skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I taught a high-school Intro to CS course last year with the TEALs program (https://tealsk12.org). I was very unenthusiastic when I heard that the first semester was taught using Snap, but I was wrong. Snap is a pretty awesome way to introduce someone to programming (much more powerful and reliable than other block-based programming environments I've tinkered with like the Kano kit).

The one really terrible thing about the current iteration of Snap (that I think would be trivial to solve?) is that you have to remember to save your work. I don't think that's a normal thing for people to think about on the web in this day and age, and I have seen many students (and my own children) lose large amounts of work due to this. It's extremely discouraging.

Other than that though, the snap language/environment is quite nice.
Good to see the downvotes coming in as predicted. I must have got this right. The tech elites are all banding together as always.
I don't believe social harmony is a sufficient reason for censorship or that censorship is the correct approach. There are many potential remedies including.

- Mandatory content identifiers tags on content/claims for unfactual or unverified reporting reaching more than X people.

- Identifying frequent reporters of misinformation and identifying them as such when presenting/resharing information.

- Reducing the spread of misinformation in algorithmic sources such as newsfeeds/search rankings.

None of these approaches removes or censors the content, but they do identify it and help place it in the appropriate context. In the 90s I had to go looking for claims that the president had dinner with aliens every Tuesday, today such news articles are pushed via feeds.
I have been waiting since 1993 for the fifth part of The War Against the Chtorr.
Maybe NY Post should try to publish something objective rather than being a rag mouthpiece for a terrible human being
This makes me wonder, why there has not been a bigger push towards microkernel/minimal OS with audited toolchains that were "done". Minimal features and minimal surface area. A plug and play distribution with security at the forefront which rarely needed updating because only the essential was available.

I would be fine taking a healthy performance hit if I knew that the base OS was secure. (At this point I expect the BSD folks to chime in that they have had this for years)
The only Windows feature I’m jealous of.
I mean, given Google operates both a PAC (https://ballotpedia.org/Google_NetPAC) and spends millions on lobbying (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/09/google-is-techs-top-spender-...), it would be pretty two-faced to claim a neutral environment for workers but also with their executives actively engaging in unequivocal political activism.
Facebook, Twitter make in-kind contribution to limit Biden story
What about men? :)
0. Event with high reputation impact potential, just before the election.

Seriously we should have a 4 week quiet period. So people can sort out though all the dirt and make sense of what is real.

This just pushses everyone into sensory overload to blind out any rational thought.
I think comparing yourself to Jesus probably has a different connotation in a Japanese context.
>I really hope AT&T starts censoring these damn spam calls. I've had 5 today.

I got one (Verizon) just as I started reading the comments for this post. :(

There are solutions[1], but you'll need to wait until next July[0],at least in the US. It's not a complete solution, but it should take care of the vast majority of scam calls.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication

[1] https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/stir-and-shaken-overview/
I get that damping down language on "dominating the market" isn't going to hurt anyone.

But on engineering matters, it does seem problematic to put legal before technical. Instead of people using the medium they would otherwise use to communicate something they are concerned about, they are supposed to stop, think about the company's image, and instead remember to bring it up in person tomorrow? Don't dare email a guy you know on the other production line to see if he's noticed the same pattern? This does seem like a nudge toward sweeping problems under the rug.
Absolutely this can be trivially verified and needs to be. Release the emails if they're real so they can be verified. But also, isn't it the same thing with Trump's tax returns? All I've found so far is that the New York Times obtained copies, but they haven't actually released them to the public to be verified. If anyone can find the actual copies I'd like to see.

We need to take all of the press releases about "leaks" with a grain of salt, because I keep seeing "leaks" without actual content or verification. It's bullshit and why places that provide the actual contents of leaks are so important. Yes, certain publications are more trustworthy than others historically, but that doesn't mean they get an indefinite pass on providing verified information.
It looks cool. It reminds me of old-school Flash programming - which also introduced a generation of kids programming in general, because you could make cool games and animations.
I think that after season 4, individual plots/episodes were still fine (the finale of Season 6 was fairly enjoyable). Season 8 was the exception, where it really felt like the show writers were tapping their watch and going "oh wow look at the time".
Here's the article for those wondering https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...
The way I've used external extensions in the past is by using a weird setup with non read-only replicas off the RDS primaries running in an EC2.

It "works," but... operator beware.

I'm also not exactly sure if you'll get full stats out of a replica.
Been years since I read anything from National Review, so I was surprised to see them called a "conservative wing-nut website".

