skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the distinction is that the United States treats "spying on online activities" as a signals intelligence/passive gathering system and methodology. The US government doesn't arbitrarily regulate BGP4 tables and IX points, run a GFW like system on all international submarine cables (though traffic may be passively tapped by the NSA), require licenses for http daemons, or forcibly install spyware on citizens' phones.

The active measures taken by the Chinese government are pretty much the opposite of the US/Five Eyes' SIGINT approach to things.

I do not agree with either, and think that both should be highly publicized, and awareness raised. However I think that the Chinese method of police state social control is on a whole other magnitude of "fucking with the Internet" than what is possible in the US with constitutionally/bill of rights protected freedoms.
I wake up and work until I go to sleep. Every day. 8 hours of sleep, either in one chunk or in two (biphasic). I feel better with biphasic. So that leaves 13 hours each day after subtracting eating time, housekeeping, bathroom "tasks", reddit/HN, and falling asleep transition time. 91 hours per week. Been living like this for years without burnout, although I think at 100-130 hours one is asking for trouble.
No there are not.
Maybe the Chrome team is right about their larger user base?

Maybe the Chrome team was wrong to introduce signing in to a browser at all?
The trouble with Chinese science is that it's so politicized and politics is so corrupted and face-saving that junk science gets officially elevated. "The West" has problems too, but there are still some reputable independent institutions.
> What if crashing the species results in millions of people dying?

Do you know of any actual ecologist who thinks that those particular species are vital to the functioning of those ecosystems?

Here is one ecologist who thinks the removal of some mosquito species would be quite harmless:

"Yet in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue as before — or even better."

https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
There was no particular dip in SUV sales after hurricane katrina (2005): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/SU.... The dip came in 2008, with the recession. Note that SUV sales skyrocketed starting in 2000, a year in which 80% of Democrats and more than 50% of Republicans believed anthropogenic climate change was real: https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Pro....

Personal vehicles make up 20% of CO2 emissions--a significant amount. More importantly, peoples' intense opposition to policies that would increase the price of gas are a reasonable indicator of how they'd vote on anything that would force internalization of the costs of CO2 emissions. Right now, even Democrats in California are bailing on a modest 12 cent per gallon hike on gas taxes: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/24/california-democr.... How do you think those same voters would react to policies that significantly raised the price of their electricity, their milk and eggs, etc.?

People are unwilling to make lifestyle changes in response to climate change. It's not because they don't know. The majority of people polled stated they were concerned about global warming back in 1990 (about the same as today): https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Pro.... They're just not willing to do anything about it. Which is why even Democrats won't propose a carbon tax.
I've always printed on size (so usually undersized because of fdm overflow) and then drilled out with the correct size.
My thinking is more in line of: if privacy team was bigger, it would intuitively have a way easier job keeping tabs on all the developments. However, that's a job without talent attractors like glamorous launches. When you're sailing smooth, nobody knows you exist. But when I mention they're hiring in an incident, I learn this is the wrong time to mention them.

But then again, I'm neither in privacy team, nor Chrome team, know no specifics of this case and can't really argue any position (note how I'm neither defending nor condemning the issue of OP). Just pointing out generalities that I don't see mentioned.
This is an absurd and unfair hit-job.

Let me just spell out, for emphasis, what the article actually says:

* Logging in to a Google service via its website will now automatically show you as logged in to Chrome in the top-right corner. This will provide you with the OPTION to explicitly opt-in to syncing your browser data with the Google cloud by clicking a big blue button that clearly says "Sync as <firstname>" and then clicking through one of the two clearly-labelled options to confirm that you do indeed want to turn on sync in the following dialogue (which does in fact have a prominent "Undo" button in case you clicked by mistake).

* The entire extent of the alleged practical user privacy issue is that a user might accidentally click the first button, and THEN mistakenly click on the small "Want to manage sync and personalisation before they're turned on? Visit Settings." link instead of the larger, more prominent "Undo" button. This, the blog alleges, will turn on syncing without a chance for the user to undo. (Although, at least as of 69.0.3497.100, this is just plain false - there's an "Undo" button even on the settings page. It may have previously been true; I have not checked.)

