skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bottom line, if MS is going to show you telemetry data that's been gathered, they've got to know its you that they've gathered it from, so authentication has to occur.

I understand that. I just want to stop sending data from now on.

> I realize that setting it to 'basic' isn't going to satisfy the conspiratorial minded among us

I want no private or personal data to be sent. Calling me "conspiratorial-minded' is simply wrong. There isn't a conspiracy that Microsoft is collecting data about Windows 10 machines; it's an admitted fact, it was never secret. And I would prefer not to send such data, but Microsoft doesn't want to give me that option.

There is no official information on what data is gathered under the Basic setting. The page you linked to has just one sentence, and it's very vague:

> information about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly

"Information about your device" could cover a lot indeed. What information does this collect that's covered under GDPR? How has it changed, and will change, over time? Who has access to it? I don't know. That doesn't make me a conspiracy theorist.

I don't buy the Microsoft claim from the same page that "This is the minimum level of diagnostic data needed to help keep your device reliable, secure, and operating normally.". It can't be impossible for Windows 10 to be reliable or secure without sending data home. It's evidently not impossible for the Enterprise edition. I accept that this data helps Microsoft do these things, but it should still be my choice as to whether to send it or not, and my right to know what's included in it. And now the law says so too, at least in the EU.

The Dutch DPA already determined Microsoft to be in violation of the GDPR a year ago (https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/news/dutch-dpa-micr...). I don't know about more recent developments there. But this isn't just a few private individuals' opinion.

> More details, and instructions to disable via regedit

Those are not official Microsoft instructions or documented settings. Windows updates have been known to revert them, and (separately) to require changes to the instructions. Messing with the Registry and disabling system services might have other effects beyond the desired. This is not a satisfactory solution, exactly because I do care about "keep[ing] your device reliable, secure, and operating normally".
The official terminology is delegated legislative power.

I'm not sure authority is meaningfully different than power in the context of that comment, but since specifics are important in politics, I'll try to be as precise as possible.
Not surprising. I was one of the pirates before streaming services came about. Now I am not.

Or maybe it was because I was younger and had a finite amount of pocket money to spend on an infinite amount of desires.

But streaming has definitely made it lots easier to access music.
Learning from Las Vegas: Gambling, Technology, Capitalism, and Addiction [pdf]
Except SIRA make the filters added to halogen traffic lights, and they made the green filters a green blue specifically to help people with colourblindness see the difference.

This is specified in BS EN 12368.

All your government link says is "we don't want to admit there's a problem because then we'd have to pay for it".

Please note that I didn't claim "traffic light manufacturers are forced by UK law to add blue".
Yeah, but if you are early and you have capital, you've got a major market advantage. You'd have to seriously stumble somewhere in your execution, and having capital makes that easier to fix more quickly while being early means you're better able to drive and read the market. For a company like Sears whose name was largely built on their mail order catalog business, the fact that they'd die to competition from online retailers is pretty ironic.
> We prioritize the safety of our users and recognize the additional risk caused by a delay in the implementation of the distrust plan. However, given the current situation, we believe that delaying the release of this change until later this year when more sites have replaced their Symantec TLS certificates is in the overall best interest of our users.

It would be nice if the sites were mentioned and contact information posted.

It would be nicer if that information was mentioned directly to the end-user to encourage end-user action toward the site.

And, is it not possible that the sites are fraudulent to begin with?
Viewing Augmented Reality Assets in Safari for iOS
Rust is amazing (but also frustrating), but RLS is, frankly, terrible. It is unreliable, slow and unstable.
You can do this with mmap(). Just use PROT_NONE, you'll get a mapping but you can't read, write, or execute it.

Sure, it will show up in the "virtual memory" usage of your process. That's just how the virtual memory accounting works.
> The only advantage of physival media is the record cover.

I would add that for long-term archiving purposes, vinyl has many advantages over digital formats. I'll admit this is probably not a concern for most people, but once I own something on vinyl it feels much more like I own a permanent copy of the music.
I Raised $27M in Two Years – Here Are Six Lessons I Learned
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I've known multiple Microsoft developers who use a MBP at work, and who aren't fired. And now that MS has bought companies like Xamarin, need to support Linux and Mac.
Not the person you responded to, but a few hiring managers at my office found once they changed up the language in the job listing it made a huge improvement in female applications. If your staff is predominately male then you're wording will skew a particular way that may not seem inviting. Glassdor has a write up on how to go about removing gender bias with links out to studies: https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/blog/10-ways-remove-gend...
Ya....a coworker of mine recently had to return to China to bring his retirement money back to canada. I'm not sure of the details of how he went about doing that. Does the limit apply to physically bringing currency back also? I'd ask my coworker but he doesn't speak English and I don't speak Cantonese.
I would like root level comments collapsed by default.
This actually shouldn't be something that a company that is giving away a product should even be enforcing or deciding on their own. Reason? It makes the assumption that end users are not willing to accept that in rare cases their traffic can be intercepted and it further assumes that it matters at all if that traffic is even intercepted. And most importantly it fails to recognize the impact of making a unilateral decision like this has on those who are not impacted at all. Like some random small site (not a top 1m site) that is just providing info and now either has to pay someone to fix and/or can't have a visitor to view their site.

