skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pursuing thinness at some point even comes at the expense of higher weight, to maintain adequate rigidity.

I do feel the newest MBPs gave up too much for the sake of thinness already. (The keyboard is unpleasant to use, on top of being unreliable.)

I wish Apple would be so bold as to Think Different here and prioritize usability.
Data aggregators and warehouses that will sell you practically anything the entire marketing industry knows about you, for pennies each ad bid.

Seriously, ever added a credit card to your Google account for android apps? Google knows all your MasterCard transactions. Probably the same for Visa, just unleaked.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
My circa 1969 SSC has that printed on it.

For GP, actually yes, people did think it would be used as a credential to establish identity, and many feared (correctly, as it turns out) that would happen. The phrase used by those people was "Papers, please!" with a German accent, since it was well known by the mid-40s that identity papers were used by the Nazis to control the population. Later variations by people my age was to use a Russian accent since the Bolsheviks also used papers to control the population.

My uncle and aunt never had SSNs for that reason (and no, never paid into or collected social security either.)

I have a friend who is now in his late 50s who has never given his SSN to anyone except the IRS and his employer -- which is actually the law, or at least used to be, perhaps it has changed.

Rather than assume older people are less privacy conscious, the correct assumption is that younger people are less inclined to protect their privacy. Many millennials don't even believe in privacy. I blame it on the generally poor education in history that most younger people have received.
It's amazing and all I get it. But let's not stop helping people because we think technology will always do it's job.

I can see in time people will say they didn't stop to help because they thought his car, watch, phone could've saved him.
A software changing some minor feature reminds you of a world-wide plunge into fascist dystopia?
That's not referring to stylistic concerns, and it's not bashing the DOM per se.

The context of "The DOM is a mess!" on slide 27 is specifically in terms of security, namely "DOM Clobbering" where an attacker can rewrite DOM methods from underneath you, and impedance mismatch owing to parser differences and bugs ("HTML elements implemented in completely different ways, different attribute handling" in the context of defending against XSS).

It's an honest assessment that's more a statement of fact than anything intended to be hurtful. It's not even a harsh statement of truth at that. I find it hard to believe that Chrome or Firefox engineers would find that offensive. I think they would well agree.

DOMPurify is really fantastic security work. It would make for a brilliant contribution to the DOM.
I stopped using firefox years ago when chrome got good, and was happy. I wasn't happy with chrome recently (especially memory and CPU usage), and tried switching back to firefox shortly after the quantum release. I've been happily using it since, and have found comparable or lower resource usage. It actually does fine for me, even with tons of tabs (or as fine as any web browser does).
DigiNinja
Well, it's actually like there is just 1 novel in somebody's basement which noone will ever stumble upon... unless it's in top 3 hits when looking up your name at the one single library that everyone is using.
Kotlin Flow Binding APIs for Android UI Widgets v1.2.0-RC
:) You are right, thanks for pointing that out.

After looking up continence it fits like a glove :)
Sweet! I have waited so long for this. My friends may never truly understand me but at least my brands will.
Again, strawman. An accusation is not a fact. If someone writes something about you and cannot defend it by reference to recorded legal offence or proceeding then it should be taken down.
I'd love to send you some pictures of the titanium plate in my wrist. Motorcycle accident, went over the bars in an angle that my wrists didn't like. Not caused by a watch but ever since I stopped wearing watches. Adding 100+ grams of steel near such a delicate bone is a recipe for disaster.

Also, as a developer, I don't care as much about losing functionality in my lower body. My wrists, hands and brains however are how I make my money. Even though I have full disability insurance, I still would much rather keep working than sit at home.
As of now, posted four hours ago and only one comment.

For a community that prides itself on disruption and global impact, HN sure is quiet on solutions.
#testallkits seems more appropriate than #believeallwomen.
You have firstname/lastname @ gmail too?
dan.eloff @ popular google email service
And in the opposite direction, our space-faring progeny of future physical and virtual galactic colonies squeal in delight by the notion of actually 'carrying' anything.
“ Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” -Rick Cook

I’m sure that this sentiment isn’t exclusive to programmers, but applies to anyone who has to consider how the general population will handle their product.
Agreed, if something can’t be defended with reference to a legal offence or proceeding then it should have the right to be forgotten / removed.
Can you explain the reasoning behind this? Genuinely interested.
Nice article, but what's with the web page design? On desktop, the left half of the screen is just the blog title, while the article is squeezed in the right half. Safari on Mojave if it matters.
Ask HN: Why IBM's OS/2 Warp Has Failed?
Does anyone have an good article about its demise? I remember installing OS/2 many years ago. It was like a more powerful version of Windows 95, but since I had to work with W95 all day, I lost track of the progress and crash of this operating system.
I have a common <firstinitial><lastname>@gmail.com address.

