skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the Mozilla Foundation really has nothing to do with the organization that develops Mozilla Firefox, they should consider using a name that isn't "Mozilla" or "Firefox".

As it stands, the primary activity of the Foundation is to take money and goodwill earned by Firefox and divert it to unrelated activism.
> Go ask a Haskell developer and the first reaction you will get is probably "wait, you were running getData inside the original function?!"

Haskell developer here, this was indeed my first reaction :P
Yeah, totally get your point. Generating one is inexpensive, maybe 1 ms to get it cranking. It's entirely possible that looping through untampered RNG combinations until a hole opens is more efficient than scrolling the field around.

The algorithm to locate the biggest hole on a 1,200 tile board takes around 45ms and I'm stubbornly itching to use it one way or another. But I'll see what's a more sane solution over shifting fields.
How could it possibly make sense to say that "it makes sense to ban publishing of hacked materials, except if the hacked materials are published"?
...and break stuff? The editor has got to be aware of how that ends, lmao. The Silicon Valley ethos is the EXACT opposite of the reputation of "german engineering". I hope they don't get suckered into thinking Musk is bringing some kind of better way of doing things in any general sense, that would be a major loss to the world.
Zoom has quarterly revenue of $600 million, not annual.
For me, hiring the Keybase team did not increase my trust in Zoom; it sadly lowered my opinion of the Keybase team (which had already taken a hit due to their integration of cryptocurrency into the Keybase platform).
Facebook and Twitter Limit Sharing New York Post Story About Joe Biden
everything influences your behaviors or options, do you sue your childhood neighbour for setting a bad example? Ultimately it's you who's responsible for your behaviors and if there's something wrong with you the only way to fix it is you learning to discern truth from lie, NOT everyone else shielding you from lies.
I'm glad the author is happy where he's at. I wish more people would move to where they are best suited.

I want the people of France to enjoy the best France possible. Likewise to the people of Germany, Egypt, etc.

As for me, I like the America I was born in. To be sure, it's changing, but it has unique traits that I wouldn't give up for anything.
>100's-of -MPa stress along the length of the fiber

It's all fine and dandy until it breaks open, along the length, and releases not just the stored mechanical energy, but also all the inductive energy from the flowing current of few million amperes.
Sorry, I find the article impossible to read owing to the spidery font rendered in 50% gray. Who thinks that is a good idea?
I get request quite frequently to have 'guest' blog posts on my domain. Obviously, I tell them to get lost but I'm sure the money is good. So it's not just the fake accounts you have to watch out for.
I’m partial to hangman and hunt the wumpus as well. The trek game is ok, if a little tedious.
'planet-scale soapbox' is an even better argument for them to be limited in what they allow... just because they found themselves popular doesn't suddenly make them a public utility
AES-GCM has serious problems with nonce reuse when you have encrypted a lot of data. As I recall, solving that problem was part of the CESAR competition a couple years back.
There's no such thing as free speech under at-will employment. All the ya-hoos complaining about "cancel culture" seem oddly disinterested in materially improving the situation....
Modders (luckily) keep finding a way. It's just unfortunate for the player that having Facebook as an owner means they need to show more good will in preventing the distribution of custom songs so they don't get held accountable for piracy.

I paid attention to the dev discord servers for a few months after the acquisition when they were churning through new mods when the old ones broke and people gave up on trying to maintain them, but haven't checked it recently. I would expect there's probably working mods still, but it's also probably a lot harder to keep them working over time.

FB's official stance on modding is that they will support mods that don't engage in "piracy or illicit modding, including mods that infringe on third-party IP rights". [1]

[1] https://www.oculus.com/blog/welcoming-beat-games-to-facebook...
So you are agreeing with the statement, and describing a rare outlier exception. I believe the number of documented Covid-19 re-infections is very small, and that one (1) person has died after re-infection. Statistically speaking, we're still up in the six sigma range of people who have not been re-infected. This (statistics) is the basis of public health policy.
I think this is probably the intended meaning, but it’s best not to be too generous when it comes to questionable things people say about their security.
No; those are independent state variables. If they weren't, your air conditioner wouldn't work. Compressing something does work, which raises temperature, but you can extract that heat and cool it down without reducing the pressure. That's half of the refrigeration cycle right there!
https://www.cultofmac.com/311171/crazy-iphone-rig-shows-chin...
This is assuming that the YouTube management (or the software behind) is authoritative of what information is correct. In reality, YouTube has not just once banned stuff "by mistake" and will continue to do so.
Crazy iPhone rig shows how Chinese workers manipulate App Store rankings
Ha! I made an account here to astroturf. I wonder if I’m the one who inspired you to create your account?
It's accurate though, so it's more ironic than sarcastic
Twitter doesn't require anyone to listen to you either.
> Whose location is this: 38.0826966°, -122.0144075°?

