skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but unfortunately that doesn't matter. The modern left taught a subset white men to:

1. Be aware of their race.

2. Be aware people don't like their race or their culture.

3. Be aware of the various systemic problems they uniquely face.

4. Argue via tenuous connection as to what is causing their problems.

And that subset is growing because it is more attractive than

1. Joining the modern left

2. Remaining neutral
What do you love to see here, and how do we get more of it?

The collective answer is "whatever this community upvoted into the frontpage"

If you have evidence of people abusing the algorithm, please email the moderators.
Given the government’s history of regulatory capture, which we already arguably see in areas of financial regulation, the possibility that the government could be coopted by private corporations to carry out mass surveillance cannot be ignored.
Already Five Years Behind the Curve
Maybe you haven't heard that word in this context before, it's of course not meant to be read literally. I understand it the same way as I would read "toxic workplace culture" or "toxic social environment", which is that there are people who bully, abuse power, take advantage of you, deliberately misunderstand you, are racist, sexist, etc.
Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity [pdf]
Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
Resources: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
Raid Blizzcon 2019 Dressed as Winnie the Pooh Facebook Event
This post will just bring down the level of discussion here rather than be interesting, helpful or informative. I don't think it should exist.
Here's a definition of subjective for you: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subjective

As to good and bad being subjective, I offer you this:

I think the Chinese government is bad. I'd bet that Xi Jinping thinks it's good. Thus, subjective.
Feel free to ask questions if it helps to find a solution
But there's a lot easier ways to exfiltrate I'd imagine. Encrypting data and using the web for transferring. This would have the effects of obfuscation, deniability and just simple data transfer.

Graphics cards are also massively high bandwidth devices... You'd need to figure out how to encode a digital signal and hook up to the wire. Or just record video off the screen.
The ACLU does not state that the FBI is doing this. They are suing to determine what policies the government has in place around facial recognition to determine whether they are allowed under current policy to do what you’re talking about.
or not care about downvotes
Letter from Utopia – Nick Bostrom
Why are the "evil soviets" or "evil whoever" the only ones who have the internet at their disposal in these thought experiments? What about the good guys? Where are the John Adams and Lincoln's and Gandhi's? Are they on vacation?

Invoking fear and doubt in people's heads doesn't produce imagination, curiosity or empathy. And those are the tools that produce new solutions. What fear and doubt produces is defensiveness and mindless reactions.
> It can be a pile of junk because of the language it is written in.

So many wonderful things were written in assembly or PHP (assuming you rate PHP and assembly on the other end of the spectrum of awesomeness.)
Ask HN: Why do people hate Tesla?
I have seen the news and videos regarding many people Shorting Tesla Stock. Why do they hate Tesla so much? Tesla is one of the few companies that are trying to save the planet.
Meadow F7 micro board on pre-sale (bare metal .NET Standard 2.0)
What is it about this service as a business model that prevents it from taking off? I’ve known at least two YC startups that tried to build businesses around this idea.

I think one or both were acquired and immediately shut down, but I’m not 100% sure about that.
Ah, the machine penguins use to talk to humans.
https://madagascar.fandom.com/wiki/Speak_and_Spell
Show HN: Goof off work with looped GIFs
This whole mandatory retirement after is ridiculous and needs to end. If someone is physically able, and still had good mental capacity as well as senses why stop them? Looking at how out of shape most millennials are your average 65yr old is probably a better bet!
"American Renaissance" - actual fucking nazis. If first we came for the nazis the poem would have but one line.
Opensourcing the Universal Package Manager
What are you talking about? The US government develops and uses exploits in secret against american tech every day.
How did I improve as a developer
Just reading the grasslands series which is very tenuously linked to something I’m working on - those posts are fascinating. Thanks for the heads-up.
What are some real applications for this?
Wow! It's a treasure! Thanks

But... What is the best way to find more companies with "Remote DNA"?
BBC has a way of doing this with titles. They start with a very broad title and then narrow it as the story ages.
That's what common sense says. But there's no proof that that ever happened. I recommend you to check out Graeber's book. Or you can read my whole explanation in the fourth section of Data Dictatorships.
"Reshaped Mathematics" is quite an exageration.
Making instagram.com faster – code size and execution optimizations
Google to acquire Fitbit, valuing the smartwatch maker at about $2.1B
I can't really think of any nefarious interests that a municipal government would have that one of these corporations wouldn't also have, and at least municipal governments are somewhat democratically accountable. Something like this is fundamentally antidemocratic.
The one who ordered the drone strike is responsible (but hardly held responsible). Easy to draw the parallel with ordering the deployment of anti-personel landmines: the one who ordered deployment is responsible (but may not have signed the treaty, and thus, is hardly held responsible).

