skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are lazy and don't care. They're happy to let Facebook host and own their data if they can comment and like friends' videos for that. That's basically fine. From what I can learn from the history the web has mostly been centralised and will continue to be so. To think, all business domains tend to converge into few large companies/services, and finally into duopolies and monopolies if left to their own devices.

What I'm worried about is actively preventing decentralized, small-scale or hackership services.

If some guy has to effectively stop hosting a forum because of GDPR, or I can't host my own email server, or serve HTTP out of my home box, or get decent bandwidth for a private virtual network, Tor, I2P or IPFS while Netflix works at full speed, or do about anything else than initiate HTTP/HTTPS connections to known big company grade services or be flagged as a malicious endpoint, then there will not be a decentralised network living within the same infrastructure as the centralised behemoths. And that is the death people are talking about.

A marginal decentralised segment of the current internet is still larger than the whole decentralised internet in its early years. As long as the old ways of networking can live, develop, and grow along with the FANG & co that's fine. But it might not be taken for granted, eventually.
Check out Carbon3D and Velo3D.

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my biggest worry is that the "granular permissions" just won't work. People already just say "Yes" to give away their data, this actually seems to make it easier to get to a lot of personal data because people will just say "Yes" to whatever is asked for when they want to use a service.
My work forces me to use Jira. It could be worse (and it has been better), but it's not great. What gitlab really has going for it is the really really useful CI decently integrated with git. If that's your primary conern then the fact that it gives you a reasonable wiki, issue tracker and other stuff on top is just well-enough prepared icing.
Seriously, though. What is a progressive web app?
It's working for me both for http and https if you add www.
IBM has done a huge amount in this area e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Parallel_Sysplex
The Predator looks like utter trash, I won't even go see it. The Last Jedi, was OK.
Assuming the story is true then acknowledging it would be more damaging that denying it (and they may have been directed to deny).

Remember also all the denials regarding PRISM.

If this is being correctly handled by the intelligence services (and you can have your doubts on that following these leaks) then nothing further will come out anyway.

For what it's worth, the Register mentions that Apple suddenly dropped Supermicro as a supplier.

The bottom line is that those denials don't really contribute much information.
Nitpicking: It is not an adiabatic quantum computer either. Adiabatic quantum computers have as much computing power as the other more usual models of quantum computing (the quantum circuit model for instance). Dwave have a quantum annealing machine, which as far as I know does not do anything better than a classical computer.
I just hope my current rMBP 2015 doesn't die on me... I don't want the OLED bar, crappy keyboard or donglelife.

I don't want to run Windows either... Linux is also questionable.

Maybe I'll just get a hackintosh or something.
Some examples on the usage of synchronous languages:
http://zelus.di.ens.fr/examples.html#ex-bouncingball
"Quantum knowledge cools computers: New understanding of entropy" (2011)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110601134300.h...

> The new study revisits Landauer's principle for cases when the values of the bits to be deleted may be known. When the memory content is known, it should be possible to delete the bits in such a manner that it is theoretically possible to re-create them. It has previously been shown that such reversible deletion would generate no heat. In the new paper, the researchers go a step further. They show that when the bits to be deleted are quantum-mechanically entangled with the state of an observer, then the observer could even withdraw heat from the system while deleting the bits. Entanglement links the observer's state to that of the computer in such a way that they know more about the memory than is possible in classical physics.

"The thermodynamic meaning of negative entropy" (2011)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10123

Landauer's principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
I was trying to find IE somewhere: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/St...

I probably need a magnifying glass or something...
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Nope, at best they have a "quantum annealing machine" which is not more powerful than a classical computer. Adiabatic quantum computers are just as powerful as the gate model of quantum computing.
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Yeah I am not an expert at all on this, but I believe that you canont ask for consent in order to gain access to a service/content - the consent must be opt-in and must be freely given.

