skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, I’m not being sarcastic as such, but it is makes sense why people would consider that as a possibility.

I have tended to interpret Google in the negative over time, but I have heard the kind of statement I expressed enough times that I honestly am not sure that it isn’t as true as the more negative reads are.
The family farm model died out decades and decades ago fwiw.
I read articles, but I don't google. Thanks for the link.

> Each leg now bears eight circular scars, each half an inch in diameter, from the screws that were removed. But now, three inches taller than before, Susan says she would not hesitate to recommend the procedure to her friends.

That is all I need to know. Patient satisfied, and would recommend the procedure.
I'm reminded of the 90s joke about Windows PCs being pwned within minutes after going online. That is, going online directly via dial-up modem, rather than through a router.

So yeah, the baseband firmware is a huge vulnerability. But if you use a separate modem/router, and disable the onboard baseband, that's far less of an issue.

And with the PinePhone, it's easy: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#Killswitch_confi...
Back then software development was split over a much bigger amount of roles. The idea of a single person sitting in front of a screen is a modern invention.
My understanding is that you don't even need to do a SIM swap, because the SS7 signaling system is insecure. SIM Swap is likely the easiest way as wage-slave employees are quite pliable to bribes[0]. But if you want to be even more anonymous, you can apparently re-route texts remotely [1].

0: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/mans-1m-life-savings-s...

1: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/ss7-hacked/25529/

I thought both these vectors were already common knowledge
to HN readers.
Odd how birth-rates are treated as just set in stone, and we can't do anything about them. No other social problem is approached this way.

> At the same time, immigration fosters diversity, which in turn makes us a better country and a better society.

I'm sure if he had made the opposite claim, he'd be assaulted with demands for proof, and any proof given would be dismissed as inconclusive. On the other hand, claim it in a different context, and I've never seen it questioned:

"British imperialists long knew that the best way to divide and conquer was by creating “countries” riven with tribal differences." -- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/09/can-democracy-surviv...
>The Holodomor is pretty on par with the Holocaust for death rate per unit time at the low end of death estimates, and outstrips the Holocaust at the high end of estimates, happened first, but wasn't publicized until relatively recently.

It wasn't publicized because the New York Times was involved in covering it up.
For anyone curious, this is what the prometheus chart look like (I think):

https://github.com/helm/charts/blob/master/stable/prometheus...
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Gosh, how perjorative this article is!

This quote makes me cringe:
"The great ecologist E.O. Wilson avers that to be effective in some scientific fields it’s actually best not to be too bright."

Certainly there's merit in exercising a certain degree of rigour, much of scientific work can be boring, but yeesh, "not too bright" sums up the old boys' club right there doesn't it? If you can't be judged on merit, what will you be judged on, eh?

And then there's this doozy:
"Only geniuses (or cranks) head straight for the grandest and most fundamental problems."

Completely ignoring the fact that understanding that a particular problem is the grandest in the field requires a modicum of understanding of the field itself. And should we condemn someone to make their life's calling no bolder than coming up with a better lamp-post or cataloguing all the insects in the garden?

Finally, a nugget of truth in this travesty:
"Fifty years ago, my generation benefited from the fact that the science profession was still growing exponentially, riding on the expansion of higher education. Then, the young outnumbered the old; moreover, it was normal (and generally mandatory) to retire by one’s mid-60s."

Emphasis [mine] on mandatory. Let's bring that back. Speaking of which, Martin, why haven't you retired yet??

I would love to tear this article apart, quote by quote. But, as a practicing scientist, I, quite frankly, lack the bandwidth.
Did any of the people you know regret going there? I know I would be able to do it. Even if they didn't participate, I would think being in an environment like that would make most people really uncomfortable.
The law at issue merely codified in statute what the California Supreme Court had long held to be the way the law worked (and added some new exceptions not germane to Uber), so there was no relevant change to the law. So, it's the same legal regime Uber has always been working under, and so the policy change is, no matter what the PR spin is, not actually driven by the new law.
That's not entirely true. The board has the power to fire executives (that's one of the purposes of having a board, for executive oversight). You're correct in that those three could theoretically vote to change the board, but doing so also has other drastic consequences. That also takes time and process, and it's possible the board can make a move before they have the time to see that process through.
Car and land cost money for the state, you get a "direct service" from your tax. And wealthy people have lower rate (compared to their revenue and wealth) than the average Joe

Here we talk about a tax without a "direct service" associated... but that would be paid only by the wealthy, not by the average Joe
The big issue is the presence of cyclic dependencies between parts of code. If a piece of code is identified by its content, and its identifier is the Merkle root of its parts, then you can't possibly have cycles because you can't compute the hash of a parent before computing the hash of its children (which in turn depend on the parent). You have to use DAGs or plain old trees and eliminate any cycles.