Even in the case of credit card information (or other sensitive data) I would love to know exactly what the probability is of info being stolen. Not hypothetically. But the actual risk.

This idea of 'security at all costs' without looking at the actual cost and/or implementation is not realistic at all and can do more harm (some site not being accessible) than good.
The equivalence comparison wasn't made by the post you replied to, but by it's parent.
The breach that killed Google+ wasn’t a breach at all
Is just Google? I am on Firefox
>feel rebellious and anti-establishment

I wonder what this is and why it is so prevalent (and maybe how it made our species/specific cultures successful).

You can list a large number of groups that wrap up their identity and value systems around being opposed to or having knowledge that counters their perception of "the majority". It is both incredibly attractive and a way to signal your value by going against the grain in some way or another, in some field or another.

Some philosopher/pyschologist/neurologist/evolutionary biologist could probably do a very compelling analysis about the human need to rebel or obey.

One of the societal ills of the 21st century is that we're running out of big clear cut things to rebel against but are continuing to rebel with the same intensity while directing it somewhat aimlessly all over the place, and now mostly just at each other's rebellion itself. Political parties in America these days are less anchored in particular issues and more about believing strongly in something your opponent is against and making sure your team wins.
What's the best way to perform automated/regression testing of display drivers, e.g. HDMI and DisplayPort protocol support?
No kidding I've been following https://deltahawk.com/about, since before my first child was born and now he's in college.
bad way to do market math. What if they already made $10 Billion from Land's End since 2002?

With zero knowledge, I'd bet that they got their $2b and then some. Acquisitions are /were probably their only asset, since real estate was mortgaged by their hedge fund owner.
The oldest Microsoft Natural keyboard model I can purchase new at the time, currently a 4000 model [1], along with the basic Microsoft Optical Mouse [2].

They're both fairly cheap.

1. https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...

2. https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/mice
Weapons of Math Destruction offers good discussion on this problem, if you want to read more about it.
Addiction.

I suffer from caffeine addiction: a cup of coffee in the morning just to make myself feel normal. I got terrible mental melt-down once I stopped coffee for a few days.
> nobody thinks men are smarter than women

Actually I grew up hearing exactly the opposite - that girls are smarter than boys and that girls "mature" faster than boys.
Oh dang, I didn't realize it was happening this soon. I'm visiting Japan next week and I thought I would have at least a few more days to visit old Tsukiji again.
SM is on the beach, so in walking distance. If not, you can take neighborhood roads to get there and avoid most traffic.
I have a Spotify subscription and regularly buy albums, but what's wrong with pirating the music of musicians that are long dead? It's not like the owners of the copyright "deserve" the money in any more than a legal sense.
Uh, what flowery language? This article was at, like, a high school reading level.
Are these really two competing definitions or just manifestations of the same concept? What is considered an edge device depends on the boundaries of whatever network is under discussion.
The big thing UBI can do is help people whom want and desire to get out of suffering and miserable circumstances to higher level of productivity, lifestyle and tax generation. It's a no-brainer. Otherwise, pitchforks will be coming for the 1%. https://youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8
He was the "first employee and architect @ Kraken (2011-2015)". That might explain why Kraken spews out 502s all the time.
Product Hunt Radio: 'Tinder Babies' and the power of connecting people online
My favorite slide (not shown in this article but in the memo) is the one where they list the 4 horsemen of the dystopian web: Facebook Live, rise of the Alt-right, Pedophiles, and...Logan Paul!

Pic found here: https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1050087337693040640
There are a few ways you can tackle this issue: 1) have the same algorithm for each group, but train separately (so in the end you have two different weights); 2) over-sample the group under represented in the data; 3) make the penalty more severe for guessing wrongly on female then male applicants during training; 4) apply weights to gender encoding; 5) use more then just resumes as data.

This isn't an insurmountable problem, but does require extra work then just "encode, throw it in and see what happens".

Amazon only scrapped the original team, but formed a new one in which diversity is a goal for the output.
Amazon: All workers will earn more despite bonuses and stock grants going away
$180m is still $90k/student. If the building lasts 30-40 years without major maintenance, that’s still $2-3k per student year, which is a healthy chunk of what tuition should be.

