skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of it is due to lack of understanding, you see new buildings being built that are going to rent out at the high range, and you think nobody actually affected by lack of housing will benefit from it. People who think differently ought to do a better job explaining to the general public why building luxury housing can help the people not living in luxury housing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21141149

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21105388
The headline of your link literally says "falling short of forecasts". That supports the "damaged growth story" assertion, doesn't it?
Teachers' master's degrees are, in effect, a way to divert money from (mostly) teachers and (a little bit, some places) school districts to universities for no actual benefit, so that's great. Hope they manage to keep it up and that spreads.

OTOH it'd be nice if there were still a way to reward teachers who'd done a real and relevant master's (which very few of them do now), but I don't think anyone's interested in nailing down that distinction. It's not even just degree mills, either, AFAIK the vast majority of postgraduate programs aimed at teachers are designed, primarily, to be pretty easy to pass and to have relatively low time commitments. They all want a piece of that action, and if they increase the rigor demand for their product will drop because a hypothetical very hard, non-bullshit teaching master's from a prestigious school brings the same pay bump as a very bullshit one from a third-rate state school.
tldr: In response to a proposed StackExchange rule change requiring moderators to use users preferred pronouns when addressing them, the author asked if it was acceptable to continue writing in a gender neutral way; without using first person pronouns. This was viewed as unacceptable and lead to an immediate termination.

This is only one side of the story, but seems appalling at first glance.
Peak Woke will involve an Elizabeth Warren-appointed representative controlling 40% of your company's board seats on behalf of "community stakeholders", as a vehicle for a self-serving version of that agenda.
It seems many people are standing up to this compelled speech direction the far left is heading in.
Backdoors are needed because a system uses E2E encryption.

If the system uses only P2P encryption then no backdoor is needed, which actually makes the system more secure to external threats. It is then for the provider to allow access to data only to "allowed government agencies" according to the law, which is how mobile phone networks work.
You're absolutely correct. I'm just saying they could have spent even more time doing it. I wonder what the gating success metrics were for Tesla for this feature.
You can allow people with apple accounts to login into your website without to write Apple specific code. Just use whatever lib you've been using to allow people to auth with their Google accounts or any other 3rd party openid connect idp
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I am pretty happy with mine. It isn't perfect, but it obviously isn't the nightmare that a lot of people with no actual experience with it are claiming.

Tesla will have tons of data to improve it in the short term.
The problem old people have with apartments is that they attract perceived ne'er-do-wells with little financial resources. Harold the Retiree does not want to hear your Subaru with the fart cannon on the back going up and down the road while he's trying to watch the sun set on his back porch, doesn't want your drug dealer causing trouble on his block, and certainly doesn't care to see your piercings and tattoos in the grocery store.
I mean, you could always do an audit and see what percent of a thing your automated system catches. That definitely doesn't seem inherently unknowable.
My screaming 4GB of RAM laptop would like to have a word with you.

I would rather have any native alternative to electron than any electron app any day.
Do it in a controlled environment or simulation, there's no reason or excuse to risk real world babies.
Such a correlation may or may not exist, but surely it's evident that no conclusion either way could be drawn from a dataset constructed using Google's method.

And yet imbalanced datasets are used all over the place, e.g. to identify "criminals" in China (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114900-concerns-as-fac...) and the US (https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/14/aclu-facial-recognition-...)
Right! You have "propietario" (the person who owns the property) and "inquilino" (the person paying the rent). But confusingly enough the verb is still "alquilar" ("to rent") for both :)

So if you say "voy a alquilar esta casa" ("I'm going to rent this house") it's not clear whether you're the landlord or the tenant.
The very same way I argument against massive surveillance: my country was founded like many other countries by people who rebelled against the oppressor, organised in secret and acted by means of force.

Without those people, I wouldn't be a free citizen today.

Massive surveillance can neutralise every possibility of fighting against oppression and defend liberty.

While I acknowledge that there are bad actors that abuse this freedom, I think it's still worth it.
Venngage does 1:1 meetings
What is the full list of moderator actions that promote, remove, or change content on Hacker News which are not listed in the FAQ? Why are these actions not listed? Why is there no indicator when an instance of one of these actions has occurred?
This is not new. Not only recording your face, voice is also recorded
WeWork seen as startup lesson in what not to do in Silicon Valley
Can confirm. Remember, a) if they sell it to a debt collector, they're probably selling at 3 to 5 cents on the dollar [+] and b) they can't sell it, at all, if your bankruptcy notification gets to them before the Big Ponderous Corporate Process pulls your account into their package being sold to a debt collector.

