skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I often think the world has gone crazy when completely absurd and inhuman stuff is labeled "attractive"
This requirement for ID only began recently; I purchased the same product some months ago with no ID. They're probably expanding the amount of data they collect in advance of the new (GDPR-inspired) privacy laws that go into effect here next month.

https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/C...

You're not telling me anything I don't already know, but I think you're overlooking the asymmetrical problems wherein it's far easier for corporations to collect data (even with these regulatory requirements) than for individuals to maintain even basic privacy.
@dsander I immediately recognized your username from GitHub Thanks for all the work you've put in!

I run Huginn on Heroku. I haven't had any significant issues since it's been running. It's been so long since I've set it up that I would need to review my notes to tell you any more about how it's deployed.
If I want to run porn apps on my VR devices what right does FB have to vacuum up that knowledge? If the porn app has a specific sexual orientation why should Facebook get to know that?

Facebook should not be collecting this data IMO. Microsoft and Apple should be working to make it impossible to collect and governments should work to make it illegal to collect and extremely high fines if caught collecting.
The Bert based model handles misspellings synonyms really well by association BUT is does over compensate a lot. In an age where domain squatters have taken all the properly spelled names startups have to rely on synonyms. Then google penalizes them. Yet few months ago Google declared it would penalize squatters. This approach is hurting many companies (so I hear in my circles) and Google isn’t listening :(
The whole idea of "shares" is a pointless legacy concept. What really matters is the fraction of the company you own. Back when trading was conducted using physical paper stock certificates it made sense to have discrete individual shares but the concept has now outlived its usefulness. In the future it would make more sense to just say, for example, that you can invest $12345.67 to purchase 0.0000000058% of company XYZ.
From the sound of things it may have been that the FAA was pressed for a decision before they had the time to analyze and approve the change and then later approved it. Or after reviewing evidence in the appeal, it was clear it could be approved.

My impression with these processes is that there's sometimes a bit of back and fourth with denials and appeals before something is approved.
His point is not "this is so outrageous that the government won't dare do it". Rather, he's saying "it's such a monumental undertaking that costs so much and hurts so many entities that it's simply a pipe dream of a technically ignorant group of bureaucrats and cannot be done".
I genuinely don't know which word he's talking about, either. I mean I know plenty of 4-letter words but none that Australia has cornered the market on, to my knowledge.
I see this discussion about the conflict between user needs and developer needs coming up time and time again. I think this disconnect between user and developer is an interesting phenomenon in itself. What's more, often this disconnect seems to be defended as a natural feature of the service sector: it's an exchange of money for service, so the service provider's experience doesn't matter, as long as he's willing to work for that much. Reducing the relationship to money is often how these discussions go, in my experience, and I think that it's something that can look much better on paper (unintentional pun) than in practice.

Here's an example from my experience with ordering food or drinks. I'm floating the idea that it generalises to other areas as well, but that's up for debate. If I don't know the restaurant or bar well and I have a chance to ask the kitchen staff or bartender (in case of a drink) for suggestions, I'll do it. I'll ask what they like to make. I'll always ask indirectly, because it's a personal question. I'll engage them in a short dialogue in which I get a feel for _what would feel good for them to make_, _how_, etc., and then I'll ask them to do it for me. It's often something that involves a bit more skill or know-how or is stimulating to do in some other way. Sometimes it's something gourmand that they're proud to be able offer, and they're thrilled that someone's willing to walk off the beaten path and that they can accomodate that.

That's the geometric opposite of looking at the menu and picking what you fancy the most. In a way it's about not taking your likes and dislikes seriously, so as to stay open, because, this is a place you don't know, while, this person you're talking to, he essentialy is the place.

So why do I prioritize the experience of the service provider over mine? I don't. I recognize that my experience is very closely tied to that of the cook or the bartender, and if she's happy, all other things being equal, my chances to be satisfied are the highest. A happy cook makes better food, a happy bartender makes a better drink, and the experience of us aligning our needs leaves us both feeling uplifted, because this wasn't just another impersonal money-for-goods transaction.
If you like using your keyboard to browse the web, I'd like to introduce you to Tridactyl ( https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl ).
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That's reasonable. A bit cumbersome, but not too bad. It's a shame the Windows client for Signal is an Electron app, which may or may not run well on a small machine.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/documentformat.o...

The OpenXML basis format for XSLX is an ISO standard. Most things are documented albeit in a somewhat obtuse way.
OOC, do you view Intel's projections as being too slow or just plain wrong (i.e., impossible)? I am not knowledgeable about this industry or the engineering behind it, just follow it casually, and I'm shocked to see 1.4nm on a slide.
For anyone unfamiliar, this is Martin Gurri's blog. He's the author of The Revolt of the Public (Stripe press), a book that's making the rounds in the tech industry. I'm part way through with it, but it's main thesis is the rise of the internet and social media has increased and decentralized the public's access to information and this has led to a break down in the legitimacy of traditional authorities (governments, media, academia, elites).

