skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem is not with them trying to determine what is being done with bed nets and why. My problem is with the framing. It is incredibly judgy and it is the kind of language that goes along with policies that boil down to "the beatings shall continue until morale improves."

Such language tends to point to an agenda and to an underlying hostile attitude towards the population supposedly being served. I was homeless for a few years. A lot of homeless programs are actively hostile to homeless individuals. This helped sharpen my existing tendency to be critical of such details.

If you think how it is framed doesn't matter, perhaps we can discuss some choice words for you or your profession or your demographic and see if you still think details of that ilk don't matter. Hint: When you say it matters if it is done to you, but it is irrelevant when done to some downtrodden group receiving "assistance" (often of the "Please stop helping me!" variety), then you are prejudiced and the existence of this prejudice out in the world is likely one of the root causes of the group in question being downtrodden and unable to make their lives work.
Interesting. Thanks for the effort!

How good is the integration with other ActivityPub-based services? Could I see timeline of users in Pixelfed from other services? Is it going to be possible?
I just checked and there are over 100 checks for "should I have different behavior here if I am resisting fingerprinting?" just in the C++ code in Firefox today. There are some more in the JS code but they're harder to search for.

Some simple examples:

* Various navigator APIs (oscpu, platform, etc) need to be disabled.

* Gamepad API needs to be disabled.

* Have to prevent reading canvas pixel data

* Have to block information about avaiable OpenGL extensions from WebGL

* Modifier keys on keyboard events need to be spoofed (because they can be used to guess at keyboard layout)

* Errors from the media stack (for <video> and <audio>) need to be blanked out.

* Something to do with voice synthesis APIs; I didn't look into details.

* Connection API needs to be neutered

* Various timing APIs hanging off "performance" need to be neutered.

* Presentation API needs to be neutered.

* Number of CPUs reported by the navigator API needs to be spoofed.

* Window sizing for window.open needs to be spoofed.

* Ability to measure the difference between the window.inner* and window.outer* APIs needs to be disabled.

* Mouse positions in mouse events need to be spoofed to make it look like the window is fullscreened.

* Touch event positions need to be spoofed.

* Geolocation needs to be disabled.

And so on, and so forth.
Forced updates can be bad, for example I narrowly missed having a bricked workstation when the April update was released and it borked machines using Intel 600p SSDs. I hadn't used that machine for a few weeks and it had been powered off; by the time I finally started using it again Microsoft had blocked the update for machines with that hardware.

Anyway, I can manage the limited telemetry via hosts and I can defer updates (which I will do from now on), but my biggest gripe is forced installation/reinstallation of previously removed apps and games. I run Windows 10 Pro and I end up with a few variations of Candy Crush games, Minecraft, Autodesk drawing apps, and others after initial OS installation and after every major update so far. This is while using an offline account, and even if I used my Microsoft account on this workstation I've never purchased/downloaded any of those apps in the past.

I get that "Pro" at this point means home power user, and companies should be using Enterprise, but Microsoft shouldn't be pushing any software back onto the machine once the user has uninstalled it. That's user-hostile and takes control out of the hands of the one person who should be in complete control of the system.

Once full, non-buggy support for Ryzen APUs arrives in Linux, I'm switching Windows 10 to a VM and going back to Linux on this machine as the daily driver OS.
(1) He wasn't trying to hide it.

(2) It was a domestic flight; he says he was going to declare it when boarding the international flight.

This was all in the article.

At this rate the various LEAs are going to make muggers, bankers and other professional thieves jealous.
No word on the touchpad, which is where every single non-mac laptop I've ever used has been awful.
For everyone, except for the saps in the back row.
> I think that most people who judge themselves by their accomplishments will run into this at some point.

The key is not to feel good about the accomplishments themselves, but about getting there. If getting there does not make you happy, then it might be the wrong accomplishment you are after.

