skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tldr; (don't shoot me i'm just the messenger): if google says it's true it must be. This is bad because people are dumb so they will just look at what one search engine says without checking sources and believe that to be the truth.
"Now we're circulating guides about how to set up secure rooms and webinars, so I don't anticipate this will happen again."

My sarcasm calibration is a bit off lately, you surely didn't mean this seriously (I mean, you don't really think this won't happen again)?
John Oliver did a really good deep dive on this topic last fall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8
The throwaway workers always realized it, and so did the public who mostly didn't care as long as they got their stuff on time, and probably still don't.

If anything, hostility towards Amazon employees seems to have increased because now the public feels like their complaints are interfering with the delivery of essential goods.
Biggest difference is references actually matter.
Are there any online stores where we have good evidence that they have good practices around COVID-19? Despite the crushing demand, Costco seems like one employer that might try extra hard to see after the safety of its workers.
I thought they still go through to the carrier? Just under a different attestation level: https://www.bandwidth.com/glossary/stir-shaken/
I get 5-10 per day in USA these days. I turned on silence unknown callers and it’s not terrible anymore but still ridiculous that it’s allowed to happen.
> I just wish various Doctors and Dentists could jump on the text/email bandwagon.

Mine have already, and I assumed it was becoming ubiquitous already.

I'm frustrated with it because I get multiple texts, multiple emails, and multiple voice calls & voice messages for every appointment I make. I want maybe one text reminder the day before or a couple of hours before and no more, just in case I forgot to set my own reminder. But usually I do have it in my calendar reminding me anyway, just two more notifications on top of the 10 the doc/dentist sends me... :P
Have you read the link?
This is an anecdote but the latest update forced me to rebuild my Mac from a hard/factory reset. My Dell D6000 on my 2019 MacBook Pro no longer charges the laptop. I've tried.

My Mac's resources were getting gobbled up by an internal process I coudln't terminate and my keychain was borked and I couldn't log in after a reset (to try and get around the resource hogging). Recovery didn't get me any where so I used Recovery over the Internet to do a clean install.

I'm running 10.15.4, no issues as of yet. And this all occurred after the security update. I'm running on the version prior for now but will make sure I've got a good backup and give it another go.
Eh. If I post something taking shots at Europeans before America wakes up (3-4am CST) I usually get down voted for a few hours before American commenters come on and exchange fire with the Euros.

Your upboats are time sensitive.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_ana...

Will give you a starting point. But there’s a lot of experienced engineers who know more. It’s something you learn mostly by doing as it needs to be adopted for each project type.
One of my first paid programming jobs was writing extensions to the Wiki engine used by the Unreal Wiki (TWiki).

RIP
Here I was finally getting over the time they acquired Lala for the sole purpose of murdering it. Now the good weather app on Android is heading for the slaughter too. Screw you, Apple.
I'm not sure where you live but I'd think twice (and probably still do it) about eating rabbit from anywhere where people routinely put pesticides on their lawns.
So? He did not get a covid-19 test, so for all Amazon knows, he's a carrier. There are plenty of lightly-symptomatic people who are ill and contagious for longer than 14 days.
That’s probably the issue. We were using the free version.
Missing an emergency call like that from a family member or close friend is one of my fears. I do hope these regulations come with teeth.
It doesn't work for shit in the browser; it's deliberately crippled (compare browser-based Zoom to Google Meet or Whereby).

And even then the browser interface is hidden behind multiple attempts to make you install and use their client instead.
So that means phones will still ring (unless you have a Pixel or something)? That will still drive people crazy!
The thing is with this charging bullshit is, it worked fine prior to 10.15.4. Prior to that version, my Mac charged and outputted to multiple screens at the same time.
The author had a few bad queries and chalks the whole thing up to "Google Ruined the Internet". This is akin to having a bad experience with airline food and declaring that flying has ruined travel. It is absurd, it reeks of the stallman-esque style of negative, borderline luddite spew. Instead of offering a solution, this person just rants.

Google has been a pivotal center of the internet - information has never been easier to find! Ease of access to information does not, however, alleviate the need placed upon the reader to sift out fact from fiction.

As a thought experiment, would our luddite-esque author friend prefer that Google was the arbiter of truth, rather than trends? I certainly would not.
Google’s mission is/was “to organize the world’s information”. There was no adjective on “organize”.

