skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well then, you should make sure that you're providing a useful service with that data, or allow data collection to be turned off.

Think of it like this: if I'm actively using an app that's giving me turn-by-turn directions, then of course I'm not going to want to spoof GPS, since it would make the app useless to me. But if your app demands GPS data just for ad analytics, then yes, I would absolutely and without any remorse spoof GPS data for that app. In that latter case, I don't care that a developer might be unhappy with it, because as a user I'm unhappy that the developer is slurping up data they don't need!
> If you can’t examine the source code, then some bad actor might provide you some executable software that has evil baked in, and you wouldn’t be able to tell — whereas the bad actor would not be able get away with such nefariousness if you had access to the source code.

But it's true. People act more socially if they think they are watched or they think they could be watched. They don't actually have to be watched. If people think their source code will be examined, they will do less antisocial things. It is very rare to have deliberately malicious features in free software, whereas we have a whole class of dark patterns in dark software.

The exceptions are things like Chrome or Firefox that are such giant and unwieldy codebases that they might as well be opaque boxes. In the case of Chrome, the Chrome builds you use contain secret sauce from Google in order to make it easier for Google to show you ads, different from Chromium.

Firefox occasionally also tries to embed anti-user features, but then distributors such as Debian may notice them and remove them when repackaging the software.

Again, these two are rare cases.
You're right about it being complex (my experience [1]), but such work is within scope for what's perhaps a central design decision for a library. Yes there'll be bugs, but it'll stabilize over time.

Just to be clear, I am NOT saying that Svelte needed to do this. But merely suggesting options for discussion and learning.

[1]: https://github.com/jeswin-unmaintained/isotropy-ast-analyzer... - Here's for instance, some code I wrote for analyzing a JS sort expression. You'd think it'd take just a few hours, until you get to it. Btw, it uses an AST analysis framework I wrote called chimpanzee - it has only one user though. :) https://github.com/jeswin/chimpanzee
Amazon. There were only 2 non-local sellers so it may have been a fluke. I didn't check Chewy since I tend to wait for them to send me coupons to try them again.

edit: Chicago-land
I just figured out today why a websocket component of an app I inherited wasn’t working correctly. I went through it in my head 50 times, then floated an idea past a colleague while whiteboarding it, then went through the code with a fine tooth comb, had the epiphany, and then read this, and “ your bugs will tell you when you need to improve your mental model” is incredibly resonant right now.
With todays Public Transport I couldn't simply go visit my friend 3 hours away on his farm. I can in a car.

Until Public Transport can match the quite amazing "go anywhere" utility of a car, it isn't going anywhere.

With money, engineering and creativity it could be done. And I hope it is. But even if it starts today, I won't live to see it in full action.
> the important part of representing state machines is that you can inspect their state

Why? Is that because you need to know if a transition is valid for a given state? Do you have a citation for this?

> Classes are meant to be opaque; as you say their encapsulation is a feature.

This is true, but in practice, people do expose things in classes. I regularly implement state machines in classes as immutable builders.

> But their opaqueness prevents the usual state machine composition.

Not sure what you're refering to by this. Sounds like it's based on a specific implementation. I'm sure there are patterns that could help with this.
Thanks for sharing these links, it's a good peek inside the company! Idk if reality lives up to the marketing but those videos made it look like an interesting place to work at
you'll have to buy me dinner first.
to prove that, you had to rub the block as fast as possible. this heat generated was then used to heat the houses
Neat - that looks significantly more interesting.
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Spotify is a big ask because google would have to port widevine (the web DRM.) I've been switching to sound cloud because of this. I'm guessing you're from Europe and that's why your bank needs an "app" instead of just having a website. Here in the US think or swim (the fancy Canadian robinhood style UI for stock trading) works fine in icecat if you turn off librejs.

I think everything else is there. Also Linux games are generally better than Android ones IME. (although I haven't run any besides nethack on my pinephone.)
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As a user I don't really care about what you want or need. You're not supposed to get any data at all unless it's strictly necessary. You're also supposed to delete any data that you do get after you're done using it in a way that benefits me and me alone.
Who actually believes reddit is a promising site for children? Unlike Facebook/Instagram, reddit is already 50% pornography with very low barriers of harassment and cyberbullying (due to pure anonymity).
> The average person’s iPhone/Android is the sofa in their living room just waiting to be used.

Except, it isn't.

Because at random times the sofa company comes in and reorganises the way the cushions are positioned. And then they take away the ability to use the tilt function.

Then, because they really need to know how they use the couch, they'll start tracking when you sit and lie on the couch. So when you have your day off and its outside the scheduled expectations, when you sit on the couch they suddenly come over and put locks and chains on the couch because it clearly wasn't you who was using the couch.

