skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thesis is that smart phones ruined the internet with the rise of Apps and a different, less text-based interaction with the internet.

In general, I think we would all be better off if phones just supported calling and texting.
Brooks Brothers Says It Will Manufacture 150k Masks per Day
Sure but I meant in the general sense. Even if they are mostly corporate bookings it's not great for a company if their employees personal details are there for the easy taking. Company's can and do change travel their travel policies as well.
Very cool! We support the ability for app and web developers to enable a mode like this using our shutdown (https://developer.fullstory.com/stop-recording) and restart (https://developer.fullstory.com/restart-recording) APIs.

The documentation doesn't specify this (yet), but no data leaves the device if recording is shut down.
I mute the mic and mash the keypad until the other end disconnects, no matter how long that takes. I find I get far fewer such calls than I did when I started, and the occasional hopelessly snarled-up IVR system is a nice bonus.
There's no backup floating around online, cached somewhere? Like waybackmachine?
Yeah, but that's a long term kind of decision-making and market pressure that, as I said, really only works in a steady state environment.

Right now Amazon needs to worry that if they offer this, everyone will take off sick out of fear. They have to worry that if that happens that it won't happen to Walmart, who didn't offer the benefit. There isn't time for a feedback cycle to work, they're worried about losing a years worth of revenue right now.

You just can't trust an employer's self interest to align with ours at moments like this, for the same reason you can't trust our own self interests to align (c.f. people working when they're sick because they need the money, or sick new yorkers fleeing to other states -- both decisions made in immediate self interest).
I'd noticed that initial silence thing as well, but mostly because I answer and speak immediately. The spammers generally have a lag on their software and connect shortly after my greeting. Then while I'm waiting in silence, they've missed that sign of life and sit there doing nothing.
Possibly a Zoom background?
Way more than 10 years. I saw a pretty in-depth demonstration on using this sort of spoofing for social engineering at H2K2, the 2600 HOPE conference in way back in 2002.
There's a bunch of reasons why the US is targetted by spam callers.

a) it's a large market with a large penetration of internationally chargable credit cards. Several countries in the EU have their own payment systems including a bunch on a push model --- it's hard to scam germans over the phone because it's going to be hard to get them to send you funds without a german bank account; and if you have a german bank account, that's going to get you caught. Everywhere can process US visa and mastercard though.

b) large community that can be addressed with a single language; yes, there's a lot of people who would prefer another language, but they can probably be scammed in English (Although, with a bay area number I do get a good amount of scam calls in Chinese).

c) last, but probably most important; outbound calls to the US are incredibly cheap, as long as the number is not in Alaska. It's easy to find retail voip offers for less than 1 cent per minute to US numbers; and it doesn't matter if it's a landline or a cell phone. Calls to most EU mobile phones are at least 10 cents, but many countries are closer to 30 cents. That adds up quickly.
This point is so straightforward that at some point your inability to acknowledge it will become willful. It is simple:

People expect to find their acquaintances to talk to in a messaging application.

Most messaging applications solve this problem by keeping a serverside contact database. You see the same thing with Signal's competitors.

Signal refuses to keep that database, because it is practically as valuable to adversaries as message plaintext.

So, instead of having users register handles and maintaining a database, Signal uses phone numbers --- like the most popular messaging applications, including WhatsApp, iMessage, and SMS --- so that it can take advantage of contact databases users have locally and not need to store a contact directory globally.

"Just letting people discover each other some other way" doesn't work, and PGP is a good example of why: the "other way" PGP came up with is (wait for it) a global directory of key metadata.

You are free to disagree with the tradeoff Signal made here. What you cannot reasonably do is suggest that there was no tradeoff, or that their use of phone numbers is somehow obviously flawed and privacy-hostile. It is, as I said, the opposite: phone numbers are an instance where Signal sacrificed uptake and UX in favor of privacy, because they do not care what random people on message boards have to say about their decisions as much as they care about the fact that they're the world's most important and effective secure messaging design.
Funnily enough, they're two different Latin word elements. Simplified, there's the "down" de-, as in "destroy," and the "undo" de-, like "defrost." The "undo" de- is also the "not" de- and the "away" de-, related to dis- ("disallow", "discard").
Whoops, yep. Should be million, not thousand. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

Sorry about that :(
The funny thing is I never book mark. Most of the sites I visit I just remember the URL. On rare occasions when I can’t remember the URL, I’ll search for in on Google. Like most people, I use Google a lot when I’m looking for things I don’t already know, but not when going to my commonly used sites. In the early 2000s I developed a website for a local public radio station. One thing it thought me was the usefulness of “speakable URLs”. Since most pages I built would require someone on the air speaking the url, they had to be short and distinctive, easy to say, and easy to remember (since the listener wouldn’t be taking notes, they had to remember it long enough to get to a computer and type it in). That got me in the habit of just remembering the URL, which I still do to this day.
The government doesn't pay for anything. Taxpayers do.

