skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging by the fact that those ads are clicked a lot less than the top organic result, I'd say they are unlikely to be as or more deceptive.
49 comments without mention of Lobachevsky?

And who deserves the credit?
And who deserves the blame?
Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky is his name!

I have lots of TL on an old disk, but this is the one I still listen to. A good primer on Russian cities as well as a hilarious, brilliant and pithy song.
Agreed; I'm just arguing that it's disingenuous to say the church controls the government in this case.
For a single perceptron, not for the network as a whole.
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com
I think Google should consider how human-error prône we are and how society suffers because of it. Everyone is slowly becoming dehumanized towards others by errors and I’ve witnessed first hand how errors of others will ruin a person; if they’re not clever enough to conquer the situation. Google should put more resources into improving Human Resources and Law before getting all uptight about removing what could be an error for a person but is impossible to prove; with the lacking resources of today. Most cases are hearsay of others and where a minoriy suffering by errors of the majority; the minority has no real evidence to work it out. A person will likely crumble in bad situations, unless educated in law and defense.
yeah, but what color though?
This is important and most people don't realize this. This is the sex work equivalent of banning drug reagent kits.
I'm totally guessing, but maybe they use text that shows how something is pronounced?

Eg for one example, if you know how one word is pronounced, and you have a poem that includes that word, you can follow rhymes.
Thanks very much — both for this reply and for all your write-ups!
Yeah, that proves bitcoin's bright future /s
T-Mobile Austria is apparently storing customer passwords in plain text
Given that this content is quite recent, it has to be a conscious choice. It just has to be.
MacOS 10.13.4 Update Breaks Duet Display, Air Display and USB DisplayLink
They are coming for porn next.
Customer Service representative Käthe acknowledged in a Twitter convo posted by security researcher Scott Helme, that agents regularly view the first four characters of customer passwords for authentication purposes. When confronted with the bad practise this represents, the rep got defensive, stating that hacks would not happen because the telco giant would be "100% secure," and indeed asked whether the hints dropped by the experts were to be understood as a threat against the company.
The way I understand this: doing this in your application requires you to have network access, which means you have to convince your user to give it to you.

This gives you a way to count installs (and almost nothing else; you probably can assume arrival times correlate with time of installation and learn something about your global user base from that, but that’s all I can think of) without getting any permission from the user.

Applications can still use the old approach, but that’s more work and won’t produce accurate install counts. Apple thinks the end result will be that fewer apps will do it, making the dialog asking for network access rarer, and users more wary of giving the permission.
Yeah, that's a great point -- especially for older people, you have to tell doctors all supplements you take, because some can affect how fast your blood will clot. For instance, I believe garlic supplements reduce blood clotting, so an older person (especially) might have complications during a surgery.
Quite. The more important example would be Pentium. The main thing that was impressive about Northwood was the clock rate. AMD of the same generation, and the Intel Core processors that followed, did more with a lower clock rate.
e.g. https://github.com/gabesoft/nix-conf/blob/master/.nixpkgs/co...
I was referring to the removal of the "Beginner's Guide" in the wiki, now replaced by the "Installation Guide" that has way less context. Which is fine if you already have a nontrivial amount of linux/arch experience and just want to glance at a list of To Dos when you install. But is it really too much "bloat" to have a single example partition layout? I get the community doesn't like having to hand hold people, but sometimes people learn best by just getting things up and running and not reading 15 wiki pages before they're able to understand what should be a straightfoward guide. /rant

I honestly wasn't aware there was a text file in the home directory but it sounds like something pretty close to the Installation Guide, which is helpful and good to know, so thanks for that.
Getting the critical mass of public spirit necessary to sustain any self-correcting decentralized trust system is going to run smack into the individual tendency to optimize one's commitment of personal resources toward their own personal objectives.

Asking people, or even tricking them through hype, to voluntarily deleverage themselves (through agreeing to a set of voluntarily sharing constraints encoded as rules in a 'trustless' network protocol, ie blockchain) will never work at global scale, until a global scale referendum of some sort addresses and settles very basic questions about what we prioritize and value as a civilization. Such as "are centralized systems of governance so hopelessly broken that the only remedy is to devolve trust back to individuals, which has the side effect of settling them with ascertain decision cost premium that they have hitherto instinctively tried to optimize away by outsourcing it to specialized custodial agents?" "Are people really willing to pay a decentralization premium that isn't subsidized by a hype and speculation casino game?"

