skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a whole slew of arguments that could be made here, but let's keep it simple: Providing anyone with information about me should be a voluntary act. If I choose not to do so, it is none of your or anyone else's business why I do not want to.

This choice is not available in the case of UTM's, at least not in a transparent way that doesn't involve manually stripping them from every URL you click (which is sensitive to user error).
Either are possible, but China has more manufacturing that doesn't care about the consequences and has shown a history of this.
Freedom has different meaning by FSF-alike and BSD Communities.

GPL License Freedom is also an "enforcement". You cant "revoke" and make the software "less free" turning it into proprietary software.

BSD License Freedom is a freedom that can be "revoked" to make the software proprietary. It is also "more free" free cause you can do actually whatever you want.

I'm using double quotes in specific words cause it is up to you and your philosophy/lifestyle to decide what kind of Freedom you like most. You don't have to swallow the FSF pill and believe on all they put as right and wrong.

Chose the Freedom you want
The definition of personal information is easy to understand (albeit broad). However, the vagueness seeps in other areas of the regulation.

For example, additional restrictions are in place for “large scale” processing of personal information, yet “large scale” is never defined. Is that hundreds, thousands or millions of records?

As the owner of a very small SaaS business (that does not sell personal information of its users) I found it tremendously difficult to figure out how to comply given the vagueness of it all.
Used all three major OSes. HDMI not working is an extremely common problem on MacOS. every event I go to has either only VGA or HDMI that doesn't work after three adapters between thunderbolt and HDMI/VGA/etc. Networking can become a problem in MacOS and Windows and when it stops working on these OSes, the only thing to do is restart your computer.

MacOS also freezes a lot if your computer is about 3 years old. Won't even consider using macbooks older than that. Used Android studio and Robomongo on a couple year old Macbook and it would keep freezing now and then. The most painful 3 months on the job. So, problems exist on all OSes. The grass isn't lush green anywhere, it's a pale green everywhere.

I have been using Ubuntu on the desktop and laptop for 5 years and it has been stable. There have been problems, but I haven't run into anything show stopping yet. I haven't been doing this long but I believe that the key is to think about all the different ways things could go wrong and ensuring you handle a reasonable amount of them, without going too crazy about it.

eg: set up your demo on a digital ocean droplet (I do this when the demo doesn't have any GUI). create a throwaway SSH key and keep the private key handy (say email) and add the pub key to the droplet. if your laptop completely crashes, you still have your demo. slides backup is completely standard no matter what OS you have. so you have handled one of the worst possible cases :)
Fun article, interesting point, and I don't even necessarily disagree (entirely, anyway), BUT: coyotes have a larger range now than they have had since long before humans showed up in North America, largely because humans cleared out their main competitors, the wolves. And raccoons are not stupid, although they are destructive.

So, I get what the author is trying to say with this little parable, but the fact that the central facts it is using (coyotes losing out, raccoons are stupid) are both false, it makes me more than a little suspicious of the conclusion, when I otherwise might not be.
Title is a bit misleading, as the devices evidently didn’t stop working via physical controls.

That said, were they... really not monitoring their service?
Boarding/deboarding is such a frustrating experience in planes: people are just too damn slow. Many people are fine: they can stand up, grab their bag out of the bin, and start walking within 2 seconds, but other people are just ridiculous.

There should be a test and certification for plane passengers, where people who can demonstrate proficiency in boarding/deboarding are given priority over everyone else, so they don't have to wait for the slow people.
The competition is fierce enough in this field that that's not really an option for them
> your right to say it.

I think what's more relevant is the right not to say something publicly, and by extension the right to have thoughts free of external judgement and consequence.
Yes it is - it's in the FAQ:

https://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faqs.html

What constitutes personal data?

Any information related to a natural person or ‘Data Subject’, that can be used to directly or indirectly identify the person. It can be anything from a name, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer IP address.
No, not a single one.
Debian isn't "pure" enough by FSF standards but they do the best job of the mainstream distros from what I can tell.
The "common-distros" page doesn't claim the OSes are "not free", it's just a list of gripes that those OSes don't meet the ideals of the GNU project.

Their issue with Debian is that the project gives people an option to install non-free software, even though the default repos and kernel are all entirely free.

I'm surprised they endorse any OS that doesn't disable the ability to install non-free software.
Thank you. It's been fun learning about <canvas> and doing everything client-side!
Which these days means mostly ephemeral resources.

They save the tax cut and buy back stocks.

