skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strategy of convicting them of a seemingly unrelated non-political crime is one reason why mass surveillance is a big problem. An entity with a grudge against you can surely find some minor crime you committed.

It's also why the Hong Kong extradition bill not covering political crimes is not a real reassurance to protestors.
Entire industries (TV, Radio, Print) have been funded with advertising that did not require the degree of privacy-invasion we see today.

The idea that "half the internet would collapse" doesn't seem to be backed by historical precedence.

Content targeting worked for a century just fine.
I haven't tried this yet, but poking around the site, I'm wondering what mitigations you have for potential abuse? I'm concerned specifically about transparency to the end user about the costs of the packages that they've installed.

Thinking aloud:

* My user chooses to install my package with scarf, either because I force them to (by not making it easily available elsewhere) or because they want to support me (yay!)

* I make money from their install, and/or their use of the package (is this correct?)

In that case, as Mallory, as a bad actor, I:

* Want to make a package that looks affordable but pulls in dependencies

* I want to make those dependencies cheap at first, but then I'm going to make them expensive later, when you are, well, dependent (ahem)

* I want those deps to be, as much as possible, me and my friends

I'm not even going to get into the abuse potential I can imagine would obtain by preying on naive good actors; e.g. convincing some well-intentioned dev to use my dep and then effectively taking rents from all of their downstream users.

I haven't had a chance to play with Scarf yet but I'd love to hear about how you handle scenarios like this on its website. Because I'm pretty sure these scenarios are why something like scarf hasn't shown up before.

(Personal belief/stance informing this worry: FOSS got big by providing easily-reasoned-about costing structure in an industry that had hitherto been beholden to things like on-site auditors, per-seat licensing, hidden costs, submarine patents, etc; our value prop was "you always know your cost is gonna be $0, plus installer and maintainer salaries", which is much better than "We decided this now costs double". We didn't so much cost less as cost predictably.)
This is basically what www.sdf.org is, right? A community where you have to somewhat know your way around the command line to get around. And it's awesome. But by definition communities like this will probably never dominate the market.
Agreed - this and allowing _enough_ tracking that publishers can actually understand where ad budget is best spent, without jeopardising an individual's privacy.
I genuinely mean no disrespect. Not all business endeavors turn out to be profitable, especially in startups.
There is no need to bypass Scarf to align completely with FOSS principles. If Scarf is not encrypting the source, adding new license constraints, or hiding it in any way, when it adds its wrapper.
The poor do not get poorer. It's not a zero sum game. The size of the pie is constantly increasing in absolute terms.

I don't think you understand how US salaries compare to European ones, it's not even close.
The OP is about the health affects of microplastics on humans.
Not Seattle and Portland.
Doesn't reCaptcha alone rely extensively on fingerprinting?
Well I was thinking investing more into something like this: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/21/carbon-engineering-co2-captu... which captures co2 out of the air, rather than retrofitting stationary co2 emitters...
I agree. I haven't used Android since the ICS days, but ending the dessert themed names does feel like the end of an era.
Why is geography a factor in a democracy.

Why is cross regional appeal of any value, if these region don't make up even 10% of the combined US population.

If US states were divided by population it would be a different think all together. But California has 40 times as many people as Wyoming.

Cross regional appeal is quoted as an obviously good thing to have, but the core assumption of equal distribution of population has been violated.
Everyone already acknowledges the current art has no consistent direction. It makes no sense to pay extra money for bespoke artwork that looks worse than what you can get by just going to what's already available.
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
It could have contributed a decent amount. Maybe it's not that they couldn't think of any names, but that they couldn't think of any good names, so they asked what else they could do. One option was a branding change.

There are lots of software companies that use named releases, but if you try to stick with a narrow category and use every letter sequentially you're going to run into some problems eventually. Even if they got past Q this time, there are a lot of letters at the end of the alphabet that were going to be hard to come up with good dessert names with.
> This seems like a potential issue.

How so? That's light enough even a kid could wear it as a backpack.
Just as the US wasn’t ready for Sanders in 2016, it’s not yet ready for Yang in 2020. You can be ahead of your time but still right.
Nuclear only lost because the government picks winners and losers. Wind and solar are getting subsidies. France manages to produce its electricity at 1/10th the cost as Germany, while also emitting less C02 because of its investment in nuclear power.

American nuclear plants tended to be one-off projects of unique designs. This is drastically less cost efficient than what the French did, design a handful of standardized designs and do serial production.
Maybe I misunderstand Palantir's mission but working with LEOs like ICE seems to be their core business. All credit to these employees for standing up for what they believe in but what exactly did they think they were signing up for?

