skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More people in bondage? in absolute numbers this is captain obvious level of argument since we have had a demographic explosion in the 20th century. Percentage wise you would be way wrong since poverty has been steadily decreasing everywhere around the world and very rapidly.
Another good point -- it sucks stupid amounts of data and radio power. People are always puzzled by how quickly they go through their data, some advertising systems can suck ~500MB/month of cellular data. Some telcos have specifically started showing usage graphs identifying traffic as advertising, but it can be hard to see which app or web page is the culprit.
The fairness doctrine makes little sense in the context of the internet. My random comment/post on reddit may in the course of a paragraph contain 5 different assumptions that may be orthogonal to the actual main point.

It will not contain therein space for alternative thoughts on the main point let alone space for any alternatives for any unexamined assumptions.

Truth is multidimensional and fairness impossible to determine to everyone's satisfaction. For example 2 people discussing the best way to travel around the world are unlikely to find agreement with someone who believes the earth is flat and impossible to fly around and 2 different types of dating artifacts are equally meaningless to someone who believes the earth is 6000 years old.

Alternative viewpoints can find themselves a home in the comment section or if undesirable there on your own home on the web.

Wherein the web isn't censored in a heavy handed fashion we have the most reasonable answer to the fairness doctrine. Everyone can be heard but not everyone will find an audience that desires to listen.
90% of it was touting the benefits. I kept reading to see if it would get to the part where it’s all bunk, but it never did.
Surprised myself but looks like it's still going strong. Never made the transition from the BBS, the web provided new hangouts for me like HN.

https://www.well.com/
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There's an article [1] entitled "Meditation en masse - how colonialism sparked the global Vipassana movement".

When the British conquered the Buddhist kingdom of Burma, Buddhism lost the protection it had from the king. The laity then organized in order to defend their Buddhist institutions, and people began to study the dhamma like never before.

This gave rise to talented monks who preached to the laity. Then Ledi Sayadaw, a Burmese monk, began preaching that meditation was not something that only monks who dedicated their lives to it could do, but was available to anyone. This led to a lineage of lay teachers of meditation, one of whom was Goenka, the founder of the Vipassana meditation movement.

In short, the modern Vipassana movement has its origins in the popularization of meditation which was a result of British colonialism in Burma.

[1] https://tricycle.org/magazine/meditation-en-masse/
Ask HN: Are there good resources on data engineering and infra (not science)?
Most of Coursera/DataCamp/DataQuest/Udacity have to do with the science aspects; i.e., running things on your computer. However, I've not yet found equivalent resources for putting data/ML systems into production.

The aspects that I'm looking for are not how to set up MySQL or something like that. It has more to do with what all types of systems usually work together well, and how do you set up things like monitoring progress of training a model, deploying the model, versioning the model, etc.

I'm looking for courses/books/anything else (paid is fine) that will help me venture into this.

If you have a "learning path", that'd be great to have too!
The POUM were Trotskyists and most definitely did not have "anarchist leanings". The only commonality they had with the anarchists (who were far more numerous and militarily effective) was that the Communists attacked both of them.
I have a lot of sympathy for this point of view: One of the goals of DomTerm (http://domterm.org) is that you want more than a terminal emulator for a shell or a REPL. See the "A better REPL console" section in https://opensource.com/article/18/1/introduction-domterm-ter... .

DomTerm approaches this from the other end than eshell does: At first glance it's a solid no-compromise (mostly) xterm-compatible terminal emulator, but it also has features to make it a great REPL/shell interface: Rather than just plain text, support structure (delimit commands, prompts, input, output). Allow "rich" html output: images, styled text, fonts. Builtin less-style paginator and readline-style input editing. Tmux-style panes and session management. DomTerm isn't integrated with Emacs, but there are embeddings for Atom and the Theia IDE.

FWIW when I wrote Emacs term mode my goal was for it to subsume comint mode (the basis for shell mode), but alas no-one else seemed interested in such a merger.
I don't think typos communicate any information of value.
On macOS trackpad rejection is quite good, but if you're running anything else it's very frustrating. One of the primary reasons reinstalled macOS... too many triggers on Fedora :(
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I will also change my Cable provider to something other than Comcast because I hate their service. Oh wait they are the only provider in my area...
What you have to understand is that Facebook is effectively the defacto global identity system. Russian bots and astroturfing aside, it's still the most widely used and deployed identity verification service around that is borderless and not government controlled.

