skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those characterizations of yours make it sound really bad.

Yet, the quality of life in America, as well as around the world, has improved drastically. How many people have luxuries like cell phones, computers, TVs, cars, refrigerators, indoor plumbing and heating, as well as access to resources like ambulances and hospitals--the list goes on. How humans of centuries past would long to have lived at this time, if they could see how we live today.

And it's not just about material things. For example, in the past hundred years, although the world population increased from 2 billion to 7 billion, the number of people who die to natural disasters each year has greatly decreased.

This video shows how widespread these misconceptions about world situations are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1dvfH3s1Ak In this study, about 80% of people were wrong about more situations than if they had chosen an answer randomly.

This is not to say that there are no problems in the world, or in America. There will always be problems. But your characterizations are misleading, and your claim that capitalism has "completely failed" young people is extreme, and it fails to credit capitalism for the prosperity that it has enabled for most of the world's population compared to most of human history.
> We also feel pressure to constantly modernize the infrastructure without having a parallel discussion about the security impact of these innovations.

We also have PE firms, like the ones that controlled Solar Wind, dictating the level of security investment and dumping their positions when the bill for their negligence comes due. PE wizz-kids call that "optionality". They love optionality.

Congress should listen to Dan Geer and adopt product liability for closed-source software. They should also do something about PE control over the economy, they are doing serious damage.
You are not the only one. I've used other browsers on my android to use facebook over m.facebook.com, but about a week ago Facebook Messenger messages was disabled with an error message and also the alternative mbasic.facebook.com was crippled for me. So anyone messaging me have to wait until I'm at home.
Their ordinary web experience since the latest(?) change of UI is horrible, notifications takes forever to render forcing a full page refresh to get back working.
BTW, the Speculative Attack article is available as a podcast: https://pca.st/episode/ecb7a2bf-ad11-467f-b9a4-66f393073603
The latter two are dominated by people who've managed to be too fascist for Twitter, which is quite a feat.
That's why GDPR includes personal liability for DPOs(Data Protection Officers) and chief executives, and requires the company have a DPO with no conflict of interest ( e.g. working under the CEO with bonuses based on stock price).
Thanks for responding Nat. My interpretation from the PR:

You've stopped using cookies as a mechanism for marketing/tracking. But you're still doing it by other means.

Rationale:

1. You are still tracking and may share the data with 3rd parties. Justification: privacy statement [0] line 147. It states that data are "aggregated, non-personally identified" which might mean it's GDPR compliant. OTOH: you're presumably holding the non-aggregated data for aggregation purposes in the first place. IANAL but I think that needs consent. I don't know CCPA well enough to comment.

2. The sub-processors statement [2] says this includes Google (and Google Analytics specifically), LinkedIn and Eloqua (marketing analytics firm) among others.

3. Cookies and - possibly? - other client-side technologies are only used for running and improving the service. Justification: Line 238 in the privacy statement. (There's a typo in there btw: "complie" should be "compile" I think).

3. You respect DNT - line 244. Which, presumably, means you do not track user behaviour on any sites other than github? i.e. those in which you are a 3rd party.

4. However, the privacy statement line 31 [1] states: "GitHub may also collect User Personal Information from third parties." Interpretation: whilst you're not collecting 3rd party personal information using cookies, you are (or "may") do so through other means.

[0]: https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/336/commits/fe1b6...

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EDIT: clarified GDPR point.

[1]: https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/336/commits/79a99...

[2]: https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/336/commits/e98e3...
Proper foreign keys don't really suit the dumped data case. Tables are usually imported one by one, in virtually random order so dependencies are often missing at the import time. Even if they were not, checking keys on every record import would mean a huge load for big datasets - that's really slow. That's why foreign key control is usually switched off before importing.
It was awful then too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlGklt4BSQ8
Russia Fines Google $41,000 for Failing to Remove Banned Content
I dont miss popups or popunders. Popup blockers had not been able to block every one, it was so annoying.
Wouldn't it have been wiser to restrict CSS to document-oriented use cases, accepting that for apps you need Javascript anyway, and then just measure and position elements programmatically? The problem with the discussed solutions in TFA (which is great btw) is the lack of discoverability, and CSS generally solving for the wrong 20% of use cases, bringing unsustainable technical debt for displaying our docs going forward for generations to come. I really would appreciate an attempt to specify CSS behavior, even a subset of it, as a constraint-based formulation or other formal spec; easier said than done, though.
I like Rust from what I've tried. But I'd have preferred something like this:

let file = file.unwrapOrPanicWith("file was null");

option.expect(message) doesn't semantically make sense.
but with multi device E2E key pairs? That for me is the real challenge.
Database Web App Builder (Desktop)
What? Have you ever looked at a sanger trace with homopolymer stretches? Depending on how blotchy it is, After about 7 you might not really be sure, and it definitely gets the n wrong occasionally even with nicely resolved peaks.

