skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://imgur.com/a/Hpds1

What disturbs me is how no explanation other than "copy cats out for ad money" is allowed. The abusiveness of it might even get be allowed to be seen if only it could be tied to profit motive. But just targeting children at scale to fuck them up, maybe not even for ads, not even to groom them -- too nasty, can't be, Pizzagate tinfoil yadda yadda. Not that it would take more than a single multi-billionaire with a brain tumor or something; let's simply not even look into it, and make up revisionist narratives once the source material is all gone.

But the material was/is there, not much about the nature of the content is mysterious. Nothing about the denial is mysterious either, except those in it. They prefer to talk about the people talking about the supposed intent of the people who made the videos, rather than the videos thoroughly.

And even when it's well meant, "disturbing" is too much of an umbrella to be useful. It's pretty fucked up that the whole conversation ranges from "is this disturbing or can it be rationalized neatly". I guess that's called framing.

To me it's "disturbing" because it seems to be reading from a script, and because some of it focuses on abuse, gleefully so. And that borders on stuff like toy videos (thousands and hundreds of thousands of them, it seems) which are just hands of an adult... shoving dolls around, making shrill voices. Or those endless wastelands of generated 3D animations playing with heads or tying identity to color, putting things in blenders and microwaves. And so on; there are two bottlenecks, the attention span of listeners/readers, and the energy it takes to look at and then recount all this stuff -- but the amount of fucked up shit is NOT a bottleneck. Even as a collective we don't muster the attention span required. It's an ocean, and we're the people skirting it saying it's a puddle anyway so there isn't even a need to measure its depth. And that itself, the overwhelming of the attention span, is another abusive aspect in all this. And we're not really discussing this or other aspects, using the "nutjobs" as a fig leaf for not doing so. But that's not nutty, and turning a blind eye to abuse is not documented behavior of a deeply sick society. Whatever helps them sleep.

ElsaGate made also me less tolerant of stuff that isn't outright abusive, but simply very shit. That's not fair, but it did sensitize me to "just" sloppy and lazy children's entertainment, too. It's better kids entertain themselves and each other than be entertained by crap adults, I bet you they learn more from that. And frankly, when I look at what goes for adult entertainment, I see ElsaGate as the latest, ugliest achievement in a long line of normalization of abuse. It's no wonder the reaction is so limp and mostly focuses on sweeping it under the rug. We made this, ultimately; but we won't see it for what it is, nor the connection to what we accept.
You don't need to view my session to improve my toaster. I currently have a class A television and would love to be able to buy another one in the future. I'm not sure that will be possible, but maybe having a standard label would help.
I don't know about the Netherlands, but here in Portugal, they're pretty responsive. After someone complained, one of my neighbors got fined for posting PII in the building's lobby.
Would these be applied specifically to data collected not for the primary purpose of the product? If such a regulation applied to all the data collected by a device / service, I'm not sure the classes you propose would be a good basis for a consumer to decide on which products to use. Let's take a product that stores data on the company's servers as part of the core offering.

Under a GDPR-like system where the purposes of data collection were specified as only fulfilling that core offering, you'd get a pretty good guarantee that it wouldn't be used for personalised marketing etc. Yet on my reading of this system, it'd be a class D since this data could potentially be used for targeted marketing.
There are 5 seasons, and the AI story reaches greatness in the 3rd or 4th IIRC.
Maybe the line between hoax and avantgard, never tryied before isnt as clear cut as many want it to be.

If you venture into unchartered territory, trying things not done before- you are exploring a very branchy maze- and sometimes its only sheer luck keeping you from exploring a promising dead end.

To a outsider, or somebody years later, looking down from the knowledgeable mountain of history- such simple decisions seem "strange" and wastefull. But down, in the trenches of today, they where the best move available.

Kickstarter money was always play money of those investing, and once it has been used up- what should those developing eat?

Love and air from the fans? He runs off with little sums, while at least delivering, while others venture off with full studio budgets and deliver next to nothing?
As long as users have the right to opt into collection under class d it would be fine. Keep in mind that products were successfully developed for thousands of years without invasive data collection.
- Smaller body due to smaller mechanical footprint

- using image processing for focus rather than finicky focus sensors which only cover a small part of the image (and having to tune your lenses...)

I’ve been on the fence of getting the latest Nikon 850 or waiting to see if Nikon announces a full frame mirrorless compatible with DSLR lenses someday... I saw a rumor they may announce some kind of mirrorless this year.
Thanks for linking that. It's going to make my life easier this week, and I had not heard of it. I was weighing setting up something like Graylog for some troubleshooting and kind of dreading it. lnav looks like a perfect middle-ground between that and my wiki page full of grep commands.
> GDPR compliance has already cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars and will cost us more as we go on

Wow, that's incredible! Can I ask where you are based and roughly how the cost is broken down?

