skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a happy Golf GTI owner, oof
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Differential privacy is an area that makes some guarantees about not letting personal information about individuals escape. Might be a useful technique as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy

Agree that strong guarantees about privacy aren't achievable.
I like the second part of your answer. Indeed, if you wanted something like a way to id bad actors, you could do some scheme where the OS (or browser or even secondary service) could do some form of attestation that isn't trackable and has even stronger guarantees than some unauthenticated unique id has. If Apple and Google can make their Corona Tracking APIs untrackable by third parties, then untrackable "valid device" APIs should be possible and feasible as well.

But you cannot make this my problem by saying "let me spy on you. or your shit gets more expensive, or sites have to close". That sounds too much like "an offer you cannot refuse". I will not surrender my privacy for failed business models.
Let's say you're a startup trying to advertise on Google, and somebody has paid a bot network to fraudulently click on your ads. Now Google can't detect that those clicks are fraudulent, so you're billed for them.

Your channel efficiency unavoidably goes down, which increases your cost of customer acquisition because your other channels cannot pick up all of the slack.

Increasing the cost of customer acquisition is going to be bad for your business. You will either need to reduce costs (by hiring less, for example), or increase your prices.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe only Musk is moving to Texas, not Telsa. Thought at this point they are basically one in the same.
Making Sense of Design Systems, Pattern Libraries and Style Guides
How to Keep Track of Deep Learning Experiments in Notebooks
Welcome to macOS Catalina:-)
Going to Mars? Or running to Mars?
It did, technically.

But the transition arrangements mean everything of importance changes at the end of 31.12.2020.

So far it's just a lot of government adverts telling us how things are going to be worse and to prepare for it. How much extra paperwork, tariffs, expenses, licenses, applications-for-permission etc there will be come 31st December, how we can no longer conduct some kinds of business, how professional qualifications cease to be valid in Britain after 31st December, and how some people who are currently employed can no longer be employed from 1st January.

All the adverts and policy effects that actually affect people are focused on 31.12.2020.

(Reading between the lines it also means some people will no longer be permitted a bank account or the ability to rent a roof starting in the middle of next year, though the government prefers not to headline that unpalatable truth.)

On 31.12.2020 things will change in a way that affects some of us harshly indeed.

I'm British.

As far as I'm concerned, Brexit proper happens for me on 31.12.2020 because that's the day I'm deprived of my previous life-long right to work, study and move my life to the other EU countries, which I have previously used, and hoped to use again :'(

I absolutely hate that such a major freedom, and my family's freedom, and my EU citizenship, is being taken away so forcefully against my consent and without me breaking any laws.

I was considering leaving Britain and emigrating to another EU country this year under EU-citizenship-grandfathering terms, but Covid made it infeasible. If the Brexit transition period had been extended I might have been able to do it next year, but it will cease to be possible after 31.12.2020.

What a Christmas present.

On 31st this year, around midnight, many of us will mark a day of darkness and sadness, as doors close on our life choices, and the Britain some of us had some sort of love and pride in some years ago finally ceases to exist.
No. It's a similar disease like SARS, MERS and other coronavirus outbreaks. The problem is that there are a lot of asymptomatic and it has a long incubation time, so detection and containment is very difficult.

> CAUTION: This is speculation and is not advice that contradicts any public health measures such as PPE, social distancing or other initiatives. This is forward looking research and should not be used in place of government mandates and public health stakeholder advice!

I agree with that part.
Here's a live link: https://mnmnotmail.org

If you set up the mnm server and would like to let others make accounts on it, please add it here:

https://github.com/networkimprov/mnm-hammer/issues/4
Definitely not exclusive to black people. I remember reading a similar study years ago that focused on perception derived from an individual's attire. As you would expect, the people who were perceived as more trustworthy and knowledgeable were those in more formal / professional attire.
It's $20 in Canada (where a carbon tax exists) and that comes out to 12 euro
Chicago, while not dead, is a fraction of what it used to be. While it used to be at the vanguard of US cities, when is the last time you’ve heard it mentioned in national news in a good way?

Not all cities end up like Detroit. Some just fade into irrelevance.
Yes. Their apps that you can download from the app store will have it. The ones that are always on the phone will have the information on the website. See here: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/9/22165959/apple-privacy-nu...

Edit: a quick look at "pages" in the mac app store shows that the privacy label is there.
Hasura is legit -- I love it, but eventually decided to switch to plain SQL because this keeps the authorization spec closer to the data as opposed to being in the app layer. Problem is, then you need a great way to handle schema migrations, which are not ideal in PostgreSQL right now. I completely agree Hasura is one of the best options if you're only connecting to the database using Hasura. I just wanted to preserve the option to connect to the database through other means. Maybe that's dumb.
American Airlines did this at a time when they needed to raise capital (when it was otherwise difficult to do so) so it solved a problem for them. And no one really foresaw how it would be (an)used.