I'm not defending nanopores here, frankly I'm not convinced about them yet.
I agree with long-term goals and knowing what you want, but I feel for some people there also needs to be some kind of pressure. Mine was 'I'm afraid to be poor and if don't work right now I can say bye to this eng. degree'

Focus is a complex muscle and it's even worse when you're never challenged during childhood. 'grit', 'hard work' are empty words when you don't see the need. Breezing through school while being a smart ass annoying (childhood trauma will make you a pita to teach...) brat is no recipe to learn 'work'. It's different from physical work that was taught to me early, where you see the chai of effort to the result quite quickly, build a wall, a cement patio, wallpaper, paint, 'heavy' garden maintenance, housecleaning. Immediate or rapid feedback, you do you see.

With intellectual concentration, be it books, science lessons, etc. If there's no quick gratification ('oh I understand this immediately, new thing I know, cool' or 'Hu, interesting story') the voluntary focus muscle doesn't engage.

It took me years of searching at random how to make myself concentrate enough to 'go through' stuff.

I hope my kids won't have the 'panic-level fear of being poor' as a drive, but I also hope I find a way to teach them the value of sometimes forcing yourself without understanding why /right away/ (trusting you're on a path to enlightenment or victory or success...) and to teach them to exercise the focus muscle as they need.
> small businesses will be affected negatively

Small businesses are negatively affected by all sorts good things: food safety laws, truth in advertising laws, employee protection laws, needing to pay taxes, etc. Something being bad for the profitability of small businesses isn't a strong argument by itself.
Tech giants will block Kazakhstan’s web surveillance efforts again
I don’t understand what you are asking. When the user clicks “Save” that’s when your application calls the sqlite api to update the database. When the user clicks “Save as” the application calls the sqlite api to create a new database file, it then creates the database schema and dumps the internal representation of the document into it.

You might be confused by the GP comment. It says that if something bad happens with the computer after your application started saving, but before the transaction is commited then the database still will be in a consistent state. (Altough the document will be in the pre-save state.) If the application is the “click save” kind then here we are talking about what happens if the power goes out in that fraction of a second after you hit save, but before the cursor stops being a hourglass.
Are they doing? Is the books or podcast app harvesting information for better app store ads?

This is an honest question! I have not yet seen any hint for this, but that does not mean they dont do it.
I highly doubt this blocking by Apple will have much of an impact on Facebook's tracking ability. For one, any time you use the internet via mobile data, Facebook (or any other site) will get your phone number, name and other personal data via your ISP. There have been several threads on HN regarding this in the past.
When you're not, your IP address along with data via fingerprinting techniques would be more than enough to uniquely identify you.

This is only likely to make it slightly harder to track the small fraction of users already taking strong measures to prevent being tracked.
Unfortunately all of these become trash, in time. Too many lawyers and $s.
> but it's no problem if I want to just spelunk in ancient dwarves ruins for a few months instead

And that's exactly why I loved it haha, but I do understand the grievance with it
> Every twitter clone that tries to compete without first having the approval of the major media outlets will either be publicly ignored, belittled, or outright attacked.

You proved that point
Thank you!

We do keep track of all feedback and requests on a private Github repo and use that to prioritize. However, I agree - maybe we can have a public page where users can submit and vote for their preferences.

We're excited about user management too! We already have custom fields that you can add to the SuperTokens sign up / sign in form. We'll add passwordless soon after social login / email verification
https://nitter.net/waltmossberg/status/1339614730936340480
Implemented this recently in my SaaS app, replacing passwords with magic links and it was a mistake. Sure, it has some obvious benefits: it forces users to always provide a valid email and logging in confirms that the email address is valid, without any additional logic.

But moving auth logic to email links has increased my customer support work significantly: "I can't log in", "I didn't get the link" complaints are quite common now. People use email they didn't sign up with, messages go to spam, arrive with a delay - or recently, gmail outage caused messages to hard-bounce. These are only some of the issues I've had to deal with in the last few weeks, that never came up when I had password auth.

Also, I've found that some email clients automatically follow links included in the message and that meant login link was invalidated before user got a chance to click it. I've solved it by adding a button on the page, but it's not ideal.

Magic links were supposed to be convenient, but they cause a lot of frustrations for some users. Keep that in mind.
Isn't this an opportunity to create an external review site? Imagine if we had actual number on how bad this is.
That's like saying a workout plan can't keep you in shape because you need discipline to stay in shape. Static typing is the only way I've found to save you from yourself; it's how you can set guardrails that make it easier to do the right thing than the wrong thing. If not static typing then what?
I think people try too much to concentrate on things that they do not actually like. As Bukowski wrote, “Don’t Try.”
Mr. Nowak is no Isaac Newton ... not even close!