I don't think anyone can doubt that narrative-breaking information is now more readily available and that authorities are more under the microscope than ever. This must have some political/societal ramifications.

The result of all this information is as much a more informed voter population as it is creating a huge swath of just angry people. Whether this burst of protests in 2019 fits this narrative is open to debate and probably unprovable, but to his point calling it all random ends the chance of considering what the effects are of the continuing and accelerating flood of information available to people and the lowered efforts needed to create mass protests.
Incorrect, I know someone who got bedbugs in Winnipeg
> I'm not sure how the popular notion that Disney is constantly getting copyright terms extended arose.

They've earned this reputation by lobbying successfully for copyright extensions more than any other company in history. They absolutely deserve harsh criticism for it.

https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-...
Joshua Klein built a crow vending machine with some success (using coins). Tap to pay could be quite a bit more profitable, though I assume you'd have a pretty high chargeback rate.

http://www.josh.is/crow-machine/
Seriously? Look up TGV and imagine the cars have containers inside. Not that difficult. Far more efficient than trucks.

And then there’s Hyperloop.
Enron had to submit to auditors and regulators. Lehman Brothers too.

The mere presence of extensive auditing and regulation does not mean that it is effective.
You may be interested in https://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/
Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter whether it was a moment of distraction or purposeful bad driving. The reason it didn’t cause harm is just luck. I ride a bicycle and a motorcycle, and have had more close calls due to distracted drivers than I can count. I DO NOT CARE if it’s because you’re stressed out, you have screaming kids in the backseat, or it was just a “complete brain fart.” If you hit me with your giant metal vehicle, you will probably kill me.

Just because you don’t kill someone every time you drift through a lane on a corner or don’t stop at a light doesn’t mean that you never will.
Not nearly as high accurate as GPS
You could perhaps use a tool like scrapy in combination with huginn. Scrapy has very simple patterns for doing that kind of logic.
I don't know... I've met women very difficult to work with over the years. Men too.

I've heard some folks have difficulty working with one gender in particular, usually due to personality conflicts of some sort.
Chrome 79 will continuously scan your passwords against public data breaches
Are you sure? I have a 4th gen iPad (A1460) and it's stuck forever at iOS 10.3.4, so I imagine an older one would also be end-of-lifed.
Your government.

Where I'm from, the police are using extra judicial coercion to shut down concerts by threatening venue owners with liquor licensing audits, because they don't like a rap group's song lyrics:

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-13/australian-drill-r...
> Many become emboldened and move on to other malfeasance. Order breeds order and chaos breeds chaos.

Why does SF have a sizable increase in property crimes over the past 10 years but a drop in violent crimes? I'd imagine if chaos did truly beget chaos, then rates of crime across the board would be going up.
Global payment, yes. Same as global routing.

The internet is happily chugging along on routers and switches who know nothing about the global topology of the network.

When you reduce the payment problem to 'how do we get two routers to keep track of the data passed between them' it is a non-problem that even the first generation of imps could have solved).
The clojure example was not missing the "scope brackets". That's exactly what let is. The equivalent c like in your first example should just be enclosed in brackets.
The existence of persistent cultural tropes around “not being like the other girls” is at least one piece of evidence to the contrary.
I'm super-curious to hear more about this, in that it's hard to imagine walking away from a significant stable money-stream like Google.
The new Vive is by HTC, the Index is by Valve? Different companies.

You may be confused by the fact that HTC previously had a partnership with Valve. The Index is independent from HTC.
Is there anything that stops an organization from just vacuuming up and archiving what it finds on these nodes?

I mean, can some company come along and build "archived searchable aether" as a service?
I heard some ops willing them to have a clearer vision of what's commited but I don't like being dependend on them. I ended up looking what kind of emoji I had to use on every commit and it felt like a waste of my time
Related story in the New Yorker today: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-o...
> "Header only" libraries are an anti-pattern in C

says who? care to elaborate?
I am going to assume that the ~35% number that you are giving without context is the number quoted for peak female representation in earning cs degrees in the 80's. If I am wrong, please correct me. This is much later then I was thinking. I could not find numbers but everything that I have found says that at least a majority of programmers were women in before the early 70's. One of the questions I think is important is why were cs degrees so male dominated in something that was previously a female dominated field?

