skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google isn't in the wrong here, and framing this as just an honest consumer-first regulator doing their job omits critical context to help people understand what's happening.

The party in power federally is the Coalition, and they are deeply entwined, in a symbiotic relationship, with Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd: illustrated by endless editorial lines supportive of the Coalition in media across the country, revolving doors of Coalition advisors and News Ltd staff, through to regular questionable and controversial decisions in favour of News Ltd.

A great example was Foxtel being given a $30 million grant with no process, documentation or explanation around it [1]. It was simply explained as 'media reform'.

Like those 'media reforms', these proposed ones are also highly politically-driven and largely to the benefit of News Ltd.

This is not about supporting our news media here: the public broadcasters (ABC and SBS) dominate online and yet the proposed legislation deliberately excludes them from any claimed profiteering from Google.

This is just the abandoning of any free market principles the Coalition claims to have to provide support for their domestic media wing, in the form a local protection racket.

The claim of profiteering from search result listings, as you also imply above, is just not true.

As one ex-News Ltd and Google-associated Twitter account has emphasised, Google delivers billions of free clicks to publishers and makes very little ad revenue around search results. [2]

A good brief summary of the situation can be found from a local tech commentator, Justin Warren [3]. Two valuable points he makes:

* big publishers are salty over failing to see classified ads would get destroyed by online

* there are legitimate concerns with Google and Facebook, but they're largely orthogonal to any of this

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/19/gover...

[2] https://twitter.com/neilwrites/status/1295200085152694272

[3] https://www.eigenmagic.com/2020/08/17/draft-news-media-and-d...
Politics influences the science of Covid 19
I believe the legislation prohibits this. If they delist one news site they must delist all sites or face large fines.
Its a particularly bad time for students not being able to take a gap year as well - traveling is pretty much of the cards for those who would have otherwise have done that, and for those who would have spent the year working they're being thrown into that amongst the highest unemployment rates in decades, and up against people who have extensive experience doing the sort of jobs they'd be applying for.
Yes. Of course. Most of the problems with Wordpress websites are because of bugs in programs written in PHP. When you no longer serve PHP and are just serving a bunch of HTML/CSS files then there is nothing left to hack. (unless you want to target the webserver [such as Apache, etc.) but 9/10 times it is some sort of an outdated software or just some previously unknown bug in some plugin. Less attack surface, more peace of mind.
There are plenty of data available on each students. The issue is how to normalise them in order to create a national ranking.

Mock exams may be useful because, arguably, the results should already be pretty normalised, but I'm not sure if these took place this year.

So what is left is to work with is the grades the students have had throughout the year and previous years and, importantly, also what school they are in.

The latter is heavily charged politically so they are wary of communicating on how that impacts their model.

It seems to me, though, that pupils from top private schools are not complaining too much about having their grades downgraded, so it seems that it did not happen too much for them.
The Universities know this and are working with students that missed the required grades to understand what their projected grades, mock results etc were and make a case by case evaluation. It's nowhere near as dire a situation as is being made out.

I watched the news broadcasts when the results were announced. There were TV journalists at schools in deprived areas interviewing students before the grades were released, with the journalists giving dour warnings about the impending problems they expected. When the results were announced the students were leaping about with joy, hugging and celebrating, it was like a world cup win. The journalists didn't seem to know what to say. back in the studio the best the presenter could do was mutter that "I'm sure we'll find some students that were disappointed later".

I'm sure they did.
If the problem is that Google will be forced to share data with news media... maybe just stop collecting data then, so there's nothing to hand over?
I actually got into flow more as a manager.

The problems are the same. You are communicating. This is what you do with software too. Organization charts are like architecture; take note of what supports the system and where it is weak.

The difference is that software crashes and throws errors. Humans try to fix their own problems when there's a bug. Sometimes this fix is not ideal to the rest of the system. You end up with things like one team pressuring another to extend a deadline, or buying excess junk to maximize their budget next year. You sometimes have to design the system to throw errors. Scrum is sort of like the managing equivalent of Java; it's bloated, slow, but it's safe and it works with dumb users.

There are lots of communication issues in every organization. You can do this manually or with tools, but you must be careful not to overengineer.

If you look, there's a lot more to refactor, and much of it is low hanging fruit. I'd suggest starting by tracking how the organization works and then trying to figure out how it can be optimized.
Scrapping an XML File
Not much against nipple itself, but what about the TWO GIANT physical clicky buttons under the spacebar?

