skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I’d heard of the manifesto, but I’d never read it. I just read it, and it seems perfectly reasonable to me. Given that some of the smartest left-leaning individuals in the world—Google employees—apparently read and rejected what is clearly nothing more than a measured call for common sense, I have to wonder if there’s any point to debating you folks online. We—intelligent right-leaning and left-leaning individuals, respectively—appear to have simply parted ways.

If you want to link to a “deconstruction” of the manifesto, I’ll read it, but I’m not expecting much. I’ve already read well-designed studies that show the author’s assertions to be correct. I’m not sure how these alleged “deconstructions” get around such studies, but if I had to guess, I’d say sophistry, probably.

But I’ll read one, and give it a chance.
> Sure, no-one is forcing you to vote a particular way.

Persuasion works and can be bought with money. It would be naive to think any of us in this thread are immune to persuasion.
Billionaires' squabble isn't news... totalitarian autocrats killing journalists doing their job, grotesque pay inequality, a POTUS getting away with treason, lack of UBI to cover a systemic lack of opportunities are and widespread inaction on the climate emergency are.
Their security model is the exact same one - trust us and we'll maintain your security. The difference is better described as Google deliberately adding an opt-out to the devices.

That's definitely appreciated and is nicer than not doing so. But it isn't a real model of hardware protections that would serve a Free device, nor does it allow for agility or nuance around that trust relationship with Google.

Which is why the experience of taking ownership of your device turns into a violent one - because you basically have to repudiate the OEM's built-in system in favor of a completely different Free road. Which is why it's much easier to do with a fresh device, rather than after you've grown accustomed to it.
One downside of Lisp and Smalltalk for large projects may be that there is no official mechanism for declaring types and interfaces. Even if you can adopt your own conventions for implying the types they are just your convention and other programmers might have difficulty grokking and trusting them.

Hyper-productive languages may be hyper-productive just because they use dynamic typing and static types may be better for creating a large piece of software by many programmers evolving over years hopefully decades.
it might not be a waste, especially if this becomes popular. if we all unite maybe we can stop organized lawful mass harassment over cellular telephony!
That was an unobjectionable comment, so I guess the downvotes are a stimulus to try to get me to write more. The Wikipedia page for the TI-99 mentions the "small capitals" but does not link to the page I linked to. So some people, at least, who read that page won't get the reference to the typographic tradition (if that's what it is).

A larger issue is the idea that, by choosing a small caps style for their font, TI were acting inexplicably or irrationally. It is worrying but not surprising that the HN crowd finds it disturbing when a company makes a creative decision that doesn't have a clear business case behind it, while being completely innocuous, and which potentially could have helped to differentiate their products. It's the typical negative engineer stereotype coming through: "No imagination or creativity allowed, except if it's to solve a specific problem".
"Public service" is a heck of a euphemism. And when has the government ever cared a tinker's dam about anyone's rights? Unless the people force their governments to respect their rights, the government will publicly serve them into subjection.
Yeah, when pigs fly. I never use my real name except for commerce.
In all seriousness, it's about time that prostitution was examined with the same critical eye we've finally started to turn on cannabis prohibition. The results may (and should IMO) be similar: ater criminals are cut out of the loop, both the dealers and customers end up better off, as do the tax authorities.

In that eventuality, yes, mobile service would obviously be at least as lucrative as van-based barber shops, probably far more so.
Yeah oops, I meant to write minute. Vagued out for a minute there. Slip of the tongue, or fingers as it were.
It may be true, but for some reason they decide to select two cases where the problem was nor handover but lack of senior staff.
I wouldn't disagree.
An individual with multiple online identities generates more data than the same individual would if they were using a single account for everything.
Every evil person out there, this is your road to salvation. Just say it was a lesson and fully expose every way you've exploited the system and the way others can do the same. Actually, isn't this a common thing? Where people get rich then support laws against doing what they did to get rich?
Part of this is a clear stab at plain adulthood - trying to define "harmful content" is just being patronizing. An adult in the eyes of law is someone responsible for their own mind. Would trying to convince people of the existence of a god in the absence of whatever form of evidence deemed necessary to do that count as "harmful content"?

In a democracy, you want the thinking at the top to reflect the thinking at the bottom - I.e. the adults of a country must be the ones making the rules. What that thinking must be must not be up to those in power to decide .. unless people want that. This has so many tangled loops that no single programmer or one trained in logic is equipped with the skills to provide good "solutions" with full understanding of long term consequences. A good book to read about the possible cognitive failures of highly "educated" people is "The logic of failure" by Dietrich Dorner.

In the case of FB, I think the illusory privacy of a personal network combined with the ability to centrally target these personal networks from the outside has been a mixing of gunpowder and fire.

