skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump's TikTok crusade is far more selfish than people realise.

He doesn't want the app creating viral anti-Trump content as the election approaches.

It has already been used to disrupt the attendance of his rallies.

If the app really is under control of the Chinese government, it would be the perfect vehicle to seed with anti Trump content to energise the younger voters against Trump.

It could become the tipping point in the upcoming election. This is likely the reason for a quick sale being sought.
I don't know what version of chromium you use, but I can install without any problem.
My strategy here is to have a staging server where migrations are applied before they can hit production.

As someone else pointed out, migration without CI can be dangerous and difficult to coordinate with deployment.
I remember hearing that Sum 41 (they're actually still around!) got sued for using Nyan Cat in a music video or something. Let's hope the author doesn't find this site haha
if you're at a company that can be considered an Intel competitor i would avoid this like the plague. Wasn't there problems for people working on Linux after only viewing source code from other operating systems?
> No, I don't know why we live with it either.

Maybe it's the profit motive.

If companies are not incentivized to change, then nothing is going to change. If companies pushing OS and hardware refreshes every year means people are going to buy more phones, I'm not sure why they would have any reason to stop.

Anecdotally, I needed a new phone because my Pixel XL was getting 4 hours of standby time and was constantly overheating. I had just gotten back from an overseas trip and was nearly stranded several times from finding myself in remote places with my backup battery dead. In the end, I settled for a OnePlus 7 (ironic, I know). I would rather have used the Pixel for many more years. hate not having a headphone jack or bezel, and I know that some product manager is going to use my purchase as evidence that those "features" were the correct move and continue to propagate the belief that nobody wants headphone jacks or bezels anymore. But I was in serious need of a smartphone that was actually reliable over one that had a headphone jack or bezel, so I got one without those features anyway.

People like me are now reliant on smartphones to do things like make calls, navigate unknown places or look up things on cellular data. In my book, if people need to have a cellphone in order to function in modern society, or are at least strongly incentivized to have one, then planned obsolescence only increases profits. Companies can market this as "upgrading" to new phones with a festureset that doesn't have to be a significant improvement over the last generation, and if people are used to this and don't mind spending the money to upgrade, then this will continue. And there are surely a lot of people who will buy the lastest model anyway even if they don't absolutely need to upgrade.
I think you completely misunderstood.

> Requesting an image should be requesting a image, not a specific representation of that image.

This is exactly what I’m saying. The image is one, it’s the browser that decides how much of it to load.

It’s the current picture/srcset-based situation that is “a specific representation of that image”

> For sizes we'd need a similar way to mime types to ask for a size

Now that is complicating things. Suddenly the server has to produce/return different resources based on a header. The solution I described could be delivered by any dumb HTTP2 server, without preprocessing.

Technically what I’m describing is already possible with any progressive format like JPEG; The only missing part is that the browser should pause/resume the loading as it sees fit.

All I want for Christmas is:

<img src="you.jpg" progressive>

The obvious advantage is that if the window size changes, the browser only has to fetch the missing data, not a whole new file.
For anyone trying to comprehend a $100B net worth. Watch this video 100 times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg
Each individual asked has multiple friends, presumably, so this isn't a case of "80% of drivers think they're above average." At least not necessarily.
Some matches can made at one person, or fourth cousin. You could have a lot of them.
Mailgun is having issues
It hit me a couple of years back, a night time drive through the Australian countryside and your car would be plastered with insects - not anymore. And fireflies, I haven't seen one in years,
It it is actually a backdoor but only gets put on prototypes/engineering samples or similar.

Or maybe some well documented Intel management features need to backdoor there own security mechanisms to work.

Or ...

Well the point is it's a starting point for someone dissecting the data but not much more.
> Also good is using more LED street lamps that focus the light where we need it,

Focusing light where needed is good. Using LEDs, as we do now, has downsides though. LED lighting in cities is making astronomy and astrophotography and even animal life worse in some cases.[1]

Traditional sodium vapour lights pollute around a wavelength of 589 nm.[2] That's the yellow/orange sky you used to see in the sky around cities. In theory, if you filtered out that wavelength 10 years ago, you'd be able to eliminate a lot of light pollution. But today, with more LED lighting, the pollution tends toward white/blue. This is "nicer" in some objective and subjective ways. e.g. colour accuracy. But it's a bitch to filter out, without also removing all the white and broad spectrum we want to see in the features of the night sky.

Animals are also sensitive to white and blue light emitted by modern LEDs, and the NatGeo link and others go into why this can be a bad thing, compared to "old fashioned" lighting methods, inefficient as they are.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/11/light-pollut...

