skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand why some people are upset about it (Eg due to accounts of deceased people), but I was really REALLY hoping to snap my first name which was registered by a European person 10 years ago, has 0 followers, and has never posted.

I definitely feel like they could compromise and at least delete those blatantly unused ones.
Upvoting on the assumption that this is satire. Please, please be satire. nervous laughter
Wow, I'm usually pretty cynical and even I didn't think of that one. Makes sense when you put it like that though!

Also as someone said below, it forces users to accept any new changes to the ToS.
The entire browser HTML-CSS layout engine is optimized for laying out text.
I would like to believe the person you are responding to is very naive, but looking at the account, the comments it makes (most of the comments in the last 2 weeks) and the karma comments receive..

It's either a member of fifth column [0] (could be unwillingly - by accident) or a troll/bot [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency#Troll...
TikTok didn't even exist back then. It's essentially a Vine replacement + extras.
I see your point. I still disagree and have more counterpoints. I also don't appreciate that perspective, nor do I believe I'll change your opinion on it, so I'll stop here.
> rarely change things that are working for me.

But what if said things change to the point that they're unrecognisable? What if said spouse cheats you? Because that's what's happening.
Not posting on twitter doesn't mean the account is unused. Lots of people make accounts and follow people and are DAU but never post.
Please don’t post quotes as code - it makes it almost impossible to read on mobile.
Three.js has an online editor app that works really well (even on mobile..) - https://threejs.org/editor/
Very cool. I'm not familiar with 3D scene development, so I'm not sure exactly what goals someone would have while using it if you can't edit the meshes, but it looks very impressive.
Not sure what country you're in, but that's not the way tax accountants work in mine. You're still liable for mistakes/problems they make here :(
Ok, I’ll bite.

Why does the DMV suck so bad in the US?

In Canada it was much better because there were private retail locations.
This is a nice result. A similar pattern to generational garbage collection: divide everything into a fast, common path, and slow, fully general path.
> Number of commits mentioning bugs may not be either, but given how little hard data there is out there I applaud any effort.

I disagree. The original papers were widely cited and contained such serious flaws that they were actively harmful. Assuming a commit message messaging an “infix operator” is a fix for a bug is just grossly negligent.
But China is weaning itself off fossil fuels?

China has over 400,000 electric buses (99% of the world) and the longest high speed rail in the planet. High-speed rails carry twice as many passengers each month as the country’s airlines.

4.2% of new car purchases in China were electric vehicles in 2018. China has 250 million electric motorcycles/scooters (99% of the world's). These numbers are growing rapidly every year.

China is also the world's largest producer of photovoltaic power not to mention the world's leading installer of solar panels. Their literal stated goal for 2050 is to reach 1,300 GW of solar capacity, which is enormous. That would make it the source with the largest installed capacity in China.

China has a lot of problems, but fossil fuel addiction is not one of them.
I actually implemented something like this for my ownself.
I have a suggestion that you may want to try out as an experiment.
Somehow give the user the ability to choose when to receive the next update (and maybe even how much). So for example I know I'm going to be busy the next couple of days but I want to keep the continuity, so maybe I can schedule to have only a couple of paragraphs sent to me. Or I know I'm going to be bored out of my mind this weekend I can schedule a page sent to me every 4 hours.

In other words if you can add this little gamification aspect and the idea that I have or can have more active control over what's delivered to me, I suspect you'll have better engagement.
For me after the novelty of implementing my own a-page-a-day solution wore off and when I missed a few days then it just seemed like a chore to catch up with my missed reading.
They survive based on ad revenue. OTOH they provide an ad-free and to my mind a less annoying "lite" interface as well.

<https://duckduckgo.com/lite>
Meh. I've done low-level embedded/mobile for a long time now. This actually sounds like a totally reasonable RF interference issue. 2.4Ghz is funky & has desense issues with lots of internal busses (not a HW engineer so not sure why that band specifically). Also radios typically have to accept interference which means the radio would "stop working" rather than causing the display to work weirdly (ironically a much easier failure mode to display/diagnose/notice).
Yep - I was looking forward to getting my name username too.

The user has no tweets, has followed nothing and done nothing since registering 2013.

I hope they end up doing it.
I was willing to seek medical care for the ongoing pain of TMJ and I didn't because what I can afford is one Dr visit & one RX for generic opioids (the only treatment that touches that pain).

But there was no point. The only Dr I could afford became terrified of prescribing opioids (thanks DEA. yes it was the DEA). No matter that I had, for years and years, taken opioids responsibly.

However it's no longer a problem. That only Dr - that countless thousands of us could afford to visit - just closed up shop.

