skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disapprove, though it does seem a bit out of touch. Maybe developers aren't the most thoughtful people, but the state of things isn't without reason. If you moved to another city, you are paying a lot of rent, you work as a contractor (or other "flexible" employment), you have student loans, potentially a mortgage, you don't know how long you have this career and there isn't any employee organization to back you up then "values" doesn't come first. You should change the way investors, schools, companies and societies work.
We know there are plenty of antivaxers because they sign certificates of immunization exemption. Plus we keep track of immunization rates. In WA there are about 4% kindergarten kids with non-medical immunization exemptions [0]. In some communities, like Vashon Island, the exemption rate goes upwards 25% [1], and the non-vaccination rate upwards to 44% of kindergartners in 2012 [2].

[0] https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/Pubs/348-682-SY20...

[1] https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article26252716.ht...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/health/measles-outbreak-w...
The most popular video on LinusTechTips is the unboxing of an RC fire truck. I think people do enjoy some toys being unboxed.
I don’t have to change my behavior if I change the world instead.
what would be the benefit to put a tesla on what's basically also a tesla? and the autopilot should be able to navigate the known narrow tunnel, no?
Both points are true. Think about having giant holes in the sidewalk. On the one hand, if you walk into a giant hole in the sidewalk in broad daylight, that's pretty much your fault, and your friends will laugh at you. On the other hand, everyone understands that some people will inevitably walk into a giant hole in the sidewalk if it's there, and so we consider it negligent to dig one without putting up bright orange barriers around it. In part that's because some people are more vulnerable than others (maybe it's nighttime, maybe their eyesight isn't very good, maybe they're going fast on a bicycle), and in part that's because with a large enough group of people some of them are bound to be careless, distracted, or unlucky.
This reminded me of something which made it to the front page a while back about how people came to a different result when they considered Trolley Problems in their second language rather than their first.

But that article framed it as there being benefits to both the emotional approach and the more rational approach, depending on the problem being considered. This one seemed to discount the emotional baggage as totally unnecessary.

Edit: found the article, and now I'm not sure that I read it on HN after all, but for anyone curious (text is in Spanish): https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/06/18/laboratorio_de_felicida...
Inside GCHQ: the art of spying in the digital age
A new wood could drop a building’s temperature and reduce cooling costs
There might be a way to block the patch, but having a computer strictly for gaming makes you a bit of an outlier.
I said poor immigrants' kids doing better than other poor people's kids.
> What if a competitor make use of these undocumented gray areas to attack my business?

Then your regulator might ask you to remove the comment in question.
I (and others [1]) have found that the act of logging itself helps you build and maintain momentum. For some people not wanting to "break the chain" of visible squares/X's/dots is enough motivation to continue.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/theXeffect/
Probably not more than it literally sinking though so that’s something to think about.
Agreed nuclear needs to be considered.
Yeah and you are a part of a huge fan base that will downvote me into oblivion. There is nothing bad with that. You can love bad writing. Why not?

However it will still not change anything about him being a mediocre writer. His inability to write endings became a meme even within the fan base. His inability to write non-cringe female characters is horrible ans sometimes quite questionable (Snow Crash). Especially these days. The way he stretches nothingness over endless pages is painful and just another sign of bad craftsmanship and yes we get that he likes to deliver some scientific ideas but there are ways to not make it look like you copy a wikipedia article. It's been done in literature. It can be copied and as to say it in Ursula Le Guins words: everybody does it.

Much could be done if the editor(s) wouldn't be so afraid of him. I can't explain it otherwise.
You are absolutely correct, and the mindset change you describe will happen. However, and unfortunately, it will require some Pearl Harbor or 9/11 sized catastrophe, to make that point clear to everyone who needs to understand it.
Because all code is untrusted, just because you know who it probably came from doesn't mean there aren't bugs, backdoors or exploits (code review can catch only so much). That goes triple for the average user who doesn't even understand the first thing about security.

So instead of trying to achieve the impossible (perfect safe code that still has unlimited access) the direction is stricter sandboxes. Then at least you only need one near perfect piece of safe code (the sandbox) instead of tens of thousands.
Not really. It’s a lot easier to heuristically validate link clicks when you can correlate them with a massive trove of other data about the visitor, which is exactly what companies like Google do.
Far fewer is still: 343 million customer records, 25.55 million passport numbers (5.25 million in plaintext), 8.6 million encrypted payment cards.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-marriott-intnl-cyber/marr...
I worry that the online coverage of things like flat earthers might feed the phenomenon. I used to think flat earthers was just some internet nonsense and that you'd be hard-pressed to find someone offline who believed that, but then I found out a long-time coworker does. One of my neighbors is also a climate change denier and it took a long time for us to hit that topic, so I wouldn't be surprised to find out more people I know who are like that.
A side note, but the poor usage of airports is mostly due to poor reliability caused by the military restrictions on Chinese airspace. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/world/asia/china-beijing-...