"This means people must be able to refuse consent without detriment .... The GDPR is clear that consent should not be bundled up as a condition of service unless it is necessary for that service"

Source: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

Makes me a bit annoyed now to have to go through a consent-wall like this - I can only imagine the management pouring over the "consent data" as some sort of new marketing metric about how engaged their audience is etc etc
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As someone who have four macbooks here at home, and has been on the mac ecosystem for decades, I'm just done with them. The last macbook pro I bought is literal garbage. The keyboard has three broken buttons and the thing is less than a year old. Now they are telling me that I can't fix my machines on my own? Thanks but no thanks.
You are not supposed to mix different styles within the same project.
The Last Jedi was pretty pretty good to me.
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While I'm not sure what to think about the entire affair, these arguments why it can't be seem pretty weak. It doesn't need to connect to the "BMC NIC" to be able to use the network connection, and there's no clear argument why 2 pins should not be enough to control the BMC.
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You don't have to go Hetzner or OVH to get some sensibility. We've worked with Linode over a somewhat dubious overreaching copyright claim some years ago, they were professional and available and we had some back and forth whilst my client sought legal advice, in the end it wasn't completely frivolous, we had to give an inch instead of a mile the legal compliantee desired. This was over a period of a few days and we were never suspended, we made the small modification, Linode was happy, compliantee went quiet eventually, we carried on...

I wouldn't trust DigitalOcean with this fire first ask questions later approach especially given the technical nature of OPs setup.
>I’m not suggesting that non-Apple repair is different, but you have to admit that a knock-off 3rd party screen is probably not going to be as reliable. And who wears the pain and anger when that screen doesn’t work? Apple.

>You can’t fault them for wanting to control this stuff. If it was my company, I would.

Your example with the screen would be similar to changing say a car part you are forced to go to the manufacturer to get the original part, the fun part is that the windscreen is half the price of a new car so you now start considering buying a new car or gluing your windscreen.

So Apple does not sell parts, forces you to use their repair shops and tax you tons for simple repairs, PLUS they make you pay for their own faults until some class action forces them to admit the hardware faults.

I never seen companies suffer PR impact because someone repaired their old phone/laptop/computer/electronic at a third party.

My points stand for products that are out of warranty, if products are in warranty then the laws apply.
> In addition, Fuckr offers access to a trove of information about Grindr users not freely available

> "Fuckr does not bypass any technical access control mechanism and does not access any work copyrighted by Grindr LLC"

From a surface reading, I'm guessing that Grindr's "security" model is "trust the client", and so Fuckr can access all kinds of information just by using an undocumented API. Grindr's lawyers are claiming this circumvents access controls, and tomlandia is claiming this doesn't count as circumventing "any technical access control mechanism" (emphasis mine).

This is all, of course, wild speculation on my part (I'm not aware of the history of Fuckr or how it works). But if I'm right it's a very interesting precedent.

Is accessing an undocumented API in ways the developers do not wish you to "circumventing access controls"? It has a lot of parallels to the "change the id in the url by 1 and access things you aren't supposed to" scenario. I'm not sure if that ever got a definitive ruling either.
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I didn't use to care about repairability because Apple laptops used to be pretty solid - by the time they give up, you want to buy the latest generation (with vastly more power & speed) anyway.

But recently, I'm having so many problems (that damn 2016 MBP) that repairability looms large.
I agree. Even more, their slide is a bit misleading as well. They do not have a quantum computer, they have a "quantum annealing machine" which is not more powerful than a classical computer.
Age? Sex? Race? In the US all these seem to matter, age only in the EU
See also https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cs-lewis-greatest-fict... and the HN comments:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686217 (original post from 2015, 145 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14563621 (repost from 2017, 125 comments)
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Compared to other equipment in research environments it's incredibly cheap.
Totally agreed when it comes to baklava. I never had it done right in the US, and definitely not in the Bay Area. The best Turkish food I had was in Kirkland, WA and the best baklava I had was in Turkey at Gulluoglu.
It’s interesting to see that today’s business culture is essentially the opposite of “professional”, in the sense of “not-personal.” These kinds of conflicts are inevitable when you start mixing personal and professional value systems.

I would not be surprised to see a return to a strict professional/ personal divide in the near future.
A lot of the services say something about owning the code you send to them to run. But at the present time this really does not matter, as these are only tech demonstrations that barely run even toy models. Even worse with dwave, they do not have a quantum computer as usually defined (something supposedly more powerful than a classical computer).
Why didn't we have these problems back in the days when telephony got started?

Shouldn't we go back to some of the core values we had back then?

Also, when the internet started, universities and government institutions were inventing and running the internet, while companies were just providing the hardware. Seems like a better model to me in principle, although we need stricter privacy regulation.

It seems stupid to hand our data to ... the entities that have an incentive to abuse our data.
> Either way, the proof is in the pudding: every hardware pentesting shop will be going after these boards like they're looking for golden tickets. Either we'll get our die shot, or Bloomberg's getting their pants sued off.

