skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it that time of the week again?

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you...

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-military-discoun...

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-funded-review-confirm...

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hid...

https://www.propublica.org/article/intuit-turbotax-h-r-block...

https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/listen-to-turbotax-lie-to...

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-law-threatened-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-scraps-provision...

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-get-turbotax-refun...

https://www.propublica.org/article/intuit-ceo-in-internal-vi...

https://www.propublica.org/article/here-are-your-stories-of-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-intuit-h-r...

https://www.propublica.org/article/elizabeth-warren-and-othe...

https://www.propublica.org/article/senior-irs-leaders-launch...

https://www.propublica.org/article/bill-to-limit-irs-ability...

And that's just ones from this year. I'm not saying TurboTax isn't a scummy company, but this is just getting ridiculous.
Individuals don’t need Facebook. Once people realize that, businesses won’t need them either.
Farewell, Google Clips
Why Fiber Is Vastly Superior to Cable and 5G
>I suspect I'm just not smart enough

Nah, I have a PhD in math and I agree with you completely. Imperative is way better. And most mathematicians agree with me. You can see this by cracking open any actual math or logic journal and looking how they write pseudocode (yes, pseudocode: where things like performance don't matter one tiny little bit). You'll see they're almost entirely imperative. Sometimes they even use GOTO!
That’s not the complete picture though. The government pay you in parental leave up to a limit. The most anyone can get is more or less about 2900USD/month for full parental leave. All of our employees make more than that limit, most a lot more. We pay them the difference between what they can get from the government insurance policy up to 80% of their normal salary.

We also keep paying for their pension. There we also pay about 80% of what we would otherwise.
True that, I didn't mean to imply otherwise; I just thought your comment was the most coherent rebuking of fingerprints I'd seen so far while skimming, and I thought it would be a good place to expand on your sentiments with my own thoughts. I do see how my opening "but" could be confusing in this regard.
Berkeley City Council Unanimously Votes to Ban Face Recognition
It's necessary advice given Facebook's practices and the lack of meaningful regulation to mandate certain practices.

There are many occupations where you are strongly advised to not use Facebook, or may expose yourself to significant financial, career or security risk if you do so.
Biometrics makes the usual mistake of using the user identifier as a password.

As repeated here in HN, a good password is nothing like biometrics. A good password should

- be frequently changeable

- not be left lying around

- not be easily visible in public

- if discovered, not be obviously associated with the user

- have lots of entropy

Biometrics fails all of these tests
It's not a Linux convention, it's a Unix convention.
Some things will get merged automatically by the first run of sysmerge(8) after upgrade, if the machine is remote you should be able to run.

$ doas dmesg -s

-s ... This can be used to review rc(8) system startup messages.

That should tell you if you need to run sysmerge manually, but well, it also doesn't hurt to do that every time anyway.
Well said, Jacques.
It was not an admission, it was a poorly thought out conversational device. He would have done much better to say, "good question".

In the same interview, in the very next sentence of the article:

> Osterloh then acceded that warning houseguests about Nest devices' recording capabilities is proper etiquette, stating that he already does so.

Given that he already warns his guests, he absolutely 100% certainly has thought about "all stakeholders", in quite that way.
If you tell people to do what "someone qualified" says, you're not offerring an opinion, humble or otherwise.

It's a nice to think there are qualified people who can advise parents on this, but they don't exist. SIDS strikes even healthy infants. It's caused by a weakness in an osciallator network in the infant's cardiovascular system (modulo some percentage of infanticide). There's no known test for it but there is a simple solution: allow it to entrain to the mother's breathing by placing the infant near the mother.
Great platfom. If you want to learn/understand kubernetes, this is the right place to do it.
by being skilled. setting up a company and applying for contracts via agencies.
I couldn't agree more. Are there any good open-source projects for AI assistants? There certainly seems to be a need.
I don't think it is. When you're setting up your phone, you have to go through the "hey Siri" training to enable it.
It kind of makes sense to me with some further caveats to the analogy.

If you think of the ant as a 2 dimensional creature living on a two dimensional surface of the balloon, the expansion is occurring in 3 dimensional space. The two-dimensional ant has no way to observe the space north or south (above and below, to us) its plane of existence.

Now, imagine that the balloon is in a vacuum. It had a burst of air (the big bang) for a moment to get it started but it's not the further addition of air that's driving the expansion, it's the desire to equalize pressure between the exterior vacuum and the interior matter.

With that in mind, push everything up a dimension. We're 3 dimensional creatures living in a 3 dimensional universe. That 3 dimensional universe exists as a plane in 4 dimensional space.

