skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simple. It's the same reason that people are fascinated by their sign and horoscope. People want to feel like they belong to a group. They want to feel like they belong and can relate to other people. This gives them a "scientific" (the article mentions that it has long been abandoned as useful) validation. To the lay person it's very hard to explain to them how, how according to this theory and such, it doesn't really work. People are going to always like things like this, because it's easy to relate to and makes them feel better about not a single anomaly that is like no one else.
Yeah but who answers calls from unknown numbers anymore? It’s pretty much 99% spam already.
IMHO it's not about Facebook directly making money from dating subscriptions, it's about getting back a chunk of the user engagement that Facebook has lost to dating apps, i.e. adding dating gives users another reason to stay in the Facebook app, helping Facebook stay relevant in their lives (and spend less time in other apps), plus of course increase session durations & other positive metrics which help company reports, and ultimately derive income by showing more ads to users, likely within the dating experience itself (eventually, if not intially).
> This data is used by our product, marketing, and customer success teams

It always seems to be the marketing analytics data that's wide open for 'hackers'.

You could spend all day building a secure DB and application architecture then have the marketing team upload analytics for everything onto some random insecure service.

Maybe the marketing/data teams need to get some security lessons as part of their training the way programmers learn?
Ever since I researched into Myers-Briggs, I've considered it to be the equivalent of a Buzzfeed quiz ("Which Star Wars character are you?"). Entertaining, perhaps even insightful on a superficial level, but not at all useful.
I think the greatest impetus for general artificial intelligence will be college students trying to cheat on their homework or tests.
Software is usually slow because most of the time developers don't get paid for runtime performance, but features.
I've only ever heard that term being used derogatoroly online, do you really use Aspie as a term of endearment towards your family member?
I mean it's nothing to do really with the math. It's the fact that you have to send the real data to an untrusted 3rd party and rely on their word that they will anonymize your data.

And if a situation arises where a manager at Google has to make the decision to 'slightly' reduce the effectiveness of differential privacy because they need a certain metric for a report do you really think they're going to make the principled choice?
Why is Indonesia out of order?
They look like different tiers of sets the first one is like a 20$ set while the second is a 10$ one
It raises the question, where is the line drawn for FB users of things they will refuse to share with Facebook and/or allow Facebook to control?
The single-socket POWER9 systems the Raptor folks sell aren't that much more expensive than a similarly performing Xeon box and are completely open.
This is totally regional and item category specific. Anything primarily bought sold by the people that write "I check email once a week and don't text so call me" in their CL ads is not going to be on marketplace.
This. I'm considering building some system to open the blinds around my wakeup time, since the neighbor's floodlights are so bright.
When Waterfall Principles Sneak Back into Agile Workflows
8chan: Hate and the Internet
We prove our fitness by surviving.
Seems like a smart guy!
How old is old? I'm 28 and would not use this because I don't trust Facebook.

My little brother is 16 and I know he won't use this because no one he knows uses Facebook. I don't even think he has an account. They're all on Snapchat and IG. I was talking to him about this last week. They all think of Facebook as for a different generation. As stale.

I feel similarly and know a lot of my circle does too. Except for events and sometimes messaging, nothing happens there.
I’ve worked at many startups and a high level principle i’ve found useful is “introduce process when not doing it hurts more”

- you could just work on flat files and sync with Dropbox. But losing history and context hurts. Introduce version control.

- hurts more to host your own git than just paying GitHub/GitLab. Do that.

- Small prototype for startup. Don’t need tests. That’s cool. Ship to production directly. Now you have customers and shit is regressing and pissing customers off. Introduce CI so every merge with master has some level of quality.

- Now you have multiple team members all committing code at various levels of quality. Make sure they reviewed by people who have code context and know what good code is. Pull requests and reviews for merges.

- people don’t know what to do. What is highest priority? what is the scope? what are the unknowns? how long will things take? Introduce something like trello or any other task management system. Work against goals broken down into tickets and plan in small increments.

- shit goes on fire occasionally. Have an oncall rotation. Monitor metrics and alert if something needs investigating.
An ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. From an economical standpoint (especially through the viewpoint of the situation in America) measures like these would save the taxpayer money in the long run with less emergency issues arising and needing to be covered by public funds. I'm not sure why measures like these aren't used everywhere.
Never play the "who's dumber" game with private companies you'll always lose. If it happens twice you should switch on your common sense and stop using the service, or at the very least change your behaviour/don't be surprised if you get banned.

> which any engineer worth their salt should’ve predicted - this is not rocket science

There are probably tons of other issues you don't know about. Making it work offline would probably increase the attack surface, &c.
I have plenty of people in my extended friend group who are in their mid to late 20s, and most of them are still quite active on FB.

