skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been the secret for decades in most fast food restaurants to make sure your order is made fresh (by making requests that ensure a pre-cooked item can't be used).
I guess I'd call that cognitive dissonance.
*on their own
An in person hug with a close friend or family member is worth a lot. Phone calls have been around for a long time and still miss out on such things. Cellphones provide some benifit, but often reduce the quality of face to face interactions by distracting one or more participants.
Digital money is here: Will it make us more free–or less?
Maybe for technology. The patents are still somewhat useful outside IMO. The whole idea about patent was that you could enjoy temporary monopoly in exchange of disclosing information about your invention.

For example thanks to patents we have generic version of medication, instead of them being trade secrets. Yes I know there are other things like drug approval that requires disclosing this information but that works together with patents.
I think one piece of context that your missing is that the people targeted by this law aren't the people running the wires, it's the people running the servers behind the wires.

I was imagining containerized server clusters in low earth orbit as well, with the ability to rapidly export the entire state of servers across super high bandwidth laser links. Everything would be done remotely, and the corporations running them would also be in Russia, China, Mars, etc.

(Containerized in the sense of hardware in a shipping container, not Docker, though that would play a role as well.)
That's a slightly different sense of community though -- there are things that local (geographically) communities can provide that online communities simply can't. Some of those things are probably pretty important.
> but until it is Federally acknowledged that all citizens have a right to drive

I guess we're not applying the tenth amendment here? As in, we have rights not explicitly enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
At the moment they aren't, but they used to be and very well could be again in the future. Also, that link says nothing about Google not "reading it, learning from it, modifying it and hiding some of it from you", when it comes to your emails, which is GPs stated concern.

Google still saves and parses every email it gets and likely uses that data for a number of purposes. No longer directly targeting Gmail ads with it really doesn't do much for people who are concerned about Google and privacy issues.
Rex Infinite is the only game that I strongly prefer to play on a Vive over a Rift. The Rift is more comfortable, but the Vive has a higher peak brightness. If you crank the settings in the game, the difference between headsets is significant.
This is rather depressing and hopefully not true but likely is. Reminds me of the movie “Surrogates”
Is it the last step of the encrypt function which would need an additional XOR operation added (XEX va XE for the encryption of the tag) to mitigate this attack? [1]

S3(delta);
XOR(tmp, delta, checksum);
AESencrypt(tmp, tag, &encrypt_key);

[1] - https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/63642
* What do I want?

* You want nothing.

* Wrong, I want a burger.

* You want a burger

* What do I want to drink?

* You want a burger

* Wrong, I want a coke

* You want a coke

Two days later.

* What do I want for breakfast?

* You want a burger and a coke.
Rumor has had it that there is a social credit system in China, and now this report reveals one part of it, which I believe is also just one small piece in the whole mass surveillance puzzle.

As a Taiwanese, I don't know how the system works, nor can I feel the same as what Chinese citizens under that surveillance feel. However I can certainly say that, there must be an another part of the system that monitors "political activists" against CCP. Let's call this part as X below.

Once you are in the blacklist of X due to reasons like criticizing Chinese government, you loses some rights implicitly, and the worst part is that X applies even if you are not a Chinese citizen. I have two examples here:

1. Taiwanese rights advocate Lee Ming-che held in China

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39428220

Lee has been in prison since 29 March 2017, because he "ruined Nation Security." He was retained for months before he had a trial.

2. [Documentary] Self-censorship by Kevin H.J. Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpHFVZX2TuA

He criticized CCP and then he could not obtain a visa to even Hong Kong. In this documentary, many instances of such censorship are mentioned, and you can see how the atmosphere is under such surveillance.
It may be induced by all industrial societies, as stated in the Unabomber Manifesto (among others).
I was under the impression that any sort of useful dirt is pretty much poop as well.
Mozilla’s free password manager, Firefox Lockbox, launches on Android
The competitive nature of the world, as felt by youth in particular, might have something to do with it. Spending time "just hanging out" might seem like a waste of time when you see people your age making millions of dollars online. I guess this is another side of the "comparing your life to other people's" problem.
> Overworked, underpaid, extremely competent was my experience of Taiwanese engineering

As an undergrad student studying both Electrical Engineering and CS in Taiwan, this is what I heard from my seniors. For most of the tech job, you are held "responsible" for the progress, so overtime is very common.
I'm skeptical that the Supreme Court would agree that a right to drive is one of those rights. Not only did driving not exist when the tenth amendment was proposed or ratified, nowhere in the world (to the best of my knowledge) is driving treated as a right.
FWIW, Cub Scouts / Boy Scouts are a pretty great place to get those same skills and experiences. Great opportunity to get a well rounded childhood.
True. We need a curated list of curated lists of curated newsletters.
Video games have brought an unprecedented transformation in the way young boys spend their free time, and not all for the good. As a volunteer who tutors kids in high school (and a former "hardcore gamer") and middle school I will say, anecdotally speaking, that they've made boys more sedentary, more isolated, and less interested in school.

