skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditional JavaScript has a notoriously poor object system yes. If those are the only two languages you know then I guess Perl's object system doesn't seem so bad, but that shouldn't be a defense of either language.
I agree. It’s also why they changed the api.
Buy real calculator online, buy cheap knockoff in shady store, get a refund from Amz. Tracing is hard with commingled inventory. Something i heard about on the internet...
If you're looking to switch to something like Matomo, you might want to also consider the platform that I'm building: https://usertrack.net
The advantages over Matomo would be the much cheaper price for features similar to their premium ones and that the codebase and UI/UX is a lot more modern.

I am still adding new features and improving it, so any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
>Overprovisioning to ensure demand is met in the worst case also sounds like a very early-20th-century sort of design decision

We're building 600 hp electric cars these days.
Cade Metz Pulls a ‘Deep Capture’ on Slate Star Codex
Anybody can have a look at the ROM to see if it makes sense whereas only Apple can realistically audit the iPhone.
> All major Linux distributions ship Firefox as the preferred default browser

Which is why anyone truly privacy conscious would use a distro or OS that isn't mainstream. My personal preferences for obscure OSes are Void Linux and OpenBSD. Void has a barebones installer image without any desktop software, you can build that up into whatever you want with whichever browser you prefer. A good simple setup would be something like i3 or dwm with the Surf browser.

With OpenBSD you do get a basic desktop window manager, but no browser is installed by default and the authors of that project are extremely privacy aware and security focused.

> If you really want privacy, don't use a computer.

I would amend that to "...don't use the Internet". A computer without a network connection isn't giving away your secrets, but even the most locked-down device can still leak data as soon as it's on a network, especially the Internet. Your ISP is fingerprinting you right now and there's not a damn thing you can do about that.
> This would certainly reduce heating costs per person by offsetting them to the state.

Unless municipal hot water is somehow much more efficient than hot water heaters (and I'm skeptical, given the heat lost in transit), then it doesn't offset the costs per person, because those costs still have to be paid.
Ask HN: If HN can't have sane political discussion, which forums can?
As a group, HNers value their smarts. Since their is no political discussion here, because, these "smart" people "can't handle it", then where are the important discussions happening?
Google shut down their similar tool: https://support.google.com/a/answer/9682494?p=am_announcemen...
The walled garden does no such thing.

Either iOS is secure or it's not. if it's secure there is no need for the walled garden. Let me run anything and trust its security.

If it's not secure then the walled garden is security theater because it's trivial for any app to hide its true intent.
I agree. In our case we're focusing on gathering and sharing information securely (end-to-end encrypted) i.e. Typeform for PII[0] with information verification built-in. There are lots of use-cases for a tool that enables non-coders to incorporate that information collection into their business process (we believe).

[0] Personally identifying information
You're assuming "retirement" is still at 65, but increasingly it isn't. The median is actually highest at the oldest age group on that chart.

Everybody also forgets to include the net present value of social security (basically an annuity you were forced to buy), which is a disproportionately large amount of the net worth for lower income people both because they don't have as many other assets and because the income cap limits how much it adds to the net worth of the people at the top. (Though people would generally have a higher net worth without it; it pays back less than you'd have from investing the same money in an index fund.)
Would you say the same about military veterans?
I wish Facebook worked more like a super-RSS reader platform, with optional personal and third-party customization. I subscribe to a page or follow a person, and I get their feed of shares and posts. Then I can feed those posts through Facebook’s spam filter, and my own, and also sort posts by content or keywords into buckets. I can also apply Facebook’s fact-checker, along with EFF’s, ACLU’s, and NRA’s, just to name a few. Then I can see who agrees, and who disagrees, and read between the lines for myself.

Now that I mention it, does the Fediverse and/or Mastodon have these kinds of features/functions? I think open source products are going to meet my needs well before consumer products.
You can't just compose two functions because they're both written in a functional programming language. The programmer has to have the foresight to make their types compatible. I think the novelty of the Unix pipe for interoperability is that they (typically) work on one agreed-upon kind of data: human readable, white-space separated. So a lot of tools "just work" with each other.

There's no reason you can't do this with functional programming, but obviously you can do it with non-functional programming too, and you could certainly fail to do this with functional programming.
I used to use linageOS no gapps and I loved it but then my nexus 5x died and I got a pixel 2 and linageOS support stopped at the pixel 1. It seems to me that the age of custom roms is over. Android got good enough that the only reason for a custom rom was privacy and extended updates. Since the pixel 2 is still updated there is no reason other than privacy and I guess no one was willing to put in the work for just that.
I only remember this from when I was living in Palo Alto: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/22/250k-per-year-s...

