skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My work uses a lot of required apps that use lots of storage

Ah, that'll change the equation. I just use Teams and Outlook apps for work on my phone (besides calls and texts).
> Are you really so arrogant to think that other people are too lazy and stupid to think of your brilliant idea and that you are simply more intelligent than everybody else?

Here's a report of a person whose wife had seasonal affective disorder. He

- deduced that a powerful enough lightbox should be able to cure SAD
- didn't find any examples of such treatments in literature
- spent $600 to build "LUMINATOR"
- "And as of early 2017, with two winters come and gone, Brienne seems to no longer have crippling SAD—though it took a lot of light bulbs, including light bulbs in her bedroom that had to be timed to go on at 7:30am before she woke up, to sustain the apparent cure."

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zsG9yKcriht2doRhM/inadequacy...
Judge sentences Derek Chauvin to more than 22 years in prison
Yes recently.
Ok, I thought more like using runtastic with a laptop...
But you can watch it grow.
Would you say that they could collect way more data?
> Wickr is great tech

Isn't it closed source? What is known about their tech?
The guy who got consumed by crypto which was promoted by mainstream media tells our kids not to trust mainstream media?! I mean RIP but it doesn't make sense.

And for those who are pro-anarchy and against government please read Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan.
That's a little bit symptomatic of your biases. Laws against happy hours are far more a bible belt thing in reality than a nanny state thing (even if some of the reasons touted publicly are nanny state-ish).
> Ask a consumer if they want a device 50% more expensive or better terms for developers and guess what the outcome will be.

I find the Epic Game Store really interesting in this regard. While they aren't quite paying developers, they are funding a lot of games and giving out upfront payments.

I love it, personally—but it hasn't gone over too well with users.
Same is true in the Netherlands
Is it really a dark pattern to secretly store the email address?
Aren't dark patterns about tricking the user to something he doesn't want to do?

This is just illegal data storage.
I know the majority opinion in the US is "less rules is good", but as a counter point: European consumer protection laws prohibit this, if you can sign up online it's mandatory to offer online cancellation without extra hurdles. Sometimes having some rules is a good thing...
Telegram is not E2EE. Avoid.
Yes, but UHV cables under the atlantic and the mediterraneum would cost quite a bit, and if a trawler dragged the cable, sparks would fly = months to fix.
Ooooh, I get it! “Upload” is a bad word for that. Will change it to something else, thanks!
> We need a name that's witty at first but seems less funny each time you hear it.
Disqualification notably only occurs with prohibited transactions between the owner/beneficiary. Not entities where the owner is a director, that can only incur a penalty. If the transaction isn’t unwound its a 100% penalty.

Try this source or find a similar source that you respect:

https://www.kitces.com/blog/self-directed-ira-prohibited-tra...

The law itself doesn't make that very clear, thats how its been interpreted and acted upon

Again, we are still starting from two different assumptions: I dont consider earning money to be abusive, I dont consider taking risks with your own private equity in a tax deferred account to be abusive. Its great that these accounts are allowed to take risks.
I actively avoid Twitter, but still get force fed Twitter opinions via most news websites. I wish they would stop producing headlines about the latest "backlash" or "outrage" on there.
For COVID to have an impact on the gene pool, it would have to be killing people within reproductive age.

As of February 2021, only 11,000 people in the USA under 45 died of COVID - and most would have been very sick with existing health conditions and unable to reproduce anyway.

There are 193,000,000 people in the USA in this age range, so the death risk from COVID is 0.006%

COVID is of no threat to young and healthy people so there will be no impact visible genetically.
It's open source and designed to be modular/expandable. What's stopping you from building one to fit your needs?

Here's some pictures[0] of people building larger scale ones:

- 10x20' inside a greenhouse

- 1.5x18m outdoor

[0] - https://forum.farmbot.org/t/photo-contest-post-your-best-far...
I guess it'd argue you can't judge an argument on its own merits unless it's a philosophical argument.

For example the best published scientific studies can't be judged on their own merits because you have to trust that the scientists actually conducted the studies and didn't fake the data. So you basically have to fall back to some assumption over whether the scientist is honest, not on the merits of what they wrote in the study.
> social media sites would try to login to your email provider

I'm skeptical. That would be a federal crime, unless you explicitly allowed it.
The last place I lived the house had been around for close to 100 years. Thats 100 years of humans using a 1/2 acre plot to fix cars, wash cloths, have sewage over flows, car mechanic mishaps, etc.
The soil was not one that I would want to get food from.

