skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few basic problems for me. One is that these platforms are so all-encompassing and monopolistic that they have essentially become large public spaces. Yet they are censored by private for profit companies behind closed doors.

The biggest issue for me is the political censorship. Political censorship is harmful because it restricts political dissent.

And of course the people censoring political content don't think that they are stifling political dissent. What happens is they see something that completely contradicts their worldview and label it as "crazy".

The problem is that many people have been given a worldview in which any truly unpalatable recent actions by their government are simply impossible. Or more generally, narratives which contradict official propaganda are identified by that worldview as "crazy". In other words, the censors, like most people in society, have been trained not to overstep the thought-authority of the government.

The reason this is an issue is because propaganda that serves a political regime can compromise the overall internal security of a country and even negatively impact global security. This is security as in life-or-death.
There's an informal description here: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent...

But yes, I should really write up a more technical description some day.
Safari is terrible and I applaud all applications that are broken on it, when Apple breaks down and actually offers a cross-platform version of their browser for testing then my various things might start working on it... Until then, if you have an iPhone, download chrome.
Sure, point taken, but this one is about Komodo dragons.
Sensor damaged by a foreign object on Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX triggered crash
Finding Linux Compatible Printers 2019
Device Manager only handles kernel drivers. Best practice is to put as much as possible into a highly privileged, but still user mode process so it can crash without bluescreening your system. If you assume that this code can crash (hence why it was delegated to user mode in the first place) it makes sense to code in a resurrection capability.
I wonder if we could get Kibo to show up.
I'm a novice docker user, but I found Dockerfiles to be probably the most direct, graspable, important part of docker.

It's one readable text file used to recreate an entire environment. It's sort of a picture worth a thousand command lines.

That said, I wish there was a way to get rid of all the && stuff, which is used to avoild writing a layer of the filesytem.

Why not have something like:

RUN foo
RUN bar
RUN bletch
LAYER
When someone is entirely critical of a comment but doesn't explain what the truth is, I assume it is probably because they know the comment was true but don't want to admit it.
Concerts and festivals are made more enjoyable by the shared energy. Other than concert movies and maybe Rocky Horror Picture Show, I struggle to think of movies where I’d rather walk on sticky floors to see it with 100 other coughing, talking, texting, etc humans than at home in a decent home theater.
Have you heard of plausible deniability?
There is nothing fundamentally different between AI and “traditional algorithms” when it comes to ethical considerations. Sure, the current crop of AI systems perform unbelievably well on tasks that “traditional algorithms” suck at, but it is a change in degree, not in kind.

In the overwhelming majority of pieces reflecting on AI ethics, you can replace “AI” with “algorithms”, “big data”, “computers”, “technology”, etc and not get a significant change in meaning.

Many people have had their livelihood, rights, image, etc attacked in some way by technologically mediated processes that were deployed by organizations that didn’t think things through, or prioritized eg profits over other concerns, or had anti-humanist agendas. This phenomenon is certainly accelerated by the ever increasing ubiquity of computing systems, but it certainly predates them.

AI does not bring anything radically different to the table in that regard, and if Google does not seem to care much about the ethical implications of their technology in general (see for instance the YouTube/children fiasco), why would they care about AI ethics specifically?
Virtually all residential solar installations today cannot function without the grid and would require much more expensive equipment to do so. It's not clear why that would change.
Mars Code (2014) [pdf]
Apparently it's a myth that Komodo dragons kill prey with deadly bacteria from their bite:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/06...
I understand your concerns and would like to clarify any potential doubts. The client app (the extension itself) has only currentTab permission which means that it has access only the tab where user opened the extension and it takes a screenshot only when a user explicitly clicks Scan button. The source code of the extension is completely public - everyone can unpack it and verify that indeed it does exactly that. So this actually reduces to the same functionality as for example using any photo app with cloud processing - i.e. you take the photo/screenshot explicitly and no other information is sent to the server.
I don't see anything saying this was being actively exploited; the non malicious use case would set off their scanners on all MateBooks running this driver.
It's bizarre to me that people can't seem to understand that any such panel requires vehement disagreement to make real and meaningful progress. You need people whose opinions are diametrically opposed to constantly challenge each other. Even people who hate each other or each other's opinions.

