skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So clearly the market has chosen, and walled gardens where users don't have the freedom to run their own code or apps, their own OSes prevented with locked bootloaders, locked apps (no ability to interfere with apps running on YOUR device, e.g. read their data), ... and so on is now the default policy.

Never again will one app be compatible with others without a business agreement between them ... because that just can't be allowed (dixit $100 million per year+ managers at these huge companies, and I'm sure it's 100% coincidence that this would allow small companies to compete with them. Totally unrelated to this decision). Can't work in the cloud, can't work on android, can't work on IOS. And for that matter, can't work on UWP.

And of course let's not forget that the massive cost, that everyone's data is now 100% accessible to law enforcement and civil courts (and thus to anyone with the money to sue you) is just acceptable damage. After all, that doesn't affect $100 billion plus companies much at all.

Their argument is that it can make web banking unsafe. Yes ... that's true. It can.

What is does 99.999% of the time however is enforce the market dominance of really large players.

But, like people walking into a camp during WWII, nobody holds a moment of silence when they enter the compound with the large barbed wire. Nobody regrets what's happening when they lock the gate. Only years later, when all the bodies are found ... then we stop and think.

This is them locking the gate. Now comes years and years of really really bad applications, and exploiting the lockin.

And yes, the only system not in a locked ecosystem is the PC ecosystem (needless to say, this is the ecosystem that ALL of these large companies use, MS, Google and Apple, for themselves. And now they're locking it for the rest of us)
Interesting discussion on what we should consider property and what we should expect remuneration from.
I remember people migrating from Myspace to Facebook over the course of several years because Facebook was seen as the better alternative.

According to a quick Google search, Myspace peaked at about 76 million unique visitors while Facebook can boast 1 billion active users.

Even if Facebook lost a quarter million people a day for four years straight it'll still be more popular than Myspace at it's peak.

Facebook definitely isn't following the same trajectory but only time will tell how and if their story will ever end.
It is a bit hyperbolic
yes, unless ip allocation is completely free of direct and indirect costs.
> - Those who want a simple Unix desktop with no gimmicks and low hassle

This!
When you are using OpenBSD, and wonder how a particular piece of the kernel works, you just open the source code, read it, and you can usually have a good idea of the inner workings with some days studying it.
Trying to do the same thing with linux, you would need months to grasp any idea of how it works.
Linux is developed by thousands of people all around the world at the same time. OpenBSD on the other hand is developed by a few power developers, which gives the code a unique consistency and readability.
There's a business angle to the newsfeed that's not being talked at all. Your news feed being "algorithmically controlled" is a huge advantage to the platform from advertising perspective. Facebook at this point has liberty to show me a promoted page because one of my 700 friends liked it at some point of time. If none of my friends has liked it then it's promoted as "Popular across Facebook".

I believe promoted tweets work in a similar way. If a platform provides any sort of control over newsfeed it looses the leverage to show you what it wants you to see.
Like the direction you are headed. Considering that use of ASICs is going to rise, think you should consider local installs through docker(like machinebox.io) or another technique.
Also federated learning would be next thing to take on.
I typically follow people I've had a number of meaningful conversations with.

If looking for techies, they're scattered across several instances. The i.write.codethat.sucks instance I am on I think is on the smaller side.
No, but more folks in the middle class might be able to remain in the middle class if their modest portfolios had access to high-growth companies, ideally through index funds rather than individually-picked stocks
Having too many newsfeeds sounds like a good problem to have: perfect application for Machine Learning to solve!
Easier said than done. Rockets have to carry their own fuel, so they are heaviest at launch. If you’re in a deeper gravity well, then you need a longer burn to reach escape velocity, and then also more thrust at launch because you have to carry more fuel (which means still more fuel...)

It never becomes mathematically impossible to achieve escape, but it can become engineering-impossible, ie the propellant fraction becomes so high that it’s impossible to build a structure that can contain the propellant and maintain mechanical stability. Just for reference, modern rockets are 90+ percent propellant by mass.