I have a new coworker who wears his Palantir t-shirt and it makes me uncomfortable to even see the name in my office.
I would highly recommend turning off no implicit any of you haven’t already — implicit any _will_ make it harder for you to figure out how to solve all the typing issues because it will make it significantly harder for you to understand the way type inference works by inspection. — E.g. if you are learning the typescript by looking at example code — a block of code which only types correctly because the compiler implicitly inferred the any type somewhere within can very easily lead you very far astray from understanding how the type system actually works ...

You might have to fix a bunch more errors but at least those are easy to fix (just add any explicitly to the type — or better yet, add the real type if it’s obvious) ...
MIT director resigns over university’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Nope. It only has your public videos -- no private, no unlisted.
Our awareness alone might reduce the harm being done. If this were front and center on all cablenews and connected to alarming news like the Greenland glacier melting faster than anticipated it might reduce the pace at which Bolsonaro and the forces aligned with him light these fires.
B) does the limited rollout keep inflation in check

Even a full scale rollout probably would as well - minimum wage workers are not only a small part of the overall workforce but also the ones that obviously make the less, so they can't possibly increase total consumption significantly.
France heavily subsidizes their nuclear fleet operator (EDF), and continues to own 85% of the company. No one wants to wait decades for ROI on funding a nuclear power plant, and no one (besides governments) will insure them from black swan events.

Everyone gets subsidies, provide them wisely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9_de_Fra...
Windows 10

Android 10

Mac OS X (10)

Hopefully Android will move past version 10?
For triple-A game engines attuned to work on console hardware, sure, but they're really sophisticated optimizations.

The STL is fine for a lot of things in gamedev.

Object pools are not so hard to implement, the only thing a object pool really does is to reduce memory allocation and de-allocation delays while keeping the O(1) random access. It's just a strategy for allocating and accessing memory properly.

It sounds like premature optimization, and it often is, because those strategies are not really trivial to use or implement.
I played LOOM on a smallish 640x480 CRT from the 80s. The pixels are clearly visible. In particular, since the color palette is so restricted, a lot of large surfaces are dithered -- and you can easily see the grid of little alternating squares.
What a weird, sweeping, broad brush claim. There are pixel artists of all levels of skill making pixel art inspired by all eras of technology, often a mixture of them, and sometimes not related to any historical limitation at all.
Robotic Tool Operations Bring In-Space Refueling Closer to Reality
Yeah, I think the biggest problem with his games (and I only know them from the screenshots) is in art direction.

He compares it to Baba is You, and while that game's art is technically simple, its consistent aesthetic and style sells it.

Meanwhile, in his screenshots, the visuals seem dated and inconsistent. I don't think it's a problem with the quality of the assets, but in art direction, and like he said, that's on the developer.
Steam excluded from tax-free weekend in Massachusetts
Set the fox to guard the henhouse?
>This is why Chrome plans to more aggressively restrict fingerprinting across the web. One way in which we’ll be doing this is reducing the ways in which browsers can be passively fingerprinted, so that we can detect and intervene against active fingerprinting efforts as they happen.

That seems like a 180 from their stance 2 years ago[1]. Their statement is low on details so I'll believe it when I see it. Right now the only browser with meaningful fingerprinting protection is tor browser/firefox.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=49075
If anyone has read "Walden Two" by B.F. Skinner, it promotes an interesting premise of work that is assigned based on how tasteful or distasteful it is. For example, gardening only counts for 0.25 credits per hour, while cleaning counts for more.

Also, all workers are assigned a small portion of manual labor to stay in shape.
Open Source and SaaS are not mutually exclusive. If a SaaS product is also FOSS, it just means that more than one vendor could provide the same exact service. You're paying them for their services and physical resources. Every cloud/hosting provider does this, offering Linux, Apache, etc. And, yes, they can even charge you for the software.
Ask HN: Why is Bluetooth audio always so bad?
Pairing is famously a UX nightmare [0]. Even Apple's AirPods cut out constantly, suffer from interference from other nearby devices [1], and apparently just don't work in an open space [2].

To people with Bluetooth expertise: Why is the Bluetooth audio experience always so...bad? Are there some fundamental technical limitations in the spec? Are my expectations unreasonable? Or is it just always implemented poorly? Followup: are there competing technologies that Just Work™?

[0]: https://xkcd.com/2055/

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT209369 ("move away from places [with] a lot of Wi-Fi activity")

[2]: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/04/heres-why-your-airpods-or-other-bluetooth-headphones-cut-out-while-crossing-a-street.html
I think you were downvoted by people that didn't get the reference, cheers for the reminder.
“I don’t see where shame enters the equation.”

Perhaps because you’ve generalized away, to the point of absurdity, the dramatic effects of a number of well debated set of systems that maintain social norms.
BTW, he already has a job at Cornell. He was already going to leave. I'm not sure he's sacrificing much of anything.
>The only solution has always been to reduce consumption, but deep down, everyone wants to consume more and more, while at the same time feel better about and blissfully ignore that they are destroying the environment.

