skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for a start it would involve not being able to keep denying shadow profiles exist, and the joining up of some not especially well understood programmes. Like being able to connect up all those facebook bugs and third party logins to get large parts of your off Facebook activity.

Then maybe exposing some of the third party quizzes, VPN's, and privacy apps that have poured more into the data vats. Possibly exposing the third party sources they've bought data from - connecting other data you didn't knowingly provide.

Who knows what else. Maybe they're afraid that once the full picture comes out they simply won't have users.
Project is so European it goes against interests of 1/3 EU: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Croatia. Its not "EU buy gas from wherever we want", Its Germany making deals with Russia once again, remember Ribbentrop/Molotov? Russia is already hard at work making you forget https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-after-russian-pr..., buying gas from Russia while bypassing other EU member states.
That’s correct. The problem is that you have to explain the problem several times but in the end nobody does anything.
Speaking just about the UCs, I remember seeing in a powerpoint that the price of tuition remained roughly the same over the last few decades, but since the tax dollars per student were going down, students were left picking up the difference. I didn't know why tax money was on the decline.

This powerpoint was on one of the public UCLA websites, but I don't remember which one.
What stood out to me is that the author does have an inflated sense of self importance

> And let’s not pretend that it’s a big cost to you: getting the listed data about a single person is about the simplest query you can write. (Did I mention I’m a data scientist?)

And that particular trait emerges quite a bit throughout the correspondence. Where the author labels things as reasonable, I open the link only to find anything but.

Since the author is happy to put words into Facebook's mouth, I may venture as well that the author was _looking_ to pick a fight.
To be fair, I also don't go out of my way to piss either of them off.
Ask HN: I am looking for academic studies about computer program readability?
I wonder if there are any scientific studies that indicate whether the human brain is better suited to perceive a formula written as e.g.
(1) "a * (b + c)", vs.
(2) "mult(a, plus(b, c))", vs.
(3) "(mult a (plus b c))".
That probably has other reasons beyond their culture and probably more to do with what was imposed on them. The bribing I was talking about is a phenomenon like giving tips. But that isn't the topic and not the core of the statement.

Increasing social trust through surveillance is like traversing space on a bicycle. Not even that because surveillance probably has a direct massive negative effect on social trust.
Don't forget to mention the poor (and complicated) editor support for "these custom HTML templating languages". JSX is very well supported in most editors.
New Smartcard HSM Released with 4K RSA Support
Pretty much every culture has some notion of a right to due process, personal freedom and personal property. The people of rural Afghanistan may draw the lines in different places than we do but these rights in some capacity are fundamental to all human civilizations.
While I agree that South Korea and Japan are unlikely to face embargos, the trade war is not between China and the West. It's between China and US only. I don't think any Asian country is happy about this as no one wants to have to choose sides.
> Why would you halve the budget of a team that's yielding a more than 400% ROI ?

It is easy to achieve success with a fat budget like that. It is only natural that if that team does well, then some of its resources should be transferred to a team that doesn't so that it can get the opportunity to improve.
I wouldn't call that a socialism.
As a consumer, I'm almost at the stage now when buying a phone or any consumer tech - that I feel that I should be printing out a list of features the phone offers and getting the sales chap to sign them, so if any are changed/removed down the line (like software updates stop prematurely) - I'd have an easier legal redress to obtain a refund under being mis-sold.
Most oil trading is done in US dollars, but by no means all. It's a convenient and popular unit of account for international trading, but the Euro and Yuan are used too.
It’s only a $30,000 obligation if you’re making more than ~$90,000/year, and there’s no interest attached.

A non-trivial number of those students would never make enough to pay off the loans. Ever. That’s not an exaggeration and happens in more than 50% of cases at expensive HBCs.
Become??? BT complexity and security were a joke ever since ver 1.1.
That may be, but the most popular credit these days is probably mortgage loan, and I haven't heard of those being given on a collateral, at least not to regular people buying their first home. Same with consumer credit, so at this point I'm not convinced that most of the world really doesn't have (possibly lazy) credit scoring.
Mining is such a big industry in Australia and has been for such a long time that dirty coal money has influenced the politicians in government for a long time now.
Pretty disappointed in PG's response:

"I would ordinarily just let your bullshit go, but this myth that you have to be a rich kid to start a startup is terribly dangerous, because it discourages people who aren't from trying it. Brian Chesky's parents were social workers. That is not a rich kid."

As if having two parents with stable jobs isn't considered a safety net. I agree, you don't need to be rich, but I also agree if you are struggling to work enough to eat, you aren't really working on making a startup.

