skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My right to be safe from a rapist is greater than their right to not be on a registry. If they want to avoid being on a registry, then avoid raping people!

This is a problem that should be fixed with laws, not with Google.

In many places, an 18 year old who sleeps with a 17 year old is a "rapist". Someone who breaks into a house and forces them at knifepoint to have sex is also a "rapist". One of these is a much greater danger to society and that should be reflected in our laws. And, to a certain extent, it is. Many places have judicial procedures where the first kind of "rapist" can have that offense reduced to a lesser class of crime after some level of incarceration and probation. Google should not be allowed to unilaterally undo that.

We need to quit treating people who go to prison as if they have a scarlet letter even after they have served their time. If they are that dangerous, they shouldn't be let out. The problem is that, in the US, we want to incarcerate people but not pay money for doing so.
I’m 40 - and to be clear I wouldn’t mind the type of advertising that existed on the “young” web - I don’t mind ads, I just don’t like the industry it created.
I do believe it’s possible to turn back the clock on online ads. The future where there are no ads and no ad-funded services isn’t optimal, but it’s better than what we have.
Quality control only happens on premises you control. Once the product reaches the point-of-sale terminal, the consumer own it, and the QC job is done. You send your product out onto the free market and have to hope you raised it well enough to uphold your brand.

It isn't about QC; it's about money. It's the same reason every car dealership has an in-house repair department. Branded repairs mean that people can still buy the brand after they already own the product. Counterfeits cut into that revenue stream.
It's not clear to me why this problem couldn't be solved more elegantly by creating anti-discrimination laws around criminal records.

Because anti-discrimination laws around criminal records will work about as well as anti-discrimination laws regarding all the other protected classes (race, gender, age, etc.). Companies will very quickly figure out how to work around them, and will find ways to reject candidates for being a member of said protected class without making it apparent that this is the true cause for rejection.

If a company gets 90% through the hiring process, runs a background check, and then immediately says "no", then you sue them.

If this law passes, that will happen about as often as a company telling you to your face, "We're not hiring you because you're {black| a woman| over 40, etc}." What will probably happen is that companies will move the background check step ahead of the interview step. Then, after they've done the background check and had the interview, they can tell you, "Well, sorry, we've decided to go with a different applicant," just as they do today.
Chinese police used facial recognition to catch a suspect in a crowd of 60000
...and this isn't Reddit, or Imgur (where I first encountered it.)

I just thought some of us old fogeys might could use the tip. (Y'know, if we're not 1337 enough...)
> They're constantly conflating what Apple is fighting against (counterfeit parts and being compelled to provide documentation and manuals without oversight) with the valid complaint of users not being legally allowed to repair their own devices. Apple has never been against that and isn't fighting that.

Apple is setting up an environment where counterfeiting is practically necessary by hindering legitimate repairs using non counterfeit non genuine parts.

Apple doesn't allow those who aren't Authorized Repair Centers to purchase genuine replacement parts or to have access to service manuals. I'm not aware of another OEM that does this. I can go to HP, Dell, Samsung, MSI, Acer, or LG and purchase genuine parts or download service manuals. Apple posts service manuals online but they go out of their way to lock them behind a login so that only Authorized users can see them.

Apple has bricked iPhones during iOS upgrades if those devices weren't using genuine Apple displays.

Apple has bricked iPhones during iOS upgrades if you replaced the touch ID, regardless of whether it was a genuine part or not.

The iPhone X camera module is a separate part form the display yet if you replace the display genuine or not while keeping the original camera module, it stops working for facial authentication.

Apple disabled the ability to adjust the brightness of your Macbook's display if it wasn't genuine. Hey maybe it doesn't want to damage non genuine displays... so what's the difference between a genuine and non genuine part? The EEID that Apple programs into them. A counterfeit display in this case is simply one that was purchase from Apple's supplier, LG, and programmed with Apple's EEID not by Apple.
Restaurants are cooking your steak wrong on purpose
Well, what about stuff like this: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43752344
Ruby and Rust both let you have your own repository for packages, so that doesn't make much sense, and AFAICT Rust literally needs two lines of code to pull in a new package, so I can't exactly agree that it's painful.

