG brands, as people actually purchase those on Amazon and thus they can track conversions (whereas FB and Google aren't great for these kinds of advertisers).
The idea you don't need to trust society and the government is very attractive when ridiculous abuse has been done to you and you've had to manage the fall-out.
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This hypothetical 21st century National Socialist German Workers' Party would likely be a little more subtle than blatantly enforcing existing immigration law. They'd obviously be interested in establishing a common enemy, even if it requires massive exaggeration mixed with complete fabrication. That would do them no good if domestically targeted propaganda were illegal though... hopefully the combination of laws and executive orders preventing that don't get relaxed by the two administrations proceeding this cringy edgelord scenario.