skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be because most people here are software engineers.

If a person's new grad salary is high enough to pay off student loans inside of 2 years, then this arrangement is a lot worse financially than a simple student loan.
The job market for CS, also makes it so, that a loan is pretty low risk. a half-decent job is nearly guaranteed.

Flip the major to something with a lot more income insecurity, and these schemes make sense.

> Vemo Education, which vets students at Purdue and a handful of other schools on behalf of potential investors.

This statement does worry me though. It seems like they would only invest in a candidate if they were already on their path to success. These candidates were probably never at risk of not paying their student loans in the first place.
I wonder if they expanded their pool to more risk prone students, would such an investment system be sustainable at all ?
Tape recorders are still on the market.
It's true that ISPs may have fewer issues, but there are just too few of them. On the other hand, there are way more "pro net neutrality" companies and net neutrality is not the least important issue for them.
I actually read the URL in the status bar when I hover over things to click. Not once in my nearly 40 years of life have I ever fallen prey to clickjacking.
Corporations are not an emergent property of the universe.

They are models, specifically sanctioned by law, that are organized around particular sets of interests.

Just because there are subsets of people whose self-interest is aligned with particular corporations' doesn't mean that those interests are aligned with the self interest of everyone, or even a majority of people.

And this isn't to say that there isn't an important role for corporations to play in the world, but to suggest that their form and function is the result of everyone acting in their self interest is oversimplifying things dramatically.
I don’t understand, what you’re saying doesn’t really make any sense. Were they also using Ethernet over power devices? Even so they typically have a setup process that negotiate the encryption keys between devices in your own home.
Lol, why would someone downvote this?
I think that simply having Gmail use (evetually require?) it is enough for heavy adoption. Like it or not, they can push whatever they want through standards bodies no matter how ridiculous.
As someone who works in digital marketing and SEO, I can't tell you how many times my google assistant thinks I'm talking to it during the course of my day. I really wish they would let me change the wake word.
As a childhood asthmatic, apparently I got on this training regime early.
True, I imagine its false positive rate is higher than Bixby's. But I think the specific combination of "o-kay-goo-gull" probably doesn't clash with too many things; even when talking about Google. But my Alexa seems to pick up all sorts of words vaguely sounding like Alexa when I play videos.
As a user its not just I don't mind but I expect them to do so, at least to improve the product.
> I see a number of comments celebrating the choice to live in a bubble uninformed and blissfully unaware of local and global events.

I'm pretty sure my being aware of local and global events, plus voting, plus demonstrating, plus organizing, plus god knows how much time arguing politics on the Internet has done... pretty much nothing at all. I've quit all of it (except the arguing on the Internet part, naturally).

Almost none of the news is important, because it's not effectively actionable (for most people). It's fine if you like the news as entertainment. It's not fine to look down on people for not liking the entertainment you do.

As for ignorance, if you want to be an informed voter/activist/whatever then very little of your information diet should be news. Most of it should be books.
How does pinball even have enough depth, with such simple controls, to sustain a competitive scene?
Oracle and IBM officially out of the race for $10B defense cloud contract
Hash checks, file signatures, etc. make that a non-issue.

At this point, with all the restrictions happening, how about we just require a license to use the internet? Just skip all this crap because that's about where we're heading now.
Wikipedia isn’t officially a social network, but the harassment can get ugly
Agreed. It's almost spooky how friends, family, hotels, and other places that used to be considered "private/semi-private" now have microphones listening all the time, in plain sight. Most people don't even notice or seem to care.
I'm curious, how do you get a $33k MSRP Volt down to $18k? Was it second hand? (if it was then you don't get any federal/state credits, those are claimed by the original owner)
I am sorry but thanks to our love of social media being a 'platform of all' they are able to dictate what is a 'credible/trusted source'

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/trusted-sources/

This is a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario.
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> you can still cause arbitrary code execution within the process

You start with the ability to do arbitrary code execution, you don't have to find an exploit to do that. And since your WASM code is the only thing in the process, what is an exploit going to let you do that you couldn't already do anyway?
I would expect the most casual inspection to actually be the least affected, since it would be be the most focused on the first letter or two of each entry.
There are "smart-apartments" going up in my area that have Alexas and whatnot preinstalled. They're some of the nicer apartments in the area and I'd love to live there. However, it's against the leasing agreement (which is pretty firm) to remove / disable them. Insane.
> lack good customer care and support.

Depends on how much you're paying them and the SOW you've signed.

> non transparant pricings and they disrespect privacy.

