skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore I fundamentally believe that individuals in this state have their social and political opinions shaped by their enmeshed, single professional identity.

I believe professionals such as this are far more likely to only have opions which avoid controversy or are on the side of a social current consistent with those in their industry or customers at large.

Their personal choices become indistinguishable from that of a well thought out PR team.

In particular I suggest this phenom is right at the root of a lot of localist vs globalist antagonism. Most professionals would probably err on the side of economic liberalism in the more general sense because it makes sense for their enmeshed professional identity.

But the personal identity which is obfuscated may have much more connection with the community,uch more likely to know and empathize with those affected. Or maybe even just at odds with the professional identity for whatever reason.

When I left my very corporate job it took me months to realise how free I was to have basically any opinion that I wanted and didn't realize how much I must have been orienting my thoughts into a direction that would be acceptable to my peers. (or what I thought would be acceptable).

I'm very supportive of the fact there is research on this.
Presumably all the commenters here have tested the claim?

Otherwise it appears to be premature or unresearched, or Slack have quickly backpedalled or fixed a bug.

There are reports in the Twitter thread of mobile browser access (using show desktop site), and I'm having no problems on mine.
I've never written a game where I needed to query for entities (except spatially). Have I just not created the right type of game? If I needed to find certain types of entities they'd get added/add themselves to some list on creation. Querying things at runtime seems anathema to game dev if you want perf which most game devs obsess over
It seems very counter intuitive that you’d ADD reliability with additional features and surface area for bugs.
When someone asks me why privacy matters, usually followed by "who cares about the details of my life?", or "I have nothing to hide", I ask them if they know who Milly Dowler was.

Milly Dowler, was a 13 year old girl who was abducted and murdered on her way back from school. It took months to find her body. During this time her family keep leaving desperate messages on her phones answering service. What they didn't know what that, news papers had hacked her voice mail and listened to and printed their pleas for her to return their calls.

When the voice box eventually became full, the reporters deleted messages from the phone service so that they could get new materiel. When the family noticed that the voice box had been emptied, it gave them hope that she was still alive and was listening to her messages. Much later they where devastated to learn the body had been found.

If you would have asked anyone in the Dowler family the day before Milly's disappearance if they where worried that some one might hack their voice mail they would probably have replied "No, Not really, we have nothing to hide and who would really care to listen to that?"
I am not a fan of rent control but when housing construction solutions can't be implemented due to home owner's needs to preserve home values and other economic factors that vote down any solution then rent control is a solution at least a short term one. Additionally there also needs to be added policies that increase housing.
Slight correction; it was not John Tower (and I'm curious how you mistook the two), it was Robert Bork. He was nominated for the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan. His video rental history was obtained by Michael Dolan. His nomination was rejected by the Senate, but it wasn't necessarily over his video rental history because the videos he rented were entirely unremarkable. However, it brought up questions of privacy and resulted in the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988.

EDIT: I should add that accessing his video rental history was used as an example and a counter to Bork's own anti-privacy position, which is probably the real reason his nomination was rejected (although I can't say for sure since I'm no expert in this stuff and this all happened before I was even born)

You'll find the info at the following link under the "U.S. Supreme Court Nomination" section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork
And this is why there were hundreds of prosecutions in both America and the UK of the perpetrators of America's post-9/11 kidnap, torture and murder program.

Except there weren't. The attachment of authoritarians to the rule of law is merely a posture. They set it aside whenever it suits them to. They could set it aside in this case.
So, they do video fingerprinting?
To me, that means that they can identify what you
are watching, which I think is what the OP was
pointing out, regardless of mechanism.
Mike (ex-CTO Shazam)
privacy legislation like the GDPR is a good start. In the US at least California seems on their way to come up with stronger privacy legislation and hopefully it'll spill over.
Also the FBI recommends you have a separate network segment for your TV/IoT devices [0].

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-recommends-that-you-keep-y...
Exactly. I wouldn't trust any TV where it's even an option.
A TV whose "dumbness" is a selling point and not a drawback. Basically a monitor in a TV form-factor with a reasonably price (it's actually pretty cheap for its size and feature set) - at the moment the only other alternative to this is a commercial display which are priced at several thousands for this size, and even then I'm not sure any of them would offer 4k and HDR (since it's not really relevant for outdoor digital signage applications).
There are probably entire species that we haven't even discovered that have gone extinct just from these fires.
Maybe we should call this the Twitter-Way:

1. Successful software product that is beloved by its core users goes public.

2. The valuation expectations when the company goes public are based on widely optimistic growth projections where the company grows beyond its 'natural' user base (remember 'Twitter is the new Facebook' back in the day?)