Even the wikipedia entry for them seems to counter that assessment pretty strongly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review
> I think a huge ethical issue is the continued existence of American football

I'm always curious why foreigners are so invested in anything american related, especially when they really don't even understand it.

> especially for children

Children really don't play football in a way that would cause these health issues. It's mostly two hand touch or flag. Even tackle football ( with or without equipment ) is mostly just grabbing and dragging down the qb, rb, wr, etc.

> but also at colleges.

College football ain't going anywhere. It's so entrenched in the culture.

> Which means a huge cash cow for the NCAA disappearing.

That has nothing to do with the "ethical issues" via health. It's another issue altogether and it affects NCAA basketball more than football.
Farmers in Thailand are using armies of 10K ducks to keep rice pest-free
S3

btw do people transition out from snap! ? do they go emacs ? vi ? <big>IDE ?
Does the NY times use a shitty AI bot to write these taglines? I find it hard to believe someone who worked as a journalist and wasn't in a coma for the last decade would suggest that google employees are "free to speak up".

Generally speaking (and regardless of personal position on the topic) any company which has a dedicated "diversity" commissar isn't a place you can speak freely.
I'm bit aganist having env-secrets inside container.

Because PID 1 has that env, all processes spawned from that can read all of those.

I prefer mounting them to /run/secrets via tmpfs. Which can also have selinux policy attached.

This way, someone else cannot read them by spawning shell inside container
This thread is getting heavily brigaded
The Zoom backend serves as a router for (possibly hundreds) individual encrypted streams of audio and video during a meeting. In order to support a cloud-save feature, they must first decrypt those streams in order to re-encode them into a unified multimedia file. Even if they were to store encrypted versions of all of these individual audio/video streams, how would they ultimately present that back to the user on request? There is no practical or easy way to do this.
Welcome to the new world.
I don't believe that delay is part of the training. As I recall, the training advises people with such concerns to raise the matter with their product counsel immediately.

ETA by the way, the training does not discourage people from making statements of fact in discoverable docs, it discourages people from drawing conclusions of law. If you emailed Bob down on the production line to mention that you had 42 failed gFrobs on Tuesday, and asked Bob how many he had, that's not discouraged. If you were to instead mail Bob and said "Those Panamanian safety regulators are gonna be pissed, LOL!" that is discouraged.
Are you assuming men can’t wear earrings?
Idk why you’re being downvoted. This should be titled “minor details you want to get right when raising a series A round”

First get into Harvard undergrad, then read YC’s resources
Keybase
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/yasnaan; my proof: https://keybase.io/yasnaan/sigs/73NIM767tkhu8__kOP_HP3BUdRHMgR-lyUlpKL7_PJ4 ]
"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Coming soon: a patent application on humming. I'm kidding! I hope...
There’s a lot of weird, abstract metaphysical comments popping up and I’m starting to lose the thread.
Congrats on your first project, landing page looks nice and clean!

My first thought checking the product: The pricing is insane.

Second thought: There is no list of features. It only pings a URL? How does it send notifications? Do I receive SMS alerts?

Who is the target audience? Why would I choose this over any other uptime monitoring solution, especially considering the much higher pricing (as someone else mentioned, UptimeRobot and others even have free plans). Some alternatives also provide multi-location monitoring, which makes sure that your website is up globally, not only in a specific region, without this feature I wouldn't pay for a monitoring system.

This space feels pretty crowded, with many interesting alternatives:
https://uptimerobot.com/
https://www.pingdom.com/product/uptime-monitoring/
https://uptime.com/
https://www.statuscake.com/
https://pingr.io/
Repeal of section 230 would probably result in Twitter blocking a lot more things than they do now.
Thanks crazygringo. To answer your questions:
- We have made an MVP, and it works.
- While the speaker doesn't go into the earcanal, it hovers over it.
- It is private. Much like holding your phone to your ear while speaking.
- The part that swaps out is the audiomodule.
- The battery life isn't that great for the MVP; but we hope to improve it with our production model.
Reason I ask is I'm facing a similar issue with an app I'm launching.

My research has led me to this and from what you've said, you might be in the "lottery" zone despite trying to be a "sweepstakes".

https://sterlingmiller2014.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/ten-thin...
I uninstalled Uber and Uber Eats a while ago. I'm convinced this company is actually an experiment on how far someone can let a system go unsupervised before it falls apart.

It started with Uber Eats spamming me with coupons through at least 5 SMS a day that I the app wouldn't let me use. When contacting support, they shrugged me off.