Will FB stop all targeted ads during an election?

Also, can we have less ad hominem attacks on Mark here please? It is harmful content for the mind, detracts from discussing the points he makes charitably, and unfairly spreads bias against him. (Ha!)
The usps is in league with paper spammers.
"The web" is not public. Most companies are dedicated to tying your public and private lives. If this weren't true, then why would facebook pay for your private information.
The internet doesn't need more rules, it needs less centralization. Mark Zuckerberg wants more rules because his product doesn't scale in the free market. Such a centralized form of communication can only regulate its content via draconian policy or overzealous algorithms, which ironically turn it into a platform that is hardly worth using. People liked Facebook because it had fun stuff on it. When you make your platform not fun, and on top of that you are exposed over and over again for being full of shit, people stop showing up.

Mark Zuckerberg, go away. The problem isn't the internet, but people like you. Not that you will take that to heart at this point, but maybe others will figure you out the more we talk about you openly and outside of your crumbling castle.
They didn’t MITM the requests ... you had to explicitly be using the ISP’s DNS servers. And yes this is one of the reasons I long ago stopped using my ISPs DNS servers.
My bad. I didn’t realize we should be thanking him for making billions off of evil products while teaching us a lesson about psychological harm on the internet. Lesson learned! /s

Edit: Sorry for the snark. The idea that Zuckerberg is “helping” us with his lack of integrity is so absurd that I assumed you were trolling. It’s not just absurd but dangerous as the other reply to your comment stated better than I did.
Yes, but we all want to know who is doing the persuading.
What hackathons in New England area allow professionals to participate?
Most of the hackathons require one to be a student. Are there any hackathons for professionals?
needs an odroid, tudder extension completing.
I see the exact opposite: the reasonable voices are chilled into silence due to lack of identity siloing, the grotesquely uninhibited remain vocal.
OK, but you'd presumably take issue if a headline said "The Muslims" rather than "ISIS".

I agree that people generally understand that in this case the headline refers to the Saudi government - but OTOH, this kind of "generalisational" language can perhaps be a form of propaganda, or at least subconsciously change some readers' perception with constant exposure.
twice a month to a barber shop? is that common? I go every six - eight weeks.
How would you invest $500k at 30?
I want to more aggressively invest some cash but unsure where to put it.
I have a kid, but I had never known some of these strollers existed before until I went to Disneyland. I’m talking about the wagons and other giant strollers.

I don’t think the large stroller ban will be controversial, since large strollers are inconvenient anyway to the person pushing the stroller.
Twitter is actually very bad at this. It's designed to amplify the most fringe, outrageous, and reaction-provoking hot takes, and trending stuff. A lot of sensible people either don't comment on twitter, or their voices get drowned in a sea of outrage and more engageable reactions.
Um, because at the end of the day I don’t care that much and want to actually be able to watch Netflix and stream iTunes and those things tend not to work unless they can route you to a reasonably close CDN, which means knowing at least your /24 usually.
Sorry for being pendantic but Al-Saud or 'the Saudis' are literally the ruling family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saud

The 32m+ citizens are called 'Saudi Arabians'... calling them 'Saudis' is, erm, informal at best, lazy at worst?
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That's the common way of referring to a government, especially in the security/spying sphere.

e.g. "Did the Americans know about Pearl Harbour?" "Why did the Soviets develop the atom bomb"? "Why do the British maintain a nuclear deterrent?" "How will the Australians react to the detention of one of their nationals by the Chinese?"
How many times a day do you visually rescan over the same stuff? The minimal time spent going back and forth (alt+tab) is nothing compared to the time saved never having to reconsider the same headline more than once.
Is there an american equivalent to this VAT number in the article?
I would not generally rule out an element of the alcoholic asking for locks to be put on the liquor cabinet.
That's where I stopped reading the article...
Compared to writing Sql stored procs it feels really hard to write something that spits out efficient sql.

You can't run (as far as I'm aware) things like query analyzers like I can with SQL to get execution plans.

It can be an absolute nightmare to debug. Like proper hell that where you can lose a day or so over something that ends up being stupidly simple.

I hate it and would choose just doing SQL with a plain ORM anyday over ever touching EF again.

When I was using it it also had poor support for immutable types. I imagine this has got better.
Interesting. What's the right word to use when describing the members of the House of Saud?

