skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's about misleading the courts with the respect to the necessity of the back door. In other words, they weren't finding a sympathetic case, they were manufacturing it.

Absolutely. Now they kinda of gave Comey the benefit of the doubt saying "he didn't know" but it turns out ROU team was doing it.

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The OIG report concluded that Director Comey didn’t know that his testimony was false at the time he gave it. But it was false, and technical staff in FBI’s own ROU knew it was false.

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Not sure what happened there. I think there are two levels of "truth" one is what is written and recorded, and the real "truth". How did ROU started working on the device to begin with. Did they go to the evidence box and started tinkering with the phone when CEAU wasn't watching? Did they clone the device and handed it to multiple teams "here if anyone of you can figure it out, you get an extra 10 days of vacation" or something like that.

On the manufacturing part. FBI, likes to manufacture evidence and skirt around entrapment whenever possible. What better way to look important and get more power than making your own reality. Here is their informant infiltrating a mosque in Irvine, CA and radicalizing people. http://www.latimes.com/local/orangecounty/la-me-muslim-fbi-2... he was reported to the, wait for it, ... FBI. There are other cases as well: https://theintercept.com/2015/01/16/latest-fbi-boast-disrupt...
Supposedly yes, but shoudln't it vastly reduce the attack surface by not having to worry (compared to now) about all device drivers that use DMA (which otherwise is just impossible to keep track of).

In my opinion reducing that attack surface alone on b) has a much higher impact than a) could ever achieve.
Yep, this is what I do for my site. 51 cents a month.
What language would you feel more comfortable contributing in? For good or bad Node seems quite popular especially with newer programmers so I can at least somewhat understand the decision.
I find the article much more convincing than your comment though.

> Nothing nefarious about finding a good case...

There is something nefarious with lying about, or being willfully ignorant about, needing the backdoor in the first place. When you testify to the Court and to Congress there is no other way, it can’t be because you didn’t bother to ask.

> A method that is 90% ready just isn’t ready.

If you look at the timeline the method was ready and demonstrated to the FBI within a month. That’s a lot faster than the courts could even begin to move on the case, and wouldn’t you like to think in a national security case the FBI would be working expoditiously to unlock the device rather than score political points?

> The difficulties [of backdoors] seem to be exaggerated.... working flawlessly for Bitcoin already

That’s a very interesting definition of “flawlessly” you’ve got there. I could cite the long list of grievously damaging government and private sector breaches, and just note that none of them were as enticing as a golden key to unlock global encrypted comms.

Our security sucks enough without intentionally weakening it. But more importantly, only the law abiding citizens would be using the backdoored encryption. Real encryption doesn’t magically go away because you publish a broken algorithm.
I would like to use it but I think the price doesn't justify the tool. For a team of 5 people github is $25 a month, you are $745 a month. I do understand a price a bit higher that github but not 30 times more expensive.
How Belgium is defeating the gender pay gap
There is a similar thought in the Dao De Jing
How do you deal with abuse? E.g. people posting (links to) copyrighted stuff, or large amounts of data?
> A method that is "90% ready" just isn't ready. Not only are such numbers meaningless in such a project. It just doesn't matter, legally, if you gain such capabilities in the future. A good faith interpretation of the FBI's motivation must also accept that if(!) the FBI had any interest in the phone's content, that interest was urgent.

Any method they would have gotten from Apple was roughly zero percent ready, meaning the 90% one was more feasible than going through Apple.
Neural Lace explained on Wait, but why?
https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
Hearing so many people complain about the time they spend on facebook has gotten me thinking of how I spend my own time on the internet. I don't really sit on facebook or any other common social media sites to any significant degree and many friends think I'm almost a luddite. But simultaneously I feel like I'm waaaaaaay too distracted by information online. But for me it's no different than it was 20 years ago. There are a million forums out there with super interesting information. In fact over the years I've only become more specialized in my information consumption in ways that are _almost_ good. I.e. I tend to keep up on different technical news and read into technology in general pretty deeply and this has had positive effects on my career. And so it's sometimes good because I get some good knowledge, but at the same time if I'm reading about how to implement stuff in FPGAs to avoid doing my taxes I'm definitely not making much sense in the long run.

I'm trying to get myself more organized and to instead focus on slightly longer projects with determined goals, but I really have a hard time breaking my habits of information ingestion. In many ways the internet has helped me grow intellectually so much, but simultaneously I feel like I lose any sense of present and physical presense. And it's just so hard for me to focus and do the mundane things that I find uninteresting.

I think I'll post this and then close out HN for a bit. Traveling for the weekend so maybe I can sucessfully limit myself to only actually necessary internet usage and avoid any consumption of unimportant crap. We'll just have to see...
There was a recent news item about a Tesla driver who fell asleep at the wheel and who was allegedly over the legal limit:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tesla+driver+drunk+asleep&t=ffsb&a...
I'm with pretty much everyone else here. As symbolic as $1337 is, this is worth far more.

