skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that,but people take offense at factual analysis. If I present a fact and reasoning on why I consider it a fact, regardless of how unpleasant it might be I expect people to not take it personally and either contest my reasoning or accept/ignore what I said. However, being correct does not mean I shouldn't be sensitive to my audience. For example, if someone is a flat earther and I tell them why I think they are wrong, the more reasonable my argument is, the more they take it personally and get hurt because they tie their worth and value to their beliefs on those subjects.

Avoid people that can't stand facts? Isolation sucks.
Yeah FF containers are definitely not going to stop Google from knowing who you are. Browser fingerprinting is still a thing.
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“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” -Nikola Tesla
Is this all a long-time coming for SF, finally reaching a tipping point? The press and chatter across many frustrations is omnipresent across the internet.
If money is not really a problem you could use the 3rd gen iPad Pro with 12.9" display and apple pencil. The default note taking app works well enough. It's kept my notes over the last several years. The pencil is pretty great for drawing diagrams and figures, so I would definitely purchase that with it. I found the 12.9" display works best for me, because I like to split the tablet window in half with 1 app on each side with my notes app usually being on one of the sides. The other apps I use alongside the notes are brilliant.org's app and pdfs of math or programming texts.

If your looking for something more around the ~$400 range you may look at a cheaper alternative. I've seen advertisements for this paper-like e-ink tablet Remarkable [1] quite a bit and it seems like it might be a nice alternative.

[1]: https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable
It really depends on what you're doing, and at least being aware of what regex can do will help with deciding which is better for a given situation.

For example, I remember once replacing a buggy 3-4 lines of python based on split/etc with a single regex: match all \d+ (it was for extracting IDs from a user-input string)
Also Jetpens has a good survey of fountain pen paper.

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/the-best-fountain-pen-paper/pt/...
> Have you published information about undisclosed features in the press?

Define "press".

> Why is distributing information covered by the NDA ok, but screenshots not?

Because that's what the license agreement says. Information about prerelease software is OK to discuss, sharing screenshots is not.
Is it really 'evil' to disagree with unions? Doesn't seem like a particularly controversial, unusual, or unreasonable viewpoint, among people from all backgrounds and political alignments, workers and leaders alike.
The Vienna Convention isn't super clear on what counts as "intrusion", but I suspect it's generally read as physical intrusion - you don't send people in to raid the place. Spying on embassies has a long, storied history.
I totally agree. Scan into cart is my favorite self-checkout method I've used. They had trial runs of a system like this in my community but phased them out soon after.

We also tried a couple home delivery services, but it was too unreliable.

What is popular around here is pickup at the store. Submit an order and a "picker" does the work. You either get curbside delivery (small grocery chain) or pickup at a dedicated counter inside (Walmart).
I found that Firefox doesn't want to support the same scaling features as Safari and Chrome. I could never get this to work anyhow.

<meta id="viewport" name="viewport" content="width=device-width, shrink-to-fit=no">
Wouldn't make sense until you gave the same to the CEOs who actually kill people, like the creators of the opioid crisis
https://engineering.fb.com/
The True Cost of the Royal Family Explained, video by CGP Grey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw

too long; didn't watch:

The royal family likely contributes quite significantly to the popularity of the UK tourism industry, which brings in FAR more money to the country than the institution costs to maintain, even considering all the royal salaries to pay, the palaces to maintain, public events to produce, security, etc.

They also lease out a great amount of land to the country - to the wide benefit of the entire populace - for pennies of what it would cost the nation to purchase such land and resources outright.
It's interesting how now I think of weather in the bay area to now include at least a month of smokey weather. It's definitely changed my opinion on other regions of the USA in terms of weather.

The weather here is no longer nearly perfect all year. It looks like we'll be having a month every year where there's so much smoke in the air that you can't go outside.
I find it interesting how you describe a job with a functional safety culture from the perspective of regulators, with lockouts and random inspections, that yet solves the issue of a power tool shocking workers at mains voltage by just tossing down a rubber mat and continuing to work with said malfunctioning tool.
Some would say it's wonderful
Apple expands Everyone Can Code to bring more coding resources to teachers and
Sanders is an ideologue who was against the TPP on anti-business position and nothing to do with its impact on China.

The TPP set up an alliance between all of the players in that region and explicitly left out China in order to give that group negotiation power over China. But nuanced policy debate is dead in America so let's use the tool that fucks us all.

