skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no person watching you. There is no intelligence judging you. There are a series of conditions in a deterministic system provoked by your actions.

I don't think it's creepy because there's a (theoretical) person watching me, I think it's creepy because they're cataloguing all my actions in a systemic was which pierces the veil of perceived privacy (mostly through anonymity).

> I dunno where you are but I'm in the US which is most definitely not "a market economy" without a whole hell of a lot of qualifiers.

I'm not sure how to respond to this without a specific criticism of how you think it's incorrect. That said, it's somewhat tangential to the point, even if it would be an interesting conversation.

> Roughly as many, I imagine, as folks who realized the shopkeeper could see them enter and leave.

I don't know. If every time I entered my local 7-eleven someone picked up a clipboard, flipped to a specific page, looked back at me, nodded to their self and then marked something on the page, I might decide to go somewhere else, at least most the time. If I knew the info was shared with all the other 7-elevens, and the local grocery chain, and some hardware stores, that makes me want to use all the places less.

> This is just flatly false. I don't know what you're thinking writing this, but it's clearly neglecting copyright and patents. For what it's worth, I think the later is a bad system an the former is in desperate need of reform to sharply limit it.

I said "this" to qualify what I was referring to (personal information) and distinguish it from other types of protected information, of the type you reference.

> To some extent, there is just no undoing this. Society will have fewer secrets and those secrets will be much more deliberate, and the only response that can work is to change your attitude.

I don't think that's the only response that can work. It's the only one that works completely, as deciding to not care is always a solution to caring, if you can pull it off.

The alternative is new laws. Are they perfect? No. Will they solve the problem adequately? Likely not. Do they have a chance of making a positive difference across the board for massive amounts of people by empowering them with regard to their own information? I dunno. Maybe? I think it's worth pushing for though. Otherwise, why do we have minimum wage and labor laws? At some point we could have thrown our hands up and said "screw it" about that stuff, but people pushed for it, and while they aren't perfect, I think we're all better off for them.

I don't believe there will be any perfect solution to this ever, or even a good or acceptable solution all that soon. I do think it's still worth raising my voice over, because I think there are some possible futures that are better than others with regard to privacy and personal information, and I think that's worth pushing towards.
I hear you. But I just want to add one more perspective, when there is an intervention, the intervening party (US in this case) technically aligns with someone from the conflict. That might be a political oppositional force, it might be a national majority, it might be a region which is or is not a part of a country. Usually there is already some kind of conflict going on. I don't have any data, but from my own experience, a lot of people are not with either side, and they suffer greatly. It might be because of the sheer despair of the situation or the "oppressing" or "opposing" force. And don't be led to think that the force supported by the US plays nicely without war crimes, offence and with pure motives. Sometimes the party supported by the US has it's own agenda which aligns with the US and it is just beneficial to be supported. I guess that it makes sense and the great US wouldn't be the US without that kind of strategy.

This went political, and the topic was ecology. As this wasn't bad enough, this all goes with a huge ecological toll which impacts a broader number of people than those involved in conflict.
The examiners don't need to know the answers to all the questions they ask. Certainly I was asked questions in my qualifying assessment that the committee members later admitted to not knowing the answer to.
Completely true, Pinboard is a good example in regard to Delicious going bust.
The US also attempted to prevent the collapse and ruin of Venezuela. It was correct to oppose Hugo Chavez. This is now entirely ignored historical fact. The Chavez system destroyed Venezuela and turned it into a failed state. It's an outcome the US attempted to prevent.

Meanwhile, the US backed Colombia is doing fine, is democratic, has seen considerable improvements in most regards, and has doubled the size of its economy in ~15 years (inflation adjusted). Colombia looks like it has a very bright future.

The US also maintains near-guaranteed border security for Latin American nations. It's why there are no giant wars between Latin American nations, with rampant annexations, et al. They all know the US would intervene and whichever side the US was on, that side would likely win, so nobody wants to risk it. The US has also guaranteed the lack of foreign power conquering via the Monroe Doctrine, for more than a century, which is a rather sensitive concern given the history of Latin America.

The US has been a superpower for ~75 years now and has not attempted to use that extreme power imbalance to annex swaths of Latin America. It easily could do so. What other superpowers throughout history have ever behaved that way?
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I have Twitter blocked. Is there another source?
Intel CPUs have a closed-source management engine inside, does it matter if there will be one more backdoor?
Is it bad for prod systems to integrate via a data lake?
Help me either win or avoid an argument:

I work at a major tech company. We have a massive data lake for analytics / data science and essentially all of our systems send logs to it. A pattern that I'm seeing pop up sometimes is teams building systems that read other systems' data from the data lake.

