skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, what will Mitchell's and Gebru's career prospects be from now on? After badmouthing their employer publicly, sharing internal communication, I just don't see who in their right minds would hire them.
I very much doubt it. Spam isn't a technical problem, it's a business problem. Carriers already know who originates the calls - after all, they have to bill each other.

There's no reason carriers couldn't already cut off sources of spam, besides the fact that they profit from it and would rather turn a blind eye.

STIR/SHAKEN may reduce caller ID spoofing, but does the majority of spam really require that? I'd assume only a very small chunk of spam actually relies on spoofing caller ID - the rest are just legitimate but random numbers.
Why all the world's coronavirus would fit in a can of cola
This might not be the answer your looking for, but i do this with just the chrome profile-directory command line flag to have a separate chrome for personal, work, and sometimes one for testing or contract work.

The only downside or issue i've run into is when some application wants to use some web login and it just launched the default browser. sometimes copy and pasting the url into the browser with the profile i want to use works, sometimes not.
"Why hasn't Google 'fixed' this 'bug' that gives them access to so much more of my valuable data?"
Nethack: https://www.nethack.org/

Diablo II is easy compared to Nethack. I love them both, but at least in D2 you know what a potion does when you pick it up and none of the equipment is cursed.

There's no feeling quite like being surrounded by too many monsters and looking at all the unidentified potions, spell scrolls, and wands in your inventory, choosing one, and hoping that it will magically teleport you out of trouble. (Only to discover that it was a cursed scroll of fire and now EVERYTHING is on fire.)
ok, so "do the right thing mvp, ..." :)
This is just silly, US military dominance is not anywhere close to up for grabs. They US might not have total dominance anywhere on earth anymore due to asymmetric weapons, but in a big fight the US is far and away the biggest dog still. It is not that it is not close, it is not even close to being close.
Interesting... But it does seem pretty far fetched relative to our current public space engineering ability
Yeah, I see and understand that the identification with American capitalism and the spread of those ideas, and how those ideas (liberal / free market / commerce) ideas are absolutely associated with the Anglosphere. They developed there 'first' (ish / really Northern Europe too), then you had the British Empire in the 19th and the American hegemony in the 20th century. The dominant force of culture via media, movies, and its adoption in France, thanks to the free market, has been good in some ways and bad in others in France. I do understand it bred much resentment.

If I can take a pause and suggest, too, that every country has its scapegoats and when I hear people in France say things like, oh, the violence in the banlieue is due to American influence (I heard this not in regards to BLM today but actually 20 years ago), I have to raise one eyebrow. I think the American influence thing has truth to it but in France the political conversation on both right and left seems to exaggerate it for drama, I think you'll agree. It behaves like France is not an agent of its own will.

Anyway, a salient difference that you highlighted between the societies is the cohesive idea of France and the cohesive idea of England or the cohesive idea of the United States. At least forgive me if I'm reading a bit in between the lines. In France, the core principles as you alluded to, of laïcité, to take one example, is core to the identity of France, sure. So of course, if a country like the U.S. which was explicitly founded BY religous people fleeing England, that cannot / will not be understood. The melting pot idea is a tough one to discuss not least because it's extremely complicated (and in today's climate it's dangerous to talk about), but when you're in the EU with open borders, you're a country that founded the idea of the EU, one expectation is the free movement of people (a principle adopted since at least the 80's). So even if the United States never existed, it would still be a challenge to negotiate conceptually for people in France tied to older ways of viewing the world.

You mentioned that the urban centers are American. I was thinking about this. I don't know if it's true or if it's false, but I live an American megacity, surrounded by upscale Chinese, and I (not so much on purpose but by habit) eat Asian meals probably 50+% of my meals (including sometimes cooking it), I live in a building designed for Chinese investors and their aesthetic tastes even, and from a consumer perspective most of what I wear and buy isn't an American style, but I'm generic here. What's an American urban center? London is similar, and honestly even Paris has large aspects where it feels like any of these other places. I'm not so sure it's specifically American or ever was. A lot of people think New York, specifically Manhattan, is very European, which may shock you. I've heard the same of how many American cities are changing.

