skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Yes, adding a backdoor increases our collective security because it allows law enforcement to eavesdrop on the bad guys.“ No it does not. By definition if the backdoor exists the bad guys won’t use it. This is clearly an excuse for monitoring all people not just the bad guys, and has little to do with security and everything to do with control. Please stop accepting the argument that collective security is improved with eavesdropping, it really really isn’t.
When you're at Dropbox's scale it's easy to just hire a load of iOS and Android devs, and some product managers to keep them all in sync.

But when you're not at that scale - you can't afford to build the same app twice - you are often left with a choice of either Xamarin or React Native. Both of these are perfectly good frameworks on which to build software; don't let the FUD win.
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How about the difference in long-term cost of ownership, serviceability, and overall reliability?

It's certainly one kind of car person that wants the latest and greatest nearly all the time. Some like to patronize particular auto makers, like fashionistas patronize fashion houses. It's quite another, equally valid kind of car person to take used examples of far simpler, utterly reliable cars and add suspension, brakes, forced induction, tuning, and so on far beyond what any manufacturer fits on any mass-market vehicle. They patronize component makers, often race- or restoration- oriented.

As for the non-enthusiasts, if you plan to lease a vehicle or trade it in every few years like clockwork, the eventual cost of added complexity might never affect you, apart from resale value. But the virtue of combining good mechanical QA with simplicity and serviceability is also much unsung, and cheaper, not more expensive.
And also our biggest power plant in Bełchatów is burning lignite, which is probably the worst type of coal you could be burning for power generation. It looks like it's scheduled for closing from that graph?

And yes, the town that I'm from has a coal mine and a heat producing unit next to it which burns coal to heat the entire town through a system of municipal hot water delivery to all apartment blocks and most private houses.
Just because you've not bought something by clicking on an ad doesn't mean that the advertising has changed your purchasing habits.

...unless you are magically immune from advertising?
I'd rather take more money, retire in my 30s and work on my personal projects from that point on.
Thanks for this suggestion -- this is something I've thought about (especially in relation to helping users remember a good reason to reach out). You can do this sort-of with the tags in Dex now, but admittedly not a perfect solution.
DjVu ebook format uses wavelet compression. From my experience its painfully slow.
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I found the best method against spam is to disable download of remote images in email client. Having no viewing confirmation, spam slowly stops.
We have a partial mitigation and it does not involve stripping query params.

We'll be doing more stuff in standards first / in parallel now that more browsers are actively engaged in reducing tracking.

A lot of the more extreme thing we'll only do for sites that we've classified as a tracker. Other browsers put identified trackers in all kinds of penalty boxes that aren't fully defined by standards yet. (We happen to do the identification using machine learning instead of a curated block list.)
What do you mean? There's still plenty of houses in Poland that use regular coal for heating. There's been a lot of movement towards banning it but there's always the "but what about poor people" argument. Sometimes you can get funding for replacing a coal fired boiler with either one that burns eco-pellets or a gas one, but people are often unwilling as both fuels are more expensive than just buying a tonne of coal at the beginning of every winter - the argument that made my grandparents switch(and only last year!) from a coal fired boiler to a gas one was purely one of convenience, grandpa is too old now to go to the boiler room every few hours to add some coal to the fire, so a gas boiler makes it easier for them. But of course they complained about the absolute fortune that gas will cost them over coal.
Yes, the gas is produced locally. Coal is as well incidentally.
> Didn't people make money off internet advertising before the modern surveillance-marketing complex? What happened to it?

Yeah, the old web was in many ways better than the new web so I'd gladly lose ads and go back to the old web in the process.
http://www.epemag.com/

I recommend Everyday Practical Electronics - great stuff and has been for decades, I think my father still has some copies of Everyday Electronics / Practical Electronics (I think the latter was more advanced; the two merged sometime between our electronics magazine buying childhoods) he bought as a teenager, I remember building a couple of projects from them (sound to light, and an electromagnet) before subscribing myself.

Pretty much what made me study electronics at school, and then EE/CS.

Issues don't come with parts, if that's what you were imagining, but they don't need to, that'd make them needlessly expensive and less timeless. One can get started with basic projects with a general 'component kit' and then buy more of the more frequently used and specialised components as required.
thanks for posting!

(founder of Makerpad)
Sure, I love reggae ... and with reggae, you also can get into the "groove".

With dancehall, ragga, etc. this is much harder, yes. "Booolah!!" (something they do in dancehall, a loud sound, breaking the tune and restarting the beat. Breaks groove of dancing by definition)
Thanks for sharing your experience -- as you mentioned we've built Dex around the import experience for now [since typically those people get more value out of the product], but definitely trying to make Dex more fully featured for folks who would prefer to add manually!
> Well the difference here is that in a liberal democracy we can prevent that from happening if we wish.

