skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, 'unedited internet communication in general' shouldn't be expected to improve public discourse any more than telephone calls or emails or any other form of uncensored expression.

If the internet is meant to be a platform on which people can express themselves freely (and I believe it is) then unsubstantiated and hateful opinions are a given, not a sign that the internet has failed, but that it's succeeded.

What failed is the naive, idealist expectation that the internet would raise the level of intellectual and cultural awareness of the planet, but I don't think many people really believed in that to begin with.
> Edit: Giffgaff (virtual provider) have also stated that this is a global problem which is even more worrying

They're virtual, but wholly owned by the same parent as O2 (Telefónica).
Beep beep- this is against the narrative. Let me find something to discredit the news. Oh wait- sputnik sounds like a Russian name.

Russian propaganda!!!!!!
Most keyboards don't have an antenna attached. While you can keylog a keyboard via emissions like this, you have to have physical access to the office to do so - at that point putting a usb keylogger inline with the keyboard is easier and more reliable. (or substitution your own keyboard with a real radio)
wtf is a "sex positive community"?

everything on the planet that walks also is "sex positive", yet only a handful are wanking to tumblr
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The Acorn Atom, its successor, the BBC micro family, then the Archimedes, the first 32-bit RISC personal computer (for which the ARM was designed)...

Their impact cannot be overstated.
Marketing can only go so far. There are plenty of things (video games included) marketed towards kids with big budgets that the children are completely ambivalent about. If they didn't enjoy Minecraft or Roblox or Fortnite or Pokemon or JUUL or McDonald's Happy Meals or light-up sneakers, they'd join the ranks of EZ Squirt ketchup, ET for Atari, New Coke, or the Virtual Boy.
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Let's hope the general populace can see the difference between peaceful protestors and people just wanting violence and destruction.

Macron's body guard getting filmed (out of context) beating a protestor led to him being arrested, suspended and then demoted and profuse apologies from France's head of state.

So I think police is still being held accountable the way they should.
You have subtly moved the goal post from "far left" to "left-wing". Nice!

Your definition also happens to fit Donald Trump professing his love of farmers and minors. If Donald Trump is far-left, have you considered that you may be a fascist?
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So basically Google is like microsoft?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/readwrite.com/2013/07/11/micros...
I find this concept really remarkable and extraordinary. When I first encountered it I was still programming in Java and to my surprise there is an implementation of it in Java, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCSP

I really enjoyed playing with this library. Somehow the basic abstractions and the mental model to use it felt much easier in general than the threading model. It reminded me of go channels for some extent. It is also a very powerful concept. It even allows to emulate the actor model. Sadly it is not actively developed any more.
Probably because it lets you communicate with everyone without being That Asshole who judges you over brand of electronics you bought.
I did not have any experience with emacs and only the most basic knowledge of Vim. I had some guidance from my company's CTO though.
It seems like Facebook got caught in a monetization trap. They started on a model of "get the audience, figure out revenue streams later". But then when it came to crunch time on figuring out monetization strategies, they realized there was no easy answer. Charge for access? Sell your users & their data to 3rd parties in various ways? (I do wonder if a freemium model would have worked.)

Either way it's like they had a panic and got it all wrong, began considering & trying all kinds of shady things. Then to hide that fact they made it even worse, first by hiding it and looking duplicitous, then by doing even more shady things.
Shouldn’t the AI be rewarded for exploring places it hasn’t explored before? It seems like that would help it progress in Pitfall.
Thanks for the insight. I still don't fully understand the point of the article. It seems to be focused on publishers getting to keep the extra ad revenue. Does that mean the advertisers don't get a refund for their overpriced ads?
I think it's still valid but at the same time our stuff is crap too.
And even then, there's an additional escape hatch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector
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Also, what exactly happens if the code is worked on in teams and/or available for any people in the company (and it sure is), and if another developer questions the committed code or attempts to change or remove it? Does such code gets explicitly painted "don't remove, don't edit, don't ask any questions"? Suddenly we get code in our product that nobody cannot talk about, nobody should understand, and nobody can fix if it introduces any other bugs into the product.

