skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One that comes to mind is the Supreme Court enforced ban on creating a firearms registry. Firearms dealers are required to retain sales records with serial numbers for some amount of time (I don't have the number handy, it's several years) so technically the data exists currently. However they have ruled that it would be illegal to centralize that data for easier access.

Another is those automated speeding cameras. In several states they are unable to write tickets without a police officer present. My understanding is that this means the machine operates the same way and still writes tickets, the officer just has to be there as a "witness" and play phone games or whatever while the machine works. The end effect is the same, but the law requires an officer to be a witness to the crime in order to generate tickets.
Thank you for sharing this article. I was not aware of WeWork killing Meetup until now. I've already told three groups I'm in that I will be deleting my account by 10/30.
I didn't submit the link but I did write the blog post. AMA!
If you have reason to be concerned about security or police for any reason then all biometric stuff should be disabled. The answer is neither when it comes to privacy.

In the real world typing your password a million times is a pain in the ass.
Also, the first app started in 2014, making him 17 at the time. Unreal that the author tries to use this to paint him as incompetent rather than precocious.
I find that D is about as easy as Python to get into. Being able to use rdmd as a shebang makes D almost feel like as scripting language. A lot of Python was also pretty easy for me to directly translate into D. Here is an example:

http://inversethought.com/hg/medcouple/file/tip/medcouple.py...

http://inversethought.com/hg/medcouple/file/tip/medcouple.d#...
There will always be a place for meritocracy because, at lower levels of the employment ladder, someone competent will need to get something done in order to operate a profitable company.

You can't have straight incompetence from the C-suite down without eventually running a business into the ground.

Although family money gives unfair advantages, you can make a nice life for yourself and earn above the median wage through acquiring in-demand skills through the meritocratic system. It isn't perfect, but it at least gives those who don't come from money --which is by and large, most people-- a chance at a decent life.
CRISPR isn't an outlier, it's a product of our modern fast moving tech world. If CRISPR were invented in 1950, all else equal,it would have moved much more slowly.
Show HN: Chrome Ext. remove “Only 1 room left” messages from hotels websites
This isn’t a recent trend that’s happening all of a sudden. History has shown time and again that bloodline and birth circumstances have been a dividing line between classes.
> You (and Guardian, it seems) are falling for the fallacy of the danger of automation - "it's acceptable for bad decisions to be made as long as it's been decided by a human".

Not necessarily. Even bureaucratic systems tend to recognize that humans make imperfect decisions -- we're susceptible to everything from bribery to exhaustion. These systems then tend to not treat first decisions as final, and they allow an opportunity to appeal.

But what happens when the decision is made by an algorithm, especially one that wasn't built to give an explicable reason?

> Fear mongering is not how you prove/disprove automation, you should pick a useful metric (e.g. are people starving?)

That's not a good metric.

Suppose the algorithm were in fact perfect and nobody starved -- except you. For some reason, it couldn't recognize your ID (and only your ID). By the "are people starving" metric, the algorithm would be doing a fantastic job compared to an imperfect human system, but it would also be profoundly unjust.
I vehemently disagree - these walrus vars are still in scope outside of the condition block. And on top of that, now there are special conditions for these walrus vars which are completely not obvious.

Reference: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/#scope-of-the-targe...
> You don't know what you're talking about. Please exit the conversation.

First of all, stop with the personal attacks and inflammatory baits. Take them to reddit please. Read over these: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> They're the Linux kernel except the desktop versions have a window manager running on top of them that handles the GUI which typically isn't found on a server.

Bingo! Servers are designed to run rock solid stable distributions with the minimum amount of software necessary to get the job done. Desktop distributions come with a desktop environment that allow the users to do things like pick a wifi network or change audio volume. At work we use alpine linux docker images which do not come with even a text editor. They are two very unique use cases. No one sane runs web servers with a full blown Ubuntu desktop distribution because the overhead would be insane. This is one of the reasons why linux servers are so common, and dominate the market share, because they don't have to run full blown desktop environments that'll never be used.

Comparing desktop linux distributions to linux servers is like comparing a ferrari to a honda civic, because both of them are internal combustion engine cars.
This howto isn't helpful on first run when Firefox sends tons of telemetry to Google: https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...
I think glancing at HN or Twitter is more passable at work between compiles. A book read in such snippets would be just wasted.
> This mindset that in order for people like me to make it people at the top have to fall only makes sense if you consider the economy a fixed-sized pie. It's obviously not.

It's not over the long timescale, but over the short-term it is. Rich kids frittering money away really is preventing others who may need that wealth more from having access to it.
Reading 100k rows per second from sqlite sounds WAY easier than serving 100k HTTP/2 queries in the same time.
The existence of fossil evidence of human civilization in glacial areas indicates these areas were warmer in the past, when the glaciers didn't exist. It underscores the cyclical nature of climate change.
A year or so ago, they started sending telemetry letting them know that you have telemetry disabled! [0]

That one pissed me off, just on principle.

