skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the thorough reply, and for arguing in good faith.

I disagree with (1): I don’t see this as a ‘both sides’ issues, and I don’t believe that the left, as a whole, has been as amenable to inflammatory propaganda as the right has been. As my prime example, I’d note the Macedonian fake news phenomenon that occurred right around the election. As the creators themselves have stated, those articles targeted right wing voters because those were the people who were interested in reading, spreading , and talking about the propaganda they were spreading. Since these creators were solely interested in financial profit, it stands to reason that they would have preferred to make money appealing to left wing audiences as much as they did right wing ones. There was no explosion in fake news from these sources to the left because there was no demand. As my secondary examples, I’d maintain that most left wing media outlets (tyt, mother jones) have much higher journalistic standards than their counterparts Breitbart and infowars - and the equally opportunistic propagandadists as Russia Today. If you’d like to point me towards the cases you believe the left has pushed fake news I’d be interested in learning more.

2) that’s why I specified ‘modern’ propaganda- things like troll farms, planting anti immigrant stories (faking rapes, murders, massacres) along with investment into finer targeting mechanisms (the hacking of state voter rolls and CA data to be used for micro-targeting). I should note that I brought up the election collusion because it is propbabaly the place the left could be most prone towards conspiratorial fantasies, and the first place you’d find such ideas.

3) I liked the piece but I thinks it’s a stretch to try and use it to refute my points. We could call them active measures, political warfare, nonlinear or hybrid warfare, but the point still exists that Russia is pioneering new weapons to attack western and western leaning democracies. And you’re saying if those measures did exist the result would be making the us look weak on the international stage - isn’t that ‘exactly’ the point of them? I assume when Russia launched a chemical weapons attack in the UK the purpose was exactly the same - to underscore British weakness and estrangement from her allies.
i suspect they'll sooner roll out security theater practices across their work campuses, than implement such an act of self-restraint.
There's nothing more immoral than working for Google. Stop your bullshit, people working for it are cowards contributing to spy machine.
I don't understand your terms, though. You can buy or sell calls and puts on any date prior to expiration.

Simplification[1] is in the eye of the beholder.

[1] e.g. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/twain.htm
There are also complete lecture series on linear algebra with Gilbert Strang on Youtube, highly recommended.
This was not a deprecation. They immediately and without prior announcement revoked access to many endpoints that had been scheduled for shutdown later this year and next year.
I think you're trying to falsely equivocate two completely separate things.
It's really to sad RethinkDB gone.

While I keep hearing that the RDMS(Postgres, MySQL...) was built on year of experiences I alwawyas think why we cannot come up with something nicer, more friendlier to the old way. Eventually we will build up knowledge on the new thing and have a system that just as good but also as much friendlier.

Example: when looking at how MongoDB handle replication, it's so easy to just add a new node and have it join cluster without seeding some data and set binlog position (like MySQL).

Or looking at RethinkDB query language, it's just so much easier compare with SQL, at least to me.

Nowsday, I cry whenever I see SQL query. I learn to master it, but life's too short to write those kind of thing.
Advertisers will stick to the safest option to avoid controversy at all costs.
And for the most part non family friendly advertising is already disallowed.
never going to happen, unless users organize some kind of collective action. Imagine how quickly Facebook would start to make changes if a bulk of users deactivated accounts in protest, similar to a strike [1].

Easy to do in theory, hard to do in practice.

[1] https://medium.com/@oddbert2000/call-for-a-facebook-users-st...
Dozen black holes found at centre of Milky Way
https://jonasnick.github.io/blog/2017/05/23/exploiting-low-o...
Wut? Do you really think you can convince me that USSR did not have toilet papers or pencils? Or send the first man to space? This is not about what economical model is better. People can collaborate both under central economic planning and through free markets. One might certainly be more preferable to the other, but that's totally a different conversation (I'm not a fan of either, for the records).
Bold talk from anonymous coward

Unless you’ve cured cancer or unlocked new physics, odds are you’re just peddling skills millions of others have and are not contributing anything terribly unique.

Just looking to get the right people on your side to scrape together a living in a different context
For mindful meditation, that's not necessarily a bad thing... just focus on catching the thoughts and letting them go. I have a highly productive ADD so a voice recorder really helped with this step (record the idea to clear my mind). It can be helpful to start mindful meditation by listening to music or looking at a mostly static scene (nature, city, picture, whatever - no TV).

From there, maybe experiment with silent meditation. I got there by focusing on successively simple stimuli (city -> picture -> mental picture -> simple shapes -> dot -> nothing).
I think the parent's (unstated) implication is that a system that can detect and block from a list of CP hashes could also be used to block any other content.

For example, let's say I create an eye catching flyer image detailing locations for a peaceful protest against the firing of a Mueller. Such a system could be used to block it.

