skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is likely based on an Offline Conversion which advertisers can bulk upload to FB
Apparently Blind made the list. So much for 'anonymous'
But natural populations of mosquitoes probably number in millions/billions and the don't have the mutation.

How can you release a handful of lab mosquitoes into the wild and reduce the population by 90%?

Shouldn't only their descendants die?
Intel Engineer: Much Left to Solve Before Cloud and Edge Can Become One
Rajorpay customer support is pathetic. I tried to open an account with them and their replies are automatic emails.
"just must log in to read this"

Can someone please share it?
> When I was young, stuff didn't just work. I could tell by the sound of my dial up modem whether it would successfully connect. I could modify the registry to fix problems, I could put more RAM in my PC if it became too slow and it would take hours to reinstall Windows.

And that's why people flat out didn't use them. You had tinkerers and non-users (which were the vast majority, as people conveniently forget :-) ).
I could imagine some app (background service? Unsure) iterating through available devices and the OS or system services being a bit too eager to initialize devices upon iteration.

(Not saying that's what happened, but I can easily hypothesize a scenario where this only happens after a while, after some specific app is installed or configured.)
What's a James Bond shower?
Fair enough, communication could indeed be improved. NAL but I was under the impression that, while they could surely be more helpful here, once they received that official DMCA takedown notice they don't really have a choice in the matter of taking it down or not.

Edit: disabling the repository after being notified by you within 24 hours seems to be against their own policy at https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/dmca-takedown-... - have you tried contacting their support again?
Prepare to be banned here. You can't say anything bad about anything even remotely related to women in this safe space powered by Silicon Valley™.
Which countries is it available for? Are you compliant with all the complex and sometimes tiresome regulations on cross border transfers?
A lot of these were expected? Still good to see it now as fact. I have jokingly made the prediction on in 2016 that Apple will reach 1B iPhone User by 2020, turns out we are very close judging from the 1.5B Active Base.

iPhone in Japan - For those not aware iPhone has 80%+ Market Share in Japan ( Usage, not Sales ). And majority of iPhone user prefer smaller handset, that is the iPhone 4.7" or smaller like the iPhone SE size. So Apple hasn't really had any update for that market in 2019. Another point was Japan has passed a law that ban the subsidise phone selling with carriers. Making the cost of iPhone higher. Face ID is also not as well liked comparatively speaking, so replacement cycle are longer.

But Mac not so Good. I only posted this yesterday[1].
Basically more Mac users are leaving the platform. The Churn rate is possibly the highest in the past 10 years. I am not sure if this is because casual users are generally leaving the PC platform as a whole, or they are leaving to Windows or Linux.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22170080
Why would it not be the case? The important thing to report to investors is the financials. The last thing you want to do as a company is advertise to your competitors exactly which of your products are failing and which are succeeding. Also, it would be insane if companies had to report "Unit sales" do they have to report iPhone 7/8/9/X? Or 7/8/9/X + different colours? How about X vs X+? Do you need to know iPhone X+ White 64GB sales?
I use Firefox Containers to limit and logged in FB activity to that & never log in using FB other than FB website itself. I have no FB apps (including WhatsApp).

I've been running uMatrix for a few months.

My firefox tracking-prevention (similar to EFF's one, but probably not as good) is always using maximum privacy settings.

I still have a few sites appear... AND for websites I've never even visited (that I'm aware of, & I'm the only user of this machine)

There seems to be some serious fingerprinting going on, more than simple cookies.
Quote from the movie summary: "In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes."

So they were all humans, just not all at the same technological/cultural level.
It is also called Scottish shower : start the shower with warm water, and finish with cold water
I don't recall seeing significant locking in the stack samples, just that the scanning happens synchronously during some IO (e.g. closing file handles) and >90% of the CPU cycles are spent on defender. Which effectively boils down to a task that should be IO-bound becoming bottlenecked by waiting on defender.
Fixed. Thanks for the feedback
The reason you couldn't delete the blob, is because someone forked your repository and GitHub uses git alternates for deduplication of fork networks.

I think you could ask GitHub if you can recreate your repository without the offending blob, and you should be good again.
> the demo gif doesn't display for me in Safari

It's actually an incorrectly named .webp file that's why.
You might not want to disable this completely, because it can be a useful tool to identify data leaks (similar to Troy Hunt's haveibeenpwned.com).

