skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maciej - I think my viewpoint on the surveillance industry is pretty similar. But reading your description of the current state of affairs still put a shiver up my spine. I can't even pinpoint a single passage that did it. Rather the sheer disconnect between the technological world we envisioned and the world they built is overwhelming, and you really got that across.

I think throwing the GDPR under the bus based on how the surveillance industry is doing its best to malinterpret it is a bit off. A popup with a list of task-orthogonal surveillance companies demanding consent is obviously an anti-pattern. The prudent course feels like to wait and see how the GDPR actually turns out in practice, and then hopefully adopt it as-is.

What I worry about in the meantime is a half-baked "Americanized" implementation that guts its strongest provisions ("Right To Download" -> "correct" feels like already trying to fortify a backstop! Why can't I simply just erase?), and blesses ongoing abuses. A disingenuous standard of purported consent is pervasive in our entire society, and I don't see why this topic will turn out any different. I can forsee EU regulators concluding that surveillance-based-advertising is not a necessary part of simply viewing a news article, whereas I can see a US regulator blessing that practice.

Which maybe implies that "copy GDPR" is actually a decent answer right now, even not knowing how it will turn out. For one, it tells US companies that they need to take the GDPR seriously rather than throwing "block EU" hissy fits. If it's really as unworkable as the surveillance industry public relations make it sound, I'm sure they'll have no problems modifying it.
Tesla probably have the paperwork and certs in order when NTSB knocks the door. NHTSA have already shut down comma.ai products before. EDIT: I personally thinks it's a bit to reckless to let the general public use the Autopilot in it's present state.

https://comma.ai/shop/products/eon-gold-dashcam-devkit

"Retrofit your car with a copilot."
"Note: This product is not designed to drive a car. This product is designed to be a dashcam."

With comma.ai hosting firmware via Github to do self-driving with it, it's hard to imagine that NTSB will buy that.
I agree with this 100%, even as an experienced engineer I want to continue to give and receive ongoing training. Yet I've actually been told in some settings not to even mention the "T" word because it would be seen as offensive. Instead as an industry we have ridiculous expectations in hiring and an inefficient, informal training process in the form of production failures.
You cannot confuse them because of the sheer size and shape difference.
Where's the salvaged piece now? Did the Glomar just dump most of it?

Is it implausible that it was sunk by the Americans? It certainly would have helped them know where to look.
Mortgage documents have to tell you what your monthly payment and total repayment amount will be. That would be a good thing to have for student loans as well.
> learning a relatively small amount of syntax and general concepts

In what programming job?! Junior frontend dev churning out React components? Even there you're dealing with a dizzying array of HTML, CSS, and ever-changing JavaScript/Babel/Webpack/etc. insanity. In a few months you can barely produce some simple, low-quality code. It takes a lot longer for the concepts of good quality code to sink in.
> The existence of an RFC is not the same as the presence of a standard.

I explicitly stated "standard practices", not "presence of a standard".
At will employment in UK pays compareable to US.
How long until one or more of USA/China/Russia has a device to crack such e2e encryption? Secret quantum computer, perhaps?
No, I don't think Bitcoin is a conspiracy theory. I think it was a genuine novelty that came out of tech. But at a certain point in its rise, it became clear that you could create an unregulated securities market with initial coin offerings, and it was off to the races.

The dynamic that I am describing is new technologies being used to circumvent regulation, with the excuse that this is something new and technical, and so should be exempt.

We've seen the pattern over and over again, from sales tax exemptions to cryptocurrency to taxi and hotel laws.
US also non-surprisingly attempted to block all 'allied' businesses from contributing to soviet deep sea capabilities.

The story of Mir submarines is an interesting example of cold war era business:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(submersible)
Dang, that alternate history fantasy is something the management of Boeing needs to read.

That's so spot on - something like that would have changed the skies. Imagine how many secondary cities could have come online if airlines had cheap 116/141/165 seaters.

I wonder if that would have left too large a gap between the largest C-series and the smallest NMA, you can argue that both would be relentlessly optimized and it'd be really hard for the A320neos to compete on either end.
Well from my point of view, the largest advantage that Swift has over Julia is that it has a pretty nice static type system. If you look at what they did with the Differentiable protocol, then this is precisely what you want from a type system perspective without going all in on dependent types. Historically there are very few examples where a dynamically typed language was retrofitted with a static type system successfully (Typescript and Javascript being one example).
Julia's multi methods are really nice but produce horrible errors when they fail at runtime, I don't see an obvious way to fix that.

