skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not embarrassing in the sense of showing things that are objectively and rationally bad, but it's embarrassing in the sense of showing things that Google would rather not have public (internal social-media posts by individual employees, with names attached, that almost certainly reflect personal views and not the company's marching orders, and are written with the level of casualness you'd expect from social-media posts in a non-public forum). It seems to me that a good part of the the purpose of including that many screenshots in the lawsuit is to make the relevant individual employees uncomfortable.
Why do we grant special entitlements to people who opted to use two tons of steel to move one person? That sounds to me like a reason to place heavy restrictions on their behavior. There's an implicit assumption somehow being in a car makes you more important than someone who isn't. And any argument that presumes a pedestrian is wasting energy over someone who has chosen to drive in a car is absurd.
I think PM10 rates are in similar orders of magnitude, in the "micrograms per cubic meter" range, so i don't think it would be that different. Maybe an order of magnitude larger, but not much more.

I agree, this is very surprising. Before I saw LeifCarrotson's calculation, I would have thought "tons" was the right unit as well. There's so much polluted air, you'd think that it would add up to some significant amount of matter, but apparently not.
I don't think you can make a general rule for Europe at large. Germany is definitely very strict about this, most people won't cross if the pedestrian light isn't green even if there's no car in sight. Meanwhile in my experience German drivers always stop to let you pass when you have right of way.

On the other hand if you go to France everybody crosses everywhere all the time and most drivers won't stop to let you cross on a walkway unless you're already on the middle of the road. I don't know if jaywalking is an offense over here but if it is I have never ever seen it enforced. You could jaywalk right next to a cop and nobody will care.
It's their repo.
Sounds like HTML, and a browser. (Sad.)

Perhaps Firefox's Reader View would be suitable, when activated.
> given significant drops in hardware prices over the past couple of years?

RAM prices have nearly doubled over the last 6 months and more than tripled over the last 18 months.
put the cars underground, not the pedestrians. let the cars go fast and let the people stroll in the sunshine.
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I agree with you. Laws should reflect what society (collective individuals) want. It's all driven by individuals who should take responsibility, not say it's the corporation or government's fault.
Have you heard a term 'design'? + sometimes you can't adjust the website to work well with all (or even the popular ones) sans-serif fonts
This. I don't think a lot of people grasp that cryptocurrency is more than just a distributed ledger. It's as much of an economic innovation as a technical one.
What? I think you need to balance your list's narrative with the reality that delegation includes some abdication of understanding. It is necessarily an abstraction from the work itself. While responsibility may lie with a superior for the error itself and the process that gave rise to it, it is a responsibility of seniority - owning the outcomes of the organization you run - not responsibility for the act itself.

Moreover, there is another dimension in that inertia in the org structure itself can't be pinned on any one person. Organizations by their very nature are supposed to be tolerant of changes and gaps in the knowledge of their members. This tolerance leads to inertia. the Inertia of the military is extreme and difficult to change. The more abstraction between the leader and the actual work, the more difficult it is to evaluate and enact the right change in the right way in the right timeframe.

So, while your comment may in essence be right that there is a chain of command failure around this issue, it also strains credibility to claim that this failure belongs to Obama, one year into his successor's presidency, when the structure that this event took place in is much older than either of them.
The difference is that CSS can trigger remote resource loads in response to post-pageload user behavior, which intuitively seems like a JS-only thing. For example, tracking where the mouse has moved, as mentioned in the readme.

I wouldn't say it's some sudden, alarming capability, but it is distinctly more capable than <img> tags.
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The paper's findings are more nuanced than the title.

1) The Mill's specializer (effectively a compiler code generator) did have a bug that emitted code susceptible to a Spectre-like attack. The specializer has been fixed. (Fortunately, there's no installed base of Mills to be patched.)

2) The author pointed out that Spectre and Meltdown are specific cases of the general problem: if a cache has any effect on execution speed, it has side effects that can be observed and potentially exploited by an attacker.

3) This paragraph is intriguing for what it doesn't say.

> We have internally discussed mitigations to - and elimination of - cache attacks, even before we became aware of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks. A cache that is still an effective cache, but where eviction tells you less or nothing about what evicted it, would be generally immune to all cache attacks. However, we do not have any security enhancements to the general caching problem for disclosure at this time.
> The first thing the armed men will do is show identification and a warrant.

Are you an expert in identification and warrant? I never saw one, you could print a fake one and I couldn't tell if it's right. Same for any identification.

Once we talked about doing some relatively public MILSIM with friends. It didn't take 5 minutes for us to realize that it would end badly because of that. If your goal is to access Uber data or any big corporation for that matter, you can see how easy it would be to profit from that.

