skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, in this instance it turned out to be "not an actual issue".

But no-one at Cisco seemed to be aware of it until alerted, and it was discovered by a product team looking specifically for IoT security vulnerabilities. It's clear that Cisco aren't auditing their third-party dependencies thoroughly. It could easily have been a vulnerability. They got lucky.

And yeah, it's not a new problem, but there does seem to be growing awareness of it, which is both good (because a solution will be found), and bad (because the bad people will be more aware of the opportunity).
I welcome this effort! Enabling alternative revenue streams for web content will be critical to make the place less abusive.

Unfortunately, the big successful players seem to make pretty good $$ by selling customer data, so they have little incentive to change this.

Mozilla/Firefox is in a unique position to launch an effort like this, since it controls a decent browsing platform with a significant user base.

I'll sign up the moment this becomes available in the EU.
You reminded me of Douglas Hofstadter's "A Person Paper on Purity in Language"

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.htm...

In which he pretends to be from a parallel dimension where you don't use he and she (for male and female) but whe and ble (for white and black) to highlight the absurdity of language making gender explicit.

My daughter is very young and currently refers to everyone, including Disney princesses as he/him which sounds totally weird to me, but I guess it is one option for phasing the distinction out.
Well, my guess is they aren’t going to support a website with whom 99.99% of their users probably find reprehensible.
Circl Images Phishing Open Dataset – 460 Pictures
> I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it's the worst computer I've ever owned.

Same here (well, I have the "cheap" one without the Touch Bar). Everything has been replaced at least once (on Apple Care, fortunately) except the bottom plate.

> The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying

Same here. That MBA was a fine machine.
I'm less than a decade behind you, but I share your appreciation. Just yesterday I was reminded of a joke from Mad that meant a lot to my entire family (I was the first, and most thorough, reader of each new issue, but everyone else sampled from it as well.) The appearance of a new issue at the grocery store was cause for celebration.
I can’t decide if I should be thankful for lawyers fighting to end the policy or pissed at them for establishing it in the first place. I’m leaning towards the latter.
I'm the founder of Tomorrow (https://www.tmrow.com), where we 3 years ago built https://www.electricitymap.org (it's open source).

We're seeking to build scalable digital solutions to climate change. Our mission is to organise the world's carbon information, and make it universally accessible.
Therefore, we're now working on an app that automatically calculates your personal carbon footprint, and gives you the means to act on it.

A lot of our work is open source: see https://github.com/tmrowco

I also wrote a pragmatic guide to climate change here: https://www.tmrow.com/climatechange

Hope this can guide or even inspire some other folks out there.
I believe that the next big innovation in energy will come out of Africa.

There are over 600 million people without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa and bringing them online is one of the biggest challenges facing the world (c.f. SDG 7).

At the same time there are some amazing innovations coming out of Africa with regards to decentralised electricity.

My mission is to get more people involved in innovation in the energy space in Africa.

You can see more here: https://localelectricity.org/

We are also running a crowdfunding campaign which you can see here: https://startsomegood.com/localelectricity/
> The previous mac keyboards were absolutely controversial. It took years for the previous keyboard to be 'just a keyboard', which I do acknowledge happened.

I would dispute that people stopped caring about the keyboard shortcomings. They're ergonomically bad keyboards, just not bad enough to keep complaining for this many years. If all Apple cares about is what people are currently chattering about, they're missing an opportunity to improve the product, because I still regard the MacBook keyboards as a reason to buy something else. When I think of the painful adjustment that I'll have to make if I ditch Apple laptops in favor of something else, there's a voice in my head saying, "Remember when a laptop keyboard could feel good to type on?" Banging my fingertips into a hard surface all day never became "just a keyboard."
eBay is a flea market. It's what that sell themselves as. You are knowingly purchasing used items and there's almost always a picture of the exact item you're getting and where it's being shipped from. Amazon by comparison is a black box of magic, only the magic smoke is toxic and you have no idea who to go to for redress. Amazon has gotten a free ride for years, screwingb both their sellers and buyers, making knock off products when it sees profit motive, it's time to pay the Piper.
With which parts of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_of_recent_climate_... do you disagree?
It was able to compete though on the merit of its products

Merit, and a billion dollar subsidy from the government.

There is clearly government interference on both sides.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bombardier-quebec-deal-1.36...
So what's the possessive? 'er? Sounds accidentally like her in accent.
Against the interests of riders and drivers.
I backed a physical copy of it. It's very interesting. I didn't know he released the digital copy for free, thanks for the heads up!
> And also try not to buy (or at least avoid it as often as possible) products that come from those that use pesticides

That's not possible unless you grow all of your own food. And if you do you'll realize how much of your crops are lost to insects due to not using pesticides.
> produce a proper Pro laptop!