They are not starting farms to create more food or building new kinds of companies — not doing economic net new things. They’re growing their own ephemeral wealth pile

The old ways, best ideas, they have all died out in human society. No longer do we worship Roman Gods and build pyramids for Pharaohs

It’s hubris and and vanity to think we have the iron clad solution today in our time

We’re just carrying water for dead and selfish

Consenting adults who have been told this is exactly right their entire lives by government backed research into propaganda models gifted to university and media and advertising will I’m sure magically come to their senses
Dont think thats really a thing outside of US (another thing the US is like awkwardly behind in).
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> you really do want other organizations considering these topics.

Why?
I used Network Solutions when they were the only game in town. Switched to Register in the late 90s. Just stuck with them because I didn't have any issues.

In the last 5-10 years the issues started growing. Finally, I hit a wall and transferred everything off their service.

I now get spam emails of them trying to trick me into switching my domains back. The vitriol their helpdesk people receive is about as shitty as I get. Maybe they don't deserve it in their role, but hopefully the angry emails will get them to find a better job asap.
I have no real opinion on crypto except that like everyone else I’m mad I didn’t buy bitcoin st $5, and am far from an “environmental preacher” -

I only enjoy the irony that some people will go from posting about climate change and go right over checking their bitcoin value.
Or access their cameras. If it's not something dumb like DNS down, it's gonna be a popcorn-level postmortem.
> And I sometimes wonder if humans were smarter before civilization replaced evolution as the driving factor for intelligence.

this is an odd proposition. evolution has not been replaced; rather, the evolutionary pressures have changed. in any case, civilization is not much more than 10,000 years old, which is pretty short in evolutionary timescales.

and although we employ some measures (ie social services) to prevent the weakest from dying outright, it seems like long term strategic thought is more important than ever. for instance, it takes 5-7 years for a high school grad to get a master's degree. can you really envision an adult hunter-gatherer working towards something for that long without seeing the fruits of their labor? their environment mandated a much shorter term focus to avoid starvation or lethal competition from other humans.
> PoW systems have a clean distribution mechanism based on external resource consumption.

Unless the creators are the only ones mining for a time.
Any resources on learning swing/long term algorithms that you mentioned?
I'm pretty sure the GDPR is enforced at the national level, by national data protection agencies. The one in the Netherlands is severely understaffed and no match for the lawyers of the likes of Google and Facebook.
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Is proof of space actually "greener" than proof of work? Memory and hard drives consume power, and querying them consumes power. Seems like it could be just another kind of work. It would be more ASIC resistant though.
Background playback has been available with YouTube Red/Premium for years.
Yes, hello! Eunika here, Yuser's COO. We've been researching new ways to provide creatives with monetizing strategies. Is that so bad? It's not about making people rich, as much as it is about making people realize that they create a vast amount of data and content that they could and should monetize as oppose to giving it away for free. With the lower tier jobs disappearing we need to find new ways for people to earn revenue.
Spotify

Skype (Before it was bought and killed by Microsoft)

Rovio

Supercell

Those are all of the big ones off the top of my head. Most founders opt to start in the US since there are less taxes and greater profits.
Why create the howardduck user just to post this, then create your own account to comment on it? I think it's pretty standard to just post your own articles here.
That's the whole point you myopic idiot. You need to be hopped up on some of that first-world prosperity to think that everyone wants to live the basic life and have kids and die of natural causes.

You thought that I think third-world are in Mars or something?

I'd rather take you with me if I can - you deserve it.
The GDPR decided otherwise ;) IPs are now PII with all the problems you will now have: every system storing (even temporary) an ip address (e.g. access logs) for a short term
are processing (storage is processing) personal information.
> the long hump has less drag.

Does that translate into less lift?
Reading the GDPR text shows there is a bunch of exceptions for which storing of example IP-addresses can be done without anonymizing or consent, with one of the more clear cut being security. If the processing is done exclusively for security purpose then the site can argue in court that they are in compliance.

Compliance with the law is always about context. What is gathered, why and how is it used, and last is there additional factors to consider. Google Analytics in itself is interesting because it is not clear if Google themselves then process the data and for what use, especially for the enterprise version.
The whole video strikes me as tone deaf and out-of-touch. The earnestness of it all gives it a creepy tone that makes it all seem unreal. I have a hard time believing this isn't some elaborate joke.

Putting that to the side, they had me thinking things like "well, this isn't so crazy, kind of..." all the way up to the bit where they talk about literally creating a one-off product for a customer in order to collect a little bit of data they feel they are missing. Sure, it's creepy to have Google constantly suggest I buy a Fitbit, eventually pushing one uniquely designed just for me, but I can see some usefulness there. Kind of. For the advertisers, at least.