For more, see https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped...
> Security consultants and contractors already exist.

Thanks for that protip.
More like: it doesn't take much for people to turn into beasts.
Developers really should be using Windows Server for Windows development, particularly if the software is going to be running on Windows Server in production. That solves at least some of the issues you mentioned.
How so? They can give you control and still insert ad cards with any targeting they want.
I have been using starship names from Star Trek since basically forever.

enterprise, voyager, relativity, defiant etc
That's not an efficient use of his time. The first answer instead of that adversial crap should've been "Let me introduce you to my colleague John Doe who will be handling this matter. John, a mutual acquaintance introduced Dylan to me as a reputable security researcher, please handle his report. -Signature." He is a director, he needs to delegate ferociously. Unless it's organizing, strategizing etc it's below his concern.

I have been on the receiving end of such emails a bazillion times in my carrier. My boss or the boss of my boss is certainly not going to bother with such small affairs. It is my duty to inform him when it turns out to be a big affair then he can begin to coordinate with engineering, marketing and so on to do the release. That's his job.
How babies learn – and why robots can’t compete
Exactly how I feel about this kind of thing. If UI is "smart" then it is also unpredictable. I don't want my computer to be "smart", like people, who could decide to do any fool thing for their own reasons. At least, I don't want that yet. Don't be smart, just follow simple rules that I can understand.
This is why curation is king and a good human editor is a rockstar.

On this algorithmic side Apple and Spotify are leading the way. For example, Apple Music solves this problems by grouping feeds. Favourites Mix, Chill Mix, New Music Mix, Friends are Listening To, Radio.
Existing Bluetooth hardware has so many hardware and software bugs that it would [hyperbole] a [large thing]. Apple should absolutely control the BT hardware/software stack, there is no other way they can offer the Apple Experience without it.
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I think it's less that than it is a philosophy; they're still very wedded to the idea that mice = (general purpose) computers, touch = tablets. I wouldn't be surprised if this eventually changes--maybe sooner than we think. Apple also at least claims to be wedded to the idea that the iPad can be an actual laptop replacement; if they mean it, they can't stop where they're at now when it comes to knocking down reasons to prefer a MacBook to an iPad. This is one of the big ones. (And, yes, ultimately I think this will require them allowing users to sideload apps: either the manufacturer gets to dictate how you can use the platform, or it's general purpose, but it can't truly be both simultaneously.)

Also, from a purely revenue standpoint, if they added trackpad/mouse support to iOS, I think they'd just sell more expensive mice and trackpads. :)
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I really like what François Chollet wrote here: https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/what-worries-me-about-a...

Instead of having an algorithmic feed that tunes an opaque optimization problem, we should harness the power of AI/ML and optimize for what the user explicitly wants - whether it be learning, family, or sports commentary.
Those famous outside of Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@brion (major MediaWiki contributor), https://mastodon.xyz/@johnonolan (Ghost.org founder), https://mstdn.io/@xahlee (of xahlee.info, which gets posted here a lot), and https://octodon.social/@pzmyers (PZ Myers, the blogger).

Organizations: https://mastodon.technology/@kde, https://mastodon.social/@Purism, https://status.fsf.org/fsf, and https://mastodon.technology/@conservancy

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Aaron Swartz faced 35 years in prison for breaking and entering and unauthorized access of a computer network / hacking amongst other things.

It's a shame it ended the way it did, but please don't downplay what he did and use his name to push an agenda.
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If there were actually legitimate causes of concern for the market crashing other than Trump trolling on Twitter, then I'd be worried and sell off my stocks. But there's not.
paid puff piece. tl;dr: they made reddit look like Facebook/instagram feed (which every unofficial app already accomplished)
Does anyone have a similar guide but Android oriented?
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It's not a breach when it's openly accessible. It's a leak and nothing else.
My biggest issue with an iPad Pro+Apple Keyboard as the main terminal client:

- Where the "Control" key should be, is the "International Keyboard" key -- and there's no option to remap it. Control-something brings up the "Emoji" keyboard...or the Spanish keyboard (for me)

Everything else? I can live with.
I think it's because it treats hackers as deficient academics who can't be bothered to cite their sources properly or do any research, while there's an equal and opposite argument that academics are deficient hackers who can't be bothered to put their code on github or write any documentation.

