skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how is this working ? Gmail caches pixels - https://help.litmus.com/article/166-how-are-gmail-opens-repo...

>When Gmail automatically downloads and caches images, those cached images—including open tracker pixels, like the ones used with Email Analytics—are stored on Gmail’s servers. Gmail then loads the same images from the same servers for everyone—regardless of whether they open using Gmail in a web browser or a Gmail Android or iPhone/iPad app.
Please no! The lock picking lawyer is my favorite :(
Sorry, had to upvote this!
archive.org ?
Indeed it does. I look forward to their response after the US Holiday tomorrow.
Lewis Carrol, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was a mathematician. His collection of short stories, A Tangled Tale, has a lot of math-related humor.
I cannot, sorry.
For how many years ? There are awesome YouTube videos that have been there for 10+ years.

Very hard to imagine anyone dedicated enough to host their own stuff that long.
The human quest to make mice immortal continues
> Do we really need centralized entities to keep our species connected?

Yes, because while the connected future is here, it's not evenly distributed.
Just a few months ago I read an article about zoning laws in Japan. They have them, but as I recall from the article, they're quite a bit less restrictive than such laws tend to be in the US.
See, you think 500 karma is something to aim for but then you get it and you can't downvote half the comments you want to because that person has 2000 karma.
As far as I can tell, defcon hasn’t gone anywhere and the one security researcher who’s videos were taken down by mistake were promptly put back up once the researcher pointed out the mistake to youtube.
me personally? I'm pretty optimistic, I think 8-10 years and that would be safer than having a human drive you. at the current rate of improvement I think 20 years would be shocking, I can't imagine it taking more than that.
The even scarier thing is that a lot of these startups are training their neural networks on game videos like GTA or cars they get off the Unity asset store. I seriously doubt any of the artists, graphics programmers, AI developers, etc. involved in these titles think their work is suitable for safety critical systems.
How do you believe to make money with this technology instead? Other than maybe make it proprietary.
Because recommendation engines suuuck.
Well, I guess we have no choice but assume that a service we don't pay for will host our content for us forever and never ask anything more of us.
The "programmable bacteria" concept seems a bit more general than the typical treatments that work in a petri dish / mice before flopping on humans. At the very least it's more novel.
Wow, describing an economy you don't like as "dark"
Cost, ease, and exposure that you don't pay for either.
Microsoft Restores Deleted Technet and MSDN Blogs
Ok, I see what you mean, and you're right. However, I'm not sure I see any usefulness of this property.
"Dude", we are speaking of injured tissue. A 50% torn ACL does not "get stronger" through exercise. The muscles supporting the joint get stronger. The ACL will always be 50% torn.
> and market actors are not rational.

In addition, it is worth understanding that it is not sufficient for most market actors to be rational. Because even if you have a single irrational actor, game theory takes over and everyone starts acting irrationally in an effort to not get crushed.
It's a pretty big blip! About 2.2 million people a year are injured in automobile accidents in the U.S., and around 35,000 are killed.

Granted, you're still much more likely to die of heart disease. But if we're going to care about any non-disease causes of death or injury at all, automobile accidents are near the top of the ones to worry about. It's a much bigger cause of both deaths and injuries than violent crime is, for example.
The system that prevents you from making a good living without locking down code is most of the problem. To the extent you support that, you are likely a part of it. No different from most people nowadays I think, myself included.
No, what happened was that a lot of people said "web 2.0!", a bunch of other people said "AJAX!", and only the AJAX thing actually happened. Web 2.0 meant the semantic web, not the asynchronously loaded web.
Forget your mother's maiden name
I don't think my point was well understood based on your counterargument. What I'm saying is the expectation of a smart phone is that voice assistance is an option. That was my point to OP. Smart speakers are useless sans listening. They are not one and the same in their use case or normal operation.

I'm also not disputing there are baseband controls a nefarious entity could abuse but I'm saying that people who choose to trust Amazon with always listening devices vs a smart phone are not comparing apples to apples.
How would that improve upon the existing MDN [1] system which relies on the client?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_receipt
Here in Manhattan, almost no one has an outside. I must be wrong but from the few times I’ve visited Japan, vast swathes of Tokyo is the same.
It's not that novel

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16330045
23% of Subscribers Would Drop If Netflix Had Ads
Show HN: Git alias for summary and commit counts per author and per week
GitAlias version 21 is ready. It features new git alias commands that show how many commits are made by each author, or by each week, or by many other formats.

$ git summary

$ git log-of-count-and-email

$ git log-of-week-and-count

https://github.com/gitalias/gitalias

Constructive feedback welcome.

