skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea of the 1 hour deadline is to pull it offline before others can download and repost it. The police/governments especially in Australia and New Zealand have worked out that there is simply no way to remove a file from the internet if someone else grabs it in time.

Its a fruitless effort and very dangerous when misused but thats what I assume they are trying to do anyway.
Amazonians can bid for .amazonia should they want to.

There is absolutely no reason why they should be given rights on .amazon, a foreign word that doesn't exist in their own language.
>Tolkien, Lewis and Williams actually flatter the reader’s Narcissism, while morally softening the reader’s Promethianism. Lindsay strenuously assaults the reader’s Narcissism, while both hardening the reader’s Promethianism and yet reminding the reader that Narcissism and Promethianism verge upon an identity. Inkling fantasy is soft stuff, because it pretends that it benefits from a benign transmission both of romance tradition and of Christian doctrine.

Bloom is a good critic and possibly the most well-read person ever, but he's not a particularly good writer. What does this sentence mean? Does Bloom even know? I'm skeptical
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is a legitimate question. However, in this particular case, I think the final sentence of the accepted answer on Physics.SE, namely that

> In this diagram the singularity is a line in spacetime i.e. a one dimensional object in spacetime.

is wrong or at least very misleading – the answer does (correctly) say that asking for the "dimensionality of a singularity […] is a meaningless question because the spacetime geometry is undefined at a singularity".
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They activate on very specific commands. It's no different then adding a trigger phrase to start recording with those devices. Whether it's a VUI, physical button UI, or even motion-sensor triggered is splitting hairs, since the device is still owned and operated by the person who put it there.
oh man, 9w is beautiful. used to go to school up there.
Yes, at ~6:53 in the video she shows how they are selecting images to include that look like a black hole. If you plug in enough noisy images you will eventually get a few that look like a bright donut.
as i replied in the comment below, the goal isn't "absolute porn free paradise," it's "keep our current control working." sound shortsighted to you? it is. it's also the easiest thing, and frees everyone up to do other, more important work than impressing people who are aghast that an organization would uninstall 1 of 2 browsers b/c it bypasses some control of theirs.

as for once chrome implements DOH, they'd cross that bridge when they came to it. it's an uphill battle, because really content filtering, of course, should not be done through browser settings (remotely managed or otherwise), nor solely through DNS. if whoever tells IT what to do in that school district is hellbent on it being impossible to browse to pornhub, they'll ultimately need a layer 7 firewall. but again, when you're on the budget, you do fastest / cheapest / most effective.

(and if we return to pure hypothetical, i would argue that dns filtering really is the best way in their case, because anyone who could bypass that--besides just using firefox--will be able to bypass better chrome config, or your firefox config change, etc, since they can just edit host file, etc etc etc)
The irony of Boeing complaining about favorable treatment by the government is palpable.
Doing that would require researchers to overtly and explicitly lie, which would act as at least some disincentive.
Good! In the past few years the E.U has passed absolutely ridiculous laws and taxed U.S. based companies through these ridiculous laws because they want a slice of the pie too.

Edit: They are getting tax through fines by said ridiculous laws not by direct tax.
Completely agree. This needs to be the top comment.
It needs to be pointed out that this is an option that originates from privilege. Ignoring the news means ignoring politics. Ignoring politics is tacit support of the status quo. The status quo does not put everyone on equal footing. Disadvantaged people would therefore suffer more from disengaging with the news than people of privilege.
Come on, guys, we've seen this kind of headline before about hominid species as well as other types of extinct animals. It may be a bit poorly worded but, if something like that really did happen, you wouldn't hear about it first on Hacker News.
I was intended to be a bit snarky indeed. I know TEE's and remote attestation are supposed to help out here, but I also know that even a purpose-designed chip couldn't get it right the first few times (think MIFARE NFC, TPMs and YubiKeys with Infineon cores). It's a very hard problem, and making light of it by having marketing (big assumption) play it as if a phone is now a security key seems a bit of a leap here.

At the same time, WebAuthn is better in itself but still not the silver bullet versus passwords and a password manager. We don't live in an ideal world of course, but if we are going to turn commodity multipurpose devices into soft tokens, we might as well name it as such. (but naming it that way definitely doesn't have the same ring to it: "Your Phone is a Soft Token").
What is disappointing here is that they did not run on Firefox or Chrome. The independent WASM runtimes are not as mature as the browser based ones, so it would be great to see the difference.
Humans have a fairly limited frequency range in which they can hear, typically said to be 20 Hz to 20 kHz, but usually worse than that for most people. There's all kinds of sound in the world that is inaudible to humans.
Still pretty much true. Sub 150$ Xiaomi phones from 2016 are still going strong (Redmi 3). And there are plenty of sub 150$ offerings with something like Snapdragon 636/710 and 4GB of RAM which will be more than enough for years to come unless you are into some hardcore smartphone gaming (oxymoron).
As far as depth, it's largely sequences. Most machines past the very early ones have tons and tons of sequences of actions you're trying to take—hit that ramp three times, then drop the ball in that hole over there, then the door opens, put the ball through that hole three times, skill shot, now such-and-such mode starts, complete it, now you've completed the first of eight parts of the machine's "story" or whatever.