But their repeated invocation of Lamarck, paired with this idea that the data they collect from one persons' parents will somehow be bolted onto their children strikes me as classist, elitist and (at the core) entirely deranged. They somehow made a leap from the ridiculousness of "The Circle" right into the worst bits of "A Brave New World" in the span of twenty minutes.

It's fun to make fun of the mis-steps of a large corporation and their silly blunders (all phones need a keyboard!), but this presentation is in a whole different ballpark, in my opinion.
which tool are you using to parse the xml? a long time ago i used arelle but it didn't work really well.
I don’t have 500 direct dependencies. I have four. But they each have five, and those have five, and those have five.

At any level, there’s probably a library that solves a large part of your problem. From your perspective, you only need “a few” of those. But from the library author’s perspective, they also only need “a few” of those. And on and on, down the chain. Each step seems reasonable, but suddenly the tree has 500 nodes.

Some library authors try to make sure their library doesn’t have dependencies. But that’s how you get libraries like Qt, that take two hours to build and produce 35MB .so files.
Also MMO keyboards / controllers and one-handed keyboards (like the Maltron)
There is a literal ton of research that indicates in acute situations, CBT is a very efficient way to gain coping mechanisms. It may take some time (or other methods) to solve underlying issues, but CBT can act as a temporary crutch. CBT is also interesting because this individual is experiencing some financial problems. One of the dirty little secrets of being near financial ruin is that you end up relying upon freely available/socialized forms of help. In the vast, vast majority of cases, these types of resources offer a very limited tool chest, and CBT is the single tool they use most.

It's also important to know that you won't get the chance to work with twenty different therapists to find one you get on with. In most jurisdictions, you wait three months to get access to someone. And if that person doesn't work out, it's too bad, but there just aren't the resources.

The lack of resources means that the people you work with won't have the time to try different things. They have to rely upon methods that provide the greatest probability of stabilizing the issue in the shortest amount of time.

But most importantly, it's about seeking a type of therapy. There's a shitty fucked up thing about depression and anxiety that keeps people away from therapy.
So they can poke holes in them, recognize the pattern when some other org actually implements them (because they already know what the thing looks like), and already either be aware of the ways the thing breaks down or wrenches an adversary could throw into the thing to make it break down, were one so inclined.
> Maybe try to figure out how to make the work fun?

I don't think this is the right approach, because you need the ability to focus on work even when it is not fun.

You do need something that makes the work rewarding in some way, but I wouldn't push to hard to try to make it fun.

> Or, try and instill a goal less of "getting the grade" and more "attain mastery of the subject"?

This was my approach in high school as well. It led to me being the one everyone wanted to study with because I picked up the material the best, but then I flunked classes because I never did the homework.

I would flunk classes that depended mostly on homework, and ace classes that depended mostly on tests. Since I had convinced myself that mastery was more important than grades, this reinforced my behavior.

Somehow, the acing the tests part allowed me to get into an Ivy League college. Which I then flunked out of because at that point, I couldn't get by without actually doing the homework and studying outside of class.

This pattern of behavior continues to be something I struggle with as an adult. I can be quite productive for short bursts of time, but have a hard time keeping on track with longer term projects that don't pay off immediately.

I think what you need is to learn the value of steady incremental work that only shows significant results after a long period of time. Basic reinforcement training techniques can be used for this; provide rewards for getting incremental work done, but better to provide them intermittently. Eventually work up from smaller rewards for smaller goals to larger rewards for larger goals.

I think that reinforcing consistency, habit, and small incremental progress rather than brilliance is a big part of what you need. The problem with brilliance is that you can easily get a lot of positive reinforcement for it; people are impressed at how well you understand something, at how much you know, at how quickly you pick it up. But even if you are better than average at picking things up and figuring things out, you will eventually hit the limits of what you can do through brilliance alone; there are some things that will just take long hard work no matter what, and then all of that reinforcement for brilliance comes back to bite you because you're not getting the same kind of reinforcement, and you can easily get stuck and lose faith in your self-image.
Yeah, actually I'm not happy about this either. We were working with sales folks and they wanted more flexibility to adapt the price to the customer they were talking to.
But this hasn't worked particularly well and I don't like it anyways. Expect some changes here soon.
For the time being all plans are free - we're more interested in your feedback!
Yikes. I would definitely be re-thinking my home security if I normally use my locks remotely and I was suddenly unable to.

A house burglar could effectively use these tweets as push notifications telling them to go rob some smart™ homes in their local rich neighborhoods.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/xbox-adaptive-control...

That goes into the things you can plug in to the back and usb, looks really flexible
This is what the future will bring more of - not some all powerful AI - just a bunch of crap that didn't need to be tethered to the cloud that suddenly stops working without much explanation, as the Deal With It dog laughs and dons his sunglasses.

