skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember going on a “field trip” to the local police station early in elementary school age where they demonstrated fingerprinting on all 10 digits. Also had an Ident-a-kid ID, which had a thumbprint on it.

While I technically “knew” my fingerprints were being taken, I guess, I certainly was not of any age where I could informedly consent to the action. Who knows what’s happened to them? (Probably nothing, but that’s definitely not a certainty in my mind.)
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I don't really care about fault regarding the immigration waves any more than I care about fault for a natural disaster. On the one hand, we have people arriving with the clothes on their back. On the other, we have a country with a federal tax revenue of $3.6 trillion gross. It's obvious where the power balance lies in that relationship. To be blunt, "they took the risk and now they have to pay the price" sounds a lot like justice without mercy, and most schools of faith and philosophy I'm familiar with would call that "cruelty." It doesn't breed positive outcomes; it breeds resentment. Nobody knows all the rules of the games they're playing by; we only get by globally as a species by being merciful when we can afford it.

And we can afford it, collectively, if we get creative. Three point six trillion dollars. This Congress and administration passed a big tax cut package.

I believe you did agree the cruelty was the point; that it was intentionally a harsh process to deter further attempts at illegal immigration. Apologies if I misunderstood you and am putting words in your mouth.
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Was going to reply to the parent with the joke and then didn't bother. Since you mentioned it though...

An American tells a Russian that the United States is so free he can stand in front of the White House and yell, “To hell with Ronald Reagan.” The Russian replies, “That’s nothing. I can stand in front of the Kremlin and yell, ‘To hell with Ronald Reagan,’ too.”
Shouldn't this issue be addressed by the free market rather than by the government getting involved? If there is evidence that the app censors content to serve CCP propaganda, then consumers can make the choice not to use it.
No, organophosphates were killing the fish, even at very low exposures.
taking something awful and making it less awful is different than making something good better.

python is 2 is a good programming language by any standard , i would like to see a fork of python 2 with emphasis on LTS and performance optimization.

The whole reason why python became popular is because it had a very shallow learning curve. introducing new cryptic language features every year Is not going to make it easy for new comers. I can say with some certainty that no one is going to use a pure python implementation in production(atleast not yet).
Theres a big difference between ending the same of products from creators and manufacturers and ending 3rd party resale and price arbitrage. If you make something, you should still feel safe on amazon (until your product takes off and they clone it), i dont see a reason to retreat to etsy or ebay. But if your business is buying and reselling things, and youre not adding value, I can see why Amazon would want to eliminate you.
Why is Google know for its terrible customer support? I have had great experiences with their support analysts in the past, specially concerning Nexus/Pixel devices and Google admin accounts. I never had to wait more than a few minutes to talk to someone and they are always polite and tried to help as much as they can, but this is all anecdotal.

Could you give me examples of their poor customer support? I know that they are not so great with developers who publish stuff on Play Store and the likes, but never heard of them being bad with paying customers.
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Most companies would love to do away with the expense of health insurance and all of the administrative headaches and costs that come with it. But since most full-time white collar jobs offer health insurance, changing jobs might change your coverage some but won't leave you insuranceless. Now if you want to go out on your own or create/work at a startup, health insurance can be a big issue.
Building a User Authentication Time Machine with the Slice State Manager
Now you have hidden subfolders with .git in your source.

And remember git doesn't save directories that are empty.
> a high probability that the revenge hits the right person.

This is also fundamentally hard, though. As the ratio of trustworthy people increases, the odds of false positives necessarily increase too.
no one can tell where will end up.

regardless, I don't think it's optimism because I don't think I will leave long enough to see such a world, at best we will leave through the roughest part of the shift. this level of cultural transformation takes more tha a few of generations.

in any case, I see something else regarding the way in which individual humans are aware of the relationship to their supporting society which translates up to the way in which a distinct society sees itself as a component of a larger system.

where do you think this is going?
The incredible career of mountaineer Fred Beckey
That was my thought on this matter.
What’s happening at Deadspin is a travesty – The Outline
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I can properly educate myself on many, many things, especially over time. A major issue is correctly utilizing available time. In developed countries today, many "adults" would rather direct their time at very low-value activities, like having children and / or pet slaves, watching disgusting amounts of Netflix, wasting countless hours on Facebook ranting about personal issues or envying others, taking unnecessary and unproductive trips, etc.

