skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Collection of Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior
SyncThing does support end-to-end encryption, and has for a while: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/security.html#sync-connecti...
I don't think that's true. Or rather maybe it's in some sense the intent of some of their marketing people, but it's not the way it works in practice.

DoorDash and Grubhub make the overwhelming bulk of their revenue from simple fees on the deliveries made. They surely sell ads (and para-ads like list placement), but the eyeball value of my one visit is vanishingly small relative to the $70 I just spent on takeout. The scales are just totally different.

If they're not showing you the restaurant you followed a link for, it's not because of advertising. It's likely because they don't have a contract with that restaurant and still want to sell you a meal.

Now, that's not ethical. But it's not because of "advertising".
Look towards Shopify Support Gurus. Paid well, fully remote. As a Shopify Partner I deal with them a lot and have never had a bad experience; while some can't always answer my question, I always speak to a human (24/7 via live chat) and they direct my query in the right direction.
> I believe dealing with character encoding is the most frustrating thing a developer can do.

I'll take your encoding work if you take my timezone work.
It's either false advertising, trademark infringement, fraud, or all of the above.
If this was your submission, can you please email hn@ycombinator.com? There's no email address in your profile. I've done something drastic and want to explain why and retroactively ask for permission and/or forgiveness.
Honestly, how do you expect to advance if you don't like Genuine People Personalities®?

Who wouldn't want a door that is eternally cheerful about opening up for you? Or a paranoid android?
Couch co-op is the reason for existence of the new intellivision Amico. It due this fall, so I can't tell
exactly how good its going to be but they seemed to have come a decent way with it since it first was announced.

I had an intellivision growing up and playing sports games with my brothers was a great memory. Back then, all multiplayer was couch based...

https://www.intellivisionamico.com
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Nice to know, their domains are going directly to my banned sites list. They have acquired gliphy to extend reach of their pixels and well... I can live without gifs.

(edit: they are already banned. Nothing to do.)
Absolutely agreed—it's a little funny to see dismissals of the article (which, as I mentioned elsewhere in the thread is actually quite good), even though, as a mathematician [0] we use these analogies (and sometimes really the whole idea) all the time.

To add to your list (for less number-theory specific topics):

- Lyapunov functions? Energy in physics (just a mathematical surrogate)

- Exponential families? Canonical ensemble in physics

- Convex duality? Lagrange duality in classical mechanics

and the list continues.

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[0] And, admittedly, a member of a physics lab, even though I don't really do any physics.
Some people stand up to wipe while others wipe while still sitting.
check out https://github.com/coveord/scrumpolice, it can do the aggregation for you
Mozilla Sync along with Nextcloud and Riot.im provides most of the same functionalities (never tried Pushbullet though and wish them luck).
Even after the bug gets fixed, it'll probably take years for all the embedded devices in the public internet to get patched, so no.
> In fact, it's actively harmful.

How is it harmful?
The current internet giants got huge monopolistic like power that many dictators of many countries would envy. The set their rules, execute them, and judge them.

I believe once you become a platform there should be an independent nano-courthouse where you can appeal. Today being rejected by Apple, Amazon, or Google platform is equivalent to the economical death penalty for many individuals.

It should be possible to pay $100 by individuals and appeal to an independent nano-courthouse if the original platform rejects or blocks you. If you win, the appeal fee is refunded and the platform has to cover the cost. If you lose, your $100 is gone.
Comments like this make me worry (& weary) about the state of modern political discourse
It will be dominated by other big giants. Amazon, Spotify, Disney, Netflix, Facebook would all want more regulations put on these app stores
My take is that people who fear COBOL probably haven't seen pre-ES5[0] JavaScript.

[0] While ES2015 was a major leap in and of itself, it wouldn't have happened had ES5 not laid the groundwork by introducing "minor improvements" that we now take for granted like JSON, strict mode and Function.prototype.bind to name a few.
Thx you very much for this. I myself am planning to take a look at Leetcode as I keep hearing good things about it.
Am I the only one who raises a flag immediately when there is a blocker? Why would I wait until the next day?
> I've thought perhaps Mythical Man Month and How To Become A Hacker (Eric Raymond essay) but not sure they're quite right.

Please don't recommend Eric Raymond's work to people.

> technical founder wondering what reading to recommend to a business focused founder for them to grok the hacker mindset

What does "the hacker mindset" mean to you?

If you ask me: The most important thing about a hacker mindset is that it must exist outside of technology. A hacker mindset is not a "techy" mindset, it's something far more sublime, and is portable across different fields.

Hacking is about creativity and problem solving, but not in a formalized way. That doesn't always involve computers and related technology. Hacking should be fun, regardless of what industry or specialization it manifests in (which doesn't always translate well in business settings).

