skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I'm sure. I've used the migration tool when going from one mac to another (Specifically from G4 to Intel iMac in 2006) which might clean some things out. Looking at the plists in my ~/Libray, I have some dated as far back as 2001. I also still have my MacOS 9 installed on my main hard disk :-P
Not sure. Subtle fingerprint encoded in the soundtrack? Fast Fourier analysis fingerprint of a specific span of time near the beginning of the movie?
> Schema

You mean Scheme.

They've been working on unifying all those tools into one `nix` command à la git. I don't know how far they are in the process though.
With a name like that how can you not make the pun :)
>People are banned frequently and questionable accounts vote in easily recognizable patterns.

Reddit makes it way too easy for bots to post and act like real humans. It's also way too easy to run multiple accounts to outweigh everyone else's votes and make a post seem more popular than it is.

Because of that, many mods are quick to ban suspicious-looking accounts, because on the subs where they don't, the conversation quickly becomes bots parroting the same thing over and over.

Reddit is gamed to shit by god-knows-who-all, and you can't trust anything on there that isn't a meme. The quick and easy answer is to forcibly mark bot posts as being made by a bot, which reddit won't do for whatever reason.
Why would you not want to contribute to their revenue?
I think Doctorow's analysis makes more sense than the typical rhetoric about Facebook and CA. But I still default to thinking that CA was largely ineffective. How many "latent klansmen" were there unaware that Trump was more their candidate than Clinton? Trump's stances were completely public, hugely well-known. What more did CA provide? I just don't really buy it. (Political advertising is very ineffective from what I've read and I just need some reason to expect CA to be more successful.)

I'm worried about the surveillance system for other reasons, like finding targets for censorship, discrimination, and hatred.
Instead of points, Bumped gives equity in the companies you shop at
I'm not happy with any government surveillance, regardless of origin or target.
The behavior was implemented because in past versions of Windows people neglected to update or outright refused and this left them vulnerable to all manner of malicious attacks. Unfortunately these attacks weren't just to carry out actions against the owners of those computers. The computers were turned into zombie members of botnets that performed all manner of bad things on the internet from attacks on sites to relaying spam.
> What is "commercial surveillance"?

When a for-profit company ("commercial") gathers large, detailed dossiers of millions of people ("surveillance").

For example, if you use Twitter, go to https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data and look at the stuff under "Interests and ads data". That's the tip of the iceberg.

> What are "risks associated with mass surveillance"?

Like the article says, when a company has access to detailed personal information about lots and lots of people, many bad things can happen:

* That information can be stolen by hackers and then used for identity theft or social engineering to gain access to private accounts. Think about how to reset your bank password your bank asks you questions like "where did you meet your first significant other?" Then consider how that event is probably on your Facebook feed.

* Companies like Cambridge Analytica can buy "ads" that are precisely targeted using that data to persuade certain groups of people to show up or not show up at polls and influence elections in non-Democratic ways.

Etc.
This is one of those cases where there were plenty of "internet wackos" sounding the alarm, all the way back to the launch of Gmail, and everyone ignored them. Even those sympathetic to the point for the most part just accepted it and moved on.

The doomsayers were prescient, and to say they weren't there isn't just unfair, it's actively hostile towards societal growth and detecting this as it happens again. The first step to growth is accepting fault, otherwise there's nothing to fix.
You always get knobheads, no matter the intake. If 3% of people are knobheads, with a class of 30 there's a 60% chance of having at least one knobhead. With a class of 20 it's 46%, with a class of 15 it's 37%.
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Another thing they could do is find a way for people to sell their original content and take a small % of the sale. For example, a redditor could sell print art, furniture, toys, books, etc... Basically like Etsy.
> but it is not enough.

Not enough for what? It's clearly enough for millions to live very comfortably.
This is so passive aggressive iycould only have been written by a woman.
Sorry comrade, just joking, I know there are no such thing women!!
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It's also latitude dependent. The amount of sunlight you get at 4:30pm also depends on time of year and time zone, etc.
You seem to be confusing "benefitted from his race" with "benefitted from racial tensions".
> Aruba access points are built for higher density and longer range deployments. One of the RF management features is called ClientMatch, which helps ensure WLAN performance is not compromised in noisy or high density environments.

This is the kind of stuff I'm curious about.

If the antenna is well designed (good radiation pattern) and the EIRP is limited to FCC limits (100mW by default?) how will it achieve longer ranger? The client device (laptop, cellphone) has a TX power as well that requires some symmetry to achieve the range. I know APs can request clients lower their TX power to reduce interference in high density environments, but I don't know they'd raise it.

As for high density environments, this comes down to the management software and not the features of WiFi chipset? Things like MU-MIMO certainly make sense for high density environments (Ubiquiti sells a series of "HD" suffixed parts that add MU-MIMO), but I'm curious if there are other things other then more radios on more bands.