There is a bigger chance that another contender arises within the C#/F# ecosystem as an evolution of the ML.Net work, then that a company invests significant resources in Julia to make it suitable for large scale machine learning in a non scientific "blue collar" setting.
It means tgey are going to have another “horrible year” according to the media. I.e. revenue up, profits up, investments up etc.
This has to be THE most bizarre bit of soggy newspaper I've seen peddled out of NYT in all my years - what on earth are they dosing their office water coolers with....
Strictly speaking I would call that the effect of companies' resisting the spirit, and in some cases letter, of the law, not an effect of the law itself.
It appears to be running under the Android emulation layer:

> Because Chrome OS runs Android apps, targeting Android is the way to build Chrome OS apps.
You can try out the 345M-parameter model in your browser here https://talktotransformer.com. The more powerful models are available to AI/security research groups upon request.
"Because Chrome OS runs Android apps, targeting Android is the way to build Chrome OS apps."

So, does that mean that Flutter apps for Chrome OS are limited by the Desktop capabilities of Android?
That "inflammation exonerated" section is excellent. I think OTC NSAIDs are abused every bit as much as opiates, though not as harmful obviously. The point should be to manage your pain, not eliminate it. If I am still injured, I should know it so I don't over do it before my body has healed. Let your body do it's thing to fix the root cause - don't just bandaid it. I've known people to preemptively pop 800mg ibuprofen before a workout, to numb the pain they know is coming. Terrible idea, IMHO.
Ah, that's a shame. I don't think I'd want to use something that pulled in messy Android as a dependency on Chrome OS.
I remember Germany regulators wanted Tesla to stop branding it as "auto-pilot" when really their features are more like Lane Assist and Adaptive Cruse that many other vehicles have.

Also, Tesla's have had their share of issues (the car that ran into an off-ram barrier killing the driver, the guy who was passed out for hours before his Tesla crashed), but they're also a large enough company they've probably settled some or all of these cases out of court.
I advise everyone with a few spare minutes to spin up an EC2 instance in Frankfurt and proxy your web surfing through it for a few hours. You'll be amazed at what you see.
A lot of what's required in onboarding is domain knowledge. Say a fintech engineer gets a job in industrial controls or vice versa; there will be considerable time spent learning about the industry itself, regulatory environment, etc.
OP is here. Totally agree with you.
I wish they had a competent desktop client with feature parity to mobile and not just an Electron "app".

I could write more critique regarding the forced contact discovery, the use of phone numbers as identifiers, but at lest the underlying security of the app is good.
If you have physical access to the device, it's probably cheaper/easier to modify it, replacing the antenna with a load to ground. And if you're going to do that, you could probably negotiate with the provider to sell you a cheaper one with no LTE radios.

I'm probably thinking of larger B2B though, individuals/SB probably won't have the expertise/influence
Despite the unnecessary tone, nothing stated seems likely to be false. It seems likely that adversaries would have adjusted their methods based on Snowden’s disclosures. Which parts seem unlikely?
I think there's been a decade or more or irrational fixation on data-driven advertising at this point.

The market is convinced building these huge treasuries of consumer data, at any expense in cost and creepiness, will result in wildly better advertising performance. We've given Google and Facebook 12-digit valuations on that principle.

But advertising is a 80/80 problem: You can get to 80% of potential results easily, and spend 80% of your money, effort, and goodwill chasing the rest. Content-based ads (think the early era of Google AdSense when the ads would be text or fall back to PSAs) sell pretty well, considering you didn't need an exabyte of profile data to build them.

Eventually, fundamentals have to come into play-- these companies need the revenue numbers to justify the valuation-- and the only way to get there is to charge premium prices for their advertising services. At that point, the music stops, when advertisers realize the cost-per-acquisition is poor compared to much cheaper, more scattershot technology, or even just earlier stops on the targeting continuum.
I wrote a different reply earlier, but I scaled it back a little.

>Poor? If you are flying on an airplane you aren't rich but you also probably aren't so poor that your worldly possessions lost are worth another person's life.

Of course worldly possessions aren't worth another person's life, but I have flown before when I had $10-20 to my name (somebody else paid for the plane ticket). Having nothing in a foreign country isn't simple nor are all the things replaceable even if you do have some money. Even then, if you have next to nothing then the contents of your baggage might be very important after "life goes back to normal". If you have very little money and most of your clothes burn then you can't really remedy that situation.

Of course I don't think first responders should risk their life for someone life me, but it's not possible to opt out from that.

Nor do I think that I would be able to tell the severity of the situation, but there have been times where I would consider it worth risking my own life for it.

I'm not sure how these would add up. Perhaps the best idea for someone like me would be to not fly.
Not every human who can speak a language is a great speaker, storyteller or writer.

Writing a program is like a very detailed story that has to hang together. There can't be any loose ends in the plot or surprising twists that make no logical sense.

More than requiring language, programming requires thought.

The faculty of language doesn't confirm thought.
> One of them got her license revoked because she wasnt able to make student loan payments, and had to move back in with her folks. Because she has outstanding student loan debt, she cant qualify for section 8 housing or food stamps.

