skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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But China's current dynamism kicked off when its government started to allow people to work to get rich. It seems very odd to claim we have more of that motive, indeed so much more that it makes a huge difference. It must be about the channels this motive has available to be directed into, I'd think. Does the invisible hand push you more to rent-seek or to build?
While it might feel nice to give Facebook all the credit(/blame) it's just way too simple of a explanation. Ads have been effective for a long time regardless of the type of media. There were complaints about running presidential campaign ads during I Love Lucy in the 1950's.

Whenever I see one of these blame Facebook articles, I always think of what it's saying about the American public. If a significant number of people think of Facebook as a reputable source of truth, there really isn't much hope for the nation. Without an educated population capable of critical thinking there can't be a real democracy (or even a representative democracy).
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The problem is, people think Telegram ban means Telegram is secure from Russian state actors.

The truth is, Russia employs hackers of their own that hack Telegram's servers without trace and read messages of anyone they find interesting.
It would be nice if IMAP received some extensions that makes it more up to par with proprietary mail services

For example, a standardized method that allows you to tell your email server to send an email at a specific time.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-must-secure-border-an... is a good example of plausible deniability.

Fourteen word headline, starting with "We must secure..."

Was it intentional? No one will likely ever know.
Pointing out that this happens specifically when companies maximizes for prioritizes profit instead of the benefit of their product (which was what allowed them to gain such traction).

It does feel prevalent in large corporations though.
Konstantinoble: https://youtu.be/Wcze7EGorOk
There are people willing to be a tor relay I bet that kind of people would be willing to help to an extent.
China Won’t Win the Race for AI Dominance
I doubt your customer specified dependencies as a business requirement.
11 Marketing Channels to Grow Your Startup
There’s a difference between creativity and elegance! Elegance is more about the beauty of the solution rather than the value of the outcome. The power of a blunt instrument is impotent at best, destructive at worst.
Ahhh, have a nice day.
>it's not controlled by a Western government.

That doesn't mean it can't be trivially hacked by a Western government. When you're using service that isn't using E2EE, you're just making two statements:

1. I don't trust Western companies
2. I haven't the foggiest wrt computer security or cryptography
My biggest problem with it was the lack of support for frames. Many sites I use serve documents in frames making hypothes.is unable to see them. Also, why not work with NextCloud and create an app to annotate documents there. NextCloud over public or private share?
This particular change is getting attention, but the trend is well-known:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny#In_domestic_animals

We breed animals for bigger eyes and other features to make them cuter--to make them look more like babies.
There are a few implementations of this kind of filter - https://github.com/search?q=have-I-been-bloomed lists four I found. I haven’t seen any usages yet in open source code on Github though.

Most seem to use the web API: for example https://github.com/search?l=PHP&q=haveibeenpwned+API+v2+pwne...

Other projects for pwnedpasswords: https://github.com/search?q=pwnedpasswords&type=Repositories YMMV, “read the source, Luke!” :)
Also see the related concept for life expectancy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlife
What is beyond me:

How the hell do you as a CEO manage to not see missing billions and/or not inform shareholders, clients and employees about that until the very-last day legally possible?!
These guys have been working on this problem for years and have a cool solution if you have a budget: http://www.myire.com
Honestly why do banks accept this collateral when underwriting a loan? Stocks are known to be volatile, aren't there more stable assets you should collateralize (e.g. inventory, real estate)?
It is installed by the update.

There's still a full screen unskippable ad post-update, and an Edge setup process, and then additional reminders that you might want to make Edge your default browser.

The prevalence of popups and other notifications in Windows designed to drive user engagement with a specific product / feature / team has been increasingly noticeable lately, while actual productivity features like searching your local files and applications have been gummed up by web results instead.

I still use Windows on a daily basis since Visual Studio is the best tool for the work I do and Windows is the best platform for PC games, but they do plenty to exercise their leverage as the platform owner.
It’s a nonstandard definition at best. While regression is a name given to some algorithms (linear and logistic for example), this is an artifact of the statistical foundations of ML. Its standard use in ML is to describe the problem, not the solution: regression is predicting a continuous value and classification is predicting discrete categories.

Either use is ok, but e.g. a tree model predicting if an animal is a dog or a cat is not regression by any definition.
While it's true that Steam has a lot of critical mass, there are several viable alternatives for distribution in a vacuum (whether publishers and developers use them or not doesn't mean they aren't there). In addition to the EGS and Itch you also have GOG (which has a huge catalogue and is highly curated), and the Humble Store is still around even though sadly it has mostly become a Steam storefront these days. Add to that other publisher-specific distribution platforms and the landscape is hardly as bereft of choice as the smartphone/tablet app distribution ecossystem.

