skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I support free speech but I also don't want flat-earther or nazi-supporting opinion columns in my newspapers/websites. Or at least not more than one a week or so. I don't want to spend my time consuming rubbish, or having a lot of conversations why those columns are rubbish.

The columns can be published sure, but in some fringe publications that I don't have to know about.

I also don't like the idea that all people with rubbish ideas should be able to demand distribution via any popular network/publication/institution. However when someone with rubbish ideas is already known, refusing debates or stuff like that is just silly.

Also it's good to remember that free speech means you shouldn't be persecuted for your words. Not that you can't be disliked or made fun of.
Thunderbird looks for http://domain.tld/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xm... for autoconfiguration.

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird...
They're not recharging batteries but they are extending range. The whole time they're descending, they're moving forward and overcoming air resistance, without needing as much fuel as if they were flying level the same distance and altitudes.

I think that compared to energy expenditure X in level flight at cruising altitude, the aircraft would expend X+Y in the climb and a little less than X-Y in the descent, assuming all horizontal distances are the same.

To the extent that they deliberately increase drag, that wouldn't hold true, but I'm guessing that's mostly on final approach.
Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman and Unanswered Questions in Physics [video]
My New First Principle of Programming: Good Code Is Easy to Change
There must be something important there because Facebook is making money off it. But it’s YOUR data and that money is yours too. Facebook is STEALING from you. Mark is the greatest con artist in history.
Given the frequency of FOIA and other requests, I'd strongly suspect the people with the most knowledge of X aren't the ones making all the redaction calls.

They've got something more important to do... their job.

So if you can't have enough time / attention from the person who actually knows, I'm more comfortable with a policy of over- rather than under-redaction.
I highly recommend watching "Micro Men" which focuses on the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair, who developed the ZX Spectrum, and Chris Curry of Acorn.

The original script was called "Syntax Era" which is still a much funnier name :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
Seems like a nice subtle way to hijack the changing password mechanism, particularly on a sub-domain you control. Just set the URL to e.g. "https://evilsite/changepasswords" and wait for Password Managers to be updated.

The fact that the spec says nothing about where a user can be redirected, and which domains/sub-domains are within scope for which change password requests seems like an oversight.

For example if my password manager saves a password for login.example.com, is a .well-known/Change-Password on evil.example.com, or example.com in scope? Who decides? Is it left to the password manager to figure out the security scope?
Reminds me of abusing the CRT on the TRS-80 to play "music" on an AM radio. Except we were kids and had very little idea what we were doing.
I do think that people buy new phones when they break, or become unusable. And that does seem to be 2-3 years on Android, but iPhones last longer - and with battery replacement, which this year has made very popular, they last even longer. iPhone 4,5 and 6's are still the majority of iphones in my extended family and less techy friends - and they were bought new.

Anyhow - the main reason I even commented was that people in the antique iPhone camp /regularly/ say they'll never go to Android cause the phones don't last. I really think people would like to keep their phones for as long as their laptops. And iPhones are the way to do that and that it is a selling point.
The Left is eating itself.
To be fair, most of the arguments (at least that I've seen, could be non-representative) aren't against big C "Censorship" in the way that this comment implies. It's not an argument as to whether or not Oath/Verizon/Tumblr CAN remove the content and be within their right to do so, it's that it's a poor idea from either a business or a community based point of view (often both). While they are able to manage their community in any way they seem fit, it's that the users of the platform are coming out (and I have absolutely zero data to say whether it's a vast majority or vocal minority) to say that they disagree with the decision that is being made. When phrased in the way that you did, you seem to imply the black-and-white view of "Porn is obviously bad, why shouldn't Tumblr remove it" though ignoring most of the discussion and nuanced views that make a discussion like this worth having.
Embracing pseudo-hallucinatory phenomena induced by playing video games
AmbiverseNLU: Open Source release of our natural language understanding suite
> I support free speech but I also don't want flat-earther or nazi-supporting opinion columns in my newspapers/websites.

Some people don't want nudity in their platforms as well, so be prepared for those sites to deplatform with extreme prejudice.

Tumblr users publishing the sexual and nude content that they do makes them what the general public would consider a fringe publication. It should be unsurprising that Verizon/Oath intend to nuke all of it.
Zunum Aero is also working in this space.[1] Learned about them through a recent Breakthrough Institute talk.