Then,months later, I was out for errands and with no mobile data. I called my girlfriend and asked her to call an Uber for me. After waiting for an hour of drivers literally not even moving, or canceling while still 3 blocks away, I gave up and called a cab. When I got home she was in a fight with support, because apparently the passanger wasn't wearing a mask and that could get her suspended. Needless to say, that was complete bull because I was never even 500m of any Uber driver.

I don't know what this law is, but as petty as it sounds, I hope doesn't pass and this company dies.
> Except apple doesn't use standards. They use their own proprietary ports.

Actually Apple is pretty standards compliant, sometimes excessively so. I have no illusion that they are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, but the idea that they "don't use standards" is a canard.

For video they long used open standards (DVI, Displayport, HDMI, now standard DisplayPort over Type C); they were one of the first to adoptt USB (much to the gnashing of teeth on the part of previous apple owners), the iPod originally used firewire; and lightning when it came out was the only insert-either-way connector (apple was on the USB board that designed Type C, but lightning predates type C) and now they use Type C (much to the gnashing of teeth of various parties). Their wireless chargers are Qi compatible, though their devices aren't :-(. Their USB implementations long required quite compliant devices rather than windows' "just install a flaky driver" leading to "hey this USB thingie doesn't work on Apple".

I had hoped this year they'd ditch lightning for type C on at least the high end phones but no luck.

On the software side, especially when they were the underdog they were quite standards compliant (image, music, video files, PDF, RTF etc) and are responsible for removing DRM from their music store. They didn't roll out their own formats until they were in a stronger position but have retained support for most of these old formats.
Sure is for me, multiple variations of it. I'm not signed in (don't have an account), and am in a private window on firefox w/ cookies cleared.
Detroit Entrepreneurs Covid Journey – The Five Pivot Rules (12m Video)
7 Days of Silent Retreat
Dumb question:

Shouldn't "room temperature" include in its definition about one atmosphere of pressure?

I can tell you that I wouldn't want to experience "room temperature" 30,000 km above sea level.
Hmm.

To me, these are uncanny. They look like earrings, except earrings just don't cover any part of the ear canal like that. I don't think I've ever seen that before.

I expect if I saw them in the wild, I'd spend a lot of time trying not to stare at them, trying to figure out what's up with the weird earrings.

Maybe I'd get used to it? They don't look bad just... yeah, uncanny.
We plan on integrating with Vault to perform transparent credentials injection in the not so to distant future. This is a 0.1 product after all, and we still have a lot to build!
Intelligent Code Art
Our production model uses a removable audio module. So the earrings can be worn with or without the audio.
The interview with the repair shop owner is also reduces this story’s already dwindling credibility:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...
this WTF happened to me few weeks ago https://twitter.com/cztomsik/status/1309377749962960897

there's no way to delete photos from icloud immediately and I was also googling a bit and there's some article from infosec company and they were able to recover deleted photos few months after they should be deleted forever (I was googling about how to delete those photos immediately).

now, I don't have anything useful there but it pissed me off a lot and I'm definitely not going to use devices from one company, no matter what they say I'm missing
‘Never get high on your own supply’ – why social media bosses don’t use it
I already filed a ticket. I was told that if I followed community guidelines I wouldn’t get banned. Thanks, “Jessica”. Many of the oculus support pages use Facebook, and I’m banned from reaching them, which is pure irony in this case.
>How would you feel if they had banned all talk of russian conspiracies the last few years? Would you be making the property rights argument still?

Yes. Because otherwise the Russians (or anyone else) could do so on my property and I would have no recourse.

The appropriate way to handle this is to vote with your feet/wallet.

Besides, Twitter and Facebook's revenue model is so incredibly evil and exploitative, folks should leave there even if they weren't blocking whatever it is that you think is important.

I did nearly seven years ago and I'm much happier for it.
> My issue is that high schools and universities serve a purpose to move society forward, and I don't see how an activity that causes brain damage for entertainment qualifies.

Well hasn't society moved forward while college football and the NFL have existed? Your argument is provably incorrect.
How in the world can anybody dispute this!?!

Add WikiLeaks to the list too.

People can down vote all they want, but doing so just confirms that the only way to satisfy them is for Twitter to pick sides and apply its rules evenly unfairly on behalf of one political party.
Flink on PaaSTA: Yelp's new stream processing platform runs on Kubernetes
I lost full access to my account when a friend gifted me a CD key he bought from someone on Ebay. I think it was originally bought with a stolen credit card, so a chargeback was issued, which then meant my whole account was locked out.

Support did restore it, eventually. I got the impression it was a one time mercy. This was back in 2010 so their policies may have changed.