The worst part about the trade deal is the harm on our agricultural sector, but I guess at least they voted for their own demise.
Then it is baffling that this article comes to be...
Excluding what amounts to "exculpatory evidence facts" shapes the impression readers receive.
All true. I would only add that learning "mere semantics" in many cases allows you to use a powerful new tool.
I think I know a handful of men who'd disagree with you on the idea of the state not taking things (like privacy) that don't belong to them is "ludicrous"...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Actually, if you go through the Declaration of Independence, everything said about King George...basically applies to now. A lot of it directly applies to Assange.

And that's not even getting into the Constitution.
Was the >$16,000/day spent by the London Metro Police not enough?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/londons-police-i...

https://archive.md/w0RgD
Ethical is of course up for debate, but it's certainly normal that an intelligence asset that leaked thousands of pages of classified documents would be surveilled in captivity. It's spycraft 101.
Using that reasoning, there was no story when Klaus Fuchs was caught spying on the Manhattan Project for the Soviet Union: Of course the Soviet Union intelligence were spying on the Manhattan Project, if they weren't spying on it they'de be derelict in their most basic of duties.
What? JavaScript is a single threaded language...
Had the same near-miss but doesn't that put us in a position to better evaluate things? Read it with a critical eye? Understand it as tips and not cheat codes? Note things that are in disagreement with how I behave and might be worthy of introspection?
I built a userChrome.js replacement [+] back when FF 57 came around, that uses an XBL loophole to permit users to add custom javascript to their profiles that would run in the browser context. I wanted to be able to use pre-OS X Lion fullscreen mode, and couldn't find any other way to do it.

I'm a little bummed that this loophole is going away in FF 72 (I still can't get pre-Lion fullscreen!). On the other hand, it has always been super clear that this is a loophole that will eventually go away, and I did get 2 years of use out of it, so I'm not complaining too loudly. Congrats to the team for removing XBL!

[+] https://github.com/nuchi/firefox-quantum-userchromejs
There are two reasons someone might come to you for help.
(1) For advice. Simply put, to get problem solving input. This is the less common case, however. (2) To get emotional courage to face whatever difficulty they have. This is the more common one.

Most people feel the best when THEY manage or solve their problems. But this is really hard. Often one's emotions get in the way. By sharing them with other people, you can sometimes release a pressure valve which makes someone feel more capable of dealing with their problem.

It's a key distinction.
Uhm, Assange’s mission is to expose abuse by members of powerful organizations, directed at protecting their own positions and covering up abuses with more of the same.
They did explained what you ask for in very simple terms, you just ignored it and reiterated that you are effectively superior.

It is not that you gave contra arguments, you just ignored.

Which is exactly issue with most confident win system.
Wait. You got a glass? Lucky.
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Maybe the materialist standpoint is right, but even though the measurements are similar doesn't at all have to mean the outcomes are similar. The devil's in the details
omg ... is it me or are the HackerNews comments starting to deteriorate.
Don't pull a google and make email dynamic. The stable nature of it when received is the best feature.

I like email. It just works. Lean UI would be nice. Top functions one touch or click please.
I see no connection between WC's and messy code. Can bo good, can be bad.
I really like this idea, its a super nice and relevant way to recruit. Rather than solving an obsolete algorithm question, this approach really enforces some pragmatism towards solving interesting and `relevant` problems.
I'm interested in reading this. I think I disagree with the main thesis though.

The most important forces in history are geography, demographics, and information flow, probably in that order.

I would propose that the history of the west largely hinges on the printing press. Gutenberg doesn't invent the press, Luther never gets the word out about Reformation, Enlightenment never occurs, John Smith never writes Wealth of Nations, America never splits from Britain, etc.
I’m not a linguistic but there seems to be an amazing ambiguity around I, E and Y.

The English E covers е, и, (roughly) ы in Russian. The English y covers the same but also partially у and ё.

When you get to dialectic English, then all of those vowels have different vocalisations or they otherwise don’t exist. And in all cases Y is a vowel and the same as J.

I love languages and linguistics and this kind of thing.

What’s more, take this to Spain and South America and in Castellano your ‘ll’ is more like an English ‘y’, but in Latin American it’s more of a ‘dj’ or an English ‘j’.
Actually, every time an app dev gets to the front page with a story like this, one of the top commenters has more info that paints them in a much more negative light. Which is exactly what happened in this case (using dev account to access inside information). It happens so often that I am beginning to trust Apple's judgement and reactions, not developers (fair disclosure: I am not an iOS or Android app dev, the shear crowdedness of the app store has discouraged me from getting started).

Sure, some explanations from Apple would be ideal, but I think fuzzyZeus makes a good realpolitik argument for why that doesn't happen--and didn't deserve to get downvoted into oblivion for it.