The 4 dimensional balloon (that our universe is surrounding) is continuing to expand into the "nothingness" on the ana plane of the 4th dimensional universe because of the "pressure" imbalance on the kata plane of the 4th dimensional universe. (In 4th dimensional spatial terms, ana and kata indicates directions on the w axis, similar to up/down on the x axis, left/right on the y axis, and north/south on the z axis)

At least, that's how I see it in my head, but I'm an odd ball who has never had a problem intuitively visualizing 4th spatial dimension objects and how they might interact with 3rd dimensional space.

As for the increased speed of the expansion... actually, I hadn't thought about that. Does it indicate that equilibrium will never be found? The balloon analogy might be a useful tool, but our universe isn't made of rubber so it might have the capability of being able to expand infinitely without breaking and without its "nature" constraining the expansion speed.

Anyway, if this is a reasonable analogy, the "nothingness" in the ana direction isn't as interesting to me as what might comprise the "pressure" that's in the kata direction that's causing the expansion. It's nothing we'd ever be able to observe or sample since it's outside of our plane of existence, but it's awfully fun to speculate about the composition and nature of it.
Same. My street is (steeply) uphill, so it's a mixture of exhaust smoke, huge revving, burnt rubber, tire skidding, burnt clutch... A veritable bouquet, at 8h30 in the morning.

All at <35km/h. Can't open my windows before ~10am.
Date time is a nightmare.

I am thankful for momentjs literally every day I do web development. I know it gets a lot of flack for it's bundle size, but it makes so many things easy.

Heck the native JS Date object can't even give an ISO time string in the same time zone the date object was created in. Not to mention a dozen other deficiencies.

Dealing with time had always and probably will always be painful.

And then there is China, where they use YYYY-MM-DD, but 12 hr time with an AM/PM equivalent. So close to doing it the correct way!

Ugh.
Don't forget all the TV panels in your house listening in on you too. Me, I don't plug any "smart" TV into the Internet. But a lot of folks do.

I think the horse has left the barn on this kind of technology. What I hate most about it is that it's impossible for an ordinary person to understand exactly what all might be spying on them at any moment.
Just look at the classic example of Target predicting a teen's pregnancy before she even knew it herself

Might wanna read that again, it’s a story of clever and spooky observation but not that clever.
Volvo unveils its first electric car, the XC40 Recharge
They are trying to get students who can:

1) Pay
2) Stay the full 4 years

So yes, the "best" students (the ones who will pay full price for 8 semesters) are very profitable for them.
I would say there is one case where a fingerprint scanner is more secure than a password though, which is if you're trying to unlock your phone with someone peeking over your shoulder (or in an area with video surveillance).
I'm on Firefox Nightly, and performance has been noticably better in the past several months.

Previously Firefox was barely usable for anything with animation on OSX. They've been making steady (if slow) progress for the past year or so, now it's subjectively on-par with Chrome and Safari for me.
Still, they're not read with every new interactive shell. They're read only with login shells. From the manual:

> When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login,

> When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc

So, this is wrong:

> bashrc refers to something that runs in each and every new shell

Because .bashrc doesn't run when you execute a shell script, and doesn't run when you use `bash -c`.

And this is wrong:

> profile refers to something that runs only in interactive shells

Because it does run in non-interactive shells when they're login shells, and because it implies that it runs in every interactive shell, which it doesn't. It only runs in login shells.
Firefox mobile supports extensions, including ublock origin (and umatrix, if you're into that).
This reminds me of Morocco where Whatsapp was blocked by their ISPs after the state-owned phone carrier lobbied them to do so. ("The decision to block the VoIP had initially been made in an effort to maintain profits for telecommunication companies.").

Looks like the blocking of VoIP ended in November 2016:
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/11/200573/moroccos-anr...
Neat. I wonder what they are doing to survey for remnant populations and how they control for local conditions.

Total aside, but I'm working on a project doing disease mapping for an agency in California. Its like watching a train wreck in real time. Human influence and climate change* are rewriting the macroflora of California in real time. Get your pictures now boys and girls because your state will not be the same in 10 years.

Whew. California is pretty much toast.
Your High School student receiving mail from colleges? Then they have been 'ranked' by a college before they applied.

The OP linkbait title is not actually surprising or new. Been going on for decades.
Under Armour and Virgin Galactic: The World's First Spacesuit for the Masses
I Don't see what the conflict between the CLOUD act and GDPR, as described in the article is. GDPR requires companies to get consent before storing data, the CLOUD act enables US authorities to demand access to data even if it is stored on servers outside the USA.
Is CalFile an open source project that anyone can contribute to (and if so where do I go?) or is the FTB paying you to develop it as a closed-source product?
I think the issue of smart speakers picking up a fragment of conversation is less an issue than security cameras which are designed for constant recording function. Nest sells inside the house security cameras. Regardless of whether these things are internet connected or not, recording people (eg house guests) on video without their consent is a problem.