Hmm, I'm afraid they listen and produce a $15k laptop... But ok, the MacBook Air is still in the lineup.
> every day there is a new piece of bad news

The better question is who has training to deal with problems they don't know how to solve being thrown at them everyday?
But also remember this was the time they were selling snake oil to cure any physical malady. It was a time with few rules and fewer consequences.
We are making a pass to access lush private backyard gardens for therapy, yoga, meditation etc. Some of our most interesting customers are VAs, elderly folks, stressed out engineers etc. The underlying goal is to help gardeners earn money that they put into building more lush gardens thus storing carbon into top soil.
Even better, rich people giving free money to drivers and riders world-wide is one the most fantastic charity project in the world.
I work on making a specific piece of HVAC equipment/industrial cooling equipment more energy efficient by creating a new control algorithm. Overall, HVAC systems represent about 4% of US power consumption and their share is rising, but most are controlled in highly inefficient ways. My guess (genuinely just a guess from the limited slice of HVAC data I’ve seen) is that you could improve the efficiency of these systems by 25% without changing any of the hardware.

I think we need more people working on small, boring fixes to reduce the amount of resources we use as a society.
Me me me! I've spent a year working for the most egregiously unnecessary luxury brand. We do really cool work that is just utterly pointless.
Do they have credit card chargeback in the UK? Chargeback would be the course of action in the US.
I see that, but it breaks the rhythm, and introduces an alternative syntax that makes it harder, not easier, to read. And code should be easier to read than to write, because we're going to read it way more than we write it.

Instead of "do something, check for errors, do something, check for errors" we would have "do something, check for errors, try something, do something, check for errors" (assuming not all errors are going to be "try"d, and some will need to be wrapped).

It stops being obvious when I've missed an error-check. That's bad.
Influencer marketing becomes scaring trend of 2019-2020
Announcing Rust 1.36.0
> Could you give one example of such a claim?

It is certain that you can't be certain of the claim "there is no thing anyone could possibly be certain about". You can't be certain "there is no thing anyone could possibly be certain about" without contradicting that claim, thus it is not possible to truthfully assert that claim in any way. Where there are no other possibilities, you have certainty.

> Also, just asserting certainty doesn't give you any more basis, only actually having justified certainty does.

Agreed. If you lack certainty about that though, then you think that there is a chance, however small, that just asserting certainty does give you more basis.

> The fact that you might prefer absolute certainty for the basis of (some of) your beliefs does not mean it's something you can actually have.

It ought to be sought out where possible, because it can actually be had. Also, if you lack certainty about that, then you think that there is a chance, however small, that the fact one might prefer absolute certainty for the basis of (some of) their beliefs does mean it's something they can actually have.

> How would you distinguish logical conclusions or methods of logical reasoning that you are certain are correct from those that you currently are mistakenly convinced are correct?

By distinguishing what possibilities have/haven't been ruled out.

> How is that relevant to our conversation?

Not knowing of any reason to think anything could be known with certainty is a non-starter for most conversation. Resisting all reasons to think anything could be known with certainty is a non-starter for any conversation.

> I don't see how, could you explain?

Your statement "There is nothing in reality, as far as I am aware, that guarantees that you can be certain about anything", expresses a lack of certainty in all claims, which includes tautological claims and claims of awareness, "awareness" being comparable to "senses".

If you lack certainty regarding tautological claims, then you think there is a chance, however small, that tautological claims could be shown to be false. You are open to the idea, however unlikely you take it to be, of logical contradictions being true, and thus are open, even if only a little, to asserting the illogical.

If you lack certainty regarding your awareness, then you think that there is a chance, however small, that there are things in reality, as far as you are aware, that guarantees that one can be certain about something.
Again looking at the good that Isha does, if it’s a cult, sign me up!

As for money: https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/wisdom/article/should-the-sp...

Anyway it seems like your mind is made up. Glad you found a practice that works for you!
Subtests in Go, Caddy 2, why try, Go malware deep-dive and more (Go Gazette #62)
Why aren't there rightwing outlets you can recommend that aren't overtly racist?
So, if I sing a song with lyrics "Billie Jean is not my lover" with melody re-re-do-la-re-re-do-la, is it a different song because it was recorded by me? It is pretty clear in copyright law that my recording would infringe Michael Jackson's song.

What does "a Windows NT kernel" mean? Exposes the same interface? (Does Linux + WINE count?) Operates internally in the same way?

Maybe a better example is UNIX. Linux offers the same conceptual interface, but is neither binary-compatible with UNIX nor is implemented the same way. It is not UNIX, and does not infringe. NT, FreeBSD, and Solaris all have / had compatibility interfaces for Linux that are binary-compatible but wildly different internally. They also do not infringe. And no "clean-room" work was necessary to reach this state.
Yep, same here. I broke down and got a used 2015 MBP when the new Gen Airs came out, because I needed something and just couldn't handle the butterfly keyboard. ($day_job machine is a 2017 MBP, and 95% of the time, I use an external keyboard/monitor)
The true act of corruption is that the poor pay for the rich.

4% of the national budget goes to public universities, and IVA is half the taxes levied by the federal government. There are no doubts of who is the giving and who is the receiving in this case. IVA is collected 60% on the bottom 50% of the population meaning its slightly regressive.

