skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed it isn't trivial but neither is it impossible. Also agree that Amazon is probably the easiest to prep for once you understand the behavioral aspect.
Because they are pivoting to being an ad company like Google.
>Do people not care about accuracy?

Evidently not. When was the last time a mainstream news organization got heat from its own viewer base because of inaccurate reporting? I mean, it's fun to dunk on fox news because you think they're obviously spewing lies or whatever, but that doesn't really matter unless their viewership actually cares. Meanwhile outrage drives clicks, so journalists are strongly incentivized to stretch the truth.
This is an oversimplification and, as written, is not quite right. It doesn't matter whether the company is acquired outright or floated on a stock market. If the company has a well-structured employee options scheme, then either of those events should be classed as an 'exit' event and the employees' options should be automatically exercised and sold, giving them the net gain in cash on that day.

As for preference shares, most VCs try to get that. They can be negotiated away by the company management sometimes. If they remain, they come into play in situations where the company isn't successful - where the shares are sold at a lower value than they were bought for. The preference gives the VCs to get their money out first, and leave the scraps for the others. Usually the others includes the founders who are similarly shafted - but then again they evidently didn't build the value of their company very successfully and they signed the deals.
I'm a physical science researcher on coastal processes, with particular interests in using ML to solve inversion and flow problems that cannot be sufficiently modeled with linear algorithms.

I honestly can't remember how I found hackernews.
"the EULA is the only thing that authorizes you to use the software to begin with"

Can you override a law with a EULA?
He's right about where it comes from. Whether the claims check out is a separate question.
> I‘m guessing big apps like Maps and Youtube will become a lot nicer while the small ones will be mediocre Flutter versions

Flutter will undoubtedly adopt (and benefit from) this new UIKit-based Material Design implementation too.
"Tech" is a rather meaningless term. In any case, Tesla is much more like GM or Ford than like Google or Microsoft: They are a car company with a business that's very hard to scale. Zero chance that they become a monopoly in their space. Autonomous cars are a pipe dream and Tesla's stock price is extremely inflated because Musk has successfully convinced investors that Tesla is a tech company in the sense of GAFAM. Therefore, Teslas "move" doesn't mean a lot to California's "tech grip"
Brilliant!

It is both completely magical and also obvious in retrospect how reducing DNA to its first two principal components yields essentially latitude and longitude.

Also very cool that of course it goes in both directions. With the components computed, you can reconstruct original samples skewed in meaningful ways. Like, you can take an individual person's DNA and see how would it be different if their family had lived 500km to the east.
Ditto in Poland. Also, it’s legal to use decompilation or even cracks to make and use backup copies of the software you purchased legally.
In one documentary they said that the contraceptive pill is poisoning the water with “female” hormones. Hundreds of millions of women take it every day and the hormones end up in the drinking water.

Women are not affected, but men get “womenized”.
come on. i use an old dell latitude e7440 which i run kde neon on. takes 15 minutes to get installed and i can get surfing in 16. No nonsense, no nothing.
i assume newer devices would be better but "time consuming to set up" is something i have not seen in the last 3-5 years of my using 100% exclusively linux devices.
One way is to look up the configuration examples for redirecting based on referrers specific to the web server or load balancer you are using. i.e. nginx, apache, haproxy, etc.. Another way is to do this in whatever scripting language your blog may be using. I prefer doing this in the server as I don't have to fork the php scripts.

What web server daemon are you using?
> Just imagine the politician of your nightmares being in control of the regulations.

Exactly this! Every time I see someone proposing some new expansion of government reach and power, it seems to be considered only from the angle of “just think of what the (people I think of as the) good guys could do with this increased authority!”

“Yeah, but what could the bad guys do with this increased authority? Because as sure as the sun rises in the East, whoever you think of as the bad guys will eventually come to power and have this authority…”
Communicators. (Writers, marketers, teachers, ...)
I'll second that. Saw some early PC and even wrote a basic Basic program in, must have been math class in the gymnasium (~"high school", class 10-12), but really started using computers at university in 1985 -- first a minicomputer with TTY (and even some printing!) terminals in 1985, then PCs a year or so later. First with a colourful menu system (Press 1 for DisplayWriter, 2 for MINITAB, etc) [1], then Windows 3 a year or so after that.

My son, recently of age, has no fucking idea about anything beneath the GUI. OTOH, my somewhat older stepson is a games and recently "full stack" -- which has something to do with tis newfangled Web thingy, I think -- programmer. (OTGH, fuck knows what he knows of anything beneath Unity and React...)

