skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL but I thought contracts needed acknowledgement from both parties. Mr software vendor, can you tell me weather or not your company has entered into a "shrink wrap" contract with my client? Or me? Or the honorable judge?
It was surprising that they didn't provide an all-in-one blocking command, leaving everyone to write their own version of the submit(); while(true) { poll(); }.

I will need to add support for .pkg to cover more use cases. (Right now the tool specifically checks the input to be an .app bundle and zips it up for submission.)
"We hear your concerns and frustrations. And we missed an opportunity to give you notice prior to the Wiki page coming down, and for that we apologize.

So why can’t we put a read-only archive online currently? The Wiki, even in it’s read-only state, was presenting security risks, and it was deemed necessary to take it offline.

We still have the data, and as mentioned above, we will work to migrate the top content into various official resources. In the meantime, we’re investigating how we can make this content available, even in a rudimentary way.

Some individuals from the community have already reached out to explore a community-hosted Wiki. We are following up with these folks and are evaluating next steps to see what may be possible here as well. "

Well you always learn new ways to express incompetence. They do know that you can render wikis into static HTML pages?
So rich people in favor of higher taxes are voting against their own interests why?

There are many people that don't see the government as an ATM machine, and think that its role should be limited.
Minor correction on my part:

> For a period of a week, each day mix an equal amount of flour and water by weight. I always use 100g of water and 100g of flour. This is considered 50% hydration.

I meant to say this is 100% hydration (when water and flour are equal parts).
Marriott – User Data Stolen
I'm just glad I'm not alone, sometimes I second guess if I am the problem.

Currently just to get basically workable results I'm finding myself putting "every" "keyword" "in" "quotes" (to make sure they're actually in the result pages at all), the site: modifier to restrict it to real sites, and negative modifiers (-"keyword") to remove some SEO results.

Google used to be "magic" in that it knew what you were thinking, and gave you what you wanted instead of what you asked for. These days it is just page after page of auto-generated results, pages that don't contain anything relevant to your query, or just low quality results.

I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert in Google's search, and I'm sure they're meeting some metric or another, but from my perspective things have gone seriously downhill to the point where I am looking elsewhere.

It used to be THE technical search engine de jure. Now it feels like a search engine you have to hack to get it to work well. Not a good place to be.

PS - I have read, in HN comments (so pure rumor) from self-proclaimed ex-Googlers, that Google's internal culture punishes people for improvements/maintenance to existing products, and that promotions come from developing new products/features. If even semi-accurate might go a long way to explaining why Google Search feels neglected aside from changes which seem to exist to improve their button line/promote sister products.
Like you point out in your second paragraph, some percentage of employees are automatically going to start looking for a new job and treat their 80% salary as a severance package. Being in a competitive job market, this is going to be pretty much every above-average employee at your company. With layoffs the company gets to choose who gets impacted, and the process is immediate rather than drawn-out.

The reality is that too many VC funded companies hire too eagerly and can operate perfectly fine (in some cases better) with a smaller, more focused workforce.

There is no coming back from a major across-the-board paycut, which is why no company chooses that option.

BTW your question is answered in the last paragraph of the article.
I have question to your bug bounty program. What's the best way to reach you?
>> A human calling will wonder what is happening and fill the silence by saying something. A machine will not.

I've encountered robots in the last 6 months that have started with "Hello?" when I didn't say anthing. It tripped up my Turing Test at first, but eventually hit an ALICEBot-like moment that crashed the whole thing down.
I can vouch for problems #0 and #1 but I've never experienced #2.
The '+' operator was deprecated in 2011 [0].

Based on Google’s advanced operator page at one point, the addition of a plus sign to a search termed either prompted the lookup of Google+ pages or a blood type.

'+' was replaced by adding quotes around each search term.

[0] https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/10/googles-plus-opera...
Know of any apps like this that are available for iOS? I loved the old wunderground app's graphs and have been trying to find a replacement for ages...
Probably (Mastercard provides free monitoring of leaked databases: https://mastercardus.idprotectiononline.com/enrollment/embed...) however the service is kinda garbage because they censor it so much that I have no idea what of my data is actually leaked), but from a quick Google search it looks like you've voluntarily given out a lot about yourself anyways. I think most people have and are lulled into a sense of false security simply because no one has a need to target them yet. Sort of like the "I've done nothing illegal so I have nothing to fear" mentality but substitute government with criminals.
Disagree. If the pandemic becomes severe enough that supply chains are significantly disrupted, it may become easier to convince people that reusable materials are better than single-use plastics that are dependent on mass scale manufacturing overseas.
I didn't and funny you'd think Mac userbase is that big
Also known as an MFD, and used for many decades in the aviation industry.

