skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which the theives in the article could have done anyway.
See: https://imgur.com/gallery/snhvea1
Lots of people are already miserable. Not the "experts" who have sold their intellects to maintain the status quo for the billionaires, of course. Lots of inequality, lots of bureaucracy, lots of rules, lots of violence, gives them lots of levers to pull. Unless you're such an expert, you shouldn't fear change.
Yes, I would have thought (pure speculation) that GCHQ could tap the backhaul at many different points and not have to depend on having backdoor access to every piece of equipment.
Yep, that one!

Useful for people that are deaf and hard of hearing....
> Giving someone a beating to incapacitate them (no time for arrest & paperwork) is fair game in my eyes.

This is a very wrong view to hold, imho. Modern political concepts like the German Rechtsstaat or the English "Rule of law" depend on the police not doing what they're seen doing in videos like this one. If the general populace feels (or even starts to feel) that the police and the powers that be play by no rules then we'll be in a world of hurt and anarchy.
People said the same things about IVF.
Per capita is a BS way to look at it. If US emissions are growing at 0.5% per year then there is nothing to do. It will take 140 years to double and the natural progression of technology will easily solve the problem. Solar and other renewable technologies are advancing so fast that economic factors will take over and there will be much less need for fossil fuels very shortly. On the other hand if a country with a large population is growing emissions at 8% then that is less than a decade to double which is a huge problem.

On another note, why do resent the lifestyle of average people? Not everybody wants to live in an urban hellscape with millions of other people. You speak about it with such contempt.
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And for fuel synthesis, seawater is a vastly more viable source, and the research more than a half-century old:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electri...
What startups? I've seen a lot of messaging solutions, but not too many full competitors. Maybe I've been a bit blind
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He's a neoliberal who's screwing the working people, and now the working people are protesting. While I agree with the premise that they should've chosen someone else who cared about them like Le Pen, I don't see how this protest is illegitimate. (Not that I'm defending the property damage, of course.)
> Russians pretending to be Americans

While I don't claim to have researched this issue in depth and it's worth taking this with a pinch of salt, I'm yet to see any evidence of this, nor has it been a part of most of the leftist reporting I've seen. The only instance I've heard of where a specific Twitter account has been accused of being a Russian misrepresenting their nationality was ian56789, and that accusation was false, as he demonstrated by going on Sky News and giving an interview.
I love Safari, for it’s syncing with my phone and password features, as well as its performance.
Well now we know what radio waves are produced by 0x55. How about other characters? I'm willing to bet that everyone's wired keyboard is an SDR so to speak and a well placed receiver can keylog you.
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I wonder if it'll ever be possible to reverse the paradigm -- when Facebook needs some of my data, they ask me (or some proxy Iv'e set up) for my data and use it with a lease.

All the EULA legalese that companies use to enforce their will could be turned in the opposite direction and we'd found out it's real worth -- I can dictate how FB uses the data they pull from my server just like they try, to the extent that anyone can tell someone else what to do with data instead of having near zero power as people who live in non-GDPR regions do now.

I mean I don't think this kind of scheme would actually work but I can still dream.
Huawei is rumored to have backdoored the African Union and Trump has been pushing other countries to get tough on China in general for stealing IP. This is essentially an extension of the trade war and valid fears that the Chinese government may be spying on you if you use Huewei
The "permissive api" is facebook changing what words mean over time. People signed up, shared things, and then facebook changed default behaviors without communicating the change WELL.

http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

In April 2010 basically everything a new user posted to facebook was public by default. They didnt "care deeply about peoples privacy."
Yet again, research and breakthrough are not made by profitable companies. And research money most often come from government with little to no incentive on ROI.
It doesn't. I doubt it would be legal for them to mention things covered by the Official Secrets Act. Remember that GCHQ was "officially invisible" for years despite being a hugely visible building and major Coventry employer. The Martlesham Heath connection is less conspicuous but something I've had people in the know hint at.
Some of it yes. ASICs usually can only do one mining algorithm (nakamoto, hashimoto, etc) and can't easily upgrade their firmware.
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The skeleton of the approach suggested reminds me of how the BEAM runs processes: one OS thread per CPU, scheduling many lightweight tasks listening to message queues.
We need to come up with a name for this "branch" of computing that is less followed and that has not been adopted en masse by the wider culture. It's going to have a second wind soon.
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Yes this is very true. There are honest journalists and frauds on both sides. (wink wink Alex Jones)
Well, for me a computer (desktop) is only marginally an entertainment device so I normally sit, with my "comfort" chair (Varier Balans) and my keyboard ready to operate...