Note: I do wish all of these people's official clients supported Linux.
Good point. Also, two of its servers reside in the US. And in Malaysia, the server is "fair game" to NSA hackers (as well as any other foreign government).

The non-E2EE comms are a joke and a liability of insane proportions.
I disagree, this discounts the martyr
> Do not project the hyper-rationalistic character of our current society to societies and civilizations of the pre-industrial era. People in the ancient times were not as rational and utilitarian as we are.

I think it's much, much more the other way around. Modern archaeologists have inherited their Victorian predecessors attitudes, who tended to look on primitive societies as backward and superstitious; "nasty, brutal and short".

> Everything was permeated by religion, superstition and magic.

I don't think there's much evidence to support this. Lots of speculation and interpretation, but not much actual evidence. A girl wearing a "sun disk" is interpreted as being a "priestess of a sun religion". On what basis? Can't it just be decoration?

Again, saying "ritual" or "religious" is easy because it requires no proof. If you said that the disk was a tool, you'd be required to specify what the tool was and what it was used for. But you're not required to say what ritual, or how the item was used in the ritual. It's a different standard of proof.

It would be better if archeologists admitted that they don't know what the thing is for, until there's more evidence or better understanding of the culture.
IANAEconomist, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt.

My general impression is that people haven't changed much, and the American "can-do" spirit is alive and well. There are some problems with zoning laws, and many folks are financially clueless or even irresponsible (don't have savings accounts and such), but to me the limiting factor seems to be capital.

> Your complaint is that people are effectively being paid the same as those prior generations.

I think you might have gotten confused by how the article uses "the same purchasing power" in a few places. It's actually saying (and again, I Am Not An Economist) is that gains from increasing productivity have not gone to the middle class.

In any event, my point is that if people had more money they would build more.

I don't find the "cultural stagnation" thesis very compelling.
I am sure Apple owns the cars. Speaking for myself I would gladly part with 30% if it means not dealing with the payment processors, distribution CDN's etc. myself. Also, do not forget there are many free apps on the App Store.
If you have an indicator of content on a specific date and can confirm no signoficant change ...

Though document fingerprinting is hard. Especially w/ fungible page elements.

Internet Archive has an angle here.
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Both sides could also be right. I do not have a stance, I am just saying what the Tibetan stance is. Why shouldn’t we believe that narrative? There could be good reasons either way, but I haven’t really seen any good sources in this thread. Perhaps you have some to share? I admit this is not my area of study.
> Depends on the tradition you are coming from.

Statistics :)
Interesting, I hate that these types of shows appear to be lost to the ages. I can't find it to buy (there are a handful of episodes available for purchase on DVD on Amazon for something like $17/per) and I don't see it come up on streaming services either.
Two Lines of Code to Bulletproof Encryption
Luckily a lot of people live in the civilized world, where the high likelihood of being caught and prosecuted for murder and spending a lot of time in jail, make murder a not so reasonable option -- assuming we are talking about psychopaths willing to kill someone for financial gain.

Murder is nowadays an option for few criminal organizations -- such as the USA government, the British Royal House (remember, Epstein didn't kill himself), the Russian Government or the mafia or some drug gangs.
I disagree. It doesn’t matter if the company makes money on the device or not. A device with a walled off App Store, be it a PS4, Xbox, Switch, or an iPhone, operates in the exact same murky legal waters. MS better be careful, or they could wind up breaking their own console’s ability to limit access to their store. Why shouldn’t Steam or Epic be allowed to sell games to an Xbox customer?
Exactly - but the reactions I saw when he first released Pwned Passwords was "this is a malicious tool, don't give your password to anyone". Even if you're hitting the API from your own service, you need the entire password first to submit the partial hash to the API.

We who understand what's going on know it's perfectly fine, but it's hard to get that message across. Just like the first time you try to explain what a hash is to a non-technical person.
They have a huge marketshare, but I don't see how they have a monopoly. For example, some of the largest games in the world don't go through Steam (Fortnite, Overwatch, LoL) and the indie scene outside of Steam is popular and successful through DRM free or 3rd party sources such as GoG, Humble, and itch.io. I can download a .exe from a publisher's website if I really want to. How is that "almost ... a monopoly"?
I don't know. But I notice that we're not required to answer any of those questions if "it's ritual"
Then why are the complaints only about Apple?