It's a complete disaster.
I wonder how fast you could toggle the capslock LED... hmm
A sad day for democracy, but this fact restores some faith in dictatorship.

FTFU
An entire country being wiped out from sea level rise is a problem that is pretty specific to Bangladesh. It only takes 9m of sea level rise to flood more than 70% of Bangladesh.
> Instagram has suffered less, but instagram isn’t really useful for anything but wasting time.

Is Instagram useless, or just useless to you? I understand that HN isn't Facebook's target market, but it's disappointing to read comments that dismiss its services and anyone who does find utility in them.
haha, i like your figure of speech.
Well its now Adastral Park and before that BT labs.

It Was/Is the equivalent of Bell Labs.
> You need a trained and certified Master because otherwise people new to Scrum might not know to pick hats

You certainly don't need a certified scrum master. Ideally, the scrum master should be somebody who is already in the team. A scrum master who does just that is really a project manager, and having a project manager is, IMHO, antithetical to doing scrum.
Steps to reproduce, Screenshots, verions/setup, expected behavior and output, priority (high, low, etc), category (UI, functional, etc).

That’s it.
I'm very aware of Friedman's work and I think it's time we all stopped listening to the words of that fascist-apologist hack.
I had an Archimedes! It was amazing.

Weird to think how many billions of ARM chips there are now. Another 40 million made every day apparently.
I'm using incognito mode to parse some pages that for some reason I can't using the normal context.

I have been considering moving my pool of chromium workers to lambda functions so we can avoid api slowdowns due to a high number of parsings at the same time.

Are there any other side effects of running chromium headless in a lambda function?
Give Spacemacs a shot. Here is why it's an easier transition than VS Code to vanilla emacs or Vim:

- It's already 99% configured

- The keyboard shortcuts are mnemonic

- There is a UI display of all the shortcuts within one keystroke at any given time

- You can still function with your mouse -- if you need to
The 50% that most people note includes healthcare, or at least it did from 2009 to 2011.
He didn't say this, but I suspect that his antenna was that specific length for rf reasons - wires work best as antennas when their length is some multiple of the wavelength. (ask an rf engineer if you want details, I'm close enough for discussion but all rf engineers will cry when they read that)
The government's primary goal is to protect itself and continue growing like cancer. In many ways the citizens are it's greatest threat because they can vote to cut budget and the power of the political elites. These laws are a way to increase monitoring of citizens so problems can be squashed before they grow too big and threaten the government.

Make no mistake, with the rise of ML governments will be able to crush social movements in the nascent stage before they become too big to stop. People will be arrested for thought crimes because they posted the wrong thing on the wrong website. And currently a large number of people would cheer because the people getting arrested are on the "other" side of the political spectrum. Be careful what you wish for
I wouldn't say LG and HTC are the cheapest phones you can get. The parent comment recommended Samsung S series or the Sony Xperia series, which are $700-$900 phones which is squarely in iPhone territory.
The tax rate in the US gets pretty close to 50% when all the municipalities take their cut. If you're in Silicon Valley, most devs are going to be paying a 41%-44% tax rate just from federal and California income tax. Then you've got any local taxes, land taxes, etc that add onto that
It is extremely useful for recruiting talent. Top talent wants to do basic research, so this is a powerful lure for keeping them at the company rather than in academia. I'm at NeurIPS this week, and many companies are here and they heavily advertise how many papers they have in the conference as part of their recruitment efforts for both (applied) AI research and AI engineering positions.
https://status.o2.co.uk/

> We believe other mobile operators around the world are also affected.

Anyone else affected?
It passed earlier today, it's law now.
You can distort almost any topic by selectively reporting only truthful thing

You mean like, determining what users see on their timelines?
It is not universally bad, of course. The question is if the bad consequences outweigh the good ones.

