skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are not perfectly rational. Why should we dissuade 99% of the population from doing their best so that 1% can be millionaires?
I heard of a web consultancy around 2006 where the Subversion repository history contained a full copy of the Rolling Stones discography in MP3.
The few privacy laws we do get are usually way off target.

It used to be easy to deal with medical things. You could ask about your spouse or parent or sibling, and you would get an answer. Now a family gets treated like random strangers who lack any sort of relationship with each other.

It used to be that grades were publicly posted. This was a powerful incentive to do as well as possible.
How big is your operating system?
I was searching for Withings in the comments, and this is the only occurence. I also played with various fitness and smartwatches, but the only one I really like and stick with is Withings Steel HR.

Battery lasts a month, it's water resistant, shows me notifications, tracks steps and sleep and looks good at the same time! Also costs less than a "real" smartwatch. What a bargain to me. If only it had NFC payments it would be perfect.
These are such interesting comments. Any links to read more about them?
What system can encode data but not binary data?
> and they’re desperately trying not to be microsoft, even though that’s what they mostly are.

Mostly because Microsoft became more like Google in recent years. :P
Hey Salam, thanks for your PRs, definitely appreciated. I'll figure out what's the hold up -- I'm sure there is a reason -- and I'll make sure to get back to you
Yes, I've seen that evolutionary decline in other subs as well. There seems to be a general increase in photo-based submissions, and fewer substantial discussions. People seem to think the photos will inspire discussion, but they often inspire only minimal discussion.
Wow. That just seems weird to me -- but I've only had two jobs in the last 16 years.

Both my mother and her father worked at the same place (a General Electric appliance factory) for most of their lives. My grandfather was there on day one and remained until he retired. My mother started there ~20 years after he did and was there until the day they shut down. I know of one man who worked there for 44 years!

Switching jobs every two years seems so foreign -- and somewhat "suspicious" -- to me.
Ok, sorry, replace "not possible" with "very difficult and not recommended."

I don't see how that changes what I wrote in a very meaningful way.
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Google (the search engine) may well be ‘banned’ (but you’d be surprised how pedestrian it is to obtain and use a VPN connection... even since the purported ‘crackdown’... I was there recently) but the technology Google provides, in the form of Android and various backends and doodads, very much ‘owns’ the market there.

I don’t (really) believe that a glorified pedometer such as the FitBit will infringe on people’s privacy and security against a state actor such as the PRC any more than their cellphone already does.

So yeah... but... nah.
Thank you! The error rate of facial recognition and similar technologies is a completely moot point and a very easy one for anyone to talk their way out of. The scariest thing isn’t the case where this technology gets it wrong, it’s when it’s used effectively for the wrong reasons.
I'd guess that they're not used more in the US because of patent trolls.
Have to get them ready for the police state
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Certificate transparency would make it blatantly obvious if Chinese CAs were issuing bogus certificates. (And if they issued certs without submitting them to CT logs they wouldn't be accepted by Chrome or Safari, so it wouldn't be very useful.)

Sure, they could do it, but it wouldn't be long until there were no Chinese CAs trusted by any browser.
Heh heh. “Sure, your iPhone is 10X faster, and it’s completely useless to own one, but admit it . . you really want one, don’t you?”

NO, I want an 11 Pro with them three cameras!!

(But I am waiting for someone to emulate a Cray on a phone.)
Realistic drawings are not considered difficult, not by artists. It is called fundamentals and you learn it in school. It takes effort to learn, but effectively it is just that.

Which is why more abstract drawings raised into prominence. And they are not so easy either - as much as five years old scribble, they don't create same effect not pleasing composition of colors or structures.
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From the (very nice) link:

"There will be one release per year and it will contain all features that are finished by a yearly deadline."

That seems to be what is going on here with Python. Most JS implementations have differing amounts of the early stage features they have implemented, and given their open source nature some of the Python implementations can do the same thing.

I feel like I'm missing your point but to me it looks like the languages are converging on broadly similar release processes.
Some people go to work to get paid, and are less interested in dazzling others. (Facebook strikes me as a great option for such people, by the way.)

