skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that the root issue is individualism. There are immaculately clean cities in east asia whos parent societies would definitely qualify as highly "consumerist." It's not consumption that's the problem but the parameters within which that consumption is allowed to proceed. As well, in individualist societies we seem far more comfortable to discard our trash wherever and just forget about it. A more collectivist attitude appears, from my experience, to get people to be more thoughtful.
The problem is that current search engines are indexing what is essentially a stack of random books thrown together by anonymous library goers. Before being able to guide readers to books, librarians have to the following non-trivial tasks over the entire collection:

- identify the book's theme

- measure the quality of the information

- determine authenticity / malicious content

- remember the position of the book in the colossal stacks

Then the librarian can start to refer people to books. This problem was actually present in libraries before the revolutionary Dewy Decimal System [1]. Libraries found that the disorganization caused too much reliance on librarians and made it hard to train replacements if anything happened.

The Internet just solved the problem by building a better librarian rather than building a better library. Personally I welcome any attempts to build a more organized internet. I don't think the communal book pile approach is scaling very well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification
The focus on technology such as AI is confusing the matter. What matters is how people are treated, not which technology was used to treat them good or bad.

The discussion should be about when citizen scoring or mass surveillance is justified, which it could be. If the answer is that citizen scoring or mass surveillance never is justified, then technology does not matter. If the answer is "sometimes, under condition X", then it may be less important if the scoring and surveillance is done using technology labelled as A.I. or biological neural networks, than how the results are used, by whom and for what purpose.
It doesn't handle non-US countries particularly well. It found my city, and the post code is close by (2000), but then the query in the Google Maps URL is just "2000". How will that get me here? Maybe add the country code to the Google Maps URL, e.g. "<country code> <post code>"?

Otherwise, appropriate shameless plug. I only mention the above, because I could see myself making use of it.
the airbus case you mention was a corruption investigation and was done in conjunction with german state intelligence, not industrial espionage. the belgian telecom hack you link was regular espionage. there is an actual difference between what china is doing and what the rest of us do.
A blog is not automatically non-private and commercial.

If you have ads you make money. Just possibly less then you spent on hosting.

And yes that should have read "A P.O. is not sufficent.". Sorry for that mistake.
That escalated quickly. In law there is a principle of proportionality [0]. It's the reason why jaywalking isn't punished by 60 days in prison or by getting sent back to your country and banned from ever travelling to any country that has pedestrian crossings. Also laws should apply equally to everybody. How would such a law apply to locals? Withdraw citizenship?

I think hitting them with fines or paying damages is a different matter and might just be enough. Banning someone from half a continent is certainly a knee jerk reaction.

Impossible punishments also have some side effects. Even law abiding tourists start avoiding the country completely if they know a mistake lands them on the ban list for half a continent. And perhaps worse, if one makes a mistake they no longer have anything to lose by doing it again until they leave the country, they're facing the ban anyway. See the 3-strikes law [1] where the third strike is almost always murder because by then the culprit knows they'll do life anyway. The deterrent is gone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportionality_(law)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
strerror[_r]() is allowed to be cancellation point, because it's implementation may involve calls to read() which is required to be cancellation point.
Russians are Europeans, but they see themselves distinct from Europeans.
Anxiety Is a Symptom, Not a Diagnosis
uhh possibly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
I think in one sense the answer is it always depends who or what you are asking for your answers.

The early Web wrestled with this, early on it was going to be directories and meta keywords. But that quickly broke down (information isn't hierarchical, meta keywords can be gamed). Google rose up because they use a sort of reputation system based index. In between that, there was a company called RealNames, that tried to replace domains and search with their authoritative naming of things, but that is obviously too centralized.

But back to Google, they now promote using schema.org descriptions of pages, over page text, as do other major search engines. This has tremendous implications for precise content definition (a page that is "not about fish" won't show up in a search result for fish). Google layers it with their reputation system, but these schemas are an important, open feature available to anyone to more accurately map the web. Schema.org is based on Linked Data, its principle being each piece of data can be precisely "followed." Each schema definition is crafted by participation from industry and interest groups to generally reflect its domain. This open world model is much more suitable to the Web, compared to the closed world of a particular database (but, some companies, like Amazon and Facebook, don't adhere to it since apparently they would rather their worlds have control; witness Facebook's open graph degeneration to something that is purely self-serving).
While I agree with you, I would also like to point out that to protect our economy President George W Bush’s administration came up with the ‘axis of evil’ to economically fight three oil producing countries who had announced willingness to trade oil for currencies other than the US dollar. I think this is close to the same thing, really. Using our military might and pressure on allies to maintain an advantage.

