skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article, in my opinion, is so unbiased that it's actually biased.

They completely lack mentioning that VW has already settled similar cases in the US and Europe. They mention the fines paid to the EU but nothing about civil settlements. Here in the US a $14.7b buyback program in 2016 meant consumers could return their car to VW for a refund. [1]

I can't believe this is still ongoing. Here in the states VW recently aired ANOTHER commercial specifically aimed at addressing this PR disaster. They've been releasing print and TV ads for this purpose for nearly 4 years now. [2] [3]

It does not lend credence to their new ad campaigns here that they're across the pond toting some BS technicality and yanking customers through more mud!

It just looks awful that the same company can apologize so profusely in one country and completely ignore another country where their actions might be "technically legal" but are still unequivocally shitty. How can you be sorry in the US and absolved of responsibility in Germany? Especially as a German company.

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15339250/everything-you-n...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/business/media/new-volksw...

[3] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Your link is broken BTW. Also, are you guys looking for new grads at all (with internship experience)?
Yep. Love the static approach. I haven't yet a use case for a React/Vue static generator but a lot of really powerful stuff is being built.
He kinda missed the mark on predicting greater ability to suppress information though.
Simple. I am less negative when I don’t take it personally.

A lot of times defensiveness is due to thinking that it’s about us...100% of the times, it’s not.

Online interactions can be exhilaratingly freeing because we don’t have to be held accountable or follow norms. If it seems negative to you, then it means you are holding yourself accountable.

You won’t feel negative if you release yourself from accountability. That’s another way too.
By "non-jailbroken" you should mean "jailbreakable": it is the existence of the vulnerability that makes the phone insecure, not the user having used an exploit to leverage that vulnerability to do something for them. Like, for no avoidance of doubt: if you are running a version of iOS for which you can download an app-based jailbreak (which has been all jailbreaks for current phones that have been released for years now, all reliant on sandbox escapes), the issue is that the attacker jailbreaks your phone, not that you do; and also, to be explicit, as people also often confuse this, the code I would put in an app for a "back door" capable of letting me jailbreak remotely would not look like exploit code but would look like an innocent bug: maybe a vtable use after free bug on my stack while parsing a network response for which I knew the location of all the required ROP gadgets to exploit (put different "if you want to put a back door in software, just leave yourself a vulnerability you know how to exploit, and then claim you weren't evil, you were just bad at memory management or concurrency... like everyone else).
What about the native files app? Right now it seems Bear is using it.
Our contract states that all work must be completed within the US, but we're open to hiring Canadians so long as you can live here!
Seems like that information is already largely public just not linked publicly to your phone information.
I am a practicing anesthesiologist and I see every day what medications my patients take, because we review preoperatively their in home meds. And it's astonishing that a large chunk of population takes either psychiatric or psychoactive prescription meds plus cannabis, etc. I even have a joke that Americans voluntarily take meds that in Soviet Union were only given to the political prisoners.
In Windows world DWORD is 32 bits large: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...
"NBC’s efforts to contact officers at 14 suspicious companies were met with a series of dead-end business addresses and disconnected phone numbers. Emails, phone calls, and social media messages went unanswered by all but two companies. In those two instances, an officer reached by phone verified their identity but declined to discuss their company.

Those 14 companies employed more than 5,500 foreign students through the OPT program in 2017, according to ICE records.

Although NBC’s investigation found evidence of possible abuse, those cases represent a small fraction -- less than 3 percent -- of the more than 200,000 students that participated in OPT in 2017."
There was a disagreement between zenimax and arkane over dishonered's milestones. It pushed the developers to the point of bankruptcy and zenimax ended up buying the studio and then releasing the game.
Too right.
Even worse, imagine it was medical journals that are mostly pay to publish, have clickbait titles, and have never been replicated or have poor p values,
That's silly. Just take a list of leaked emails and run that against gravatar and you'll probably get more photos. Run it through Luminati if you're afraid of getting IP blocked. Bam! You could have a hundred million avatars, most of which will be photos.

Then there's LinkedIn's public profiles, Github's public profiles, Twitter's profiles. This is just privacy theatre.
> You can't effectively use one character set well for everything; different applications have different requirements.

In our application, our users gets data from systems around the world, and might have to change some of it before sending a file with the data to some official system. The data includes names of people and places. How would you do this using character sets?

One file might need to contain names with Cyrillic characters and with Norwegian characters. There's no character set with both. Should each string in the file have an attribute saying which character set the string is encoded in? What are the odds that people implementing that won't mess that up when oh so many can't even get a single encoding attribute right[1]?

Or, just maybe, strings in the file could be Unicode, encoded in say UTF-8, so that the handling of all of them are uniform...

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charencoding
Maybe, since half of all PEV sales go to california:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_C...

Don't know tesla-specific numbers.
That just seems a limitation of mobile keyboards: there’s no arrow keys so markdown editors lack navigation. One benefit of iOS is that if you hold the space key down it allows you to freely move your cursor around.
I'm a regular reader of HN and Reddit and this is not working on Reddit and this would be the first time I see it working anywhere with such a voting system.