Most people just accept this, because what are you going to do? Buy a couch that doesn't have tilt or cushions? You want those! You don't want a wicker chair, you want a comfy couch, so you have to deal with the couch company making life hell every so often. Because there isn't an alternative for the average person.

I field calls from my parents at least once a week about something that has "broken". The tech support is like pulling teeth, because everything is hidden from the user. They don't know what they did wrong and all that they want is for it to "work". And half the time I can't help them - because the phone doesn't belong to them and the OS or apps has decided that X feature is no longer worth supporting, and force-updated them to the latest version. Rolling back to the version that did work is difficult or impossible.
Taiwan and Japan being the giants in the field is due to one thing only: Government policy. Both governments invested heavily in research labs, universities and industry (TSMC was a joint government-Philips venture), setting them up for where they are now. Cost of living isn't relevant here.
Then you would cut off the querystring. Removing the querystring would chop off any sessionID making it impossible to log back in.
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No, but presumably they got some living utility out of that space previously that is now devoted to work. Maybe you can finally take up mountain biking now that you don't have to make space for a desk you don't use after 5pm on friday and can fit the equipment.
I'd definitely proceed as pabs3 suggests. As a short term solution, you might want to contact a-wai and see if your work could live in the Mobian repo in the meantime as I think MMS is still a highly sought after feature.
>I don't see how you can build a political philosophy without taking facts like that into account.

We already have political philosophy which takes that into account; it concerns material conditions and relations of production, and the reproduction of labour-power. Economists on all sides of the political spectrum from Austrians to classical Marxists talk about population, growth, sustainability, and the need for necessities and shelter.

Where people disagree is the subsumption of natural disaster and the basic human fact of life into a naturalistic conception of production relations. Production relations are built on top of natural requirements, but they are not the same thing, as evidenced by the wide variety of production relations which serve those natural requirements through history (whether slave societies, feudal societies, 'communal' societies, or capitalist societies). When talking in political philosophy, you abstract from raw physical facts of caloric intake to how those calories are organized and distributed in society, and to what degrees. "Domination by nature" is an irrelevant question to political philosophy, which strictly concerns matters known (natural disaster, food, shelter, sex) or hypothesized to be (transhumanism, gender relations, distribution and production of medicines, urban or rural life, the work day) in the hands of humans.
That’s a very cool link! It was hard to line them up on mobile before I realized you Dan just click the links. I love little well coded no fanfare pages like that. Reminds me of the old internet.
I think you are persistently suggesting something to someone who knows more than you, without taking the proper time beforehand to understand the problem space.
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I'm going to presume we mean literal torture here, and not rape being akin to torture.

Sadistic behavior is indeed a risk factor which puts someone at a heightened risk of re-offending over other child rapists (this isn't to say sadistic fantasy will lead to such crimes in someone who is more empathetic).

If the individual is psychopathic, there have been some recent breakthroughs which show it is possible to treat such individuals, but researchers call for more research in this area. A couple of programs look promising.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/opinion/when-junk-science...
Not all sex offenders have the same risk factor (sex offense is a very vague term, and unfortunately, one people associate strongly with the worst kinds), and the risk factor for a lot of them is fairly low.

Courts are moving towards more individualized assessments of recidivism to determine what tier of risk they should assign someone to.

There are a few questions I would ask here in connection to this case:

Has he been taking any sort of drug?

Does he have any mental health issues?

Has he had any recent head injuries?

Does he have a brain tumor?
How very generous of you. I know what I’ll be doing for the next few weekends at least... Thank you!
It may be time to look elsewhere if the complaints are unanswered for more than a decade; they're probably being directed towards the wrong people. That's an obligation you may want to hold yourself to, if you value your own time and don't want to spend another decade repeating yourself to those who won't listen.
I'd say that's one of the reasons why Europeans are so unhappy with the US. I know I am. They have so much potential to get shit done, but they squander all of that potential.
I came for the gratis software, stayed for the libre software.
The UK rolled forward some centuries-old debt not too long ago:

> As Europe marks the centenary of the Great War, the Treasury said it would pay off £218m from a 4% consolidated loan next February, as part of a redemption of bonds stretching as far back as the 18th century. They also relate to the South Sea Bubble crisis of 1720, the Napoleonic and Crimean wars and the Irish potato famine.

> Almost £2bn of first world war debt remains, and the government said it was looking into the practicalities of repaying it in full.

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/31/uk-first-wo...
The FSF has never said that free software must be copylefted. The article itself says that De Icaza and Stallman agreed that open source and free software are the same set of software and the only difference is the intent of the person who is going to use that software.
interesting, I wonder if it's something specific with your dog's food. Any idea on what it is? I just checked mine against an order +1 year ago and it's the same price.

