skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok it was the fault of their major shareholders, but then it's ok to make them pay their decision, I think (hoping that they're still holding those shares).

By the way, in general my understanding is that the "beholden to their shareholders as a public company" (and thus forced to make the most remunerative decisions) belief is a myth, a public company is free to make ethical choices (if its major shareholders don't oppose them).
He and I have gotten to know each other pretty well over the years of working together. I will suggest the milk and frozen veggies - I think he has that covered but who knows?

As far as stress relief, definitely, I'm covering his bills and have taken his tasks until he feels better.

Thank you.

P.S. He was feeling better this morning but, as we all know, coronavirus can get better before turning suddenly worse. The 14-day clock has started.
That isn't how salaries work. If there are many people who are willing to do the work at a given salary, it doesn't matter if the company earns 5x from that labor.

Supply and demand are obviously not the only factors, but they are very important and must be considered when looking at compensation for employment.
Zoom is a really great product.

The company lied about their encryption.

Both of these statements can be true, it's just a question of trade offs.
=== edit because I feel this comment is not substantive enough / engages with a strawman version of your comment ===

I understand you're talking about where those feelings come from -- ie, that the feelings are more useful information when backed by the reason for them. And you do provide some of that in your post (privacy, watching US Netflix). But those are things that any trustworthy VPN with US-based endpoints can provide, so they're not a unique selling point, which means your recommendation basically boils down to unsubstantiated feelings again, to which:

=== Original comment ===

I don't use a VPN and have no horse in this race, but surely you see the irony in:

> What have these "feelings" got to do with anything?

Followed by

> I use Windscribe and I really like it.
I see this take a lot. Serious question: doesn't the U.S. government surveillance program focus on collecting communication metadata for U.S. citizens? While it isn't clear what that metadata includes, we do have examples of past programs that have leaked (and the legal theory used to justify them) to guide us.

Given what we publicly know about these surveillance programs I could see FISC approving bulk metadata collection for the IPv4 header content, insecure HTTP header content, and DNS queries.

Wouldn't using a VPN, DNS over HTTPS, and HTTPS everywhere shield you from these bulk metadata collection programs? I run https://everytwoyears.org, a political non-profit focused on ending these programs, and I view VPNs as a key technical piece of preventing these metadata collection programs from functioning; if the security community doesn't believe they are effective, I would really like to know!

Another way of saying this: collecting _content_ of a communication requires a warrant (and our mass surveillance programs respect that from what we publicly know). Most people that I know aren't trying to avoid active (we have a warrant to search you) monitoring with a VPN, but trying to avoid passive warrantless monitoring. Obscuring communication metadata through encryption and tunneling seems to be an effective way of doing this.
It's strange that whenever telegram comes up, there's an unfounded suspicion that it has some kind FSB/Russian government connection simply because it was developed by a Russian.

This is insane and like pretty bigoted - not a good look for HN.

Here's the guy that leads the company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov

>In 2011, he was involved in a standoff with police in St. Petersburg when the government demanded the removal of opposition politicians' pages after the 2011 election to the Duma.

He's living abroad because he's either not allowed or does not feel safe entering Russia. VK was taken from him pretty much over his principals not to do what HN just assume telegram does. Telegram was developed outside of Russia to avoid being beholden to them.

The fact that Russia was actively blocking telegram should be proof enough. The reason they stopped is because when they did, they would accidentally blocked other services and it was kind of a disaster. They simply don't have the expertise to run their blocking campaign. It looked bad so they stopped.

Russians are more than one-dimensional Putin-driven fake news generating bad guys.
I am surprised at how much money exists in the VPN industry. Whenever I watch even a mildly-popular YouTube video, it always has an advertisement for the latest VPN provider. As far as I can tell, there is only one reason there is this much money in the field -- to subscribe to US-based video streaming services from outside the US. But they never ever say that that's the reason, they always say things like "work from home securely" or "avoid being tracked". But, of course, your IT department already has a secure VPN for working from home, and that Facebook cookie works regardless of what your IP address is. In general, the sell of "you can't trust your network provider, so pay for an additional network provider that doesn't keep logs and only accepts payment in Bitcoins," doesn't seem particularly strong to me. Of course you can't trust the network layer. Nobody trusts the network layer. That is why we have TLS. (Anyone remember "wired equivalent privacy" when WiFi was a cool and new thing? Turns out wires don't offer much privacy.)

So why people are buying this service confuses me.