MFDs were pioneered in fighter jets, where the cockpit physical space is extremely limited while the amount of information the pilot has to deal with is far beyond any civilian pilot workload.

MFDs combine the durability of physical controls with the configurability and flexibility of screens, and it's completely beyond me why they are not standard equipment in all cars.
It's a popular scam for that reason.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0204-family-emergency-...
That's the way its always been for me, in the US. That sort of attitude is a failure of trust up there next to spurious drugtesting
As someone who was lucky enough to graduate right into the last recession, I highly empathize with the class of 2020, it is going to be rough for everyone, but especially them. Over a decade later, and only recently have I felt like I was finding my footing career-wise. And now we're all in for another ride.

I barely managed to land a job after graduating, made almost no money, got laid off, and the company collapsed shortly thereafter anyway. One thing missing from this article is that often times these layoffs don't happen in a vacuum — Even I, a fresh grad, knew my employer was in trouble — and that a layoff would be coming, which helped blunt the news when the actual layoff happened. This was only possible because my previous employer was transparent about the situation, and I was already pretty deep into my job search by the time the layoff happened. To this day I am appreciative about that, even if the end result was the same, and it took me a few months to land a great gig after that.

Graduating into a recession + getting laid off so early in my career has irreversibly changed my risk profile, and I refuse to work with a company that isn't transparent about its going concern.
What’s stopping someone from now making a truly great Android weather app? If anything it allows for more competition.
Obviously things are different now. But in a good job market where layoffs are due to the company's underperformance, people spared from the layoff are going to start looking anyway. Lest they're laid off in the (nearly) inevitable next round.
It took a moment to get the zeitgeist connection--one of Cornholio's few intelligible phrases is "I need TP for my bunghole."

Wikipedia used to host a comically erudite page about Cornholio, e.g. studiously noting such discrepancies in his speech such as "my people have no bunghole" / "my people have but one bunghole".
What hardware does it run on?

I looked through the documentation and cannot find what hardware it runs on and how to set it up. The Getting Started for real hardware returns a 404 page: https://doc.redox-os.org/book/real_hardware.html
Penn and Teller are full of it as usual. Glass/metals recycling is perfectly beneficial. Paper recycling is generally beneficial if you can get people to recycle the correct paper. But in situations where paper waste is relatively uniform (such as printer paper in offices, schools, etc.) paper recycling can be very efficient and profitable.

It turns out that plastics recycling (at least at the consumer level) is not that beneficial and probably just an elaborate marketing campaign. If Penn and Teller dug in and did their research and outed plastics recycling as a marketing campaign I would say they are great public intellectuals and forward thinking visionaries. Instead they just recycled (get it?) some long refuted right wing lies about all recycling and thus ensured nobody would take them seriously. And if part of their argument was correct that was completely coincidental.
It's almost like I didn't really care so much about your point, and just wanted to point out that your information was flawed so that it doesn't get repeated elsewhere.
This was my experience too. Perfect in Boston, recently great in Singapore, pretty much useless in Melbourne.

I’d like to know more about their modeling. How much do they need to specialize on region for accurate prediction or data collection? Are varying prediction qualities based on different climates, or is it from bias in data collection?
Agree. This is incredibly cynical. Maybe the author is writing in this way of almost absolutes to get their point across but people are perfectly capable of making consumer choices based on reasons other than or even primarily other than signalling.

(Though in this two-part theory I'm obviously hiding them from myself)
Longer-Run Economic Consequences of Pandemics
I know "me too" is discouraged here but yes I have the same experience (Caldigit TS3+ dock, works great in Mojave). Expensive, yes, but at least now it's down to $250 both at apple as well as amazon.
Ha, I was thinking about building this. I was able to get an order in through periodic refreshing of the delivery time selection page.
I meant it works relatively speaking. To be fair Google meet is usable too, but Zoom does better with huge numbers of participants.

There seems to be a law that states that all messenger apps must be bloated slow junk and must accumulate cruft over time until they turn to mush.
The EULA is the only thing that claims clicking the "I Agree" button means anything other than "press here to install". If you reject the terms of the EULA and press the poorly labeled install button you haven't agreed to anything have you? What if the software company doesnt exist any more? Who is the other party to the so-called agreement?
we are getting close to 10 years since I owned a Mac with an optical drive (and definitely a decade+ since I used an optical drive on my mac very often)
>You can say “I know this is a lot to take in, but you will get through this.”

>Do not tell them they will be fine.

In general, a very good article, but these two lines really seem contradictory. It might intend to mean something else, but in practice it's pretty much doing what is outlined as a "do-not-do-this".

