skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention facebook leaders don't care, they already made billions by misbehaving without any consequence. Even if the story did end there, it's 100% win for them.

This is the lesson of our generation: makes money by delegating the consequences to society. Nothing will happen to you. In fact, in 20 years, you could buy the service of some PR firm, and they will even make you a hero in the eyes of the public eventually.
It's a political move and power grab.
I'd personally prefer a graph.

Also perhaps show how many people were killed.
I think your analogies aren't very fair:

Disney: It's not the park or the device, it's about the experience, Apple wants to control that, just like Disney.

BMW: You're allowed to put any brand of electricity in your iPhone's battery. I would've gone with the third party car stereo market.
Okay, will you pay for that?

I think VPN would be/hopefully will be a great escape rope for Firefox, as it fits well with their privacy orientedness, and does pay somewhat for the development costs.
Coordinated media blitzes make me skeptical. It seems pretty obvious the newsmedia has an axe to grind with the organization that devastated their income and business model.
No, its not. Amending the definition to make Ponzi Scheme merely a slur will get ones nowhere. And also can possible bite back on eg Brazilian Rupees as well ;)
Thanks for your comment. I avoided linking to news stories partially to avoid that glorification.

As for Texas, this tracks school shootings, not mass shootings. A teacher was shot and injured, students barricaded doors, and it was on a school campus. I think that qualifies—- I would be terrified if that happened to me, wouldn’t you?
> Java has good to great FP

Java does absolutely not have "good to great FP" support. It's an imperative and OO programming language that recently got lambdas, no more, no less.
Ask HN: Cybersecurity-wise, what do you think of an MFA-sharing application?
I am getting in touch with you in order to retrieve some feedback on the security aspect of a project that I have released. The objective of this question is to challenge the concept of the project and eventually retrieve constructive improvement tips you might see appropriate. The project is named GetMyMfa.io (https://get.mymfa.io) and it aims to provide Just-In-Time and nominative access to virtual phone numbers SMS MFA codes for testing and approval processes for organizations.
Where the idea came from:

I am currently working with multiple customers in the FSI domain (Financial Services Industry) and I am often required to perform tests in production environments with multiple accounts with different attributes. As production accounts, these accounts are generally required to have at least an SMS 2FA system in place. When performing tests in such sensitive accounts, a single individual usually owns all phone numbers linked to these accounts and shares received MFA codes via a phone call with the various people performing tests in these accounts. I believe this represents a security concern and a bypass of the Multi-Factor Authentication principles.

In addition, when submitting iOS applications to the App Store, Apple performs a human review process in which they need to login to the application. When MFA is enforced for all production accounts, Apple rejects the application unless a way is implemented to allow them to login. This often leaves developers with two options: Develop a front-end only demonstration mode, or bypass the MFA mechanism for a specific account.

Therefore, the project aims to:

Allow organizations to rent virtual phone numbers and have their SMS MFA codes be displayed in a private web interface; Organizations have a fine-grained access control system that allows them to control who can access their virtual phone numbers MFA Codes; Access granting can be time-based.

With this project, I aim to help businesses to:

Avoid spending time in building a security login "bypass" (and all the security issues that often come with it); Avoid building a "demonstration" mode exclusively for Apple on their mobile applications; Avoid using public websites with public phone numbers accessible to anyone. What do you think? Would you use such product for your business in order to safely manage SMS Multi-Factor-Authentication sharing in production accounts? If not, what would be your recomendations?

Thank you very much in advance!
NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack (2019) [pdf]
I live in Wedding, pronounced "Vedding". It was weird for about the first week, then it never really occurred to me again. I'm sure the people who live in Fuck have the same, right up until they have to fill in their address online.
Sure, I will in a few minutes.

Edit: done.
It's very nearly the literal sentence that preceded the text you quoted upthread. It's exactly what we're talking about here and what you seem to be agreeing that Apple is intending to (and right to) enforce.
I was really surprised when Facebook added their branding to the splash screen of those apps. I thought the whole point was that no one even knew about it. WhatsApp at least is a little different (no in app ads, no infinite scrolling, at least in theory encrypted messages). But Instagram is literally just another incarnation of the exact same business model as FB with slightly different features.
This isn't the first time we've seen this PR package. Some of the architects of the story are the same. I dunno whom one writes a check out to, to order this service, but I bet it needs a few more digits on it than I could muster.
It's not just a remote control video feed ( Unlike other game streaming platforms ) so there is tons of incentives and capability for them to offload as much as possible onto the client.
Couldn’t yesterday’s event be finagled as workplace violence?
If this is the same study,

https://www.recoveryanswers.org/research-post/alcohol-sales-...

then, I think it's even worse than that. I believe the stat you are referencing meant that the amount of alcohol sold to people in excess of the health guidelines (14/wk) amounts to 44% of total alcohol sales (that is, if everyone merely stuck to the guidelines, alcohol sales would drop 44%).