Until this discussion occurs (and I'm not holding my breath), every nominally 'flat' system of governance that is sold as a solution to centralized control will merely serve the opposite goal, by obfuscating its underlying informally centralized hierarchy of leverage and influence.
> I would even say it's selfish

> (previously) cultures are emergent properties from markets

Honest question: Do you think selfishness is a bad thing? As you seem to have such apparent respect for the primacy of markets, I would think not. Why then would you choose to jab people with this idea that they're being selfish? Is it because you think they would be against selfishness and are therefore being hypocrites?
I am no connaisseur, just a guy who cares about privacy (in general and his in particular) who also happens to own an iPhone and wants to buy a Mac.

This seems pretty troubling, as I as well as many I suppose, trust Apple and think that they're one of the good guys. I know it's cliché but I think this is the part where "[..] live long enough to see yourself become the villain." applies.

The more important question, imho, then is: what can we do about it ? If nothing, what should be done ?
Yeah, me too. It's hard to know what to believe.

The thing is, those engaged in commercial sex have a vested interest in defending deregulation of all parts of it: that way they make more money. If you were to try to pass legislation that, for example, would require a license to purchase sex and that the license would be granted only upon passing sexual health medical exams, people selling sex would see this as an obstacle to getting as many clients as possible. I know several people think you can just tell at a glance if someone has an STI and that condoms give all the protection you need.

I think there are a lot of vulnerable people in the sex trade who just aren't speaking up because, well, they're vulnerable.

Not everyone is vulnerable, of course. There are those who are perfectly ok and happy and vocal. But that can't be everyone.
Germs That Love Diet Soda
> Tesla wants level 4 and claims the cars possess the hardware for that already.

You can't possibly determine what hardware is required for Level 4 until you have proven a hardware/software combination, so that's just empty puffery, but even if it was true...

> So you’d think their level II would still be smart enough to detect these problems to some degree.

No, because the smartness of their system is about the software. They could have hardware sufficient to support Level 4 autonomy and better-than-human AI running software that only supports a less-thsn-adequate version of Level 2 autonomy. What their hardware could support (even if it was knowable) gives you no basis for belief about what their current software on it supports, except that it won't exceed the limits set by the hardware.
It's "extremely quantitative" non-predictions premised upon a shallow ideology.
Lowering revenues doesn't really align with IPO'ing, though. The issue is the VC model that will keep us trapped in this, until there are less greedy given the resources to disrupt these systems. Capitalism works well, it shouldn't necessarily have a stake in foundational systems - which is why we need governance to manage.
If you read up on the GDPR, the focus is on people 'deliberately doing something wrong'.. which could be not following proper security guidelines, not keeping proper records, not notifying the users in a timely manner, and all sorts of things that are very cut and dry.

It's perfectly possible to have a data breach and not get fined, and as long as you didn't do anything too careless that would allow a breach to happen you're probably in the clear.

Everyone knows there's no perfect system.. but in regards to what we're talking about it's much better to have personal data be a liability rather than an asset, because it puts incentive on companies to only use what they need and make efforts to protect it appropriately.
I recommend netbooting the Pi off a server. Not only is it easy to back up and restore, the performance on small reads and writes is probably better than you can expect from any mSD card, if the specs here are to be believed. Plus you don't burn out SD cards that cost at least half what the Pi does.
That is a completely unrealistic expectation. There is no human process that "just works". People are not computers.

Scrum/Agile can help competent people who want to improve get better at delivering software that is valuable to their users. No process will magically turn incompetent people with no interest in improving into a productive software team.
How to Choose the Right Memory
Well it's in the article.
I actually thought about that, but I didn't know if they were still around. I want to say I figured they tested, but I doubt they were big enough or organized enough to.
UK Finance Watchdog Issues Warning on Crypto Derivatives
:-)

Just in case you're interested:

https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/38880

and the associated conference paper:

http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/aaai92.pdf

Most of the work was done on a Mac II with 8MB (that's megabytes, not gigabytes) of RAM.

The progress that has been made since those days boggles my mind.
T-Mobile Austria admits to storing plaintext passwords on Twitter
I think a better analogy is a safe injection site for heroin users.
In many contexts it is not the young but the old who are discriminated against.
There's also a nice comment system based on Github issues that you can install on a static site: https://utteranc.es
This is akin to seizing a house in which trafficking occurs.
The NSA idea was a major subplot of Southpark season 20. You could google ‘Troll Trace’ to get the gist of it.
So the question would be what type of game could be made with that type of team today?
I'm not entirely sure, this seems to be US only, we were talking about T-Mobile Austria.
The reason it's called the "Trump Organisation" is because it's unusual in that Trump literally just owns it. It's not a bunch of public companies with Trump happening to have some job like "Chief Executive" or "Chairman", it's personally owned outright by Donald J Trump (in a few cases the companies are co-owned, but mostly it's just Trump).
On the Mac, there isn't even an official app. It's been discontinued.
couldn‘t this tool be used to ‚compile‘ the SQL or C# processing into a button?
I don't understand why people use Autopilot, or why Tesla has released it.

