skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes a “modern society”? Is it modern because of a certain code it uses, or because it has certain qualities which make it more vital than “non modern society”? I understand that one should follow and understand technological change, but being wary toward obvious intrusion of personal space is far from being socially unacceptable.
7plus, 7, 8, 8plus and X; according to the court's press release linked by detaro https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18729430
I hate talking to computers, so I don't see a voice assistant in my future ever. I'm in my early 50s by the way, and have been coding since I was in high school.

Maps/navigation is the only reason I even have a smartphone.
A moderator could be a member of that chat group, therefore about to receive encrypted communications.

Obviously it wouldn't work with the way WhatsApp groups work now, but it is in a strange place half way between private and public.
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It reminds me of the Google China incident. except google pulled out and revamped their practices (though as outsiders we know little of what really happened),
"it's not a bug, it's a feature" is sort of a phrase/meme referring to bugs that have been tried to not like a bug by PR departments. In this case, we see that this is a bug (iPads are supposed to be flat), but Apple claims "it's normal" to sell their device: classic "it's not a bug, it's a feature" attitude.
Hospitals, doctors surgeries, pharmacies, research units etc etc are all part of the NHS. Presumably this will help them build consistent website across the whole NHS.

They are a bit of a hudgepodge at the moment - one at random http://www.cityandhackneyccg.nhs.uk/about-us/member-gp-pract...
My grocery store has a delivery service. The store is often full of employees dashing through the aisles tossing random crap in their carts to fulfil delivery orders. These guys are being paid minimum wage. I'm not surprised by the high rate of incorrect orders.
The general/discretionary cap of 65K is the relevant one, and according to Rep. Zoe Lofgren's office (sponsor of the H1B bill), it hit 65K that year also.
If nothing else, your site helped me uncover some kind of bug in Firefox's experimental compositor.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515787
This is an absurd appeal to the whole victim-blaming awareness trend. That's about an individual going about their life and having a crime perpetrated on them, which primarily negatively affects them. This meanwhile is about a corporation entrusted with valuable information/access with the understanding the corporation would take appropriate measures to secure it.

The victims here had an obligation to those they worked with to take reasonable measures to prevent and mitigate this sort of thing. Just because something bad happened to them doesn't relieve them of this obligation.

It's possible for more than one party involved to be in the wrong. Just because the victims screwed up doesn't mean the perpetrator is somehow morally cleared. Nor does the perpetrator clear the victims of their carelessness.

Edit: Since apparently people are taking this to mean I think companies should withstand a dedicated attack by China, I've gone wrong somewhere. I don't mean that. I was talking about responsibility. They can both be responsible and not be negligent. What I expect is them to help clean up afterwards. Just because they failed in an understandable way doesn't mean they get to avoid taking actions to ensure the damage is minimized.
Not a bad list, but this is an advertorial pushing a specific SEO tool suite.
I dunno, I shop at Mariano's, which was owned by Roundy's. Kroger bought them up and it has really messed up the store's supply chain. Lots of shuffling of items and produce quality has suffered. Big step down. I used to feel like Marianos was Whole Foods done right, with lower prices. Now I'm not so sure.
Not a major risk. If you tax based on carbon emissions, the food that don't produce a lot of emissions will become more attractive. If spinach is a high pollution food group then people will switch over to other food groups that has smaller footprint and thus cheaper price. There are crops like seaweed that can even capture carbon, which if we allow for the carbon tax to go negative could maybe become so economical attractive as to change food culture. Food choice is already 100% based on culture and if pollution would be the deciding factor then our plates would look very different from today.

Arguing that generating pollution through spinach is more morally right than nonessential air travel will only lead emotional debates over what is essential to one person vs what isn't to someone else (specially for products that not that clean cut). Pollution is bad, and given the threat to the planet it seems like the greater good is better served without trying to distinguish between a moral pollution and a immoral one.

I would be a miss if I did not mention that what is even worse than nonessential air travel is nonessential car travel in cities that has every kind of mass transit imaginable. We could turn most cities into a place where cars are not allowed and the most anyone would have to walk would be a few minutes. I would be that would translate to more carbon saved than the combined nonessential air travel, save more lives with cleaner air, reduce noise and increase the average health of people living there. Not going to politically happen but one could always dream.
What would you say if the voice recordings were used to offer you differential pricing of items on Amazon? What if they profiled you and charged you 20% more because your speech patterns indicated you had more money? What if they sold this profiling data so that everybody charged you more? What if they shared the data with governments which ended up resulting in you not being able to get stop over visas, etc because you are and "undesirable" person to that government?