Example:

$ git clone https://github.com/git/git
$ cd git

$ git summary
Summary of this branch...
2005-04-07T15:13:13-07:00 first commit timestamp
2019-06-21T11:26:11-07:00 latest commit timestamp
55932 commit count
4923 date count
1744 author count
68 committer count
718 tag count
1 local branch count
5 remote branch count

$ git log-of-count-and-email | head -3
16417 29% gitster@pobox.com
4167 7% junkio@cox.net
3193 5% peff@peff.net

$ git log-of-week-and-count | head -3
2019#25 31 0%
2019#24 19 0%
2019#23 22 0%
Sorry, you have it backwards. The people have rights, and the rights are presumed to pre-exist the US constitution. The government has powers delegated to it by the people via the constitution.

The Federalists argued that the Bill of Rights was redundant and unnecessary. The Anti-federalists were more skeptical of human nature, and the ratification of the constitution by several states was contingent on the first congress adding a bill of roghts via amendment.

George Mason, rep of 1st congressional district of Virginia to the first congress, was what we would call the “floor manager” of the bill. It was stonewalled by opponents, and eventually the bill had to be broken into a package of 12 amendments. 11 passed the house and were sent to the states for ratification. 10 were ratified rather quickly and are what we know as the BoR. The 11th was certified as ratified sometime in the 1970’s, I believe.
This was okay, but if you want to see how the pros do it, try to apply for a Russian visa on their Australian web site.

Things I remember:

- Not being able to enter my correct date of birth. At all. So you enter an incorrect date to get to the next screen, which is "I certify all information to be true and correct"

- Having to list the personal details of every relative living in Russia. Where do you stop?

- Having to list the details of every foreign trip you made in the last 10 years

And if you try to phone in to ask for help: you are advised that the phone is answered on one day of the week, between 9 am and 12 noon. You get that message until 8:59, from 9:00 you get "all the lines are busy, you have been placed in a call queue" which changes back to the original at 12:00.
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The doctors I've spoken to in Australia all considered surgery a last resort when I asked why they didn't mention it for this sort of thing. They will happily admit the risks outweigh the benefit until all other options are exhausted. Having universal health care would have a lot to do with that.
> And I'd asked what your data are. Got any, or do you prefer asking to answering questions?

You're the one supporting the assertion that "the value add of $1 dollar of lobbying/capture efforts goes farther than $1 in R&D or whatever after a certain point." It seems like that's the assertion that requires supporting data. My point simply is that, in the absence of data, we can look at what we would naturally expect to happen if your premise were true--prices would get bid up. The fact that lobbying prices aren't getting bid up suggests your premise is false.

You can add further layers of speculation to explain that unexpected result, but now you're really going out on a limb. I think a simpler explanation is that your premise is simply false. Lobbying has low expected ROI--that's why companies spend so little on it. (In particular, I suspect that lobbying just isn't very effective, so the expected value of a very favorable law or policy, weighted by the incremental increase in probability of that coming to pass through lobbying, is low.) That hypothesis explains the data, without resorting to additional handwaving.
That's an ironic book to reference in this context, since the book had such a dim view towards video.
Wait, Don’t Create Your AWS Account Yet
Increases in Defense spending are good for all defense contractors. I don't think the lobbies are particular to help Boeing beat Lockheed to a job, but to increase funding for xyz project, that both Boeing and Lockheed have roles in and are making money on.
Things like this are why any mention of "cleaning" or "removing clutter" always gives me a hugely uneasy feeling. Storage is cheap and getting cheaper; and even if some content is only of historical value, that in itself is plenty enough reason to ensure its continued existence.
using votes of adult sane citizens.
Self driving vehicles are already in operation in many locations though usually under more restricted use such as a fixed bus route. I wonder if the question is not if the technology can do the job but if it should.

Having a small self driving electric shuttle bus moving old people around a regional town in rural Australia seems like an empowering use of technology to provide a service to people who otherwise would not be served. But when we have youth unemployment over 10% we should be looking to services that employ people.
Centrifugal and coriolis pseudo forces cause objects to act strangely in rotating frames. Also, in small-diameter rotations, the tidal forces can be very noticeable (differential acceleration on different parts of an object).
Sure, you're at the mercy of your food and water suppliers. But you have choice. There are numerous food sources. And many choices about water. Bottled water. Your own well, or rain water collection. And home-scale treatment systems, for metals and organics.

That's very different from trusting only Apple. I mean, if you want to use Apple's equipment, you must also use their software. And perhaps we can trust their software. They also curate apps in their store, but sometimes they miss stuff.

Given Apple's position vs the FBI, it seems pretty clear that they won't intentionally pwn their customers. But it's clear from TFA that they do remove apps when governments demand.

