skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming "new" hardware is uncompromisable is a dangerous line of thinking. Don't forget about the vulnerabilities that have been found in Intel's Management Engine and AMD's PSP. Both of those "applications" are running before Tails boots.
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> "You're going to get ads. To try to fight against the very existence of advertising is quixotic to the point of being sad."

This idea is complete bologna in my opinion. People aren't trying to fight the existence of ads (e.g., movie trailers, magazines, sports ads on ESPN, maybe even the off native ad) -- people are fighting the invasive, predatory, and downright deceitful nature of the current online advertising model.

> "As a consumer, I would much prefer ads that are carefully tailed to my interests"

Don't we all want this? But when getting ads tailored to my interest comes with the price tag of having these exchanges/platforms follow me around for the rest of my internet life (or until I delete their cookies) -- the cost doesn't seem to be worth the benefit (to many, but obviously not all)

> "As a business owner, I would much rather pay $10-12 per click on one of my ads that is highly targeted to demographics, income,"

Of course. You've just exposed your vested interest in this topic. So it's not surprising that your personal opinion aligns with your business interests.
Amazon had better improve its customer service offering, or ramp up its partner network if it wants to win big "enterprisy" clients like government then. The HN crowd may look at the Oracles and IBMs as super-expensive dinosaurs, but they do offer an incredibly high level of help and support.
> In this instance, I feel creating something that behaves like a normal brain would not straightforwardly lead to an understanding. In the contrary, it may left us with more questions than answers.

Depends on what level of abstraction you create it.

Two examples:

1. a person creates a complex video game using assembly language (Roller Coaster Tycoon). It can probably be said this person understands very intimately how every aspect of his game works at every level of the computer.

2. a person creates a complex video game using <Unity, Unreal, etc.>. It can probably be said that the person understands how their game works at a high level, but lower levels (memory, OS, graphics) are still magic to that person.
Some sites have plugins that allow users to create accounts with minimal permissions.

An attacker could create such an account, then abuse a legitimate nonce to delete files.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2083300/report-nsa-intercept...

If you know you are not being targeting then you don't have to worry but... If they know who you are and where you live, they can bypass any router(they work directly with oems) and get onto your computer on a hardware level.

Keeping your identity private is the first task in security when dealing with the kind of people you need tails for.
It's just serialization as a workflow mechanism, and it really gets rid of a lot of workflow cliffs.

It's also nothing to be afraid of: You can absolutely do everything programmatically, using the same (mostly-public) APIs that the Unity editor (which is built using much of Unity itself). If you're ever wondering how something gets achieved in the editor, use MonoDevelop to decompile/disassemble the various .dll's that Unity includes.

I built UnityREPL precisely because I wanted to do a lot of things programmatically (especially, for example, making similar changes to a set of related prefabs).
That's just standard C. It was not really part of the WTF.
Amazon has the second highest employee turnover rate of the fortune 500 companies. They do fire more people (and drive people to quit) at a significantly higher rate. There are claims from former employees that they have a deliberate policy of firing people at eleven months, before they have to start providing medical insurance and paid holidays. That's legal, and horrible, and every time you or I buy from Amazon, we're saving a few pennies on the misery of those employees.

and they'll work everyone as hard as they legally can

They sure do. They take care (mostly) to stay on the side of legal. I'm not saying what they're doing is illegal (although some of their anti-union activities sure do come close!). Just grotesque and horrible.

Amazon employees too many people to effectively hire based on a strategy of exploiting only the "desperate, vulnerable and fearful,"

I disagree. They put their warehouses where there are large pools of desperate, vulnerable people. They do that because they want to employ those people. A great deal of effort is put into planning where to put those warehouses. They know what they're doing. They know that they're going to get employees who will put up with urinating in bottles because going to the toilet will get them fired. There's evidence that this is the case. You say it's not the case, but then what do you say about the evidence? Is that evidence manufactured? Are people doing it for the fun of urinating in bottles? If you're going to argue that it's not that strict, you need to deal with that evidence. There is a lot out there suggesting it's a horrible place to work, and workers saying it's worse than other warehouse jobs they've had (which would imply that your claim it's simply typically bad, as minimum wage jobs tend to be, isn't true).
Many years ago I asked a former cop about the site. He said, “They boarded up the windows when there was racial strife decades ago, and never put them back.”

So much for that lie.
Basically, there's a disconnect between how fast Zapper's actually rendering the text string, and how fast your browser can deal with such a massive chunk of text actually being requested for display.

Zapper gets its job done in 40ms, but the browser.. doesn't.