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[1]: That is, press a number and then [Enter]. This, I later (after some rudimentary hints on DOS from a classmate) found out, called the batch files 1.BAT, 2.BAT, etc, which in turn set up whatever needed to be set up and then started the respective application.
A VPN will get you a few research papers, and some insight into the world outside, but it won't change common attitudes within the country, which will be shaped by a controlled information system.

Having a 'hole' in the information firewall can be useful for some things, but it's still a marginal effect.

Most of the population won't have any use for it - they'll have no reason to question what's in the mainstream.

When Xi bans any negative mention of him, or any mention at all of taboos subjects i.e. Tiananmen, or any material discussion at all of sensitive issues like Taiwan, Uyghurs or Tibet, Hong Kong, anywhere, at any time - then he'll effectively convince the general population of his will on the subject.

The population will ,by and large, believe what he wants them to believe, most people wouldn't consider dissent on the issue because there would be no point.

There are some people within every population that will chose to 'look outside' and 'seek unpopular truths' - but the mainstream population will take care of suppressing them.

Xi could do anything he wants to the Uyghurs, he could subsequently justify it in the press irrespective of how truthful that information was, and the general public would be fine with it. The small number of dissenters would have no means to disagree.

When you combine information control with the fact that there's a lack of any right to organize or assemble, then you have total control. FYI - this is why 'freedom of assembly' is a primary right in all modern constitutions, it's mostly a means of organizing around information.

Finally, it would be incredibly naive to not grasp the implications of this regulatory movement which further entrenches total government control of information, without any oversight whatsoever.
I used that a few years ago and liked it: https://www.lineageos.org/
Good password hash algorithms specifically are designed to take a while. They add latency to the subsequent page load when you click “submit”.
Like cigarettes? I have no sense of whether FB is physically addictive like smoking.

But, if a company directly contributes to decline in civil discourse and harms democracy, and thereby harms the users, then isn't it a government role to step in? And isn't this the governments role even if users can't see the harm at the micro-level of their daily interactions with the company? I guess that is the argument at least. Really its a balance between values: individual freedom and the collective good.
All of us are controlled, all the time, by how reality happens to unfold.

With some practice, it’s possible to accept that this is just how the world is, and to no longer be bothered by it.
If Xi did not want power for himself he would not have removed the two-term limit to keep himself in power for life.
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if an EU country, obviously, since this court ruling is just confirming the 1991 EU copyright directive for a specific case.
None of these argue against my point. The first supports my point, the second I already agreed with, and the other two are unrelated.

I have this disconcerting feeling that you're arguing against what you wish I were saying, rather than what I actually said. This website thrives on good faith arguments.
>Something like Joe Rogan's podcast is realistically more mainstream and probably more trusted than most news programs

How can you "trust" a podcast that just interviews everyone and takes them at face value? Do people seriously go "yeah I heard it on joe rogan so I think it's probably true"?
In areas with good Apple Maps coverage, it provides instructions that are more helpful and usable while driving with a simpler interface than Google Maps.

For complex routing and overall features, Google is still far ahead.
In states with a more reasonable water usage?
Antarctica's last 6 months were the coldest on record
But was this a surprise to you? Did you expect to make more money from the sale of the company, and if so, why?
I recently bumped into this Arte documentary about his life. I believe in the first 5 minutes they list his achievements and what he was like as a kid.

I don't think you would have been disappointed :-)

Documentary (with English subtitles )
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RuwnywSpl40

Documentary (in French)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QQui90ZGobo
Solved problem or not, the important thing to realize is that it is a problem with zero marginal cost. That is, we don't make the storage problem harder by continuing.
"the researchers' iPhone transmitted more kinds of data, including device location, the device's local Internet Protocol (IP) address and the Wi-Fi network identifiers — the MAC addresses — of other devices on the local network, including home Wi-Fi routers."
My argument is based on free-market economics. The users/customers seem to not care enough to put their time and money elsewhere.
This isn’t a criticism of your comment, but I have always thought it was funny that devout practitioners of those religions seem to find ways of technically adhering to those rules while at the same time completely flouting the spirit of them. See “Heter Iska and other evasions” here

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

…or “sabbath mode” on many appliances on the market.

The funny part to me is believing in an all-powerful and omnipotent god whom you can nonetheless fool with semantics and shuffling papers.
You're right, I should have merely indicated the leader, not the individual, that's fair.

It's unlikely that anyone really knows what Xi wants. The narrative that 'he just wants what's best for China' plays directly into his potential megalomania, at the same time, I don't doubt that there is some truth to this as well. Nations can benefit from long-lived leaders.