More generally, this is about systems being preferable over goals.
They extinguished Skype. They will manage to do the same with Github eventually. They are the biggest user already and would therefore be forced to cater to their own needs first over those of the rest if the community. This would drive the service squarely into the ground by doing everything right.
In Albania: Corrupt cops take your cash. In the USA: Corrupt cops are protected by public policy set at the highest level of government, and you get a receipt when your cash is stolen. It's unfortunate that metrics of government corruption don't account for civil asset forfeiture.
Sight lines are bad when the airline has in-seat vidscreens blasting ads throughout the flight.
Wouldn't a 170 lb runner pose the same risk to an elderly person?

In all cases it is the responsibility of everybody using the footpath to ensure they don't put others at risk.

Runners should feel free to use the footpath as part of their exercise - but they shouldn't run blindly around corners. I feel the same way about scooters - ride on the footpath all you like, but slow right down around other pedestrians or blind spots so that people both feel safe and are safe.
That's an amusing read, and sure, AI can do things we don't expect. I think we're more on the order of a bridge failure and less on the order of Skynet here, though. To end up in that kind of nightmare scenario we have to entrust some AI with capabilities we could just elect not to.
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> To be fair they haven't screwed up LinkedIn. I think they will let GitHub grow with their resources.

I'm not sure if LinkedIn could be any less "screwed up" than it was when Microsoft bought it.
I just wish they would have a standard for charging, they got multiple versions for levels 1,2,3 and Asian, American and Tesla.

We finally force mobile phone manufacturers to use USB standard, and now cars are all over the place.

Crazy to have Tesla only charging spots.
Communication problems need to be solved with protocols, not apps.
I am not sure "killing every last pregnant female whale" is a fair characterization of Japanese whaling practices.
In the end, who-ever ordered that work is still going to get what they want. They'll just hire it out to someone else, no?
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With no actual details to back up your rather rude accusations against the GP, I'm not sure how useful this mini-rant really is... Care to lay some education on us instead of just hand-waving in a smarter-than-you manner?
I wouldn't be surprised if an Alphabet spinoff miraculously arose to take up the challenge.
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It's good to stay away from the hype as much as possible. In what applications do you think using ML is not necessary, or worse still, a bad idea?
1 minute (or at least 30 seconds for each plug/unplug) is reasonable; you're right that it's certainly not 0.

But if you're filling every other week you either have a massive 25-35 gallon tank, or you don't drive much. And if you're not driving much, you're probably not charging much, either :)

If I had a Leaf or eGolf I'd probably want to charge every day regardless; with something with 200-300 miles range, it certainly wouldn't be a daily thing.
Not going to reliably without a resumable upload/download manager with fallback to traditional means. Murphy’s Law insists a transfer will get to 99.753% of a 3.5 PiB data set and time-out.

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In my experience this doesn't work. Customs for some countries can take well over a month. I almost missed something in Italy because it took so long to get through customs and I was there for three months. I did another test and sent some things from an island in Croatia and less than half the things I shipped made it and it took almost three months.
So, unless the US is faced with imminent invasion, they should stick their heads in the sand?

China is in the process of forcibly taking over an enormous chunk of geography in the south china sea. They have fired on and intimidated their neighbors such as Vietnam and Philippines in connection with this. They continue to undermine and isolate Taiwan. They are a big part of why N Korea has nuclear weapons and ICBMs.

Russia is illegally occupying a big chunk of Ukraine, is involved in shooting down civilian airliners, and assassinating people they don't like with chemical weapons.

At what point would it be advisable to see a trend and try to do something about it?
If my wife's in the hospital I'll find the cash for a taxi.

The fact that EVs are practical in dense urban settings is great since those have the largest air quality problems that can be addressed by the centralized (or green) power generation that EVs utilize.
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A good corporation is a bunch of gelled teams who are at home with one-another and enjoy working together. Destroying the corporation usually results in the dissolution of the component teams, one way or another.

That's the real loss—not just in terms of human happiness, but also in terms of per-capita economic productivity. It's like rewriting software: by starting from scratch, even with the same libraries, you're throwing away all the hard-fought knowledge of the optimal arrangements of, and interactions between, those components.