But these pricing models are dumb because they create the incentive to invalidate the pass. And that was inevitable.

The problem here is that the airline invalidated the passes for behavior they enabled such as making multiple bookings at the same time (ie booking agents would tell them to do this and make the bookings for them).

Also I know selling your commission seat or transferring the pass was against TOS but one example quoted here of approaching people at the gate to use the companion fare wasn’t against TOS AFAIK as long as no money changed hands.

Also it’s worth pointing out that these passes cost serious coin back in the day.
Thanks for the response! Good points and interesting perspective.
Walmart Labs is a really solid workplace from everything I've heard about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Zero
> "What grown-up would spend $100 on a chest of virtual gold coins?"

I'm extremely curious about whether this mother has an equally meaningless but less ethically sourced >$1K diamond and gold ring on her finger. Statistically, one should bet that she does.
Well looking at voting records of Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Colorado, I’d say say yes. Those moving into those states are bringing their politics with them.
> The Bashism is seldom needed

I wish that were true. But posix shell lacks two fairly vital features: sane trap and process redirection. In an ideal world the posix comittee would just fix that, but I won't hold my breath.
That's weird. How come they say nothing about iOS?
Love the concept, hate the name. To me this seems like the recycle bin concept. Allow the code to exist temporarily, but encourage permanent deletion. Perhaps a better name could be a "screamlist" or "needstochange" list.
If you need some bash specific features, I'm not going to argue with that.

In my experience, having portability of the script is quite nice when not necessarily controlling the environment it is going to run in, and aiming for ash/dash/bash does take it a long way.
The Ruby-based tooling has been released as open source: https://github.com/Shopify/deprecation_toolkit
News agencies get things wrong. 'Sources' are often times extremely unreliable, or don't always present the whole picture. Not that I'm absolving Apple here, just that I've been indirectly on the receiving end of 'sources' and Reuters being technically right, but very, very wrong.
Yes.

If you are too impaired to exercise, massage, warm salt-water baths and eating/drinking the right things to help flush wastes from the system can help compensate for the lack of exercise.
I think this is the opposite thinking (but the same outcome?) of what is discussed in David Burn's Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy book. Were these individuals really no good individuals that didn't deserve anything? Or were their thoughts based on cognitive distortions?

For example, a star athlete may have to retire because of injuries. He may become depressed and feel worthless because he can't do something that he loved. This view evaluates his entire life by one aspect and focuses on the negative.

Surely these individuals that the researchers studied have some good qualities?
> Very likely, less funding for the service hurts you as a consumer

Define "hurt".

I'd rather make a decision to pay $5/month for a service than to be the product and get spied on
The reason we can make medical diagnoses so efficient is because we have had the collective experience, and that the human body does not vary radically from one person to another such that it would be hard to keep track. While a doctor can’t be expected to know every intricacy of the human body, it has been catalogued and studied extensively over thousands of years, and this information has been made available for quick reference. Between experience and the rigorous education, doctors will know a significant amount of detail such that they can diagnose (or confidently know how to delegate this) fairly quickly. It’s not perfect, of course, and you are right that sometimes the symptoms are fixed rather than the causes.

Compare, however, to software: unlike the human body which has numerous small variations but a common base, software is free to take many different forms and frameworks. This software continues to change over time, so while documentation certainly can exist, it can be immensely fragmented and describe complex behaviours. Plus, when software developers fix an issue it often tends to stay fixed; there is a use for a postmortem but no immediate necessity. But in people, this has to be diagnosed every time it is encountered, so it is natural that documentation will occur.

(This isn’t the perfect metaphor, of course, but I hope it roughly corresponds.)
January 2021 Harper’s Index
I live in a town on the Peninsula, inside San Mateo county. It's basically impossible to get new housing development, and the "affordable housing" requirements for any new development in this place have been 100% seniors-only (i.e. aged 55+) housing in the last few years.

The local government committee meetings on these matters is predominantly filled by two groups of people: those same seniors, and people who are effectively independently wealthy. It's NIMBY-ism all over the place here driven primarily by the wealthy and the old. I don't know if it's the same in other communities or towns in this area, but that's what it is here.
It's actually the anti-socialists that are leaving California for Texas. Doesn't that make sense?
It's almost as though they found a bunch of liquid money in the ground.
On a somewhat related note: One of the biggest things I've noticed is that simpler pieces of software are less likely to be deprecated, whereas complex codebases quickly become legacy and abandoned...
It's the most confusing thing.