Am I willing? Sure. Able, no. Not in any way.
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Did Twitter already delete inactive accounts in the past? When I created my account in 2008 my preferred handle was taken by an empty account that seemingly never posted anything. With this recent news about account deletions I was curious if maybe I could get it, so I checked it again. I was surprised to see that it’s now a very active account with a “joined in” date in 2014. So it looks like the old inactive one was deleted at some point and then the handle was re-registered by someone else. Either that or the “joined in” date isn’t accurate.
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Anyone who would like to learn more about PRISM is welcome to search for it or look at (for example) the wikipedia page.

Now, if someone in China would like to learn more about the massacre in Tiananmen Square, would they be easily able to visit (say) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protes... to read more about it?
How does GitHub encourage sloppy licensing? How is GitHub bad for free software?
...and girls from gals
Blame Reddit for wanting you to use their app, not AMP.
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>>In other words, the same reason that Facebook will start spamming your email if you stop logging in.

Are you sure that's what is actually going on? patio11 calls it lifecycle email marketing, and Nir Eyal thinks it is just a harmless way to keep your users "hooked". Why would you even say such things about such a brilliant technique which provides such great joy to the "growth hackers"?

Oh, I just got a "notification" from Facebook that someone I care about said something I probably don't care about, but there isn't any way to know for sure so I have to log back in to Facebook again. I will be back in 3 hours.
It’s very simple. If you are poor, your needs can be met with a small budget. If you are rich, (upper middle class..truly wealthy people don’t have to care)the ‘fixed costs’ are higher.

You are lower middle class and Disney world is fine to take your five kids and you don’t have to break the bank. But if you are upper middle class or even borderline rich, every additional expense due to extra progeny is many times over. Your savings can’t be stretched if there is a dip in earning potential. It’s difficult to ‘step down’.

A very simple example is mortgage/owning house vs renting. Less riskier to be laid off as renting capacity is elastic vs losing mansion and cost of living of a certain lifestyle is inelastic.

And this pattern appears in every aspect of life.
Reminds me of the movie Accepted from 2006. Justin Long, the guy from all the older Apple commercials played in it.

I thought this statement was a bit untrue though:

"Attorneys for ICE and the Department of Justice maintain that the students should have known it was not a legitimate university because it did not have classes in a physical location."

There are online universities that are accredited as far as I know, but most of them are for-profit schools and heard some of their credits aren't transferable. Chances are if you watch television, you've seen commercials for some of them. Some of them will accept almost anyone though, no test scores just to get your student aid funding, such as your pell grant. I know also some were reported to aggressive target Veterans for their GI bill money. Not sure if people see these schools are legit, but probably teaching similar brick and mortar curriculum.

Some of these schools also have brick and mortar campuses, offering fully online programs and some programs are a mix of online and in-classroom, for example, nursing schools. So some online schools for sure are doing shady things, but I wouldn't discredit a school only because it's online. However you should really do your research and look into the accreditation, job stats but even then those are useless as you could go to college for engineering but if you got a job after flipping burgers you count as getting a job even if not in your field, reviews, etc. Being able to not transfer credits would also be a turn off if other schools aren't willing to accept.

I think online schools should be a option and hope they improve over time and flexible. Maybe you are a stay at home mom, so while you aren't helping your children you can be working on your degree. Maybe you got a degree already, and wanted to advance in your company. So you decide to go back to school and get your MBA so your organization will value you more, then in your spare time and weekends you could be earning your MBA. I was interviewing with a company that made software for set top boxes, she seen my Github and said she really liked me, and thought I had a lot of fire in me but said couldn't move any further because not having college. Plus I had a vision to reinvent TV, I shared about on blogs/social media. This was 2012, but a lot of those same ideas such as the Cloud DVR are incorporated into real products now. So some companies don't care about your skills 100%. Looked up the company, looks like last year they went bankrupt. Seems like they were mostly just contracting for cable companies.

However, if you are a foreign student from India, I don't see why you'd need to come to the US when you can do the same programs online.
Flushing your body with antibiotics will have a lot more side effects and lead to way more significant brainfog.

Many even go as far as associating the onset of their "idiopathic chronic fatigue" with a specific instance they used an antibiotic.
That would be totally boring trading and unremarkable, but that isn't what HFT firms are doing. If that were the strategy then exchanges would presumably just sell a skip-the-queue service when two traders offer the same price and there wouldn't be much point worrying about how far machines are from the exchange.

HFT trading isn't about executing the same trade as someone else but a tiny margin faster. That wouldn't have any special impact on market spreads or liquidity, for example.

There aren't any complaints against the T in HFT; as traders they are helpful. The value questions are about the HF and whether it is a desirable part of the market or an unhelpful arbitrage opportunity created only by implementation details of the exchange.
They haven't scrapped their plans for this. They said they'll put it on pause until they've come up with a tool for memorializing accounts. So presumably accounts that are legitimately not going used will still eventually free up.