That is not the data that is stored. You are deliberately lying because you yourself said that an encrypted identifier is stored with the data. As I already proved to you earlier, that encrypted identifier can be deanonymized by Apple.

> This is you admitting that you actually don’t know that they are doing what you said they were doing.

I showed that they were doing worse than what I had originally claimed, and you ignored that.

> You lied

You're the one who lied in my previous comment. Go see what it says. You can't even argue semantics like you're doing here.

Remember, the whole point is that on Google and Amazon allow you to turn off this data collection entirely, which is significantly better for privacy, and you have not been able to argue otherwise. Worse, you continue to ignore the app data tied to your identity. You are arguing for a bad actor, which makes you look absolutely silly, like somebody who was duped into overpaying for a worse device who feels the need to justify their foolishness to the world.

By the way, here's proof that they're not just making you consent to that scary privacy disclaimer for shits and giggles as you hoped against hope that they did: https://www.wired.com/2011/04/apple-iphone-tracking/
For the many people in this thread who seem to think somehow Google is single-handedly killing FTP everywhere for everyone, please refer to the first paragraph in the linked site. Here it is, for the lazy (emphasis mine)

> Usage of FTP in the browser is sufficiently low that it is no longer viable to invest in improving the existing FTP client. In addition more capable FTP clients are available on all affected platforms.

So chill, you'll still be able to get your stuff via FTP. They're not taking it out of search results or anything, and yes, maybe in 40 years people will still be using FTP for stuff. It's fine, you just won't be using Chrome for it.
This complaint seems like letting the perfect be the enemy of the good - the author took the data she had, applied it in what sounds like the best way related to the problem, and reported the outcome. It didn't seem like an especially strong result to me, though - while there is clearly a relationship between the chosen measure of confidence and promotion probability for men, it sure looks like it's there for women too, even if it doesn't pass the author's test of statistical significance.

It's also a reductionist view of what the advice in "lean in" is actually about. It's been a while since I read it, but my recollection is that it is about actually doing things like staying in the workforce even if you have kids, putting your name in for promotions, etc. I would be extremely surprised if choices like those are not correlated with likelihood of promotion.
We own four of the standard HomePods. They are supposed to be stereo pairable. They are, but several times a week they either plain don’t work, lose the channel, or play different music on each channel.

Generally speaking, while the sound is excellent that user interface and implementation are atrocious.
How do contact tracing systems differ between NSW and Victoria?
The coolest things about black holes IMO, is that time becomes "heavier" as you approach them. In this regard, I believe that black holes protect us in a similar fashion that Jupiter does. Jupiter catches a lot of flak for us - remember the comets that bombarded it years back? What if Jupiter wasn't there and those hit something closer to us, such as Mars? If those comets hit a smaller body that was closer to us the toll on human existence could have been complete. It's a moot point, I know, because if Jupiter didn't exist neither would humans.

Back to my point, let's imagine two scenarios:

* a massive body flies past the protective system of a black hole, but does not enter that system and so is not subject to serious changes in spacetime

* a massive body flies directly into the system of a black hole, and it's destination is a specific planet

I will explain how that target planet planet will be protected by the black hole:

In the first example, the massive body flies past the black hole very rapidly. From the perspective of the target planet it was likely too rapid to ever hope to observe, because time moves faster where that object passed.

Before I move on to the second example I have an important point to make - while the distance that the intruding object needs to travel to reach its destination remains the same as it was when they were outside of the influence of the black hole's system (from the perspective of the target planet the intruding object could have travelled that distance in the blink of an eye when outside of the area of influence), the intruding object can no longer travel that distance in a blink of an eye from the perspective of the target planet once it enters the black hole's system - travel become relatively much slower. This is the primary protective measure that black holes provide us - more time.

That's interesting to think about right? Is the intruding object actually moving faster outside of the influencing zone? I would argue that yes, it is, because time flows differently. To visualize this, imagine two cars driving 60mph side by side - and then imagine that for one of those cars, the road also begins to travel forward, quickly propelling the car ahead of the other. While the wheels on the car may not have been spinning faster, make no doubt, it was travelling faster - even though to oberservers who were also on the moving road the car would only appear to be going 60mph.

And so how does "slowing down time for intruding objects" protect us? Well, nothing lasts forever (that we know of... maybe there's a cosmic drain somewhere that should be considered a constant, but we're not aware of that right now). The rigors of space travel and time will wear away at the intruding object more and more as it approaches the target planet which lies much closer to the black hole. There's a good chance that the intruding object will not survive to meet its target.

Black holes are definitely scary, but if you think about it they might just be our friends.
Precisely that.
It may be a good idea. Send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com . They usually reply soon.