- extra accidental clicks
- steal of space from the touchpad
- more moving parts
- visual clutter
- undermine chassis rigidity
- add weight
- With touchscreen and a good touchpad, there's nothing that justifies its existence.

Maybe I have a fixation for minimalism too.
Early in the lockdown here in the UK, it certainly was the case - there was no dining anywhere for several weeks.

It's back, and pretty vibrant, in the small city I live in now. But that social contract in a small city is different anyway - even pretty near the centre I have a good sized house and some outdoor space of my own.
Stealing your content? A quick google search for "Australia news law" shows a top stories box with just a headline and a thumbnail. Similar thing with the news tab adds but it adds on about another 20 words from the first paragraph. Which part of that would you prefer them not to show?

Also, I did not see a single ad on either of those pages nor can I recall ever seeing ads when I was looking for news on google. The only money they are probably even making from news is when they send you to a news website that happens to use googles ad services and that's a symbiotic relationship. Even with collective bargaining, I cannot see this going any other way than how it did in germany or spain with either no fee or just delisting all news.
It seems like CRDTs would be useful for contact tracing in that distributed contact tracers collect data on cases and potential cases. They operate independently for hours through the day with occasional network access or at least end of day.
With software ones you still have to trust the hardware and firmware in addition to the software. With light indicators like Apple's you also need to trust the hardware - and since the designs aren't open it's more difficult to do so - but once verified that they work as advertised having kill switches is a much more active security function than an indicator light.
Imagine all the micro-petrochemicals in human tissue from the hundreds of thousands of years of inhaling volatile compounds in fire and coal smoke.

Could we not argue that we have evolved under consistent exposure to petrochemical volatiles?

Or are these microplastics different? They seem extremely stable if they're so persistent in the environment, couldn't that suggests they do not react much at all (at least much much less than coal smoke) and are therefore pretty benign?
Beats me. Can't believe a company that was making processors for the most picky of all industries (gaming consoles) is now completely ignoring the everyday consumer. Org priorities and financial engineering it looks like.
These might help:

* https://github.com/jenniferlynparsons/awesome-writing

* https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/
Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners
I have it in addition to my Android phone. I am actually really impressed on how well it works (I use Mobian). Email, maps, calendar, and web browsing all work. The camera sort of but not really works.

The only thing stopping me from using it as a daily driver is MMS:

https://sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack/

Ubuntu Touch seems to be the closest to be able to have MMS (it uses Ofono,all of the other distros seem to use Modem Manager). However, it is a bit disappointing as no ground seems to be done on it. I admittedly don't have experience in that, but I would be more than willing to donate time/money if I knew how to.
> blue-light filters on your windows

Yes or good old fashioned curtains or window blinds.
Sadly people can now believe anything and cite a paper (or, a random blog) to prove said belief. That Didier Raoult basically got exposed and his reputation torn apart (1) (imo justifiably, his drug trial showing the effectiveness of the drug was dodgy), but I've seen a Facebook contact from France defend him saying he was being tarnished by "the elite/MSM".

Another contact I know shares "Bill Gates did it"/"wants to kill us all starting with the Africans using 'vaccines'" stories, and she claims she's not the one being brainwashed, but mainstream media readers are, because MSM are controlled by the Rothschilds and Rockerfellers...

(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/magazine/didier-raoult-hy...
Great idea! However, I hope that there are no GPL'd iOS libraries being included in the app. Otherwise, not only that is a risk to this app being on the App Store but one of the library authors can request you to take the app down until their library is removed from your app.

Just a quick heads up!
Technologies from the Near Future
And others that aren't, that's the point. That kid can't go to his college of choice because it's expensive, not that he can't go to any college at all.
These RFCs were closed https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1930

In favor of https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2000

No other designs have been accepted to extend this yet. We're still implementing what was already accepted!
It’s the same as 100 year olds saying their secret to longevity is eating marinated peaches - not statistically significant.
The vast majority of loans- basically every loan under $500,000 in most areas of the country, $750,000 in high cost areas, are bought by government-backed entities- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They do the purchases at scale- hundreds of thousands of loans a month. See for instance the introduction to

https://www.fanniemae.com/resources/file/ir/pdf/quarterly-an...