So you have any of several sequences available at a time, offering different possibilities (advance toward multiball, set up a multiplier or bonus for a later ball or even a later game[!], go for some really high-scoring combo, activate extra ball, one or more "story" lines of actions to complete at any time, and so on). You might go for high score, you might go for "finishing" the story, some personal challenge ruleset. It'll affect what you're trying to do.

But it's also a hand-eye coordination game, and one of carefully physically manipulating the machine to bump the ball this way and that, so things don't always go as planned and you're thinking of contingency shots, or just trying to get the ball back under control, or shooting it one place because you need it to be somewhere else to make some other shot.

Most machines have some tricks to discover. Intentionally "flub" your plunger shot at the right time on Addams Family to lock a ball for multiball in The Swamp, for instance. Better to wait out some mode to technically complete it rather than trying to do what it wants for extra points, because it requires some risky shots or puts the ball on a part of the table that carries a high risk of a hard-to-stop drain. That kind of thing. Plus stuff you just have to figure out by lore (hold the ball for a bit to stop temporarily stop The Power long enough for one shot on Addams Family, say).

Then there's the feel. Every machine's different. Some have great flow (and that might vary by player), some have awesome theme, some have an incredible melding of theme and play—take Black Knight and its sequel, Black Knight 2000, in which you're "dueling" the Black Knight, which is both a fictional robber-knight and the machine itself, which taunts you ("give me your money!"), with the board structured such that you're on the "offense" when the balls on the elevated, upper playfield with a secondary flipper, and "defense" when it's on the lower board and at risk of draining, but that's not explicit, it's just a natural result of the theme and board design coming together.

So, for competition: physical skill, thinking on your feet, planning, knowing and having your shot timing down for the particular machine. And you can still have an "on" day or an "off" day, just like anything else. I'd put it up there in complexity with your average competitive FPS, certainly. Shares a lot in common, in fact.

Plus, even on machines where the two flipper buttons are the only useful inputs when the ball's in play, they don't always only control flippers. Watch the lights :-)
Seems like a false equivalence. First, a corporation is not the same as the government. Second, the government wiretapping your house is a violation of your constitutional rights, whereas you freely choosing to add a smart device into your home is not.
"but I actually want the answer to the question"

No, you don't. Because any rational person would know that nobody is going to have or tell you the answer. So, still glib and disingenuous to boot.
If there is one thing I am so happy I could cry about.. it's when I stopped managing mail systems.
Well yeah, you have to tell your manager of course, but _they can't stop you_ from moving to another team.

Don't know about Apple or Amazon but Google/FB are like that. If you're very senior, a few months (no more than 6 no matter how senior) delay might be imposed so that you hand off your stuff, if you're less senior, a few weeks is usually enough. It is also expected (at Google, don't know about FB) that you'll stay on each team for at least a year, and that you'll wind down your obligations in an orderly fashion, which I think you'll agree is not unreasonable.

But _nobody_ will force you to do work you really don't like to do. In contrast, at most other companies it's easier to get a job _at another company_ than to move to another team.
I find your comment rather weird.

First, why would you get to decide whether Amazon.com is "enough", and what does enough even mean here?

Second, Amazon would never host their portal on amazon.amazon, it would be ridiculous. They would want www.amazon, which seems fine, or most probably shop.amazon, books.amazon, free.amazon, etc. all of which are completely in their prerogative.

Maybe Amazonians can get authority on .br.amazon, .forest.amazon, .region.amazon, or something but nothing on the top domain. It would be ridiculous for many reasons including security.
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I feel like, at this point, a possibly likely option is a continued bump of leave dates until the British population gets sick of the BS and forces a stay decision in like 20 years once the old racists go away - but my money is still on UK doing a no-deal brexit because they can't decide on anything else... that will probably happen during the next european recession when the EU gets sick of wasting bureaucratic effort on supporting the UK being silly... and it looks like we're 9-18 months out from the next global recession.
For short experiments you could game the system, but for an experiment that requires two years of work, it’s unlikely that you’d hold your results for two years to maintain the illusion.

