skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really get your point. What you're saying is that a good message takes a lot of resources to communicate effectively. That is true regardless of whether you can use social media to promote those messages.

Conversely, targeted advertisement lets you bombard people with certain inclinations with ads that nudge them to behave in a certain way. That isn't free speech, its targeted manipulation. The targeting is whats important here. For selling goods and services, its fine. For selling leaders or tarnishing leaders, its evil.
That kind of characterization is definitional. See: the Japanese Internment camps the US ran during World War II.
Jews are extremely overrepresented amongst scientific, business, cultural, and political elites compared to how many of them are in the world. Just look at the list of 500 richest people, or Nobel Prize winners.

I took a class on it back in the day in the uni. There are long and complicated historical factors contributing to this, including centuries of Catholic-church mandated Jewish monopoly on law & banking (i.e. Catholic church didn't allow anybody else to do it because it was considered impure), which resulted in intense focus on education through generations while everybody else was farming and fighting. On top of that, everybody has been trying to murder Jews during the entire history, so there's a lot of natural selection.
Workers leave. That's the "collective" part.
If you are interested in this because you are organizing a conference you might like frab [1]. It is a free and open source conference management system that is primarily used by the Chaos Computer Club for Chaos Communication Congress and other conferences.

[1] https://github.com/frab/frab/wiki
Fix: macOS Catalina and CommandLineTools Issue
In the sense that the perspective has ceased to exist, and is not present within the copy.
Most of this could be said about smartphones already and the masses don't care. Maybe their approach of focusing on the consequences for minorities could raise some concern (or not, who knows).

I don't think most people will care about privacy until it has a direct or near direct affect on them.
this sounds far too simplistic, so .. reference?
Children are generally not separated from their parents when their parents commit non-violent minor offenses. Crossing a border is, at the least, non-violent. How major or minor it is is debatable.

The basis of your argument is wrong. What else ya got?
The majority of the British Empire would not have supported the right of the American colonies to secede. Does that mean it was wrong of them to do so?

Should the Americans have instead pursued their cause in Parliament, where they were unrepresented?
According to the Washington Times (a right-wing news organization), 49% of Americans live in sanctuary jurisdictions, based on data from FAIR (a right-wing pro-ICE advocacy group). https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/10/half-of-ame...

I think that makes it clear that a sizable number of Americans are opposed to receiving ICE's services, only receive them because there isn't actually a way to opt out of them, and are doing the next closest thing.
Technically, they are kindof the same. The Supreme Court has ruled that commercial speech (of which advertising is a part of) has Constitutional protection.[0][1]

[0]: https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_speech
> For the Moon, it is less than one! The Sun exerts more force on the Moon than the Earth does.

This is not a very good argument though, because the ratio of Sun influence vs Earth influence only depend on the distance of the orbit from Earth.

You can have a 10 ft size rock in a further orbit and Suns exertion of gravitational force would be even stronger! That doesn't make it a planet.
I tend to interpret independent as "I don't want other people to determine what I have to do", but yeah, "I don't want other people to intrude on me at all" is another possibility.
> Another tool in the arsenal of the rich and powerful to give them more of a voice than the average person, is another way to look at it.

The rich and powerful already have exponentially more of a voice than the average person -- media corporations are privately owned, after all, and no one is suggesting that we prevent them from making political statements. Banning political advertising is basically saying that people or groups with thousands or millions of dollars to spend shouldn't be able to get their message out -- only billionaires should be able to do that.
Virgin Galatic Merged with Social Capital Hedo. (Chamath Palihapitiya)
I doubt it because people are ethical (I hope).

But this is so true. I feel like I always come up with so many loopholes but because of their nature of being "scams" I obviously don't do them.
Hey Timescale engineer here. Happy to answer any questions.
There’s only about 10 million people in Sweden and we’ve produced Saab, Ericsson, Volvo, IKEA, H&M, Spotify, Skype, MySQL to name a few.