Since it's been going on for a long time, you either cannot, or you don't want to.
Attackers could be listening to what you type
The idea that there must be a connection between robotic capabilities and human evolution is also a naturalistic misstep. It’s impossible for humans to create accurate metric maps accurately so we prefer topological maps, but in robotics, this is reverses. Robots and humans do not have the same premises.
I'm in the same boat, but chose React Native instead because learning more React + JS/TS has additional benefits
Birth rates are below replacement everywhere in the developed world and China and most other places except the middle east and africa. There is no need for forced sterilization or whatever you were alluding to.
there are some apps out there but this seems the only working one
Puh, not sure if that brings you the sweet, sweet investor money and some data leaks in the long tail. You should really go all in on data collection. Always!
The Chevy Caprice and Ford Crown Victoria have been out of production for years so regardless of their advantages they won't be used as taxis much longer.
For me, they are (or were) both great actors, but there is something masterful about Alec Guinness’s portrayal of George Smiley.

The film has the better supporting cast by far[0], but the original series is worth watching just for that portrayal. Watch his face as he slowly puts on his glasses during the beginning of the interrogation scene with Ricki Tarr for example.

[0] with the possible exception of another great performance by Ian Richardson

Edit: I very much enjoyed the film too, including Gary Oldman. But the miniseries captured the bleakness of the era, had time to explore more of the detail, and left more things implicit rather than explicit. All styles of production that I personally enjoy.
Strange for a page espousing anti-tracking [0] to load media in from apple.com. Granted Mozilla's page [1] is even a worse offender with google-analytics and newrelic embeds.

Really makes you think what really drives the underlying narrative for such initiatives at corporates if not sabotaging competitors? OpenDNS founder, u/davidu, pointed out that DNS over HTTPS, something that takes aim at trackers and advocates privacy, also, in fact, had support of BigAdTech [2].

The content blocker ecosystem has been fighting the dragnet for a long time without expecting anything in return save for examples like Brave and Adblock. It'd be a shame to see those subject to embrace, extend, extinguish.

> And we will create new web technologies to re-enable specific non-harmful practices without reintroducing tracking capabilities.

I wonder what this means. Another standard that AdTech can rally behind? Or, Apple's way of wrestling control away from AdTech? Remember, not long ago Apple disallowed 3p browsers for a long time, on AppStore...and they are likely going to act as gate-keepers here, as well?

> we will typically prioritize user benefits over preserving current website practices. We believe that that is the role of a web browser, also known as the user agent.

Where have I heard that before? [3]

And now... what about apps on AppStore? When do we get anti-tracking measures there? Pretty soon, would be really great, because that's a present and clear danger, in my eyes, wrt privacy... but one that hurts Apple's bottomline?

[0] https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention-policy/

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Anti_tracking_policy

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257318

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542656
Totally get your concern. We'll surface the privacy policy more prominently (+ work on making this more clear), which you can access here https://getdex.com/privacypolicy.

Dex is run as a subscription service ($7.99/mo), something we'll also make more clear on the site. Appreciate your feedback here -- this helps me understand what I need to change!
Is the issue in Canada similar to what the sibling describes in Australia - insufficient recycling infrastructure?
"it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests"

Is this even remotely close to being true? I'm not aware of any AI projects that can match an average human score on a standardised IQ test.

In fact I'm not aware of any AI projects that can understand how an IQ test paper works without prior coaching.

Most humans won't just attempt the problems but will be able to work out what the questions are asking, even if they have never seen those kinds of questions before.

So this seems wholly wrong to me. I don't disagree that basic motor skills and perceptions are an important and difficult part of the puzzle, but I absolutely disagree that abstract thinking is a comparatively trivial solved problem - or that board game solvers are anything other than a warm-up exercise.
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The article I read in NZ showed that natural gas had about half the emissions of coal overall. New Zealand is very seismically active so there's a lot of gas and most probably it's close to the generators. The intention is to move from coal to gas to tide the country over until it can be replaced by wind and tidal. The goal was recently raised from 90 - 95% renewable generation by 2025. Right now on average it sits at 83% renewable but in summer when electricity usage is lower it can be more than 90%.
Demonstrating the CPU in Minecraft [video]
Oops, yep. I didn't see that context.
Just one example of an open issue https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/22860

If I use swift I get all the code examples and tons of documentation from Apple itself. In flutter I need to rely on some package which might not be supported, if my team takes over it's double the job fix the package bugs and also change the resulting changed in code, compile and test individually on iOS and Android.