Nobody thinks it's cool or fun anymore, of course. But it's still the go-to spot for sharing life events, family news, anything you want to brag about really. Or any vacation pictures that you'd like grandma and grandpa to see.

IG is still image driven, so it's not a platform you can easily use for relaying text based information to your social network.
Slack's long-term value prop isn't chat, it's the platform. If you've used any of the great bot apps it hosts (PTO Ninja for example), it's easy to imagine a future where these kinds of apps replace whole swaths of bloated Saas-ware. I'm excited to see more of these and a competitive eco-system emerge within Slack the way Apple built the app store. Slack should invest heavily in building a platform for developers if it wants to grow, if it can pull this off it's going to look a lot more like Salesforce.com in 5 years where whole industries are built on its back. This is also the moat they have against MS Teams. Microsoft hasn't been as successful in building wildly productive developer ecosystems since the Windows 9X days.
> A Casino could unilaterally bar entry to all people from a certain ethnicity and they wouldn't have to justify themselves?

Ethnicity is a protected class, so no, you can't just ban people based on that. "Being really good at gambling" is not a protected class.
> They openly talk about their dating life at work or friends group. They don't mind getting matched with a coworker or classmate.
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Coworkers and classmates aren't the problem. For young people, facebook is where mom and grandma is. Not that you're gonna match with them, but just sharing the name is a turn off.
What exactly do you propose? A zipcar that doesn't allow allow you to drive outside of the city?
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, AI Knows Where You Are
Doctors, lawyers, and commercial pilots are licensed professionals.

Doctors and lawyers are personally liable for their screw-ups. I don't know how liability works with pilots but they will lose their license if they screw up.

By operating within the medical standard of care, doctors diminish malpractice liability. So having well-defined systems that help prove that you follow the medical standard of care is important.

Lawyers don't have anything like that as a whole. Each lawyer handles their clients their own way. Even in the same firm different partners will have different practices. Some use checklists for their staff to confirm that the certain required forms have been filled out or provided.

In the actual work of lawyering, checklists are not a thing I have seen. Though there are "outline" documents to help with bigger projects.
There are indeed satistics showing that standard transmissions actually correlate positively with driver attenttiveness. I will try to find a link...
> probably because brave upcoming ad network will do the same but more workaroundily

AFAICT Brave's plan is to send a block of potential ads to the client and use a client-side machine learning algorithm to choose specific ads. So the claim is that none of client events, inferences from the algo, nor ad choices travel from the client to the ad networks. (But ad networks retain their crazy microtargetting which I guess is the selling point.)

Even if Brave were to choose the blocks of ads based on geolocation and other install-time/runtime data which they then sell to third parties, it's still significantly less data leaking from the client's browser compared to, say, a default Chrome install. But them storing/selling that would be a clear GDPR violation as well as going directly against all their explicit public claims so far.

What is your understanding of Brave's upcoming ad network that leads you to believe it requires a surreptitious GDPR violation?
The genealogy and history of popular music genres
Seeing way too many "incidents" these days ....

I would like at least one company to post an "incident" reveal in a more honest way:

" Due to our carelessness and relatively insecure practices, we had improperly disclosed user accounts to a moderately savvy hacker. We realize this is our fault.

If you'd like to help and given that we have your attention now, it would be valuable if you can help pentest our servers: the attacker used a simple SQL attack based on an unpatched server via CVE-3245. Are we missing anything else? Please let us know.

Thank you."
A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble
Is the money dumb as long as it's pursuing greater returns now?
Phishing Attacks on Android via SMS
Seems like the spirit of this article is "don't debate test coverage, code design, etc. and just get the job done because meeting requirements is all that matters" and that we should focus on making code shorter. No evidence is offered that shorter code is somehow better than code that adheres to "best practices" or has higher test coverage. Has anyone here fit an entire enterprise software system into half a page, thereby obviating the need for unit tests and clean, understandable code?

This feels like someone that just wants to throw whatever code they want over the wall without being bothered to design it well, write tests for it, and adhere to a team's shared design guidelines. I can't stand working with people like this. Just my two cents.

EDIT: I see that this isn't the primary point of the article, and that maybe the author means we could rid ourselves of so much debate by creating more powerful tools and working at a higher level of abstraction. I think that some of these same things are being attempted, though, when someone suggests a design pattern or something within existing code that could raise the level of abstraction, and that it's worthwhile to have that debate rather than label code design best practices as trivialities.
I use a rayon (bamboo) weighted blanket and so long as there's reasonable air flow, it isn't unreasonably warm and is also a lovely weighted blanket.
One issue is that with a tiling WM you have little choice about the window dimensions.

