skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its pretty well known among environmentalists that the American green party isn't "green" enough. Its not a truly environmentalist party that puts environmental issues above human issues. A environmental party must be anti-consumerism and anti-materialism. It should be against growing the human economy but instead making it more efficient. That means doing hard things that hurt human appetites/sensibilities but are better for the planet (ie. limited human migration, decreasing imports).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology
Never used it. Thought it was complete vanity and laziness as is much of social media.
Right. This article is an excerpt from that book. Or that's what it says at the top of the article, anyway.
That describes every "self-help" type book, where you take a single positive but novel concept or attribute, and find a way to talk about it long enough to fill something that can be printed and sold in airport bookstores.

Eckhart Tolle has written a dozen+ books about being in the moment, for instance.
I had the "pleasure" of participating in these events as an 18 year old infantryman. Living in an outpost with a generator and no running water, tightly nestled away between AQI and JAM. Mortars in the morning, IED or two in the day, and skirmishes at night while the engineers brought in the T-walls. Character building, to say the least.
Despite being well trained, I've had one kickback. It put a hole in my garage door and I had to drive to the emergency room in shock to get a partially detached finger reattached. Expensive lesson.
We are going to keep buying the boogeyman as long as the media and politicians sells it to us.

One of the only things both republicans and democrats can agree on is war. They will debate and argue about children drinking lead in Flint, but bombing some small country on the other side of the world and increasing the defense budget and lining the pockets of the defense contractors will always have bipartisan support.

One of the only things both foxnews and cnn/msbnc/nytimes/wapo/etc can agree on is war. They'll call each other fake news and poison the minds of the american people with divisive rhetoric for ratings, but when it comes to war, they'll set aside their differences and speak in one united pro-war voice.
Rise of the Robochef: How 4 Entrepreneurs Built a $25M Restaurant Startup
DOE releases C to Verilog transpiler targeting quantum computers
This is what you took away from this article?
In the video of the talk I also go into watching star wars (or your webcam) in real time in the terminal rendered with emoji
I do think there were tourists from USSR visiting other countries including the western Europe. Political dissidents may have been subject to measures not applicable to the general public.
Take a look and you'll see into your imagination

We'll begin with a spin, trav'ling in the world of my creation

What we'll see will defy explanation

If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it

Anything you want to, do it.

Want to change the world, there's nothing to it

There is no life I know, to compare with pure imagination

Living there, you'll be free, if you truly wish to be.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/TheWonka
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Executive branch or legislative branch, not a huge difference, they both serve at the will of those who put up the money to get them elected. Elections are where the people decide which capitalists get to use the government to advance their financial interests. That is the long-term problem.
Agreed with you there. The real solution is to prevent them from happening in the first place, but I guess a refund policy which is very favourable for the player could help encourage that.
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That'll teach them!
Turns out Facebook can just Facetime Apple users to get all the data they need anyway.

Also, why even offer accounts if you just shadowban everybody? It's gay. Ycombinator is gay.
Forget for a moment that they're calling children whales.

They've normalized calling people whales (and dolphins and krakens and...). They've dehumanized their clients; made it easier to not feel concerned that people are dropping hundreds or thousands of dollars on intentionally addictive video games.
> It reveals the attitude that pervades among these companies towards children that have been duped into spending via dark patterns and addictive games.

All video games are addicting. To a kid's perspective, they're just playing a regular game.
Alternatively, the term is intended to frame the developers of these applications as whalers trying capture some percentage of the public without their clear-headed consent.

Essentially the term is intended to refer to the developers of these applications as predators.
I would characterize it as more annoying than anything else. It’s not like we couldn’t work or we had productions issues because of it.
Revoking JWTs (JSON Web Tokens)
Google shat themselves and unpublished something similar and apologized heh.

I wonder if Apple has done a tremendous favor to web applications because in hindsight letting Apple (or any of these companies) have a company-wide on/off switch for your own apps like that is a bad idea.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-shuts-down-iphone-data-...
Not sure what these articles are trying to get at. Honestly we have some article against Facebook, Apple, and Amazon just about every day from some news outlet claiming the company is so horrible or terrible. I’m inclined to think this fake social justice focus is driven by big tech eating the media’s ad revenues.
> Tanks began to fire 120-millimeter canister rounds (in essence, shotgun-type rounds that, once fired, open into hundreds of tiny pieces) down streets from their main guns. The canister rounds blew the trash off the streets and, in many cases, exploded IEDs lying in wait for the patrol.

