skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Learning a language is _not_ like learning math.

I disagree. As a mathematician, looking at the language learning problem from a very "structural" perspective helped me a lot to grasp languages much better. Unluckily, most language learning textbooks are written by people who are not very "mathematically-minded", thus making their method of teaching overly complicated for me.

PhD students in mathematics told me that my explanations of languages make so much more sense than how the foreign language is taught at the language course at the university. On the other hand, from people who are more "humanities-minded", I often get reactions that my way of explaining languages is deeply confusing and has no value.
Tip:

DuckDuckGo has the !hn bang for searching in the algolia page, so just stick it to the end of your query instead of site:news.ycombinator.com and you are good to go!
Missouri has shockingly bad recycling service, so it doesn't surprise me. Before I lived there I meticulously separated recylables but soon adopted the local habit.

(St Louis. Kansas City has pretty decent service in this respect)
I don't think everything is perfect but striving for meritocracy isn't problematic in itself. The ideal should always be "given what we know of each candidate who is expected to deliver the most value in this position?". I don't see how anyone can disagree with that. And in general it seems like companies and countries with more meritocratic systems tend to do better, so as a system it seems to work great.

"Meritocracy" as a word is sometimes used by corrupt people, but that is like North Korea calling itself a democracy, it isn't a problem with meritocracy.
Why would I need to do that? Banks can still intercept employee communication with QUIC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24712673
Am I being hyperbolic or is this an absolutely enormous compromise of trust in Apple? XSS in iCloud Email allowing for data exfiltration of emails, pictures, videos??? That's absolutely insane. It just comes to show how vulnerable we all are to exploits like this, especially if you're a notable person of interest.
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Please consider updating title to include a 2016 tag.
And sends a request to an external C&C server... once a year-ish, just in case the ingress route is closed.
What is the recommended cocktail of extensions to use these days for optimal privacy? I have so much to think about that I haven't had a chance to dig in and learn what's best.
London was under lockdown until June, everyone is already acting like it will be locked down again in the next week or so, and has had strict mask and hygiene and social distancing rules for six months, had a government direction for everyone "who can" work from home to do so for ~4.5 of the last six months (it was briefly rescinded then reinstated), crash built hospitals in convention centres to try to handle overload from hospitals and still is currently at the same new case rate as April[0]. Fortunately death rates are still fairly low. I don't know if a vaccine/other interventions will prevent it being a yearly disaster but it certainly currently is.

[0]: https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/coronavirus--covid-19--ca...
You are onto something, since LINQ was developed by Erik Meijer, one of the authors of the paper linked in the childcomment of the siblingcomment.
That's a non sequitur. This discussion is about restaurants, not GDP. And I'm not sure why you're bringing up Sweden? There are other examples of countries with low death rates despite imposing minimal pandemic control measures.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
I don't have a power fantasy, I have a leisure fantasy. I want a nice garden without having to seed it. I was clean dishes and laundry without having to wash and put them away. I want good food on the table even when I don't feel like cooking. I spend a couple hours a week cleaning my house (putting away toys, sweeping...) that I want to spend doing something else. I don't care how it gets done, just that it is done.
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Maybe you can give such a list.

I can't. There isn't always an answer. The author does provide a good list of what's wrong.

But still I ask myself why I see an increasing number of posts (at least a third) where I don't understand why they should be relevant for me as a hacker.

Online forums working is a very serious hackers' matter. What you're saying is just about that! There has been a lot of discussion about HN's algorithms to vote and select articles for front-page, moderation, etc.
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Think of IBM as:

- Hardware

- Software/Cloud

- Services

Within "Services" you have everything from business/management consultants to application development teams to people who support IT infrastructure for clients as part of outsourcing arrangements.

It's that last group, Infrastructure Support, that is being spun off.
Then your problem is that you have a locked down device that isn't truly yours. App makers always had the ability to use a proprietary encrypted protocol to serve ads. DNS-over-HTTPS doesn't give them that ability. But it does provide a standard that people who do really own their own devices can use to preserve user choice. No one should protest that.
yeah the karma thing is problematic. im -20, im not even sure people if people can still see my comments. Anyway, getting karma is easy, just say the most generic opinion u can find. Just agree with the majority and dont say what you think. It's just a numbers game.
Funny thing about unions is that they are common when the employer is the state: police, teachers etc. so you have a union which is formed to represent employee rights against a bigger union of the people which includes the same employees as citizens.
A method that works well for this kind of analysis in my experience is to start by looking at the data, together with a business person and then ask the needed question until you can model it. "Oh so I see we have customers that are sites of large corporations, so that is a requirement" "Oh and these rows look like subsidiaries" etc
I was "that guy" at EA during the "EA Spouse" era that tried unsuccessfully to get any union effort started at all. The strawman list above only needs one proponent per developer group and no one in that group joins the effort. I'd say the "ethically naive" trait is the strongest.
Yes, but with it being dependent on the current font size, its a tad hard to use effectively.