* The entire extent of the alleged GDPR violation is that the privacy policy erroneously says that when you sign into Chrome with your Google Account, data is synced with Google's servers, when in reality it isn't unless you explicitly consent. (This was true at the time that the post was written, but the privacy policy was tweaked to correct the factual error - compare https://web.archive.org/web/20180924020748/https://www.googl... vs https://web.archive.org/web/20180924123556/https://www.googl...) For what it's worth, I see no reason why briefly and accidentally claiming to process some data in a consent-ignoring way when you don't actually do so would be a GDPR violation, and the article does not elaborate on this particular legal theory.

Other commenters here have already explained that this change offers security/privacy benefits to some users by protecting them from a failure mode in which they wish to sign out of Chrome on a shared computer (in order to not sync their browsing history to a friend's or family member's account), but instead they only sign out of, say, Gmail, and thereafter end up inadvertently syncing their browsing history and passwords to their friend's Google account instead of their own. Connecting the browser login and Google web service login eliminates that privacy-violating failure mode. That seems like a real gain to user privacy and security to me, and it seems plainly absurd to argue that it's actually a loss on the basis of a hypothetical in which the user accidentally clicks through clearly-labelled buttons in two different dialogues and therefore accidentally enables syncing. That seems doubly true given that even in that hypothetical scenario, syncing can, per the article's own admission, then be immediately disabled (and all synced data deleted).

I'm not an uncritical fan of Google, but criticising them for this is bullshit.
It's worse than that. Only corporations are capable of whitewashing their image well enough to be acceptable. All _real_ people are flawed in mind and body and SOMEONE will find a reason to reject them, which is exactly what these CoCs claim to want to avoid.

Why don't we all just be people, accept that our best foot is not always the forward one, and accept positive contribution wherever it can be found.
This just makes it obvious what smart phones are in a world where people pretend otherwise because they're so damn useful.

They are tracking and spying devices. It's implicit in the idea of a 'cell'. When you carry a cell phone you are being tracked. No matter what is going on in the software side of the phone you have ostensible control over you don't control the baseband modem and certainly not the basestations doing multilateration with their super precise clocks. And it's going to get worse with the proliferation of micro and nano cell basestations as well as massive MIMO beamforming at regular ones.
FWIW there's no conflict there in terms of the cryptography.

A replay-protected, keyed authenticator of plaintext commands (HMAC, etc) is not encryption; it is authentication. In a similar sense you are allowed to put a rolling log-in password on a packet radio BBS, so that passive monitoring will see the password, but as soon as it's revealed, it's no longer useful for additional logins.
If you wanted them to stop, you'd have to change the law so as to disallow interpretation, as the law as written already codifies that the law can be critically interpreted by courts.

However I am not sure how that would even work, given the law is in language and language must be interpreted to elucidate meaning from it in the first place. Even if you fixed the first interpretation as sacrosanct, you would then have to interpret that interpretation each time.
Being able to use clear acrylic is great because you can see through your jig to make sure it's lined up
The 'single most important open problem' in math solved after 160 years
#1: 500k (1 year)
#2: 840k (1 year)
#3: 2.8M (1.5 years)

I always joined as employee #1, and interviewed literally 100s of startups before making a choice, and then only joined when there was a clear MVP and "an idea of product market fit with incredibly strong proof."
You are working even if what you are doing is an interruption or helping someone else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
A Minimal LRIT GOES Receiver
China’s Giant Market for Really Tiny Cars
> The question then is: under what conditions is the consensus opinion wrong? Why do notable outliers (i.e., people like Elon Musk) do the opposite of consensus and perform so well (Elon in particular not only consistently works 80+ hour weeks, but seems to multitask quite a bit)?

From all outwards appearances, Elon Musk may be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His public behaviour is becoming increasingly irrational, erratic, and likely counterproductive to his businesses. (TSLA private at $420, boring questions, pedoguy, etc.)
Can you point me to these standards?
I do research in this field and it would be helpful to refer to such standards in papers.
Maybe some things are worth the risk.

We shouldnt sit around bioethicizing while people are dying of maleria.
None of the concerns I've seen voiced are moral; they're mostly worries about unintended effects on the ecosystem.
Hey mate,

I've always been a bit perplexed as to how registrar's are created. How could I become a registrar?

Any advise or resources to explore this very open question would be wonderful.

Cheers
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That is a nutty idea!
> where you can write something that is both syntactically correct and cannot by inferred into logic by the synthesis part of the tool (equivalent of the code generator in a compiler).