Try dropping the number of rows - I had good luck with 1,000.
I've been to upscale food courts where each vendor has their own clean plates and utensils. Food is served on these clean plates, and when you're done, you dump your dirty dish in a container which is later washed.
You didn't actually read the linked essay, did you? Because that's pretty much what it says.
Well, you just blew your cover. They're watching you now.

Alternatively, everyone could pretend to be a muslim-environmentalist-communist with strong interests in nuclear chemistry and virology. It isn't possible to watch everyone.

Crap, they're gonna be watching me, now, too.

Are you sure you aren't an agent provocateur?
How to report?
Continuous urbanization in Japan
The world's smallest desert is in Canada
Dennett's thesis.
I'm not trying to argue about the merit of suicide, the definition of mental health, or any other philosophical issue. I don't have a specific person or situation in mind.

I'm only suggesting that the right to divorce is nothing like the right to death and isn't a useful analogy. The circumstances and considerations are radically different.
NULL is (a macro that expands to) a null pointer constant. The null character '\0' is commonly called NUL.

I've written about strncpy:
http://the-flat-trantor-society.blogspot.com/2012/03/no-strn...
The authorities often resell the bitcoins so they could reenter the market.
I strongly disagree that this impacts code readability, except perhaps for a beginner, but stretching a beginner’s mind a bit with a concept that’s not exactly a major challenge to understand hardly seems like a crime against humanity.
> Gluttony: Netflix – binge watching all your favorite TV shows and movies

Interesting concept, but that one is a bit of a stretch...
the ATM was a Taiwanese ATM, and they were Russian, so they could have had their own Russian debit card.
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Class C's were literally given out like candy. I have my own /24, and know several others who do, as well.
John Vervaeke argues that much of our trouble with studying or defining consciousness is due to its fundamentally recursive nature.

Start with the definition: A conscious being is one which is conscious of itself.

Seems circular, but there is really no good non-recursive definition. This definition also seems to "ring" perfectly well with random people on the street.

It has been argued that any attempt at a non-recursive definition of consciousness includes things which most people don't consider to be conscious, see for example the paper titled "If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious".

Which leads to the problem of identification: how do we know that rocks are NOT conscious? Or, more interestingly, how I know the universe itself in its totality is not conscious? The universe certainly must have all the requisite "components" of consciousness, whatever those components are.

Once again, the process of identifying is recursive. A conscious being can only identify, with 100% certainty, its own consciousness. Any "other" thing could theoretically be a p-zombie or a Turing Test.

Corollary: No conscious being can know, with 100% certainty, that a particular entity is NOT conscious.

Could we have a science of a recursive thing? Perhaps, but only if we are willing and able to accept a recursive model with circular arguments.
Ultimate hypocrisy is that their profit model is probably built around reselling their email list.
Another day, another WordPress vulnerability.

And people still justify using it 'because it's easy and simple for non-tech folks.' The non-profit world is _riddled_ with it.
I effectively voted for the Ultra Low Emission Zone although it will increase my taxes. At least I wrote go for it in the residents survey.

As the article suggests the cash cost of the electric busses may be zero with a longer deprecation period.

Against that "pollutants linked to one in 12 deaths in parts of London." Which would you choose? https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
Cool, is there a Linux Client ?
I'm at 2% right now typing this comment. Might be worth checking your add-ons.
This must be missing entries. For example, look up ca.com:

created: 1985-01-01

Making it 2 months older than the earliest dot com on the list.
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Prize indemnity insurance!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_indemnity_insurance
Thanks for the reply ScottPJones. I've seen your name pop up in multiple Julia discussions and am eager to hear more from you. In another comment you've said that you've used this in two separate commerical applications. Can you share the use cases that your commerical applications tackle?

I do need to choose one, given the time and budget that I will have to work on this. I do understand that if there are things that I cannot do in Julia, I would be able to call out to a Rust shared library using FFI, but I don't expect my use case to need it. I'm likely going to have to build a library that can be called from Julia/Python/Java etc. The question is whether to build that library in Rust or Julia. Rust has more solid C ABI support at the moment. But I'm hoping PackageCompiler.jl and other niceties come along and make the Julia shared library interlop better too.
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You don’t need a car. You can just walk everywhere.
Job growth in the US hasn't really changed considerably since the recession leveled out. It's been painfully steady.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=ne...
How do you like it? I’m really curious about them!
What I've found is that jury systems tend to favor the "competition" model of justice, where prosecution and defense are locked in combat, with the judge as referee. Lawyers are gauged based on their ability to win cases rather than their ability to practice law well. Underhanded and unfair tactics, rather than receiving criticism, are honored and celebrated. It very much follows the American model of "win at all costs."