In reality, neither is really deficient, they're just aiming at different audiences which need different things.
Your newspaper idea meshes with what I've been thinking. But there's a problem. Newspapers did have images, ads, and headlines, but they were more than just that and a few one-line editorials.

In the early days, people posted rather lengthy articles/editorials about what they were doing, thinking, feeling, who they were, etc. On Livejournal, then on blogs, even in the early days of Facebook. But those are mostly gone now, reduced to tweet-sized chunks and making up only a fraction of the feed. Instead, people mostly just reshare, reblog, retweet, copy memes, add links, sometimes photos, checkin somewhere, etc. A newsletter with all of that filtered out, and only the actual content posts would usually be empty.

But if someone could start something like that and start a trend of people actually communicating on a large scale, and making it as digest/newspaper style, that could be pretty interesting.
A Distributed Systems Reading List
Then how does opening the command line in windows magically make it productive? They're just citing a counterpoint.
This is a gold mine!
Not sure of what does webpagetest is showing evidence of. It could be anything... for one thing, AMP versions are much leaner so naturally they will load fast - even with no dedicated CDN at all.

Cloudflare and Fastly should be more than sufficient CDNs?

Admittedly, maybe the AMP CDN is an easier one to set up for the masses, but other than that I bet they all have about the same performance.
Often this argument isn't really about whether everyone is collectively 'better off' by some particular metric. It's about how much of a nanny state it takes to get that result, and whether that's contrary to the spirit of freedom of association. In other words, money is not the only value. Liberty itself is a value.
Comcast / xfinity was null routing 1.1.1.1/32 for residential customers up until Monday morning/afternoon. They removed the null route fairly quickly. I assume it was done to reduce the amount of garbage traffic going to 1.1.1.1 from hitting Comcast's core.
Which is exactly why Facebook and Twitter have "blurrified" your content by making it have no verifiable order by default ("top posts" meaning "totally arbitrary order").

This, as you highlight, probably brings in the big bucks. This makes me think Google had something similar in mind when they "personalized" the search results (a wildly unpopular move), going to show that when you are the product, there may be no UX too unpleasant to sink to.

The upside of this is that these incremental UX sacrifices leave the market open for an alternative, either of the same ad-driven kind or, hopefully, of the more sustainable kind.

Hey, a man can dream.
If the Linux subsystem on Windows satisfies your Ubuntu requirement, a Surface Pro satisfies all of those requirements.
let users to set the algorithms they want to use maybe ? e.g sentimental analysis , fake new filter ...
oh yes. yes there are better ways to ingest nicotine. I, however, don't have the self control to avoid smoking a pack a day. If you're the kind of person that can handle small situational doses to improve whatever you're optimizing for, go for it. Me, on the other hand, i'm a chump. Lozenges didn't really meet the need of the vice i'd set up for myself. No plans for long term vaping. In the short run, i haven't screamed at anyone. I quit once before long ago and used an ssri. Of the set lozenge, patch, gum and ssri, this seems the least painful. It's effective without me checking out from reality. The ssri's made me kind of disconnected from reality. That worked, and worked well, but the blast radius was quite a bit little larger than i really wanted. this feels much more like i can separate the specific smoking impulse without affecting my other impulses.