3. In order to meet those widely optimistic, unrealistic projections, the company tries a whole host of "throw against the wall and see what sticks" features to attract users outside their core. This has the effect of pissing off their core users while not really attracting many new users in any case.

4. Eventually (hopefully) the company realizes it's not going to be the next world dominating superpower, learns to be content with just hundreds of millions of users instead of billions, and gets back to focusing on making its core users happy.

Maybe can also be called the Snap-Way??
Assange is the luckiest of the many heroes of the journalism where even Guardian, NYT and SZ were left as establishmemt propaganda machines with command chain news.
Brings back memories of the college days... not a single care in the world but expanding horizons.
Show HN: Docker Image to Run Apache Drill in Distributed Mode
Author concludes (before promoting his product) "The metric would consider "issues resolved," but only after normalizing for implementation complexity", so story points then?
They're either old stock (which means you wouldn't get new features like HDR, etc) or really low quality ones (which means you're compromising on display quality, reliability, etc).
"I wouldn't believe"

Sure let's base military defense strategy on "believe".
> Wikileaks has a faultless record.

How about this bullshit Steve Jobs AIDS diagnosis?

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/steve-jobs-hiv/steve-jobs-hi...
Student Evaluations of Teaching: An Enemy in Disguise [pdf]
Again of course the College Board has every reason to perpetuate the myth that the SAT is about college readiness and not about how much access you have to tutorials.

Do you really think some free online tutorials are as good as $100/hour private tutor who is a college professor that we got for my son or in my case having a mother who was not only a high school Math teacher but also taught SAT tutorials? Do you really think the latter had no bearing on me having to highest SAT score in my school and the second highest in the district with 800 seniors?

I’m not bragging. I didn’t exactly live in a top ranked school system in the small town south.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

Speaking truth to power is something the corporate-owned fourth estate no longer engages in, and instead discards civil discourse and individuals with integrity because reality is inconvenient compared to fanning the flames with phony-outrage clickbait, replacing it with corporate-led fascism and intolerance masquerading as liberalism. Here are just some of the heroes of freedom:

- Phil Donahue (completely gave up a promising career)

- Jesse Ventura

- Cenk Uyghur *

- Chris Hedges

- Julian Assange

- Chelsea Manning

- Aaron Schwartz

- John Kiriakou *

- Daniel Ellsberg *

- Gary Webb

- Robert Parry *

- Max Blumenthal *

- Aaron Maté *

- Lee Camp *

- Jeremy Scahill *

- Glenn Greenwald *

* The few, lucky ones
http://archive.md/hU8Zg
You're still assuming it won't detect this and periodically phone home from an open network.
The actual reason why Russia (and others) are going for maneuverable hypersonic missiles is that everyone believes that Brilliant Pebbles would work, if it was ever deployed.

And the reason why Brilliant Pebbles suddenly became more relevant was that the reason it was considered unworkable in the 80's was high launch costs. SpaceX has already seriously cut those, and they openly talk about future plans that cut them by an order of magnitude or more. Starship will probably take a lot longer to bring to service than SpaceX says it will, but if it ever reaches the kind of capability Musk talks about, it will be possible for a person to go to sleep in a world where ICBMs work and wake up in a world where one power has a five-nines capable shield against them.
At which point the support folks can close the ticket and say "We don't support that platform, please use the mobile app, or ask your browser developer to better support Desktop-on-Mobile". Not supporting the platform, and actively preventing it are two different things. Especially with all the invasive power mobile apps have on your device vs being contained in a browser.

Too many apps stick their fingers into parts of the device that they don't belong. The well has been poisoned with so many apps abusing their privlege, so privacy conscious folks have to assume the worst when being pushed in that direction especially when the browser app worked without an issue (According to OP).
What? No. If Y2K was the beginning of a new millennium then Jan 1 2020 is the beginning of a new decade.
What was forged by Russian Intelligence?
It’s been quite educating in the last few years how many in the techworld who consider themselves “left”, “moderate” or “libertarian” are completely unaware of their “opponents” memes.

The opposite of course is true, but I thought “we” were supposed to be more curious...
Of course I’m opposed to that.
If you've got logic to connect to nearby open Wi-Fi, why wouldn't you also use it as a fallback if the primary Wi-Fi is down?

Even if they don't do this yet it's only a matter of time before the manufacturers catch on and start doing so.
No bicycle navigation; a “walking route” will send you the wrong way up one-way streets, “auto route” onto unsafe highways.