Edit: typo
Go with zwave.

There are some gotchas (make sure you get a zwave-plus lock that incudes the AES security stuff), and you need a dedicated "hub" to communicate with it, but they are rock solid in my experience
> Exploring concepts and ideas is how progress happens and it's telling how they see "Duplex", the most impressing tech showcased at these keynotes, as a misstep.

Creating agents that can imitate human speech is spectacular but their demonstrated use of it is far from it. Its essentially expressing "my time isn't worth speaking to the human on the other side"; perhaps you feel okay with it when the robot is working for you but I wonder how'd you feel on the other side of the equation.

So much for don't be evil.
On behalf of everybody who had entirely too much fun during internet of shit talks at the ten or so last congresses:

If only somebody told us that would happen!
I'm not aware of any mainstream UI toolkits that use texture compression for anything. Those compression formats are lossy, and UIs usually want to be pixel perfect.
This is why proof of stake is so needed
I went Z-Wave with home assistant. Not the easiest in terms of setup, but everything is run locally (I started on an rPi but am now transitioning to a Intel NUC.)
For a more integrated experience, there's also:

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
It's a $500,000 dollar research grant, I assume the military gives out a lot of these and almost none make press releases. Uber has talked about flying cars before, so that's the experience answer.
There's a Nest system in the house I rent in. It didn't work from phone/web, so I just walked over to the actual thermostat on the wall, and it worked just fine.

AFAIK from reading the Twitters last night, you could still punch the numbers into your home locks and get inside. So the things just took us back a few years in terms of smart phone access, but the core device still works.
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I don't care very much about YC companies, but I do see how YC companies could see disproportionate attention on a YC-operated forum.
I don't know that this is ever going to change. I'm stuck in the same situation - as a paying GSuite user you aren't able to use several Google features for reasons I'm not exactly clear on.
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Oh, I don't have a strong opinion on the GDPR and its intent, I was addressing yulaow's simplistic dismissal of what is actually a well-trodden political playbook
Your comment took me quite a while to parse, but it's actually incredible. I had never considered that somewhere deep down I have a sensation of "being" inside my body, which I guess some part of the brain is responsible for. Our senses can be fooled as we all know - if this sense became confused, it seems plausible that one could experience the sensation of "being" - in the sense of, their phyisical geometric location in space - somewhere else, other than between their ears.

If this could happen then the experience could possibly manifest itself in a few ways. In the larger discussion thread, many are talking about having an experience where somebody feels they are at one with the universe, so their sense of being is that they feel like they are everywhere.

Another possibility that occured to me is, consider that we percieve the world from the position of inside our head - which also happens to be the default calibration for our sense of geometrical "being". We also experience vision from this perspective, so it seems completely normal to assume that our brains process raw eye-signals. However, consider the possibility that our experience which we call vision is actually not the raw data feed, but actually is calculated/derived from both the raw data feed and our internal sense of geometrical viewpoint. If this were the case, then someone who had their sense of geometrical viewpoint displaced (but was still taking in raw data from their eyes, which do have a fixed real-world location) would experience a sense of vision, from the viewpoint inside the world wherever their sense of geometrical viewpoint has been displaced to.

This seems a plausible explanation for how people (who are often experiencing medical trauma) could have a legitimate out of body experience - their sense of geometrical location was displaced, but their brain continued to process vision, so it projected a viewpoint from location X using the data it was receiving from positiom Y and what it already knew of the world.
Lots of music just have a static image anyway, I wonder if YouTube couldn't figure something out to automatically re-encode such videos into audio-only streams, making them less bandwidth intensive.

I'm no coder but that doesn't sound like something impossible to do.
Either "using crypto" or "for cryptocurrencies"
They also have the worst Apple TV experience (unless I'm an idiot) where you can't queue anything. Their phone app plus a chromecast lets me load up a ton of videos to watch, I can't for the life of me figure out how to queue things using just the Apple TV however.
Nice idea, but I have a feeling that 'Hangout' will turn into 'brigade things we like/don't like' aka Reddit.
On the one hand, expecting your remote-controlled lock to work all the time (as in 100% uptime) is unfeasible, since it is impossible to achieve 100% uptime. Almost everyone buying a smart lock probably expected it to have 100% uptime though, and I'm sure they didn't read the small print w.r.t. uptime SLAs.

On the other hand, it's probably no more inconvenient than locking yourself out, something that happens every now and again for anyone. Except you don't have yourself to blame, but Nest.
Unable to unlock doors from the app or other automation - the keypad still worked.

Still, this is the problem with all cloud based home automation platforms.
I haven't heard that one (from them), got a link?