Thus, lock everything down and let legal experts actually take care of that seems like a pretty good solution to avoid this kind of situation. They are there to seize data, they can do it as much as they want. They can then force Uber to unencrypt the computers.
If not for land ownership, why would anyone improve it?

If I take out a mortgage on 40 acres, I might log it to generate revenue, and then plant it in hay grass to make (or help make) the mortgage payments, which in turn lets me build equity that I can leverage to acquire additional capital. That's a lot of work. Why would I ever go log, plant, and harvest public land when I don't substantially benefit from it?
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Don't forget that toward the end of his life, MLK Jr. spoke out against the war and ended up splitting his own base.

MLK's speaking out against the war was unpopular, but do you have any references that show he actions split his "base"? That's interesting since I was under the impression that the war was deeply unpopular with blacks.
That's a good example. Shockingly poor foresight.

It's similar to the "A gun is always loaded" principle. Unless you can tell at a glance that a firearm is not in a ready-to-fire state, you treat it as if it is. People are clumsy and forgetful, and you only have to mess up once.

Leaving the live rounds right next to the blanks, in that way, is pretty indefensible. (Ignoring of course that blanks can still kill, for this analogy.)
The tax authority behind the world's reserve currency? I don't think they'll do anything or even need to, but if they wanted to, they absolutely could.
I think there is a glaring omission in the structure of the internet as dicusssed in this piece: the underlying hardware and supply chains that physically construct the internet, which I will term InternetZero.

InternetZero relies on humongous-scale manufacturing with minuscule margins, which in turn relies on massive natural resource extraction, transportation, and refinement. Even the integrated circuit - ubiquitous in contemporary computing - could have taken many more years than it did to hit the scene if not for NASA’s shoveling piles of money into ICs for the Apollo 11 lunar lander.

The “new code” that the article calls for at the end is a start, but is still just one small facet of a very centralized, controlled, and arguably corrupted system.
> There is a difference between journalism and blogging. Unfortunately, it's a gap that gets wider each day.

Really? Because the users on HN, Reddit, and the internet as a whole bemoaned the shut down of Gawker by Thiel, when he went after them for outing him and Hulk Hogan.

The whole user base said Thiel was attacking journalism, when all he did was shutdown a gossip blog.
This could easily be stopped by a change in browser behavior. If web browsers downloaded contacted every address specified with `url()` automatically on page load, without considering the conditions, this type of conditional requests would be impossible.

Conceivably, you could solve it through a simple browser extension that looks through all of the page’s stylesheets and calls all URLs present in the CSS before the page is rendered.

In an ideal implementation, though, URLs dependant on “static”, non-identifiable conditions, such as an image with `display: none`, would be left alone.
I'm unable to see anything on the home page on a mobile (android). The images are too small and the pinch zoom is disabled.
I the city cars are already not much faster than bikes. For distances below 10km or so there is hardly any difference. During rush hours bikes are much faster.

I'd wager that you can reduce the top speed cars are allowed to travel significantly before the effective speed goes down by much, especially if you can improve traffic flow by e.g. vehicle-vehicle communication.
We'll always keep roads with high speed limits just for cars (highways). But this expectation that you should be able to drive within your neighborhood at 50 mph is not sustainable.
Well, in addition to the color coding I suppose the text would still be different?

To me, the screenshot looks more like a list of user-defined presets than something that went through the original software development process. Maybe something along the lines of only superuser can define new presets, but lower users can activate them. That way, at least random "I love you honeybunny" pranks would be avoided, but the risk of skipping a real warning because of insufficient permissions would be avoided.

A physical UI would have an openly accessible switch for "drill" and "not a drill" protected behind a seal that needs to be broken, this is difficult to replicate in software.
Unfortunately this one country is a leader in tech and has millions of people with the disposable income to actually use the block chain. I am not myopically focused on the US, but to say that it won’t hurt block chain adoption is willful ignorance.
It's only a matter of time before some stupid kids start jumping in the way of self-driving cars to make them brake hard. That's when we'll see the anti-pedestrian regulations appear, by my estimation.
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> There's a race to replace JWTs with something better (PAST is an example) and while I don't think the underlying idea behind JWTs is any good either, even if you disagree, you should still wait for one of the better formats to gain acceptance.

Aside from PAST, I recently have come across this[0] (called branca) as I too was looking for an alternative to JWT. This seems to be based on Fernet, but according to the maintainer of this spec it isn't maintained anymore.

