skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re bothered by the leader of the US applying military leverage against our enemies? That’s literally his job.

Edit: Hacker News is limiting me, so in reply to jtsummers below:

1) that’s an idealistic and unrealistic view of how international affairs work. And in fact, being able to apply such leverage actually makes war less likely since it allows countries to better gauge each other’s true intentions and willingness to act, preventing catastrophic miscalculations.

2) Congress hasn’t exercised its power to declare war since WW2, yet the US has fought in many wars since then.

3) Congress sometimes but not always has given authorization for these conflicts in lieu of a declaration. But sometimes the President has acted totally unilaterally, like in the Korean War in the 50s. The War Powers Act explicitly gives the President some unilateral authority, but...

4) The predominant legal view in the US is that the President does not need Congress’s authorization, at least to start a war, as it is inherent in his Constitutional powers.

Edit Edit: I would reply directly, but Hacker News is rate limiting me.

Also, I don’t think he is bluffing. I think Trump is dead serious about annihilating NK if they don’t disarm. If NK, either by its own calculus, or under China’s pressure, does not change course, they are toast.

I’m not saying point 4 above is correct on principle, but that it’s the view, based on the “commander in chief” clause, that will likely prevail in the chambers of the Supreme Court. That’s how law works. A lot of things would be very different if we actually adhered to the Constitution. And they’re unlikely to even take such a case for various reasons (such as the “political question” doctrine, as well as mootness).
All it takes for a 22 year old to write invasive ad tracking software for FB/Google is ~150k combined compensation. Also a software developer wrote this [1] at some point...

Why do software developers have a presumed sense of moral superiority? Because some guy named Linus distributed an operating system for free? We're for hire just like everybody else.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
The iPad is dead... lol. Only 10.3 millions units sold last quarter.
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Or CI. Having easy environments for any OS or software tool imaginable makes it quick and simple to test my applications across 10 OSes and OS versions as needed.
I get that Trump used Twitter a lot but he does have a press office where actual stuff happens.
Sure, but that means the magic does not lie in evolution, but in the extreme amounts of information in biological organisms. Evolution is supposed to be able to generate incredibly complex organisms from very simple beginnings, all within a number of trials that can be simulated on today's desktop. Insofar as we displace the problem from evolution to the organism or environment we are saying there is nothing special about evolution. In which case it begs the question what is so special about evolution in the first place?
And said box would have to be bolted down and made of very strong materials. Very expensive.

And letting a delivery person into your house is a very bad idea, even if they don't make it past the threshold. They see that 100" TV and then their buddies break into your house 2 weeks later.

Good luck getting Police to look into it.

Amazon is trying to cut losses from stolen packages, and get you to pay for it. Via buying one of their cameras. Unless you have Cameras covering every inch of your property. And they don't allow other brands of Cameras.
I was working in the crude oil / nat gas options pit at the NYMEX during the summer of 2010 when these trades went down (where much of Mexico's hedge was traded but not necessarily the author's portion.)
You can give https://screen.rip/#pdf a try. It supports capturing pages behind auth.
My point is large enough amounts of success cannot be attributed to survivorship bias.
Many people are fine with banning Nazi sympathizers, posters of ISIS propaganda, and many were fine with the banning of Milo Yiannopoulos. Those prove that banning of political rivals is fine on Twitter. It's just a matter of where they draw the line, and whether or not they're willing to face the consequences of doing so.
It is not true that whatever a human can do, is the correct way to look at it. The fine motor skills and insight needed for many tasks will always be beyond that of a machine. A machine also has a great deal of trouble with adapting to things popping up that it has to deal with.
I mean he did wish for people to get the death sentence earlier today, Im sure that goes against Twitters Code Of Conduct [1] , but since he saved Twitter from going under Im sure he's got a lifetime get out of jail free card.

[1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175050#
I don't commute anymore, so mostly what I see are people everywhere, walking around, and looking at their phones.