I don’t think it’s that uncommon.
I hope not! Better put your efforts into creating value rather than winning zero-sum scams.
There is no perspective from which you die. That's what dying means. You can't experience being dead.
California's Insurance and Land Use Regulations Make State's Wildfires Deadlier
Instagram is killing its creepy stalking feature, the Following tab
What ridiculous is when you try searching for 'whole homes' and you end up getting 'apartments' which are nothing more than someones basement. Airbnb seems to encourage this too by letting people put whatever tags they want. It's kind of a joke. In addition, hiding the address makes it hard to double check on google street view.

Edit: My workaround is selecting super hosts only, 3-4 bedrooms, 1+ bathroom. Seems to filter out most of the apartments and "Houses" aka granny flats.
Ask HN:Ok to be in programming if you hate the process but love the result?
I've been really debating this a lot. The process vs. the result. I think I'm finally more admitting to myself that I actually dislike the majority of the process of making a web site/application. For me, I just want to have the working app or prototype or functionality on the other side. I want to solve a specific problem. That's why I develop/code.
The process is mostly just endless tedious task after endless tedious task.

Is it ok to stay in web development if you generally loathe the process and are only in it for the end result?

Does anyone else here face this dilemma?
I'm sure the thousands upon thousands of depleted uranium rounds they fired over those years had nothing to with it at all.
The article is garbling the WhatsApp allegations: WhatsApp says the hackers abused WhatsApp servers to hack phones, not that the servers had a flaw. To send the malicious payloads to the victims, the hackers sent messages that flowed over WhatsApp's networks, which largely what they're hanging the lawsuit on.

https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...

The actual flaw was this one: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3568
As I understand the function of a publisher, it is predominantly about marketing and distribution, and putting a book in front of people who otherwise wouldn't have heard of it or bought it.
I presume that most people will disagree with this but I believe that it is related to Jewish people on average being generally smarter than a non-jewish person. Consider for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates

> "Nobel Prizes[note 1] have been awarded to over 900 individuals,[1] of whom at least 20% were Jews, although the Jewish population comprises less than 0.2% of the world's population"

This is also true in my personal experience as well. A lot of my professors had Jewish ancestry and are some of the smartest people that I know. A lot of famous computer scientists have Jewish ancestry too (Sussman, Stallman, etc).
Which one is you? How can you answer that question in any reliable way?
There is no reason why other well educated countries could being doing the same thing, but with the Israeli's, nothing is off the table. If a company in Israeli learns how to hack WhatsApp, that is seen as an advantage for the Israeli government. If an American company learns how to hack WhatsApp, they bound by ethics to let WhatsApp know and make sure the issue is fixed. Israeli culture thinks that is crazy to do that because they can use the flaw against their enemies.
So ultimately we’re societies built on laws. Sometimes we have embargoes. We don’t allow sales to Iran or Cuba, but we allow sales to China and Russia and a bunch of others. Most companies stay neutral and don’t take a stance. Walmart and Amazon don’t check you or me for our good citizen creds before selling goods to us. We could be ex felons for all they care. Unless the gov says don’t sell something to X, then we can. It’s a bit of circular reasoning but that’s all we have. We build human institutions to support our human activities.
WhatsApp will rekey and send old messages without notifying the user. This means MITM is possible and not always detectable. This is their intended design (but you can change the preference so that you at least get notified when it happens).

(Widely reported, see Guardian article)
It's only offhandedly mentioned at the bottom of the post, but the websearch_to_tsquery() function added in PostgreSQL 11 is extremely useful and lets you create a pretty decent search system immediately without having to implement any sort of query-parsing yourself.

It supports searching for alternatives with "or", phrases in quotes, and excluding terms with a minus sign, which is all syntax that a lot of people are already used to. For example it can handle a query like:

blizzard or overwatch -"hong kong"

That would find anything with "blizzard" or "overwatch" in it, but exclude anything with "hong kong" (if you wanted to avoid results about that recent controversy).