From the story, this seems to have happened several years ago.

I wouldn't be surprised if house cleaning had been done for some time.

If the story is true then I doubt that the Chinese would have flooded the market with these boards. It must have been relatively targeted.
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If you're going to talk about the historical significance of social computing, I would imagine that Usenet would figure in the story somewhere. To jump from email threads (that the authors incorrectly call forums) to modern social networks leaves out quite a bit of the story! Usenet was a remarkable tool for communication and community-building, as was Compuserve (already mentioned by skookumchuck).

Usenet was deployed in 1980, only a year after the SF-LOVERS email chain started.
See also

Programming in the URL string
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20121218

Previously (not :-) discussed much at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939674
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Skip to 6:20 for the testing tools. How hard would it be to do the equivalent of skein path and transcript tools for other "regular" programming languages?
> It's absolutely baffling how so many seemingly educated, knowledgeable people such as those found in tech can support these anti-user practices via their support of Apple's products.

It's probably to do with the T2 chip which among other things handles full-disk encryption and TouchID. It seems extremely likely that this is for security reasons.

If I had the choice, I would choose security over the ability to tinker with my hardware any day.
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You miss the point of what I am saying. Observations are being made, but is the given explanation actually meaningful? The universe is real. This does not mean that our explanations or interpretations are "truth". The problem I have with the current mindset is that it trends to treating others with a different viewpoint, model or theory as being unworthy of consideration, to be treated as pariahs, imbeciles, crackpots, heretics, to be hunted down and assassinated.

We should be accepting that our models and theories are both incomplete and wrong, irrespective of how useful they are. Every model and theory has its points of failure. That should be expected and is not a problem. Starting from that basis, we keep investigating to get better models or theories that help us gain a better insight into the universe around us. If that means giving up one model for something completely else, then what's the problem. Our universe is beautiful, complex, a place of incredible wonder that we can have an exciting time exploring and discovery.

There is a vast difference between the reality of the universe and what our models and theories are. The first is the territory, the second is only a map and maps can be notoriously faulty.

In regards to your reference to Gorgias of Leontini, I had to look that up. I chuckled. Is it possible that some of the "superstars" of science today are modern students of him?
Google employs 70000 people, when in fact they could do what they do with just 700. (If they bothered to actually hire the top 1% of developers.)

Operating with 1% of peak efficiency seems insane, until you understand that Google doesn't hire people to make products, they hire people to increase their market cap.

This is a delusional system that is opposite of 'market efficiency'.

Eventually the system will collapse in a horrific crash and we'll start over with something that doesn't violate common sense or laws of physics. For now all you can do is grin and take it.
> We further strengthen our security posture by implementing our own hardware designs for critical components such as processors, (...)

Do they? I haven't heard about this before.
Usually you dont buy such equipment by yourself anyway.
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> other things that were clearly invented by westerners

There are plenty of non-English speaking Westerners, you know? :D
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If you liked this, you may be interested in Cyril Crassin's Ph.D. Thesis on Gigavoxels, which can be used to do something very similar.

http://maverick.inria.fr/Members/Cyril.Crassin/
IPFS isn't even linking to illegal content.

IPFS has no knowledge of the illegal content whatsoever, it all comes from the URL fragment and Microsoft Azure.
I got an S8+ from Samsung on release via Telstra in Australia.

There was an issue with the screen, so I took it to Samsung in Melbourne Central. They confirmed the issue and were happy to do an on the spot replacement if Telstra didn't have any left in their nearby store - for admin reasons it was just a bit better to do that.

Telstra didn't, so I took Samsung up on their offer - very happy to have it resolved straight away. None of the BS as in the GP post with Apple.
If Pike, Thompson, Cox et al. had stayed at Bell Labs, they would have created Go there as salaried researchers? Or because no one would have forced them to do C++, they maybe would not have bothered... ;-)
Is there a statistic which captures the amount of heat energy discharged into ocean/river/lake water? "100% clean energy with PPAs (Power Purchase Agreements)" while bleeding energy into the oceans isn't quite representative of the total system.

"How to Reuse Waste Heat from Data Centers Intelligently" (2016)
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/05/10/how-...