There is a problem about the details, like the minimum of days or the minimum of karma (or the minimum of days*karma) or other metric like how many pages the user has seen or how many times has upvoted something.
These kind of trial halts are perfectly normal and in no way suggest that the vaccine under test is the cause, it is just that as long as there is no explanation the continuation of the trial would unethical. You can expect a lot more of these in the near future, they usually cause delays but do not necessarily spell trouble for the vaccine under test unless a direct causal link can be inferred.
Is that true? Certainly it's true that the client changes the quality of what it's sending based on what its uplink supports, but what if a client has very good uplink and sends a high quality stream, but 1 (out of some larger number) of other participants doesn't have the downlink to receive it? Does Zoom actually instruct the sender to degrade the quality of what it uploads, and so everyone gets a worse experience? That seems unlikely.
There are two possibilities: Either it's really a hack or it's a felonious attempt to manipulate an election. Or it's both -- a hack of personal private photos and also fake emails feloniously manipulating an election. Either way, a ban is appropriate.

Saying "if it's true, it's ban able for X" without out bothering to say that obviously it's bannable if it's false, isn't saying it's true. How could Twitter even know?
> Earth is a single point of failure

Only in the sense that a climbing harness is also a single point of failure.
While there are certainly economies of scale that may allow others to do better anyone can engage in some sort of advertising, guerilla marketing is definetly a decentralized advertising tactic.

If monopoly is defined solely in terms of dominance it is ironically possible for there to be a decentralized monopoly as technically anyone can enter by any means but there is one big fish in the pond. I dislike that definition of monopoly personally because a monopoly with no concrete barriers to entry feels like an absurd abuse of the term.
Outright spam, like forum and blog comments. Exploiting web sites, or abusing trust relationships (like updates to WordPress plugins or browser extensions) to inject spam into legitimate pages, or to create entire networks of spam pages within unaware sites. Launching deliberately obvious spam campaigns to discredit competing sites.

That's black-hat SEO -- where the behavior itself is probably illegal, even without the intent.
Sometimes I have to wonder if these tech giants are actually run by far right accelerationists. Ramming these narratives down people's throats is a surefire way to create suspicion and hostility in the mind of any reasonable man who fears the censor more than any inconvenient truth. Having every form of media, government department, NGO, celebrity, etc parroting the day's narrative while covertly (or even overtly) shutting down the opposition is doing more harm to their message than they could imagine.

I've seen White nationalists celebrating BLM more than anyone this year because it has created more racists in 6 months than they could have achieved in 10 years.

The LGBTQI movement creates open homophobes at a rate that far-right propaganda could only dream of.

Already, where I live (Victoria, Aus), exhaustion of the pandemic and contempt for the government's overzealous and opportunistic authoritarian measures are very popular.

I have had the pleasant experience recently of walking into a store and having an employee tell me I am free to remove my mask - like every other customer and employee in there.

Personally, they can deliver this vaccine to my corpse.
Yeah they would just block all of your calls. Probablem solved
Personal opinion I think a lot of opportunities for innovation and growth in the desktop OS market have stagnated, as increasingly 90% of what people do is contained within a browser window and performed through some sort of network-dependent cloud service/saas/web app. Inside chrome, edge, firefox, safari, whatever.

For many non technical consumer users it no longer really matters whether they're running Windows 10, MacOS or something weird like a linux+xorg/KDE desktop environment.
Years ago, I worked for a public sector organisation that had both staff and contractors. In IT, we had to create accounts for them all. For the staff, HR had a central database with all their details, so we just sucked that database into our identity management system. For contractors, there was no central database of who the contractors actually were, that knowledge was distributed across all the departments that employed contractors. Finance knew how much money was being spent and who the contracting agencies were, but didn't keep records of who the individual contractors were.

I said: "Can't we just get HR to put the contractors in their database too? We can have a different person type or something to make the staff-vs-contractor distinction clear"

I was told: "HR will never agree to that. The unions keep on asking for statistics on how many contractors are employed and how many hours they work. HR can truthfully answer 'we don't know'. If HR puts the contractors in their database, then they will know, and then they might have to tell the unions."
This is such a great idea! I’ll definitely be interested when they come out.
Quote mining isn’t a possibility, it’s an inevitability.

Now here’s something: if corporations like Google are worried about quote mining, what does this mean for your personal search history, and how you may face in a secret court for some “national security” charge in 2027?
Current wait time for Index is 12-14 weeks (got mine in 12) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CTIAd7OzNJhzkimpCFD...
Atari Shows Off Concept Art for Its New Hotels, and It All Looks Insane
From my more up to date gamers at work, new games sound full of dark patterns.
I don't believe the source because they're known liars. I definitely don't believe the story that a laptop with Ukrainian emails was left in a DC repair shop and then given to Trump's personal propagandist lawyer Rudy Guliani. Also they're not publishing the emails headers as explained here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780927
Hm. I'll make the end condition configurable so you can pick that as an option. Right now I'm stuck at a second refactoring but the idea is to give the player flexibility on structuring the game when they start it. Right now the end-game routine is a very dumb implementation.