I am going to take your point about a reduction in sexism in other fields at face value since it seems you are more read up on that than I am. I'm not sure if this is a rebuttal to my argument though. A reduction in sexism in other fields would in fact complement an increase in sexism in computer science. I'm not sure if it is possible to distinguish the effects of each, especially if they compound on top of each other. It might be a little ironic to choose trial lawyers as an example since I don't think they have that much better of a percentage. I would also like to point out that your conclusion of "field of their choice", in my eyes, is heavily influenced by social factors.
I didn't know about paperswithcode.com, and it looks amazing. Thanks a lot for sharing it!
"- Guilds with an an entry filter that guarantees competence, often associated with apprenticeship."

You mean the "union shop" approach? I could see it, but it is a significant structural change. Also, it probably wouldn't satisfy many.

"- Wide open hiring for short term engagements, retention of only those who fit best."

"But," I can hear them saying, "what happens when you move across country and are then told, 'sorry, it's not working out'?"

"- Hiring directly based on referral from other known-competent professionals who can vouch, with no or minimal interview stage."

I've gotten a significant number of my jobs this way. And I've had people ask for a referral and told them no, I wasn't comfortable doing it. That's not much fun.

"- Work sample tests."

On the whiteboard (Ick! Horrors!) or take-home (Ick! Horrors!)?

Ok, so I admit to being pathologically incapable of trust. But I'm that way because the universe keeps burning me. I'm sorry.
Any time someone brings out the “bicyclists break laws, too” argument I’m surprised to hear what people think the laws actually are. I’ve heard people complain about bicyclists taking the full lane, using the turn lane to turn left instead of crossing at a crosswalk, moving to the front of the line at stoplights, etc as broken laws. Turns out, they’re not. Just because something might slightly inconvenience you as a faster driver doesn’t make it illegal.

For all the other things, like rolling through stop signs, i think we should be changing the laws to allow bicyclists to yield instead of stop rather than using them as a gotcha.
I would be okay with it if the court system actually bothered to protect people's rights and police didn't abuse their power. But abuse of power is now industry standard. In all likelihood the data will be keep beyond what is necessary to collect the necessary evidence. In all likelihood this data will then be used as a springboard for indiscriminate civilian surveillance. I don't even trust that the excuse given for the collection is in any way true. Our government has shown a willingness to enforce secret laws, put people in secret prisons through extrajudicial processes, torture them in secret, lie about it repeatedly, lie about evidence. And at no point has our justice system seen fit to hold anyone accountable for it.

What balance is there when one side operates without limits or consequence and can use gag orders and the ability to classify information to operate in secret?
I don't know if even sci-fi could imagine 7 billion people not needing to rely on anyone even remotely fathomable.
If you don't want to rely on anyone, become a hermit somewhere in the deep woods.

I guess if your government is a royal family taxing you to line their own pockets that would seem like theft, but otherwise seems hard to believe it could be true, but people will believe anything. The world is complex, the economy is complex, and stopping a country's economy from tumbling out of control with all the internal and external variables is non-trivial.
> I think Google is absolutely not at fault here.

Well I do.

If they had narrowed what information they collected to the absolute minimum and deleted it as soon as it was no longer required, then they wouldn't have any information to give.

Information is a "toxic" liability. Google chose to hoard it. They are absolutely liable.
Thanks for the response. I think I wasn't clear. The problem here is that if you support this kind of thing for hypothetical "catch the bad guy" situations that don't happen inside your own home where an indoor camera might make sense, we might as well just put a camera on every street corner running 24/7 and be done with it. If you're willing to cede your neighbors' privacy in the name of safety, well, there's a quote for that about liberty.

It's important to note that in an actual courtroom or investigation setting, having blurry footage of a person across the street really isn't very helpful unless you're going full-on dragnet and intend to track their every movement over a period of hours. Foiling any investigation involving rings is pretty trivial otherwise - wear a mask and nondescript clothing and the video footage is pretty much useless.
Alphabet knows where am I and how I move at any time

Facebook knows what I like and would potentially buy or vote for

The 1st invades my privacy. The 2nd is a tool that can manipulate population ( data => population profiling => customization of a marketing message )

I guess politics care much more about the 2nd
For reference, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/system-state.html#cli.... Browsers are essentially required to pretend to be Firefox from 2010, or Chrome from 2003 (!), or Safari from 2003—all while pretending to be Firefox or its predecessor in a couple of other ways. I find it very amusing.
I'll just say wow. It feels like every game I wanted to play all in one collection.

Does anyone remember 'spot' such a fun little game at the cost of only being 1 meg or 2. When the size of the game mattered.

Wonder if they have a c64 section. There was a great soccer game where you fought up leagues.
Honestly, he was brilliant. I was looking forward to working with him. Right up to the point where we handed him a laptop and asked him to write some code. "I know you're looking for language X, but I'm really more comfortable with Y."

Me (who has written my share of Y): "Sure, that'll be fine. Y should be installed."