Now I'm not against taxpayers paying for something so long as all taxpayers pay for that thing that everyone enjoys. What isn't right is when someone votes for a tax they won't feel the burden of.

Everyone who gets the benefit should also have skin in the game to pay for that benefit.
Unspecified values are constant (since they are values), just unspecified. This behaviour is only permitted because reading uninitialised memory is UB; you won't see the same thing if x is an unspecified value.
Amd what are those things Europeans don't really want to hear?
In the US we get a fair amount of spam calls originating from India. So an english speaking country would be their target.
And here I was making fun of the Swordfish hack scene [1]. Turns out he was just assembling the crypto algorithm using vim.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY
I consider both kinds of comments to be low-quality, and yes Hacker News has both. But the really nice comments aren’t just straightforward praise or criticism.
Conies, while they aren't a 'meat breed' and don't have much meat on them are delicious. My dog agrees. According to her, the head is the tastiest part.
The internet is not ruined just because Google sucks.
I don't have much to add to all of the other YC-related information out there - I think having a cofounder is generally a good thing, but not every company we fund does.
Personally I am not sure. I am not that productive working 100% remote. I like flexibility but I like being in an office that is not in my house.
Through Clenched Teeth: The cold, frenzied genius of Kleist
The SVG works fine in jsfiddle, which eventually led me to find https://stackoverflow.com/a/53717429 talking about 'animation' (which your SVG seems to mention, and I don't see a dur= property which GitHub does seem to support.)
Is this just a smaller, sketchier Lending Club?
Thanks for sharing. This is awesome-
Utter nonsense.

Buying a burger is an independent transaction. Buying a Big Mac one day doesn't make you less likely to buy a Whopper the next.

Buying a phone is an investment that locks you into that ecosystem for ~2 years (until you buy a new one), and once that time comes, both ecosystems encourage you to stick with your existing choice via purchase transfers, exclusives, and (more) seamless data transfers.

Your comparison would only make sense in a world where McD and BK competed by lacing their burgers with different drugs to get you chemically addicted.

Fuck Apple, fuck Google, and fuck Tim Cook in particular. This is fucking depressing, and almost makes COVID seem appealing. At least it would take your mind off this bullshit for a while.
Hmm, I see. What are they selling?
Google Trends suggests Covid-19 already peaked between March 15-21
Counter-counterpoint would be, Apple becomes a customer of the API, and then someone else (Google, Facebook, whoever) buys Dark Sky and Apple has to scramble.

I'm bitter too, I build my own local/remote weather station at home (several Raspberry Pi's, an Arduino with a custom shield, and 15k lines of Python), which uses Dark Sky's API as one of its data sources. This means I have a year or so to find a new data source and rewrite a bunch of code (and no source is going to give me exactly the same data from the same sensors, so my 3-4 years of historical data is going to have a definite before/after cutoff in it).
I consider that tying myself in knots. On my Samsung I just copy the files over and play them

Privacy and openness are two independent, orthogonal concepts. I agree Apple has a better overall story on privacy but I care more about openness, especially in the current political climate.
> "People mostly aren't talking about how to design gig platforms well to benefit the workers."

that's not entirely true, although certainly under-considered. for instance, the freelancer's union [0] is concerned with worker rights and pay. my last startup (now defunct) also focused on this problem. so there are people who care, but it's difficult to get capitalholders to care.

[0] https://www.freelancersunion.org/
Must not do much CAD
So again, I don't really have a provable basis for this, but I don't want to give positive proof that they've reached a live human. I feel like that's a recipe for getting continually called.
> So the answer is yes? Companies should strive to be 50/50 men and women tech roles even though the ratio in the workforce is 80/20?

The answer is: "No, I do not see the obvious circular logic." The tech sector is 80/20 due to hiring bias in the population that defines the workplace demographic. It could be 0% women and your fallacious argument would still conveniently hold.

And you follow that up with quotes of ...yourself. And commentary on your self-quoting. You don't seem to get that it's not that I don't comprehend your premise. It's that your premise, and by extension you, are being reprehensible and racist. You do not seem to understand that saying racist things is racist. And that you are racist. And reprehensible. For being so racist.
Nice! A trick from Wolfenstein 3D to improve the look is to give all the north-south walls a lighter colour, and all the east-west walls a darker colour.
you’re not supposed to make the money last, you’re supposed to raise a seed round in 3 months or die
I think T-Mobile only does this for postpaid users though. Prepaid users are excluded AFAIK.
Also interesting about that photo: Five of the 25 have portrait-oriented video feeds. Tbh this may make more sense for this kind of thing (shows more of the person rather than more of the space they're in) but I'm thinking about the hardware—am I correct in inferring that those five are zooming from their mobile? Do high-level UK cabinet ministers not have laptops?
It's the latest spin on the "herd immunity" meme.
Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For
Seems author took down their blog post.