Yes, they don't have penetration in every country in the world (i.e. in China). But they effectively own identity services in the Western world. For blockchains, one of the key gaps in adoption is validating and verifying real users.

If I'm one of the blockchain startups doing identity verification such as Civic or Status, I'd be very worried right now that the 500 pound gorilla is getting into the game.
AT&T paid $200,000 to Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen
Or just set up an online booking system.
A few steps further you will invent something like Emacs. Or maybe Atom. Or browser extensions.

BTW do you remember why making a browser extension is a bit involved, and publishing, even more so? Trusting someone else's code. Copy -pasting it from a message board may end up in a problem.
That's just misusing the word blockchain. Like saying "cloud server" for "hosting" when there is nothing cloud about it.

Using digital signatures in a chain is not a novel idea. Without PoW you do not need the block part, just records.
Mindfulness style meditation without any goals or objectives, no clock or apps. No expectations. Just the beauty of it. For me, that has been most consistent with the nature of the practice itself.
What puzzles me is that there are already sites that offer free subdomains. Wouldn't those be sufficient?
The article gives examples of how it helps with PTSD. It doesn’t “fail”. It doesn’t totally cure it, it that’s a high bar for any psychological intervention.
YubiKeys are non-upgradable by design. This is occasionally annoying when new standards come out and you need to go buy new keys (which is not something that's gonna happen a lot), but it significantly reduces the attack surface of these devices. They've been pretty good about giving out free replacement keys whenever major flaws have been found, and webauthn is pretty good about remaining backwards-compatible with U2F keys, so I don't think it's something they handled particularly badly.
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> The 3rd party app has to first discover their API, someone has to understand it and write code to use it, and then deploy that code.

I think this would be a better integration point for AI. It could look at the fields and learn to fill them out automatically (name, age) and prompt the user for anything missing. Then instead of the barber shop needing a universal AI users just need their personal AI (or a script) to interact with the API.
I thought this was common knowledge among tech people, though it can't be stressed enough to non-techies.
Re businesses doing this today: I believe WeChat handles this very well in China.
I wonder how iOS keeps track of the 7 days in question.

For an iOS device still connected to the internet or to a mobile phone network, I presume it will periodically make an NTP request or get the date/time from the mobile phone carrier, to adjust its clock. What if those requests are MITM'ed?
Assuming they're in the US, your deaf friend can use a free relay service. There are a bunch of variations, some that allow signing to an operator, others typing. All are free, and as accessible as this google bot.

(I assume your friend knows about these services, this is an FYI others.)

https://www.verywell.com/internet-relay-services-1046808#typ...
I hope some of these things make it into iOS at some point too! Especially the greyscale stuff sounds great
Why can’t I buy gmail and just use regular @gmail? Would love all the features of GSuite, but a custom domain name I would pay even more to avoid. Unless you’re running a business, it looks bizarre. For some in the development industry / those who write technical blogs I can imagine that being useful at times, but still......
You know, before I had a child, I would upvoted this and likely written a comment about how much your opinion matches mine. But, now I have a two year old and, let me tell you, these little people develop strong personalities at a young age.

My Mom and Dad were great parents, but I have to raise Lauren differently. It isn't that my Mom and Dad raised my sister and I wrong, it's just that my sister and I were our own little people with our own personalities.

If you ever want a wonderful guide to this (in real time), you should come experience bath time at the Hluska household. It's something else...
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your comment reminded me of a terrific article I came across a couple years ago, was thinking "ethical apps"... but that's not it... searched for hippocratic oath software, oh yeah -- Tristan Harris (ex-Googler) and "Time Well Spent" and Humane Tech https://humanetech.com/

(ironic that the website renders poorly on my iPhone given the mission and creds of its founder, but I digress)

The article I first read was
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/the-bin...

Recommended reading.
I have the book the author of that article wrote (The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw). Its an interesting book. Historical perspective on ideas is fascinating.
Anyone think that Apple is likely to add support for FIDO anytime soon?
I'm more worried about AI in drones deciding who lives / dies. That's way more scary (and a little terminator'ish).
The main infographic shows an impressive improvement in TPS, but what about single query execution time? I often see the CPU maxed out by complex queries against large tables.
Though that's kind of a good question, GENERALLY speaking you should use "monotonic" timers for this sort of thing which don't have that problem. They're based on a system time which doesn't change.