Maybe that doesn't directly pwn users, but some of the apps that they've pulled could have protected users better than
remaining alternatives. For example, I gather that it's impossible to build custom email or VPN apps in iOS. You can just build wrappers for Apple's stuff. For email, that apparently limits ability to securely encrypt messages.
Photo app?
Microsoft is slowly wandering in that direction. They've got the math input panel:
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/do-math-easy-way-math-input-...

And they're starting to use LaTeX in office equations:
https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/linear-format-equat...
The LockPickingLawyer, even with his 100M views, must be getting worried about this.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ/
Why is unemployment a bad thing?
I would love to find a browser extension that set this type of option for you on various sites, or at the very least alerted you when you forgot to.
Any US legal entity (corporation, LLC, etc.) formed in one of the 50 states is required to have a registered agent in its state of formation. The primary purpose of said registered agent is to receive legal process on behalf of the US legal entity.

So any US corporation or LLC should meet the "US legal and financial presence" requirement that you describe.
When I was 16, back in 1999 I came to basically the same conclusions as Stallman.

I came to that conclusion trying to “fight” a (non-existant) virus that could infect any non-volatile memory onboard.

Since I didn’t actually control (really I mostly didn’t understand) my hardware it’s always seemed natural to me that, for example, the firmware of a hard drive of a networked computer could be compromised.

Since I didn’t control anything, I was at the mercy of those who did. Therefore I was always very hygienic on the internet, for example.

Stallman’s an arrogant self-righteous bastard. But he’s our bastard, damit! And I love him for it.
Yeah, it'll likely be a central tube or slip ring of some kind. I think it's more likely that the entire spacecraft will be assembled in orbit and spun up there.
The "instruction hacking.." bit at the end seems a bit out of place given the rest of the page. What it feels like is that its a poorly written attempt to ban software cracking and the computerized version of the previous "Instructional theft" ban without giving people the mental strings to discover how to get free warez and bypass things like hotel keycards, free token cards for the arcade/etc.

Frankly, I'm frequently surprised by what I stumble upon on youtube..

(better article with the TOS bits in question)
https://www.malwaretech.com/2019/07/youtubes-new-policy-on-h...
You wish to make your glass hot desk prison even smaller and more confining?

Remind me why you would want to do that?
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My recollection is that Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence wasn't so much anti-slavery, as it was anti-slave-trade specifically. The fact that Jefferson was consistently opposed to the slave trade, much more so than the institution of slavery itself, means that the attitude towards slavery in the early drafts isn't at odds with his personal philosophy.
Yep.

When I'm 100% correct about something [1] and I get downvoted, it only strengthens my resolve and solidifies my belief. :)

[1]Which is most of the time
There was a burst of this in the 1950s and 1960s, inspired by interest in/anxiety about science and math prompted by Sputnik, the space race, and nuclear war. So these are period pieces but you still might enjoy them -- I did:

Fantasia Mathematica (1958) and The Mathematical Magpie (1962), two short story collections edited by Clifton Fadiman

Mathenauts (1967), short story collection edited by Rudy Rucker

The Space Child's Mother Goose (1958?), poetry

Come to think of it, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle (1962) fits right in with this group. The math and cold war anxiety themes are stronger in the book than in the recent movie.
Nothing at all against your school! Sounds like you were doing great work
Only 23%? That's disappointing. Adding commercials on top of their shrinking library and recent price hike would amount to spitting in the face of subscribers.
Economists still typically don't use the term "free market," because it's loaded and often inaccurate.

"Unregulated" would be preferable, I think.
If you're concerned about safety, driving aids like drowsiness/attention warnings, lane keeping assist, automatic emergency braking, etc are the way to make things a bit safer. In combination with the continuing march on collision safety for when they do happen.

If you're concerned about the costs of a driver, I grant that the marginal costs per hour of driving is low, but the material costs seem high, unless a significant cost breakthrough is found in lidar production, or a technique breakthrough using multiple cameras; and the R&D costs seem pretty enormous -- people have been seriously working on this since the 80s and it's clearly closer than fusion, but it seems perenially 15 years away.
I'd be hesitant to try it in urban areas, since the air pollution particularly above streets could be quite bad. I'm sure it depends on a lot of particular local factors though.
That's me, for sure.

But here's the thing: It's always just a game. So sure, call it LARPing. However, consider that the US came out of LARPing.
> “You have the team working through a burning crisis of culture in the office. Once again the boss is MIA, and the first communication we get from him is essentially a blackface picture from his vacation? I’m not sure one can get more tone deaf,” a former Jigsaw employee told Motherboard.

