skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not about holding particular people responsible in hindsight.

It’s about having a public debate to decide what laws are needed to robustly protect the public before the technology is even misused.

So in your examples it’d be:

- when the physicists inform the public, MAD is quickly determined as the outcome of that technology and laws made to prevent nukes being made in the first place. (And optimistically, to negate wars ever happening again due to the possibility that an aggrieved side might develop nukes) Or, because the public debate did not happen until after they were developed and deployed, to allow nukes to be developed and defer wars between nuke-enabled countries to hyper-diplomacy while making every effort to restrict development & deployment, like we currently have.

- when the chemists alert the public that chemical weapons are possibly far more effective than anyone ever imagined, then laws are made to ban their deployment. As is currently the case after informed public debate. But instead of informed public debate before the fact, millions were gassed during WW1.

- when the bureaucrats realist they can identify large swathes of the population unrestricted, laws can be brought in to restrict data gathering to protect the public from such actions.

In all of your examples, an informed public debate could have urged politicians to create laws to robustly protect the public from these technologies.

The key note to realize is that the public debate will happen. It’s inevitable. The key role that the creators of these technologies can play is to raise these ethical concerns before harm is risked. Even though the public debate did not happen until after all of the above technologies were misused, they resulted in swiftly creating laws to robustly protect the public from that technology. Delaying the debate does nothing other than risking disaster.

I know that last line sounds like hyperbolic exaggeration but it’s an inevitability that, if ignored, is unethical.
If you have really old clients you may apparently be able to do this instead:

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2013/05/24/improving-security-o...
Can be does not mean it is. I've used Meetup for a couple years now. It's more spammy than Facebook. Big groups have leaders who don't listen, niche groups are led by marketing people.
Buddy wait til you hear about oil companies
>entirety of their printers that are affected

Some were too old for this vulnerability?
Medical Applications Expose Current Limits of AI (spiegel.de)
That’s one anecdote

There’s a real history to the argument in the article

Numerous scholars have advocated that to remain objective one must avoid putting human traits on objects of study

I think it stems from Abrahimic traditions, where God made us and none of us are to presume to be as powerful. Animals and objects are treated as mere things. Look at hardliners destroying art that has human form. The general story being God made us and we are inferior and must not resort to offending him with crude reproductions, lest he smite us for thinking we can do better.
Researched this recently and came across this which appears to be the best solution in the field currently, though price prohibitive. http://solarips.com/power-tower/
Julia lacks ecosystem outside of academic stuff.
Office365 is great, but, time to de-couple it from "Cloud". The funny thing is that when someone launches a windows server on AWS, MS counts that license towards their Cloud Revenue!
Re #1: About 125,000 years ago[0] during the Pleistocene epoch. Wikipedia has a history of Earth's temperatures[1].

Somewhat related, XKCD[2] made a nice illustration to explain the temperature fluctuations of the last 22,000 years.

[0]: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6322/276

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

[2]: https://xkcd.com/1732/
It wasn't all that long ago we did. I remember in the mid-80's buying soda at the grocery store in 6-packs of glass bottles, and bringing the empty bottles back to the store for a discount when buying more. The empties were sent back to the bottling plant, washed, and refilled. It was really interesting seeing the branding variations, depending on the age of the bottle, on the store shelves. I still have a 60's-era 7-Up bottle that had been through around 20 years of reuse when I bought it.
Oddly enough I'm less worried about germs while camping, then when I'm in civilization. Maybe I'm misguided, but I don't expect to encounter human pathogens in the wilderness.
Good times, miss you, man
In my opinion, animations should be like reverb in music. If it's noticeable, you're probably using too much (surf music excepted). A little bit of animation can smooth things out and enhance the experience with helpful cues. Too much makes the application a pain to use.

> he/she is already expecting something to happen

Just as an example, if I were to trigger Mission Control [1] in macOS without animations, it would be pretty jarring. In this case, I control the speed of animation with the speed of my mouse gesture, and it's quick enough not to get in my way, but animated enough so that I have a sense of continuity between my full screen web browser and the view of all windows on that desktop.

In contrast, the default minimize/restore animations in macOS are too long and cutesy for me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Control_(macOS)
I'm not understanding what awk has to do with your other points.
That's what I was supposed to do? I just legally changed my name to Pam.
I know there could be a lot of causes for this but one thing I've noticed, which is specific to my location, is that too much cultural homogeneity can lead to loneliness.

I remember clearly a time in my life when I was very lonely and having a lot of trouble meeting people. Eventually, I crafted a theory that most of the people in my environment secretly did not want to meet anyone. This was either because they already had busy lives or they just didn't need to know yet another person who was just like them.