[1] https://zunum.aero/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ioXfa_jpY
> I trust Mozilla more than to just about anybody: they're nonprofit,

Mozilla Foundation is non-profit but Mozilla Corporation is for profit. I don't know how that would affect your opinion but it certainly did when I found that that out recently when I wanted to know how much they were paid by search engines.
As mentioned in the first sentence, the RTL-SDR project is out there. You can easily buy a $20 USB Software Defined Radio with software that will handle everything for you and lets you play around with an SDR: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/
More relevant than your opinion.
Select Menu Adjust. I will never forget :)
Is Space Debris Creating a Prison for Humanity
I don't see how you're up for civil charges if you fail to respond. It's voluntary. The line about not being subject to civil liability sounds to me like your employer can't fire or sue you for undermining the security of their product if you're doing so in response to a request.
They didn't lost their app store spot due to porn, they lost it to child porn
As an Australian Dev living in the U.K. this is absolutely terrifying. I'm compelled to somehow deploy a backdoor at whatever company I'm working for if they have a single Australian user on threat of jail time???
oh I didn't think about that. But I could also benefit from taking a nap when I would otherwise be driving...
Indiegogo in particular is super sketchy, I did a campaign with them and they had an employee there contacting me and telling me all the shady stuff they can do to help me be successful and if that I can guarantee I'll raise x amount they'll do all these extra things like put it on the front page and in the newsletter and whatnot. They let you extend campaigns forever if you arne't about to hit your goal so you can keep saying "ending soon", then if you do hit your goal, instead of ending, they will let you keep it open to ride the momentum of that, or they will then let you up (or down) the goal and change the date so you can keep catching people who want to just be able to get it, or who want to pile on to a super successful project whose goal is now 1/10 of the original so it looks even more legit. You can also back your own stuff anonymously for as high as you want, so often you'll see campaigns with like $1MM and only like 20 backers and most are anonymous or not listed and you know obviously 20 people couldn't have legitimately backed for that much.

I can't recall a lot of the other stuff you could get away with, including have no proof of concepts and just using renders and being fully funded already and such, but I had to unsubscribe from their emails it was so disgusting. You can tell if you look at their site overtime which kinds of things just stay up forever or how they instantly are over the goal and whatnot. One item stayed up for like 8 months, constantly over the goal.
That is an uncharitable comparison. 12 to 15 billion is the cost to build an entirely new transbay tube. The cost to tunnel BART from Oakland to Alameda would be a small fraction of that.

I’d certainly shop in Alameda vastly more frequently if it had a BART station. Heck, my wife would probably insist we move there, the reason we don’t live there is I insist that we live near a BART station.
To be clear, they lost a spot on the Apple App Store due to child porn. I don't have a leg in this race. Don't use Tumblr, never have and likely never will but the decision is at best questionable considering the size of some of the communities they are shunting off the service.
Yes, even though it’s the same early testers, they are confident enough to pull the NDA and allow additional riders. I think you’ll see them progress pretty quickly in adding more users.
> And is it really a good idea to put your baby on social media without their explicit consent? Who owns a child's social media presence before they do?

Oh my! Thank you, thank you, thank you. It annoys me what parents think they can do with/to[0] a child just because they're the parents.

[0] I'm firmly against ear piercing a child, for example. Parents, those are not your ears to poke holes in.
Something interesting I caught on the radio this morning and that I find really relevant, is that while Yellow Vests have people from both ends of the political spectrum, the far-right is not anti welfare state at all.

LePen's Rassemblement National is anti-immigration, and anti Europe or anti globalization, so in this regard could be close to some of Trump's positions but is not at all against welfare state.

Most people protesting want less gas taxes, but not at the cost of lesser healthcare or education.

I believe this is a position that does not really exist in the American political spectrum.

So it was explained by the speaker that culturally French people are more on the side of "Social Justice" rather than "Freedom", but that does necessarily means there are more "liberal" than "conservative". It can look similar but if you are looking really close, you cannot really apply American labels. I believe this is one of the reason it looks confusing and it is hard to explain from an outsider perspective.
> The media is in attack mode against facebook. Everything from the media about them will be exaggerated and negative. So I'd take anything the news about facebook with a grain of salt.

It's shocking how heavy-handed it is. Literally every day I see some news article about how Facebook is O-V-E-R.

Meanwhile, my friends list hasn't changed one bit, and I haven't met a single person who's dumped Facebook for more than a few months. Some leave, but they always come back.

Everything about this seems like an organized attack on FB by the mainstream media.
If anything, I remember hearing a presentation where they claimed the ARM was influenced by the 6502 they used in the Atom an the BBC. The 6502 is an absolutely delightful machine to program for.

The jump delay slots, I think, are something they share with MIPS, but I'm not aware of anything else.
Yes, also OpenID Connect.
I agree the headline is seemingly a little clickbaity. But the article itself is 1,700 words from the New Yorker. Because it enumerates a variety of controversies, "Very Bad Month" ends up being the most succinct way to describe the content of the article.