That said, the whole thing does not look good. Actions further suppressing the spread of basic information are not going to be good for China in the long run. And Xi probably is just another kind of dictator, we have a very long run of world history that gives us innumerable examples. One thing he could have done when extending his term limits, was signal when he would leave, and making sure that the 'new rules' are just and equitable with respect to future leaders.
One of the first times I did it, was 15-20 years ago.
I had a digital camera, a Canon IXUS S110, and wanted to have some pictures printed.
There were some sites where you could upload pictures, but they all used som proprietary Windows program, and I had Linux. Except the supermarket chain Føtex which had a website with a Java applet.
But it failed when I tried to use it throwing an exception about a missing directory.

So I downloaded the JAR file, decompiled it with the JAD decompiler and found that they had hardcoded the file separator as backslash. So that was easy to fix. I compiled it, ran the JAR file and uploaded my pictures and picked up the prints a few days later.
Well, they have no hope of getting tenure (that budget is needed for administration), so it's good that PhD have another option where they can avoid doing any real work* ;)

* Giving people whose talent is thinking the chance to do that is a good idea. Better than losing that talent to management.
Postdoc in Materials Science/Physics currently at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. I guess it's tech adjacent, but I did my PhD at Berkeley which exposed me a lot to tech and therefore this site.
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Yes, an EU country, but as far as I can tell, we've already had these provisions since before our accession to the EU in the 2000s.
On the flip side China purchased most Chinese language media in Australia some time back.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-language-newspapers-...
Viruses are easier to ignore. Just look at how the pandemic goes...
But what's the point to produce hydrogen from hydrocarbons? Hydrocarbons are already an energy-dense, stable fuel.

I think that it's solar and wind energy, peaky and unstable as it is, should be used to produce hydrogen. Then it could be used as is, or combined with heavy hydrocarbons to produce much lighter hydrocarbons like methane. Maybe it can be economically used to produce something useful from CO₂, from fuel to plastics.
A better evolution would probably be similar to Spotify royalties.

Create one "donations to non-profit news" bucket, that people could freely contribute to (with tax advantages, like the election fund).

Then apportion that money out to all non-profit news organizations, according to some (readership) + (journalistic awards by their peers) weighting.

It removes the direct connection between donor and output, which is what we seem to want in news.
It's amazing how much misinformation is in this thread. You should do further reading on password hashing and rethink whether you really have to store two different passwords...
Those are people problems, not language problems. You can have a relatively stable, testable toolchain in JS.
I define Marxism broadly as the initial poisoning of the left-leaning mind with the concept of the ubiquitous class struggle. It has mutated into a belief system under which there is always an oppressing class and an oppressed class. It can be the landed gentry (oppressors) vs. the commoners (oppressed), capital (oppressors) vs. labor (oppressed), racial majority (oppressors) vs. racial minority (oppressed). But at its core, it is unable to view the current state of the world, or any subdivision thereof, in terms other than oppressed and oppressor, whether any reasonable person would agree or not. And, as can be seen with all Marxists (operating under there many self-ascribed labels), the only cure is revolution and purification. Of course, for those of us with a passing grasp of recent history, its quite clear that both of those will lead to mass violence and death. See also, the Bolshevik Revolution and its ensuing horrors, Mao's revolutions and their ensuing horrors, the Cuban revolution and its continued mass oppression, the French Revolution and all of its violent insanity, etc. etc.

> And everything is politics

And thus we arrive at Postmodernism. Postmodernism introduces the belief that everything is relative and everything is a construct. There is no base reality, no ground truth–or if there is, we can dismiss it as irrelevant given the all powerful constructs and systems of human life. Thus one can make arguments like, "Everything is always politics" and use such asinine premises as the basis of injecting noxious politics into every facet of our lives. Once again contravening the majority of people's lived experiences and desires.
It's a fact at the macro level. Individual speculators may profit but there's no benefit to the species. They don't even work as currencies because the transaction costs are so high.
Your original characterization of the issue is dismissive and deeply disingenuous.
An example of non-profit news in the US is PBS Newshour and in Canada, The Agenda with Steve Paikin on TVO. Both have broadcast pieces as well as accompanying online articles.
>> This is actually legal under copyright law.

Presumably you meant under US copyright law. This based on my observation that only people referencing that particular jurisdiction would write as though there were only one. It's particularly galling in comments on an article about EU laws.
"If Facebook’s actions really are a problem to most people, then most people would stop using it."

No. Because all your friends are on Facebook. And by buying out all the serious competition (Whats App, Instagram) they have guaranteed a monopolistic position.
Even if you move to another place, if will grow too big, odds are it will end up being acquired by FB.
> If Facebook’s actions really are a problem to most people, then most people would stop using it.

Just like sugary soda, loot crates, cigarettes, and opium then? Companies design products that are bad for people all the time.