Edit: typos.
We shouldn't interfere in the free market. Those robocalls are just good old American ingenuity.
This sounds like a name for a suite of team collaboration software.
It shouldn't be hard to save a static copy of the actual HTML and replace the dynamic site with that though. Or at least give others enough time to do the same.
I began buying things on Feb 24th. Pulse oximeter, nebulizer, spent some time researching O2 concentrators before concluding too difficult to do supplementary O2 at home. Anyway, even then those things were getting hard to find on Amazon.
Why are you doing damage control?
You can really redefine an existing Java method at runtime? Well TIL!
A coronavirus recession will mean more robots and fewer jobs
Well, actually...

That kinda/sorta was the mandate, until we put a telecom shill in charge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Open_Internet_Order_2010
A lot of people will start talking before they've thought through something, figuring out what they're saying half way. There's been past HN threads getting into how some cultures have small interjections which the speaker generally talks over to collaboratively steer conversation which can have this "floor exchange" occur when the speaker responds to the interruptions with a prompt

I've met some people who think all the way through what they say before speaking. Interrupting generally shuts them up, so one has to learn to not. Important to stop talking & wait for response, double digit silence may be the right call

If you're the latter type, you can help people understand this is your preferred mode of communication by finding a way to non verbally signal that you're thinking. It can be as stupid as pointing a finger aimlessly if you're thinking of a response after half a second of silence, to sign that if the speaker doesn't continue you will eventually bring something up. Thought being put into responses is appreciated in the end
As someone who loves Nim and uses it a lot, I'm a little wary of recommending it as a faster Python. Nim takes from Python its whitespace sensitive syntax, as well as its "batteries included" standard library. But other than that, the two are very different languages with some major philosophical and semantic differences. That said, I much prefer Nim to Python. If you can live without a robust library ecosystem and are interested in a fast, easy to use language, Nim is a great fit.
Why are you so set on obfuscation?
This is the correct answer. Forcing all numbers to be authenticated doesn’t stop scammers from calling you, it just makes it easier for you to make an effective blacklist. (A blacklist around which Apple and Google, etc would be wise to make a good UX.)
I agree with you if (1) it is done gradually as not to cause unintended consequences (2) certain higher value plastics used in long lasting products are not banned and (3) compost-able plastics are allowed. There already are compostable plastics that can easily replace most cheap plastic out there but they are slightly more expensive. If everyone is forced to use compostables instead of cheap throw-away plastic, the compostables would fall in price very quickly.

This is not a technology problem it is a very simple externality problem. We have the technology to solve it it just costs a little more and the people that are creating the problem are not bearing the costs so they do not care.
What are Nim's compile times like? I write a lot of C++, and by far my biggest issue is compile times for large projects. I'd love a systems language that had decent compile times for template-heavy code.
Why is it hard? Video streaming has been a thing for a couple decades. I am genuinely curious.
Contracts don’t have to be negotiable.

https://legaldictionary.net/adhesion-contract/
Crazy coincidence but the day or two after I downloaded house party I found out my spotify account was compromised (emails showing logins from U.S then soon after Russia).

I've never really experienced any of my accounts in anything being hacked, and while I don't necessarily believe it's linked to HouseParty it does seem like a big coincidence
If you are in Germany, consider buying into the German Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst) apps instead.

https://www.dwd.de/DE/leistungen/warnwetterapp/warnwetterapp...

Also: they are free for member of emergency services.
Coronavirus Lockdown Sends Migrant Workers on a Long and Risky Trip Home
If they have income yes. If they are supported by adults then those are the people paying.
>> Could the lack of movement caused by everybody staying home actually inadvertently induce greater than normal seismic events?

I think the answer is not a question of "could" but "to what extent". It may not even be detectable, but the principle you described seem sound.
VxRail in a Nutshell (2018)
For clarity, my question was a response to the last part of the article that talks about this topic.

I think you’re right that layoffs allow you to take a more targeted approach and retain top talent to the extent that it’s possible. However, really in-demand employees aren’t generally going to want to work at a financially unstable or insecure company, and layoffs would probably be a sign for them to start looking even if they weren’t impacted.
Microsoft warns that a zero-day exploit exists in Windows, says fix is coming
Not that hard?

You'd need to process each page then data mine it.
Using Oracle PL/SQL Mail_client API
The phone switch for Nortel's Meridian PBX system circa 1994, which supported SONET and IP, had about 16 million lines of code. The complexity of a touchscreen is less than 1%, maybe less than 0.1% of that. Lines of code, however an absurd metric, in this case does say something. I'm just not sure exactly what, though.
Hmm. Snuggle getting benefits for the US - kinda ok. Snuggle getting personal profits for Trump and his kids - nope.

You don't differentiate?
Mind Control for the Masses- No implants needed
> A webmaster can deny any kind of access they don't want by just not serving to them

You’d think that but Microsoft just lost a lawsuit over some company scraping LinkedIn that they tried to block.
References on biologically inspired/plausible machine learning
I don’t trust Google with my email. Not going to trust them with my voicemail.

