skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure about that. The current administration can be kind of unpredictable (to understate it a little...), and this seems like exactly the combination of fuck-the-elitists and Trumpian populism that could work. Silicon Valley, culturally speaking, fits pretty clearly into the subculture that Trump set himself up in opposition to, in a way that even finance doesn't (given that the current govt is an uneasy alliance between business conservatives and right wing populism, as mediated by Trump's personal whims).
I'm starting a proxy project that can be used in countries where VPN is illegal. I'm looking for collaborators. https://github.com/UncleGrape/UncleGrape
In Eastern Europe Robots Ride to the Rescue Where Workers Can’t Be Found
I turned it off because it kept disabling me when I was on the train (I drive about once quarterly). It's a good start, though.
well, you are imposing your liberal view on others by imposing uniform civil code which will be modelled possiblt after the majority religion in country (india) ?
Tesla Is Temporarily Shutting Down Model 3 Production
That was a joke, since they used to own Xenix before selling it to SCO.
This is similar to a post back from 2013 titled "Ask HN: Which daily habit has affected your productivity the most?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6851384

I'll repeat my answer from back then:

1. If you're a programmer I recommend looking at http://wakatime.com

2. I know a guy who swears he is more productive by starting his mornings with: coffee, restroom, have something ready to work on
I really don't understand how people are being exploited here
FWIW, the Crown Zellerbach Building, completed in 1959, was "controversial due to the decision for the building to face Bush St. instead of Market St., Market St. being in decline during the time it was built."[1][2] 1959 was years before the Market St subway construction began.

Aside: I'm not a student of architecture, and Modernist (and especially International Style) architecture didn't really click for me until someone explained the design of that building. All building services (restrooms, stairwells, elevators, etc) are located in the giant, black, windowless monolith. To my mind that feature is most descriptive of the style and its motivations, particularly regarding the relationship between form and function and the emphasis on the latter. Its shape and materials are, at least superficially, almost entirely dictated by its pure function. Yet it's the defining characteristic of the form of the building and clearly intentionally imposing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Bush_Plaza
[2] https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf183.asp

EDIT: You can't see the monolith from the Wikipedia or Wikimedia photos. Which is actually sort of strange given how imposing it is in real-life. Here's a better photo, https://www.som.com/FILE/16472/crownzellerbachhq_788x900_gab... , from the SOM website (see https://www.som.com/projects/crown_zellerbach_headquarters).
This might be a controversial opinion here, but intent does matter. If I see a bunch of stuff sitting the sidewalk and I take some because I think it's free, that's a reasonable thing to do. But going into someone's house and taking their tv is not. "It's their own fault for not locking the door" isn't a valid legal defense, and I would prefer not to live in a country where victim-blaming becomes a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Based on what little I've read thus far, the teenager does indeed seem to have good intent. If that's the case, I'm cautiously optimistic that the court system will set him free without any consequences. But if the prosection can prove that he was aware of the data's confidentiality and was acting with malicious intent, then he deserves a conviction. Let's let the legal system run its course, before gathering our pitchforks.
Along similar lines: seems like it might be worth blocking all amp links by default, unless there's an automatic way to get the root URL when one is provided.
>>Does that make any sense? If I wanted to set up paid email, how does a blockchain help? It seems technically unnecessary.

By accepting cryptocurrency payments, you can accept email from anyone in the world. With the traditional finance system, there are legal obstacles to where a payment system can operate.

Also, using a traditional financial intermediary would mean that all the users of the winning paid-email service would be locked into using the same financial intermediary, which would then have significant power over its users owing to its network effect.
I am absolutely incensed reading this.

The government made no reasonable effort to conceal the information and put it on a _publicly accessible_ web server. They made the information available to the public whether or not that was their intention. How can any reasonable person conclude that typing in an HTTP url qualifies as an illegal breach?
What if they keep trending towards making Windows as user friendly as Linux?
> These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they will most certainly not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.

Well, if the system is advanced enough that its actions become incomprehensible to humans, then it's a moot point. After all, nobody seems to go around questioning free will because of earthquakes.

The dangers seem to me to be from systems that aren't anywhere as sophisticated. Those little pyscho-dogs from Black Mirror are sufficiently scary. And they are much less likely to have read Sojourner Truth than a sentient cloud that keeps us as pets.
There's quite a bit of child pornography that has graced the pages of 4chan over the years.
Is there any way to keep the faceberg android apps from starting on their own after you've force-stopped them?
Wow, this is a really disappointing thread. There are very few substantive comments here. I came to the comments to dispute this claim from the article:

>It's the first time ever that Microsoft has made Linux part of a product offering.