It's PR. You get a few feel good stories on the local news, and convince your neighbors that you do good for the regular people in the community and that if you're violent, it's only toward criminals. "These guys helped that child with cancer. They're such nice guys. That bar owner must've really deserved it." People eat that up!
The really disgusting thing about that one is that Israel named a square after one of the killers.
I work at Signal and wrote much of that code, so I'm familiar with it :).

Yes, it uses a server for media distribution and uses encryption keys that the server does not know.
GP is incorrect. California's growth was a record low, but it was still growth.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/05/california-populati...
As an Apple device user that's precisely the last thing I want. The whole reason I buy their product is because how tightly the hardware and software is integrated and for all the benefits that this gets me, as opposed to Android.
Most of palm oil plantations here in Indonesia are owned by large corporations. The "poor farmers" who till their own land usually plant rice, fruits, veggies, coffee, cacao or spices instead, and their farmland is actually close to their villages instead of deep within the cut-down rainforest.
Markdown doesn't come with basic typesetting features that you may want, such as something as basic as centering text.

Other things that are critical features for development documentation, like tables, are extensions which may or may not completely break if you ever change your Markdown renderer.
See relevant section in the article:

https://hakibenita.com/python-mypy-exhaustive-checking#the-f...
This is true but there’s a big difference in how easy it is to audit. You can enable Security Hub and Guard Duty on AWS organization-wide in a few minutes and have a pretty solid baseline for hardening your infrastructure and flagging suspicious activity. Doing the same with on-premise infrastructure takes months and entails significant risk since things weren’t designed around APIs and low-privilege IAM.

(GCP is similar but SCC is earlier in the development cycle and their threat detection isn’t well designed.)
It's a drop in the bucket compared to their oil revenue.
I'd add this one to the list, filed under "Software Engineering": https://www.cosmicpython.com/

It's published in dead tree form by O'Reilly, but the authors also made it available online and gave it a CC-By-NC-ND license.

Full disclosure: I haven't read this deeply, but I've skimmed it, and it looks interesting enough that I want to read it deeply.
I have a Mi 9T with a pop-up selfie cam and I really can't think why I wouldn't nowadays. I caught my bank trying to take sneaky selfies when I made any payment (https://twitter.com/Hamcha/status/1259801253527388160) when they only had camera permissions for a completely unrelated reason (QR code scanning for bills and ATM authentication).
Addendum: wtf, this change (or a change that happened prior to the final dump from Kuma) appears to have lost almost the entirety of one of the articles I have contributed.

Compare:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200113175409/https://developer...

To:
https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/sec...

Where has all the content gone? And of course there's no history anymore due to how the content has been migrated.
Basically the distance you've travelled with any subject is what determines really how good you are. The very definition means there's only few things you can be really good at.

If you are careful there are a certain things you can chose be good at that will help you on the longer run. Stuff like personal finance, retirement planning, health etc.

Good news is you can be good at nearly anything by spending some time getting a little better every day. But you have to keep that going for a few years before you notice some thing phenomenal coming out of it. Unless you are very at the precipice of death, pretty much any body has a chance of being good at anything.
Then I suppose businesses will need to adapt, as businesses have for hundreds of years, either away from relying on advertisements or going back to old-school, non-intrusive, manual ad placements that don't rely on clicks, targeting, and tracking.
The vast majority of Apple's revenue is from selling hardware. Yes, there's revenue from services, which is growing fast.

The trailing 12 month revenue for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch (+ HomePod, AirPods, etc.) was over $220 billion.

And while $20 billion is not nothing, it's actually not that big a deal for Apple, especially when you consider its $2 trillion market cap.
For my personal scenario, I completely agree that the responsibility falls on me. That is in fact how I've been handling the situation so far. (and thanks for your answer reassuring that it's right)

What I'm also wondering is how other companies approach this scenario, especially with companies that are transforming to be remote (e.g. Twitter) and companies remote first from the beginning (Gitlab in mind)
> 4. Match Group

> Match group is lucky they're not getting much attention, but they own all major dating apps. They need a bit of smacking.

I had never heard that name and just googled them. HOOOOLLLYYY COW!!!!!!! That's what I call monopoly.
Definitely... At an abstract level, it reminds me of "Unlimited is like a Ponzi Scheme" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25406072
> Should people feel pressured to accept normalized behaviour which used to be seen, or are still seen, negatively - such as homosexuality or trans?

I find that a bit of an odd question. I think people do currently feel societal pressure to be accepting of LGBTQ people. I don't think that's necessarily good or bad by itself - it just reflects the changes in society.

Should parents feel pressure to be accepting of their children's lifestyle if they come out as LGBTQ? Yes.

