skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this approach. And giving users that progresive consent is smart. If I open your app and am greeted with "You need to give us your email to get the most out of our app" then I'll be upset as that is user hostile. But If I click a share button and am told "In order to make it easier for people to send you things, would you provide your email" and being able to dismiss that and continue to use the app and all of its features, I'll be significantly happier.

That said though, I don't see why the app couldnt just change their sharing model to an "invite link" based pattern. If I want to share something with a friend, why do I need to provide their private information to the app to do it? Why can't I generate an invite link and send that through my already established channels of communication? I don't think the "but your friends don't know your Apple privacy email" reason is very compelling. That might not work in their current system, but it is definitely not an insurmountable problem.
True, also in many EU countries credit cards do matter much less. For example in Germany card payment is normally done with EC cards (girocard,vpay,etc), including NFC based payment. For long term recurring payments SEPA is common, for one time payments simple bank transactions over online banking. This includes online payment for services like Amazon. Oh an not to large local payments (e.g. restaurant) are also very often done in cash. Credit cards are only needed for a German person in two cases: Travel and non EU online shops (but which often have pay pal through which you can use your EC card!!).

EDIT: Warning in some German cities (e.g. Berlin) you will find a lot of cash only restaurants, mostly due to high costs of payment terminals not being worth it due to most people paying with cash anyway. Like the a local restaurant from where I live they bought a payment terminal it broke in some stupid accident no insurance want's to cover so now it's back to cash only.
Bravo Google!

Well done :)
You still have your apple account on your PC/Android phone/etc. You just login on apple's website with your apple account and it passes the token/id to whatever app needs it.

For example you can goto dropbox on your pc/whatever and click signin with apple to see how it works.
High availability, deployment consistency and, if needed, ability to scale-out on demand to name a few. You can can have an all-inclusive environment for sandboxing, development or production use-cases. Easy to spin-up and tear down.

A good alternative is to use a database service and not have to worry about it at all. However if you do have to operate one, orchestration systems give you the tools to handle it properly WRT your availability and performance SLA/SLOs.
At no point did I intend to or hint at advocating for a lack of moderation. Moderation can be other things besides how it currently exists.

Any commenting system is going to need some way to value signal from noise, and popularity by itself isnt enough.

What I did say, was that moderation, as it stands now, has blowback, which includes but is not limited to creating and reinforcing refined groupthinks.
It's easy, you just convince a plurality of banks to honor your IOUs.
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Well whatever, but the mastercard name is so uncool right now I'm amazed they haven't changed their brand to primarycard.
If supporting murderers like Maduro is a sign you're on the extreme left and indefensible, does that mean that supporting murderers like Obama, Clinton and Bush equally makes you indefensible? I'm really trying hard to find the validity of this argument. In reality, everyone in politics has blood on their hands. Welcome to the horrible world we live in - no one has been able to build a society without massive violence yet. Though some try.
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Yes - 100% true. Try it.
Some skills are facilitating skills, and they come back to bite you if you don't sufficiently master them. For me, writing was always massive source of frustration. Not knowing how to write persuasively has limited me in my career. I've hired a writing tutor, which I hope helps me.
Totally agree in case there should be any doubt.

I prefer to call nazis "nazis". It is short and simple and we can all agree that we don't like them.
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Yes! Especially once you start juggling multiple accounts for different companies and projects. Becomes a guessing game, and each wrong guess creates another account magically. Infuriating
There is literally direct competition with Amex. Sure not everywhere takes amex but the majority do, and you can speak with your dollars (and still hold Visa / MC in case amex fails you). Consumers derive huge benefit from the safety, consistency and reliability of the networks Visa and MasterCard have built out, and yes the consolidation is a certain price to pay for that. These companies invest billions into anti-fraud technology.

But they are at their core public companies that want to maintain their image. They are reactive to public pressure and political headwinds, and will cover their bases by running away from thorny messy situations. This crosses the aisle in every imaginable way - whether its stifling whistleblowers or stifling supposed hate speech. The reaction to public pressure is not going to be avoidable with any conceivable system, privately owned or otherwise.

The best defense is competition, and despite this post's assertions, there is competition in this space.
Introducing all prices only in computer scanners removed deliberately all the fun in my opinion. Seems carefully designed with the main purpose in mind to discourage customers to buy. It is stupid by design
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RICO is a pretty narrow tool, as it should be. It also isn’t based on group membership, it’s based on involvement in the planning / sponsorship of illegal activities.

It wouldn’t matter how many Hackernews members started coordinating bank robberies; RICO wouldn’t magically allow for the rest of the Hackernews user base to be prosecuted.
Yes. But considering Stripe and others charge 2.8% of transaction, it's the more relevant metric.