Also, when I moved to my current location if you watch the builders you see they first put down a foot or two of red clay/dirt/rock. Its no good for growing. Even if it was, after they get done building the house they have to grade the outside and have all kinds of construction debris that gets mixed in and covered up.
You can't trust what you don't know.
Wrong kind of market share. Statscounter is based on unique devices seen across a few million websites, not sales.
Walking around in ships sounds like those cool things for one or two times and after that they become chores... It really becomes the part of it in gameplay loop. Are you making FP or TP game where environment is critical part of experience, or is some other thing the most important part?
Likely not, else they'd have confirmed it in their announcement and/or updated their E2E 1-to-1 video call documentation. The Verge asked and never got a response: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/28/22407752/telegram-group-v...

Documentation I mentioned: https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end/video-calls
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The dialog between the author of this message the responses on the mailing list add some clarity. There's nothing inherently wrong with providing cleanup fixes to this kind of project, but submitting those as individual merge requests instead of one grouped patch is just serving to increment the developer's "number of patches submitted" KPI at the expense of the time spent by maintainers reviewing every individual patch.
I think this starts to boil down to those who like OO and those whose don’t.
If you leave the treatment criteria the same, then yes, you are absolutely right. But you have to adjust those, too.

Just a made-up example: Let's say someone has an advanced test for cancer run, and it comes back positive. You know from studies that treating people the same way as before with the advanced test leads to worse outcomes because of unneccessary treatment etc.. So what you could do is you do the simpler test afterwards. If it comes back negative, you don't treat -> you are in the same situation as before, only you can be more vigilant in future and see if the cancer grows. If the simpler test also comes back positive, you do the treatment.

It's all about getting data (statistical and otherwise) on what the best treatment is, and acting on that.
That's what I said as well. C# good, .NET bad
Europe has that law. Not all countries have fully implemented it yet but there is a deadline for all to have it.
That's a nice sentiment, but I don't believe politicians and regulators have enough foresight to see past their nose.
If more people buy more cocktails from attractive servers, a business has a legitimate reason to include attractiveness in their hiring decisions.

However, a fair establishment would hire for overall attractiveness, not just physically attractive.

The funny, clever, quirky, friendly, classily deferential, product knowledgeable, etc. all have aspects attractive to cocktail purchasers.
SolarWinds is orders of magnitude more significant (or will be, in the fullness of time) than anything that targeted the personal data of individuals.

Back in the early 2000s I was a mod on shadowcrew (served my time for that) and the volume of personal data that was being shared was staggering. Most multinationals I can name that existed at the time were trivially infiltrated by botnets and had every accessible database and file scrutinised. Hundreds of millions of people have had most of their pseudoprivate information exfiltrated. Mostly it just caused inconvenience - not to diminish the harm done when it was more than that. The point is that each datum relates to one person and requires a lot of effort to exploit. By contrast, national or international organisations and people or groups of prominence have much higher value secrets.

The most significant one that's public that I know of is the T-mobile hack by ethics [0] - full access during 2003-2004 to every message, photo, email and internal tools. Among other things, the US Secret Service were using T-mobile as their email and phone service provider. Every USSS communication was able to be monitored in realtime, and many were being live posted to IRC. Same for hundreds of celebrities, politicians, and criminals. I doubt the USSS were the only organisation compromised then, but they are the only one I know of for certain.

I would be absolutely amazed if there aren't more significant and recent similar hacks given the increasing centralisation of communication and information infrastructure.

0: https://www.theregister.com/2005/01/12/hacker_penetrates_t-m...
And ephemeral, when desired by the user.
Why do we seem to better tolerate preinstalled or system-update app installs vs pushed installs?

I guess you might at least know what's getting installed by system updates ahead of time, but most don't pay attention to that and are only surprised once they see the new app icon.

I know we haven't really owned our own phones in some time, but this does feel like a turning point.
When you’re in a room full of people in normal casual attire you’re going to stand out like a sore thumb in a suit.
Seems very biased towards XMPP. Regarding mobile support, why is it more challenging to make a video call app on iOS than on Android?
> Serious question though. Is this merely a neologism used to describe a phenomenon that was old before Cicero lost his head?

While there may be nothing new under the sun, there is still plenty of room for the relative prevalence of slamming vs engaging to change in American political communiques, and for the press' coverage of slamming to change as well.
I think your claim is partially true.

People can make good/bad choices but the amount and types of choices a person even has available to them, is very dependent on pre-existing family success/wealth.

Jeff Bezo's kids will have more choices/opportunities than a middle class kid who will have more choices/opportunities than a poor kid.

Starving Syrian Refugess have very minimal choices or opportunities.

So your average middle class or poor person has some choices but is much more at the mercy of their ENVIRONMENT than Jeff Bezo's kids who can bend the environment to their will with money.