So to get it to work with other languages, you would need a way to convert their abstract syntax into a DAG compatible structure. It may be possible to do so, but I doubt there is a general approach which will work across multiple existing languages. It would require per-language hacking, if it is even possible without rewriting some parts of code.

Seems like languages like OCaml and F# might be slightly more suitable for this approach because they require compilation units to be ordered by their dependencies, and thus promote a convention of avoiding cyclic dependencies between types (although it is possible to make such dependency in the same compilation unit with `type A and B`). They also allow recursive functions, but these should be simple enough to represent with a non-cyclic syntax tree.

If you design a language from scratch, you can simplify things by requiring that no cycles exist in the language - at least at the syntax tree level. You might be able to design representations for recursion at a higher level which collapse to non-cyclic structures in the AST.
Why not combine those two into a Cosmo Communicator or its predecessor Gemini PDA?

I'd love to get a Cosmo but I'd hate to carry it around everywhere due to its bulkiness. I guess that might be your concern as well.
I would take them down - though my understanding is that a lot of publishers actually want a digital version of their games available as a way to promote physical sales. So I would love to work with publishers to put official games on Screentop.
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Here's an example: https://facebook.com/BelimbingSuperstar/

That is a midrange restaurant in tech-savvy Singapore, opened a few months ago by people who already had another successful restaurant.

And here is their website: http://belimbingsuperstar.com

As of this writing the website is literally a GoDaddy placeholder page. They use the domain for email only, they didn't even bother to redirect it to Facebook.
Notice:

This is about FEDERATED networks, not P2P.

Mastodon, Diaspora, etc.

Also, it is not comprehensive:

Matrix (9M users), SOLID, D.Tube, etc. not mentioned

Examples of P2P:

WebTorrent, GUN (11M+ users), SSB, etc.
Number of drinks is not a good way, in my experience. It’s a detail that isn’t important unless you are trying to game your own standard. You will convince yourself that your arbitrary line makes you ok.

Hangovers turn into waking up drunk at some point. For me, they were a reason to drink. Withdrawal is like a hangover that lasts for weeks. The whole time, you will want a drink.

My bottom was the realization that my alcoholism was a way of checking out of my life. Once I realized that, I just had to start doing other things and dealing with the problems I tried to drown.

When you are in the pit of addiction, the first things you need are positive alternatives to drinking. It could be AA but I went a different route.
I am not a meticulous scheduler, but I had a rigid schedule for the first few months. I even planned out my free time. I put myself back out into the world, and found that I loved it and the people in it.
Game code is usually specifically built to be useful for a very short amount of time, and is frequently the definition of "one and done". Examples against are long lived games like world of warcraft, engines like infinity, unreal, naughty dog etc, which must support extension over time.

A game like VVVVVV is, once a class is created, unlikely to be changed a thousand times. It wouldn't scale if you had 200 people working on it with new people coming in and leaving all the time. But at the end it doesn't really matter much in this case, and isn't the right thing to focus on while coding up a game.

> Maybe these supposed anti-patterns don't really matter as much as we think they do for successful software

They matter a lot for some software more than others. All software is a set of tradeoffs in some ways or another - in this case its attention to things like perfect class naming.
Optimizing Webpack Build Time
Verifying Iran Social Media Videos
The Poor State of Kubernetes Pod Autoscaling
>Had those young men simply decided to do nothing rather than join, the world would have been a better place.

I am not so sure. I think the main reason that decolonization happened is that a whole generation of young men were lost and Europe was too exhausted and poor from the two world wars to keep its colonies.

Without WWI, there would not have been WWII which would have left the European nations as the premier powers in the world who would have held on to their colonies in Asia and Africa.

So without WWI, there would still be a pretty high chance that India would still be a British colony.

Europe may have been a better place, but probably not the rest of the world.
> I know someone who refuses to let their adult child have a driver license as long as they still live at home because they fear a rise in insurance rates due to their age.

That was my situation. I didn't get a license until I was 22, a month or so before I moved out (and the move was planned when I did).
Now I only need to find out on which ones of my 200+ accounts this feature is enabled… Honestly, it would be easier for me if the EU just made it illegal, forcing services to disable it for me.
At this point it is arguably obvious that Zuckerberg is a textbook sociopathic CEO who will say whatever is expedient to business needs. After constant misleading and outright false statements, not a single word that comes out of Facebook can be trusted. It's self serving corporatespeak taken to an extreme and I simply cannot fathom how so many people, including news media especially, are uncritical and even trusting of FB public statements.