I think the largest chunk of the volume difference is commercial-use. I don't have the numbers handy but the difference is huge.
Many also ask the US for assistance and see it as a guiding light. A lot of people are upset about the visa changes, there's a reason for that, yes?
Whenever I see a person use a fallacy I immediately use that fallacy against them. When she said the thing was a "conspiracy theory" that's essentially an appeal to authority that no one in authority believes that argument. When she compared me to a terrorist, that's an association fallacy, so I used that argument. Arguing against a fallacious reasoner is pointless, the only thing you can do is instruct them in proper reasoning.
> Tell me what kind of videos you'll be banned by payments companies over, please.

Videos showing American war crimes, specifically the “capital murder” video on wikileaks, which caused visa, paypal and mastercard to all pull the ability to use their services to donate to wikileaks.
The supply chains from Central and South America are already established and proven to be effective. What you seem to be ignoring is the demand part of supply and demand. If there is demand, there will be people importing drugs, increasing USPS pricing won't stop anything that from happening.
The new Reno 911 was really good. In that it is exactly what I wanted (more Reno 912), but i had to watch it on my phone so whatever. There were some moments where you could rotate the phone to watch a different angle but it wasn’t essential. Maybe they should try putting up more Reno 911, couldn’t hurt.
> The legend uses the words "Low/High" and not "Bad/Good." It's a quantitative measure, not a moral/aesthetic judgment.

This is definitely not true -- yes it uses Low/High, but different variables have different qualities for Low/High -- and "Good" is always on top. "Low" unemployment is on the top while "High" affluence is also on top (i.e. not purely numeric). That should be obvious because the positive emotions are being associated with positive ("good") variable ranges.

I mean, if a quantitative measurement were the main focus here surely we shouldn't be using faces which are known to be loaded with emotions.

You did not seem to address my main concern, which is specifically that low white percentages are portrayed as negative in the legend. (I'm trying to avoid the Motte/Bailey here) -- do you disagree?

> Poor people are naturally lazy/violent/immoral

I think it's more excusable to equate "Poor"=="Bad" than "Certain race"=="Bad", because it's generally accepted being poor is undesirable, while you can't change your ethnic background (and generally I don't think you should)
> The fundamental jump from three to five is that you now have things which can collide in the air.

> Juggling three is so basic in comparison -- only one ball is in the air most of the time

This makes no sense. Balls colliding in the air is an incredibly common problem for people learning to juggle 3 balls. You have multiple balls in the air every time you throw any ball.
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> Imagine @ing a GNOME dev in a different instance to comment on a bug report in KDE

How do you see this being different from providing that dev with a hyperlink to the bug report? In either case, the developer is made aware of the issue, no?

> or seeing an newsfeed update that your favorite framework is making a breaking change in the next release

I don't actually know if changelists have RSS feeds, but supposing they did, couldn't you subscribe your reader to those feeds to achieve this result?

> or opening a PR/MR in another project without having to create _yet another_ account.

Yeah, you got me here. Though I'm leaning towards "build a physical key that automates account creation everywhere" so you still have a zillion accounts under the hood, but that's mostly transparent to the user. Sort of like Facebook/Google SSO, but instead of storing data in one data-hungry corp's DB, you're generating essentially random data in one place (your physical key) and distributing it across zillions of little DBs, thus reducing the incentive for hackers to try to obtain any of them.
I bet you'd love this feature.

M-x which-key-dump-bindings

https://twitter.com/iLemming/status/1129578330687123457

Check it out, if you didn't know about it.
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There's also South Ossetia, which is even smaller than Crimea.

Two tiny chunks of land representing very important military positions. The USA is outraged, as Saudi Arabia bombs women and children in Yemen and nobody cares.
Agreed, social login like Facebook et. al do not provide passwords to consumers, but e-mail is already contentious enough.

Most people use the same e-mail for every single account they have. A large majority of these users use the same password for all of their accounts. (Just want to clarify that I do neither of these things - I have a large set of e-mail aliases and have a unique & secure password for each account I have to set up manually).

If you'll grant me that fact, then all I need is your e-mail from a dump of AnyList's users table, and look up that e-mail in my already vast database of dumped tables, and see that your password was "hunter2". Now I have access to your bank account, because you used the same e-mail and password for that account as well.

This is a bit of a contrived example, but in general, any personal information that is leaked (e-mail included) is bad - full name, address, and the like, which many websites ask for, is even worse, because crackers have even a better shot at guessing a lot of your personal information, and at that point, the ball is in their park.
In the EU, interchange fees are capped at 0.2% of transaction value for debit cards, and 0.3% for credit cards.