This gladiator approach to justice becomes all the more apparent when there's a high profile case, where every tactic, every gambit, every "blow" to the opposition is cheered on by onlookers, like it's some kind of UFC match.

America hasn't actually progressed very far from frontier justice.
That's a poor analogy. It calls itself a string function but isn't. So it's more like a airsoft gun that actually shoots bullets, but you don't know until you decide to shoot yourself in the leg to see what it feels like.
And yet, given some time interval, all threads do make progress within that interval (assuming its not too small of course). So if by multitasking we mean that execution of multiple threads progresses over time, then multitasking on a single CPU is real. The point is that one's perspective is relevant to what's correctly taken as real.

But what is the perspective of neural circuitry's acquaintance with neural circuitry? I don't know, but I know its not like our third person acquaintance with neural circuitry. And so saying phenomenal experience is an illusion of neural circuitry (and thus not real) is a mistake. It's like saying heat isn't real, only energetic particles are real, despite the fact that I just got burned by my hot pan.
Every time I see this, I am asking, why should I hire you?

Maybe you should be asking "Am I the target audience for these tweets?"
I don't see the ability to search within the app. Have they not rolled it out yet?
The cost of a military operation is not in dollars, but in lives. How many dead soldiers are worth saving a few million dollars on bombs?

American doctrine is and always has been peace through overwhelming firepower. You don’t want a “fair fight” in war. The objective is to obliterate the enemy through any means possible, and avoid harm at all costs.
The more time I spend in IT the more I appreciate extreme simplicity. Sure wordpress claims to be simple for the average user, but its always whats under the hood that counts.
Car stereos became an aftermarket industry with upgrade-able and louder components at the same time that boomboxes appeared on the American market; they were parallel industries, driven by the advent of cheap transistor-based amplifiers in the mid-70s.
Ask HN: Who is using Asterisk PBX and how?
We're currently deploying a bigger Asterisk PBX setup using SIP only and ARI API.

And there are so many bugs that I'm wondering if Asterisk is really mature enough (despite it's age) for production use...

Feel free to drop some comments; what is your experience with Asterisk?
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Along the lines of taking the authority of a book as a replacement for critical thinking... I was once hired to rewrite some assembly language spaghetti code a more-electronic-than-software engineer had worked on for two years. Ostensibly he was ordered to help me accomplish this, but he was more like what in court would be described as a "hostile witness"

I spent a couple of months "hacking", just familiarizing myself with the microcontroller and its instruction set, and the tooling. (In fact, I had no source code to look at during this time, as he would not surrender it!) When I finally got his source, I rewrote it to a 100% functional equivalent in two weeks, 1/5 the size without all the unnecessary control path duplication and without pointless register moves. At the time I found the way he had used register moves particularly puzzling because it resembled the way an un-optimized compiler might work.

Months later after I was no longer on that project, I got a call from him. He was very flustered and wanted to know where I "got" a particular sequence of instructions from. I was like, come again? He said, "It's not in the book. You used a sequence of instructions that's not in the Book." (The Microchip programming manual.) He asked about another block of 3 or 4 instructions - also not in the book (in the combination I used them in).

Slowly it dawned on me - I'm quite certain he didn't understand what any individual instruction "did". That whole level level of abstraction didn't exist for him. He programmed in assembly, yes, but only using blocks of example instructions from the Book. Suddenly the pointless register moves made sense - he was acting as a human compiler, without an optimization step.

Years later I realized I should have asked him, "and how do you think the example code in the book was written?"
Probably calibrated for smaller framed people, to error on the side of safety/legality.
They call it a "desert" because there are sand dunes, not because it is actually a desert[1]. Receives more rain than the Silicon Valley.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcross_Desert
My parents did the mini-version, just taking advantage for the day.

We went to several in southern England. We kids could play in the pool or whatever, while our parents sat through a presentation for a couple of hours. Then we spent the rest of the day together, before heading home.

Though more recently, "The EU has ruled that any new timeshares or long-term holiday products with contracts of more than a year must be sold with a 14-day cooling-off period and written information – in the buyer's first language – detailing their right to cancel within this period must be provided.", so your scheme would work especially well now.
There are classic cases of machines being intercepted in the post (including the cipher machines posted to the US Embassy in Moscow!).

But if you go pick out a machine from a store and take it home immediately then the chances of it having something preinstalled specifically to target you is nil.
I'm all for actual simplicity, not a facade of simplicity over complex and inscrutable internals.
I am surprised by the number of funny/visionary domains. Broken.net, super.org or portal.com as part of these lists is funny.
I started at BBN a few years before that, a month before the sale to GTE. It was a shame, they definitely had some tremendously bright people.