I have a smartphone, so I casually use touch input but mostly as a personal navigation device, a on-the-go mail reading device (I do not normally write mails on the go), a mobile phone for actually call or answer call GSM or VoIP and an org-mode limited display (Orgzly) for "to buy" grocery lists. Essentially no more. People who try to use such devices for more, like banking etc I simply call them poor, unfortunate and ignorant slaves.

I do not find such devices as an innovation but as an involution and a failure, an involution because of their absurd limit, a failure because we are still unable to have a "computer on the go" when needed...

It's not a matter of being "geek" but a matter of control our personal datas and environments and being able to produce contents, not only consume it. With mobile crap we can consume easily but we can't produce essentially nothing and we can't control our data. So they are absurd devices.

BTW yes, I can still use my physical keyboard, unfortunately they are more and more bad, the sole acceptable remaining are super-expensive and still bad... I would love having again my beloved SUN type6 or ancient ones with many keys I can use with single key binding on Emacs. I would love to have programmable keyboard that are not immense amount of crap that demand super-buggy software only to register custom keys or macros and even with them they can't really be customized.
> they're the monopoly because they are the best in many ways, mostly not because of network effects or anti-competitive behaviour

Not true. Their advertising business is absolutely built on network effects. Advertisers advertise where there is user data (anything else is a money losing proposition), and lots of user data collection only happens in services that have the money to host (and curate) a large search index, which in turn needs a healthy and growing ad business.

It's a self-serving cycle that eventually leads to one player becoming the monopoly.

(Same deal with social networks, though less pronounced.)
I think it's safe to assume that the code used to recognize cars and traffic signs can also be used to recognize other things, such as muslims, people using apps the government can't spy on, people wearing/holding objects that the government want to eradicate (perhaps a banned book). I think it's also safe to assume Google benefit immensely from having millions of people ready to test their changes in order to optimize their code and algorithms. I'm also sure that they do more than just check if you picked the "right" squares, such as storing every square you've ever chosen along with other stats such as completion time and correctness. I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese government (as well as others) had interest in using such data to detect "rebels".

I would also be surprised if the work wouldn't be beneficial to other AI related work that can be used to build detailed profiles among other things.
True, but it happens in a company's good times as well as bad times. Emphasizing this distortion only now would introduce a bias.
Why cant you use system fonts by default, unless you need to use a web font? Youre making web fonts the first, go to choice, in call cases.
> I adore hangouts, ugly and 'outdated' as it is

How is hangouts ugly or outdated? I've heard this from several people and I don't know to what y'all are referring.

I have no particular love or hate for hangouts, I'm just curious.
I would be very curious to know if there were other high level executives (C-suite) who were not arrested when they entered a country (not just Canada) with whom the US has an extradition treaty.

That would resolve the question of whether she was arrested solely because of her role as CFO, or if it was also an attempt to send a personal message.

I assume that is what is being discussed.
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A power asserting its dominance has been the norm for thousands of years; you have just been brainwashed into hating your country. As for neocons being responsible for everything- just wow- that’s two steps past ignorant. The last president and Secretary of State are directly responsible for open slave markets in libya. Predatory foreign policy has been the only bipartisan issue in our history.
Sounds like an interesting approach to data exfiltration on an air-gapped system, provided the right pieces are in place.
An example of the sort of thing I mean: https://www.ft.com/content/333fe6bc-c1ea-11e6-81c2-f57d90f67... (in this case Macedonians, not Russians, but where did the money come from?)
Maybe. But the mere fact that it is discussed is the important point to note.
>"They are mentioned"

No, they were not mentioned. If they were, you would be quoting it.

>'"2013: ΛCDM provides an excellent fit to the improved CMB data"

As I've said, that's the "item 3" from the 5 item list, and it's ultimately confirmed by ESA's Planck satellite results in 2013. That is a strong confirmation.'

You have to read the entire quote. This "fit" was a post-diction, not a pre-diction:
"in order to obtain a fit, we have had to nearly double the baryon density over what it was so confidently known to be before it wasn't."

Post-dictions can be interesting as part of model development but are unable to confirm a model. The new, (possibly adjusted) model then need to be checked against new data.
Especially since no real link has been made between both companies and the student. You can't even affirm that the IGG campaign was indeed a scam or just an utter failure.
With the tradeoff of being incredibly disruptive to the RF spectrum (and therefore strongly ill-advised for use in a product)
I have a converter that I plug into my USB socket and then I can plug my old style keyboard into this converter. Is that what is being talked about here? The picture looks different.
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I guess the poster child for this is Kim Dotcom. Launched a file sharing service from New Zealand that didn't break any NZ laws.