That being said, it's still pretty normal to speak like this. Americans, Russians, Chinese.
He didn't say that publicly.
It’s pretty common to use:

The Saudis = the Saudi Family

Saudi Arabians = all Saudi citizens
Don't forget he is just watching TV on his couch while doing it. He doesn't have to put on a uniform or commute anywhere. He doesn't even have to be actively participating in the conversation - just mumble a few things to keep them talking while he makes a sandwich or browses the internet...
And now the US wants to give M. Bone Saw nuclear tech. What could possibly go wrong?
I’m wondering if I’m not the only person who’s not locking his smart-phone. At the same time I’m also making sure to never leave it out of sight and I have no Internet banking. I also have my WiFi network at home open, have had it for more than 10 years now.
I would gladly pay the extra tax to opt out.
Absolutely true. Treat your employees right and they'll return it.
VTSAX or VTI: Vanguard Total Stock Market Index.
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Nope, the article states he gets £0.70 - presumably the provider gets the other £0.30.
The parent comment mentioned 3 mile island, chernobyl and bhopal, which seemed to be suggesting that shifted hours would lead to...i don't even know what.
"Journalists in Hungary interviewed for this article believe that Google’s award to Origo was an accident. “Most probably they didn’t realize who this company is,” said a journalist who used to work with Origo before it was taken by Orban’s underlings."

That seems to sum it up. Not much due diligence, and a €50,000 grant got awarded.
Become a government contractor for the US federal government.
> Ideally two peers could use a pre-shared secret or an offline-signed message to authenticate instead

You can easily share offers and answers that are encrypted offline. It's how you share (i.e. signaling) that's the problem. I used gun.js the other day, and I used a js nacl impl to encrypt the offer/answer each way[0]. As the ipfs js dht gets better you'll be able to use that. Where you'll need a trusted third party is if you need a turn server due to firewall/nat issues (some say approx a quarter of net users).

0 - https://myscreen.live/faq.html#q-how-it-works-detail
How hard is it to make a personal use raspberry pi dns server that assembles a local database using the consensus of a bunch of major sources?
The key to becoming a stock-market billionaire is taking big risks. But that does not mean it works for everybody it actually works for very few the lucky few.

Same thing probably happens with startups. You don't start a startup unless you have Blind Faith (btw. great album). But only a few of the startups make it big. When we see the ones that made it we may see that none of them would exist unless their founders had had blind faith. So (more or less) Blind Faith seems to be a prerequisite for success. But it is not a guarantee, far from it.
I read it...or so I think. No details on how hacking was done, method, time etc. They hate Bezos (obvious,) they have capabilities to spy on phones, and they do retaliate /blackmail, but a phishing message sent or a spyware would have sealed the proof.
> "Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity." -- Mark Zuckerberg[1], defending Facebook's "Real" Name policy.

then, does each user with multiple friends sub-lists exhibit a lack of integrity as well?

only if by 'identity' he means 'set of collectable data' and this seems to be the case.
what does bindings for obscure languages mean in this context? does TS count as obscure?
Maybe you shouldn't talk so confidently, considering you got it all wrong about GMail? It's always scanned your email. How do you think spam filtering works? And it used to scan emails for advertising, but doesn't anymore:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html
I’ll keep my comments substantive. That being said, anyone who reads my comment history will conclude that if you were to ban me, it would be your loss, not mine. So do what you will.
Slovakia has just elected its first female president
100% this. I checked the author's Twitter, and he's following well over a thousand people. Surely there's some fat that could be trimmed?
>But it isn't a real model of hardware protections that would serve a Free device

What is your proposed mechanism to ensure a verified chain of boot that the vendor intends for the majority of its customers while simultaneously allowing a user to do whatever they please ? The current solution is about the only one you can do at a technical level. Note that the convenience (or lack thereof) is a separate minor thing that is not so relevant. You really need to understand the verified boot design in chromebooks to appreciate the nuance, as you put it.

>you basically have to repudiate the OEM's built-in system in favor of a completely different Free road

You are not repudiating anything. You are using a feature that the OEM explicitly added at significant cost to please someone like you. Buy any other machine, and tell me how much freedom you get.
It doesn't look like a novel discovery: http://www.terradaily.com/reports/PollutionEating_Bacteria_P...
Seriously. If people actually cared about privacy, let's do something about credit bureaus and insurance companies. Because I can do something about it if I don't want Facebook to know I'm friends with someone or bought something on Amazon. But I can barely do anything about credit or insurance. They literally ruin lives, cost people thousands of dollars, target the poor, have terrible security, literally sell your data, and yet everyone is all up in arms about the permissions on their photos that they voluntarily posted on Facebook.
I agree there are a lot of privacy concerns here, but isn't this what governments and mega-corporations are already doing? This way at least the data will be accessible to more than just privileged groups.

Furthermore, it seems reasonable to hypothesize that this could add a whole new depth to the market of privacy and security. If this "Grassland" became the norm, then privacy concerns would be less niche, the effectiveness of our privacy efforts would be more obvious as we would have immediate feedback, and it would, therefore, be easier to ensure we're maintaining privacy from governments/corps (or anyone else for that matter).