A building that has studio space for 1800 should be much cheaper, building costs should be on the order of $500/student/year to keep tuition reasonable.
Original title: "Amazon tells Bernie Sanders: All workers will earn more despite bonuses and stock grants going away"
I'm pretty sure this tool reached out to me at one point. Here is the email excerpt:

http://pad.yohdah.com/638/amazon-ai-recruiting-email
Towns across the US make it illegal for teenagers to trick-or-treat
Your point illustrates the problem very clearly. Both sides have some basis in reality and have valid points about the pros/cons of public transportation. Public transit is a huge benefit to the community but also comes with a set of drawbacks.

Like most things in the US, we are arguing past each other instead of working together to find a solution.
I believe he's getting at the Nondelegation Doctrine [0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine
nvm i meant AWS dynamodb
How much of a role does secret government intervention play?

That is, we know the US government interferes in markets in secret. There have been lots of revelations in the past few years about how the CIA boosted jazz and modern art during the 50s to appear new and modern relative to communist countries of the day. The NSA advised the creators of DES about how to make it better. There have almost certainly been other secret and larger interventions.

Has the CIA/NSA/whatever intervened to an extent that the resulting markets are inefficient?

We'll probably never know, but my guess would be that at least secret interventions have favored certain companies to the detriment of others in the same market.
Who describes Dropbox as the same as FTP?
To your second point, my anecdotal experience has shown that once a check makes it past the receiving bank clerk into the electronic clearing system, all manner of errors are allowed. E.g. dates in future, wrong payee, garbage signatures. The simplest way to pass a check with an error is to deposit it with 9 other "good" checks.

Has anyone had a check bounce due to a bad signature?
Yeah the sexes are exactly identical. Males lack ovaries because of environmental effects... /s
They dont store customer data at the Edge at all (only network optimizations for data going from user to the data center).
I am not sure if this completely answers your question, however as a Edmontonian I can give a little feedback. The school has a very active arts and music department. These programs used to be taught in a separate building from the main campus, that was aging, and in a not so nice part of the city. For this reason I think it was consolidated to the main campus, and upgraded. You can read a bit about it here: https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/end-is-nigh-for-...

So although some may think that things like music studios are not a necessity, they are in this case.
San Jose has had a curfew law (unless accompanied by a parent/guardian, which most trick-or-treaters have) for many years, but I doubt it's enforced apart from downtown.

https://www.sjpd.org/bfo/community/crimeprev/psa/curfewordin...
TED and TEDx aren't the same thing
If I had to guess the people who wrote this are just assuming tls on top.
Sharing is a form of advertising. If you want to promote a company or product there is no better way then sharing.

I remember seeing a video where a company exec said that they want to sell there product but they also wanted everyone to be using there pirated copy vs another company's application.

Most people won't pirate because it involves work. The people who do sometimes are the trend setters who can encourage others to buy.
"If by real you mean the kind of proprietary {ad,spy,toolbar}-ware encrusted "real" desktop software that Windows has become notorious for then I think we may be better off without it."

You're ignoring a huge amount of business software that is created for, and runs on, Windows. That's like judging Android or iOS based upon the consumer crapware that gets sold/given away in their app stores, as opposed to the many business apps that are used to automate and improve all sorts of tasks on mobile devices.

I keep seeing this pattern repeated over and over again: someone (this has been me, several times) mentions on HN that Linux needs a better way to allow for binaries to be dropped on a system and run without requiring re-compilation or overly-complicated containers/sandboxes, and the answers invariably end up being "don't want it, don't care". But, the reality is that there are a very large number of people that would jump to Linux in a heartbeat if they could target the OS for distribution in that fashion. It just seems like a bunch of ideology run amok with zero thought given to the actual needs of professional developers/companies. And, there's a lot of evidence that this is one of the primary things holding back Linux adoption on the desktop.

The rest of your reply was very informative, thanks.
It deeply, deeply failed. Residential schools were an atrocity. I'd show you articles about them but I'm afraid that no matter what I show you, you'll consider it wrong for some reason, so I ask to try to convince yourself that Canada's residential schools were overall awful.
Given the reality distortion, frame dragging and other properties i think it is better described by gravity style theories.
Cynical HN commenters from a decade ago. It's pretty hilarious in retrospect.
This is totally how it works! There are also people trying to apply more empirical rigor, and presumably (or hopefully), once that's available, people switch to it. What I'm saying is that we aren't the only field that uses experience-based best practices as a way to get things done without making perfect the enemy of good.
U.S. lacks sufficient sealift capability to engage in a major war
Here are more photos of the new market: https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/photos/in-pictures-t...