Maybe I'm only thinking of this because I've been reading Tocqueville, but might not religion be the thing to encourage restraint here?
Eyes on the building. Bars/shutters on the windows. An alarm system. Caltrops on the floor. A locked room with a decent door for the laptops, and/or a strongbox. Africanized killer bees. Full-disk encryption on the laptops themselves.

There's plenty of reasonable measures that organizations can take to protect their equipment and data. "Give the laptops to the employees, they might be stolen if left in the building" is not one of them, not if they care at all about information security.
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys intellectual curiosity, which is what the site exists for.
I'm not a full time developer but have to spend some days purely on dev work(literally programming from 9 to 6). It is extremely mentally draining,yet rewarding.In any other field, with such a level of business value created, would result in compensation being many times higher than any developer would ever make...
Palantir is a software company right and sells tools to ICE? Does someone wearing an Excel shirt make you uncomfortable because ICE uses MSOffice?

What about OSS projects like R and Python that also enable ICE to analyze data to find people.

Is the expectation that Palantir should not sell software to ICE?
Yes, I mentioned a couple. There are a few more (acute cardiac injury from CAD without comorbidities?) I didn't intend on being fatalistic or overly pessimistic. Not qualified nor intended as personal medical advice, but wanted to balance unrealistic optimism elsewhere in the thread.
I have never been the former, so I don't know how it works. That type of developer clearly must exist somewhere, because I hear people on HN talk about it, but I have always been a "hey, we have this interesting problem to solve, can you help" type of software developer. And yet, I have managed to stay quite good at this even without dedicating four hours of non-work time to it. To each their own.
Your response is a complete non-sequitur. It has absolutely nothing to do with why the government would falsely say population growth is smaller than it actually is.
50K is actually closer to 20% more than a regular marathon. Also, as per wikipedia:

An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of 42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi).
> it’s inherent requirement for internet access to drag all the dependencies

Isn't this required by package managers of all languages? pip/compose/gems all require internet access.
Why can't publishers like the NYT simply sell ads directly to businesses, and display them without using adsense and tracking? Like newspapers used to do back in the day...
There's some interesting work on this going on in W3C, in the Verifiable Claims Working Group [1] and in the newly minted Decentralized Identifier Working Group [2]. I'm a member of the W3C Credentials Community Group (CCG) [3], which is where those two WGs started.

There are also a number of other valuable efforts. Both in other Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), such as Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) [4], Apache HyperLedger projects like Aries [5], etc. And in working conferences/unconferences like Rebooting Web of Trust (RWOT) [6], and Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) [7]. On a tangential note, Unconferences are an interesting concept [8].

[1] https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/
[2] https://www.w3.org/2019/08/did-wg-charter.html
[3] https://w3c-ccg.github.io/
[4] https://identity.foundation/
[5] https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/aries
[6] https://www.weboftrust.info/
[7] https://internetidentityworkshop.com/
[8] http://unconference.net/
Kent State is incredibly famous and covered in the context of the US's wars in Southeast Asia in any US History class. I definitely learned about it in high school. It also isn't actively scrubbed from the internet or other sources of information like Tiananmen square is in China. If you are unaware of Kent State, it isn't due to propaganda or censorship, it is due to your own ignorance.
You're not going to get hundreds of man hours of content for free but setting up Source or Unreal or Unity to get a modern engine with every feature those games had does not take months.
Bolsonaro is a killer. The people who lit these fires are killers. Brazil is practically run by killers.

I promise you they do not give a damn about what you, or the rest of the world thinks. The forest will burn to ashes, all the same.
> "If you're not fine with women around you, you don't have to play," Steinhaus says matter-of-factly. "It's your choice, right?
I recently started doing a lot of work with React and JS, coming from years of native application development.

It does seem like the general "trend" or "consensus" in the JS community is very inconsistent and easily influenced by a few well-linked blogposts or highly upvoted StackOverflow answers, which themselves are very often written by people with honestly limited software and system engineering experiences. Sometimes a "best practice" in 2017 would be considered awful and "should avoid" in 2018.

Btw Americans opinions do flip-flop on major aspects of policy making, due to all reasons from media coverage to current events. Look at American's support for the Iraq War for example. Herd mentality, leader worshipping, cargo cult, etc are just as prevalent in public policy discussion as it is in software development community.