Autonomy or explainability is often a red herring. Look at who gives the orders. It is unlikely to ever be the programmer, even if they made a grave mistake. We have a history for that with smart rocket systems.
Emmy Noether had a comparable background and had her problems with academia, too
Love the minimalism and did not expect to see so few lines.

This reminded me of an example in "Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems" where a roughly dozen line key value pair (?) DB was presented, in Bash, I believe.
Nothing more than linux is needed to prove the success of Linus Torvalds.

If your first hit is sufficiently large you never need another.

It's different in founding startups..., once you're lucky, twice you're good.
Sudoku solvers are nice to rewrite in several languages.
Society doesn’t care about men’s issues. 57% of undergraduates are now women yet every resource makes it seem like men are way ahead and tries to bring them down because.001% most powerful are mostly men. It’s okay to mock men constantly and anyone responding back gets demonized.
People who attempt to obfuscate probably go to a special list when obfuscation is detected. You get scrutiny by attempting to avoid scrutiny.
> The higher the stakes of the decision, the more incentive to approach it like a rational Bayesian agent who would use whatever tool has the best risk / reward tradeoff, totally regardless of explainability

These sorts of problems are mostly difficult precisely because we don't know the risk/reward tradeoff.

For example, in the prison system you need to evaluate the risk of recidivism. How exactly do you evaluate the tradeoff between releasing someone who is potentially violent vs. keeping someone potentially reformed behind bars? You'd need to weigh the dollar value of keeping them imprisoned and the personal harm to them and the rest of the prison population when they're imprisoned against the potential harm to anyone else if they're released... plus many other factors that I'm sure I've overlooked.

Anyone who tries to bake those tradeoffs into a "rational Bayesian agent model" will fail.

You're trying to describe the world in terms of game theory, but we live in a world where we usually don't know the risks, or the payoffs, or the rules of the game.
Google to Acquire Fitbit
> not everything we were taught as children is correct

Yes. That's true, even if what folks think dinosaurs were like now is different than what they thought a few years ago. Knowledge accumulates. Previously unknown fossils are found, known fossils are re-evaluated.

This is not a good article. My advice is to avoid.
>What does "toxic" mean?

Toxic -- adjective (ˈtäk-sik)

1) containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation

2) exhibiting symptoms of infection or toxicosis

3) extremely harsh, malicious, or harmful

4) relating to or being an asset that has lost so much value that it cannot be sold on the market

In the context of this specific discussion, for the sake of disambiguation, the third definition listed above is the one being used. Here are some articles which may help to further clarify the concept of "toxic" as it applies to people, social interactions and online communities:

https://psychcentral.com/blog/whats-a-toxic-person-how-do-yo...

https://www.healthscopemag.com/health-scope/toxic-relationsh...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/26/racism-...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/18/americans-s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/toxic-masculinity.html
Running Docker Linux Containers on Windows Server
I was hoping to have some time to transition off the platform before this went through. Any idea when the official "Google actually owns it" point will be?
Where should I go for MIS training?
Fitbit to Be Aquired by Google
Who did not reshape mathematics, unlike Emmy Noether.
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Python
Their health may be better, but the 15 years is because the poor are being killed by things like overdosing, not natural longevity.
Most of North America is molded by fire. However the fires in California are different. Most of North America it is smaller fires that burn underbrush out, but leave the trees (other than a few that have just died). California it is the trees themselves that burn in a much hotter fire. (in California the fires are related to mud slides latter)

The above is historic, modern housing needs to work with it. I'm not sure how you can do that in California.
In a country that doesn't have universal healthcare you blame twitter for reducing the lifespan of the poor?
Absolutely true. Also, I was disappointed that the article didn't mention opioids. It seems like that would have a huge impact on all life expectancy in the US over the last several years.
I've meant that if a value is moved, it won't be dropped in the scope it came from, but the one it's been moved to.
Agreed 100%! Which is why I made sure to write that it was my personal assumption.
More personal data to use and build a complete model of you.
Shorting Tesla stock has no correlation to hating Tesla. Personally, I don't hate the company, but I don't think I'll ever buy one (even though I could, in cash), because I don't need or want all the high tech. Give me a long range basic car, with roll down windows, manual locks, no self driving and I'll be very happy.
Maybe the file you distribute on a USB stick should contain a self-contained webserver on localhost that your users can run, then install the extension through Firefox?