[+] More if they haven't worked it a lot internally or if it is sold while fresh or if you look like someone who is extremely collectible but let's say "Typical case for people who are on verge of bankruptcy" pushes you waaaaay down the stack on all possible ways to price debt.
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Young people’s brains have a lot going on and it’s hard to prioritize. Old folks already had their learning experiences of forgetting to vote or seeing the repercussions of not voting. No one is at fault per se and this is just a natural reflection of how people learn over time.
Downvoting is essentially moderating, and it costs you as much as it costs the person you downvoted. That does ensure that it's not just a blunt tool for general disagreement.

The whole site is about gamification of altruistic behavior. Answering questions is important, but pruning the unhelpful answers is too.
Image filtering is now trivial even using simple transfer learning, leading to >99% accuracy. It's just the training datasets might be super disgusting and question one's will to live when confronted with the savagery that is going on around the world.
Requiring noise insulation will drive down the cost of noise insulation.
I just recently left a startup that was giving me Theranos vibes.

The founder seemed far more interested in attending conferences and becoming a "thought leader" in the industry than actually building the product and the company. I'd consider myself as someone who enjoys working in a startup setting with ambiguity and the opportunity to shape the product vision. But there never seemed to be any effort to try to resolve the ambiguity.

Instead, we had major problems with secrecy/lack of communication and the inability to be honest with the current state of the product. A lot of people in the company (including myself) tried to introduce some rigor and establish common ground, but none of us were successful.

And honestly, this felt like it was by-design. Every employee was only privy to understanding part of the problem and only the founder held all the cards. My opinions would frequently be superseded by "you're wrong because you only understand the user side, not the customer side" while my colleague who worked on sales/business-development would hear the opposite.

At a certain point, it just felt like an uphill battle with the founder that was no longer worth the debating and shouting. Any effort to measure efficacy was dismissed. No one could actually articulate the problem we were trying to solve, how our product solves it, and whether or not it was effective.

It's a real shame because on paper the domain and vision of the company is exactly what I'd want to focus my career on, but this was starting to feel more like a shell of a startup than an actual one.
It depends on how thing the walls are and how tolerant parents are of overnight guests. I do wish the USA would have a more Finnish attitude in that regard. Often times they're fine with their kids spending the night at a lover's house even during high school.
META: DAE get popups/hijack ads when the click anywhere on that article? I'm on macOS Safari, and I'm wondering if it's me, or the site.
I'm a vegetarian for a variety of reasons, but I don't understand why anyone would have a moral problem with making facsimiles of dead animals. (It's actually imprisoning and killing living creatures that I think most people have a moral problem with.)
Mandatory so long as the app supports other third party authentication. If they exclusively use only their own accounts, it isn't required. (There are a couple other exceptions for business and education apps)

Edit: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=09122019b

New Apps will be required to implement this immediately, existing apps have until April next year to support it before updates will be rejected.
Microsoft doesn’t think Windows is important anymore
Yes, but the value of benefits is highly dependent on the employee. 30% off international flights might be an awesome deal, but unlikely for someone who cannot even afford a car.

Vacation has great value, but usually only after basic needs are met. Cutting someones hours is often used as a punishment for a reason. At the same time it also makes total sense that other companies don't want employees reducing their working hours.
You would probably be interested in this then (which makes that illegal):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...

It was signed by George W. Bush(Republican) into law.

I remember being surprised because I would have thought that health care companies would have made a some kind of "free market enterprise" argument that they should be able to use DNA data to make insurance more "efficient".

It even passed in the house 416 - 16.
Finally, read this: "If You’re Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code You’re Doing It Wrong"

https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
Where have they said they're doing this at all?
What are the chances that her religious zeal is part of the decision?
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Interesting remark. So, a "data structure where the largest remaining element can be extracted in O(1) time" can be turned into a sorted list in O(n) time.

So, under the assumtions, the overall algorithm does complete in constant time.
That's a fair point. But Facebook has managed to grow its ARPU to insanely high levels that far outstrip pretty much every other social media outlet.