In the same para, they say if you segment the population by drinker level, those who consume over the guidelines represent 68% of total sales. 23% from those men who drink > 50 (> 35 for women) drinks a week (!!) and 45% of sales are from hazardous drinkers who go over the 15/wk guideline.

3-4 drinks/wk people like OP only represent 32% of sales revenue, but they are more than twice the population of the hazardous or harmful drinkers combined. So if the >15/wk set simply turned into 3-4 drinks/wk people, alcohol sales would crater >44% (but presumably <68%).
Julias interop with Python is excellent: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl (also with R, see RCall.jl). It's just not statically typed, so the original problem is not solved - albeit Julia being the better language for scientific purposes.

CL could also be great language-wise (https://digikar99.github.io/py4cl2/, https://github.com/snmsts/burgled-batteries3) but I don't know how good the interop is in reality since I haven't tried it.
A bit unrelated but I wish just once I'd like to see normal calendar items and life activities - drop kids off to kindergarden, go shopping, mow the grass, help friend move - instead of these "mediate, finish presentation, finalize mood board concepts"
"Reputational point of no return" == is a bank.

Good timing, actually, lets them launch Libra and take on Tether.
you see, managers of that project are getting real money and they need an excuse.
In larger cities, there are still newsrooms.
can you make a purely ideological/ethical case for working at google/twitter/amazon/ms/apple over working at fb?
Probably not—- this is not my area of expertise, I’m not a UI guy. I ~~think~~ hope it will on some people though.
Yes, but unfortunately public radio isn't always as good about this anymore as one would wish or as they used to, either.

National "NPR" may be better. But our local NPR "affiliate" has whole shows that are really pay-to-play. :(

https://www.baltimoresun.com/citypaper/bcp-why-so-much-pr-wy...
> I always thought Huxley's book completely failed as a critique

Dystopian fiction is a intended as a warning sign of a particular dangerous potebtiay failure mode of existing/developing societal elements, not an analytical critique weighing alternate potential outcomes of the same elements.

So, yeah, it fails at being what it very much is not intended as; no surprise there.

> It's also full of conservative moral panic, for example the sexual freedom and alternative experiences through synthetic drugs never get a serious treatment as potentially positive.

Its illustrating a failure mode, noy trying to map the entire potential result space. Exploring how the same components could succeed is...very much not the point.

> Why not celebrate the fact that you can create children synthetically and women are freed from reproductive obligations?

Because the point isn't “How this could work out well”. That's not the goal.
I can see the adoption of AWS and related services potentially making Amazon so indispensable to the world's governments and banks that its failure might result in disaster, but I don't think any of Facebook's services qualifies.

Unless you're referring to general financial consequences that the failure of any successful company might bring, but that doesn't really make it "too big to fail".
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Those look great! And thanks for introducing me to the Tufte-book style, I’ve always really appreciated The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and this style seems like a good one to shoot for.
I'm on the outside looking in, (and this might be an unpopular opinion in this crowd) but that's the reputation of tech in Silicon Valley, no?

The mentality is often "we'll be too small to prosecute until we're too big". That's how you end up with these seemingly superlegal entities like Uber, Google, hell even Crunchyroll.

Theranos was the peak example of how tech companies are encouraged to misrepresent fact to both users and investors to ensure engagement and investment.
This sounds like straight-up fraud to me. They promised one thing, and now, after an outage that was their own fault, they are intentionally warping and devaluing the nature of the advertising product they sold to customers, so that instead of Facebook deservedly absorbing that loss, customers will absorb it, instead.
I like where the author is coming from, but maybe having started with the actual physics and/or equation and then explaining what those terms mean in a naive way would have much more impact. Giving an intuitive explanation of a physical term can be a great service to anyone learning a subject.

Starting instead with "here's how I imagine diffusion" from scratch reads like an introduction to homeopathy: "why, you have a bloated belly that feels hard, then you need to drink a (properly diluted) solution of some hard substance, say granite".
When she shuts the blinds and calls the cops.
I forget where I read it but Brian Kernighan said, at some point, the lack of namespaces in original Awk was probably the biggest mistake that prevented bigger adoption in large projects. Now that we have it, I'm hoping to see a brilliant IDE surface in the near future.
Glenn Greenwald wrote an article arguing that yes, it is a power grab.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-...
I read it. It doesn't offer any proof, nor it is a good example at all.
Many forget the fact that the distributed operating system of the cloud has been written in Go. As much as I love C, I know its limitations and I hope it will be replaced by Zig some day, or by a simple language akin to the philosophy of Niklaus Wirth, Robin Milner, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and Leslie Lamport. Even Java and TypeScript are getting too big for my taste and they have been my main languages for the past 3 years.
A vicious combination of many 'media' sources actually sucking, and a concerted political effort to push that narrative. No wonder people are confused.
Having spent 3 years working on the tech side for a large newspaper, I can assure you that this is a purely sensationalized mindset that really has no basis in reality. It's like wondering aloud if all hackers wear black hoods and Guy Fawkes masks and still live in their parents' basement, it's silly.