That isn't something that you're going to inject into someone by recommending them read a book. They have to seek it out for themselves. Without curiosity, hackers do not exist.

If they're going to be able to understand the mindset without having experienced it themselves, you might as well just share my comment here with them. If it sinks in, great! If not, I don't believe a few hundred pages of prose will have a different outcome.
As a Firefox fan, I really hope it happens again and again. It's good for the web as a whole when Chrome fails and Firefox doesn't.

As a technical person, you should be advocating the use of (real, community owned) open source browsers not just whatever the majority uses.

I feel that Google's monopoly on the browser market for desktops will be more and more endangered as they (for legitimate business reasons) refuse to provide the services and processes that a modern browser user/developer deserves.
A fair question, and we’ve done it this way before at simple.com. When looking at the options for a pay-per use database, with global replication, streams and managed for you; We felt that if you could build a ledger on dynamo for these use cases, it’d be pretty compelling and fun.
Same thing happened to me. I was really intrigued by intercooler when I first found it a couple years ago, but lacking experience in the front-end, I found myself cornered in a conversation about it with a React snob. Ultimately, I turned my attention elsewhere before I ever got a chance to sink my teeth into it.

Glad to see the project is going strong and getting a makeover. Especially in web development, the constant obsession with the Next Big Thing can be a real deterrent against some really cool ideas. Kutty won't make you a more desirable job candidate or force you to develop new and challenging mental models (afaiu); it'll never give rise to an ecosystem of plugins and extensions the way React has; and with Webpack integration in the latest release of Rails (where I'm coming from), frontend frameworks are being normalized as the default approach (or at least the final destination) of any web application these days.

But engineering is about trade-offs. There's a sizable chunk of projects out there whose requirements are modest enough to be met with HTML, AJAX, and a little glue to hold them together, and kutty seems to provide a really clean abstraction layer there.

Really looking forward to trying it out soon.
Falcon Heavy could do a single-launch loop around the Moon with Dragon.
I remember Portal 2 on Xbox360 was co-op split-screen.
> it's often horribly painful. You have to call on the phone

The horror, having to speak to another human being. Can you imagine? Someone who can answer questions about the menu in real-time, tell you if substitutions or modifications are possible, make recommendations, tell you if you're ordering enough or too much, accommodate dietary issues or preferences? Terrible experience, just terrible. It's a wonder we put up with it for nearly a century. /s
There is a distinction to be drawn between expression and evaluation.

If I express “2+2” it could be evaluated to 4 (in decimal); or 11 (in trinary).

If two evaluators disagree on the truth-value of 2+2=11 then one possible explanation is that they disagree on the number-system in which the expression was made.

That leads to the usual consensus problems in computer science: leader election etc.

It can’t be solved without one side “changing its mind” - or, at least translating its expressions for the target evaluator.

Consensus requires linguistic norms.
I liked Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, but it isnt clear what you mean.
Admittedly I've not read it -- I assume it's reasonable, as I find the majority opinion to be. That's the thing with these court decisions: often you can justify either outcome in reasonable ways. There's no need to vilify anyone here -- it's truly distasteful what's been on display regarding this decision.
Stockholders didn't approve
I'm not sure Formula 1 race car drivers consider racing competitions "fun" because it's physically and mentally exhausting and stressful when you don't win, which is a lot. However, going for a leisurely drive is fun. Rearchitecting a large program is not fun, but hooking up actions to html buttons with JavaScript can be fun. Introducing large numbers of people to this is a way to find the ones with apptitude who get hooked and want to go deeper.
I got the most value poking around with network namespaces manually via the "ip" command. There are also true VRFs in Linux these days which are much lighter but not nearly as common, most everything is a namespace with either bridging or NAT and some fancy configuration interface to drive that state.
This is partly true and partly not. All the physical routing and switching is still there and it's more efficient than ever. What we've done is added more functionality. Additional layers of abstraction like VMs or containers are generally going to have some performance cost.

It's possible to optimize basic packet forwarding in a hypervisor/containervisor using leaner options like ipvlan or even SR-IOV. If you replace hardware firewalls with something like k8s network policy then you are technically replacing hardware with software but it isn't that slow if configured right (hello Cilium) and you're probably implementing a more sophisticated policy anyway.
I have yet to be in a standup where I felt safe admitting I was blocked.

The manager and project manager are there to glare at anyone who isn't "maintaining velocity".
I dunno, I'm kinda on Virginia's side here. If "pandemic response efforts assumed clean, standard, accessible data would exist", that seems like a fault of the pandemic response efforts, not the people who produce messy and non-standard data.