A decade ago, programming GPU shaders was similar to that. You could use a higher-level language but there were tight limits on everything, instructions, branches, texture lookups, etc. Here’s a summary for GL, DX was the same because they were hardware limitations of corresponding GPUs: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5601884/126995 Modern GPU chips are way more capable so that’s mostly history now.
I see a whole lot more ugly in the replies to that tweet than in the tweet itself, or in anything else I've seen Ms. Ehmke to say in public.

"The CoC is a political document" is a reasonable statement from someone who considers that everything is political. I disagree, and I think a lot of risks attend upon such consideration which Ms. Ehmke and the movement of which she's a part too often fail to recognize. But, disagree though I may with their rationale, at least they have a rationale. Their opposition seems primarily to rely on viciousness.

Forced to weigh people who I think are wrong about some things on the one side, and on the other people who plumb the depths of hatred and vileness without the slightest apparent scruple, I hope I may be forgiven for deciding that my sympathies belong with the former.
Except this doesn't actually "prevent surprises in a shared device scenario" for the web, in general; it does for Google sites and services only. Logging in to Facebook or Amazon or my personal blog does not show up as a browser indicator, nor does logging out of the browser also log one out of Facebook or Amazon or my personal blog.

This makes Chrome less of a browser and more of gateway to Google services that happens to include a browser. Which will also trick non-technically-savvy people to accidentaly share their non-Google logins when sharing computers/"browsers".
Pretentious (adjective): making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing).

> That Youtube is awful. People are awful. Fortnite Battle Royale is awful.

I definitely used the word right, and I recognized you being facetious, but I still agree with you for the most part because there is a nugget of truth in what you said.
Is such an invasive method even needed? Malaria deaths are down by almost 50% in the period of 2000-2015 according to WHO data.
Are you building something to support multiple shells, or just yours?
the more affluent white parents fled to the suburbs

it is overall a good thing for pretty much all parties

These two statements conflict with each other. If it was overall a good thing for all parties, you would not have people fleeing to good school districts.
> I use bash over zsh in order to become better at bash programming

That's masochism. It's perfectly reasonable to use different interactive and programming shells. I mean, I write most of my would-be shell scripts in Python these days, but I wouldn't want to use it as my main command line (although xonsh is actually quite nice).
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I'm finding a fifteen years figure hard to believe. There was a handful of people at that time that have invented deep learning. It took years to get any industry use, as the technology was not yet competitive, until AlexNet.
> Over 6 months ago, our "C" team was shaken up. Since then almost all execs have been let go or left

anecdote: I'm aware of a public financial company that roughly did this a few years ago, followed amongst other things by restructuring - making everyone reapply for a job, possibly changing role, possibly taking a voluntary redundancy payout (at least a few people wanted to stay but it would have been a silly financial decision not to take the payout). also followed by a greater emphasis on attempting to modernize IT & internal development capability.

so I wouldn't necessarily attempt to generalise too much from the observation of the C suite churning. Might depend on why the previous exec team churned. Did they lose the support of some powerful stakeholders? Were they a bit complacent and self serving?

No doubt there are other examples where the C suite churning was a prelude to a mess
Nvidia RTX 2080 All Set to Convey 4K Gaming with Ray-Tracing Technology
Airports use loyalty programs and discounts to compete against Uber and Lyft
The data is all escrowed so someone else could take it over if a registry went out of business. https://icannwiki.org/Data_Escrow
>what if unintended consequences somehow resulted in twice as many children dying per day but we had failed to predict this due to not investigating things fully enough in advance?

And yet no plausible scenario is seriously identified to deliver such unintended consequences, so a net decrease of dead children is to be expected. That's past "good enough" in most people's book.

It helps that the effects would be indirect. Direct ones, like in the case of novel medicines, are scarier and harder to cope with. It's not easy to "try another body". But the indirect effect of, say, lower availability of certain food commodities due to bird and fish die-offs due to a dwindling mosquito population are as easy as "try other food sources".
The average Hackernews now seems to believe that Chinese goods are "safe" because China doesn't have surveillance treaties with the U.S.

You know, because China would NEVER attempt to spy on, influence, or blackmail foreign programmers, business people, scientists, or other professionals.
>Michigan Public Act 85 of 2006 requires speed limits to be set to reasonable speeds for traffic (generally based on the 85th Percentile rule), so as not to artificially incriminate the general population.

