skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that's interesting for end users is full control over the UI. In principle, and in practice with Usenet, reader software can be completely distinct from server software, and everyone can use their own reader set up their own way, and not have to dumbly accept what the server's owners thought was the One Proper UI for their service.

Another, deeper concept is that one group of yahoos can't unilaterally change the rules, because new software has to be compatible with old software. For example, imagine someone wanted to make email which deleted itself after a sender-specified period of time. They'd design the protocol and implement their server and client and then... nobody would care, because there are many email servers and clients, and nobody is compelled to use theirs. The people who really want that functionality would use it, and nobody else would be bothered.
Things to start with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_(Apple)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC_(Palm_OS)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage
I generally agree except re: screentime... I think managed screentime without overbearing expectations from the parents is way better than obsessing over the time spent. I worked with kids for 10+ years pre tech and the kids who had strict "no tv" guidelines were generally _obsessed_ with tv, whereas the kids who had parents with a more relaxed approach were pretty indifferent to tv.. Anecdotes, sure, and some kids had zero tv and were incredible kids, and vice versa... but this is just my observation over many years.
I've found it to be the exact opposite: Mastodon instances are a lot more likely to disconnect from others due to unwelcome content. That's by design, though! Suppose you and I host our own Mastodon servers (aka "instances") as part of a federation of 1,000 instances. I start posting lots of content you and your users dislike (where that could mean anything - porn, pro-Nazi, pro-Antifa, overly conservative, overly liberal - anything). With a checkbox in the web UI, you can start refusing traffic from my server. That would only affect you and your users, and I can still talk to anyone else as usual.

Some of yours users might dislike that a flee for more tolerant pastures. That's fine! Some of my users might dislike that my rules are so loose that my server's getting banned, and they'd flee to more closely moderated servers. That's also fine! In either case, our spat only involves the connection between you and me, but the rest of the network chugs away as always.

Basically, it's the federation model of email but with the functionality of Twitter. That's what makes it different.
Same for me with BART to downtown SF but I also think I'm incredibly lucky to be in the situation where mass transit is the most convenient option.
If we're playing this game, we could go a step further than that and say that roads with little traffic need little maintenance. Roads with more driving will need to maintained on a more regular basis. If someone has data/knowledge that this isn't true, though, please let me know (genuinely, as I can't find any information about this).

Also, for the record, adding lanes doesn't reduce traffic congestion[1]. Not sure if you were saying that. Even if we did "profit" from building more lanes/roads, it's only because we're externalizing other costs (environmental damage, the cost of space/real estate, etc.). I don't think this is a good strategy.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand
Failures in imagination can be deadly for businesses.
Brief description of the issue for non-experts:

Supervised learning

You can judge the output of your network against ground truth. You say that's a cat? Nope, it's a dog! And then slightly adjust your network so it's less likely to give that wrong answer in the future. How exactly you adjust the network is what backpropagation describes (in combination with something called a learning rate).

Unsupervised learning

You need to learn without someone telling you what the answer is. Most of the time for biological intelligence there isn't an oracle describing the truth at every moment of life to judge actions/decisions against. If you don't have someone telling you you've made a mistake, how can you know when to adjust your network? And if you don't know what the truth is, exactly how to adjust the network becomes tricky.

Somehow biological brains work without that oracle, and there are lots of ideas about how it does that. But right now for artificial intelligence none of those ideas has been shown to work so amazingly well that it has taken off like backprop has in the supervised learning world.

Hinton wants to find that amazing algorithm.
There are cases of tooth fillings causing sound/pain in em fields.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3638/is-it-poss...
>a whole coin

As far as I know there's nothing special about 1.0 coin.
Anything remotely technical. Remember, we wouldn't be having this conversation if Equifax wasn't making embarrassing amateur mistakes with everyone's personal data. Their CSO appears incompetent.
A lot of people don't know how to do that, but if you'd like to link to a simple guide then that'd be valuable.

Emphasis on "simple." People put money into Bitcoin because it's simple to understand and to do. The volatility is the tradeoff.
> Is the government subsidizing something run by the government really "subsidization?"

Yes. Having the government do anything with public money is subsidization.

But it often makes sense to do things like that, especially in areas where there is a large up front cost to build something and thereafter the cost per use is negligible.

It makes sense for the government to build subways in cities and then charge zero dollars to riders, because everyone benefits from their existence (even non-riders, like stores whose customers arrive on the subway) and once the construction cost is paid it makes no sense to discourage use of the sunk-cost infrastructure by charging fares. And fare collection is inefficient because a nontrivial proportion of the fares are spent collecting them.