There has to be some sort of magic there. Maybe someone with more experience in the space can offer more insight here. But it just astounds me that Facebook has managed to generate at least an order of magnitude higher ARPU than Twitter, Snap, Reddit, etc. They're making as much per user as Netflix does from actual paying subscribers.
The point, in my estimation, would be to have all of the Javascript libraries you have accessible in node (which you use already on other projects, and are very familiar with) accessible while also having access to a full desktop GUI in that environment.

This is a reasonable alternative to Electron, without requiring you to have another copy of Chromium on your machine for every Javascript-based desktop application you write.

I suspect it will perform much better than Electron also, assuming the author has done a decent job integrating Qt's API with node.

All of that being said, I have not tried Node-GUI, so I don't know how well it works.

EDIT: I have also not looked at QT's built-in Javascript support in a long time, and was not aware that later versions support ES6. I have never written a Qt app using javascript, I've only used C++, and a small amount of python. It would be interesting to explore the implications of having the node ecosystem available to a Qt app, and how that compares to the built-in Javascript support alone.
I can't imagine scenario where PCIe 3.0 is not enough for me. Even for storage it only matters for a linear I/O and I don't care about it that much. Random I/O won't saturate PCIe interface, it's not fast enough on any disk.
We don't implement things like this federally because needs differ. Bozeman, Montana can probably zone and sprawl as needed; it's small and there's lots of land. San Francisco can't.

If Bozeman, Montana can sprawl without worry, why does it even need restrictive zoning laws mandating SFH’s? That’s what doesn’t make sense. People who move to Bozeman clearly want to live in SFH’s. Outlawing restrictive zoning laws doesn’t affect them in the least.
This was precisely the argument in the Canadian Senate, 2 years ago, that propelled Jordan Peterson to public visibility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIAAkSNtqo
Isn't this just a consumer-capitalist corporation maximizing its revenue potential on behalf of its owners?
> There has to be some nuance from the absolute privacy folks on this one. How do we balance the need to fight child abuse with privacy?

There isn't. This is a logical fallacy. Violating everyone's privacy is not the way to fight child abuse, not even one of the ways that can do anything to prevent it.
> Facebook can read the messages at both ends

This is why I believe that end-to-end encryption is not truly useful unless the source code of the clients is public, or the protocol is open.

Any closed source client can read messages at the ends, or be forced to do so by an evil government.

At the very least, they could open up XMPP compatibility again so that people could write their own open source clients for it. Australia wouldn't be able to do anything about the propagation of such open source software.

I was able to have end-to-end encryption running on top of MSN, AOL, ICQ, QQ, Facebook, Gtalk, Yahoo, and several others about 10 years ago with Pidgin and simple plugins that encrypted/decrypted messages on the fly. It's too bad they all moved selfishly to closed source walled-garden mobile apps -- it's a big step back in privacy.
It doesn't make sense because it's so often butchered. Here's the real quote from Franklin:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

So, the liberty must be "essential" and the safety must be "temporary" - and the classification as such would be the essence of the argument. It's not so much a statement of principle as it is invective.

And in context, it's actually about the liberties of a legislative assembly [1] rather than those of the individual, but that's a minor detail.

1. https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said
There are ways around that. E.g. turbolinks[0].

[0]: https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
Is this a FUD based comment about node?
> do what we believe fosters a spirit of inclusion and respect

... by forcing 99% of users to bend to the will of the remaining 1%?
Yes, that was the first time I saw it, and it's exactly the kind of app that I'd rather not give my PII to, so kudos to that developer for offering the option.
Or mutated by chemicals used to service the machines, treat the grass or clean the premises.
Got it, good to know and will keep in mind for future planning. Thanks for the feedback here!
Your comment breaks the site guidelines by being flamebait, taking the thread further into ideological flamewar, and going on about downvoting. That gives several correct reasons for downvoting it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can understand not knowing the details of your coworkers' modules. This has been true everywhere I worked. However.....

Where I work now, on-call was long ago relegated to nothing more than a routing task. The on-call person takes the initial call, figures out who best can solve it, and contacts the person. The guy on my team who writes only in Javascript and Python would NEVER be in the position to make a critical fix overnight in a Java module. For those of us who work in Java, reading the language is trivial but understanding what the module is supposed to do from a high level is non-trivial. People who work in Haskell daily would be the same.