[2] https://www.peterzelinka.com/blog/2019/8/light-pollution-fil...
Yup, this is a big issue in US data where a leading cause of death for otherwise-healthy age groups is "accidental poisoning" which is CDC-NCHS code for drug overdoses.
Ask HN: How is Slack so successful?
How is Slack so widely used. Sure, it’s fun to use and full of features, but what made people choose Slack over a myriad of other messaging options?
If you make it harder for people to do the right thing than the wrong thing, they will choose the wrong thing.

This has been brought up a million times in the context of DRM, but it is true in the general case as well.
FDA cracks down on sellers of at-home Covid-19 antibody tests
There's a difference between strategic failure caused by poor management and interruption of a viable business by an external event - force majeure.

You can buy insurance policies to protect your business against the latter. (Although with Covid a lot of insurers are refusing to pay out, and some are being taken to court.)

Where there's no insurance it's reasonable for government to act as an informal insurer of last resort, because it's hugely more expensive and damaging to allow businesses that are otherwise viable to go to the wall.

You don't just lose a viable business, but you create losses that ripple through the entire system causing upstream insolvencies. So you lose the productivity of all the businesses affected and the spending power of their employees. It takes a good long time to rebuild both.

The problem is in the grey area where it's hard to tell if businesses are genuinely viable and just need temporary reinforcement, or whether they're already zombies and need to be killed off.

Patronage and politics makes this even more complicated.

But the principle is still sound: in a national disaster insolvency is not a clear signal of failure, and allowing all business to crash regardless will do much more harm than good.
- A large proportion of those debt collectors are gigantic soulless corporations that nobody would mind watching suffering somewhat

I would argue that in Germany this is not the case. Everyone minds the gigantic soulless corporations suffering, because only they have the unions deeply intertwined with politics and the sympathy of the media (for whatever reason, ad money maybe?).

The Lufthansa bailout was clearly made to benefit the workforce and not the general population.

This crises lifts the high-level corruption here in Germany to the next level it seems.
The last 5 years have been the hottest years on record, so...
That makes sense. Property ownership seems to be one of the most important values in the US. Which leads to property owners having the freedom to restrict the freedoms of other people. You can see that in companies where employees are assumed to basically have no rights while working. Same in the west here where property owners fence off large areas of land and nobody can pass through. In Germany there usually is some kind of path where people can pass through. This can make hiking in CA quite difficult because you often run into a fence.
Vive Cosmos Rated Least Accurate Among Top Headsets in Controller Tracking Test
A workaround for iOS 13 issue making transparent backgrounds white
IANAL and you should probably contact yours about such things but a straightforward reading suggests that because you knew you were downloading something likely illegally gotten, you are in fact on the hook for downloading it.

“Misappropriation” means:

(i) acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has
reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means; or
(ii) disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or
implied consent by a person who
(A) used improper means to acquire knowledge of the trade secret; or
(B) at the time of disclosure or use knew or had reason to know that
his knowledge of the trade secret was
(I) derived from or through a person who has utilized improper means
to acquire it;
(II) acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain
its secrecy or limit its use; or
(III) derived from or through a person who owed a duty to the person
seeking relief to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or
(C) before a material change of his position, knew or had reason to
know that it was a trade secret and that knowledge of it had been
acquired by accident or mistake.
Twitter is garbage as far as I'm concerned.

I use Firefox with uBlock (standard lists) and uMatrix (all Twitter-related requests permitted) and it's still buggy as hell.

If I try to paste anything into the "compose tweet" dialog it just completely crashes with a very helpful "something went wrong" message.

If I try to cut and re-arrange parts of my tweet, it duplicates all the text and puts it out of order.

The tweet box is not even a <textarea>, it's a <div> stuffed full of <span> elements.

Additionally, the tweet box <div> is nested over 40 layers deep in a massive pile of divs.

As always, they're trying to be way too clever for their own good.

I'm not at all surprised they need polyfills for that trash.
Similar to how GPT-3 can be applied not only to create Text, but also fill in missing pieces of Images (ie. complete the missing half of a face).