Seriously, please spend some time actually researching and trying to understand the nuances of that industry before throwing around accusations that they play off people's voyeurism. I'm not saying that it's perfect, but it amazes how many otherwise-intelligent people make completely ignorant, emotionally-driven comments like this.
Facebook has the money to hire lobbyists. Any bill passed through Congress with Facebook as its target will (amazingly, surprisingly) serve mostly to entrench and enrich it. Whatever limitations are included will be miraculously avoided by Facebook and will completely destroy any nascent competitors.

No I don't know how they'll do it. Lobbyists must be craftier than the average citizen, because although their actions have the same results every time it's always seen as a surprise when e.g. a new Federal Communications Act eventually transfers billions of dollars to Ma Bell's two daughters.

The only way such a bill could actually fulfill its stated aim would be if someone whose interests were diametrically opposed to Facebook's commercial success spent more money on lobbyists than Facebook could. That simply isn't going to happen.
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Firefox gets $500M/yr for making Google it’s default browser. If each user pays $50/yr that’s 10M users just to match what FF considers inadequate revenue.
Is this really an issue for low- to middle-income earners, or is that just a scare tactic?
My go-to mustard is Nance's Sharp & Creamy. It's not the perfect mustard for everything, but it pairs well with everything! Has enough "sharp" to make it interesting, but not so much that it's obnoxious and detracts from what it's supposed to be complementing. Love it!
If I understood correctly, this kind of database already exists at https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
Instagram has much lower latency requirements…
Hacking ZX Spectrum Games Like It's 1989
I do hear a lot of nostalgia for "the old internet".
I think 10x is a touch hyperbolic, but I agree otherwise. Much like FB, you can avoid the outrage porn by mercilessly unfollowing political accounts. Unlike FB, Twitter has an option to order things chronologically instead of by how outrageous they are.
If you say 60 million is absolutely nothing, then it is also clear that no ethics whatsoever will survive unsupervised in that kind of climate. No matter how good intentions initially were.
> This will help us understand how these prompts are worded and could help us identify apps that are using your location in ways the app developer does not disclose.

They are specifically interested in how the location request is worded for each app, and maybe at what point during usage it asks. I think on Android the prompt is always the same, but apparently on iPhones they can add a short explanation.
One of Douglas Adams' lesser-known but still hilarious works: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/douglas-adams/the-meani...
> read the paper, watch TV, and become increasingly embittered

I think you found the cause. Corporate media.
It was really hard to quit for me for sure. Near the end I kept telling my friends it feels like posting to FB is just slapping the feeder button in a rat cage, or that I feel like I'm suffering for outrage burnout. I quit just before the lead up to the 2016 election because my feed was becoming a warzone and it was really upsetting. I didn't like seeing family who I loved turning into raging assholes. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made but in some ways it was almost like when I was trying to quit smoking. I'd go away for a week and come back, tell myself I quit again and come back again in one to two week cycles. The only thing that got me to finally leave was backing up all my account assets and actually deleting it. I've never looked back. I feel like I made the right choice especially seeing things like /r/hermancainaward and seeing how polarizing the effects of social media are still accelerating discourse. I think the worse thing is seeing dialogue by meme becoming the most prevalent method of sharing ideas. Taking a complex idea shaving it down to 5 to 10 words with funny image in the background is not the way to have an argument, changes no minds, and seems to have hypnotized entire demographics into ideological mania.
Because HackerNews is not real life and FB isn’t nearly as evil as reading HN would imply.
I am not :/
That management pool isn’t going anywhere. Have a bunch of friends who work at FB, mostly immigrants. They don’t care about the reputation, or don’t have the luxury to. No one confronts them about why they work there at dinner parties. It pays the bills very well and allows them to buy nice houses and send their kids to private school.

It’s the lack of work/life balance that gets to them, not the reputation of the employer.
The New Kaleidoscope
Same here, mostly doing math stuff on x86.

There was a recent thread [1] optimizing some very primitive trig functions.

I recently watched a djb interview where he talked about the importance of fully utilizing available hardware [2 at 5:15]. That can be a good starting point, although at work its usually easier to just consume more resources than to use what you've got more efficiently.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28209097

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1svxNxG6hHc
I do think the idea of redemptive suffering unfortunately permeates (at least) American society too much. If someone else wants to suffer that's OK, but I feel like it's baked into every day life too much and suffering just for suffering's sake is confused with being moral or working hard. I guess that's expected from a country founded by puritans though!
The rural K-8 elementary school I attended had a lab full of Mac LCIIs up through early 2000, and chose to buy a bunch of Zip drives and use them as external dedicated storage upgrades. I don’t think I ever saw anybody use them for data transfer, just storing stuff like Mario Teaches Typing and DinoPark Tycoon. Us kids were specifically instructed to never try to eject the Zip disks.