You see it often enough here on topics where the overall "circlejerk" is strong and see relevant comments disappear at the bottom.

If you consider how posts are being kept up on the frontpage here, I rather go for the sticky/mod action theory.
I'm glad that you and others are happy DDG users. I think the search engine market could use more diversity and competition. However, seeing this comment over and over again on DDG related threads is getting old. It's like saying:

"I quit eating beef and switched to eat veggies only because meat is bad. Whenever veggies don't fill me up, I put beef steak in the bowl and it satisfies my hunger."

Imagine hearing that whenever the topic of vegetarian comes up. It's not very useful, and it dilutes the message.
Asyncpg is amazing, I’m writing a thin dataclass-style semi-orm-layer ontop is asyncpg. Still very early but I’m considering cleaning it up and extracting it to a stand-alone library if I see any demand for it.
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It's not clear what is the potential threat this specific app introduces. A nation state can easily perform facial recognition on the majority of the human race by scraping social media.
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> Integer math (on typical machines) is an exact model of the ring of integers modulo 2^64.

And even this is only true if you retrict yourself to unsigned integers. For signed integers you have quirks (-0x8000.. = 0x8000..) or minefields (undefined overflow semantics in C, which can yield non-associativity, tests deleted by the compiler, etc.).

And I'd argue that whoever understands the ring of integers modulo 2^64, will also understand the IEEE754 semantics (which are, I agree, sometimes unfortunate. But not inexact).
Archived: https://archive.is/GLG7g
> I was once asked by a high school principle why programmers were such terrible writers.

Was that someone that worked at a high school who had a surfeit of principles, or was it the person that ran the school - ie. a principal?
It's not better to have your face or other data in a database within reach of your own government. Your government has power over you, other governments do not.
> because you imply that there is something lost in the efforts to be more inclusive

Yes there is something lost. I included it in my post but I'll repeat it: People who aren't good at math are 'shielded from the truth' (they objectively suck at math because they can't grasp something that is objectively simple in the domain of math). Again, feeling bad about not grasping something simple is the necessary element for a humbling experience. Humbling experiences aren't meant to feel great. For me, I've learned the most with humbling experiences. I honestly believe most people in the first world need more of them.

The suggested language is more inclusive, that's an advantage to sales, but less clear, that's a disadvantage to communication/learning. Personally, I like learning and want to see things optimized for that.

BTW; I loved the sly way of you implying that: A- I took offense (I am not, nor do I see anything in my comment that says I'm offended) and B- That I'm the lowest common denominator because of A. It's a subtle way of attacking me and not my point. It says a lot about both the person doing the attack and the strength of their argument that they have to resort to ad-hominems. Though I will credit you with using a smartly disguised one.

Also, you are speaking to me as if I was the website author. I'm not the OP of the article, which if you read TFA you would see the actual author changed in favor of the suggestion.
Many foreign nation states might have access to like, 500x400 pixel photos of people. Not 12 megapixel direct front selfie camera taken photos, where the person is intentionally trying to get the highest quality photo possible.
You obviously don't live in Boston.
Alternatively, patients are turning to youtube to fill in the gaps in their doctors' training.
From what my friends told me, it was just about everywhere in california. Probably like thanksgiving airport crowding.
Sorry for nitpicking but: Unicode is not an encoding, just (basically) a central registry for numbers, and you can have Unicode strings made of bytes (the UTF-8 encoding), in fact that's the most useful encoding for exchanging text data :)
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Why is D different than the rest?!
There’s a variety of bang commands, !r for Reddit !so for stack overflow, etc

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I assert that it was 90% Frasier and Ellen DeGeneres

Who got into a Tardis and went back and organized the Stonewall riots, ACT UP and the Mattachine Society. Yeah, OK.
That page basically confirms this. It says

> To do that, we've developed an open source Instant Answer platform called DuckDuckHack,

which links to https://duckduckhack.com/ which says "DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode".

And the "four hundred sources" link links to 400 special case replies. They are probably useful, but fire rarely. It's basically Bing, and that page is a bunch of spin.
At least it still has a View Image button.
I have to say, some of those ancient artifacts you can buy made out of resin are pretty cool.
Notably ES File Explorer was recently removed form the Google play store because of suspicious behavior. One of the most popular Android file managers.
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Really? How so?

They certainly don’t have related/similar images, which I find useful.
Why are you sure that’s all it can grab? That seems mistaken on a technical level. “Can’t” and “doesn’t” is an important distinction.

We have seen lots of examples of ad analytics SDKs that push the iPhone beyond its intended sandbox. Most of them have been banned, but some operated for years before getting banned. It would be a disservice to brush away those concerns as fearmongering.
I agree, aside from the 'Color' filter. I've found DDG's is very picky about choosing images that are _only_ comprised of your chosen color, instead of predominantly comprised like Google seems to do.
I disagree with a couple of things.

First of all, you missed one thing that is really one of my primary concerns. I hate the idea of my ISP working with other ad surveillance companies to track and sell MY data about mine and my family’s and friends’ online activities.