“Worse is better” wins again.
My colleague Jared put together some great advice for hard tech/bio founders and we talk about a number of the companies we have funded here: https://www.startupschool.org/videos/78 He talks specifically about what these companies do during the batch and fundraising milestones, etc
Really stupid. UE4 documentation is generally crap and the wiki resources were quite invaluable. It might be outdated information but it at least gave you a starting point to figure out where to look in the source for more information.
Aside: GitHub seems to dislike your animated SVG for some reason, since it won't play unless I open it manually. I think sanitize=true does that; try hosting it somewhere else?
jealousy
Same thing happened to me. I used to think carrots were useless - just filler for dishes that need some color and volume.
‘Health Care Kamikazes’: How Spain’s Workers Are Battling, Unprotected
Yeah I get that, but I'm asking what a user should expect to actually happen by that time, not what a user should expect to be theoretically no longer impossible by that time.
i might be wrong but i didn't think OP was suggesting to re-index the web. that's a totally different beast from finding an answer to a question/problem or learning a new topic.

depending on what i am looking for there are a few avenues i would explore if google wasn't available. github, gitlab, & stackoverflow/stackexchange for code related stuff.

wikipedia for general topics. youtube for how-tos. twitter for the news. newsletters and podcasts for links to new articles.

&c.
I don't know about you, but I've been running wobbly windows up until about a month ago, when I disabled KWin's compositor in favour of picom for performance reasons. I hope to get them back when I'm able to start using KWin on Wayland.
Such comments are rarely insightful ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The authors of the book are an economist and a software developer... I am not convinced they have any particular insight into how actual human minds work.

Furthermore, one of the authors of the book also authored this blog post, which I hesitate to summarize, but yeesh: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/04/two-types-of-envy.html
Thanks, yeah this isn't like fewer earthquakes, it's less non-tectonic movement so we can hear the earthquakes better.
There are only two states in USA that could secede and not feel crippling economic impact. Texas and California. One Blue, one Red
I don't think actually tracking down the bad actors is the motivation for this is it? You're still going to be blind to the call behind the originating network; you just won't get attestation as to its identity.
They usually are, they're just not what the Europeans like hearing.
I actually really liked the 3d view in firefox (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/3D_View)

A lot of people said it was silly, and I think IIRC the help pages for it used to have cheeky comments like "Why? Because we can." There's probably a good reason it was deprecated, but I thought it was useful for debugging my often deeply nested DOM layers.
My therapist tried a whole bunch of different services with different clients. We first tried doxy.me which is a HIPAA approved tele-medical service. But the quality was HORRIBLE, it was unusable, so she asked me if I would be ok using Skype (since Skype is not encrypted) I said ok (since I need the session more than it being secure). It was fine. Then we tried Zoom next time around. I thought Zoom was better in terms of quality and "just works out of the box". Just a datapoint. Getting video streaming correct is actually pretty hard, it's part of what I'm working on for my day job, and it's a very challenging problem.
Secret WhatsApp (Encrypted Messages) – Firefox Extension
Have you ever gotten perks out of it?
> My biggest advice for a beginner is to consider your approach to pest control.

My co-founder, who's a passionate farmer by profession and a recovering software engineer by education, bugs me to no end to start a business in Hydroponics (growing plants without soil) [0]. He is a sucker for organic farming and absolutely swears by it. Keeps binge watching YouTube videos on the topic for hours on end.

He means to do a hydroponic setup up at his house this fall once he's relatively free of his current short-lived personal obligations.

Fwiw, YC has funded at least one Indian startup doing hydroponics at scale, and they offer a DIY take-home kit, too: https://www.urbankisaan.com/homekits

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics
Yeah processing switch and button and encoder data manually is terrible. Once you install a library to wrap this hardware device in a sane process, how different is that than getting an x/y pixel coordinate from a touchscreen? Touch technology is incredibly reliable. I touch my phone probably 5k times a day or more and I don’t have touch failures, and I carry it around with me and get debris on it and drop it off of tables and all that too. I would argue that a touch interface is one of the most reliable from a hardware standpoint despite not being tactile.
Presumably it would reduce the amount of fraud. While it may not deter legal nuisance calls, that should make the phone a more reliable communications medium. That's especially true for businesses and government since, with the current state of affairs, it isn't even worth verifying that an incoming call is legitimate. Not to mention that spoofed numbers make targeted attacks possible.
> Google has become a card catalog that is constantly being reordered by an angry, misinformed mob.

Ever heard of PageRank? Google was literally founded on an algorithm that uses the endorsements of "an angry, misinformed mob" to determine importance/relevancy. Obviously this is only one factor in search results (and may not even be used anymore), but this approach is what has made Google successful.

I don't disagree with the general point that the amount of content in today's Web makes the job of a search engine much harder. Perhaps some of Google's techniques lower the result quality for some users, for some queries. That's a much more boring title for a blog post, I guess.
I agree. That might be what the author and other people hoped the internet would become but money drives the development of most things. If there is such an opportunity, then strike out on their own. People talk about privacy but most people just want free and easy, not to be challenged. Each of us is more than welcome to stay in the corners of the internet that we value.
Ah, that is problematic. I saw a documentary on Netflix about the British IT crowd. They were not an impressive bunch.
"security risk" - So they're just trying to hand-wave a bluff at a huge community of developers? No one believes this. edit: also I feel bad for this community manager having to lie and apologize
> Next, I ssh into a different server and then hop to the problematic one. It connects without any trouble. At this point I’m thinking maybe the permissions on my local private key got screwed up. So, I blow away ~/.ssh and recreate all of my keys from a backup. Still can’t login.

