skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s actually not at all obvious how a local list of locations used to power suggestions in maps or Siri, is in any way a compromise of privacy or technically bad.

The only thing that made it sound bad were people saying things like “Apple stores your location history”, knowing that it would create the false impression that Apple was uploading location data to their servers.

This situation is similar in that there are people posting misleading inuendo about Apple having some hidden agenda, but the difference is that there do seem like real design problems with the mechanism this time.
As detailed in our posts, CheerpX for Flash will require a valid license from Harman (Adobe Flash licensing partner) for the binary plugin.

https://medium.com/leaningtech/cheerpx-for-flash-now-general...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ZjU-6iSwk
>MSM is anything but loaded. It's a description of the largest media platforms and that includes outlets like Fox News. And none of them provide "neutral analysis" hence the critiques.

Not really. You can argue that "fake news" is not loaded, because according to you it only means "news that are 100% fabricated with no basis in reality", but that still doesn't change the fact that a significant amount of people use it to refer to any news that they don't like.
Maybe would be kind of fun if we, the users, could form a coalition to deliberately mislabel photos on captures on a mass scale.

It just seems there lacks a way to make it happen beyond the hacker community.
Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects
The other way around, bsdiff became part of my thesis. ;-)
> During an interview, we usually have a whiteboard abstract design and pseudo-code guided exercise. I also very much like to ask candidates to walk us through one of their projects and experience with that as well. Occasionally, someone who doesn't do very well with other parts of the interview will really open up on a school or personal project and show unexpected insight and ability.

That's the correct way of doing algorithmic screening. Relatively self-contained problem that has several possible solutions.
Android runs on a Linux kernel.
It's not just fast running and controlling the ball like a master. It was World Soccer Cup semi-finals and against England, which invented the sport.
The army needs propaganda to recruit people because it's not just a job. Soldiers don't have the right to quit if they don't like the working conditions. But many people actually sign up (or re-up) for the money, to pay off student loans, etc.

If more workers are needed to care for covid patients then the wages will rise, and more workers will switch from other jobs to perform this work. Training people to empty bedpans, draw blood, monitor diagnostic equipment, and so on is not any more complex than what people learn in a code bootcamp, and code bootcamps are doing fine.

Nursing isn't some kind of uniquely difficult occupation. If a pilot can learn to fly helicopters commercially in a year then I would propose that we can train people to do this, too.
USC and Amazon ‘Slade’ Uses Unlabelled Data to Improve Information Retrieval
I remember listening to a presentation by a quantum computing researcher in which he made a joke about the lab’s experience of receiving funding from the NSA (paraphrased): ‘getting funding from the NSA is great. They’re the only funding source that would say “we would prefer that you fail and this technology doesn’t exist - but if it does work, we want the first one”.

I don’t see why fusion research couldn’t be analogous.
Similar to playstation goals you mean?
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25213946
> In the US, the typical citizen commits an average of a felony a day

This is surprising to me. Could you provide examples of such common felonies US citizens commit in ignorance?
hahaha, great comments. Blender is so brilliant. I met Ton Roosendaal last year when conferences were still a thing. He is awesome. Those guys/gals are amazing. They got a huge grant from Unreal, its great to see software like this just crushing it.
This was the Prime Ministers original announcement on COVIDSafe.

“To be effective, users should have the app running in the background when they are coming into contact with others. Your phone does not need to be unlocked for the app to work.”

“It then securely makes a ‘digital handshake’, which notes the date and time, distance and duration of the contact. All information collected by the app is securely encrypted and stored in the app on the user’s phone. No one, not even the user, can access it.”

“Unless and until a person is diagnosed with COVID-19, no contact information collected in the app is disclosed or able to be accessed. Then, once the person agrees and uploads the data, only the relevant state or territory public health officials will have access to information. The only information they are allowed to access is that of close contacts – when a person has come within approximately 1.5 metres of another app user for 15 minutes or more – in their jurisdiction,” Minister Robert said.

Ref: https://www.pm.gov.au/media/covidsafe-new-app-slow-spread-co...
I think there is case for making and selling and alternative UI for Jira.

as long handle being wholly dependent on a third party whose API access could be pulled anytime .
I’m not particularly fond of reCaptcha either but I disagree that it’s an obviously good thing for someone to be able to repeatedly make new accounts with no restrictions. Abusive users use this to bypass account bans.
So we use 15% of the internet for captchas and I lose 15% of my life identifying crossroads, stoplights, and buses to computers. There's got to be a better way
Check out http://austlii.community/wiki/DataLex. In Australia we are fortunate enough to have AustLII publishing virtually all Australian laws and court decisions (at least from this century) for free in a somewhat consistent HTML format. DataLex is the name for the “computational law” research AustLII staff have been doing since the 1980s. It’s interesting, but the real value of AustLII’s work is in getting the courts and legislatures to allow them to collect all the raw data and publish it in a free database with full text search. Just getting to that point is a huge improvement over what’s freely available in the US and the UK.
That's annoying. Have you tried using their accessibility feature?

https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility
We sometimes seem to forget that not all websites have to be web apps.