I just can't grok how an SMB would need to spend so much on something that seemed relatively straightforward for my own business.
The article writer is has younger children, though. For older children the ability to set a daily time limit makes sense based on what research I've seen, and (if you, parent, would like) it could skip the helicoptering and invasiveness: kid gets x hours per day to do what they'd like, and then they need to find other things to do. My oldest is only four, so I haven't begun to think about raising teens yet, and he doesn't get unsupervised time with an iPad, but I'd love just to have a way to track how much time he actually spends using screens like that.
It was created in the 15th century though, and the creators surely knew of other alphabets.
Landings are mostly idle power until they lower landing gears in the last few miles; Take-off with fuel load is the most demanding leg and also the hardest to electrify.
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Blockstack looks like it would fit here:

https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack/blob/master/README....
I see a lot of discussion that includes used ThinkPads, there's one caution I'll give if you go that route: avoid the __40 models (T440, T540, etc). I've not used an X240 but the TouchPad on the larger models is unusably bad.
Admittedly this is the first time I've written this idea down and it needs a bit more work.

But I stand by the general sentiment of empowering users to decide and telling them in plain language the reasons why their data is being collected.
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A warning about Dell XPS (13") screens: if you take the matte display and like coding with dark color schemes it's horrible (but there might be a fix).

It does loose all contrast on dark images. Saving battery they brighten the displayed image and lower the back light. This lowers 100% white to maybe a 80% white and makes for horrible contrast.

For those affected:

- you can test if you have this issue here: http://tylerwatt12.com/dc/

- for a fix you can go through the comments here: https://github.com/advancingu/XPS13Linux/issues/2

But be warned, the leaked firmware someone posted does not always work right (but fixed it for me).

If I read the latest comment right there might be an official patch now (after years of this issue). (at least it doesn't say QHD in the file name) (this is what the last comment links to: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/drivers/driversdet... )

Want another dell display goodie? Their "display manager" for external displays downloads updates via http, through your browser, from a domain other than dell.com, as an exe, signed by their contractor.
At a CC, you're in a class of between 10 and 30 people with immediate access to the instructor, who is usually an expert and a dedicated educator that wants to help you understand the material and will work with you in and outside of class in small groups or one on one.

In a MOOC, you're one of 10,000 students submitting questions onto a web forum and taking multiple choice tests.
No data but I have similar anecdotes, and also have to point out that in the past 50 years or so a lot of the strongest political opposition to increased social programs has come from the working class. Most of the wealthy I've spoken to are less opposed to social spending.

In addition to the reasons cited another factor might be diminishing marginal utility of money. A 1% tax hike on a millionaire will have zero tangible perceived effect on his or her lifestyle. A similar tax increase on a working class person could be devastating.
> Irvine boasts a median home value of $740,000.

I don't see these people as 'nearly falling off'.

I see these as people who don't want to have the value of their homes fall even one cent because 'we got here on our own hard work'.
Could you tell us?
IMO Flutter similarly to Apache Cordova is all or nothing in terms of UI.
If you plan to write your app solely in Dart/Flutter then you’re probably perfectly fine. But can you really tell in advance, you won’t ever need to rewrite some performance critical parts of your app in native language?
With Flutter, you are forced to make this decision early as your app needs to written solely in Dart and Flutter. The reason is Flutter’s widgets. They are not native widgets, but rather just imitation. In reality all Flutter widgets has to be rewritten from scratch. But there always will be some visual differences between Flutter and native widgets. Mixing them in single application will end up in inconsistent look. And your users will notice.

For that reason I personally prefer react-native or native script. Both allow you to write some parts of applications in native language and some parts in js. But look will be consistent, because both are just wrappers over native components.

However the good thing about Dart is that it’s compiled to machine code, which in theory makes it faster then react-native js bridge. But downside is, you need to learn new language, which you really can’t use somewhere else. (yes I know you can transpile to js, but who is really doing it?)
Fuji is in there as well, they have several mirrorless models and their optics are top-notch.
Assets are invested profits. In either case it's a revenue stream the paper might have leveraged to sustain it while it pivoted into a new model.

Instead the Headgefund raiders have done to it what they've done with so many other businesses. They undervalued it, bought it at a discount, disassembled and sold off the profitable bits, left an empty encumbered husk to default on outstanding debts.

This behavior should be illegal.
$10k isn't a lot (assuming that's right; it could be). I mean, it's a lot if you're used to something like MySQL or Postgres-levels of quality, but I've seen quotes for Oracle being almost $50k per core. MS-SQL is something like $7k per core, and kdb+ is definitely a lot more useful to me than MS-SQL.