Of course, that's no guarantee.. this is done wrong in a lot of places all the time. But I would expect Apple to get this sort of basic thing right in their security code. Hopefully :)
There's two issues here:

1) Using visible WiFi networks to determine location sends data to Google to use their geolocation database. Your suggestion here does stop this (assuming you meant to DE-select "always high accuracy" and instead select "device only" which uses the GPS without sending any data offboard.)

2) Google pushes the use of Google Play location services API over Android's location services system API. These services don't work unless you grant Google Play Services permission to use your location. Since Google Play Services also needs network access, you effectively have to grant Google access to your location in order to use any location services whatsoever in any application.

It's the second point to which I was referring in my post above.
>"corporate filtered news?" Seems like you're stretching things

It's worth noting there doesn't need to be a corporate agenda or government conspiracy for humans to exhibit groupthink about ideas. Of course most of human history existed before The Age of Reason made evidence-based reason en vogue; but even today you can read about things like NASA engineers who said exactly how and when the Columbia shuttle would experience a critical foam strike, or scientists who were met with hostility and disparagement when trying to debunk the encyclopedic-, and textbook-published myth about komodo dragons injecting a cocktail of deadly bacteria sith their bites. It seems humans just exhibit this appeal to authority/consensus as an inherent trait.

The current climate of promoting democratization, diversity, and freedom except when it comes to democratization, diversity, and freedom of ideas seems to be taking a step backwards for humanity.
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We've been trying Zoom lately. Seems pretty good, though we always seem to have issues with everyone logging in to a call. Inevitably we have everyone slacking/texting/skyping out the call ID to just get up and running. After we're up though it all works smoothly
The Lincoln Brigade/Battalion were not dupes. They were the only Americans who actually volunteered to fight fascism, while large numbers of their countrymen and corporations actively collaborated with it.

They were exploited and betrayed, but the same could be said for the majority that stayed home and later were sent off to be slaughtered by the power that the USA worked with "against communism". And at the least the CPUSA volunteers had some agency.

Eby's book is good though.
Maybe it's tongue-in-cheek?
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I want to agree with you, I want a Linux daily driver with the quality I am used to from the Mac. But I guess we’re just going to have to agree to disagree on the new mac keyboard being a dealbreaker.
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It's quite useful! These days I browse pretty much all news sites in Incognito mode, due to paywalls.
I'm aware of whatvthe Well is. And that it pressages much present online discussion (though Usenet predates it).

But I'd suspected some specific individuals or group.
how do they even copyright other's work as their own?
Has anybody found a way/hack to bypass Recaptcha ?
Hey thanks for responding. I'm sorry to hear you are in a similar situation.

Okay so yes we can agree on what we're trying to as a company and we can write it down. We even have a performance metric. So that's a good start but you'll see things start to break down for us soon.

There is no accountability, and we absolutely cannot agree on individual roles let alone come up with titles.

Turnover was > $1m, we have no funding, and < 10 staff. Both of us have a technical background. Our model is basically one large up front set up fee and then an ongoing subscription.

Your comments about the CEO type role are interesting and really accurate. Right now I'd guess that I'm 80/20 tech/sales and he is 20/80. So he is the initial primary contact for most of the sales although over time I seem to become the primary contact. I think this is because I am more willing to recognize and admit the problem exists.

Some of the technical problems are only currently solvable by one of us because of specific domain knowledge. Otherwise I would have taken responsibility for everything technical.

We cannot agree that the company is not solving current customers problems well enough. I hear a lot about managing expectations and T's & C's.

I feel like I often have to step in and fix relationships with customers because of this. Then I end up making a plan, taking charge of the plan, and making myself accountable to the customer for executing that plan. I seriously piss him off when I do this, especially if it is one of "his" accounts.

I've taken on board a lot of the advice I've read here today, and I just maybe think that I may have been able to finally get the idea through to him that happy customers will make his sales job a lot easier. I've also (I think) managed to make him see that it would only take us a maximum of one month to solve all the remaining problems that I (and most of the customer base) classify as major.

I'm going to do everything I can to make sure the company will survive the next couple of months (that means sales) and then I'll need to revisit the idea of what's next.
You said it. It's so tepid.

In a world ruled by "chaotic evil", even "lawful neutral" is culpable.