Assuming of course that the account is truly idle and not being used to read without every interacting.
When I saw the title I thought, huh, maybe it's that thing were old prisoners threaten the young ones to see who's easy prey but no - it's a test in Algo 60 to see what compilers correctly implement recursion.
i read this so often, why doesnt hn fix its css?
Underrepresented search engine. I don't understand how a federation of searx forks hasn't popped up yet
That's kind of what we already have though, given that these things are often trained by playing against themselves these days
“We have the best healthcare in the world”
- freedom

Such a living contradiction
There's several small scale WiFi chips that share clock source with USB - it would be unsurprising to find that the WiFi and video interface are sharing the same clock, so drawing too much from either could directly effect the other.

These kinds of problems are common in embedded computers, like the Pi. Just as common as software.
My understanding is that twitter employees were able to manually delete an inactive account in the past to free up the handle for use. I know a couple people who got their preferred handles that way.
You used "your" in your comment to refer to women (colleagues) and clearly weren't talking about women as owned livestock. Why not grant them the same usage of possessive pronouns?
Having to make several searches means even more ads are presented ...
I'm sure they've at least proposed it before - some years ago I setup a recurring reminder to tweet on each of my Twitter accounts every six months "to prevent account deletion".
We're talking about users that last logged in more than 6 month ago here. It has obviously nothing to do with government sponsored shills or the GDPR. It's just that Twitter wants to eliminate users that are not "monetizable", they are also looking into users I quote "log in but don't do anything" on Twitter.
What happens to people in solitary confinement
https://www.browserling.com/
> And unfortunately, if the supreme court rules in favor of the plaintiff in the upcoming Oracle v. Google case, this type of thing would be illegal.

No.

Even if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Oracle in the Java-on-Android case (they probably won't), it has nothing to do with what the topic brought up by the person you're replying to.

It was released under the standard license, and the volunteer contributors are continuing to maintain that codebase under that same license. That's not at all like the Harmony/Android situation.
I am not sure this is a great example, looking around online, it looks like Hitler’s paintings can sell for quite a bit.

Churchill’s also sell for quite a bit.
yes I was thinking about that, wondering if the choice of sketchy was a conscious one. Probably is.
> Do you think it’s possible that the US government has enough control over public opinion/attention that they simply don’t need to explicitly censor in most cases?

No, not at all, and they absolutely do not.

> Who remembers PRISM? Did the government censor it? Or did we just conveniently forget?

I do, but sure, many don't. But that's mostly evidence that the market for grievances against the government is a competitive one, in the US (and the west in general) - you'll always be able to cherry pick some single issue (or several) that are serious, yet fall below the radar of the general populace.

In the west, we can curse our leader's names all day long, publicly with a megaphone. In the east, you can't mention Winnie the Pooh.
Eye exams catch problems in the healthcare wealthy. They catch nothing in the dozens of millions of Americans who aren't (and haven't been).
Edward Snowden is not currently listed as a terrorist or belonging to a terrorist group according to the US government. Here is the official list - https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/
what about sketchisk?
Russian cows get VR headsets 'to reduce anxiety'
“Why Retail Is Ready for Blockchain” – A Position Paper Preface
The benefits of using Google far outweighs the bad side of Google. When I want to search for private things, I go incognito mode. I clean up my activity log from time to time. I only allow Google Maps to track my location when I am using it. To be sure that they don't track my location, I use iPhone, not Android. That way I know they won't sneak some way to track me without my consent.
Bitcoin’s Power Consumption Is Not Its Achilles Heel
In Warsaw, Poland there are many Uber drivers from India. If you have a collision with one of them you (and the police) have to wait for his handler to arrive on the scene as the driver speaks almost no English, have no papers etc..

As far as I know the drivers are brought here, live in squalid conditions out in some suburbs, and probably earn next to nothing as the money goes to their handlers.

Uber is facilitating slave work managed by organized crime groups on a large scale.
Twitter always bans my accounts if I dont post or interact.
IMO, floorplanner is one of the best tools that you can get on a free plan.
Are these static renders or full embedded 3D views? Looks great either way.
I thought Intel was centered in Jerusalem.
DailyMotion founder launches privacy intensive DNS service
Even 10 years ago you were 3 years late...

As a firstname user, life isn't easy when it comes to notification spam b/c people think that putting a space between first and lastname still gets sent to the correct user. I've basically stopped checking them.
Please don't post low-effort memes here.
> I don't know why it became such a piece of breaking news.