I am also confused at why people can run these services so cheaply. I looked into doing it myself (I had some ideas for actual value add), and the economics didn't seem that good. There is a lot of software between "ifup wg0" and "collect money from people that want a VPN". It seems expensive to write all that, unless a "yolo" strategy of starting up openvpn and setting up a couple NAT rules actually scales. (At the very least, you need to be able to distribute keys to pre-built clients, and if you want to make it smooth, you are looking at writing your own Windows/Mac/Android/iOS clients. Then you need all the business management software on top of that -- didn't get the Bitcoins so delete their private key, etc.) It seems like quite a bit of work that is quite expensive.

But these things exist left and right and have huge advertising budgets. So obviously I am misunderstanding something.
I think it's very relevant to ask the folks actually building the stuff what they think.

If Apple won't answer questions about the platform through the proper channels, might as well go through the wrong channels. We're not going to get less of an answer.
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The privacy policy for 8.8.8.8 is actually really good: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
I wish more google products were so explicit in what they log and for what purposes.

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
If traditional ISPs including Starlink and the other upcoming satellite-based access providers all end up blocking you [1] there are other ways of getting linked up, even though they come at the cost of performance and ease of use. Mesh networks can be used for the 'last mile', I2P or similar 'darknet' protocols can be used to get content spread, a willing neighbour could hook you up through wifi and tor, etc. Do mind that this is not a goal in and of itself, it would be a way to continue to be connected to the 'net in the face of a total blockade by regular commercial access providers. Where there is a will there is a way.

[1] If everybody is out to block you it might also be time to wonder why they're all blocking you...
I'm German and was quite surprised indeed :-)
>by force

It was so forceful, that it was effectively bloodless and an overwhelming portion of the "annexed" populace has actively supported it.

Meanwhile situation in Taiwan is drastically different. Pro-mainland faction is really weak and can not be used to provide sufficient support for quiet absorption. And since Taiwan has deep military connections with USA for many decades, any military intervention will inevitably escalate into a major military conflict.

The only scenario in which something like that can happen is civil-war-level turmoil in USA. Probability of which, worryingly, is noticeably bigger than zero.
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What do you dislike about bugs being highlighted as you type, rather than first having to run your code?
Just want to point out that telegram has the same security model as email. Google can read all your emails. So can microsoft if you use them. NSA can find its way into those companies.

Do you use email despite it's lack of end-to-end encryption? I would bet that 99% of these privacy people still use email.
just hiring the entirety of TSMC's and ASML's technical staff at 10x the market rate for ten years

That's assuming those folks would want to move to China and work there. If strategic tensions are increasing to the point where war is feared and China uses this as an alternative, who would want to move there and risk becoming a hostage?
There are essentially two options for smartphones, for tablets it's closer to one. Remember when Microsoft got in trouble for bundling Internet Explorer in Windows? Seems quaint compared to what Apple is doing now.
Hopefully you're already aware but just in case: many tools (including git and github) have an option somewhere to hide whitespace changes. In some contexts this can help a lot, though it certainly doesn't get us all the way there.
Append “?w=1” to the end of a Github PR URL, it’s like passing “-w” to git. (Not that that addresses all of your comment, I just wanted to share the tip. Agreed that smarter diffing would be really nice.)
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Actually Iran used missiles strikes against Saudi Arabia oil facilities very recently as an argument in negotiation. No strong world reaction.
Well put.

Just cause it's happened a 1000 times doesn't mean people are numb.

The protests out there are evidence of this.

Yes, some people know some cops in some places are gonna be huge dickheads, but it doesn't assuage our feelings, when a bad experience happens.

Nobody should get used to having to experience a shitty situation through no fault of their own.
I'm 100% fine with running this and similar tools with docker to avoid polluting my machine with dependencies / un-uninstallable cruft and also to allow the people making such tools to concentrate on the tools and not supporting installation on 30 different platforms. Hell, docker even works on windows these days.

but your comment made me think of this meme, which I can't not link to https://i.imgflip.com/24ac74.jpg

text for people who don't want to click:

It works on my machine

Then we'll ship your machine

And that is how docker was born
Thank you, please email me at mumbai-support A.T freytag D.O.T org so we can discuss options.

P.S. He was feeling better this morning but, as we all know, coronavirus can get better before turning suddenly worse. The 14-day clock has started.
Have data on the opposite end: super stable type (Stanford MS&E undergrad; PhD track in ML 10+ years ago) who chose startups and entrepreneurship in scrappy, un-sexy niches of retail excess, operations research in shipping, etc., passing up opportunities in ibanking, hedge fund, and ML in Big Tech in the past ~15 years. My East Asian extended family was INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATED that I kept going off the beaten path and not following the "cultural formula" of good school->good role in company->seniority through years of service for a tried-and-true path forward... and they were right.