I personally believe that we must spend less on our military and more on education, new technologies, more efficient industrial systems, have firm but fair laws governing corporations. Capitalism can work long term if we have laws that are guardrails on what corporations can do and fight hard to be competitive with other countries on merits, not coercion.
When one's personal liberty crash with other's personal liberty, it's not personal anymore. If you believe there is a right to smoke, think about the violation of other's right.

I don't want to inhale the smoke or aerosol containing nicotine. That's my right.

If an action which exercising your right violate other's right, that action must be forbidden for protecting the other's right.

So, in this case, the right to smoke shall be allowed in the condition in which my right of no inhaling it shall be honored.

Now, if you don't have a level 3 biohazard facility, you shall not be allowed to smoke.

My right is constantly violated almost everyday.
> When an instagrammer dies, where go all the likes and the pictures?

The Internet Archive, of course.
YouTube Content for Children Should Be Barred, Advocacy Groups Tell FTC
They need tougher laws & throw these digital attention whores into prison for 2 years. Deny them access to their IG, or all SM, for the entire time.

Guaranteed to stop bad behavior.
Yes, virtually all trades have to be reported.
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Not really sure that a browser should allow a site to open 100 tabs programmatically, if anything this is telling me that Firefox is open to such abuse.
That is irrelevant. What matters as far as international affairs is concerned is state capacity. And the ability of the Russian state to project power, both towards Eastern Europe but also predominantly in the Middle East is still immense.

If you look at how strongly the Russian influence has been on Kazakhstan very deeply into the personal life of citizens of a traditionally vastly different culture you'll be surprised how able the Russian state still is, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The same is still happening in Turkey, Syria and Iraq and Iran where Russia has pretty effectively replaced the US.

The very naive economic centric view is the same sort of logic people employed shortly before the collapse of the British empire. It's a very unreliable and short-termist metric.
It does have a link to the catalan version at the bottom.
Those obsessed with delusions of grandeur and globalists worry about the role of EU (which is a joke, and besides the EU will fall apart before the US and China).

Normal people are concerned about their personal and family affairs, and beyond that want to influence others by persuasion rather employ coercive power of state.
Hot tip: enjoy the moment, then find a similar scene on google images and share that if you need to. No one ever knows or cares the difference.
There may come a time where tourists are tagged with GPS trackers. Those who go off the beaten path could face fines.
>You must be very naive.

Yeah, either that or well studied.

Russia is not a global player, it's a regional player. USSR only had global reach (e.g. to Latin America or Africa) through the communism ideology, and even that was little.

Economy wise, Russia's economy is smaller than Italy's or Canada's...

It just makes for a nice scapegoat (e.g. when losing elections), a nice Hollywood bad-guy store, and a hefty regional adversary (that sanctions etc try to constrain so that its regional influence dies and its assets are plundered by the highest bidders).
I like this idea of people dreaming about a new internet :D

The idea of moving to a pub-sub like system is a good one.
It makes a lot of sense for what the internet has become. It's more than simple document retreival today.
Financial is the least of it. There is a spike of people who die right after they retire - they never learned how to fill their free time. Keeping busy and having friends is one of the keys to live a long life. A job provides both of those for you.
Remission in medicine is the absense of symptoms without requiring treatment. Under remission, a person passes all diagnosis tests, without doing anything different than a normal, healthy person.

Having to avoid carbs to keep low blood glucose is similar to an allergy that does not show unless you are exposed to the allergen; that is NOT remission.

I do research on the topic; there is indeed a lot of confusion online, but remission of t2dm has been possible.
www.diabetesremission.org .Working my ass to disseminate well grounded knowledge on that.
Yes, that's true. If you have lots of work to automate - sure, you need something to automate it.
Circuit asymmetries underlie functional lateralization in mouse auditory cortex
Sweden is in the European Union.
I enjoyed this article because it contained concrete examples of each of its assertions. It's a lot more engaging to read than many of the other "falsehoods programmers believe about X" listicles.
You don't need to exploit a browser when Adobe still can't fix the holes in Reader and corporate users are still heavily dependent on Outlook.
The problem with git is countering nefarious forces. The blockchain is better in that regard because the consensus algorithm can be used to verify that the listings are legitimate.
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> If you’re thinking “that sure sounds like a lot of steps just to enable something as potentially fundamental to the user experience as mouse support,” well, you wouldn’t be wrong. Apple clearly doesn’t see this as a mainstream feature just yet, though, and isn’t going to be pushing it on people.