The interesting part that most people don't think about (and is extremely relevant in a MOUT setting) is the pressure shock coming out of a main gun, which can be deadly for up to 200m:

The overpressure from the tank 120-mm cannon can kill a marine found within a 90-degree arc extending from the muzzle of the gun tube out to 200 meters. (Marines MOUT Manual)

When firing it down a narrow, building-lined corridor, the effect can be far longer, and even without the canister shot it would likely be enough to clear a large section of the street.
This expense doesn't magically disappear on a Tesla, unless their dealerships are more efficient.

Walk into a regular dealership and then Tesla's version and you tell me which is more efficient.

For just one example of the differences, consider the typical haggling over price where multiple sales people and managers interact with you for an extended period of time to try to get you to spend top dollar. Compare with the Tesla version where you're pointed at a computer open to their website where you can order and configure the car that you want.

I've already agreed that what you're describing is an issue (and am at a loss why you took the time to write it out), I'm merely asserting that it's not going to spell the end of a quarter trillion dollars worth of wealth.

On what principles will it not do so? Merely because it seems absurd? Or is there some logic that applies?
This is where regulation eventually has to come in, IMO. People like to talk about how the market will solve problems, but per today's posts about Facebook racking up thousands of dollars of credit card charges from 5 year olds and their positive earnings results, the market looks at these kind of things and says "Yep, this is great for our bottom line." Facebook isn't going to fix itself.
Two good questions from the article that are great to ask:

--What is something in your life right now that you think is very essential and important, but is something you are not giving very much time or attention to?

--What is something in your life that you do NOT consider to be essential but yet it is receiving too much of your time and attention?"
Poker and other casino games are where this terminology comes from. High roller = whale.
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19040966
At every level, high skilled, medium skilled, and low skilled, immigrants tend to increase jobs and wages for natives. This is the rough consensus of economists.

There is lots of work to make this even more true, of the flavor "ok if we are only bringing in 1 million immigrants, who does this best". H1-B and student visas a consequence of that thinking.
The story could be told in a variety of ways:

"You see a subordinate making a mistake."

"Your cab driver took a wrong turn."

I suspect that some form of the amnesia effect is necessary for us to function in a complex society.
Right. I love hating on FB as much as the next person but the stronghold Apple has over the hardware is absolutely unreal. Imagine buying $10M worth of iPhones every year for your workforce and then Apple pulling your critical software because there's no alternative way to side load apps for the market research department. Which, by the way, might be a bit scummy but as far as I can see theres no indication they have broken any laws there either.

Makes you wonder who really owns the phone?
Cryotherapy: Safety, what to expect, and benefits
The negative qualifiers in that sentence mean exactly the opposite, due to the “As opposed to” prelude, which is meant to show exasperation.

I think a sarcasm is not the right word to describe this. What is it called? Not quite irony either...
Whale is a gambling term. Which shows exactly what was happening here, Facebook (and yes, a lot of the gaming industry) provides gambling to kids. It should be illegal. And no, you won't shame me into not being outraged by it.
Engineers create a robot that can 'imagine' itself
Paradox Is Illuminating the Black Hole
One of my social groups made our own personal space for organising events and after 6 months we went back to Facebook because every other social group didn’t leave.

So you get a new platform, but if you only do one event every few months then there is no really no reason to check it, and then suddenly no one is doing events.

Like it or not, Facebook is the modern yellowpages and you need something everyone is on to replace it. I think that’s going to happen sooner or later.

It’s anecdotal of course, but very few people in my social circle use Facebook for anything but organising events, and you don’t need their app, messenger or even to log on more than once in a while to do that. If you couple that with the fact that everyone is tired of their bullshit, I think they seem ripe for disruption.
> I'll always be amazed that one of the main weapons in modern times is concrete

Oh, not just modern times. It was the same in Roman times as well, and when concrete was not available (either before, or after the Romans), rocks wood and earth would do the job!
Another product stream and company (and hype) I was never a fan of. Best thing they did was to rip off FreeBSD and the worst was break *nix compliant userspace + influence design UX and UI patterns for a new generation.
Hubble fortuitously discovers a new galaxy in the cosmic neighbourhood
While Newport's idea is solid, the book really isn't worth reading past the first 50-75 pages, where the majority of the ideas are communicated. Unfortunately, bloat is a problem in almost all types of management/self-improvement books, so I don't want to single him out here. I have the same complaint about his earlier book, "So Good they Can't Ignore you".
Interesting wording, that reddit "cleaned up the community", and that this caused a decline in the quality of content. I had this worry at the time, and was, under doubt, opposing this decision. Could you say a few words about what specifically changed after this?