The EV of every path I've skipped was probably low eight figures by age 40 and more comfort/sanity, based on my friends/peers who went into them. Instead I have a semistable lifestyle business that I obsess over 24/7 and am constantly doing things outside my comfort zone, and while I make a reasonable amount there's a lot of business and inventory risk loaded in every step.

If I had a recommendation it would be this: instead of FOMO, collect a data point or two -- especially since you're implying that you're more steady-eddy and mature in your career path, switching to do a business for 2-3 years is super respectable and has very little downside since I imagine you have plenty of network and history to fall back to. Several of my friends in their 30s-40s have expressed a romanticized view of my career path to me, to which I bluntly say: this is mostly shit work that I suffer through to be consistent with identity and my values. It's got higher highs and WAY lower lows than your traditional 9-5, and I wouldn't wish this upon my enemies or friends. Do it only because you see unfilled needs and it bothers you so deeply that you gotta fix it on the market yourself.

There's a deep amount of glorification of entrepreneurship that's celebrated... and while I think everyone loves to see the journey, I honestly don't think most people would care for it themselves. To use an analogy: it's exhilarating to see an olympic gymnastic do her thing and push the limits of human possibility in 3-5 minutes on TV... but honestly, do most kids wanna practice 4-8 hours daily in a gym during your formative years of 8-18, obsessing over form and weight transfers and live with constant soreness and bodyaches while most people their age get to play videogames and gossip with friends and develop life their own way? Starting a business can have tradeoffs that feel similar -- for the brief moments of glory that are celebrated there's a lot of discomfort, monotony, suffering, and uncertainty that accompanies it that is rarely portrayed.

But simmer in that angst and FOMO... just realize you can use that as energy to get you to start down the path. Get a good advisor who's done it MULTIPLE TIMES BEFORE and hash out an MVP, and get the experience yourself before you figure out whether you want more. You're in a good position of having developed a long track record, so leverage your strengths and come collect a data point. :)
The problem is that the only reason they are complicated is because the courts require complexity. Each one of those complicated legal terms exists because of some lawsuit somewhere. Blaming it on the company, or saying that it's obfuscation simply misses the point.

If we want to get rid of these complicated 'agreements', we need to change the way our legal system operates.
I'm not saying it's good or bad. I think the question is more what alternate models could we have? And what would their corresponding pros/cons be?
If you look at Spotify's allegations[0], than things did change in 2015 when Apple launched Apple Music, creating a conflict of interest for Apple. Anyhow, anti-trust moves slow. The trust cases against IBM took more than a decade, and the case against Microsoft also took a few years.

[0]
https://timetoplayfair.com/timeline/
Well... he could sign another futile executive order?

Attempting to force advertisers to carry political ads probably wouldn't fly with the courts.
A lifespan of a century or more?
Hi Steve, thanks for the comments and for reading my somewhat grumpy post! I expect you've heard it all before. It's true, I do believe that Rust is basically a programming language for adult brains, and so it's a bit weird for the Rust book to contain sentences that sound like they're aimed at younger teenagers. I know there are teenagers learning Rust! And that's great. But when they're doing that, they're exercising quite an adult part of their personalities and I think they'd respond better to being treated as adults while they are bravely entering an adult world.

It's also true that I worry that the whimsical sentences that seem designed for children are somehow connected with what is often called the "Diversity and Inclusion" movement. In my company, the diversity and inclusion initiatives were characterized by childish activities, such as writing "motivational phrases" on post-its in colored pens and posting them on the walls of the office. The women I've spoken to about this really resented the fact that engaging with pro-women-in-tech initiatives meant having to behave childishly, and they resented even more strongly the implication that childishness was appealing to women and under-represented minorities.
Thanks for the tip. One of Heap's selling points seems to be that tracking events "manually" is over, everything is automatic. That might work if all "work" is defined as "stuff users do". For other types of "work" (calculation pipelines, job delegation etc) I'm sure being able to "micro manage" events can be useful. But sure, my use case might be different.
The weapon used by the Chinese troops indicates that it was more than a fist-fight[0].

I do agree that coastal waters of certain ASEAN countries, which are practically defenseless, are at a significantly higher risk.

0. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53089037
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TL/DR: Darwin eventually came to believe earthworms have some amount of intelligence because they drag leaves in certain specific ways, including leaves not native to their environment.

I found it an interesting coincidence to read here about Aristotle's thoughts on animal intelligence, because just a couple days ago I made a note of this passage from Aristotle's "Prior Analytics": "Let A be raven, B intelligent, and C man. A then belongs to no B; for no intelligent thing is a raven. But B is possible for every C; for every man may be intelligent." I'm sure that's not the specific place this author is talking about but it's interesting to see Aristotle's philosophy about animal intelligence creep even into his works on dry formal logic.
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Epic is obviously exaggerating. Android lets you enable local app installs in like 2 clicks including a safety message. Complaining about this is like complaining about windows UAT (I expect Epic will complain about that next).
I feel like this is just softening us up for the inevitable vscode (online edition)
Well, Julian is still waiting..