Wasn’t able to quickly find what the actual current number is (or if it just varies by development). But yes, obviously qualifying on even $70k would sound insane in most of the country. The point is that higher productivity = higher rent = real lifestyle gains that are nowhere near proportional to real productivity gains.
It helps with EB-2 too.
Why did you even need a physical phone? Emulator works fine for most development use cases.
NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer Mary W. Jackson
Most trackers are 3rd parties that require you to go through their hosts. Additionally, these trackers are usually picked out by business analysts / product managers on different teams - so marketing my have their own tracking solution, sales might have their own, and engineering might have their own. Tends to be faster/easier to plop javascript on a page than engineering your own tracking/analytics pipeline at early stage startups
> Either iOS is secure or it's not

This is flat out wrong. Security isn't binary.
Don't know much about this Gary Weiss, but if this is accurate it puts a new spin on the actions of Metz, with his strange insistence on doxing Scott and lying about the NYT policy.
Public Backlash Calls Use of Facial Recognition Systems into Question
> Every disease in history has conferred immunity except for HIV, which is chronic.

This is not true, nor a generally good guideline to think about things. Coronaviruses generally confer short immunity periods.

> 2) What is your alternative? The US lost to mother nature.

In the very least, being aware that long term herd immunity is not a viable goal.
Technically, parent says the issues was the temperature gradient, so this may have helped?
My favourite form of software reuse is when I just use my old code as reference but import or duplicate almost none of it.

Feels so good to write similar software in 1/10th the time because the hard fought ideas are already won.
That's not exactly true. Assuming you didn't mean TVs completely without any internet connection whatsoever then you'll find that pretty much since that ability was added there have been attempts by the very manufacturers to do just that.

Vizio isn't the only one but here's an example: https://www.tomsguide.com/amp/us/vizio-ftc-smart-tv-spying-p...

How-to disable additional snooping: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...

Mind you this goes above what most consumers would consider acceptable and can be blatantly sold to advertisers.

This is just what manufacturers have done but then there's just the attempts we know of by the CIA dump: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20206536
What changed after NAFTA, if you don't mind my asking?
We had a whole discussion about it here a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645
Apples walled garden approach is not necessary for any of this though (nor does it even make it easier). You can introduce sandboxing, fine grained permissions etc without locking devs and consumers into a controlled app store - these are OS features, not app store features.
So Microsoft no longer has a strong foothold in the browser market and shit like this is no longer considered anti-competitive?
Reading this made me feel like the odd one out or something. I'll read an article start to finish, read tables by row and generally do things in a left to right pattern. I ignore sidebars, headers and footers, especially ones that don't scroll and generally read content in a linear order and pick one topic at a time until I finish it.
Sure, if you are a self-sufficient adult with health and your life more or less in order. But these apps dont prey on that kind of people.They prey on naive teenagers who still are maturing, they prey on technologically clueless senior (and not so senior) citizens who believe everything that is on the Internet, they prey on people disenfranchised, the losers in the dating game in the job market. The mental health damage to those kind of populations is huge.
Not fascinating really, just incredibly shitty.
Grandparent estimated capturing 15%-20%, so they’re only off by a factor of 0x-2x from your estimate range.
> It's currently economically viable to refine in Iceland, but China is the #1 producer of raw aluminum [1] [2]. Iceland only has 3 smelters, and the combined capacity is less than the 9 largest smelters in the world, 2 of which are in China.

Great post, saved it for future reference!

Do you know how China powers their much larger smelters?

And do you know if these possible difference in aluminum smelting is considered when the carbon footprint for something like a mostly-aluminum Tesla is made?
Most tech companies get to tens of billions in valuation before they even think about government relations.
Thanks mate,

These are all great points, I especially like the "What's obvious to you isn't obvious to others", seems like a great way to write about something is to write about immediately after you learn it, especially if it wasn't obvious before learning it.

Cheers
You're right, every disease we catch gives us complete immunity. That's why when you catch the flu once, you're immune to it forever.

I'm being sardonic here because you have a severe misunderstanding of how immunity and our immune system actually works. Some diseases (like the chicken pox) we never truly beat, it just becomes latent. Other diseases we only become briefly immune.
Monopolies have nothing to with world markets. There is no world government.