Someone should have paid more attention to that verbose SSH output first.
I didn't see anything in there about penalties for carriers not enforcing this. Also willing to bet they beg for extensions claiming they're not ready - or too costly to implement.
Ah, classic BeOS, love it!
I just had one today, said the result was from 3 days ago, result was from more than a decade ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22617635
Is this a joke? 4chan is the well-known internet forum/image board. https://www.4chan.org/
It's a little unfair to say that it's worse than texting. The increase to reaction time for texting was 34.7%, while Android Auto only showed an increase of 30% on voice. The 36% increase for Siri also was specifically for voice navigation, with voice media control showing no statistically significant increase in reaction time.

You're likely keeping your eyes on the road more with voice control over texting, though this one is hard to compare as the studies didn't measure it quite the same. Voice controls all came in under the NHTSA 12 second recommendation. The texting study showed an increase in time spent looking away from the road from a baseline of 10% to 40%.

Original Studies: https://iamwebsite.blob.core.windows.net/media/docs/default-...

https://www.racfoundation.org/assets/rac_foundation/content/...
Politically correct is what people like, IMO, as measured by Disney products. I don’t believe Disney is politically correct as a matter of whim, as opposed to well measured brand strategy.
Yeah, same here, gmail is the last result in my try.
Oh, as a gmail user, why not it ranked as number 1? I don't care the GM news : )
I think people have different standard for a good/bad search result.
Superfluous might not be the right word.

The union is not superfluous to the employees- it is the only thing negotiating on their behalf in a power-imbalanced, often exploitative situation.

The union is not superfluous to the employer- it is actually a hostile counterparty in terms of wages and exploitation.

Thats not to say the added bureaucracy is always welcomed- it sucks.
I much prefer to see fun hacking projects here over all the non-tech submissions that increasingly take over the front page.
>Google mission statement is “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

It does not succeed as well as it did in the past at its current mission. It has regressed.
This isn't a product, this is someones spare time non commercial open source project that they're sharing for other developers to use. If the name bothers you just clone the repo and change it.
Wasps are pollinators, too. Many, especially among the prolific polistids, are obligate nectar feeders as adults, hunting only to feed or otherwise provision their larvae. Their typically scanty pubescence makes them less efficient pollinators than bees when taken one by each, but in the aggregate they're critical nonetheless.
Because a pandemic is a good justification for screwing the environment!
The big driver for this is reducing the number of components and thus manufacturing cost, and secondarily being trendy.
No they use other search engines and have their own web crawler as well.
iOS also has a feature to send unknown calls directly to voicemail without ringing through [0]. It seems an easy jump to classify numbers into three categories (known, unknown but authenticated, and unauthenticated) rather than two once reliable authentication is available.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207099
> Mozilla reports ~800,000 YAU, and about 250,000 MAU

Missing digits?
"information has never been easier to find!"

I think it depends what you're looking for. I realize this is obscure, but I can't find any reference online to a big Facebook Platform developers' conference that happened in 2007. It drives me nuts because I was there at Chelsea Piers with 1,000 people, but it's like it never existed.
It is harder to find things on google than it used to be. The noise to signal ratio has increased considerably.
Not the worst time for the publicity.
Planning and Managing Layoffs
Yikes. Looks like a pretty misogynistic place.
This is awesome. The best kind of programming: doing something for the fun of it.

Also, what is Nim? How popular is it? What popular products is it used in?

Would it be a useful language for a python developer to learn? I have a friend who is a python dev and he has lamented that he’d like to learn something else. Should I recommend nim? Is it good for numerical analysis?
What about someone who “Zoom bombs” a prime minister? Is that hacking? Espionage?
Archive of the discussion: https://archive.is/hSB6d

> We are uncomfortable continually supporting a 1900+ line patch which upstream hasn't signed off on that has the potential to both compromise OpenSSH security and Keychain security. From 10.11 it will also be impossible to edit plists in /System/* without disabling rootless, which isn't a configuration we'll be intentionally supporting.
> Overrepresentation of the population. Do I really need to explain how 23% compares to 50%?

So tech companies should strive to be 50% women even though the tech industry is only 20% female (or slightly less)? This would mean that women in tech have to be hired at 4x the rate as men in tech. Ultimately how you choose to frame equality is up to you, but I'm confident in saying that most would not consider a company that hires 50/50 men and women when the industry is made up 80/20 of men and women to be offering equal opportunity to men and women. It creates an outcome representative of the general population, but at the expense of creating massive inequality of opportunity within the tech industry itself.

