skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Folks can say what they want about religion, but I have a feeling that church plays a larger role in maintaining a healthy society than it is given credit in some circles.
Gravity 6.0
Facebook’s Creepy Data Sharing with Phone Carriers
Good job on picking one sentence in a 150-minute interview to serve an agenda. No wonder people here say "This doesn't make any sense" -- because it doesn't.

The actual interview contains a lot more information. For example, Ren urged people to not go overly nationalistic, thanked companies in the US for working together, urged people to not blame US companies, explained his thought in detail on recent events, how to attract talents etc.
He didn't move to the US until he was ~29, in 1904. So even back then we got their names backwards.
Yes, it is a presumption, that doesn't mean it might not be something to think about and consider?

I don't think I need to explain the extreme privacy view, it is alive and well in this community.
For all of the political ideologies you listed, we have concrete examples of societies which trend in those directions. Sure, most real societies do not trend toward radical versions of those ideologies, but at least we can each get an okay sense of the first derivative, so to speak, of "goodness" with respect to variation in political leanings.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem like anything like "Infoliberalism" has ever been tested (and the author even _says_ as much). Before jumping on the boat of a radical political ideology, I'm sure that any reasonable person would at least like to have an _idea_ of what it leads to.
Well, we know that Apple was working on self driving cars too, so... not surprising?
Its a known issue (for 13 years)

https://superuser.com/questions/1432983/-/1432993
With an average of one death per 100,000,000 miles traveled, I don't know if I'd rate driving as extremely dangerous.

Otherwise, I kinda agree. Eliminate drunk driving and make it so everyone is wearing a seatbelt, and the fatality rate would drop by half.
Traffic Safety in the Twentieth-Century United States
Yes, you pay per month. One gigabyte is included with the charge for Workers, then $0.50/GB additionally for each one after the first.

(I’m the PM on KV)
> And on rereading Dijkstra's article and looking at the responses to it and some languages from the time, it dawned on me that what Dijkstra was advocating was that the only control structures be conditionals, loops, and subroutines

I'm actually not sure if that's what he's advocating. In fact, one of my main complaints with the letter is that he's really not very clear about what he's saying at all. Some of that may be just context that he could assume people had when he wrote it that has been lost since, but I think some of the blame rests on him.

He does say:

> One can regard and appreciate the clauses considered as bridling its use. I do not claim that the clauses mentioned are exhaustive in the sense that they will satisfy all needs, but whatever clauses are suggested (e.g. abortion clauses) they should satisfy the requirement that a programmer independent coordinate system can be maintained to describe the process in a helpful and manageable way.

Which I interpret to mean that some goto-ish statements are fine if they are restricted in a way that doesn't make them hard to reason about. I think he would probably consider break, continue, and early returns acceptable in that way since he specifically mentions "abortion clauses", which sounds similar to those to me.

But he never really defines what he considers an acceptable "briding", so we're still left in the dark.
Even something simpler as a command to shut down the equipment from remote at China's bidding.
That's just the entire Midwest :) It's a great place.
I understand where you're coming from, but still, please don't blame women at large for manipulative/narcissistic/sociopathic behavior that a minority in both genders, without distinction, might engage in. This stuff is just as bad no matter if it's coming from women or from "male sexist pigs".
It would be ok if America would ban Huawei from building national infrastructure - it wouldn’t be very capitalistic tho.

But it is down right evil to impose extraterritorial sanctions against a company and preventing other to do business with them.
disclosure: im a full-time engine mechanic for a chain of midwestern diesel repair shops.

Quite a bit of this data is already at your fingertips! open source OBD readers exist for linux. I use this one regularly to pull and reset codes for older mercedes:
https://samhobbs.co.uk/2015/04/scantool-obdii-car-diagnostic...

the OBD is the computer in your car for sensors but has turned into a massive repository for anything CAN (car network) related. Some newer cars store radio station presets, seat positions, and even dimmer settings in the OBD alongside their battery-backed RAM. some models of BMW even store the unlock codes for their pricy radios in the OBD tables.

hardware like onstar is stored in a dedicated metal box usually under the glove compartment in most cars. it includes a harness for the OBD data, and a small modem usually mated with a riser. That modem also controls any wireless features and of course cellular transmissions. if you dont like your car phoning home, you can pull the riser or clip the antenna leads, but this will likely also affect wifi. Bluetooth pairing is generally part of the head unit in older cars, but if you have onstar this is commonly being added to the daughterboard for wifi.

as for processing? absolutely. sensor samples are sometimes taken thousands of times per second for things like airbag state and seatbelt pretensors. i guess if you counted up the bits and bytes over the CAM as your datapoint, then yeah its 25GB of data...but its not meaningful...unless youre in the process of a crash.

onstar is always my biggest gripe. anything that can remotely stop my car or unlock my doors makes me a little too paranoid, and ive never once pressed that stupid button expecting to speak to anyone who can help do anything meaningful.

but what about emergencies? onstar uses data triggers from the OBD/CAM to sense airbags in the deploy state, and that apparently triggers an automatic dial out to onstar whether you like it or not. If youre removing or replacing airbags, that means you have to disconnect onstar first or youll wind up with firetrucks and ambulances outside your garage. Speaking from experience.
How can the monitor do other things if he is expected to have full situational awareness at a moment's notice in case something goes wrong, when you have no idea if or when that might happen?