And, since people find their own optimal arrangements/interactions over time, rather than being placed into such arrangements by some sort of "org-chart architect", there's no one with a top-down view who can salvage the most useful arrangements/interactions at the destination.

A hedge fund might take a particular gelled team and sell them off "as a unit" to some company; but what that company will be getting is a box of lego with no instruction manual for how it goes together.
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Is there anywhere for someone to learn about the process that exists to RECOVER civil asset forfeiture funds?
Airline seat pitch and recline is pretty well documented, and you can do research before you book your flight: https://www.seatguru.com/charts/generalcharts.php

If I'm going to be on a plane for a long time, I do research to find the right balance between comfort and price. Part of deciding on that comfort is whether or not I can recline the seat and whether the seat in front of me reclines. Part of my purchase is the ability to recline the seat for my comfort. If I'm going to be a long flight, I certainly don't want to sit upright the entire time because the person behind me didn't research whether or not that seat would be comfortable for them.
A transition (to ruby) that adds no value in this age... Incomprehensible.
It would be helpful if the repo stated why this was ideal - and as opposed to what?
He went too far on the direction that disturbed everyone though :)
It seems like most of the commenters in this thread accept that military AI is inevitable, somebody will do the work. Could we collectively make a different choice? It’s a damn important choice to make.
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As a long time GitHub user I really do hope these talks do not result in an acquisition. I would really like GitHub to be independent from OS vendors, or vendors of platforms, ecosystems, compilers, IDEs etc.

I want GitHub's goal to be a good GitHub. Not a good part of the Microsoft ecosystem. Those may initially be the same, but it takes very little for them to not be the same.
That's one of the strange problems here. It'll probabally get farmed out to a less technically proficient team which, ironically, could lead to an increase in the loss of innocent life.
Pooling increases district representation, not decrease it.

The US Congress is far too small for the size of the population it represents, so many constituencies are ignored. Having larger voting districts takes power away from gerrymanders and gives it to the constituents. The population would create their own districts via voting blocs, instead of being trapped in gerrymandered districts.
Sure, but that's the same as "if I didn't torture them, if I didn't slaughter them, someone else would have," which has failed to be enough defense to stop war criminals from being hanged.

Regardless of what comes after, you're never wrong to do the right thing.
Generalizing/simplifying: Transmission is long distance - high voltage, think steel towers with wires.

Distribution is from a local transformer (substation) where high voltage gets turned to lower voltage (12 kV) and then sent via utility poles to your home. Near your home there will be a utility pole with a transformer that brings the voltage down to 110. You share that transformer with a handful of neighbors.
> could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes

They prefer inaccurate drone strikes that kill innocents?
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A time before Syncthing, dark indeed.
TL;DR: Spam phone calls/telemarketers.

We need to make it impossible to forge caller ID. Block, OK, but not forge. That means that the CO/telephone company has to do caller ID, the calling phone can't.

If you're the police or a reporter or something, you want to take calls with the caller ID blocked. If not... probably not.
I’m not sure how to formulate a response to this. It’s so utterly misplaced. This is like saying that investment isn’t possible because eventually entropy will consume the universe. Yes, in some sense this is true, but in a much more practical sense you should still be planning for your retirement.

Even if you believe that in your lifetime the human race will collapse under the strain we’re creating on the planet, investing is still the appropriate hedge for your doomsday “die in a catastrophe” plans. You can refuse to call it “investing”, but then you’re just arguing for a pointless definition that no one else really agrees with.
I come from a country that borders Albania... Albania has a 60% muslim population, and given our current administration and mood toward islam, it is highly doubtful they were after his money but rather after something that went off on their 'threat to national security' radar. Could be a mistaken identity too, it's not unheard of .. many names on those watch lists sound similar or are not the same person at all.

I'm betting all moneys will be returned to him when they conclude whatever investigation they need to conclude. This is just a sensationalist headline that doesn't do any service to anyone....