I don't personally agree, as far as I know, with any of the communities that were banned, apart from the communities for buying and selling stuff, which no one should really have a problem with. And some of the communities that were banned, I vehemently disagree with, and would probably strongly oppose if they formed a political platform. The "involuntary porn" subreddits were probably breaking the law and in some cases causing great emotional distress. This latter case I think clearly crosses the line, but there were plenty that were in a gray area at worst.

There's something to having free speech readily available for criticism and scrutiny that feels very valuable. These people are around whether you want them to or not, and there's value in being able to scrutinize their views. Also, I feel there's a chilling effect when you've seen examples that saying certain things leads to explulsion.
Intel TME uses AES-XTS, which is less malleable[1] compared to say AES-CTR, which would provide no protection against rowhammer.

[1] This is a bad kind of security that's very difficult to reason about because it is unsound. This is a matter of "less worse, relatively speaking". The obviously superior and secure approach is to use AEAD, but that would be more difficult to integrate into the system.
Practically speaking, if 8 year old walked into my store with their parents credit card, I wouldn't allow them to buy much more than a pack of gum.
I'm eagerly waiting for Facebook to release T&C with terms as simple as "SMOKING KILLS". Yes, companies have to cover their asses and legalese is complex, but I'm assuming that nothing prevents them from having simplified, non-binding version of T&C available.
It's commendable that the OP was looking to backup but has the reliability of RAID against disk failure contributed to this being a "black swan" event?

Do we reduce failure rates to "acceptable" at the expense of neglecting recovery?
>The federal indictments name eight people in eight states who allegedly worked as recruiters for the school. All have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit. They face a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

Weird, they must have edited it
To be clear, the link you posted is a discussion on the previous letter sent to a more general audience.
While it may be possible take the frequentist approach to AB testing, Bayesian inference is becoming the way to go with this.[1] Instead of directly setting up a yes-no hypothesis test with the nearly impossible to use correctly p-values[2], Bayesian approaches aim to directly estimate whatever quantity you want. With the Bayesian approach, you get estimates for A, B, and A-B (or whatever combination you want, e.g. (A-B)/A). Each of those estimates are properly called posterior probability distributions and describe the range of possible values. The end result is that instead of saying "A is better than B (p < 0.05)" you get a probability distribution of A-B. From that probability distribution you can answer any question you want: the most likely difference between A and B (the average), the probability that A is better than B (just integrate the area above 0), or whatever is needed to make a decision.

[1] https://conversionxl.com/blog/bayesian-frequentist-ab-testin...

[2] https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/p-valuestatement.pdf
Basecamp handled a security breach yesterday
Yeah, it's crazy. I would never have imagined a table saw being able to throw large pieces of wood with such force. I had kickback on an 8-foot long 2x4. It wanted to throw that thing like it was a golf ball.

I probably avoided a broken rib thanks to having all the safety features of the saw on. Beam ended up jammed into the guard instead of jammed into my chest. So many people leave those things off because they're inconvenient. Glad I didn't.
Honestly, it works both ways, unfortunately.

But an open door can protect both parties.
I am pretty sad to see UV go because of the far more liberal policies it had regarding membership and sharing. UltraViolet supported a ton of smaller studios, television shows, etc. and their sharing system allowed you to share your library with up to five friends, who each had their own logins and ability to link all of their various retailers.

MoviesAnywhere is far more restrictive. Only five major studios are participating, and smaller studios have actually so far been shut out. (STX has tried to get onto MA with no luck.) And obviously it doesn't yet support TV either. Their view on sharing is that you should use the sharing features of a retailer, but all of the retailers have the same, heavy-handed requirement for sharing: Apple, Google, and Amazon video library sharing requires sharing a single credit card for purchasing across linked accounts, which prevents their sharing methods from being used for casual/friend use.

That being said, with studios gradually pulling out of UV anyways, the number of titles you could get new UV rights on was really diminishing anyways, and if each linked Vudu account is going to get permanent copies of our shared UV library when UV shuts down, it'll be good to have confidence that we aren't going to lose those titles.
I am pessimistic on the issue because people prefer to pay indirectly because it feels like it's free and everybody likes free.

The business model of FB and Google deviates from Apple in a major way, with Apple you give the money and get the service. With Google and FB, you get the service and the cost is added to the stuff you buy. It's not necessarily even a price increase, maybe it's just directing the money from the billboard owners to the technologists.