All the studies say this is actually more dangerous, which is why Waymo abandoned L3 development years ago when they discovered their safety drivers were falling asleep at the wheel. And there's the infamous Uber death which is well documented and analyzed.
How can we know if your side of the story is the truth?

Either way, this is an excellent example of why the Twitter Justice System is a bad idea.
This feature has changed from the last version I was using (62.02). The option "Never check for updates" is now missing.
I have Mathematica installed. Can I have WolframEngine side by side?
The potlatch was so powerful in the Pacific Northwest that it was banned by the Canadian government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch_ban
I think two issues are being mixed up here. I think you're completely right that we do have to spend time with people not of our choosing, and further, I think that it's a very valuable skill to be comfortable around basically everyone.

On the other hand, I think the parent is correct that having to spend time with people not of our choosing does not entail having to subject ourselves to anyone's crappy behavior.

Keeping with bullying as an example, during the time the author was talking about, with boys sitting on the fence waiting to talk to someone, from what I've heard from my elders, that was a time when people who acted innappropriately enough got punched in the mouth.

Mouth punching isn't really an acceptable way to deal with most innappropriate behavior anymore, especially somewhere like school. But we should at least retain the ability to remove ourselves from the company of jerks. We shouldn't extend the definition of jerk to include everyone who isn't like us, but we also should be able to draw lines in the sand if need be.
What would they synergize? Apple is known for marketing, which is already Elons speciality.

Tesla cars are first revision technology, which means almost starting from scratch anyway.

Two companies that live on reputation instead of quality would tarnish both.
Agreed, like I said we need strong regulation and enforcement, but that doesn't mean we throw everything out because it is hard to do. It means we need to have the conversation about it and try to craft regulation/enforcement that supports society and doesn't take advantage of it.
If this was happening in isolation, that could be. But it's also happening in a general atmosphere of extreme police violence (6 months of constant protests, 1 dead, 5 hands ripped off, 23 eyes gouged, 3000 persons jailed for no discernible reason), authoritarian policy, and extending surveillance -- and no proper counter-power, making Macron almost indiscernible from his distinctly fascistic, official main opponent.

Later this week, in European elections, prepare to see a landslide of far-right parties of various racist, xenophobic flavours in all countries. A slippery slope? Looks like an oily slide into chaos indeed.
I use my university Mathematica license rather than use WolframAlpha because I can never figure out exactly what the latter can do. Wolfram Language, in contrast, has ok enough documentation and a predictable programming model. (It's not perfect---I have a long list of complaints about its design---but it seems to be the best for the kinds of symbolic calculations I'm doing right now.)
> And then to make matters worse, a local developer is trying to tear down our old mall and build "more housing" on it, but if you look closely, what they're really building is a huge office park with the bare minimum of housing to call it a housing project. They want to put in space for 15,000 workers and 4,000 people to live. That will not solve any housing problems.

A lot of the Vallco project will be affordable housing, which was necessary to qualify for SB 35, funded via the office space. Adding to the market-rate housing deficit is a problem, but subsidized affordable housing is so desperately needed, and funding for it is so scarce, that I think Vallco is a win on balance.
Short Review of Udacity's Developing Android Apps with Kotlin
One of them is a functional change and one of them isn't. And they are not incompatible changes, so you can do both if you really care.

But there's no reason to ignore literally free improvements just because there's bigger, not free improvements to be had as well.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a hotel with lockers. Part of it is probably not wanting to become a public luggage storage facility. The other is probably that, while lockers work well for modest-sized carryons, once you get into bigger suitcases like a lot of people travel with, you can't really lift them up to a locker that's off the ground.

Lockers (or luggage storage generally outside of hotels) are, in general, pretty scarce in the US--and at least a lot of Europe in my experience. It's one of the things that makes a regular hotel pretty handy; I can drop off my luggage the day I arrive or leave and not have to restrict my activities until it's time to checkin or depart.
How did you determine that none of the 85k photos were corrupt? I have a much smaller library and I didn't think anything was corrupt until one day I was looking for a photo and it was all black. I knew the photo was not supposed to be all black.
Agreed, I am not saying I have the answer, but what I don't want is this movement happening in Europe and budding here that all data is MINE, and can't serve society/product improvements.