Zuckerberg's dumbfucks quote is consistent with the content of every public communication major steering decision FB has made to date. He is truly the embodiment of lawful evil.
Is owner of the server playing some tricks, when I tried that URL on Firefox Focus on my phone, it is just the text and I believe what parent wanted to submit, but indeed it looks fishy, I got 403 when tried to see what the redirect was using curl.

What did showed for you?
Uber will exit the Colombian market on January 31st
When talking about electrek kickbacks you should always start with half a $million in roadsters https://electrek.co/2019/01/17/tesla-roadster-free-killed-re...
I don't think the 2016 election is a good analogy, as both candidates had their share of skeletons in the closet, with the non-winning party arguably having skeletons that were more of a national security risk than a cultural one. People seem to conveniently forget this fact though.
Probably a large factor.
No company would ever do that, right? Especially a social media company. Clearly there would be public outrage and their stock would plummet.
>Have you ever asked an Uber driver how they feel about the law?

I literally do not care about their opinion. I believe how Uber acts is bad for a society to let continue. The Uber drivers may be getting a good deal for themselves, but I think it has negative externalities that they themselves don't care about.

Someone may be fine getting abused, or it may even be the best deal they personally can get at the moment. When we watch it happen and let it happen we are implicitly condoning the behavior which leads to others to act just as bad or worse.

You are not going to change my mind on this by trying to convince me that the drivers don't want it, I already believe you and it is not influencing my decision
> how unethical it is for media to sell sponsored content intermixed and indistinguishable from their own content

Some forms of media advertisements are unethical, you say?
> One of their most longtime, loyal leaders is directly saying they have the power to sway national elections. It is their decision, and their decision alone, to resist the temptation to "change the outcome"!

Oh, he better be careful. That’s pretty close to pushing a right-wing talking point /s

Facebook, etc.. Is no different in its power to influence elections than traditional news papers ever have been. The only difference is a matter of scale and homogeny. Today, instead of thousands of media publications, each pushing their own biases and perspectives (which they always have), you have a very small group of tech giants that get to decide what you see (and even more frighteningly), what you’re allowed to say about it. Sure there’s more media outlets today than there’s ever been, but a small handful of companies get to control their reach, and (again more frighteningly) their ability to collect revenue.

Then you have the issue that traditional media has always represented a diverse set of opinions and world views. You have conservative and liberal outlets, outlets the promote free market ideas and those that promote socialist ideas, outlets that promote regulation and those that promote small government. The small number of organisations that control access to ideas and speech today all represent an incredibly homogeneous political world view.

The problem isn’t that those organisations have done a poor job of controlling the flow of information, it’s that they have the ability to do it in the first place. Those companies should not have the ability to act as gatekeepers who determine the credibility of information, or the moral implications of speech. In a free society, that responsibility falls of on the shoulders of every individual, and to have an authority doing that on their behalf denies them the opportunity to do so themselves.

This is also a matter of values, not constitutional law (as people often like to derail such conversations by claiming regulation would violate 1A). The law that empowers these companies to to moderate content is the Communications Decency Act, not the 1st amendment.
I'm not going to point to one route over another. Frankly, you read as though you could use some time off. But here are a couple of things to take into consideration:

What I see (here and elsewhere. And I've experienced this myself a few years back) is that people tend to focus on the building part. Doubly so when it comes to software, because building something in this context requires hard earned skill that in the grander scheme of things few people have.

Only the building part is not nearly as important as the product-market fit and the marketing parts. And unlike the building part, which involves being independently creative the product-market fit part means spending a lot of time talking to people and iterating based on what they say. Then there's the matter of finding an audience, and marketing is a hard skill in its own right. I have come to the understanding that just as SWEs can figure out a way from input to output, good marketers do the same thing, but in the context of audience acquisition and messaging.

So with either of your options, it's worth thinking about how you plan on doing these parts as well. Whichever setting is more conductive to that kind of work also matters.
This only works on desktop right now but I do want to support other devices in the future.
Moving isn't free, and it can be a burdensome expense. When the housing crisis a lot of people had personal financial issues because divesting from the mortgage they were engaged with and acquiring a more modest property would still involve being taxed on the full value of your house, expenses involved with the mechanics of changing residences, and then somehow affording a down payment on a new place - or else being forced to declare bankruptcy and re-enter the renting market with nothing but fresh income.