I wouldn’t care except their API for directions to AirPods or Apple Watch isn’t public. This is grounds for an antitrust suit imho...
What do you recommend as server software for riot? I had some problems with the various bridges which the default server currently provides. Is the default server also provided with synapse?
Erm, sure I know that name from somewhere! I won't dispute your claims about alternative methods, but I've found it hard to find any open documentation about this stuff, so I am unaware of it myself. Then again, I hereby announce that I am an _amateur_ at this, so I'm not taking criticism personally!

In fact one of the reasons I wrote my stuff (FWIW in c and Python) is because I couldn't follow the code in TaylorIntegration.jl ;) My stuff is _really_ simple, and I know _exactly_ how it works.
>The end justifies the means?
Well, yes.

For all the popularity of the phrase "the end never justifies the means", I have never met someone who actually believes it. Just to begin with, almost everyone agrees with state sanctioned violence as means to maintain a social order, even if they find the action itself horrible.

I found the phrase itself more commonly used as a way to dismiss certain ends on the grounds of PC than an actual moral objection.
There's one giving data and evidence and reciting the scientific consensus, and then there are climate change deniers like yourself.

There's no reason or need to debate the truth. These are unprecedented fires. They have immense impact on animal and human life. You can discuss details and claim that some.things might recover naturally, but there is no way you can honestly think this is all just fine and normal.
Transparent disclosure doesn't mean shit when the company can honestly say what it's doing and there's zero repercussions for it.
That's a very valid concern, especially since most consumer-grade ISPs are in bed with the media industry and would be very interested in the tracking data from these TVs.
I really appreciate the amount of work that goes into making a font. On one hand, these typographers and their foundries are starving for revenue and on the other hand they make the customer's professional life incredibly difficult with the retrictions that you mention.

Most small foundries have been bought out by Monotype and their licensing is now 100% subscription only. I was lucky to have purchased Univers and a couple of other fonts under their "Creative" license which bundled everything under a reasonable price.

Font foundries - listen up, if you want people to pay for your fonts, make the licensing model straight up simple - download fonts and off you go. Turns out that most people that are willing to pay for your font arent the ones trying to pirate them. Stop fucking them over.
This looks really good, I've used ccrypt (#1) for years as a simple Unix-y encryption tool to avoid the complexity of GPG (though this is symmetric encryption only so you need to have a secure way to exchange keys).

I just added a pull-request to allow the recipients flag to also be specified as a https:// or file:// URL - this is mostly useful to use the GitHub <user>.keys endpoint to grab user keys eg.

./age -a -r https://github.com/<user>.keys < secret

will encrypt using <user>'s GitHub SSH public keys.

#1 http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net

#2 https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/pull/43
They won’t, at least not for now, I assume. They can put far more intrusive tracking inside an app compared to a web browser. There is also no way to do content blocking or ad blocking inside apps, at least not on iOS. I use Facebook in Safari - can’t be happier (well, I mean it’s Facebook, but I am not able to pursue all my friends to cancel it).
Actually Robert Bork, and I misremembered : not actually compromising, but worse, a reporter being a smart Alec. Bork had asserted that there was no right to privacy so a reporter set out to demonstrate that invading his privacy would upset him.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071009150938/http://www.theame...
It seems to have PR traction (no snark intended), it keeps popping up on here, so some people must like it.
My apologies. I crossed your upthread content with another poster’s.
It would potentially allow them to forgo the need to limit their UI to phone based with desktop upscaling. Make an app for the "best" small screen experience and the web site for the "best" large screen experience.

This strategy probably mitigates what might be a much more common complaint in the future that their "UI" sucks on mobile if they were to design for only larger screens.
So, you didn't need to recompile or debug anything. Just switch to another DHCP client.
Ask HN: Have you noticed this peculiarity on vending machines?
[advance apologies for the trivial nature of this post. Hope it finds a fit on your Saturday =]

A vending machine at my workplace has a 10 item row with water bottles (all same brand and label) numbered in the range [51-60].

As is customary in current vending machines you select the item by entering a double digit number on a keypad.

When I'm buying water I always select item number 55 (because I find it more convenient to just press the same button twice without looking than typing any of the other options that have 2 different digits).

Surprise, surprise, item 55 is always the first one to sell out on that row. Which means most people also do the same convenience trick as me.

Have you noticed any similar "hidden" patterns like this one?
Hardware keys embedded under your skin. What could possibly go wrong with that?

Joking aside, hardware keys will absolutely get lost. Even car keys get lost around here on a fairly regular basis.

Fingerprints maybe?
Analogous to “putting all eggs in a single basket”, the risks are very high.

You end up becoming hyper sensitive at work, start taking everything personal -well, it is your identity or ego at stake. Leads be becoming very closed, guarded and aggressive. Everyday becomes a fight for survival.

