skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sorry, but there’s a lot of smart people here. Why is everyone assuming HTTPS means no one is snooping? I presume someone is snooping no matter what.
The module would not be able to be imported due to the syntax error. Eval is required to make the module syntax correct.

That being said, don’t do this. Check the version explicitly.
Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting that they ruin the lives of everyone who uses them.

Still, my main point is that mushrooms should NOT be controversial.
Funnily enough both of those were recommended to me by the YouTube algorithm.
FTC sues multi-level marketer Neora, alleging illegal pyramid scheme
We review companies from a technical point of view for investors so they have some idea of the risks associated with the company prior to investment. Very interesting but super intense work.
I agree with the argument, but I'm skeptical of the claim that "injury rates from de-risked playgrounds are not materially lower". If these playgrounds are more expensive to build and deliver no benefit at all, surely they would have been abandoned long ago.
All of the JavaScript written for https://cloudbuddy.cloud/ is raw and developed from scratch (zero frameworks / libraries / dependencies). It was my belief at the time that maintenance costs would be zero or extremely minimal over time since there was basically no dependency on anything external. Since inception (over 2 years), the benefits have held true. The disadvantage of course is that it took longer to finish the service and offer it.

So, I'm an old timer. I've been doing software development professionally for 25 years. For me, new development is stimulating; maintenance - not so much.

Andrew, here is what I would suggest - create and finish a small project and code it in ReactJS. Then code the same one using only raw javascript. With the experience, you'll have your answer whether the cognitive load is worth it.
It was a promotional deal and I haven't let the lease on the VPS lapse. I didn't know what to do with it at first, but it was too good of a deal to pass up.
I want to do that but Nextdoor posts about attempted kidnappings give me pause.
we do not live in a super litigious society. You're just brainwashed.
My experience was very different. SVN was far slower than git. It was slower for me to checkout my company's SVN repo at head than to use git-svn to clone the entire SVN history locally. And from then on, most git operations were effectively instant, save for pushing and pulling to SVN.

The killer feature though was that git didn't put my data at risk while I worked. With the normal SVN workflow, your working directory was the only copy of your changes. And when you sync'd with upstream it would modify the code in your working directory with merge information. Better hope that you get that merge right, because there's no second chances. Your original working directory state is gone forever, and it's up to you to recreate it with the pieces SVN hands you.
The article you're citing does not attribute a 75% drop in insect population to neonicotinoids.
Yeah, I never merge. No idea why you would want to.
the ban is not against an entire category of products. the ban is against USED products. I think this is a good thing. Because many people believe that amazon NEVER sells used products. (btw. I already gotten used products and I tried to buy new ones)
I’ve contemplated a startup that eliminates “checking in” a doctors office using paper or worse, a shared tablet, via QR code to personal smart phone form. Have at it hackers.
Even when you exclude religious organizations, the right donates more.

It's an odd fact, isn't it? It doesn't mesh well with the portrayal of them as stingy people who don't care about others.
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It did, but it doesn’t seem like it was acceptable then either. In fact they fired one person who went too far in criticizing Damore, and (anecdotally, unverifiably) are said to have punished a dozen others. (https://www.wired.com/story/ex-google-employee-claims-wrongf...)
Oh I have the same setup but I hadn’t thought to check the battery usage. 4% for me, that’s not bad at all.
Believe it. People were mercilessly mocked for making unpopular or disingenuous statements. When GCP hired an Oracle executive, he faced immense criticism purely on the basis of his reputation. And none of this was moderated in the past
We need some data engineers / Python folks on the data team! :-)
PureOS + GNURadio + a software-defined radio + a power amplifier...
Cable subs are going one direction, so it’s probably better to think about the other alternative mediums. These would be streaming services like Hulu, YouTube, Roku, digital billboards, and digital ad impressions through ad exchanges. All of these will offer significant ways to personalize and customize ads for viewers and have no audit system presently. I don’t see how Facebook removing political advertising remotely solves the problem going forward.
now I’m curious
You mean old Google?

They're doing some seriously good things in the dev space.
It does not appear anything you said was wrong, so I don't know why you are being downvoted.
> Indeed, I’m sure it would be impossible to find 20 hours of footage of Members of the Left or the Greens saying racist things

That's a whole other category than people hoarding weapons for some "day X", or members of the police equating police having to identify themselves (not by name, with a number) to citizens with Jews having to wear a yellow star [0], and dozens of other things, is just not even remotely in the same ballpark than "members of the Left" saying racist things. If one belittles the issue of Nazi networks in Germany going back to the 1940s, still murdering, with all the weird stuff happening to witnesses, all the failures to investigate -- that's orders of magnitude worse than a racist slur, to anyone who knows and cares about the actual situation.