I'd love for fingerprinting-resistant browsers to either lie, or scroll a viewport.
People are working longer for reasons of choice and necessity
It makes me wonder how sensitive generation Z is to privacy concerns. It would seem to me that there would be vast differences between that generation and say, Gen X and Boomers (who for a long time refused to share credit card numbers with e-commerce sites). Perhaps the true success of this feature will become apparent with the coming Generation(s), assuming Facebook manages to maintain its position as the premier social networking site.
Android's hardware is extremely fractured with the majority of the devices sold being cheap and missing the good features, including hardware security.

Apple's phones are more homogeneous. Certainly a larger percentage of Apple users have a Secure Enclave than Android users do.
I'm sure bombs and nerve gas can be used for defense. And we will soon have the ability to make targeted plagues.
> 42% of chrome extensions have abused the web requests API

No. The accurate quote is (my emphasis) "According to Google, 42% of MALICIOUS extensions have used the Web Request API since January 2018".[1]

Note that the source for this quote is Google itself, so they picked this one statistic for publication. We do not know what else they found which is not published, i.e. it's potentially conveniently self-serving toward their manifest v3 narrative.

I reiterate: deprecating the blocking ability of the webRequest API will break key parts of uBlock Origin ("uBO"), and will break uMatrix completely, because of the hard-coded matching algorithm of declarativeNetRequest (there are other issues) which is merely an implementation to enforce EasyList-like rules.

I know how uBO/uMatrix extensions work, I wrote them from scratch. If you want to argue why they will work fine, you will have to do better they merely repeating Google's narrative regarding changes in manifest v3.

ABP will be fine because the primary purpose of ABP is to serve as a revenue source for Eyeo GmbH through its "Acceptable Ads" product (of which Google is a partner), which can still function just fine with the declarativeNetRequest API -- as shown by it's Safari iOS version.

I am not alone in my criticism, for instance the EFF:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/googles-plans-chrome-e...

Chrome Web Store allows extensions with remote code execution capability[2], this is the foremost issue and it's the one they could have fixed a long time ago with no API changes. That it has not been fixed is what you should be questioning.

* * *

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/google-chrome-manifest-v3-ad-...

[2] https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1139306139072507906
I think it's worth introducing to the discussion that human reaction time to an unanticipated stimulus is somewhere around 150-250ms.
The ~140-150ms practically achievable latency over a hemispheric arc in real world IP networks is already fairly close to the limit imposed by the human element.
However, latency in IP networks is measured as RTT while human reaction time to a stimulus is given as the one way path latency.
The more accurate comparison would be between the ~70ms one way path latency of the optical terrestrial network with the same 150-250ms of one way path latency for the human to react to a directly applied stimulus.
At the extreme of the range of human factors and accounting for the differing scale, human factors are responsible for up to 80% of the reaction latency.
> folks like the Club of Rome declared we'll all be dead from overpopulation and Malthusian collapse by the year 2000

Some of the actual predictions from the CoR's "Limits to Growth", according to the Wikipedia page about that document:

> Given business as usual, i.e., no changes to historical growth trends, the limits to growth on earth would become evident by 2072, leading to "sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity".

(2072 is quite a long time after 2000. I wonder whether it's a typo for 2027, given what follows, but that too is a long time after 2000.)

> Global Industrial output per capita reaches a peak around 2008, followed by a rapid decline ... Global Food per capita reaches a peak around 2020, followed by a rapid decline ... Global Services per capita reaches a peak around 2020, followed by a rapid decline ... Global population reaches a peak in 2030, followed by a rapid decline

Those are all well after 2020. (The first of them doesn't seem like it's correct, thankfully. I suspect the others are some way off, too. But I'm not arguing that the CoR were right, only that they didn't say what you say they said.)
This is why I’m against third-party analytics in any app/service. Someone compromising the analytics provider can get a lot of data from app end-users even across different apps that use the same analytics service.
The mouth of Eckernförde is a pretty good place to observe the main transit belt between the North Sea and the Baltic.

This monitoring station disappeared toward the end, or shortly after, a major Russian naval exercise involving almost all of their northern fleet.

The US has moved an aircraft carrier, the Harry S Truman, near the coast of Norway, perhaps to observe Russian activity.

The Russians have two diesel-electric boats, both Kilo class, in the Baltic. Apparently, one of them has been out of commission for a while. The rumour is that they're significantly upgrading their Baltic submarine fleet.

While no passive sonar function has been disclosed for this station, it is fairly new, expensive and high-tech. It was deployed recently as an upgrade to the German data collection system in Kiel Bay.

Perhaps the Russians wished to transfer nuclear submarines to the Baltic to upgrade their fleet, and this station was seen as a concern.
hm, being 'more efficient' would be true if the ideal way was known.

