skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that’s a very good point.

I think we can have both: lobbying at a macro level, and bikeshedding locally. Or some blend of.
I don't see how "keep WPA2 enabled for your old, WPA3-incompatible devices" is any more of a problem than "keeping WPA2 enabled" was a problem yesterday.

If you're vulnerable to compromised coffee shop or home networks already, you're likely to also be vulnerable tomorrow. The only change is a slight increment in the standard. And the worst companies are not going to be saved by any change in the standard.

I guess I don't really see the point of this entire subthread.
my point is that i dont need to install an app to type "temp in sf" in google and see if a jacket is needed.
Seems like a wierd article trying to support octonions. I've graduated from quaternions using Lie Algebra/Groups (not that I understand them completely) but I find it much more general that it handles translations in a much better fashion.
Electric vehicles already able to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half
We're still nowhere close to Intel "declining too far".

AMD used to be quite popular in the Athlon era, especially when Intel screwed up big time with Pentium 4 and Itanium. But, as we know, Intel recovered, then used anti-competitive tactics against AMD, and finally AMD screwed-up with its next architecture. All of these more than ensured Intel's comeback.

So I'd say wait until AMD has 50% of the market (not just the custom PC market, which AMD will probably have within 2-3 years) to feel sorry for Intel and worry about Intel dying.
Is this a desktop-only demo?
To be fair, whilst the modern, Western extreme left are generally less violent, there's no shortage of extreme left media that's designed to engender hatred of perceived groups of enemies far more than propose solutions, and certain extreme left factions which will go out of their way to defend state use of violence by notionally left wing or "anti-imperialist" governments, offer explicit support or defences for certain militant Islamist groups, or in the context of the modern UK extreme left, identifying "Zionists" to be purged from public life...
Niche startup idea, VPN for your mobile device that can analyze and block traffic. Block entire countries, 3rd parties, etc. Give realtime feedback on their dashboard as applications are loaded. Could also be useful as a developer application profiling tool.
Homegrown Violent Extremists

There's been numerous reporting on the surge in popularity of anti-government militia groups, tho it looks like most of it comes back to a report by Southern Law Poverty Center, which you may or may not take as a reliable source.

[1] https://www.splcenter.org/20090731/second-wave-return-militi...
This seems new, and passed over in all the comments so far:

> None of them had ever heard of a paper in any field being disappeared after formal publication. Rejected prior to publication? Of course. Retracted? Yes, but only after an investigation, the results of which would then be made public by way of explanation. But simply disappeared? Never. If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?

I'd had the impression online journals normally had some plan for archiving. So insiders were left out of the threat model?
They also "predicted" Intel's delays and ultimate failure with Broadwell (basically a 6-month product), too.
It's rare to read from such a sober-minded yet deeply philosophical world view. He basically outlines to most essential things in the universe - gravity and uncertainty. Everything else is a means to quantify the world to make it more understandable to us. At least quantum mechanics show that uncertainty is quantifiable to an extent with the means we already have. I'm not even sure whether gravity is as un-quantifiable as it seems to be. That's what scientific minds ought to figure out.
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> Remember they've done this before. Usenet.

Are you implying that Google started usenet? (hint: they didn't.)
They don't even have a CEO now. But the troubles started years before. They got fat, lazy, and greedy, basically. And then they started messing up the technical stuff, too, as we're seeing now with their 10nm node.
Climate change is going to make refugees everyone's problem (if it doesn't make you a refugee yourself) so I would encourage you to keep your eyes open for effective means of absorbing migrant populations.
"You couldn't successfully audit a good sized publicly held, domestic US Car Dealership for the fees that PWC Hong Kong charges to audit a global enterprise like Alibaba"

"I have no idea how PWC can audit this mess for the fees they charge. Every year, the hours of work required expand geometrically and the fees come in at about what you'd charge to audit a large US/Domestic publicly traded Car Dealership. Keep this in mind, Alibaba now has 920 Operating Units (Did I mention that?) scattered all over the globe, a massive Capital Structure "Enhancement", with many of these WFOE's and VIE's located in the PRC and all of these entities are audited from the PWC Hong Kong office. If I were trying to audit this we'd have substantial travel, staff time and training on both IFRS and GAAP accounting treatment and methods. All to be researched and applied to myriad business combinations, sales, mergers and divestitures. Incredibly, PWC Hong Kong does the whole thing, including tax services and consulting for US$12.8 million dollars ($13,900 per business unit @ US$12.8 million/920), up from US$ 8.4 Million the prior year. PWC is the the new "Dollar Store" of public accounting."

https://deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-baba-20-ffi...
"But this also introduces the complexity that the right doors have to open at the right time, lest a blind person walk into a gap between trains and die. Which is a lot to ask from an agency that can barely maintain something as mundane as elevators and escalators."