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/01/julian-assange...
Seems like this is the equivalent to GitLab's Code Quality CI template [1]? Which is supposedly built on Code Climate [2].

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/code_...

[2] https://codeclimate.com/
Thank you.

P.S. He was feeling better this morning but, as we all know, coronavirus can get better before turning suddenly worse. The 14-day clock has started.
I think the old Apple developers forum ( and iTunes ) were built with WebObject, I wonder what stack they have now.

Apple Music (Web) seems to be using Ruby Rails.
Yes. Me. Very.
> 'Missiles'? Really? Anyone can theoretically use 'missiles' to knock out the production capacity of some competitor's fabs.

Yeah but PRC would totally do it. They already gave the go-ahead to their allies to attack U.S. partners with missiles, a first-party strike is really not hard to imagine.
Localized error messages (that are still full of jargon) are terrible.
It makes looking them up online much harder and often the translation does not more than obfuscation.
> just leaving those right out of school jobs from 20 years ago off

Well, with any luck I won't need to look for a new job any time soon ;)
I would counter that how safe people feel, and to what extent they have an expectation of privacy online will determine their behavior. The technical effectiveness of the product is one thing, but how users perceive it will determine whether it offers them any real benefit. These things do matter.

Remember Foucault's panopticon: If someone merely thinks they might be surveilled their behavior will change in profound ways. More concretely, if you think the government may be spying on your browsing habits, maybe there are sites you won't visit or comments you won't post or videos you won't watch. It's important not only that the product works, but that people feel it works so that they can behave more freely on the internet.
Don’t get me wrong I make it a point to collect as many ebooks as I can but I never read them. I feel through them now and then with some regex but I would never stare at a screen for hours just reading. Paper is softer on the eyes and it doesn’t take fossil fuel for them to continue existence and use. Until renewable energy makes up more than 50% of our energy sources, I hold that paper books are more environmentally friendly than ebooks as they do not require electricity to use or to store, additionally they permanently trap carbon in a useful way. Everyone is itching for everything to be “smart” but we don’t necessarily gain a benefit of making everything electronic
And I'm sure that makes sense if you have lots of users and low revenue per customer. If your use case is the opposite, tracking individual usage becomes more important. At least until you have lots of those users. After that, who cares! :P
You're probably busy taking care of this thread elsewhere, but I'd appreciate if you gave me a couple of minutes later and pointed out provocative content.

This is a pseudonymous account, but not in a tight way; it's not hard to suss me out either from the content of my comments (how many people have worked on symplectic geometry and in business consulting in the city that I've already mentioned I live in) or following a pattern of usernames. So... I need to be wary that something that gets perceived as off flavor might follow me to real life.
What is an IoT chip but a cheap low power general purpose chip?
p values cutoff can't salvage that

as a matter of fact artificially raising the cutoff to make the results sound more convincing is a form a p-hacking

it is exactly the opposite of how p-values work. a smaller p-value does not make a result more reliable, it makes no sense whatsoever to reject a 10^-7 but trust in 10^-8

the misuse of p-values in the world is rampant - the only people that don't misuse them are those that do not use them ;-)
No talking points, but since everyone finds the value in it and you don’t, maybe you’re wrong and should give it a try?
> What good is a VPN if you have to reveal all of your personally identifiable information to the vendor?

Because most peoples threat model doesn't include actors that can force a VPN provider to give up their data. They just use it because it's making it easier to not get data stolen in a coffee shop and watch US Netflix.
Though the last option doesn't give you anonymity. It just gives you privacy from your ISP. Any services you connect to can tie you to the IP of your VM. Sometimes the shared IP of a VPN provider might be desirable.
I am concerned because he is concerned and he is my friend.
Are you a high profile enemy of the Russian state? Probably not. People seriously have a strange idea about how important they are to some intelligence agency. There are billions of messages being sent every day and I guarantee you the FSB or the NSA don't crawl through your grocery list

Every time these discussions come up people sound like they think they're El Chapo or Ai Weiwei in which case yes don't use telegram. If you're an average citizen these agencies couldn't care less what youtube videos you share
This page was a staple of mine during my physics degree, and also during my PhD when I was teaching these concepts
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> Am I the only one that dislikes linting?

You're right, I much prefer de-linting, but to each their own.

(it's probably just an artifact of ancient unix history that these tools are called "linters" instead of "delinters", because they preferred vry shrt nms bck thn)