> had to remove this again, because my random rants keep trending on hackernews, and really don’t have the time to write quality blog posts.

Would love it if he at-least left a non-emotional summary.
I follow this one every few weeks. I put a bit more salt than he recommends. This is the most no-fuss recipe I've encountered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX_6l2bmvQI
I've been driving for 40 years. I totally agree with you. Old school controls you can operate reflexively. Often with barely any conscious thought. Your brain adapts to treat the car an an extension of your body.

That simply does not happen with modal controls.
I miss the cube with the workspaces on it. I actually think it was helpful for remembering which stuff was on which one.
Ughh, you sure sound like someone who knows a lot about the place.

Yikes.
What people don't like to admit is that Google, YouTube, Reddit and Facebook all prioritize market share above some odd gatekeeping ideal that people have decided an idealized internet should be. They've turned it into a MacDonald's instead of a Tavern on the Green, because that's what most people find accessable even though it's worse in almost every way. But, Tavern on the Green could not serve the same number of people or make the same amount of money as MacDonald's. You can't always scale up a BBS to serve 2.5 billion people and expect it to have the same charm and not expect companies to charge for services to getting results. Dial up services and bulletin boards had their charms, but this internet is way better =)
Oh yeah it looks like the number I found was for the island not the country.
My girlfriend worked at Macys. She was paid $14hr to do white collar admin work and was in a "union". Each month we would walk a few blocks away downtown to a small office. This is where we paid "dues". We couldn't pay online or have it deduct from her check. The person we handed our check to would just roll their eyes and throw her check into a pile of checks. She couldn't afford these dues. The best part? You were required to be in the union.

The union helped Macys layoff thousands of workers including her with no severance in a nice streamlined fashion. I am wrong, but this is what I learned: Unions are basically fat cat organizations that leach hard working people.
I've seen the same thing. Most recently at a trade show.

That said unions help more than they hurt, in my opinion. It's also pointless to paint all unions with the same brush like that, you worked with a group of people that had bad management. That's can happen in any organization, not just unions.

Not they're not all great all the time but I think the Hollywood unions are something we as tech workers could model ourselves after. You still negotiate your own salary and such but certain benefits like pension/retirement/healthcare (which are great at scale but hurt employers and employees at smaller businesses) can be amalgamated across the membership.

Like for example just a couple years ago the writers unions got into a spat with their agents over double dipping with production companies and not representing the interests of their clients. That kind of bargaining power can be wielded to fix institutional problems across an industry, but it doesn't have to come at the cost of individual gains - the writers still negotiate their own compensation and sign their own deals.

Unions can be a great way for industries to self regulate imo.
You're spot on. But really... all people are basically the same. And like Google, they're incentivized by the system to be horrible to each other and/or horrible to the environment. I think people all have a choice. But I think the good choices are really hard to make when you're only surrounded by bad choices.
Nobody's saying that either.

Apple has a pattern of purchasing companies that already offer products on other platforms and immediately shutting all non-iOS products down.

Obviously, they're free to run their business however they want, but it's also understandable that fans of those products might be upset that their app (or APIs that power other apps they enjoy) are no longer available simply because Apple did "their usual thing". Many companies (including Apple in rare cases) maintain or even develop codebases for applications across more than one platform.

There's nothing wrong with Apple buying companies to shut them down. It just sucks for the end-users who no longer get to use those companies' products for the sole reason of "they got bought by Apple".
Man I wonder what happened to cause that term to be selected.
Mass-Energy Equivalence Derivation
They had me at: Register Now, Add Funds, Get Profit. I can't give them my money fast enough....

Sounds like loan repayments (ie principal + interest) are suspended indefinitely. This is the risk you take when you are expecting a 10+% return on property dev and payday loan investments.
> The team of Grupeer has been working with legal experts on finding solutions acceptable to all parties involved.

It looks ugly.
> I support the author here. There was a promise of a marketplace of ideas, making the world a better place, that being interconnected would make the world smarter and democratize knowledge. All that may be true, it may be out there, but it's damn hard to find.

There was never any such promise, no contract signed in blood. It was just the wishful thinking of a group of people sharing a particular political persuasion. Just because a monocultural group of pioneers who are all radical thinkers (But not too radical) build something, doesn't mean that the people moving into what they build are interested in sharing, or even tolerating their idiosyncratic culture or politics.

The web is supposed to be a way to route a bit of information from one computer to another. This is so low-level, and so broad, that it proscribes nothing about the outcome.
Thanks for pointing that out. I've also seen missing "enterprise edition" labels in some MRs and can make a request to GitLab team members not to forget about the enterprise label.
6.5 mag Earthquake in Idaho
6.5 preliminary. Thankfully, it was centered in a mountain range far enough from populated areas to not cause much damage.
Just tried this. GMail was the first link, validating "the Gmail homepage ranks prominently." Also, all the suggestions were gmail (before the search.)