Right now no one opposes building it, but the capacity once created can be easily abused.
What a terrible name. :/
at weenect we're working on gps tracker for dogs and cat, we have a g-sensor that put the system in sleep when the tracker stop moving and wake it up after a certain threshold. but we need to find some good "threshold" that typically won't wake it up when the dog or the cat sleep and move a little, we have some good values but we still some moves on our tests animals (i.e the co-founders dogs and cat) during the night.

We would like to know if it's due do an actual "the cat wake up to go eat/play/whatever" or it's just "the cat is scratching itself"

so with that camera we could image the camera always recording a stream (or by chunk) and when a move over the threshold is detected, it call something on the camera it copy somewhere else the last N minutes so we can analyze it without staying up all nigh :)
Try using it on a bike's handlebars. But now that I know I can turn the 'feature' off-- awesome! I will say, bike routing is amazing on Google Maps. It knows about every path and shortcut and road that is blocked to cars but open to bikes.
People can advocate away from their origins. It's not hypocritical for the child of a rape to advocate against rape.
How are you managing your SSH keys to make <1HR rotation feasible?
But that would be a performance killer or what?
What does 'anonymous coward' mean in this case? We aren't on El Reg.
Tech Brands Boom with Expansion Beyond Traditional Domains
I use a couple of books to prop up my monitor. I also got a notebook.
I think the distinction is between "arms" and "ordinance". Reading through the comments here, it seems "munitions" is a super set of both.
The important thing to note here is that these endpoints were scheduled for retirement at future dates; some in July 2018, some in Dec 2018. Today, with no prior announcement, these endpoints were abruptly retired.

Instagram had previously published a deprecation schedule for these endpoints, and threw that schedule out the window without notifying even Instagram Partners.

Edit to add: these endpoints are all related to the profile data and behaviors of non-oauthed users. This is the exact data that ML researchers (myself included) would normally use to analyze social graph behavior, interests, and audiences of Instagram users, and also is exactly the type of processing activity that GDPR restricts by requiring explicit and revocable consent. I see the abrupt retirement of these endpoints as a reaction to the pressure FB is facing as of late. This is a positive for personal privacy and will reduce the potential for abuse, however many types of legitimate and responsible businesses will be affected as well.
The users who would be most willing to pay for such a change on Facebook are probably also the most lucrative demographic for advertisers.
If the US only were using drones against ISIS then that would be a different story. The fact of the matter is that the US uses drones on much less morally cut-and-dry groups than ISIS, and will likely continue to do so in the future. It's like if a farmer wanted you to make them a shotgun so they could kill the wolves terrorizing their flock but you knew they were also going to use that shotgun to rob their neighbor for oil
Threads in Slack, a long design journey
There's someone out there for whom this is their dream job. Probably a substantial fraction of the population, actually, judging from the tag clouds on porn sites.
Mastodon can help you with the first part - you own the server and all the data on it. AFAIK there's no encryption of data at rest so you'd need to add that, but if you own the server it's less of a concern.
It is absolutely not serfdom, no one is compelling you or anyone else to 'work' for YouTube.
I know but I was going for what lined up to make my point :)

If you look at details, the progression from 94 to 2008 is HUGE but its very much in details. That was the point more so than figuring out which McLaren had the most appendages.
You are missing context. Grandparent was claiming that Linux was the best OS he’d used for development (fair enough), but that he’d rather have Windows over macOS otherwise. That part I was hoping for clarification on.
"Youtube has become nothing more than a money making opportunity that is getting flooded with people who would rather deceive people than get a real job."

Would you say the same for anyone who works in video production? How about someone who was making TV shows?
She cra-cra.
This depiction of China is blown way out of proportion and it's basically thanks to US propaganda which is used to justify the kinds of military spending and activities it undertakes.
With an SSH CA.
> Facebook can't seem to behave in a trustworthy manner.

My goodness, this is the same issue, not a new one. Facebook is behaving in a trustworthy manner right now, over-communicating the scope and details of this issue, yet here we are to attack them anew over it.
Never would have guessed that. I take back my slander.
Maybe if they stopped the program they would kill less people.
> their graphs (at least on Android) have no labled Y axis!

It's the same on iOS.

I can't say I'm happy with Robinhood. It's dumbing down something that can get you into a world of financial pain if you don't know what you're doing.

If they want to target people that don't understand what they are playing with, they shouldn't be giving away options/crypto access/margin buying to people that don't understand those concepts. Expect a lot of people to lose a lot of money. /r/stupidfinance has some pretty great posts in which people were left in the cold after playing with fire in RH.
Which would have the side effect of actually generating power!
> Beyond the censorship issues & lawsuits, Google regularly gets a pass when their crummy policies negatively impact people. While it is horrible that some were hurt in the process, I wonder if this will make Google start approaching their huge amounts of power with some civility.

