skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All I am saying is that replacing a simple and well tested system with a complex and barely evaluated system is bad for security.

1) Nobody is replacing MMS with WhatApp for you, you are free to use whatever alternative fits your needs best.

2) A system which almost nobody used because it was expensive to use in the beginning, insecure by today's standards, and doesn't serve the present day needs of consumers making it severely outdated, which is why phone users migrated in droves to alternatives like WhatsApp many years ago.

If carriers and the 3GPP consortium wanted to keep MMS relevant, then they should have updated it to support encryption and higher definition multi-media, and carriers shouldn't have charged through the nose for the service, but the SW industry disrupted the telecom industry with much higher quality messaging apps that were also free, which deprecated carriers to be just dumb data pipes and made SMS/MMS mostly obsolete.

>And for the record, ALMOST ALL recent high profile hacks were related to WhatsApp.

That's needlessly exaggerating without posting any sources for such grave claims. Which "recent high profile whatsapp hacks"?
"immigrants who lost their native language also lost knowledge they learned before they emigrated"

I think that talks a lot about the quality of the study. I'd like to see how they exactly came to that conclusion.
Wow I didn't even know GA aircraft had it! I've never seen it on a Single engine piston one (which is all I've flown).
>there is no lack of ways to find out about new products that I enjoy. //

Man, when I'm trying to find products I can never find what I want because the websites - Amazon, urgh - don't expose the characteristics I want to search on.

Companies (with few exceptions) don't care if you want it, they care if you buy it. Often it seems things are made opaque on purpose.

Example, I was buying a house phone (aside: I imagine it's the last time I'll ever do that) and know I need answerphone, but with self-recorded message and with call monitoring.

Even BT, a phone maker and phone service provider only expose search at the level of "answerphone". Useless.

I had to download the manuals and read the usage instructions. And of course the sellers don't provide the manuals (in general, I mean BT didn't have the manuals for the lower priced BT phones, crazy).

Ebay are pretty good, not perfect.

Other example, buying graphics cards, you can't search for "8gb graphics card" on a bunch of sites, you gave to choose AMD or Nvidia cards first.

Then you get the search results and the most expensive cards are above your top-price and they're ordered by "recommended", argh.
It’s just wrong as stated, there is only one point a full diameter away from each point on a high dimensional sphere. Aka (1,0,0,0,0, …) maps to (-1,0,0,0,0, …) and nothing else. Just as (1,0) maps to (-1,0) on a unit circle and (1,0,0) maps to (-1,0,0) on a unit sphere.

On a high dimensional sphere they should generally be close to square root of 2 radius away from each other.
> I'm asking if the way a desire comes to be makes the desire good or bad, independently of whether the desire itself is good for you.

Yes, I think. For example, if I develop a desire because someone lies to me or manipulates me, then the formation of the desire itself is bad (and potentially corrupting since believing lies or being subject to manipulation can lead to further cognitive problems).

As you say desires can push you towards both good and bad things. But we value not only those good or bad things, we also value autonomy and good habits of mind. So in various ways, ill-formed desires can be bad for us.

If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might find Vices of the Mind by Quassim Cassam interesting. It's more about belief than desire, but I think that the issues are closely related.

https://newbooksnetwork.com/quassim-cassam-vices-of-the-mind...
Even though he is a founder, he kind of gave up part of his right of not having to justify anything on the day the company went public. And not by that much for that matter, as he seems to have a disproportionate voting right compared to other shareholders, and can still do pretty much what he pleases even after stepping down as a CEO. There is an option to be completely free from Wall Street's vagaries, and it's called not going public. Once you have taken in investors money, it seems fair to me to have to be accountable to them. The anomaly seems to me to be the other way round here, that people who put their money into the company and undeniably contributed to the company getting to where it is now have pretty much no say on how it should be managed. This lack of accountability might be one of the reasons why poor decision making went on unchecked and led to the current situation.
That's odd. I drove from Manchester into the Lake District, and across to Northumberland, and didn't find the speed limits or active speeds especially higher than interstates in the US (observed speeds 75ish).
This is a mess of a post.
Yeah I was just using it as an example.
Why did I change my mind about advertising?

"[M]y slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue."

In other words, we can take Upton Sinclair's familiar witticism:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

... and add a corollary:

Even if he had once understood it prior to that salary.
Could something like this enable SSI distributed computing entirely in user space? Is it practical to run some sort of distributed shared memory, relying on user-managed page faults to ensure coherence?
No embellishment here. Today is 879 days in a row and I've tracked them all in an app I wrote.

The last 6 months, minus a week has been with 25 of them in burpee form.