This screams antipattern to me. The data lake introduces significant latency and many of the log streams in it have little to no SLA guarantees. If you read another team's logs from the lake without their knowledge, they could move, delete, or make breaking changes to their logs and not know that they've broken you until you complain. I think it's a lazy way for teams to avoid calling each others' APIs or even talking to each other to discuss integrations. I want to tell them they're making a very big mistake by doing this.

Is there a good argument for applications/services reading each others' logs from a data lake instead of integrating through APIs? Is it a valid pattern? Maybe if the data needs expensive processing before the client can use it and latency isn't important? Or just because it's easier/faster than a proper service integration?
I'm also in Paris, and just yesterday someone told me that, I replied : "made AC less important". Clearly things have changed in the last 15 years. Paris and London haven't adapted yet to this change.
Stability at the cost of cultural genocide (Uighyrs).
> What will it take to get Apple to stand up for the rights of the oppressed in China

Economically speaking, the standard of living for the average Chinese person has improved dramatically in recent decades, precisely because of foreign manufacturers locating operations there. Would you rather have the Chinese regime oppressing the people with their current level of wealth, or the same regime oppressing a people with 1% of their current wealth (e.g. North Korea)? Please note, I am in no way supporting the Chinese state or oppression of any kind. I'm merely saying that removing manufacturing from China would definitely have a negative impact on the people.

> They stand for rights and privacy only when it does not interfere with their revenue stream

Their "stand for rights and privacy" helps improve their revenue stream: it is marketing. Same story for any green initiatives, diversity initiatives, etc. It's all marketing to cast a positive corporate image with consumers.

Now for the flip side: if enough people raise a stink about Chinese manufacturing to the point that revenues begin to decline due to that fact, then the corporation will relocate its operations.
Trump has assigned his judges so you may be in for a surprise.
Austin is so expensive even fast food places advertise $14 an hr.
They are funded through the gates foundation

https://twitter.com/PrakashLab/status/1144453793485955081
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I'm largely referring to digital reproduction. A tablet, or better, e-ink reader, can hold 1,000s of texts for the price of a single mid-priced academic work. And in most cases, sufices.

Photocopying / xerographic printing is modestly expensive, though a high-quality laserprinter reduces costs to about a penny per printed side. Stock choice (acid-free rag, for durability) is a larger cost.
Which is a good point, but "half life" doesn't mean "all gone". It'll take some x cycles to get it down to some safe level y. So the water needs stored until then, if it's not being released somewhere.

Meanwhile, it keeps accumulating, because the problem is caused by groundwater leaching into the contaminated reactor area. So at some point, accumulated volume p will probably exceed available storage area q, which seems to be where we are now. So it has to be dumped somewhere.

The solution is almost certainly to dump it at sea, but I don't think they can get away with dumping it right on the coastline, politically.
It's the old "I'll quit and be a consultant and my old employer will be first and only client", except that Ive is, I expect, rich already.
Why is the memory VLC uses marked executable? Wouldn't read/write suffice?
What I mean is that there's a lot more custom types in real world code, and custom types aren't gonna be something you're already familiar with when reading new code.

Complex inheritance chains come into this because it makes it hard to track down the code you're looking for. Like let's say we have Cat : Feline & Pet, Feline : Mammal, Mammal : Animal, Pet : Property, Animal : Alive. Now when I do cat.eat(x) it's impossible to predict where eat is defined. Knowing that it's a Cat didn't make it any easier to understand the implementation of eat.
I'm honestly a little disappointed here, I feel like there is not fully baked but it is so close.

Unlike SSM, Instance connect goes direct over SSH - so you either need to be inside of your AWS network, on a bastion host that can route to your AWS network, or use a public IP address.

It would be great if they combined this functionality with the HTTP wrapping capability so that I do not need to expose SSH/route to SSH ports in any way but can also use IAM policy to control which unix user a given IAM principal can land in the host as (Example use case would be I would only want a certain class of user to land as a user with sudo/root access).

This is still valuable to my use case, and we'll go ahead with it using the bastion approach most likely until they hopefully integrate this with their HTTP SSH wrapper.
"2015 European heatwave"

I remember that one, it coincided with high air pollution: so much that one evening while leaving work, I realized that the Eiffel tower, quite close to the workplace, was barely visible in a haze of pollution. Also that heatwave, compared to the current, was made worse by a lack of wind, as far as I remember.
I kind of agree, but there's no doubt that there is an agenda, and it's worth considering that if you don't have the background to assess the objectivity of the article purely on its content. Knowing who profits is an enormously important data point. Every advertisement in existence is going to extol the virtue of their product. It's naive to think that someone who stands to benefit from you "buying" something is going to try to convince you not to.

I'm not an expert on this subject, but here are some thoughts I have.