JS/React, due to having a community that's larger and arguably less experienced than most other community, just show more of the same symptoms.
My first thought from whatever announced by Google nowadays is either along the line of “Hmm... some PMs or visual designers got really bored” (Gmail for example) or “someone needs a project for a promotion” (Allo for example while Gtalk or Hangout was great)
I can think of a bunch of stuff that has moved or is moving from third party crates into the standard library: parking_lot, hashbrown, (minimal) Future trait. But I agree that no crate has moved wholesale into the standard lib.
Obviously it's in Hangar 51 next to the Ark of the Covenant.
Maybe it depends on the country. USA have enough heavy sun areas to go full. But in France people think it's gonna be just too irregular to be the main generation.
Go Modules at the Speed of Light
Ignore Scarf's success for a moment, and focus on it's goal. Do you think FOSS developers should be compensated for their work? If so, how do we make that happen?
Really fantastic tool. Glad I finally made the effort to export my PDFs (previously stored in nextcloud) to this tool
I run roughly the same amount injury-free in regular old Nike sneakers. As you say, the key is slow build up.

Virtually every non-runner I know, whenever I mention something about running or racing, tells me they "can't/don't want to run" because it will "destroy their knees" when in fact runners have stronger knees than non-runners [1].

It'd be if you were a weakling and said, "I don't want to lift weights because that will destroy my joints." If you lifted weights too heavy too soon, yes, but the way to getting stronger is through slow progression. Which people don't want to do.

It's just a matter of consistency and steady effort. Beginnners always rave to me about their 17-20 mile long runs when my question is "How many miles per week have you run? And for how many weeks in a row?"

The Five Fingers stuff, glad that works for a small segment of people (I even own a pair) but for most it's just going to end in stress fractures.

[1] https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a20804690/runners-have-muc...
Using relativistic time dilation to detect buried objects
> Merely being aware of some tragedy occurring far away doesn’t do anything.

The first step on the long road of change is acknowledging that a problem exists.

Just because you can't imagine how you can effect change, doesn't mean it isn't possible. Problems of this scale require a sufficiently scaled solution. Economic sanctions and treaties would provide incentives for change. Hit Brazil's government and business leaders where it hurts: their wallets and their power on the world stage.
Why Cerebras announcement is a big deal
Technological Stockholm syndrome
The value of extra income drops the more you have. All else equal, more money per hour should decrease the number of hours worked. The biggest exception is when you're taking advantage of a great deal to save up now and retire or half-retire early, but even that is still reducing your lifetime average work hours per year.
Cong! I'm wondering if 35-40 is too old lol.
C++/CLI is already full of incompatibilities with C++17 (and C++14, and C++11), and there are plans to cut off C++/CLI support with newer standards. Existing support is mostly by accident.

Meanwhile "must distribute a runtime with the app" does not affect the language at all, and indeed applies to these other solutions as well.
Levelheaded and well-written. I personally am vehemently against all forms of tracking/targeted ads not due to ad preferences, but due to concerns over how much data is being collected and how little control we have over it.

I too would prefer non-spammy targeted ads to 'dumb' ads - given that the data being collected and stored is used solely for this purpose. But that's never the case.

Targeted advertising at first glance seems like a win-win-win: you're exposed to products aligned with your interests, the manufacturer makes a sale, Google takes a small cut. Thing is, the advertising giant's 'win' carries significantly more weight than yours or the manufacturer's:

You get your product, you're pleased with it. Win!

The manufacturer makes a sale. Win!

The ad/tracking agency receives a juicy set of click/keystroke/impression/conversion data. They ingest it into their massive database and it's matched with a wealth of other information already collected on you. This is all combined and fed through a state-of-the-art machine learning system. This third party now has a full psychological profile of your interests, hobbies, lifestyle, connections, etc. They can use it to serve you better-targeted ads. Win!

Or they can use it to influence you politically. Or they could sell it to the NSA. Or they could be hacked by a foreign nation state.

Targeted advertising is one thing. Blanket surveillance + dragnet data collection + Google ML + PRISM is quite another.
It's hard to motivate oneself to act knowing the act is futile. I was a vegetarian for a decade and a half. What did that achieve for climate change (or unrelated for animal welfare)? Nothing. Because it's almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things especially when most greenhouse gas emissions come from the commercial sector by far. And especially when the commercial sector and political sector that's supposed to govern it aren't doing shit to solve this, especially in America. As another comment points out, we've had the solution for over half a century: nuclear. But we haven't done shit. That's the kind of action that could really help the situation. Other countries are doing a lot better but without collective action it's unlikely we can solve this in time, especially with the politicians in power in the US. In the US this is somehow a partisan issue because the people in power would prefer to kill most human beings on earth and a million other species rather than lose a little money on their fossile fuel investments.

On the scale in the linked article, I'm probably a four or five, but I'm also in my late thirties and don't plan to have kids. So while I stay informed, I don't worry. If I was younger or planned to have kids, I'd be fuming. It's unbelievable how badly our so called leaders, especially in the US have fucked us.