If we want openness then we need to say exactly what it means.

Does it mean all platforms that allow software installation must not prevent arbitrary code from being installed?

Does it mean all hardware must permit alternative operating systems to be installed. This is my preferred option because it would open the door for a genuinely open platform to be developed by the community rather than maintaining the power of the giant corporations.
> instantly reveals your real identity to any snoop, snitch or government mole.

Yeah, WA isn't anonymous. The problem is with Telegram storing all your private messages on their cloud, by hacking the server, just knowing your username the state level attacker learns everything about you, metadata, and content, and because there's no forward secrecy, it will date back basically forever unless you're constantly deleting logs, and even then you can only hope Telegram also erases their backup tapes.

>If you're American (or living in an American province) and you want to talk about how to free yourself of Washington, you use Telegram

That's just stupid, why would you want less secure architecture to criticize Americans? NSA can trivially hack Telegram servers to see your criticism if they want. You want E2EE for your dissident group no matter what, thus Signal will always remain a better choice.
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There is a name for this phenomenon, “bike-shedding.”
In the end that's how dictatorships die.
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I think such a system is not necessarily risky if the detonators are not installed. Installing the detonators at the last minute could be done more rapidly than moving/installing all the requisite explosives.

On the other hand, perhaps there are other ways to destroy a silicon fab than explosives?
Or they drag it out so long that everyone loses interest because their friends aren't there (Google+)
When Microsoft helped me get Krita in the Windows Store I hadn't much expectations. Now the Windows Store and Steam (fifty/fifty) bring in enough to pay me and six other people to work on Krita almost full-time. It has saved me from having to find a day job that would have driven me round the bend for sure.

That said, it sucks that I cannot tell people they can also download Krita from krita.org. There's always the fear that some day, the Windows Store will be closed, or Krita will be kicked out or whatever.

Publishing in an app store means you're a sharecropper, with all that entails.
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Is it a bit of a stretch to hold Amazon responsible when counterfeit medicines, made with Amazon-sold equipment, harm people? The sole purpose of this equipment is to deceive.

As for woman in the picture up top, I think she has a reason to complain:

She woke up in a hospital bed herself. She didn’t realize her father had slipped the counterfeit pills into his prescription bottle of Percocet at home and, distraught with grief, she had taken what she thought was a safe medication to help her relax.
it's a public company, its shares are tradeable on exchanges
No.

For one; I've had a read of the site and I really can't see what Hey is offering that X other email clients are offering, or that can be achieved with a few rules or a bit of self-discipline.

For another; I don't think the number of people, in the general population, who care about their privacy enough to pay money to protect it, is as large as the bubble-effect created by HN's 'turned on' readership would have you think.

You've only got to look at the numbers of people posting every intimate detail of their lives on sites like FB, Twatter, Instagram et al. to see just what a non-issue it is for so many.
..unless you ran any sudo command recently
What rejection message ae ou receiving? Maybe I can help
Amy
> You also have to factor in the feasibility of that someone being able to get away with murder

How would it matter to the person in this example? They're already dead...
Giving the ability to “opt-out” of spyware does not make it OK. I’m bored of hearing that tired excuse for poor behaviour.
You go through the same radius - but aren't geostationary satellites in a different plane?
Podiums?
The developers whose games are being given away for free lose.

Amazon did the same thing with their Android store.

Developers lose.
Yeah, I'm still not sure whether this is a hidden marketing or a serious attempt from an innocent user. I dind't knew this service before, but now I knew. so marketing worked here at least to me.
Thank you! Very surprising behavior from SQLite, although it might come in handy if I use it carefully.

Although I ask "why should macros have to return complete query expressions?" To me, something like the following would be much more flexible.

Example 1, %ts_number returns a single numeric expression:

CREATE MACRO %ts_number(x) AS
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY x.ts)

select x.*, %ts_number(x) as rn
from SomeTable x

Example 2, %%foo returns 3 clauses to be combined into a larger query:

CREATE MACRO %%foo(x) AS
WHERE x.ts > 0
ORDER BY ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY x.ts)
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY x.ts) as rn

select x.*
from SomeTable x
%%foo(x) -- this combines the 3 clauses into this query

-- So the result is equivalent to
select x.*, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY x.ts) as rn
from SomeTable x
WHERE x.ts > 0
ORDER BY ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY x.ts)

I suppose it could even be up to the macro how its clauses get combined (before or after any existing clauses). In the following example, `...` is a special language element for use in macros. %%foo would append to the end of all the existing WHERE and ORDER BY clauses, but it would prepend to the existing SELECT clauses:

CREATE MACRO %%foo(x) AS
WHERE ... AND x.ts > 0
ORDER BY ..., ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY x.ts)
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY x.ts) as rn, ...
i am not the creator, i just found this on the /r/reactjs reddit.