For pricing, talk with them. Or use a cloud broker.
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Event horizon telescope (black hole imaging) source code
Security cameras often explicitly lack audio because of these laws. The other devices you mentioned all have primary functionality that doesn't depend of recording nearby audio arbitrarily. The possible exception is Siri and Google's assistant, which fall into the category of services/devices being questioned in this instance.
How have we got to the point where someone listening via a microphone inside my house is fine as long as it's not real-time?
I see it more as by paying attention to the circus you’re rewarding bad behavior (circus creation). Being immune to the histrionics makes it harder to be exploited.
> inaudible sounds

What?
>God, give me grace to accept with serenity, the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

I think this is a case of these people realizing that they cannot change the world in such a way to solve each and every problem that is presented to them in the news. As such, they choose to focus on their own personal lives and they people they come across in their day to day lives.

I hope this helps. It's not that they just don't care, it's that caring is damaging their psyche and performance. They've learned it's healthier to tune most of that noise out.
That's some particularly hilarious timing giving boeing's recent "unsafe to fly our plans" headline news.

As someone in Canada it's been disappointing to watch the massive internal subsidies given to Boeing (from the US government) help sink Bombardier - though the company also did under-perform.
The episode goes in to this. Typically these are people who would struggle with traditional financial institutions, and so they harness peer pressure as a savings tactic.
This makes Google money, Google Reader did not. That's why they will not be bored with AI for a decade or so.
When I was a boy I'd not take care of my shoes, wearing them out very quickly. My father applied a simple solution. He said if I wanted new shoes, I had to earn the money to pay for them.

My shoes started lasting several times longer. I was still a child.

My dad didn't think of this himself. The Army had the same problem with combat boots, and solved it by having the GIs pay for their boots.
Biotech companies are frequently public and are rolling it all on a single drug.
Which state? In Massachusetts all charter school admission is by lottery, with preference given to siblings of existing students and students who reside in the district the charter school is located in.
The ability to smear through accusation, without proof, without due process, and without the presumption of innocence has always been the province of tyrants in power and the tool of would-be tyrants trying to gain power.

Those who accuse and un-person are the villains throughout history. In the past, people were smeared as sexually loose, as belonging to the "wrong" religion, or as having the "wrong" sexual orientation. In the past, people were smeared as being of the "wrong" racial background. Always be wary of those who smear to enforce their power.

A free society is one, where people and ideas can show up, be given a chance, and stand or fall on their character and merits. Evil is recognizable in its epistemological hazards:

- Don't ask questions.
- Don't read or hear the heretical opinion.
- Don't associate with the "wrong" people.

The side of good, the side of the long arc of justice, is the side of rational argument and of principles. The side of justice is the one saying, "hear me out."

It's the side of evil which uses vilification, seeks to silence, and uses fear against questions.
https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/android/androi...

It appears to be more (5) steps than changing a key.
If you want to prevent anything like this you either have strong (centralized) controls on the client side - policies hardening the client to the point where no reasonable exploitation avenue is left (no hosts file, no running portable browser, no changing settings, etc.), or strong controls on the network - proxy and make sure no matter what the client wants it goes only where it's allowed (no VPN, no DNS filter bypass, etc.).

Maybe the occasional brilliant kids will find a way, good for them. But there's a limit to how much "ghetto administration" you can do without expending any resources on it and still have your measures hold after a few weeks of curious students probing at them.
Germany is ruled by liberal conservatives for well over a decade. While there is some maliciousness and desire to expand control, I see mostly the lashing out in an attempt to retain the control the state used to have. The internet brings an unprecedented amount of freedom, and that weakens the state. Where previously you could wiretap the phone of a criminal, today you have no way to read his whatsapp. They don't know how to deal with that. Being a conservative party with a lot of old voters they try to slow the change down, but their failure to understand the internet leads to ridiculous attempts.
“I drink and I know things” -- Tyrion Lannister

Sometimes you need to step outside yourself and let your guard down on your normal routine to see things more clearly.

Humans and sedation have always been a part of one another, it can lead to realizations. A good place or group of friends/debaters can help understanding, analysis and lead to quality of life improvements.

Sometimes you need to take the scenic route and just take it in to see things from a new perspective more open than closed.
> Nonetheless, the parent posts' point and evidence still stands, that the largest groups of degrees granted are in subjects of value.

I strongly disagree with that. "Business" majors are an effectively general education humanities degree, that is pretty worthless a lot of the time.

The same goes for biology, actually. Yes, it is a hardish science, but the career path for biology majors is pretty grim.
Embedded programming will always be unsafe to a degree. You can't avoid interacting w/ hardware. Static analysis can only get you so far.
Unfortunately this is one of those things where if 99 media companies agree and one doesn’t, all the attention will go to the one that claims to have the latest “scoop”. The story will be completely undeveloped, half the stuff they say will eventually be proven wrong but they will get all the views. And therefore, gradually, the other 99 would follow suit to stay in business.