How many of the more advanced features of Enterprise APs at the mercy of the client WiFi module, firmware, and driver for behaving optimally? I assume a company like Aruba (or really any major player) has a full interoperability test lab. Which client devices work best (Intel?)?

> Most homes don't have more than 20-30 devices on the WiFi. Most Instant access points can handle about 50-60 devices at a time. In my own home, the 5 Ghz band is primarily used due to the open layout and there's a lot less interference on that band in my neighborhood. I'm just using one Instant access point (IAP-215) to cover about 2500 sq ft.

2500 sq ft on one AP is pretty impressive, for the price though you could buy several UniFi APs. I checked out the datasheet[0] for the AP 210 series and was delighted to see some radiation plots at different frequencies.

[0] https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP210Series.pdf
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Apple Music just may have overtaken Spotify in the US
I feel like China is good about public/shared VPN's. If you set up your own and keep the details to yourself I was under the impression that it'd work just fine. That being said I love to travel and can work wherever but haven't been to CN yet for this reason in particular.
Is there supposed to be a link to a story?
Actually this is what we do at Dasha.AI: just listen to the calls here http://dasha.ai/en
>Can you not cancel?

If I cancelled without formally ending our contract (with their demanded appointment in order to cancel)... they would have dinged my credit score with a complaint of non-payment for an agreed upon contract.

I wish I was joking.
Github pushes you to create one when you create a repo. They started pushing codes of conduct a few years ago after Github hired a self-proclaimed "Notorious Social Justice Warrior"[1]. This of course, caused all kinds of backlash and culture war fighting[2-4]. As someone else said, it's essentially virtue-signalling, but most of the blame should go on GitHub rather than new maintainers who probably don't know better.

[1] https://where.coraline.codes/

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3fpnuw/githubs_...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027332

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/05/how-we-may-mesh/
It's tough to decide! And I think the real problem is that it's tough to decide - the value of a platform like reddit is devalued when even the fun and cute things make you wonder if they're just mind control tactics.
Having a higher income and higher gross savings allows you to invest more in:

1. Rental properties

2. Securities - stocks, bonds, derivatives, REITs etc.

3. Investment opportunities not available to others. The $250k-earning employee (sorry, yeah I bumped it up $10k to make this argument) is an accredited investor.

All of the above have compounding benefits over the years. Investing $25k today is better than investing $5k, even if both are 10% of gross income of our example employees. $25k savings allows you to put a down payment on a $125k rental property in a low-cost area every year.

> All of these are inflated by living in a high-cost high-wage situation

The "high-cost" only applies if you insist on living the exact same lifestyle as you would in a low-cost area: large house, boat, large vehicles etc. It's just common sense to limit your spending on overpriced things. In the Bay Area, housing is overpriced.
Not referring to the culture - I’m referring to the company that I would actually have the qualifications to work for.

They are always looking for AWS Architects at Amazon.
mpv (mpv.io) also has support for using it to stream videos. (play from the internet, rather than downloading)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/ is available for firefox and chrome, and lets you open URLs from the context menu. Massive time saver, as you can just right click on a link to a video, and it'll start playing in a separate media player.
Having children has always been a choice, e.g. historical birthrates are closely coupled to harvest success. So people are choosing to have fewer children now, and most of that has to do with opportunity costs.

Caplan's "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids" (https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Reasons-Have-More-Kids/dp/046...) has some data showing that parents are putting more and more time into children. (And his argument is that it is mostly unnecessary, i.e. it doesn't correspond to improved outcomes for children, given a relatively normal stable family.) I wonder how much of this is just changed social expectations (e.g. call Police / Child Services if you see a kid walking home along from school), how much is social signaling, how much is reduced family support.
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It might mean it's a bad idea to tax TV and phones.
But writing React without JSX is really not that great in my opinion whereas writing Vue without any preprocessor is totally fine. I know there's the option to use a JSX browser compiler but it's not recommended for production.
It looks like countries with greater inequality may provide more motivation for people to move up. Of course, there are countless other factors (regulation, societal norms, etc.), but if I'm a generally content person living in Finland or Sweden, and I'm relatively (but not remarkably) poor and still have what I need, I can focus on self-improvements that make me happy/fullfilled. If I'm in the USA, it'd be hard to divorce the idea of self-improvement from how I can monetize it. In countries where the poor feel more threatened (talking degrees, not absolutes), there's real urgency to distance yourself from that class.

I also wonder if the higher mobility among countries like GB, Japan, the US, and Turkey suggest societies that create more zero-sum scenarios. I'd be interested in other explanations.
> It also depends of your tolerance of rednecks, prudes, puritans, and ignorant people (which exist everywhere in the world, but have particularly large concentrations there).