Would the logical next step, use GPT-3 to create a 3D world? :)
Imagine the reaction if the same thing was coming from China. Nobody would ask the question.
Even if this poster made it up, I'm certain it is also true at least once over, having remediated a near-identical problem from one of my employers' products at one point, and talked developers out of implementing it at least once at a different employer.
Anecdotal data, but for some of our products we sell, only such "unfair reviews" ever received comments from other shoppers (either pointing out the mistake, or straightforward ridiculing of the reviewer). I have a mixed opinion on it in regards how it affects customers considering our products, since one to have to make an effort to go beyond stars-value. But on the personal level it certainly makes me feel better (almost as much as handwritten thank you cards =))
More Farmers Declare Bankruptcy Despite Record Levels of Federal Aid
For example in Russia you are basically guaranteed to not be prosecuted for all kinds of cybercrime as long as you don't have Russia/Russian companies or Russian citizens.
Nuclear thermal rockets are much more interesting IMO because they were actually viable and in development until Nixon killed them for no good reason. They're coming back now though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA

https://spacenews.com/momentum-grows-for-nuclear-thermal-pro... (2019)
I don't mean to sound like a curmudgeon but, except for officially supported developer plugins, I just don't get the need or desire for all this browser extension bling. (though I guess I might have downloaded an SSH extension for the browser in my chromebook at some point) I suspect it's an extension of my embrace of the Unix philosophy (simple tools) to GUI programs. Anyway, I'm certainly happy these bad actors were exposed.
It also breaks in interesting way: I discovered just today that constants defined on the Model subclass are not available when you use 'get_model()'. I suspect methods wouldn't be accessible either?
I've seen similar rigidity from security audits. Stuff like "version 10.5.2 (released last week) of this software introduced a security bug that was fixed in 11.0 (released today), we need you to update from 10.5.1 (released last week + 1 day) to 11.0 now because our audit tool says so".
Penguin Guano Seen by Satellites Prompts Discovery of New Colonies in Antarctica
China and India are seeking capture a good fraction of their population. The US military types every soldier, but claims to remove data when you separate.

In contrast the US and Europe have purchased testing by volunteers at levels that beat the military and approach involuntary state programs.
You don’t actually need to listen to auditors. People like you (who can’t be bothered to argue because it’s apparently too hard) is the reason that smartass is still selling their services.
Whole Night Perseid Mosaic
Can you give some examples? There are exactly two things that I wish macOS would copy from Windows: full paths visible and interactive in Finder, and the ability to create new files within Finder (how is that not a thing?!)
“In some US states, for example, an employee who commits a crime using his employer’s computer has opened up his employer to civil liability. “

I always find this reasoning strange and inconsistent . Companies give company cars to employees which could injure people. Or I could stab somebody with an employer provided knife.
But that only matters if given country also prosecute you effectively.

You probably find quite a bunch of countries where it's illegal but not prosecuted. Through I only know if Russia.
Bertrand Russell's Take on Science vs. Philosophy
To put it in very non-scientific terms: people love an underdog. If your business is flourishing and someone leaves a negative review, eh, you're doing good. But if I see someone do a 3-star for some corner bodega that just happens to be one that I visit - oh, I must right this wrong with a 5-star review.

It's impossible for my instincts not to kick in and push me into rooting for the 'little guy' or someone who's been unfairly wronged. (Whether they were wronged fairly or unfairly is a matter my instincts leave for later.)
What do you mean Django doesn't enforce them? Are you saying that transaction.atomic doesn't actually run in an atomic transaction?
Nice! I want to go through it hands-on.
What sounds unsafe about having a locally bound port inside a container that only binds with an env variable getting set?
Interesting! I hadn't run into worktrees yet.

I've been using https://wchargin.github.io/posts/managing-dependent-pull-req... for a while, after I got spoiled by Phabricator's stacked diffs at a previous job.
Has anyone else noticed that as of a few days ago, middle-clicking a tweet that's embedded in another tweet (like a retweet with comment) causes the new tab to steal focus? It's worse than scroll jacking IMO.
Not entirely correct. A lot of Latin American countries do it all the time.
Same here. Generic hateful statement from a developer that probably has spent a couple of days at most in .NET.
Bullshit should be dismissed, regardless of race.
“Leveraging consumer empathy”?

This is actually just
listening to your customers, and caring about them enough to respond to them thoughtfully. If you get a bad review, you still respond thoughtfully.

Why do we have to make it into some buzzword salad term for some “strategy” powered by pseudo-academic research nonsense? Anyone that has actually ran a business could verify it.
>The US has never been a free-market

Pretty much every market in the US has been insanely free, like "just don't kill people quickly and we don't care" free at some point. They all stopped being free when they got big. Then government got involved and regulation, regulatory capture and whatnot happened (I'm intentionally glossing over the details because they vary by industry and I don't want to pass judgement).
Proving your right in court can cost you everything.
I’m not touching the binaries or executables, but I’m interested in the source code. Has anybody found anything interesting?

Will download from the mega link and explore in a VM later.
Quick Addition. This project is funded by a grant from New Schools Venture Fund, and funding is limited. We're hoping to pay $40/hour and we've scoped the project to be around 250 hours.
Ask HN: How can we automate our warehouse – robotics?
Hi,

I am thinking about the possibility of using robotics or some sort of automation to do the packing.