I think the most insidious aspect of video games is that they are a success surrogate. I spent over a decade and a half playing games after dropping out of high school at age 16. What kept me going was the feeling of success and accomplishment I got from impressing my online friends in games.

Now in my mid-30s, I'm an undergrad in mathematics and finally putting my life back together. I've come to realize that video games are a terrible substitute for real life accomplishments and that online gaming friendships pale in comparison to building relationships with real people, in person.
McDonalds as a company has fine food quality based on the fresh hot and delicious McDonalds I got in Japan. I believe McDonalds US has a store management and personnel problem, i.e. that no one gives a shit. Even after the “fresher” Quarter Pounders the meat was warmer but I sometimes got buns so dry and stale they were falling apart in the box. Sure theres lots of timers and tech to make sure workers can’t burn the fries but it appears to me no one in charge of overall quality or consistency.
Surely kids still try to make gunpowder, what are you talking about? And for who but kids are pocket knives and chenistry sets made?

> there was a time when making explosives was a childhood right of passage along with chemistry sets, making fires, even having a pocket knife.
It’s also extremely common that a lot of the chains will have a “fuck you” mentality and just reuse an existing burger any way if they know you’re just trying to skirt the freshness. The real pro tip is to just ask nicely for a fresh burger, they’ll do an Ask Me, and everyone is happy.

Source: 2 years at a McDonald’s in my younger days.

EDIT: That is to say this isn't really a secret, it happens all the time. But when you're working with teenagers working for minimum wage, who hate when others try to be sneaky/talk down on them just being upfront and nicely asking what you want, and being sure to say "I know it'll take a bit longer, that's fine." is better than the alternative.
Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
> It seems like when your company's revenue has been flat for over a decade, you should focus on improving your core offering of, you know, food quality, and not find new ways to annoy customers with data mining and extreme personalization.

That's wrong. McDonalds is real estate holding company that happened to sell fast food.

https://qz.com/965779/mcdonalds-isnt-really-a-fast-food-chai...
And they were the first pizza app to feature Hatsune Miku!
You must be high
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"because nobody likes spending time with people in person as default"

Maybe it's like eating your veggies.
Really? Tastes bitter and a tad coppery to me.
(I'd like to note that most of these thoughts that follow are not directly tied to the article or aimed at Steve Klabnik; the article is good but it doesn't seem to make an assertion about what's right or wrong.)

I still hold strong that this "war" is getting silly. This whole thing seems so antithetical.

Open source is being chosen by developers and startups because it has technical benefits, it's appealing, it attracts attention, etc. The reason why it is all of those things is exactly because of what open source is. If you control the monetization strictly, it's not open source, and it loses the appeal. Simply having source available isn't appealing to me. Contributing to a project like that is just free labor. I see few mutual benefits.

In my personal opinion, SaaS is not exploitation. Being able to do this is the point. The difference today is that there are people releasing software as open source under licenses that permit others to monetize their software... and then are shocked when they actually do it. Last time I made this argument, I mentioned Linux, and being the quintessential open source project it's a super good example of how open source can be collectively beneficial. I stand by this, and I would presume Linus is not bothered by the massive monetization of Linux. Since that's the point.

If someone wants to build proprietary software, please do. The open source community can survive without another NoSQL database, I'm sure, and nobody will blame you. Few will do this, though, because many want to eat their cake and have it too. Whatever. In any case, please don't attempt to conflate "open source" with "shared source" in the meantime. I've said it before and I will say it again: You aren't saving open source. You are saving your profit model. And nobody blames you for that. I say this as a continued user of Caddy, Redis, etc.

Disclaimer: I'm an employee of Google, these are my personal opinions and not those of my employer.

P.S.: Steve, I'm really curious about that Gender bit. Are you going to clarify your thoughts on that?
At the same time, if it comes from a place of genuine concern, even unnatural communication can be empathetic. I once asked for help on an online forum, and one person responded with something along the lines of "I don't know how you feel, but if that happened to me I'd feel terrible". In the moment, it felt very carefully crafted, but the care with which the words were chosen really amplified their impact to me.
Once again, that would imply that someone is both hardcoding a cache size and yet somehow making their use of the cache data dependant. I'm not sure what specifically you are trying to say here. It sounds like you have some sort of fear of edge cases in general, regardless of anything that has to do with caches.
It was a nightmare. We all had a deadline to book these installers for the Cisco VPNs and VM servers. IIRC IBM wrote the code, but Domino's retained the rights.