so, yeah. n=1. not data, just an observation. I think unrestrained smoking will kill me. Perhaps the damage is done, at it will kill me regardless. That said, continuing smoking only expands the risk profile. Vaping likely narrows the risk profile. Even if it does not, vaping is a temporary thing for me. I'll be done soon.
I do, but it's useful mostly with the addition of shell utilities from Nicolas Holzschuch's fork [https://github.com/holzschu/iVim]. At the moment, this still requires sideloading (with a paid Apple Dev account). I mostly use it for LaTeX editing; the whole setup is outlined here: https://michaelgoerz.net/notes/editing-latex-on-the-ipad-wit...
Double yoy? Where?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-v...
To some extent yes. In developing countries (including Myanmar) they are pushing free “access” to the internet via the Facebook app. So for a lot of people in these countries Facebook is essentially the internet.
I have known dairy farmers to name each one of their 4-500 head personally. Never seen that with beef cattle farmers though..
> The gains in eCig usage still appear to cancel out the reduction in cigarette usage

And that's still a significant net victory, given that eCigs don't have the awful health consequences regular cigarettes have.
iOS doesn't have mouse support. It could be bolted on by simulating touches, but a lot of the interactions just don't make sense on a mouse.

The iOS simulator that comes with Xcode demonstrates this clearly. It just feels unnatural to swipe between homescreen pages on a mouse, for example. You have to hold down the mouse button and drag, which traditionally means drag'n'drop of objects rather than switching pages.
only in hindsight. but if they were part of an index the stocks would be even more expensive to buy into reducing gains overall. and remember that unicorns do not pay dividends.
I was recently in a small town in Myanmar where they have public electricity 4 hours a day. I noticed that most of the plugs were used to charge mobile phones, a device that many had never even seen just a mere two years ago.

Now, consider that it's common across South-East Asia to have very basic data plans that allow you to navigate Facebook for free (or at heavily discounted rates). https://www.mmtimes.com/business/technology/20685-facebook-f...

For a huge lot of these subscribers Facebook is the Internet.

People in the developed world who after gone through innumerable Internet phases and fads, and who presumably have more experience and a better sense of its subcultures, still have a hard time to distinguish fake from legit news.

How do you think a small towner in Myanmar who went from zero to Facebook overnight would fare?
FWIW a Martian year is 687 days.
AI is not yet complex enough to warrant such a discipline.

Obviously, like any other tool, AI systems are part of the purview of anyone studying how society works (and as a particularly complicated tool, deserve a particularly extensive examination.) But at this point, studying the ethics of a machine is like studying the ethics of a fruit fly.
Yeah, I've had to disable all keyboards except the main (English) one because hitting the globe key accidentally was so frustrating. For Emoji, I'm using an app called Symbols which allows be to copy/paste them (yay for multitasking with a floating app window on iOS11).
Can you be more specific about "communicating on a large scale" ?
You mean public discussion on social issues / news ?
I did it two years or so ago. You really notice not having a mouse. Copy and pasting was weird. Local development is off the table; your workload will need to be on another box. Panic handled window resizing and rotations weird.
The upcoming version of Blink has some pretty awesome keyboard-based selection/copy/paste: you still tap and hold for the initial selection, but then that selection can be expanded with keyboard shortcuts
Interface Values Are Valueless
If we're talking $1000 per impacted user as suggested by GP, then I'm wondering just how small a fraction of the 37 billion dollar fine it would take for me to swallow my morals and "accidentally" cause or approve changes which cause a vulnerability like this, so I can then blow the whistle and collect my check. As a security engineer, I doubt my net worth will ever reach even 0.05% of that.
Asymmetric Information and Entrepreneurship
"Laser focused on one task" might be a benefit here ;-)
The lunar module was neither self-landing nor reusable.

The lunar module was navigated and landed by a human pilot (with computer assistance).

The descent stage stayed on the Moon, and wasn't reused (except as a launch platform for the ascent stage). The ascent stage also wasn't reused - after the astronauts exited from the ascent stage into the command module, the ascent stage was jettisoned to crash into the lunar surface (or sent into solar orbit). Only the command module returned to Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module
Telling the Stories of Defectors from North Korea