Back to the military though, remember Horst Köhler resigning for basically quoting from the manual of the Bundeswehr? [1]

> a country of our size needs to be aware that where called for or in an emergency, military deployment, too, is necessary if we are to protect our interests such as ensuring free trade routes or preventing regional instabilities which are also certain to negatively impact our ability to safeguard trade, jobs and income.

The relevant Bundeswehr document at that time, from 2006:

https://www.bundeswehr.de/resource/resource/MzEzNTM4MmUzMzMy...

> Deutschland, dessen wirtschaftlicher Wohlstand vom Zugang zu Rohstoffen, Waren und Ideen abhängt, hat ein elementares Interesse an einem friedlichen Wettbewerb der Gedanken, an einem offenen Welthandelssystem und freien Transportwegen.

which translates to

> Germany, whose economic prosperity depends on access to raw materials, goods and ideas, has a fundamental interest in a peaceful competition of ideas, an open world trade system and free transport routes.

So basically, the German president had to leave for openly stating what is official doctrine, and people pretended that it isn't. I wonder what would happen to a little grunt who saw or said the wrong things, or said too plainly what the naked emperor support crowd covers up in bloated, dishonest language.

[0] https://twitter.com/vonDobrowolski/status/117832343007413043...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_K%C3%B6hler#Resignation
No the point is when the cloud goes down you can stay in bed because someone else is sorting it out for you.
> DDD is about modeling which is data and behaviour.

It really isn't. DDD is all about the domain model, not only how to synthesize the data structure that represents the problem domain (gather info from domain experts) but also how to design applications around it.
lol as if that's how the world works
Crystals that shrink when heated
Snooping on Https requires significant resources. Snooping on http is very cheap. A good analogy is locking your door. Sure, can be dealt with. But most would be criminals won't go further than twisting the door knob.
That sounds great but I think the difficulty is that it can be hard to allow a child to get a little hurt without increased risk that they get a lot hurt. There just isn't a clear line, it's all risk.

Sometimes we make errors and increase the risk of harm when trying to decrease it; errors should be corrected but it is otherwise trade-offs and uncertainty.
You have an option you might not have thought of - go work where you are the diversity.

If you apply somewhere that you are the only man or only white person on the team, you will generally not be asked about your commitment to diversity and politically correct thought. The people who want to fight or show off about that sort of thing are elsewhere.
Well, a lot of stock is placed on people wanting to be nice to grandgrandpa just because. Should that fail, the sick elderly will have problems, the healthy ones will sap the job market. We would see compensatory hyperspecialization at top end and also young people doing jobs formerly odious, potentially for better pay. Maybe a plenty of weird and unexpected social reactions too.
I like black. Thanks for black.
So what do you deduct from that fact?

"We bombed the hell out of Vietnam while the surrounding countries did nothing!"
Ethics and privacy rights notwithstanding, how can we help to educate schools that software like Gaggle are more fraudulent than they are helpful? It's quite clear to me all this product is doing is maintaining a blacklist controversial words and flagging any content that is passed through it that contains them, and is calling this AI to make it sound more advanced than it is. False advertisement to a community that is generally not very tech savvy. Are parents and schoolboards really comfortable with $10/hour contract employees looking through their children's content to decide its obscenity? With the money these school districts spend on scammy software, they could be spending it on recruiting health experts. I'm confident this company justifies its product's existence by taking a secondary school kid's joke about killing himself or herself out of context, flagging it, and claiming they prevented a suicide to boost their metrics.
While I agree on longevity of iOS devices, I also have 2007 MacBooks (both Pro and not).
They can't get latest OSX, without latest OSX you can't get iTunes that supports iPhone X.

Bootcamped Windows 7 on the same machine gets latest iTunes capable of interacting with iPhone X.
Nextdoor is full of paranoid nutcases
I have no fear that they'll take them away. They won't. It might suck up some time and money in court if they double down on being stupid but they won't get to take them in the end. It's my life being gone through with a fine tooth comb by the state as part of that process that I don't want to risk.
Interesting. I was expecting something with more machine visual aids, like square markers to easily determine the start, size, and angle of the text. I wouldn't be able to guess that this font was designed for OCR. I wonder what design considerations they took. From the look at the applications, maybe they assumed perfect/consistent reading conditions, instead of e.g. a casual photo of the text with little consideration to alignment or using a prepared format.
Him having build a nicer house has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with his reasonably asking compensation for the insane amount of damage police irresponsibly did to his house (using military weapons to blowing multiple giant holes in the side of it, rendering it uninhabitable) in the pursuit of some idiot that stole a chinese made tee-shirt worth at most $7.

