skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politics has always reflected poorly on humanity, but the existence of Twitter, Facebook, etc. these days have basically brought Usenet to the masses. Not good Usenet either- bad Usenet, after it was overrun by spammers and trolls.

There’s a truism that the people who talk the most have the least to say. In the 90s you could witness newsgroups slowly get taken over by such people. They went from places where people interacted and communicated to places that were no more than sources of disinformation and flamewars. Modern social media is like post apocalyptic Usenet, except it’s occupied by the general population, not just scammers and mentally ill CS majors. I think that’s really messed up and can’t possibly be good for anyone.
Longer than you think.

A quick Google search for average car age hints that it's nearly 12 years [0]. Even if everyone buying a new car bought an EV, we're probably 12 years away from 50% of the cars on the road being EVs. And since the age trend is actually increasing, we're probably looking at 13-15 years in actuality. And again, that assumes 100% of new vehicles purchased are EV, which definitely isn't the case.

This doesn't even begin to look at self-driving. We're still years away from reliable level 4 automation.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/28/car-owners-are-holding-their...
> Software may be free but not open-source, and it may be open-source but not free.

Free and Open source software are basically mean to be synonyms, the latter being put forth by people to eliminate the ambiguity in English about the use of the word Free.

The "free" in "free software" means libre software, not gratis software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
No, I'm speaking from experience unfortunately! Things break, emacs changes, your OS changes, you decide you need a more recent version of something in order to get a certain feature or bug fix. You get a new laptop. Etc.
It's the same reason a lot of other tech dinosaurs are valued so highly. They've been around forever and people are betting on things staying the same rather than changing.
Good point. We (Buffer) do everything in-house, so there's no additional advertising production cost.
If the story were true Apple cannot lie about it publicly like this; the SEC would have their heads.

They would have to hedge, "we are investigating Bloomberg's allegations and take security seriously."
Hell, a bit over 20 years before that Nixon was resigning over the scandal that brought us [x]-gate. Politics has always been a dumpster fire
This almost makes me wonder if "Verified" accounts is a step in the wrong direction.

I've had similar thoughts. My account is "verified", because it was pretty easy to get that blue tick mark. Make my tweets open, and...that was pretty much it. Just wait around a while for the review process.

Unknown if that process is more difficult or involved nowadays, but when I did it? I just asked and they gave.
Thanks all for the input - Lot of really interesting ideas! We are going to sponsor some meetups and conferences and start blogging a lot more than we are already
I love how every example of "It was always this bad" involves people reaching back to before the '60s and, in some cases, before The New Deal.

In most cases, reversing several decades of stability and progress would have been considered a very troubling development.
How can you increase throughout without reducing response time?
This is pretty much the classic line against any startup taking on an industry with established incumbents, and, as always, fails to account for the incumbents' complete lack of agility and the startup's long term vision.

This isn't to say that Brex will be a huge success. But rather, that your argument is one against any startup entering an established market.
I will say that we at Dream, hold a pretty contrarian point of view on this. So let me start by saying, it is an opinion, but one we hold pretty strongly. I can talk a little bit about locomotion, but this sort of philosophy applies to many of the design decisions we made, for better or worse.

Dream doesn't allow for locomotion by design. Dream is meant to be a place where people meet to be productive. The environments are intentionally pretty but not distracting. The focus is on interaction with the other participants and the shared content. We feel that removing locomotion and reducing dimensionality is how we will make the interactions with Dream simpler, especially for new users. Mechanisms like teleportation are super fun and certainly add to immersion and are the right choice for all sorts of VR experiences. However, Dream has been built from the perspective that users are here to collaborate and then go back to real life. In that context, something like teleportation is fun and novel the first time you use it, but the 10th time, we feel like most users would just prefer a menu. The overall idea being, reduce dimensionality to increase precision and simplicity.

I'm happy to hear a critique of this philosophy. Ultimately we have to create software people love to use, and we certainly understand that we might be proven wrong about this.
Such transition mechanism sounds like 'smart commit'[0] but attached to PR instead? Isn't simpler to just trigger transition directly from commit?

[0] - https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/using-smart...
How did Bloomberg get the glitzy photographs? Were they just cooked up to have something to show in the article or did their source provide them? What legitimate investigation would have used a pencil as part of their protocol for photographing evidence?
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> It's hard for me to guess why the companies involved would deny that these exist.

My guess is that they know that everyone's confidence in them would crumble. Every business, ever household, everyone, would suddenly be aware that their data is not safe, even in the hands of the ones who say "trust us, we'll keep it safe".
And if they were, you think they would admit it?
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Actually, just after writing my last comment I stumbled upon this: http://makevillage.com/
Brex has disrupted the conventional credit model. By rebuilding the technology from scratch, they’ve reimagined underwriting so it doesn’t require personal guarantees. Brex assesses companies based on factors that matter – like cash in the bank and activity in the business

No. You haven't disrupted anything. You are doing what almost every single bank does when they issue a business line of credit. Cash in bank and business activity.