I'm not actually suggesting that Amazon does this right now, but it would be pretty easy for them to do so. People should be very worried about this technology and if they choose to use it, they should be absolutely sure the data is being used in a way that doesn't screw them over. Your boring data is absolutely interesting to people who want to abuse you. That's why there's such a big price on it!
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What you’re facetiously describing actually is a thing in legal settings, just not with your locked car. If you left your car in front of an elementary school all day, keys in the ignition and running, and some preteen joyrides it into someone, brace yourself. In the same way that if kids climb your inadequate fence and drown in your pool, you’re screwed.

I think it’s more than fair to say that reams of personal info stored by companies is such an attractive nuisance.
Apple already 100% replaced them.

Every 2018 model has Intel modems.
Newsflash: e2e encryption is used to send content that stands to gain most from using it.
It's used for the sites we as patients look out (maybe also for staff as well?). Often you can google symptoms or an illness and a nice, clear NHS site is in the results. It does other things like gives directions to hospitals, and basically explains everything you need to know to use the NHS (like prescription charge exemption certificates etc.)

It looks like it's inspired or follows the same guidelines as most of our modern government websites (not all have been updated)

See https://www.nhs.uk/
Occam's (and partially Hanlon's) razor says they're just not as competent any more, instead of having been working on a "secret" project for the last 3 years. It's sad since they were the first $T tech company.
That doesn't make sense. The most popular stuff (bread, milk etc) get the most shelf space and most prominent placing, and they also get plenty of order of it. It would take longer to get it wrong than get it right.
I think it’s misleading to sell this as a “privacy-focused AI” (specifically, similar to Siri or Google Assistant) when it’s really an offline speech recognition tool. This keeps the “privacy” part accurate, and makes it clear that intents are still being sent out from the device (as opposed to audio recordings).
I'd be fascinated to hear how.

I can imagine things a digital assistant could do that I'd value quite a lot, but none of them are done by what's currently on the market. (And most of them would involve heavy smart-home integration, which makes their privacy failings even worse.) Meanwhile, the offerings I've actually seen so far look like their maximum utility would be converting tablespoons to cups while my hands are messy from cooking.
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You can refuse to pay, but they can still send the bill to collections and wreck your credit.

Also, the hospital did actually perform work here, the crazy part is that they're billing the innocent suspect instead of the police here.
I bet that's the NSA's (public) company line
> 1. Whole Foods sucks. They have poor quality items (especially produce), are often out of stock of common things, they don't have name brand items, and the prices aren't great.

As someone who shops at both Kroger and WF, there is a big difference in some produce items (WF is better). There is most definitely a difference in their meat/fish (WF is better), it's no competition.

The overall experience between the two stores is one of the biggest reasons why I go to WF. My fiance and I will sit at the bar and drink a glass of wine before shopping. It's a relatively laid back bar where you don't have to tip and the prices are cheap. On some days it's $4 for a glass. Then we will grab a shopping cart (brand new at the WF we go to) and stroll around well-lit and spacious isles to get everything we need. No one is bumping into us, hardly anyone is in our way. All of the produce/meat/cheese stations always have friendly staff ready to help with rarely a long line. Checking out can be hit or miss but we rarely wait longer than 10 minutes from start of checkout to walking out the door. The experience really is excellent compared to Kroger.

At Kroger everyone working there seems miserable, no one is friendly, the stations are hit-or-miss on whether someone will be available to help. I wouldn't want to spend an extra minute at Kroger, while I can and regularly do take my time at WF because of how nice it is to be there.

Mind you, these two stores I go to are within a half mile of each other. They are in the same "neighborhood" so-to-speak.

So when I read things like this I'm very confused. My guess is that someone's WF is different than the one I go to.
No, but if you borrow my stuff and it gets stolen off your porch then you're also to blame because you didn't protect it responsibly.
>You prefer blaming the victim

Victim? More like "reckless dilettante". If you're not perfect in this world what are you even doing in society, I mean anyone who cares about security wouldn't program in a programming language that begins with a letter or a number, because perfect code in those languages is impossible. And setting up a server or using a cloud host? Ha! Every single one of those is vulnerable.

It's like walking around. If someone goes to the store and isn't wearing an iron man suit of armor of course it's their fault for not being perfectly protected. You can hardly blame someone for dismembering them on the spot and stealing a kidney, I mean it's right there. Just wear a suit of armor and have a security detail accompany you, and if you can't then what are you doing buying eggs? Stay home if you are not willing to do what it takes to participate safely in society. And it goes without saying, subscribe to suit of armor advisory lists and if there's a new kind of knife, apply patches all over your suit. At a minimum. Or just stay home.