(Important context: Virginia stopped aggregating antibody tests as soon as they learned it was misleading people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-antibody-covid...)
I enjoy the daily stand up. Sometimes single digit minutes, sometimes it goes on for half an hour. It is the opportunity to sync with the team. Questions get asked, priorities may be revisited, any new concerns can be voiced, and we all leave with the shared knowledge of what we are all working on today and if there is room for us to help one another. The live aspect of it allows a check point where things can be pivoted live. "Oh, I missed your question in slack, let's talk about it right after this meeting."
As physician practices run out on cash, innovation will take center-stage
No disagreement on your points; we have a "leader" who has precisely 0 desire to lead, and 100% desire to seen as a leader, to inflate his ego. To do so requires fawning attention, deflecting blame, and avoiding hard decisions.

However, even in states that are taking strong stances, they're all at least slightly different, and I still have a sense that they're all sort of biding time until some "adults" come along and provide leadership from the top, because that's how it's always worked in the past.
No, it's not ridiculous, it's sane.

The whole point of a SPA is to give a user a better experience. If on average this does not materialize in the real world, and often achieves the exact opposite, the entire concept fails.

Bad SPA implementations are the standard. Saying that it's possible to make a good SPA implementation doesn't change the real world outcome that most often, they don't deliver.
Agreed. This wouldn't be difficult to implement would it?
Huh? It appears to be written in PyTorch according to the article?

The training data could also be considered source.

And I agree that this is of limited use if I have to access it by uploading and downloading everything from Facebook servers. Not only do I have privacy implications, but there's the need for a solid fast low latency internet connection that I can't guarantee.
If you think the PolyForm counts as open source, and you want to pervert the meaning of open source, go ahead.
You can claim your own meaning for open source and licenses, but there is a governing body that we look to, to decide which licenses do qualify as open source. They have started denying this style license, and until they approve PolyForm as a qualifying license, you will be considered among the liars (people abusing ignorance and marketing for their own benefit) if you promote it as an open source license.
Yes, that has been on my mind for a while and this thread could hardly be a clearer indicator.

What should it be called? What day should it go out?
Always close the lid before flushing.
Fair enough. I was mainly talking about this specific instance. From what I have heard, the G Suite and Pixel phone support is bad, but it isn't downright non-existent like it was here.
Google Erases Thousands of Links, Tricked by Phony Complaints
How is Vice "countercultural"? A notch more mainstream and it would be the Readers Digest...
Having to pay US Dollars can still be a big hurdle
>they both are close to and will have mainline support

Do you mean support in the mainline Linux kernel?
1) We (technical people) need to stop being afraid to call companies evil. This isn't just an example of a company that does the profitable thing over the right thing - it's just an example of chosen behavior that almost always prioritizes profit over everything else.

Once it's socially acceptable to call companies evil, people will start being less surprised by behavior like this, and they can start to make more informed decisions. Using Doordash, GrubHub and Google should ALWAYS be considered a calculated risk. The same can be said for Yelp, Facebook and others. "Do what we say, or suffer the consequences of our indifference once our game is played out on you."

2) Anyone who writes something like this might consider spell and grammar checking.
The fact that we're not testing enough to really understand the case fatality rate is definitely a governmental failure in the ability to (even attempt to!) ramp up and implement rigorous testing.

However, I think the transmissibility and other such information is just a HARD problem with how quickly this has come on, with different factors in every single locality where it's happening.
You can get working MMS with a command-line interface using ofono and intel's MMSd, but I'm still working on upstreaming the patches that fix both with T-Mobile. I haven't put much online about this work yet, but if anyone wants to work on fixing the interface side of MMS I'd love some help.

The current interface options are all going through telepathy-ofono, which works with group MMS messaging and attachments, but can't really handle attachments the right way because the telepathy IM framework itself has no notion of media messages (as mentioned at e.g. https://github.com/TelepathyIM/telepathy-morse/issues/21#iss...). Ubuntu Touch replaces MMSd with a Go rewrite called `nuntium` but still relies on telepathy-ofono for plumbing: http://docs.ubports.com/es/latest/systemdev/mms-infrastructu...

I think the right way to handle SMS+MMS, for now, would be to just write a dedicated GUI client for it that communicates with ofono MMSd via dbus. I'm thinking about doing it with Rust+GTK.
That's funny, when i was twelve i need to store some data and i didn't really know database or csv, so i actually used the ascii control character to implement tables and record.
I later discovered sqlite, soooo much simpler...
This week has been brutal one for media layoffs. Also: Conde Nast, Quartz and BuzzFeed.

And for the bulk of these laid off folks, this will likely mean their time in journalism is done. The odds of there being many opportunities in the industry after the pandemic seem pretty low right now..
More great "innovation" coming out of Silicon Valley. Congrats folks, you're really at the cutting edge of screwing over the little guy.
Yea! And here's a metaphor to... baking!! The moment this metaphor clicked for me reading a musty textbook with yellowing pages was delightful, I can go back to that moment just by thinking about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milnor%E2%80%93Thurston_kneadi...
I do not have time to read this review but the two citations in your comment caught my attention.