What you don't need is another echo chamber. Go debate on Twitter, Facebook or Reddit if that's what you're looking for.
Currencies Direct: https://ibb.co/BTzRGq3 nope

SmartCurrencyExhcange: https://ibb.co/4RGXvbc also nope

They don't have MXN/Mexico, along with a lot of other currencies from Latin America, Africa and Asia
Safari link tracking can no longer be disabled
There’s some good additional commentary in the body of the Lobsters post from the author, including why they wrote it and why not libgit2: https://lobste.rs/s/bpzl12/git_fs_native_git_implementation_...
It's the old "what is core to the business" question. Which is a strategic question, but one that everyone benefits from thinking about.
Yeah there's so much nuance involved in figuring out whether a handful of giant corporations should be permitted to summarily remove a streamer from all social media because they dislike his political position. I like the part where the one giant walking hotpocket described how he's saving lives by discretionarily removing interpretable expression from public view.

Seriously, what a joke. This is how the internet turns into another extension of the ridiculous, culturally oppressive "entertainment" industry we were all trying to get away from. The fact these people want these jobs should disqualify them from having the jobs.
The law was implemented by the guy in the middle: https://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/11/12/state-department-...
New Privacy Settings for WhatsApp Groups
If you are bored then throw off funny photos
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I've never once questioned the etymology of "dial" before now. Funny how you just accept certain facts as fundamental because you're taught them at a young age.
One of the major complaints about Facebook is their tracking of non-users, of people who haven't accepted any 'deal' nor given them any data - e.g. Facebook is known to do matching of non-users full name with phone numbers and other contact information based on what other people have in their phone contacts, combined with tracking their visits on third-party websites which embed e.g. facebook like buttons.

There are ongoing court cases proving such practices, and Facebook insisting in court that it should be allowed to continue to violate privacy even for people who, like you, have intentionally chosen to avoid Facebook.
I think you're wrong. The tooling around training ML is becoming progressively more accessible, so much so that within ten years you won't even need a programmer to train an AI for many tasks. Who knows where that will be in 20 years.
You never been out for a meal with a rich person huh? Guarantee you a rich person (where rich is $50m+)can get that table faster than the b-list sitcom actor who is in front of her in the queue. She dosnt need a CV, just needs her wallet.
Burden of proof fallacy occurs as a form of red herring, an attempt to kill an argument by distraction through evidence requests.

People form all kinds of biased or disagreeable opinions for manners of reasons. If you think evidence is lacking in an opinion do your own research and provide a superior counter argument. Lazy people asking for sources without any contribution to a conversation or effort to find sources of their own is something I blanket downvote.

If you think an opinion is incredibly ignorant or utterly depraved you aren’t forced to engage it by feeding the troll. Attempting to kill the bad opinion through lazy evidence requests just contributes an alternate form of trolling.

Ultimately it comes down to motive. You can generally tell when someone is trying to move a conversation forward or simply adding noise.
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He gave a good steer to an aspiring grad student, which meant I only ever spent a summer on plan9 things.

He was a gentle, nice and talented guy. :(
> I mean well enough to keep society running smoothly, with affordable property insurance and the average person having low risk of violent injury or death.

Well, that's a fairly heinous definition of law enforcement working well as it also covers, say, fascist secret police. Society running smoothly should not be prioritized over society running ethically. This is the core of why you could consider police primarily protecting the property rights of rich people: a disrupted rich person is enormously inefficient in terms of capital use, but a disrupted poor person is just another burden on society without much effect on the economic health signals to which people refer.
There's a lot of greenwashing in the insulation business. Rockwool uses coal to melt stone, binds the fibers with formaldehyde, and puts the coal ash waste in the final product. That's not something I want deteriorating in my walls.
Trying to get my HP LaserJet 1020 hooked up to Debian 9.8 yesterday made me think about retiring and moving to a small college town and opening up a pizza place.
I thought there was an HN post recently about how browsers on the iPhone need to use WebKit. They were not allowed to be better (from a rendering perspective). Or perhaps I misunderstood that.
I expect a deafening silence from US politicians on this matter.

Which is very, very wrong.
And yet all your posts implicitly assume that he doesn't care.

Doesn't that level of cynicism...hurt? Like, personally hurt? It's not good, dude.
The Choices We Make
> If i know the one who make argument could prove it,

Unless they do, you don't know they can.
If I want to evaluate a candidate’s record (say as governor of a state), I can’t see how to make that pseudonymous and productive. If you tell me the state and the time, so I can judge whatever criteria I find relevant (job growth, infant mortality, population happiness, housing affordability, or 500 other things), you’ve told me who it is, of course.