So rather than reflexively lashing out at this as a "scary threat to privacy" maybe this is actually a counter-intuitive evolution to enhanced privacy and connectivity.
Probably the increasing evidence about Transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Also, see the use of a metal plate as a binary storage device for fonts used for the print on punch cards with the IBM key punches:

https://www.masswerk.at/misc/card-punch-typography/
Hmm, if you directly translated FINRA to internet companies, new startups would have to be licensed with the internet SRO (self-regulatory organization) before they could offer services to the public.

That's an interesting idea, is it actually what you are suggesting?
This tax would only be applied per instance of a non-compete clause, not per employee.

That way the non-compete clause isn’t included unless the company gets sufficient benefit from it to outweigh the tax.

I would think that if the size of this tax was large enough, it would be equivalent to banning non-compete clauses, and if it was 0 it would be like doing nothing.

Doesn’t this therefore allow for interpolating between “non-compete clauses are allowed” and “non-compete clauses are forbidden”?
A VAT number is (more or less) analogous to a sales tax number in the States (that have a sales tax).

If you mean is there an equivalent to a calling-party-pays, premium-rate number, it is +1-900 or +1-area code-976 numbers. I am all but certain that zero businesses or spammers will call it even if you ask them and they’re virtually useless these days because VoIP and mobile carriers don’t generally support making calls to them. The only lines that still work for calling them are regular, regulated, post-paid billing POTS lines.

Added: I also just looked and apparently both AT&T and Verizon no longer bill customers for premium-rate charges (pass-through billing) so there are even fewer lines that still support calling those numbers.
I disagree. You argument is because something exists, that has always existed, it should be criticized. Yet this has been consistently declining. So we are making improvements on it year over year.
America’s Black Box: A Rare Look at the Violence of Incarceration
Google play is government malware.
The USPS is not directly funded by taxes.
Valve Index is the game maker’s brand-new VR headset, slated for May 2019
Am I the only one that feels this is a bit far fetched? Perhaps because it is light on technical details, or more so, what the point of the article is. If Jeff Bezos paid for the investigation given how publicly he came out with his first statement, why would he not be the one issuing the follow up?

And if he did pay this person what is the point of this coming out here, and on the daily beast.

Just doesn’t quite add up for me.
The true problem with surveillance is the asymmetry of it all. Grassland uses Game Theory to remove that asymmetry. "...no party could maintain a parasitical, data gathering asymmetry (one-sided surveillance) so long as there are other parties acting in their own self interest. A 'scorched earth policy'".

It answers the question, who's watching the watchers? Everyone. And the network itself is paying them to do it.

> ...extremely worrying.

It seems to me this forces people into Nash Equilibrium. Say I now know everything about you and vice-versa and anything we do to each other would be broadcast around the world for all to see and irrevocably encrypted in a worldwide database. And since "...all nodes are anonymous, if it's computationally improbable to be sure of the identity and intentions of all parties who may end up with the data, then all parties are compelled to expand node territory for their own self interest and eschew behaviour leading to M.A.D. outcomes"

> Since when does that protect anyone’s privacy?

It doesn't. And it doesn't care. I don't mean to sound rude but you'll have to throw away this veneration of privacy to grasp what this is really about; like esteeming the Divine Right of Kings, that's not going to work any more. People are fighting over the right to keep riding this precious dead horse while corporations and governments are riding over them in AI Ferraris because they know that the ones who'll will win are those who privately control the most data to train machines to do, well... everything that a human can do and more. They don't care about your privacy. It's long gone and turned into glue. People want to believe in it but it's dead. And the longer people think it's still out there somewhere waiting for them, the longer it'll take them to grasp the power that data affords any party that disregards that belief. Then one day they'll wake up and realize all their land is in the hands of the Conquistadors.
Future generations will look upon this like we look upon the guy who disassembled a bunch of smoke detectors in order to turn his back yard into a radioactive superfund site.
Well 900 numbers I'd guess, used for psychic hotlines and other entertainments.

I suppose if I had a 900 number and used that in place of my real number on all the signups (e.g. safeway club), who I know sales their info whatever they claim, that would be funny. I wonder how many of these spam services blacklist 900 numbers?
> playing car upon roads so gridlocked that the terminology car park seems more apt

I spent 5 years making a 1 hour (each way) commute by car, a distance of 8 miles (also each way). It was soul destroying! Wasting 2 hours of my life every workday just felt so meaningless!

Eventually I moved out of the city to a small town 10 miles out of the city, and only then did I realise just how awful it had been. I'm now lucky enough to work from home 3 days a week and work 1 day in the office - and it's only a 20-25 minute drive.