All you guys did was go after a market that has ZERO idea about how to talk to a bank and then secured a large number of customers within that market. And as another commentator said, once a startup grows, they will secure the best terms they can find. Good luck.
It's not much of a problem if your video player breaks. (That is, unless you plug it at the same interface as the driving computer.)
Do we simply ignore Israel's illegal occupation, and the oppression of the people of Palestine?

I suppose that does provide better framing to pick out and criticise an individual act by the Palestinians.
Yeah, that's the dirty hack I was referring to. I don't need to tell an smtpd "now's when I expect not to have an Internet connection", which this method relies on, and could happen as I walk into another room and lose WiFi. I just give it mail to deliver, and if it doesn't work it keeps retrying until it works (with configurable backoff and a setting saying when to give up for good).
Probably due to Amazon's market share inertia, and the high barrier to entry to being able to warehouse and ship a lot of items very fast.
I'm as staunch a privacy advocate as anyone, but if a deaf person wants to give up their privacy in order to be able to "hear", who are we to stand in their way?
That might be why it is so hard to complain.

Amazon lost one of my packages (they were delivering it themselves).

No biggie by itself, but the apology mail did not lead to a reimbursement. Instead, I had to go to the website, and go through a dozen of steps that really felt like they were here to make me decide it is not worth my time.

Great way to lose my confidence in the company ..
From this rando PDF, it looks like "Fan-out of 4".

> Fan-out of 4 is a process-independent delay metric in CMOS tech.

The wrap-up slide at the very end has a bit of a rundown.

http://people.duke.edu/~bcl15/teachdir/ece590_fall14/Present...
Are you sure about that? I recall reading, in reference to canary clauses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary) that the government can and has required lying. If there's an ongoing national security concern, I would expect that they would.
> A good developer can be productive in any programming language.

I agree. I am just more productive in C and Python for most things over JS.

However, the tools and language that you use matter. Brainfuck is turing complete, I could program a full game engine in it, but that would be a waste of time. The language that you use will make a difference in the time it takes to program something, and the most important part how maintainable it will be in the future. Javascript is some of the most unmaintainable code on the face of the planet, and that is coming from someone who has probably programmed more in JS than in any other programming language.
I'm sure it didn't help!
The big thing for me (though there are others) is emulating old games. I realize this is probably not a super high demand use case, but I love playing NES and SNES games on my phone during... down time.

I was an iPhone user for some time, but got fed up with Apple telling me what software I could and could not run (without a jail break / side load.) I'd go back if they free up the app store market a bit. I don't find some of their restrictions reasonable.
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And the margins on basically all of them are low to very low. Like a typical commodity market.
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The US is the only country that has ever used atomic weapons, so yeah, probably.
There is a limitation on JIT compiling though which does not apply to the built in JavaScript vm.
Indeed, although it is connected via rather restrictive corporate proxy. I'd rather have one box on my network exposed where I can monitor it than a thousand instances with unrestricted outbound access in AWS though.

Oh yeah - docker. I thought this one was pretty funny:

https://threatpost.com/malicious-docker-containers-earn-cryp...
From a bit of armchair research this Friday, here are some articles on the connection between MOND and the Hubble constant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOND

https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6359

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06110

http://file.scirp.org/Html/1-4500356_51478.htm

https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept01/Milgrom2/Milgrom3...

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/438/2/1805/1016908

Basically what these are saying is that if the universe (and space around galaxies) is expanding, then stars would be dragged along with that expansion and move outward from the center of mass if they orbited at their expected Newtonian speed (they would gain potential energy as their "altitude" increases).

I'm wondering if this energy didn't go into the star (because it would violate conservation of energy to see a star moving faster and faster over time) then maybe the energy goes into space itself, showing up as "dark" energy, which has gravity by mass-energy equivalence. So basically the farther away we are from something, the heavier space appears in that region from our frame of reference. Or maybe the extra speed of distant stars has more to do with how long they've been pulled by the expansion of the universe than how much mass is near them. That could maybe explain the pictures of colliding galaxies that have uneven distributions of matter and dark matter that we don't see in individual galaxies. And why we're unlikely to detect dark matter as a particle locally (because the expansion of space is more easily observed over large distances).

I guess one way to prove this theory would be to look for unevenness in the Hubble constant (red shift), which would mean an unevenness in how fast (or how much) space is stretching in different regions. The last link seems to agree with something along those lines.