I’m trying to be charitable; I’m just not able to be creative enough to find how to expansively evaluate track record of relevant experience.
I'm going to check that out this week.. thx!
> What is not malicious

> malicious - adj. - having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone

I'ts goofy, and wouldn't pass a design review that I was a part of, but it isn't "showing a desire to cause harm". It just looks like a rushed design.

> about a driver whose pure function (this thing literally has no other value or purpose)

I see nothing about how this driver doesn't have any other functions.

> is maintaining an invincible NT_AUTHORITY process of their pre-installed management software

Because you want the hardware management process to be resurrected if it fails. They're not gaining anything from an attack perspective by deferring to user mode, the process isn't hidden, and they're already running as a kernel driver so they have full control of the system as it is. In Raymond Chen's parlance, they're already on the other side of the airtight hatch.

> Maybe we have different expectations of what a driver is.

I mean, Minix ascribes it's uptime and reliability to a resurrection server. Is this a much crappier design? Yes. Is it such a bad design that it's malicious? No, that's absurd.

> Maybe we have different expectations of what a driver is.

I expect drivers to defer everything they can to user mode so they don't crash the kernel. That's one of the reasons why APCs exist in the first place.

> Take a look for yourself, even the updated PC Manager Software on their website still has the driver with the goofy shellcode in its installer (no idea if it's just not loaded now):

Oh no, they didn't take that out of their package, but even Microsoft says that they fixed the vulnerability, and quicker than responsible disclosure asks for.
I am a paying Spotify customer since 2010 or so and have also spent countless hours developing software for personal use integrating with Spotify. I've used e.g. their old (now deprecated) C-library and now rely on the web API. Therefore I have no qualms on calling them out on some of their hypocrisy.

Many music streaming services have no API:s, and those that do have (to the best of my knowledge) worse API:s than Spotify. I'm very grateful that they provide any means of integration. However, that doesn't get them a free pass to get on as high a horse as they try.

Now for the part where I gripe. They recently created a dedicated site shaming Apple for, in part, not exposing the same internal API:s/abilities/possibilities to Spotify as they did to their own and perhaps some other third party apps. That's pretty rich.

Where is the protocol specification or available-for-everyone library for creating a Spotify Connect endpoint? Locked behind Hardware Partner Applications, NDA:s, Evaluation Agreements, New Product Applications, Device Certifications and Distribution Agreements (yes, all of those, according to their own site). Talk about subjectiveness and forcing people to jump through a thousand hoops -- like they accuse Apple of. "and final approvals for commercial usage will always be left up to the discretion of Spotify and its partners". Three cheers for transparency and a level playing field.

Where is the web API support for folders, a feature that you clearly use yourself in the desktop application? The web API has been launched for years without folder support. This feature is completely private and unavailable to others. In the GitHub issue about it that they closed with WONTFIX the motivation was in part that folder support didn't fit well into their REST API, which is some of the weakest sauce I've had in quite some time. I used your C library and I know that you implemented folders as "begin" and "end" markers in the huge, flat playlist list. Perhaps you regret that design decision, but if that makes it an expensive API call then rate limit it accordingly. Make it subject to change as you evolve. Just don't close it off and keep it private for your own apps.

Yes, I'm annoyed. I've been a loyal customer, user, developer and fan for almost a decade. They get to expose or not expose any API they like, that's their prerogative. But what they don't get to do is gripe about the subjectivity and closed off-ness of others if they don't practise what they preach. I hate hypocrisy.

If you've read this far, I apologize for spouting bile. Time to sleep, probably.
Actually the outlook for prognostication is-- wait let me check-- it's "ask again later". Huh, oh well.
Because ostensibly we've moved on from that to the concept of actual modules.

'including' stuff entails a whole host of ugly things including multiple definitions, circular dependencies etc. etc..

Most languages use some kind of module resolution, which when specified clearly is usually better. Of course sometimes they forget to define things, and leave us in a lurch ... but hey ...
> I operate on the idea that if you want something, it is that desire which convicts you with a burden to actualize it.

Sure, and if you want people to believe your conclusions, that's why you have the burden of establishing the truth of those conclusions to the audience.
HN(2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5626079
See also: http://web.archive.org/web/20070623125327/http://www.alexhop...
So now every bug on a privilege boundary is a backdoor, because of "plausible deniability"?
Komodo dragons having filthy saliva that causes deadly infections is a myth. In actual fact they have venomous saliva, which functions as an anti-coagulant (whether it counts as a venom seems to be disputed, but the anti-coagulant properties of the saliva one way or the other seem to be established fact.) They kill by inflicting massive bleeding[1][2].