In the last 5 years, I can recall situations where entering my email address led to:

- At least three instances where a multiple people abandoned a new job onboarding due to use of my email address. (In Scotland, Texas and Ireland)

- One instance where someone was leaking sensitive PII and video regarding a workplace incident that killed someone.

- Multiple dressing room / bedroom "how do i look" emails.

- One person sent an email every quarter with a zip file containing a VPN client and a word document with a list of about a dozen username, passwords, etc for the industrial facility that she was a plant safety manager.

- One guy test drives luxury cars in the Washington DC region as a hobby.

- An attorney sent a bunch of litigation related materials to his client. And a bunch of followups to get signatures as deadlines were missed.

- One guy was a big Ashley Madison user

- Lots of real estate agents in weird disjointed conversations.

This stuff has nothing to do with information warfare. Just simple mistakes compounded by complete inattention to detail and often combined with incredibly stupid or irresponsible behavior.
While I don't know much about how secure the messages are in WhatsApp, it's easy to imagine other ways Facebook could harvest data from users. They could track what you tap on in the screen, or how much you scroll, or what buttons you click on. They could still use that information to serve ads effectively in the future.

Like, how many people click on forwarded messages or pictures.
Remap caps lock to Escape in the Keyboard settings. If you’re using vim keybindings, use HJKL for arrow keys.
That's just the company's claims.

When the Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais performed an extreme conditions accelerated aging test (90°C and 85% RH) they found the M-Disc to be no better than most quality DVD+R (<250h), with MPO's Gold and Northern Star's DataTresorDisc reaching 250h (but not 500) and Syylex's GlassMasterDisc surviving almost unscathed to 1000h.

Sadly it looks like Syylex is as dead as Millenniata, Inc (though it looks like Verbatim still sells m-discs).
I think that may be because, at least in America, ethnic minorities are over represented in crime and the "under class" in a way that isn't true of gay people.

I'm not saying its right to draw the conclusion "black people are overrepresented in crime therefore black people/culture must be bad", but I think it is human nature to do so. Going further, if an individual has had a negative experience with a person of another race (e.g. being mugged, living next to an addict, etc.) then there is also likely to be an emotional component that is difficult to overcome.

Again, I want to emphasize that I'm not saying that this is right, just that it's human nature.
This pisses me off as well. At first, it didn't bother me because they aren't getting the emails in the first place, so no big deal.

But then get someone with your name that gets a support tech at your email host that's willing to reset the password for them, even worse bypassing any security they have, and then you're going to have a bad, bad day.
coming from the world of windows ultrabooks, it's sorta hard to imagine how a touchpad could be "too big". does the palm rejection suck, or is it just that you think the real estate could be used better for something else?
That's some baseless assertions if ever there were any. Gimp, Inkscape, VLC, Blender. All open source, all used by enthusiasts and professionals all over the world. Maybe not in the same quantity as that of their open source counterparts, but used by enough people to be counted nonetheless. When it comes to VLC, I dare say, it might even beat its commercial counterparts.
That could not "well and truly" be considered that. There is a very clear legal definition of what "enemies of the US" means: countries that the Congress of the United States has declared war on.

I don't know why people are so hung up on trying to come up with bizarre explanations for why "treason" must be the right word here. It isn't and the explanations aren't even especially arcane. Just pick a different word already.
I had an interesting incident recently, where I was with some relatives and we were trying to plan the next leg of our trip; what restaurants to go to and what directions to take, etc.

Anyway, we had to start using a paper notepad and pens to keep track of the information!
Even for people who just want to paste an address from a text message to look up in maps, and especially if you want to do anything with the calendar.

I just remember 15 years ago on my Treo 650 never needing to do that, and having no problem copying text between different apps seamlessly, between calendar, email, text, maps, and other apps. Same with Blackberry. Using modern Android is as awkward as driving a car with a mouse.