I don't know much about Glide but if it uses Git for packages then that's pretty much centralized thanks to GitHub, too. At least the properly centralized solutions help assure you that, unless you're running a server yourself, the package is guaranteed to exist online, and even the developer can't remove it. On GitHub there's far too many things that could go wrong, and I have much less confidence that repos will continue to exist.
> I would say that AI and cryptocurrencies are the startup clichés of today.

To say they're cliche suggests we've exhausted all ideas in the space which we definitely have not.
I learned about it as a kid at my public Chicago school, but it took resources: textbooks, novels, field trips. I even had the privilege to see a play recounting one family's attempts to escape.

Public school systems around the country are under attack by the people in positions of authority. Neoliberal Democrats and Evangelical Republicans have allied in a fight to privatize and strip resources away from the public school system. Public school teachers in the most neglected states have finally had enough, and are rising up and striking for better conditions for themselves and their students.

It's worth it, to make sure we remember to never repeat the horrors of our past.

http://kfor.com/2018/04/03/these-crumbling-textbooks-show-wh...
I don't think they want to squeeze every cent. I think they just care about the brand. They want people who bought iphone to have the best experience they prepared for them. Even if you buy some used iphone. If somebody buys some used iphone and it acts weird or the build quality seems imperfect because some parts were replaced, then this person may spread opinion that iphones suck.

I'd guess that's their reasoning. But I'm not on their side here. I think they should be allowed to design products to make repairs as hard as possible if they want to, but once I buy it I should be able to do whatever I want with it. Plus there's not that much great experience to protect lately..
Original article currently offline for me and so I found it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180413180014/https://www.imagi...
sounds like a trick question
That's just going to make a space underclass. There's not a benefit to convicting people because hey, cheap labor. The same forces are already happening with prison labor.

What you are suggesting is that any single mistake is now a permanent albatross around a person's neck and a reason for them to be permanently deprived. In a society where we have so many laws that everyone breaks several a day, this just leads to selective enforcement and corruption.
FWIW, I've implemented it for a small enterprise, and for a local/private community. Neither are the overwhelming froth of activity you see on Facebook/Twitter (as you'd expect), but they're doing well!
Chinese fake news. They didn't catch him from a "crowd of 60,000".
I haven't done a lot of research on MeWe (though I have heard of it previously), but many people misuse the term "SSL" to mean "TLS". Before making this assumption, it might be best to check and see if they _actually_ use SSL when they mean to say SSL.
Craigslist is a great example of what actual brutalist design would look like on the web. Not the web, but ncurses and other cli like uis are probably brutalist.

The examples in the blog post don't strike me as brutalist at all. More like Swiss modern, which at this point has been done to death.

I think designers like the "clean" look but I find it to antiseptic and antihuman. Myspace was an example of a human (but not brutalist imho) design. Working in a hyper sterile environment as these designs all seem to me doesn't encourage creativity or jive with reality.
> The trick is to still find ways to apply pressure so that a service gets better and more efficient in time, instead of attracting parasites that'll use it as money drain.

A huge part of the problem is the public reaction to how for-profit research is supposed to work.

In theory a cure is highly valuable. People should be willing to pay as much for it as the alternative, meaning as much as it would cost for multiple years of ongoing treatment, plus the value of the inconvenience the cure avoids in participating in the ongoing treatment for all those years. A cure should be more profitable than a treatment because patients prefer it to continuous treatment and are therefore willing to pay more for it.

But a treatment that costs $500/week and continues for 40 years is business as usual. Someone offering a cure with a one-time price in excess of a million dollars is derided as a soulless profiteer taking advantage of the sick, insurers refuse to cover it and everyone starts calling for Congress to pass a law against it.