It's fine that you can use JS or wasm, and if you really want to you barely need to touch html/css

But for many things, plain HTML with a bit of CSS and tiny amount of JS is perfectly fine.
This is joyous, Maradona: Life is Life https://youtu.be/4vashrNoXTE
How do I learn regex? I get confused because it seems like maybe there's more than one kind of regex floating around out there, and since regex is made of lots of punctuation symbols, it's very hard to search for things about it on the web. Is there a single book I can read? A couple books? Does it depend on my runtime environment?
Doctors Warn Side Effects from Covid-19 Vaccine “Won't Be a Walk in the Park”
I don't understand why anyone likes hCaptcha. With reCaptcha, I rarely got more than the checkbox. Now I get a series of puzzles every time I want to look at a web page. When that happens, I'm just closing out, and going to a better website.
Our winters here are pretty easy, and we don't have uber eats.

But seriously, my very near ancestors were strong, they survived the holocaust. Their life were miserable, with lingering effects even after the holocaust. I don't wish anyone to go through anything similar just to prove they're strong.

I agree that when things are tough giving up will kill you. But we should definitely not strive for tough times, these scar you and generations to come.

We should work for a future where we don't need to be extremely tough. We have the means and wits for that.
The goal they are trying to achieve is ignition, which is the point where the fusion reactions they directly cause with the lasers release enough energy to in turn lead to more fusion reactions. It's the same principle as using a spark plug to ignite gasoline in an engine: once some of the fuel ignites, that will cause the rest to burn. Getting that initial spark to light is hard, but going from ignition to net-power out is comparatively easy.
Great catch. If you'd like, you can actually submit a better translation via a pr here: https://github.com/hCaptcha/hcaptcha-i18n
I'm not sure if you're referring to me as OP or easytiger but my point is I have the (completely reasonable!) expectation that elected officials will act with integrity with regards to the policies they enact.
True, but the Hobby tier is compelling at least.
> The army needs propaganda to recruit people because it's not just a job. Soldiers don't have the right to quit if they don't like the working conditions. But many people actually sign up (or re-up) for the money, to pay off student loans, etc.

Look man, if you don't want me comparing nurses to the military, then don't bring it up in the first place (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25213289)

> This is what the army does, it works fine.

Your words, not mine. Find a better comparison. And no, I don't think your "helicopter pilot" argument is serious at this point. There's no way you actually consider helicopter pilots as important as nurses right now.

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> Nursing isn't some kind of uniquely difficult occupation. If a pilot can learn to fly helicopters commercially in a year then I would propose that we can train people to do this, too.

If a nurse quits on their job, then their patients die. You can't just get "another nurse" to do their job (those nurses are also overworked and busy).

If a helicopter pilot quits their job, their passengers need to wait a few more days to find a new pilot.

I have my doubts you're serious with the helicopter discussion point. I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to prove.
Thanks!

I've just eaten too, so I won't look.
Then the problem is that the elite know better and can be trusted, but the people cannot.

This is how we got Trump and it’s how we get him again. This stuff is truly galling.
It's even more fun when you look at data from elsewhere in the world.

I've worked with incredible engineers from France... here in America. And yet the other day there was this poster whining he couldn't find great engineering talent in France.

He blamed it on French people being lazy, of course.
It is already off. I've always had it off. I have multiple locations saved in Google Maps.
Or it could be a fluke. GCP went down in such a way the dashboard updates were not independent of the regions that went down so the dashboard was down because the region down it was reporting on was the region it was deployed on. I think that ended up being the root cause but yes another Sunday on call I didn't go to the gym and sat infront of my computer waiting for updates that never came. What's worse is when they say they will update at a certain time next and then no update is made.

Even if you don't know what to say still update saying that so the rest of us can report to our teams and make decisions about our own worklives and personal lives.
Well this seems like much more of an internal thing that would really never make it to any sort of media publication. You never read about the internal shit-flinging that happens when a team of engineers has to decide on a stack, but it does certainly happen. At the very least I have personal anecdotal experience of this happening from a couple of companies I worked at.

I can't think of a specific example, but when BLOCKCHAIN was the new kid on the block, every startup and it's mother just threw that word into their company somewhere somehow. How many of them got very far?
As IBM shifts to hybrid cloud, reports have them laying off 10k in EU
We've been working on something to help out with this: https://align.link/
> I do think they would be surprised if that rest request failing meant that the program couldn't launch.