// meaning all tiles are touched or marked
// and guesses are correct
is_board_solved() {
for( var k in this.board.public ) {

// takes a single unguessed, unrevealed tile
if(
this.board.public[k].state === "unknown" &&
this.board.public[k].guess === false
) {
return( false );
}

// or one wrong mine guess
if(
this.board.public[k].guess === true &&
this.board.private[k].mine === false
) {
return( false );
}
}
return( true );
}
>Planning your life around once or twice in a lifetime events like a pandemic seems pretty wasteful.

It's not specifically a pandemic. It's the idea that it's worth being somewhat prepared to deal with things if a major event occurs.
Are these the same folks that rushed to stock up on toilet paper in April?
"The ratio of visible to dark matter is no longer 1 in 10,000 but one in 300 ... DF44 is not extraordinary."
"... not way outside the normal value ..."

Strange, I've never seen 99.7% DM called ordinary.
No, the discussion is about acknowledging that
behaviour is anti-competitive.
This primary source provides better details on YouTube's policy: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en. It includes concrete examples of content that is banned under this policy.
It's almost like "classic" is a subjective term or something.
> Whether you are at a picnic, a party or a meeting, your SmartEarrings™ will make sure you don't miss a call or a notification.

Sounds terrifying.
Yet you have no rights on a private platform. Is the New York Times forced to publish the same article? No, and they are a publisher. Their existence doesn't suddenly give you a right to use it and 'publish' what you'd like.

Every forum online has rules about what you can and cannot post; there is no law stating they have to leave whatever you post up.
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You should use git.
— someone who shares your job.
https://archive.is/cSma0
Parent was being sarcastic, insinuating that people who don't like Rupert Murdoch's decades-old propaganda empire are elitist.
I think it would make sense to distinguish between some random jerk posting a photo hacked from his ex-girlfriend's iCloud account vs a news article containing a hacked photo of a slide detailing NSA's PRISM program. Twitter already makes "public interest exemptions" for their other rules
I think we’re arguing the same thing... my point though is that when a browser ceases to act on users’ behalf then users should withdraw trust from it.

Forking Chromium is likely an unsustainable proposition unless backed by a large corp (or VC/philanthropy money) and a value proposition non-tech people can understand.

What about Brave? Any idea what their stance is on this?
On here, no I don't think so. But for what it's worth I believe you.
From elsewhere in the comments: https://github.com/pavel-aicradle/exportify
Yep, def using the Heavy Duty kind tonight.
Problems with the NYPost story about Hunter Biden
Truecaller sucks hard. I'd get a call and they'd place a promotion in the way so I couldn't answer until I clicked it. Not good when driving.

That was 5 years ago. Maybe they've changed?
> They periodically send the location of nearby cell-towers and wifi hotspots (all public information) back to a crowdsourced database.

With your GPS location. That's how they figure out the location of those devices.

> _Your_ identity isn't associated with any of it.

As I showed in the link you continue to ignore, an easily deanonymized identifier is associated with that data in order to prevent people from sending junk data.

> Google/Android do this too:

The whole point is that on Android, you can opt out. Android respects users privacy enough to even ask them if they want to opt out on initial setup.

> You can also entirely disable location services if you're uncomfortable with this and that'd stop it.

As I explained in the link, disabling location services means you can't get your location at all. Not so with Android.

> You're weaponizing people's ignorance and the complexity of the technical details.

I'm fixing your and zepto's ignorance in order to protect people's privacy against bad actors like Apple.
Anecdotally, my website has apparently cracked some SEO metrics threshold, as I'm enjoying the questionable honour of receiving various offerings on a daily basis. These are from agencies either directly asking for link placements, or offering payed posts, or, the other way round, offering ready made content (which may or may not contain an endorsement of some kind, most probably the latter). One thing these have in common is that those are the most stubborn cold call campaigns, I've ever seen. They do not give up, there's a 7th and 8th followup on an answered mail, eventually turning towards the passive-aggressive side. (While, clearly, they couldn't be bothered to have just a quick look at the site in question, just to recognise, how inappropriate and meaningless their advances are.) There seems to be quite a flourishing industry behind this.

(Not so serious theory regarding overconfident influencers: Maybe they are just copying the style of the agencies, they get their pay checks from.)
This is a wholly inappropriate comment
I think BeyondCorp == IAP
I'm sure that sounds clever to you, but I've no idea what it means or what relevance it has.

You said something is "demonstrably false" that is actually happening and is documented in the subject of this whole thread.
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