I break them up throughout the day, it's not a lot of exercise at all. It feels like the bare minimum to stay in overall functional fitness shape. It's nice to have the strength to do whatever I'd like to do on tap anytime.

9 ultramarathons in a year may have been over-training however. (Towards the end it was getting to be one every other weekend just for kicks.)
The fragmentation is acceptable since the alternative for non-US citizens is to be treated as "free game"?
i am not a buisness traveller. But I would def do a spin class at the airport if they had lockers and showers.
I wasn’t aware of this. Thank you for letting me know!

Does anyone have a source which is not bogus? Or is the “inflation numbers are rigged” premise just bogus?
How so? How does using similar notation than what was/is used in Indian/Arabic cultures make you affiliated with any notion of morals that coincided in those areas? Are you, using numerals, just a Muslim in disguise? Or a Hindu?

I don't see that connection whatsoever. If anything, Western culture, morality, and customs (such as Christmas or Easter) predate Christianity by hundreds or thousands of years.
What driver? It's self driving. Companies putting machines on the road that murder innocent children will surely be held liable.
I'm fairly sure that almost none of the "parmesan" cheese you can buy in a US grocery store is actually parmesan. I'd have to look it up, but I think the stuff that comes in a plastic shaker is mostly "filler" of some kind.

If you want actual parmesan cheese in the US, you're probably looking for "Parmigiano Reggiano".
> On average, it's manipulation, brainwashing and commodification of well told lies.

> Because advertising is manufactured demand.

> This business model really needs to stop.

Understandable advertising is a controversial topic, and change needs to happen, but this is just ridiculous. True the “consumer culture” does need to shift for environmental reasons.
But your argument is that effectively there should be “no unnesisery spend ever”. So that’s an end of:

- coffee shops, cafes, restaurants, for pleasure.

- all entertainment, no tvs, film, theatre.

- all travel for pleasure, no tourism.

How is buying a few unnecessary nick nacks online worse than the global travel industry?

Obviously that’s all completely mad, but so is your argument.

Frankly HN is completely bizarre at times. For a community focussed on entrepreneurship when it comes to advertising it’s become so incredibly negative, practically toxic.

I imagine the vast majority of people on here would be out of a job (directly or indirectly) without advertising.
A lot of the complexity of the set up comes from the fact we want all the advanced features possible yet the tooling aren’t ready, so developer has to step in and assist in that process. I mentally think of setting up a react project as the equivalent of booting up a linux computer and run a python hello world. If you think about how hard it is to boot up a operating system just to display hello world, maybe the typical set up elsewhere isn’t that bad?
If you set it as the default browser, well-behaving apps that use Chrome Custom Tabs will use firefox in these situations.
Care to elaborate?

Are pills being sold by pretty ads that are required to tell people about risks AND required not to tell about what the pill is for?

AND those ads WORK?

Wow
Ah ok I misread your comment as implying the CDN ToS doesn't apply to Tunnel. It doesn't if you aren't using it (ie SSH), in which case only the Tunnel ToS applies, but otherwise both apply.
"If only everyone" is a version of the Prisoner's Dilemma. I don't think we've got that one figured out yet.

Besides, if your working style overly focuses on proper engineering while other things are on fire, the company could die.
A very, very expensive to own minivan.

They're lovely, and it's the only V8 I ever really wanted (that sound!), but it was a fairly brief moment for Porsche and not terribly many were made vs. the other two engine platforms of the era: the 911, obviously, and the series of front-engine 4-cylinder cars (924/944/968).
Ad-blockers and JS-blockers are essentially technical solutions; but you have to know to install them. If they were integrated into browsers (and defaulted to "on"), that would make privacy less of a technical matter.
Looking at the newer models, it is pretty neat they can run Python. Some of my earliest programming experiences were playing with TI basic on my TI84 while bored in class so it is nice to see them stay relevant in that regard for today's students.
Banksy sure has thin skin.

This is just another version of people thinking that because something is offensive it should be banned.

Practically speaking what would banning advertising look like? Who gets to decide what is a "worthwhile" product. Sure banning smoking adverts most people agree on as it gives you cancer, maybe alcohol too. But saying if I invent something I'm not allowed to advertise anywhere because someone has decided they want the world to look at certain way, no thanks.
That exact allegation, that an offer was rescinded, is the subject of a lawsuit mentioned prominently in the article.
This is wrong; tests and type systems have different purposes. One helps prevent logical bugs and regressions in your code, while the other enforces the correct use of code and data structures. They overlap a bit, but all the unit tests in the world can’t give you the guarantees that a type system does. And that’s without even mentioning the benefits to discoverability and documentation that a static type system gives you.
Well, his employer should've increased his salary accordingly. Frankly, I don't think that's an example of the guy "being a jerk".
Its always amusing watching people "discover" things that already existed.
> You obviously don't just pay with attention.