If a Nest cam was recording to VHS tape in the closet and didn’t have an internet connection at all it would still be an issue.
From a previous HN discussion on US taxes: http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

I haven't used it, so cant comment on how well it works.
SMTP came a long time before NNTP.
Yep, Home Assistant - https://www.home-assistant.io/
Why do they open up with "Save the world", which is the fortnite mode that no one plays? BR Fortnite has no lootboxes. There are many prime examples just like they are describing, but they seem to have chosen the worst example.
> though I'm skeptical that we'd see an improvement in quality of content if loot boxes and their like become untenable.

Yeah, I agree. Once you get used to the easy and cheap workflow of creating the loot boxes it's going to be a hard sell to go back to paying premium talent to create engaging an original content that takes longer to produce and has a lower chance of appealing to arbitrary markets.

Of course in the non-video game world there are companies that create sodas and cigarettes and slot machines. And there are companies that create high quality food, cancer battling drugs, and entertainment that stays relevant for centuries.

I think with a little regulation we'll get the same sorts of divisions in the video game industry.
You know FB owns Instagram though right? Why do they care if you spend money there or on FB proper?
I don't work for TE but this is all covered in their documentation, which is great! https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/wiki/Proj...

DB pool size is very subjective much dependent on how long a connection is held without making a query. A recent PR for Phoenix significantly improved performance by _decreasing_ the pool size: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/5153
I've gotten Alexa and Google's Home for free but I refuse to set them up. Even if you believe these companies aren't going to "spy" on you, the security of these things has been proven dubious at best.
Fast Canvas in Jupyter
Experienced something like this early in my career when a co-worker discovered PL/SQL - he campaigned for putting the entire web app into an Oracle database with all the logic in stored procedures.

Experienced a slightly different take a few years later where Some Genius wrote an interpreter in stored procedures in an off-brand RDBMS. Web pages were a combination of HTML and his custom language, and these pages were stored in the database.

I have strong negative opinions about putting a web development platform entirely inside an RDBMS.
I don't think they've finished writing the paper yet but I'll post it out there when it gets published.
There really isn't a good reason to store it at all though, is there?
A bug means that authentication can be bypassed easily? And a confused reader authenticates?

That’s a total f’n failure, not just “a bug.” You only release such things after super duper thorough testing.
It seems like the equivalent of a DSSS radar, but with sonar.
It is Heavy Metal music, and yes 666. Puffy is dressed as a member of the rock band KISS.
This is exciting!

When Docker came out, I was just finishing an in-house-Heroku style project at my employer, based on LXC containers. I watched as Deis came along, promising to give the same benefits in an open platform. I was sad to see Deis go away after the Microsoft acquisition. The industry got all excited about Kubernetes, but it seemed to me like we were backsliding from progress that had been made toward a 12 Factor platform. (https://www.12factor.net/) . It's very encouraging to see that coming back.
Genuinely curious, in what ways will it not be the same?
I don't think the problem is that they are leaving computer science, it is that they are not choosing it.

Participation used to be higher but now it is less; despite women getting more agency, doing better at school and getting high education than men. If you look at the most equal and rich countries where women are doing as well or in some areas better than men you don't have many who chooses software development as a career.

It could be just that fewer women want to be software developers and that is all that there is. And that more choice and more opportunities just makes other career paths more alluring.

Of course there can still be sexism and discrimination in certain cases but it is also very possible that it does not affect the number of women in tech much at all.
Although amusingly, not exclusively; it also runs on Haiku and NT. (This isn't at all to say that it doesn't fit in an article about Unix, since it's very popular there (just like talking about Firefox on Unix wouldn't be out of place), just a fun side note.)
Was it GATTACA where the main character used a prosthetic thumb add-on to fool the blood check every day on his way in to work?
> Why does the device have to record and send everything to the cloud to provide this experience?

It's everything after the hotword, not everything.
Dirichlet Distribution
I am shopping for a family of four, and often have two small children with me.

It was a lot easier when it was just for me. I now get enough groceries per trip that there is no way I could carry them all home by myself.
Hulu ramps up its personalization, launching Like / Dislike buttons
XML is just a canonical form and proper subset of SGML always requiring quotes around attribute values, all start- and end-element tags explicitly specified, no short reference (Wiki syntaxes), nor other constructs which can be (unambigiously) omitted in SGML as directed by a DTD grammar. As such, XML is a machine format rather than a format intended for editing by humans, and it's odd to complain about XML being unfriendly to edit when that's what SGML is for.
Payday loans and financial derivative products both exist at opposite ends of 'creative finance' that can come back to bite you.