But it also makes sense to do the same thing for roads for the same reasons.

The real question is where and when to subsidize each. It makes no sense to build subways in rural Kansas that no one would ride, or new roads in Manhattan.

When you see traffic congestion, the question is how to most effectively eliminate it. Sometimes that means improving mass transit so less people have to drive. Sometimes it's more cost effective to just add a lane to the road.

Sometimes the underlying problem is that real estate prices are too high causing people to have to commute too far and the only real answer is to build new housing.
You can still buy CDs / DVDs and load them on a PC.

It's possible you could jury-rig something up for a tablet, but it's also clear the intended use is as a networked device.
I use that extension too, but it has severe issues with newsweek, which seems to detect playback failed and retry many times per second forever.
Gab is suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws
I feel like this is somewhat cyclical where thick and thin clients are variously in vogue.
>evidence that making them more remunerative is beneficial to the economy as a whole.

How so? What difference economically does it make whether a male or female fills a position
How many of these people regularly make 3-4 tweets in a row, in which they emit a complete thought?

How much of your Twitter feed is people quote-tweeting the first of many of these, with a comment along the lines of "Thread"?
Yeah, it's really bizarre that YouTube is content to constantly struggle with ad revenue, when most of their top users are making orders of magnitude more money through patreon.

There's precedent too since twitch has had this exact model for years now.
WhatsApp’s first ads appear on Facebook and start convos with businesses
That last link is a gem -- here's a great quote from it;

"Gross income is all accessions to wealth, clearly realized, over which the taxpayer has dominion unless excluded by statute, or by the IRS's never having attempted to tax them, or by the IRS's having announced an administratively created exclusion pursuant to no specific authority whatsoever."

The paper explains the historical definition of income as meaning, "the realized product of labor or capital." That definition was challenged before the Supreme Court back in 1955 Glenshaw Glass when the IRS claimed punitive damages were taxable as income. Before Glenshaw, punitive damages were considered a windfall, and as neither a product of labor or capital, not income and therefore not taxable.

Some specific examples of accessions to wealth, clearly realized, which are not taxed by the IRS for no reason other than administrative fiat are; child support payments, welfare payments such as TANF, and Medicaid.

I supposed you could add "parking at the office" to that list.

Another great example in that paper -- the cost of traveling to a job interview in another state. The reimbursement of that cost is clearly income under statute, but not taxed. Thankfully so!

Are fish income when you catch them from the sea? Are minerals income when you pull them from the ground? Are Bitcoin income when you mine them? No, No, and YES!
Google UAC: How to Get More Bang for Your Budget
Last I heard HN doesn't just appear to be a single, blessed computer. It IS a single, blessed computer
Apologies, that is exactly what I was trying to say. Specifically, I was arguing against "Most technologists don't seem to believe that design applies to programming languages at all."

I was speculating that this belief is from folks that think design is just chrome.
I think this was in response to some articles flying around earlier this week that said, essentially, that Mastodon will fail because some of its features are slightly different from their Twitter equivalents. The target audience was like people who had read them.
Nobody is outright saying she doesn't have the experience. Clearly some employees at Equifax were ignoring security vulnerabilities. The first person you look at is the CSO.

The Linkedin doesn't paint the whole picture but it could indicate something and that what's being pointed out.

This isn't an attack on a single person it's an attempt to figure out how the biggest breach of user information in history went down.
You are right. I've been working a bit with the software for water management (although related to measurements of humidity over the day). Local management of resources does increase yields and sometimes just saves the crop.
I really like this, but why for everything that is holy does it not work in Private Windows?

I use Private mode a lot and it doesn't really make sense to group everything together just because it is "Private".
Seriously! This is the initial value proposition that got me and all my friends to check it out.
Keep in mind, just because historical Japanese (or anybody) didn't have a name for a given color doesn't mean they couldn't talk about it. There's no reason they couldn't have talked about specific things as being the color of leaves, the sky, oceans, and so forth.

All that's being talked about here is how societies decide to group up or split apart general categories of colors, not whether their language allows them to talk about specific things of various colors.
One of the best developers and architects I've ever known has a Ph.D. in Music Composition. Never took a formal CS course in his life - yet he was one of the best. I suggest not being too quick to judge people by their degrees.
Interesting that Microsoft is doing this battle almost alone.
Google remains stand offish on these orders. (being polite about it).
There has to be a reason. So I wonder why?
does hn have it's version of reddit gold because i want to give it to you
My senior team members and peers earn in the range of $120k - $140k in Toronto. I earn quite a bit more, having management experience helps to break past those ranges. I hear Amazon Toronto is paying up to $160k for IC's.
dupe-ish: LoRa Backscatter [pdf] | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15201692 (1 day ago)

> ac29: 900MHz is heavily used in the US and describing the noise as "background" or "random" is disingenuous at best.

