skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be perfectly happy to receive a popup that an automation had just run. Also, Apple has been pushing for self-adjusting notification preferences. Imagine a popup like:

"The shortcut 'Foo' wants to run. Do you want to allow it?

- Never

- Not this time

- Run once

- Always"

Put an icon next to each shortcut showing whether it's always (or never) allowed, and it seems like the problem would be largely solved without asking much from the end user.
Where is the USPS charging less now?

I agree with you that the right deal was made. But the cheap shipping from China has pretty much proved a market for subsidized small parcel shipping as an economic multiplier that ought to be made available to everyone in the US and abroad.
Ditto. Nowadays, I found that it's easier to just go straight to HN comments and determine if I should spend time reading the articles posted here. :) Of course sometimes, I end up spending more time reading comments, but at least, I feel like I am better informed to judge the articles if I decide to read them after reading the comments here.
Inside the campaign that tried to compromise Tibetans’ iOS and Android phones
Neither of you have legitimate arguments, and are both in fact strawmanning your "opposition". I'd suggest actually reading the IPCC report if you haven't yet, as it's all of our future.
Because today's nuclear powers are greed driven rather than ideologically driven. Yes, that's safer.

The biggest risk is religious zealots commanding a nuclear arsenal. No, that isn't Iran.
I think child molestation and other sexual offences are normally dealt with via alternative means. In the UK there is a sex offenders register as well as background checks for people working with children etc.
That article doesn’t argue for any sort of causal relationship between climate change and racism. Rather, it argues that a similar kind of denialism in the face of facts undermines the notion of shared truth by further entrenching people within their (a priori) belief systems.

Put another way, Kendi is pointing out different manifestations of the dangers of equating (dis)belief with knowledge.
The horrible last season of GoT, drop in gun crimes, raise in gun crimes.

You can use that with anything.

When a school shooting happens I always hear how video games and scary goth music push them over the edge.
The rule for big corporations is that you must announce your plans and make them as grand as possible to build your budget/empire. This is necessary to prevent a takeover from one of the other many groups doing the exact same thing within the company.
Oh, well in that case, it's a combination of:
1) lying, and...
2) there are no better numbers available for an early stage company. You can't go by profitability or revenue early on, because there's a lot you need to do before you get your first customer, and some of that continues to pay off. So, in the absence of reliable measures of value (a long history), they make do with the least bad method available (how much did somebody guess it would be worth).

I think also, if you have to find a place to park billions or tens of billions of dollars, it's easy to convince yourself that the $10million company you're looking at is worth a billion, or the $1billion company you're looking at is worth ten billion. The alternative is to go back to your own investors and say, "sorry, there's not enough good ideas out there to invest in, here's your money back". It's got to be hard to convince yourself that's the least bad option.
Essentially Dropbox is arguing that, due to the way they have implemented it, the feature does require this information sharing.

While it clearly could be implemented many different ways, and I agree Dropbox should do better in this case, I think this is one of the difficulties in enforcing something like GDPR. Almost anything could be made to work in an anonymous way, so where do you draw the line? When signing up for Facebook or an email account, for example, there is no reason they need my phone number. Sure, they say it is for password reset purposes, but there are other solutions for this, or I can simply agree not to be able to reset the password for that account... etc.
I took a gander at a bunch of the C++ ones. They are pretty horrible. It looks like direct translations from generic snippets (just a syntax transformation).
> Is that what it signals? As someone who isn't a native speaker but believes themselves close to one, I don't read it that way.

Maybe you are right. I read it that way but I'm not a native speaker either.
I don't think I have missed the point. I think you're more versed in Land's thinking than I am, but I have been reading his blog for years, and I've had a good deal of mental anguish over the humanity-has-no-agency problem.

I get it, capitalism is an alien AI and we're just the hardware, and if not capitalism substitute in something like sexual selection instead. And our coordination problems are such that we cut any tall reeds that try to stand against this. Moloch! Nightmare in Moloch! So, OK, "humanity" has no agency.

But I think individuals do. At the very least, they can not make things worse. They can become the kind of people who, if dropped into a perfect society, wouldn't drag it down. And then they can (a harder task, in computation as well as effort!) become the kind that soften the blows of the elder gods, even while paying them proper respect.