Without any doors, nothing stops people from walking into a gap between trains and dying. So adding doors (even too many doors) isn't going to make the situation any worse. It'll make it better because there will be fewer gaps, even with too many doors all opening at once.
I am the YouTube algorithm and I recommend these related comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939859
It's a convenience/UX thing.

Also, "read the weather off google" is essentially equivalent to having a very shitty weather app, with crappy UX and which requires you to always be on-line (whereas decent weather apps will cache their forecasts).
America’s most exclusive university will no longer tout its exclusivity
Is it extreme to slash your tires and burn your house down? That's the immediate feeling I get when reading your words.
It's illegal for foreigners to own a Chinese company. A shell company based in the Caribbean is publicly traded. It owns no assets.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/beware-the-pitfalls-of-the-...
I've noticed the same in my usage across almost all google services at this point. My speculation is that this is due to them now being so heavily dependent on neural networks these days vs the previous mix of algorithms. The old approaches seemed to be better at not presenting false positives / creating a rediculous mish-mash of previous trains of thought in an effort to recommend something, anything... no matter how wrong.

For example: older versions of the google keyboard were pretty good about not recommending/autocorrecting non-words. So I'd type things like function/variable names (which often use camel case) and it would either suggest valid English words or perhaps a non-word used earlier in the message. These days, my use of camel case names in technical emails spills over so that emails to family now pop up with bizarre camel case recommendations. I seeing similar things happening to YouTube recommendations and elsewhere.
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Thank you, I appreciate that!

Actually, thinking a bit longer about the problem, the issue in my mind is that vendors/producers do not have an incentive to update software if you only pay for the hardware once. For them it's just a cost. It's more interesting to sell more hardware. My strategy as consumer is to go to open source for such devices. But perhaps there are better strategies.

I'm aware of Cisco having a model to pay for software updates, but this is mainly for business clients. Does anyone know other vendors that have business models, that create incentives for updating devices? Perhaps even for consumers?

I remember that in the past MacOS updates had to be purchased, but this no longer seems to be the case.
Is there actually a consumer market for such business models, where hardware and (paid) software are tied together for a longer life cycle?
Speaking as someone who knows people who immigrated, the cooperation and help thing were huge factor - especially so among those who did low skill work. People moved in groups or seeked places where they knew somebody. It is hard life and they are not doing it completely alone without cooperation because that would make it even harder. (Offtopic: refusal to accept that people do help each other, give each other advice and that it is factor in life is distinctively American thing. Many cultures see mutual help like that as requirement or "normal". Not everyone see insult in word help, many see it as just what intelligent people do.)

Especially the parts about someone teaching you trade and borrowing tools so you can show up like pretending to be pro instead of like someone who never done that trade. Or relative helping you get job and teaching you on the job. Smart person can learn basics fast, but can't figure them on his own and need someone to cover up basic mistakes at the beginning.

And also ability to find a place to sleep in shared with other non complete strangers (e.g. People you know something about even if a bit) - not as comfortable nor with privacy but cheap and provides connections.

The shared housing was common enough that Americans attempted to prevent it in places (via rules on multiple families in one house etc).
> IRT and BMT Eastern Division

I read this as “IRT Eastern Division and BMT Eastern Division”, and was very confused what the IRT Eastern Division was, but I think you mean all of the IRT? Indeed, the IRT (except R188) would require similar door locations already because of the moving platforms at some stations.

> I've never even heard it seriously proposed.

There were apparently budgeted funds in the 2014 Capital Plan [1], but it was just designs.

[1] http://web.mta.info/capitaldashboard/allframenew_head.html?P...
Citations please
Sciter seems cool. Too bad it’s proprietary software.
Actually no, it doesn't have to be our problem: in an extreme case we can just shoot to kill.
I recently quit web development and decided to get regular work. It just wasn't working out for me in my town/country (not in the US). My catch 22 was no experience, no chance. I couldn't even offer my services for free to get that experience, because companies just didn't need/want me.

I could have easily been homeless during the 2 years after I graduated, but thanks to the social welfare system, I was taken care of as a job seeker.

I'm now interested in something I call self startup ideas, which is currently making games for (mostly) mobile that might take off. This is only a hobby I allocate a couple of hours a day to though. Otherwise I'm doing unskilled labour for minimal wage.