To use it safely and according to Tesla's instructions, you have to remain 100% vigilant at all times - so you might as well just drive yourself.

And if you fail to remain vigilant, which is likely since you are sitting passively in the drivers seat, you might kill somebody.

Where's the upside? Why on Earth would I want to use such a product?
Only certified (by the government) updates should be allowed on self driving cars. It should be at least a misdemeanor to have your own code on the car.
Clearly the scions of a new age!
> Apples fake privacy concerns.

Apple has been a loud, proven advocate and supporter of Privacy. This comment is all snark and nothing factual.
Not strong supporters by any means, and many resistors. Wikipedia has a good page explaining the history. The most you can say is that some Catholics leaders were too compliant and did not protest enough, but countless other Catholics worked actively to save Jews from the holocaust and to counter Naziism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_Nazi_Germa...
Legal problems against Backpage have been brewing for awhile. Its CEO was arrested in 2016 and charged with pimping. The pimping charges have since been thrown out but he and his fellow execs face 27 other charges, including money laundering: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article168969032.html
50 percent of people don't trust finance companies, new study finds
Oh no, people paying for sex?! The horror!
Counter-example: What if someone accused you of raping her/him and that news remains online close to your name because it's a typical scandal and heavily reported but, when it is proven that you didn't commit the crime, there is no news reporting it because it's not a clicky article?

It happens frequently, not only with rape, but with any false accusation of a major crime... Typically there are a lot of articles about it but if you are proven innocent no main source reports it.

Now, would you want that information to remain online and to appear instantly anytime some HR look for your name after reading it in your cv?
Yeah ... I don't think someone who celebrates a bit of mostly untouched nature in the city they live in represents "one of the worst expressions of capitalism".

I follow your line of thinking, but I think it's a bit out of context.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/19/technological-unemploy...

Look at the charts on labor force participation rate, and read his analysis. I'd say it is very carefully done.
I love the pricing, $150/year.

Where are the other professional developer tools with subscription pricing? Not stuff company stuff like Atlasssian or web-SaaS, but, say, a really good local `git` GUI and merge tool.
Mr. Carlson's Lab is one of my favorites. Long form videos of custom devices, repairs and restorations of old, simple instruments are really interesting. On Patreon he details his designs and provides complete schematics and parts lists.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCarlsonsLab/videos
Well I kind of came to hope that Tesla PR was less BS than other PR companies. But that memo basically shows they're no different from all other PR, just twisting the truth to avoid negative stories until the fuss dies down.
They'll have to pry it from my cold, dead, sticky hands!
If authority wants to shut it down, they will figure out a way.
>Requiring sewers is hardly "planning". You can't really plan growth.

Of course you can! "Gee, we're growing like a weed so now we need to annex the areas surrounding us." "Hey developers, you're required to hook up to city sewerage, which we'll supply because that's what responsible cities do." Done.

If you want another good example of failure to plan look at all the development in Addicks Reservoir in Houston. It was trivial to plan for growth by banning development in the 100 year flood plain. We chose not to. Now 40 years too late we're trying to kinda sorta but not really regulate in the 500 year flood plain. Having the political wherewithal to just say "You know what? No building houses in the flood plain!" would have saved the taxpayers billions. But nobody had the stones to tell developers no. So those developers got to build in a risky spot and walk away with the profits while shifting the risk to taxpayers.
He has also announced that he now supports the Honest Ads Act.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy/facebook...

Perhaps he will announce next that he supports competition.

Isnt it true that before being acquired by FB, WhatsApp charged users a subscription fee and did not show ads?
Thanks for sharing.

For those who might be wondering, using OP's GitHub repo as example, the first post in the issue thread[1] gets converted to a blog post[2].

That's pretty cool! Though, it will be tough to pry myself away from my blogging flow that uses Org mode as content source and uses all of the Org+Emacs functionality :)

[1]: https://github.com/dbriemann/blog/issues/2
[2]: https://dbriemann.github.io/blog/2-introducing-glyph-static-...
> Are you really claiming that any control system can be engineered to detect that is has failed in any possible manner?

No, of course not. But it is possible to reduce the probability of non-cognizant failure to arbitrarily low levels -- at the expense of cost and the possibility of having a system that is too conservative to do anything useful.
I find this disingenuous. It is a very common scenario that a new user knows of some way to solve some part of their question (or just thinks they do), and assumes the best/easiest/fastest/safest/whatever answer involves using that technique. This is exactly the scenario that Alex Papadimoulis referred to in his blog post[1] that I have to believe was the inspiration for his site The Daily WTF[2]:

> "A client has asked me to build and install a custom shelving system. I'm at the point where I need to nail it, but I'm not sure what to use to pound the nails in. Should I use an old shoe or a glass bottle?"
>...[potential answers]
>b) There is something fundamentally wrong with the way you are building; you need to use real tools.