There are huge swaths of people with a much less stable safety net than the example he provided.
In a society that does not put enough pressure on people to grow up and function, it is tempting to look at this as a possible solution. Coupling it to government power, though, is an outright horror. Any social credit system needs to be run independently, by society, not by the state (not least because of people's unfortunate tendency to remember that there is a difference).
Apparently reality is too inconvenient for some people.

Apparently tact is too inconvenient for some people.
Isn’t that even a better argument for going to a two year college? What if they spent those first two years spending more at a four year college and still had no degree?

But if the students didn’t complete a 2 year degree while staying at home, what are the chances of them completing a four year degree when they would have more autonomy and less oversight?
‘you people’ is an invective that apparently excludes yourself from the class you refer to. You don’t visit web pages?
Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at DCA causing artificial price surges
Under the GDPR, each country has a Data Protection Authority set up in order to enforce and supervise these rules.

The author needs to contact his country's DPA and they will be the ones to drop the hammer on Facebook.

Facebook might not listen to an end user, but European governmental authorities have the power to force them to.

It's the only logical next step in my opinion.
My kids go through the wired headphones like crazy--the 3.5mm jacks are too small and bend too easily. Wired headphones are pretty much junk. Just in the past 12 months or so the wireless headphones have become pretty decent.

I have a drawer full of over-the-hear headphones (some that were quite expensive) with busted jacks. I tried to solder on new jacks to some of them, but no, the wires are so freaking tiny that the whole effort failed despite numerous attempts. We got maybe two days of use out of my repair attempts. The stuff just isn't made to be repaired, a typical contemporary tech nightmare story.
Ken Jennings: Why I’m Rooting for James Holzhauer on ‘Jeopardy ’
The Secretive Outpost of NSA Hawaii (video)
It doesn't need to make a dent. It just needs to put food in an empty stomach. After your emergency has taken every cent you have saved (in the month savings scenario) then a payment that same day will feed you.
Numpy arrived in python because the language allowed mathematicians who were not programmers to get their job done and then do stuff that were not math related as well.

They don't have the desire to learn what a monad is, they don't want to type variables when exploring a badly formated heterogenous data dump, and they do want to be able to read the code of their intern freshly out of school once he leave without writing down any doc.
Two previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19943560 (11 points, 2 days ago, 25 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19927911 (27 points, 4 days ago, 90 comments)
How do you want me to sugar coat it? This is what happens. I'm not going to dance around it because people find it uncomfortable.

When people amass collections of stuff that not everyone values as much as they do and do not include plans for how their heirs should liquidate it the heirs are flying by the seat of their pants and depending on the nature of the collection that often means it doesn't find a home with someone who will appreciate it. If it's something like restored classic cars of exotic firearms you can just send it to auction and it will find a good home with another collector but there's tons and tons of things that get thrown out because nobody knows how to connect with someone who wants them.
So they don't comply with GDPR, what are his next steps?
(un)ironically, Huawei recently stopped allowing bootloader unlocking, now they will probably have to use AOSP
What is happening in China is that most things are pre-paid or have very low hard credit limits.

You often have to pay six months of rent in advance to rent. I know lots of people that have been cut off electricity or phone service but you can get it reconnected in hours or less if you pay the bill.

The one nice thing is that there are NO late fees, reconnection fees, overage fees, etc. You just don't get service.
This is a very clear explanation. I immediately recognize this many aspects. Thanks for that!
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There's less risk today. If your company fails, you're in debt, but you probably won't die in a ditch.

So why not jump feet first into what you want to do? To quote the eminent Shia LeBouf "It's you're life, don't let your dreams be dreams. Just do it"
If you're looking for a non-Intel non-Chinese board, there is APU:

https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

* AMD Embedded G series, 1 GHz CPU

* 2 or 4 GB RAM

* 2 to 4 NICs

* coreboot BIOS

* ~150 EUR

I'm using a predecessor for quite some time as a firewall and DNS/DHCP server.
> If you decide to browse the web without uBlock Origin or if you decide to use Android, you know what you're being exposed to.

Time to step out of the bubble of tech-savvy people and talk to everyday users. It's unrealistic to assume everybody understands technical consequences, and it's unreasonable to require everybody to do so. That's why there is regulation. This applies to all fields, including medicine, food, and IT.
> Assange published, with zero redaction, military assets.

Which is illegal how exactly?

> The journalists who wrote about it and activists who protested surrounding it were not jailed.

So, the journalist Julian Assange was not jailed then?
Former NRC Chairman Thinks Nuclear Power Should Be Banned
Dismantling a planet is very different from dismantling an asteroid.

The energy involved is so vast, for one thing, that temperatures will get absurdly high at the surface. (And once you dig down far enough you'll find that internal temperature are hot enough to destroy any equipment you want to put on the surface.)