I'm not sure exactly what's happened in the last 10 years or so but, at some point, everyone apparently just decided it was okay to start spying on their users (read: "telemetry"). Mozilla and some others, at least, allow you to "opt out" -- although you should never have to! -- as if that somehow makes it okay.

Then, a while back, they decided they were going to go ahead and send in some "telemetry" even if the user has explicitly disabled telemetry!

I can easily remember a time -- and it wasn't that long ago! -- when slipping in even the slightest hint of "telemetry" without a clear, explicit "opt-in" from the user would have been absolutely unheard of.

Mozilla doesn't have much of a user base left. You'd think they would try to avoid alienating us and pissing us off.

---

On a related note -- and with the above in mind -- I recently (within the last several days) started working on my own .js "preferences" to lock Firefox down as much as I can. I've just posted it [1] if anyone is interested (a lot of it was taken from [2]).

Disclaimer: it's very much still a work-in-progress, likely breaks things that I haven't noticed yet, and almost certainly is not what you want to use. I'm fairly happy with it at the moment, however. (There's a bunch of "notes to self" in there that I tried to remove; if I missed any, please just ignore them!)

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2018/08/20/effectively-measuri... (see the "Telemetry Coverage" section)

[1]: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1904354

[2]: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
Simple: the service provider visits these sites itself, gets hashes of all the resources for the homepage and relevant links (or just spiders them). With the set of hashes, look at prefixes. Users who request one prefix in that set aren't suspicious. Users with many prefixes in that set are.
Having eaten both the quantities really are that different. A typical American sub has much more sauce than a Norwegian sandwich has butter. Kalle's is so flavorful that you don't need a lot of it, but I agree it would be the most unhealthy choice of the ones listed.
Oh, it’s more than lack of familiarity.

‘“Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being", saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize", and that the association with the Nobel prizes is "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation".’ [0]

I’ve also heard rumors that Nobel had a personal animosity towards certain academic areas because of an affair his wife had with a professor, but I can’t find any good references for that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...
It's not "poor" as much as it's "not rich". Also, something to do with skin color.
Wonderful. As I approach the end of my college years, I rue the fact that I didn't put myself 'out there' early enough. What kind of people you have around you might be the most important thing for young adults today.
For most of track and field all you need is a half decent pair of shoes.

Contrast that to hockey, lacrosse, or polo.
Reading a book 2 paragraphs at a time--one of the realities of parenting no one talks about.
Having to use a keyboard modifier and a mouse right-click and then traversing down a menu to pick the correct option to copy the path is indeed annoying. It really should be one or the other, and ideally you should be able to do the same both ways because it is a lot faster to just be able to do it via keyboard shortcuts if you are used to navigating your filemanager via keyboard. Windows also lets you Shift+right click to get a copy path option which I find equally annoying, but I can copy it using pure keyboard shortcuts very quickly (or alternately, simply clicking in the navbar and right-click, "copy"). Both of those approaches are way faster.

Even in Ubuntu, you can use Ctrl + L to get a selected file-path for your current folder in the Files application which is a lot faster than having to deal with the way Finder exposes file paths.
Honestly, I often get the impression that no Google PM's actually use their products. They look nice, but never work effectively.
iOS has UX so well executed compared to Android in my opinion. Android may have better specs and features on paper but falls far short when it comes to a satisfying user journey where everything "Just Works".
Here where? Because where I live, you can use 5G in two places: around the Nokia campus and around a university. In one city, I saw 5G cover about six blocks in the city center.

I'd say 5G is not already here.
> 1. How easy/difficult to get Switzerland citizenship if you live and work there?

I know someone who was born there, raised there, currently lives there (after a while in North America) and does not having citizenship or want to go through the hassle.

From what she says it's a massive pain in the ass.
It can be a good way to find additional resources though. Asking questions or looking at posts often can yield many more interesting sources.
Tuesday: Weeks and the 2,300 Days
How do they build a massive endowment?
A Kubernetes Crime Story
When You Take a Great Photo, Thank the Algorithm in Your Phone
A major issue I run into that it doesn't work reliably with a lot of PPE headgear (welding gear, face shields, etc). At work, I'm often in a situation where I can't take off my headgear, but I do need to use the phone to take pictures or check my messages. It also is pretty flakey in the winter when I'm wearing scarves and a cap that cover almost all of my face. In both cases, I have to take my gloves off to use the phone anyhow, and so I can just unlock it with the fingerprint reader.