While I applaud the intention behind this law, I hope you're overstating Michigan's reliance on the 85th percentile rule. For the uninitiated, "The 85th percentile speed refers to the speed at or below which 85% of vehicles are traveling" [1] as measured by a speed survey of current conditions.

The problem with the 85th percentile rule is that it completely ignores the safety of other road users and the surrounding community, taking drivers perception of safety as fact. I think drivers tend to underestimate the risk that increased speed poses to pedestrians and bicyclists, especially in urban and suburban areas.

Problems exist even on roads that only allow drivers: 'Raising the speed limit to match the 85th percentile speed may lead to higher operating speeds, and hence a higher 85th percentile speed. This generates an undesirable cycle of speed escalation and reduced safety. As a 2016 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) report stated, “The 85th percentile speed is not a stationary point. It is, rather, a moving target that increases when speed limits are raised” (Farmer 2016).'

Rather than relying primarily on the 85th percentile rule, I hope Michigan gives full weight to the additional factors the MUTCD manual mentions, like “(A) road characteristics, shoulder condition, grade, alignment, and sight distance; (B) the pace; (C) roadside development and environment; (D) parking practices and pedestrian activity; and (E) reported crash experience for at least a 12-month period” [1].

If after considering these factors the road is still a speed trap, then the road should be redesigned to align drivers expectations with the posted speed [2], not the other way around.

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS1701....
[2] methods include narrowing lane width, eliminating or reducing shoulders, reducing the number of lanes, increasing road curvature with pedestrian islands, speed bumps, etc
Halfempty: Fast, Parallel Testcase Minimization
I am baffled by The particular Article 25 of GDPR is rarely seriously and meaningfully discussed in practice, not least because probably still almost nobody actually knows what the “data protection by design” even means.

This seems to be a confusion straight out of a five-stages of grief denial of GDPR principles.

Let's work this through:

Step 1: Are you collecting personal data?

Step 2: If so, are you obtaining consent prior to collecting this data?

Step 3: Are the instructions to the users transparent and understandable?

Step 4: Is your system designed to handle these?

Or is it hard, and since we haven't had to do it before, I would like to get out of this requirerment?
A person is not necessarily dumb because their start- up failed.
For me:
1. Improperly defined market.
2. Did no consistent marketing- marketed to a broad group for one month then quit.
3. Lost interest in the business idea- boredom!
The number of deaths is true but not the whole truth. It was almost twice as high in the year 2000.
This is no different from any other OS
Thanks mate! I appreciate that. I was looking for a way to describe it that seemed as down to earth as possible. Actually I was trying to go for that with most of the documentation so far (and what will be coming). It's not always so easy with stuff this technical but it's good to hear it's working for some people.
Thanks for working on the technical side of this social-equity project. Was the possibility of parent offering car pools or "walking groups" for kids included in the algorithm? I'm assuming that if volunteer parents are compensated to give carpool rides or lead walking buddies, then the negative impact would be lessened to parents who has to handle drastically different school start/end times. At the same time, it may be cheaper to compensate volunteer parents than for the district to procure or maintain more buses.

Another way to ask this question is: were there volunteer transit, ride share, or pre/post-school care incentives included in your algorithm, to balance the potential negative impacts to parents?
Except Oracle recently purchased DYN. It will be interesting to see if they maintain their previously good reputation.
That's a false equivalence. People have some knowledge of ecosystems, and they understand that removing a major component of an ecosystem might have catastrophic effects.

Making a small change to the survivability of humanity is not comparable, and certainly it is nonsense to suggest that this is equivalent to imposing the precautionary principle on every possible technological advance.
Whenever there is an exit like this I like to remember that for just 4B, Sirius could have had a Star Wars franchise instead. These valuations are nutty.
Yeah, interestingly, I have this impression that Python is a modern-day Fortran. (Largely for the reasons you describe in the third category of programmers.)
It had several endings, depending on whether you provided red pages, blue pages, or did something else entirely.
> Here's a rundown of some of the changes:

> The company is drawing on its artificial intelligence capabilities to provide smart videos in Google search with a new "Featured Videos" card. It will start to play videos in results, one after another ...

Because what we really need are more damn auto-playing videos. This is why ad-blockers are a necessity.
I recall hearing some thing similar around 1980 :-)
IIRC it may be one of the water reflection puzzles. You see the solution reflected in one half of the room, and have to repeat it on a panel in the other half. One of a small handful of puzzles I cheated - my short term memory is horrid.