skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slippery slope arguments usually impeed progress as much as they help warn of dangers.

That is, these are good questions, but are they intended as road blocks? Each one can be easily answered and you can always change your answer.
I think he is implicitly saying that the problem with the Trump administration is that they tend to 'blurt out' sensitive information.

If this is really true:

As of now, the AIVD hackers do not seem to have access to Cozy Bear any longer. Sources suggest that the openness of US intelligence sources, who in 2017 praised the help of a Western ally in news stories, may have ruined their operation. The openness caused great anger in The Hague and Zoetermeer.

That'd quite a catastrophic/dumb mistake.
You are right. Skill is all about an interaction design, and the other problem with Alexa is that you can't catch phrases that Alexa can't parse to intents.

For Bitcoin, I am not into crypto currency, but that skill was done on live coding session, so I needed something that people like and that I can integrate really fast.
Were you deliberately leaving out the 4th possibility of Google concluding 'You know what? It is actually wrong to prioritize certain races and genders as a matter of hiring policy, and since it clearly isn't keeping us out of trouble on the public relations front, let's not do it anymore.'
What? You can give them a fake name and address to sign up for an Apple ID. And as a bonus, they won't even randomly freeze your account and demand your phone number. The fact is that with Google, even if you don't tell them who you are, they will figure it out anyway and use that data is all kinds of ways that won't necessarily benefit you.

In terms of privacy, Apple has got my back whereas Google would feed me to the hounds for extra advertising revenue. This is why I changed from Android to iPhone after being a hardcore Android fan for years.
Technorati had terrible management. I was very frustrated trying to deal with them. In 2006 myself and friends were trying to build a startup that would rely heavily on Technorati's "Authority" ranking. Technorati supposedly had an API, but to use it we were supposed to write to the company and negotiate a price. I wrote to them 20 times. No one ever wrote back. Out of frustration, I tracked down some of the top people online, found other email addresses for them, and wrote to them. No one ever wrote me back. We were desperate to give them money, but they did not want our money.
Where's the negativity?
Neocities has this kind of functionality. With a normal host you get 0 traffic, my coming soon prelaunch page for my podcast has gotten close to 10k hits through the neocities network with no cost or effort on my part.
> I like [Ron Wyden] but there are in fact more “tech savvy” Congress critters.

Ron Wyden is all over the issues I care about, to the point where on the rare occasions we disagree I’m willing to believe he’s right because he does policy for a living and I’m just a guy with strong opinions (which is precisely why representational democracies were invented).

The other four? I never hear them championing critical tech policy issues. Yes Ron is in the Senate and they are in the House, but Ron was in my feeds constantly long before he ran for the Senate (and I don’t even live in his district). Savvy doesn’t just mean a degree in my book. Savvy means able to cut through the noise and get to what matters.

And since we are clearly in agreement over the importance of this stuff and just quibbling around the margins, I’ll mention adding Suzan DelBene (D) WA to your list of reps to follow if she’s not there already. I’m not sure what her degree is in but she’s a former Microsoft VP who is incredibly smart and deeply knowledgeable about tech issues (though I haven’t seen that emerge yet as a top legislative focus area for her the way it has for Ron Wyden).
Wait, what? Why is it not appropriate to say bigoted white men should be fired? That seems non-controversial to me.

Edit: I guess I'm assuming the bigot is behaving as a bigot, and I think that's a safe assumption.
It's not, "make them play by their own rules" is universal.
So the biggest criticism of Soros is that he's not as effective as the Koch brothers, the Mercers, Robert Murdoch...?
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caveat:

keep your DNS up always - so have a backup if this is running DNS - many mailing list programs and other things will drop a mail immediately if the destination cant be resolved..
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Yes, he did assign fault. The words he used were: "it's your fault".

If I'm assaulted in the workplace for a political viewpoint I anonymously posted, the fault is with the assaultee. Not with the assaulted. However, Zunger flips the blame.

Didn't you see this coming? You should have known opposing the majority viewpoint would be met with violence. For workplace safety, I have to fire you.

Ironically, he seems to blame tolerance on this. It seems the man doesn't understand what the word means.

Edit: > Saying that jaywalking is risky is not an ethical statement about cars

See my response above to joshuamorton.
I didnt see mention of this in the article but I thought accessing a powered-off machine required usage of the 3G wireless support built in to the vPro line of intel chips.
That is common to any language that isn't part of the OS vendors stack, not only Java.

For example, on Android, Java is the name of the game, beyond 3D rendering and audio codecs, the NDK is quite useless as everything else is exposed behind JNI calls.
> defenders seem oblivious to the fact that implicitly questioning whether your coworkers deserve to be there

which is understandable, since defenders don't hold this view. Which parts of the memo are you referring to.