It's not black-face, way to erase the rich cultures of Papua New Guinea. This is like people who accuse visitors to Japan of cultural appropriation for wearing kimonos.
I'm pretty annoyed that this article doesn't mention it, but the whole point of Prof. Clark's research is to find the human tolerance for rotation so that these structures can be made as small as possible. I suppose the news here is that his candidates made it to 17 rpm, which appears to be a new record.
People usually use their balconies, though small, to hang and dry laundry.
The best thing we could do at this stage is provide alternatives to Youtube, sooner than later.
> U give far to much credit to human drivers.

The data available challenges this contention. According to here[0], one estimate is that there are approximately 18,000,000 people driving at any given time in the U.S. And according to here[1], there were 34,439 traffic fatalities in the U.S. for the calendar year of 2016.

For the sake of discussion, let's assume that of the 18 million drivers in the U.S. on the road at any given time, there are at least two other drivers which are not on the road at that same time. Further, let's assume these are all of the U.S. drivers for the entire 2016 calendar year.

This would put the estimated set of unique drivers at 54,000,000. A conservative estimate by any means.

This makes the estimated probability of a human driver being involved in a traffic fatality for the 2016 calendar year to be 34439 : 54000000, or 0.00063776.

According to here[2], the probability of being struck by lightning in the U.S. is approximately 1 : 280000, or 0.00000357.

While the former is mathematically 200x more probable, the latter is statistically insignificant.

> Capable human drivers as a subset of human drivers.

Hence my qualification of "capable", included in order to obviate edge condition "whataboutism."

> At least an av cant get drunk.

But it can get defective updates, be unable to identify unknown conditions, suffer from misidentification of threats, and susceptible to cascading failures affecting all autonomous vehicles in the same situations.

0 - https://www.quora.com/How-many-drivers-are-on-the-road-at-an...

1 - https://safer-america.com/car-accident-statistics/#US

2 - http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_pls/probability.html
Hasn't the rise of Uber and Lyft already turned it into a numbers game? I get drivers that I would consider below average all the time, and I don't have any control over which driver I get. Even when you're the one driving, you have no control over whether the car in front of you is being driven by a good driver or somebody texting who might cause an accident that endangers you. I agree that it needs to be accepted on a societal level, but if you can definitively say "self driving cars are safer than the average Uber driver," then I don't think it will be that hard of a sell. That's especially true if it results in less expensive rides in addition to lower crash rates.
I wasn't talking about border crossing.

Anyone paying attention knows that it's foolish to take sensitive devices and data across borders.

I was talking about what stuff I can install on my gear.
From stallman to stalin
This is a good example, but: have you ever dealt with airport car ride hustlers? This is what the alternative to taxi regulations looked like before smartphones enabled solutions like Uber.

Furthermore: Is there a general principle here that can be applied across a range of situations as a better alternative to government regulations?
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but the comparison between Tesla and Waymo seems absurd. Tesla doesn't have the greatest track record when it comes to safety. Waymo has been moving very slowly and meticulously, and their tech is light-years ahead of Tesla.
what do they trying to achieve?
Ugh, I run Keycloak in a cluster of containers. Didn't have a bespoke solution, used Redhat's solution.
I've heard Crystal's Ruby resemblance fades once you get past the beginner stage.
Hate to nitpick (that's a lie), but the word is flout.

I think Uber is interesting in that they actually did offer a superior technological solution to a social problem (driver and rider safety and trust), which is usually doesn't work since social problems are messy. I think this is why their "ask for forgiveness, not permission" strategy paid off in most markets - the people wanted them to win.
Obviously the spirit of the law is for youtube to have a way to remove "how 2 script kiddie" videos. But the letter of the law matters, and right now the letters say they can ban just about any video discussing the details of vulnerable systems.
I mean, yeah, but I don't want to do that. Partially because I don't want the friction, and partially because that won't work with any other tools that tunnel over ssh (e.g. sftp).
Tell that to the owners of Tesla vehicles that have been running into stationary fire trucks.
Huh. Didn't know about cydia impactor.

But Apple can revoke certificates, and then your stuff is gone. Right?
This headline should win the clickbait of the year award.
> Uber and Lyft sidestepped the regulations and prices went down, service improved dramatically

Technically neither of those is a failure of regulation, those are side effects of regulation.

Uber and Lyft removed transparency of costs beyond knowing the cost of your trip for instance which isn't a benefit.

In fact I can't think of much that is related to regulation that they do better beyond being good enough for now by most metrics that people care about. Of course if that changes in the future nothing can be done.

I am fine with Uber and Lyft existing and I do agree that taxis had in some places made themselves into a nuisance but I don't know that those companies did a better job as much as they just ignored all those problems and assumed they weren't important.
I think it was an E or an L. Avoid it like the plague, I can still feel that trackpad in my mind.
Do you have any references to substantiate anything you have said?
I hope people will support distributed alternatives like BitChute.