The technical concept is that housing is an illiquid asset - there is a friction in converting it to cash, that friction may be monetary (a fee, taxes, a loss of value, sale prices etc...) or it may be time (conversion may simply not be an action that can be executed at will, there may be windows or complex ownership hand-off processes that require weird timing) in the most common cases (including housing) the asset is liquidatable with value generally decrease relative to speed, offloading a property with a fixed window of a month will net you less revenue then having a sale posted for an extended period - having a sale window of a week or less would almost certainly result in a much decreased sale price.
Not a bad write-up but I clicked mostly due to my interest in why this specific song became a meme and the article does little to establish it. Their reasoning boils down to 'it's a relic of a bygone era, it's cheesy', which is kind of weak. I wonder if there's some guy out there who did the first proper Rickroll on 4chan and he's the one who kickstarted Astley's career resurgence.

That said, Astley totally deserves some popularity, he seems like a genuinely nice guy and he recently posted a video of him doing some growling vocals on Reddit. [0] That really made my day and it's nice to see a man have fun with the fame he got because of a really weird set of circumstances.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/edd4vz/love_you_redd...
I thought this was going to be one of the otherwise-plaintext black and white web pages with <h1>NO.</> centered in the middle, but interestingly it's actual research, and a nice read (even if nothing new) at that.
> The FTC enforces truth-in-advertising laws on ads across all mediums.

Hahahahahahaha yeah sure they do.
It seems that it was only now revealed that Neil had been battling brain cancer over the last 3 years. He had always valued keeping his private life separate from his public persona.
Stratis and VDO have a lot of promise, although it's still a little early. The approach that Stratis has taken is refreshing. It's very simple and reuses lots of already existing stuff so by the time it's released it will already be mature (since the underlying code has been running for many years).

Once a little more guidance comes out about how to properly use VDO and Stratis together, I'll move my personal stuff to it.
Because they pay the bills.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, I hadn't heard of this before and found it quite amusing as well as somewhat relevant to the topic, although a blanket statement providing not much value.

My vote would just be not to vote (neutral). There is certainly more (in)appropriate stuff to downvote.
I think at some point goolge used SMS 2FA as a sole factor in account recovery. So there, you really were worse off with SMS 2FA enabled.
They make a good counter-example to the point of playing a different game. If you want to get rich, there are other ways to get there without having the worry about the attractiveness factor.
Because so much of their wealth are denominated in US equities. If your stocks are in the NY stock exchange, you can’t move them beyond the US government’s reach.
I would also like to see a screenshot/video gallery to get a feel for this platform, but I think you've probably gotten the message by now. Instead I'll throw a couple more questions your way:

Are you prepared for the incoming wave of DMCA takedown requests if this proves to be popular?

If someone spends the time to create content for this platform, how can they be sure that it won't shut down next week?

Can players create private content, such as for a D&D campaign?

If a player starts using content created by someone else, and it gets taken down for either copyright or because the author removed it, can that player continue to use that content?

In fact, can an author remove content at all?

Is there a system in place where the legitimate owner of an IP can create content for this platform and monetize it in some way? Tabletop Simulator may be a den of piracy[0] but there are some games for sale there as well: https://www.tabletopsimulator.com/games

[0]: Ignoring that some number of users own the physical game and are merely playing with friends who are not in the area. Legally it might be piracy (IANAL), but ethically there's some discussion to be had there.
That's assuming someone hasn't already gone and taken out whatever proof there was from his island. There have been drone footage taken by people showing how things were taken from his mansion.

https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/08/13/computer-r...
Well if that's the case they could still offer true MFA. Make at least SMS 2FA mandatory but offer OTP/token based MFA.

Obviously banks are a place with a lot of low-value targets and a few very high-value targets, but the cost to implement MFA is the same so they might as well do it.
Probably not what you're thinking, but I always thought that a sort of dedicated pager for old/infirm people would be useful. Picture something about the size of a sheet of paper that could be stuck to a refrigerator or something. Always on, and maybe with a soft chime when a message comes in.

The idea is that you could (say) send your aging mom occasional unobtrusive messages. Big letters would help. And they could do likewise, via some sort of keyboard.

Needs to be drop-dead simple. If it's cheap enough, maybe no "addressing" at all--the messages always go to a single correspondent.

My aging parents can no longer deal with texting or email. Even voicemail has become too much.
For anyone who doesn't detect the sarcasm or is unfamiliar:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your...