> feel justified in leaking conversations

AFAIK the memo itself was a result of a leak, which sets the tone..

> It is not.

> Because it isn't.

Do you have any comments on the specific things in Damore's lawsuit?
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YouTube is not like FB to drive engagement is why. FB algo tries to leverage emotions to drive engagement and YT does not. There are times I actually wish YT would more instead of me having to do it.
Well, they apparently did go a long part of the way to an MVP...
It does have an alarm when it's about to avoid an obstacle (and it's actually a pretty cool noise, if you ask me), not sure why it wouldn't have one for this scenario as well.
Old-school Buddhism uses lots of really color metaphors like this to describe the length of time people spend in some of the Hell realms. :)
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I thought DDG uses multiple search engines including google.
Do you have any reason to believe Beale isn't just talking out his ass trying to boost his own persona and relevance?

I find it particularly suspect the way he tries to align Damore with his interests and politics.

"He says he doesn’t know if Damore has read his guide, but is following the playbook."

This looks to me like Beale is trying to make everyone view Damore as a member of the alt-right. It makes the left see them as a growing organized group that's waging war.

It's the same tactic that terrorist groups use when they take credit for attacks that they in reality had nothing to do with. It makes them seem bigger and scarier if people think they're organizing all these attacks around the globe.
Agreed. I was just responding to Zeebrommer's claim that the triangle inequality fails with road distances.
Seconded. Read and figured I'd missed it, so read again. Also couldn't see any mention of how long it takes. Like "it's happening now, but we think it may X number of years."
Don't want to wind up in an Xzibit moment. "Yo dog, we heard you like ransomware, so we put ransomware in your ransomware so we can steal when you steal!"
That was creepy. But yes :)
To be clear, by leftists I meant misguided diversity-advocates who had no trouble employing the exact things they claimed to be fighting (racism, sexism and intolerance) as long as it fit their cause. My bad for being imprecise.

I find opposing such hypocracy perfectly reasonable, but I can tell from the voting that the HN consensus is that they would rather leave this giant elephant untouched. In which case, you reap what saw.
Asusme Altman authored the meme on page 121 of the lawsuit the text of reads

> If you want to increase diversity at Google fire all the bigoted white men.

I would put the above statement at about the same as

> If you want to increase productivity at Google fire all the lazy black people.

I will let the reader decide if the two statements should be treated the same by HR.
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Yep, just like the perennial (and nominally true) favorites

"yellowstone will blow up and cripple western civilization"

"a solar storm will blow up our nation's telecommunications infrastructure"

"a super-flu will kill 30% of americans"
Drivers are also documented as passing faster and more closely to helmeted cyclists.
I use digg reader which isnt fancy but works great for me.
You need Pascal hardware or later for FP16. Amazon's G3 Maxwell instances, which are newer than K80s, don't support it, either.
I can trivially define a function that's vastly larger than that. What's interesting is when these numbers are useful for something.

k(1) = TREE(1), K(2) = TREE(TREE(2)), K(3) = TREE(TREE( <(repeats (TREE(3) time (TREE(3)))

Sequence 1, 2, non comprehensibly large number.

Now define m(x) in terms of k and m(x-1).
can this capture the screen outside an app?

Need to do remote iphone tech support for my parents.
The OP conflates politics with criticizing government or CCP. Arguably some do believe politics is solely an activity of blaming government.
The GIG economy is growing bigger and bigger by the day. Here in Los Angeles it is thriving and companies like Fiverr are beginning centralize and localize events that support GIG workers and the economy. https://latechnews.org/los-angeles-gig-economy/
> could be interpreted as misandristic

What do you mean "could be"? It is, full throttle misandry.
Do you mean ESP or ISP? Relying on an ISP email forwarder doesn't work because if I move and cancel my service, I lose all these forwarders.

What ESP do you recommend for unlimited (or large numbers of) aliases indistinguishable from individual email addresses (such as ycombinator4853@foo.com facebook843983@foo.com but not john+ycombinator@gmail.com john+facebook@gmail.com)?

Edit: fastmail's standard $50/yr plan offers 600 aliases. This might be good enough. I've created online accounts at 371 different services over the last 20 years.
This is an interesting write-up, but doing it like this files like way too much work.

I have been using mailcow[0] for years now and it does all of this for me and works great. The UI is beautiful and intuitive. And setting up mailcow literally takes a few of minutes, since the project was ported to docker. Highly recommend it.

[0] https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
I interpreted it to mean that the only bigots who should be fired are the white, male bigots.
On the other hand, instigators are behaving unethically when they take poorly worded complaints and make hay out of it.
You might be willing, but I am not.

If I wrote "Kill all x" people would call me out for the absolute horror that statement implies.

It doesn't matter if you perceive the party to be in a position of power or not.