Shortly thereafter, I went back to university and encountered a lot of exchange students who were perhaps legitimately in need of friends and perhaps also coming from cultures which tended to be much less closed off to casual friendliness. This fixed the loneliness problem for me very quickly. Of course, it must also be acknowledged that the environment in university tends to facilitate social activity.
I don't know where you live, but here in California I do pay for garbage services.
I think a lot of this is economics, culture and the city-scape of the US. In other places (my home country included) there's no meetup.com, but there's just more community and family. Having lived in the US I've noticed the following:

1. Colleges get expensive and matter a lot, so people leave home for college if they want to achieve. Time to make new friends.

2. After college, a lot of people go where the job is-- this might be far from your family and since you went to college with a lot of people from a lot of different places, probably far from them too. Goodbye friends.

3. It's not unlikely your job brings you to a city, and US cities are notorious for having the tall downtown where most city life exists and the quiet, expansive suburbs. You're young so you move downtown. Time to make new friends.

4. Downtown will be expensive, apartments will be for rent not sale, so you'll be moving about constantly. You never form meaningful connections with neighbors.

This point is interesting in that is, I feel, why people seem more glued to their phones today, interact with people around them less, and overall annoy each-other more. Their real friends are not necessarily the people around them: they live on your phone. You don't make an effort to meet people around you cause you might never see them again. Not even your neighbors: your lease is for just one year.

5. You eventually settle down and move to the suburbs. Time to make new friends. Everyone wants the lawn, but this also means houses are far between. How many people can your really interact with? Moreover, American suburbs are just that: houses. No one walks on the streets of suburbs, so meeting, bumping into and interacting with neighbors takes effort. All the time you spend shopping, working, having fun-- it's probably going to be around strangers downtown, not your neighbors.

6. You have kids, and your kids leave for college. They're not going to move back home, or to your neighborhood. They're going to go down the same path-- you better remind them to call.

7. You get very old, and then get put in a elderly home. Again, instability, and you probably have to find and make new friends.

A lot about this progression seems relatively normal but are unusual where I'm from.
You can import whatever you want, but it will work in "Python" mode.
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We've designed ourselves into isolation. We leave our house in a metal box, arrive at work, then return to our metal box. The most prominent feature of newer houses from the street is the garage, not the door or porch. We live in a subdivision where the nearest store is a five minute drive, so nobody ever uses the sidewalks that are mandated to be there. We move across the country for work, so we aren't close to family. There's no real neutral place where people have to interact together for some reason, so you don't have the accidental meetings that is required to meet people and community.
Sounds like you are talking cross purposes. S/He argues for changing the law and you are explaining the current law.
Why not just apply the congestion tax to paid drivers while removing street-side parking? I don’t want to live in a city where there is zero chance of block-to-block motorised transport.
It's like a Sparticus thing. "I am Pam."
A great book on this subject is “Start Small Stay Small” by Rob Walling : https://sivers.org/book/StartSmallStaySmall

Rob was running ten simultaneous businesses by himself, (and he has a few kids), diligently managing and tracking his time to run each one as efficiently as possible, and tracking it to make it easy to sell the business to someone some day with a specific intruction manual and estimate of how much time it would take to run that business.
One thing I learned that after a while it gets super easy to convince yourself that just 15 minutes of playing outdated online FPS games is OK, then 2 hours later you're still playing, and nobody is there to say "What the hell?". Is this normal?
> I quit and deactivated Facebook in January, and since I have felt so truly alone.

I've long suspected that Facebook serves a beneficial function for lonely singles, a way to socialize without having a partner or IRL friends. As a short term fix against loneliness I think that's great. That said, constant Facebooking can also get in the way of getting to know and keeping friends IRL.

Sounds to me you are poised to explore the big and growing world of people who prefer face-to-face relationships, i.e. the kind of relationships that matters most. Hang in there.
Great article! Thanks
I've never hard my card permanently deactivated. They will definitely freeze my card if I make three or four large purchases in a day or over a weekend, but there's always an immediate robo-call asking me to confirm and then it's instantly active again.
It'll be an interesting thing. They definitely understand the gaming angle due to Pokemon Go causing them to specially create tools and customize their API for gaming: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/gaming/

But that seems to be Enterprise level only.

They seem to have already updated for the new level. They also have advertisements and are a profitable business.

