skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that is a quite accurate comparison. Telling kids to not share things online and telling them to minimize details that identify them are two quite different things. The closest analog to your abstinence comparison would be telling them to outright avoid or refuse to use social media.

The easiest way to explain to them how to properly be safe online is to ask them 'what would your parents or teachers find if they looked up your username? if they started googling details about you?'. They may not care what their friends might find, but when you rope in family and teachers finding more personal details that is a great way to get them more invested in maintaining their privacy.
Burnt crops and salted fields.
This means we will get automated certificate issuing and renewal in google cloud? I’m looking forward to that.
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Step One: Google becomes a CA with a large fanfair and covered in every tech blog

Step Two: Google's entry makes the incumbents either decide to exit the space or change their bad behavior

Step Three: Google exits the space accomplishing their mission and screwing over whoever uses their services.

I really hope that it doesn't end like above but I think this will go the way of Google Fiber. Or maybe this is a play for their cloud services to also have be a CA like Amazon.
> For example, weeks of overseas travel where nobody knows him and he doesn't talk much are great fun for him.

I've lived the solo traveler lifestyle for nearly 4 years and I think this fits the portrait of most other solo travelers that I've encountered. But there's a bit more to it.

The article talks of solitude vs loneliness. I think that the word solitude does not even do enough justice to that longing. I've had people ask me if I don't feel lonely by traveling the way I do and what I answer is that I feel free. Freedom is the term that describes this state with the most accuracy.

In my experience solo travelers are comfortable socializing as long as their freedom is not threatened. For instance, I've resided in guesthouses where other travelers would stay for extended periods, weeks, months, sometimes years even. Similarly I've worked in coworking spaces where I've met other solo travelers. In all such instances they connect with others, engage in and even organize events and gatherings, etc. The bonds are genuine and can even be quite profound, like meeting a kindred spirit. A little community can effectively form. A community of people, sometimes alone, together. There's an implicit understanding though that we're just sharing a moment, people don't impose their agenda onto you. If you don't feel like joining the hiking party to the lake, you can just stay home with little guilt other than what you might be missing out on. Else strap on your boots and off you go. but Everyone has their own path and is writing their own story. You're the only one to know when it's time for you to close a chapter and start a new one. And when the time comes and you announce to friends that you feel like moving on to new adventures, nobody wonders why. People just get you. It's your time to go. Come departure day, hugs and kisses are exchanged, contact information shared, tentative plans to reconnect in some tentative future and place are made, all with no guarantee or obligation. Then it's Godspeed and Happy Trails to you!

I've also witnessed the bitterness that can develop when such solo travelers find themselves paired up for extended periods with someone who does not share those independent inclinations. Which could be what "Alice" was labeling a weakness.
It’s hard to call those tweets ‘not PC’. Patently offensive, yes, but clearly in line with political correctness.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325532

> Google Trust Services is run by Google. Google is a commercial CA that will provide certificates to customers from around the world. We will offer certificates for server authentication, client authentication, email (both signing and encrypting), and code signing. Customers of the Google PKI are the general public. We will not require that customers have a domain registration with Google, use domain suffixes where Google is the registrant, or have other services from Google.

Finding the "email" bit interesting. All this makes a lot of sense, and I'd say I'm surprised this didn't come sooner but the initial issue was filed 2 years ago, and they must have worked on this for several years already then.

As an aside this is a fascinating glimpse into what it takes to run a (serious) CA. https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/pki.goog/en/GTS-C...
Heroku’s integration with Let’s Encrypt is pretty seamless (been using it for some hobby projects).
Anyone interested in running linux on their Kindle should check out http://fread.ink

Juul spent a good amount of time working out how to read the stored waveform configurations (different for each unit) and getting them to run at a reasonable speed.
Google has brought Diane Green to run their cloud business. How many major clients have they signed up? Google has a huge Cash cow in ads. Otherwise all these cracks would be much more visible.
its really amazing how many people don't realize that money is simply thrown around as frivolously as it is in this sector
I would take it a step further and say that they don't launch products; they launch experiments. It's a giant Mechanical Turk setup.
i'm happy for moviepass, even though I never signed up. I like that it's brought some change to the movie theatre market, and as a result i can now use the Cinemark subscription plan that sprung up recently. It's a total win for me. :)
The problem with credentials is that they don't seem to prevent quackery. Most anti-vaxxers can name a doctor with anti-vaccine views for instance. Same goes for homeopathy, diets, etc.
so you explained 4 megabytes, now explain the other 487
But Google Cloud deprecation policies and other SLA's for generally available products.
This Is How Much VCs Are Paid
If you want to be passionate about a piece of software, make sure it's OSS.
I think he’s just trying to establish differentiation from Silicon Valley. Satoshi would not be welcome here either.
> it can’t hurt that it has that little connection to Google

Except YouTube ranks very well in DDG, Bing, and Yahoo too.

