skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breaking into the data center is NOT outside of the threat model. We spend considerable amount of time detailing what can be done
With physical access and various levels of physical access (for example, can I open the box versus being at the terminal vs having access to ports).

If you’re not doing that with your data centers then you are not even close to doing security right. And if you think it is close to feasible to completely lock down a server then you’re probably not being realistic.
Agreed, plus (un)employment is used as a fairly common headline statistic which strongly informs government policy. If you have 2% unemployment but 20% of the workforce without healthcare and working multiple jobs, it's much easier to ignore the problem than if you had 20% unemployment – a figure that would likely trigger a huge and immediate government response as it indicates a crisis, even though those people may not be that much worse off given social security programs (although I don't know much about the US social security programs).
where does it say not to use it unless you have to ? They use it everywhere :)
Somehow lack of types in source code isn't making programming in python harder for most people. And if you need to know the type of something your IDE should help with that. And yes, you should use IDE/language server in our age, because it makes you more productive.
Comments under example.com already give a good idea what it will look like when everyone will start posting comments in public places.
on the other hand, political "donations"
Perhaps Apple too.

"Apple hasn’t provided any information on the matter and did not respond to requests for comment. But analysts said the most likely interpretation is that the company is giving Beijing access to its operating system source code in return for being able to continue to do business in China—arguably Apple’s most important market, but one that has been imperiled by regulatory obstacles"

https://qz.com/332059/apple-is-reportedly-giving-the-chinese...
Yet adverts on porn sites do operate as per our wish list:

* adverts are vetted by a human

* adverts are not allowed to inject JavaScript.

There have been a few interesting blog posts from businesses outside of the adult entertainment industry where they discuss just how work is involved in getting an advert approved on adult sites.

It’s a sad state of affairs when an adblocker is less required on porn sites than it is on Stack Overflow.
Siberian programmers have taught the neuralnetwork to identify melanoma by photo
There used to be a time, and in many places still is, when parents, relatives, and the community you grew up in would teach you these things. When kids used to play outside together unsupervised, lots of lessons were learned, even from simple things like playing a game. You had to take losing. If you threw a tantrum, then quickly you weren't invited to play again. I remember growing up, the "coolest" kids were, in retrospect, the most emotionally mature ones, and they were the ones everyone else emulated.

This business of emotional development and learning self-control is too important to leave to classrooms.

Parents would teach their kids about money by giving them an allowance, sometimes you would work for the allowance. I mowed lawns.

I can't believe that kind of stuff doesn't happen, but I notice a lot of lost, lonely souls out there who are really struggling with basic concepts, like maintaining friendships with people they get into arguments with, or disagree with. We do a lot of self-isolating behavior and then struggle with impulse control; I think because being part of a community forces you to engage in some impulse control.
I think the burnout happens when you care too much and can't take it emotionally (when, inevitably, you meet some people who care less). So obviously, people who are "disengaged" are not at risk of burnout - they are managing it.

The point is, it can happen at any objective level of environmental stress. It can also happen at any level of actual performance. The engagement relative to people you interact with is the thing it depends on, I think.
Ah, right, I forgot to add basic html escaping!
> Google encouraging site admins to put reCaptcha all over their sites

hahah, wow. Put this tracking software suit on every page please - it's for your own good!

I used to kinda believe in Accelerationism[1] - philosophy where you encourage and accelerate flawed systems to promote a breaking point. However it turns out our society doesn't really have a breaking point.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
> How do you stop using a service when you have little or no indication that it does something like this before hand, and afterwards the privacy is already gone?

It is small comfort for the average user, but the way you do it is use noscript. It makes the web awful, sure, but it won't happen to you.

> It doesn't even matter if I have an account on Google or Facebook, they'll create profiles for me aggregating my data anyway.

I sort of wonder what you envision this actually meaning. If I spam your website and you add a DoS filter for my IP, should I complain you made a profile of me? If when a user tries to log in I check the referrer to see if it contains a proper URL, have I violated your privacy?
Yes, USB-D is supposed to do that. 1 port for all applications. You will be able to daisy-chain your screens, keyboards, printers and projectors, but also power supply, and it also adds TouchID compatibility. One port to rule them all. USB-D is the future!
In this situation, design is not "how it works" IMO.
There's a very good reason to consider negative outcomes of the past in discussions such as this. Let's pretend companies like Google and Facebook are totally on the up and up; pretend the company that aims to facilitate a user tracking search engine for China that is doing things including literally blacklisting searches such as "human rights", is on the up and up.