My guess is that they "Contacted Sales" like the Gaming API asks you to do and have a very agreeable discounted rate.
It's hard to find in my area - the stores only seem to carry the flavored kind, not the pure popcorn salt.
Vitanyi and colleagues have a paper where they show that although K(X) is uncomputable, in practice, you can attach a probability to one X having greater or lesser K(X) than another X (to ridiculously oversimplify; K(X|M) might be better notation). This is kind of analogous to p-values and is related to the statistical interpretations of Kolmogorov complexity. The uncomputability is important but is not the intractable obstacle it seems like if not elaborated on.
Here is a template for whoever else wants to request their data:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fx5yyrru1uvx6no/sarletter.txt?dl=0

Source (@mikarv on Twitter):

https://twitter.com/mikarv/status/1012386696934182912?ref_sr...
Stating that they are decrypting (and it takes time) would probably change users' opinion from "this is slow" to "this is secure"
You mean like the way the natural numbers can be built from Church numerals? Are you saying that nothing exists, or that there can be no true knowledge of reality?
And a mere four years later they added a format that uses bcrypt... in a PBKDF2 construction? (I haven't found a motivation why, though Ted Unangst's post on it just says "I know about scrypt".)
How social media platforms are shaping the present and future of Cyptocurrency
Perhaps, but that's not my job. I value my sanity too much to try and get them to understand those things are bunk.
Citus 7.5: The right way to scale SaaS apps
Easy example in recent software development history: the developers who built the software controlling emissions cheating on Volkswagen cars a few years ago. That lead to nearly a decade of overly polluting cars being missold to the public. Those elevated emissions are directly responsible to deaths among the populations in which those cars were sold.
Beside compatibility, is there any reason not to use Ed25519 keys for everything?
One does not exclude the other. If it did then a hardware token like Yubikey easily beats a CA.
If by they you mean bloggers, I think you are mistaken.
How about don't live in a big fucking city if you don't like a lot of noise?
It’s pretty easy to heat up a nonstick-pan to temperatures where it releases toxic fumes. Just put it on an induction stove without anything in it. A very typical thing to do.
> When there's enough financial incentives somebody will figure out how to do it cost effectively.

Indeed they have. In Los Angeles, thousands of individual profiteers, usually pushing wheeled carts, comb through tens of thousands of large blue recycling bins in residential areas extracting the most valuable bottles and cans. They exchange these containers for cash at automated recycling centers.

(The mitigating circumstance is that the state of California subsidizes the recycling centers.)
Sivers book summaries are the best! Thanks for making them available for the public. I have avoided a few duds by using your list and gone to listen to some great audio books because the notes intrigued me. One of my favorite bookmarks in my browser
lonely is a social construct so inherently, half of people will be lonely lmao
Are you forgetting about POKE and PEEK?
No, the new business model is that you're the product even if you're paying.
You got me there. I think conventionally each cpu is a child of one NUMA node so in this case they had to make a NUMA node with no cpus, which isn't quite correct. https://colfaxresearch.com/knl-mcdram/#fig-3
That's really fascinating to me. Optimizing for an acquisition might also come with a nice bi-product of keeping the business , itself, more self-sustaining. I'll have to give this book a read, thanks for the suggestion!
I seem to recall reading this when I investigated before. Article is shooting the messenger in a way, the animation is not the problem. Agilebits (the co who makes 1password) generally aren't the types to introduce superfluous elements.
Let's give the state more money to solve all our problems! They have a great track record too!
Reminds me of the Ise Jingū shrine, which has been torn down and rebuilt every 20 years for 2000 years.
A rogue npm package is my nightmare scenario, those packages are like the only (or I wish..) untrusted code my OS is running.

That's why I came up with a small script/service waiting for an "inotify" event on a honey-pot SSH key (and some other files like ~/passwords.doc) which will immediately shutdown the computer on any kind of access of those files.

#!/bin/sh

inotifywait -e open --fromfile ~/.config/killer/killer.cfg --outfile ~/.config/killer/killer.log

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
poweroff
fi
Too Much Unit Testing Is Detrimental for Code Quality
> WhatsApp was encrypted before the acquisition.

WhatsApp was acquired February 2014 and end-to-end encrypted April 2016.

> And I am 100% confident that is why they want to find a way to monetize it directly. Not having access to data is not something they are used to.

I agree.

> You don't see them telling the FB Messenger team: "Hey, you need to make money."

I mean, I'm sure they have. Messenger has ads.
BYTE Magazine
Knowing a lot about PFOA (Wolverine World Wide operated a tannery in my home town and dumped Scotchguard-treated leather scraps in the swamp, now I have 100 ppt PFOA in my well water), it is incredibly dangerous. They were incredibly careful to wear the full gamut of protective gear when handling it, but assumed the infinite sink of nature would dilute it to safety. A few decades later, it's still not diluted to safe levels.

The article is newsworthy because WWW are claiming 3M assured them it was safe until 2003 when they stopped using it because the FDA told them to. And 3M is claiming that there wasn't sufficient evidence to say it could be bad until they finally did. And rational people are looking at the whole thing knowing that everyone knew it was bad but they kept using it because it made them money.

To be fair, I and thousands of my neighbors now have a whole-house carbon filter that costs thousands in my home - bought, installed, and maintained on WWW's dime - that takes that 100 ppt down to nondetectable levels. That keeps my toddler safe. But I have been drinking it for 30 years...
A related sort of idea, which has been posted to HN before but never gotten a huge amount of attention is the Arcan project [1].