Also you could tie the release of funds to publication of expected methods.
You get an HTTPS error if someone performs a DNS MITM and you’re not set up specifically to trust their certificate. It’s equivalent to performing an HTTPS MITM without the root cert installed.
Such as? As far as I know the EU has had a rather positive position regarding the US for the last decades, and still does, even after the most recent election.

According to this page: https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/europe... it's rather balanced. Whoever upsets that balance might need to reconsider, but the US would definitely have a problem if less stuff comes in from the EU. For the EU, however, it's less of an issue: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2006/september/tradoc_...
The Google speech API supports Speaker Diarization and Android supports voice unlock so they are getting to a point where they are able to ID voices and should be able to tell which voice has consented to being recorded.
Relevant paper: https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1119/1.4916949?class=p...
top level tlds could not set a cookie, but everything else applies.
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What is a cybercrime? https://www.techopedia.com/definition/2387/cybercrime

How authorities deal with cybercrimes:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/3-ways-to-fight-cyber-criminals/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjQkvqv4cbhAhXETrwKHRrMDrUQFjAGegQICRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapmg-international.com%2Farticle%2Fhow-uk-police-learn-fight-cyber-crime&usg=AOvVaw3x6OOhp7NRB9DzAaNBLuoY
Why is ignoring media tacit support of the status quo?
As dsfyu404ed@ points out, the UK no longer has good track-record of due process and fundamental-rights compared to the continent.

In 18th and even 19th century, Britain's unwritten constitution and notions of "English liberty" did indeed stand out -- and inspired the American to crystalise the ideas into written constitutions.

But 20th century ideologies, and the modern administrative state have "obsoleted" all that. Needless to say Britain coped with the change better than lots of pre-war countries (Germany!).

But post-war, Europeans have put in place formal human rights protections that a working imperfectly, but better than the British non-constitution. British citizens have their basic rights protected in large part because the UK now shares these formal rules with Europe.
how else do you make an informed vote?
> By that logic, any device with a microphone and potential to record should not exist.

Not at all, it's how you use it. Cars can run over people but cars can exist; driving over someone is a crime committed by the operator. A machine with a microphone need not be, of itself, illegal.

There is an issue of a secret microphone, as with Google's camera that secretly included microphones. That seems fraudulent because the user is not able to knowledgable decide if she can trust the device.
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Not the best title. I thought this was going to be about bad patterns in how programming is taught, but instead it seems to focus on the struggles of minority groups and introduces organizations that help them.
Oh, you mean like direct tax subsidies, "investment" incentives, and overpaying for defense contracts? Because that's what the US does, and the WTO also ruled that that is an illegal.

That fact that you seem to believe the rest of the world is abusing the US is more about a misplaced belief that the US's abuse of other countries is perfectly acceptable.

If the US wanted to lead by example, it could do what NZ did a drop subsidies and tariffs on agriculture. But that's not what you want.
If all European countries really wanted was just a slice of the pie, they could just put a tax on foreign-owned tech companies (like France is doing).

Are you seriously suggesting the EU took the trouble of implementing GDPR, causing significant disruption to European companies as well, for the sole purpose of fining FAANGs and making money out of it?
You're right, but my experience suggests that anything broadly in the 'manufacturing' field is treated as a cost center, and not something people want to spend money on.

In most places a rubber stamp of 'yep, definitely secure because we have a password (over http, oh by the way everyone uses the default which is in the manual)' is good enough. Then when something goes wrong there's a general shrug and they change the password.
How does one even deal with ISM scattering?

The optical equivalent can be dealt with by active optics, or picking frames with best seeing, but for ISM I imagine it is a fair bit different.
Because being politically active at any thing but the most basic level requires knowledge of the issues and knowledge of the issues requires following the news. If you are not politically active you are supporting the status quo because you are not putting in any effort to change the status quo.
It is in my opinion absolutely unacceptable that this submission was originally the article title and that was subsequently changed, presumably to defuse it. Someone needs to clarify when the norm of using the submission title applies, when it’s thrown out, why it’s thrown out, and who gets to decide.

In my opinion, the only sensible approach is for the title policy to be unilaterally enforced. Any departure from it will invariably involve someone’s subjective ‘political’ stance on a matter.

As it stands, it looks as if someone at Amazon applied pressure to have this changed. I really hope that isn’t the case because it’s almost too shady to be believed.
It'd be extremely shocking if he hadn't been able to. The math has been known for a very long time the largest differences would be based on the orientation of disk relative to us but that has been mostly known since the original Hubble picture. If he'd been significantly wrong that'd mean our understanding of the physics was wrong or something unknown was happening at a pretty large scale.
Yeah, what are you talking about? As a business selling into Europe you pay VAT and that's about it. But VAT has been around for a long time.