FYI, using "redneck" as a pejorative, as in this context, can be interpreted as pretty offensive, and maybe this is unintentional. I for one consider it offensive.
> I would say that race relations have not improved (probably deteriorated).

Since Mr. Rogers Neighborhood first aired in 1968? No, race relations are much better now. It's true that they've deteriorated in some respects in the last handful of years, but mostly that's a result of a desperate rearguard action by White supremacists as institutionalized racism and it's automatic acceptance by the masses has been further eroded, and even if the federal government role today is in some respects worse than in 1968, the overall state of race relations is not.

> Mr. Rodgers prescriptions for life are lovely but impractical

In what concrete respect? You've been waving around a lot of generalizations (false ones, at that) about societal differences between now and the past to explain why they might have become impractical having been valid in the past, but you haven't actually explaining what the actual impracticality in any of them is (or even what specific prescriptions you are criticizing); while the inaccuracy of your generalizations is a problem, a bigger problem is your failure to establish, or even concretely define, the problem that supposedly has developed with Rogers’ approach that you are using them to explain.
https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-plans-its-own-sanitized-inter...
Do you understand how bonkers it sounds to play calculus with millions of lives in the service of geopolitics?
- Anyone who sounds like a wrecker must be reeducated. (q.e.d. https://twitter.com/DanielDoWrite/status/1015263695558135808)
Of course I understand that it’s a strategy for getting away with shipping poor software ... however, as a responsible and experienced user I should be able to disable this (oh yeah I can pay for the privilege by paying for the pro version). and even then, it’s completely wrong to be force an upgrade when the computer is in use
"Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion?" - Professor Dennis Whyte. https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4

The title threw me off, but it's a very interesting and grounded talk about the different approaches to scaling fusion energy.
Facebook app reviewing process now takes more than 6 to 8 weeks…
The slavery of foreign workers looking to employers to sponsor them on their path to citizenship. We have a similar program in Canada, and it's really sad to see talented people stuck at dead end jobs making crap money, all because their employer is their visa sponsor. It's even worse in the lower wage sectors with temporary foreign workers.
I could have blocked my bank from allowing them to debit me... but I would be in breach of contract at that point and they would ding my credit score.
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Not sure why this gets downvoted. Good luck trying OpenVPN over 80 or 443 in China.

If you want to build your own, use at least VPN that was developed in Japan. (Google)
`I wrap the entire thing up in some shell script as a .bashrc function which takes a URL, touches the downloaded file (since youtube-dl saves the youtube file modified date), then opens it in vlc. '

Just install mpv, dude.

It works right out of the box, if youtube-dl is in your PATH.
No, it's still your responsibility. If your computer reboots to apply an update when you don't want it to, it's because you failed in your responsibility to act as a good citizen of the internet.

Wait what?! Yes that's right, you're a dick. The automatic update system Microsoft implemented was because people weren't updating their computers regularly and they were vulnerable to attacks that made them part of botnets that attacked other people on the internet.

So if your system automatically updated itself it's because you connected it to the internet. If your system automatically rebooted itself, it's because you didn't reboot when it asked you to do so multiple times.

Thus you are a dick head for not maintain your system at the expense of everyone else on the internet.
I see this all the time on HN, the dismissal of real problems by suggesting the wide spread use of using highly technical solutions. It is naive and frankly arrogant.

The vast majority of the population, and I'd bet it's even higher in Uganda does not even know what Tor is, yet alone how to use it.

My mom just figured out how to
send photos via text message for heaven's sake.
> streets ahead

Pierce? Is that you?
This isn't true at all. The EU is just now starting to think about self defense because of Trump. Trump's insurgence is putting into question the US-led world order and NATO alliances. Without the US, NATO is functionally useless.

The EU is under the security blanket of the US, whether it likes to believe it or not. Hell, most of those countries pay less than 2 percent of their budgets towards their own defense, and they get pissy when the past three US Presidents call them out on it.
It's not about their economic prospects:

https://twitter.com/stevenvmiller/status/1014967443813519360

https://github.com/svmiller/earr

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-rac...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/04/25/debunking-ele...

https://www.thenation.com/article/economic-anxiety-didnt-mak...
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But what is different from you and the 100 other Indian service providers that come to me every week with the same offer and promise?
From what I've heard second-hand (my SO has a friend who frequently travels to China), they do actually block people's private one-off VPN servers quite effectively.

Have a look at https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/116/archive/fall2016/ctang.pdf - it talks about GFW using machine learning with flow analysis to do this.
First, they're from South Korea. Paying even a cent of this would be a stupidly bad financial idea. Why? There is absolutely no reason. Let the hospital send the bill to some creditors and let them try to collect in South Korea. Honestly, the situation is laughable.