There's also a per-core/minute pricing which might be useful.
Same in Italian, we call it "I greca".
This exactly. People never believe me whenever I explain that smart refrigerators phone home about use and potentially contents. Then I show then the terms and Eula and almost universally they think it should be illegal.
California and Florida are indeed major homeless destinations due to climate, and California more so due to tolerance.
>If they can come here poor and in a generation become millionaires and buy a home in California of all places, then why can’t everyone else.

If they can do it here, why couldn't they do it back home?
Political corruption, totalitarianism.
I would so most states are setup where if you transfer from a CC to a public state school, you basically have everything transfer and can finish all your schooling in 4 years.

I'm from Maryland, and our CC system, at least for my county, is great. We even had a pretty good career center. Knew many people who where able to get internships at places like NASA or NIH though the community college.

I did my first two years of electrical engineering at CC and it was great. Pretty much all my professors in EE classes had PhD's in the field and were of comparable quality to the ones at my 4 year university. Plus, since your in a class of only like 20 kids, you get a much better relationship. Had a few help me with a getting an internship sophomore year.
Here's the part I don't buy. She says Irvine is made up of 45% Asians, but the protesters are mainly immigrants. Unless all 45% are first-generations, then what she said doesn't add up. She uses the word immigrant only twice in the article, near the top, with little proof backing her statement. Those that she interview have Asian names, but that doesn't mean they are immigrants.

By using the word immigrant, she made the article sensational. She tried to turn the protest into a topic of race, rather than simply stating Irvine residents don't want a homeless shelter in the neighborhood.

Are most immigrants intolerant of homeless in Irvine? That's rather absolute to be true. What about the other 40% whites? Do all of them approve of the homeless shelter? 40% vs 45% are about the same weight, but she chose to focus on only one side of the story. It would be more correct to state: Irvine, made up of 45% Asian ethnicity, fights back against homeless shelter.
A lecture series by Langlands for a lay audience:

https://video.ias.edu/The-Practice-of-Mathematics

The video is not great, but the content. From the summary:

"In spite of forty years as a mathematician, I have difficulty describing these problems, even to myself, in a simple, cogent and concise manner that makes it clear what is wanted and why. As a possible, but only partial, remedy I thought I might undertake to explain them to a lay audience."
Do you happen to know if watching the movie with a VR setup on a virtual big screen could replicate that experience?
Plenty of people got rich in China.

Sounds like excuses from people who just couldn't cut it.
I can emphasize with anyone, up to Hitler. (Full disclosure, have several Holocaust survivors in my family). Doesn't mean I will sympathize with them.
> GDPR seemed unnecessarily overburdensome and limiting last time I looked into it

That's what I assumed before I looked into it, but after I did it actually seemed quite reasonable.

Can you say what parts you find "overburdensome"?
It would make infinitely more sense to look into carbon neutral hydrocarbon fuels that could be used in conventional turbofans.

Some more material on this topic: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/26910/could-an-...
...until they're not (e.g. failed landing, go-around)
Not sure the cost would be linear either since the Atlantic floor is probably deeper in certain sections
Hahaha I love how the title of this post implies the idea that the idea of a Canadian being a good mathematician is a shocker. In my head I read it the same as "John, an octopus, is the world's greatest mathematician".
It's easier to cut it in California?
No, of course not. It's about making records.
This discussion is reminding me of how much of an impact 2010 had on me in elementary school. For me it fostered sci-fi fantasy in the same way that I think Star Wars and Star Trek have for lots of kids.

To me, the universe of 2010 was just barely within stretching distance for society in some forseeable future, whereas Star Wars and Star Trek were unreachable. That somehow increased its appeal to me as a child, as I could envision living in the world of 2010 in a way I could not with other sci-fi universes. The universe of 2010 was my universe, in other words.

I've been afraid to rewatch 2010 as an adult, because I know I will see it differently.
https://www.quora.com/Can-P2P-real-time-streaming-video-be-s...

Make your users your servers..
Sure, but it is reasonable to consider a long trip vs a longer commute in terms of lifestyle and environmental costs. At which point you care about total fuel costs not direct equivalency.

747 burns approximately 5 gallons of fuel per mile and holds 568 people. They are over 70% full on average which works out to:

568 x .7+ / 5 ~= 80+ MPG. At the equator the world is 24,901 miles ~= 300 gallons at worst though most most people consider around the world to be US > EU > Asia > US which is shorter than that.