Because touch and mouse in one interface don't mix well for the large majority of use cases. So you'll end up with awkwardly large and cumbersome controls for mouse users and to small and finicky controls for touch users to interact with.

That is probably the reason it's 'hidden' in the accessibility settings. It's a feature for those people who are not able to use a touch interface and using a mouse-like device is their only solution. For all 'normal' users this mouse option will just feel like using the iPad with a handicap.
It's just another type of input, there's distinct advantages and disadvantages to all of them. None of them will ever obsolesce another. Apple's extreme stance on keeping things as simple as possible pushed the market for a long time, but things are starting to swing back around now that bringing back the inputs of yesterday appears to be the only way to separate a product from all the others. I'd like to see trackballs and spinners (like on Tempest) make a comeback too.
> That would require withdrawing from Schengen

No, Ireland isn't in the Schengen zone. Irish people are free to visit Europe (since part of the EU). Also a Schengen VISA DOES NOT allow one to visit oversea French territories. You can't visit The Guadeloupe with a Schengen VISA. So things are a bit more complicated and wouldn't necessary impact Icelander's ability to travel to Europe, it entirely depends on what kind of deal Island signed with the rest of the EU.
> Love the idea. One improvement: let's make this an international effort and ban them from travel to any other participating country as well.

Yeah and let's make it possible to add arbitrary names to that list with minimal oversight! We could call it the international No Fly list.
A while back someone posted a comment on another story about travel and tourism - I forget who - basically saying that travel is the ultimate extension of selfishness and narcissism. I disagreed, and I still do, but I will agree with that statement entirely when it concerns Instagram influencers.
You can get those same vape flavors without nicotine, too. They go down quite a bit easier, too.
> sometime before the cave was protected/commercialized

It doesn't matter what official designation it has or when it attained it, I'm using "nature reserve" to distinguish it from non-descript fields and planes. The point is that some parts of these amazing places got very easy access for uninterested people as roads and suburbs sprawl... and then the damage happens, but it becomes even worse due to selfies.
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You've just more or less described Solid. https://solid.mit.edu/

I think a lot of people dismiss Solid based on its deep origins in Semantic Web, or because it's a slow project, based on Web standards, intended to solve long term problems.

But being part of the Web is a huge process, and with DIDs it maps just fine into decentralized worlds.
All I'm saying is they're less likely to invest in good customer service infrastructure if it never 'needs' to be used. There's always the possibility that something unaccounted will go wrong.
That's one option, but another would be taxes: increase landing tax for flights, hotel tax, car rental tax, tourist services tax, etc.

Or simply limit numbers: require that people buy tickets to enter particular places (including national parks), and restrict entry once the place is "full".
I don’t know which country you live in, but in the United States of America, all this talk of “fairness of law” is a fairytale at best.

And no, you can’t convince me otherwise.
It is used for several purposes, the most frequent of which is to mark the end of a declaratory sentence. (why are we doing this?)
This really isn't enforced. I have a .cat domain that is simply a picture of my cat and I've never had an issue.

I think if you're running something more high-profile that drives a ton of content, that rule would come into play.
> Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, collective punishment is a war crime. By collective punishment, the drafters of the Geneva Conventions had in mind the reprisal killings of World War I and World War II. In the First World War, the Germans executed Belgian villagers in mass retribution for resistance activity during the Rape of Belgium. In World War II, both the Germans and the Japanese carried out a form of collective punishment to suppress resistance. Entire villages or towns or districts were held responsible for any resistance activity that occurred at those places.[5] The conventions, to counter this, reiterated the principle of individual responsibility. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Commentary to the conventions states that parties to a conflict often would resort to "intimidatory measures to terrorize the population" in hopes of preventing hostile acts, but such practices "strike at guilty and innocent alike. They are opposed to all principles based on humanity and justice."
Yeah. Much of the 'real world' is turning into something like a Center Parks (if you know of it) experience, where what we believe to be reality is nothing of the sort. At least some trips are immune though, like a tropical chill out on the beach. It's the long dreamed of trip to Florence, for example, that is likely to be marred.
tl;dr the problems are 1) relevancy, 2) integrity, 3) content management/curation.

If you've ever tried to maintain a large corpus of documentation, you realize how incredibly difficult it is to find "information". Even if I know exactly what I want.... where is it? With a directory, if I've "been to" the content before, I can usually remember the path back there... assuming nothing has changed. (The Web changes all the time) Then if you have new content... where does it go in the index? What if it relates to multiple categories of content? An appendix by keyword would get big, fast. And with regular change, indexes become stale quickly.