You can make the container have a sensible weight to keep all elements within it, but you cannot have the children contain their own destiny in a consistent manner.
Just as I thought, they aren’t the MacOS gestures just common gestures. Word lookup, show desktop, show launchpad, mission control, app expose, and swipe between pages.
Exactly.

The amount of effort put into finding multiple critical - high vulnerabilities of a $1TN+ company and the result is $51k + taxes to possibly share between 5 hackers for 4 qualifying bugs for that bounty sounds like Apple took them for a cheap ride through their campus.

Compared to 1 hacker, 1 month, JWT signature check failure = 100k from Apple [0]:

[0] https://bhavukjain.com/blog/2020/05/30/zeroday-signin-with-a...
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Funny, I'm rooting against them entirely.

But then I believe the human-caused climate emergency exists and is important enough to do something about.

However, it's pretty clear that I'm in a tiny minority, and we'll keep obsessively consuming and burning fossil fuels until it's all destroyed.
Have a link for the correction to the Gödel-sentence argument? I’m curious to read more.
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Please at least attempt to address the gaping holes in your arguments when posting.

When a work as a whole is copyrightable, that does not automatically mean that any subset of that work is copyrightable. You need to actually explain why and how your examples of chapter titles and headings are still eligible for copyright protection.
I got irritated by my dad’s cluelessness with gadgets but maybe tech is to blame
We won't. We'll destroy the planet, and ourselves with it.
No. Marijuana can definitely cause distracted driving and lead to accidents. What’s with the internet and talking about marijuana like it’s super safe and glossing over its downsides?
You can use camomile library to handle unicode strings, count code points, perform locale aware lowercase / uppercase, etc

For utf8 regexes, you can use Pcre in ocaml, which is faster than camomile regexes.
Watch the teardown, the heatsink and fan are absolutely huge.

Biggest complaint with the PS4 Pro was noise with certain games. Think this is to address that.
I think the risk of protracted conflict is actually really high. Trump has repeatedly implied that he would not accept the results of the election, and has laid groundwork to say that the election was rigged and illegitimate. Hillary Clinton has publicly stated that in no way should Biden concede the election, and Harris last night in the debates implied that they would fight if needed.

All this during an extremely severe economic crash leaving millions of people unemployed, with each side blaming the other for the downturn. There have already been violent protests for months. When Trump's "poll watchers" end up in conflicts, I think that's when we'll see things escalate quickly.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and everyone else seems to be doing their best to control the narrative in an attempt to prevent this escalation, but it really seems like it's too late. There seems to be institutional momentum behind these forces at this point.
But will you remember to come back?
I appreciate you sharing your comment, but the reality is you can't just stop something by making it illegal.

Even if we all agreed "marijuana for recreation is bad" (which it is not so clear on - it seems likely less bad than tobacco or alcohol),

Then you still can not want it criminalized. This is because when something is not criminalized you don't:
-force only criminals to sell it
-provide criminals funding by allowing them to sell it
-prevent users from getting help
-prevent criminals from solving disputes through the State, instead they have to enforce their own violence
-people should be free to do things in general that don't directly harm others (e.g. pot on the couch is ok, while driving not)
-jailing people to enforce the criminalization

The war on drugs is directly responsible for huge amounts of global violence (e.g. mexico) andenormous incarceration rates in the US (about 10x our peers). The downsides are huge, the upsides are harder to quantify.
Note that the list also misses out on Capitalisation. If you want to send messages to Gert-Jan then it needs to be Gert-Jan and not Gert-jan or gert-jan.

With last names this is also an important matter. McDonald is not mcdonald.

Then there is F.W. de Klerk. Not 'De Klerk' or 'de klerk'.

Some people take offence at their name being written wrongly, in this list by having no Title Case going on there could be a few people 'offended'!
> That's quite a strawman.

It's quite a popular strawman, unfortunately. Tech workers are almost universally despised in leftist circles.

(disclaimer: I work in tech, hold left-leaning views and I actually believe some form of unionization in tech would be beneficial)
What if they made all social media read-only for a day or two preceding the election? Analogous to radio silence. Then it would be impossible for anyone to post misinformation about where to vote or other things that are designed to change the result of an election.
Drugs will never be decriminalized fully here in the US.
There is too much untraceable money involved.