> Both fans and critics of William Nordhaus’s computer model of the global economy and climate acknowledge that it is a crude approach that omits many crucial real-world considerations.

Does it factor in the famine and wars that will result from global warming?

> As Table 1 indicates, Nordhaus’s model—at least as of its 2007 calibration—estimated that such a policy goal would make humanity $14 trillion poorer compared to doing nothing at all about climate change.

I find this claim the most interesting, because the estimate is that humanity will be much poorer if we do something about climate change. The question is, what will be the distribution of these new riches? Who will be more poor, and who will be more rich? Do the poor starve and die (in say South America and Africa) while the rich make more money?

Do ten oil companies throughout the world get richer while everyone else gets poorer, or maybe even no change? This seems like a plausible outcome too. If the cost of producing food goes up dramatically, only those who are making dramatically more money will be richer.
Haven't read it yet, but I saw some people were recommending this book: https://refactoringui.com/
You can get a macbook air for not much more than $1000, with all the advantages that I mentioned.

The ASUS laptop you link to has a poor battery life.

You can't seriously claim that the macbook trackpads are not ahead of the competition.

>Didn't even realize the resolution was more than normal 1080p at the time.

Ok, but macbooks are targeted at the majority of people who can easily tell the difference.
This is part of the Princeton math department Graduate Students' Guide to Generals: https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/

There you can see similar notes made by other students; the standard is really high. E.g. here are notes by Manjul Bhargava: https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/bhargava_manjul
> Workiva has decided to discontinue closed development on Eva, but sees a great deal of potential value in opening the code base to the OSS community.

I'm confused -- does this mean that Workiva themselves are not using Eva? Or are they still using it, but not officially developing it any more? If they were really invested in it, why would they only allow employees to work on it in their 10% time?
Better media center with Raspberry PI and Dropbox ( or whatever you like ) -> https://medium.com/@efazati/better-media-center-with-raspber...
Pre-saving music online can cost you privacy, report says
EDIT: I'm too old for this. Think what you want about mmap and ioctl.
Those cheap plastic bottles for drinks are never reused. They're barely recyclable.

Aluminum, on the other hand, is astoundingly recyclable. It is recyclable in the way a person thinks recycling would function: You can make like-new aluminum from recycled aluminum. We can recycle used aluminum cans right back into fresh aluminum stock to make cans again. It requires about 5% of the energy costs as new aluminum.

Plastic bottles are not this. If, and that's a big if, they get recycled, they get turned into other things for 1 more lifecycle. They become synthetic bits in clothing. They become parts of carpets. Then they become trash after that.

By contrast your aluminum can could've been through 100 lifetimes as a can previously and it'd be just as good. In the case of aluminum, it is only a waste of metal if people trash it.
Terry Tao's Linear Algebra Lecture Notes
Well that makes sense. It's crazy hot in Michigan too.
Cook would've been perfect if he had that critical eye, and he would've been the perfect replacement for Steve Jobs then. Alas, he's an operations guy, design is not really his forte. And that, my friend, is the reason we are in this nine circle of flat design hell.
Trump has assigned judges? Source?
Its research is heavily focussed on showcasing new applications for Nvidia hardware.
Did the original license for Evernote 2 stop working?

It seems perfectly reasonable to create a new subscription license for a new cloud product.
That isn't blaming the Intel agencies for doing nothing, it's blaming them for abridging our freedoms in trade for purported safety.
I think languages like http://unisonweb.org/posts/ are a bit early, but in a couple decades there could be a strong institutional push to languages with features like it.
Yes, quite a lot actually. While federal level treatment isn't at China level, you can receive exactly similar treatment just from any local jurisdiction.
People seem to be forgetting that cryptographic algorithms were export restricted for a VERY long time.

Trump certainly can't block Americans from selling cryptographic algorithims (or anything which implements those algorithms) if the consumer is also american.

But preventing the communication of those algorithms to foreign nationals is something that was done for several decades.

I think its a terrible thing for him to try to do, but he would have some legal grounds to stand on, provided the restrictions are related to foreign nationals only.
I found these notes through this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772019

The poster there described these notes as:

"He (Terry Tao) didn't like the book, so he decided to write his own lecture notes, which formed a book unto themselves. (...) If you ever have the itch to learn linear algebra, read them, they're quite excellent."
Commerce is a two way game. Paying China to use their manufacturing makes the US stronger too.
Soviet Russia annexing the Baltics and setting up Eastern Europe and Central Asia as client states as well as destabilization in South East Asia, Africa, Latin America & Caribbean you say is in no way similar? Ok!
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Do you actually have benchmarks and evidence showing that Wayland introduces latency over X11, or is it just a guess based on how you think Wayland works?