> Nelkins: There has been some prior work on this:

> junkcollector: Active RFID. The same technology in any meaningful sense.

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related: LoRaWAN packet received at record distance of 702 km | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15201692 (7 days ago)

> aw3c2: From a balloon in almost 40km altitude.
I didn't downvote him/her, but speaking from a general perspective as a longtime HN reader, this site seems to be intended to appeal to people interested in new technologies and interesting applications. It's just not a good home for knee-jerk naysaying and virtue signalling.

Those kinds of posts -- while sometimes relevant and valuable when they have actual numbers behind them -- should be held to a more critical standard on HN than they often are, IMO.
I know good people in Europe making 14k - 23k per year.
I can see that first point as a potential problem, but also a good thing. If GamerGaters decide to pile on you, you probably won't see it. Which is a good thing.
To make self-driving cars at thing as soon as possible. Right now a lot of companies from what I understand really need to be able to get enough data accumulated so there's openings I think to be able to drive for them and collect data on a laptop, that sounds like the coolest thing ever to me...
As usual Safari has the settings we want and need. What's the default?
You have to be very careful with that though.

Already it seems that 75%+ of news sites ask me to show notifications, and the alerts alone asking for it are getting annoying.

I'd be even more upset if every site now had to ask for permission to do all kinds of things (Do you want to allow sound? Do you want to allow cookies? Do you want to allow video?)

I don't know the answer on how to deal with this stuff, but I don't think putting everything behind requests to the user is a good option (and clearly just allowing everything is a bad idea as well).
If every other computer in the world was off you could still load and play a game on a PlayStation. That's a difference in kind.

The reality is there are tablets are a third option between a standalone computer which could be programmed by hand and an dumb terminal.
Hence ad blockers and advertisers crying over browser makers reducing the ability to track users.[0]

[0]http://www.adweek.com/digital/every-major-advertising-group-...
> “Their work, painting places that were really out there—it started convincing people that these places are real...”

Definitely Bonestell. As a kid when I first saw (space) art depicting a landscape as though on the surface of another moon, I was startled.
The math was right; we are out.
I'm not the previous commenter but here my take on it.

> Invasion of privacy, profiling and tracking are big issues in my opinion and I would be curious to know why you don't think they are worth mentioning.

The thing is that they can do it. It's like saying people shouldn't listen to other people conversation in public. Sure it's "wrong" to do it, but you do know it may and will happen. The web is public, I'm not the only one that can your comment here and that's true for Facebook too.

I know what I post on the web, I know what I do on the web and I all consider them the same way I would do ANYTHING in public. I wouldn't share nude picture of me in a mall, at least if I were, I would be pretty sure that it's done in a relatively private means.

> I think, hurting natural and more effective means of communication and self presentation.

How can you declare it's more effective? I can organize events in a central place, way quicker and keep much more people involved in it that in any of the ways you talk about. You may be able to argue that it's not the most private, but that's not why I use Facebook.

> I see this ending very badly.

The good old slippery slope argument. I'm curious, what's the bad ending that you imagine?

I usually like to use this counter-argument over that one: Hitler didn't ever need social media to kill that many jews...

It's easy to manipulate people to hurt their community and go against what it's good for them. All you need is to control their fears. The funny thing your privacy fears is probably just as easy to manipulate. That's maybe what needs to be fixed, way more than anything else, though I would say that teaching people to be conscient of their actions and their impact is even better.
I switched to the newest version of SSH the minute the ubuntu subsystem for windows was released. All of the normal tools and a regular shell. Perfect!
It's not silly to try and mimic the only known model that has ever worked. Lots of modern technology is inspired by "randomly evolved" mechanics, it's a perfectly reasonable place to start.
Great Read! Actually made me feel connected to story.
By that same logic, Vim and Emacs are even more dead than Leo, which they most certainly are not.
> they all have to "read" plenty of "documentation", usually in form of third-party text/video tutorials, or even training courses.

That's an optional step, of course. But it is far from required. I remember for instance my brother downloading a copy of Audacity and instantly starting to record his voice and putting together radio shows.

Of course, at some point, when he wanted to do complex stuff, he watched YouTube videos etc. But at this point he had already created many hours of content.

And I don't think watching a 10 minute YouTube video of someone showing how to perform X is worse than reading a user manual. People learn by watching much better than they do by reading a manual - especially since documentation is rarely the first concern of most companies, and is therefore often lacking in thoroughness, poorly written/translated, contains very few pictures/diagrams if any, etc.
>When does "circumstantial" end?

