skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a simple question, why do Mozilla not have a policy that dictate that any increase in data collection from one version to the next must either be opt-in or follow a lengthy documented process with the community, in public (similar to RFC in ietf and wikipedia), and a clear update to the privacy policy. Bureaucracy can be helpful in creating trust that important changes won't just sneak up on people unannounced.
Send them to famine struck countries, get them to teach people how to get by without food and "gain energy from nature". I mean it. It would save lives. Over 20 thousand people die EACH DAY from hunger and malnutrition. Do they need a better incentive for sharing the trick? And if it can't and won't be done, then at least out of respect for the starving, let's zip it please.
That is an unexpectedly insightful take on what at first appears to be a very petty squabble, thanks!
What? GDPR is for avoiding Cambridge Analytica/Facebook disatasters, Equifax breaches and other cases when companies collect data that they dont need store it like there is no tomorrow and at the end dont give a shit when people get screwed over by a 3rd party. Great Britain has the worst laws in the EU when it comes to internet regulations. People are jailed for funny videos while the GHCQ hacks corporations, and they have the most invasive security laws at all.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Socialist

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/217478-uk-introduces-law...

What are you talking about???
I have 6 young girls I am selling for sex. Correspond with me via this thread.

Boom. This site is now in violation of FOSTA. Shut it down!
I'm already doing it all day for human drivers to no benefit at all.

I am pretty convinced that computers have the potential to outperform humans in this, but I'm not really interested in hashing out the debate here; the arguments have all been made more elegantly elsewhere. Though I don't know why you keep ascribing 'faith' to me. I never brought that dirty word up. I reasoned my way into my positions.
This is off-topic, but perhaps interesting to some, and might add some weight to the opinions expressed in the article.

The author of this article is Daniel T. Willingham.
He is a psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of some very good books on learning, schools and education.

He is a good, careful and informed thinker on the subject of learning and children.

I recommend his book "Why Don't Students Like School?" [0] for an insightful look at one of the pieces of the puzzle that is Education.

[0] "Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom" https://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-Students-Like-School/dp/0470...
It's going to take more than some news article and some heavily criticized studies to establish such an improbable claim.
I wonder why there is not more talk and research of other liquid fuels that are not as dangerous and inefficient as hydrogen gas.

Example: Methanol or ethanol for flow batteries.
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2017/Q2/instantly-r...
Here's a video of micro plastic on my local beach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAojzv8V84

How the hell can you clean this up without a thousand people using tweezers?

You can't get a backhoe down to the beach. Every tide brings more of the stuff in. It's so overwhelming that it seems pointless even attempting to pick it up. There's f-ing miles and miles of it.
Actually their motto is "Safety third"

https://jalopnik.com/safety-third-is-the-running-joke-at-ube...
At least the Russian government doesn't have many ways to meddle in my life. I would be far more worried about my own government having access to my conversations.
I work my ass off. Lot more hours than would be technically necessary. High tech as well.

I've also gone hiking in the mountains in California. Been on the beach in Italy. Walked around in the center of Munich.

As a 14th century peasant I probably never even knew those places existed.

I can also get pain medication if I have a headache. I can go to a doctor to fix my broken bones if I happen to get one. Oh, and the likelihood of dying of a random infection or chicken pox is exceedingly low.

Is is worth spending more time in a nice, warm, comfortable office to be able to do all of those things? Hell yes. Is it all shits and giggles all the time? Of course not.
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That's funny but wrong.
Hey, sorry for the late reply. Not sure if you'll read this...

It's mostly http://mojolicious.org/

SQLite for the database (for now; that'll change if it gets too big), and nginx as a reverse proxy in front of Mojolicious. CentOS 7.
Guaranteed, no. But I'd take a 1 million divided by 7 billion chance. It's roughly my odds of dying this year in an auto accident anyways.
You're right, it wasn't either but it was a bit of both. Our perspective often misses many aspects of home life in the past because we are living in such a radically different environment than even our grand parents and great grand parents. When we think of "spare time" we imagine the few hours we can snatch before bed when we zone out and watch netflix or browse social media. Spare time for people living a subsistence lifestyle on a farm before the modern era often meant the entire winter or at the least every moment after the sun went down when you were limited to staying in doors with a lamp or fire as your only light source.

It's only after you remove every modern convenience and distraction that you begin to appreciate how important these slow, repetitive, indoor tasks were to human psychology. They allowed one to make good use of their time indoors while distracting from the crushing boredom of having nothing to do and affording time to socialize with family and neighbours.