All that's missing are weekly whippings...
It sounds like they are using the Android emulation:

> targeting Android is the way to build Chrome OS apps

I don't think this is "legacy" as far as the Chrome OS developers are concerned. Android emulation is newish and improving. Before that, Chrome apps were written in JavaScript using a similar API to Chrome extensions. (They used to run in any Chrome browser, but were deprecated except on Chrome OS.)
In fact, if game theory is something to go by, these problems aren't "human stupidity", but they're inherent in any system that has thinking agents who have values, and no way to immediately, simultaneously and fully meet all of them. The hypothetical aliens would have some of those issues too.
> to end World War II to attempt to defeat fascism and save democracy.

I realize this is what people were told during the war, but it's kind of hard to accept that that was the real reason for WWII when Eastern Europe ended up controlled by the Soviet Union, which was, by any reasonable historical standard, a worse totalitarian government than Nazi Germany. Not to mention that by the time the tests referenced in the article took place, China had also been taken over by a worse totalitarian government than Nazi Germany.
$40M in theft for a $200B market cap coin is trivial and should have almost no bearing on the price.

When someone does a bank heist USD doesn't get devalued
It would be incredibly surprising for such a device to be created in secret. Moreover, there are versions of public key encryption that can not be broken by a quantum computer.
> I think the endorsements should acknowledge that one can't necessarily trust the rest of the smartphone software and hardware.

Welp, guess I should just send my messages in the clear then rather than make them work for them
Yes, came here to say the same thing.

> If you've made a mistake and in so doing lost commits which you needed, then git reflog is here to save the day.

Seeing that sentence in the article immediately makes me think the author has poor git practices or even understanding. reflog is useful at times, yes. But it is not what saves beginners from losing work while practicing their rebasing skills. What saves them is that they didn't rebase an important branch. They made a temp branch, pointing at the HEAD of their important branch perhaps, and they screwed up the temp branch.

If people would just make this one thing clearer to beginners, it would help a lot of people learn git more easily and with less fear.
This push to extend Flutter to be a UI solution for all kinds of platforms is really exciting. It looks like a huge piece of the puzzle is FFI support in the Dart VM, and it looks like they're working on it [0]. I think that basic support is going to be really important to give Flutter better support for rich multimedia like audio rendering.

[0]: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/34452#issuecomment-4...
Yeah, it almost looks okay until you notice the "demo" banner on the top-right sliding in and out of view as the system struggles to update the window layout.
> I haven’t made any predictions for awhile (seeing as my Bear Case for Crypto is playing out more or less exactly as described), but I will sound a warning today.

The bear case article the author links to spends 2/3 of its effort railing against Ethereum and ICOs. It's doesn't even lay out a proper bull case for Bitcoin itself. Instead it sets up a few Bitcoin-will-replace-the-state strawmen.

Bitcoin has a long history of being dismissed by those who don't understand it economically, technically, or both. The new article adds little to the discussion.
For those who do not see the danger of advanced AI generated text being rolled out everywhere, imagine a web where you have to carefully read everything you see in order to determine if it’s written by a human before you can start to take the text seriously.

That means no more skimming threads to get the gist of what people are saying, no more skimming through answers on stackoverflow, no more skimming through articles.

An article that looks reasonable on a cursory glance only begins to fall apart when you spend (waste) time reading it carefully.

It also means anyone posting content must spend extra effort proving they are a human for their readers.
Nanos would face the same issue living things face - ionizing radiation taking out vital components in one shot.
I'd hope so! If anyone keeps getting in arguments and they're not "often" right they're doing something very wrong.
> The last one created, literally, billions of value for the holders.

What it literally created was billions of vapor for the holders because ~100% of that “value” was entirely make-belief.
> This makes me wonder what's the battery consumption? Is it similar to electron?

what makes you think that native widgets are the most efficient ? in the end what matters is how slim are your GL calls.
The Road to Zig 1.0 [video]
Sure, communism did taught people to act that way.

But doesn't Russia, historically, as a tough place to make a living, had that behaviour before communism ?
But ive been on reddit 13 years.

I extremely rarely upvote stories.

I read the comments section more than i read the articles.

I cant be the only one.
Sometimes he is promoted to part-time sidekick when the hero needs help, then proceed to hang on to a ledge in an elevator shaft, or zipline down from a tall building and reconsider their life choices. A variation of the Peter principle.
For ECDSA you can’t provide a signature isn’t arbitrary data. The nonce is by definition not known, so it contains enciphered information.
> Education has yourself as return.

That is not something a lender can repossess.
Interesting say more
Russia loves Snowden.
You almost never have to spend an entire argument to vet a complete garbage opinion. If you do it quickly, or the opinion isn't complete garbage, you're not running afoul of the complaint.
> You should just know that this makes zero sense to most of us.