Nobody ever pays with attention. This is a total nonsense idea created by the advertisers to justify their own existence and guilt people who don't accept their noise. It's an attempt to frame us as thiefs and just as dishonest as the copyright industry comparing infringement to high seas piracy.

Payment is when we exchange money for something else. It's a transaction: can't have one without the other. Advertising is when the company sends us stuff for free while hoping that we'll see the noise they bundled alongside it. Absolutely nothing stops us from just filtering that noise. They were hoping to inject some brands into our minds but their attempt failed. Too bad, they need to suck it up and stop whining. Nowhere is it written that we must bend over backwards to make that happen. They don't get to complain about it because nobody owes them a single thing.
This book was a big help for me and is very well written, https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/ . You can find it free online ( along with video course ). The printed version is a very nice high quality book.
I got 2.75 on mine, which is ridiculously low. My parents paid something like 11-12% on their first house.
There is zero overlap between your comment and the quote you provide, so I wouldn't even know where to start fixing your comment.
Yes, and NSA can read all communications anyway. This whole thing is a political issue not a technical one.
The advertising in the 80’s and 90’s often also served as a kind of catalogue because there was no other way to find things except word of mouth. That’s a solved problem with the modern internet, if you want to find a type of game, find a good community or similar to the magazines of before, follow a YouTuber or Twitter or whatever you like.
Ironically, uBO author recommends AGAIST what you listed. See the parent link.
Then block the website. It's not my responsibility to bring my website into compliance with the laws of all 200 countries in the world and the laws of the jurisdictions within them. Because of VPNs, it's impossible to tell which users belong to which countries (and even without it, geo IP isn't that reliable).

> e.g at first more than a few American websites simply blocked all EU traffic after GDPR was approved

Those websites have parent companies who have an economic presence in the EU.
Aspects of it, absolutely. It's not even a secret, I'm not talking about some secret conspiracy. Social structures are largely a game of incentives, and the government agencies have a pretty powerful toolkit as far as incentives go.

Here's an example, it is openly stated that the government maintains an inflation rate to discourage saving and encourage spending to stimulate the economy. This is a deliberate attempt to influence the culture of the US, and it works. We have a consumer culture where everyone buys services and cheap stuff and nobody saves money, the stated goal of these fiscal policies.
Minimal effort is use Cloudflare Tunnel (it supports more than SSH, including HTTPS). For self-hosted alternatives check the list linked in OP.
Sure ... but it shapes with your circle of friends. Pick any two of the three, and you will reach virtually anyone. And pure luddites? Well, they don't have smartphones, usually.
As a developer that works in many different languages, frameworks, and libraries, I care fuck all about trying to memorize exact syntax and function names between so many different systems anymore.

From my perspective, the least illuminating interviews try and focus on language gotchas and memorization. In the real world, you have syntax highlighting and Google and Stackoverflow to lookup function names and minor syntax differences between many different technologies.

For me, the most illuminating types of interviews are conversations that focus on a smart approach to problem solving. You give somebody a general technical problem and a smart candidate would ask some intelligent clarifying questions about why it needs to be built, its usage, security, performance, costs, design and user-experience, etc. Then they give you a higher-level overview of what's involved in actually building it, testing it, and maintaining. The point isn't that they give you an exact answer that you were looking for, it's that they understand the right approach to creating systems.
Tech debt is a thought terminating cliche. Progress is possible more easily if we talk in a Markov fashion: under present circumstances, to get X, we need to do Y.

The fact that some other Z lead to debt T is pointless CYA discussion. One can reasonably ask if a team is well performing if it frequently finds the need to redesign, but that’s a team ability meta discussion not an execution decision.

Execution is just “we’re here; we want to be there with a hope of being this other place in future; how do we get there”
The work on exploiting prototype pollution was excellent https://blog.s1r1us.ninja/research/PP

I didn’t know about the --disable-proto option in node or the Document Policy proposal for dealing with it.

Amazing that 80% of nested query parameter parsers were susceptible to prototype pollution.
I don't have one, but don't iPhones typically work longer than many Android phones?

I do have an iMac that's at least a decade old. I should install Linux since the OS isn't supported anymore, but it seems like it's had a good run.
The solution to this is to get your government to get its shit together on privacy. This is just a defensive act by the Europeans and to blame it on them is victim blaming.
Seems obvious in isolation like that, but the employer probably wouldn’t know you skipped past the recruiter. All they would know is that you came to them direct, and direct hires are a lot cheaper
> The counter to this is inflation is painful to people living on savings or fixed incomes.