I fully agree. The only point I was aiming to make with my original comment was that the mere act of a program connecting to the Internet “unexpectedly” is by no means abnormal.

> That's kind of why I was thinking of Linux as cheating on some level. Windows/Mac programs basically can't do the same thing, since they don't have the same infrastructure.

MacOS, at least, is definitely headed in that direction with its App Store and the move to Apple silicon.
At amazon, admitting to a problem will guaranteed lead to having to open a COE, correction of error, which means meetings with executives, inevitable "least effective" rating, development plan, scapegoating, PIP, and firing.
Karen on Python Mocks: Threading.Timer
What they’re paid is not irrelevant. There was basically a nationwide discussion on providing hazard pay to nurses at the onset of all this.

Solving the pay issue doesn’t mean the other issues don’t exist, but it is definitely important and noteworthy progress.
That literally happened to me 5min ago!
> You can always justify a conspiracy theory on the basis that you can’t prove a negative like this.

Its not about definitively claiming they are being nefarious, its about they CAN be, and Apple isn't transparent enough for us to know if they're not. So its about risk. People can use Apple products, I don't really care, but they risk their privacy when they do, and thats not a risk people should have to take when using an OS.
Indeed. From [1] "The two stolen works were eventually recovered in 2016, when they were used by an Italian mafia boss as collateral to get a more lenient jail sentence."

And from [2] "Artworks tend to surface either very quickly after they are stolen or else disappear into the underworld where they are traded between criminals at a fraction of their value for drugs and other illicit materials, Marinello said."

[1] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews/11904865/van-gogh-pa...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/aug/16/rembran...
While I don't agree with the right's view, I wish more people would take the approach of steelmanning[1] their political stance before trying to debate it. Do you really not see how someone on the right could simply accuse you of the same bad behavior as you have of them?

> For the record I don’t at all think abortion should be politicized

But put yourself in a charitable version of your opponent's shoes: they believe it's a violation of the 5th amendment, and tantamount to murder. From the GOP platform,

> the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed

While I have personally heard convincing counter-arguments to this (as I said, I don't agree with the right), I don't hear them being stated by anyone at a high level on the left. The left's repeated talking point is that women have a right to their own body; but that view ignores, I think, that it's fully possible for someone on the right to believe that, but simultaneously believe that the rights of the unborn child take precedence. I have yet to hear someone high on the left address why either they believe that the right's stance on an unborn child's right to the 5th is wrong (and thus, a woman's right prevails as it is the only thing) or why the unborn child's right to the 5th is trumped by the woman's right to her body.

> and it’s tiring to know it’s going nowhere for the future.

I sincerely think that if the left took the time to argue against the steelmanned argument from the right, we might actually make progress at convincing people, and actually moving the debate forward. But, as it is, one side is screaming "it's murder!" the other "women's right's!", neither addressing the other's position or views. How is that ever to move forward?

Yes, there are plenty of uncharitable arguments made by politicians on the right, and one can no doubt cherry-pick an endless litany of examples. But that you can I do not believe frees you from the requirement of arguing a good, solid argument for your own viewpoint. Do you really think that half the nation is doing no more than "pandering to emotion", or that perhaps some subset of them might sincerely hold a view on the issue that might differ from your own?

While I don't agree with the right, I can certainly see how anyone on that side would be left utterly unconvinced by the rhetoric being produced on the left.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning
England should overcome this. Argentina was stolen the World Cup Final in 1990 and 2014 and you don't see them crying all over the Internet
Being on a VPN, have blockers on, or not logged into google are a few things that will increase the captchas you’ll see.
Herding Cats and Free Will Inflation (2020) [pdf]
Amazon can't diversify their providers, though.

Regular Joes like us can use AWS, GCE, on premises, some non-reseller colocation provider, etc., and create failover duplicates, alternative deploy targets, or simply not ever have a complete outage due to the unlikelihood of all of these things failing at once.
Zones or regions? I don't think multi-az will help you when the whole region kicks the bucket.
The transcript of the podcast is exactly what I was talking about. As far as I can tell it is pure human interest fluff, it does not explain how the auction worked nor how this hack worked (understandable, since it's probably impossible to describe to people who don't understand the auction).

Here's the entirety of their explanation:

> SMITH: We've been using this metaphor of a superhighway in the sky. And you know how whenever someone wants to build a superhighway in the real world, there's always some run-down farmhouse in the way that the government has to pay way too much money for? The private equity firms had essentially bought all these key farmhouses blocking the new spectrum highway.

> ROMER: But the plan was not to stop the highway, to block the auction altogether. It was just to make it more expensive. Private equity and their consultants figured out which frequencies the FCC's computers valued the most, the frequencies you really needed to make the whole reorganization work. Once you had those, you could drive up the prices for all the TV stations, which private equity happened to own a lot of.