The reason what these amazingly benevolent companies are doing and collecting matters is because the systems we build today are precisely what will power the dystopias of tomorrow. As the GP mentioned, Nazi Germany used census data to select and track their victims, aided by some primitive computational technology built for the Nazis by IBM. In spite of how primitive all of this technology was, it ended up being quite effective at enabling them to achieve their ends.

Now compare this to the systems we're building today. Genuinely bad people do, and will, manage to take power in any system. It's not a question of if, but when. And these systems that we're building will be at their disposal. It's the same reason that in politics if you're considering granting the government more power you shouldn't think about today, but about tomorrow. Not do I want "this" administration to have those powers, but do I want future administrations - whom I will vehemently disagree with, to have those powers?
You guessed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Couso
> our current footprint of 19 Cloud regions and 58 data centers around the world

Do you understand how expensive this action is?
The author also omitted that China has no bleeding edge foundries (like TSMC & Samsung's 7nm fabs) and it is unlikely they will be able to build one any time soon.

Both Intel and Global Foundries are trapped on older nodes, and China is in a slightly worse position (with their most advanced node being 14nm).

All of AMD's new cores are built on TSMC 7nm, and with outdated nodes & 3 revision old designs, China is unlikely to be able to significantly improve on the designs they licensed from AMD.

Arguably, China doesn't have the homegrown talent to do chip design. Allwinner yeets barely altered SOC designs from ARM into existence, and Hygon's chip design talent is in large part not China based.
Missing Midwinter's Lurker's guide to Babylon 5...
Can we talk about the macbook pro designs ?

They look great but it is a terrible design. One of the jobs of a laptop enclosure is to let heat dissipate and aluminum is just not great at that, and it is not getting better with these smaller spaces.
The new headquarters syndrome strikes again. Ive, sidelined, went eyeballs deep into the new headquarters, alongside a decline in physical product quality like the trashcan design miss and keyboard gremlins. Hardware and software teams kept executing but there’s clearly a need for a change in design.
Just so you know, that commercial VPN is almost certainly spying on you.
Analysts Confirm Ethereum(ETH) as Next Coin to Outperform Major Cryptocurrencies
Don’t forget IP laws. The threat of lawsuits is larger than the benefit of free music.

DRM is a means of protecting IP by technical means. When legal means are more effective then DRM isn’t necessary.

If you take the legal recourse off the table then I think free Napster like services proliferate.
First we copy the cancer. Then we incorporate the copy of the cancer and make it a productive part of Windows. Then we starve the cancer of users. This is how we kill the cancer. Really guys we have changed, we're not into profit anymore, we're into freedom and user rights. Really. You can trust us, we are your friendly neighbourhood corporation. We don't even siphon as much data as Google, we're the good guys.
I would say that adblock/extension support is a pretty big deal breaker for "developers and early adopters". How are you going to get them to use a crippled browser for any significant period of time?
>Until now design was king at Apple

I have a very big gripe with that.
Making stuff look beautiful is not design. Or at least that's only 10% of the design job. the macbooks are beautiful but they have many design issues.
Not learning math because it's not what you want to specialize in is self-defeating. It's like not learning to read and write, or save money, or communicate with other people, because it's not what you want to specialize in.

Math isn't a domain. It's the technique of abstraction we apply to any domain to make it tractable for computers, and it's the technique of reasoning we apply to any domain to figure out where our thinking has gone wrong. At least, any objective domain — except in rare cases, math isn't that useful for figuring out why your wife feels you don't love her anymore. But for you to program something on a computer, someone needs to mathematize it first. This can be done well or badly.
I wish those “ears” were more purpose built, like physical indicator LEDs for microphone and camera access, SSL, etc.
... in the month of April 2019, and for the first month ever.
> there is nothing the US government can do to achieve better conditions for US companies.

Are you sure about that ? The US already provides huge help to US companies at the determinant to other countries.

No technology transfer would mean higher tariff from East Asia.

China wont stop until their GDP per capita matches that of Japan / South Korea.
> Languages like Java and C++ don't work that way, and they're the ones being decried for having to spend too much time writing out redundant types.

and yet as soon as you introduce auto you've got the mob bringing out the pitchforks :-)
Symmetry is not patentable.
Best comment I have read so far. While Apple certainly is a company, where the head designer is rightfully one of the most influential positions, it should be the lead position as it was in the recent years. The golden years were those, where Steve Jobs was the chief product officer. The person, who can tell designers when they start making something look nicer but less useful. The MacBook keyboard disaster was only the tip of the iceberg, where the keyboard just wouldn't work properly. But it runs much deeper. The whole non-serviceability of their computers and the limitations which cut down in the usability. Just think of the glued together iMacs. The iMac is already a controversial product, having an all-in-one machine as their main desktop product. But why should is it impossible to easily access its components for the limited things you can do with them? As it turns out, the early iMacs were reasonably accessible. I still have a G5 iMac, which can be opened with a single screw drsiver.