This raises some security concerns in theory (your user now has to run an executable that is not sandboxed by the browser), but they were already trusting you enough to plug in a USB stick.
You're right but if the syntax that you're using is not supported in Clickhouse, aggregate and predicate pushdowns won't work and this FDW (https://github.com/adjust/clickhouse_fdw) needs to map all the Postgresql functions / produces to Clickhouse in order to take advantage of push-down so the only use-case here is that you may want to join the data in Clickhouse with the data in Postgresql (or other FDW sources).
Blade Runner: How well did the film predict 2019's tech?
We actually have no idea how memory is encoded in any way - but that is irrelevant. When a person has a seizure, the electrical activity continues and is able to revert back to previous patterns through self correcting/preserving measures. My comment was referring to a completely dead brain with no activity whatsoever.
I've done the fade for text on images. Recently, I've implemented background text with ::before:

.background-text[data-background-text]{
position: relative;
}.background-text[data-background-text]::before{
font-family: sans-serif;
color: #000;
font-size: 350%;
line-height: 1em;
text-align: justify;
z-index: -1;
position: absolute;
top: -0.5em;
left: 0;
height: calc(100% + 0.5em);
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
content: attr(data-background-text);
text-rendering: optimizespeed;
}
> One thing I've learned is that if the media repeats something over and over again in order to imprint it into your brain, it's probably because there is an agenda behind it and not because it's the good old truth.

Like I asked the other person with this exact same opinion. Do you believe this to be true of all media or only the media you already disagree with?
Your 2) is by far the most important to me. Not only does it allow to learn about solutions I could repurpose and their used patterns; it can also give me that last missing piece I was looking for that blocked me from building something.

That said, I'm especially looking for software "written in Rust" because I know the build process is standardized. I may need some dependencies, but I know how the build will work (cargo build -> if at all, all build instructions are in build.rs). I compile all rust-based open projects myself, and I have yet to stumble over a non-binding-specific package that won't compile.
He’s probably responsible for more wealth creation than anybody in the last hundred years just from those two projects.
Firefox is open source. AFAIK you could always run a fork with your preferred behaviors. Same applies to speculative execution mitigations in Linux.
The defining characteristic of HN compared to subreddits is age. Most people here are older than reddit, and while i love well-moderated communities on reddit (and HN could be one), talking to a much younger audience (and cynically deflating their hopes) feels kind of wrong to me. That said, the discussion on HN is still more or less OK , especially in the less crowded "ask hn" and show hn sections. But it's not really impressive or exciting and sometimes outright disappointing, at least compared to 10 years ago.

HN is now a legacy website. It's not about hackers (esp. of the illegal kind) neither about news (esp. (geo)politics). You 're not going to learn the hot new tech, but you 'll read what marketing dept. thinks of it a year later. You 'll also find articles about things that HNers don't really understand (e.g. neuroscience) yet keep getting upvotes.

It's still in my top 2 communities, but feels like going to bar that s now boring and its patrons are looking for new and exciting venues. I find fresh-er discussions in twitter lately.
Fitbit was garbage to me before the buy, because the warranty replacement or the software on my phone had stopped doing any real syncing.

Could be a fluke, but as a consumer I don't really care about that.

Next thing I bought is a bluetooth supported chest strap, but I also resigned myself to eventual malfunction according to Amazon reviews for all the heart straps.
Europeans must be on the right track if the monopolists are complaining
Applicable and Achievable Formal Verification
I loved Fitbit for many years, especially for its strong privacy stance. If my data becomes part of Google's surveillance economy, I will be greatly disappointed.
Beautiful parody of a possible future, this was incredibly well written and designed.

As it stands it's not uncommon to pay around $200/night for Ayahuasca retreats (plus $75/night lodging), and 5-MEO DMT, $200 on the low end and $1K+ in places like Los Angeles, for a 10-20 minute experience beyond experience. I've met more than one shaman/business owner absolutely raking it in, booked solid, turning people away due to overwhelming demand.

Needless to say it's a lucrative market, not out of the realm of possibility to see big pharma getting in on the action if legalization moves beyond marijuana.
It raises the interesting question: how do other employees of platform companies protect their own privacy to prevent being put on a list after a political conflict of some sort? When you work in security, this kind of thing is always a distant blip on the radar, but it's there.

I know when I did work for a platform company, I didn't trust the internal controls or quality of people enough to keep their app on my devices. I was also sure there were people with access to user data who could not be depended upon to be noble.

These aren't faceless government agencies monitoring you, when it's someone doing a favour or using it to support some cause, it's people you know.
I develop Swift on Linux all the time and have no issues. The only thing I don't like is that Ubuntu is the only officially supported platform. We've had to roll our own packages to support CentOS/RHEL. In spite of that, it's still quite easy to develop server-side apps using Swift on Linux. The Jetbrains CLion IDE supports it with no problem, as does VSCode.
Streaming high quality audio files
Sure, and the established process will fix it. This is not an MCAS level newsworthy event.
Chrome allows installing local extensions from a source folder, and the installation persists across browser sessions. Firefox extensions installed from a local source folder in about:debugging are removed at the end of the browser session.
I poked at one of the “new” models at the store and, to my ears, it sounds nothing like the original. They might have sampled the phonemes off the original chip.
They're an invasive species. It's sad but in the long run it's best for the ecosystem.
It is a viewpoint of the SEOers. Others prefer not to bother with that arms race of bullshit and never "opted in" to the dancing monkey trap in the first place.
"Similar to our other products, with wearables, we will be transparent about the data we collect and why. We will never sell personal information to anyone. Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads. And we will give Fitbit users the choice to review, move, or delete their data."
> Which actions are tech giants taking against people organizing meetings?