> any tips on how how to get that to work?

1) I don’t sign into YouTube unless I am uploading a video and I sign out when done.

2) I almost always search for something of a technical nature.

3) If I search for something “main stream popular” on YouTube, I usually do it in an incognito window.
I actually ended up doing my first credit card chargeback on movie pass after the changes they announced at the beginning of August. I had canceled and there was one more month but then they announced the movie selection thing.

Suddenly when I went to look on a saturday no theater within 10 miles of me had a show time for anything they had selected.

Part of the reason I got it over Sinema is because moviepass worked at my local indie film theater. The moviepass selection would probably never include things I wanted to see.

Side note if that theater offered an unlimited pass I'd jump on it in a heart beat. Their screenings are never full and they tend to bring back older things I'd want to see. When the Ghost in the Shell live action came out they showed the original anime version for example.
> Did what he had to do.

I enjoyed Paris at War: 1939-1944, by David Drake, for its description of every-day living in Paris during the occupation. This paragraph[1] suggests an alternate view exists.

Meta observation: So much information is lost when collapsing the complexity of a person, government, subcultures, and historical movements, down to one-liners, and thence to a 'bad guy? or not?' judgment, that it's not clear to me the resulting signal is useful.

[1] p365, 2nd paragraph "Patain had a very different reception in the former Unoccupied Zone. [...]": https://books.google.com/books?id=LCxUCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
> Section 1.4.2 of the CPS expressly forbids the use off Google certificates for “man-in-the middle purposes”

Uh huh.
It's totally dishonest to analyze trends in an education system without accounting for immigration and ethnic differences. In the USA, for example, there is plenty to be learned about the education system by taking that into account. If you discover the performance among native Swedes isn't changed, you'll learn the problem isn't simply caused by changes to the Swedish school system.

Something like 20% of Sweden's population is of foreign origin. If the paper doesn't account for this, it's got a problem. The performance of American students in PISA or TMSS by racial breakdown has been well-documented -- blacks and Hispanics drag the average down more than Asians drag it up. And you can find that many comparisons between American states are just the result of Simpson's paradox. So that's something you need to check for when looking at Sweden's performance.

(In the paper you can find good evidence that a big portion of the deterioration is not caused by ethnic makeup. For example, advanced proficiency dropping from 12% to 3% on page 9. But it's not so clear about changes to performance at the bottom end.)
I'm interested in the history of the role of land centralization in the fall of Rome. I'm curious if you can provide a source for further reading?
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Gmail, Chrome, Play, Maps seem pretty successful to me.
Yes. And same to those engineers who work in mining (huge pollution), search engines (censorship and tracking to governemnts), ISP (tracking to governments), Telecommuncations (tracking for the government), ads (lying and tracking), motoring (over 2 million people dead every year), pharmaceuticals (addiction, overdosing), etc...
If someone has access to data and doesn't know how to interpret it, they should go out and find someone who can help them. At the very least, they should try not to jump to conclusions.

There is no ethical excuse for withholding information from someone about their own biology.
Hi (ex-googler here, although i wasn't on this project). Product usage isn't a one-way street. It requires coordination from marketing, customer support, and ongoing product development. Inbox was yet another product that Google spent years on internally, launched with a bang, and then basically forgot about while the PMs got their promo and moved on to new projects, and so on.

To make a bad analogy (sorry) in response to your "lots of data and feedback", what Google repeatedly does is the equivalent of walking out into a crowd and yelling "HEY FREE HOT DOGS AT 1600 AMPHITHEATER PARKWAY" only one single time, and then concluding a week later that, even though initially the people who heard about the free hot dogs came by last week, since nobody is coming by for hot dogs anymore that people don't want free hot dogs. Remember Duo? Allo? Even Hangouts Chat from earlier this year is probably unknown to most people because google's stopped yelling in crowds about it.
I'm thinking we're now at the point that there aren't enough passionate people to lead people away from Google, because Google has become just so engrained in the lives of so many people, especially through Android.

The learning curve to a Google free life is steeper than many people want to take.
Google is a private company though. Shouldn't Google be able to do whatever it wants?
> Step Two: Google's entry makes the incumbents either decide to exit the space or change their bad behavior

Yes, we wouldn't want the price of certificates to enter a race to the bottom. Let's Encrypt relies on that revenue!