USA didn't like it though, and asked NZ to extradite him to face charges in the USA.

Legal battle still going, I think... but the business is dead.

I doubt Australia has that much clout, but you never know when an extradition will be the price of some favour to someone...
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Interesting comment on that thread. Since all Australian SSL certs are now compromised (we must assume that), shouldn't all Australian certifying authorities be de-trusted?
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They used to be aimed at people struggling to get their Linux machines to connect to projectors, as Macs "just work". They're now aimed at people with Macs in dongle hell.
It’s being reported that the outage is probably related to Ericsson.

“The company said that the problem stemed from a global software issue at a third-party supplier, understood to be Ericsson, which has also affected other mobile operators around the world.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/06/o2-customer...

Edit: also apparently confirmed by Ericsson themselves.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-o2telefonica-outages/erics...
This is the hard lesson for the Europeans: they need to take their fate into their own hands. I am skeptical, but "not change ever" is a pretty bold statement.
Seems like they've tried to roll their own machine learning classifier as well because I've seen some comically bad screenshots of banned content. For example, a picture of someone's finger got banned as sexually explicit.

Should have just used AWS or Google Cloud AI APIs
Thanks, fair point. But then again that's democracy right? And riots aren't your weekend party- people are on streets because they are fed up of something.
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totally agree. Which means their contradiction of the Aussie rules means...
> the common man is simply too dumb to vote

This is foundation of American democracy actually. In the early history of the U.S., most states allowed only male adult property owners to vote (about 6% of the population).
It was a choice between telling the users that they do and don't telling them. They chose... poorly.
It's too bad nobody ever thought to create an Independent alternative.../s

As much as both parties gave lip service to healthcare reform, they both supported cutting the independent advisory board on pricing before it even got a chance to get started.
If you keep your Lambda warm, shouldn't you just use something like browserless (https://github.com/joelgriffith/browserless)?
I thought so too at first, but here's my new thinking:

The most efficient way to learn real world tasks (for say a robot) is to learn in a realistic simulated environment, which ideally can be controlled by the agent, e.g. rewinding state after a failure to correct that particular behaviour. Ideally the simulation is regularly calibrated against real experiments, including confidence intervals on the real and simulated sensor inputs.

Given that model of learning, Uber's approach here is very reasonable.
Maybe he cheated to get in?
I did not claim that it was a perfect system, but it is better at avoiding devolving into the hateful rage-soup that unedited online forums often do. It is virtually impossible to have a system that is "perfectly balanced" (can we even define what that means?), so rejecting alternatives on those grounds is holding them to unrealistically high standards.
I don't think transmitters are made artificially expensive to keep out the newbs. As you said, it's illegal.

And if you're a newb (like me) interested enough to try this at home, you might have read to the end of the article where it states:

> DISCLAIMER: It should go without saying that you should never transmit on any frequencies or at any power levels for which you are not authorized by the local governing body, but I guess I just said it anyway.
Nice! One thing though:

For http://visual6502.org/sim/varm/armgl.html, would be much nicer that dragging would pan rather than "3D rotate" the view. The panning with wasd is too slow and not compatible with some keyboard layouts.

And of course zooming around mouse cursor rather than around center of screen would also help to zoom towards the part you want.

The 3D rotation is gimmicky but not actually useful to see the gates, and the current UI just doesn't let me zoom to gates I want without spending too much effort fighting the slow panning and the zooming target.

Thanks!
He needs a car for his job anyway, so yeah. But even otherwise possibly, the rent in the city here would be twice as much for half the space.
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You forgot +$400,000 per kid for university education - not to mention public school quality.
Interesting - thanks for posting!
> On Unity's case with some subsystems in the process of being replaced by HPC#.

They are converting their C# code to HPC# which specifically does not do GC allocations.

https://youtu.be/NF6kcNS6U80?t=886

HPC#:
* no class types
* no boxing
* no GC allocation
* not exceptions for control flow

They are building a compiler to eliminate the GC from the GC'd language they were using.
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But he doesn't have any amplification. Nothing is happening here that doesn't happen already with normal use of the UART. If what he is doing here is illegal then the RF pollution from using the UART normally would be too.
Do they "go" bad or are they surpassed/replaced by better things? I'd argue Tumblr is inherently a better product than AOL or BBS. With FB, while it certainly slid over time, it also acquired the next/better platforms to protect itself against their disruption, and so it may actually be somewhat protected or given longer shelf life.
> I'm just a bit surprised HR don't reach out to applicants in such situations and ask about the concerns they have

That's an easy one. They don't have any concerns if they're not intending to employ you.