[0] https://github.com/tuupola/branca-spec
Either would be pretty cool :)
I think it's just not worth it. Gates would have to be redone at huge expense with aerobridges on either side, and the technical challenge of putting the bridge over or around the wing somehow would be formidable and expensive. Airports would be loathe to eat the cost. And unless you very tightly controlled the passenger load order and which side they were on etc, there'd just be chaos on board anyway with people colliding after loading from the wrong door.

I think the fact is that even though it annoys us as passengers if it takes 10 minutes to get off the plane, it doesn't make all that much difference to the turnaround time. There's still fuel onload, baggage and cargo off/onload, catering (which uses the back doors currently), waste materials offload, technical checks.. there's a certain irreducible amount of time it will always take, which increases with the plane size.

The fastest I've ever seen a flight turned around was about ~15 minutes (a late 737 trying to get away before a storm hit in Sydney), skipping catering, cleaning and my bag. I've heard SouthWest aims for about 25 minutes, but they had to get rid of assigned seating and be pretty strict with carry-on luggage to achieve that. That seems like the most optimised anyone's going to be able to do, and that's exclusively 737s.

I've heard of refuelling being done with 2 trucks though. It can take 2 hours to fuel a 380 going its maximum range. If a plane was an hour late and they needed to turn it around fast to meet a curfew, that's something they can do. Wouldn't be worth it with narrowbodies which can be done in 15 minutes.
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Is anyone else tired of hearing the word 'bubble' applied to everything? Whether we're talking about tech stocks, chicken futures, tulips, or Bitcoin, it's become a really tired and meaningless term. You can't know if an asset is in a 'bubble' until long after the bubble has burst. Bitcoin is far from having burst, so this article and all those that came before it offer nothing new or insightful.

Please, let's move past the name calling. Calling something a bubble does not make it so.
US dollar is supported by a government (or more precisely a central bank) just like Greece and Venezuela is. But who supports the government? A government can default. The USD can default. It is only in very recent times that currencies have been stable (at the cost of having to grow the economy to beat the inflation) historically they haven't. Just ask the Germans in the 30ies.

It's an illusion to think that just because a government is behind a currency it's exempt from loosing all it's value.

The lender of last resort is the government but governments can fail.

Just because they are stable today does not make them stable tomorrow.

Bitcoin has more utility than a clone because it has a unique history and a unique set of backers (the network) and those backers have exactly the same function as they state.

Bitcoin is better supported than some currencies and worse supported than others. But it exist in that spectrum not separate from it.
A cyclist would have to try very hard or be negligent/unlucky to kill a pedestrian. When it does happen, as in Central Park, it makes national news because the average occurrence across the entire US is less than once a year. Meanwhile, thousands of pedestrians die annually from drivers texting/drinking/road-raging. It's hard to see how bikes are the greater hazard.
I know. I've been asked to write press release translations when I wrote for television news, and I've had those write-ups pushed back when I introduced a critical angle (:40 for a VO is not a lot of time to work with). Journalism does not "exploit" anyone, individual publications do, and this article is harmless in the grand scheme of things. Inventing sources, willful misquoting, those sorts of things are journalistic problems. Pushing out an article like this is a willful trade, in that TechCrunch is knowingly blending marketing and blogging at the expense of its integrity and brand, but that does not mean anything about the work that other journalists are doing.

My point is that a single publication does not an indictment of an entire field make. You can criticize TechCrunch all you want, and I'd probably agree with you; the quality has decreased significantly, and yellow presser write-thrus are very common now, and it's not even a publication I read. That's the key: it's not a publication that I read, nor that you need to read. They exist independently of the journalism profession as a whole, don't reflect on it, and can disappear without impacting the rest of the landscape. They have a very specific audience. You are not in it. Part of that audience is startup PR, who they actively court because they need the material.

With "fake news" and all that, journalism as a profession is under fire. I absolutely hate to see discussions like this that personify journalism as a boogeyman, out to exploit and "get you," based on one yellow presser that is suddenly "the problem with journalism."

Stop broadening to attack an entire field of mostly good people based on one publication and/or article you don't like. Imagine if that was tried with literally anything else: imagine if we indicted biosciences based on Theranos ("the problem with genetic testing today") or hedge funds based on Martin Shkreli ("the problem with finance today") or engineering based on Peter Madsen ("the problem with rocketry today") or computer science research based on Uber ("the problem with self-driving today"). There are bad actors in the world, but journalism seems to attract commentary like this, where a bad actor suddenly means the whole field is indictable. That makes absolutely zero sense, and the more I argue against it, the more I'm convinced it's a willful siege by people who know what they're doing.
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I would avoid scaleway due to stock issues.
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agreed, but its a solvable problem.

e.g. You can request a second token, but doing so immediately sets the currently active token to expire and be deleted in X days.
Is there a desktop client that can VoIP with a mobile client? Or is it just browser-only?