I tend to hold with Nyan, as quoted in Meditations on Moloch(http://web.archive.org/web/20140801022058/http://slatestarco...):

And then there’s us. Man has his own telos, when he is allowed the security to act and the clarity to reason out the consequences of his actions. When unafflicted by coordination problems and unthreatened by superior forces, able to act as a gardener rather than just another subject of the law of the jungle, he tends to build and guide a wonderful world for himself. He tends to favor good things and avoid bad, to create secure civilizations with polished sidewalks, beautiful art, happy families, and glorious adventures...The project of civilization being for man to graduate from the metaphorical savage, subject to the law of the jungle, to the civilized gardener who, while theoretically still subject to the law of the jungle, is so dominant as to limit the usefulness of that model.
“In the cold war people built concrete bunkers in their basement for fear of a nuclear Armageddon.”

It’s not like this threat went away. People just stopped paying attention to it.
I know two people on the “30 under 30” list. Both of them are incredibly charismatic and charming in person. Their Instagram and Twitter accounts churn out constant brand building material. They both have pseudo-startups with noble causes and vibrant websites. Their startups have a list of impressive advisers, including B-list senators and industry executives.

However, neither of them have made any progress on building an actual business. One of them has supposedly been developing the same simple product for almost 7 years now, but they’ve never been able to produce even a proof of concept prototype.

I thought I was missing something for the longest time, until I let go of the idea that they were really trying to build a company. They’re not. They’re building their personal brand, and succeeding wildly thanks to publications like the “30 under 30” list that have an insatiable appetite for underdog success stories.

Surely some of these companies are legitimately successful with great business models, but they’re mixed into these lists with the brand builders who know how to game the system. I’d be interested in reading an honest “Where are they now” follow up series that checks in with these founders at the 5-year mark after they make this list to see who the real successes are.
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The Evolution of Lisp (2008)
In Python, filenames can be either bytes or string.

Also, I made a mistake in my previous post. File I/O can deal with bytes OR strings depending on the parameters sent to the `open()` function.

file_handle = open('somefile.txt')

This opens the file in text mode (so `file_handle.read()` returns strings) using a platform-dependent encoding. On Windows, this will probably be CP-1252. On Linux, UTF-8. Of course, you can always explicitly choose the encoding:

file_handle = open('somefile.txt', encoding='utf8')

If you know you want to only deal with bytes, you can explicitly set that:

file_handle = open('somefile.ext', mode='rb')

I agree that it'd be nice to be able to see bytes vs strings errors at compile time, but this is difficult or even impossible with a duck-typed interpreted language like Python. IDEs and linters can make a good attempt at it, but they're not perfect.
This is something I started working on a couple of days ago, I hope you enjoy it!
This is why excessive TLA usage is bad.
Because you can't fly aircraft when you're bankrupt, and the funds to repatriate people are pooled by the industry, not retained by the individual failing travel company.
Weirdly, I scored completely average on the math for the GMAT despite an engineering and math degree and pretty much aced the verbal without any studying (figured out early on I needed to focus on studying quant, which I hated the test). But, I probably had a heavier English background than most people taking the test as I worked for newspapers and did a lot of personal writing for many years. Guess it's all about how you line up against the field in some cases.
InfluxDB introduces new pay as you scale on the cloud model
Fascinating.

We've been working on an internal project for layout of digital circuits using stochastic search and ML and have been having good results. ML and AI in general will likely have a pretty big impact on circuit design in the near future, excited to see other work in this area ^_^
Average and Extraordinary Lives
ARM and Qualcomm Will Continue to Supply Huawei Despite US Ban
Not the least reason is that you've constrained yourself to Topic X due to your own announcement.
For people who wants to go directly without visiting the article...

This is the AltStore's main link: https://altstore.io

This is the author's launch blogpost: http://rileytestut.com/blog/2019/09/25/introducing-altstore/

And this is the Github repo: https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore
These are going to occur anyway (along with freezing permafrost, lowering sea levels, stable weather patterns). These are ordinary problems that we adapt to.

The problem I'm talking about is the idea that these are preventable. They're not. It's an imaginary problem. The US , for example, can _eliminate_ CO2 production and those things are still going to happen. The imaginary problem is that climate change is a problem to solve.
> One possibility is gravitational lensing.

From a distance there is no difference in lensing between a black hole and an regular object of the same mass.

From close there would be a difference, but if you could resolve something that small you would be able to directly image the object.
It's amazing to me this is actually a debate. The US Constitution forbids people under 25 from being in Congress because children are not expected to have reasonable political opinions. They're children! They've never paid tax, worked or truly made their own decisions or experienced the consequences.

In this case, do you think these children are being presented with any alternate views at all? Are any of them being presented with the arguments of climate change skeptics in a neutral forum? Of course not. Most adults are never presented with these arguments, let alone children. No, they're being told that for inexplicable reasons the world is filled with evil people who want everyone to die and they ... children ... must fight them or the world will end! That'd have been like telling 8 year olds in the 1950s they had to fight communism. There's no way bringing children of that age into things can ever be a good idea.
> No, it wasn't a virus.