He proceeded to take 30 minutes to not produce anything resembling X or Y. It was agonizing.
Mostly assisting in curating news about niche technologies (angular, react).

What's a "major issue"?

At this point, I feel that I'm well versed in when to use huginn. That helps me avoid most issues.

I use Zapier all the time for the things it does better/easier. That said, often, one end of the "zap" is integrated with a workflow in huginn. For instance, I commonly use Zapier when I need data gathered by huginn to be continuously logged into a spreadsheet.

Additionally, puppeteer(node) is another fantastic automation tool, which I use to do things that you probably shouldn't try to do with huginn. But, I connect my puppeteer scripts to larger workflows using huginn.

Thanks to the maintainers, I think that huginn does what it was designed to do very well.
There are many species that are separated by 100K/1M years that are still able to interbreed. Horses, Donkeys, Zebras are a good example. These animals can produce viable offspring but still have significant anatomical differences (those differences tend to define what we call species)
OMG derp, yeah, thanks
wonder no more https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%2Bc...
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It is hypothetical, because you're ignoring the other side of the equation: all the sophisticated investors (hedge funds etc.) who detect that stocks are temporarily propped up in some sector and will collapse, and so go short at the inflated prices... thus lowering prices.

Companies always face a reckoning point, on their individual timelines.

It's just arbitrage 101. Nothing stays mispriced forever. And the sooner the "other side" figures it out, the quicker prices correct -- so you've got to be fast. Which is exactly what sophisticated investors are.
Truck companies can't afford to pay $1,000,000 a year because the industry is too competitive, which keeps the fees trucking companies low.

What is basically happening is the trucking companies are living with a shortage of drivers, and waiting for self-driving to arrive.
Try it out! It’s not that complicated to pick up and even a basic understanding of how memory allocation works goes a long way to making you a better programmer.
Good catch!

But her brain is her superpower.

RADNAR

By the stone of Daggoth!
100% agree with you. I really think adding a source file to your build tool of choice (Make, CMake, Visual Studio project) is a basic fundamental skill that a C or C++ developer should know.
I think this also falls into the same familiarity trap as the parent.

Let me preface this by saying that I think it's not necessary to conflate the "lifecycle methods" with the component lifecycle in itself, and I disagree with the premise that the methods are a fundamental concept of React. Of course, this is how people were historically taught, but it is entirely possible to conceptualise and understand the lifecycle of a React component without even knowing about lifecycle methods, just in terms of how useEffect works, for instance, and this is how a lot of people using hooks today think. It is entirely possible to understand how re-renderings are triggered and stuff like that without even knowing about class components and lifecycle methods.

So, hooks might seem like an additional concept to people used to class components and lifecycle methods, but that's just because of familiarity. For people learning hooks first, the opposite is true just as well.

IMO this paradigm shift in thinking is also essential for people used to class components that want to be more productive in codebases with mostly hooks. I haven't thought about componentDidUpdate and friends in months.
Anyone can be judged for the actions they take, that doesn't make it an insult.
The ACCC is one of the most important consumer rights bodies in the world. They do so, so much for their constituents — for example, Australians don’t need to buy AppleCare to ensure Apple has to replace faulty components, which has had a knock-on effect on what Apple provides with AppleCare, which benefits consumers around the world.

To paint their actions as “protectionist” is way off the mark of how and why they do what they do.
+1 to this, at scale it's really important to channel feedback on useful topics. Learning that everyone hates working with your authentication system is really quite different than everyone hating the lone maintainer who keeps it alive in their "spare time".
No, the law does not and should not use maximum resources for everyone. It is clearly beneficial to not send whole teams of people looking for weeks for your stolen wallet like they would for a missing person.

>The ROI calculations are to be budgeted and accounted for
Often this would require you to pay more in tax than the value you would get back from it. Are you ok paying $1000 to track down the person who smashed your window when you will likely never get any money from them or will you just pay the $100 it costs to get a new window which doesn't happen very often.
It is an extremely obscure issue because the vast majority consider women signing up for the draft to be ludicrous, and dismiss the conversation thereafter.
> such that a name like “jack” wouldn’t even register to them

My experience disagrees. I often have a back and forth "conversation" with my cat, and she clearly responds to my voice, which is not high pitched.
In an effort to make sense of the phrase, what you are saying seems to boil down to "it's a veil as in the veil is protecting the investors". Who thinks the root cause was a conspiracy among the shareholders of FB?
Yes yes yes! I hate URL shorteners. It's not just privacy - I can't decide if I want to click it or jot before I do.

I suppose that issue could also be solved with a browser extension.

It'd be nice to do this with DNS rather than an extension though, above point aside, e.g. if already running Pi-hole or similar, send shortener URLs to unshort.link, and redirect immediately.