The windows jitsi desktop client I tried didn't seem to be meant for that.
Of course. They're cheaper. Consumers love cheaper goods. Personally, I'm very much in favor of GMOs and think it's a shame that so many countries overregulate them so much. There's no evidence of that the crops themselves have caused any harm whatsoever to human health or the environment. Now, may not be the case for the chemical pesticides and herbicides often used with them, but that just means we should regulate those chemicals.
(In my state) Pedestrians already have absolute priority. Whether their move is legal or not if you're in a vehicle you must always stop for a pedestrian in the road.

> now you're proposing we vacate them for the convenience of drivers

This argument already happened and would probably go the same way if it happened again. The value proposition for vehicles is too strong. I agree that's it decreases pedestrian liberty to an extent but our current system allows for cars to reach their destination much faster and doesn't meaningfully impact walk times.

I will agree that having walk-only city centers is a good idea. Just so long as there is ample parking on the border.
Same for Flow: https://github.com/billyvg/codemod-proptypes-to-flow
Nobody fails to grasp the possibilities of these currencies, what they disagree with is utility to hype value. When people throw out "you don't get this" as an argument against skepticism, it sounds naive and a little insulting.

This quote was in that NYT "Everyone's Getting Rich.." article:

The tone turns somber. “Sometimes I think about what would happen to the future if a bomb went off at one of our meetings,” Mr. Buttram said. Mr. Hummer said, “A bomb would set back civilization for years.”

There's too much of that exaggerated thinking.
To be fair, there are people at financial services companies and blue chip multinationals running blockchain projects.

But then there are also people in financial services companies and blue chip multinationals running projects as vaguely defined as "cloud" or "big data" and as specifically niche as "graph databases" and "deep learning-based object classification" without get-rich-quick schemes and libertarian antieconomics attached to their hype.
I imagine this is probably much like what the initial propaganda for the Khmer Rouge must have sounded like.

"Let's just send all these people to work on farms!" - TFA literally says that this would be an attempt to solve a lack of "Social responsibility, sense of purpose, community, meaningful ways to spend their time"
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Finance related revenues and profits have the most inequality in distribution. NYC probably also has the highest poverty rate, despite the cold
Nice to hear things have gotten better. 8 and 16 next-hop limits were very common a few years ago, especially on devices that you'd use as a top-of-rack switch.

ECMP still has some scaling challenges, IMHO, since each destination host still needs to peer with the upstream switch over BGP (unless you do some cleverness).
This has all the details:

http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_534.pdf

They didn't realize that it would be so popular with women.

I believe they withdrew it because government thought that the program was providing jobs to women who should be at home instead of working.
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Maybe not mandatory but otherwise you’re liable so your insurance company requires it.
Hundreds of vulnerability disclosure programs
That's a good point. I can totally see how as a kid I would have tried to mess with self driving cars.
Cert renewal can be automated the same way letsencrypt does it for instance.
Better to be consistently good and progressing in life than an ambitious failure who tried to fly too close to the sun and failed and never amounted to anything.
If this wasn't OP's intention, I deeply apologize. That was my understanding and I think it was m12k's too. I'm used to seeing civil discussion here and that's what made me dismissive of the original comment.
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You have no idea how many websites you would break:) I've seen UI strings in "before" and "after" pseudoelements...
> Mass adoption couldn't have been achieved without the exponential price rise of various cryptocurrency tokens.

Has mass adoption really happened? Yes, speculation is in the news but compare that to the frequency with which you hear anyone talk about using Bitcoin instead of cash or a credit card: the bubble inflating has actually reduced those already low numbers since it's driven transaction costs through the roof (which has been a reason for major sellers to stop accepting it) and the deflationary design strongly incentivizes hoarding if you can avoid making a purchase.

This matters a lot because most normal people are learning about it at the top of a bubble. Those speculative dreams won't end well and based on past performance there's a very high likelihood that some of them are going to lose even more money because the exchange they're using won't let them cash out quickly enough on a downturn. That seems more likely to sour them on the entire concept since, unlike earlier cycles like the .com bubble, there's no fundamental draw for most people beyond the chance to get rich quick.
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The unskilled work that does exist in agriculture is highly seasonal - mainly picking and processing fruits and vegetables that are too fragile for machines to handle. You might be able to find jobs for a couple of hundred thousand people during the peak of the harvest, but what do you do with them for the other nine months of the year?
Guessing the result should be informed by the cycles of regulation and deregulation in the telecom industry as a whole. We have decades of history to pull from, if anyone wants to take the trouble to learn the history and apply it to the current scenario.