We sell clothing, mostly sportswear, and leggings has the largest volume. We use Shopify as our E-commerce platform.

Have anyone saved money / time using robotics for some part of the packing process when the volume is not super big?

So basically, what kind of robotics exist today for smaller warehouses? Say between 50-150 orders a day.
Makes perfect sense.

Defense in depth, if you can grep the source code and not find any references to md5, then you have quickly verified that the code probably doesn't use md5.

This you can easily verify again later, you can even make a test for it :)

Even if in practice this had no impact, removing md5 usage, will make it harder to accidentally introduce it in the future.
A Summary of an Event That Debated 'Are Machines Conscious?'
But that isn’t basic knowledge, if you work in firmware development, embedded, SOC design etc. and your employer or future employers might be competing against Intel in some market segment (which given the sheer amount of products Intel has isn’t an unlikely scenario) I would be very careful about admitting not to mention publishing content based on this leak.

If you work in a completely unrelated field then you don’t need to care as much.
Yes that is great advice for many startups most of the time, but my whole point in the grandparent was that when as a founder you find the hand-me-down wisdom doesn't fit, don't be afraid to leave it alone and think for yourself.

PS. If your criticism were right my coding cave is a 1000m2 factory, which has to be some kind of record. /s
I would start by contacting a psychiatric organization like MAPS, or personally reaching to it's board members or practices that are listed there. I don't know of any legal organization that will put you on ketamine therapy without having you as a patient from beforehand or having your psychiatrists recommend you to them for treatment.

Is she seeing a psychiatrist? Antidepressants stop working all the time, she should be having this conversations with her psych or telling her psych that she's stopping treatment and finding someone else because it's not working. If she's on any other basic meds like sleeping pills or anxiety meds she should be able to get a prescription for them from a GP or any cheap synch in-network only by saying she's already taking them.
So the mechanism is, I send HTTP request to domain x. If my request doesn't have a specific cookie, I get sent to domain y, which has the cookie, then sent back to domain x?

I don't know how I could have gotten it, uMatrix would certainly have blocked advertizing dot com for me. I'll check on that computer and then edit this post.

Edit: I'm definitely not sending this cookie, in fact I have cookies completely disabled on this domain via uMatrix. I notice that a guce.js is blocked by uBlock origin. Since I'm not getting redirected, either this is a regional thing, or else they're redirecting using JS as I suggested previously.
Ancestry.com was founded by BYU grad students and is based in Provo. It couldn’t be more “Mormon”.
My views on some conventions for Unix command line options
Gmail won't even let you send a JAR file, or a zip you made out of a project where it happens to be a .jar file somewhere deep in some random subdirectory.
Copyright infringement probably works for them.
Well it is but the T is ugly :/
> People who end up holding the debt are many steps away from being able to have conducted due diligence.

And they should face the losses. And maybe learn from their mistakes.

And the people that were responsible with their money, didn't take on the risky assets that generated out-sized returns will be able to invest because they preserved capital.
Personalized medical research, n-of-one therapies that you can (with help) self-administer, and other types of, perhaps at this point, "gray-market" medical care could be profitable.
update: a Twitter engineer explained how they implemented it in greater detail

https://twitter.com/charliecroom/status/1291478104016289799
Where did you find a house in the US without blinds? I honestly don't think I've ever seen one without some sort of window covering. The solid exterior blinds that I slightly prefer are much less common in the US, but both still block light adequately in my experience.
It’s akin to defending Nazis because there were some Nazis who were forced to be Nazis because they couldn’t find a better job.
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In my experience password protected files are often password protected for obscure reasons which have nothing to do with the intent of keeping them secret, like:

- prevent anti virus from messing with it

- keep to some obscure regulations wrt. Contacts or law, where is enough if you can argue the data was encrypted.
Yup, if you’ve every watched network TV and seen the “Did you know Medicare will pay for X?” and wondered why, it’s exactly this.

If you want Medicare to pay for a product, you need a positive Coverage Determination. And if you get it, you just opened up a 50M person market (obviously a subset, since not everyone will need it) and all you need is the patient to say to their doctor “I want that” and it’s paid for.

It’s a heavily front loaded business, but if can get reimbursement, it’s basically paid for, you just need customers to ask for it (I’m obviously simplifying, since it varies by product type, but medical equipment is a great example).
Multi cloud is worst practice
The entire ME can't "technically" be disabled on modern Intel silicon. It's essentially the processor that "bootstraps" the whole CPU. Without (cryptographically signed) code running on the ME, the system can never boot.

All the non-necessary bits can be disabled out of the box, however.
It sounds like Dell’s iDRAC somehow. (Not that it is, but iDRAC had me scared more often than not)