What happens next is a very complex balancing act where some of the loans- mostly lower performing- are kept on Fannie's and Freddie's books, while others- mostly higher performing- are packaged into securities.

And again, what matters are the flows, not the values. The actual value of a property can be seen from auction/foreclosure sales, which are inevitably at a fraction of the prior sale price.

But Fannie/Freddie and holders of larger mortgages that are not performing manage the flow into foreclosure very carefully, in order to maintain prices and confidence.

This is a very, very complex machine. Maintaining values on one side and liquidity on the other is the purpose of this machine. I make no claims to deeply understanding it. I see the value of flows, of getting more commitments from people to feed their income into this machine, and see that reflected in the change in rates, and in the change in valuations. In terms of buying in- what is one buying into?

The other side of this argument is- what actually happens if someone is not able to make their payments? There seems also to be accumulating evidence that there is far more forgiveness for failing to pay a mortgage- even before COVID.

That all smells to me like a value bubble that pops when the end game for COVID is clear, with collateral damage for those who have commitments to flows for the long term but who may need to make changes in the short term.

Best wishes.
On the other hand it's pretty smart because if you are looking for feedback where is exactly a place for feedback every 140 characters or so
There are some things just never discussed.
Do Australians sign a contract when they are born agreeing to the laws imposed on them, or do they sign a contract when they reach 18 years of age agreeing to the laws of the land or is Australia like every other patch of land on this planet bar the Polar regions, which dictates its laws and penalties just like every other dictatorship thats existed past and present?
I'm surprised so called democracy's even claim the moral high ground considering many dont teach the laws of the land at school.
Democracy is a criminal compromise voted for by idiots, run the security services!
The financial system is the best control system no one can buy!
The original meaning of embedded has pretty much lost its meaning outside electronics engineering. I remember being taught that an embedded system has a microprocessor inside while it might not be readily apparent to the end user. It can be argued that nowadays many if not most electronic devices contain one and the user may assume so by default.

I've seen a wide range of devices being marketed as embedded, from the truly low-power microcontrollers using one lithium battery's worth of energy over its lifetime up to a PC with a fast x64 processor in a signage system.
South Africa's Momentum Metropolitan has been hacked
Show HN: Tunshell – Remote shell into ephemeral environments behind NAT/firewall
It's a valid point, and should not be downvoted.

Personally, I consider any code produced by Google to be hostile malware. Meanwhile, I'm quite competent with managing a Linux machine. For me personally, the choice is easy.

The current crop of Freedom Phones are targeted at people like myself who can break things and fix them ourselves. My hope is, in the future, you will be able to install vanilla Debian for example on your phone, which I think even the more paranoid of us would consider safe.
> It's beneficial to consumers to have a well funded fourth estate

Fine. Have the government pay subsidies. It's not Google's duty to fund the newspaper industry.
For example, with less than ~9h of sleep my well being is significantly affected.
Well, I used to be part of a darkroom where people would create their own films and plates, and you learn that manufacturing physical objects is relatively easy now, but manufacturing film chemistry at a consistent level is bloody difficult. Physical build monitoring is straightforward, but feedback cycles with chemical and pollution monitoring isn't. The level of consistency is mind-blowing for motion picture and still film. Any idiot can make bulk craft beer (and indeed does) but few idiots can make a delicate lager with little headroom for error.
Grafana Labs Raises $50 Mil to Accelerate R&D Investments in OSS Observability
OpenBSD does have Kernel Address Randomized Link (KARL) since 6.2 [1].

[1]https://www.openbsd.org/62.html
Pytov – C-like syntax Python
I had to learn to love those boring things for the positive outcomes I got from them. It's nowhere near perfect, but I know if I do all the right things during the day, I will get a decent sleep. There are some things that help more than others. There are also things that I can't always commit to since I have a lot on my plate (I'm still balancing whether I need all these things).

For me, these boring things are:
* Making and drinking herbal tea (just don't get _obsessed_ with tea)
* Doing dishes
* Organizing my physical space (mail, books, backpack, papers, clothes, shoes, et al get moved during day)
* Talking with partner
* Catching up on texts before 930
* Reading fiction (or non-work non-fiction)
* Listening to music (sometimes I listen to audiobook/podcast at night but rarely)
* Sometimes making food for next few days or making grocery list

We had to talk about not having stimulating conversations before bed and are working on that. It's a real challenge, especially if you end up not seeing each other all day. You have to talk about it with your roommate or partner and talk about the problem you're trying to solve, offering that as a solution.