(Yes, I know, a significant portion of my email ends up in their hands anyway.)
I have a feeling the fake emergency calls are much more obvious than a real one, though. I will say, however, that emergency family calls are probably successful in the older generations.
Instead of having a single computer that stores all the code, automobiles have lots of embedded systems with their own code and hardware, and lots of systems designed for validating safety critical functionality. When I say lots, I mean it's usually several dozen and can be over 100. Since many of these need to meet special regulations and oftentimes require hard real-time characteristics, this tends to add to the complexity significantly.
How to Extract Data from a Web Page: The Definitive Guide
I mean ... we all know a car does not need that much code
A company that can build a game engine should probably be able to crawl a site and save an html dump?
I don't think the CDC/WHO recommendations started as a noble lie, just as a medical/bureaucratic orthodoxy, consistently expressed before any shortage.

The orthodoxy drew too sharp a distinction between airborne and droplet modes of transmission, it didn't anticipate the possibly extensive asymptomatic spread of this new virus, and it tried, given the low bandwidth of public health messaging in the old days, to speak simply and authoritartively in favor of the interventions with the strongest evidence for the largest effects. Even to healthcare workers, the emphasis in the setting of something like flu was on handwashing. Masks in clinic went on coughing patients, not us. For a public less consistently exposed, the number needed to mask to prevent a single infection was judged too low to bother. Masks in Asia were seen as public health theater, like spraying fog machines in the streets. And maybe most dangerously, most complicating a reversal, expressing an understanding of this mildly counterintuitive finding - covering faces doesn't stop respiratory viruses - was taken as a mark of scientificness. (And remember, it's still largely true, the effect is probably fairly small, N95 or cloth mask no matter. The virus spread well in places with mask-wearing, and dampened more quickly there for reasons other than masks.)

The CDC/WHO people are under pressure to change deeply held and strongly stated beliefs in public, and then to live with the implication that their confident error cost lives. Relative to that, communicating that we should wear masks, but leave the respirators for medical workers, is easy peasy.

For fun background on the orthodoxy, including a case where a single flu patient infected dozens of people on a plane in the 70s without managing to persuade people of some meaningful amount of airborne/fine aerosol spread:
https://twitter.com/rkhamsi/status/1244659064350670848?s=19
This is not quite true, though it was reported widely. The legislation doesn't consider individuals as "designated communications providers" if they work for one (unless they are self-employed or sole traders). The way it works is that your employer gets a TCN and then they disclose it to the employees necessary to implement it.

But note that if you have an Australian employee (unless they are a sole trader / contractor) you must already have an Australian subsidiary of your company (for tax and superannuation reasons).

Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely opposed to this legislation and think it is a draconian overstep of government power which (despite the PR spin doled out by the government) was absolutely not necessary for effective law enforcement. But it's best not to fall into the trap of overstating what the law actually allows the government to do.
Been desperately trying to get information on some retrocomputing equipment I bought and Google has been next to useless. Except for handful of results (no more than a dozen) majority of results seem to be websites that scrape Ebay listings and rehost that information. Much of the content that supposedly matched, but was behind a paywall and it was difficult to tell if it would be any useful offhand.

To be fair, in my case the lack of information is real (I've gotten only a minuscule amount of info by asking on niche forums sadly), but cutting out the noise early would be helpful.
Or the company...
This feels like nonsense to me. His argument seems to be that automation saves money, and therefore in tighter financial times, businesses are incentivized to leverage it.

This take seems to ignore the fact that businesses are always incentivized to save money. The bottleneck to businesses automating everything is not economic conditions. If corporations could cut staff in half via automation, they would have done so already.
Many crops are sensitive to light cycles and can be profitabl grown indoors year round using hydroponic methods. Consider, for example consider June bearing strawberries or basil. Also, many apartment dwellers do not have access to a plot of ground in which to plant a garden. Also, yields can be higher for hydroponic systems.
| wonder if diethyl ether would work similarly - its a shorter acting chemical
Didn’t that happen during the last recession? I don’t understand why people still put money into these unsecured loan companies.
Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (2018)
I agree, that’s an annoying bug/feature.

However, there is an amazingly easy workaround, assuming the IP and port don’t change often: create a ~/bin shell script that connects via IP and port, make it executable, and add ~/bin to PATH.

This workaround doesn’t excuse Apple of doing something so egregiously stupid, but it’s so easy that you may as well do it and move on.
I've got a FreePBX/Asterisk VoIP PBX and I've thought about running TeleCrapper2000 (https://hackaday.com/2005/09/08/telecrapper-2000/), but a better solution is to just put Google Voice in front of it and turn on "Screen Calls". It does a very effective (although not 100%) job of eliminating most robo/sales calls.