Honestly these comments...
Ironically: Sounds like an opinion piece about how best to use HN if you are this specific person.

That's not snark. There's nothing wrong with writing something like this. But use of HN is not a scientific thesis and there are experts in the field of HN participation.

Cool if people want to use it as a jumping off point for talking about stuff, but ironic nonetheless.
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The line is drawn by the top management. If there is no fear of getting caught, there is no line, and history is a testimony of it. And all this exactly because companies are made of people.
Try: https://pki.goog/GTS-CP-1.0.pdf
This is overblown, people's livelihoods don't rely on Inbox. Most features are in Gmail now anyways.

And no whataboutism please, this deprecarion event is about Inbox, not some other product.
This is, I think, the essence of Epicurean philosophy: the purpose of life is to enjoy what is enjoyable and to not worry about what is unpleasant. To attempt any greater goal is to seek dissatisfaction.
I thought it would be related to solar time vs. local time, but an inspection of http://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-t... reveals that Edinburgh's solar time would actually be around 15 minutes behind its local time.
Yeah I doubt this. I don't know what exactly Google's PKI will be for but to me this seems like a close relative of Google Cloud (esp. DNS) and Google Domains. Also, similar infrastructure services from Google, like Google's public DNS resolver, show no signs of being turned down.

(Disclaimer: I am a Google employee, but I don't work on any of this.)
>I enjoy solitude because I've always had this fear of being a burden to someone else. I take pride in my self sufficiency because of this - I seek to be a provider, not a consumer.

Wow, that actually resonates with my own actions. I like people, but I'm always wary of the costs of interacting with them.
What's missing on Android is a solid and cohesive package of apps and services that could compete against Google's own stuff. This is what /e/ are trying to achieve.
The AI patent race
Is there anywhere to get an HD Box Set of that show yet?

Season 1 came out on Blu Ray in the US

Season 2 came out on Blu Ray in the EU (by some 3rd party company, apparently?)

Seasons 3 and 4 however are completely absent from any high quality physical media releases
The tragedy of middle age is to be too young to die, but too old to have anything to look forward to.
The guy in that video is using a BCS walk behind tractor which costs ~$3,400 brand new [0]. That's a much different capital cost requirement than someone who needs a $50k+ tractor to farm 300 acres. He is also doing a bunch of other stuff like using a paper pot planter[1], and DIY walk in coolers [2] with cheap window AC units to keep capital and labor costs low. He also doesn't own any of the land he is using he rents people's unused back yards. I'd be surprised if an operation like that cost more than $15,000 total to get up and running.

[0] https://bcsamerica.com/product/model-739-ps

[1] https://paperpot.co/

[2] https://www.storeitcold.com/
The recent flow of "Google is closing this service", followed by "Google is launching this new service" feels weird.
> That's not really the same thing as a moon shot program.

Matthew Weinberg, former Special Advisor to the SBA's Office of Investment and Innovation, disagrees with you. With respect to the SBIR program, he said:

"It’s fundamentally astounding that the federal government—not private venture capital firms or banks—is the entity backing these moonshot investments that end up changing the world[1]."

He also wrote an article about the SBIC and SBIR programs entitled, "Your federal government drives innovation by investing in moonshots[2]".

(My italics)

1. https://www.fundera.com/blog/sbir-program

2. https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/03/your-federal-government-dr...
It's astonishing what they have done in education too. Kids have no idea what any browser but Chrome is. They don't know that there is any other email besides Gmail. They're equating everything Google with the Internet.

It's actually rather frightening for the open web. Kids can't get away from Youtube. Even on mobile devices, so many searches promote Google products over anything else. Try looking for an address on an iPhone. You can't even copy/paste the address or open it in Apple Maps. it automatically brings up Google Maps and prompts you to install it.

I ended up switching to Bing on my iPhone because I got so sick of Google's invasive tactics. On my device.
Unfortunately we don't yet. I'd definitely give them my business if we did.
Anonymous posting/blog platform critique needed
Even low-bandwidth with good fidelity would change everything.

Mobile devices, for example, would become much more useful.
Hey everyone,

I created this website that i am trying to get going, my main goal for it is for it to be a place for people to be able to come and let out some steam, or to blog or to just say what ever is on their mind without worrying about others knowing about it, a sort of safe place for them and their thoughts.

Eventually i would love for it to be a place where people could get help and advice too.

I would really appreciate any critiques, feedback, comments, and anything you think.

The site is still pretty new and i'm not getting too much traffic, which is a good time for testing a fixing any issues.

There are days though where i do get some traffic, under 100 a day, but the visitors do not interact with the website.