While lots of readers will dislike this comment, are not ready to digest it, and will claim that I am wasting my time writing this comment, I think as a society we should prioritize creating competent humans who can appropriately use technology, whereas this move by Mozilla is just more of the same, prioritizing mindless consumers who have no idea how any of the things that their lives increasingly rely on function.

I think such consumers should be left to fend for themselves, as that is the only way a majority of people actually learn. This is especially true for Firefox, which has never been a "consumer" browser, and has always been a browser for people who wish to understand how it works and be able to modify it in a straightforward manner. If someone desires a browser that does whatever it wants without asking, Chrome is a perfectly fine option.
Trump supporters “significantly” more likely to believe AI generated fake news
That's not because 3.8 broke something. The packages you mentioned require compiling. To make it simpler for users, the maintainers also provide precompiled versions. The issue here is that no one precompiled them for 3.8 yet. You can still install them but you need to have compiler and their dependencies installed.

The length of release cycle is irrelevant for this particular problem.
> If the goal wasn't to require the key file-- why store the key handle there at all and not just derive it from data sent by the server as in a more typical U2F application? The only other advantage I see is potentially limiting some cros-domain attacks (e.g. where server A provides server B's key handle).

I was also a little surprised this isn't used as a second factor, like Universal 2nd Factor is meant to be used. But maybe it's not so surprising given there are at this moment probably more U2F keys than FIDO2 keys in users' hands and the author chose to went with the option that has a bigger installed base.

FIDO2 offers resident keys[0] where a unique key is generated and stored on the authenticator. The server does not need to present the key handle to the authenticator so it can decrypt it and initialize its internal state. The server gets back the userHandle[1] that was set during registration as well.

Protecting the resident credential(s) can be done via a PIN or fingerprint scan, depending on the capabilities of the authenticator and user preference.

[0]:
a. https://auth0.com/blog/a-look-at-webauthn-resident-credentia...
b. https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/REC-webauthn-1-20190304/#resident...

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/REC-webauthn-1-20190304/#user-han...
It's a bit of a shame you're being voted down I think. I use python for a lot of web work, but just as much non-web applications work and felt that the survey was missing a lot of other options.
> those browsers are not meant for end users.

1% of 500M users is still millions of users. I don't know what the actual fraction of Beta/Developer vs Release users is, but the scale is significant enough that the beta channel is definitely intended for end users.

IMO Beta is the best channel of Firefox. Release is just an outdated version maintained for corporate/enterprise installations.
Is the Nitrokey supported? I didn't see it.
Check out Dracula At Night for VS Code. I swear by it for every IDE possible. I'm honestly surprised it's only got around ~52k installs. I don't remember where I first found it, but I'm glad I did.
There is a rule about ensuring the original title is the same as the submission title but in this case the original title is quite badly written.

Is there some way to submit this post or edit the title to maintain compliance with the submission rule and also make it less misleading?
I think post titles in /r/politics are better understood as writing prompts for outrage rather than actual article headlines. Can’t get hit by the paywall if you don’t click the link.
Cat bites are the strongest of any animal in terms of PSI because their teeth are so sharp, and they're ambush predators that kill with a single bite. I would totally go to hospital after a full-on bite from our cat.
"Both sides" have anti-globalists, and both have globalists, and despite an interesting few years globalism is still the establishment norm for most mainline parties in liberal democracies.
This so much. Few consumers know this fact, and fewer care.