It's a great addition, and made it even easier to implement reasonable search functionality with PostgreSQL.
Yes you can. You may give up your citizenship in exchange for another.
I would have been fine with one or two adult cockroaches. I've killed them before in my apartment. But this was an established infestation, with adults and nymphs of various ages crawling all over. They were crawling on the bath towels, in the appliances, in the kitchen etc.. Moreover, a hotel would not knowingly list or rent a room with a massive cockroach infestation.
It sounds like you’re saying that because Facebook wants more money, they can do what they want. No. They shouldn’t get a free pass simply because it maximizes profit.

Slight tangent: Regulation is a thing because businesses have been shown to not self regulate when its in their best interest not to. A corporation maximizing profits could be a good thing for consumers, but it could also be bad. And when it’s bad, that’s when regulation is supposed to come in.
Go vs. Java: The Beginning
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-jav...
Show HN: How long do I meditate daily to see benefits?
Alternatively, this is what ccc has been using for their events, like the congress, for a while now.

https://github.com/pretix/pretix
Or one could disable Javascript? (WFM on FF with uBlock Origin).
Flagged post as ad spam.
I've done some software projects in the construction industry, and the consensus I've gathered speaking with people working there is that the productivity growth in general has been abysmal in the industry. Granted, the issues there seem to be very complex and you probably won't solve anything with just more software.

You're right though that the use of software in the construction industry is probably as high as it is in any other industry, but anecdotally at least the way information (like what tasks to do and when) spreads in a construction site is severely lacking.

Also, I don't know how reliable this is, but at least McKinsey has written quite extensively about the productivity slump in construction: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-inf... idustry
You can train a cat, but it's much harder than training a dog. Cats will lose all interest occasionally and you just have to end the training until they're ready again. It's very much on their terms. That said, I've found positive reinforcement to work well for my cats. We've been able to train one of them to sit and stand using treats and a clicker. The other has no interest in treats so there's not much we've been able to do.
"doesn't use JavaScript" and "can't work without JavaScript" are two separate issues.

Google, the most popular page on the internet, doesn't force you to use Javascript.
> It depends. At a small company? Sure. But no individual employee, or even small collective of employees that aren't VP or key contributor in an irreplaceable knowledge-base, have the clout to turn a Microsoft or a Google.

I see this claim thrown around a lot with no evidence for it.
For my part - yes. I think it's fine for companies to be political. I am totally supportive of this, and I don't think it's possible for a large company to be apolitical in a meaningful sense. (Many of the largest internet companies are founded on the belief that uncensored sharing of information is a good thing, which is definitely a political stance.)

I think we should admit that, and then say, it's okay for GitHub employees to say "My employer's politics don't agree with mine, so I'm not going to work for them anymore," and for GitHub users to say analogous things. My point is that it's deliberately deceptive for GitHub to hide behind the claim of being apolitical.
A web site originally dedicated to startups and creating commercial products?
This is also my experience, I find Airbnb to be more expensive and not cheaper than booking through their competition and often times the same property will be listed on Airbnb but 15% cheaper on HomeAway.

This summer I made a trip to Spain where we ended up staying on a 4 star hotel with breakfast on the beach we wanted for what would have costed to rent a house of similar feel.
If you are helping someone by providing products or services to them, you are by definition actively helping them do whatever they do. That's not neutral. Being neutral is neither helping nor hindering them.
Part of the problem is the hype in the other direction. I guess there are those who claim that this sort of result constitutes super human intelligence or something close to AGI. When in reality this is a hyper specialized system that has taken many man years of work to realize.
I don't want to stay with a local resident - in fact the only times I've stayed at an AirBnB (twice so not a significant sample) I never saw the owner, we just got the code to the lock box and used the house for a few days. This is a hotel.