I would never do anything that involves a computer. Basic responsibility.
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Biohacker Teen Creates and Injects Himself with 'Holy' DNA
A French teenager with an interest in biohacking recently performed a rather strange experiment in which he injected himself with DNA derived from holy texts. In a paper detailing his weird work, Adrien Locatelli explained that he used an online translating tool to take the letters originally found in the Book of Genesis and switch them to the nucleotides found in DNA. He also performed the same swap with the 13th chapter of the Koran.

https://osf.io/yj8xw/
FB lost, what, $30B of value over this 'scandal'. Is that not a big enough fine?

Isn't that like when a rich/famous person evades punishment for a crime that the average person would get a long jail sentence for, because from loss of income etc they'd already got 'a big enough fine'? i.e. effectively only the non-rich are punished for crimes.
Are you trolling? That person bends a $500 machine with 2 thumbs. This is unacceptable.
But the hospital has no contract whatsoever with the suspect. All work was performed at the behest of the police. I can't just send you a bill for replying to your comment (saying it was done "for you") and have you be obligated to pay it!

It seems like a collections agency that keeps pushing an invalid debt is part of a conspiracy to commit fraud. And a report to the surveillance bureaus that "wrecks your credit" would be straightforward slander.

Most of the behavior here is best described by some very basic crimes. Why are we letting these organizations off the hook?
Yes, in the car via CarPlay. It makes for safer driving. I just plug my phone in and put it away so I can’t reach it to text and drive. I then ask it to text, look up directions or play whatever song I want.
I don't leave a webcam attached, or a microphone.

I can also debug any code running on my machines and have some idea of what they are doing. I can also limit when they are allowed to talk to the internet and to what address.
We don't know how the companies were compromised, so we have no way of knowing if they were capable of protecting themselves. A state sponsored attacker has effectively unlimited resources, so at the end of the day, the company would go bankrupt trying to protect themselves against every concievable attack. It's one thing if they were negligent, but just saying that they should have protected themselves better is like blaming an Iraqi company for not protecting itself from being blown up by the USA. Some threats are just too large for you to protect against.
I think this is to enable history and mobile, for example?

Granted, I have not used IRC for a while, but last time I checked, the story for getting message history was "start a irc client inside a screen session on a server you own". And there were no mobile at all.

(I remember writing a script which exported chat logs from my desktop client to text files available over HTTP... I'd then visit those pages from cell phone to see if I had any more messages. This is not the experience I would wish on anybody)
Morally? No. It's the thief's fault, and the thief's fault only.

But if you know that people steal packages off of porches in your neighborhood, and you leave a package out there for weeks, you're at least being pretty unwise. You're not morally at fault, but pragmatically, yes, you kind of are.

[Edit: That is, your actions are not well-suited for the kind of world that we actually live in, and that you know that we live in.]
Siri/Alexa/Cortana are assistants, while the part you are talking about is speech recognition. Sure, it’s great that this is done offline, but I don’t think it’s fair to compare it to more services because at that point you do need to get data from the internet just like any other service.
The part that's clearly wrong is stopping innocent people from engaging in harmless trade. If it weren't for the sanction, it would probably be illegal for slack to deliberately block Iranians just because of the country they're from.

And something doesn't have to be morally good for stopping it to be morally bad. For example, playing chess is morally completely neutral, but it would be morally bad to attempt to ban chess.

Likewise, Iranians using slack isn't obviously morally good, it seems morally neutral, but enforcing a slack ban against Iranians is obviously morally bad.
Careful there. You don't want to cause people to pull an Australia.
> changed the name to “Jet Propulsion Laboratory.” Despite the fact that they were not researching jet engines

A rocket engine is a "jet" engine as the jet of gasses provides the thrust. What we think of as a "jet" engine today was originally called a "turbojet" engine.
"...the letters originally found in the Book of Genesis..."

which version?
Is libsodium the de facto standard instead of the original NaCl?

If so, what are the reasons? Just enhanced usability, since I recall libsodium using the NaCl crypto primitives almost directly as-is?
How does the FBI do this, anyways? Politely ask the domain name registrar to hand them the domain?
When does this become an act of war?
> The ability to smell these things presents no evolutionary advantage and does not seem to be related obviously to how the nose works.

It's better to not make evolutionary claims!
What is it about GDS that lets them do IT well? Most government IT projects end up complete disasters - the digitisation of the NHS and the fire service "firecontrol" scheme were two recent really insanely expensive projects that ended in utter failure. That seems to be the norm. What do you think makes GDS different?
They've already intentionally manipulated emotions of a "small number of users" (700k), proved it was possible, and released a paper on it: https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/facebook-unethical-expe...
Also:

- Decentralized YouTube (1M+ monthly visitors) https://d.tube/

- P2P Reddit (260K+ monthly visitors) https://notabug.io/

Both built with GUN :)
That's a pretty clumsy segue from the healthcare crisis and our eroding rights and value as workers into a tirade against PC culture there. I think isolation has lots of causes, but I don't think it's fear of those gat-derned ess jay dubyoos on twitter that is driving it.