Let us call the property of a thing that is both only blue and only chartreuse — blue and solely blue, not chartreuse, in being chartreuse, and chartreuse and solely chartreuse, not blue, in being blue — blutreuse.

Would not Brandom would point out that the author does not, in fact, believe that a blutreuse thing exists? I don't think it even reaches the level of what Brandom seems to be talking about, which would be more of a Heideggerian truth-as-in-the-flight-of-an-arrow, or truth as in soundness.

The author may believe that he could believe that a bluetreuse thing existed, may "embrace the paradox" and refuse his 'obligation' to admit that there can be no bluetreuse thing, but in fact he is going to do nothing of value with the paradox and cannot even imagine a bluetreuse thing, regardless of what he claims.
I think they meant to say it can lead to confusion or be misinterpreted

ironically, their misuse of the term harmful can also lead to confusion or be misinterpreted

all in all, we should use more precise words (and thinking), but this requires more effort from both the writer and the reader
I didn't enjoy my San Pedro cactus mescaline experience. The colorful geometrically shaped patterns were nice, but I quickly tired of them. I didn't like the "speediness" of it, like a few cups of strong coffee. I ended up cleaning my beautiful geometrically colored shower.
I upvoted you.

Objectively speaking, we are at a juncture in time where People need to think and act from the perspective of allegiance to economic opportunity rather than arbitrary geographies (called nations). This kind of thinking leads to non violent approach of forming groups of people on a given geography rather than a violent approach that is bred by nations and patriotism. It’s time to consider moving out of US may be. Smaller countries are better managed. They are poised to act fast and the higher degree of homogeneity (in thinking) helps with policies, laws etc. making the govt actually able to do things for its citizens rather than form factions along party lines and paralyze the system. The chaos monkey is just a symptom not the root problem. And so long as the root problem remains unaddressed there will be more monkeys and I would say worse than this one. He has set the bar for what presidents can do which mean other politicians with see it as it’s ok to use tactics like his over time this becomes the norm and only to be one broken by even worse monkeys in their efforts to “stray from the normal”. As a result the normal just keeps degrading.

In the end we get the govt and politicians we deserve. The system that has morphed in the US for its citizens is quite worse. The masses are so busy they are merely citizens Trying to meet ends with their busy lives and can’t perform active citizenry which is critical for democracy. Between school,children and work there is very little personal time let alone be an active citizen. The youth is somewhat detached from the reality of the corrosive system of govt working from them because they mostly don’t feel the direct consequences of an inept govt system as their needs are somewhat less than middle aged masses. The older folk are just pissed at what they see and become one issue voters. So the people who actually have the time to vote are voting for very specific issues. This breeds politicians that cater to these voters and what you get is a political body that caters to and operates on extreme positions of left and right rather a more centrist or moderate approach. All in all there are too many structural issues from years of “corrosion“.

As with most changes in history the catalyst for big change is usually natural disasters and wars. Technology advances to play a role too. Covid is one of those power shifting natural disasters. The shift will be gradual an not a sudden as spectacular as a building being demolished. The citizens are like frogs being boiled alive. Most don’t realize what’s happening right under given the slow degradation with small flares here and there thst grab their attention but not big enough to muster any energy to drive change.
Every time this comes up I'm always astounded that most people have no idea how tips work.

In a lot of states, at least for restaurant workers, this is normal practice and explicitly allowed for by law. In those states, this has been common practice since ... forever? The laws there require restaurant owners to pay the waiters such that their wage + tips combined should be at least the minimum wage. If a waiter makes more than the minimum wage in tips then the owner only needs to pay a less than minimum wage amount.

See https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped

So as an example, in Texas, if a waiter made more then $5.12/hr in tips, the restaurant owner needs to pay him/her only $2.13/hr.

The question I have is: Why are we OK with this for waiters but suddenly get upset when this happens to the drivers? Do you ask your favorite restaurants their policy?
Yeah, the documentation is dated. Not only does it point to an old version, but it would probably be best to get it from the GitHub page he links to. Even then, there are more active forks, so they may be worth checking out to see which would be best to get on board with.
I don't know much bout procedural programming, but I'm curious about your thoughts on swift protocols and also how swift allows classes to be used in a functional way. I wonder if this could mitigate some of those problems?
I am a premium pushbullet user and have it on my android phone. It is the only reliable solution to handle texting and notification from the Windows or Chromebook desktop I have come across.

I've never thought about the information they capture or keep, but I do know photos sent through text are kept on https://dl3.pushbulletusercontent.com for a certain period of time. I don't know how long.
The cost of the building is minor compared to the cost of the wafer equipment. It is not uncommon to build a Fab but only fill it with a fraction of the equipment capacity. Fabs can be scaled up when demand increases.