> Zuck: they “trust me”

> Zuck: dumb fucks

This was said after his AOL hacking days [1], so he already had a certain predisposition towards "ordinary people".

Given that his history and his present behavior aren't much different, it seems he hasn't changed much. He designs products to extract from people.

[1] https://qf0.github.io/blog/2020/01/28/Mark-Zuckerberg-was-a-...
Because when you threaten users with it, most of them will comply to avoid legal actions, even if they are clearly in the right.

Then add cases where "are clearly in the right" is a lot murkier to decide, and they will comply even more. Hell, the company itself might have had their lawyers figure out the user is in the right but the cost of proving it would be so high they won't succeed.

Then add cases gravitating around massive sanctions if you're wrong, like copyright infringement.

No every day individual is risking insane sanctions if they're wrong, even if they're 99. 9% sure they're right, and the eula allows the company to manipulate them without even committing to a legal action.
It says "Trusted by Microsoft in Office 365", is that to imply that this is used for the main excel component in office 365 or is it perhaps used for things like previews of csv's in outlook or similar?
It would be nice for facebook to charge users like the author who can't help themselves for using facebook. This kind of rhetoric that somehow facebook is controlling our lives is getting annoying when they can simply stop using it.
You have no way to check if this app is sending network requests back 'home'? That doesn't seem correct at all.
The virus is less dangerous for children, so it's not fair to say that schools were opened just so parents could work. Schools were opened, in part, because policy makers know that in person contact poses unequal danger to children and adults.
This is such garbage. You’re not a freedom fighter for not getting a COVID jab, you’re an asshole. This shot has been given to over a billion people and is known safe around the world. Imagine if someone put up this kind of fuss over a polio vaccine for their kids.
One reason why low income tax payers are so commonly audited is due to the earned income tax credit (EITC). It’s a direct cash transfers from the government to low income earners and easily abused.
Thanks, I didn't know I can do that. It's a small blog with only 1 or 2 posts that come up in top results when Googled with somewhat specific words. I don't think it's being targeted. Filtering out these sites should work.
I think you meant straight lines in log scale.
Actually the story is pretty pessimistic about widespread hydrogen use, but says that there are emerging niche use cases:

"Instead, hydrogen can help in niche markets, involving complex chemical processes and high temperatures that are hard to achieve with electricity"

The article title is a little misleading, although as misleading titles go, it's not that bad.
It's not a matter of a programming language skipping a nice country, but of some stupid bigots in a nice country self-owning by skipping a programming language, of their own free will.

Discouraging bigots from joining a programming language community is a good thing for that community.
For one of the early iPhone jailbreaks, I made a patch for libtiff that fixed the bug that the jailbreak exploited. I didn't want to be pwned while browsing the web with my iTouch.

I gave the patch to someone named "pumpkin" on IRC, and it got integrated into the jailbreak. Kinda fun to be part of that, even though I only contributed a few bytes of code. (And I got to learn a little arm assembly.)

It's been a long time, but the tricky part was trying to shoehorn a if / return in there. I remember having to rewrite some existing code in a more efficient way (might have been jump table -> conditionals) to gain an extra couple of bytes.

I've also reversed java class files a few times to patch issues for work, but those usually have source these days. The one I remember, years ago, was a bug in the ftp code that could cause hangs with some servers. Something about sockets being closed in the wrong order.

The rest of my decompiling/disassembly has been for interoperability, trying to figure out stuff like the Notes.app or Numbers.app file formats.
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That box is already open. Respectfully your comment kinda reads like you assume tech is some new untouched frontier unexploited and ripe for the picking. We’re way past that and we must decide as a society how we want to navigate a world of global software services and immense data collection.

Doctorow has always been against government central control of information. I suspect he’s against any overly large centralized information control regime because it has the same practical impact to people’s everyday lives. It’s not weird to see him (or anyone) call for “regulation” when the regulation being asked for pertains to enforcing we as a society retain certain rights with respect to how we interact with our world. That’s the whole point… don’t get distracted on some “govt control vs no control” axis. Nobody is asking the govt to tell you how to run your business, they’re just asking that we make it illegal to abuse users in the way Facebook has by permabanning the developer of a genuinely socially good tool that is obviously not spam for the insane “it automates user interactions” blanket reason. My password manager automates user interactions… GTFO FB.

Also laws aren’t regulation. You can make something illegal without imposing back-pressure on every new venture in the space it pertains to.
Necroware has a lot of 386 mainboard repair videos and such.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCKU5nwSWYXa3xfXGBlKyvdw
Next step: extremely large fines for putting such provision on EULA.