Why not just wire up the nuclear missile system to all government servers and launch should a Russian IP address be detected?
I agree with the article. Throwing more cycles at a problem using the existing models isn't that answer. Better, more efficient models are needed.

And yes, I'm working toward that goal.
If anyone's up for it, CBC made an entire drama movie for it and its demise. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMnlnqRex4
Yeah, it completely abuses history.pushState...
So what? I'd like more money too. Should I simply get more money because I want it?
This is Hacker News, though. Is it news that the CSO has a degree in Music? No, not without further investigation, which didn't occur prior to the bait-titled link to her LinkedIn profile.

That's my only point here. Her degree is irrelevant to the point of uselessness for determining whether she's qualified, and whether fault for this incident lies with her judgement calls, or with others.

Maybe we'll find out that she's been writing internal memos for years about the security catastrophes and they've been willfully ignored by the CEO and the Board of Directors. Hell, she has an MFA in Music, so she there's a non-zero chance she wrote them a song about how they'll all be burned at the stake someday if they don't listen to her. This is no less likely an outcome.

We literally have no information to accompany the bare facts of her profile. Hacker News is not Hacker "link to a list of facts with a clickbait, personal-attack title and hope that someone else investigates if they're newsworthy" News. There is no news here without further investigation, and no one has done that in this thread. This should never have been posted as-is.

EDIT: If you were doing a post-mortem of an incident and a manager came in and said "Well, obviously that incident occurred, we let the guy with a Music degree do production work", they'll probably end up being fired under a cloud of HR violations, because they likely have a habit of invoking personal attributes in an inappropriate context. Don't be That Guy. Personal attributes - and optics - are not relevant to a post-mortem. Work behaviors, intentions, statements, and judgements are.
Agreed. Some of the features of SuperPuTTY that I love are 1) ability to save sessions and restore at startup 2) flexibility of changing keybindins e.g. F3 to copy current tab 3) export/import of sessions.
I wager it has something to do with prediction and rules
There's nothing especially awful about left-pad being its own package, the disaster was because a huge number of developers were betting on npm to somehow be highly available (despite being donated by its admins at no cost and with no committed SLA) rather than vendoring their deps.
Sounds like he's an expert in fraud from those links
Not just Canada, the United States has been very successful in attracting top talent from all over the world. A large part of its success is due to that - the USA does not produce nearly enough STEM graduates domestically. A huge number of people come every year to study in US universities, still considered the best in the world in many cases, and many stay afterwards. I think that the USA could be considered to be an empire in decline once it can no longer attract the top talent worldwide, and once those people graduate and go back to their own countries instead of staying in the US.

In the Canada case specifically, the pay gap for software engineers between the USA and Canada is about 2-3x if you're at the top of your field. The real mystery to me is why Canada has any software engineers at all. I'm a Canadian SE living in Canada currently and I wouldn't dream of working for any companies located here, including e.g. Amazon or IBM.
Google Chrome Will Start Blocking Noisy Auto-Play Videos
You don't need a strict ban for this to work either. Maybe just an end-user warning if distance < N and the relative popularity of the two modules is very high. You could also allow users or organizations to explicitly whitelist some names.
What’s the best way to spend $20,000 to help the common good?
Encryption is easy on platforms with plenty of power and transistors and well-established libraries, which are the exact opposite of what we're talking about here. Encryption on very low-powered systems is a well-known problem.
I'm partial to the Avro Triplane myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCZOcObmd0Y

Probably the most beautiful pre-WW1 airplane.
Because of the politicalization of her crimes, and the steadfast resolution of each side of the spectrum as to her guilt or innocence.
If enough people say it's a good time to buy then the price goes up. In reality there is never a good or bad time to buy into BTC. To say there is or isn't is speculation or manipulation in my opinion. But full disclosure, I think bitcoin is ripe with fraud and I don't see it having a long term future without it being regulated by some entity. Will it survive regulation?
You miss the point. It's not about protecting yourself from credit fraud. It's about every one of your snooty neighbors knowing your financial situation. And you knowing theirs.
Applied ecology (Permaculture).

Traditional agriculture is about the least productive way to interact with Nature.
Just allow it for youtube, while keeping everything else blocked. Whitelisting is the best option because there aren't that many websites primarily about playing video. Nobody goes to Youtube for other activities. Clicking a video link means you intend watching.

News websites are the worst. Clicking a news article means I want to read the article, not watch a video. If I want to watch the video on a news website (rare) I will press play. If they autoplay videos, I send them nasty angry feedback and don't return if I can help it.