This is what I tried to call out. A Haskell developer called at 4am would have no more problem reading Haskell code than I would have reading Java code. While a Javascript developer should NOT try to issue a critical patch in a language (s)he doesn't work in, regardless if the language is Haskell, Python, etc. Any organization requiring you to do so is poorly managed.
With QML/QtQuick, can you do all things you can do with C++ and Qt widgets?
Selling more cars is great, but YoY reduction in revenue will not justify the valuation of TESLA stock.
When did they cry wolf over this? They've made various announcements at each stage of running out, but this is the first time they've announced that they have more pending LIR applications than blocks to assign to them.
SQL queries don't start with SELECT
Downvoted because clearly you either haven't thoroughly read the original blog post or do not remember it very well.

In the post, they clearly mentioned that such security holes might be found, and they explained their contingency plan, which they now executed.
You got hit with downvotes, but your (sarcastic) reaction is, as intended, spot on for the kind of thing no-one wants to risk hearing if they try to change the way higher degrees work in education. That the whole thing is an (expensive!) load of crap is 100% true, but that isn't widely known, I think, and trying to explain it's harder and riskier (for administrators & others with decision-making power) than just going along with the flow.
It's not really a lot of people, just a loud minority with outsized influence in local politics and red rose Twitter. SB 50 polls 66% in favor to 18% against in California: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/5/17/18629809/sb-50-housing-trans...
Are you interested in selling your code?
>I don't see how it will end.

Well, historically speaking, societies always tend to collapse when they can't figure out how to sustain themselves. So I think it's a safe assumption that our society will also collapse eventually.
IIRC the options to absentee / vote by mail has been growing dramatically.
That also does not make sense to me.

I already have a browser installed and PWAs are a thing.
This is way beyond the pale. Please don't post like this here.
Thanks for posting this!

I used the wayback machine to read the older version of this article, it took specific aim at WhatsApp and Sigal, indicating that (in so many words) it disapproved of the apps providing a notice of Safety Numbers changing instead of the app flipping its wig and making the user take affirmative action to continue communications, otherwise it wasn't true TOFU.

I have about 30+ contacts on Signal, and I almost __never__ get Safety number changes. I certainly don't think making the user click through yet-another-dialog-they-wont-read will be a big security improvement.

I suppose I disagree with the 'not true TOFU' argument.
But what will I do without left-pad?
hn is weird in similar regards. you get downvoted and you have no idea who downvoted you and why...
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How many people have been falsely convicted(or even justly convicted) because their skin cells were found at the scene, with no other evidence?
In new designs or like, SSH keys?

For new designs: basically just use libsodium.

For SSH: Ed25519 or 2048 bit RSA.

We can get into the weeds about which specific cryptographic primitives are fine in isolation, but that misses the point — the ones that were fine 5-10 years ago are still more or less fine — the problems for developers and end-users generally stem from accidental misuse of cryptographic primitives in designing systems incorporating cryptographic primitives as a component. Sure, don't use DES, DSA, or MD5/SHA1; strong primitives are only necessary, not sufficient.
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In open source I'd say the main problem is finding someone to pay for it. The only popular tool I'm familiar with (Coverity) makes money from enterprise and does the open source stuff as a form of cheap advertising. There has been a push to pay for more open-source development but it's mostly in the form of bug bounties, so there an MVP would be anything that gets you a bounty.

If it's enterprises using open source then door knocking seems like the best bet; most are still not agile and if you get a need identified you can probably get a prototype done before they send out a bid.
What are the chances that someone's religious zeal is part of their decision?
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You don’t think that 40 years ago people did the same? I remember my father buying a house for $30,000 (wow! So lucky) only to learn his home payment was over 50% of his take-home pay (oh, not so lucky).
I don't live in a society where that is an issue.
Our ancestors in the 18th century didn't have a time machine, but neither were they stupid. Our view of economics is going to look similarly primitive in 300-400 years. The notion that jobs, and thus work, was going to disappear has been a theme since the Industrial Revolution began, in the late 18th century. A treatise from that time period on how to avoid a depression is certainly suspect, but the crash in 2008 wasn't so long ago, so it's not our understanding of market forces is 100% either. (To be fair, our understanding did allow us to recover from it, in an imperfect way.)

We still don't have a better answer as to what the displaced will do for work than we did in the 18th century, other than "oh, we'll create new jobs". Not comforting, especially to anyone that simply can't afford to go to a coding bootcamp, or those that have gone and dropped out. They, too, deserve not to starve or die in the gutter. Thus, there is wisdom from the 1800's that is relevant, even today.