I also have on a couple of occasions worked at Eli Lilly, who had a class A because they were early to the Internet; I found it vaguely humorous that between BBN and Lilly I'd worked on more class A networks than most people would ever have the opportunity to.
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Sometimes they'll get an unusually good cut of something and a good server will tell you. Reviews won't. (Nor will they help much at a restaurant that frequently changes its menu. And if the restaurant is responsible for the review system, invariably a bunch will end up hiding the negative reviews and flagging the customers who leave them, with predictable consequences. Seriously, reviews you're reading on the restaurant tablet are going to be somewhere between useless and a disaster that starts Twitter wars.)

But getting back to my Outback example. Did you know if they pan sear your filet they do it with a weight on top of it? I didn't until a server told me, and gave me the option to skip the weight. (Much better result, by the way, even if it does take longer.)

And did you know at Outback if they wood fire your filet they don't use a weight, but instead of the 17 spice seasoning they use in pan searing, they switch to salt and pepper? I didn't until a server told me, and gave me the option to go wood-fired plus 17 spice seasoning, which is a terrific combo.

Drawing a larger point, computer people would rather deal with computers. I get it. But there's a whole world of possibilities out there you miss when instead of building relationships with the people you meet casually around you (like wait staff), you instead constrain yourself to the choices made available to you through silicon and Javascript.
In some banks in Europe, a customer needs to be buzzed in to enter the premises.
That’s Schrödinger’s cat right there in the article!
Primarily because most hackers don’t practice or study design.

As a further reason, consider an instructive metaphor: if you asked a blacksmith why he sucks at writing, his answer would probably be “That’s not what they pay me for.”
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In the sea of dead links, early tech companies, think tanks, and so on, I was happy to see my local (Boston) PBS and NPR affiliate, WGBH. I don't usually think of public broadcasting as an early tech adopter, so even in Boston it was a pleasant surprise to see they registered one of the first 100 .org domains.
What ZFS block pointers are and what's in them
Not only is it confusingly similar to other storage products, but the abbreviations collide among all of them. GCF means how many different things now? (I always considered it to mean Google Cloud Functions - kind of an important product.) Don't underestimate the importance of these things. I can't even talk to my colleagues about your products without us all misunderstanding each other.
This is probably the best refutation to the (currently top) sub-thread about this article being one-sided.

> It does so not only by passive silence, but by active deception. And despite being called out numerous times over the years for its bad behavior, including from some very pissed-off members of Congress, the agency is stubbornly resistant to change. It’s a sign that the FDA is deeply captured
Wow that is a lot of Github commits. The last release is about a month ago... Have you ever tried using the bleeding edge code? Looking at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Yo... it seems like it might be possible, but you'd have to manually 'install' the extension every time you start Firefox...
Sure, containers should be better for sandboxing.

> Each action takes only a few seconds compared to what you would get with Virtualbox.

For VMs, I'm usually using Qemu/KVM with virtual-manager when needed, not VirtualBox (usually running Linux guest on Linux host). It has better integration and hardware support like USB redirection, and now there is also virgl acceleration catching up to OpenGL and Vulkan.
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I question whether Botswana needs to kill their elephants, especially as reports have Botswana containing 1/3 of the entire African Elephant population.

>Chobe is practically overrun with elephants

And the proposed law will not fix that, hunting would only be allowed outside preservation areas.

I like the final line of the article:

>Mr Guma therefore said government should swiftly act on how best to resolve the human/wildlife conflict and that the lift on the hunting ban and shooting of elephants in areas not designated as game reserves could be remedial to the crisis.
I think that denying them access to cheap and reliable fuel such as fossil fuels isn't going to allow them to deal with the climate change thats happening no matter what we do.

So I think you have it backward.
It feels like a very literary type term... I get my monocle out each time i use it.... and my Star Trek badge.
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Wi-Fi enhanced open looks like a nice security enhancement for open networks, but unfortunately (correct me if I'm wrong) it still doesn't look like it protects users from rogue access points; it only stops eavesdropping if users have already connected to the correct network.

I'd love to see a system similar to what Wi-Fi is already doing with Easy Connect, where users can scan a public key embedded in a QR Code or NFC tag to securely connect to a Wi-Fi network. (Or does Easy Connect already allow that? It'd be great if it does.)
Selling nukes and biological/chemical warfare agents and other things that "arms dealers" provide is not legal in the US. Gun shop owners are not commonly referred to as "arms dealers".

But thanks for shoehorning your political views into an unrelated conversation.