So the market develops treatments instead of cures.
The counter to that is pretty obvious, because if you remember Jobs also said "no native apps on iPhones", and then in a few months... poof! an app store.

Flash was pretty much dead anyway, and the web platform had advanced enough to mostly replace it at that point. That wasn't true for native apps.

If you want to make a standard, it has to let people do the things they want to do. Otherwise, people will just use a different (or no) standard.
The Drudge Report is another good example of a brutalist, content-over-presentation website.
Please don't cross into personal swipes. If you can't discuss something, it suffices not to discuss it.

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This is so great! Could you tell us a bit about how it works behind the scenes?
True. We use it for our Algolia search index too (documented here: https://forestry.io/blog/search-with-algolia-in-hugo/)
ActivityPub has been more popular than diasporas and applied towards several services (GNU Social, Mastadon, PeerTube, for example)
I'm still looking for an app that works for notes and as a journal.

Evernote and OneNote are the big note taking apps. Hierarchical, nifty searching and tagging, easy to include all kinds of images, pdfs, etc.

Journaling (for me) focuses on easy and quick entries without distractions. OneNote can do that via Win+N, but it seems to have no good way to show me all the entries in chronological order, so I can do post-processing when I have the time.
There are a number of reasons even if there's no formal quid pro quo such as money under the table or even a nice meal.

Reporters cultivate relationships with sources and sharing some inside information can come to be seen as just helping out a friend with some tidbit that doesn't really hurt anything.

Furthermore, there can be an ego thing around sharing things you know that other people don't.
> Josh Shaffer, whose team’s work was part of the iOS 11 leak last fall.

Is leaking the reason it was rushed out the door? If not, I can't imagine why he's upset about it.
> Because it already achieved that "level of digital payment smoothness" with credit cards?

Whether the two are equivalent depends on the transaction costs of the two models.

According to the Economist: "Visa and MasterCard extract over 0.10 cents of net income for every dollar of payments. Ant takes a smaller cut, of less than 0.03 cents." https://www.economist.com/news/business/21726713-ant-financi...

Perhaps more importantly I've seen estimates that Chinese banks lose $20 billion yearly in credit card fees due to the mobile payments.
A lot of the decisions were made because:

1. It complicates the compiler.
2. It slows down the compilation.
3. We didn’t think about it in the beginning, and can’t add it now without making non backwards compatible changes.
4. It makes the language harder to learn.
5. We don’t use this feature a lot.

I didn’t invent these reasons — search for why doesn’t golang have <insert-feature> — and you will eventually come across one or the other as a reason mentioned by one of the core members.
I don't understand the bias against working on Wall Street.

In fact, Wall Street is much more fun than a generic office park in Silicon Valley.
Ah, the good old Canary Trap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
His endorsement of browser EME put paid to his ongoing usefulness, for me.

Granted, I'm nowhere near his league of fame and success and whatall. Nonetheless, I'm fearfully awaiting the "locking down" of the Web.
I wouldn't mind paying for articles with micropayments of say 10c per article. I guess i'm the only one.
Italian only, but see item 11 of http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/p5_1_2.jsp?id=103 - should be easy for Google to translate it.

Though I should have written "isn't _equally_ useful to everyone in the general population".
Why would you get a good reference? Your boss can just always give a bad reference so that your forced to stay. After all he's getting cheap labor, and you have to risk never getting employed again.

You're coming at this from a viewpoint that implies that companies want to help people, when we are already dealing with that fact that they absolutely do not
I think HN is better example of "brutalist" web design than most of the examples. Plain typefaces and colors, rigid lines and block-y structures.

As for the bit about brutalism being "honest, unpretentious and anti-bourgeois" - LOL - the only people who actually rave about it as an aesthetic are the most pretentious people I know (not that there's anything wrong w/ that).
Not so much "hacked" as "written from the ground up by people with nobody's interests but their own at heart".