> With roughly 70 percent of airspace controlled by the military (versus 20 percent in the United States), commercial aircraft flying in China are limited to narrow tunnels in the sky. This restricts options for departure and arrival routing, cutting the number of takeoffs and landings that airports can handle. Beijing Capital, for example, was the world’s second-busiest airport based on passenger volume in 2017, but it ranked fifth based on takeoffs and landings, nearly a third fewer than the world leader, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

> The lack of airspace is also a key reason delays are so common in China. Last year, flight delays increased 50 percent, with only 71 percent of flights taking off on time, according to government statistics... When a corridor is blocked by a thunderstorm, for example, Chinese flight controllers often cannot reroute an airplane, because it would have to enter military airspace. That causes planes to sit on the ground or fly holding patterns when in other countries they could land or take off.

> The new airport will help by initially opening four, then up to eight, new runways in the suburb of Daxing, 41 miles southwest of Beijing Capital. The number of air corridors available for civilian use stays the same, but the new runways will provide airlines with more ways to gain access to this limited airspace, allowing the Beijing area to facilitate more flights.
> I always think of DSLs as automating my own job as a software engineer. It makes it possible to have someone with a different skillset than me not need to go through me to build features.

It's interesting that this sort of drives against our own motivation of professional self preservation.

In my own experience, it has generally worked out better to just empower others as much as possible, rather than trying to lock down and add friction and permission to the system.

It's a great feeling to give someone the power to do something they couldn't do previously.
Out of curiosity, are you religious?

Disclosure - I am not, consequently I have no vested interest in either explanation (the article's considered, moderate, science-based proposal, or your knee jerk dismissal).

I am confident the authors of the article considered the possibility that the animal(s) never actually went extinct, though the basis for their conclusions seem sound. The journals would be full of wild claims if things not seen for a few decades were deemed to be miraculously rediscovered after each hiatus.

That the fossil bones (of the originals) and the skeletal structure (of the new) are similar, but not identical - let alone the submerged island problem - speaks against your claim that they're the same.
The main point of confusion in this whole thread is whether or not the article states you shouldn't apply themes on your own computer. To some, myself included, it kind of does. Linux distributions are not individual operating systems - they're essentially skins on top of Linux kernel, created bottom-up to offer opinionated choices to users. Picking a distribution is like modifying software on one's own computer, except without duplicating the same work other people would do. In this sense, the article does ask users to not customize software on their own machines.
Is there something recent that brought ‘Overton window’ into common use? I honestly believe the first time I’ve ever seen the term was within the past few months and now I see it regularly.
90s? I miss the late 70s / early 80s. The world before personal computers was better in many ways.
PayPal was very early in the 2FA movement, hardware security keys were available starting in ~2008 (https://systembash.com/using-the-paypal-verisign-security-ke...). If you're referring to app based TOTP that is a relatively new option.

I was prompted to change to TOTP when I logged in.
> And ARM, and IBM, both the POWER and mainframe/Z teams

Is the point of your argument that others did it too, so Intel shouldn't be accountable?

Or that others did it too, so it's reasonable to believe that the vulns were impossible to prevent?

This argument sounds a lot like the "deflect" part of Facebook's strategy to "delay, deny, deflect".
Currently, in the Midwest US, you'll pay around 3-5x more per month for heating in the winter using forced air electric vs gas. A reasonable winter gas bill of $150/month would easily push $400/month using electric.
No i understand the difference:)
Each item on the list deserves a little blurb on why GDPR "forced" it's removal from the EU market.

Examples:
Unroll.me's entire business model was made illegal in the EU.

Hitman: Absolution faced problems in taking ownership of its EU servers.

The two games Loadout and Super Monday Night Combat both claimed not having the resources necessary to comply with GDPR. For perspective Loadout had a peak of 208 concurrent players in 2018[0] while SMNC had a peak of 40 players in 2018[1].

[0] https://steamcharts.com/app/208090
[1] https://steamcharts.com/app/104700
All of the hot-button issues are massively blown out of proportion to the actual numbers. That's the salient thing you start to notice when you start drilling into the facts and disregard the rhetoric. We're wound to 11 at each other's throats fussing about the 0.1% issues.
Is this headline perversion meant to be a joke?
Yeah but nuclear isnt politically in vogue
Japan is only developing it because of a few coincidental factors:

- The existing Tokaido Shinkansen is full. Not many high speed rail lines run as intensively as the Tokaido, if any do.

- Japan is heavily land-constrained, so even if they built a lower-spec standard Chuo Shinkansen they probably wouldn't save much money either way.