My day is designed to get me to bed having checked off my list of important things and feel tired for bed. It's essentially designed to add in good habits and take away bad habits so that I sleep better. I've worked on it for a few years and it has paid off.
I've you dig PC games that emulate some of the workflow typical of software development you should definitely checkout Zachtronics games. Almost every single game they've released is a tour de force.
When running a user space program, instead of executing the instruction in the assembly, the CPU will at best raise an exception, and at worse attempt to execute some other instruction. If the process doesn't have privileges to execute that other instruction, then the CPU will just raise an exception (unless if it has a big hardware bug).

I don't see how this could be a security flaw.
Yes, that's the cover blackmailing "accept our new terms, you are free to terminate..."
Incredible. People in those threads are accusing the "author" of being GPT-3, and other commenters are chastising them for being so disrespectful as to suggest such a thing.
Ask HN: To which OSS projects are you actively contributing to?
Trying to get a few suggestions. I'm good with JS (React/Node) and Swift.

I've contributed to apple/swift and the Linux Kernel in the past, but testing the changes and building these projects might get frustrating sometimes. And to be honest I don't like C that much.

I have a few hours free per week and maybe someone here on hn might need some help on their oss/project.
It does not need to be malice.

Good independent schools (and grammar schools) have very consistent results. Often 70%+ of A/A* year after year.

If previous grades and predictions say that most pupils should get A/A* that's not surprising. That's the way it is every year, and that probably does not indicate an inflation because of this year's strange circumstances.

But for a comprehensive school where results can vary much more from pupil to pupil, and for which past data are a mixed bag, it is trickier.
> Because I'd be a little surprised if you'd be saying that given the quality of our mainstream "news" sources

So your solution is to make them even worse by letting Google bleed them dry?

What percentage of Australian's news reading goes through Google? What percentage of Australia's advertising spend does Google command?
This is a copy/paste from a boost header, with some renaming.
OP might have just clicked through to the main OpenAI site and mixed the UI part in. The bulk of the comment is about documentation and presentation in general and viewing that in the context of the general great UX of OpenAI.

I know that GPT3 is impressive, but I'm not as convinced as some of the other commenters here that it's a generated comment. If a similar comment were posted on a non-AI related post, nobody would bat an eye.

Is there an equivalent to Hanlon's razor for AI? "Don't attribute to an text generation AI, which could be adquately explained by slightly nonsensical speech".
It was probably written by an intern and maintained by an overworked team.

I would recommend giving feedback using a bug reporting or feedback dialogue if it exists in the app. (I have no idea I don't use Windows at home and have never used the app.)

If you downloaded the app from the Windows App Store, you could leave a review there and might get developer contact info for feedback there too.
Impostor Syndrome – A Developer's Best Friend
Is there any technologically advanced country where that is not the case?
I doubt that. Don't forget it's FB that also has to pay.
The article seems to suggest that the study hasn’t actually been executed yet. This seems to be about hypotheses and study design.
Well, that's up to them though. The context of the "shame if something were to happen to it" quote is about destroying/stealing the other person's property, or hurting them. That's quite different to stopping providing a service to them which is currently provided under no compulsion...

Google is trying to say that the law won't make providing a free service viable. Is that an over-exaggeration? Perhaps. But maybe not...
To be specific, in that case the NSA wanted to install a malicious driver on Windows machines that required driver signature enforcement, so there was no other way to get a driver installed except to steal a certificate to sign their driver.
Have two kids. They have been my antidote so far. There are tough moments, additional responsibility and finance one needs to account for. But overall I feel grateful I have them.

Also I don't have a purpose based on parenting. I am just happy to be around them and try to be a good parent. It is nice to share things that I wish I had known from young age. Things that help you deal with life but are never taught.

Also I feel other relationships do not compensate the love we give and get from our children. It is very unique.

All being said I think it is good to be open minded about expectations. Children are unique and the relationship may flourish or take a sour turn depending on circumstances.

On whether one decides to have kids or not, I think there are no wrong decisions here.
> Already trusting Open Source requires non technical people to trust others who can read the code to vouch for it

Maybe that's nitpicking, but I would rather say that trusting open source requires to trust the developer won't take the chance of adding malware if they know anybody could read their code. Although, granted, this does not shield from vulnerabilities created in good faith.