It is said that after the housing bubble burst around 2008 that there was very little “liquid” cash floating around and that dark money from drug trafficking was one of things that helped the US from going completely under.

Add to that all the covert operations to overthrow governments and bribe crooked foreign leaders that require vast sums of money that doesn’t leave a paper trail.

The “war” on drugs is too keep drugs illegal and to sustain the flow of dirty monies.
I think unions make sense for any organization that has a or near-monopoly. I'm surprised that they are not more common among big tech corporations.
Best is relative.

Privacy badger and ublock origin seems to break almost nothing.

Adding umatrix blocks additional stuff but breaks sites. And worth running a pihole too. It seems to catch a lot even with adblockers enabled
What if Apple was just one company they looked at, over the couple of months. It sounds like they had the size and scale, and capability, to scan a lot more and they did.

https://securityboulevard.com/2020/09/def-con-28-safe-mode-r...
Public XMPP Servers with Tor Hidden Service
IBM plans to spin off infrastructure services as a separate $19B business
How to Keep the Binary Compatibility of C++ Based Objects
That's mostly not been my experience, so I guess it depends on the group of people you're with. But when it does happen, I still think it's better than Zoom because you still get the directionality of voices and you don't have the useless video stream distracting the view.
Past U.S. presidents have battled illness in office
This can’t be stressed enough. It used to be footage or images were verified or were from a photo or video journalist on the ground. Now they use recycled footage and images either through laziness, incompetence or maliciousness to drive a narrative. This is from “reputable” networks.

And not to lessen the complaint about excessive use of force by police, but very often the context preceding a confrontation is deliberately omitted to reframe an interaction with a suspect. This reframing has damaging consequences in many affected areas of concern.
blimey that's some niche spam!
I don't know whether this is the best set of extensions, but I'm personally using a mix of

- uBlock Origin

- Facebook Container

- Decentraleyes, ClearURLs

- HTTPS Everywhere

- Privacy Badger.

- Redirect AMP to HTML

- Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

- Smart Referer

- User-Agent Switcher

Next to that I'm using Bitwarden and Floccus (Nextcloud Bookmarks) for self-hosted decentralised password and bookmarks sync.
> This is a bit offensive against saas and mobile apps and has a wrong vision that software is easy and hardware is hard.

A large amount (the majority?) of software isn't hard.

The hard part is getting the requirements
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Tubey Racers is a newly released Racing Championship in video format about an apocalyptic race crew trying to save 2020 by battling it out in the tracks.

I developed this during lockdown and will be releasing daily races for a while, until we see who wins the championship at the end.

Tech stack includes: Typescript, React, Less and a powerful AI (Math.random()).
What you knew about the door you initially picked hasn't changed at all. What you now know about the other doors has. By giving you information about 1/2 of the other 2/3 doors, Monty has given you an extra 1/3 chance if you pick among those.
Like all discussions - HN degrades when the number of people involved increases - I rarely look at an items comments if there are more than a hundred or so because I know that the amount of uninteresting (to me) 'chaff' to wheat will be high (there are exceptions obviously).

I treat HN as a source of quality links to articles and sites elsewhere that I skim through a few times a day. The discussions are secondary.
It will lead to less plastic production in the first place and possibly to more recycling provided recycling if recycling is or can be less carbon intensive than manufacturing new plastic. Also, oil is already sequestered so pumping it out of the ground to turn into plastic to bury in a landfill isn’t helpful.
I know the webcam isn't working for some folks. I kinda don't care. I've got a lot more important things to focus on.

I think the video stream in teleconferencing has absolutely zero redeeming qualities. People think it's there to be able to convey facial expressions and facilitate non-verbal communication, but I think it's a complete failure at that task.

For one thing, few listeners are actually looking at the speaker as the speaker is talking. They're most likely looking at themselves or some other thing going on with their computer, so their facial reactions are not really based on what the speaker is saying.

On the flip side, the speaker never gets to see people looking at them. Almost nobody looks at their camera instead of something on the screen, so the speaker never gets that "eye contact" feeling. Best-case scenario, you get a group of people trained to move the speaker video feed directly under the camera lens and they are diligent about making sure they are looking at the speaker. Even then, there is still a "20 yard stare" look to everyone. It also causes exhaustion as it puts you into a feeling that you're in an interrogation of some kind.

Additionally, it's such a narrow field of view for the camera. Non-verbal communication is more than just facial expressions, it's also body posture and standing distance. There are facial ticks that are also lost in the low-quality of the webcam feed, and the non-uniformity of every user's personal lighting settings creates an unnatural scenario where every person is lit differently than you'd expect, or from each other.