Second, the article thinks that this was fraud. Figures. It may not be too late for them to call the hospital and point this out and ask them to zero out the balance. This hospital, when it had its prior name, did something similar for a friend of mine, albeit his bill was about $1-2k and it was not fraud. Considering they might be on the wrong side of the law, this seems like a solution both sides can get behind.
I would note it's frequently an 18-wheeler from the farm to a distribution center as well.
Be ye angels?

Nay we are but men!
You do realize you don't have to browse the web with javascript and other tracking features enabled?

You also do realize that life's not an equal playing field and everyone is not equal in all aspects? I can't fix my car without paying someone to do it. Some people can't use the web properly. It's a tradeoff.

It's straightforward logic. You don't need to use Facebook. They have no obligation to provide you service. Even if you do use it there's no threat to your health or wellbeing (unlike bad food preparation hygine).

The threats of violence are from the government. If you don't pay their fines, say, if you refuse to be a slave and be forced into providing services to people on terms set by others, they will come at you with violence.
I like this way of framing it, although I find it questionable whether SATs, grades, etc measure C exclusively.

Because almost all candidates are the same age when applying, C also carries information about m, in the sense that the same equation applies to their time in K-12, so candidates with a high C did so either because they had a high learning rate (m) or went to a high-quality high school or had a high-quality environment (x), or some combination.

Thus I would say that SAT score measures mx. C at time t = mx + C at t - 1, or dC/dt = mx. Schools are interested in m, which is not easily measurable directly. Affirmative action is a very crude way to look for candidates that have a high m, low x, and moderate to high C at application time.

My conclusion is that if it were possible, colleges would ideally look for candidates that performed substantially better on SATs etc than their peers at each high school, as that would control for x and allow you to estimate m. Affirmative action, on the other hand, is a cruder but partially functional way to do this, as it uses race as a bad proxy for x.
The sound wave is not a "by-product." It is precisely the phenomenon you are describing. And while we are discussing equations and distribution functions, you might as well get the equation right: wave phenomena arise when the equations of motion are hyperbolic PDEs. Such systems involve the Laplacian, not just the gradient. Indeed, the physics of such systems are typically studied as a whole, in terms of... wave phenomena.

Further, not all waves require a medium. Light and gravitational waves are prominent examples. There is nothing to reduce these phenomena to, except for the fields themselves, whose form is dictated by... a wavelike solution.

While we are at it, let me disabuse you of your explanation of the sound speed. Turns out that the sound speed is a thermodynamic quantity; it is the speed at which small wavelike perturbations propagate. To properly derive the sound speed, one must linearize the Euler equations, and then adopt a thermodynamic equation of state, from which the sound speed is derived. It is, emphatically, not the speed at which molecules move.

Finally, it is obvious that you did not understand what I was driving at with respect to color. I agree wholeheartedly that we have no true color, within our minds, with which to perceive, say, soft x-rays. But this issue has to do with our own neurobiology, not fundamental physics. Comparing the two is what is problematic. There is little reason to suspect that our mental limitations have anything to do with anything but evolutionary necessity. Such limitations are categorically different than, say, the speed of light.
"What is wrong with Times New Roman?"

According to my design Professor back in University .. a lot. I never really bothered before, but now I see a lot wrong with it, too. But maybe I just have been brainwashed..
That's a tricky one. At this point, there are very few media outlets that haven't made a deal with the de^H^H ad and social media networks. As a result, any freelance writer, even one who is also a privacy advocate, has to make a choice between avoiding any involvement of their work in surveillance capitalism, and getting paid and having their work be read.

I have a hard time faulting Doctorow for choosing to be relevant.
> Cory Doctorow himself sprinkling just a little more oil on the pile of rags?

I just looked, and this is mirrored on his blog[1], and it appears to have very little or no tracking set up. Feel free to read it there.

https://craphound.com/news/2018/07/02/mark-zuckerberg-and-hi...
Also anything with Bryan Cantrill.
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Sun ONC RPC was used to implement the (famous) stateless NFS server over UDP.

NFSv3 added TCP (and brought minimal network state) into the protocol.

NFSv4 rolled all the external stateful services (stat, mount, idmap) into the main protocol.

Bearing in mind this progression, are stateless services difficult to maintain in production, and will there be a strong tendency to reintroduce state?
It’s not at all clear flying an unsafe plane is necessary to make a profit.
For that long time period you might want to watch "A Glorious Accident". Wim Kazyer sits down with Daniel Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Stephen Jay Gould, Oliver Sacks and Stephen Toulmin (and Rupert Sheldrake) to do one-on-one interviews. Then all of them sit down together for 3 1/2 hours at a round table and have a wide-ranging discussion. Wim Kazyer acts as a kind of moderator, Rupert Sheldrake, who has written books like "The Science Delusion" acts as a kind of antagonist.