Apple has a 49-60% share in the USA. Their next biggest competitor is Samsung with less than 1/2 of that.
Telomeres in lab mice may be distorting outcomes in drug trials
Yes, and they are pretty bad. For the price of a Grin motor you can buy a much better, fully custom QS Motor with components and windings of your own choice, and have enough money left to buy a second one. The Grin motor will be slightly lighter but will also overheat earlier, so there's really no advantage - you can just get a smaller motor and push it harder. Nothing is free - Grin motors aren't really better than anything out of China and for the outrageous price they sell at you can literally get a motor custom made.
TikTok users seem to be incredibly young, like children, so I doubt they care their privacy is violated.
Why not analyze the page and only apply the necessary generic rules, the way uBO does it? Am I missing something?
Sounds like Chrome doesn't do it in background.
Not to speak for the OP, but I'm pretty sure that was the point -- he was making fun of himself, especially when he noted that the guy quickly moved on to Google and he himself later started working in Javascript!
A measure that could significantly improve your Facebook experience (as it did mine) is to curate the content that you want to see.

A few years ago I started actively clicking "not interested" on every type of content that I didn't want to see, and slowly but surely I managed to get rid of all memes, news, and uninteresting bits.

Now I'm left with discussions about AI papers, local events that friends are attending, and updates from friends in other countries. And even then, my feed is so uninteresting that I'm not tempted to scroll through it every day. Of course, this doesn't remove the million other issues with Facebook but at least it doesn't mess with my happiness
I tried the service recently and was pleasantly surprised to discover that every single page is server rendered and yet the experience is snappier than any modern SPA out there.
But it took them a long long time to add that setting.
So if you can choose between pure and not pure, locked vs unlocked, is worse? Interesting selling point
I've seen police abuse innocent people, multiple times, which should be lesson enough. More importantly, I've been falsely accused of assault by a Federal officer, and had to spend all my savings on a lawyer to fight it (one year of fear and hell, until they finally produced the video showing I had done nothing but sit in my car while answering his questions).

I don't want to live in anarchy, but I don't want to live in fear. Help.
> "John is" is not contracted to "John's"

It is, actually. It's just best avoided due to confusion unless you're doing it for quoting or dialogue purposes.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/contracti...
This misses the simplicity though, right? $35 and this device arrives ready to record typing and goes 500h+ between charges. I have one of these. The keyboard is also surprisingly good, as in good enough that it also won't be a reason you can't be smashing out prose. I honestly think a "modern" version of this could be exactly this and there would still be a market.
The big cautionary tale of microbenchmarking is memcpy. If you look at the Gnu memcpy, it's ridiculously long and obviously been guided by extensive benchmarking. And memcpy often shows up in profiles, so it is a big target. But in real systems a small simple loop will perform better due to icache pressure.
On the contrary, _refusing_ to honor others' choice walled garden may eventually make it enough of a problem to warrant renewed efforts towards interoperability.
I have to say, I never even knew offroad segways existed, but that sounds like it'd make for an interesting camping trip.
It looks like they're looking at initial "problems" which are pretty broadly defined. Those can be complete failure to drive, to what they perceive to be a confusing interface with no weighting to them[0]. It also looks at a snapshot in time (when the car is manufactured) rather than the reliability of the car in the future.

At first glance it seems like this is a terrible way of evaluating cars, but my suspicious side hypothesizes that this opacity in their evaluation is a feature not a bug which allows them to accept payment in exchange for favorable reviews.

[0]https://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/why-consumer-rep...!
This basically is used by someone who forced to use python's libraries.
Stories like this makes me wonder if episodes such as this one are much more prevalent than we hear.
Removing `const char* wuffs_base__note__i_o_redirect = "@base: I/O redirect";` removes not only the literal string, but also a global non-constant pointer. This perhaps affects various optimizations.

They should have used `const char* wuffs_base__note__i_o_redirect const =` or (preferably) `const char wuffs_base__note__i_o_redirect[] =`.
This viewpoint is rather funny, because it looks like soon countries will start barring US travelers due to our own reckless abandon.

Do you take into consideration how our reaction to the disease might affect us on a more global scale? Because I wonder if people who had the same thought about banning all travel to/from China will have the same consistent viewpoint when it becomes banning all travelers from the US.
For starters, you would think that

* Revenue from tickets/fines/etc. shouldn't go to into police pockets or it just incentives rent seeking behavior by people with law enforcement powers

* Settlements should come out of their budget not city insurance.
Fine-grained permissions aren’t useful if an application is going to request access to everything anyway - and non-technical or non-privacy-conscious users will click-through any and all permission prompts so [they can see the dancing bunnies](https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-dancing-bunnies-problem/).

In the case of very popular, aggressively-marketed, apps like TikTok and Facebook’s: the lack of easy side-loading or alternative app-stores (with looser auditing) means they’re forced to comply with Apple’s regs against unnecessary permission prompts, and this means they simply can’t take advantage of users’ ignorance (or overriding desire to see the dancing bunnies) to get them to grant unnecessary permissions.
I looked into this exact topic a few months ago when a cake decorator friend wanted to know what to write on the cake board for "name's christening" but the child's name ended in S. I applaud the attention to detail :)
Like I said in another comment though - Canada's immigration system does not focus on family reunification like the United States.