OTOH, a search engine is often used for documentation. You index it regularly so it's up to date, and to search you put in your terms and it brings up pages. Problem is, it usually works poorly because it's a simple search engine without advanced heuristics or PageRank-like algorithms. So it's often a difficult slog to find documentation (in a large corups), because managing information is hard.

But if what you actually want is just a way to look up domains, you still need to either curate an index, or provide an "app store" of domains (basically a search engine for domain names and network services). You'd still need some curation to weed out spammers/phishers/porn, and it would be difficult to find the "most relevant" result without a PageRank-style ordering based on most linked-to hosts.

What we have today is probably the best technical solution. I think the problem is how it's funded, and who controls it.
It's not really a ceaseless influx if those people are inevitably leaving.
This isn't exactly accurate.

WOW air, the budget airline that was offering cheap flights from the US is now bankrupt. They were able to offer the flights so cheap because they were operating at a loss trying to take market share away from Icelandair.

The biggest problem has been the government's inability to control the tourism industry, which more or less runs amok, taking all of the profit and contributing little back other than general tax revenue.

Members of parliment have proposed various solutions to deal with tourism, but most often there is no agreement, and no concrete actions put into place.

Basically there are laws that prevent the government from taxing people differently, so it's illegal to tax tourists different than locals, so it becomes difficult to take advantage of tourism money for government to create facilities, hire people, build infrastructure, etc.

It's happening, but it's not what it could be.

Various "nature pass" fees have been proposed, hotel taxes, flight taxes, etc.. but no matter what the idea is someone is always against it, which has made curbing the situation hard.

With WOW air just disappearing recently, the economy is still adjusting to that.
The most critical part of my point was the subject(s) performing the pricing, which you guys are somehow completely dodging here.
Can you help me understand how those relate to each other?

For instance, someone gets a malicious email, and clicks on a link which downloads a bit of code the exploits a bug in the software to install something, perhaps a key logger or screen reader.

What on earth does hardware keys do to eliminate that?

Seriously, I can’t make the connection (and if I understood I’d probably roll that out across my firm tomorrow!).
I like having visual memories too. But are my memories triggered by a self-made almost identical photo of a specific glacier or tree at a touristic attraction?

In the last couple of years I've not taken photographs of things from which I was sure already tens of thousands of photos exist.

In my opinion people forget the importance of the experience itself. It seems as if there must always be some form of evidence to show others that you've been to some place. Preferably while you are still there.
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I would say that any power with nukes is not a regional player, considering they can blow up the whole planet. Russia also has significant influence in the middle east.
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content change signed by creators private key, otherwise merge is rejected?

or, wiki approach...
My favourite (ab)use of Excel, which is already on your list, is using it for HDR photography[0].

While I'd never use it for day-to-day anything, things like this are a really interesting way to show how things like HDR photography actually work. Excel can be very approachable for stuff like this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8
It's impossible to overestimate the power of expectations to create trust (even in the face of contrary indications).

This just almost happened to me this week: A couple of days ago I wrote an email to a friend I hadn't been in touch with for several years. A day later I got a message from him on Facebook with what looked like a YouTube link and the cryptic message, "It's you?"

I didn't want to see myself on a random youtube video I had never heard of, so I wrote back that I didn't want to click.

Then the next day my friend announced that his account had been hacked and that those messages were spam/malware, with a bad impersonation of a YouTube link. But I was so sure it was a legit message from my friend that I didn't even notice that the link didn't actually go to YouTube. Fortunately I never clicked it, but just like the OP, it was blind luck.

[edit: fixed wording]
I would have defined toaster as "slow, horribly outdated computer". That also fits your toaster comparison since old computers are very energy hungry compared to similarly speced modern computers.
East Asian national parks are also completely paved over and devoid of almost any remnant of a natural experience. And please don't tell me it's only westerners breaking all of the rules in US national parks.
The why the US refuses to go metric
Screen readers, braile readers, rss readers, search bots, voice assistants like Siri or Google Assistant, social media embeds....

Need more?

Future tech too. Who knows what's going to be consuming our content in the future, or what input and output devices we (or others) are going to be using to navigate content and apps.
It's really cool to see this event spawing a real company.

Do you know how the company is financed? What price they're aiming to hit? Have they done market research to figure out whether people actually want a probably very expensive car that is efficient, but not sporty? Does anyone actually need that range (I know I don't)?
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Except in this case there is a very good reason to care how other people enjoy their experiences.
thats not ad-tracking, that is geolocation tracking for language settings, etc.