The police posting photos of his new house is disingenuous and irrelevant and has nothing to do with the fact that morally they should compensate him for the destroyed previous house at fair market value. That the law apparently does not require them to do so only means the law is without meaning and deserves only contempt from any rational ethical person.
Show HN: An easier to read version of California's privacy law (CCPA)
I was following you until Hangouts...
I worked in a place where QA was cyclical - there would be too many errors, so they would add another layer of checks. Then someone would think, well, people are being too careless because they think the next layer will catch what they miss, so let's remove a step.
Waymo is an Alphabet company, not a Google business. What Google business other than Google Cloud do you consider not to not rely on data aggregation and profiling?
"Trait" inheritance is just interface inheritance, which is indistinguishable from composition+delegation. It doesn't have the pitfalls of actual implementation inheritance, which essentially involves an extra "trick" of dispatching on the actual type of your object even when calling base-class methods. It's not that Rust cannot do this - heck, people do it all the time in C. But it has to be done by writing things out explicitly, it's not automatic in any sense. And for good reason - letting base-class code access methods that have been redefined in a derived class can create all sorts of pitfalls when you're not very careful about what that implies.
Instead of the silly robots, why not exosuits. We're this close. Obvious conclusion of Internet of things combined with wearables.
Cyborg grandparent is already a thing sometimes. Insulin pump? Why not. Other drug delivery systems? Easy. Mobility, again better than piggybacking a robot, think wheelchair on steroids.
(Panasonic has the right idea but has not taken it far enough yet. HAL is smart. Both are way too expensive yet. Even good wheelchairs are quite expensive and we have trouble accommodating them - real deal exosuit walker would be easier.)

You can get old timers to care for themselves the most they can, you win in efficiency. The big one is mental decline. We can do little about it for now. Yes, the exosuit can talk to you and override if you do something dangerous. Maybe call for help.

Yes, I know people prefer to interact with people. Which is probably not easy to fake without a robot.

Finally, just remember that getting old people socialized would still likely be a job.

--

By the way, the image of old people looking like astronauts is beyond funny.
I think you just replied to one of those "attempted kidnappings" from Nextdoor's point of view.
Science as we know it can’t explain consciousness – but a revolution is coming
“Motoko statically compiles to WebAssembly, a portable binary format that abstracts cleanly over modern computer hardware, and thus permits its execution broadly on the Internet, and the Internet Computer.”
Andreas Rossberg is on the team behind this, he’s one of the designers of WebAssembly.
Everyone says running your own mail server is not advised. Do you find it difficult or time consuming? I'd like to try it but I'm worried it's too much work - what's your setup?
I've long been confused about Wireguard getting all the attention over ZeroTier. ZT is so good at finding a communications path that I had to figure out how to block it from traversing one of my IPSec tunnels.
Wow, I didn't expect this post to have any traction. Many thanks for the diverse feedback.

This is just a PoC of an idea I've created after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21417026. But who knows, a human readable QR code alternative could born out of this.

When I looked up for this idea, I have found out http://hrqr.org/ but didn't find it much readable. Thanks to the comments here I came across OCR-A, OCR-B, and MICR just now. From these I've found Westminster typeface: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-48273.html

Do you guys think using a font inspired by Westminster be a better choice than the prototype we have now?

In any case, the font should be resistant to malicious tampering such as creating an "o" from "c". Manual tampering could be also prevented with trailing checksum images that could be more information dense than the characters.

Error correction concern is the most common among the comments here. Yes, HR code readers would need to have error correction implementations to be reliable. Since each 7x7 grid of 2^49 binary options could only encode one of the 85 valid characters, HR codes could be recognized with even large chunks missing. On the other hand, implementations would be much more complex than the QR code error correction algorithm.

I reduced 3 corner blocks of QR codes to 1. This would make detection of HR codes much harder.

OCR, image recognition from video feed and average phone camera and processor has advanced so much in the past years that I think these technical costs could be favored for a human readable QR code alternative.

> If the app you are using to scan the QR code doesn't ask you for permission before opening the web page that's the problem with the app not the QR code...
(wfdctrl's comment)

You're right. If the protocol is not secure enough, then the layer above must be secured enough. But it's better to have the security at the protocol level. Here's the other reply of mine under this thread where I speculate about possible security issues with QR codes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21424988

I'm open for a better name than "HR code" by the way. It is too silly that makes it recognizable though.
Just tried going through this tutorial. I can get traffic to forward through the server just fine, but for some reason, DNS refuses to resolve.
I've tried:

- Having no DNS explicitly specified

- Having unbound DNS server run locally

- Using public facing DNS like 1.1.1.1

And none of them seem to make DNS resolve. Anyone else run into this?
> Amazon now knows which one I got and where it came from

And do they share that knowledge with you? Or only after you've gone to the trouble of returning the item?
French people were opposed to that idiotic intervention, just like the ones in Iraq and Syria. Sarkozy was not re-elected (for this and many other reasons).
Brave + DDG works well for me. All of the compatibility of Chrome, but with none of the tracking.
The Chinese have been trying to manufacture fighter grade jet engines for over 20 years, with a pretty dismal result. They tried to clone the various Russian engines that have come with the Su-27's they've purchased, but they've had trouble with the metallurgy. Even their latest stealth fighter (J-20) is using an upgraded version of this engine (Saturn AL-31).