Probably not. Whenever there's a shooting, there seems to be a strong pressure to disregard the idea of addressing the shooter's motives. If anything, I expect Youtube's demonetization policies to attract more sympathy and support, since they were victimized on account of them.
Ok I'm sorry, I see it quite often and your comment could be read that way.
Yup. I work in a pretty pared down cubicle space and prefer not to leave my books at work— one of those dorks with a wall of them in my apartment.

But I do have an Ascii table and a DEC/HEX/OCT/BIN chart so that I can just glance up if I'm not feeling particularly quick.
I don't know exactly how they would profit from option trades, but I have heard of something called "payment for order flow" and I believe it is a substantial reason why discount broker commissions are so low these days, let alone free at Robin Hood. I have faith that if a population of traders can be identified that consistently lose money, someone will figure out how to legally exploit that. Paying to attract them is also a good sign someone knows how to exploit them.
Well it's an automated system, so it's highly unlikely that someone is reading all (or any) of your messages. The volume of messages Facebook and Google process every day is astronomical, so no manual oversight process would scale. It's similar to how email spam filters have worked in a completely automated fashion for years. In this case, PhotoDNA works by comparing image hashes, so it probably has fewer false positives than spam filters.
On the contrary, historical tweets are often systematically picked apart.
I would make a morpheme ligature such as æ a separate code unit. Oh wait, it already is!
At least this article doesn't say anything about that. In fact, it presumes all cores have turbo (which would make sense): At the peak turbo of 4.0 GHz, or for all-cores somewhere in the middle (again, Intel won’t specify), the power will obviously be higher.

Later they do some "sleuthing" to quote them and come up with this chart which again indicates turbo across all cores: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/12607/Turbos.png
Widespread acceptance and use of contactless cards are much, much better than any solution tied to a phone (let alone a luxury phone brand) because they're accessible to anyone with a bank account.
Let me ask you this then. I clicked your HN profile for clues about what your interests might be, and you mention your public key on keybase.io. For this example (I am writing this before I did this search) I will search Google for keybase.io and copy here one of the top ads.

Unfortunately keybase.io and keybase as search terms don't show me any ads. Let me try "public key". Still no ad. (On Google's homepage.)

Let me try keybase public key. Still no ad.

Let me try public key server. No ad. I clicked around on some related queries, until I finally saw an ad. (The query I ended up under was: sks keyserver setup).

Now here is the ad that I saw:

OpenPGP Library for .NET‎
Adwww.didisoft.com/‎
Pure .NET OpenPGP Library Easy API
Online examplesPurchaseProduct page

(How it appeared to me, at the bottom of the search page: https://imgur.com/a/n76d3)

Now let me ask you. If you are a .NET developer and you're trying to work with PGP, would you rather see what I just showed you - or would you rather see an ad for cat food (even though you don't own a cat)?

Please be honest here.
> Except in Ads. Those (almost) always work. The customers who spend here have dedicated technical contacts. Go figure.

Even then, it's not always ideal.

A few years ago I did AdWords for a company that dumped five figures every two weeks into Google Ads. Sure, we had our own person at Google assigned to us. But the person was reassigned to another department in Google every two months, and we ended up with someone new and wasting two or three days bringing them up to speed on our specific needs.
By git, do you mean GitHub Pages?
I once saw a presentation at a BCI conference about using DBS to treat depression. They basically installed a 'happy button' in someone's brain, and it worked.

On the one hand, it's sort of scary. On the other hand, what are you supposed to do when nothing, not art nor work nor drugs nor thought, does anything to ameliorate the pain?
My biggest criticism of Parameter Store is actually that it's free. Let me explain:

Because it's free they limit the requests per seconds you can make to the Parameter Store. That's especially noticeable when doing requests for all parameters of a given path, as the limit is way lower there than for requesting (a bunch of) individual parameters. In the past that caused serious problems for us when using Parameter Store for AWS Lambda functions during a deploy of new versions of functions, as suddenly there was a spike in the number of requests to Parameter Store as all AWS Lambda containers got replaced.

They of course set such limits because it's free, so I'd gladly pay for getting increased limits.
I think technically it's an "atom" feed, and I'm not hip enough to know the exact difference, but there is certainly come kind of feed there.

https://<MastodonInstance>/users/<UserName>.atom
..only in a lawless society?