Everyone knows the stuff they buy is manufactured in China, and the old timers holding weird grudges from the 1970s are long gone.

There is no economic incentive for anyone to bring this up at any time during any transaction.
Status signalling works.

I wish it didn't. Life would be much simpler. But it really does.

Wearing different clothes, driving a different car (or not driving a car, riding a bike) has an enormous impact on the impression that you leave on people.

It's not necessarily 'spend more win more'. A fancy car might not ingratiate you with the locals.

Beyond that - I think you have to unpick what is meant by "don't need". If I were restricted to buying things I need, I'd be donating something like 80% of my income to charity.

There are interesting cases - like why someone who really can't afford a particular thing buys it anyway - but usually that sort of thing, in my experience, comes down to a type of stress that has them making suboptimal decisions all over (e.g. if you're poor, everything is harder, because everything is stressful, and...)
See also from yesterday extensive discussion on ACLU's announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21412356
> I would argue the GIL is a feature put in place to make it easier to write parallel code.

It doesn't do that though. The GIL protects interpreter internals. It doesn't make Python code thread-safe, although it does make various operations atomic:

* native calls (which doesn't release the GIL)
* individual bytecode instructions (which don't call into more python code)

The latter can make it seem like it magically protects your code, but even a simple method call is at least 3 instructions (LOAD_FAST, LOAD_METHOD and CALL_METHOD). Each instruction is atomic and the method call will be if it's a native call (e.g. dict.get) but that's it, the entire call itself is not atomic and you could thread-switch between LOAD_FAST and LOAD_METHOD, or LOAD_METHOD and CALL_METHOD.
yeah, not quite. children actually tend to make you less happy than your peers. at least until they’re old enough to largely fend for themselves. At least in western cultures.

I suspect households with more than 2 adults the equation changes significantly. My experience is every child is a pleasure for 2 hours, no matter how badly they are misbehaving. So a household with enough adults to hand off the children may be able to maximize some kind of child additive happiness, though now you have to deal with added adult drama...
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1 point by sergc 3 months ago | parent [-] | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

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> I'm just not a great worker.

I sincerely doubt that you. You sound like a conscientious employee in an environment not set up for the kind of work you were hired to do. You also sound like you want to leave your job - which can give you leverage. Not that you should threaten to quit, but that since you are so unhappy, you are willing to quit. That means you can start saying what kind of computing environment you need. Not want, but need.

Personally, I think that having source control is basic table-stakes when writing code as a part of a job.
Can you elaborate on this? I am currently using RocketChat and would interested to hear of security issues or similar problems it has.
> Trump supporters are a prominent voice on the platform

Not necessarily, the algorithm shows you things you are interested in. I see China, Golden Retrievers and various songs I like. You see Trump because your eyeballs got locked on the screen. So you will see more Trump.
I'm not OP but let me take this opportunity to recommend Fyodor Dostoevsky. I started with The Brothers Karamazov when I was fresh out of high school and struggling with identity (coming from a traditional Hindu society in Nepal). It has helped me immensely and I consider it to be one of the best most comprehensive and educational books I have ever read.

(If it helps anyone, Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions is a big fan of Dostoevsky and recommends his works in multiple writings.)

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IMO it's a bad state of modularity. There should never be desire to write function yourself because of fear to bring unused code to the project.

Imagine world where you can import a single function and it'll bring only required dependencies, no more.

But, yeah, currently you have to weight whether it's better to write the code yourself or bring external libraries with some burdens.
It's a shame that anonymous cowards have little say on public policy...
What in particular? Do you have any suggestions on how you would like it to work?
Macmillan to restrict new e-book sales to libraries
CVE-2019-13720: Severe Chrome Bug Exploited in the Wild
> these are mainly kids making music videos. They aren't using it to organize campaigns.

I think that's a dangerously naive interpretation of the platform (or any platform really), particularly when it involves children and young adult minds.