Chrome is spyware that can be used to browse the web (while advancing the agenda of the ad company that built it).

Since spyware is loosely classified as a virus, I would beg to differ with the headline.

By the way, aside from all the "regular tracking" it does, did you know that the Chrome updater spawns programs with random names that write other programs with random names. Sounds like a virus?

And just check out what it is doing to get you past a captcha... you can't. It is on a OS level, not a browser level, and everything about what it is doing is VERY obfuscated. Very virusy IMO?
Climate change is a symptom, the underlying problem is our divorce from Nature.

There are other symptoms: plastic is everywhere; insects and birds are vanishing; etc.

We treat the world as source and sink when it is really cyclical.

Applied ecology ("Permaculture", regenerative agriculture, "food forests", etc.) shows that we can supply most of our needs locally and within our Solar energy budget: food, waste processing, medicine, fuel, building materials, etc. And it's fun and easy.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2017/10/8/anatomy-o...
Fracking might be helping with CO2, but it's also releasing a ton of methane which might not be as bad in the long term but is really really bad in the short term. If we've got a few decades before the point of no return... great! If not.. oh well, it's been a good run I guess?

Not to mention the absolute havoc it's wrecking on local environments.

It's also only good if it's a stop-gap for renewables.. so I'll thank a republican once they stop blocking measures to improve and subsidize solar, wind, and other clean energy solutions.
I didn't do any prep for the SAT or ACT. Later I considered taking the GRE and read a prep book that had tips like above. I was astounded how much easier it made the verbal questions.
Nukes are not that powerful. See: https://what-if.xkcd.com/15/
Between Eras: How Bad Tech Teaching May Have Screwed over Millennials
Do you believe it's ever possible for anyone to genuinely disagree with leftist activism in good faith? It sounds a lot like the answer is no.
The privacy concerns aren't that easy to solve.

For example, let's say site G, well known for fingerprinting and tracking, wants to estimate how long since you last visited site W recently. W uses modern software engineering recommended practices: CI/CD with several deploys a day, heavily minimised EMCAScript, various icons too.

When you visit any page on G, G serves you a page that uses 37 scripts (called "signals") of particular exact, minified versions, which G happens to know M has served on any particular day. The scripts are loaded in such a way that they don't really do anything.

From that, G can estimate when you visited W, and on what day.

This works so well that G starts adding invisible iframes or AJAX calls to signed copies of entire popular pages from W, and through that, works out exactly what you've been reading. It takes a while because people read different things, but guess by guess, they build up a profile of your W reading habits over time, and the more accurate the profile becomes, the better they are able to estimate what pages to check next.

They do this even though you don't visit G all that often, because G's page does its measurements continuously while the page is loaded. You try turning off JavaScript, but G's A/B test-driven AI helpfully evolves a clever workaround with nested iframes and meta-refresh, so it doesn't make much difference.

Eventually this is done in G's ServiceWorker so it trickles along in the background, and G keep the bandwidth usage low enough that you don't notice. Battery consumption is hardly affected because they run their probes at the same time as the ubiquitous mobile-server-to-client-notification service wakes up the radio. Which 99% of users have running all the time.

A kind of "web crawling", if you will, but crawling the client's history, crawling shared, signed ETags just by trying them.
How did an 11 year old kid get "opted in" to the system in the first place?

And resolving an unfair situation by working within the absurd system without screaming about it just means that people will continue to be hurt by it.
Note the followup link he posts at the end: https://www.bassam.com/single-post/CSI-TED-Talks-What-Derek-...

Where it comes out in support of stating goals in some circumstances, and clarifies that what it's really against is saying things like "I want to be a lawyer", because then what that means is that you'll be apt to behave consistently with wanting to be a lawyer, and not with taking the steps to actually become a lawyer. (Or how my yoga-instructor friend explained it, "So then the universe responds, 'ok, poof! You now want to be a lawyer!'")
We're not talking about just any data brokers though, the parent comment mentioned credit bureaus specifically.

I'm not a lawyer, but if you're applying for a line of credit with false information, I'm pretty sure that's a crime.

If you're not applying for a line of credit, I don't think credit bureaus such as Equifax or "Transperian" (which I assume is a portmanteau of TransUnion and Experian) will base anything on that data, since it's so obviously easy to manipulate.
Correct.

The images and the bio on a tinder profile has to so bad that women quite literally pick people whom women pretty much know will interact that way because even that is better than the alternatives.

You are on HN. There are hundreds of posts about negotiations and evaluation of available options. BATNA is thrown around in every one of them. I am baffled that people continue to pretend that it just does not magically apply to dating.

