skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these apps could as well be using the clipboard content with good intent (no pun intended). But who knows apart from their respective developers?

In 2020 it's still not a given that we should be allowed to review and read shit that's running on our machines, to at least check this kind of things. It's okay to be surrounded with black boxes everywhere that one cannot study if they wanted to.

It's still not considered as a disrespectful and weird practice to not provide the source code with software being distributed. And people are not told they should expect software to come with everything possible to inspect what it does, to the community or themself can review it.

If someone is not providing the source code because they fear that something bad will be discovered about it, or that the user will change something to better fit their needs, well something is wrong and is working against the user, especially if the software is gratis anyway. Providing source code could allow users to remove ads? Right, downloading, running and looking at ads is not something many users want to do, even if you consider that ads are legitimate.

Give me the code already or I won't run your software because I can trust you on doing the right things and on fully help me out, otherwise you would not have problem providing the code.

A case could be made for paid apps: obviously, making the code available could endanger the business model. But at the end of the day, the community and I cannot check that the app isn't doing anything shady if it is sold without its source code.

Would I mind if an open source app read my clipboard content? No, because I can check that it's doing something useful for me. These useful features are simply not available to proprietary software without the risk of feeling creepy.

Have you noticed how we are mistrustful against our everyday apps and relying operating system developers to cover our asses with complicated permission systems to compensate? This feel this is very wrong, doesn't it?

(permission systems would be also useful in a world where every think is open source, though, that would be a defense against attacks. But that would not be a defense against legitimate software!)
Some of what you're describing in 1-4 is Data Engineering. 5-6 exists (in some form) for most software jobs.

The general breakdown I give people is:

Data Scientists:

* Get data.

* Clean data (~60% - 70% of time required).

* Research.

* Low level data analysis.

* Building models.

It's mostly the "knowing data" and the modelling.

Data Engineers:

* Data storage

* Data processing

* Automation

* Infrastructure

It's about getting the Data Scientist's output into production / making data easily available to them.

This is especially true for big ETL jobs. The more we can automate your ETL jobs, the happier you'll be!
> I don’t think anyone is debating the possibility of it being beneficial.

There definitely were people actively hoping that it wouldn't work.

A couple months ago, there was a post about HCQ where I commented that the evidence I'd seen so far led me to the opinion that if I personally caught Coronavirus, I would be seeking out HCQ.

That post was met with a downvote brigade and multiple comments about how the drug was actively harmful and anyone thinking otherwise was an idiot.

I agree that we should let doctors do the studies and figure things out, but especially at the height of the media / political press against HCQ, even the idea that someone might personally be willing to bet on the drug's efficacy was met with a lot of disdain.
openlayers is more a gis platform, while leaflet is easier to use and closer to Google maps api
Anyone using Vue3? How's it going? I am very much looking forward to migrating to V3 and using TypeScript for components.

The new vite [0] dev tool looks impressive. The features list is chock full of good stuff like TypeScript, JSX, CSS processing, hot reloads, JSON and CSS loading, etc.

[0] https://github.com/vitejs/vite
#3 for linkedin. if fact they applied a quick fix that you can check yourself here: https://github.com/linkedin/Hakawai/commit/c3f89585c097863c2...

also looking at what they were trying to do in the first place -- check if contents was pasted... and whether the text would be autocorrected?! -- it all looks to me like apple has a bad, or not well understood, clipboard API.

apple needs to set guidelines around the clipboard API.
Facts as you define them would be impossible to confirm. You would need to trust the stated intentions of each app and framework found to be doing this. Nothing short of legal discovery will have a chance at defining facts about their intentions. We can only evaluate their response for maturity, competence, and authenticity, and combine that with past knowledge to try and evaluate whether their stated intentions are an accurate reflection of their true intentions.

For example: "Did they honestly make this mistake or were they planning to use that innocuous framework call to implement clipboard-theft?" cannot be proven to be "honest" as a lack of evidence of dishonesty will be interpreted by doubters as "we haven't found the evidence of dishonesty yet". There are no facts that can usefully satisfy this question.

It would speak highly of LinkedIn, though, if they were to announce that they've also evaluated their Android app (where this warning is absent) and identified and removed code there as well. But that, itself, is no proof of either honest or dishonest intentions, any more than any other facts will be.
Wouldn't a company improving their website be the more reasonable approach though? Rather than hiding the equivalent features behind a maze of keyword matching and sub-par natural language processing? A chat-bot is only going to be capable of supplying information and service that should be far more trivial to just expose on a website via simple forms, user-account features, and F&Q/knowledgebases.