Are you referring or did you see the NYT article attacking France's secularism as racism in disguise? I honestly don't see that viewpoint as the majority in the U.S., if it's any consolation!
A lot of logic in some games is triggered by animation events. Eg, activate a hurtbox on this frame of an attack. I wonder if you use a ton of timers to avoid depending on animations in that way
Yes.. what you want is Temporary Containers, it can be used in conjunction with Multi Account Containers above.

https://medium.com/@stoically/enhance-your-privacy-in-firefo...

You can get it to open things with the same subdomain in the same container, or force it to do differently by holding down control for example. I have mine configured like so:

https://github.com/dngray/user.js/tree/fx-desktop#global-iso...
I could have been clearer but I meant to stress "in zero-sum contexts". Not all race discussion is necessarily bad/harmful in outcomes.

However it sure does appear to me that in the last five or ten years, the manner of the conversation has degraded so much that very very little progress is made per unit of "increasing tensions". That is entirely subjective, but it is how it appears to me.
Then make each chrome account a different person tab and you won't accidentally pollute or cross pollinate your state. If you don't want using Chrome for Gmail (excellent js Gui) to pollute search and other work, might need to see if this kind of segmented behaviour works. Otherwise its two browser types: Chrome for one tab of mail and ephemeral tabs for clicked out of mail, and ff for everything else?
It's a huge field, but the core rules for lawyers are here:

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...

As one of many, many examples, leaders in the employment law field regularly write publicly about fair employment practices (particularly when it comes to discrimination, whether racial, age-related or disability-related), and strive for changes in the law and in employers' practices. At the same time, they also counsel their employers or clients about the rules and about compliance. That's fine.

But a lawyer generally cannot publicly critique their employer/client without permission. Public disclosure of an employer's or client's confidential information without permission violates, for example, ABA model rule 1.6, and is a great way to get yourself disbarred (or at least face disciplinary action).
This is a tangentially related question, but seems like a good opportunity to ask:

I recently found myself trying to figure out how to implement "parallel curves" to arbitrary polyline shapes with small (relative to the offset), complicated details (world map borders from shapefiles). Eventually I found a way to accomplish my goal with existing software, so gave up on implementing it myself, but I'm still curious how it might be done.

Parallel curves are conceptually straightforward when you're working with shapes defined by some sort of splines. I'm not sure if the problem is even well-defined when working with complicated polylines. It doesn't seem that Minkowski operations or PH curves are quite enough to solve this problem. Is there solid math that addresses it? Do existing CAD tools use proprietary heuristics? Is there a simple solution that I missed?
I'm already logged in through one account, not sure if there is any value in tracking other accounts there are used so rarely anyway.
Not OP, but:
- long clicking the + for a new tab lets you select a container
- right click Open in New Container
- links opened from a container stay in the container

With those, it seems to cover my use cases.
Seconding this.

As much as I love maciej's blog and twitter, Pinboard has been pretty flaky for the time I've used it. I signed up for Pinboard in 2015, have an archiving account prepaid to 2024.

The API isn't reliable, archiving is lucky if it gets most of the page, it's not been a great experience so far. I used to use Pinboard with IFTTT and Wordpress to autopost favorite links with a description; two years ago I removed the Pinboard link to my IFTTT account because it just wasn't reliable.

Happy to hear of upgrades, one thing I would like to see is getrevue.co integration and full page screenshots of bookmarked pages (also accessible from API). Full page screenshots alone would justify my money.
Try the Brave browser
Yeah, it's messy. The attack would be triggered by the hidden 2D version of the game, and you need to map the 3D version to visually strike when the 2D version hits.