The best way to cancel a person like Nowak is to cite his work by replacing his name with initials only ... after firing him of course and denying him future funding.

Personally I don't think the scientific community would miss him all that much anyway. There are plenty of more decent scientists out there who can fill his size shoes.

I believe that scientific discovery is inevitable ... even if someone like Isaac Newton had died in the plague and not have worked out calculus there were other contemporaries of his caliber like Leibnitz to keep the field moving forward.

Thus I don't think that we need as a society to ignore the cruel behavior of child rapists, or their abettors, in the name of advancing science.
Running Asp.net Web Application with Falco on AWS Lambda
Fun fact, in Malay or Indonesian language "Schwarzenegger" word pronunciation sounds very similar to "susah nak eja" or literally means "hard to spell" in English
Seeing these two sentences together

"Maybe Cincom, but that is proprietary."

"So the whole language and idea is mostly dead."

made me chuckle.

I won't elaborate much further, we all know why UNIX succeeded and it wasn't exactly out of technical merits.
From 2011 to 2020 anyone with a .ly domain was doing so in violation of federal law per Executive Order 13566: "...the Government of Libya, its agencies, instrumentalities, and controlled entities, and the Central Bank of Libya, [...] may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in pursuant to the order."
Well, he does have a point. I just checked amazon.de for "webcam". Holy crap, the first page is just no-name webcams that all look the same, probably built in the same 2-3 factories in the same city in China with different names on them. If you buy some JellyTech Webcam or a Webcams Webcam for Eu 20-30, what do you expect. The funny thing is, all of these have 1k+ ratings and 4,5 to 5 star reviews, while more expensive webcams from Microsoft are at 3,5-4 stars and 150 to 300 reviews.
>And sidestepping KYC/AML regulations is not an option for any institutional investor.

institutions can invest in a decentralized software contracts (which by nature, don't KYC) like anyone else. it's just not common right now.
Belgian Minister of Budget publish prices of Covid vaccines by mistake
Supposedly better SMP support (this may no longer be true; benchmarks are several years old; but it may very well be).

HAMMER.
> Remediation and recovery for most threats involves OS/app reinstallation

Except for all those SolarWinds admins arguing that doing a simple scan and infected binary removal is enough and then moving on and anything more is "overreacting"

I feel sorry for all these people who are stuck working with such inflexible risk assessment/ITIL processes who are now trying to justify not taking any action because "SolarWinds said everything is ok"
Expand your reasoning please. Fire eye was compromised as well, which doesn't bode well for their trust. Also there's no opportunity for "buying the dip" currently as FEYE performance have been poor throughout the past several years?
The most popular blocker named 1Blocker is adding multiple rule lists, one for each of it’s categories (ads, trackers, regional rules, ...) to circumvent this limit. Its not a real problem.
I've grown to not mind WebSQL being dropped, despite that 10 years ago, I wish it were standardized.

WebAssembly's introduction a few years later means that SQLite can be built and used as a wasm module, and you aren't limited by whatever old version of SQLite was used for WebSQL -- you can always update it independently according to your needs.

A lot of sites actually do this.
You can HTTP GET tweets again by changing your useragent to Googlebot.

curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://google.com/bot.html)" "https://twitter.com/zarfeblong/status/1339742840142872577"

Peak SEO when users are faced with more friction than Googlebots and crawlers.
I should have listened when my grandfather said

Why don't you major in business instead?

Now my hopes have all vanished and my dreams have all died

and I'll probably work forever as a tour guide, on the jungle cruise ride

Skipper Dan is the name

And I'm doing 34 shows every day, and every time it's the same

Look at those hippos, they're wiggling their ears

Somebody shoot me, 'cause I'm bored to tears

Always said I'd be famous - I guess that I lied

'Cause I'm working on the jungle cruise ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0cCRRFi1aA
Yes. It was using HMAC. But I would still assume that RSA would be much faster than a db lookup (in a distributed system)?
Neither OpenDocument, SQLite, nor Zip are proprietary formats.

Come again?
Castro homeless woman (“Princess Leia”) known for wandering into traffic is dead
Why doesn't a small business owner engage in more direct interaction with his/her customers? Its not like a mom and pop shop is supposed to sell nationwide and all that?

Support local artists, give out free stuff to local revievers, join local hobby groups, community groups where a customer is supposed to be and take it from there. Facebook doesn't want a small business to do that, instead dial in a few parameters and call it a day. I would rather do business with a seller who is genuinely interested in selling a good product, provide service, handle issues, instead of the other "hey... you bought a rice cooker yesterday, would you like a juicer? ".
I really don't mind that.

Really npc's are stupid in skyrim, gta, cyberpunk whatever. And it doesn't matter. When you look at Watch Dogs, its getting very repettetive anyway; You look at a few and discover that you actually don't care about it anyway.