> "Kill all Americans."

> "Kill all Google employees."

> "Kill all politicians."

Each of these statements is profoundly evil- If you make something akin to this genuinely, then you are worthy of criticism for making them. Unless you retract them, which she has not.
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Why do that, they can coerce apple to do whatever they want. Apple showed no resistance whatsoever about that.
My Twitter feed (former software engineer) has become an endless, open harangue targeting white men. My industry collegues don’t even think twice about openly saying white men are at the root of all problems in tech.

Everyone knows, the definition of “making something diverse” is “removing white men from a group and replacing them with anyone not white and male.”

If I were to post anything remotely resembling disagreement , it would end my professional career. I would be called racist, sexist, transphobic, you name it. So I keep my mouth shut. I’m not the only one.

If I were to reveal that these statements make me deeply uncomfortable, I would be accused of “white fragility.”

Trump isn’t the problem. Any sort is disagreement has been effectively banned and silenced by use of the exact same coercive tactics that are now being turned back on these far Left Google employees.

Liz Fong Jones for example, who would openly disparage white men on Twitter on a regular basis - Still has a job!

Despite all of the harassment, administratively, if you disparate white people due to their race, age and gender (old white men), you are still employed. Maybe you get a mean tweet now and then but your job is intact.

Think about that. If I were to post any of the following:
Women don’t work as hard as men and have different priorities due to their biology, All gender bathrooms are stupid and don’t make sense etc - I would get fired.

If me saying those things is wrong and fireable, so is their left wing equivalent.

It’s time for these large corporations to realize that allowing the minorities to disparage the majority isn’t the solution or acceptable either.

Look at what has happened.
Try using recycled rockets like SpaceX. It seems to be working with a reduction in cost. https://latechnews.org/spacex-launches-bulgariasat-1-recycle...
California sounds more and more like a dystopian hellhole between the rampant homelessness, absurd economic inequality and now "events for GIG "workers""

> A GIG equals a freelancing job and thanks to technology you have ways to easily convert your skill set into a highly profitable revenue generating stream of income.

just yikes
I've opened your link and "Featured Talk" is guess by who?

Senator Hillary Clinton!

That's truly hilarious. Don't bring politics at work, they say.
There was also the instance of Trump sharing Israeli intelligence with the Russian ambassador when they visited the White House. (in the meeting where Trump blocked all American press, and only allowed a Russian photographer into the room)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump...
Why is pop culture obsessed with battles between good and evil?
I've been pretty happy paying Fastmail to run my email server for me.
There seem to be at least a couple of projects on GitHub on this topic. Eg. https://github.com/aimxhaisse/docker-mailz Now how many of them actually work is a different question altogether.
Roundcube seems to own it. Not that many Foss clients to choose from, and RC seems most robust.

The only feature I've ever longed for is a simple way to include a non-reply email in another email message. There's probably a plugin for it.
That line caught my eye too. It's as if whether a claim is true or not isn't a relevant issue, just whether it's smart to say it or whether some group believe that it may lead to undesirable outcomes.
To be honest, it seems like everything is a ponzi scheme of some sort.

Earlier investors will always benefit from later investors.
The idea that staying in an AirBnB instead of a hotel means you are "living like a local" is patently absurd. It's also an invention of marketing folks at AirBnB. One that you have apparently bought right into.

Your credential signaling - "I travel a lot" adds no weight at all. I too travel, most of the year and have been around the world more than a few times at this point in my life. Living like a local is about many things - establishing friendships and relationships with people that live there, its about establishing a routine, its about having life experiences there. But it most certainly has nothing to do with staying in a hotel vs staying in an Airbnb.
https://yunohost.org/ provides a turnkey email solution, based on Postfix, dovecot et al.
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Mirror of thread pre post removals:

https://www.removeddit.com/r/rust/comments/7nx3cm/announceme...
I have an old server that I need to migrate. It uses exim4 and pipes email to programs for certain addresses, and needs to send out automated email for forgotten passwords, etc. Is it worth moving to Postfix or something better? This is the part of the migration I look forward to the least.
> "Based on the strings present in the PE file, it has been written in Go"

I find this kind of interesting. I've seen reports on other malware/virus stuff written in Go recently. I wonder if this is because the ability to cross compile with Go is pretty painless? Or is it because the language is fairly approachable but still allows you to dig a bit "deeper" if you need to?
I agree with your description of populism, but it does not argue against decentralisation.

I guess you think of the single leader as the "centralised" focal point of a populist movement. I agree, but it's not what the word centralised refer sto. Instead, it refers to the media being centralised or not.

Any leader needs a platform to broadcast their message from. Centralised media have (some) selective power over the narrative, and therefore the role of gatekeepers or enablers (like when controversial figures get disproportionate attention because it causes more clicks - see also [0][1]).