Another one https://pub.dev/packages/sensors#-changelog-tab-
And there are many such issues.
Look at the bottom of the doors of almost any Mercedes B-Class produced before 2009 and you will see brown corrosion traces. My B-Class (bought new in 2005) was literally falling apart from corrosion. They had massive quality problems in the early 2000s, with the B- and C-Class.
I know this is my personal experience, but I will never be able to purchase any Mercedes car ever again.
> "to insure promptness"

As in tipping service? It'd be ensure anyway, surely?
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Unless you played it pretty loud, nothing should happen. What speakers did you play it through, and at what volume?
I’m pretty happy with nativescript. It suppers typescript, different ui libs (angular, vue, and no-lib)

You can directly access native apis within your js/ts code. And they provide good cross platform defaults for widgets.
Thanks, that's much better than my approach. This is exactly the extension I needed, as it makes cookie management more straightforward and transparent to me.

I switched yesterday and couldn't be happier. :)
average of squares > square of averages
That's my point, subtle difference in UX like gesture, swipe and touch controls in iOS results in additional UI code in dart to account for each platform. Not much help except for simple mobile apps doing simple crud operations.
Could you elaborate on how "tracking will just move to being proxied server side" works vs what we have today? I'm genuinely curious what those services will entail. Thanks.
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Bitcoin has a Lightning Network which can work independently and only uses the main blockchain to settle disputes, so it could keep operating for as long as there was non-disputed capacity left in the isolated segment.

Adding capacity would require some way of accessing the consensus, but it could be done by the parties updating their blockchain by just importing new blocks from a trusted source (not necessarily the same), like a friend with a USB drive.
FYI, the pink noise sample in the video played back at 80 dB on my MBP (2017, 13") when I set the volume to max. I used an iPhone app to test the dB, and when I put the mic about an inch from the speaker, it registered about 80 dB.

Back where I was sitting, it was much much lower, and definitely didn't affect my hearing.
It worked great for its intended application. You dont have to worry about paper thickness/distance in a commercial machine using high quality source materials. I dont even think it would play major role, measurement is done by correlation, moving closer/further only scales the picture.

Commodity mice are terrible as distance meters tho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIRKRzw54Zs because you cant completely turn off acceleration/interpolation inherent to particular sensor package. It would require low level access to sensor parameters/options, something only available to clients doing xx thousand units per month volume from vendors like Broadcom.
> UCL (london) is next door to the kind of grey curtained (bomb-proof chain mail apparently)

Which building are you thinking of? The nanotechnology building (image below) does have a grey metal curtain infront of it, but just as a sunshade.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/sites/m...

There definitely are buildings around, but I think they are (usually) more discreet

https://wharferj.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/39-furnival-street...
Let’s not kid ourselves. Bonus points, just imagine your data on the screens of employees/founders who think like this:

https://help.fullstory.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020622934

https://twitter.com/vlio20/status/1148311522420170758?s=21

https://twitter.com/carleebb/status/999311978060500992?s=21

https://twitter.com/laurentmtl/status/949531455964803072?s=2...

https://twitter.com/ahgandhi/status/1117980573048483845?s=21

https://twitter.com/paulmwatson/status/672093603519418372?s=...

*note these are people sharing/bragging publicly.
It seems like the 49% is when taking into account a wide variety of sources, including random online magazines and blogs. When using "mainstream media", the coverage drops to 1%. The fact that they get even 1% more (or equal for that matter) coverage is still dumb but at least it's not as bad as 49%.

From the paper:

>Here we show via direct comparison that contrarians are featured in 49% more media articles than scientists. Yet when comparing visibility in mainstream media sources only, we observe just a 1% excess visibility, which objectively demonstrates the crowding out of professional mainstream sources by the proliferation of new media sources, many of which contribute to the production and consumption of climate change disinformation at scale.

>Together, these results show that CCCs derive a comparative visibility advantage from non-scientists gaining attention in peripheral non-mainstream media sources. Conversely, the observed parity between CCCs and CCSs in mainstream media sources may reflect media writers seeking journalistic balance when reporting on CC. Indeed, we find that every select-30 media source has provided CCC significant visibility, thereby increasing CCC authority and credibility (see Supplementary Fig. 4). The disproportionate visibility of CCCs, even in mainstream media sources, is reminiscent of early contrarian efforts that leveraged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Fairness Doctrine to obtain equal press time.
aaaand it's down again
It's a thing.

https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/
If legislators and law enforcement won't stop the widespread various kinds of secret spying behavior of dotcoms, we could try social pressure.
I think no-code is attractive for a number of reasons. When you're non-technical (can't code) then you're told to learn to code or find a technical co-founder if you want to build something.