Another note:

Specifically, when they get to post pages, they read the article and just leave, without liking, commenting, or any other interaction.

So i am wondering if there is something about the UI that is causing this.

Thanks!
I like js, but I won't sacrifice all the performance aspects in the sole name of productivity.

Node(nor any GC lang) is simply not designed for embedded dev. I'll gladly switch to C or Rust that are designed for this kind of work.
> so maybe the feeling that he was wrong has chastened him

Or maybe he's just jumping on bandwagons. I'm not sure that's the case, but it's another possibility.
This is an excellent point, and a place where libertarians and socialists have some agreement, that we have a wealth/power distribution that fails to encourage social innovation. I think the argument is mostly how it got this way, and how it should be addressed.

Socialists are concerned with giving more, and libertarians are concerned with taking less, but bureaucrats and plutarchs are aligned in taking more and giving less.

And yet we fight each other...
If you look outside, you are much less likely to get motion sickness vs, for example, looking down at your phone. I get to try it every time I go to a theme park, on a fast rotating ride, if I look inside, I get dizzy and sick, but looking outside makes you resilient.
"Even symmetric algorithms with a shared secret key aren't safe - with an appreciable amount of ciphertext and only a vague idea of the nature of the data ("ASCII text" for example), the Machine can try all possible decryption keys and see which potential plaintexts fall within the description of the real plaintext. There will probably be few enough left that choosing the right one is a matter for only a moment's thought!"

This is just clearly wrong as long as you append an appropriately long number of random bits to your plaintext before encrypting. There will be a virtually infinite number of candidate plaintexts with randomly appended bits to choose from (think: Borges's Library of Babel)
Honestly most govt PMs use SBIR to fund small projects that nobody else would take, or big contracts failed to deliver on. They are often laughably specific.
Is there a source for that?
That sounds to me like Google knows how to do projects, not products.
Highly amusing when a cynical swearing cartoon show like South Park coins a phrase used to denote a legal strategy. For those in the unknown: "A Chewbacca defense is a legal strategy in which the aim of the argument is to deliberately confuse the jury rather than to factually refute the case of the other side. "
This submission's title was editorialized by the submitter. It was submitted as "Google CA", which is misleading, as the submission is about the preexisting Google CA's addition as a root CA in the Mozilla trust store. The article's underlying title is the more descriptive 'Google Trust Services Root Inclusion Request'.

The Mozilla bugzilla issue [1] contains a more thorough picture of the process that went into considering these root CAs for inclusion in the Mozilla trust store, while the originally submitted URL [2] is focused on summarizing some of the background and rationale and inviting public comment.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325532 [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mozilla.dev.securi...
i used to love this but i've had a few false positives, which has made me trust it less.

i love nomorobo but almost missed job interviews because they had flagged the number as a robocaller.
Not entirely related, many FPS games trigger motion sickness in many people, some find an improvement after modifying the field of vision, but many don't.
Clicking on this is asking me to sign in...?
i'm curious if further understanding may yield additional techniques used in ML/DNN or even match some of the things we have already been doing
You might like this episode of rotten...

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80149707?trackId=13752289&tctx...
> Peterson in interviews even says he is smarter than every interviewer (I've listened to a few of them)

I've never heard him say this. Can you direct me to one such interview? I'm not a huge Peterson fanboy, but neither do I think the man is the demon-being that he's sometimes portrayed as by many in the media.
Only if the app allows the user to view the code, if I remember correctly. It was to encourage programming / teaching apps on the ipad and the like.
The comment you’re replying to thinks Step Two is good, but feels a bad Step Three is inevitable.
Did Gmail really suck tho?
Are Cloud and Domains special-case product protected from closure? How do I as an outsider know which Google products have this protection?
Here you go.

> can’t be reversed in the event of fraud

Counterexamples from one country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_Parliamentary_elect...

> need to protect the voter’s privacy

And you are convinced that there are no algorithmic solutions?
Here is an attempt from a famous computer scientist whose algorithms book most of us have read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot
(This one turned out to be cumbersome to implement because of bad UX, but worked rather well.)
> Disruption or destruction of key transit or water infrastructure in California would be a crippling blow to the US.

I doubt that the US is that dependent on California. For lettuce and strawberries, yes. Not for wheat, corn, soybeans, or cattle, though. We won't starve without salads or strawberries.

I know that I'm missing some of what California grows. Losing it would hurt. But it's not vital.
Wouldn't be surprised if it was related to their new Titan Security Keys. They are advertised as 2-factor authentication devices but they almost certainly have the ability to act as a certificate store. If you have a CA you can start issuing certs to people and drop the password / user name login altogether.