The time scale for a planet to cool off is in the 10's of millions of years so the realistic time to disassemble a planet is long enough to colonize the galaxy some other way.
Holy shit I never knew Afro Samurai was based on a real story

That’s so cool haha
> These virtuous behaviors are a better way to live and make life better for everyone.

Sure, until something abuses the power to control those behaviors.

> I should note that Western countries had their own large-scale nearly universal social indoctrination and social credit systems—organized religion.

And religion in the West is slowly dying by the right and will of the people. What happens when people want their social credit system to die? They won't have a choice in that matter.

This debate reeks similarly to the one about the use of electronic ballot systems, which are not better than paper ballots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

The greatest lie were being told is that technology is democratizing our lives. It does until it reaches network effects, which it then hits an inflection point and gives power to very few.
Of course we do. We just happen to value things you don't. When you don't work with 10x programmers and experience the corporate world, you suddently see purity in a very different light.
I'm no fan of planned obsolescence either, which is why I got a Fairphone, which was supposed to be easy to repair and possibly even get modular hardware upgrades. Never happened, of course, and my phone just developed a fatal problem this week.

So this thread about more secure phones is coming at an excellent time for me. Legacy OS seems like a prime contender. Not sure about the hardware yet.
Yeah, I enjoyed the story telling but the sarcasm watered it down as a ragey customer who was being unreasonable—and it made it really hard to read. If you want to get a company to ignore you, all you have to do is get pissy, and it's clearly what's going on here.
Noooo.
> If you were a maritime shipper in the 1700s, you’d have to respond to law enforcement requests for information about the goods you transported on behalf of suspects

Tell me if I am mistaken, but in these specific case it looks more to me like forbidding customers and companies from using foreign made secure vaults because the government can't force them to secretly provide a master key.

Then sure, the argument is also valid that these vault makers could be providing a master key to their respective governments, but that would be a different argument and different enforcement.
title should contain "(video)"
Most western outlets are equally biased and controlled by tight networks. Yet nobody seems to pay attention to it?
This "Rome Reborn 1.0" layer from 2008 still works with some broken links but buildings are there: https://mw2.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/gallery_layers/rome...
Link should be changed to https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/17/i-oversaw-us-n...
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

There is irony in that if you're not being sarcastic.
Google Play Services != Google Play Store

The play services is a framework that many (and probably all "western") apps require because they use push notifications, maps, google ads and probably a lot of other google services. An android phone without those services installed isn't able to run said apps. And while it is possible to emulate the play services, I don't think this would work on a huge scale because they would still be accessing private google cloud apis and google could shut it down very fast. You have to remember, Apps don't send your notifications to your device directly, they send it to google, who then forwards your push notification to the device (if every app would regularly pull an notification server, your device would run out of battery way too fast).

The only reason google currently doesn't ban those emulations is that the % of users who use those is so low that it doesn't cause them any harm.
It seems like Facebook has staked out a legal position on this. A dubious one likely to fail and doubtless designed mostly to buy time, but a legal position nonetheless, which will only be struck down by a court, not an email reply chain.

You had me up until the legalese email, after which the correct response is to sue. You lost me with the belligerent reply ranting about what Mark said in the Washington Post. It seems, at that point, that you're more interested in grandstanding than making a defensible case.
Even easier when you know you can go back to whatever job you're currently doing if your entrepreneurial idea doesn't pan out.
Tax is the usual one. That list also includes a lot of closed or dormant subsidiaries. Perhaps it's best to think of them as being like AWS VMs that get provisioned and de-provisioned, some with short lives. Tesco is complicated by takeovers that haven't been fully incorporated; I see a lot of familiar brand names in that list, and a whole other pile of fragments of Booker (giant wholesalers recently taken over)

I tried https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07530494/filing-h... based on "EBT" in the name (tax shelter scheme), but it's a dormant empty shell.

TESCO GREY (2LP) LIMITED https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/FC027196 registered in the Cayman Islands? Obvious tax shelter of some sort. Also closed.
Have you seen the movie 'Inception' [0] ? This is the idea behind recursion: you are in some context, then dive into another (similar although not identical) context, then dive into another (similar although not identical) context, etc.

The 'reality' is the top level context.

You dive down to level 2 context by falling asleep; that would be the recursive function call.

In that dream, fall asleep and enter level 3 context. You are now recusrsively falling asleep.

In the movie, the characters wait for a signal to wake up and going one level up. This is the 'stopping condition' of a recursive call.

You can also see that as Matryoshka dolls.

Regarding the 'Inception' movie that's funny, because it popularized the '-ception' suffix to describe a recursive phenomenon [1]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception#In_popular_culture
> * Check out hypnosis, for example Marisa Peer, to solve deeply rooted issues

Hah.