Anyway, I'm not a physicist, just throwing ideas out there! Feeling kind of embarrassed to post this layman's analysis but what the heck.
A decade ago when I worked at Microsoft I shopped around the idea of using XBox as a basis for secure computing.

XBox was designed to function in the hands of the adversary, to be robust against peripheral attacks and even motherboard mods. Even the main memory was encrypted by the on-CPU controller. Obviously, no open JTAGs. A lot of expertise there.

In my fantasies it would form the basis of the DoD infrastructure and then trickle down to finance. It was deemed to be not solving any practical problems, so it didn't go anywhere. Oh well, I found other fun thins to do in my life.
But I can't root my iPhone and use it as a Node.js server whilst simultaneously sniffing 802.11 traffic at DefCon. Therefore it's useless to me, and to everyone else who owns a phone as well.

/s
A great write up - very interesting to read about your approaches and the various issues I also came up against with my own Fractal Lab experiment.
Also interesting that Apple recently started to switch from Qualcomm to Intel modems.

> The modem represents a milestone for Intel in a couple of ways; it is the first chip to be manufactured solely in-house and it is Intel’s first chip to support CDMA and GSM.

> Apple’s original plan for the 2018 iPhones, via Nikkei, was for Intel to have exclusivity on modem orders for the first time — amidst its legal disputes with Qualcomm.
The locking is only a problem because he's doing it wrong, I think. I'm doing this:

http://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2014/12/12_mu4e-and-desktop-notifications.html

I.e. there's an external script that invokes IMAP IDLE. And when IMAP tells it there's new mail, the script tells EMACS there's new mail. Then the reindexing happens within the emacs, and it uses the lock it already has. Makes this particular issue go away completely.
That's gymnastics.

Other crime being committed is not a defense, even a justification for the broader picture here.

That's what this perpetually comes back to. "Palestine cannot not be occupied, oppressed, etc. If we try it, they'll just attack Israel." It's pathetic.
Bias confirmed. According to Google Maps "Quick Facts":
Poland is a place of Jewish heritage, and not much else...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Poland/
Another reason to brag is to quickly establish credibility/confidence in noisy markets. You want to quickly establish yourself as a peer or credible individual so that you can get down to business without wasting time feeling each other out. If you’re a VC it’s much better to get an email with team credentials. Similarly if you’re a VC that wants to get into a deal you might say who you invested in and who you coinvest with.
The status quo is "a large number of drivers will recognize that the intersection should probably have one and at least exercise some caution".

It should be able to program a self-driving car with a) a database of known intersections and their conditions as a fallback and b) to evaluate the conditions of an upcoming intersection for safety even without the requisite signage.
As I understand it it is in a big part crowsourced. It is easy for an agency to hide their leaks in that crowsourced stream.
The biggest reason I use Amazon, and I'm careful to only buy from Amazon is because of their logistic velocity.

I ordered electrical switch plates from a company that specialized in electrical switch plates, it's all they sell. After 5 days the product hadn't shipped, I cancelled the order and place a prime Amazon order and received the wall plates the next day. I paid a slightly higher price from Amazon but I actually got the product.
If it's L4 and no steering wheel so the occupant can't override control, it's 100% the manufacturer's fault.

However, if the manufacturers are smart, they'll make the self-driving hardware record video footage they can use to defend themselves in court. You wouldn't want people to be able to jump in front of a moving car to try to get a payday after they get hit. This already happens and is why many people have dash cams. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibjWz9ehrJ8 for some good example.
Well not OP, but the reasons I use Android instead of Apple are:

1. Price.
2. Availability.
3. Ability to install apps from apks, & any store instead of only their own store.
4. Many features, like double sim, memory card, otg, etc are only in Android.
I mean. I'm not saying you're wrong here. What's freer than an anarchic society after all? Of course, we can justify rules on the grounds of freedom. A king certainly is free, his subjects are not.

So what's freer? A company that controls all aspects of their customers use of their products? Or a company that is restricted from such practices?

I can't tell if your post is sarcastic, glib, factual... So I think you were too terse here. Your meaning is not obvious.
The article touches on a lot of the software and UX issues, but I don't really see much about the hardware.

> The theater has bought 50 pairs, at a cost of around $1,050 per pair

So pricey, yes, but who is currently selling anything like this? Things like the privacy of the contents of the display and the bulkiness of the unit are interesting aspects of this technology as applied to other use cases.

Searching for "heads-up display glasses" yields a bunch of actual products of varying appearence. I know AR is all the rage, and that's what most of these products seem to advertise, but even having some limited real-time data seems like it has enormous applications.
I'm not entirely sure I understand why so many people are against CLAs. I've been active in the open source community since 1996, and am currently employed at a company which is 100% based upon service around open source software, which includes our stewardship of several projects which have significantly advanced the community cause. My employer requires a CLA. It is not written in esoteric legalese, but is rather simple to understand before you sign it. It is designed to protect both you, as the contributor, and my employer.

A CLA is a good thing when it's written well, is not overly onerous, and is being used to further contributions. Here is some basic reasons why a company like my employer may want contributors to sign a CLA:

1. It prevents your heirs from terminating your copyright grants in the future if you pass away or any number of other weird quirks of US copyright law that could potentially result in legal fuckery that you do not intend.
2. It prevents enforcement of patents surrounding code you have contributed against my employer.
3. It indemnifies you as the contributor against expectations of support, guarantee, or warranty for your contribution.
4. It commits my employer to maintenance of your contribution once its accepted as long as it is needed in the code-base.
5. It protects my employer from getting in trouble for contributions where the contributor did not have legal license to offer the contribution, because you are asserting that you have such license before offering that contribution.

Yes, it allows for re-licensing, but in practice what this means is that some or all of the code may be dual-licensed at some point in the future to assist in integration with other open source software projects.

To assert you should never sign a CLA seems short-sighted and unreasonable. I can't speak for every project, but my employer has been a good steward of software in the community and the community itself since the day it was founded and has committed to continuing to do so.

While I can certainly understand that you may not wish to sign a CLA with an organization you do not trust, I don't think refusal to sign should be a default position. Instead, like any contract, you should read before you sign and not enter into agreements with entities you do not trust. Simple as that.
It's probably a lot easier to just blackmail or bribe existing employees, probably similar to how the supply chain hack worked.
tivert's reply is correct, and WMT does it on a surprising array of goods. The most visible example is "Great Value" frozen pizzas, which are produced by the same company that makes and sells Red Baron. Cost conscious consumers buy GV, brand conscious consumers by RB, both companies make money.
Not anyone else, but there certainly are other nations with similar capabilities.

USA is one of them - China is best suited for inserting "extra hardware" on a board as in this example, but if you'd want to insert similar functionality as some extra stuff in an existing chip, then USA could arguably do it easier than China.

Also, South Korea and Taiwan have immense role in the supply chain and can do similar large scale things as China.

However, yes, the lack of supply chain influence does make similar attacks much more difficult for a bunch of actors which are otherwise active in tech security area - Russia, Israel, North Korea, UK, etc.
I disagree that the "external test of skill" is the direct cause of what makes it less painful to be at the bottom of the hierarchy. It's merely the membership in the group; to be an effective team camaraderie is important, so it will be pursued for its own goals, but there are other ways of camaraderie forming.

I (male) grew up in a neighborhood with several boys my own age. I was the nerdy/awkward &c. one and so I was picked on when it was just that group. However, I was absolutely part of that group, and I saw the difference that made both with my other equally awkward peers that lacked such a group, and my sister, who was less awkward, but had it much rougher.
I agree, this bullshit behaviour is not why I signed up for a Prime (and Netflix) subscription and binned Sky. But I can't help feel it's just around the corner and there's no escape.
Why wait until it happens? In fact, it's already happened on Kindle.
Microsoft is beating Apple at its own design game
Typing this on a pixel, "fully stable" is a whopper of an exaggeration. Maybe I have a lemon, but I've had camera crashes, GPS issues, numerous freezes in all sorts of Google apps, and more.
It's even sneakier than that: the wallpaper on the XS hides the notch, while the wallpaper on the XR pretty much highlights the notch. I wonder which of the two Apple has a higher margin on...
How about setting a custom ringtone? One that I can't buy from iTunes for starters.
Looks like it's back up again. Was out between 3:00 and 3:30.
Given the number of events Techcrunch sponsors in Europe I find that a hard argument for them to make.
how easy is it to block ads on an iPhone these days (including in apps)?
I've almost entirely stopped using amazon because the search is so goofy. For anyone is wondering. Try searching for clothing. The more specific you get, the more goofy the search results. For example, if you sort by "lowest to highest" price it doesn't even give you lowest price....lol the only way you find lowest price is if you literally dig through all the listings. I should be able to put in my clothing dimensions and then find all shirts/pants that fit those dimensions. I should also add in parameters like color type or style and get more refinement. Then I should be able to sort by price and see lowest price for all the shirts/pants that fit me....but that is not what happens.
That'd be my thought too. Does this difficulty persist when you employ Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, Ghostery, etc? And a browser that doesn't override the user's wishes, like Firefox or Opera?

Without defenses like these, for example, reuters.com is intolerably spammy. But with them it's a delight. Same goes for TechCrunch.