As long as money/advertising is so lucrative when so much trash is funneled so quickly, this will be a problem. We pretty much have to find a way for companies to gain as much money some other way, e.g. “I’m a billionaire, I will give half a billion dollars to the station that wins a quality journalism award”.

If you’re an individual and not a media company, waiting awhile for the full developed story is definitely better.

Heck, waiting awhile and unplugging works for lots of things. For instance, if you can convince yourself to ignore a hot new TV show for a year (so that it’s “new to you” a year from now), it’ll probably be cheaper; and, you can benefit from average ratings and other info to tell you if the show/season turned out to be not worth watching at all.
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A singularity doesn't have a dimension. It is a portion of spacetime that is missing, not a point or set of points. We can't define its dimensionality, either.(×) What we can say is that the singularity in Schwarzschild black holes is spacelike.

×) Counterexample: Consider the manifold M := R³\B, where B is the closed unit ball, equipped with the standard Euclidean metric. This manifold is certainly not Cauchy-complete and we can reach the singularity at r=1 in finite time. Now, if we had to define the dimension of the singularity, what dimension n should it have? n=2 (a sphere)? Maybe. At least we could extend M by the unit sphere to make it complete. But could the singularity also be a point (i.e. n=1)? Yes, certainly. By diffeomorphism invariance, we could simply find new coordinates and map R³\B to R³\{0}, so the singularity would suddenly become a point. So, as you can see, interpreting the singularity as a point or set of points that have a topological dimension doesn't work.
> How would they tell whether their models are right or wrong without listening and having someone compare?

If they can't do it, maybe their product shouldn't exist yet.
There appears to be a small issue with this article, it seems to have confused vi with the widely favored editor nano. It might be good for an editor to fix this omission as I'm sure it was in error. /s
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How else would it catch the words "Ok, Google" in the first place?
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It's kind of a pointless question. If you believe RF can hurt you, it has no bearing on the fact that it can't and doesn't.
Thing I don't understand about the MTA-STS spec and glossed over until someone pointed it out to me: there's both an `id` in the DNS record (which is supposed to refer to the specific policy uniquely, but can be anything e.g. a hash or an incrementing identifier) _and_ the policy itself has a max_age. I don't quite understand why the max_age itself isn't sufficient, since that does expiry anyway? (The stated reason is preventing an HTTPS lookup, but HTTP already has a fine cache mechanism so that sounds like a potential false economy.)
I think it's unfair to even say "at most peripherally involved". There should have been greater opposition to hitlers rise to power (such as the Catholic Church treaty with hitlers Germany), but that's about it.

If Bloom had religious objections it was probably more to religion in general.

Maybe, at a stretch, he didn't like that Lewis' wife converted to Christianity before she married him. Lewis' stepsons were (are) Jewish. Lewis kept a Kosher house for at least some period of time for his stepsons. His Jewish stepsons inherited his estate after his brother passed away.
hey man, but have you tried their muffins?!?
You also have to set

_mta-sts.his-domain TXT "v=STSv1; id=[POLICY VERSION ID];"

And you have to update that ID every time the policy hosted on the web server changes.
News has been turned into an entertainment-sport where they make sure that there are always two opposing sides. It's manipulated by a few into giving you enough information to be outraged and inflamed but not informed. You can be on the right or the left it does not matter. What matters for the news business is that you get fed enough information so that you continue to watch and they make a profit.

The heads of the news channels are ex-entertainment heads who make sure that people continue to watch by feeding people more outrage.

The best thing people can do is stop reading and watching the news on a daily basis. Most of the news that is reported is useless since there is no substance to it and will disappear without any impact relatively fast. I believe that if it's important you'll hear about it eventually.

"Slower better news" will never happen since it's not in the interest of the news business to create it. We have to be the ones that need to stop consuming it and figure out how to stay informed without being manipulated.
Since the start of 2018 those numbers have gone down quite a bit, mostly due to the shake out of "dollar gate", leading to some of the popular local tournaments no longer reporting results to the IFPA. Despite the local rankings dropping a bit, it feels like the community has grown drastically.
I think it is true that PGP is too hard to use for the majority of users. Any kind of end-to-end encryption practically prevents a web interface, since decrypting in JavaScript is little better than decrypting at the web server.

I’ve been thinking a lot about secure, end-to-end encrypted email replacements and have grappled with many of the same questions that Open Whisper Systems (the makes of Signal) had to think about. A centralized solution favors convenience, and will likely bolster adoption, while a decentralized solution will probably be harder to use and so won’t build its critical mass of users.