It would be fine with me if someone considered me dull; I decided long ago that I care less about being interesting than being interested.
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Booking?
> Gaggle is one of the biggest players in today’s new economy of student surveillance, in which student work and behavior are scrutinized for indicators of violence or a mental health crisis, and profanity and sexuality are policed.

There has to be a way to reach so-called “troubled” kids without creating a culture of fear around expressing difficult emotions. This is part of a larger trend of parenting surveillance tech (ie Life360) that I find quite disturbing.

Schools seem much more willing to pay for newfangled tech rather than more trained counselors, for example. Outsourcing content moderation to low-paid contract workers is what gave us Facebook. I fear that these technologies will put a nice band-aid on the problem of student mental health while actually making it worse.
Would you count Rothko under the solid colour canvasses? On paper they don't look like much, but the few that I've seen in real life somehow still really left an impression on me.
I wonder if anyone ever built an HN title change tracker. Seems a trivial project for the audience of this site.
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On brands admitting a flaw, making all their other claims more believable
"comic sans is bad" may be an overused meme, but not as bad as comic sans itself.
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It did! I actually got a nice reply from Whitfield Diffie, basically saying "Haha, no." They have what amounts to a never-declassify-anything-digital policy. I got a similar letter from the NNSA.

Through a friend-of-a-friend, I did actually manage to get a copy of the source code to CTSS, the cray time sharing system, on microfiche from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and I even had it digitized (but not OCR'd), but it's written in a language called COMPASS i've never found a compiler for.
Given the relationship with the US, Russia must have been the first to realize they need their own cloud. I wonder if they built something serious yet? Maybe Yandex?

[1] https://cloud.yandex.com/
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It was certainly smaller, but GCE was first publicly available in April/May 2013, Snowden leaked things in June 2013. I'm not quite sure when this slide was released but sometime after that.

Google moved to fix the problem after the start of the leaks. Pretty quickly (good for them), but after.
I wrote an essay for school on this, and the central thrust was that we can apply feminist theories of informed consent and adaptive preferences to digital consent, and the waters are very, very murky, especially when that consent is manipulated.

If I consent to something, fully believing it is in my best interest, it can still be said my consent is not legitimate in certain circumstances. For example, if an abuse victim is gaslit into beliving their abuser is the only person who could ever love them. The applications to the digital world, I hope, are apparent.

For more information, I highly reccomend Serene J. Khader's
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Sure it well. We have a lot of copycats as well. But as Elon Musk likes to say: the only moat that matters is the continuous pace of innovation and the value of open-source outwieghs any contrived barrier to entry.
An example may illustrate my point: download software zip/tar files from a non-secure link. Obtain the signature and checksum files over a secure link, and verify the integrity of the software offline.

Not every communication is about hiding personal stuff.
I don't think that has anything to do with `eval`. It's just hard to do with a dynamic language.

And that's not to say it shouldn't be attempted!
Hard not to compare this to surveillance in mainland China.

> Among the many banned words and phrases on Gaggle’s list are "suicide," "kill myself," "want to die," "hurt me,” "drunk," and "heroin."

Children growing up in this sort of environment will come to expect it from their government.

I wonder if they have any data at all that shows they can actually prevent catastrophes with this sort of system or if this is just a placebo with dangerous social side effects?
Gripping stuff. I want to believe I'd have been one of the people helping, but how can I know without having been there?

Side note, it's depressing how weird it is to see an article like this with no ads, no sidebars, no UI at all except for six terse links at the very top. I can't remember the last time I read something online where the bottom of the content was also the bottom of the page.
ARC = Authenticated Received Chain?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_Received_Chain

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8617
Alphafit?
Go out with friends? Schedule a dinner, coffee, or drinks with a friend this coming week. Take a walk and talk to them. Go to your local parks, some sort of event, try every restaurant in walking distance, learn to cook, read a book.