I think that def might be a better approach.
Original source:

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/20/facebook-data-phone-carr...
> Looks like it, although if you don't know how to configure your extensions, then why even use them in the first place?

Because uBlock Origins et al. are incredibly useful for your average internet user who know fuck all about configuring extensions but benefit far more from it? What is this unnecessary elitism?

Sane defaults are really important for people who don't know anything about the internet, much less privacy or security (see any number of examples of ad networks delivering malware). Adblocking not working in private mode isn't a sane default. The vast majority of people have no idea what any of this means or how to do any of this. Doesn't mean they're any less deserving of protection.
One day I'll die at the hands of a branch delay slot in an OOO system.
Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
I may be misinformed, but I have never heard of China specifically targeting 1 company like this. Sure, China blocks Facebook and Amazon, but its not a targeted hit. China blocks everyone. I am not claiming that this makes it fine, merely that it seems different.
SEC targets yet another ICO: a diamond-backed “ponzi scheme” Argyle Coin
>Nevertheless, we didn’t expect a threatening reaction followed by several emails, Twitter DMs, persistent phone calls and Whatsapp messages. She even texted my girlfriend, one of the organizers of the conference, whose telephone number is not public and wasn’t given to her at any moment. At the same time, she started contacting other speakers of the conference.

At that point you know you made the right choice... the rest is mind boggling.
> Chinese businesses expand internally

But they can only do that for so long. Companies like Alibaba rely on a captive domestic consumer market and corrupt political ties to China's regime. Again this is why the U.S. doesn't have to compete on price. Alibaba offers cloud services now similar to Amazon AWS and Google. If you were a startup in the U.S. would you use Alibaba if it was cheaper? Are you going to send all your proprietary source code and intellectual property to a server in China? And if everything does get stolen what would you do? File suit in a Chinese court? I'm sure the Chinese authorities would get right on that assuming your lawyer doesn't turn up missing.
The 'median educated american' [sic] is not quite 'your average American' which is usually the demographic used for such statements.

It's all about 'winning' now I guess and for one to win all others have to lose.
The US federal government uses a monthly survey to compute unemployment statistics; it doesn't just tally up people receiving unemployment benefits.
nonsense. uber and lyft end-game is a monopoly.

see how uber fixes the percentage it pays to drivers exclusively on their control of the market. if there's lyft in a city, they pass down 70%, if they are alone, they retain 70% instead.

in the same way, if drivers try to fix price or bargain, they will simply change the algorithm to give almost no rides at any time to drivers that are not driving a certain time while handsomely rewarding the striker breakers, until the price fix turn into their favour again.
Hmm? You haven't heard of Phoenix/Elixir? It's mentioned on HN fairly often.
I don't think Pence does this merely because he's afraid of being falsely accused. I think he does it also because he's seen too many people in his position give in to temptation, and he knows that he is not immune. So he's taking proactive steps to keep himself from being in a position to give in to temptation.
Retaliating against Apple hits China as well since Apple's products are manufactured/assembled there. China has a tightrope to walk here. Companies like Apple can shift their manufacturing to different countries and likely will if China comes down too harshly on them.
Wolfram supports numeric computation too (optimization, PDE solvers, data science etc
Thanks! I had a step in the initial onboarding to let folks add their NanaGram recipient as a contact via a contact.vcf file. I user tested with 5-6 people and couldn't quite nail it. Had other priorities at the time and decided to back burner it. The concept of downloading a vcf file, opening it, etc is foreign to many people. Another challenge to nail was the copy around adding a contact record for the recipient, as many people were confused (I already have a contact for my Nana!) This kind of address book integration seems easier to do in a native app. Soon, I hope!
A Steve Jobs that had spent some time in the wilderness away from Apple to mature and grow. Musk is probably more similar to Jobs before he left Apple the first time.
Ray Dalio's Principles I think is an interesting read for that area.
Eh. Donald Knuth is Lutherian. I'm atheist and I believe it is unscientific and deluded to believe in things from an ancient book of fairy tales.

This doesn't discount Knuths' major contributions to the field. No one is perfect. Even the most logical, intelligent person could have aspects of himself that are illogical.

If the OP's set theory stuff is good, I wouldn't let his emotional rants affect my judgement of this.
There are two sides to that coin:

1. People do genuinely seem to find it useful (it's been a feature in Developer Edition for years), so that's cool, but also...

2. Sharing a profile between different versions of Firefox can cause data loss, and profile-per-install makes it harder to accidentally make that mistake.

So it's win-win. As for why people find it useful, I've mainly seen two camps:

- People who want to keep their work and personal browsing separate.