The improvement I was talking about was the hope that the increased access to online communication would engage more people in constructive public discourse, include the voices of minorities and bring people with different backgrounds to a greater understanding of each other. Platforms like Facebook have utterly failed at that.
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He connected an antenna to it. That's what makes it illegal.
The other algorithm is still a search one. Just really clever in how it searches.
It wasn't that the "adults" adopted it, it's that the younger generation inevitably grew up and turned into the adults.
Those never have false positives?
This would be a surprisingly backward and anti-science viewpoint for the general public, let alone HN.
Google seemed to have some trouble recently when they didnt show up to congress... but then it just disappeared. Facebook seems to have tried to own up to it, and its backfiring... Google must have just paid off everyone with their lobbying powerhouse to make it go quiet.
That's an interesting point. Thank you!
The tracking of everybody all the time is close to be automated.
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Yeah I know the place, drive past it often (although the name change had passed me by). Was wondering where the UK intelligence link was in the original article.
Can you quote the FCC regulations that make this transmitter legal? (I'm assuming American law, the law in other countries obviously vary)
You might have a typo: 460,4330?
If a wolf and a sheep are having a discussion over what to eat, is letting the wolf eat only 1 or 2 legs a nice balance because both sides are unhappy?

Should one side be made happy when they have an unreasonable ask?

If companies do not want you to work for competitors, they should be paying your salary for that time. Employees still lose out on things like keeping their skills sharp through work, or career growth, but they are at least getting compensated for the job
Sorry but I don't know. If you need to be certain, don't use it.
I'm not an expert - and I'm well aware of people having miserable living conditions already.

And I'm well aware that in Europe, misery is more a matter of relative appreciation and of dynamics (which the media and the social networks nurture and feed on) than of absolute. Europe is rather well endowed, compared to the rest of the globe. Still...

What I fear is disorder, irrational, unwarranted violence, managed by unaware & unapologetic kids who make money on it today and will write history tomorrow.

Facebook/Twitter/Instagram & co are heavily contributing to set the world on fire by blowing on people's weaknesses and susceptibilities.

The question to me is not if/when their demise will happen. The question is how to make it happen faster: either they lose, either balanced democracies lose.
It seems to me that Apple could deploy iMessage and FaceTime versions for Android whenever they wanted to. The only reason they aren't is probably that they don't want to cannibalize sales of their own hardware.
He connected a regular wire to it... That's kinda how you use a UART.
The difference between can and will be is huge.

Look at it from their point of view... they approach some developer and it's amateur hour. The dev might get stroppy, there's all sorts of infrastructure problems, they might not do it right... it's a mess.

But if they approach the CEO, it gets done right. The CEO brings in Legal, who promptly shit themselves. They bring in the CTO, who is told to shut up, sign this NDA, and work out how to make this happen as fast and painlessly as possible. No problems, the bad things get done, no-one gets told anything, all good. Shit continues to roll downhill...
Just so I understand:

You oppose 3rd party voter databases, like these:

https://www.ngpvan.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGP_VAN
https://www.i-360.com
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/I360

You support foreign intelligence agencies covertly, anonymously meddling with our elections. Especially through our social media platforms, like Facebook. Because Obama's campaign had an app.
> Graduating

Yeah, that.
Very comfortable might be nice.... but it sounds like this person got away without having to work and pulling in 400k and 800k in what were possibly laundered money.

That seems like what might be a more attractive thing to do / better pay off, without a lot of work.
Ain't that 24 days, 2 days per month) plus public holidays? just wondering. Confirming the rest.
400 is an arbitrary number, but it's what sometimes (often?) happens with exact-match tests; take the second example with the PDF-to-HTML converter, an exact match tests would test too much, and thus your SVG tests will fail when nothing SVG-specific changed (maybe the way you rendered the HTML header changed). Or maybe you changed the order your HTML renderer uses to render child nodes, and it's still a valid order in 99% of your cases, but it breaks 100% of your tests. How do you identify the 1% that are broken? It's very hard if your tests just do exact textual comparison, instead of verifying isolated, relevant properties of interest.