My pup eats Wellness CORE Natural lamb
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> I for one would rather see more power on the hands of Russia and PRC if the only alternative were complete Americanization of the world.

America is far from perfect, so many things are broken it is insane, but to prefer to have a stronger Russia or China is bewildering to me. Everything that is bad about America is equally bad or worse in both of those places plus an undeniable loss of liberty. Cronyism, inequality, racism, imperialist tendencies, environmentalism, etc.

I'm not blind to the problems America has, but I've also lived in China and it boggles my mind that people think this way.
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Another factor is keyframe rate, which makes the bitrate requirement much higher at the same quality but is needed to let people join the stream more than every 30 seconds.
Banksy does something similar now: https://reprage.com/post/how-banksy-authenticates-his-work
I'm concerned about the docker container shortage
I grew up under the threat of nuclear war. Someone in Russia could have pushed a button, and I would have died in 15 minutes. I knew that was the case, too. And yet, for me at least, it's always been good to be alive, even despite the threat that hung over me for far too many years.

Anecdote, but... some of us found life worth living under worse pressures.
While the developments lately have been ... troubling, I can’t shake the feeling that Greenwald has been partisan ever since Wikileaks started supporting 45 over his opponent.

Does he truly believe he’s above the fray? Or does he enter into it while pretending not to?

On topic: I remember when the patriot act was introduced and everyone on /. said it would lead to this. Well, it has; is there a realistic way of regaining privacy and liberty while maintaining stability in an adversarial word? Interested in opinions other than my own, especially if any of you are inside the beltway.
It doesn't have a builtin h264 encoder unless I'm very out of date (looks like I'm not). It has support for some hardware encoders, which can be good enough for livestreaming.
I use LSP for Rust (rust-analyzer) and C++ (ccls) and I would say the experience is pretty good. For C++ projects I generate a compile_commands.json (Ninja, CMake or meson should help) and after that it's smooth sailing. I get contextual auto complete suggestions (yasnippet and complete even fills function arg placeholders), definition lookups, find all references, alternate between header and source, etc.
In the US, a union must represent a majority of the workers identified as potential members of the collective bargaining unit in order to gain that negotiating status under Federal and State laws. Once recognized through a vote or collection of cards representing a majority, the union can negotiate a contract and labor agreement representing all employees (I’m fuzzy on whether recent judicial decisions have weakened this to just formal union members).
This looks very nice.

Eventful, founded by Brian Dear (a regular HN poster) had this as a feature before it was acquired if I recall correctly. I think the feature had a decent level of success, so it’d be worth talking to him/getting him to post about learnings here.
Oil dependence on ME has always been an issue. Guess what the US did... They're now one of the biggest oil producers in the world. What was your argument again?

As for wine, wine isn't as fundamental/crucial to modern civilization as computer chips and oil.
JIT in sideloaded apps would be nice too.
If you're talking FreeBSD you would use jails instead which eliminate a lot of the doubled up resources. It's a lot more like docker containers.
Compaq did a clean room reverse engineering effort of the IBM BIOS for interoperability. Under US law this is completely legitimate.

China can and should do clean room reverse engineering for whatever technology they want to, and sell the resultant work back to the US (contingent on other IP restrictions of course)

And the US and Netherlands are well within their rights to block equipment equipment to China on grounds that it will be used by a unfriendly military.

The atomic bomb example is not just about "the principle has been proven", it was also a story of Soviet Union spies within the Manhattan Project.
You may be interested to know that other languages do distinguish animacy/inanimacy:

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

It isn’t always equivalent to gender though.
> h.265 makes files smaller than h.264 for a given bit rate.

You mean for a given CRF ("crf" isn't an official term, it's what x264/x265 call their fixed quality mode). "Bitrate" is literally how big the file is.
This is true for some people, but not for others, which is why this is so hard to generalize. a "linux phone" means different things to different people.

In a perfect world I'd have a phone that is analogous. As iPhone is to Apple, and android is to windows, my phone would be to whatever linux I use. Well, that's a tall order.

And because it's a tall order, the most efficient way to go through features is to start off with easy highly requested features and very slowly move toward the less important features that are harder to implement.

Phones with linux hits both sides of this equation. On one hand it turns out EVEN THOSE things are hard. On the other hand, people don't WANT to work on those things as much because free developers rarely want to work on other people's problems. I mean, some will, and those people are simply better people IMO, but rarely do they WANT to.
Hard to say. I don't phone much, especially these days during the pandemic, without travel, I don't need mobile devices for anything really.

Smartphones are barely useful for anything to me these days. I thought about it and I basically want desktop experience but in a small form factor of a smartphone, because that's what I'm used to using most of the time.