Your profile is your pitch deck. If no one wants to fund you, you should ask yourself if you need to change your pitch deck if you are convinced that your idea has a merit. Or maybe you can follow the HN startup advice and pivot to something else.

If doing the same thing over and over again does not achieve the desired result, one is ought to adjust approach.
The black hole would act identically to a regular object of the same mass.

It doesn't have any special ability to slingshot things to crazy speeds.

Remember - the slingshot doesn't add speed from the gravity of the object, it ads speed from the rotation of the object around the sun.
I would argue it's moot to discuss consciousness unless someone prefaces the discussion with a specific definition, preferably a scientific one and not some woo.

Philosophical consciousness suffers from too many issues for day to day discussion, some previous arguments I made in this direction before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20501688
Yes but I imagine a lot of developers haven't. How many new projects are being started on a mainframe?
My arguments are the facts.

Climate action, measuring exactly this, has China as doing "OK" and India as doing "great" when their comulative projected ”increase" by 2030 will be similar than all present emissions by USA and EU.

This is the ideology being pushed at the moment.

https://climateactiontracker.org/
Is there a tangible value to being on that list?
I met a lot of great women on Bumble. I really appreciated having them do the hard work of speaking first.

Yeah, I got a few "hey"s, which just put the ball back in my court, and I'd decide whether I wanted to put for the effort of opening the conversation. It's actually a really good skill for showing that you're interested in her, by picking up on some detail of her profile. It shows that you're perceptive and have some common interest. And conversely, if she can't do better than "hey", that tells me something about her.

I like it better than the assumption that I was required to do it, as on most other dating sites/apps. That assumption is sexist, though less annoying than being bombarded with dick pics and "DTF?" openers as so many women are. Dating sites are hard for them, too.
While satirical, this doesn’t really make sense as an answer to question at hand. Natural selection dictates that intelligence, if possessed, will be put to use to further survival and reproduction. There are some limits to this — humans in many cases clearly have other goals — but it should be true to a large extent. The wheel, New York, and wars are pretty clearly aligned with this goal.

If the octopus possessed sufficient intelligence, something along the lines of an octopus city would presumably be in the cards. Or if they do possess such intelligence, the question again is why not form civilizations (which would presumably boost survival and fertility rates)?
The co2 warming effect is not in discussion, as you say. But there are cascades of events stemming from the warming itself, and those are integral part of our concern with climate change. How much sea rise will there be? How much will the weather patterns change? How, and how much this will impact catastrophic events? Which negative (or positive) impacts there will be on economies? And of which countries' economies? What will be the ecological impacts? What will be the impacts on health, on infectious diseases? What will be the societal impacts? Etc.

Some of these effects are two or three or more steps removed from the warming caused by co2, and there is a "cascade of uncertainty" in predicting them.

I agree with the GP that being climate (and atmosphere) omnipresent, it is easy and tempting to draw long causal chains from it to the most disparate effects. And that, given the theme is central to our time, and given the number of scientists of all disciplines working to study these effects, in the most rigorous fields a publication bias on the effects found must exist. In the less rigorous, most probably anything goes.
Facebook has to fix this problems mark says
I've always been struck by the detail that he and his wife died in a double suicide, because he was terminally ill. This man who wrote so profoundly about brainwashing and thought control in the end persuaded a woman that since he wasn't going to live any longer, her life wasn't worth living, either.

I only have the profoundest respect for Darkness at Noon. I read it in high school and it has stayed with me ever since. But it strikes me that sometimes you escape great trauma and sometimes you don't. A man who spent a lot of his time having a great public will forced upon him tried to escape that, but turned around and exerted the same abuse on other people in his private life. Sort of like the man who says, "I'll never be like my alcoholic father. He drank whiskey. I only drink beer."
iOS:

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15556/Apple-Iphone-Os.htm...

loading dev drivers should be done differently, and limited to dev, not production. the fact that one needs to disable security feature in production indicates a bad design.

i.e. the user may explicitly allow loading of particular objects (using hashes).
Performance Testing React with Anonymous Functions
Apple Maps now shows a "Share ETA." You can slide up from the arrival time to find it after setting a destination, but it also popped up pretty prominently a few times. The only bummer (the only time I've tried to use it) is that it only has options to send to contacts.
"Folder directory deleted"

Cringe.
How many times did Ann Rule interact with Ted Bundy and he didn't murder her once?

I mean, he can't be all that murdery, right?

We're talking about nuking a filesystem, not glitching out randomnly. That it hasn't nuked the filesystem before is not extenuating circumstances. It doesn't speak to character either.