I'd stay with a hotel (and sometimes do) if they would offer me as many bedrooms and a kitchen to work with.
You could add inertia by including a flywheel (or multiple) connected to the wheels of the coaster. Not sure how easy that would be at small scales though.
Back in the day, you would shoot at a borg, and if your shell was aimed perfectly, it would side-step one tank width while the shell was in flight. You couldn't kill one unless you were right on top of it (or had guided missile or laser).
Try Shakespeare and Greek Mythology before that.

Or if that's too far back, television's The Honeymooners (1955-1956). Or the Flintstones for that matter.

Or Fibber McGee and Molly if 30s radio shows are your thing.

The bumbling male and the stalwart woman is a trope that is thousands of years old.

Complaining about it is new.
> Just try to write a hello world of that size nowadays!

The only reason why hello world binaries are bloated is because compilers for several compiled-to-native languages statically link many standard library functions into the final output executable.

You can write a hello world DOS terminal program[1] for x86, using the DOS syscall 9 (invoked with interrupt 21h)[2]:

format MZ

push cs
pop ds
mov ah,9
mov dx,hello
int 21h

mov ax,4C00h
int 21h

hello db 'Hello world!',24h

This would compile down to a handful of bytes.

Alternatively, if you want to use modern Windows syscalls (instead of legacy DOS syscalls), you can dynamically link to the Windows system libraries, and implement the hello world like so[3]:

format PE console ; Win32 portable executable console format
entry _start ; _start is the program's entry point

include 'INCLUDE/WIN32A.INC'

section '.data' data readable writable ; data definitions

hello db "Hello World!", 0
stringformat db "%s", 0ah, 0

section '.code' code readable executable ; code

_start:
invoke printf, stringformat, hello ; call printf, defined in msvcrt.dll
invoke getchar ; wait for any key
invoke ExitProcess, 0 ; exit the process

section '.imports' import data readable ; data imports

library kernel, 'kernel32.dll',\ ; link to kernel32.dll, msvcrt.dll
msvcrt, 'msvcrt.dll'

import kernel, \ ; import ExitProcess from kernel32.dll
ExitProcess, 'ExitProcess'

import msvcrt, \ ; import printf and getchar from msvcrt.dll
printf, 'printf',\
getchar, '_fgetchar'

This too would likely be under a kilobyte.

All of this uses fasm (flat assembler)[4][5].

[1] Source: https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=1736

[2] DOS syscalls: http://spike.scu.edu.au/~barry/interrupts.html

[3] Source: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly/FASM_Syntax#Hello...

[4] https://flatassembler.net/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASM
From quick look most of these are frontend/client features?
Sadly, I know a lot of people who are ok with that. They're very much of the opinion, "Well, I'm doing nothing wrong, so I don't care. Especially if it helps catch bad guys". Not really sure how to fight that.
A project idea I've toyed with is "Where does X come from?", which would show someone, to some approximation, where the things they buy and consume originated, and the path they took to get there, and where their waste goes. Mainly this is inspired by my own curiosity, but also desire to better understand the impact my decisions have on the world.

I haven't pursued it due to lack of time and expectation that acquiring and reducing the data would be a monumental effort, but this looks like a good source for "where does [food item] come from", and has some useful-sounding source databases for tracking other items.

Some other resources I'd want to include: water, sewer, trash, electric (at least where the lines are and nearby power generation), and gas.
For more than 50% of the population to oppose secession, you'd need a voting turnout of ~90%, and for all the people who had not previously voted before to vote against secession. (50% turnout with 90% for secession -> 45% of voting population voting for secession)

Are voter turnouts normally that high in Spain?
They aren't watching you. They're recording you. They're running algorithms to classify and index you. They're building massive data centers to house all of this semi organized and raw data.

And when they leak it all they won't be held accountable because terrorists, children, and stuff.

It's not a conspiracy theory. It's real and it's a black hat's wet dream.