Small portable computer that I can actually program and compile stuff on. Device where I am able to script and modify any aspect of it in case of need, without needing to install appstore apps for every little stupid thing I know how to shell script in 5 lines by combining existing tools. Something small enough that it would be more portable than a notebook, but just as generically programmable, and can host any of the usual scripting languages, databases, servers and tools I may want to run on the go, and already know all too well.

Something on the way between a dumb phone and a general computer. And the phone part would ever be interesting to me only if I could hook it, script it, and control it via some personal rules in a detailed manner. Otherwise just using a dumb phone has way better ergonomics than any smartphone ever had for me.
(you really don't have to put the emphasis on how much you dislike their spelling of trafficking, everyone can see it's a direct quote and it distracts from the rest of your post)
C'mon, we all know it's an introverted dick.
Just wanted to say that this a great idea and cool project!
I have my MacBook, a spare phone, my camera, and my iPad which I use as a second screen using duet.

For Internet, I’ve been using Speedify VPN. It lets me combine/bond multiple internet connections without any additional hardware.
So I can connect to a mobile hotspot over WiFi, another over USB, and my phone over USB and combine the connections.
Data caps are not a problem in India though, for $5 prepaid you get 50GB, for $20 postpaid you can get 1000s of GBs.
Looks like most of the cards in the top 20 support H.265 4:2:0 (NVidia 10XX and up), just not 4:4:4 (NVidia 16XX and up).

I don't think the steam hardware survey is a good sample of the wider computer market though - the majority of people using youtube/netflix/etc on x86 devices are probably using Intel laptop chips with integrated graphics, not $500+ dedicated GPUs.

(Although presumably this is probably becoming less true over time, those low end users are moving more and more to mobile devices and smart TVs/chromecast/console, leaving workstation/gaming systems to be a larger percentage of the market)
Exactly right.

I wish more companies were talking about the "we all work from the same place for a week or two" per quarter. It gives almost all of the flexibility of working remote along with much of the benefit of being in person. Plus as they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

A few days per week in the office is the worst of both systems. Some remote workers and some office workers isn't a ton better.
Replace caffeine with the name of many other drugs and in this thread you'd hardly notice a difference.

Caffeine is a highly socially acceptable drug. Doesn't mean it's all that different from them.
GTK apps are definitely cross-compilable, here is a random example from the Debian cross-compile testing service:

http://crossqa.debian.net/src/xdemorse
Why not, if they had it in their terms of service?
A few questions you must ask yourself before making the decision to move to US.

1. Do you enjoy your current Work? Do you enjoy your current lifestyle in western Europe?

2. If the answer is Yes; Are you still willing to let go of your current enjoyable lifestyle for a few extra bucks??

The grass may always look greener on the other side; but it may not always be worth it.
Because it's immoral to limit how we use our bodies.
A couple of NASA scientists published a paper on this a little while back and apparently we’d have a hard time even detecting a previous advanced society on earth. Pretty mind blowing. I often wonder if Venus had an industrial society that set off a runaway greenhouse effect.
I actually noticed this because I was using an aeropress and thought it'd be more environmentally friendly to get a metal filter. But then my coffee got oilier.
Latin has mentula and verpa, both feminine words referring to a male appendage.
Sure, China will eventually figure it out. But how many years and decades will that take?

It's likely the semiconductor industry will have moved on by then.
During my 1978 Artist-in-residency at the University of Adelaide
Bornholmish retains three genders, in contrast to standard Danish.
This is why I stick to the definition some other HN poster provided: Cognitive Automation.

But still really damn handy!
Interesting video, you can repeatedly feel Feynmann's frustration. "If you were a physics student, then I could..."

Too bad the earlier part of the interview isn't there, so we'd have a better idea what's angering him. Also, too bad we don't have a video of Einstein answering the same question.
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My favorites are The Diamond Age and Anathem, but thoroughly enjoyed Seveneves and Dodge.

I almost dropped Dodge 1/4 of the way in due to it being to dull. I thought Stephenson had lost his edge. Stuck through it, and loved it! It tackles a collection of related issues that are relevant today, and I think will continue to become more so in the near future, especially for the HN crowd. Ie his concepts of a post-truth-future, cultures emerging and isolating using controlled access to information etc. Speculative neuroscience too, ie how the brain constructs a cohesive model of the world.

Dodge seems to be the most polarizing Stephenson book.
someone who has the ability to model the naive knowledge of their student(s), has a good grasp of subject matter, and can orchestrate experiences to bridge the gap. empathy, a willingness to communicate and lots of patience are also pretty vital characteristics to have.
Xoogler, current facebooker.
Reach out: tehlike@gmail.com

Edit: Not sure why I got negative votes. Having this discussion on HN is not effective. I am fairly unbiased, but i need to know what kind of person he is, what kind of work he is willing to do, and might also offer career advice.