Microsoft has offered Linux distributions on Azure for a few years now, and has ported a fair bit of their software to Linux, including VSCode, MSSQL, Powershell, etc.

But it looks like I also need to comment on all of the negativity in this thread. This change from Microsoft is a Good Thing. Microsoft has been making some serious strides towards being a better citizen of the technology community in the past few years, and this is something to be celebrated. If you think you can scorn Microsoft out of existence, you're delusional. Microsoft is here to stay. You can choose to respond to these promising changes with optimism, or you can respond to them with spite - which of these responses do you think is going to encourage Microsoft to continue in their course of positive change?

By all means, we should continue to hold their feet to the fire for stupid crap like Windows 10 being spyware. But we can't just be angry at them all the time - we have to celebrate the things they do right, too. Microsoft is clearly making a sustained effort to improve. They've done positive things they can't turn back on, like releasing large amounts of open source software under OSI licenses. Be happy!
Windows seems far worse to me, and has always seemed worse. Somebody just asked me to help fix their Windows laptop, which is running ridiculously slowly. My inclination is to wipe it and install a fresh version of Windows. That'd be pretty easy in Linux (I use a separate /home partition and routinely reinstall the OS) but Windows is such a mess, how do you untangle the user's own data and installed software?
I think this discounts the ways in which Facebook differs from Google and Apple as it relates to open, sprawling access to user data.

The alphabet conglomeration didn't obfuscate similar issues, nor would Zuckerberg following suit. Facebook's issues are related to unfettered access to a user and their graph(s) and sensitive information. More importantly that they knew of the risk and did little in response.

Obviously Google and Apple have their own privacy issues to account for, but it's fundamentally different.
>Ubuntu and the systemd crew already tried the EEE tactic and it largely blew up in their faces.

How so?
It’s easy to fall into the habit of hitting ctrl+t when a browser is open and typing in some website that distracts you from what you should be focused on. That brief cannot-be-opened page is often enough to stop you so that you can reset your focus back to what it was you were supposed to be doing.
The only time I've seen it on the big screen was from 70mm + huge plush comfy seating. One day I should go to a normal cinema and see a 35mm copy to compare :-)
This isn't made by Anker. They use Anker's battery technology.

They show 4 cells in the expanded view. Let's say (generously) that that's 20,000 mAh at 5V. That gives an average power consumption usage of 11 milliwatts. HD sensors use ~200mW, so that requires the sensor to be off at least 95% of the time to survive a year.
"In the northern plains, rainfall has not changed much, but temperatures are going up, increasing evaporation from the soil. Further south, concurrent shifts in wind patterns are in fact causing less rain to fall. Either way, this tends to push western aridity eastward." - the linked article
MoviePass just killed its all-you-can-eat movie plan
Whenever EEE has been brought up in the context of Microsoft, it has been used to describe a predatory behaviour. Indeed, the "Extinguish" part is facilitated by the "Extend" portion being a proprietary lock-in.

Using Linux (the kernel) to pull off such proprietary lock-in is going to be difficult because of the kernel's GPLv2 license (although, Tivoization is still an available tactic).

Using the Linux desktop (which is what you seem to be talking about), on the other hand, to pull of such proprietary lock-in is going to compete directly with Windows's desktop market share; which is why I think Microsoft will never push the Linux desktop in an Embrace-Extend attempt.
From the places Anker is mentioned on the linked page, it doesn't sound like Anker is doing this. It sounds like Anker is simply supplying (possibly custom) battery and charging technology to them.
We haven't reached the peak of human wealth distribution systems with a byproduct of the fall of feudalism. Let's rack our brains, I'm sure we can figure something.
And yet, the population isn't exploding in developed countries. This implies that something else must be receiving the selection pressure instead. I wonder what it could be?
Even better URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft...
Do it! Then when you get enough experience become a Judge. So when a prosecutor brings your stupid case you can just throw out!
Key: "EverCam records video to local storage,...For Free. Just insert the included microSD card* and you’re all set. Alternatively, by subscribing to our cloud storage plan, you can expand your security options to include simultaneous recording to the cloud. "

They get it right. cloud is a nice option, not a required part of the package for the thing to run.