Your heels seem pretty dug into your belief's so there's a good chance I'm wasting my time by talking to you but whatever.
Mental health in relation to sexual identity is a massive minefield in online discussion. As soon as you go down that path you are in the realm of "curing" trans people of their mental illnesses, aka literally Hitler. It doesn't matter what you're actually saying, the only thing very online people are going to read is how you want to eliminate deviant sexual identity with medicine.
But in California companies can (apparently) still require you to chat with a real person online and thus still need to do everything synchronously, wait in a queue, and argue with them for several minutes before they will cancel the subscription.

Personally I think that any time you grant permission to anyone to bill you automatically on a recurring basis, you need to be able to revoke that permission. This ought to be a fundamental mechanism of personal banking that you ought to be able to manage on your bank account online. It's astonishing to me that your bank can't even tell you all the ongoing recurring payments that are permitted on your account (or if they do, it's an ad hoc implementation that tries to detect recurring payment amounts, vendor names, etc.)
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There's companies out there who's marketing automation platforms do this by default when you use their embedded widgets.....
Sure! Everybody's born not knowing how to do that. Or understanding most social signals. Some of us learn. As I said, people have all sorts of ways of dealing with the world.
Or ya know, stop creating them in labs.

I'm down for working on some viruses, but it seems down right irresponsible to put a corona spike on a virus that would otherwise be hard to transmit.

That's allegedly what happened, lets keep talking about it until we find out incase we're still doing it.

I'd like to know whether we need to increase health measures, or clamp down on making these altered viruses that may have never occurred in nature.

I'm more scared of bioweapons than nukes. The spread is much further.
The future of gaming is cloud gaming. Moore's law is our friend.
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Store the path, position and open mode. Pipes will fail.
Dynamic modules (shared libs) are also tried be re-opened.
It's not that more data is bad.

It's that 1) sometimes collecting the data itself is harmful at scale. E.g. mammography can cause breast cancer, or cause it to spread. 2) the patients actions as a result of the data can, and does at sufficient scale, cause further harm.
"With financial support from friends and family, he raised $1 million" - from his wiki.

Yeah, I don't think this person was hurting for the paltry sum they invested. It also sounds like they would've been just fine if it had failed (aka just move on to the next venture until you hit jackpot).

The rich get richer I guess, and random folks on the internet applaud the pilfering of the commons (dodging taxes).
Delete your current account for good, wait 30 days to have their spiders clean the cache, then start a new account by using a new e-mail address.
You don't say what is wishy washy or give any supporting evidence to your assertion that HN users seemingly fall for such arguments or how "nice sounding" arguments embed themselves into our thought patterns to control us or how these wishy washy nice sounding arguments lead us to dismiss people. You sound like you may have psychological issues and I say this as a non-neurotypical (bipolar)
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Having dated people with BPD, it certainly created an emotional roller coaster that makes the highs really high; normal relations can even seem boringly stable after that.
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Not OP. FWIW, I think OP isn't referring to individuals with intellectual disabilities; just those with an IQ one standard deviation down from the mean e.g. 85.

In my experience, there's often no backlash against jokes or even serious talking points about "stupid people".
What you're describing is them asking you to give them the password explicitly so they could log in and get your contact list. GP suggested they did this behind the scenes by trying the password you use with their service. That's a pretty big claim.
Amazon internally uses Slack for chats, while Chime is mostly used for video conferencing.

My guess would be that this could augment Chime, and position it to be a useful part of GovCloud offering from Amazon.
Of course you would be, just like if you maxed out your credit card or closed your credit card account. This doesn't pose a new or unique problem.
Hot-damn, you just put your finger on why the whole thing is such a turn-off. It's just a big, lame, shallow show. Bags of hot air blowing at each other, for the clickbait value. And whether it's a media outlet characterizing something as "slamming" for the clicks, or the person speaking in a "slammy" way for the same reason, hardly makes a difference. The former dutifully serves the latter and the latter feeds the former. They're both just manipulating you. Or maybe, at best, someone through their Twitter account might be trying to display "who they are" (LOL!) by virtue of what they oppose, which seems like it would never work, and it doesn't. Not for that purpose. Look at the big picture and it's incredibly sad. Though almost laughably so if you zoom far enough out.
Same for the anti-clock.

It seems NYT and others just said whatever the opposite of trump was saying. Hardly good journalism.
Background: I touched C# a little over 5 years ago writing ASP.NET MVC + jQuery apps and decided I hated it then.

About 6 months ago I had a side project where I took a C++ library and decided I'd try to translate it into every language that supports C/C++ Interop, to have a canonical "C Interop reference + comparison" repo for anyone interested

I found out that C# could do this, and started looking into how.

Long story short, it's now possible to use C# and .NET to directly interop with C/C++. Function Pointers, structs and all. You can publish a binary or static/dynamic library for any platform that's natively compiled -- zero dependencies.