Nazi Germany was a country full of laws. (I realize I am Godwin’s law-ing, but the parent implied that self-defense ought not be a right in a society with legal institutions and laws; Nazi Germany is a perfect counter example of how “laws” aren’t always just and that a fear of government is a legitimate concern.)
"Well regulated" in it's historical context doesn't mean anything close to what we think of as "regulation" today. The phrase means "functional" or "functioning". E.g. “If a liberal Education has formed in us well-regulated Appetites and worthy Inclinations.”,
or "The equation of time … is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun dial.”
Gotcha, I do remember seeing the deprecation schedule (some stuff was late 2018), so it was definitely sped up.
Luckily it was just a handgun. If it were an AR-15 it might've been a different story, as this radiologist who treated Parkland students noticed: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/what-i-...
Or you both can consider stepping down from your high horses. It is a fun tongue-in-cheek idea, and the author explicitly mentioned the need for a gearbox. I am teaching physics and I will probably use this example in a lesson soon, because it is actually interesting to discuss why this idea would not work in practice (in principle all you need is indeed just a perfect gearbox).
Nuclear weapons are munitions. A U235 bomb like Hiroshima’s is technically a gun even. Do you have a right to carry one of those?
With everyone hyper-polarizing anything with guns and/or mental health its hard to remember this is an option
Many of these endpoints were scheduled for retirement in July and December of this year. Developers were NOT notified in advance that they would be abruptly shut down today.

I also believe this is a reaction to all the recent privacy issues that Facebook is facing. They identified Instagram as a huge risk for behavioral mining (it is) and abruptly shut down all features that can be used to analyze behavior and infringe on privacy at a large scale.
The friends-of-friends change happened in 2014. Cambridge Analytica's method stopped working back then as apps could no longer acquire permission to query friends of friends.
While this was flagged to hell, probably due to insensitivity, this will become a point of discussion going forward.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Paris, follow up articles appeared on HN discussing the situation of poor communities on the outskirts of Paris. Although being sensitive is important and just plain human courtesy, and we should be civil, it is important for discourse to discuss the situations and circumstance surrounding such incidents.

Incidentally, today is MLK's death anniversary. After race riots in the 60's, he famously condemned them, but then said in his "The Other America" speech:

>But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.

We need to have the intellectual courage to tolerate this discussion about the situations surrounding it. While one shouldn't martyrize the shooter here, we need to be aware of the circumstances that precipitated it.

EDIT: thanks for the vital correction!
There are many kinds of programming you can do without being an expert or having a degree...but it's scary if there is systematic encouragement of unskilled programmers to write smart contracts that risk real money.
To be fair, A fair few technologist-led startups have failed because they focused exclusively on product, sure that the market would beat a path to their door.
It's similar to the activities of most anti-virus/malware agents on computers. Of course, one could argue those cases are focused much more on the security aspects, rather than Facebook's revenue-generating motives to see what you do for advertising purposes.
What YouTube needs are editors. Editors get to tell people that their content is garbage or great.

The problem with social media is that they don't have people telling the public that their ideas are crap, so everyone thinks they're important.
But if all the guns were gone we wouldn't need any anymore, ergo world peace, cats and dogs living together, and mcdonalds becomes vegan. /s
>drone strikes on hospitals, up to 200k civilians dead in Iraq

You are looking at allied actions in WWII through rose colored glasses if you think that's worse.

Dresden, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Berlin, Saint-Nazair... the allies engaged in total war.

Civillians are part of the war making capability of a nation, and in WWII all sides considered them to be valid targets.

In Saint-Nazair's case it wasn't even enemy civillians. The German U-boat port was too heavily fortified, so the British wiped out the occupied French town that fed it.
Death's Best Friend
> I wish I could just pay a monthly fee to access Facebook but to be protected from advertising and from being the product.

Honestly, they'd take your money and still treat you as a product and sell you. Their entire corporate culture is built around users being the product, and small cash payments won't change that.

Nothing short of firing the entirety of Facebook's leadership and a good fraction of its other employees will change how it views its users.
Maybe Samsung's firmware team has a sub-par scheduler.
That's because you can't unring a bell.

A website can be revised.
> You're assigning far more importance to research group purchases than I think is warranted. They don't buy enough to create economies of scale. That's why researchers so frequently adopt consumer products already manufactured at scale, like the Novint Falcon, Microsoft Kinect, and gaming graphics cards.

This is true, but in the consequences I have to disagree: Very often from this kind of "abusing" consumer products for research purposes there emerge quite interesting applications that do become quite popular and economically important. For example from such research there came the idea to use the Kinect as a 3D scanner - from this commercial applications emerged. Or from GPGPU (which at the beginning NVidia was quite the opposite of enthusiastic about) CUDA and later OpenCL emerged (which is much better to program for than abusing vertex and fragment shaders).

That is why I considered it is quite important for the future of the Cell when researchers went from tinkered PS3 clusters to GPGPU and called this a "landslide event for the future of the Cell".
This is like arguing against literacy because gambling has legal restrictions.