If there's a bug in the 3D version, the strike happens at the correct time gameplay wise, it just looks wrong.
I just want to thank the person who posted the Biontech / Friedman / RNA herpes vaccine story here on HN in October ‘19. Got in on BNTX @ 15.
I do the same thing as OP - I have multiple separate containers, each has its own set of cookies, and its own Google account that it is logged into. I just change my window when I want to use a different account.

From what I understand, you're asking how you can just "temporarily" log into an account — can't you just add that account as a new user on Chrome?

If not, you can always open an incognito window or a guest window, do your business, and close it. I do that often when I'm logging into an account that I don't want to persist.
While many folks here reminiscence about the game play, I remember being absolutely amazed by the cinematics. I couldn't think of another game at the time having such detail, and I recall just being really excited to watch each Act's cutscenes as I progressed through the game. I wonder if they are going to update and re-render those as well..
Congrats Graeme and good luck!
Do you remember the class-action lawsuit recently where people claimed that Google still tracks you in incognito mode - meaning that Chrome's incognito mode worked exactly as you or I would expect, but if you happen to visit sites with Google Analytics or Google Ads in a single incognito session, those products will leave cookies in that session exactly as you or I would expect?

The average person does not draw a meaningful distinction between a Google login button in the browser and a Google login button on a website. The least confusing UX actually is to avoid the situation where you log into your Google account for e.g. Gmail and then Chrome says "You're logged out."

As others have mentioned, Firefox container tabs are fantastic for solving this (I have a separate "Google" tab, so my normal browsing remains logged out), and I think those of us who care about these things owe it to the world to use Firefox.
Just make sure you get off-grid solar, not grid-tie solar.
When reading everyone’s reply my first thought is how small the web has gotten... but that’s not really true. Everyone has just consolidated to the primary players and best content aggregators. Lots of HN, Reddit, etc. I hope we move to more federated systems but with RSS on a slow death march and no financial incentive to federate I suppose it won’t happen. Long live HN.
Odd, I am on the one-time-payment plan, but I didn’t get the email anywhere.
Yes. I definitely enjoyed U8. It's the only Ultima I've finished so far.
That’s exactly what WC covers.
Can vouch for netdata
Hey, Siri!
You can push left wing views while still having more people choose right wing recommendations. There's a kind of feedback loop which pushes people to different viewpoints.
Plain HTML comes with XSS protection by default: just don't let users add arbitrary HTML to your page, and you'll be fine. Plain HTML is responsive to phone sizes, unless you do _really weird_ things with CSS (which, incidentally, also provides simple ways to be responsive to phone sizes, if you still want to do weird things).

Internationalisation is a useful feature of frameworks, but the other two aren't really.
Yes, that section of the article is discussing historical POSIX prior to 1997. The next section discusses the forming of the Austin Group and from then on only talks about 1003.1. The only place that article uses the phrase "POSIX.2" is to refer to the historical 1003.2-1992 (that "1992" is a year, if that's not clear).
I disagree - rclone can solve a substantially simpler and different problem (i.e. computing the size of a specified hierarchy on-demand). Being able to store and produce sizes of arbitrary folders in Drive for however many millions of users in a reasonable time frame is a substantially more challenging problem, and what we're talking about here. Google probably hasn't provided the on-demand version of this because it's trivial to script with their API.

Given that Google does offer you tools for managing your quota, and knowing it's a very difficult problem to solve, I'm disinclined to believe this is malicious or incompetent.
> I kind of wonder why it took this long for someone to try this approach. It just makes a whole lot more sense on the surface.

Which is why many many people tried this approach long before Electron came along. Electron has been successful largely because it deviated from this: it swallowed the bitter pill of bundling the heavy duplicated webview in order to ensure a consistent development target.
So is every investment vehicle ever.
"the darkening of Tristram" is what you want to google for. It's every January. I'm not sure I'd call it a remaster, but it's novel.
Yes. I said elsewhere, I'm pretty sure they have no legal fear regarding termination.
The babynamewizard scrapes the Social Security website (I believe - I don't know any other resource for this data)... which, unfortunately, doesn't have a linkable interface (everything is a POST request).