Basically an interesting implementation of a display server and desktop environment being worked on by a lone dev as far as I know. Really impressive stuff, and in the author's own words: it is keyboard dominant, building a better and more efficient CLI than the flaccid terminal emulators of yore

[1] https://arcan-fe.com/
In an ideal world everyone would get a UX specifically tailored to their expertise level. Software must be a LOT cheaper to build for this to ever happen though.
I think animations are pretty useful for some touchscreen UIs, for example if you have a menu that can be swiped away, or to attract attention to things that happen without user interaction. The only issue is a lack of consistency.
Also, animations can hide load times while making things seem fast (see iOS app opening animation)
I like animations. The blinking cursor for instance.
they dont keep you full like protein does. Eating high protein moderate fat, low (not zero) carb reduces hunger to nothing for fasting.
Can't anymore. Blue TravelTens are gone, it's now all about Opal running. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/opal-runners-keep-swipin...
This seems to be a lesson we have to learn over and over. Each time more expensive than the last.
I dont think is less acceptable. I do think that previously people waiting in a line probably had nothing to do and were more likely to talk, where now they're on their phone.
Mansplaining, explained in one simple chart
Should tech companies be paying more tax?
That seems reasonable. I guess the story about my friend's homeless brother's situation is just one of many where he's been taken advantage of. (ie, not given water on the job, improper tools provided, pay not be given out, etc...) So I assumed this was just another issue on top of all the others.

You have to wonder though, if a cleaning job is only suitable for temps (mostly homeless people) that get persistent radiation exposure, it seems that corners are being cut. Unlike a cave, where there's nothing to be done other than stay out of it...
What's the point of such defense mechanisms?
What's an Emacs? Running that command just seems to reduce my disk quota.

The functionality you're describing sounds pretty much like vidir (from moreutils[1]), though.

[1] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
I think your criticism misses the mark.

[1] You're answering an article that starts with a 45-second video of Slack opening (surely the worst offender among modern apps) with something about latencies measured in thousandths of a second.

[2] As Nielsen is focused on web apps and applications, this advice is less applicable to UI provided by the OS that you interact with all day in presumably familiar ways. Note that generally "directing user attention" isn't necessary in a shell: output always comes at the bottom. However, be sure to read the "Frequency: Don’t Get in the User’s Way" heading that includes almost verbatim the OP's points against animations that slow the user down.

[3] Yes, internationalization is still hard. At least for Terminal.app, this is basically a solved problem, but of course it's possible for terminal apps (ncurses etc) to need custom support. The situation with web tech is about the same, these things are solved for you if you stick with the basic technologies, but if you get fancy you may need more explicit support.
Google's devil bargain with China is a gateway to bureaucratic hell
ah the black hole programming movement! We've been there with "waterfall", which was a disaster. Not explaining and sharing is counter to working on a team. If you are a one man army, and no one knows what your code does, or if it can be compiled or deployed without errors, then that is bad for your company.
> Everyone knows that it is not secure.

This is the crucial part you're wrong about. Most people assume Wi-Fi with password is secure, only us nerds know better.
Use key AND interactive password. This way attacker will have limited rate of password guessing and you will now from logs that your key is compromised. Your key will be used only for first step of authorization. You can slap additional password for that key but it is not even needed. Additionally from what I remember Ed25519 keys are stored by default in the new format.
As a current Chicago resident of 2+ years, I agree. Although I always thought this was just a Midwestern thing, as I grew up in Ohio and this was pretty common there as well.
That wasn't very clear from the original posts, as they discussed anti-competitive behavior and regulators, not new legislation to be written. To me this implied a desire for them to be regulated under current law, which may have been my mistake in reading it.

It makes more sense read with new legislation being the intent, so you have a point.

That said, that type of regulation seems overly heavy-handed IMHO, and I'm typically not an anti-regulation type of person.
That would explay why his company has its own app store that until recently also was 70/30 split (now 88/12)
No, you should use Ed25519 keys wherever you can.
Did the compass disappear? I'd like to still be able to rotate the map.
Yeah, I wanted the ZBOX too. Gave up and decided to roll my own. If the big names won't support AMD with SFF I will.
Visidata seems like an example of the kind of UI this author thinks would be better. http://visidata.org/

A former coworker used this as his project while on sabbatical at the recurse center.

It is mostly GPL v3, except for MIT license on the core UI.

From the Visidata GitHub page:
The innermost core file, vdtui.py, is a single-file stand-alone library that provides a solid framework for building text user interface apps. It is distributed under the MIT free software license, and freely available for inclusion in other projects.
Microsoft warns investors about A.I. risks
> there's little excuses

Yikes that statement has a lot of moral overtones. Is it a good idea to use a Yubi? Arguably yes. Does one need to find "excuses" for not doing so? The vast majority of the time, no.