The rest of the results were GM related news/Twitter/links.
The Relief Package Ushers in Trump's Planned Economy
I have been concerned that scihub and libgen could be distributing viruses via 0-days in PDFs.
Human crap: We are demigods of discards
There's a project to do this properly, but integrating this on git itself would be great. it's just a shell script really:

https://github.com/madx/git-identity

It's already on AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-identity-git/
> Would it be a useful language for a python developer to learn

Does he only know python? If so I'd say yes, Nim looks like Python but it's semantics are quite different and it performance a lot better. Also Nim <-> Python interop is nice too.
Besides what eindiran said, your friend could also take a quick peek at: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Nim-for-Python-Programm... and for numerical stuff Nim's ecosystem is quite young for it but people are working hard on it: https://github.com/HugoGranstrom/numericalnim

I'd say go for it!
Another factor is having to keep a larger variety of inventory for mechanical switches, vs a single touch screen SKU standardized across many models.
Malicious behaviour does not inherently make something malware. That said, The work arounds Dropbox used in the past should also be considered shady or malicious, and do not serve as a convincing defense in any way.

Yes, zoom does need the user’s password to complete the install in the scenario described. So why isn’t there a proper installer that behaves like installers on macOS should. Why do they ask for the users password on the behalf of ‘system’?

Oh, and zoom was just busted for sending user data to Facebook (regardless of whether or not you had a Facebook account and without disclosure AFAIK) so I reverse my previous statement. It is malware.
Just add '+' sign before each keyword- seems to be working. I tried a sequence of 10 or so random and made-up words to see if it will find anything.while it returns results, it does it on a shorter search and it also says at the top that no results were found for this query.Then I started removing one keyword at the time and return the search. Eventually it found a matching result and it contains all four words from my query.
wget or other site rippers can just make static content out of it. You can write a script to put a notice/header at the top and host it on nginx .. or an S3 bucket.
I hope that they also realize WHY people are using Dark Sky and keep that.
Looks like the waybackmachine got some of it at least

https://web.archive.org/web/20191212230615/https://wiki.unre...
Maybe I can help? Let's 1:1
This is a first step, make all this stuff able to be traced and authenticated.

Step 2 is to start to put the fraudsters in jail, now we can figure out who they are.

This also means easier blacklisting for the client.
The internet is arguably* terrible today. There are about four websites that most people visit each and every day. And of those four websites, they're most likely owned by one or all of the five largest tech companies.

Before social media, people built their own websites just to put their art out there. Now everything runs through a walled garden, and to your point, it's easier to tweet than to go build a website no one will visit.
Project N95
"We're going to shut down the wiki starting xx/xx."

Don't need to explain, don't need to make a fuss - just announce and move on.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70008jr5...
FYI, a Python list is a very bad stack.
Fair enough. Thank you, again.
Xerox ending hostile takeover bid of HP
Federal prisons will confine inmates to cells for 2 weeks due to coronavirus
I was recently going through digitizing slides my father took when we lived in Nigeria in the mid ‘70s. One thing I noticed was the Kodachrome slides looked perfect—no color fading. Most of the Ektachrome and other E-6 type slides had significantly faded. They were mostly salvageable in Photoshop, but a lot of their color had gone.

Unfortunately Kodachrome will never come back like Ektachrome has. The development process was insanely complex compared to E-6 and it’s unlikely it would be cost effective for anyone to do it.
Surprising Benefits You’ll Get from Keeping A
Personally I just think google is losing to seo because google is playing it too neutral and not opinionated enough. Like facebook, they want decisions to look like math chose the answer, and not people, because they want to deflect accusations of bias. Google would be better if it were more opinionated. I go there because I WANT them to rank results and tell me what they think are the best quality answers.

Google may also be lost in an A/B testing catch 22 feedback loop, where what gets clicked gets elevated, and whats elevated gets clicked. The less straightforward, more clickbait cryptic results get clicked to see what they are.
The result that spells out all the answers might not get
a click at all. Ive noticed in the last year or two wikipedia not even being on the first page of searches it should be the top two or three results for.
Human life is usually too short to care too much and we also get bogged down with stuff like work and family,so all those 'great ideas' quickly turn into distant dreams for many.
Touchscreens are not the only UI problem in recent cars. I have a recent Honda, it suffers from the problem that they decided to make the crucial buttons below the touchscreen touch sensitive (with no tactile feedback). So for eg. if you wipe them should some dirt land on them, you set them all off/on by accident! What's worse, they are glossy, and hard to see with glare. It looks good though and sells cars, I call it "the iPhone" design.