My off-Facebook activity had zero entries and I want to keep it that way. If they ever associate something with me I want to be alerted to the fact.
Executive decisions without boardroom shenanigans I like it!
Should be fixed soon, Good catch :)
The special syntax has clear readability advantages when using join's or let's or multiple from's. For simpler queries, I agree the regular method chaining syntax is clearer.
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There are tons of things that the average person doesn't know in this age of specialization:

* How to build a sturdy shelter

* How to hunt

* How to trap

* How to forage without poisoning yourself

* How to plow a field

* How to build a plow

* How to sharpen a knife

* How to forge a knife

* How to grow crops (planting seasons, pests, enclosures, blight, etc)
Thank you for creating this project!

I share your interest in creating graphs (vide some older project of mine, a map of Stack Exchange tags https://p.migdal.pl/tagoverflow/).

When I dived into various visualization of Subreddits (as a background reading for this side-project https://observablehq.com/@stared/tree-of-reddit-sex-life), your vis was the best for exploration (out of many, many). The only other one that I found and this level was a Sigma.js-based https://www.jacobsilterra.com/subreddit_map/network/ (beautiful, but more static).
Catalina on test USB disk for me has been terrible; same hardware with internal disk running High Sierra = no problems.

Very bad OS release in my opinion, and poorly handled transition (eg. secret partitions, unwritable root partitions, security popups everywhere and for every activity). I am not using it because I want to work, not wrestle with the OS. IMHO they lost that feeling in Catalina.
The decision to not build the billing system first, or at all, is what separated the internet from telco culture.

Note that any billing system is also necessarily a surveillance system - someone has to keep the billing information and know who their customers are. The fight is ongoing as to whether cryptocurrency might change this, but you have to accept that any system which allows very large scale money laundering is not going to be tolerated, which puts an upper limit on how successful that project is going to be.

And a billing system doesn't save you from adverts or selling customer information; US cable TV shows that.
>everyone will always be happy, and happily consume

That's not how it works, if you are always happy you don't need to consume. What supports consumerism is a constant chase - "I need this to be happy" and big enough amount of goals to keep one busy for more than a lifetime so that torch will be passed to the next generation.
There are some parallels to Stoic philosophy there. Ancient stoics would exercise regularly but state the health effect as a secondary benefit, the primary benefit being the virtuous exercise of discipline.
this is so sick! finally an easy way to find some new subreddits. thanks!
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My wife has to leave the room when I am working because she can't stand the noise on this 2017 MBP. 2012 MBP is no problem to her.
Well they said, I had 24 hours to remove the offending item according to the "remove sensitive data" link which I abided in a matter of a few minutes. They still took down the repo - that is the problem, not sending the notice.

"We're giving you 24 hours to make the changes identified in the following notice:

https://github.zendesk.com/attachments/token/BqByLyvvRzOAmVy...

If you need to remove specific content from your repository, simply making the repository private or deleting it via a commit won't resolve the alleged infringement. Instead, you must follow these instructions to remove the content from your repository's history, even if you don't think it's sensitive:

https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data
Several years ago, I very don't like the way and the pace C++ introduces new features. But now the way and pace has become normal, I change my mind some. I think it is the time I should re-use C++ for some projects. It would be some restricted if these projects are written in Go, for lacking of some key features.
> Secondly, with stripe elements it can be styled into the website much nicer than PayPal buttons.

Seriously, does anybody care about the style used on a website when making a payment?

Also, as a user, I'd rather see a single consistent style so I have some confirmation about what bank I'm dealing with.
Damn this is a cool product. Bookmarking for future use.
Seems like most of my data they got from apps on my Android phone, there was even an app that I just installed, opened and uninstalled in less then a minute without even logging in or anything.

How can I block them in the future?
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Interesting name. :) I worked on developing compact models for the first few years of my employment at NXP Semiconductors, which is (for me, at least) the top result of a Google search for "compact models", defining them as "mathematical descriptions of semiconductor devices used in analog circuit simulators".
Underwater robot reveals hidden base of Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier
Tinc as a manger of a mesh of Wireguard connections would be incredible.
Mine had exactly one entry. And I won’t be doing business with that company anymore. No way am I disabling this. It’s too useful.
Sometimes the data is an image of your face and you don't want it to be used for any algorithm, regardless it has your name associated to it or not
This is essentially what I did using bfg tool. They still took it down.

https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/r...
All the people generated seem to be females with Anglo/Western names.
Thank you all for your feedback!

Regarding the website issues - I'm working on an updated version and I'll try to address all the problems you mentioned.