Related to the bacteria/saliva myth are misconceptions on how they hunt. They often eat their prey alive in a very brutal manner[3], rather than biting them once then hanging back for their prey to die. They also have exceptional endurance by reptile standards. Crocodilians are known for very rapid burst speed, but monitor lizards and particularly Komodo dragons can chase prey at very high speeds for much longer than you'd expect[4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon#Saliva

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/06...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrg9hYjW8ts

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O16-IrBIscI
A Conversation with Language Creators: Guido, James, Anders and Larry [video]
Yah I agree. There's almost nothing of interest in this article, which is a shame because I think it would be really interesting to hear more about the challenges, process and final product.
> something as nonsensical as bear bile cough drops are as routine to many as something like taking Dayquil is to a westerner

More and more studies I've read show that over-the-counter medicines often do nothing (the easy-to-sell sudafed replacement is the most obvious example), but we take them anyway. It's just as much nonsense as bear bile cough drops, just in a different form that seems normal to us. In the end, you're sick, and it doesn't make you get better or feel better. So nobody is really crazy here -- we are promised a cure, and really want one, so we try to believe because it's all we've got. Bear bile or phenylephrine... it's all the same.
James Gosling wants to punch the "Real Men Use VI" people.

"I think IDEs make language developers lazy." -Larry Wall

"IDEs let me get a lot more done a lot faster. I mean I'm not -- I -- I -- I -- I -- I'm really not into proving my manhood. I'm into getting things done." -James Gosling
My understanding is 2 or 3 miners in the PRC have all that 51%, and in China, when Beijing says jump you say how high or you may end up escorted from your penthouse at the four seasons in Hong Kong to seek medical treatment on the mainland and never be heard from again (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/worl...)
You're right. Chrome and Firefox on iOS are WebKit-based.
A radiochemist will help me determine the the size requirements of the hot cells for the final facility design. I understand the chemistry needed to separate out some of the most commonly used radioisotopes, but I don't have a sense of scale other than the processes being "bench top" scale.

Additionally, he or she (and with a few colleagues) will develop all of the processing procedures for the myriad isotopes that the facility will produce. A lot of what's publicly available for processing and purification has been optimized and is trade secret.

Another interesting problem is how to turn more of your waste into wealth? Currently, Mo-99 (the radioisotope with the largest market share) is primarily produced by extracting the Mo-99 from fission products. Mo-99 is produced in 7% of fissions. Well, if I process out the Mo-99, how many times and how many different processes on that waste can I perform to extract out other radioisotopes before I have to dispose of it?

Early on I'll need a radiochemist with a certain level of hands-on experience because their work will directly tie into the regulatory process, but as I raise more money and build my team, I'm certain that a computation chemist can help answer that last question which could be a huge innovation.
I have been waiting for this for so long! Thank you so much for these links!

I have Pass working but SSH was always a glaring missing piece of the puzzle. Now if only I can convince an SFTP client to do this, I'll be really sitting pretty.
Trinitite collection season is upon us again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitite
I have been completely unaware this existed.

Thank you for sharing this!
Is there a grammarly alternative? Their product is pretty useful.
From what I've heard, Falun Gong is about making money too. It's basically "hey we'll help you and be real nice to you and help you get back on your feet. Now it's your turn to pay up with donations". Which seems better than scientology, I'd say it's most comparable to mormonism
What?

Maybe the Epoch Times is biased, but the Falun Gong is nothing like scientology: it has no fees and isn't trying to coerce anyone to join.

It's a minority group that is persecuted by the CCP.
Ask HN: How does this site make money?
http://reamo.com/

This is in their FAQ:

"Our revenue comes from the phone calls generated by you via your phone company, and all you need to do is listen to the radio stations which we stream in order to earn units. Please note that we are only able to pay out on funds which we’ve successfully received from your phone company."

How would this work? AFAIK it's not a premium number service, and it's highly unlikely that they would have contracts in place with all major telcos.
Apparently... leave them alone. Unfortunately the simplest messages seem to be the hardest for humans to understand.
That's a huge boon. If you've already become familiar with nuclear codes by playing with OpenMC for fun, we may be talking sooner rather than later!