And considering BO had previously said they'd have manned missions by 2018, I'm skeptical of anything in their forecast.
iTunes? What do you still use iTunes for? I don’t think I’ve used iTunes with my iPhone for probably 5 years.
That would be unfortunate, but it's not nearly as bad as the effects we'll see if the trend of information warfare against civilians continues.

I've come to expect falsehoods on the internet for political or commercial gain -- but I find the recent trend of using propaganda to spark hatred, outrage, and panic, to be particularly disturbing.
Decided to put together a (hopefully!) more readable version of the legal text of CCPA.

Felt that the one on the .gov site [0] that was lacking even basic indentation was a bit hard to follow! :)

Not exactly light reading for a Friday night, so also put together a tl;dr if you are just curious what the new law covers! [1]

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x...
[1] https://hq.services/blog/intro-to-ccpa
Is this a new change? Because previously, you could label your own commingled products and the label was simply the UPC code.
Linus was probably exposed to Wirth's book (from 1976) at some point.

I believe it was the first major CS book that emphasised data structures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_%2B_Data_Structures...
Could you give a concrete example of how the walrus operator is worse for the language? I know you've admitted that this is a rant but without anything to back it up, it isn't much interesting to read.

As for the switch statement, I'm inclined to agree although if we see `switch` as syntactic sugar for a bunch of other conditional statements, then what makes it a more important candidate for inclusion than the walrus operator?

Thanks in advance, I'm genuinely curious to know.
Python designers should learn a thing or two about how C++ and Java people manage their language updates. It makes no sense to use a language that stops supporting features like Python wants to do.
+1 for this, although I’d argue going with ghost and their new subscription service is better all-round (I’m biased because I’ve stuck to ghost for 3 years).... although mailing isn’t built-in
> My guess for the next great Satan?

It's Cloudflare.

edit: Just to be clear, the reason I'm so suspicious of Cloudflare is that they're inserting themselves between users and their destination. The service they provide is a great value, and their contribution to the public (free dns and vpn) is extremely admirable. But they only exist because the infrastructure maintained by the old corporate guards is so poor. Once they take over all network traffic, they'll be the next great Satan. Their story will probably turn out similar to Google.
I do hope that Debian will start patching out these nanny features, though, including the ones we've already had for a while (like no unsigned extensions). Maybe it's time for a revival of Iceweasel.

If malware gains enough access to my system to put extensions in the sideloading folder I have bigger problems than Mozilla can protect me from.
Run a reconcile offline changes on an actually large repo and come back and tell me that again. ;)
>value in general

When you are in a philosophical vacuum, generalizing value is useful. However, markets concertize value. The question of "why has this been so valuable" is firmly answered by "this is how much someone payed for it".

"What is value?" is an excellent philosophical question. "Why is (some item) so valuable?" is easily answered by a simple analysis of history and statistics.
They make parents and administrators "feel good." That's a significant benefit, one that drives a lot of purchasing decisions.
Generally speaking, for a pep to be approved, there has to be a working proof of concept.

This isn't always true, but I've seen it be the case for most recent peps.
We've done the same with our toddler - he's certainly had some good falls, but he quickly figured out how to tackle new obstacles. It's really great watching how excited he gets when he figures out how to climb something new.

Once he tried to start climbing the changing table at home, we decided to try to get him to practice climbing on things. He now climbs the table by himself most of the time. This accomplishes two things - he loses interest in climbing it, and if he tries it when our backs are turned he will have the skills to make it up without hurting himself.
That wasn't a joke of the, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" sort. Satire can be used to illustrate a point, often more effectively than plain-old words; hence, the comment is no longer grayed out.
My own realization that I'll probably never do anything on the frontier of language design hasn't killed my interest in designing a language, but redirected it.

These days my thoughts drift towards novelty and niche domains. What would be the most interesting way of describing a subset of things? The most fun? The most intuitive? What's a way to break a specific domain down into a vocabulary that lets you populate it while forgetting you're even using a computer?

I think there's still a lot to explore even if you aren't shooting for maximum productivity or even general-purpose programming.
Indeed, I had the same expectation that it was something related to Human Resources, and it's not like the H replaced a word that means "machine" or anything. It could have been "HQR code".