The last generation that generally saw the ability to do any of this are the Baby Boomers, and they're a generation that is half-dying and half-broke. Once the Xers with no savings and no pensions start losing the ability to work, the calculus changes. They're 45-60 years old now.

The material view of people who are living on savings and fixed incomes is the people who are wealthy enough not to have to work. That category will soon be dwarfed by the people who need universal health care to stay alive and the people who depend on inadequate social security payments.
> I haven't ever seen any premium subscription that shows anyone values advertising.

So you haven't touched industrial magazines. Explains everything.

Pre-internet, the way that you can actually get information in a field is to have a publisher collect advertisements from related companies and send it to you. That's beyond "hate", it's the opposite: you are interested in any offerings but are not sure of who will you go to.
"People can say anything they like to me or about me. What they cannot do is vandalise my property, take my property or assault me."

So can "they" openly say, that they think, you deserve to be robbed and assaulted? And for the sake of it, let "them" be a famous antifa influencer, so you can expect that other people do as their influencer told them is the right thing?

I don't think so. This is the line I mean, which is not at all clear.

"The communists killed and imprisoned a huge number of people."

You claimed they killed more than the nazis. Which is a claim, I heard before quite often, but usually without proper sources.

But you do not have to tell me about pol pot, gulags and co. I am certainly no fan of them either. And like I said, I am not in favor of banning swastikas. Not so much, because some poor nazis are then not free to express their ideology, but because the symbol is way older and was not invented by the nazis, just missused. So I agree, that by the same logic, you would have to ban the hammer and the christian cross with it. Still, the death chambers and the holocaust was very unique in its quantity and quality, so I cannot really stand nazis whining about oppression. I live in a hotspot of them.I know they do it a lot. I also know, they are the first, to supress anything they do not like, if they are in a position of power.
> If you the idea is crap and it proved that it's crap by leading to genocide why would we award it any protection?

Lots of communists say that the Soviet Union wasn't "real communism". Yet I never hear the same outcry against that.

I am not saying it should be "protected". I am saying that individual liberties should be protected and one of the most important (after private property rights) is the freedom to speak you mind.

> Do tou think next time around, it will lead to something beneficial to mankind?

No.

> It did not lead to genocide. The first time it does I hope it's banned to hell.

When people questioned the idea that the Earth was the centre of the universe people were punished for such ideas. So that has kind of already happened.
And it is funded through paid placement for job ads for YC companies.
> everyone caves to the types.

In a way, but static languages have also heavily invested in ergonomics. Type inference is the best example I think. On the other hand, there are also other stuff like immutability that's getting popular in both languages. It seems like 10 years before you had to choose between developing software fast and developing reliable software, these days it's easier to have both.
I don't really understand where the difference is that you're seeing.

Google bans categories of ads, and bans advertisers that it views as bad actors, the same way it does with search. It also uses an algorithm to figure out what ads to show you, the same way it does with search results. It uses a lot of the same data (location, history, preferences, etc) to make those decisions.

The only difference I can see is that advertisers pay money to influence that algorithm (ie, a company willing to pay more money will win an auction against a company that has less money). Is that what you're referring to as the thing that makes it more free and less opinionated?
How to start using reusable workflows with GitHub Actions
Why does every cereal commercial have to begin with some kind of industrial accident?
Oh, nice! No, Ada doesn't seem ever to have achieved the same mainstream adoption, or at least awareness, that Rust has. Which is startling to me, because it's comparable to Rust in performance while being far far greater in safety, including inbuilt support for design-by-contract (honestly I feel like I'm shouting at a brick wall trying to get people to understand the benefits of DbC; Rust's type system is only a first-order approximation).

I agree that the problem seems to be that most 'practical programmers' don't understand the benefits of PL-research-y features, until they're forced to use it and then suddenly it takes off (cf the growth of ADTs or dependent typing after TypeScript introduced people to them).

The other problem is the perennial 'trendyism' in programming, which I hate. People won't investigate interesting languages from the 80s with unusual features; only once something's added to the JS framework du jour does it achieve wide adoption.
> Did you go to eat at Taco Bell because of the ad?

Yes, I don't go there usually. I might have eventually seen it but probably missed out on various short-lived items.

The other taco places I only get to go to on a road trip since I live on the east coast. I can't be sure how I found them at first but it was either conventional ads or those standardized freeway exit food signs, which certainly also count as an advertisement.
People loving their children is a cultural universal. Human sacrifice is a relatively rare cause of death. The probabilities seem in favor of the ordinary explanation rather than the extraordinary.
Learning the language isn’t the issue, learning the language well enough to pass a test when classes cost nearly €2k a pop is the issue.