The person who comes up with a distributed, decentralized, end-to-end encrypted email-killer receiving broad adoption deserves some kind of very prestigious award.
As I bystander, I expect them to never record my voice since it's against my express wishes. Only one of us ever gets what he wants. Doesn't seem fair.
I don't see any datasets
If caught, the dishonesty would be truly obvious and harmful to a reputation
Live online TV, once a bargain, is getting more expensive
That might be how Valve works, but I’m quite sure it’s not how Apple / Facebook / Google do.

Just move your shit to another desk and join whatever team you want with out talking to your manager or hr or updating your goals?

Yeah... nah.
Agreed. Sadly ox export for markdown doesn't render markdown tables. Of course, as the OP argues, that's a little like exporting PDF to EPS.
Why does the proposed EU legislation have a 1-hour deadline? No matter what you think of the action it's trying to take, a 1-hour deadline is preposterous for anyone and seems expressly designed to force people to set up an automated process that acts on takedown notices without prior review. But who benefits from this?

About the only thing I can think of is if some big company, think Facebook or Google, lobbied for this because they're large enough that they can actually implement it with review, whereas anyone smaller can't.
The images are made with radio telescopes, which cuts through the dust quite easily. We have many other radio observations of Sagittarius A* [1], albeit at much lower resolutions. There are also numerous observations of Sagittarius A* in X-ray wavelengths, which is also fine because they are so energetic they simply punch through. All the dust and gas in the galaxy is transparent at most wavelengths except the visible one.

The Event Horizon Telescope is interesting because it is, in essence, a radio telescope that uses a "sensor" that is the size of the entire Earth. As such, it is able to make much higher resolution observations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*#/media/File:Clo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*#/media/File:X-R...
Thank you for getting back. They have a software shop I drive by every day and I wasn't sure the best way to get in touch with them.

Hope all is good on your side.
All of those toget devices you mention are activated manually by the user. Smart speakers activate automatically.
Well gee... That probably would have worked... maybe I'll try it again next time I get the chance.
The author of this post is Adam Lichtl, probably the most intelligent person I've ever gotten to speak to in real life. He's really neat.
> Amazon apart, what's inmmoral about labeling data that you got with the consent of the user?

They don't have my consent and I'm increasingly surrounded by the damn things. Take a look at the comments about hotels, new condos, etc. that have Alexa or Google Home installed. And, of course, friends and family.
That is your personal opinion. To me and plenty others, there are a lot of legitimate uses for short and dynamic domains under .amazon, including shop.amazon, computers.amazon, books.amazon, category.amazon, videos.amazon, etc.

In particular, I'd like to be able to teach my relatives to type in "some_product_they_want.amazon" in their search bar and be sure they will always land at a reputable place. Remember browsers are increasingly hiding URLs, so ensuring the domain is legit is incredibly important.
> "What do these kinds of images and plots tell us of any value?"

It tells you "p38γ is essential for cell cycle progression and liver tumorigenesis". You have to be blind not to see that.
Websites running javascript weren't supposed to browse other people's computers either, but we all know how that assumption went. Yes, it has gotten better the past few years, but the whole point of a security key is that it takes a purpose-designed piece of hardware and software, with a minimal attack surface. A phone is far from it.
It would be difficult in practice to maintain the secrecy needed to pull this off.

While in many cases scientists currently keep what they're working on "mostly secret" until it's published, in fact lots of their friends and colleagues have a pretty good idea of what they're doing and would be in a position to ask hard questions if they tried to take your approach.
I am pumped for the new Black Knight sword of rage, my local pinball bar is getting one.
The key seems to be the same with these as everywhere else: you have to recruit and hold onto smart people, and be able to tell actually smart ones from people who love to talk.

In the setting described here, joining such clubs conferred considerable status and status was a desirable commodity. That made both attracting and retaining people who by and large had a lot to do much easier. On the other hand, it sounds like they struggled to keep the talkers from talking.

Today I think the situation is reversed. You have essentially no way to generate anything valuable for your members outside of the direct value they get from the club, which is necessarily inversely proportional to their contribution to it. And because specialist knowledge is so much more valuable now, your focus probably has to be on keeping the people who don't want to talk talking rather than shutting up those who would talk to an empty room.

The closest I can name to something like this is toastmasters, which has an aspect of self-improvement that seems to keep it going, or the Rotary Club which provides business connections. Neither (AFAIK) is in a growth period.
And it was pure evil so somebody owes somebody some kind of apology and reparations! Most likely themselves since the offspring of the oppressed are also the offspring of the oppressors...