I've had mixed feelings about my experience as a web developer. It was something I had so much passion for (even before I went to study it), but now I'm kind of glad I've walked away, as it has been a source of so much toxicity in my life recently. Kind of like kicking a really bad habit.
I think you're setting up a strawman there. What he's saying is that media organizations are intentionally ignoring issues that would stand out by themselves, but choose not to cover them because of certain characteristics of the offenders.

This leads to extremism as people who rely on those sources for news coverage end up completely misinformed about the world and find people discussing matters to be doing so out of some form of ism and 'fake news' rather than because it may be an increasingly serious problem. And it also fuels extremism on the other end as they also see the lack of reporting as 'fake news' and it fuels questions about the motives involved in not covering these issues.

In my opinion, this quite rapid shift from the news trying to inform people (though of course there some lens of bias) to the news quite overtly trying to control people's actions is probably playing a major role in the rapid and, arguably deserved, deteriorating trust in the media. But that destruction of trust from the sources with the resources to carry out impartial reporting is doing nobody any good.
Hopefully someone will add the tracking domains to a pihole list. Doesn't help when you're on the go through unless you vpn to a network you own with a pihole installed.
> So you will try to invent style definition system/language. And CSS will be born again.

If he arrives at QML then he will be doing something awesome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML
I read once that prime numbers were a key element element on cryptography (because it's easy to multiply two prime numbers, but difficult to say if a number is a multiple of two prime numbers, if I remember correctly). Will this discovery have negative impact on it?
I would argue that the cost of this is worth it, these aren't first world alluvial plains where you can afford to farm and buy food from elsewhere, this is Africa.
The Scientific Intelligencer (1993)
Beyond Compare has a tabular data mode, where you set the key columns and it presents the differences in a nice interface. Works well for me.
http://www.scootersoftware.com
One idea is to start working with corporate partners while in academia. Then once you’ve shown results, reach out to those contacts for job openings. Places like UNH’s CCOMS are a great example of university/corporate cooperation. But you don’t need to be that formal. Just work on some projects with corporate partners and grow that network.

My thought is by mid 40s you should be a domain expert. Now all you need to do is show that you can have success in metrics that are important to non-academics.
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I was a casual youtube watcher. I am talking 2012 style fail videos, music videos, and broad areas of interest.

Now I can not stand YT. 1st, they have clearly decided that they want to compete with IG as their 'Trending' section is nothing more than influencers. 2nd, it is likely the case but the 'Trending' section is always loaded with liberal, nonsensical, click bait videos, and artist of no interest to me.

I am clearly no longer their target demo.
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I think you misunderstood her. She was saying that being transgender in that role was central to the character. It was the point of the movie. However, whether a character is black or not doesn't really matter (anymore). That's why we don't use blackface masks anymore.

In a sense, the minority community brings it to itself. If you highlight how you're not different, then you cannot complain that stories will be written about how you're not different - that's the whole point of highlighting it! But once the society completely accepts that you're not different, then the difference will truly not matter and there will be no story (for better or worse).
The other day I calculated that the subway trains in Warsaw must give off as much heat during braking as a 70-100kW heater working continuously.

And that's a conservative estimate given that I assumed the interval between trains going a given way to be 5 minutes - during the rush hour they're twice as frequent.

Not to mention the collective body heat of a few hundred people waiting on the station which is (!) of the same order.
If the "safe harbor" you're referring to is CDA230, you have it quite backwards. They're shielded under that statute even if they ban people and delete things selectively, regardless of the reason.

Under the legal environment at the time CDA230 was enacted, they already had a shield. What they didn't have was the ability to moderate their own platforms and still keep that shield, they had to pick one or the other because if they screwed up and missed something then suddenly they were liable again.

So CDA230 actually encouraged them to moderate their platforms, arbitrarily if they want to. The "moderation" they were expected to do was mostly to remove "indecent" content, but they aren't required to do that or forbidden from removing anything else.

So at least in that respect, Twitter and Apple are doing exactly what they were expected to do.
>I don't see how "keep WPA2 enabled for your old, WPA3-incompatible devices" is any more of a problem than "keeping WPA2 enabled" was a problem yesterday.

There's a false implication here that "keeping WPA2 enabled yesterday" isn't a problem. But it is. There are flaws in WPA2, and fixing those flaws is the entire point of developing WPA3. Security is supposed to get better as time goes on (hackers are certainly getting better whether your security is or not). But security isn't getting better if you just keep using the old standards.

Would you feel comfortable enabling WEP on all your company's routers with the justification "well we're not any more vulnerable today with WEP than we were in 1998 with WEP"?

>I guess I don't really see the point of this entire subthread.

I don't either.
Many things can be approximately represented by a bitstring.