It allows you to manually allocate memory and provide allocation strategies. Shit, you can even turn the GC off entirely (at this point the language is very barebones).

See ZeroSharp by same author:

https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp

So on top of this surprising viability for fairly low-level or native programming, it's also:

- Just generally good at everything/bad at nothing

- Blazingly performant, and getting faster consistently. Both at a language/computation level, and for things like web servers. ASP .NET Core Kestrel webserver has throughput only topped by a handful of Rust/C++ libs, and most recent preview included a new functional router API that increased throughout by +100,000rps.

- C# as a language is evolving rapidly and has already become a solid multi paradigm lang. Adopting FP functional features like pattern matching and lambdas. It has LINQ. It's actually pleasant to write now and doesn't always feel like verbose enterprise garbage. (I prefer modeling entities as classes/structs + using pure functions for working with them)

- The tooling and ecosystem of C# and .NET are rivaled only by the JVM. The developer experience and quality/depth of libraries available are fantastic.

There's more but that's off the top of my head.

Needless to say the last few months visiting C# and .NET land have changed my former opinion.
This is very heavily biased. Many of the points "against matrix" aren't very well elaborated on or plainly wrong or outdated, such as the one stating that you can't viably run your own node. There's many things happening at the moment to make that easier, as well as a push to move off server nodes into p2p "device nodes" that contain your user data.

Matrix' federation isn't weak, Matrix.org just hosts the biggest node. If Matrix.org would disappear today, all that would be lost is users and chat for people on that node, the rest of the network would continue working as usual. A few friends of mine and me all host our own nodes, so we wouldn't even notice it, basically.

XMPP doesn't have this as all the big implementations are proprietary and incompatible.
life must be beyond exhausting if thats enough to make your wife furious
I don't think you're a luddite, though people do use their phones for different things, some of which are just naturally going to take up more space over time. Rich media like photographs and videos taken on your phone is going to take up a lot of space, especially when you don't have them sync to the cloud. Some apps like reddit clients, comic readers, or music apps can take a lot of space up with cached images, music, and other files. Games also take up a ton of space.
You are expressing your discontent so you "own the problem".

This doesn't necessarily mean you do most of the work, but it does mean you decide when it is solved.

Decide what your values are, what you can accept and not accept. Be wary of things you can accept "this once" that will drive you up the wall if they happen repeatedly.

You should be able to tell people in this situation how you think this behavior affects you and the organization.

If you get a bad outcome in a situation repeatedly, prepare ahead of time!

In some situations I get flustered, inarticulate, and exhausted. If am not exhausted and flustered I can be articulate, so planning is a big help to me.
Right, I'm from a small town myself and moved to a big city. Small towns are very convenient but life is more about having a convenient commute, easy parking and a big back yard.
I think your article is great, hope you are right and align with your worldviews. Is @Tocelot your Twitter account?
Having the user enter their password for connecting to Gmail is very different to having the service try the passwords themselves. The service shouldn't even have the password in clear text to begin with.

Until OP provides proof I doubt this claim from such a big service like LinkedIn.
It's written in Perl.
I got the fuck out after i clicked "no"
They are missing the wood for the trees. Online behaviour in general is rooted in psychological issues. Well-adjusted mentally healthy people just participate in society normally, they don't sit in front of a terminal for a year inventing some amazing new way of communicating over computer networks, or expounding the modern equivalent of Athenian philosophy on message boards, or obsessing over entries in distributed databases.
I see. I guess its more important to keep false positives low than increase detection accuracy.

Thank you very much for this explanation.
Landys&Gyr is a bit old school in this regard.

Some countries (like France or Spain), use communications via PLC which are encrypted to the local transformer. They are then sent to the distributor via 4g/whatever
In order to treat all data with care, you have to define what you mean by "care." In security we talk about the tradeoffs between integrity, confidentiality, and availability. In terms of integrity, the most careful treatment is to place many signed copies of the data publicly on the internet. This also is the most careful treatment for availability. Of course it is the least careful treatment for confidentiality. But no scheme with any care for confidentiality can match it for integrity and availability.

Signal illustrates swinging far in the "confidentiality" direction - most messaging services don't forget anything you say, while Signal makes it rather hard for you to retain your messages, and also offers ways to delete them automatically. I find it unfortunate there are no secure, open messaging platforms that offer similar integrity/availability guarantees to services like Slack.
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I once built a prototype app to soft delete near-duplicate photos to save space. i.e. it would look at images that are very similar and identify the one that was sharpest, with the best lighting etc, and soft-delete the rest. The app worked but was very slow due to Python's image processing libraries. But if anyone here thinks this is a good idea happy to share how I did it as I'm sure a competent engineer can make this a reality.
This all sounds nice, but it still has to make it through the rest of congress