Should parents feel pressure to be accepting of their children's desire to transition if they identify as a different gender? No, because that's permanent, there's a good chance they'll later come to view that as a mistake. If they still want to do that as an adult - then that's when they can do it.

To try and get back to what I think you're digging at - should girls be pressured into sex acts in porn which used to be seen, or are still seen, negatively because they're more normalized now thanks to porn? - No. I don't think people should be pressured into sex acts.
This is clearly aimed at Peleton’s market.

It’s interesting to see Apple use the classic “innovator’s Dilemma” disruption pattern as that is typically seen as a david vs goliath pattern. But even as a massive company Apple is able to use this approach.
Tesla is building factories in Texas. Long term Texas makes more sense for manufacturing as there are established supply chains there.
After starting an experiment, make a record with experiment name, datetime, commit hash, some notes on experiment setup. After it ends, update the record with outcome, screenshots of learning curves, etc. This can be automated too.
The joys of DRMs affecting legitimate users..
It would be more effective to just regulate the maximum % commission that these platforms are allowed to charge. Set it at 5% for developers located in the EU, and be done with regulation forever.

But - this method doesn't allow for over-regulation, over-government, and megafines. The benefits go to small and medium-sized European businesses, instead of the European bureaucrat class, so its a no-go.
There are fascists punks and there are anti-fascists punks and there are punks who do not care about politics.
GUI apps are easier to pick up and learn than CLI commands with cryptic namings.
Every time I see this I can't help but smile, knowing that in Zsh the equivalent code is:

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

setopt err_exit no_unset
DIR=${0:h}
Interesting, did Microsoft bring the research any further?
I call it the "COVID come to Jesus moment". I remember for the last year or two. The murmurs here, twitter and reddit has been "Why don't these companies understand that their work can all be remote", "why does X company insist on having on-site employees". Meanwhile on the other side of the spectrum you had the higher ups all murmuring "well if we let people work from home, then our company will be doomed".

Then COVID hit and we had no other option. Everyone went WFH and tech CEO's realized a few weeks/months in that no, their org isn't imploding, it's actually doing pretty damn well.

Now all these tech CEO's are starting to look around and wonder, if my companies productivity didn't drop off a cliff, why should I be paying for this super expensive office space?

Tech CEO's were told this lie that WFH will lead to a catastrophe in their company, all these office closures and moves seem to be a reflection of leadership calling the bluff on this.
How about a map of Europe at the time of the invasion of the Huns? Mordor is the realm of the Huns, Rohan is the German tribes, Gondor is the Franks or perhaps the crumbling Roman Empire.

The legends in the Niebelungelied is from this time.
This is a pretty status quo biased view. Maybe stronger privacy protection enables a startup search engine (or whatever) with a more privacy oriented funding method which wasn't thought viable before.
But the point is, poor locals are productively employed earning more than they would doing something else.

(additionally, small farmers make up 40% of Indonesia's palm oil production)

https://snv.org/update/smallholder-palm-oil-farmers-can-farm...
I have been using Manjaro KDE for several months now on my daily driver, I must say I like them both.

Main issues was finding few packages with a different name than the one used on Debian based distros.

I didn't make many changes on KDE since I'm not a huge fan of customization, it's fast and has a really good look by default, same things I love of few distros shipping with GNOME such as PopOS.
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I (an Englishman) ate large portions of pasta until about 5 years ago when someone suggested weighing it and now I use 85g per portion. It never seems like it's going to be enough, but it always is.
> It's as if there's a line between actively lying ("Studies show that men who buy this car will find many many women attracted to them") and just putting it there suggestively

I doubt pretty girls in ads are actually supposed to mean the goods they advertise make a man more attractive. Who (except teens) would believe that, consciously or subconsciously? You just get attracted yourself and that's enough, simply seeing a pretty girl fires the hormones and neurotransmitters making you feel good about what she advertises, no semantic load necessary.
> The downside would be to have to always attach this second file everywhere, losing the “simple Bash script” idea along the way.

Put it on GitHub and curl it from there with checksum. Cache the file somewhere and lookup cache first.
If Thomson Reuters is smart, they should try to acquihire the 3 founders so they can at least return their investors’ capital and make a bit of money themselves. Then they should turn the tech into a feature of their legal research service. There is obviously a lot of promise in using ML techniques to assist lawyers in finding relevant cases, and it would probably be hard for them to recruit good entrepreneurial people in a stuffy old company like that. And as part of the company they could have unfettered access to all the Westlaw content they could want to train their system better.
Why is that bad? If you own a single family home where an apartment tower could house 200 families (and there is demand for those units) why shouldn’t you pay a tax that reflects that?
Well that didn't stop them from trying