I get that modern phones are more powerful than old laptops. And I get that there are many ways to use remote servers. But, even with the larger phones, the screen is smaller than typical editing windows. Except, I realize, the one I'm typing in now :)

But it's the limitation in keyboard size that puzzles me. I know that there are portable keyboards. And devices that project virtual keyboards on surfaces. But I'm guessing that most people are typing on screens, and using voice input. So how can that actually work? That is, be efficient enough to bother with?
No stretch of the imagination to parse "inadvertently deactivated due to human error" as equating to "internal sabotage for the cause of rebellion" ;)

I can recommend PBS Frontline's doc "Putin's Revenge" for deep background on how we got to where we are today. It's fascinating to see "unintended consequences" of a series of US foreign policy decisions: Libya, Sochi 2014 Ukraine protests, an "f-bomb" in a a random diplomatic cable. Lead to a compounding of grievances for Moscow. And how pushback was inevitable.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/putins-revenge/

TBH I was decidedly underwhelmed by Twitter general counsel's testimony before the Senate judiciary. Just really unserious, lacking an appreciation of the gravity of the situation. Social media was weaponized by a foreign power to sow dissent, destabilize democracy and ultimately weaken American influence abroad.

Regardless of your personal politics, the narrative has morphed into a national security issue. An that means every startup or internet based company. Basically everyone. Needs to have a security policy in place to avoid persecution and or liability.
Mods, please de-AMP the link:

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-wizard-unveils-a-new-...
Today Toba[1] is huge volcanic lake with a central island, and a sort of washed out station on the later hippy trail, but still physically interesting to explore. For anyone considering a visit to Sumatra, do check out the nearby taxidermy museum in Medan[2]. It's absolutely incredible. And for surfers, don't miss the island of Nias[3], but fly instead of getting the boat in bad weather, which amounts to a moving vomitorium. Southeast Sumatra has a huge area of largely unexcavated stone ruins to rival Angkor [4] from an ancient, regionally significant civilization and sea power, Srivijaya[5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Toba

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medan

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nias

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srivijaya
A cursory review of their comment history would lead me to think that they're not.
>But if you watch the video of the Amazon Key annoucement[2], they mention multiple other scenarios: "maybe let in your dog walker, a friend, or maybe to let in a team of cleaning ninjas"

For which solutions from all the major lock companies (and others) already exist. I can give people who need access to my house custom codes on my Schlage lock. It is an internet-connected thing--although it doesn't really need to be that. And I have found punching in my code is easier than dealing with the app on my phone.
And just a few sentences away from declaring war.

If someone took over Trump's twitter and detailed how bombers were in-route to take out North Korea's nuclear capability, would Kim Jong Un wait for independent confirmation before he launched his missile(s)?
There should be a special place in hell for Dick Fuld. It is amazing to me that he, above anyone else, didn't go to jail considering he directly lied to shareholders regarding Lehman's leverage.
> "If media spin can affect people, why couldn't a corporation or foreign government do the same?"

They can. Media spin includes the spin driven by governments, that's why spin doctors exist:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/spin-do...

When I say media spin, I'm referring to lies and half-truths spread through the media. I'm not suggesting it has to be the media owners that are doing the spinning.

> "I don't understand why the facts that that a large number of people want government reform and that corporate and government forces were spending money to influence the election cannot exist side by side."

They can. However, what's not commonly considered is that people may have been acting in their own self-interest.

I'm not from the US, and I would never have voted for Trump. However, I can see how the media has portrayed Trump voters, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that the media portrayal is missing the wood for the trees. The main options commonly given for why people voted for Trump is that either they were manipulated by the media or they share some of Trump's negative personality traits.

However, if you look at polls about what people care about in an election, the same thing comes out top time and time again. The economy. It seems that many people don't follow politics that closely, but what they do understand is that it has an impact on the economy, and they care about jobs.

So let's look at this from a purely economic perspective. When faced with a choice between Trump and Clinton, putting personality aside, are there any economic reasons why someone might have chosen Trump over Clinton?

The main message I hope to get across is that if the media you consume is conveniently packaging a set of memes about a subject, you can be almost certain they're missing out on details. Real life is messy and chaotic, boiling down the motives of the general population to easy to consume soundbites is unlikely to accurately capture the thoughts of hundreds of millions of people. That's why it's useful to look beyond the headlines, and look to understand those you disagree with. Partisan biases weaken the health of public discourse. Were there people who voted a certain way because they were manipulated into it? I don't doubt it. However, that's not the full picture.
I would be interested in seeing additional sources that support the theory that political machinations, not practical concerns, decided how many pilots a modern warship requires.