In my experience, most tech-savvy people do not want to call or chat. They only resort to those options when they can't find a way to do what they need to on a company's website. There is another group that wants to talk to a real person regardless, but they usually prefer to call. I'm not aware of any group that wants, or has their needs best met, by talking to a chat-bot.
Definitely not about botnets. It's about chatbots or "normal" bots (i.e. components that automate processes, like sending you a Slack message alerting you when somebody posts a comment in your WP site).
I know that this data is used in good ways. It just points at the greater problem that wildlife is about to exist only in a "managed", semi-wild way.

In my mind "left alone and given sufficient space" is better than "protected and managed". Unfortunately the choice is most often not between these two, but between "protected and managed" and "destroyed".
Yes, but "improve" is often subjective, and systems of surveillance and control take away power from people being surveiled and controlled.
Agreed. We need a standard that forbid websites from making popups and setting cookies if the do not track flag is set - alternatively we need all cookies to be marked as optional or required (per the GDPR) and then browsers can handle what to do with them, including just ignoring them completely.
I'm going to guess that for the OP, their reader is already past this level, but sharing anyway for the benefit of others, as I think it's a great book for roughly around that age:

https://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer-Inter...
Australia Has a Flesh-Eating-Bacteria Problem
Nuclear energy doesn't kill any birds, though, and is the safest form of energy in terms of (human) deaths per terawatt hour. This kind of data should inform our decision making.
ZNG: Structured log format with in-line schemas
Also, not to beat a dead horse :), but saying "cooling is ... lowest priority" is misinformation so I want to put this here for future readers:

I spent most of my career working on power and cooling for CPUs and MCUs and have presented on the subject at ISSCC since the 90's. I can tell you with absolute certainty that modern CPU power concerns have never NOT been a problem. Power, area and timing are the three competing constraints that all CPU manufacturers struggle to balance. And it is not easy since fixing timing can hurt power and area, and vice versa for the other two components. Finding a solution that doesn't impact the other two is hard (and very, very valuable).

Recall the early 1990's when PowerPC dinged the Pentium for being a 16W TDP part ("TDP" didn't even exist as a term in datasheets at the time, that came along once Intel added throttling with the P4). Ahh the good old days.
So they show Boeing's Starliner suit but not SpaceX's Dragon spacesuit? Seems a little odd.
I'd love to believe we would all be better if there was no advertising but it looks like our entire civilization is based on always producing and selling more stuff. What happens when we stop that ?
"The idea that an activity, rather than a substance, can be addictive is contentious among doctors"
As a person who has been struggling with video game addiction, especially in order to combat the loneliness I have been experiencing during the pandemic, I would disagree.
While it is unlikely one would get an addiction in terms of physical dependency, psychological addiction is a whole other question.
That being said, one can also get addicted to exercise, so I guess its not a reason to keep it out of the Olympics!
Does Vue 3 allow type checking templates? That's by far the biggest issue with Vue 2 and I would strongly recommend anyone to use React instead just for that reason (though there are others too).
Just do the math. Maximize the function of total new views over some time period.
iPhone apps have access to data you don't even know about
Being an atheist, I never proselytized. My job was improving access to TB care. My girlfriend (at the time)'s job was access to banking for the poor in India. One of my close friends' worked to map poor communities so that they were visible to the instrument of the state so that the need for services was apparent. It was all very outcomes-oriented and the outcomes weren't org outcomes but outcomes for the people served. The guys we each worked for ran their stuff well.

There was no religious component to this. Only good outcomes have come from this (and the other two are still doing it). I do not regret doing it except that I clearly have far greater comparative advantage making money and giving it away than doing this myself. Also I enjoy writing code more.
Great pick. Note: you can get it for $20 less AND support a local used book store if you buy it from alibris. https://www.alibris.com/Concrete-Mathematics-A-Foundation-fo...
Thorough is the better word.
Except we don't allow people to do dumb things when it puts other people at risk.

If your grandma decides to go drive after downing a few mimosas she'll be arrested for driving intoxicated. If she decides to go 80mph on a 30 speed limit road she'll be arrested for putting others at risk. And you can't smoke a cigarette anywhere you want because other people don't want your second hand smoke mucking up the area.

And this disease much like those is not about you. Arguments you make are inherently selfish because it's about your freedoms but not about the freedoms you take away from others. You are essentially arguing for those that are at risk to remain in permanent lockdown because others can't be bothered to take basic protective measures. You're demanding to take away other people's freedom so you can have marginally more freedom.
US retail: Kroger gives employees at-home coronavirus testing kits
If I'm understanding this correctly from you, you mean that in the sense that if they complete the task in the time allotted, there shall be no record of specifically how much of the deadline it took up?