- Developers who want to maintain a pristine / default browser environment for testing, and a customized one for development.

I've also, on occasion, seen normal people with separate browsers for specific tasks (only using Facebook in Opera, only banking in Firefox, etc.) Now those can all be different foxen! :-)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29037023/how-to-calculat...
>Why are people weirded out by some Google Glass-wearing rando filming them on the sidewalk but ok for everyone behind a wheel to be suddenly promoted to a CCTV omnisensing recorder?

Pedestrians are promoting dense and walk-able cities, environmentally sustainable transportation, healthy lifestyles and are generally virtuous. Drivers are wasting space, killing the planet, promoting a sedentary lifestyle and are generally evil.

Yes I'm being a bit absurd and over the top here but the point is that most people aren't disciplined enough to stick to their principals when a group they don't like is the one getting screwed.
I prevent all sites from loading fonts.google.com unless NOT doing so makes it unreadable to me.
Agreed, it's important to have community.
If Wolfram is correct in how game changing the Wolfram Language, Engine, et al are, then commoditizing it to the point that there is an "Azure Wolfram" stack and an "AWS Wolfram" stack may be vindication. (Maybe not very profitable vindication, but real bonafide "people are using it and happy with it" vindication.)

Azure and AWS already have competing stacks to Wolfram, it is just various and sometimes incompatible hodgepodges of R, Python, Jupyter, and so on and so forth.
>Apple's acquired properties are quietly extinguished and replaced with Apple branding. Musk wouldn't have the temperament to play second fiddle to anybody else.

Beats as a brand is still around and producing new products.
Apple's limitless access to capital would be one. Tesla has really had dial down many of their ambitions because of how expensive it is for them to raise capital.
My hypothesis is crushing school debt is the primary culprit for this. Their parents and government failed to rein in school tuition prices when they went. Sadly, we're no closer to keeping university costs in check now.
I don't understand the downvotes. If we're talking about tourists doesn't it make sense to look at... tourists?

EDIT: to be clear, my hypothesis was the murder rate of tourists was lower than the overall murder rate, which could plausibly make the "You’re 100x more likely to die in a car accident" statement correct. See hsitz's comment and my response. 100x is likely an exaggeration but you still are probably "more likely to die in a car accident on your commute tomorrow than by a cartel member in Mexico as a tourist".
>Touchscreens won because they're versatile: enough so that I don't actually have a physical button on my phone to open the camera.

Usually there is a way to open the camera by pressing say volume Up 3 times, it would open the camera much faster then you having to turn on the screen and tap a camera button that could be hard in sun light.

Do you enjoy typing on a phone or trying to hit those small buttons on the menus or in some apps? a few pixels miss would start a different action.

I hate it but it could be just me, I have eye problems and I use the phone with largest possible fonts and other accessibility features on.
See how we’re hurtling toward lasers that can stop hypersonic missiles.

Sounds like Raytheon is taking the page about concept cars from the car industry and talking about totally conceptual products like they've already shipped.
In addition to using private mode for visiting sites that I don't want saved in my history, I also use it as a poor mans sandbox for visiting sensitive sites (like my bank), to avoid potential cross-site-scripting attacks while visiting those sites. For this use-case, saving passwords is very useful. In fact, my biggest complaint with private mode in Firefox is that my preferred password manager plugin (bitwarden) doesn't work in private mode.
and looks like the same problematic keyboard :-/
Well that certainly explains why it wasn't melted down to contribute to Arabella's lead keel then
Right! I don’t think it's really confirmed that Craig Wright is Mr. Satoshi Nakamoto. This claim is not new — Mr. Wright has said this for years. It could not be true. And many people think it is all a scam. He is apparently taking people to court over this issue, but the final decision on the identity of Mr. Satoshi Nakamoto seems unclear because his life was in danger. Mr Wright has nothing to fear because he only knows what he has read and can't extend the model in any direction. "BitCoin 001" has been forked many times but not by Mr. Wright
Linux. With nothing from Google.

Using Qemu, KVM or VirtualBox, I can run just about anything on it. Windows, Android, MacOS. Maybe even iOS, although I haven't found an open-source release for that, yet.
One thing is this person didn't mention the other people.

Telling this story this way isn't likely to be seen as attacking someone else / not a huge benefit to them / perhaps LESS of an incentive to lie..
It seems like a lot (but not all) of the grief and drama the guy encountered could have been avoided by simply staying off of Twitter. Wouldn’t have stopped the crazed texts and other messages, but at the end of the day it’s also all just “words on the Internet” and I don’t see much real world harm here.

EDIT: Wow, all this for just suggesting to not worry so much about what people write on Twitter. Sorry if I offended someone!
That was my takeaway - she's doing to him exactly what he allowed other people to do to her. He's finding that he doesn't like it.