The Apache Attack Helicopter is renowned for being especially difficult to fly [1], and I wonder if Navy wished to avoid having a similarly single, not-so-easily-replaced bottleneck.

[1] https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/hardest-to-fly-8713...
But there is a third option: make that First World world more ideal.

Sugar water and other high calorie stuff could see the same treatment tobacco got; cars could be banned from city centers to make room for bicycle lanes and lush pedestrian zones, parking lots could be required to be at least half a mile from offices and shopping malls, with nice walking paths between the two, etc.
"Tax avoidance" is precisely "using legal means to reduce ... tax obligation"

Tax avoidance is not illegal. Tax evasion is illegal.
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How is this narrative still around? It only takes a few minutes of searching to find out that Apple pays more US tax than almost any other corporation in the country (just a couple oil companies pay more). Apple pays $16B of the total $450B the US collects from all companies. Total US tax receipts are ~2.2T.
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I think in the more traditional view of left and right political thought you're correct, but there seems to be a huge shift away from that towards identity politics. And to say that there aren't extremists on this front on both sides of the aisle is disengenious in my opinion. They feed off one another and ignore the reality that vast majority of the country has no interest in genociding one another or abolishing the nuclear family or any other insane thing either side is always so paranoid about.

I actually think the more traditional Marxist view on identity politics is correct. It's toxic to leftism because it divides the working class.
Why is that ideal? Social media censors dangerous / disruptive (to the community) shit all the time, which is appropriate IMO.
That doesn't excuse making an observation about how much energy used per transaction would be profitable, then turning around and saying that's the actual amount of energy used.

The impact of the message is lost when it's given without any sensible basis. Until your comment I didn't really know what a realistic estimate of the energy usage would be - I couldn't use their claim, since it was obviously garbage.

If it's two days then they should say two days.
All things in moderation...
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Outside of my current role I generally spend more active focus on web technologies, but I'm delving into other scientific programming and machine learning theory and application.

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My experience in the listed techs varies, but the main group I have between 3 and 7 years of solid experience, with learnings going back to my childhood experimentation with BASIC on my parents' old IBM 80286. Web was the thing that drew me back to computer programming in my early teens.

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I've seen data about the right becoming more extreme, can you point to any similar data about the left?
Sugar triggers the same parts of your brain as cocaine, while also causing severe health problems when overconsumed.

Please don’t say “you made the choice” when talking about substance abuse, regardless of the substance. While I’d advocate outlawing tobacco, I think products based on sugar should carry a hefty tax to fund healthcare costs and dissuade their consumption.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/is-sugar-rea...
Politically you're correct, but culturally, the left is becoming extreme. Anyone in a university or at work who's not pro-diversity, pro-affirmative action, pro-multiculturalism, or anti-Trump is met with disdain and hatred. Just spend some time on /r/TumblrInAction and see how extreme that side is becoming.
Did you read the paragraph just before that, where they state how they came up with the "[Bitcoin total power consumption]" figure?

What I said, is what they are saying.
Cloud storage is not low cost compared to on premise if your data is "big" in any real sense. It is definitely durable, convenient, etc. not cheap.
Yes, traveling light is good. But as I say in the other subthread, I find it hard to imagine how one works efficiently without a real keyboard. At one point, long ago, I was carrying a folding keyboard. But, unless I was sitting at a table or equivalent, there wasn't anywhere to put it. And it was rather floppy. Also the screen. How do you keep it in front of your face, while typing with both hands? Maybe adapt one of those harmonica holders ;)
This person killed 8 innocent people by plowing into them with a car. If one of those persons was a loved one of your own, would you want him to get the death penalty?
I am curious as to what your issue is with the loan setup. Inn my mind out is an alternative to a traditional loan, how is that bad?
Other leaders realize that they aren't actually using the proper channels when giving 'orders' on Twitter and generally don't even attempt to do so, so probably no, Trump is uniquely unqualified.
They could have sold to a company that would have overhauled their monetization, but you're right that it isn't _unethical_ to shut-down (unnecessary, maybe).
It's not just boats that have safety-critical UI design problems. The avionics in airplanes are becoming so complicated that managing the avionics is almost more difficult than flying the plane.