That seems like a decent managerial practice for some types of workplace, and it's definitely the model I have for my direct reports; but doing it by law seems like a bit of a shortcut for some reason to my anglo brain.
Covid, Twitter, and Critique: An Interview with Carlo Caduff
> Statistics has probably done more damage to the world than any other discipline, by giving a sheen of respectability to fake science in fields like nutrition, psychology, economics, and medicine.

This seems really unfair. You can misuse statistics, but it's an extremely powerful tool when it's properly used and understood. Most powerful tools can be misused - you can write terrible code and (try to) publish bad mathematics too. But much of modern science would be intractable without statistics; including physics, chemistry, biology and applied math, because we'd be otherwise unable to draw reasonable conclusions from anything less than a totality of data.

As someone with a graduate education in probability snd statistics, I think it's fair to lay some of the blame for the reproducibility crisis at the feet of statisticians because of poor education. Statisticians should accept at least some responsibility if their students in non-math majors graduate without understanding the material, for sure.

But that being said, it should definitely be noted that actual statisticians have been talking about this crisis for decades. Statisticians have basically always known that there's nothing magical about the 95% significance threshold p <= 0.05, for example. And for the most part, it's not statisticians who are causing the bad science to occur. Rather it's a problem of non-statisticians using statistics without (qualified) peer review that they can't be expected to do correctly if it's not their core competency.

In my opinion it's something of a philosophical problem - many fields and journals are only realizing now that it's unreasonable to expect a e.g. professional psychologist to also be an expert statistician. Having a dedicated statistician - instead of another psychologist who hasn't reviewed the material since their upper undergrad course - is a giant leap forward in catching bad stats in new research.
Interesting quote:

the virus has killed many people; it’s dramatic in many ways. But when you look at the numbers, you need to compare this with other kinds of disasters and diseases that are happening every year. We know that tuberculosis kills 1.3 million people every year; HIV/AIDS kills 770,000; malaria kills 400,000. And then there’s dengue. And then there’s diarrhea. Influenza, in a severe season, kills up to 500,000 people. In 1968, there was an influenza pandemic that killed between 2 and 4 million people. We don’t see these numbers of TB, HIV/AIDS, and malaria deaths displayed on TV on a daily basis.

So that, then, raises the question: Why are we responding in such a huge, massive way for COVID-19, but when it comes to TB or AIDS or malaria or even influenza, we’re not mobilizing as many resources?

Are these deaths acceptable? What’s the politics of acceptability? Why is it acceptable that so many people are dying from TB or malaria each year? These are preventable and treatable conditions. To me, this is a question of justice, equality, and solidarity—a question of understanding how we determine the value of life and the inequalities we find acceptable or not. And then there are the people who will die due to the lockdown, due to lack of food, loss of income, and disruption of ordinary medical care.
>"Make a reverse L shape without hitting any cones" the L being a very tight fit.

When I did my driving licence test in the UK that was one of the exercises. In my opinion, anyone without the hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness to reverse around a corner should stay away from operating ~1 ton heavy machinery.
My high school math professor recommended this to me 40 years ago.

I got it, then put it on a shelf for 20 years. When I picked it back up, it somehow had become delightful! Perfect subway reading.

Review: http://www.ams.org/notices/200111/rev-blank.pdf
Awesome. Glad to see that separating the "getting stuff down" from organizing has worked for you too.

Do you create a new raw text file for each note? How long does it typically take you to do the organizing process?

> trying to establish your system upfront is a mistake. Things inevitably leak through your categories and then you lose faith in your system.

I don't know if it's a mistake. I think you need to embrace the fact that your current system won't be perfect, and you'll need to adjust as you go. It doesn't mean you shouldn't start with something.
But didn't Apple actually attempt a full rewrite of the Mac OS which eventually failed? So instead they bought an already working OS and adapted it for their purpose.
I'm an introvert myself, and I would sooner read the docs than call or chat. But, ultimately, when I need to have a conversation to solve my problem you bet your ass I don't want to talk to a bot. Let me know when they pass the turing test and maybe I'll reconsider.

Can we also dispense with the second-hand reassurances that "someone" would disagree, and replace it with first-hand testimony from someone who actually prefers the chat bot to chatting with a person?
Even when I set that I still get redirected to the new version. I guess I've just learned to cope with the new design and all the stuff being added into it that make it even worse.

This whole obsession with reducing information density and making more space for ads and huge 'cards' or pictures is pretty much a UX anti-pattern as far as I'm concerned. It's like how 'minimalism' is considered a rich-person's hobby because everything's spacious and clean, rather than small and cosy. Web minimalism takes up more space to do less, while tending to cost a lot more in terms of bandwidth used.
3dep can be a huge help in figuring out how prominent tree covered roads are.

https://elevation.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/3DEPE...

It's listed as a Theme Overlay at https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/services/
Carl Sagan, to a previous generation.