So unless it was someone else forcing these decisions onto Ive, I think he really was missing Steve in recent years and there was no one at Apple to really challenge him. And however good and talented anyone is, I think to go from a good idea to a great product, everyone needs to be challenged at each step. Only through the following discussions the necessary refinements can be recognized and achieved.
I don't think so. Useless documentation only wastes your time.
> Everything here could have been similarly said about the change from horse-drawn buses to internal combustion.

Except that's not how it went. In many cities, it went from horse-drawn to electric to internal combustion.
It frequently wants me to turn across a 4-lane road near my home here in Sydney. This is fine on Sunday morning or at night, not so much at other times.

It also wants me to spend >$10 on tolls to save 2 minutes over a 30-minute drive on some routes. I wish there were a way to make it ignore tolls unless it saves a significant amount of time.
Ah... you're in for a nasty surprise. [1]

Among this cohort, the mean self-estimated handwashing rate was 73% (range, 50%-95%), compared with the covertly observed rate for this cohort of 8.6% before and 10.8% after patient contact, with an individual mean rate of 10% (range, 0-33%).

[1] https://www.mja.com.au/journal/1996/164/7/teaching-hospital-...
> This business of emotional development and learning self-control is too important to leave to classrooms.

It’s also not really any of the schools business. You can’t fix delinquent parenting in the classroom. The idea of an emotional development curriculum sounds terrifyingly dystopian to me.
Maybe the link has changed, but now one can read:

“Building off concepts used in their earlier probabilistic-programming system, Church, the researchers incorporate several custom modeling languages into Julia, a general-purpose programming language that was also developed at MIT.”
Stop using smart referrer. It has no legitimate purposes. Referrer URLs are not the problem. You look like a bot and you going to get locked out of sites.

If you're actually concerned about that kind of data leakage, you want NoScript, full stop.
Apple is a trendsetter and nobody can deny that. That doesn’t make the headphone jack an anti feature. I use a 6S to this day when I could get a XS, for the headphone jack and smaller size/weight.
No LoveForm x Yeezy? :)
>All I'm seeing is the Uber receipt, which even they say they can't verify.

There's other stuff there. For example Gao was recruiting for Laoying Baichen Instruments which shares an address with CNITSEC (which is run by MSS). CNITSEC has in the past been confirmed to work with APT3.

>The alternative is that they are black hat hackers, which is very likely.

Are there a lot of advanced Chinese black hat hackers that don't work with the Chinese government? Because it seems like there are a lot of advanced Chinese hackers that work for the government. For example APT3 and APT1. Also the APT10 stuff appears to have happened during Chinese working hours, which is indicative of government work[1].

[1] https://intrusiontruth.wordpress.com/2018/08/09/was-apt10-th...
Last I checked, Cloud is pretty much the only other thing besides Ads that makes any money at Google :)
I truly hate Ive's design choices lately.

It's form over function (see: laptop so thin that the keyboard doesn't work, you can't fit any port, etc. etc.), which is definitely NOT good design.

Both Apple's hardware and software have been nosediving for the past 5 years. So much so that I'm still using a 2015 MacBook Pro, and only because of macOS because Microsoft Surface Book looks about 1000 times better than anything Apple's ever made—and it has a detachable touchscreen with pen.

I hope this is good news for Apple to get better at design again.
"Second." I'm pretty sure the words "at least" and "confirmed" are missing from this headline.

Or just go with a straight up accurate headline. "The NSA Have Again Been Caught Lying Again and Have Zero Credibility"

Accurate, unbiased and factual. You don't do middle ground between good and evil and call it balance. Facts are facts whatever you think of them.

An opinion would be the NSA needs to be shut down, disbanded and a new department setup with clear guidelines for anything the NSA was doing that is deemed to be still worthwhile. Agreeing or not with that opinion doesn't alter the facts.
I think your analogy misses the point that a core scope of engineering is reducing cost. Firing a weapon in a crowded area is not a scope of anybody, bar terrorists. If Bob would be a humanitarian terrorist, him firing the gun in a crowded area and not hitting anyone would be a great outcome for him, even if he didn't hit anybody just by chance.
Ah, looks like they shrunk that keyboard by an inch or so since I bought my old apple keyboard - the newer one is about the same as my current keyboard. I use a vortex pok3r - I got it for the mechanical switches and programmability in addition to the size.
Yeah, but currently it still is a roadblock when writing GUI code, to the point that Gtk-rs samples use macros to overcome the boilerplate to access widget data from callbacks.
> Fifth: Fuck this “sir” shit. We don’t have titles in the United States.