It was a great time for the company. Total 180 on quality, investing heavily in the right tech. 3 years after we installed the server & thin clients all around, 33% of orders and 50% of revenue aas online.

Online sales drove order frequency, ticket price and customer satisfaction while lowering costs. It was such a genius move.

Source: I was a Domino's GM and franchise for 17 years and saw this transition.
Breaking up big tech's biggest isn't a matter of if, but of when
Google should never be considered a savior just look at what they did in Louisville KY with Google Fiber.

They are no different then Comcast, ATT or other biggies who abuse their power.
It now works pretty well on iOS devices!
This seems very strange to me. The idea that a dramatic macro economic downturn is less likely to to effect personal beliefs than early Facebook? I know most teens aren’t paying for food and rent but if your parents lose their job or their house that feels like it’s going to hit hard.
Debtors' prisons are technically illegal. But... yea.
I interned for the contractor that had the original defense contract, it's basically a suite of tools for intelligence gathering / aggregation and asset tracking, among other things. It's mostly in the public domain, not as nefarious as you'd expect

https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/iews-dcgs-a/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Common_Ground_Syst...
You are vastly underestimating the cost of standing up a data science team.

They need data infrastructure, experts in cleaning data, and actual data scientists, support etc. Its a huge under taking.
Why is it expected that private industry the only funder of research? Isn't that something that governments should have a stake in and also fund basic scientific research in?

That's like saying, how expensive does an iphone need to be to fund material science research?
In the future perhaps humans will move towards a more common language but if you answer "yes" to the questions "Should all books be in English?" and "Should all content on the Internet be written in English?" then it isn't any different than variations of cultural chauvinism throughout documented human history.

Nobody is obligated to go through the hassle of learning a new language just because someone else wanted that knowledge (volunteering to share, however, is perfectly fine). Otherwise it is a blatant infringement of personal freedom. Multilingualism should also be multi-directional instead of converging towards a single language, but that is obviously something unnoticed by a lot of Anglos who for one reason or another have decided their language and culture should trump over all else.
There Are No Dream Homes
IIRC it was Everquest that had /pizza and it brought you to the Pizza Hut website.

Yup, I remembered correctly! https://boingboing.net/2005/02/18/everquest-now-with-p.html
Yes, because of course you're going to take screenshots of every email you receive as a matter of course.
I don't think vitamins are a good example here. It's really tough to overdose on OTC vitamins. But most people derive no health benefit from vitamin supplements.

As for human interaction, the "right" amount is different for everyone.
Distributed, Collaborative Space Opera, via Gopher
What was the name of that chart startup?

I have been thinking about making an open refine type tool for python. Every time I do data cleaning in python, it feels so repetitive.
Worth noting that in the Excel world (a primitive array language), for business users, dense formulas without spaces or new lines are the norm (although it is possible to use those features). Syntax highlighting and step-by-step evaluation features make it easier to work with.
Bacteria can travel thousands of miles through the air on its own
Whenever anyone asks this, I always wonder whether I live in a bubble or they do.

Creating simple predictive models where your problem is already easily narrowed down to a "given x predict y" definition is pretty trivial. Having it automated is nice, but not exactly a hard thing to do.

Genuine question: how many people have jobs where those kinds of problems form any significant part of their workload?

I also often see a response to this sentiment along the lines of, "Yeah, but there's also data cleaning..." etc. My reaction to this is mixed. I mean, sure, there is also data cleaning involved, but is this really where people spend most of their time?

My team spends most of our time doing the following:

1. Formulating problems. Figuring out the various different ways that a real-world problem can be expressed mathematically and feasibly attacked computationally.

2. Engineering software to implement the solutions to these problems, sometimes using some of the (amazing) frameworks out there for ML or probabilistic programming, but often having to develop our own approaches from scratch.

3. Doing all the management, stakeholder relationship stuff, business cases, etc. that make your work relevant and possible.