If you an office in Europe then I guess you are subject to additional taxes? But you are operating in Europe, so how is that unreasonable?
First, the parent said nothing about jail time. Unlike what many Americans think, incarceration is not the only penalty that can be imposed by the government.

Second, there are already legal penalties for certain types of misconfiguration. For example, if you run an open proxy, or public file server, you could already be punished for transmitting or storing illegal content. However, most governments worldwide have at least a modicum of sense, and do not mete severe punishment (e.g. incarceration) for obvious mistakes.
Other countries are going to start ignoring FAA safety rulings now, so meaning that in exchange for a short term monetary gain a bunch of politicians and executives will probably cause significant long term costs - although the people who made those decisions and took those bribes won't have to pay for those consequences, they've already got there's :-/
A company I used to work for is in the process of doing this right now. Makes me feel really stupid spending ~10k exercising the shares.
Doesn't every country do the same thing— albeit perhaps not at the same scale? When Embraer complained about Bombardier's subsidies from the Canadian government, the WTO decided that they were illegal. Then Bombardier complained about Embraer's subsidies from the Brazilian government and the WTO decided that those are illegal too.
> "Merged" conjures an image of living peacefully side by side and interbreeding for many generations.

That seems to be what happened with Neanderthals, at least at first.

Incidentally any violence may have been from the Neanderthals because almost all of the genetic data shows Neanderthal ancestry from Neanderthal males and homo sapiens females, and not the other way around.
thanks, i didn't watch it.
I don't really see water meters as being an issue. There aren't any control systems involved.

Worst case you can tamper with the readings, but you can't actually cause damaging effects.
Are you serious?

Like disadvantaged people are gonna read something in the NYT and then successfully lobby their congressman to change it?

Serenity to accept what you can't change is absolutely the most effective strategy for those who don't have the means to change things. Worry about your family first, work within the constraints you have. That's reality for a lot of people. I'd argue it's 'privileged' to think otherwise.
Because you don't have to worry about your kids being separated from you at the border, being bombed by the Saudis, or losing our homes to climate change related events.

Most of the things the news covers disproportionately effect destitute-through-low-income individuals.
More subsidies to that callous killer Boeing, from a government of the megacorps, by the people, for the megacorps.
Material can come in towards the black hole from any angle. However, because matter can't just pass through other matter, matter travelling in the wrong directions will collide more frequently than matter travelling in the right direction. Because of the conservation of angular momentum, the "right" direction will depend on the average angular momentum of everything in the cloud that is collapsing into the disk.

You might be interested to know that this is the same reason all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same disk: all the matter that is now in our solar system was originally a very thin cloud of gas with a small amount of overall angular momentum. As gravity drew it together it flattended out into a disk and eventually the clumps became planets (and the sun in the middle.)
Curious why you don't mention their name? Feels like there's little recourse against this sort of thing other than reputation risk, why not out them publically?
All these things have dedicated low-power hardware that just listens for the trigger phrase and has no network access. That's why you can't choose your trigger phrase.
I mean, the current administration was elected on a platform of "America First" so, what did you think would happen?

I think the US has been self-centered for quite some time, and there was a hilarious thread in a different article that went into the idea that America is the world-policeman that everyone wants but... yea, for equal treatment and to avoid regulatory capture - one needs to avoid that dying empire.
Apologies to the poor folks reviewing audio, but the only room my Echo is allowed in is the bathroom.
> "5 Why" style analysis is really easy to steer toward whatever you want to blame.

This is the big issue. Ideology, bias and self-interest creep in and you can easily end up blaming whatever it is that you personally disagree with.

And that's to not even mention the "unknown unknowns", which by their very nature cannot be factored in to a "5 Whys" process, no matter their real world relevance to the problem at hand
And what's the chance that it gets reported before someone's downloaded it?

I'd say about none.
most bio papers in nature are irreproducible, except by a few top competitive labs, and even then, most don't bother unless they don't believe the results.
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Yea, but the WTO hasn't gone after the blatant US protectionism - that's the issue. Most other countries are kept relatively in check in terms of trade fairness, but the US is riding their golden chariot.
In before Google kills this
The whole video was him explaining why the image would look the way it ended up looking. darkpuma was overly patient when explaining this to you.
Back in about 2000 I remember exchanging emails with a guy who had built a modified renderer for (I think) the Half-Life 1 engine. He was using audio rendering to enable blind players to play first person shooters. My recollection is he was using a series of horizontal scan lines across the display region with different octaves or similar indicating which scan line was being "rendered" and different tones indicating the brightness value along the sweep of each scan line. I think he was primarily using mono audio at the time, but it's been long enough that I can't entirely recall.