That's pretty disrespectful and ignorant to other cultures and customs.

It made me realise that this whole article is really spiteful and negative. It doesn't contribute anything to making things better.
I think Sikhs are great, they are hard-working people. But, how are they transforming the trucking industry though? It seems to me that the ethnicity of labor force in this industry has changed like how it has happened in multiple other industries at least in the USA. Earlier in the west coast, the east Asians did construction, now it's Mexicans. It seems like that is what happened in trucking- Sikhs form the labor force now for many reasons, and that is not a new trend.

The real transformation is coming soon I think and that will be with self driving trucks.
Indeed -- I'm a less-happy user now. The landing page of blog wastes the reader's time with big substance-free cartoons, a variable-column layout, and absence of any item date indicators. You'll need another click on the "Archives" button to get to a useful listing.

And how about this gob of drivel in the announcement:

> ... makes it easier to talk about why it's important to feel good about email.

Meanwhile, documentation of essential features has gone stale:

>Keep in mind that U2F is not enabled in Firefox by default.
>Good if you want the best security and you're only using Chrome.
https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/2fa.html?u=04c140b1

U2F 'security.webauth.u2f' is enabled by default, at least for the 67.0.4 Linux build, current on Ubuntu 16.04.
I would raise the following objections.

First, you place a lot of emphasize on perception. What if we kill - or lets say remove - all humans and animals and aliens from the universe so that we are only left with rocks and gas clouds and other stuff we would not usually link to perceiving the universe? Do you really think removing the last entity perceiving the universe would fundamentally change what is going on with all the rocks and gas clouds? What about the moment the first entity perceiving the universe came into existence? Or do you mean perceiving in a more general sense, like in quantum mechanics, where we talk about interactions and - possibly unfortunately, again due to the association with conscious agents - measurements?

Second, you do not seem to be talking about the universe in its entirety, you seem to be talking about a universe evolving in time with time being outside of that universe. This is the very point the article argues - and I think rightly so - against, ultimately there can be nothing outside of the universe, not even time, hence the universe in its entirety must be a - for the lack of a better word - static object not evolving over some time external to it.
Darwin is already open source, albeit Apple does a code dump every few years iirc: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
it's a funny chain of consequences. put a notch, now the bottom border is too thick, so you thin it up with a very expensive manufacturing process. if you had not a notch there, there would have not been a need to move away the chin to maintain visual symmetry.

anyway even with most manufacturer producing notch design, I still find no benefit that entices me to move to a notch model for a feature that adds a total of 44 pixels rows at twice the selling cost to maintain visual border symmetry, but I understand there are people obsessed with aesthetics that are willing to part a sizeable amount of money for a symmetrical bezel.

It appears I'm just not the target audience of apple anymore.
can you expound on this? not sure I grok
I don't want my browser ignoring my DNS settings!
Are we talking about different ballpoints here?

My bic byros have not particularly precise balls, made from not particularly hard balls. If you pop one out and wash it, you can see the surface roughness and imperfections. Some other brands of pen use glass balls!

I think the claim in this thread is false...
The crux today is the OS. It’s gotten to the point that I’d pay 300$ per computer per year for a paid Linux that makes... me... feel b... beautiful, I know it sounds very immature but macOS makes me feel like I have succeeded in life and can afford the right tool, and Linux makes me feel like I have a knock-off that I constantly need to debug.

I’m paying that price for IntelliJ so I don’t see why I couldn’t afford an OS for employees.

But $300 per year is more or less the prime for Apple products, but the drawback is their hardware loses features.
From what I’ve read they force you to learn the shortcuts that people are too lazy to learn for other clients.

That’s about it.
Acting like I’m the Luddite because I don’t want to breastfeed 25 battery powered peripherals. Next they’ll say MagSafe was obsolete.
This. Absolutely this!

Do I think Facebook/Google/etc are abusing my data right now? Probably not.

But do I think that large scale collection of my data could be abused in the future? Most definitely. If the Cambridge Analytica scandal has taught us anything, it’s that having access to this data is rife for abuse and often it might happen in unexpected ways.

And do I owe an explanation for wanting some basic privacy? Absolutely not. If a random stranger stopped me in the street and asked me lots of personal questions there wouldn’t be an expectation that I have to respond. Yet the likes of Facebook and Google seem he’ll bent on turning the discussion around when it’s data collected online.