I'm a private pilot who has been flying a Cirrus SR22 for twelve years. In that time it has gone through two major glass cockpit avionics revisions. In the first revision, called the Avidyne, the autopilot was either on or off. In the current revision, called the G-1000, the autopilot can operate in two modes: AP mode, where the autopilot is actually flying the plane, and FD or flight-director mode, where the autopilot does all of the calculations to figure out where the plane should be flying and displays a target on the primary flight display, but the actual control of the plane is still in the hands of the pilot.

If the plane is stable, it is very easy to get fooled into thinking the autopilot is flying the plane when in fact it is not. There are only two visual indicators that tell you if the autopilot is actually flying the plane: a small green LED on the autopilot console, which is down near your right knee, and another small annunciator on the primary flight display. It looks like this:

http://is3.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple71/v4/9a/36/ad/9a3...

The autopilot indicator is indicating AP mode in that image. See if you can spot it.

It has happened to me more than once that I thought I had the autopilot engaged when in fact I had only turned on the flight director. I predict that one of these days someone will die because they made this mistake in instrument conditions.
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The whole scandal though is that he actively dodges the WHPC to distribute information.
Yes, absolutely we are: videos don’t replace written content. We produce as much (or more) written content as before.

They’re complementary content - doing things in a different medium that wouldn’t be as effective (or possible) in written form.

That’s resulting in more positive user engagement and social activity.

More choice in fact.
> Free speech isn't important because it's in the Constitution, it's in the Constitution because it's important. Sure, Twitter wouldn't be violating the law if they banned Trump, but they would absolutely be violating the more important ideal of free speech.

Even the "ideal" of free speech refers only to speech on public property outside of the control an organization. There is no ideal of free speech that says a) you should be able to say whatever you want on private property, or b) that organizations should sanction members for speech they do not approve of.

Twitter is well within the ideal of free speech should they choose to kick Donald Trump off their site, on the grounds of a) not liking what he uses their private property to say, and b) wanting to sanction him as a member (i.e. user) of their organization for what he says.

Of course, the ideal of free speech and what's written in the constitution are synonymous, as far as the American ideal of free speech is concerned. Different nations have different ideals.
It's not pocket-sized though. My old iPod Video can plug in with just a wire - there's a composite video signal coming out of the headphone jack.

Imagine sitting around in a living room, hanging out with friends. Someone grabs a guitar and starts singing. I want to show the lyrics. If I have a laptop, I just pop open the lid and we read them from there.

If I don't have a laptop, I won't have my bag. So I won't have my HDMI-VGA adaptors either. I wish I could just plug my phone into the TV, search for the lyrics online, and start singing. My Bluetooth headset (Sony MW600) is very small and easy to use for audio, and it takes only a few seconds to set up. Why can't the same be done for video?
Twitter employee deactivates president's account
a couple years ago someone messed up when setting up ACLs and took down (IIRC) S3.
Show off those arms too much and regulation will come down on them like a ton of bricks. Just because Washington has been mostly hands off doesn't mean that will continue.
I like this article.
Something about the way this is written sets off alarm bells for me. This is a learning resource, and yet the review includes this paragraph:

The practical experience of breaking real world cryptography through exercises such as Electronic Code Book, Cipher Block Chaining, Padding Oracle, and ECDSA. Note: Although the number of crypto exercises here cannot compete with CryptoPals (which is exclusively about breaking real world cryptography), at least at PentesterLab you get certifications (badges) as evidence of your acquired skills.

I can't see these exercises because they cost money, but I'll charitably guess that the ECB exercise is an attack on cut-and-pastability of ECB, the CBC exercise rewrites a plaintext from unauthenticated CBC, "Padding Oracle" is what it sounds like, and ECDSA is a repeated ECDSA nonce.

Those are fine exercises (though, as the review points out, you can get better ones for free elsewhere). But did the students doing them really learn what they were doing? "Electronic Code Book" isn't an attack and it's not comparable to "Padding Oracle" or "ECDSA". The clunky way the exercises are described leave me with the suspicion that people do these things to collect badges, and little else.
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