Feeding the data straight to NSA, which then feeds FBI, which then crashes the party with pepper spray and dogs. Sometimes the Feds can send under-cover agents to join the party, then stirr dissent and division.

See Occupy Wallstreet.

Another example is, tech giants forbid/censor messages (try sending a torrent link with wikileaks data in it to your friends), making your party so small you think no-body is actually interested. But the message is just silently dropped. Spooky eh.
I think it's relevant for open source projects because people might want to contribute to them or just read through the code to see how things work. And of course people will be more interested in doing those things with languages they have experience using.

The same developer also happens to have written a similar server in Python a while back: https://github.com/mosuka/cockatrice
Google uses this kind of Authentication for Chromecast when a User isn't connected to the same Network as the Chromecast is. This way you can still send Videos. It's called Guest Mode or something and is Opt-in
What is the local FOSS replacement for Facebook and Instagram? It is not inherent in the notion of communicating publicly and privately using photos, videos and short text messages than I disclose some ungodly amount of private data. I have feel like writing some protocol and a few clients and servers, but I expect that there's already twenty four competing protocols that no-one uses because, if you're not the biggest, you're noone.
Yes. You are totally right. The ugly side of Spain is quite big and very ugly. We have to fight that. I have already written in other comments that I absolutely reject the violence of the police during the referendum, for example, and that all Spanish governments have made big mistakes with this topic. We need reforms in our justice and electoral systems. We have horrible politicians (Catalonia is not exception here). But Spain is not, by any definition I know, an authoritarian country.

Moreover, I think we have to condemn the governments, the institutions, the citizens with bad behavior (there are indeed many of them in both sides, and therefore obviously many more in the non-indpendentist side). But when they constantly talk about "Spain" as if it was something external to them and refer to it as some banana republic, I feel insulted.

I quite often see the same thing happening with the USA. Sometimes people do not criticize their administration, but they criticize the US, or "the Americans". I would understand if the US people complained about that. I would specially understand it if this criticism came from inside the US.
My first thought is that google will idle and eventually kill Fitbit in four years (see Nest innovation before and after google). But then, I don’t know if Fitbit would still exist in four years if it stayed independent.
Did Body Cameras Backfire?
Neither side is actually wrong. Men dominate the corridors of power, and also the corridors of the dispossessed (e.g. the homeless, imprisoned, etc). Both of these things are problems.
I'm treading into Marxist territory, but I think industrialization, technology, and their societal consequences are a large part.

If I dropped the first part, there would be no downvotes.
I think it’s important in that someone may read the comment above and start to think “hey, maybe that guy is on to something.” My snarky reply may remind them that it’s a ridiculous proposition in the greater context. Maybe?

But I will agree, I come to hn for a higher level of discourse. And the whole comment thread doesn’t belong here. As long as it is, however, I think it’s important to rebut absurdity.
... and will be shutdown in about 18 months when our attention wanders elsewhere ...
Raid for those who avoid it
Ok, fair point. So I guess whereas one could argue the explainability problem away, the predictability of failure modes is non-negotiable.
Data loss prevention programs should be able to see you encrypting and encoding the file. Symantec’s website states it can detect someone encrypting a zip file or using PGP.

It’s a cool thought experiment. Just do it on your coworkers computer :-)
The ratio of garbage to awesome is relevant not individual examples
> If you are an optimist or an apparatchik, then your answer will tend toward rules of data procedure administered by a government you trust or control.

Make the data public. All of it. Don't allow them any secrets. Knowledge is power, power to the people.
I would disagree that Linux is a one hit wonder.

Years of successful project management are many small hits, not just one big hit.
This guy's a genuine detective. Love how he documented every small insight and what it led to.
I do agree with you to a point. I do think they have a difficult task trying to balance protecting people from their own ignorance and catering to power users who know exactly what they are doing and desire more freedom.

An option that just occurred to me is to be able to start Firefox with a special flag that would give access to some extra options to allow actions that reduce security - such as sideloading for example.

To help prevent innocent users being coerced into starting Firefox with that flag it could be something like "Firefox.exe -pleasehackme".

Power users would know what the flag is for but even the most naive user might hesitate to start Firefox using a command inviting themselves to be hacked :-)

Probably a stupid idea, but just putting it out there.
I can see them linking this data to medical data and getting sued again. Like last June https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/technology/google-univers...