AI isn't naturally occurring. Humans write the code, humans select the training strategies, humans choose the data to train it with and most importantly humans choose what constitutes a "good, well-trained" AI over a "bad" one which needs more training. Humans pick when to stop. In this hypothetical, those humans are now the gatekeepers on all governance. They have no motivation to do anything but serve their own bias. And we know how much ethical training programmers receive.

We can't build a perfect AI because we don't have a perfect AI which could build it for us.
Oh! Yeah, I can totally do that tonight. I'll link it (I have to remove a key from the code... oooops. :))
Please don't engage in petty spats here, regardless of how wrong or annoying you find other comments.

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The problem is that Amazon just doesnt care about things like these. Remember long it took them to fix their broken rating system? And it’s still not fixed, it’s just “less broken”. Though quite vital for people’s shopping experience
Whoever you (they?) are I hope you RIP.

Yogurt is my life saver....
Aww, thanks! :)
> I completely understand what's in it for the reporter, but I've never understood what the employee gets out of it. I've been reading Mark Gurman's scoops about Apple for years so I'm definitely biased in wanting that to continue. It just seems like there's tons of upside for the reporter and only downside for the leaker.

There's four reasons people leak information:

1. Out of moral responsibility to report unsafe or illegal activity.

2. To cause direct harm to the root organization because they feel slighted by some action in the past.

3. The "leak" is officially sanctioned as part of a submarine.

4. Ego.

Numbers 3 and 4 are the biggies.
The highjacking of this tweet is interesting.
I was hoping one interesting graphic chart per Regression Analysis Type. That didn't happen, and I felt lost at sea. Please, improve the post on such amazing topic.
> I'm confused. I don't see what makes most of the examples cited here "Brutalist" in any meaningful fashion.

Because these examples have nothing to do with "brutalism" in architecture. It's just another buzzword misappropriated by (web) designers. 5 years ago everything was "flat" now everything is "brutalist" including what was "flat".

Designers shouldn't pick a style because it's trendy, they should do their job as designers and actually design for their intended audience and medium.

HN is no more "brutalist" than Craiglist. Effective web design should be optimized for fast loading times, readability, easy information retrieval and responsiveness. These issues are far more challenging than trying to fit a style du jour.
Maybe it's also how your parents prime you with the necessity.
While seatbelts for cars have been mandatory since 1976 in Germany for trucks over 3.5t it's only been since 1992 and I do remember riding in a truck that didn't even have seatbelts (thus it was still ok to ride without) in the early 90s and have an uneasy feeling. Maybe my parents were adamant enough to always wear a seatbelt in the car (at the same time)... Wouldn't say I was scared, but apparently I believed them it was a good thing :P
> 1. You can program in Go without a GC

But Go was designed to be used with a GC, no? I see the same argument used with D, even though a lot of the stdlib relies on a GC :P

> 2. There are no applications that prohibit GCs

You are making a very strong statement here. Since we're on HN, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

I am not a GC expert, so I have a follow-up question: does a deterministic GC exist? If so, what kind of pause time bounds (error/variance) are we talking about? Depending on the answer to this, I could probably list several areas where the bounds are unacceptable.

> 3. Even if you were right about 1 and 2, these still wouldn't be reasons for not comparing Go and C++.

Of course you can compare the two languages, but my argument is that it's essentially a useless comparison.
We need someone to do that. It gives me a single resource that I can share easily.
Many people in these threads are stating very loudly "well if Tesla didn't want to be culpable they shouldn't call it Autopilot".

Two things:

1. Regardless of the name, Tesla has never marketed this as a product which allows you to at any point stop paying attention to the road or take your hands off the wheel. At least to my knowledge.