Having a VPN stops that part of the surveillance machinery from working as intended. Combining that with pihole and other tools allows me to disrupt (at least a little bit) the business of the internet that I hate so much.

Also, Tor and other tools (all part of the same solution above) address #2 to the degree I need it addressed. And I am currently not worried about #3, but with the decentralization of streaming services, it won’t be long now.
I find Snapchat to be a confusing and complex app. It’s very hard to figure out how to do what you want unless someone shows you. The UI doesn’t have any discoverability. Many actions are hidden behind non-obvious gestures. Lake many apps nowadays, it gives the illusion of simplicity by just not having adequate UI.

On a related note, I absolutely hate how most mobile and many web and desktop-based apps nowadays don’t have tooltips, so I can’t figure out what some inscrutable icon/button is supposed to do by hovering my mouse on it or long pressing my finger on it. This used to be table stakes.
Turn one of the windshield sprayers on the hood around backwards. So it sprays in front of the car.
Clearly, the falling values reveal re-evaluations. By definition.
Huxley wrote a letter to Orwell, claiming that his own prediction of the future would be more likely than the recipient's.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world....
TikTok is a blight upon the senses, and instead of asking the question of how to make it better, I only question why would I ever want to care?

I don't want an endless intrusive chain of jump cut video clips, each lasting five seconds. Most of it is poorly executed, tedious failed attempts at slapstick.

The rest is preachy rants from cranky egotists.

I'm exposed to lots of strangers, homeless panhandlers, commuters. In real life, I have never invited a five second converstation from any of them, and 99% of the time, no smart person ever does.
No need to be a state actor, private companies do that too and sell data to law enforcement. There is no realistic threat, just propaganda.
"100% of our readership agrees..."
Well, this is one of those things where context matters.

In trading, it's super common to use floating point arithmetic for decision logic since it's very fast and straightforward to write. The actual trade execution, however, almost always relies on integer arithmetic because then money is actually being used (and hence must be tracked properly).

It's not therefore inherently incorrect to do currency conversions with floats in some situations provided that the actual transaction execution relies on fixed precision or decimal arithmetic.
Can you explain what I'm doing wrong?

Softbank buys 20% of their Japan space, so in order to get to 40+% they just need to find institutional investors for another 20+%? The denominator for both is "capacity at Japan office"
They will also undoubtedly benefit from Softbank's reputation and connections over there.
Google Image Search has been intentionally crippled ever since the Getty vs Google lawsuit. GIS now seems to prefer showing me 'maxresdefault.jpg' YouTube thumbnails for at least 50% of results, presumably because the uploaders of those videos gave Google a license to use/distribute the work. Even for copyrighted works that still gives Google another party to blame.
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Mark my words: Zuckerberg will be remembered not for Facebook but for the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. Thirty years from now, people will talk about how he gave $100 million to the government to try out education policies and they zeroed it out and how US education needed the CZI to fix it. We'll be talking about how Zuckerberg SF General has premier care because of Mark Zuckerberg's kindness.

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It's not correct, but it happens anyway, even in large ERP systems that really should know better but somehow don't.
To be honest, I don't mind this at all.
I agree with your overall point: it most likely does not matter when the values are close enough. However :)

There can be two companies with 100M market cap.
Corp A has issued 10M shares @ 10 each, Corp B has 10B shares priced at 0.01

A +/-0.001 change in Corp A share price is just 0.01% and moves the market cap by +/-10k, so probably nothing significant. The same nominal change in Corp B amounts to 10%, or +/- 10M in the company value, which is quite a big deal.

Also I think there may be some money to be made in changes at the 7th decimal place with large enough volume of high frequency transactions.
Strange how this didn't make the front page. #dang
The threat model is that this photo is shared with the Russian government and then the Russian government can match American citizens (or potentially people working in intelligence), and then using that in facial recognition programs. I.e. they can differentiate Americans (insert x country) from their own citizens and know who to watch more carefully.

This is a legitimate threat model. I'm not sure why you think it wouldn't be. Spies and others do use fake identities. The threat model is that there is that there is a way to determine who is faking their identities.
It's possibly the same (I'm not an expert, just aware of this reference from skimming through the book). Also, the first sentence of the abstract is "This paper describes a technique for approximating real-valued pixels by two-valued pixels" and the title says "halftones" so it wouldn't be surprising if the examples look half-tone ish :)

Could you implement it and compare? Also, on your original page, what do the three columns under each algorithm (e.g. the three images under "Floyd-Steinberg" in the "Quick Refresher" section) mean?
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From the sound of the comments alot of people don't know how to search in DDG. I have absolutely no problem finding the information I need and would say I'm a pretty serious power user. Or I've just been using it for so long I don't know what I'm missing.
Here’s a link for all you haters https://news.slashdot.org/story/04/01/26/1128246/tivo-buys-s...
Why? Are the laws of physics different in Boston?
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Midori was conceptually closer to what Pony lang offers.
Yeah, it's interesting to do comparison searches between ddg and bing. On a few random searches I found I got identical top results - things start to differentiate after the first four or five.
The Bertrand Paradox in Probability
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