In my Google example, the problem is that functional tests were testing something that should've been a performance aspect. The way you identify minor regressions is by having a suite of performance/ accuracy tests, where you track that accuracy is trending upwards across various classes of input. Those are not functional tests - any individual sample may fail and it's not a big deal if it does. Sometimes a minor regression is actually acceptable (e.g. if the runtime performance/ resource consumption improved a lot).
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Not GTK per se, but the Common Lisp bindings for GTK.
How rural America is turning into a digital desert
It is actually quite frightening situation. This issue is a fact and well-documented in Finnish-speaking media. But all English-speaking (or Swedish-speaking) news are on "alt-media", which are all by default banned in Hackers News, including the Sputnik News.
Advertisers like sexiness but don't like porn because they want their customer base to stay frustrated and chase satisfaction via materialist comsumption. It's a blend of Puritan work ethic with soulless corporate exploitation.
> I'm pretty sure Obama didn't use a Russian troll farm during his campaigns.

Why do you guys keep saying that, if it's all but speculation? You're stating that as a fact.
Arguably the Flatiron building looks like the prow of a ship and it certainly is an architectural work worthy of admiration.

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x89c259a3f71c1f6...
I know, it's my bad, there is an known issue in the Guix pack, I'm working on it!

Next Guix pack should work flawlessly!
If the climate/environment can absorb a year's worth of carbon dumping in a relatively short time, it seems to me that the source wouldn't matter and the system would balance.
If it was "moved" then that might mean the $460k are included in the $806k. Don't ask me how that "moving" could be done, but they explicitely said "move" and explicitely said that it collected $800k altogether. That would be surprising if it actually made the sum of both.
The issue with Bitcoin in commerce
Someone is trying short FB big.
I had a Palm Pre then was with Windows Phone for a bit, but the only Android phone I've owned was a Nexus 4. I liked it (for the price) and would have stayed with the Nexus line if the prices had stayed in the Nexus price range. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the hardware, I actually still use the Nexus 4 today to test my app on older Android versions.

But by the time I needed a new phone, the Nexus 6 was twice the price of the Nexus 4. For that price, I switched to the iPhone.
And then you've forgotten about the product and will end up with a culture like Google that focuses on technical complexity as opposed to adding value towards the business and focusing on building products.
Good point! Uber definitly has simulated road environments, so it makes sense indeed.
Thanks for sharing.
While I am no mathematician and not at all smart, I work in the tech industry. But I share the attitude of your mathematical friend. Let Facebook do what they please with my data; there's nothing important there.

It's not the data misuse that repulses me from Facebook, but the overall shallowness of conversations, its feed contents (I don't care about what my friends liked or responded to; I am content with just seeing their posts, thank you very much). So there's a lot to dislike about Facebook apart from how they treat our data.
I think that the title reflects the content of the article. The rules say that the title must be not editorialized.

This comment doesn't really add to the discussion in a positive way.
How can you protect against such kind of scam on such kind of platform?

An airplane can reduce the risk of falling down, but if you want to be protected(!) against falling down from the sky you shouldn't enter a big piece of metal that lifts off from the ground.
One of the first computers I ever used was an Acorn, the only thing I can really remember about it was its odd mouse - it had three buttons (no scroll wheel) and both the middle and right buttons provided different context menus!
Who is “they”? Your little anti-media ciclejerk here seems to target “the media”. But you can’t all be so dense as to not notice that this is just some guy on medium.com, right?
There must be some HN email client somewhere :)
Luakit is probably what's closest to Next in terms of design.

The important differences, in my opinion:

- Next is not bound to WebKitGTK+, so unlike Luakit it can run on different platforms with different engines.

- Next uses Lisp, which is I believe much more powerful, both for large scale development and hackability.
I was reminded of this when Obama still referred to BP as British Petroleum during the oil spill:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10303619
Many seeds of various plants/trees survive and even require heat to germinate.
The bandwidth of these drives are increasing due to the fact that the rotational speeds are tending to remain the same while the density is increasing. So, as the linear in track BPI increases so does the throughput. Tracks per inch, which is where most of the density has been doesn't improve bandwidth. This is where a lot of the density improvements a few years ago was coming from (higher TPI). At one point the TPI was actually higher than the linear BPI, which was something completely non-obvious to me when I discovered it.

HAMR is an increase in linear BPI, so expect these drives to get faster.
Someone make a website with a more complete list of Australian software & hardware companies so we can blacklist them all more efficiently

Or even a list of Australian devs to blacklist lol