It's not that reassuring for someone just starting out wanting to test a random idea that you have to do these big things in order for it to see the light of day.

No-code tools are becoming so powerful that you can build all sorts of things and I built a site with lots of tutorials for that purpose[1] (It's a membership site, some tutorials are free).
Things like a marketplace app like Airbnb[2], an Instagram like app[3], eBay marketplace[4], tools for product/market fit[5], membership sites and a lot more using a number of tools.

Now I know lots of people have their opinions about cloning sites but personally, I think if you have an idea for a specific site which would work like X then I don't see why using the user experience of a similar site can't be the starting point for where these non-technical folk start testing their ideas.

Also, I think it's powerful for professionals to be able to build themselves small tools in order to increase their workflows, productivity etc without relying on dev resources especially in an increasingly remote workforce.

[1] https://www.makerpad.co/
[2] https://www.makerpad.co/tutorial/airbnb-mobile-app-clone-plu...
[3] https://www.makerpad.co/tutorial/instagram-clone-using-glide...
[4] https://www.makerpad.co/tutorial/creating-a-marketplace-app-...
[5] https://www.makerpad.co/tutorial/how-superhuman-built-an-eng...
I have used HotJar, though not extensively. I played with it a bit and then handed it off to another dev.

I feel tracking tools are more for marketing and conversions. You're looking at what the user is doing when going through the process of getting the to signup.

I wouldn't think to use this tool in the inner portion of the app. On the outer part, there's not much to identify you. Anything session recording or heatmap is a step beyond what Google Analytics is doing, but it's not going to be sensitive data.

Everything inside the app is sensitive. If there's a possibility of my actions being recorded, I would rather get warned about that or given a chance to opt-in for a session in return for a credit.

This is the sort of thing I'm having less of a stomach for as the internet gets more nuts and my trail of dead sign-ups has grown over two decades plus some years. Your app better be damn good for me to get over that hesitance. And as I get older, I find that almost no apps are that good. I'll go to paper and pencil. IDGAF. Though I'm willing to give in a bit more to major names, even then we're seeing that Amazon and Microsoft is listening into voice from some of their products.

I also think this is lazy for getting info on the usage of the actual app. Go ahead and analyze how your conversion process is going as you change your design. But for the actual app, maybe sit people down in front of you. Have people take a video of their usage. Ask for surveys. Don't just record my session of entering all the times I'm getting laid (along with their vital stats) without me knowing about it.
Calico can be used on EKS!? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/calico.html
Those prepayment fines are basically what the bank is losing out on you. If you have a 3% mortgage and the current rate is 2%, then the bank would lose out 1% for the current mortgage period. That's the penalty.
Imagine a world where China split in two, East China and West China with each having 50% of the population. Each of those countries would have half the pollution, half the human rights violations of the current China. Just as much suffering, just as much pollution overall though.

If you want to make an informative comparison you have to do it on a per-capita basis.
I have been searching for the real me for many years but never found myself.

Perhaps they are using a MetaPhysics engine to help me find myself?

If I feel connected I will tell you :-)
I'd want to like GE products but the false advertising on their blacklight LED bulb and their subsequent reaction to my notifying them of such pretty much turns me off of their products entirely.

Long story short, 7W UV LED advertised blacklight bulb. Only one LED is UV and the other four are white LEDs, behind a fake woods glass filter. Yanked out the UV LED, dropped it into my Fermata light (pad/form factor compatible) and turned it into the mineral specimen lamp I was hoping to get from the original bulb.
I remember this being brought up on reddit. Yes it's ridiculously lengthy, but having a procedure instead of a reset button is actually a smart idea. So they've taken a kernel of a good idea and went overboard on trying to protect users from accidentally resetting.

Having a procedure allows you to reset bulbs in hard-to-reach places or a whole set of lights in one room can be reset using the one lightswitch.
The city is a container, and a large paramilitary suppression force moved from being outside that container to being inside the container. I'm just a bit baffled here.

A armoured paramilitary troops were deployed to the geographic area of Shenzen. Travelling in convoys, they entered the city of Shenzen, where they seem to be currently marshalled in a sports stadium. They are there as a direct threat and the assumption is that they will leave Shenzhen and enter Hong Kong to begin suppression
Philips Hue is older I think and doesn't have this insanity.

The bulbs have a serial number on them, you just input that serial into the app synced with a new bridge.
I’m not sure about all hydropower in Switzerland but Grand Dixence is very high up. I’ve been there myself and the nature doesn’t seem to be disturbed. I don’t think there are any salmon swimming up from the Pacific like in a lot of rivers in the US. What exactly are your concerns about wildlife being disturbed?