Reminds me of when Hong Kong's crazy dangerous Kai Tak airport closed and in one night they drove everything to the new airport https://www.checkerboardhill.com/2016/12/closure-of-kai-tak-...
It's critically important to admit that there ARE differences in the first place. Something that inexplicably has become taboo to many on the left.
They gave away this market by killing the mail order business in the late 90s. That's the entire thesis of the link I posted.

Sure, Sears would have lost some ground to online retail at the start, but with a massive warehouse and distribution network already in place they could have made up the lost ground very very quickly.
> However, given the current situation, we believe that delaying the release of this change until later this year when more sites have replaced their Symantec TLS certificates is in the overall best interest of our users.

If they haven't already, what reason is there to believe this delay will make them? Just curious if there is another catalyst that will push them beyond cert expiration.
Lightweight Node.js version switching
> already on its knees because of an overhyped VR industry

Is it though ?

It looks like a product that is on the cusp of breaking into the mainstream gaming market.(barring 1 or 2 big pain points)

Movement and Full wireless capabilities (in a desktop grade headset, not Quest) are the 2 big pain points for me.

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I do fully agree with you on the Magic Leap though. I find it unbelievable that it received the amount of funding that it did.
Part of my point is that I don't think they pulled it off, not even close. I don't think the storyline was "Ha, he looks like a dork, oh, he sure showed us!" it was "Ha, he looks like a dork... wtf just happened to reality?" The attempt at a humorous payoff at the end fails to address the dork aspect. "I guess he wasn't a dork, he really was fighting real robots"?
This was exactly the case that got me into Rust; I had something that needed to be fast and needed to be callable from a variety of languages & environments (from python, C and Java immediately, and expecting to add swift later) but it also had to do a lot of unicode string handling, and I just _really_ didn't want to do it in C. After making sure that everything I needed was possible, I did it in Rust and it was an absolute pleasure; I haven't looked back.
steal money from Canadian university and buy real estate in Vancouver...only in BC folks
> we're older than 35, or don't have degrees from "top" schools, and/or don't have the "passion" for bizarre extended hiring rituals

This hits home so hard.
Adorable,super cute 10 year old creates and sings a rap about yellow Lamborghini
I've never heard it used with that second definition. It's pretty consistently used to refer to running close to the user, as opposed to having a big data center which most of your users aren't near.

The second definition could be a confusion of ownership — i.e. are you paying a CDN to do higher-level service or running the services yourself?
Azure confidential computing
Dow is down 500 points
> And that's where hands come up empty.

Maybe anti-male sexism prevalent in the health care and education fields is causing women to prefer those fields.

Fix the sexism in health care/education. Elementary teachers should be 50% men. Nurses should be 50% men. Instead those fields are 90%(!) women! That is a HUGE level of bias and discrimination
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Why does it look bad?
While my mother was in the hospital several weeks ago for an elective surgery, I was walking the halls and noticed the screen savers on the nurse's terminals. There was a rotating screen that warned against phishing and gave a website to report any possible fraudulent inbound emails.
should not be tied to financial incentive
Anyone interested in how the events of his forgeries and subsequent murders unfolded should listen to this podcast episode [0] (parts 2 & 3). The tale is told by one of Hofmann's former friends, Brent Metcalfe. Brent's boss, Steve Christensen, was one of Hofmann's victims.

[0]: https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/brent-metcalfe-mark-ho...

Edit: even as a former Mormon, I find this history fascinating.
HN admins: this is the kind of alt-right, white genocide, holocaust denialism, nazi talk that you should be banning.
I strictly skeptical about any physical curvature of "space-time", because that requires extra-dimensions. Moreover, it's not clear what you name "space" or "space-time" here, due to ambiguity. If you referring to mathematical model, then "space-time" is just mathematical abstraction. I'm okay with that because it good for calculations. If you seriously believe that we have "space-time" as physical object, then we are in trouble.

LIGO detected waves in physical vacuum/quantum field/quantum foam/you name it. You can represent these waves in your favorite mathematical model and use your favorite tools for calculations, but don't mix mathematics and physics, please. For me, it's like "space is polygon because this predicted by OpenGL theory, which very accurately predicts our reality".
Out of curiosity, what are you building and with what company?
it seems like there can be no bad news to crypto. any piece is taken as good for the space but they should read the fine print, the SEC is putting an end to all ICO
Essentially, but the joy of working remote is being able to work whenever you happen to be, whether it be on the road (I thought I saw an article about this but I fail to remember the author) or in your home office
Not to my knowledge. Titan had been released to GCE customers before hitting the Google Store. It's also just rebranded Feitian keys, which have been out for some time.