Perhaps the difference between an approximation and a complete encoding should be emphasised more forcefully on CS courses.
Malware/Rootkit Survives Disk Wipes and Hijacks Any New OS Installs
Here’s a Quora response to the question of why radio stations play the same songs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ... again:

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-radio-stations-play-the-same-ha...
> The NOAA one isn’t made by the government, seems like using that name should be some kind of copyright infringement.

I'm pretty sure copyright doesn't apply here! It's possible it's a trademark infringement? (No idea if the name or acronym are trademarked though), or possibly impersonation of a government entity? Either way, it's certainly not a copyright issue to use the name.
pihole is really easy to setup and the default block list gets a large chunk.
> She has a hypothesis it works this way because the goal is to make people spend as much time on a site as possible, and feeding people progressively more extreme content works for that.

While I understand the attractiveness of conspiratorial hypotheses, I think there is a simple explanation that applies to recommendation systems generally: such systems are designed, overtly, to identify content the user is likely to react positively the, based on what information it has about population-wide preferences.

When it knows nothing (or nearly so) about your personal preferences, the only thing it can do is recommend the most widely accepted content. As it learns more about your preferences, it has more basis to predict things that you will find meert your preferences that are less widely supported in the population at large—so, over time, it naturally rexommwnds more content that is extreme.)
Any ideas why its so expensive? For 90m you could get a whole new tram line...
Your stopping distance should always allow for the slamming on the brakes of the car in front. If not, you are tailgating by definition.
The extreme right are currently mass murdering people? What? Where?
This article seems a bit sensationalized. The examples they give are a single video with 500,000 views, and a couple of channels whose views average 20-30k. If YouTube is recommending "extreme" channels so often, why aren't they getting more views?

> “Lies, propaganda and manipulation are harmful for society, but on their own are not illegal — and so our hands are often tied,” said Mr. Ipsen, of the government-linked internet monitor.

Good. I think it's insane that the German government is even trying to establish a Ministry of Truth.

It seems now more than ever, we are getting biased reporting from mainstream media outlets, and I guarantee that any government crackdown would not include these mainstream news sources.

Here's an example from just a couple of days ago: CNN's Chris Cuomo as well as a number of major news outlets reported on Judge Brett Kavanaugh "snubbing" Fred Guttenberg, father of a victim of the Parkland shooting, by not shaking his hand at the event. None of these outlets bothered to mention that the day before on Twitter, Guttenberg said:

"I will be at Kavanaugh hearings and I hope to play a role in ensuring that this man does not become the next Supreme Court Justice." (https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/status/10366004607261614...)

They also didn't mention that Guttenberg was the only one trying to approach Kavanaugh, or that Kavanaugh's kids were removed from the room for safety concerns shortly prior. That seems like manipulation to me.

I don't say this because I want CNN banned, or anything like that. I'm just completely against any censorship, especially government censorship, of ideas. I believe in the liberal values of free exchange of ideas (or "Liberal Science" as Jonathan Rauch calls it, in his excellent book, Kindly Inquisitors).
Both behaviours aren't great, but the at-fault driver would be at the back. Even though the stopping frequently randomly is likely more dangerous.
For episodic content it actually works ok, recommending videos on the same series, even if it's not the same channel

Ideally it would know how to predict order from title but that doesn't always work
It is not illegal for foreigners to own part of Chinese companies. It's generally illegal for a single foreign entity to own a controlling interest. Softbank and Yahoo invested into Alibaba relatively early on. It was incorporated in China. Their positions represented the majority of shares in the business, just not individually.
To add on to your point:

Given my understanding of how the recommendation engine works, if you watch a video slightly related to a topic, then another video slightly related to that topic, there is a reinforcing effect whereby the engine believes you to be more interested in that topic. E.g. if I watch a video on vegetarianism, then another one, it may strengthen the confidence that I am interested in vegetarianism, and conclude that they should be recommending me more content about vegetarianism and perhaps even content about veganism. Apply this to something like conservatism and you'll be getting recommended alt-right content in no time.

Slightly off topic:

I have a theory about this which is that there are certain recommendation loops or "attractors" that you basically cannot escape without manually flagging videos as "not interested", disliking, manually choosing an entirely different topic, or taking many days off of the platform.

I also am curious to know what percentage of content literally never gets recommended. I've been down the rabbit hole, so to speak, on certain youtube topics and I get the sense that at a certain point, there are many videos on the topic that youtube simply isn't recommending. E.g. if I'm watching a video about the Philosophy of Derrida, I feel like my recommendations never show lower view count videos related to the topic, they are much much more likely to recommend higher visibility channels full of slightly related content.