Live demo: https://www.instaclone.net

Project repo: https://github.com/Sandermoen/instaclone

Test user credentials:

Username: throwaway

Password: Throwaway1@
The author's Wikipedia page and bibliography implies he has socialist political tendencies, and this article is written supportively in favour of the Chinese. I don't dispute some of the examples but I do note his references don't work - they are simply lists of sources without details (i.e. #34, 'Los Angeles Times'). He makes comments such as that Harrer, who wrote a book about his travels in Tibet, was a member of Hitler's SS. Yes, he was - but only after Austria was annexed, under duress, and was later cleared of any wrongdoing (the Pope was a Hitler Youth member, btw).

Overall a very biased, slanted piece, written in an interesting way but without any credence from well-linked citations and fails to take into account the reported atrocities committed by the Chinese after their occupation.
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So you are suggesting console maker to sell at a loss while others come in and paid nothing for using their platform? Even EPIC have no problem with the console business model.
That seems illegal. Who's looking the other way on that?
The point is that you shouldn't mislead the population in claiming this app is open source when it actually isn't.

Some consequential parts of the protocol are implemented as a black box.
What a strange situation. WireCard immediately looked dubious when I did some research about it last year (as a regular stock investor) and I often stumbled over opinions like this one https://www.deraktionaer.de/artikel/aktien/markus-krall-luft... (German, sorry) where somewhat reputable people said they would never consider investing into WireCard, without giving a specific reason. The business model of a payment provider is straightforward and ought to be hard to get completely wrong, "what's there to be afraid of that nobody wants to speak about?", I was wondering. In hindsight it's like everybody knew or had a gut feeling something was fishy but decided not to talk about it.
Credit cards are near the bottom of the value stack. Uber, Apple, et al are built on top of that and need to pay the credit card transaction fees, which means they need to charge X% more than 2-3% to keep any money for themselves.

You could argue that their chosen X% is too high relative to their value add, but any competitor will definitely need to charge more than your proposed X=0.
YT and FB allow live streaming your webcam from the browser, and there are some other options like restream Live Studio that offer simple features such as overlays/backgrounds. A full OBS-like web based studio does not exist (yet), as far as I'm aware.
If it was possible to create a rule that allowed me to find "bad data" then I'd use that same rule in a constraint and outlaw the data as it was written. "Data integrity" is entirely domain dependent and externalities outside the actual data can cause it to lose integrity (i.e. real life can ruin data's integrity).

For example, you could have mapping data telling drivers how to travel between sites, but what if a site's entrance moves? What if there's temp road construction? What if a new bridge is built shortening the route? All of which have harmed your data's integrity, without the data itself changing.

So my only strategy is:

- When you find yourself correcting bad data, consider if a constraint is possible.

- Referential constraints are superior to logical ones, but both are better than nothing (because logic could risk placing business rules into a constraint, which can balloon over time).

- Data Types are "super weapon" constraints. Define exactly what you plan on storing, don't future proof, and avoid nullable types whenever possible. Storing "magical strings" is often wrong, create a table.

- Simpler data sets are generally higher quality for longer. Consider simplifying and streamlining your actual data design (e.g. using generic building blocks and references for common domain tasks).

In general finding bad data/low integrity is like being able to completely define the whole problem domain in one go, and then deciding not to use that same information for constraints, it doesn't really make sense. If you're consistently finding yourself looking for and correcting data integrity problems then go back to the design and fix that.
Cool, pgtrgm has come up a few times in recent weeks. It's tracked in the below issue. I'm interested in hacking on it as it seems like a big reward for not that much work.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/41285
Yeah, just look at Deutsche Bank and the trouble they managed to get themselves into.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-ba...
I'm still trying to understand why your current "production" (eg SaaS) version of Fathom can't also be FOSS.

Other places (eg Redash) do so, and are doing extremely well.

The change from FOSS to non-FOSS, especially throwing away the goodwill you'd started out with... makes no sense. :(

Popularity of DB Browser for SQLite wise, you might want to check our stats page:

https://sqlitebrowser.org/stats/

We're doing decently well, and our GitHub organisation has more active developers now than ever before. :)