I don't understand "fishermen" metaphor. Whose "we" in "You're throwing another rock into the net we're carrying..."?
Ford and Argo have a huge facility here already. Their theory if they can make it work in Miami with our terrible drivers, they can make it work anywhere. You can already get postmates and dominos delivered by Ford AV.
And yet the heavy hitters (Al Qaeda, ISIS and co) never really bothered with Israel. They went directly after other Western nations which supported the Palestinian cause and sponsored Palestinians with billions of dollars.
Being black in this industry really, really sucks. I'm certain that for the vast majority of people I interact with on a daily basis, it doesn't even cross their minds. But living with an unending fear of having your entire self worth immediately judged at the color of your skin is something that no other race lives with in this industry. I have to immediately force myself to be twice as charming, friendly, witty, and intelligent sounding as the equivalent white or Asian person just to be taken seriously. I don't really know that there's any solution to this, it's just something we have to live with.
And it's nothing new.

Same is possible with Raspberry Pi GPIO:

https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx
If an Australian developer was served with a Technical Capability Notice to build a backdoor, and then submitted code to be analysed by a third party who found it, the developer would literally be liable to be jailed for 15 years and a $50K fine for individuals or $10 million for companies.

The law requires us to deliver exploits secretly and lie to everybody about it.
Work:Life Balance at Microsoft
We are discussing the press' behavior in this thread. Whataboutism ("but the other guy did something bad?") doesn't help us with understanding why journalists switched from tacitly ignoring Facebook's various transgressions to intensely grilling them from several angles at the same time.

In the post above I posit that's due to journalists at first assuming they are on the same team, bound by shared worldview, only to learn that Facebook is loyal to the profit first and foremost, and over any ideology.

Choice examples:

- the OP article; used to be "Facebook helps populist freedom movements a'la Arab Spring"; now is "Facebook helps populist violence a'la Gilets Jaunes"

- all the problems with privacy

- being faux-feminist (https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/facebook-s-sheryl-sandber...)

- catering to far-right (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/17/facebook-...)

- hosting "fake news" (https://www.fastcompany.com/90203347/facebook-can-never-stop...)
Dashlane has that feature [0], though not for all sites of course. I haven't tried it out but I don't see why they couldn't have it working for say the 1000 most popular sites, which would cover at least half of my needs.

[0]https://support.dashlane.com/hc/en-us/articles/202699281-How...
IIRC, at launch time, its floating point performance was close to a Despro 386 with a 387 coprocessor.
As usual, churches are harming society and holding as back as a species.
> "They can't run all day on a single charge."

Again, you are incorrect here. If you don't believe me, please come to London (or any one of dozens of cities in China and Europe) where battery electric buses routinely operate all day, every day, with overnight recharging only.

> "There's tons of Diesel buses that are decades old and in use."

In London, virtually all diesel buses are retired by the time they are 10 years old. They often are then sold on to other operators where they get less intensive use, but in London it is uneconomical to continue operating old buses. Maintenance costs increase with age, and breakdowns are costly and disruptive.

> "Electric buses are "zero emission" (move the emission somewhere else) regardless of batteries vs power lines."

All electricity is not equally polluting. In the UK, and many other grids around the world, the peak demand periods are in the early morning and evening - exactly the times when the most buses are on the road!

At these peak times, more fossil-fuel power plants are typically active, so the carbon intensity of each kWh is higher. But overnight charging means that electric buses shift their energy use to when demand is lowest. Overnight electricity is not only much cheaper, but largely produced by renewables and nuclear, so the carbon intensity is low.

(OK, this may not be applicable in Montreal where most electricity is produced from hydro. But it does apply to the grids of most major European, North American, and Asian cities.)
We teach AI protein physics
Government of Canada Guidelines to Recommend Open Source and Standards
I completely agree.

I remember, despite being a BBC user mostly, Back in '87 I got told off by my parents for swearing in disbelief at this thing that turned up at the Beebug shop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrj-EEnsacQ

At the time it was faster than a lot of the minicomputers out there.
Searching an artificial bee colony for real-world results – Kanazawa University
It's interesting how the English-speaking countries seem to be doing their very best to emulate the novel "1984".
If vpn is banned proxy might be a good shortcut
Machine Learning and Physical Retail: A Love Story Waiting to Happen?
The court simply denied the SEC's ‭request for a preliminary injunction, saying it will need to see discovery and proof to judge on the merits. The case still has some way to go, it was not at all dismissed.

“At this stage, without full discovery and disputed issues of material facts, the Court cannot make a determination whether the BLV token offered to the 32 test investors was a ‘security,’”

https://www.scribd.com/document/394382912/Blockvest-Ruling
Microsoft pledges $10M to Code.org to expand computer education
On that note though, if we start using standard APIs for this sort of thing, I question whether we should just go farther and "solve" the problem.