> You've repeatedly insisted racial slurs aren't so bad, and diverse hiring practices are far worse.

Identify where I've said this? Because I've been very consistent in emphasizing that which is worse is a matter of perspective. In fact, I've specifically pointed out that it is not reasonable to say one is worse than the other because these are subjective judgements.

And lastly, trying to equate harboring different opinions on affirmative action in employment to being a leader in the KKK is really not called for. This is getting to the point where I'm convinced that this conversation is going nowhere.
Similar to how, say, Go and Rust became popular while nim and D have largely remained niche products

PS: Hi, Steve!
I'm not sure I see any real difference between the DOM and the tree of widgets you can build in Swing. What is it that's so brilliant about the DOM?
>Said commenter, as they type a comment in a marketplace of ideas where people discuss fairly complex ideas.

Hacker News is, in the most charitable interpretation, an act of charity by pg and YC to attempt to provide a forum for a specific subculture. It's obvious from the goal of the project: "things that hackers would find interesting".

But what most people get from the Internet is not a product of someone with effectively unlimited funds (and legendary software engineering ability) building a website to support their community. They get to choose between eyeball-extraction megasites or clunky off-the-shelf vBulletin or Wordpress clones run by underqualified volunteers. It certainly is nice to be among the target audience of Hacker News -- but what if I weren't?
Maybe covid-19 will get them actually grok e2e encryption
> Even if they did quarantine others, putting someone on a 14 day quarantine 17 days after contact is hard to explain.

Not that hard. If everyone in the office had contact with someone infected then the best thing to do would have been to quarantine them all right away. Because without that, you now have the possibility that one of them had an asymptomatic case which they could have still had and given to any of the others less than a week ago, which means the others are still inside the window for being infected but not having either recovered or showed symptoms. Which means they still need to be quarantined.
I miss that view! It was so useful, especially debugging z-index issues.
It's because marketing teams like to send you emails on your birthday to "make you feel special", because apparently a lot of people can't see through this tactic.
> Apple has a monopoly on the channel to deliver iOS apps.

That's only a monopoly in the same sense that McDonalds has a monopoly on Big Macs. It's within their own ecosystem. Customers can decide whether they want to buy into that ecosystem or choose an alternative (like Burger King, or Android).
My parents were freaks about growing their own. Yes, a good road-side stand could be just as good, but depending on where you are, harder to find.

But as far as anything in any typical supermarket, well, there's just no comparison. Sometimes the "heirloom" tomatoes are less bad.
If by "other comments" you meant your own single comment which defended Signal's use of phone numbers by claiming "using phone numbers allows Signal to piggyback on people's local contact databases instead of maintaining that directory serverside", that does not prevent Signal from keeping a database of contacts serverside.

Further, they could have simply let users find and verify each other out-of-band, as PGP did with key distribution and fingerprint verification.

There is absolutely no need for Signal to know my phone number, and it requiring one has been the main reason why I haven't used it.
> I'm not entirely certain what motivates people to act like that online when they're relatively normal offline, but it seems to be a somewhat common occurrence.

Anonymity probably?

I'm a pretty normal dude offline, your average American programmer. On reddit I'm in all socialist/communist subreddits talking about revolution 24/7. Intellectually I agree with intersectional Marxism, but I don't feel comfortable enough to discuss these in real life, and I don't care enough to (or am too lazy to) act upon these ideas in real life. So, when I go to reddit I become "a different person", not because I try to be this person, but the comfort of anonymity allows me to express my ideas easier.
Why is the exposing of a government employee's email address a security risk to you?

Edit, because downvotes: government email addresses can be retrieved easily through public records laws, and is done routinely, and can easily be scraped or inferred. I've done both many, many times, and it's trivial.
On top of this, a standard install asks for permissions, but doesn't disclose who/what is asking for it (certified in some way) or what permissions it wants, if these are temporary for the install or permanent for the application, or what it is going to do during the install (what goes where, what gets changed etc).

It is long past time for Apple to improve this process.
Thanks for the heads up! May I ask what browser you are using? If there are compatibility issues I may just re-render these as GIFs.
Your prompt reply is much appreciated. Will certainly review the video. What about your current stance on solo founders?
Do the spammers speak greek or english?
In the US it is common now to swipe the driver’s license in order to verify age, at places as varied as bars and nightclubs, liquor stores, general shops that also sell liquor, and such.

All you need to prove is your age, but the company that puts the scanner in place (in the case of bars and restaurants) collects all the info on the DL. Walgreens collects all the info and correlates it with your CC if you don’t pay by cash. Etc.

Any major hotel will simply swipe your DL and will populate the guest record with its info.
I shall work on my bacon and canned tomato sandwich recipe... ;-)

(My wife claims that canned San Marzano tomatoes are the bomb, when cooked tomatoes are needed.)