- Japan's government loves infrastructure stimulus and promoting homegrown technology, and the Chuo Shinkansen achieves both.

Other countries have abandoned maglev because of the relatively low benefit for the increased cost, like Germany and China's initial decision to go with HSR instead of Transrapid.
What notification from Google Maps do you need that you're not just disabling its notifications at the app level?
That's a refreshing take on bookmarks. Love the fact that you don't need to create a complicated user account. Just a code.
Never Split the Difference is amazing for negotiation.

I don't know that one, but here are a couple of research-based negotiating books:

Getting to yes

The mind and heart of the negotiator.

They were required texts for my college class on Negotiating and Conflict Management. I was already good at certain kinds of negotiating, but it helped put a finer point on my abilities.
The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation
Europe isn't really safe either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_derailm...
Build a side project. You're more likely to get hired if you have a portfolio of work to showcase, rather than a CS degree.
If you are open for a full solution (formation + taxes) these guys did an amazing job for me - www.hyke.me
Personally, I don't think individuals can learn this. To me, it seems that human psychology is essentially fixed. The changes need to be cultural - you need human civilization to learn this. But culture, I believe, is mostly a function of techno-economical landscape, with some small flavouring added from path dependence (i.e. history). Think of culture as water flowing into and settling in a valley, which shape is defined by available technology. It gravitates towards a particular configuration matching the landscape, and you can't make it flow differently by just asking. The way we learn, I believe, is through technologies we develop (possibly also through "social technologies" like forms of governance, though I'm not sure whether those can stand on their own, or are also a function of "hard"-technological landscape).
This feels like Western science finding its own way towards the lessons already learned by Buddhist meditation. A lot of the same ideas, framed quite differently.
Thanks for your explaining!
I determined to do so!
So children who want to use social features will have to browse more adult-like content to adjust the age estimate? I'm not so sure this will have the intended effect
I'm not sure I agree with everything you said, but I thank you for making a well thought out post that isn't yet another overly cynical "delete FB" post.
Excuse my ignorance: is this like chaos monkey or more a tool for fuzzing?
Why is social media the poster child for algoritmically driven content? If anything, social media response to scale hasn’t been to use algorithms to drive content from top down, but instead to crowd source that information. Yes Facebook might rearrange your newsfeed. But the information it shows is still driven by the likes and shares of your network. On places like reddit it is driven by upvotes, or hash tags and retweets on twitter. The algorithm is secondary to the user group.

Thus if we really are going to blame social media, it’s because we aren’t more selective about the social networks we embed ourselves in. But this of course is a problem that existed from the dawn of humanity.
>Self-distancing is the act of increasing the distance from your own egocentric perspective when assessing events and emotions that you experience.

It's odd that there's no mention of meditation as a way to achieve this effect, since that's arguably its biggest benefit.

Put another way, as someone once said: Wisdom is the ability to take your own advice.
This BackgroundSold More Comfy Sofas. But This Other One Sold More Cheap Sofas
I am not sure if that helps you, a tech salary (or similar) might be necessary to pull it off this way :

I am not exactly disciplined, I have thought for years about working out instead of actually doing it.

Until one year ago. I have started working with a trainer. It is insanely expensive BUT it helps a lot in establishing a routine. The exercises themselves are pretty standard, but having somebody to give you a program adapted to your current condition and to correct your movements help tremendously.

I have changed from not working out to working out 4-5 times a week.
Money can move politics. Also, while large plants are definitely not popular right now, small reactors just might. There's been some work done in miniaturizing nuclear reactors; it may be worth looking into.
In my experience, insurance levels are determined by the work you do and clients you have, not by your entity type. Most of my 1099 contracts these days come with a professional insurance clause that is independent of the kind of business I run.
Also getting it wrong might indicate they are unintentionally not GDPR compliant and make others aware of that fact. But would that actually be worse than regulators finding out later? Especially when you want to comply?
Having the car on a sled means no wear on the tyres. Furthermore the sled is specifically designed for the rails and acts as a guide for the car, which is more reliable than having the autopilot cruise through the tunnel with the danger of the user being able to disable the AP and blick the tunnel. The sled therefore makes the Tesla some sort of a bumper car without making any damage.
>http://me.cmdr2.org/starlink/

Wow thanks man. I just saw them today at 3:00 am , the sky was the clearest it ever been. I saw them and I thought they were far away city lights but they disappeared after few minutes :-)
The article is paywalled
Yes but discoverability to what end? In one case the reader then thinks and says "I learned this on Stack Exchange" rather than a possibility of "I learned this from Mark".

In one case an organization that is much complained about becomes even more of a necessity and so has less incentive to fix itself. In another the reverse happens.