Popular buzzword (Raspberry Pi), surprising unexpected outcome (most consumer electronics people are familiar with don’t react to light), manufactured outrage/schadenfreude (look how they screwed this up!)
Thanks for the suggestion! Glad to know I wasn't the only one that a page a day appealed to! If you sign up, the footer of each email does actually have:
- Request another page
- Manage
- Unsubscribe

And under Manage, you can pause, skip ahead or back etc. I decided to hold off on any features until I saw if folks actually enjoyed consuming content this way.
But how many important real mails have you lost because you didn't check the spam folder?
I don't understand why TikTok apologizes for this.

Personally, I am using TikTok to relax my mind and free my thoughts. I don't want to see any abuse, harm, violence etc. If I wanted, I would just watch news or something else.

For me, one purpose of TikTok is to get in a bubble for some time where there real world and all the bad problems don't exist. A bubble does not have to be bad if you are using it on purpose.

If this is considered as a feature for TikTok, it is only logical to hide abusive/violent content. Free speech for some political/religious group has lower priorities than keeping users in the bubble. I think this is totally legit. TikTok serves entertainment, not free speech or political discussions.
Sure, but it's not because anyone thinks they are great art.
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Just pay more. Developers care a lot less than you think about what it is they're building. I mean sure, we'd all like to build something cool. But not if it means leaving money on the table.
I suppose it comes from magazines, where you sometimes skim pages – such highlights might then attract your attention to the article. Weird on websites though.
I'm buying one and so is William Gibson.
Cars never appealed to me until I saw the Cybertruck.
I'm I the only one who dont get it. Why would anyone care about an account of a dead man?
Twitter, Facebook, and similar might be of interest because of power and knowledge. If you are already super rich then making another billion or two may be less important than say analytics of how some popular uprising goes.

My pet theory is that Imgur is actually what the NSA needs all that diskspace in Utah for. :o)
The description says to program to the API instead of the ABI. I'm not very familiar with low level work and exploits, but aren't syscalls the API for the kernel itself?

As far as I'm able to understand, it seems like the proposed mitigation blocks access to the kernel unless your code is either preauthorized (msyscall) or goes through a layer of indirection (libc) that undergoes randomized re-linking at boot. That seems to make sense to me, since it significantly reduces an adversary's knowledge about internals they are presumably targeting.

A few questions:

* Is it possible to authorize arbitrary code, or is access to msyscall (via libc or otherwise) restricted outside of boot?

* It seems that the kernel itself also undergoes randomized re-linking at boot (https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html). So what does forcing everything through libc gain us?

* Is equivalent hardening likely to make it to the Linux world in the foreseeable future?

* What sort of attacks is this likely to prevent in practice?

* What have I misunderstood, and would someone mind explaining?
Yes, and that's not even controversial. A totalitarian government doesn't get a say.
Somebody tested you in the past and you got a pair that works fine. You still have the numbers from last time and you want another pair.
Well, XAML itself doesn't have anything to do with UI, it's just a serialization of an object graph with hints about code generation.

There's AvaloniaUI, though, if you're looking for XAML, UI, and cross-platform.
To give you some perspective. What counts as moderate in the US is, at best, center-right in Europe. Heck, a lot of Democrats would be considered center right over here. People like Bernie and Warren would count as moderate with, maybe, a tendency to the left. So your standard left wing politics in Europe would probably count as extremist in the US. Just as an example from the German capital: nationalization of residential buildings to prevent further rent increases. Or one, agreeably rather extreme, proposition from the youth wing of Germanies center left SPD was the nationalization of certain public companies to better share out profits to workers.
(note for downvoters: it's Linus that I was calling out in this comment, not the person who replied to me!)
Whenever I'm asked how I managed to do something and want to keep it mysterious, I always plead ignorance and say that Machine Learning told me to do it.
Armored car: one engineer is having a blast
because hn is infallible, all hail hn
I mean, Twitter is an anus-to-web content delivery system, so it's a bit fucked up to live so much of your life on Twitter that you expect it to stay up and immortalize you after you die.

But fair enough, Twitter should understand their cattle better.
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> If companies want to know why they can't regain trust and aren't given the benefit of the doubt, it's because they cannot be honest in situations like this. PR in the 21st century is about communicating how you have in fact messed up because you are humans, not trying to gloss over it and distract from it like some corporate overlord.

So you think that companies cannot make mistakes?
I work for a PE backed roll up in this space. And have some broad healthcare background. Margins are healthy, but the store fronts easily close without the product margins. That’s why the hard push to buy in store. It’s called capture rate in the industry.

In the US, much of the healthcare regulation like this has been to ensure widespread access to care. In this case, by an optometrist not an optician. Remember, historically and maybe even today, we’re a pretty rural and sparsely populated country and the government is giving doctors a reason to open stores in every tiny town. Not saying I agree, just that is what is at play. If reverse this, access will be reduced significantly and US regulators have track record of not liking actions that reduce access.