That said, if one had taken advantage of this, what legal repercussions could or would you face? I mean, technically I can't see anything _illegal_ here, albeit unethical. Assuming you wanted to, isn't this just playing the system?
>> HN is the most moderated platform I currently use, but despite its rules and frequent mod intervention, it seems to have a higher overall quality of discussion compared to what I can find on Reddit or Twitter.

I find Reddit to be pretty good in general. All the subreddits I subscribe to (none are political or hot topics, they're all around my hobbies and interests, etc) are pretty civil. I am sure there are toxic subreddits, but my Reddit feed is higher quality than my Facebook feed by a mile, and the discussions might have a few corny jokes, but they're generally fine.
I have 4 kids, the youngest being 18, and like many people said, 12 a day is way too high, except for a newborn.

Disposable diapers are indeed expensive, but I've heard that the environmental effects of cloth diapers are comparable. Fortunately, it's a problem that is long, long behind me.

One thing I do remember is that nothing makes a baby more willing to take a big dump or even a pee than putting on a fresh, clean diaper.
"Theological noncognitivism" is not too far removed from "ignosticism", according to your link. Ignosticism states: the question of the existence of God is meaningless because the term "god" has no coherent and unambiguous definition. Totally valid, to the extent that saying that something that we can't bottle and stopper must be irrelevant helps anyone sleep at night.

I suppose my one point of disagreement is that the poem is philosophically aligned with Questions of God-ness being pointless...the poem doesn't strike me that way (totally subjective of course). And Buckminster Fuller was well known to have undergone a pretty profound mystical experience (whatever that means) that shaped the rest of his life.
Same reason most people work on jobs they hate. Gotta work for money to live.
The sink and the toilet connect to a drain pipe within probably 5 feet, so its really not as gross as people tend to think. Also, no matter what you are going to get poop on your hands and wash that off in the sink, so poop is going down the sink either way.

Obviously when the baby is old enough to have well-formed poops, you dump that in the toilet. Otherwise we just rinse them in the sink, put them in a 5 gallon pail, and then wash them in the washing machine every day or two. (More often because of twins)
You'd be a cool kid, if you'd sign an NDA. (edit. personally I do believe that you are truly just trying to push the A.I. tech forward and to stay current with the best ideas in the field.)
To make it clear:

- jsonstore.io is intended for small projects, mostly for the open-source community. It's not a datastore you can use to store all the logs of your company, and we do have quota limits.

- We do nothing with your data, it's secured and if you want to store sensitive data you may want to encrypt it.

- The idea of this project is to provide the open source community a easy solution for storing casual usage data/settings for their projects.
Crypto Selloff Driven by $25B Capital Gain Hit, Tom Lee Says
Oh I must've misunderstood what you meant by "part of" vim.
But isn't the whole point of autonomous cars that humans are pretty shitty drivers? If I could augment my vision with a 360º setup of cameras and LIDAR you better believe I would!
GitHub has its moments.
It’s a non profit! The IP you develop is yours!
I'd say this is an example of poor workflow. If you have millions of users of your product, the CEO must be abstracted far above such mundane decisions. With someone like Elon Musk, you have a nitty-gritty focused CEO who wants to get onto the engineering/production floor and tackle the toughest bottlenecks. If you don't have a dual CEO at his level of expertise, though, I think you're setting yourself up for problems, especially with aforementioned crappy workflow.
True in general, but the only thing I see about how Twitter is designed, that has any significant effect of shaping behavior in a negative direction, is the anonymity, which it inherits from the internet itself. It's no Stanford Prison Experiment though. Maaaayyybe it's the guards' mirrored sunglasses if you want to make the analogy. But since the same feature is available to everyone, including as a protective feature for any would-be "prisoner" or victim, even that analogy breaks down. I'm just not seeing any power-unbalancing features that are inherent. As with most things, its best features are its worst.
> Github isn't toxic

There's defo some toxicity on github.
I discovered that too. Yes, I browse with IE.
Make that billions.
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It's difficult to peer into the internal history of the Eurasian steppe and its largely pre-literate past for the early periods. So we're largely forced to rely on the accounts of the literate peoples around the periphery, whether that be Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Persian, or Chinese who dealt with and recorded the results of incursions from these outside peoples from the heart of Eurasia. For whatever poorly-understood reason, peoples seem to have boiled out of either Scandinavia or Mongolia periodically, pushing along the adjacent tribes, who pushed on their neighbors, in something like a butterfly effect, until this knock-on effect pushed a tribe over the border into the territory of some settled people.