"This account has been disabled as a gift subscription that you recently accepted in your account has been reported as fraudulent. The subscription has been removed. We will make an exception in your case and reactivate the account at this time. Please refrain from accepting Steam gifts from unknown sources in the future."

Putting risk on buyers of "stolen goods" is normal, so I wasn't upset at Steam for that part. But having the entire account impacted is another story.
Jesus has significant but un-exercised IP rights on a lot of technologies underpinning the modern economy (e.g., all the waters under heaven, dry land, every living creature that moveth, etc.)
With a closed-source client, how do we know Zoom does not add itself as a un-anounced participant in a meeting??

I assume there will be analysis done in the near future by third parties, but even that analysis is not sufficient to protect against a future change or a one-off, court-mandated targeted "switch" to join a un-announced participant to a meeting. The client can be designed to be 'dumb' in this regard.
I want to lick the landing page.

Jokes aside, I think the landing page is too pretty, and I can't focus on the content, I enjoy more just admiring it.
This is a colossal failure of a scam to discredit Biden. There was no chain of custody, the proported email had tons of tell tale signs of being faked, and NYPost posted exif data that undermined their whole claim. They even used ints for ids allowing a lot of unpublished docs out.

https://twitter.com/russelneiss/status/1316398928850452481

https://twitter.com/russelneiss/status/1316402052885606400

https://twitter.com/marcusjcarey/status/1316386740794425344

National Review is part of the disinfo apparatus. Take anything they say with a pound of salt.
> Twitter is an extremely powerful bit of technology that can basically make you believe anything.

I don't believe this.
We've had democracy for a long time, there were always 'a lot of things to focus on' - and yet someone things got done.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/171814-what-is-the-2016-olym...

"beach volleyball players are now also allowed to wear shorts and a top. While the top can be sleeved or sleeveless, the shorts are limited to a maximum length of three centimeters (1.18 inches) above the knee"

As far as I can see in that article, the dress code is now very similar between the gender in what they are allowed to wear (through it is possible that male players can go topless?).
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24782678
I don't think that's the only exception.
Metallic hydrogen is predicted to be a room-temperature superconductor. And if my understanding is correct, it is related to the speed of sound ("phonons") in that material. Stressing the material further increases the speed of sound.

However, metallic hydrogen is pretty much theoretical at that point, although it looks like we are getting closer. No other material that I know of had achieved >0°C superconductivity before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen
> What percentage of the "general population" do you think has ever used FTP.

Access to a feature is a feature. I have not had to change a tire in over a decade, but my unused spare tire in my car's trunk is actually being used every time I drive, by being available.

What about nearly any accessibility feature? What about fire extinguishers? I know that support for the FTP protocol is not nearly as severe, but it is on the same spectrum. For the minority of users that use it the minority of the time, it is good to have it available.

As long as it does not impose significant costs to keep ftp support, they should keep it.

And as it happens, I have had to use FTP several times recently, because there are still active FTP links in some manuscripts and scholarly articles I've read.
The Vatican isn't Jesus, either. Your comment completely misses the mark.
A ban on politics is not neutral.

Talking about politics provides no liability to Google.
Scott_s, that's right. We use the piercing of the ear. But we are also working on a clip-on version for those who don't have pierced ears. Also, as you said, the speaker reaches unto the ear canal (which helps support the speaker somewhat as well.)
IANAL but I thought the idea of directing an email or communication to a colleague and CC'ing counsel and adding "privileged communication" doesn't actually make it privileged communication unless it's also truly an attempt to get legal advice. Although maybe that's your point, because then it would be discoverable? If it's privileged communication and remains as such than it cannot be discovered, so I am not sure what paper trail is being left? I am confused.
The person's deleted their tweets since then but it read something like

> Thinking about how agricultural subsidies are like this classic example of inefficiency but also a big part of the reason the US still has a strong agricultural base.
Not only that, but IMO context matters here. We are 20 days away from the election. People are standing in lines to vote as we speak.

If this was published at any other time (and the material for the story has apparently existed since December) the public and the professional media would have had time to scrutinize it, discuss its shortcomings, etc.

But, as Winston Churchill said "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." We can't do that and being complicit in spreading misinformation in the middle of an election is, I'm sure, still a strong memory that social media companies have from the 2016 election.

My guess as to how this will go is that it will take a week or two to authoritatively discredit the article, but by then, if left unchecked, the article will have already done its damage. The cynic in me says that the originators of the article already know that there isn't much truth here and that this is the point of releasing it while people are voting.
That’s totally fine. Just write what you’re thinking.