Now, I'm not saying this is an idyllic lifestyle. It was certainly one of the factors that drove so many people to the squalor of early industrial cities where they might be poor, filthy, and poisoned but at least they had light, drink, and entertainment. But I think it's important to point out that our ancestors managed to get by with a great deal less than we do today while still finding comfort and fulfillment and potentially expending much less effort and suffering a great deal less stress than we experience. It's something to think about at least.
After the slack irc apocalypse, we switched to matrix.org and riot with my friends. I must say, I'm really impressed by the quality of the product.

Regarding its popularity I would have expected a lower quality product. In fact the UX and the UI are superior to slack.

Furthermore while not needed, it was _very_ easy to host my own matrix server and to use bridges to access my preferred IRC channels. So my server keep track of the messages written when I'm not logged in.

Really its just great and I recommend everyone to give it a try.
> At least, most of these examples are not threatening for US persons.

As a german, I'm so fucking fed up with this attitude.
"Leader of the free world" my ass.

Seriously, the US population needs to stop thinking only about what concerns the US population and acknowledge the fact that a lot of US law regarding the internet is actually also affecting the rest of the world. Stop treating non-US people as something which does not need to have at least the same level of protection.

Either fight for the right to have privacy regardless of where a person is coming from or don't fight at all.

Just standing there saying "ah, it's fine, it protects US persons." and then bragging about the US being a fine country and protecting the rest of the world is just... I don't have words for it.
This just seems true by definition. If you have a learning algorithm that has generalized well, then adding noise to its input shouldn’t result in a large degradation in accuracy.
FWIW "playing in the Sun" kinda sounds like you're somehow managing to exist inside the sun's mass and playing there, whereas "playing in the sun" clearly refers to merely being exposed to sunshine and "playing in The Sun" sounds like you're trying to say that The Sun published an article about your play.
Interesting, any public pointer to your dissertation ?
Or perhaps the developers could just request consent before taking your data?

I mean if that is just too difficult then what hope do they have of developing anything.
> isolated incidents of horror.

They are not. They happen with such regularity that you can reliably estimate them per year. They are empirically preventable.
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So they've solved the halting problem then?
"If I move to the US will I be able to navigate the bureaucratic maze of healthcare costs and private health services that cover only every other thing?"
Holy shit I should have known the TERFs were behind this.
Maybe get a different laptop on the desk beside you for your personal stuff?
Not really, no. You can't even torrent there without getting threatening letters in the mail. Also wifi/responsibility issues. Copyright nonsense is running strong in Germany. There are freeer countries than that WRT internet freedom in EU.
Okay, but that's just anecdotal. Do you really think 2/3 of the workers there asked for this exemption of their own free will?

Do 2/3 of the workers in your company want to work overtime?
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Real solid perspective there, thanks as a novice dev.
No you're not
I think you've confused genetic algorithms with genetic programming. They're not the same thing.

> I don't know how Genetic Algorithms/programming could be made 'explainable' as to why they achieved an optimal solution other than hand-waving to how evolution works in nature.

This is quite confused. You're comparing different levels of the systems. In neural networks, we would like to know why a numerical model (which has been optimised by gradient descent) gives the outputs it gives. In GAs, (1) the objects being created usually aren't numerical models -- think instead of solutions to TSPs; (2) the reason the object is good is rather easy to see -- one just has to look at the objective function and verify that that the object has the desired properties; (3) we don't really care what other objects were considered during the search process.
PLA bags aren't bad for the environment; they will decompose quickly. Having 1 euro for durable plastic ones looks more than enough to di discourage their use (even if it's not an actual ban).
Of course they have good apps because they hire best developers to make you give them away all of your contacts and messages.
Humm not really. In my perception, as you age and lose collagen, it seems to be that thinner people tend to show more wrinkled skin on their faces.

A good example to me is Anthony Bourdain. Here's a picture of him in 2014 and four years later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain#/media/File:A...

http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/anthony-bourdain-comic-book-hun...

Don't believe four years alone does that to someone's face skin.
Probably because the content is closer to Pornhub's content. :)
Even then you're no worse off than if you didn't have it at all.
> make a return about a decade later.

Maybe that is how it looked from the outside. But the field continued as normal with no major problems, solving lots of industry problems with little hype.
I see this all the time also. Mozilla is the only company who cares about privacy actually, so I feel people shouldn't go completely nuts every time they spot something small in an experimental version.

Debate, yes, but not 'don't use nightly, sky is falling'.
Both of these are opinion page pieces. Newspapers publish a wide variety of these without endorsing the position.
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1. Sure they say that. Doesn't mean it's true.