I think it is true that there's less camaraderie among coworkers nowadays compared to a couple decades ago. I personally think it's because of different modes of communication making our immediate surroundings and company more distant by comparison, plus a little of the stress mentioned in this article--if you're anxious about your job, if you have long hours, if you have tons of other comorbid problems, you don't want to see your coworkers at the bar at five thirty. Or seven. Or whenever the hell we get out of work in 2018.
Not your fault in a moral sense, but it certainly is in a causal sense.

You could have set up a different causal chain that would have prevented the theft. Of course that doesn't mean that society can't blame (and punish) the thief.
Qualcomm is blackmailing Apple it seems like.
Ah yes, here come the obligatory downvotes, lol.
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Related to this, I think as a whole, too much connectivity destroys societies. You talk about how you don’t want to know people’s personal beliefs, you just want to be able to get along with them to do business. This used to be the default for society, but this issue of knowing uncomfortable details about others (all sorts of things from political differences to crime and misconduct) shatters people’s trust in each other and society.

Social networks also act as a hyperfunnel for everyday people to become radicalized in their beliefs (usually political instead of to violence), but that’s a different issue.
I find this absolutely fascinating when I compare it to my personal experience. It begs the question: how frequently does the average person Google something compared to power users? I consider myself to have above average googling skills, and I'm a developer so there's obviously a lot of documentation searching regularly, but even excluding all of that I surely perform a good 10-20 non-programming searches a day and it could easily be an order of magnitude more if I'm actively researching something.

Does the average user perform significantly less searches, and so the novelty or occasional voice search moves the needle 20%, or are they performing as many searches as me but using voice for many of them. I personally only ever found voice search useful for things that are more like questions and not research ("how old is _______" is a classic example) so I find it difficult to believe the latter. The former would be quite the revelation though because I always assumed _everyone_ googled as much as I do but it seems that might not be the case.
They should never have allowed the account to be created from Cuba in the first place. Slack when it was younger, didn't have good policies in place to actually follow US law. As such, now that they are reviewing their old records they realized they committed illegal actions that they need to clean up.

Yes, it harms their customers, but that harm and the resulting damages to Slack' reputation (and maybe legal costs), is what they must pay for being negligent in the past.
Well they also added structural weaknesses (charge port & microphone hole) to the center of the frame, at the point of highest leverage. Making it easier to bend in half than it should have been. Those should have been re-positioned (microphone hole) or strengthened (charge port).
A joke in illinois is that you never ask a governor what he will do after his term is up. There is only one path: jail for corruption.
> the target use case for ML.NET is really putting existing machine learning models into production in .NET.

this should be exactly the first sentence in the git repository. to confirm the original commenter: this API is mostly for deploying networks, not so much for training/developing new models etc
SMS is actually clear text over SS7. I would not send anything I care about over it. It is also trivial to spoof.

All you need is 1 SS7 link and you can be any phone, kick anyone off a cell site, override call congestion and bump people off, change the display on your phone to any text, too many things to name.
"there has been extensive on-the-ground cooperation between the US and Iran while fighting ISIS in eastern Syria."

Could you possible share a source for this?
I didn't see any support in the article for occult roots of JPL. Occult was simply another interest of Parsons.
Study of the history and effects of climate change is indeed a vast interdisciplinary science. But the study of cause is much more narrowly focused.

Of those scientists who have backgrounds that would qualify them to contribute in this particular area, the consensus is not at all clear. But the ones who seem most concerned about rapid AGW appear to be those with skin in the game.
You refer to Apple like only one person works there. There are hundreds of thousands of engineers making hundreds of products with thousands of suppliers. Have you even opened a few devices yourself? The engineering in most other phones are pretty trash compared to how easy it is to work on Apple mobile devices. Their iPads are the most reliable things ever made. I have almost never seen a truly dead iPad while anything Samsung tablet that does not power on goes in the trash. If you have an Apple mobile device you will find TONs of people willing to fix it. Other brands? Good luck. Their computing devices though...
> Matrix can be thought of as an eventually consistent global JSON db with an HTTP API and pubsub semantics - whilst XMPP can be thought of as a message passing protocol.

Finally someone gets it! A chat service should value each message and it should never lose messages due to connectivity problems.

Thank you for sharing that link, I learned something new today.
Qualcomm wins ban on Apple in Germany: banned part of iPhone
Thanks a lot! I installed it in regular Chrome and no more white flashes! Don't know why I did not think about themes... :\
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