But I think there was an intentional push to minimize options for users, to make fewer pathways for things to go wrong. Forcing people to use pen and paper when they have a smartphone next to them is a UX success for them, because they don't have to improve handling text.
Could you elaborate on why you find it the most rewarding and fun job? What are the rewards and what makes you feel like "fuck yeah this was a good productive day"?
Sprint took FCC cash for “serving” 885,000 people it wasn’t actually serving
that would be a great model
There was recently an interesting discussion on this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20580017

Honestly, while it's all true, with the tools we are using and the endless onslaught of instant notifications, I don't see any meaningful cultural changes possible.
I've tried them; so far I have preferred working in MacOS. I might give the new iPadOS a try.
Many USB-C magnet thingies also have that design
Dunno, if shucking is an option, external consumer WD drives are regularily available under EUR 200 for 10 TB, while bulk drives of same capacity or higher for dedicated storage use are at least 50% more expensive. In my experience this is a releatively new development, that those two markets diverged that much. 2015 and before bulk HDD where usually cheaper than external ones.

If you do care about warranty you can just keep them in the external usb casing and enjoy having an abundance of power supplies and
USB 3 cables.

If it's 24/7 hot storage it also uses 50kWH per Year at 6W. That's also about 15EUR/Year minimum energy costs per drive.

Me feeling is, that all HDD manufacterers are extracting as as much value from the market as they get away with (meaning having more of a smell of informal price fixing, then of free market) while they still can, before they will be made osolete to solid state storage in 5 years latest.
So skimming to awful rant, I see it says Stallman "didn't say the abuse victims were willing" but actually said "the abuser may have thought they were willing". This is awful and Stallman's gross ways have gone on too long.
Not really. This is a common misconception. It is typical to go to the field with very little weight. Very light clothing, light (or often no) footwear. You typically will have a single tool for the job at hand (and whetstone where required). Maybe a woven basket with some lightweight sacks if you are collecting. Its hard enough work without carrying stuff.
Media Player Classic usually came in the same installer as a bundle of codecs (like K-Lite), so you likely installed the two at once, but the model is still different from VLC, in that the codecs get independently installed into the system media framework, not embedded in the player.
I have often wondered why everyone simply doesnt use Pidgin OTR ... or OTR for every communication
As we're building out so much offshore wind now, I have to wonder how much Dinorwig style pumped storage the cost of Hinkley C could have got us. Dinorwig was 10TWh for £400m in 1984, and had "only" taken ten years to build. No clue at all what that might cost now as it'll undoubtedly be far beyond simple inflation.

If we're serious about climate, we have to reduce use of gas too.
If it’s not an offence then it should have a right to be removed. If it is a legal offence like DUI, then it should remain.
Way more.
Just a funny aside if you allow me: gender pronouns are imho a great example of how seemingly trivial design choices can have a ripple effect on systems behaviour. What I mean by that is my mother tongue have no such concept as gender pronouns! It's not a thing. This whole problem that people spend enormous amounts of energy discussing on various social platforms like twitter simply does not exist. I find this rather amusing.
Where are these expectations coming from?
Makes sense - I misunderstood what you meant by order. It’s good to know that g++ gives you an error if the designator are out of order - thanks for pointing that out.
When i was much younger, my friends and I use to joke that you could take a handful of mud, put it in the CD tray, and VLC would open and play the file. Thank you so much VLC team for all you have contributed (and continue to contribute)!
> The requirement comes from the original Civil Rights Act. Say you're a minority student and some other students start using epithets to taunt you (as was common). Are you going to make a federal case out of it? Is it administratively efficient to require a student to make a federal case out of it, especially if all that's required is a firm rebuke from the administration to cease the hostile behavior?

I'm confused, a student being racist against another student is not a crime as far as I know. A student raping another student is a crime. How are these remotely comparable?
Wait, how exactly does iframe sandbox not solve everything? Emails definitely should be shown in them, even with client side decryption, you can create an iframe from a data: URI. iframe sandbox is the strongest sandbox possible. Unique origin, no JS execution…
Bullshit. Not "observed". Modeled, which means nothing real.

Map is not a territory. A models is not What Is.
Your ISP knows where you go without looking at your DNS. Because after you do the lookup you go there.
Wonder if this can be applied to generic audio on Android. Also for things like YouTube ads.

Possibilities are endless.

Can this be applied to sponsor messages on podcasts. Wonder if there's enough of a difference to notice it.
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How does the striking mechanism work? Doesnt the current go through the tallest object around or not nevessarily?
Yes. Let's roughly estimate the probabilities here. We know that 1 in 1000 people suicide every year. Say the average life expectancy is 71 years [1], so a person living a community of 1000 people will roughly see 71 people suicide across their life.