The decentralisation aspect of the internet undermines that, which in itself is value-neutral. This is not something that never happened before; the printing press allowed Luther to bypass the gatekeeping powers of the Catholic Church[2]. As I mentioned elsewhere, this lead to massive social upheaval ending in the Thirty Year's War, so it's not all positive (worth noting is that Luther's biggest issue was with the so-called "indulgences", which allowed people to buy off their sins[3][4]. How is that for unfair wealth inequality?)

The point is that the printing press meant that a lot more voices could be heard by a lot more people. The Internet takes that to the next level. A lot more of those "single charismatic leaders" suddenly have a potential audience (this might explain why I feel disdain for most YouTubers: a lot of them want an audience for the sake of having an audience, without having a story to tell).

The Internet decentralises populism because it decentralises all communication. Clay Shirky (from whom I stole the printing press example) has written a lot on this[5].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

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

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses

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

[5] https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_...
Why is this trending? They were saying this nonsense on Ancient Aliens on History (which I've watched because it's trash TV and fun,) or all of those other doomsday shows you saw especially around 2012.
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Why even discuss this? How can you expect good intentions from your white coworkers if these are the types of discussions going
on publically in the company?

Race agnostically, it is an obvious statement and should be part of company guidelines : "bigotry will get you fired". Simple.

Similarly, how can anyone believe that saying something like "violent black men should be fired" is okay? Just address violence in the workplace race agnostically in your company guidelines and don't tolerate it.

Is this really complicated?
It should be Zero. Computers don't make mistakes is the entire reason anyone would even consider letting an automated car pickup their kids.
I fully agree.

While technically inferior to Chef and Puppet, the simplicity of Ansible's syntax is what makes it so useful.

Learning curve and preventing people from being "clever" is absolutely essential for a tool which is used by a team of developers.
I disagree, but even if true, I'm not really sure why that's relevant here. Zunger's opinion may be that violence toward Damore is justified (I doubt that, but it could be the case). That doesn't change what he said, which was a fact: saying things that deeply hurt people will makes some of them want to punch you. Why does who the author is matter to the truth of that statement?
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Two years ago I would have invested some effort to read this thoroughly and try to stay on top of the API changes. I'm sure it's helpful to a lot of folks.

For sure I do care about my build toolchain. The nice thing about being a React developer today, is that thanks to create-react-app, more specifically react-scripts [1], I'm thankful I get to choose to not worry about it. Just like I didn't have to worry about 2.0 -> 3.0 last time.

Cheers to the CRA maintainers. Thanks for giving me some time back!

[1] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/next/packa...
It's a plug for the book the essay is from. It barely introduces the subject. The book might be interesting and explore all of this stuff in depth, but excerpting a section like this is poor form. It's on a website so it shouldn't be a space issue. If your going to advertise your book like this, the reader should get something out of it.
Yes i know many, cleaning people too. You do know that being a bluecollar worker doesent make you dumb or ignorant and cant be booksmart right? Furthermore how many ais do you know that know about movarec let alone the paradox. How many normal academics do you know who know movarec?
That's how I interpreted it: even using the simplest and easiest methods, they were able to tie transactions to individuals.
Is this the same Fiverr that supported the GIG (who's paying you to yell at me) workers by telling them to sacrifice their health to work?

https://twitter.com/b_cavello/status/839876313473150976/

> Here in Los Angeles it is thriving

It's thriving, huh? How about the workers themselves? Are they thriving, too? Or just the economy?
Is it not true? If it is true then it seems like a good idea to let people know, I myself didn't know about this phenomenon before and feel better informed.

If it's not true, or the danger is being far overblown then speak up here and let us know.
Accepting an apology means the deed can no longer be used as a Casus Belli for activism. There's a whole political movement predicated on this idea.
Absolutely horrible – I tried to setup Postfix for my friends to hide Gmail behind their organization's domain.

Configurations were incredibly unfriendly and tedious. Despite all anti-spam measures, Microsoft was blocking their IP according to some private spam blacklists. Then they couldn't send emails to some ancient government server in Guatemala because of encoding incompatibilities.

I ended up moving them to the free MailGun plan. It took me 2 hours instead of 2 days.
> 60 Minutes Interview George Soros Tried to Ban - Atheist, Holocaust Criminal Conspiracy

> Rumors have circulated since protests and riots broke out following the election of Donald Trump last week claiming billionaire globalist and notorious meddler George Soros is backing the anti-Trump movement in an attempt to further destabilize the nation.
Although the links thus far have, indeed, circumstantially indicated Soros’ involvement, the connections haven’t been entirely clear — until now.

Yeah, I don't think I need to sit through that for 60 minutes before I draw my conclusions.