Unless you've held an election, you only speak on behalf of yourself and yourself alone. If you're having a hard time understanding basic concepts then naturally it's unlikely that you'll have an epiphany in a discussion where you're decided to take an hostile stance towards details you're not understanding.

Meanwhile, you can ponder how these specifications you're claiming you and those you claim to be representing don't understand are actually used extensively, and it's such a basic concept that it even features in intro tutorials to REST APIs. Perhaps that's a good sign that basic concepts such as web linking aren't that complex or hard to understand as you've tried to assert they are.

https://restfulapi.net/hateoas/
What Really Happened at Stanford University Press: an Insider’s Account
Thanks for this!
I am also very irritated when they disable paste in password fields. Enough to drive me batty.
Or just maybe they should send you a different app on the app store
Makes sense. There would probably need to be a kind of intellectual hoarding and misdirection amongst leading academics in quantum computing research. Yet one would have to assume such research does take place in private by governments.

Does signal use the quantum-proof variety of encryption?
Signal, or what any chat system should be : E2E encryption, user friendly, Open Source, Vendor neutral.

What else ?
Thankfully, Google has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_mom
Radioactive material + lots of water = good. You eventually end up with homeopathic densities of radioactive material, plus water itself is good at attenuating radiation.

Radioactive material + lots of water + lots of life in that water = bad. Small life eats the material, larger life eats small life, and after a while you end up eating cesium for dinner.
They may create dedicated shell in future. Proper desktop support in flutter is in very early stages currently.
Cool, I'd really like to use this for a small scale toy car. I'd never put it on something that could do more than bruise an ankle.
This is not a paper, but an interesting blog post nevertheless:

The unreasonable effectiveness of Character-level Language Models
(and why RNNs are still cool)

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/yoavg/d76121dfde2618422139
Experts are all about output. If you don’t learn and take in input regularly I’d argue you stop being an expert.
I think the vast majority of math students don't fit the extremes you've mentioned. Personally I find it hard to blame anything but the system, at least in US schools. I began school in 2 Commonwealth countries and was a very average student, underperforming compared to my siblings. I moved to the US in 7th grade and was considered a genius, always getting in "gifted programs", etc. I was in possession of math books from my siblings high school and enjoyed them - ultimately finding that my bachelor's degree from an engineering school still didn't require math classes that got close to those books. So I have a hard time saying it's inherent ability holding math classes back.
Has the experience improved much recently? I switched a couple of years ago to using Wire, since it seemed like a smoother experience (important for trying to convert people).
Key of 10 symbols from (latin alphabet + numbers) have 3656158440062976 possible combinations.
Let's not forget the non-guys who also rock the command & control role. I love Felicity Smoak in Arrow!

^^^ serious question... as white dude, is this what they call being an ally? I've never gotten a good breakdown of what an ally is in this context.
Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning Textbook [pdf]
I went from a different technical career through a coding camp. I loved the experience.

Having said that I'd say at least half my class was unemployable by the end. The camp did not filter candidates nearly enough and really hurt the class and I fear their own financal well being.

I think coding camps could be done right, I just don't know if anyone is really doing it right...
> Why is it I can ditch close to 90 grand in loans lickety-split but students cant? how is education any different?

When you initially took your loans, your lender assessed your credit and made the lending decision accordingly. Any individual loan won’t pan out, it on average the portfolio will, because the lender controls what loans are made. Student loans are completely different. The lender (the federal government—which originates almost all student loans) makes loans almost without assessing your credit or ability to repay. (There may be a filter, but if there is it’s extremely lax.) Your interest rate, moreover, doesn’t depend on your credit. Finally, there is no collateral the government can repossess to recoup its loss. It’s nothing like an ordinary loan.
I'm sorry that you read my statement as so hostile to the GDPR. The consensus at the hearing I think was unanimous—that so much of the GDPR is open to regulatory interpretation that it is hard to evaluate yet. My fellow witness said there's a value to not going first, and I wholly agree with him. I believe we all testified it has made people safer.

That said, there is time pressure on Congress because of the 2020 California law. The tech companies and data brokers are scared of 50 state laws on this and are pushing for the mildest form of Federal regulation they can get, to pre-empt state laws, and that is the context of the fight.

I think the GDPR is inadequate but much better than nothing, and I tried to convey that in my testimony.
Well, by late 90's and early 00's, designers where exploiting the all-electronic properties of radio systems so that the driver could operate them not only without looking, but also without taking the hands out of the wheel. Yet, those 70's temperature controls would still be as good as the state of the art.

There was evolution. But it only happened when manufacturers would lose market share if they didn't do something that doesn't suck.

By its turn, nowadays cars are making it so that drivers must take their eyes out of the road to even look at the fucking speed indicator. We have seen some incredibly quick technology loss.