This has indeed meant that rewards and cashback credit cards have largely disappeared (with the exception of Amex, which operates outside the interchange system?).

Rewards/cashback cards that do still exist are typically tied to specific retailers, with whom the issuing bank has cut their own deals.
Thanks, really useful.
I got this question asked in an interview for a mechanical engineering internship. I was asked "you are given a ruler and a parked car, how can you measure the weight", took me about 10 panicked minutes and 4 hints before I figured it out.
What if the grocery store policy was no alistairSH, for their HN post history.

Are you prepared to compete with the wall-mart superstore?
[ disclosure: I designed Hyperscan and worked on it 2006-2017 ]

This is a rather old concept, but as long as people keep using backtracking regular expression matchers, I suppose it's relevant.

What would be intriguing would be ReDoS against robust matchers like RE2 and Hyperscan. Both have their own potential performance corners that could be exploited, especially when matching large numbers of patterns (more Hyperscan's bailiwick than RE2).

For a sufficiently large pattern (or, rather, one that builds a sufficiently large DFA), RE2 could be forced to stay in its slow path by an input that prioritizes trying to head for an unbuilt DFA state. An attacker could attempt to tune this to stay on the edge of RE2s heuristics to fall back to NFA matching.

Alternately, NFA matching in RE2 is quite slow, and there are presumably ways to ensure that the slowest paths (probably involving large numbers of states being on) are traversed.

Hyperscan has its own performance corners - the dumps produced by Hyperscan's compiler could be examined to discover which "literal factors" it's using, then inputs crafted to blast those literal factors. There's a good deal of trickery to try to avoid getting caught by these kind of "overly frequent literal factors" so it's probably harder than one might think - but I don't doubt an attacker could make life difficult for Hyperscan.

Once into the NFA/DFA engines in Hyperscan, an attacker could ensure that the engines can't ever use their fast acceleration paths.

Note these aren't exponential blowups in performance. However, hitting one of these systems (RE2 or Hyperscan) with a 'constant factor' of extra work could be quite significant.
Never trust what they say, Google is known to offer so called "free" services for your good, ultimately people realize they are paying with their private data.
It is a gray area and social media platforms sit somewhere in-between being a common carrier and a being a publisher. Your right there is no hard legal line but the more they decide what is allowed and what is not allowed the more they move farther away from being a common carrier.

> Social media companies don't become more liable just because they moderate.

Actually they do:

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-....

And also:
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/1997-...
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If a micromort is really worth $50, then by my calculation, not riding a motorcycle is worth $40,000 per year.[1] Every year. The long term risk free interest rate at the moment is 1.39%, so the standard formula for a perpetuity says $40,000 indefinitely is worth about $2.8 million.

Therefore, someone out there should be willing to pay me to take one of these (I'd settle for $2.5M):
https://www.ducati.com/ww/en/bikes/panigale/superleggera-v4

[1] 6 million riders, 5000 deaths per year
You may want to read https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-...
> You can just... use the Internet. Register your own domain, pay for your own hosting, or buy some servers, take out come ads. It's the Internet, you can still do anything.

Agreed. The infrastructure is there, and running a web server is pretty straightforward.

> Sure, if you host a bunch of white nationalist toxic garbage your registrar may revoke your domains.

I am not a die-hard "free speech" guy (especially when it comes to something as repugnant as white nationalism), but I do find the idea of having my domains suspended/revoked by my registrar a bit troubling. Let's say that someone wishes to publish material that no registrar wants to be associated with. Is the only option in that case to simply have no domain name? Just an IP or onion address? There's no Let's Encrypt for domains, right?
My favourite dusty bookstore story is the "$15 shipping" on this.

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=3019027757...
Check the post time. If it's only a few minutes old, it's likely it just hasn't been seen by other people yet.
Relatedly: if you and your bicycle weigh 200 pounds, and your tires are inflated to 90 psi (a very reasonable pressure for a road bike; racers run much skinnier higher pressure tires), your total contact patch is a little over 2 square inches. Think about that the next time you’re watching somebody fly down a descent going 45mph or more. That’s not a lot of rubber keeping you on course.

As an added bonus, you can basically ignore sidewall stiffness for bicycle tires.
Generally things like weight and wear affect timing so it's better practice to measure.
Isn't there is a good option is to use wireless charging instead of USB one?
Having had this same problem multiple times, I actually made it a point to save a “login” for those sites that when I autofill it reminds me which auth service I’ve used.