What reorganization? That's the first time it was mentioned. Why are some frequencies more valuable? (Or alternatively, why is it surprising and non-obvious that some are more valuable). Why would owning stations at these specific frequencies allow you to drive up the other prices?
If you do this, ideally do it outdoors and with a fan to blow the fumes away from your face. Burning plastic creates some pretty nasty gasses that you definitely don't want to be breathing in; I learned this the hard way, unfortunately.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted, considering that Kelo v. City of New London[1] provides precedent that eminent domain can be use to forcibly transfer property for the purposes of economic development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
They're all set to native, I don't do scaling. I've since got a free top case replacement from Apple (keyboard was slightly busted because I spilled soda on it lol) and, after a PRAM reset, it's not going crazy at idle, only when being in WebRTC calls (which is 90% of my job).
I love this extension: https://github.com/dessant/buster

It won’t solve the privacy issues but at least you’re not working on google’s training set anymore and captchas are automatically solved for you.
I used to think that reCAPTCHA was bad, but then I had to solve numerous CAPTCHAs from hCaptcha. Now I think that they're all bad.
With our hCaptcha Enterprise product (https://www.botstop.com), showing a CAPTCHA actually only happens in rare cases (relatively speaking..) - vast majority of bots are caught and stopped in the background (using ML), and most users will never see one.
Doesn't that then go further to the point? It's not a matter worth moralizing over—rather a personal preference and pragmatic approach to that end.
> do you think nobody has noticed LibGen by now? Do you think the reason they’re still running is because of some jurisdiction issue?

I'm not sure about the implication of your words. But, clearly, Elsevier has already tried to take legal actions against LibGen previously, and once in a while, LibGen's domain names are still being blocked and routinely replaced, just like Sci-Hub. I'd still say the reason it's still running is a jurisdiction issue, or let's say it's a geopolitical issue, it's using Russia to shield itself away from US influences.

But an IPFS gateway hosted in the United States by Cloudflare does not enjoy these legal and political benefits.
I use Google Pay for exactly two things:

1. Tap-to-pay, which doesn't require the app's UI at all
1. Loyalty/Membership cards

If Google Pay used location tracking to automatically open the correct membership card, offered an easy-to-find list of payments I'd made, and did absolutely nothing else, it would be the perfect app.
I doubt the full list of hashes of all revoked certs is 100s of MB, and even if it is, the daily update file surely isn't that big.
In a computer engineering class (but nowhere else really), I heard storage can be called "secondary memory"[1] so they're technically correct, without knowing it.

[1] as mentioned here for instance https://techterms.com/definition/secondary_memory
I already have "safe mode" it's called disabling javascript.

Anyway, I understand that there's dogma around how necessary javascript is so lets say we agreed -- how do you want to draw the website?

For me I've never met a better box model than HTML. Tried looking at qt and flutter but they feel like visual basic to me, a handful of components to arrange according to their rules. HTML is like paper, I can cut out pieces in whatever shape I want.

(Then again, it took me a long time to get my head around html/css so now I'm building a GUI/no-code site builder, but of course the output is HTML/SVG so it can render anywhere. And I only use JS to update attributes instead of waiting for a page reload. I figure if amazon.com can work without javascript, it must not be very necessary :)
I've seen the opposite.

Employee from University X would make a referral for everyone from University X that would apply. And let me just say the signal to noise ratio from that institution was horrible to say the least.
Please don't twist my contributions to being so ill-hearted. We're supposed to respond to each comment with generosity around here—defaulting to sincerity.

The discussion began with moralizing about eating other living things.
How it’s phrased is irrelevant to who bears the burden of proof. You are the one making the claim, therefore the burden of proof is on you to back up your claim, no?

This is true regardless of how extraordinary the claim is. I find your claim that “markets cannot provide full employment” not at all obvious, regardless of phrasing, and am asking for evidence.

Your response suggests you don’t have any.

By this logic, if I say something like “there was no moon landing”, I could demand that you offer evidence to the contrary instead of offering any of my own.
Laws can always be applied selectively. They have always been applied selectively.

The point of laws is statistics: you can't discourage everything, you need to discourage enough to have order.

And there is a middle ground between no laws and giving everything up.

Also, I give up my liberties and obey laws in exchange for protection from many nasty things people do when there are no laws.

Based on your examples and vocabulary ("nanny state" is a clear giveaway), you're American. Go live for 5-10 years in a country with lax or non-existent laws and law enforcement. We call those countries bad names for a solid reason.
Salesforce APIs are unintuitive and terribly documented by design, so that their ISV ecosystem (basically people who have spent years working and getting certified for it) becomes more valuable. If they made it easy a $250/hr "Salesforce consultant" role wouldn't exist.