2. No keys splitting will protect you if fsb has hold on the company (and they most likely have)

It's a pity 200M people do not understand that

Edit: formatting
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I was in the same boat, but I decided to just make a jump. I've managed to persuade few closest friends to just try it out (half of them also ditched whatsapp altogether.
With rest I just communicate via SMS. While I do lack groups, I've found out I'm not missing out much.
The full quote, since I think that the author of this post cherry-picked unfairly:

>> As one of the folks who brought up the initial concern let me be clear that at this point my only real concern here is one of optics. The DoH service we're using is likely more private than anything the user is currently using.

> It isn't explicit right now that using nightly means opting in to participating in studies like this, and I think the text of the download page antedates our ability to do those studies. The text of the Firefox privacy page says that prerelease products "may contain different privacy characteristics" than release, but doesn't enumerate them. I also can't find a public-facing description of how we handle, secure and audit PII data in experiments involving partner organizations.

> In both cases I'm confident we have solid policies and protocols there, I just don't see a way to point a concerned user to that information.

> I'm working on that now.
It's likely the complexity at fault. The government is much more complex than the average mid-sized company.
My country is ridiculous.
By doing things with a clearly visible message and explicit, prior, opt-in permission, perhaps? What's so difficult about that?
That number appears to include plug-in hybrids.

In January and February this year, 4324 electric cars were registered [1]. Total registration number for this period was 24199 [2].

That would be 18 % electric. There's been a large subsidy to electric cars which is effectively a subsidy to rich people...

[1] http://www.ssb.no/en/transport-og-reiseliv/artikler-og-publi...
Watch this documentary and see what people say. Hey HN folks, Sometimes science does not explain everything.

http://www.lightdocumentary.com/
Trailer:
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I'm liking it very much and it's the only messenger client I use regularly. I made it replace the Sms default app, so either comunicate with me with sms or signal. I don't support whats app because it's close source neither telegram for the bad crypto. I don't have any problems with signal on android. Only thing missimg is more ppl using it. If someone wanta to chat me otherwise they can go with the usual classic waya like facebook, skype, email or discord. But in replacing those only with something better, so never whatsp
App or telegram.
It doesn't mean anything. Once you have allowed Durov to read your contact list and to store your messages on his server, you cannot control what we will do with them. Even without any laws Durov can voluntarily share this data with any government or corporation and you won't be able to prevent this.
Well ... it's what I've come to expect from our federal government.
Taking guns away from people =/= complete been of all guns.

Tighter gun controls requires taking guns away from people (or people giving up their guns willingly).
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I think that the change mentioned in the post is about 'use cloudflare for DNS rather than whatever your local DNS is'.

That has advantages and disadvantages - most people use a DNS automatically configured by the ISP they are using. That might be an untrustworthy DNS from a local access point, or a logging DNS at your ISP. Do you trust cloudflare or BT/comcast less?

Where it gets a bit more worrying is - if you specifically use a DNS from your VPN to prevent DNS leaks? Will this even play nice with 'signin page on free wifi served by DNS redirect'.
Thanks for the insights, that was exactly what I was hoping for.

It's a shame that the situation seems so dire. I guess I can understand it, since Firefox for Android really is not doing well and Focus seems to be doing a lot better, but it's still a really important part of the Firefox ecosystem, so it would be great if they could find a way to make it work well. But ah well. And perhaps they'll try to turn Focus into its replacement later on.
As a person frequently prone to various forms of inflammation, is there something I can do to minimize this risk?
Then you should not work there.
Since this is "Hacker News" I would like to ask an honest question: Which is more likely of the two?

1. The hacker mistakenly sign in from Russia once.

2. The hacker intentionally sign in from Russia once.

I really have no bias towards all this issue and don't really care, but I do care about media making interpretations that mislead the public, which is why I draw this question.

One widely used hacking technique is to intentionally leave a trail that leads investigators down the wrong track, not just for hacking but for all crimes.

I'm just having hard time understanding how people are taking for granted that a competent hacker is more likely to leave a trail by mistake instead of leaving one intentionally, because in most cases it's the latter.
Just want to give Forgotten Weapons a plug here. There is a ton of manufacturing knowledge baked into those episodes as well as some great information on tech paths that didn't pan out that I haven't really gotten from another source.

This cultural shift just makes me feel like the old line was obscenity and the new line is appropriate for 5 year olds.
By the way it should not be difficult to take open-source Telegram c++ client and replace its backend to work with any other protocol.
Estimated 57,700 slaves in the United States according to Global Slavery Index [0]. Here is a related WP article[1].