Username: Log in with FB

Password: <blank>
Marxism has been responsible for as many deaths globally as Nazism. It's irrelevant what "utopia" they pander to the public. Nazis claimed they were creating a utopia as well..
Merchants certainly "notice" and take any opportunity to use an alternative to the card networks. They only accept it because they must to avoid losing a purchase. They would rather customers pay in almost any other form due to interchange costs.

When talking to big merchants about any new payment product, the first question you will hear is often "so, how does this lower my interchange cost?"
So you say you are using your email as the unique identifier instead of the password?

If you use a unique password for every service, what would you need a unique email for?
No, they can't. If the US were to ban Chinese apps, and then China relented and allowed in American apps, and then the US kept the ban, that would make the hypocrisy clear.

You could even made it explicit in the law, similar to what the EU is doing for travel reciprocity now that the coronavirus situation isn't as bad: have the text of the law explicitly say that the ban automatically lifts if the other country cooperates.
Under those conditions I'd agree theres likely a high overlap of similarity. I have a use case on my home playpen that would likely be served well by that. Thanks for describing your approach.
That was not the point of linking to that, but it seems so.
I say it all the time - I have a bit of a history of speaking my mind, though.

"If you don't enjoy computer science, please oh please don't do it. You're going to hate every waking day if this isn't fun. It's some of the worst stuff you could possibly do if you don't love it."
Imagine if companies charged 2-5% less because they didn't have to fund CC company marketing tools like cashbacks.
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...but since "literally" now means "figuratively" I honestly don't know where the line is.
the bigger question is that why aren't these standards meeting privacy best practices in their API designs? Why are companies like Google influencing these standards so much ? In my opinion if that continues, we should disregard these so called "standards".
I assume they rely on the fact that sharing a random list with a random person a thousand times is pointless.
What do you think the ad networks and social networks are all already doing? Reddit just deleted a whole subreddit... (which ultimately moved to its own website).

At some point it's not really about censorship or freedom of speech anymore... and more about not letting the other guys win.
That would be cool. Do you remember where you heard this? Would love to see a source.
I think it would come down to user hostility here.

If I sign in with Apple and opt out of giving my email only to be faced with a prompt demanding I give up my email address, I'll be upset. I JUST told the app (via checking the box in Apple) that I don't want to give my mail, so why is it now suddenly required?

However if the app allows me to sign in and only asks for my email when I try to interact with a feature that would be more usable had I given my email, then I would be more accepting of it. Though I would still fully expect to be able to use the app in its entirety even if I opt out.

Now what Apple will say to this, I have no idea. But as a privacy conscious user, I would be happier with this.

As for having to come up with silly names, I don't understand why I need to be discoverable within an app. We have established social media and communication platforms, use them. Let me send a link to a friend to connect with them in your random app. I don't need to be able to add them within the dang app.
I'm not advocating or promoting the middle. What I'm saying is that it is logical to take the position I mentioned in the sense that it's the only way to be fair to everyone. That's because the alternative requires you to undo the passage of time or have perfect knowledge of every detail of history (because if you take shortcuts and generalize you're being unfair to innocent bystanders that were never involved).

Two wrongs don't make a right. And redefining one of those "wrongs" to be right because it's fixing the first wrong is a mess and people rationally (guess that's a better word for you? I'm not referring to logic in the inductive reasoning sense) see the inconsistency.
An '-ism' is an ideology which is used for organizing the world. The big difference is whether it's an individual ideology or a systemic ideology.

1 person renting out property = a rentier. Private ownership of land = capitalism.

1 person not hiring women = a misogynist. Companies not offering parental leave and assuming the primary caregiver is the mother = sexism.

Zuckerberg saying "young people are just smarter" = a bigot. Focusing on algorithms in software interviews which new-grads will have an easier time solving = ageism.

It's very common to call a prejudiced or discriminatory individual a "-ist" because the individual is subscribing to an ideology. But, that's emphasizing the individual rather than the society. If you only look at individual people as racist, they feel like isolated cases which don't have good solutions. Furthermore, you're absolving people who aren't explicitly discriminatory but who are still supporting systemic discrimination.

- This company will hire anyone who's qualified, but they're full of ivy-league graduates because they rely heavily on campus recruiters. Even though they aren't prejudiced when hiring, they are classist because they cater to high-class people.

- This bank will offer a mortgage to anyone with a steady paycheck and a safe-investment property. However, due to red-lining and racial covenants, Black people weren't able to purchase safe-investment homes so they didn't get good mortgages.

Granted, it's an uphill etymological battle because the individual usage is so common. When people argue for the systemic definition, they're arguing that we should focus on processes rather than individuals.
Could it be that it’s just not as popular as one might think?