Ie, as a dumb example, why should I expect them to implement an API for my password manager, and instead not simply allow oauth where my pass manager becomes my token provider?

Doesn't that fake example solve both problems, while also getting rid of bizarre password churn? Sure, it has the downside of "what happens when my password provider is compromised.." but that's always true, right?

An API for password managers feels like a solution to a problem we've created.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of reducing password churn. I'm just not sold on this specific method of handling it.
This is nonsense.
What if this is research around problems they need to solve in order to improve their self-driving car? Because clearly that's the goal here.

Should they tell investors to patiently wait while some academic comes up with a solution to their problem?

If I were VC with stakes in uber, and they wouldn't be researching this area, I would be pretty mad.
Only for amateur bands. ISM, 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz along with a few others don't require a license.
So a smartphone is an all-or-nothing proposition? I don't think so. My smartphone has improved my family life. As a background, my family consists of myself, my wife, two kids in graduate school, and a kid in high school. We have a family chat (group iMessage) we utilize nearly every day with everyone texting something interesting they've learned and seen or reacting to major news events. It really keeps us connected.

During lunch at work my friends and I will watch YouTube videos together that one of us have found interesting or entertaining.

I say this to provide a counterpoint that smartphones can actually help bring families and teams closer, making them more cohesive.

Now there are downsides, and those can be mitigated with some simple rules. First, and probably most important, no phone usage during dinner. Not only is the phone not allowed to be used, it's not allowed to be present at the dinner table. We have the same rule at lunch. No phone unless we're watching a YouTube video together or someone is looking something up that's relevant to a conversation we're having. Similarly, our company has a Be Here Now policy for meetings. Phones are to be put away and notifications are to be disabled. You're even allowed and encouraged to call people out for violating this policy.

Once you've done these simple things something starts to happen: your phone becomes a part of your life instead of consuming the entirety of your life. You realize there's a time and a place for everything and learn how to achieve better balance. The all-or-nothing approach is not balanced.
Question that's somewhere between rhetorical and semi-serious. At what point do one of these companies increase their pricing to the point where they can operate profitably and just let volumes end up wherever they end up (making whatever cost cuts they need to on the way down)? Presumably there's some point where you can make money--but maybe not if you have a basically equivalent competitor who is willing to lose money indefinitely.
And who's fault is it according to you ?
Relevant parts in: Appendix C, C.2.3.8
Why a retired judge and not an active judge? Presumably because an active is required to obey certain standards and is legally independent. A retired judge is effective just some guy.
Why not? Complexity.
It has been tried before and failed (REST XML Schema, for one example). Site operators just don't want to maintain two complete copies of their password change infrastructure (one for people, one for programmable interaction).

The current system puts more work onto the password managers themselves, but realistically even if there was a generic API, the sites themselves aren't generic, each one requires a different series of steps with unique error messages, etc. So while an API would save some work, password managers would still need bespoke steps per site.
Why do you feel this is? I'm pretty sure the industry skews liberal-to-progressive so I would assume there aren't that many racists in software development.
I naively assumed that this was the point, but when I read the spec you're right: it's just about hitting the well-known URL and redirecting the browser to the actual change-password URL. Does anybody know why, from the site maintainer perspective, why would I bother to implement this?
Edit: I wish there was some sort of go-to essay on how and why advertising is bad, backed by academic sources. It would make arguing against ubiquitous ads just a bit easier.

Could there be a reason there isn't one?
USB serial dongle? pah, use the system-bus on the motherboard ;) https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
London once had the world’s largest network of overhead-wire trolly-buses. But they were abandoned in the 1960s in favour of diesel buses, because they offered more flexibility and lower operating costs.

Given what we now know about the health and environmental impacts of diesel, it can be argued that this was a mistake. However, it would be very difficult and costly to reinstate such a network today - we are talking about thousands of miles of wires, and surely huge opposition from businesses and residents who would not want wires cluttering their streets.

Battery electrics offer the best of both worlds. The smooth, quiet passenger experience and zero emissions of a trollybus, with the flexibility and low fixed costs of diesel.
Except that there's other countries where their governments don't seem to have these problems.
Troll? Public transport doesn't run 24/7. And so what if he slept on the bus all night?
Yeah - if everyone was assigned a job by the government we wouldn’t have this problem.
And the home teleportation portal announced for 2027. I just hope it doesn't have too many privacy implications.
Don't worry, you're not being as Gandhi-like as you might think: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/23/be-change/
Is that good or bad?
The NYT story likely took months to fully investigate. The current UK hearings are a result of last March's investigations into Cambridge Analytica. You believe that the UK hearings should just be ignored?