Edit:

Funny, people downvote as if the government has no case - they clearly sent him a notice that “Enforcement activity indicates that the currency was involved in a smuggling/drug trafficking/money laundering operation.” and “pursuant to an administrative search of Mr. Kazazi and his bags, TSA agents discovered artfully concealed U.S. currency. Mr. Kazazi provided inconsistent statements regarding the currency, had no verifiable source of income and possessed evidence of structuring activity,” that is, making cash withdrawals of less than $10,000 to avoid reporting requirements."

Most cash has traces of drugs on it... and serial #'s on notes are sometimes marked when drug stings are conducted.

All I'm saying is, there's two sides to the story - not just the WaPo one. I guess it's hard to depict that on HN... WaPo isn't the source of truth on this - just an opinion. Like mine. Or anyone else here.
yes - specifically questions on computer science fundamentals - considering the work we do (osdev) it's extremely important and I can point at many places in our codebase where they pop up and we have to implement ourselves
It's just the stickiest app of all time To me it barely exists. I'm a hirer in the UK.

Before anyone touts how much wider our reach might be for potential hires, can I point out that my little firm has hired people from the other end of Europe directly ("real" friend of friend etc). Oh and just in case you are wondering - we pay and treat everyone equally and equitably.
Speaking as a filthy foreigner, part of the longstanding claim of moral superiority of the US was that it didn't matter how suspect (sic) your actions were; that the USA was a place of rule of law; not rule by law. That habeus corpus was respected. That a man going about his lawful business need not have to justify himself to government bully-boys.

Turns out that was all bullshit.
Good. The Federal Congress has too much power anyway. Power should devolve to the several States.
I absolutely hate even the idea of "Civil Asset Forfeiture." It's even more of a bullshit legal construct than a non-living entity having first amendment rights. It's clearly a 4th Amendment violation and deserves to be challenged.

I'd be okay with freezing assets for up to say 3 months while formal charges are filed, but just taking them forever is fucking bullshit.
That was a perfectly valid and factually correct observation. HN downvotes are getting a bit ridiculous. You can't say anything, you'll get downvoted. I really really don't understand this. And it seems to be getting worse.
I can't understand why Github hasn't built out a clear path from repository hosting, to continuous integration, ending in low-friction renting of cloud instances.

I don't want Google or Amazon to buy them, and that almost leaves Azure.

It seems like something they could have done themselves a few years ago, though. Puzzling.
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YouTube is a constant grind because the algorithms punish anyone who isn't uploading content on a regular basis. I suspect that probably has a lot to do with these meltdowns and what not, since people are forced to keep uploading content whenever possible or lose a decent chunk of their audience/their attention. There's often no time for a break if you want to succeed on the platform.

Then again, that's also a problem with a lot of Google services in general. Google search rewards those who post the most regularly too. Could be interesting to see if any bloggers or writers have similar issues with that.
They had a decent Android app, then someone saw that it was too fast/responsive and was using too little memory and took that as a challenge, how can I make skype worst? React Native!

Obviously that didn't pleased people (see rating in Play Store), and they had to provide something for low/mid range phones, and skype lite was born (which is really good one).
That's an aspirational statement, not a claim to have attained perfection.
Your Daily Dose of Internet guy is teetering on burnout from solo grind.
Is that what Wave was trying to do? I could never figure out what it was supposed to be good for.
The US already had de facto individually-powerless legislators -- The Republicans especially vote as a bloc whichever way party leadership declares.
The thing I wanted to highlight is that time works against encryption. What is encrypted with today's most powerful and thorough understanding of crypto, will possibly be easily decrypted a few years or a decade down the road. So in addition to deleting the keys, I would always wipe the data itself also.
Civil asset forfeiture does not return anything without a fight... it's a guilty until proven innocent system. It's been a big problem with anyone carrying even a few hundred dollars in a LOT of places in the US. It needs a Supreme Court smackdown is what it needs.
I help design one of big 3 cloud providers and we're about to run out of private space for customer IPv4. We are addressing this is in a number of ways but I think others have run into this same issue.
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No, most forfeiture is not returned to the victim.

Because it's not innocent until declared guilty, it's guilty until declared innocent. Forfeiture does not follow human vs USA. It's 56,000 $ VS USA.

At Airports you waive your right to search protection.
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