I'm happy you enjoy your work but I can't imagine not knowing what to do with your free time. If anything I get stressed because there's too much to do!
I think the bragging rights of having at least half the internet running on top of his software would count for quite a bit too. There are very few people on this planet who can boast that level of influence.
If that is really something to worry about you can just copy stuff off and drop the copy off at a relatives house. These days you can get 1-2TB 2.5" drives for cheap. Off site storage has become reasonably convenient even if you are moving physical objects around.
Note that hardware offload only really matters when you're combining fast networks with slow processors. WireGuard on a modern PC CPU will more than saturate gigabit ethernet and the per-packet latency hit is <1ms.
Yes, Comic Sans is irreverent. That's both its appeal and its curse. It's very easy to be overexposed to it.
At least with Ebay, its easy to figure out who you are buying from, with Amazon it can be nearly impossible.
One just needs to be on island far enough away from the rest of humanity.
An article that sheds more light on the Japanese reissue scene: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3446.
Sounds like something out of a Black Mirror episode.
And even if they get a key, they will show up in the CT Logs eventually and the attack becomes public.
Some version of *BSDs probably fixed that with some sysctl interface, but on older Unixes you would read the kernel memory to get that system information.

You can see a ps.c implementation here: https://searchcode.com/codesearch/view/29853364/

which uses kvm library: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kvm&sektion=3&apro...
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I really need to make an updated blog post about it, but this project evolved into a reasonably-well-debugged Cray J90 core that fits quite comfortably in a Xilinx Artix-7 35T board (I made a somewhat bulky Cray J90 Smartwatch that tells time by running a real-time n-body simulation of Jupiter and 63 of its moons . . . inferring the current time is left as an exercise for the viewer).
Used the Fenix 5 watch from Garmin for the last year. Big fan of the product. iOS app is solid. Good 3rd party app store.
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Isn't that easily solved by rewriting the From header and re-signing the email? Send it from:

Some List on behalf of John Sender <list@example.com>

... instead of ...

John Sender <john@other-example.com>

And now the list software can generate its own (valid) DKIM signature.

EDIT: Nevermind, listen to dbqpdb[0] instead. ARC sounds like a better way to go.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21420732#21422328
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It's not the phone itself, it's the device which gives you an instant connection to anyone around the planet at all times. The modem in the phone is what makes it valuable. If something happens, you can call for help, you can call your spouse to let them know you're late, you can get routed around traffic jams, look up contacts, etc. I can do all of that with a laptop too if it had a mobile internet connection.

Not to mention that I need it for 2FA.
That's the case for any software that accepts any kind of input.

Your browser, your PDF viewer, your messenger are just more popular, but not fundamentally different from a QR reader application.
What is 50MB supposed to be the size-of ?

What is the JVM equivalent ?
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You would think that an exact title search would work, but no. Same on Play Store. I am guessing that installs and rating is very heavily weighted.
And that's absolutely the right way to think about CORS. But what it actually does under the hood, the underlying behavior that makes CORS effective as a security directive, is:

* You instruct your computer to load site A. Site A has some scripts on it, so part of the process of loading site A is executing that Javascript code.

* The Javascript code instructs Firefox to display a resource from site B.

* Firefox refuses to display that resource, even though your website told it to, because it doesn't think displaying the resource would be safe.

I think that's also the right perspective here. Firefox won't run unsafe extensions, in the same way and for the same reasons as it won't run unsafe cross-origin requests.
It seems to me that in many cases the answer may be "what's the alternative?"

For example, if someone doesn't know how to find a girlfriend, then PUAs are the only game in town.

Until viable alternatives are presented I suspect that men will keep going with what's available.
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It is also disingenuous to refer to hate speech that breaks Twitter's rules as "political speech".
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I mostly learn web frameworks, backend.

I mostly go with a file uploader - sort of like Imgur but for anything. Solves the following "issues":

* MVC architecture
* Relationships (files belong to user)
* Authorization (user can only see files they uploaded)
* Talking to third parties (store files in AWS?)
* General UI/UX like displaying the files in a nice way, providing direct links or embedding, etc

Lastly, you can turn this into a API-only backend and then go crazy with any frontend framework you want!
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I have a very unique way of picking my nose. Just waiting when the scientists will get around to study it
You spend most of your waking hours at work...