Say, a person has roughly 32 relatives (parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews). It's fairly easy to get to 32.

Then the probability of at least one relative committing suicide is 1-(1-71/1000)^32 = 91%. Which is indeed "virtually every Inuit". With 50 relatives it is 97%.

[1] https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674nunavut_lowest_li...
What Will It Take to Solve the Student Loan Crisis?
The problem with mass surveillance is that it's indiscriminate, not that it's targeted.
Actually I see issue 1, 2, 4 as more relevant issues on the practicality of nuclear power. But as you want more about human issues, a classic work is Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow. The book shows that any complex system is likely to fail due to its inherent complexity, and due to the external social organization. Worth reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents
I think we should take statistics into account.

I think there's a likelihood that someone will lie about being raped, and a likelihood of them identifying a named individual (two numbers that should be considered seperately, since young girls who fall pregnant may lie to avoid blame, while not trying to blame anyone in particular).

I think that similarly, there's a percentage of retractions that will also be false, for various reasons.

This is similar to the statistics question about whether someone has cancer when a test comes back positive. It depends on the accuracy of the test and the base rate.

I could easily believe that there's more false retractions than false accusations (both as a percentage and an absolute number) so I'm not sure a retraction actually increases my belief in their not being a rape, particularly if a specific person is named, without taking into account other specific evidence.
Given that it was built by a highly trusted cryptography team, plus the fact that the protocol can be reverse engineered to confirm encryption and decryption on device, and that over-the-wire traffic has no plaintext, the trust in this is indeed very high.

WA has a lot to lose, and big enough target on it for a backdoor to have been found, if E2E is false.
I'd never say never. If the choice is between working for a bad company or starving and becoming homeless I'd choose the former. Companies I avoid working for include casino and online gambling sites and companies in the fossil fuel industry.
On the other hand, the later magsafe cable was finally the design that seemed to work the best in more chaotic environments like at a cafe where someone can kick the cable.

People complain about how it falls out "all the time", but to me that suggests that it's doing its job.

Meanwhile one of my two usb-c ports on my 2017 MBP is already damaged from normal wear (jiggling a cable will challenge the connection), probably from the times the port took the whole load of a pulled cable. Magsafe did the right thing of sparing the port.

Though as Apple macbooks become lighter and lighter, we increasingly deal with the ridiculous failcase where a pulled cable can launch the entire laptop off the table. I feel like magsafe is even more necessary now than ever before.
TLS keeps your viewing history private from third parties (e.g. your ISP).
Nomadic divers evolve larger spleens to stay underwater for 13 minutes
Just set a node as default gateway manually?

Or run HTTP/SOCKS proxies on these nodes…
ArangoML Pipeline: Common Metadata Layer for Machine Learning
She was quite lucky then that she did not had to marry her rapist. That would sux more.

She did not had choice in whether she can stay in contact with her rapist, tho, despite the money. But it is nice she did not had to marry him, have children with him and be dependent on his income.
Thanks for cluing me into the interesting history of Indonesian subsidies. Here's a good analysis for English readers [1]. It looks like fuel subsidies were very high 5y ago, when oil was at 2x today, and have come off significantly since.

I'd argue that this is exactly the sort of price stabilization mechanism that makes oil volatility less scary it sounds on its face. The government is centralizing (and, more controversially, socializing) the financial cost of creating internal price stability. This is actually pretty common, and I'm not sure 10% of budget (at peak) is as outsized as it sounds. In the USA, this takes the form of buying and releasing oil from the strategic reserve, but also in a mountain of foreign policy (read: military) spending on maintaining stable supply lines for energy trading.

[1] https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/indonesia-energy-refo...
I m not sure i understand what happened. The story is written badly. who s mindright? What does Audible have to do with it? Did your friend rent a house in airbnb? who was asked to leave?
I downsized from a 2016 15” to a 2017 13” a year and regret it. The screen and dual core processor are really insufficient if you’re doing dev work. I recently hopped on a 15” again and was blown away by how much more real estate I had to work with. I don’t think the 1lb difference in weight is worth it at all.
Alcohol loosens your inhibitions and pushes you deeper into the abyss. While you wouldnt have killed yourself sober, the answer might look different after a few bottles. Its the same reason firearms have an influence on the suicide rate. Pulling a trigger is just a lot less of a hurdle then most other methods.