Invasion by the "Germans" is the explanation Caesar gives for the migration of the Helvetii; it's debatable how accurate he was being, and how motivated to find political justification for his actions, but something induced them to pack up and move for greener pastures. A similar explanation may be found for the movement south through the Balkans and into Asia Minor of the Celtic tribes that became the Galatians. There is perhaps more evidence of this effect in the series of great migrations towards the end of the Roman empire, where the Franks, Burgundians, Vandals, and Goths all were forced westward in front of the Huns and Alans, who were themselves pushed westward by other steppe tribes of central Asia, perhaps ultimately terminating in the Xiongnu and their conflicts with Han China. There appears to be another wave of migration some hundreds of years later, corresponding with the migration of the Slavs, Bulgars, Avars and others into eastern Europe and the Balkans, the expansion of the Rus, the rise of the various central Asian Turkic khaganates, and the expansion of Tang China. Then there is of course the expedition of Batu and Subotai, in which atrocity and total war was a favored tactic, and only a succession crisis after the death of Ogodei Khan spared the rest of Europe. Then there is German colonization under the aegis of the Teutonic Knights, the crumbling of the Byzantine Empire under assault from the Turks on the one hand and the Venetians on the other, incessant warfare as the Ottomans expanded and contracted northwards through the Balkans, culminating in the early 20th century "Baltic Question" tinderbox as that empire fell apart and led to hundreds of millions of deaths throughout eastern Europe and atrocity on a scale to rival Genghis.

It's a history of blood and sword; not perhaps categorically different than the history of most places, but amplified by virtue of being the crossroads of so many moving peoples.
Does site's speed actually increase sales?
Hi guys!

I've been studying the impact of a site's speed on the business bottom line. Aside from taking into account a couple of huge names having experimented with improving the performance of their products and the related case studies, I would love it if you guys could give your personal experience:

Did you ever see any impact of "performance work" over a business bottom line?

Thank you
Not necessarily. Case in point: James Damore.
Yeah, when I got back from spending about a year in SEA I immediately bought a TOTO for my apartment. Now I dread having to go when I'm out and being forced to use a barbarian toilet. I can't _wait_ for the States to catch on.
There's a small typo on the article in /ui/dist/index.html - the script source should be '/bundle.js', not '/main.js'. I think the git repo corrected this error
It’s mostly not though, and easy to avoid. On Twitter it seems to be the raison detre.
I don’t understand why no one is talking about Linux on stand-alone VR headsets.

Valve’s hardware team has been very busy, designing the Vive in 2016 and the knuckles controller in 2017.

They’ve said they are working on multiple full length VR games, but that they wanted to be able to design the hardware (knuckles) and the games together a la Nintendo.

This is public knowledge.

It’s also known that Oculus is releasing two standalone VR devices in the next couple years.

Valve has a headset, controllers, and a Linux OS. It seems obvious to me where this is all going: a stand-alone Valve VR device running SteamOS.

Of course they’re not investing in screen-based games and desktop Linux boxes. They’re perfectly positioned to release a medium-defining device in a green field new computing paradigm.

They are at least as well positioned in this fight as Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple. That’s the big leagues. Valve makes good money on Steam, but not that kind of money.

And you know Apple and Microsoft aren’t going to use Linux. So having Valve means there’s a Linux horse in the VR race.
And yet that is quasi criminal (from an ethical pov) that they have worded it that way for 2 reasons:

a. When you buy a car why should you even care about that hw/sw distinction, and more importantly do you have the distinction in mind at all time, and are advertisement usually worded that way, stating that maybe the car could become self-driving one day (but without even stating the maybe explicitly, just using tricks)

b. It is extremely dubious that the car even have the necessary hardware to become a fully autonomous driving car. We will see, but I don't believe it much, and more importantly competitors and people familiar with the field also don't believe it much...

People clearly are misunderstanding what Tesla Autopilot is, but this is not, ultimately, their fault. This is Tesla's fault. The people operating the car can NOT be considered as perfect flawless robot. Yet Tesla's model consider them like that, and reject all responsibility, not even considering the responsibility that they made a terrible mistake in considering them like that. We need to act the same way as when similar cases happens for a pilot mistake in an Airplane: change the system so that the human will make less mistakes (especially if the human is required for safe operation, which is the case here). But Tesla is doing the complete opposite! By misleading buyers and drivers in the first place.

Tesla should be forced by the regulators to stop their shit: stop misleading and dangerous advertisement; stop their autosteer uncontrolled experiment.
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What's your take on developers not putting the effort forth to use their own object store (ie S3) for this?

I'm not against developer velocity (disclaimer: not a dev), but this seems to be a cycle where hosted tool comes out, people rely on it, tool becomes too expensive to run, neglected, etc, and then tool goes dark one day. Would time be better spent on client libraries that ease the difficulties of using existing durable storage systems? Or open source javascript frontends you can drop into your S3 bucket to provide a GUI for manipulating JSON in the same object store?