[0] https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/index/

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17...
You have already made up your mind and are not willing to engage in serious discussion, nor read and consider other viewpoints.
I imagine you are still losing weight? Otherwise eating like 1000kcal below maintenance would be defying thermodynamics.
The elephant in the room is that in quite a few European countries [edit] (such as Germany or Scandinavian countries) it's free or really cheap (ie. Italy) [/edit], hence the well-known phenomenon of the "eternal student".

In countries where job market can be tough, such as Southern Europe or Poland - where I'm from, and where I've observed this first-hand (in Italy, too) - going to uni is a common way of deferring the unpleasant clash with economic reality.

It provides an excellent "alibi" for a few years' worth extension of parents' financial support. "We value education in and of itself" attitude certainly comes in handy ;)
> Genetic Algorithms do exactly the same thing that Deep Learning methods do: optimize a function for a particular criterion.

The difference is that for a GA, that can be any function, whereas for NNs it must be decomposable into a sum of partial objectives, and differentiable. Moreover, the result of training an NN is a function mapping a vector to a vector, whereas the result of training a GA could be an object drawn from any search space.
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Thanks for the links! These Wikipedia articles demonstrate my point that the facts and data are very weak in the trafficking discussion, and that data is often misrepresented to exaggerate the size of the problem.

- The sex trafficking article states that in 2001 the State Department estimated 50k-100k were trafficked into the US -- this estimate was for both genders but the article erroneously states it is women only.

- Either way, by 2004 the State Department reduced its estimate to 14,500-17,500 trafficked into the US annually for all genders and purposes.

- According to the Washington Post, between 2000-2007 the government had identified 1,362 total victims of human trafficking brought into the United States. The percentage of these related to sex is not mentioned.

- The human trafficking article states that the Global Slavery Index estimated 57,700 people were trafficked into the US in 2016. This statement is also erroneous. The GSI's estimate was for the number of people in some form of "modern slavery," which by their definition includes certain kinds of prison labor among other things, and is unrelated to whether they were trafficked.

- The article also doesn't mention that the GSI arrived at 57,700 by designating a tier of the least enslaved countries studied and estimating the number of modern slaves at 0.018% of the population. The same formula is used for Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, etc. I'm not trying to detract from the importance of the issue of modern slavery but mentioning the 57k out of context seems a bit misleading, the US is literally among the best in the world in this area and the number is so rough that it could be off by tens of thousands. And again, it has nothing to do with trafficking, let alone sex trafficking!)

Both the ACLU and EFF oppose FOSTA on the grounds that it violates both human and civil rights. Why aren't we doing better studies and getting better data about the problem it purports to solve?
Durov already has your contact list and all of your messages on his servers. He can sell it to whoever he wants and you won't be able to prevent this.
Great point, I edited my comment to reflect this.
That's a good point. One of the dangerous of calorie restriction or any type of weight loss diet is, it seems, losing muscle mass instead of fat mass.

A reasonably developed muscle mass has shown many health benefits in age related diseases, such as preventing osteoporosis, diabetes and high blood pressure.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041123162138.h...

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20110728/building-muscle...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4101790/
> none of his reporting has ever been called into question

In 2013, Ackerman was forced to take down one of his Wired stories on what he claimed was a "North Korean propaganda video", after it was revealed the film was a satire video by British travel writer Alun Hill.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Ackerman
Thanks Colin! I think you've pointed at a reasonable start and an instance with a reasonable subject matter and sizing, and I'll go from there.
> It seems to me that with this list of demands you are asking to be isolated

I don't want us to be isolated, but safety is more important. Certain disabilities have little impact on casual contact, while others have A LOT, but it is important for people to understand that disabilities and the kind of problems associated with them may not be limited to what they see.

When my autistic son was going through his phase of "I just run off carelessly", I had to walk with him restrained. Sorry, random passerby, I am not being too strict with my son, I simply can't afford to let him go off my grasp for one second because he will run into traffic and die.

When you see my obviously weak other son smile at you, you may feel invited to touch his face. What you don't see is that his defenses are about as low as they can be, and your simple and loving touch may be enough to send him to the hospital. You don't mean it, but you may cause it.

Of course a list like this means you are more isolated than "normal". When you have stopped your son inches away from a car, or you have held your son with 41ºC fever and his heart beating at 240bpm five minutes away from death, whoever doesn't want to understand that your needs are not "normal" simply has no place in your life, because the price may be a dead son.
The brain learns completely differently than we've assumed
Well yes in terms of Plutonium in general, but not the weapon grade P239 kind of material that is very pure... For those you need a specific reactor dedicated to one cause.