Nice
what part of _freedom of information portal_ do they not understand?
Not to mention Windows deciding seemingly randomly that it needs to take complete control of the machine for 5 hours to install updates. Not exactly user friendly.
As rivals seek to fend off Amazon, the Pentagon tweaks its cloud deal
Parsing and painting CSS in the critical rendering path
So what you are arguing is that China can enforce their laws around censorship on EU companies when their citizens use a site hosted in the EU?
Even the most cynical TSLA shorter would be insane not to throw money at a brand new Elon Musk venture. (If they have any left, shorting TSLA is an expensive hobby.)
For many years you could walk around Paducah KY with a blacklight at night, and see the fluorescence of hex dust that had blown over from the gaseous diffusion plant. Safety has been a rather inconsistent priority in this industry.
I would be interested in replacing my Arlo with this but I don't see any integration with SmartThings, Homekit, Alexa, or Google Home except as a possible "stretch goal".
That analogy assumes a lot about how hard/hidden obvious id numbers in URLs are. I'd counter that this situation is more like "putting your stuff on the curb and being mad when people take it". Rather than scapegoat the kid, the government should be investigating themselves for criminal negligence.
It's a subsidiary of Anker. https://www.eufylife.com/pages/about-us
Yeah, what about that Cloudflare memory leak they had a while back? Are all the caches that retained the info complicit?
.. checks AU/X manuals for a precedent ..
Google Updates DIY Vision and Voice Kits
Alibaba Gears Up for Self-Driving Road Tests
Correction: a company claiming to use Anker's
battery technology (what is that? their battery packs are just standard Lithium-Ion or LiPo cells) is crowdfunding for stated purpose of allegedly creating a security camera with an unverified and hard to believe 365-day battery life.

They state the one year of battery life is based on 10 videos a day, 30 seconds each. That means that on one charge they have 365 days of standby and 30 hours, 25 mins of video recording. All this plus self-discharge, and down to -4 degrees F (this is significant since extracting energy out of a Lithium-Ion or LiPo cell is rather hard at such low temperatures - you lose about 1/3 of the capacity, and see significantly lower cell voltage and higher internal resistance at -20C).

Sample data on lithium cells: https://na.industrial.panasonic.com/sites/default/pidsa/file...
If anything, that would be an argument against using coat factories too -- not an argument in favor of nuclear factories.

That said, the whole comparison that makes it as coal factories produce "more radioactive" waste, is based on comparing with "normal" nuclear factory emissions, under their 'theoretical' operation. Not the total long term potential, when one includes catastrophes, breakdowns, lousy waste containment and disposal, or the mafia just throwing it in the sea in the calculation.
Moolipass project creator here! It's surprising and wonderful to see our project mentioned here.
Adding a time delay between PIN attempts definitely is a good idea. I'm afraid the number of maximum attempts is fixed by the hardware we're using.
I'm on a mac and use slack an vscode. Neither has crashed on me. I'm wondering if there is something about your mac setup.

I don't like that slack consumes some many resources. I love vscode so I don't care.
Yeah except it's a public space – So more like the library doors were unlocked.
>Some states like CA are pretty aggressive in suing people who attempt to leave their jurisdiction before realizing capital gains to avoid taxation.

And that just lengthens the timeline on when the state starts suffering from its high tax policy. Now on top of high taxes, enterprising individuals also have to worry about financial penalties for leaving the state. The wealthy already in the state will be less inclined to leave, while the wealthy outside the state will be less inclined to come.

The delayed effect of hikes to national taxes on the residency of the wealthy is actually a disadvantage, because it results in people not taking it into account when voting on policies.

On the other hand, when the effect of something is immediate, voters take it into consideration.

So I view the high mobility between states as an advantage, because it results in state policies being better structured to avoid economic harm.

>The ability to hide wealth/earnings in general is a bigger deal, and that can be dealt with through treaties without requiring world government.

There's no solution to the wealthy simply getting up and leaving the high tax jurisdiction for good, in order to avoid incurring future tax debts. What's collected on an exit tax is nothing compared to what that individual would have contributed had they stayed.

Tax treaties and the like will not prevent this, because when you live in a country with a lower income tax rate, your tax obligations are lower. This makes it financially advantageous for any highly productive individual to leave a high tax jurisdiction.
Since it helps the older generation to think about digital content in metaphors, I'd argue that the kid was entering through an open window of a public building. Although a bit strange, no one would give this hypothetical person a third look.
How does Facebook track visitors with a locally hosted button?
Only when associated with medical records...

I'm the same person as the other account btw, not trying to hide that.
> It's precisely the application of market economics to fields of technology, communication and society that previously were mostly voluntaristic that is one of the main opportunities for blockchains

We don't actually let markets make decisions for the big stuff. Take banking: in fact by a lot of measures it's the most highly regulated industry, and most of the fundamentals (like the interest rates) are not set via markets, but via elected (or sometimes not) officials. We don't actually want market economics to run the vast majority of our systems, which is why we've never built frameworks for it before, not because it's particularly complicated.

> Because until now, you'd have to do it for free.

Why wont specialization of labor take over again, and make it so crypto just turns into a different set of centralized players running the infrastructure with a ton of consumers? What happens when it turns out the vast majority of people don't actually want to be involved in running their own banking infrastructure?