I am seeking enlightenment, not an argument. In tech for almost 20 years now, and have seen my fair share of the cycle.
That's really not how it works in aviation. Aircraft manufacturers and the FAA don't automatically ground every plane when a crash occurs when autopilot was in use. They conduct an investigation first. And even if the investigation finds an autopilot fault they're likely to just issue an airworthiness directive warning pilots about the failure mode rather than immediately grounding everything.
> Reddit is far worse,

I would re-characterize it as "some Reddit subreddits are far worse" - because your experience can vary widely. All the subreddits I subscribe to (hobby and interest related, not news/politics) are actually self-policed very well. I tend to think the toxic subreddits are actually in the minority even though they get all the attention.
The worst time for Instagram API based services is now (Instacalypse)
He owns his own business (funeral home) so he has his own bathroom for employees. He's hardly ever at a public restroom so I don't know what he does. I recall him carrying around a 10 pack of disposable wipes so he probably flushes them.
There are similar thoughts in many spiritual traditions...find your mystic or gnostic vein in any religion and you're not far away from this concept.

"God likes to play hide-n-seek, but because there is nothing outside of God, he has no one but himself to play with!"
http://educateinspirechange.org/spirituality/concept-great-p...
Plumbing wasn't designed for them in most places. Most of them are not really "flushable" like they claim.
That reminded me of this small piece[1] on the arcade version of Berzerk[2] from 1980.

> The maze for each level was established on the fly using a seed number fed into a rudimentary algorithm.

and, further,

> Each time the code is “cold started” the seed starts out at zero, but from there the room number is used as the next seed. This is fed through a very simple algorithm. It generates directions for the walls, which use s few bit-wise operations to add the pillars inside the rooms.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2013/07/21/how-the-mazes-were-generated...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berzerk_(video_game)
I used to help for the OLPC project. They even gave my an XO laptop (the one pictured in the article). It feel good to see it in use. I didn't keep myself updated about the progression of the project. Good thing it isnt dead :)
Well, this is pretty classist...
I think the architecture of social media spaces affects their culture. I wrote up some observations here:

'Twitter, Reddit, and Conway's Law'

https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/social-media-architect...
Mostly 1,400 years of Muslim rule besides a short period of Catholic rule during the crusades.
Regarding news, I have had this self-imposed rule:

* Only check out the first screen of any news web site. No scrolling down, and no clicking links.*

Implementation details: I keep around 10 news sites in a bookmark folder. Through out a day, I right click on the folder and open all of the sites at once, then spend on average 5 to 10 seconds on each site. Do this three or four times each day.

Been pretty happy doing this for a few years now.
It is not the same thing. Deionized water may contain neutral organic molecules, including viruses and bacteria, as it uses ion exchange resins pre-loaded with protons and hydroxides to remove all other anions and cations. Distilled water has been vaporized out of one container and recondensed into another, so contains nothing but water and molecules that form azeotropes with water.

Distilled water is deionized, but deionized has not necessarily been distilled.

In practice, however, both are overkill for baby formula.
Open Letter to Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and AI
One thing to take into account is that, by French law, buying artwork opens the way for fiscal deductions.
I would dispute the notion of common ancestry is synonymous with common transfer of genes. The former is about descent, within a system of kinship, that may or may not recognize within it's domain an actual realized transfer of genes on the one hand, and may include in it's domain instances when no such transfer might have occurred (adoption/cuckoldry/politically motivated claims of kinship/etc.etc.).
CALC shows you how much you should be earning as (sub)contractor
depends on how furry your butt is. I have the south asian furry butt curse.
you bundle it like a paper basketball and shoot it from the stall.
It even has an automated assistant...who looks like he's about to beat you up and take your lunch money.
> I think most of finance has accepted that cryto currencies are the future

I genuinely hope you don't believe this. Some, not most, are toying with them like a cat batts around a ball.
Under what religious or philosophical tradition can God not be observed, even partially?
Well, https://www.interaction-design.org/
I'm not saying you're wrong, but would you mind posting that from your non-greenbean account? I won't downvote you! It's just fake internet points anyway; why worry? I get downvoted every day I post. (Not every item I post.) Sometimes there is a lesson to be learned, sometimes there isn't.
probably less so than tampons though, but that doesn't make it right I guess.
Newsflash: People are replying to text messages with and without AutoPilot. AutoPilot just makes doing so safer
If you’re a small shop or independent (especially female) contractor, strongly recommend using CALC to help set and justify your fee schedules. https://calc.gsa.gov

Even if you don’t intend to be a gov’t contractor/sub, it can be a handy reality check for folks just starting out.

credits: https://twitter.com/marasawr/status/981913681524117504
> However the thing that I am doing is not completely useless, because I have been able to embed fonts, favicon and images as well with the method that I am using.

FWIW there's also an include_bytes! macro to embed binary data right into the executable without going through a separate rustification step.