I play cyberpunk right now for the story they build and they build, so far, a very good story.

They can keep the npcs as they are honestly; Finetune perhaps but meh
Makes me feel like a chump for actually following Amazon's rules when soliciting reviews for my novel (no payment or discount of any kind is allowed in return for completing a review for most products; for books only you may provide the book itself in advance as long as there is no actual obligation to complete the review and no attempt to influence it)
Apple posts the same information for their apps on the App Store.
Fears for double dosing as GPS left without up-to-date data amid NHS IT chaos
"Under certain conditions, macOS 11.0.1 and macOS 11.1 hosts are requesting the update server send the 11.0.1 update, instead of requesting the next available one."

What conditions are these?
The problem is to write a reliable file database. Firefox got a lot of bugs related to history file corruption until it was replaced with SQLite. The same story was with Subversion where they replaced Berkeley key DB due to reliability issues.

This reliability comes from a very deep knowledge of OS API and all their corner cases. Creating a programming language typically involves less corner cases and the bugs in the compiler/runtime are much simple to reproduce (again, typically).
I remember there was a tui python client for a number of such sites like reddit and stuff.
Analytics is still allowed in iOS. The problem with Facebooks approach, is that they link that data with cookie tracking, making them able to track you around on all websites and apps that integrates a login with Facebook, or a share and like button.
I walk a lot, exercise a lot, but whether I have a (small) belly or not, is almost fully determined by my eating habits.

Not to mention that there is a vicious cycle at work. Once you are heavy enough, physical movement becomes very unpleasant, especially in hotter climate (American Deep South, Mexico).

But even though the US really leads the heavy charge, other countries are catching up. I believe we (Central Europe) are like 25 years behind you, but following. And there are sidewalks everywhere here.
Its buggy and some parts seem to be missing, like can cops/enemies even track you at all?
But at same time it gives more than a well built game would, yesterday I tried to make easy money by running over max-tac cops and taking their lvl 50 stuff.
I cant kill them with guns, but hitting them with car seems to do the job.
In normal game, high level enemies would kill you instantly, but in cyberpunk, you can just take their stuff, run couple blocks and everybody forgets that you just killed 2 cops, then go back and do it again.
You're making a few assumptions here. Apple apps work in all the same ways that other apps do, they have no special privileges. And these rules aren't only for facebook, they are for all apps, so including apple apps. Where is the hypocrisy?
I was just venting to a friend about the massive comeback of popups/banners. "We value your privacy" is a huge part, another one is after the first few pixels of scrolling, "Please support/subscribe to xxx today". So the popups may have a bit more of justified content, but there are plenty of them. And this is while using adblock, pi-hole and other stuff.

Related, currently on HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457440
GDPR has lots of issues and this is one of the major ones.
It can be easily argued that companies cannot be forced to service users and there has been no real precedent or enforcement around this.
There’s a reason Bernie Sanders was so popular with young voters. HN is an echo chamber for capitalism, but the reality for most people is capitalism is failing them, society is failing them, and if we want to keep what we have today, we urgently need to address these failings.
Facebook is a carnival of random people involving themselves in whatever amuses them, including any nefarious scofflawery they can get away with. I find some humor and no little despair discovering that anyone ever expected much repute in such places.
I've been playing around with Urbit and it's pretty cool.

- https://tlon.io

- https://urbit.org

It tends to get a lot of knee-jerk hate in HN comments, but I think it's a from first principles approach that could actually work.

At a minimum it's a pretty cool/ambitious project and it's been fun to play with.
Exactly like noise cancelling headphones. Also like any number of industrial noise cancelling systems.
SE Asia and China are a different animal altogether. Privacy laws there are much looser, but this is offset by much stricter government control and much less recourse by companies like WeChat to the courts. Hint: if WeChat doesn't toe the PRC government line, it will run into... problems.

Suffice to say that Asia, and particularly China, has a different approach to governance, privacy, and (broadly) the welfare of their citizens.

However, given the enormous rights corporations enjoy in the West independent of the government, it's important that we don't use SE Asia or China as a model, and ensure that proprietary platforms don't have too much power over small businesses. Luckily, most small businesses in the West know this already, otherwise AOL would still be doing gangbusters business.

PS. Something that's often missed about small businesses in Asia doing business solely on WeChat is that informal trust networks forged by 'contacts', are a huge thing in Asia. It doesn't matter if the seller of really cheap phone covers just has a WeChat ID if a respected merchant vouches for him. And platforms like Alibaba and Taobao exist for people who reach the limits of these informal networks and want to go to the next level.
I use it to categorize my video course material, guess what, if i have to add a video ill just add it 12.99 - oops i cant create another video in that sequence, but i can make it 12.99.01 :)