The answerer is often telling the person, what you are trying to do sounds like a really bad/inefficient/ineffective/whatever solution. The common way to solve this is Y because of reasons A, B, and C. Are you doing something where those reasons are not a concern?

[1] https://weblogs.asp.net/alex_papadimoulis/408925
[2] http://thedailywtf.com
The other immer[0] of note is a JS library that gives you immutability with a mutable API i.e. you mutate your code as normal, but all changes are proxied to a copy, which is then returned as a result of your mutations.

[0]: https://github.com/mweststrate/immer
This article isn't really a good candidate for a list of "things you can learn from older people".

First, the study it cites is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3332527/. The study has a few problems insofar as the way the article wants to use it. The study covered several hundred individuals ranging in age from 18 to 94; the median age of the participants was about 55, but the study doesn't specify how many people were aged 80 or older; the study self-selected for people "who reported that their health was 'as good or better than most people their age'"; and, the trend analysis in the study displays a negative slope after age 70 for "positive emotional experience".

So, as long as you limit your sample to people aged 50 to 70 who are in better than average health, sure, maybe you can write an article that older people are happier. Also, make sure you use pictures of people much older than 70, and talk about a handful of individuals you used as case studies.

Missing from the author's case studies is my grandfather, turning 90 soon, who in his younger years was always very physically active and healthy, who was well-read as an orphan and supported the civil rights movement long before there was even a movement, who raised three daughters and lived long enough to see two of them die and the third fall to a painkiller addiction, who was married to and loved the same woman for almost 60 years before losing her, too. He spends his days and his nights in a recliner. Most of his mind still works but his body has mostly failed him. He can't go for a walk or enjoy the sunshine. He relies on phone calls and visits from his grandkids to break up the miserable monotony of his remaining days. He talks longingly and sincerely of "the Oregon needle", and is disappointed every time he recovers from a bout of pneumonia.

One of the things I've learned from him is that dying is okay. Just try to live really well first.
Speculation, granted, but the borrow checker is non-trivial compiler complexity, along with more smarts generally shoved into the compiler like type inferencing and the macro system.
> What about searching for "The Stanford Rapist"[2].[..] If one searches images for keywords [...]

Those would not be removed under the Right to be Forgotten as defined by the original verdict. The reasoning is that the individual is harmed most by people explicitly googling their name (i. e. recruiters, business partners, family etc). If you come to the article from the other side of the issue, it's far less likely that you're in a position of power vis-a-vis that person.

> What if the victim writes a popular blogpost,

Such an article would once again be subject to the Right to be Forgotten.

> What takes precedence? The victim's free speech or the felon's censorship powers granted by Right To Be Forgotten?

That's far too general a question to ask, and appears to be phrased with a certain outcome in mind.

Neither right is absolute. It all depends on the specific situation. It requires exactly the sort of balancing the judicial system is build for.
I was recently considering getting back on Twitter using a third-party client. Looks like they're gonna get the middle finger instead.
iCloud: Apple has the keys :(

Dropbox: Dropbox has the keys :(

Crashplan: I have the keys :)
General intelligence is not needed. Illiterate people can drive. People who can't do math can drive.
How old is this?

the state and details of disk encryption on both OSes is slightly unclear, but hopefully will become clearer when iOS 10.3 is released.

10.3 was released 9 months ago. And I find it hard to take seriously any article where every other sentence is bolded.
There‘s obviously much more going on but just from reading OPs article I got angry at his ex-GF. Be a little supportive, geez...
Link to a recent lecture on the difficulty of using supplements expeditiously: https://vimeo.com/channels/hgp/257767863
Edit to my above comment, since my client doesn't seem to allow previewing or editing unfortunately....

'side effect of settling them with ascertain' should be 'side effect of saddling them with a certain'

Also I think the original articles proposal of a non-profit solution is Noble but the bigger facility for moral hazard is lack of transparency, and lack of transparency is as much a problem of compressing complexity so that the information made transparent is digestible to most of the users in a reasonable amount of time, without introducing biases through that compression which skew the interpretation of the information. There's a lot of information about how the power in society is conducted through structures of influence, but making this information accessible to people so that they can avoid or associate with portions of it as freely as possible is a basket of paradoxical UX and ethical snakes to untangle.
Twitterrific does as well.