Edit: US average is 75mpg per passenger in 2014 though longer trips are above that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft

On the other hand at 3 gallons (which is far from extreme) / day x 48 x 5 = 720 gallons ignoring all other driving.

PS: On top of that for longer trips aircraft tend to take more direct routes. You can't just drive from NY to LA on a strait line which significantly reduces cars effective MPG.
California is definitely a destination for homeless people due to climate and tolerance.

There is a practice known as Greyhound Therapy where many cities around the country put mentally ill people on a bus and just ship them off to be someone else’s problem. Many times they pick California because they know that the homeless person would be better off there.
*Plenty of lucky people got rich in China.
I think the US implementing something similar is inevitable. If not by the government than by a privacy company (like PCI is for the card industry).

Already I've started to see contracts with credit card gateways include PrivacyShield clauses.

Personally, all products I build going forward will be GPDR and Privacy Shield compliant even though I am in the US. I recommend other entrepreneurs do the same because it is probably easier to consider it now than it is to do it later.

For example (to give context we have PCI requirements to) when someone makes a change to the code we have a impact assessment that needs to be filled out. Among those are the questions:

1. How will this change impact security?

2. How will this change impact customer privacy?

We fill it out for every single change request (even if the answer to both is "It doesn't) just to document that we are thinking about it and engrain thinking about it into the company culture.
Would I as a business owner be allowed to kick people off my service for not allowing class D? Because in some cases it really is necessary and why should I host a customer who is only costing money?
Is the suggestion that this particular bacteria is behind all forms of systemic lupus or merely that this bacteria can cause such a response? Thats an important difference.
I expect the solution for small businesses is to outsource to the cloud. Instead of building your own user database or customer management system, have someone else do it who specializes in security and privacy.

If the specialists can handle this well, this is probably not a bad thing. But it's another example of the increase in production values that gives an advantage to larger companies.
I don't think $5k will do much in a state that spends far beyond that per person.
You can’t expect them to have the solutions for a societal problem. The fact that there isn’t affordable housing and job opportunities for these homeless is a failing of the US government, not Irving’s government, and definitely not of that local community.

However if all the homeless congregate in that area, it’s an unfair burden to that community from a problem caused by a failing of the government. They have the right to complain, and they don’t have the responsibility to accept that burden alone. They can certainly take action to remove the burden without being blamed because no other community will step up to the plate.
There are even programs in various cities in the middle of the country that will pay to bus homeless people to California. And then those states try to stop all federal funding on homelessnes.

California is housing the country’s homeless, federal funding should be taking care of most of this problem.
On what are you basing these expectations? Uploading means transmitting data to a third party. One could write a CLI that does just that. One could also write a web app where the processing takes place in the browser and the data never leaves the machine.

The difference is the web app runs within the browser sandbox while the CLI executes with user permissions.
So make it illegal.
Might I suggest an alternative? If the customer is not comfortable with Class D, don't kick them off, require a monthly subscription fee. If they don't like it they will kick themselves off.
If the GDPR was a War on Drugs, it would be one in which neither the users or the small time dealers/employees have anything to fear, only the gang leaders/shareholders.

I'd support that War on Drugs.
Reasons it has cost my small company hundreds of thousands of dollars:

Hundreds/thousands of hours of time (over a thousand for sure by May 25th, and it doesn't stop there) of very expensive employees to understand what compliance means and work toward achieving it (law/privacy professional, developers, training time for all employees)

New software tools for specific compliance requirements (documentation, etc.)

Consulting and new services needed (EU representative, etc.)

Cost of EU servers (this is NOT required for compliance, but so many of our customers have a bad understanding of what the GDPR requires of them that we found we would lose tens of thousands in ARR if we didn't bring up an EU server stack).

I've spoken with friends at big megacorps, and the challenges are massively different. At our company, we need almost everyone to understand quite a bit of the GDPR. We also can't build giant custom solutions -- like many SMBs, we are essentially a framework built around a chain of dozens of third party services that all have their own GDPR needs, from G Suite to Mailchimp to github to our bookkeeping and accounting contractors. The job of GDPR compliance just doesn't scale proportionately from 1 employee to 1000 -- there's a base level before the scaling starts, and the scaling from there isn't even 1:1.
It is inspirational that he is still active at 80+. Frankel’s videos are great, though I am still building to a real grasp of Langlands work.
Absolutely! I love problems that have an easily understandable value proposition like "we take the grief out of doing taxes." In my experience it's the biggest single success factor in writing good software.

So if you like to write successive business software--and get paid--this is a great problem to go after.
Dunno which era that one is, my XPS15 9560 never dims at all, it's always bright, maybe that's because I'm missing some sort of userland or kernel driver, but frankly I like it this way.