As for the name - I agree with you, it's been a poor choice, I didn't do much research on it before publishing, mea culpa.

Apart from this,
- Do you find the actual application useful?
- Would you consider using it in your everyday work?
As an EU "customer" I'm rather surprised by this. There are services that I've signed up to since GDPR came into effect which I didn't get explicitly consent to do this. For example my business bank. Why would I give them permission to share data with my personal Facebook account? I will be digging into this more.
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> This post is a generalization and a subjective rant that absolutely doesn't hold up in real life.

The generalization expressed in the long rant completely describes my teenagers. They can tap a screen like an elite ninja warrior but have no idea what to do with a physical keyboard. When the touch screen goes away they are hopelessly lost.
This one seems to be doing a worse job. Compare what I'm getting for /r/longevity:

https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/longevity

vs

https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=longevity
I hate the touchbar MBP I have for work. The touchbar turns off when you don't use the keyboard, so if you are thinking whilst staring at some debugged code and want to step into/continue the code, where have the function keys gone??? Oh they've completely disappeared and I need to press a key eg. ctrl to get them to appear again. Drives me insane a thousand times a day.

The battery percentage hops up/down by a few percent when it is low, eg. 7%, 10%, 9%, 7%, 4% ALERT ALERT ALERT. I would replace the battery in it, but I can't......

I do not have this problem on my 2012. Also, on my 2012 I know how much battery life I left without having to turn the thing on. Nor do I need dongles.

Plus I am not deafened by the keyboard on the 2012.

Speakers on the touchbar MBP are good though! That's the only thing I can say about it.
Requires-Expression (C++)
That one surprised me as well.
"Are your parents proud of what you do for a living?" is quite effective.
If Google and Facebook is ready to "show" these data, I wonder what and how much data they are hiding.
Charlie Lieber is the head of the fucking Harvard Chemistry department. He's not lacking in prestige or pay, I guarantee you that.
> I am no Trump bigot

....but let me regurgitate biggoted trumpist talking points which paint me as some sort of victim to the somehow oppressing women.

RES on firefox works perfectly well for me, if twoXchromosome of all subs bothers you on /r/all just try harder to get it working.
It was an all around awesome read, thank you for that find. I believe articles like this often just get overlooked because of timing or other factors.

Tragic that he lost his company, but at least he got the artistic recognition. Sadly, Vinton died in the meantime.
Hi, I normally use Google Keep for this. Is the latest macOS really required for your app?
I'm a simple employee with some management duties, it's small company (20p), I estimate my wage to be on the low end of the local market (french, not in the capital), but the position is quiet unusual so it's difficult to compare.

At the beginning there was only vague goals, not estimates, now 4y later I can tell how much days a functionality will take within a 30% margin error. But it's only based on personal appreciation, tightly coupled to having personally designed the new arch from the start.

The migration strategy that I chose was to hijack the sales activity and pick which new projects should go on the new version. That way we can stay away from replacing years of specific functionalities for picky customers until we have a good idea of how much the business module is ready for prime-time.

I should definitely write a book, there's so much to say - maybe in 2020! :)
Nice try with the: "You are currently {random} in the queue."
Facebook’s Fake Numbers Problem
It's a page for people with an account at FB that lists the 3rd party websites that have given information to FB.

> Off-Facebook activity includes information that businesses and organisations share with us about your interactions with them, such as visiting their apps or websites.

It's creepy.

> We receive more details and activity than what appears here. For technical and accuracy reasons, this list doesn't show all of the activity that we've received. Activity that is not shown includes information that we've received when you're not logged in to Facebook, or when we can't confirm that you've previously used Facebook on that device. It also includes details such as the item that you added to your shopping basket.
The special syntax is called "query syntax". LINQ is the whole set of features including the IEnumerable<T> extension methods, expression trees and so on.
You’re being downvoted for disagreeing when GP says “Ars and Wired are garbage media, you should instead trust this post _from Ross’s own website_ as the truth”. Come on HN
A Warehouse Robot Learns to Sort Out the Tricky Stuff
How do you deal with summers when the water temperature goes up? Do you notice that the benefits are less then?
Why do you need to be forcefully locked out? From what you wrote, you seem capable enough to... put the device down and avoid touching it.
Tech startups are getting involved in the funeral business
This is more of a deepfake for text chat than any kind of useful tool.