63% of Green Cards are awarded based on family connection [0] not employment based sponsorship vs 26% in Canada [1].

The US is an outlier in this regard. Not many countries allow you to sponsor a sibling for Permanent Residency.

[0] https://www.boundless.com/blog/dhs-data-2018/

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...
> "It seems like a lot of these high-profile developers are churning out blog posts"

So true, the art of blogging has literally become an industry, where monetisation and consistency is valued over quality.

> ""Don't worry, if this seems magical, it isn't. I spend weeks figuring it out and writing this all out took several days!""

This would be an honest depiction of a technical blog article. People don't realise how much time goes into formulating code samples, diagrams and simply making it fun to read!
Isn't Firebase a FOSS fork of Interbase?
The title is misleading.

The Edge popup asks you if you want to import data from other browsers and set the default browser (like what happens when any browser is installed). If you just press cancel a bunch of times nothing gets imported or defaults changed and only some icons get added. That dude just killed it in the task manager so it used the popup's default settings.

Complain about getting the chromified Edge popup as part of a regular update, not about it copying data.
So I read how they get their data which is from city court systems that allow their data to be extracted programmatically. Then I wondered why dont we just put in the effort to standardize on a common data format and start making government info available across multiple levels of government. I mean most government forms could be replaced with a pretty simple html form.

Then I realized how many people would fight till their last dying breath to keep that data from coming to life to prevent the exposure of their crimes. And I don't just mean high level national officials but the thousands of county and municipal people all across the country that have their little practically harmless side graft going on.
That's interesting. Personally, learning Django to be comfortable with it takes quite some time for me. Translating the business process to code means you have to be comfortable with the framework, no matter what you're using. What do you often you feel you're stuck on?
The first iPhone used iPhone OS. It was never called OSX in production. In June 2010 it was renamed iOS.
> It's quite well known that SF is full of subtle racism towards Asians despite ironically being full of Asians.

It's the same in Asia. Except not so subtle.

I think that the history, in both cases, is that imperialism moved groups of people around the world in response to specific labor shortages. That has left a lot of communities that are still concentrated in whatever economic niche the British dropped them in, and who the "locals" still resent sharing "their" country with.

I trust that the need for scare quotes is obvious when discussing an English speaking community that considers itself local to a part of North America named San Fransisco.
Curious, if they are doing a scan, can/should they not, in public interest, also print a page notifying, if possible in the local language else a page with multiple languages, that the printer should be secured.
Hahah yes unfortunately. Maybe in the future I will rebrand it.
Regrettably, that is what's lost in all of this. Protesters against other opinions and belief systems strongly defend free speech so long as you are saying what they approve of.
If Google has indeed changed their support policy, it's going to take more than an article asking if Google has done so to serve as a citation.

>If Google is indeed adding another year, it would at least move closer to matching the lengthy span of time that Apple’s iPhones continue to receive new features and operating system updates. Security updates are also promised for three years, but that was already the case with the original Pixels.

Also, you'll have to excuse me if I take the word of people I know when they say getting Android 10 right before they were cut off from all other updates resulted in a buggy mess.
All good comments! We’ve thought about a wordpress plugin but would have to set up some sort of API-based system for that due to the way WP plugins have to work.

The FAQ section has short answers, which is why we don’t use BeeLine natively there.
I can think of a few two word statements ("It's tender") but they are meaningless outside of context anyway.
Well I didn't remember that the name had a 2, so I searched with a "to" and was lost for 5 minutes until I found it through GitHub.
If you do nothing, it copies your data. That is unacceptable, and the title is not misleading.
The last one about the data scientist tweet got even crazier:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-raci...
How are TOTP codes more phishable? Seems like the same phishability to me
Use any application that lets you view your network traffic and you'll see that Apple doesn't phone home anything it doesn't need to. Google phones home for everything.
So you're okay with "massive security holes" as long as their creators aren't "tooting the privacy horn"? Interesting indeed.
Our app Workflow had a largely seamless transition when being acquired, minus accidentally DDoSing Pinboard[1] for a period of time due to a bug.

[1] https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/845072973673357312
>If you're targeting competitors' customers after they've spent the time, money, and effort to come to a conference, they're probably not a good prospect.

You are informing a self-selected set of power users about a direct alternative - you can't get cheaper exposure than this.

How much money they would have to burn on advertising campaigns to get comparable exposure on such relevant audience ? Even if it leads to 0 conversions the awareness inside of that group is very valuable.