And speaking of explanations, why doesn't the OP give us more explanations? The OP details all the delays and non-comm of Apple without even mentioning his own activities--especially if they were as serious as alleged. If he did non-standard or gray-area activities, you'd think he'd explain them and how they should be considered legit. The fact that he does not mention them at all is very detrimental to his case, and will likely cause a Streisand effect.

Yes, apps and devs are still critical to the iOS ecosystem, but fuzzyZeus is right that there is too much supply putting the balance of power on Apple's side.
Well I don't think that could technically be considered a race condition, as it's clearly a design problem in the code causing what would appear to be a "pseudo" race condition.
It's extremely normal. Every intelligence agency is trying to bug each others' embassies. There's tape of the Saudis killing Jamal Kashoggi because the Turkish government was routinely bugging the Saudi embassy. We've been bugging each others' embassies since we had electronic surveillance, and before that we were sneaking informants in on the staff.

Ethics is another question.
Yeah, if that figure includes the executable, then it's also probably including the whole runtime (scheduler, GC, etc) since Go programs statically link the runtime by default. In that case, 2MB isn't so bad (especially considering glibc is ~10MB [and with no scheduler or GC!] iirc).
Agreed.

The one thing where smaller companies can excel is shipping a viable product. Most people I know are willing to give smaller companies a break on a polished product if they know they will see updates in a timely manner. This is something smaller companies can outmatch their larger competitors and will also get them more loyalty from their users.

Shipping a viable product, with timely, dependable updates is crucial.
This is one of those things where it's like, are people just making stuff up? Like dogs "bred to run on a wheel in order to turn meat so it would cook evenly." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_Dog
> with ostensible consent, some without

details, but they are not claiming that data collection is without consent. they claim that they need a separate consent to use that data to show personalized ads

> you can't forcibly bundle consents together

Yeah that is true. still, making an online poll about what people want in general is a ridiculous way to nullify an agreed contract

> you browsing other sites with FB cookies

that would depend on whether these are personally identifying or personal data in general
0.1% of 1 million calories is 1000 calories, which corresponds to about 0.3 pounds. If someone gains or loses 10 pounds in a year, that means they were around 35000 calories away from equilibrium throughout the year, which is more like 3-5%.

So a 5% calorie deficit or surplus would have a fairly small effect during a single year, but over a decade or a lifetime the effect is huge.
Yes indeed. If using the original technology, it really should be restored to its original state.
Given how bizarre the US is, I suspect the only option in most cases is to assign the rights to spaces to the adjacent buildings and then use them as a factor in value and therefore local tax.

Once this is done, there's no place to park at virtually everyone's destination and a few people end up paying a lot up front and in tax for multiple spaces while everyone else gives up on cars..

The end result is a much more substantial effective road tax while avoiding all the reasonable compromises.
Are they at risk of disintegrating?
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The rice cooker is easiest, but there's another scheme: use an abundance of water and cook the rice like spaghetti. I learned the technique from a Lynne Rossetto Kasper cookbook, and it's never failed me.
Information wants to be free

Unless it’s about me
That's not all of what he did, though. He'd data mine it like crazy, and would get into areas he really shouldn't have been in (Apple Arcade before launch, etc). The fact that this is all Apple did to him (killing his developer account) is pretty amazing.
I really don't know why this was down voted. This is absolutely correct. With less dis-incentive for crime, crime will only go up.
Here is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ryjjeNc5k
I need this guide, for "how to talk to nescient people". As I find myself sighing too much out exacerbation and having a frustrating experience communicating. Having simple rules for how to be respectful, especially to elders, who need education in certain areas, I need badly.
Ok - so it seems like you are confirming that we do know what he has done that breaks the NDA.
What kind of business solution are you talking about?

My email is on my about section, I know Python and also know my way around aws
The problem with Trump is that he says many different things at different times which are contradictory and then people hone in on one thing over another. His actions too are contradictory, he has tried to curry personal favor with Xi whilst engaging with a trade war with the same.
Yeah that part isn't very intuitive (at least to me). This was actually proposed as part of a Republican tax reform attempt back in 2017 [1] but the idea was taken from Alan Auerbach who's the director of the tax policy center at UC Berkeley.

A lot of high profile economists on both sides of the aisle seemed to think the general idea checked out including Krugman who specializes in trade and is not known to be a cheerleader for Republicans generally [2]. Of course there was probably disagreement over the absolute rates but the general idea of it being a way to fix the tax haven problem while also being trade neutral seemed to be pretty widely accepted (although some people weren't sure if the currency adjustment would be immediate).

Unfortunately the Koch brothers and some other corporate groups were against it so it got killed, and what got passed was a bill that paid for a corporate tax cut by just borrowing money and didn't address the tax haven problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination-based_cash_flow_ta...