Right after I graduated, they found the budget to upgrade to blueberry iMacs. The superintendent/principal was also the only person I ever saw using a G4 Cube in the wild; that Apple salesperson must have done a hell of a job. One of the office secretaries had one of the education-market-only beige all-in-one Power Mac G3s too.

I believe sometime in the mid-2000s, they moved on to a contract with Dell like everybody else. I guess the iPad era has seen Apple regain some education market share, but they used to absolutely dominate schools.
I use Sunsama for this already and have used Timepage (iOS app) in the past. Neither are free, but both have polish and extra features that imo make them worth what you do pay.
What you don’t know about how advertising changes you
I don’t necessarily think this is a de facto terrible thing.

Healthy skepticism towards having a few large corporations be the source of truth about the world is necessary to prevent manipulation and coercion of the public by a few wealthy individuals.

The unfortunate part comes when that skepticism clouds the ability to discern whether or not one is contradicting fundamental physical properties of the world. . . Not to say that those aren’t entirely up for debate either.
To be honest, I think the biggest issue with news media are the click-bait and flashy headlines/animations all over. CNN loves Breaking News on everything.

One of my favorite news source is PBS NewsHour. Most boring, non-sensational broadcast there is and yet, they fill it up with sold content and reporting. Also, no advertising.
Most low to middle income earners struggle to hit their 5k or so maximum of a regular IRA versus operate a self-directed or have the additional funds to make it worth it.
The internet has decimated most newspaper revenue in the USA and has seen massive newsroom closures over the past decade. Only large entities like the NYT and WaPo etc really have the pockets to do expensive in depth reporting. Also trust is low because one political party in the USA has made it it's mantra for decades now to deride any news that is critical of it as "fake news" and a "liberal bias", so that doesn't help the situation.
Using Customer Success Philosophies to Disconnect
> Or just stop buying Apple devices

As an app developer, this isn't a choice I get to make. I myself have used Android ever since modern smartphones became a widespread phenomenon.
Then download your data

I always do download + delete
A good approach for people who wants to start their career as a writer. I definitely recommend to put FAQ section, this will definitely help people understand and learn more about the website.
Just turn off javascript for https://www.economist.com
Because the channels to spread it are what can be regulated, when we can't silence people directly.
Police influencers pushing a controversial anti-fraud app go viral in China
No, I think as soon as a project has two people who care about it and will reliably review, it should be turned on as mandatory.

But there will always be a way for one of these two to go around the process, if they really want to. Otherwise you have to plan for what happens if anybody becomes unavailable.

But it's clearly not "the only thing that works". E.g. AFAIK OpenBSD still just gives core team the commit bit, and don't work on a "prevent" basis for enforcement.

And if not OpenBSD anymore, then this has at least been the default model of CVS for over 30 years. It clearly does, in fact, work just fine.

Now, enforced code review is better.

So I agree with all you said in this comment. But it's not as simple as what you said before.

But short of SOX-compliant stuff and very strict environments, there will always be people with "god" powers. As I understand it the PR author here could have turned off code review, merged, and turned it back on. And with the attitude she showed in the comment saying "yeah thanks this is my project so I do what I want", clearly "doing the right thing" was not on the radar. It didn't serve to remind her, because she knew. She acted as if "above the law" deliberately.

So in almost all cases yes. In this case no.
Gitlab user profiles have just become more personal
In my country fuel stations are very popular as (apart from train stations) this is the only place where the shops are allowed to stay open after regular business hours and sundays.
It is important to note that wikpedia articles is limited to what exist in sources, and if the sources don't consider alternative perspectives than the article can't do it. The article do link to Salaryman, and from there Karoshi, which is one observed effect when people has lost their jobs, which in turn is not identical to retirement but has common aspects to it. Both Karoshi and Retired Husband Syndrome are defined as psychosomatic stress-related illness caused by the model breadwinner. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi)

It might be worth linking the two together at the bottom of the Retired Husband Syndrome article.
Per Asian's traditional culture it's on the conservative side(hard working to earn your life, minimal welfare/food-stamp, family value, education first, law and order,etc), so yeah for the most part they're republican in heart.

As minorities many of them(including Andrew Yang) chose to stand with other minorities fought for 'social justice / equity everything'(welcome to the liberal democratic party!), which for the most part, it means the opposite of their culture and core value.

It's hard to imagine hard-working mindset can get along with welfare/equity thoughts for too long.

Thus the 3rd party, as he can't really fit into each side.