I don't see how FB or Google can lose unless someone in power(like a politician or an activist businessman) makes it stop despite the popular opinion. The fight between advertisers is vicious and FB doesn't look like afraid of getting its hands dirty.

For someone somewhere "evil" Apple screwed up their entertainment on that FB app which just gives away free stuff and even pays you to use their VPN.
Reducing WhatsApp Digital Footprint in the Age of Facebook
You say "the solution ...". I think there are others.

Like have a default maximum spend in Facebook of $5 per app and $50 total, and require at least a double-lock to enable a higher level of payments.

Double lock: user confirms by ticking a box and by following a link in an email, say; then they get a message on their Facebook saying "you authorised higher spending for $game, up to $amount".

They could require pre-deposit, not allow use of credit cards, only allow spending if your credit rating is good, etc.. But none of this things increase mindless spending.
> Have at it HN.

Sure thing. COPPA.

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/rules/rulemaking-regulatory-...

If they knew these patrons were as young as five and didn't have informed consent from their parents, they're in deep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_relations#...

Pretty good evidence there that Iran wants to destroy Israel. Even if they're not trying to build nukes, which is a stretch, they can't be trusted with nuclear power.

I agree that it is not the only homophobic non-democracy in the Middle East. The sooner no-one needs oil and we can stop dealing with those countries, the better.
Related: "Is there an actual Facebook crisis, or media narrative about Facebook crisis?"

https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo...

So sick of seeing this junk on HN every day.
Are you so out of thought with reality that you don't consider mass-immigration a threat? Our language, or architecture, our art, or connection as a people are way too great to see it be destroyed by a "modern idea" that has never been proven to work.

I think people who think mass-immigration is a good thing should arrange visas for whoever they want to bring, under the condition that they are economically responsible for them. But don't put the responsibility on the general population. Enough with the hypocrisy. At least where I live, most people aren't interested as the electoral votes increasingly show.

Part of the problem (if not the main one) is the concept of economies of scale and the constant desire for growth. This concept is a Northern/Anglo-Saxon invention that is alien to our own Southern European idiosyncrasy. It's a vicious circle because if we don't play the "game", we'll be either conquered by force or through cultural influences. Until all countries decide to "calm down", we have to continue this madness or be gone. Everything for efficiency and growth, the most crude way to live a life.
You read an article about predatory practices and somehow you now want to place the blame on the user?

How about we don't do corporate apologism eh
I am.

I'd suggest getting a Pixel or other Android device if Apple's privacy stance bothers you. They will act on behalf of the consumer, regardless if you feel like "but it's my phone!".

Yes, it's your phone. But not your app store. You can use your iPhone perfectly well without ever having opened the app store.
And they're even taking away Inbox, and forcing everyone back to Gmail.
> "Nobody credible..."

Your implication that doubting Apple is incredulousy, is ludicrous! Why is Apple so damn special?

At this point, there isn't any evidence that Apple is involved, and yes, they go on a PR blitz to focus on privacy and security, and get hit pieces published on how "privacy is a feature on the iPhone". But the history of backdoors suggests that no one voluntarily reveals them (Intel, Cisco, Juniper,...). In many cases, how the backdoors made their way in is a closely guarded secret, specifically to enable plausible deniability.

It's best not to put a company on a pedestal, like some religious cult.
Why? There are a host of obvious physical and content differences between a newspaper and a magazine, with the newspaper broadsheet being about twice as wide as the magazine for example[1].

I suppose if you ignore the differences between the print versions you get closer to a purely pedantic distinction, but really I think the problem is that the measure of difference is unclear.

1: https://nytmediakit.com/index.php?p=specs/magazine/standard-...
The Basics of Customer Success
If you know a little bit about history involving dates and such, Diamond makes some hilarious boners. Like, getting the actual dates when plague hit the Indians wrong in a way that makes his theory kind of fall to shreds.

Anthropologists don't think much of him either.

Of course any historical theory of everything based on one factor is going to look silly if you read another. Most modern people haven't read Spengler or Brooks Adams or whatever the popular socialist books were in the 30s which attempt to explain everything.

History, of course, is path dependent, and the correct perception is probably something like "stuff is like this by accident."
It would have taken time to get a second enterprise development certificate.

So they probably did it in order to move fast. . . and then they broke things.
Although you may be technically correct, it doesn't matter.

People don't read T&C, and they don't like having companies spy on them like this. If companies won't be up front about their data collection (and burying the notice in a T&C isn't being up front) they'll just have to suffer the consequences when people find out.