On my Galaxy S9, I use both the face unlock and fingerprint reader all the time. I was just thinking this morning that face unlock is proving very useful in the autumn chill, as I can actually use my phone's touchscreen with thin gloves, but don't have to take them off to use the fingerprint reader.

Relying on the front camera to replace fingerprint readers is a compromise, and it makes the phone less valuable to me for a lot of every day use cases. I'm glad some other manufacturers make phones with fewer of those kinds compromises.
That's true, but the entire sector is collapsing, so maybe he was right to extract value while it still existed.
Wouldn't surprise me if a large fraction of those installs could be replaced with sqlite..
The second half of a quick & dirty Node-based PoC of a social network idea I have. Want to get the full look and feel before committing to serious architecture and design.
It would be great if app domains or some other form of sandboxing came back? Perhaps with faster communication between domains..
> ... than being able to unlock my phone in my pocket...

I see what you did there. But that's not what OP said.
I am pretty sure the emotions are real in this video.
Sushi is rice with a topping. It's boring too.
How does a Google's WiFi compares to the likes of AmpliFi[1]?

1. https://amplifi.com
Congrats on the milestone. As I’ve grown a SaaS over the last 5 years I’ve found there are enough MRR and ARR milestones that we can celebrate something real every few months. It’s a great feedback loop. (Eg 10k arr, 1k mrr, 25k arr, 3k mrr, 50k arr, etc)

Advice given to me, taken in my own way, and now I’m passing on: to get from 1k mrr to 10k mrr double down on everything that has worked for you. Once you hit 1k (or in your case about 3k) you obviously have at least one thing that is working.

After 10k we were forced to get more creative. (Feeder products, paid advertising, etc)

This is the era of the Micro SaaS.
When I said I was frustrated by people's reaction it wasn't entirely about their reasons but the way they refuse too. It's still an odd sequence to hear someone complain everyday then when you say "hey I have this thing" you get a "nono I dont need that". Still appear absurd.

Again we were all doing the same thing and I just suggested using my shit to go faster. One other idea is that there are a few layers of interactions, people prefer suggestions from those they trust, or those they respect. I didn't have that at the time somehow.
Oh man. I used to work at Amazon at a time when this Oracle deprecation was starting up. It's utterly non-trivial.

It's not really "switching relational DBs", it's "rebuilding all of the legacy systems to not use relational DBs". Their scale had long since left the realm where it was reasonable to run everything on massive monolithic DBs, but the technical debt hadn't been paid down -- so they just kept putting more money into bigger and bigger hardware and larger DBA teams to support them. For instance when I last worked the there each warehouse ran on a single massive Oracle DB. That isn't solved by swapping to another database; it was well beyond reasonable.

I suspect that this article seems like a bit of self-promotion but it's actually intended as a giant middle-finger to Oracle.
> If you buy a 'Craftsman' mower, you're getting the same Chinese-engined lawnmower that you buy at the same price point at any other store.

Craftsman (riding) mowers are made by MTD and use either Kohler or Briggs and Stratton engines. Pretty sure most of that is made in the US. I find MTD to be sub par, though.
Yeah I always wondered if you could ever get accurate enough measurements from cameras and position of stars at night or sun during the day with an accurate clock.
Good! Good! At least someone has some security...
>And it suggests you disable HTML5 EME, which has nothing to do with privacy at all.

DRM requires proprietary software, and effective DRM requires obfuscated proprietary software. How do you know it's not harming your privacy, even accidentally?
Just sign our newsletter and we tell you how you are tracked... I cannot really condemn this attempt.
SketchUp tweet include link to article with FreeCAD screenshot
> I'm going to call it for what it is. Just another way of Google creeping on user data to improve their products.

You called it spot on and then came to a conclusion that fundamentally disagrees with the article:

* This is Apple and Tencent, not Google

* The author does not believe that Safe Search (Update API) is a way for Google to spy; or if it is, its privacy risk is marginal compared to the huge security win

* The author's beef is not at all with this functionality, but in how it was communicated
Does it matter? Maybe if the employer was paying a lower salary to make up the difference it would, but everyone in this thread seems to agree that US developers get paid more too.
You can do $3k for a 1BR/studio in a new building?
I've been seeing >$3,600 in Peninsula currently.
What that article doesn’t capture is how many engineers absolutely burned out working against unreasonable deadlines and cut throat managers.
Same here except in Chrome - error is NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID and issuer is "Cisco Umbrella Secondary SubCA chi-SG". Windows is saying "the issuer of this certificate cannot be found".
Instead of one ferrari, the guy get to enjoy a pack a day for 30 years! Thats not bad.
I guess this will be the end of meetup.com. Nobody will be willing to pay the $2 reservation fee and organizers will move their events somewhere else.
I'm all for competition in the marketplace, just as I'm not likely to give up Netflix I'm also not likely to start paying for any other streaming service out there. I use Netflix and Amazon Prime not because I'm in love with the companies but because I like the price point and selection.