4. Getting data. Always an issue.

I'm very genuine in my curiosity here: are we total snowflakes, and most data scientists spend their time cleaning data and building "given X predict y" models?
> It seems like when your company's revenue has been flat for over a decade, you should focus on improving your core offering of, you know, food quality

Quality is subjective, and analytics is a tool for hitting the target the market is looking for.
This time was indeed marked by the high popularity and increasing interop between classic IM networks, and the rise new networks. Some choice dates:

- 2005-09: Meebo launches offering web access to AIM, WLM, Yahoo

- 2006-02-07: Google Talk integration inside Gmail goes live

- 2006-03: Nielsen/Netratings survey for active users: AIM 53M, WLM 27M, Yahoo 22M

- 2006-07-12: seamless interop starts between Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger

- 2006-09-26: Facebook opens up to everyone (not just colleges)

- 2007-02-14: Gmail opens up to everyone (not just invite-only)

- 2008-04-06: Facebook chat goes live

- 2008-04-19: Facebook overtakes Myspace in Alexa ranking

- 2008-07-11: iOS App Store launches, AIM for iOS released

- 2008-08-26: Facebook hits 100 million active users

- 2008-09-23: Android 1.0 launches

More (and sources) in my earlier posts [1][2].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13465483 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11114518
Purism (https://puri.sm/) uses Mumble for all-hands staff meetings. Works pretty well and, of course, is free software. :)
Body language is hard when you can't see their body.
On this note, and current McDonald's employees are going to hate me... but if you want fresh, hot and crispy fries, ask for "no salt". They'll have to put a new batch down, clean off the scooper and then give you fresh out of the frier fries. Then ask for a salt packet, because they're shit without salt.
Which city is that? Most cities are unwilling to sell off public parks to private developers. Do you have specific examples of parks that were built over and not replaced with something accessible to the public?
Based on that answer, and given the initial confusion, I can't help but speculate that Marshall took the question to literally mean "where do needs originate", to which the obvious literal answer is a creator or the Universe. I think the question was meant to understand how the list of needs was determined, to which I would imagine Rosenberg may have had a different answer.

I can't know this for sure, but my understanding is that these needs were identified via some sort of introspection, and probably seemed somewhat obvious to Marshall. This is clearly subjective in some way, but it does seem that most humans do share many of the same needs, so I'm not sure that your criticism holds much weight.

The idea behind calling needs universal is to ensure we are talking about the same kinds of needs. eg. I don't need you to accept whatever I do and say it's ok no matter what. But I do need autonomy. The need should not reference specific people, things, times or situations. It should be very general, which helps frame the conversation in a less combative way and makes sure we are talking about the underlying values that motivate all our actions.

It's very hard for me to try to think of something that follows those rules of generality and that may be characterized as a need by someone, but is not a real universal need and is overly righteous. Could you help me by giving an example of such a mis-characterized need?
My argument is that it's not anti social. It's maybe less visibly social, but being in a group voice or video chat while playing board or video games is definitely a social activity. Or building something together - computers enable us to engage in storytelling and art in ways our ancestors could only dream of.

Yeah, sure, they aren't social in the same way you were. But you weren't social in the same ways your parents were either. Calling the younger generations antisocial because they've fully embraced technology as a core part of their identity smacks of patronism to me. Kids these days with their rock and roll, so antisocial!
They do have a second medium-sized spacesuit but it can’t be made ready in time for this spacewalk

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706779637/nasa-scraps-first-a...
both privacy and 0 bloat. lineage rom is 450mb. stock is like 2.5GB. what's in there? don't know, but nothing i need, obviously.
Just ask for a fresh batch, they'll do an Ask Me (same as before) and they aren't nearly as annoyed if you let them know you're aware it'll take longer.
Outside of virtual settings replacing physical settings, perhaps one possibility is the version of ourselves we present online is collectively making everyone lonelier.

What I mean by this is that in order to seem like someone that others would want to hang out with, we present our best selves, making us appear more social than we are, thus those are the only versions anyone ever sees. People simultaneously know that they're not as social as they present themselves, while forgetting to assume the same about the version others present, thus they assume everyone is having fun without them.

That or I'm just projecting ...
To clarify, an AWS customer has a shared responsibility to describe the security of their systems including how they use AWS tools, and in this respect Amazon is no different than other AWS customers.
I grew up in a suburb that didn't have a bus to the nearby city.
Yep, this is largely consistent with my experience.
The hypothetical situation you're describing has no connection to the reality of how drug research money gets allocated.

We're not even ready to talk about how:

- drug companies spend more money on marketing drugs than researching them

- drug companies waste much of their research on copycat drugs rather than new treatments

- IP law needlessly denies millions access to existing treatments by artificially inflating prices.
If I recall correctly, the fate of that planet in one of his later books was basically a small population of androgynous people who reproduced asexually and lived on robot-run plantations.

It's something I think about from time to time.
There's an option to opt in, at least on the Android app in the settings.
How does the ABI translation work?
They are also using drugs less and getting pregnant at a lower rate
Same for iOS, fyi.
Ghrist's youtube channel might be a good place to start:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5N5pRddyicAX1QJyJjIIdg