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/

Toss "Alexa" in the "Popularity of a Name" field and select 1900 & later.

Wolfram does a nice job of it too - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=alexa
Attribution adds another messy metric. I’ve had many transactions claimed by multiple advertising platforms. Yikes.

And ROAS is Google’s main measure of return, it’s a poor metric because it has nothing to do with profit.
We also learned about “First Amendment values” in law school. This idea that there is no moral component associated with the First Amendment is a new and weird one.
My Life in E-Ink
I might be speaking from ignorance here, but I highly doubt their job description said anything about making accusations via tweet.

> If your team of ethicists has repeatedly highlighted issues and you continue to not address them, what should they do then? In the case of a company whose self-image is of openness and directness and benevolence, it seems reasonable that publicly highlight the lack of change is within reason.

if they strongly disagree with the direction the company is taking, they ought to refuse to be part of it and resign. public criticism can wait until they stop collecting the (quite fat, I imagine) checks.

edit: I guess I'm not really objecting to the public criticism before leaving the company. I'm objecting to the incredible feeling of entitlement it must take to expect to keep getting paid while actively damaging your employer.
EA please let coders take their time with their masterpieces and stop ruining games. Coders, stop taking EA money
It has the best user experience I’ve ever seen. It made derivatives trading accessible to morons. Think about that for a second. Tech barely knows how to make project management software intuitive (a literal shared todo app), and these guys nailed derivatives trading.

It’s a masterclass on product design. It has totally inspired me to tackle saturated app ideas. Like, how are you so sure your calendar or todo apps are intuitive? Think harder and boil this stuff down.

Whoever Robinhood is hiring on the UI/UX/Product team are best-in-class, it’s not even close.
Hardcore mode is what made Diablo 3 fun for me.

Except most of my deaths ended up being from internet outages - your characters are generally nearly invincible when attacking enemies, but if they just stand there dumbly they die in seconds.

So I stopped playing after that.
I'm an old timer who still uses pinboard every day. I converted my account immediately. The new pricing still represents great value and I've had incredible value from my original account.

Maciej's approach to this seems to be entirely reasonable: he's being open about the position he's in and giving users the option to support the site whilst not forcing change on them.

We could do with more services like pinboard - real utility, reasonably priced and not dependent on VC money and / or needing massive user growth to have a sustainable future.
> Right now, about 2/3 of Pinboard users with basic accounts are people who signed up, like you did, in 2009 or 2010 with a one-time payment. The remaining 1/3 pays $22 a year.

Not qualified as active but looks like this is the majority of users.
The whole concept of having "open" and "closed" Battle.net was genius. If you want to hack, be our guest! (But you can only play with other hackers.)

That experience of trying to mod my character was – I'm fairly certain – what eventually got me into programming! (Unfortunately I was on a Mac, so I couldn't use 90% of the so-called "trainers", much to my disappointment at the time.)

I recall meeting one specific player on Open Battle.net (their username was "iceblizz", I think) whose hacked sorceress was unbelievably OP. They also had a super-cool personal website -- and both of those things really kindled my curiosity ( ... "How on Earth did they build that website?" ... "How are they so strong with negative 2 billion HP??")
TIL _the_ beej is on HN.

It’s awesome to know you’re also passionate about OSM.
My bull case is this: over the next few decades, cryptocurrency will find its use case. Even if it’s just another asset class like Gold or Silver that some people and institutions put their money in as part of diversifying investments.

That alone is a huge global market and it’s barely started.

I think a best case scenario is something like the Lightning Network grows in scale and popularity and becomes a defacto standard for online and mobile purchases.
Especially on MacOS where Webkit usually behave differently? Like, why would webkit still require webkit prefix for Web Audio API, which is like 8 years old at this point.