I personally went through this phase for a long time. Looking back, some of my managers exploited this by reinforcing. They knew if they compare me with anyone, I would up the competition and perform even better. This did not cost them money since I had invested myself, my identity and ego 100%. Overall, resulted in a highly competitive team but extremely stressful and caustic!

After changing teams, I decided to take a step back and make a fresh start. I now work for the love of my work and do not let it represent who/what I am. It is my identity at work. Back home or with friends, I have a different identity. Having multiple things to fallback has made me more resilient and lot more positive.
Tasks versus goals, same as always. It's exactly the same as the question of why it was once recommended to carry a rifle for safety when traveling from St. Louis to Portland, and now it's recommended you leave it at home.

The goal was always to make corporations money. The task necessary to accomplish this goal just happened to flip.
No, but you can detach the Windows PC. With a smart TV, you're stuck with whatever is in that firmware, without which the TV may not even turn on.
Even just loading the base Python interpreter uses more memory than heavenlyblue's entire server.

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 23612 1.2 1.7 62412 17492 pts/1 S+ 12:38 0:00 | \_ python3 -m http.server
I make a habit of getting friends and family to do this. And, it’s sad to say, but even this doesn’t always elicit the sort of response one would think reasonable
That's an illusion.

systemd is written in a language that is easier than shell to get right, and it's capable of things very few script-based init systems are capable of, so in practice it's very rare that the code of the init system itself needs to be debugged. It's basically rock solid compared to sysv-rc.
Working hard is good, but working so hard that you completely neglect rest of your life isn't. For most people's well being things like family and hobbies are at least as important as work, and there's nothing wrong with that. If our economic system doesn't allow them to enjoy those parts of their lives, then the fault lies on the system, not on individuals.
Data and stickiness.

You can scrape way more data from Android's APIs than you can from some cookies on a web page. Grabbing data like "other apps installed", for example.

And for stickiness, you can push notify a user to re-engage them. Plus they have to manually uninstall the app to completely "Unsubscribe".

It's a better position for a company if they can get you into the mobile app.
This really depends on how you define success.

If success means creating something unique, new, and amazing that is known and loved by millions, whether that be a company, piece of art, or scientific innovation, then yes, it's unlikely you'll get there without an enormous amount of hard work, and unlikely you'll get there even if you put in that work.

If success means happily living with your partner in the suburbs of a flyover state in a moderately-sized house with a big backyard for your kids, you don't need to tie your life to your career.
My Vizio that I’ve had for years recently popped up an “opt in” that asked me to allow them to track my usage. Except it wasn’t opt in at all. I couldn’t use any of their services if I didn’t agree to let them track me.

So I promptly did a factory reset and now we use the AppleTV exclusively with that TV.

It is not only the last Vizio product I’ll ever own but I’ll go out of my way to find a dumb tv the next time I need one, if such a thing exists by then.
Pollination treatment affects fruit and modifies storable quality of apples
I don't know the specifics of this case... but back then, video rental stores did big business renting porn. That definitely could ruin a career or two, especially in those days.
I've heard that Elasticsearch has had some durability issues in the past and the recommendation has been to have a more reliable source of truth (e.g. an SQL database) and periodically import data into Elasticsearch for indexing. Is this still a problem in practice, or is storing data directly in Elasticsearch like this still unsafe?
That issue is besides the point:

1. It's not relating to the service manager part of systemd. It sounds like a problem with systemd-networkd which is a component that is entirely optional and easily replaced even on a systemd-based system (as you admit yourself).

2. The original question was about bugs in systemd that require inspecting C code where the equivalent bug on a non-systemd system could be diagnosed by inspecting shell scripts. ISC DHCP is not written in shell script.
There are two separate “premiums” calculated in the paper. One of them is income, and one of them is wealth (accumulated savings).

Only the wealth premium is going to zero, the income premium is currently still quite high and is stable.

Only the income premium matters to income taxes, the wealth premium that is going to zero does not affect income taxes directly in the short term.

The only premium that the student loan program cares about in the short term is the income premium, and the income premium has not gone down.

The question of why this all happens is indeed interesting and important, however not relevant to what I’ve been talking about here, that student loans are on balance repaid by the college income premium.

In short, the college premium from the point of view of the government’s income is not the same as the college premium to the student. It’s possible for the government to see a favorable financial return on student loans at the same time the student sees negative value in their degree.
VS Code and GitHub Gist = Developer Micro-Blogging (a.k.a. a “GistLog”)
I have seen a lot of buzz around Quadratic Voting as an alternative.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2003531