Oh yeah, they can use it for political purposes too I suppose. To silence dissent and all that.
Yea it's very annoying. I ended up making multiple IAM users--one for each of my security keys.
People are upset because he’s allowing ads that flat out lie simply because they’re a political ad. If the some Democratic nominee put out an ad saying “Trump reverses decision to ban LGBTQ+ from the military,” despite it being blatantly false (there’s no gray truth in that), they would allow it.

This rule means I could go form a PAC and post a ridiculous ad like “Voting for Biden will give you AIDS.” That has no basis in reality, yet from Zuckerberg’s words, it sounds like they would allow it.
That response tells that you didn't "sign" that. I only have reasons why some don't or limit use of ad blockers. If you have other values I won't try to convince you.
They don't have controls to notice if you sign up with a different email and use a different card.
Typestates in Rust (2018)
Email your CV and a paragraph on your interest to:
hr at lucencedx.com

Bonus points for citing our active jobs page:
https://www.lucencedx.com/careers/
Ask HN: Can one reverse engineer OpenPuff to make tools that find hidden files?
Yep especially US "aid".
Are you saying that the FFI transparently renames identifiers, so you think you're calling foo_bar, but the actual foreign function is FooBar, with no traces of FooBar in the program (like in some definition which indicates that the two are mapped together)?

If so, that's an incredibly bad idea.

If a program calls some foreign function called FooBar, the identifier FooBar better appear somewhere in it, if you know what's good for the maintainer seven years from now.
> idiots

really idiots ? I'd be shocked if PhD were really lacking intelligence that much (even if you used the term as an hyperbole)
This site doesn't require javascript to be usable.
New type of black holes – Non interacting low-mass black hole
Democracy as supported and implemented by the PRC is a sick joke.
I've been using Duplicati, which has been doing a great job at keeping my backup sizes low and has a handy interface.

I've been keeping encrypted remote backups for ~300 Gb worth of data, which occupies ~150 Gb. On Backblaze B2, it's costing me ~$10CAD/mo, which is a _lot_ cheaper than Tarsnap.

I might try Restic (always good to have a backup backup system), but I'm not sure how ergonomic it'd be on Windows.

https://www.duplicati.com/
Sort of. The organization ICE didn't exist. The functions of ICE were executed by other organizations in the government and (correct me if I'm wrong) no additional responsibilities were really added to ICE whole-cloth; it's more of a post-9/11 consolidation of resources.

Abolishing ICE without considering the need for those responsibilities and what org, if any, should take them on is certainly risky. But technically, yes, we could abolish ICE and route things ICE does (immigration management, customs enforcement, non-military border security) to other executive departments (not necessarily back to their originating department, since instituting ICE also abolished some of its predecessor departments).
Give me a break, Hosts have plenty of ways to lose money and take a huge risk renting their place out in the first place. People cancel last minute (if you have the nicer cancellation policies in place), leave beer bottles everywhere, and are sometimes just really unreasonable. Some guests are great though which makes it worth it!

We also have to deal with Airbnb issues, like when a guest leaves a review that isn't true and they leave it up anyway, even if the guest had no evidence, as one example.

Don't think that hosts always have it so easy or are all scammers like in this post.
> Any idea what hotels typically do in this situation?

They pay other hotels to take you in, and have insurance for the worst case (house burning down).
The US has had Border Patrol agents for 100 years. From 1920-1940 they were organized under the Department of Labor; from 1949 to 2003, the Department of Justice; since 2003, Homeland Security.
It might be a bit difficult (but not impossible) to do that... the APK you download is not the APK that the developer uploads to the Play store. Usually, developers upload a "bundle," and then Google optimizes it by stripping out irrelevant media, i18n, etc., to deliver a smaller optimized APK to the end user.

So you can't just generate an MD5 of your APK and match it against the store description like the good old days when you could make sure your Linux ISO was legit, but there's probably some way to make it work?

EDIT: It might be possible to circumvent Google's bundling/optimizing by just uploading a regular old APK, but IIRC that was becoming more difficult these days. Unfortunately I'm not an Android dev expert.