Arguably one might make the same case for Michael Faraday or Humphry Davy, who's fame in large part devolves from excellent and hugely popular public demonstrations of their work.

It's not that they didn't (necessarily) also do groundbreaking work. But they were phenomenally effective communicators.

Extended to writing, Darwin, Einstein, and Feynman could be similarly considered.
Wow, indeed weird I never heard of it. Looks pretty great!
Multiplatform, text files as base.
Gonna give it a spin.
Sounds like fear of rejection. Despite 99% of the list seemingly getting some value from your emails, you’re more concerned about the 1% that’s rejecting you.

My suggestion is to not take the rejection personally. There are so many reasons someone might unsubscribe, and none of them have to do with you personally... maybe they are too busy and any extra emails in the inbox adds to their stress, or maybe they are no longer interested in this topic, or maybe they were confused and thought the emails would be about something else, and so on... Why be offended or worried when someone unsubscribes for those reasons? Good, unsubscribe, I don’t want to bother you if you lost interest in this topic!

Think about the other 99% of people who WANT to hear from you, but you’re making them wait for the sake of a few people who shouldn’t be on your list anyway.
I’ve found it breaks down surprisingly often (iPhone XR, Safari) which I can only assume is the site’s fault. I’d assumed it was a gradual neglect (or subtlety forced attrition?) intended to push people towards the new mobile site and/or the Reddit app. It’s bad enough that I stopped using it altogether; for me, the new mobile site is now more usable.
software developers
> Next.js + TypeScript + Mobx

That's honestly a nice stack and don't see how you would regret it
'Escape the City: A How-To Homesteading Guide' Funded in 5 Minutes
We are animals just like any other, but our impact on the ecosystem at large is disproportionate.
Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA
From a security standpoint it is not unsafe to reference resources on an untrusted third party so long as you use subresource integrity. [1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
The crazy thing is some people will use this passage to justify not having regulations at all, because "regulating them will only make them conspire together against everyone!", when in fact the main reason Smith connects the two is that without regulation, the competitors (who are described as local artisans, not giant international corporations) might otherwise not know of one another's existence and would never talk to each other about shared concerns. Which was true when it was written, not so much now. Now that they can trivially find each other and conspire against consumers all they like, it's no longer an argument against regulation. Nowadays it's more useful as an argument against industry consortiums, standards bodies, professional organizations, and certifications, but I don't think of any of those things as being net negatives.

If we ever find ourselves in a situation where humanity collectively is frightened to tell some industry that it can't do something for fear that that industry would retaliate by conspiring to do something even worse to us behind our backs, that's not an argument against regulation, that's an argument against the whole industry.
That just incentives organizations to not even provide an opt-out.
Factcheck: Doctors Say They Have Seen More Deaths by Suicide Than Covid-19 Virus
Conceptos Blockchain
If it’s straight up linking a non-versioned file (e.g. live file) it implies the owner of that Github repo has direct access to update and run code in client’s browsers. Could start shooting off API requests dumping the contents of cookies/localStorage, set up keylogging, etc. IMO seems like a pretty big security hole.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please, read the guidelines. It should be pretty clear that I know an SD-card isn't a server.
Sure, but to what extent could they operate without upsetting the UK? Some tax-free tourism? Probably get away with it. Running some sort of Epcot/Sidewalk Labs-esque experimental town on "land" nobody cares about... probably also workable.

As long as it doesn't pose a danger to the UK and isn't distinctly criminal in nature, it's probably not going to get much attention.
https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Circles-Dmitry-Fomin/dp/...

It is a book produced by a remarkable cultural circumstance in the former Soviet Union which fostered the creation of groups of students, teachers, and mathematicians called "Mathematical Circles". The work is predicated on the idea that studying mathematics can generate the same enthusiasm as playing a team sport-without necessarily being competitive. This book is intended for both students and teachers who love mathematics and want to study its various branches beyond the limits of the school curriculum. It is also a book of mathematical recreations and, at the same time, a book containing vast theoretical and problem material in main areas of what authors consider to be "extracurricular mathematics".
This is supported at IDE level even in Vue 2 with Vetur (vscode), but has performance issues.
https://javlaskitsystem.se/2012/02/whats-the-waiter-doing-wi...
It's absurd to say Wikipedia is unbiased, because bias is endorsed by Wikipedia's officially stated policy! The only requirement is that the bias is copied from an off-site source.

Wikipedia endorses any well-established" news site, with no requirements that those sites cite their sources.

Wikipedia rules require peer review for academic research that is cited, but not for private commercial news operations nor NPR.

And despite how weak Wikipedia's rules are, enforcement of those rules is a farce. Anything remotely questionable is controlled by who ever manages to win control of the page, leading to articles that are mer copies of press releases and corporate websites.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources