skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another British person I'm unconvinced that "British interests" include the interests of most British voters.

Historically we've seen the British state infiltrate and influence organisations that it considers hostile to it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2018/oct/...

What stands out is the trivial nature of most of these groups, which surely fall squarely within a general democratic right to assemble and protest.

What also stands out is that right-wing groups don't seem to have had anything like the same level of oversight.

So if - hypothetically - the military and/or GCHQ ran a campaign to influence a British election, or a public referendum, would that align with "British interests" or not?

This isn't a hypothetical. It's obvious from the comment sites of most newspapers and also from posts on FB interest groups that industrial-level opinion-shaping is being attempted.

If it's originating from hostile foreign powers, the UK's cyber response seems inexplicably ineffectual. If it's originating from closer to the home, that's clearly a non-trivial problem for our "general values."
You’re not likely to get what you want. Here’s why:

1. Most people (no matter the field) aren’t great at their jobs. They do enough to get by but aren’t exceptional.

2. If most of the jobs available or frontend or PHP, why not get them in front of as many people as possible? If the recruiters don’t have the kinds of jobs you want, there’s no downside to them.

3. Reading your LinkedIn takes more time than sending a form message. Why not make you waste your time reading their message instead of wasting their time?
>fuel adoption of crypto and speed up the demise of parasitic middlemen who take a cut off every transaction

Most business owners do not have the technical ability, interest, or logistical overhead to actually accept "crypto" (or cash) without "parasitic middlemen". This is why Coinbase, BitGo, et al. are very successful in this area, and account for virtually all cryptocurrency commerce. The function of Coinbase or BitGo is not parasitic; no business wants to cope with the arduous requirements to be able to accept and store cryptocurrencies.
I don't think that's entirely fair. Back then I used to be quite an whore when it came to operating systems. I had Windows 2000, Windows 95 (for the rare game that wouldn't run on 2k), BeOS, Linux and Mac OS 9. BeOS was by far the snappiest (actually it was 95, but that was 5 years old by that point, only running DOS games and didn't take advantage of the SMP I was running).

BeOS ran circles around everything else - particularly when multitasking - and I was did use each platform heavily.
I'll go against the other replies and suggest #2. This guy seems determined. I think once he realizes these purses won't fly out of the warehouse he will either buy enough ads to get them sold, drastically lower the price, or both. Probably both.
In 2009 Franch Governement allowed to bypass mandatory checks for the H1N1 flu vaccine and it made a lot of controversy.
A lot of people remember the controversy today, and are suspicious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_controversies#Swine_fl...
It is when banks handing out shady mortgages crippled the entire economy and resulted in taxpayers having to shore things up to the tune of trillions of dollars. Some people are either too young to remember or too willful to remember, but 2008 was a dark place, and if it means a marginal impact on whatever destined-to-be-doomed small business is not getting off the ground due to increased scrutiny, I say good deal.

Also Mercatus is a part of the Koch-aligned segment of GMU, to save any other onlookers some time understanding why the specific set of survey questions was posed the way they were.

EDIT: also a lot of this information is dated because regulations were already weakened for small banks specifically: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-house-banks-lobbying/...
The cult of science
As far as I understand, it would be relatively feasible to engineer air-filters that filter out car-exhaust. I'm glad there's finally some pressure for this externality so that we begin taking the most basic steps to help the whole.
- No personnel, pay/benefits, recruiting or technological advantage over FAANG

- No speed to scale advantages over FAANG

- No rapid scalability outside of a FAANG owned platform

- No advantage in new/exiting/upcoming technologies or verticals that FAANG doesn't already have projects in

All the advantages you identify also reside natively inside FAANG, while they have no barriers to scale, with a larger sales force and more easily integrated platform.
How much are people really running other than a web browser on a desktop/laptop now-a-days?

Currently open on my machine:

- Safari

- Firefox (streaming audio)

- A program converting a 500 page PDF to 500 300dpi PNGs

- A bash script extracting PDFs from a municipal web site.

- A program downloading my video viewing for the week and converting it to a format better suited for my iPad

- iTunes serving audio and video to TVs in two different rooms

- An FTP program doing weekly backups

- A mail client

- A VPN client

- A spreadsheet

- An IDE (Coda2)

And if I were to look at my wife's laptop, I can guarantee that she's running more than just a web browser, and she's not technically inclined.

People have been pushing browser-only machines since the days of Novell's "thin client" strategy in the 90's. Netbooks were a fad. Consumption-only gained a small amount of traction recently with Chromebooks, but even the non-technical people in my office are dumping their Chromebooks for real laptops these days because they realize they have needs beyond Google's ecosystem.

Maybe we'll get there some day. But for now, if you want a laptop computer, you have to have an actual laptop computer.
The poor in European capitals don't go around in cars, they use public transportation. Unlike the US, moving around in a car is somewhat of an unneeded luxury, as the city is perfectly livable using subway and buses - and more recently, the myriad of bikes, electric scooters and the like that you can rent with apps and leave wherever.
But do we really want the publishers to survive?
So it's ok to regulate telephony companies and cry out when they oppose net neutrality but it's just rage against the rich when people decry AMZN or MSFT that build the same services that their customers previously built on their infrastructure? It would be easy to make them decide - you either provide raw compute or you provide specialized P/SaaS (databases, etc.). Sure you could own two companies (IaaS and P/SaaS), but you would have to let other P/S on your Infra, without prefering anyone else. Result? Less vendor lock-in because of forced standarization between layers.
I dont fully agree, as others noted by here, there are plenty of products that compete with others and co-exist, for example terraform.

There are some things though that I bet their customers are asking badly, take for example the Transit Gateway, one might thing that it is trying to put out the vendors that users use for their Transit VPC, for example Cisco, Fortinet, Palo alto to name a few, however, the Transit VPC is ugly, tough to maintain and cant scale, yes, the vendors make big money from licences for Transit VPC, but the need of a native service was there, the vendors will still sell licences, just not for Transit VPC, they will be able to focus on other parts that AWS dont prodive a lot.
Both are not particularly corrupt, with the amount of investigations their political opponents spawn against them you would expect something to stick. I would say that Netanyahu is probably one of the least corrupt PM in Israel ever. Just for comparison, it took the system exactly half an year to find something against Olmert and putting him in Jail. Same thing goes for Trump, it is all vitriol and exaggeration by his political opponents, there is nothing particularly corrupt about Trump, if there was they would have found it long time ago with all the effort and money they put into investigating him. My bet is that this "recommendation" which came out at the last day of the current chief of police will not hold once they go through the legal inspection by the attorney general and certainly will not hold in court.
Bhopal gas tragedy: Wrong medication killed more people, reveal PMO files
I do, for sure China is already planning this.
Stopped using FB and IG, still uses Twitter "for work", riiiight, of course...
I think GUIs and touch screens are the future of all embedded systems. No more buttons. Imagine the cockpit of a boeing 747 with all levers buttons and knobs removed. Just a giant LCD touch screen GUI coded by a bootcamp graduate in React + redux.

The plane would be more useable by the pilot as touchscreens are more versatile than old fashioned buttons. Also you would be more safe because if a lever or button fails on a flight you are pretty much screwed but if a touchscreen fails you can just reboot the touchscreen and you're good.
Fred is applying this tech logic specifically to Crypto's evolution.
Binary blobs are not the same as binary packages having source readily available. I see that pmoriarty appears to be misusing the term, I was responding to your comment without having closely read his.
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Price-wise I think that may be a decade, perhaps more, out of date as they link to a long replaced grant scheme.

No idea of current prices, and Tesla are available here too. The couple of times I've seen solar tiles in situ (like I say, not common here), have been far more like the last photo than the first which stands out.
You should read a source before you go looking for other people tearing it down. It ultimately makes you incapable of forming conclusions yourself.

Also expecting others to prove to you why you should trust them but offering no reason for anyone to trust you is bizarre.
Diesels are terrible engines for city cars. They don’t in fact meet even the post scandal standards. Petrol is a fundamentally cleaner technology.
By introducing SSD into the equation, you're creating a false equivalency.
One difference is the Russians have massive malware networks available from their criminal operations they can use for certain information operations, e.g. https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Bedep-tr.... I have not seen anything on western governments doing anything close to that sort of thing.
You survive wars by being chivalrous. That’s where chivalry comes from—it does not mean protecting women and children or holding open doors or whatever nonsense. It was a medieval code of warfare where nobility were not killed but held for ransom no matter the circumstance. Landed families could participate in sanctioned warfare with relatively little personal risk. Their peasant soldiers would die, and they may lose their lands, but they themselves were likely fine.

Chivalry died with the invention of the longbow because death now rained down indiscriminately from above.
I mis those from the 90's GUIs:

- Standard interaction widgets. There was no breaking the scroll, there was no button that you can't discover how to press.

- Expert oriented interfaces. There was no action without a shortcut. The most complex software always had some CLI or an API (optionally with an intepreter).

- Discoverability features. The sortcut descriptions were embedded on the same places you had to click to get the functionality. Buttons were clearly marked. There was almost always some text area telling you what was happening.

I don't miss skeumorphism, but it was often used to mark real features, and those features were gone with the arbitrary skeumorphisms. Current GUI trends were created by people with no interest on making their software useful, instead they only keep an eye on showroom conversion rate. (Whether they are right or not on doing so, it's a problem nonetheless.)
Download album art from Apple with albumart-dl
what did you expect , travel vlogs? i believe youtube has cornered that market. Or are you suggesting that bitchute specifically excludes other kinds of content?
Well, it doesn't look very good in any of the screenshots.
IT does if your caught up in a riot - you have heard of the lynching's in India caused by social media.

And a few years ago in the Rwandan genocide old school radio was a key instigator, 1 million dead in 100 days
>Even discussing with people in their 30ies, they'll often throw "a good fitted suit should be as comfortable as pyjamas" without questionning why we don't live in what would be outdoor pyjamas.

I don't know anyone who thinks that suits are as comfy as pajamas; In spite of being well into my late 30s, I've only heard that in fiction; I suspect it's one of those fictional things; we'd all like to be the man who is so well-tailored that his suit was as comfortable as pajamas.

(Of course, I live in California, so I think outerwear is something highly engineered that you keep in your travel chest, so perhaps this is a subject I shouldn't speak on too much. )

Also, Lindybeige, probably my favorite commentator on historical clothing, disagrees with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcJfTGbjuo

He prefers the cloak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8cYd3poIk
There's https://github.com/google/zoekt which provides a pretty straight-forward and memory-efficient implementation. Their design document goes a bit into what makes it fast:

https://github.com/google/zoekt/blob/master/doc/design.md
Your characterization of what I said is overly simplistic and ..wrong. I am saying that even with a good sample, replication studies only have about at most an 80% chance to replicate a true effect for studies that had reported a "moderately-sized" effect size. A lot of other things can account for the extra 30%, including picking the more dubious of findings out there (which seem to be mainly social psychology not cognitive psychology studies).
Looking at your other comments on HN, you seem to love throwing bombs and trolling.
Building an automatic pet tracking app in Android
If they aren’t open sourcing the innovations they make on top of open source software, then it is proprietary software.

I think amazon are unlikely to give up any competitive advantage they are not forced to give up.
I would put it down to culture. Also note that people’s shoulders aren’t touching apart from the group looking over the pier and maybe the men on the bench looking into the city. I think most of those people are just sitting a normal distance apart, and I would argue that this is basically the correct distance to sit from someone you know (seems to be the case in all the photos) when on a shared surface like a bench. It’s different with chairs because it is harder to shift a small distance and typically chairs cannot be moved so close together without hitting each other or getting fingers trapped in between
IntelliJ does this quite well with IdeaVim IMO.

Even the quick definition window (to look at a method's implementation) supports it even though you can not edit the code there. Still useful for navigating.

Not all plugins are good - but I am already happy if they support basic functionality rather tham having to miss all functionality.
Favourite vi joke ever: "I've been using it for about two years now, mostly because I can't figure out how to exit it."

On the other hand, it's everywhere, it's quick and once you learn it there's a lot of muscle memory that takes over.
Is it though? I'd prefer many other languages that are more convenient to code in that dealing with the quirks of JS, but I don't see why Node must be unreliable either. I think for simple devices this works just fine.
Same way all the other national security orgs are.
Relations are all about spending time with someone. The problem with online friends is that the time might be unproportional, you might spend hours with someone's content and feel very involved, meanwhile they don't even look at yours. Facebook, Twitter, et. al. communities is best for the popular people, and way more "efficient" then the real world. The only problem is that they can't share their private issues, that's what you need real friends for.
I think the cycle still holds even with Crypto.

If you look at the primary platform where velocity is happening in the crypto space (number of transactions or touch points) - coinbase - it's a centralized broker for crypto.

Individuals aren't mining their own coins, they are buying them from more and more centralized miners.
Opposite Instacart to Fresh experience for me, I'd almost always get some shitty produce from Instacart shoppers where Amazon is consistent.
In what scene? I don't think he actually did... I'm pretty sure when they're trying to crack the guy's password they're using video to record and zoom in to watch him and he's blocking it.
Isilon's filesytem does similar.
Normalization of deviance.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Diane_Vaughan_...?

Once society passed some critical threshold of obesity prevalence, people started to see it as normal and then the problem accelerated.
Some of those are appalling, especially spying on the trade unions and having workers blackballed. But most of them are loonies of the left or right, animal rights extremists, or have connections to Irish terror orgainzations. Exactly the people the police should be infiltrating.
i think you mean "free trade". Hmm in this case, some users want to trade with the content producer, but it seems the entire market is hellbent to not allow them to do so. How do you justify that situation as "free"?
Why would you buy a pass rather than rely on daily and weekly maximums? The latter are almost universally cheaper.
> "Sadly, I think we are in a race with ourselves in this centralization vs decentralization debate. We need the decentralized tech stack to evolve more quickly and show the world how decentralized technology works in a mainstream way at scale before policy makers and regulators force the tech sector to go the wrong way."

This is something I've been working on for the last few years. I've been working on a selfhosted music server that anyone can setup in there home to stream their collection.

I've had some success building a dependency version that's deployable as an EXE for Windows (or pkg for OSX). The fact is most people aren't going to setup a separate computer just to host a decentralized server. But people are willing to use their current hardware for decentralization. And most people's current hardware is a Windows PC.

The other thing I focussed on was making it dependency free. This way you can just install it and run. Most people don't want to hunt down dependancies and write config files.

The fact is, decentralization won't take off until people can do it effortlessly. The reason centralized services rule is because it requires no effort or cost to the end user. Until that changes, decentralization will always be a niche
The appearance of security is much more important than actual security. I would gander that is precisely because there is no real penalty outside of anything that would be considered the cost of doing business.

How to enforce punitive action upon a company with such international reach is the real question.
This assumes that loneliness is from inablity to meet ppl. Ins't loneliness the inablity to connect ppl on genuine level. Meeting ppl problem is already solved by meetup.com
You're right - the real issue is probably more like the community an officer socializes in versus the one they police. But their own "race" is an easily-obtainable correlated proxy, and if your intention is to enlighten the discourse you'd be better off making the point as a constructive nitpick rather than sounding dismissive.
Perhaps because there's no subpixel hinting, I guess?

Haiku does have it (it was hard-disabled for a long time due to patent concerns), but there's a bug relating to how the main text control draws strings that causes characters to overlap one another with it enabled, and so things generally look worse when it is. Someone should take the time to fix that...
I think this is valid and needed but I often wonder if we over-focus on the open web as the alternative over the other biggest widespread open technology in the world: email.

I go to a lot of art & music performances. Lately, and particularly for the last few events I’ve attended, the performer emphasized joining their (MailChimp-managed) mailing list, because they didn’t want to seem uncool by promoting Facebook.

I don’t know exactly what it looks like, but I strongly suspect the social graph that disrupts Facebook gets built on email, somehow. Something like MailChimp, but without the direct marketing/conventional newsletter expectation baggage and a focus on message consumers as well as producers.

The advantages of “push” style communication, flexibility in styling messages, and potential for advertising all seem to me like a revolution waiting to happen. The openness of email, combined with the fact that everyone has one (even millennials!) are icing.
Physical security and computer security don't really connect usefully by these kinds of analogies. I suggest you look higher up in the thread for where you brought up threat actors.
False prophets are plenty in crypto, especially when their bags are full and heavy. Fred Wilson has repeatedly supported centralized premined coins, and he was the one to claim that "the market cap of ethereum will bypass the market cap of bitcoin by the end of the year."

The first step in writing about decentralization is to understand what decentralizaiton means. Premined coins are centralized by desgin--the founders may hold an undisclosed amount of coins that were acquired at no cost. Thus, any fork that threatens the founders can be attacked crushing the incentives of the miners, and thus the security of the network.

Linking to websites such as https://arewedecentralizedyet.com/ is both lazy and meaningless because those metrics are easily gamed, insecure, vulnerable to sybil attacks, and unreliable. Most of the decentralization discussion is a red herring that many use either out of ignorance or in order to distract from fundamental problems such as the distribution of incentives.
Setting up a new government?
that would probably not have much effect, i guess most of their traffic comes from other social channels.
Is there an equivalent of the act of union in Spain which is the argument made by the SNP to justify independence.
Undoubtedly I’m doing a lot wrong :)

Yup that’s one method I teach people in Learning to Rank training. In addition to reducing dimensionality on queries, you can also do so by geo and user depending on the domain. But do you want to do this much munging of training data?

Even still the basis for how you group similar information needs isn’t always obvious, and most teams prefer a simpler solution they can understand and manage that’s not ML based. A lot depends on the team that’s ultimately going to maintain the solution.
Sorry I don't buy that. I realize that race and racism are contentious topics, but we should really be able to discuss them rationally rooted in what is actually said, not based on assumptions, or by referring to number of objections etc.

I grant you points for rhetoric elegance with that line though [0], but it would be even more helpful if you would exemplify that assumed body of axioms and ideas (after which I expect to prove you wrong).

[0] "the body of axioms and ideas on top of which you confidently espouse such demonstrably problematic arguments"
Someone Hacked 50,000 Printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel
the jurisprudence of whom? In my own jurisprudence paywalls are viruses.
Letting a stranger execute a stranger doesn't fit in with the basic concept of personal choice which affects only one's self or family members. In fact, it's in direct contravention to the underlying concept, so you're clearly lost at sea, and digressing.
What about DynamoDB? I'm pretty sure they could open source a lot but they just don't want. Google had the same pathetic excuse when asked why they don't open source appengine or datastore.