That said, it's still pretty cool how far you can get with just trying to context match a reply based on previously recorded conversations. It's obviously not far from being able to fool a human at a quick glance, whatever the use cases are. Perhaps an updated Lenny[1]?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
While waiting for your interesting blog post, I have a few questions if you don't mind :-) :

So your setup is:
* GCP Instance (i.e. VM on the Google infrastructure).
- Traefik running on this instance.

* GCP conntected to Wireguard
=> Is Wireguard run on a router/firewall, or directly
on the DB, HTTP servers? If router, would be
interesting to know which type of router?

* Behind Wireguard: Two servers (DB and HTTP) + Laptop

* You SSH to the two Servers (directly or via the GCP?)

Thanks! :-)
Does this project do any of that?
Is there a way to implement a mesh using only the public IP addresses?
The completely correct guide to eating and drinking on a plane
This seems like a fairly gentle introduction. I will definitely consider it as a starting point for more junior developers interested in touching our Rust code.

For those with more experience, Rust By Example walks through the same concepts in a more compact form that also lets you experiment with the code in your browser: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/index.html
A single gesture from one side of the screen, in the style of the Windows 8 charms? A set of buttons (side-by-side, floating, switch foreground/background floating etc).

Or put it on the dock. One gesture to learn - show the dock, multitasking actions.
Yep! That's the idea! :) Via RSS feeds + keywords.
Presumably it's the backend side of an ecommerce setup, where you provide an API around which others can implement a UI.
Show HN: Flash for Gmail (superhuman like command panel)
I think that's a good analogy. I do occasionally spend a bit more for something a bit nicer. In this case, I guess my confusion is more a matter of degree. Would I trade in my iPad 3 for basically the same use but just very smooth? I haven't found myself remembering the times when I used my iPad $1k more, but I do remember the sort of magical feeling I got when playing around with it for the first time. The mac is a similar comparison. Now that all macs have great SSDs and great screens, what would it take for me to upgrade? Stands to reason that I'd more likely run into a real performance wall, so that extra 16gb of ram might make me switch, but the last few times it was because 1) stolen 2) numerous hardware failures 3) Upgraded from 2009 mbp because it couldn't effectively play 1080p video, the graphics card was failing, and the retina screen.
Who said these 3 books should be read in succession?
I once heard (maybe on a podcast) that these three books should be read in succession, but can't find the claim anywhere.

- Crossing the Chasm
- The Innovator's Dilemma
- Behind the Cloud

Hope someone can help me out
Did it work? :)
Nitpick: "the winner writes the history" is an important part of studying history whether written or oral. People who write books or repeat old stories have biases, opions on how world works and open agendas. They leave out stuff they think dont matter or crosses taboos or does not make people look like as they are supposed to. Just as contemporary people lie, especially politicians and leadership, ancient civilizations discovered advantages of bending the truth or lying too.

Being aware of that and being aware of point of view is important part of historical work.
Ask HN: What are the best support groups you know? Networking events? Podcasts?
Wanting to study their approach, website, branding, what's working vs what's could be better.

Helping some friends with a passion project that combines a podcast with events and a support system. It's gotten pretty big in just 8 months but I see an opportunity to make it much better.

The focus is on fitness, finance, mindset, and relationships but they are exploring other areas like travel and creativity too. I am serving as the Creative Director and Web Developer.
Nice, glad to know there's other brave souls that choose the Big Rewrite path, despite the latent idea in our industry that every one of those projects are meant to fail.
Hey all,
We just went live to Chrome Store with https://helpninja.com/flash/
Cmd/Ctrl + k to get your job done inside Gmail. The idea is to increase productivity and not remember shortcuts.
We are also thinking to bring this to Trello, Asana, etc. Do you think a need is present in these apps?
I would love all insightful feedback on this from this awesome community.
Hmm. I have no website activity listed - but seemingly every single Android game and a few other apps is sending "activity" to FB, despite me never using any feature to associate the two. This sounds like: https://privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-androi...

Any sensible way of stopping this?
If you're concerned about that, wait a minute. I can't find any discussion of the scam online, but I would hazard a guess that this isn't really an attack vector these days.
At the same time it's being used for https://realpython.com which has millions of monthly views and an unknown (but likely high) amount of developers paying for their subscription through Paddle.

If you want to hear a success story about it, we talked about it when Dan (the guy who runs Real Python) went over his entire tech stack on this podcast: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one...

36:36 is when the Paddle bits starts.

Did you have a bad experience with it? If so, how long ago was that? I was thinking about using it on a future project.