And finally, while teleconferencing has a lot of trouble with latency between when a person speaks and when the other people hear them, there is also a lot of latency between when you hear a person speak and when you see them. The audio and video feeds are not synced correctly.

By completely eliminating the video feed, conversations actually work a lot better. I get so many people who demand to have that video feed for the reasons they've been indoctrinated on, with little to no effort to even try audio-only conferencing.

And frankly, as a listener, I don't want the speaker to see my reflex reactions. I don't want them to see into my room. I really only want them to see the what I choose to let them see.

Thus, the avatars and the emoji reactions.
So someone who lost their property is a creditor now, having loaned the stolen object?
I imagine that would be hugely disruptive to people’s lives, given how central social media is these days.

Besides, you’d presumably only do this to US users. So if someone wanted to spread some piece of viral misinformation they’d just post it under a non-US user and promote it.
I had the same thought. Really basic front end web vulnerabilities right in HTML response. One can only speculate on the state of Apple's web hosts' ip filtering, rate limiting, ddos protection, etc.
> air travel is already something everyone (in the developed world) can afford

Ship travel was already something most people in developed countries could afford. What’s the use of getting around faster and higher off the ground?
I've not tried it but I don't think minikube would work inside WSL as it needs a VM layer (I suppose technically it could with nested virtualization).

TBH for throwaway Kubernetes cluster in WSL, I'd recommend kind (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind) it works just fine with WSL/Docker for Windows.
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Any of those countries could just get someone hired at Apple for that
Does anyone have a good example of a site plastered with ads that still renders with privacy badger? I want a go-to screenshot to link to for my rants any time a website tells me to disable my "ad blocker"
There is a camera/mic selection option. Lower-left corner, next to the mute-audio/video buttons, there is a button labeled "change".
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I played D&D with friends and had non-D&D playing friends in high school. Literally no one treated me as deviant outcast and no one except players cared that I play D&D. There is not dichotomy between D&D vs friends, just like there is no dichotomy between playing music instrument vs friends.

It is just that thing, most kids who don't share your favorite activity just don't care about that activity. If they are nice, they will listen a bit about it.
The fact that this was posted ten years ago underscores that this is not an HN problem, but a perennial challenge of any large community.

I don't think most people grok exactly how difficult moderation is, and how that difficulty doesn't just scale, but rather evolves fundamentally as a community grows. Moderating a smaller community is sort of like setting a certain tone within your group of friends and figuring out ways to encourage them to follow suit. Moderating huge communities is more like designing a judicial branch.

For what it's worth, I think HN is one of the best examples of successful moderation. The team balances their roles as curators and moderators well, they seem to work hard at intellectual honesty in their policy design, and they do a fantastic job of combatting marketing schemes and bots. No doubt there are areas where I don't entirely enjoy HN, but by and large it is the most consistently enjoyable community of its size for me.
From the Ashes of Do Not Track Rises a New Global Privacy Control
Didn't I just read somewhere on slashdot or hacker news that privacy badger logs all of your websites you visit and websites that you enable/disable certain cookies or javascript?
American style capitalism has polluted the mental models of anyone raised in the States to disregard European management styles and by extension the successful European work life balance, to the US citizens' significant determent. The work-life balance in Europe is more of a life worth living, while the life styles in the United States require double incomes to participate, are so heavily marketed it rendered everything expensive in either dollars, social credit, political credit or when not "playing the game" complete social isolation. Life in the United States is close to ruined, we have close to no community beyond these online peeps into the darkness.
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Hollywood unions are one of the main reasons most movies are not made in LA any more.
I always find it hilarious that tech people think that a tech union would be like the teamsters or autoworkers union rather than the entertainment industry unions given that the latter already have provision for people with widely varying skills and compensation.
After a quick scan I could tell that the list of surnames has no names in it that contain letters beyond the basic latin alphabet. That by itself excludes a lot of actually valid names.
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> I believe the human-caused climate emergency exists and is important enough to do something about

How is being a Luddite an answer to a novel problem?

Boom is developing supersonic passenger jets. That involves a myriad of thermodynamic, aerospace, materials, tooling and other R&D. Nobody is saying if Boom makes an aircraft every hundred millionaire has a right to one. That’s the point of regulation.

Arguing we should ban even thinking about new technology on the grounds that it might make climate change worse is dogmatic adherence to a cultlike level.
Most if not so carbon tax proposals address this already. The most obvious solution is to cut a check to the poorest Americans from the carbon tax revenues. Making for good means testing is hard but plenty of other countries do this successfully so we aren’t inventing this from scratch.