2. The name. "Autopilot". The only time I'd ever heard the term "autopilot" before Tesla used it was in Airplanes. I'm not entirely sure how everyone is forgetting this, but planes have had "autopilot" for decades and all passenger planes still have pilots. Commercial jets have TWO pilots (at least) who are highly paid and have a huge amount of flight time in order to ensure that someone is paying attention at all times. All of these aforementioned jets have "autopilot". Tesla is absolutely not holding their drivers to a higher standard than they should given the name "autopilot". I'm not sure why this is so often parroted but it's nonsense.
Tldr is that corporations don't want a standards body with any public input so they created their own competing body, strangled w3c, and are now saying w3c is limited to being a rubber stamp for the standards they create.
It's interesting that the first recorded uses in English (according to the OED) mention it as a Turkish foodstuff:

"1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. xv. §9. 1601 Neither doe they [sc. the Turks] eate much Milke, except it bee made sower, which they call Yoghurd."

(See also[1]) I suppose it's possible that Bulgaria got yogurt during Ottoman rule in the 14th century, and that the research in the early part of the 20th just happened to be there. But it seems more likely to me that any group that kept animals for milk would have fermented the milk to make it last longer, and that knowledge would have traveled all over Eurasia.

1: https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/...
Umm...wut? Would you not agree that bias is in the media is a major issue today, and that it may cause a significant percentage of viewers to abandon a given station or website if they see too much of it? Before the 2016 election, I regularly watched CNN and visited its website. Now it’s such a den of partiality and clickbait headlines that I have relegated it to HuffPo status and cannot trust anything I read there, so I simply don’t go there. I’d imagine there are others that feel this way too.

So if I’m a media company and I see complaints about my stations or a decline in news viewership, I’m going to take steps to stop it from happening. Companies often don’t know that they have problems until customers express their opinions about them, and so Sinclair is trying to keep an open dialogue with their viewers. Since when is asking customers how they feel about your service a bad thing?
The protected class didn't pop up out of nowhere. It wasn't a law of physics. We could easily change what is a protected class.

Additionally selected enforcement of laws has turned criminal convictions into a way to get rid of a statistically higher rate of minorities without saying that's why you are doing it. If I recall correctly that is the main reason that Massachusetts banned asking for criminal history on applications
Unfortunately, it won't filter out pre-roll ads, but there is always YouTube Red, if you dislike ads and don't hate Google.
Haha, I made my own bot a while back ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvZs4sXbeaQ ). It makes videos out of wikipedia pages, so I figure it's not terrible. If you're thinking about doing such a thing, take note from me, and make sure the voice sounds okay from the beginning.
IP that's worth stealing is not limited to one specific implementation, it's about using someone else's idea. (So "theft" is a misnomer, it's really about imitation.)

For example, if you buy a competitor's product to take it apart, replicate its components and assemble lots of knock-offs, you have some validation that the product is going to work, without having to do any costly planning and design yourself. All of that works without literally breaking into the competitor's factory to steal their equipment or their code.

For a lot of really valuable IP you won't find an open source implementation, or if you do, you won't be able to legally use it, at least as long as software patents are a thing.
How would a hacked copy make it more legal. Wouldn't using their software without a license also be illegal?
I'm very interested in this field but had a hard time figuring out what the meat of the article was. Can you elaborate?
It would be like when the capacitor blew on my A/C condenser if I would be forced to replace the whole unit instead of the $10 part.

It’s important that people know if they are getting 3rd party or refurbished parts, but it’s equally important for people to have the right to use 3rd party and refurbished parts if they so choose — with the only restriction of having the necessary safety/compliance markings.
Of course the average is as nonsensical as saying the average American has 2.5 kids.

Most users probably make facebook almost nothing, and then a smaller portion make them far more.
I just want to provide the data and let a service decide the best algorithm.

Weka and various ML tools require you select the algorithm and do the A/B testing on your own.

There's an opportunity for an Optimizely of ML.
In all seriousness, what are you going to do about it with your loss of trust?