Waterfall would also be 'more efficient' if we knew the right product to make and way to make it. If agile has taught us anything it's that we don't know and we can't know. We learn through trial and error and continually innovate. If there is only one company there is no incentive to innovate and discover better efficiencies.

So while the 'logic' is right, the supposition[0] is incorrect.

This is why 'the market' is the best way in practice. We observe an ebb and flow of centralization (Amazon is a good example) and decentralization in various industries. This is caused by innovation and disruption. When one company innovates/disrupts so well and continues to execute it can become a de facto "monopoly," gaining near 100% market share.

When the industry and market are allowed to continue unabated[1] this 'monopoly' can eventually be broken if the company fails to innovate and leaves the industry vulnerable to upstart disruptors. The very possibility means even with 100% market share the company is not a true monopoly, and in practice the consumer benefits from the company's 'existential fear' which motivates it to continue to serve its customers in better and better ways.

[0] knowing the best way
[1] assuming the major player(s) doesn't lobby/enact regulations to protect its market/industry position

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To clarify: It's not __my__ argument. I'm simply saying that the powers that be are maintaining the status quo because its what keeps them in power.

I'd like to add, I put "leader" in quotes but what should be done is something real leaders do. They're willing and able. Instead, we have people in charge who are no leaders, and thus we don't get leader-esque action from them. Essentially, the spineless leading the mindless.
After a few cocktails, once or twice, I've wondered with friends whether some "fuzzy" information rate constant might be a reference by which our brain understands the passage of time. In other words: if there is a fundamental processing rate of x/time, then theoretically, wouldn't our brains subconsciously use that for all kinds of neat reasons?

And the rate wouldn't have to be the exact same value for each individual, so long as the brain can attune its specific value to other reference points to time in nature.
I have been using https://github.com/oznu/docker-cloudflare-ddns

Support IPV6, only update if IP changes, has multiple IP providers, Docker image available for amd64/arm (alpine).
This announcement is about the release of an open source library. Using it doesn't help Google.
Part of the problem is that there isn't a centralized Science Propaganda Council issuing these warnings, which could be told to do better. Scientists publish studies and sometimes strongly worded letters; journalists and authors pick it up and twist into something that (then) sells publications / (now) attracts eyeballs to advertisements; people mishear these reports further, freak out and tell to each other (or, today, post on social media).
I use an eyemask that also has soft headphones, so I can listen to pink noise or meditations.
> closer (or so I believe, and according to [1])

Venus is physically closer, but that isn't the best measure of "closeness" for propulsive space travel. The right metric is delta-v, "a measure of the impulse per unit of spacecraft mass that is needed to perform a maneuver" [1].

Ignoring aerobraking, it takes almost 5x the energy to get to Venus compared to Mars [2]. (Side note, to drive the point home: it's easier to boost objects out of the Solar System, from Earth, than to send them into the Sun.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2679107/Mind...
Already posted a few months ago, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20280587
I was very hostile to your take, but after thinking about it for a minute, this is an interesting point.

I don't think it holds up for commercial sites, but for news, hobbies, and blogs (which have been hit hardest by Google's vampire advertisement business) your statement is true for me!
It’s interesting how much SoftBank has interest in. A friend of mine’s company was given funding by Softbank, but those funds were delayed due to Saudi interests being held up by blocked wire transfers at the time.

A _lot_ of Softbanks’ money comes from Saudi Arabia and Iran, etc
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/108705470628810...

Well, thats half of the problematic drivers, and i suspect texters as well. /s
58% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. Check your privilege, tech worker? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/58-americans-less-1-000-09000...
Spoons? The U.S. is responsible for a whopping 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions. China is the only country on the planet that emits more than us, and they have ~4x the population.
From the article:

'A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a federal government database that compiles people deemed to be “known or suspected terrorists” violates the rights of American citizens who are on the watchlist'
You're totally correct that the properties in the article were granted after abdication, but I'm not in favor of the large amount of property returned to them after WW1.

And in regards to Soviet confiscation in Czechoslovakia, I would argue that the Communist revolution in Europe is related to the fall of the Monarchy, and when Communists come to power it makes sense that they would seize the land of nobles (even those from other countries).
Not properly.
Scrappy was the biggest meddler...always mucking up the works.
No, his central point was that he would never listen to anyone on the issue that didn’t have specific ideological positions, which turn out to be the least likely people in the world to accurately represent the science due to blatant conflicts of interest. It’s in impossible request.

To my knowledge the only major political party anywhere in the world to deny the science of anthropogenic climate change is the Republican Party in the United States, and those are the only people he will listen to. It’s an absurd situation.