[2] https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/border-tax-two-...
If the annual Wikipedia top-banner donation ask simply said "Donate $5 and we'll make the IPA keys produce an actual sound" I'd donate.
Yeah when I first looked at go that was the first 'no fu' for me. Go isn't a systems or real time programming language. It's a managed language with training wheels. Which is okay by me. Lying about it though is not okay.

The second FU is they claim that decisions they made based on personal preferences were technical ones. That's a very insidious lie that programmers make all the time. Insidious because it destroys trust between programmers and managers.
I think there's an excellent case for Safari. It had private browsing in 2005, before Chrome even existed. It was the first to block third party cookies by default, and today only Chrome still allows them. It added DDG as an option in 2014, while Chrome added it only this year.
> So what are you suggesting then? that tech workers leave "high paying jobs" to work for the DoD

No. Have you not heard about the tech workers who voluntarily quit their civilian day jobs in protest of their employer, because their employer was working (or planning to work) with the DoD?
The article didn't name Saudi Arabia, and it explicitly stated that it's legal for the monarch of Swaziland to live lavishly:

"Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) lives like a king—and it’s legal."
I'm fairly disappointed with the quality of discussion/things posted here, but from time to time, there is an article like this and all is good with the Universe again.
It's not just you, and it's been going on a while.
This IPA to speech tool seems fairly accurate: https://itinerarium.github.io/phoneme-synthesis/
I mean, the story was that the Soviet Union was spying on its allies. Klaus Fuchs went to jail. All of this is pretty much accepted statecraft. Are we supposed to think that something _went wrong_ when Klaus Fuchs was caught spying and went to jail? That's what happens to spies who are caught. Hence Assange.
From the perspective of the Soviets - yes this is true. This analogy doesn’t work at all.
I too am curious about the legal issues involved here. While I agree "this is what intelligence services are for", this was not inside the United States and the CIA doesn't automatically get free pass to break the laws of other countries.

Surely some laws in the UK were broken? Or was all this sanctioned by the UK government? Or does the fact that it's an embassy mean that Ecuadorian law is applicable? How does this all work?
You can learn the method of loci (also known as "art of memory"), a very efficient memory technique that unlocks the potential to remember things you never dreamt of remembering, like a long list of digits. The steps of memorizing are:
- choose a journey of specific locations to look at that you already know (like going around the place you live, look at your bed, then your desk, then at the door of your room, etc)
- at every location you visualize a mental picture, whose components code for the information you want to remember

When you want to retrieve the info, go through the journey, find the pictures, and decode them into the info you want.

Obviously, the thing that requires some work is the code. A simple code for numbers would be to assign to every digit to a consonant sound, and make words with those consonants, filling gaps with free/non coding vowels. For example (I'm French and adapted my French code here, so this code might be unadapted for the frequency of English consonants, but you may change it as you see fit):
- 0 to Z/soft S (zero starts with z)
- 1 to L (they look like)
- 2 to N (2 vertical bars in 'n')
- 3 to M (3 vertical bars in 'm')
- 4 to R (four ends with r)
- 5 to V (five ends with v)
- 6 to S (six ends with a S sound)
- 7 to T (7 looks like a reversed t)
- 8 to Sh/Ch (eight contains an H, which is pronounced with a sh)
- 9 to B (b looks like a reversed 9)

Now, you can use this consonants (actually, consonants sounds rather than the letters) to form words that are easy to visualize. 94 could be a BeeR, 30 a MaZe, 18 a LeaSH, and so on. You can also combine the words in some ways to remember more info per location.

Memory athletes spend a lot of time training their journeys and codes and stuff to achieve some amazing/unbelivable performances (http://world-memory-statistics.com/disciplines.php), but it's an extremely gratifying skill that develops really fast. If you have aphantasia or a hard time orienting yourself though, it's probably not for you, but I would estimate that at least 95% of people can develop a seemingly amazing memory with this method.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02773... is apparently the relevant paper.

The fiber was some remnants found on stone tools, apparently. I don't have the archaeological background to say if the claim it's not possible to twist in nature in plausible or not.
Every time news comes out, people say "this was obvious from the start," but every time a suggestion is made before the news has come out people say "that's crazy there is no evidence." It was not the case that he was "of course" being spied on, it was plausible that he was being spied on.
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Title is inaccurate, this study used intravenous DMT, as opposed to Ayahuasca which is a oral concoction of DMT and an MAOI.

Interesting nonetheless.
Does it? It didn't really apply then either: https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/1776-hutchinson-strictures...