I would consider a proper Netflix competitor that can offer a wide variety, including films and series from other and "indie" creators, and no commercials. Until then I will keep Netflix.
I had to take care of our dog, including chasing him down when he got out of the yard. Wasted a lot of time riding my bike around looking for him. One day he got run over by a car.
To elaborate, it's very unlikely that the Unipress guys would in fact back up Gosling's version, because it's false, and they're basically honest people. I've searched for evidence of the Unipress lawsuits against DEC and IBM; there is no evidence that they ever existed. I'm very interested in seeing this evidence if it does exist.

If you haven't seen such evidence and you don't know these people, then why would you post such baseless accusations?
Business is about extracting money, not abstract ideas like providing quality products or services. Just ask an MBA.
This has been my experience with German cars (Mercedes, BMW) precisely : They are great to drive, but terrible to own.
I bought the original Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus when they were released, and I was excited about the device and Android. Since Snowden, the ever increasing reliance on Google of many people and institutions via its cloud services, and the encroachment into our private lives via constant listening devices like Googles Nest, I want to get Google as far from my life as possible.

In the German version of this announcement, the first thing written under the title is that you if you order soon enough, you'll get a free Google Nest Hub with the phone. Well, uhm, no, please don't.

Further down, Google praises itself with "Stets an deiner Seite: Google Assistant ...", which means "Always at your side: Google Assistant ...". This is just creepy to me now.

I'm astounded by how much my perspective of Google has changed since a couple of years ago. Their marketing is off-putting to me now.
Indeed. If you don’t want to stand out, you should use the defaults. Anything non-default will stick out as a 1%-or-less marker. Three or more non-default might well uniquely fingerprint you.
Thanks Atila!
I'm curious about your work around reflection, care to give more details? This is one of the great strength of D, and having some API consolidation sounds awesome.
Also: any opinion about runtime reflection capabilities? I love compile-time reflection as much as any other D user, but sometimes runtime reflection can do wonders if used parsimoniously.
"Glass floor" is a brilliant concept. You can reach a point at which you can simply take a lot of money, park it in index funds, and spend the rest of your life drooling and your wealth will grow. If you are just minimally smart enough to not spend your nest egg there is not much you can do short of criminal activity that will bring you down.

Of course it's all relative. If you live in a developed nation with a social welfare system there is a much lower but still above starvation and death "glass floor" below which it is hard to fall.
It's worth remembering that these rich kids don't have a perspective other than the one they grew up with. Hating on them specifically isn't helpful.

The flower shirt guy is probably really trying, and he probably really believes that his hard work and passion is driving his success (assuming he's still doing that thing). But it's hard to ignore the possibility that his success is just based on connections, financial backing (which means no lean times, no failure moments, etc.).
Anyone familiar with the “worker’s paradise” in China, Russia or other socialist/communist systems know that nepotism and connections have just as big an impact (if not more) in those countries.

Hell, sometimes you can’t even get basic government services with “knowing someone”.
> Oh, and your tax dollars don't support wars making the world a significantly worse place with all the rest of evil attached, if you care about such things.

I'm not trying to sound defensive here, but in a global world there has to be a superpower or two playing the role of a superpower. And if you like Western democratic ideals, it's a good thing that they're aligned with those.

The whole world is living in the relatively peaceful and prosperous structure of alliances that were established after WWII, and I personally wouldn't want to see those disappear. Maybe if you live in China, Russia, Brazil, or the Middle East, or you have a different value system than I do, you might disagree.
Using GSuite accounts for their consumer product is always really consistent. Consistently bad...
Linking this partly because I just realized every snippet on stackoverflow is effectively gpl

It requires hyperlinking each of stackoverflow, the question page, the authors, AND those links are not to be nofollow

https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/25/attribution-required/

Also:
""Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa 4.0 with attribution required.""

cc by-sa 4.0 is viral/copyleft, and gpl compatible, see:

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/ShareAlike_compatibili...
We actually do care about those benchmarks. At a certain scale it matters how many servers you need to run a website with millions of visitors. 90% of deployments do not have this problem, yet saying nobody cares is a bit silly.
Credit Suisse Warns That U.S. Store Closings May Worsen in 2020
Upgrading the OS is also annoying, so why not just stay in one place for next 5, 10, 50? years. If you don't upgrade your machine it probably will continue to work, python 2 won't disappear.

I wish PSF would pull the plug from python 2 much sooner so we wouldn't have to deal with whiners for 10 f...ing years. The problem with python 3 wasn't the incompatibility, the problem was keeping python 2 alive for so long. Other languages usually gave only 1 year and everyone moved, because they didn't want to stay behind.