In hyperbole: in one case you may as well not post it, in the other case you may as well have not written it.
Even better: at least one person documented thinking about this issue, trying to exploit it and failing - showing that even if you could come up with this, it was really non trivial to achieve.
Take my money! :)

Your project is great, and I especially love that you're doing this for privacy reasons on the device, instead of in the cloud. Congratulations on launching.

Wishlist: add LinkedIn, because about half of my contacts are for business.
Yeah it was, I bought a more expensive car when I was younger. When this one gives out I'm getting a cheaper one (hopefully without phone home electronics too).
30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web
Boston Student wrote ‘I'm from Hong Kong’ An onslaught of Chinese anger followed
You're referring the the "vulnerability equities process" (VEP). I haven't read anything from anyone in the field that thinks the VEP is anything but a joke. In particular, the VEP's (many) skeptics point out that you can't use a vulnerability for a little while and then arrange to have it patched, because doing so makes it likely that your adversary will discover the systems you've broken into (simply by retrospectively looking through packet logs to see instances of the exploit running).

It comes down to this: either we're going to conduct adversarial signals intelligence like other major nations do, or we're not. If we are, we're going to stockpile exploits, because that's how modern SIGINT works.

I don't know anyone in the field, in the industry or academia, that thinks it's scandalous that NSA has vulnerabilities we haven't heard about.
There is due process. If you think a regulator's decision was illegal, you can escalate to the courts. Some member states may not have the best justice system, but that's what the ECJ is for.

There is no explicit schedule – that could be gamed – but that doesn't mean regulators can act arbitrarily. Punishments have to be proportional to the infraction, similar cases have to be treated similarly... The GDPR just does not spell out how public authorities work.

It actually does say that punishments have to be proportional IIRC. I'm not sure if that actually makes a legal difference or if it was included to make the GDPR easier to understand.
Eqn was invented precisely to do elaborate math notation. Integrals, sweeping braces, majuscule and minescule letters, suffixes, Greek..
> For electrical power use and removing heat there's a floor where, if not being used, the best you could do would be to turn a system off, which has its own issues.

What issues? If your cloud architecture can't save power when demand is low, how can that be a positive?

> Go too far and you won't be able to also run a spot market in CPU instances like AWS does.

As I understand it, a spot market isn't ever an architectural goal, it's a way to exploit the practical realities of unused resources/capacity. If that necessity goes away, that'd be a win.

I see at least 3 possibilities:

1. The spot market is about filling temporarily-vacant VM slots on host physical machines

2. Additional physical machines must be kept online so that VMs can be quickly spun-up, and the spot market is about capitalising on this necessity (this is really a variation on Option 1)

3. The spot market is about deriving at least some revenue from the unutilised fraction of an always-on fleet, encouraging customers to run heavy jobs during times of low load on your cloud

I doubt Amazon's fleet is always-on -- I imagine they have fairly significant capacity in reserve to keep up with growth and spikes -- so I doubt it's Option 3. (This is a perfectly obvious question but I really can't find a definitive answer. Maybe my Google-fu is weak today.)
> designed to "not need a programmer" to customize

> they end up paying to have me or a coworker to not-program customizations

These things aren't contradictory, though. The software doesn't need a programmer to customize. They likely tested that, and proved that regular people can set it up just fine. Regular people just aren't normally motivated to do so, when it's so easy to just spend money in order to not have to learn something new.

IMHO there's a clear division that forms between people very early in life, and it can be predicted which side of the line someone falls on as early as the third grade: there are humans for whom solving puzzles that involve "wrapping their brains around" a new mental skill is a fun diversion; and there are humans for whom that same experience is aversive and something they will flinch away from. And—importantly—this has nothing to do with how good they are at doing it!

We can endlessly invent new ways to make hard things easy, but no matter how easy we make them, as long as they're at all novel or unfamiliar, the people for whom absorbing new mental models is an aversive experience will just do everything they can to avoid it. It's like people with social anxiety doing way more work of some other type to avoid socializing, but with "forming new mental connections" in place of socializing.

But the fact that a large part of the population is like this, doesn't mean that there's no value in these customizable systems. They still increase accessibility, bringing tasks that were impossible for a non-programmer into the realm of possibility! It's just that for most people, the line isn't between "possible" and "impossible"; it's between "trivial" and "not worth the trouble." The question only becomes one of possibility when you're forced into a corner of solving the problem yourself, no matter what, unable to even quit and walk away. When people are in that situation, they're thankful for these systems. But only then.
I suspect in the UK it would have been an "ology" from a former polytechnic.

Though having said that I have only had two bad experiences with recruiters in the UK.
>The researchers then measured participants’ self-distance during their recollection of their past experiences

How exactly did they perform this measurement?