> There are two big issues with data center waste heat reuse: the relatively low temperatures involved and the difficulty of transporting heat. Many of the reuse applications to date have used the low-grade server exhaust heat in an application physically adjacent to the data center, such as a greenhouse or swimming pool in the building next door. This is reasonable given the relatively low temperatures of data center return air, usually between 28° and 35°C (80-95°F), and the difficulty in moving heat around. Moving heat energy frequently requires insulated ducting or plumbing instead of cheap, convenient electrical cables. Trenching and installation to run a hot water pipe from a data center to a heat user may cost as much as $600 per linear foot. Just the piping to share heat with a facility one-quarter mile away might add $750,000 or more to a data center construction project. There’s currently not much that can be done to reduce this cost.

> To address the low-temperature issue, some data center operators have started using heat pumps to increase the temperature of waste heat, making the thermal energy much more valuable, and marketable. Waste heat coming out of heat pumps at temperatures in the range of 55° to 70°C (130-160°F) can be transferred to a liquid medium for easier transport and can be used in district heating, commercial laundry, industrial process heat, and many more. There are even High Temperature (HT) and Very High Temperature (VHT) heat pumps capable of moving low-grade data center heat up to 140°C.

Heat Pump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump

"Data Centers That Recycle Waste Heat"
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-centers-that-recycl...
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Windows Phone is a platform that died cause developers did not get it. I think the issue I have with your PS3 example is that it is PS3, PlayStation was already on its third iteration. With PS2 being one of the most successful consoles of all time, companies were baked into that ecosystem. Whatever Playstation gave them, they had to work with, they fed their families that way. But I agree with the comment above. Developers support platforms (That are not yet popular) because they find it inspiring, they, in turn, give feedback to what they dislike about the platform, and if the platform has good management and responds quickly, developers work to grow that platform out. All great platforms I know today are because the company behind them inspired developers on what they could achieve using it.
The Twitter API back in 2013 before they destroyed it.
It's not illegal.

If you don't like their terms you navigate away from their site.
They don't have to provide you access to their contents if you refuse their terms.
This would be competing against the existing internet though, where there are a lot of for-profit companies fuelling the content (for the consumer). If I'm a business I need to decide whether to back a scrappy startup infrastructure with no users or to go with the established internet with a vast potential customerbase. If I'm a user I need to decide between the existing internet with vast swathes of content and huge numbers of different services and this new network with better protections for my privacy but basically none of the above.

The early internet was innately disruptive and extremely different from anything that was there before. This doesn't have that advantage as far as I can see.
By the same merit, any site (big, small, government or otherwise) with an XSS like el.outerHTML = window.location.search or el.outerHTML = window.location.query is vunerable to be shutdown if hosted on DO. Makes one think..
Right, the concern is true. However, when that happens, arbitrage opportunities arise elsewhere (based on that correlation). As a matter of fact, one can start "betting" on the correlation being high and the only way for the "opponent" to win is to dislodge that correlation.

In the end: technical analysis is useless by definition.
You'll essentially need to build a ledger, keeping track of customer accounts and how much balance they have left. When closing their account, refund whatever's left to the last payment method they used to fund the account.
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HN, Lobsters, and a lot of independent blogs, all through my ttrss instance.
He's an ultra marathon runner and a former Navy Seal.

It is a common fallacy to assume that what may be good for "superhuman" (ultra marathon, navy seal) is also good for regular human. In this case, correlation doesn't imply causation.
Further in the article, Bloomberg mentions a chip, smaller than a pencil tip, sandwiched inside the PCB itself, under other traces. That seems bananas difficult to pull off, but could x-ray inspection find such a thing if it existed?
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No, it's a mainstream view for the conservative half of the United States.
Maybe.

I would argue after watching the hearing that anyone who so blatantly ignores the obvious intent of questions asked of them, rather than attempting to pursue and convey the truth in earnest, regardless of their guilt, is unqualified to enforce justice at the highest level in America. I struggle to imagine a credible reason to look past this conduct, and would be interested in hearing a take on it.

To be clear, I don't have a take on whether he's guilty, and I don't think it particularly matters. I'm operating based solely on his bad-faith responses to interview questions. It could be argued that the questions asked of him were themselves in bad faith, but that doesn't seem like it should change anything, since it's critical for a judge to be resilient to bad faith questioning, rather than sinking to that level and rolling in the mud.

If a person has a different take that involves him being levelheaded, truthful, nonpartisan in the face of immense partisanship, and dedicated to the pursuit of justice, then no, it is not extremist to support him.

If a person can recognize him as being at all deficient in any of those categories and yet supports his nomination out of partisan dedication, despite intellectual qualities that should disqualify him, I would classify that as extreme.