To me, develop for Electron is more fun than normal web because I don't have to check whether the new web feature I am using is available everywhere (especially Safari) yet.
I'm fairly certain this is due to the same reason it's easier for a chess player to recall 'real' chess positions rather than if you just placed pieces randomly. Causality makes it possible for us to "compress" memories into a small enough representation. Dreams usually don't follow the same kinds of rules.

I'm remembering a particularly vivid dream I had perhaps a month or two ago. I remember the settings it took place in, some of the characters, some of the story elements, though to call it a "story" is a bit of a stretch, just a rambling sequence of unconnected events. I often dream consciously, So I can remember actually wanting to pay attention to how cause and effect worked, but when I woke up, I couldn't recall how stuff managed to happen.

Without that thread running through everything, dream recall would seem to go very against how the brain normally works. Not that techniques can't help anyway.
I honestly thought the numerical algorithm group NAG library had fixed this three decades ago. I'm not being sarcastic, I thought the numerical analysis libraries tested the living bejesus out of their code. I guess a lot more intensive FP code exists now, outside of highly tested library code, or calls made from the calls, or whatever.
I’m doubling down on identifying the fundamental category error of all casual bigotry, so this was a useful and interesting conversation for me.
I'm in NYC.

I literally don't know anybody. I'm not being facetious, though I'm incredibly frustrated watching my city melt away, but I just haven't seen it. I would've expected bodies on the sidewalk given how stringent everything has been.
How does this work? Is the NFT just marked with a statement by the artist? Is there some legal copyright transfer happening as well?
If you think the category 'soldier' includes military doctors, the question "why would the military bother to assign an active duty soldier to a medical research project" makes absolutely no sense.
So you'd be wasting the judge's time with a frivolous lawsuit the same way you're wasting our time with a frivolous starwman?
My point was that the only reason mining is concentrated in China is cheap power.

If country X had cheaper power than china, than the majority of mining would be in country X.
Synology is good out of the box. I have a custom-ish U-NAS case.
I've used split keyboards for ages, and until recently had a Kinesis Gaming Edge that I really liked and still highly recommend. But what I found was that I was "freezing" while typing: instead of typing smoothly, it felt like every other sentence I'd pause for a sec and then keep going. After watching Thomas/chyrosran22's keyboard reviews on YouTube and his discussions of why ergo doesn't work for him, I realized why the 'freezing' was occurring: my brain was getting hooked when the key it wanted to hit was on the 'wrong' hand.

I switched recently to a Keychron K4 (with about half the switches swapped out) and am now just being more conscientious about keeping my wrists at a natural angle than I am about hitting keys with the right fingers. The result: no more freezing, my wrists are happier than ever, and I feel like my typing has gained 10wpm. I do miss the extra macro keys, though—might have to get a macro pad at some point...
If the US sends an army to China in order to seize their mining rigs, then Bitcoin is the least of our problems.
Your prejudicial dismissal hardly saves people time, what if there's something there for them? Then you cost time. It's not for you to judge for others. Your inability to extract utility from this is more about you than about the work itself. If you're open minded you wouldn't impose you biases on others and pretend it's truth. No need be scared of other people making up their own minds and thinking for themselves hm. Running from that is the true crackpot.
I mean thats an excellent description of the experience of depression. But is that a mode induced by chemistry, biology, learned behaviour, etc?
I just ended up searching "I" in the search bar to read all of the dreams as all of the dream diaries are written in the first person.
I always wonder how smart, driven people aren't able (willing?) to cope with these situations.
After reading reactions to this over-apology and the BackBlaze over-apology a while back, I think...

There's no such thing as an exact apology. There's a discontinuity between under-apologizing and overapologizing, there's no point where it's neither an under- or over-apology.
I think the UX around the trash bin is pretty good and I've always found the quota pane useful.