Payday loans, like what Intuit is doing, seeks to directly profit off of those who have the least. While they're both bad when they go wrong, it would muddy the waters to say 'but also there are other areas that are just as bad or worse depending on how you look at it.'

I'd go further to say what Intuit is doing is worse than the payday loan industry because it does it through regulatory capture instead of just desperation for capital.
Do the US authorities log every one who views the files and when and all propagation of them? And sent that back to the business and make it available for the user?
I absolutely can say that about Haskell. You have to actually learn the language, but it doesn't do anything unpredictable.
> If the voice interface is implemented locally then it's not a problem.

That's not really observable or enforceable by me though. A question I ask myself all the time before I say yes to some kind of "new data tracking" is: "How do I think company_x will behave in 10 years if their profitability is plummeting?" Because I think that paints the worst case for companies that so far have been good actors.

I guess the TLDR is: That's great, but I think that the solution is legal protections for users. Right now all the power is in the hands of the collecting organization.
From the NewScientist article Laforet linked above:

> fake fingerprints can be created by imprinting copies in rubbery gels or silicone plastic, says Marcela Espinoza of the Institute of Police Science in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Replace silicone with some other flesh-like material that's conductive.
> They store the fact that someone was there are a particular time but they strip the userid immediately.

This appears untrue, according to the article: "In five days of gameplay, Niantic kept 2304 location records for one player. [...] When we asked them about their propensity to eat Burger King for lunch, they were surprised that we knew that"

This is only possible if the userid is still linked to these location records.

> They have a GPDR data-request page if you are interested in seeing exactly what data they store about you.

I know. That's what the featured article used to get the data referenced above.
This isn't so crazy. Oil traders use Yahoo Messenger [1] [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826186

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-01/oil-trade...
Off topic, but I really like their blog site. Seems very similar to Medium. Does anyone know if they used a template or blogging platform with custom domain?
Vanilla JavaScript Equivalents of JQuery Methods
In VA, if you want an alcohol license for your restaurant, you are required to print an ad in a local newspaper stating that you intend to get a license. I'm guessing it's so some prohibitionist can call up the ABC and complain? It's completely ridiculous. I wondering what will happen when print newspaper ceases to exist.
Why has the original BBC article not been linked to instead? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50048144
> The best solution to theft is to let it happen and retrieve the stolen goods later.

Just wondering - is the best solution to rape also to just "let it happen and deal with the rapist later"?

> BTW Crime is less common in countries with gun control than in USA (admitedly - that's probably only partially caused by gun laws, much more important is the absurd lack of basic public services).

Pretty sure that's a lie, or at the very least there are countries with strict gun control that are far worse than the US. Most of Central America, for instance.
Not interesting until the frequency of 'spotting dog looking like a Tasmanian tiger' is estimated, and compared with the frequency of current 'tiger' sightings. Otherwise, what's being talked about?
Markets while maybe feeling crass is the term used in sciences like sociology to study dating and relationships from a statistical POV.
Those things can be really difficult with the browser-based libraries because the browsers don't yet (and seemingly never will) support CSS Paged Media. That's why commercial engines like Prince and DocRaptor (which uses Prince) exist. These engines were designed for document generation and have much better support for headers/footers, table of contents, page numbers, etc, etc..

Disclaimer: I work for DocRaptor

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-page-3/
On the flip side it takes their skin out of the game.

This is some helicopter parenting nonsense. I want to play too but not get hurt.

If one wants to be a service provider, in a free market, reliant on customers who in turn rely on them, shoulder all the risk.

On the flip side other nations use universal social services to insure the general public if cushioned from complete failure.

Anyone getting into business should really feel the burden. And big corp leadership should feel an even bigger burden for being too big to fail. They want to be that big they should be ready for a hard fall.

I don’t owe political deference to corporate. They get my time and that’s good enough.
Can you make AI fairer than a judge?
And and expansion is a lengthening of something within a frame of reference. What is the frame of reference?
Python: Hottest Job Skill in Tech, Edging Out .NET
Zero Trust at Gitlab: Implementation Challenges (and a Few Solutions)
Any long-lived executable sits in memory (notwithstanding paging, which the database server is also subject to), and such an executable is free to maintain any files it accesses in memory as well.
Bazel 1.0 announcement on Google Open Source blog: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/10/bazel-reaches-10-m...

Provides more details on 1.0 changes and long term plans