I mean, sure it might in some cases where you can use X11 to "directly" draw stuff on the screen, but most games would be double-buffering or triple-buffering anyway. I don't really see why Wayland would add any latency there, considering all the compositing is going to happen on the GPU anyway.
Privacy advocates always just say screw the feds but come on... if police work becomes effectively impossible, what's the point of having detectives? Is having absolute privacy worth an irreversible increase in unsolved murders/human trafficking/etc.?

Why is it so hard to create a cryptographic solution that would allow E2E that works 99.9% of the time, is resistant to malicious actors, but is breakable with a warrant? Have people really even tried?

For example, consider the following system:

1. E2E decryption keys are encrypted with vendor's device-specific asynchronous key

2. Keys are then stored in write-only non-volatile storage

3. Only way to read key is with expensive hardware that is difficult for civilians to obtain/replicate (scanning electron microscope, etc.)

4. Thus, only way to decrypt key is by a) physically obtaining device, b) using expensive hardware to extract encrypted key(s), c) serving encrypted key along with legal warrant to vendor who would then comply with the law (or not, if it is unlawful)

Wouldn't such a system allow privacy yet also be resistant to attacks?
My point is that ioctl and mmap disprove the "Unix Philosophy" idea that files are one-dimensional streams of characters that are all you need to plug programs together.
"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish"
So this is basically a UI layer on top of OpenStreetMap?

Would be cool to see Android/iOS versions -- I rarely look at a map unless I'm navigating somewhere, usually in the car.
How does the percentage of LGBT folks change whether I should have equal rights? How does the percentage of LGBT folks change whether I could be fired because my boss hates gay people?

"more relaxed"? What does that even mean? What is uptight exactly?
> Macbook Pros have passed their peak

As someone who has used a number of Mac(book)s for years, I agree with this general (or a vocal minority's) consensus.

It's a beautiful machine: great OS, hardware integration is (mostly) top notch, and a lot of pro-grade hard/software for multimedia production are only available on the Mac.

And yet, the 2013 Macbook Pro (maxed out beyond recommended specs) is the last Apple-built computer I will buy. I recently built myself a PC that dual-boots macOS and Linux, and am looking at Thinkpads for my next laptop.

I don't know if "the tide" is moving to Linux, but at least I am, and being the most computer-savvy person in my social circle, I'm recommending everyone I know to not buy a Mac/book. It's probably the best computer in the market for that form factor, but the company has given the users too many reasons to move away.
Selected people get pretty horrific federal treatment, and there are poor checks on the selection process.
Canada is in NATO, and attacking Canada would automatically put you at war with the USA. You cannot consider Canada's defense policy independent of the USA.
>The year-to-date globally averaged land surface temperature was 2.68°F above the 20th century average of 42.8°F. This value was also the third highest for January–May in the [in the 1880–2019] record.

source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-201905
Depends on the client and purpose and actual action.

Thinly veiled PR like this is advertisement to state agencies who will contract their work out to you. Even if it is work with a government that your own government doesn't agree with, thats when the lack of munitions regulation on exploits comes into play. So as long as your state client isn't on the OFAC list, you can take the contract.
So if I establish that my religion believes in end to end encryption and that in order to practice this religion, all communications shall be end to end encrypted and all services will be presented to the congregation using such means... I'm protected by the constitution?
People still talk up cloud all the time. Well, when Slack is working, or Gmail isn't having an outage, or traffic's not being routed to China...
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Twice as Fast as Intel Core I9-9600K in PassMark
C++ STL – Containers and Algorithms
That is all fine, but there fundamental question still remains as to why anyone would think, or thought, that a note taking app would be worth billions in valuation.
I don't think we're yet at a point where AC is important as important as, for example, South America. The current temperature is a record high, not an average temperature.
You _rent_ cable service. He _bought_ a book. Not the same thing.
This is a painfully oblivious statement. Have you been under a rock for the past 100 years? Corporations put profits in front of human rights CONSTANTLY, often with the grudging acceptance of the majority of the populace and a blind eye from governments.

In fact, I think it would be very difficult to name even 30 companies in Forbes Top 100 list that someone would be hard pressed to find no examples of running afoul of basic human rights.

EDIT: I haven't been downvoted or anything, but after rereading my post, it sounded a bit forward. Not attacking you personally, I just found this to be an alarmingly weak argument.
It's asking whether Z dominates in terms of contribution to the result. AKA "Does knowing Z allow you to estimate the radius to first-order?"
How would you even prove or disprove if something a 3 letter agency did stopped a future attack?

What if it stopped the next 9/11? What if it didn’t do anything at all?

How are you so certain of anything? I’m skeptical of everything. Read, verify, read counter arguments, formulate an opinion.