"In order for evil to flourish, all that is required is for good people to do nothing."
You are defending the expert status of indisputable laymen by demanding a line by line refutation of everything they have ever written? And this seems not merely reasonable to you but you perceive it as upholding good reasoning and logic itself?
I've seen a similar attitude with Apple employees some years back if someone had an Android phone. It seems ridiculous. They should really be trying to understand why, and encourage occasional compeitor product use to see what they like about the others for their own product improvement.
> Are you incapable of just going to sleep? Do you really need a cronjob to shutdown your laptop? Why do you assume that your lack of self control projects to everyone else?

When the products we use every day like Facebook and YouTube capitalize on the same reward pathways in our brain that drugs do by pumping out little bursts of dopamine, we might not actually have as much of a conscious choice whether to use (or stop using) these products as we think we do. [The Hacking of the American Mind][0] is an interesting exploration into brain chemistry and just how addictive some of these products can be. There's some glimmer of hope for me that these addictive products are admitting just how addictive they are and are starting to offer ways to manage the addictions.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34237719-the-hacking-of-...
You need to read Asimov's essay "The Relativity of Wrong"
http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

Ancient people and people 50 years ago were both wrong about a lot of things, as we no doubt are today, but there is a very different sort of wrong between the pre-scientific world of mythology and the self-correcting methodology we have today.
You could use microg, then nothing goes to Google. https://lineage.microg.org – This together with yalp gives you a good experience and keeps you private.
One device to rule them all?

The promise of Ubuntu Convergence and Windows Continuum on a single piece of hardware, solving the "app gap" with Android support - the best of the web, Android and one's choice of Linux desktop.

An ultrabook/iPad substitute - "power users" requiring a 32GB Core i7 desktop replacement might look elsewhere, naturally.
This argument can be used to justify any form of government as long as some share of extortions get invested for the benefit of extorted.

But I agree all of this is great if I only have to pay <$5K yearly but not so much otherwise. Not to mention having to emigrate to cancel "the services". That sucks too.
If a shareholder (or fund) is invested in a company, those investments should be considered at risk, without a risk component, companies may as well only return the tbill rate.

By giving equifax the death penalty, future shareholders should choose between competitors, including on who will do the better job with accuracy and data security.
Can it also adjust the accent or tone to make it understand to the other party ? This will be really helpful if I don't have to say my name as R for rock, o for ocean ...
This will go absolutely wonderfully for Microsoft. Their track record with security is impeccable and they've always had great success intermixing data and executables with no negative consequences.
That's a telling point. Yet, I still feel uncomfortable with the idea.
this is a smart dude, he invented one of the most popular algorithms of finding a shortest path in a graph.
I really like native apps, but I think security is eventually going to be a big driver of many apps turning towards the mobile web or at least some kind of universal platform (Microsoft with UWP and Oracle with MCS both have this).

The incredible demand for features from customers without a lot of care to much else other than maybe uptime is going to shift.

People handing over data, wanting to interact with software, etc will be limited either by shifts in customer sentiment or government mandate. For instance, perhaps every release of software has to be signed off by the CTO who is legally liable for the security of the software unless he took reasonable precautions, similar to environmental law.

Anyway, securing web apps is much easier due to the knowledge we have about how they should work and the fact that it’s an older, more well known platform. The RSA conference recently that leaked all of the attendees data was a stitched together mobile app not surprisingly.

Anyway not sure if it’s going to be a shift one way or the other 100%, but however it plays out security is going to be a big driving force in platform choice in ways it hasn’t been previously.
yup. lots and LOTS of misunderstanding about GDPR out there. there are plenty of “escapes” for stuff like this. you just have to be mindful, and do things deliberately, which is a good thing. bigger companies will want formal review processes as CYA.
This looks like another avenue for enhanced tracking of unique users. Don't give up your multiple passwords.
Introverts aren’t as successful as extroverts in a CEO position that requires raising external capital and networking for customers. However introverts are often more successful in other roles (such as CTO), other types of companies (such as bootstrapped, low touch products), and other career types (eg mathematician).
I 100% get what you mean. That's why I've tried to market Order Happy at all businesses that are selling products such as clothing stores or DIY stores ect. but I'm struggling at selling that point. Who knows though in the future it may not even be an ordering system!
Facebook to Reorganize After Scrutiny Over Data Privacy