Assuming there are multiple applicants and some pass muster, the applicants that don't aren't very interesting to them. The way to think about it is from their position. They're not trying to hire you, they're trying to fill a position. Your job is to convince them that you're the best person to fill that spot.
There is often very little risk... a small amount of disposable income to potentially get an interesting niche product. It is not meant to be a "smart" money decision. Not sure where you are getting that idea from...
While I agree that this is nice, many people upgrade their phones every 2-3 years anyway, just because of the hardware/battery. For them, this is not a selling point.
Agreed.

The problem is the term "filter bubble" conflates personalization, relevance, and recommendations.

I can do without the recommendation engines.

Source: Worked on a recommenders for mid-sized e-commerce site.
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The outage was apparently caused by Ericssons software: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/06/o2-customer... - our domestic, trustworthy and great company.

But it's sad to see that Chinese scaremongering propaganda is so effective even on educated people.
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It isn't a media campaign, it's that the company did countless shitty things, and they're coming to light over time. It's important, not a campaign.
The people that designed and built the first ARM processor (in 1985), for those that dont know. Among other things.

ARM originally meant Acorn RISC Machine.
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I agree with 1 and 2, but really, you don't have to spend iPhone level prices, just don't buy the cheapest phone you can get.
> Could you elaborate about the tor browser?

Currently Tor is behind mainline Firefox in terms of security because it's a fork of Firefox ESR[1]. Pay attention to this part[2]:

> Unlike other release channels, ESRs are not updated with new features every six weeks. They are instead supported for more than a year, updating with major security or stability fixes.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Fir...
HN Mods why are you allowing click bait headlines on here? You're throwing another rock into the net we're carrying every time you allow this. Some day the master fisherman are going to get sick of carrying rocks. ie, I come here to learn from the fishermen, not the rock throwers.

I can "feel" this headline yanking my brain for attention. "How could it get worse?!" "What did they do now?!" "How was this month very bad?!" "I for sure enjoy perceived petty revenge against large evil corp".

Edit: We're allowed to have a different title than the actual article.
They didn't let the pain-in-the-ass FBI go through their shit so hopefully they tell Australia to pound sand too.
The fake photos were self-evidently shared enough to receive some media coverage, and the article cites retweet counts. I'm not clear on the relevance of you not having personally spotted these specific ones.

I took a look at the Atlantic link you included, and I'm not seeing any photos of bloodied protesters like the fake ones had. I don't doubt that with rubber bullets and batons flying there were some injuries, but the "fake" photos still aren't accurate depictions of them if they're from previous incidents.
Dark fluid, negative mass?

Rubbish, it's turtles all the way down!
Uber has seen huge changes - they lost their CEO and shut down their self driving truck division - also the head of the lidar technology from the otto acquisition was fired. there are probably many more things i cant think of
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>...the ads on the subway have never tried to run malicious code on me...

Ads that are trying to psychologically manipulate you are doing worse than running malicious code on your machines, they are trying to run malicious code on your brain.

Research has shown time and again that there are exploits to trick human minds, and you cant really just update your brain to shut those down. You can try to be mindful of them and avoid them, but if they are plastered literally everywhere when you go out into public, that becomes a much harder task
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> "Whether it happens or not, if the disruptor doesn't have a business model not based on targeted advertisement, I don't see how it will be different..."

This is such a convoluted way to phrase things! Two hypotheticals and five negatives make your first sentence very difficult to parse... which dilutes the power of your comment. Not nit-picking, rather aiming to help for the sake of your future comments' readability.
From the article, the effective range seems to be around 10 feet.

IIRC you are generally permitted to use whatever frequency you wish within a very limited radius as long as it is for "research purposes"

Edit: this last point is wrong, as mentioned below exemptions seem to apply for certain frequencies with a low powered device https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/low-power-radio-general-info...
Maybe you view the word neocon in a more idealistic sense than I do.

I agree the horrible policy is bipartisan.

Please clarify the nature of your disagreement with my comment. Not sure I fully understand.
Extremely high click-through-rate isn't good generally. I can make something very vague and get high CTR but the conversion will be awful and a waste of money. For an awareness or cost per impression campaign it would be good though.

Compared to the average display ad the bright yellow grabs attention and "The night of the yellow ad" makes you curious
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