> (whether that's a good thing or not is an interesting discussion that I wish were had more often).

Totally agree, upvoted :)
The Ethics of Reward Shaping
I agree with many of the comments here, along the lines of "intent?" and "bad law", etc... How can I provide material assistance to either this kid and/or to the problem at large?

I'm looking for something other than "donate to the EFF [or equiv.]" ideally though; I'd prefer to donate directly to his legal fund, or even do some legwork myself that will help, etc.

And ideally in a way that not only helps him, but that helps prevent these situations from occurring in the future -- i.e. working towards law change, influencing prosecutorial discretion (meh), etc...
Sure, when you're explicitly dealing with patient health data... which is not remotely in Facebook's realm.
Book 4 might be the best book in the series. Perrin's return to the Two Rivers is one of my favorite episodes. And then the two Rand chapters in the Aiel ancestral history machine in Rhuidean... those were mind-blowing the first time I read them.
It really needs one. Cory Doctorow went to work for the EFF despite being Canadian probably because the Canadian analogues are pretty weak and disorganized by comparison.
For the sake of discussion, let's assume that the 'extinguish' step can be generalized to include something other than the proprietary lock-in.
It's more like having a 'Please take these unwanted items' bin and sending people to prison when they take something that you mistakenly put in the bin.
This is awesome, keep it up Microsoft. They also ship their own version of FreeBSD as well[1].

[1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/freebsd-now-available...
perfect double-speak ! X is not the same as X

You could go far as a new M$ft representative.. submit your Social Media credentials pending our approval.
Interdisciplinary skills are really undervalued in law practice. Usually (US) lawyers try to fill a room with 1 subject experts, which is uneconomical, and a government typically is not going to do it. So, in a run-of-the-mill matter like this there is no interdisciplinary skills available to stop the slow motion train wreck.
Usually the term "static site" is regarding no backend language ie PHP, Node, Ruby serving posts out of a database dynamically, but instead being prerendered rather than not having any JS on the front end.p
"If you want to log into a website using Facebook login, Facebook needs to know what website you are logging into."

Agreed. But what if you don't want to log into that website, or maybe that site has no login at all. If it has a Facebook "Like" button, that site still sends a ping back to Facebook, letting them know you were there, and feeding Facebook's algorithm about your interests. Same goes for Google Analytics, a Twitter share button, or the growing list of tracking scripts which get executed upon page load without even showing a visual indicator that they serve some purpose.

I'd guess that the vast majority of visitors have no idea that by visiting a 3rd party site, they're feeding that visit to the list of 3rd party trackers you find on many sites today.
At the same time, you can't expect to understand what people are willing to give up until you understand how bad cheaters ruin something they care about.

"But privacy!" is going to fall on deaf ears otherwise. Just like "it's just video games lol."

I'm sure their last bit was in jest. If you've never wanted to upload a punch through the internet, you probably haven't experienced cheating.
As the amount of 4chan material you've archived increases the probability of not archiving something illegal quickly diminishes to zero.
You gotta pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers.
I've never understood having sympathy for people that go out of their way to ruin the enjoyment of up to millions of other human beings. You honestly think those people add value to society?

I haven't actually played competitive online games for close to 10 years but no, it definitely wasn't a joke. If you think that's crazy, you should see what I think should happen to people who litter when they hike!
Teachers, firefighters and policemen make about $100K/yr after expenses for full time work in ur an areas like SF.
JFK requires an airport train to take you to the train station. Same at Newark, and BWI from memory.
The attack vector that you're speaking of requires a malicious actor to be competent enough to rip the video content, remove visual and audial watermarks, and then re-host it elsewhere for redistribution. You're right; this can and will happen, and isn't worth mitigating.

However, I think there are attack vectors which are worth mitigating. The biggest one would be preventing signed URLs from being shared from an authenticated, paying client to a non-paying or unauthenticated client.

Do you know of any illegitimate sources for paid Coursera videos? Do you think the majority of Coursera users are being funneled through this illegitimate channel? I think not; the majority of users would rather pay a small amount for information from the source than some third-hand, sketchy website or server.

Edit: Unfortunately, it is pretty trivial to download content from a signed CloudFront URL (see, for example this[0] demonstration). I am wondering if there is some way to at least mitigate this...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAGc8cxdiVM
Linux has better legacy windows support than Windows for windows apps already. As you say, it's not user friendly, but when your boss tells you 'get this working or else', wine will get you there eventually. Now if this was packaged in a better way that the average user could use it would be a huge boost to Linux.
Instead of actual security why not have a spec for /humans.txt which can say things like "Please don't read anything in the /secret directory."