On the other hand: read about stoicism. It might help.
> Greeks no longer trust each other

Citation super needed here. Nobody trusts the state because it's corrupt, but that hasn't changed in centuries. The main problem Greece has is that everyone puts their own interests above the common good, from littering and double-parking to appropriating state funds.
Programming paradigms are like diet plans from weight-loss companies: most of the time they're just the original problem repackaged as a solution--with a snazzy name and aspirational slogans. The difficulty of the endeavor basically get hidden in the contrapositive. "Eating meals that we provide" sounds easy. Not eating what you want to eat--that's the hard part. Writing code that meet certain standards is easy. Not writing code that does not is incredibly hard when have hard requirements and delivery dates.
“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

Apparently a quote from Linus, but I think it holds true for almost every level of the stack.
Using Bayesian Games to Address the Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma
> it is completely relevant here as he's being cited as a real psychiatrist. That's not verifiable without knowing a real name.

We're discussing his criticism of how a ton of "real psychiatrists" got some major things wrong. This criticism stands or falls on its merits, not on his status as a "real psychiatrist". You don't need to be a "real psychiatrist" in order to this sort of analysis (and, it turns out, a ton of "real psychiatrists" got this wrong in the past).

This is like reading a cooking blog by someone who says they're an auto mechanic, and demanding proof that they really know how to fix cars before you'll listen to them talk about pie crusts. If they're not claiming special expertise in the area (and he isn't), the credentials don't matter.

Eg, Scott writes:

> Border et al focus this infrastructure on 5-HTTLPR and its fellow depression genes, scanning a sample of 600,000+ people and using techniques twenty years more advanced than most of the studies above had access to. They claim to be able to simultaneously test almost every hypothesis ever made about 5-HTTLPR, including “main effects of polymorphisms and genes, interaction effects on both the additive and multiplicative scales and, in G3E analyses, considering multiple indices of environmental exposure (e.g., traumatic events in childhood or adulthood)”. What they find is…nothing.

I mean, either he's right or he's wrong, and you could go read the paper yourself and find out. Or you can trust other people who have read the paper. Or, I dunno, you could ask one of the authors of the paper if they think Scott's summary is any good:

> I have never in my career read a synopsis of a paper I've (co-)written that is better than the original paper. Until now. I have no clue who this person is or what this blog is about, but this simply nails every aspect of the issue

(Source: https://twitter.com/matthewckeller/status/112638089124318822...)

And again, none of this has anything to do with his status as a psychiatrist. You shouldn't blindly trust a blog post about this topic just because the author is verifiably a psychiatrist, but you shouldn't blindly distrust one just because they are not.
Bluetooth LE may be only a few years old, but it already has a split between insecure legacy pairing modes that shouldn't be used and actually-decent pairing modes that only work on newer devices.
From copywriting to UX, Gov.uk truly is the envy of the world.
We stopped using ‘NPM start’ for running our blockchain core child processes
Walking Off the Weekday Worries
What's outrageous is that the agencies that are providing important services are so inept at contracting for the services or hiring personnel that a whole other agency is required to come in and save the day. This highlights how unaccountable these agencies are for their incompetence.
I saw earlier in this thread of blaming Debian, but all I'm seeing is Ubuntu snafus
According to whom?

I find them different ways of accomplishing the same thing: securing a business edge

Onavo, a VPN that secretly did device-wide spying, doesn't count as a "hack" because...?
Someone asked Zuck during the congressional hearings about shadow profiles (worded as data about people who don't have Facebook accounts).. he deflected and said something like "I'll get back to you on that.".
Privilege is not a trait. You cannot look at a person in isolation and say whether they have it or not. It's a property of how other people relate to them in society.

White skin is something you're born with. White privilege is what happens when you live in a society that assumes that black people are more likely to be criminals than white people, so you get a more favourable reception when you walk in a room.
My smarthphone has issues sometimes: no mobile data, or no GPS, or a Bluetooth-device fails to connect, or an outright crash. Not very often, perhaps once a month. Not too big a deal for a phone: I can simply can reboot it.

If an autonomous car has issues even 1/10 as frequently, I won't ever trust it to transport me.
I would rather err on assessing my cognitive ability greater than it is than feeling worthless and underconfident.
http://junkerhq.net/MGS2/Text.html
> On the freeway, when you're going over 100km/h, the car simply can't stop if one from the next lane spins out in front of you.

Neither can you.

In fact, an autonomous car is much more likely to be able to react fast and well to save lives and property in that situation than a human.

Self-driving cars don't need to be absolutely 100% perfect and accident-free to be worthwhile. They just need to be better than us, and frankly, we're pretty lousy at operating tons of metal flying along the road at over 100km/h. Hell, we're not even that great at it when going 50 km/h.