The first thing you can do to help the poor is to stop giving money to the rich: you can lower IVA by 1% if public universities were self funded.
Google Ads API Returning to Beta
This is sort of unfortunate news to me, as I take this as a sign that they won't do adblocking by default. I think this is a mistake; users want ads to be blocked. Especially on mobile, where it's more important from a perf perspective. Brave has ads blocked, Opera has ads blocked. If Firefox wants to follow the lead and be a privacy focused company like they say, then they need to block ads.
I can completely get on board with “reorienting leadership away from risk-taking, growth-oriented styles of leadership”, but injecting gender into something that isn’t about gender leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

This sort of “activism” probably alienates more people than any good that might come out of it.
Fair point. I thought I remembered more incidents than the one. But looking in to it more I don’t see any. I should have done more research before trusting my faulty memory.
Would it be prejudice to think that the checksum verifying users are not using safari?
Sounds like you want a hackintosh thinkpad
How far back is “never”?
You've worked for a corporation right? They tend to be filled with human beings.
"Your password can have at least 1 cyrillic character." got me for a few good moments.
BitChute is really nice. I use it quite a bit now. I've been trying out some Reddit alternatives recently too. They all get hardly any traffic, but they've reminded me how much I miss the "anything goes" culture the web had a decade ago.
Don't twist an arm patting yourself on the back like that...
It reminds me of the CIRCL' library for Image Matching https://github.com/CIRCL/douglas-quaid !
TIL chrome has a task manager. Thanks for posting the shortcut! +1
I've definitely noticed a huge drop in quality over the years. Depending upon what you order it's safer to go through AliExpress. I wouldn't buy anything that I value my life or my data for from Amazon.
I think I'm definitely in the minority here on this community, but I actually don't mind the keyboard and TouchBar.

The keyboard, although not as good as my Thinkpad, is far superior to many still and not bad. The problem I have with the keyboard is that it's not a user replaceable part and is nigh impossible to replace. Since it's the most used component arguably and wears and has moving parts and is exposed to the real world being able to for example like my Thinkpad of past take it out or replace it or clean it. Similar case could be said for the battery.

The Touch Bar I don't mind and like. Mapping the Esc key to caps lock works better for me anyway since I have small hands with short reach. I look at it as an evolution of the finger print reader you would often see in previous years on other laptops. Plus, it's programmable, which you would think the creative and entrepreneur bunch here would love and find many hacks and ways to take advantage of. I guess not.

I do look forward to any changes Apple decides though. The only Apple keyboard and computer I hated was the Titanium PowerBook. The keyboard on that and the fragility of the whole computer was terrible. My favorite so far as been the Aluminum PowerBook G4 12 and 17. Followed by the first MacBook Pro.
It's increasingly likely that near term societal collapse is inevitable. https://jembendell.com/2018/07/26/the-study-on-collapse-they...

So meet your neighbors, build local relationships, and decentralize before you're forced to while you can still specify the terms of that decentralization. Check out the urban agriculture movement. That came out of rust belt cities shutting down services and distribution. How people in cities like Detroit survived that provides a bit of a blueprint.
There is a dramatic difference between the two presidents. At least as far as I know, left-leaning vs right-leaning isn't supposed to be support-blue-team-at-all-costs vs support-red-team-at-all-costs.

It's supposed to mean, would you treat blue-team or the red-team better for the same behavior?

> drone strikes

This was heavily covered. This was probably the number one thing that Obama was criticized for. I think most people agree that this is bad (for various reasons), though technically it is protecting American soldiers lives. Oddly, we don't hear much about the fact that Trump administration has relaxed rules and is performing more drone strikes [1][2].

> tear gas at the border

I also remember his immigration policies being heavily criticized. Yet, if you look at the policies of the current administration, they are objectively far worse. If the policies are far worse, it is consistent with a neutral position to be more critical of the current administration's policies than the previous administration's.

> gunwalker scandals

While they tried to pin Gunwalker on Obama, Gunwalker was really a Bush administration scandal that wasn't discovered until Obama [3][4]. That was an attempted political hit during an election year, equivalent to Benghazi. Despite that, it was covered even by the crazy "leftist" CNN [5][6].

If Obama had been meeting secretly with the Kenyan government to gather dirt on his political opponents, defending them every chance he got when it was discovered that they spent significant effort to influence our elections, and trying to remove sanctions against them, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this would be heavily criticized and covered by both CNN and MSNBC. I do believe MSNBC leans left.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-admin-ups-drone-s...

[2] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/7/donald-trump...

[3] https://www.foxnews.com/us/ap-exclusive-second-bush-era-gun-...

[4] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/01/05/144761413...

[5] https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/28/politics/holder-contempt/inde...

[6] https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast...
If actionable items aren't important how do you know people aren't listening
> You needed to design sites knowing some significant percentage of users could not run your JS.

Off-topic: if "everyone knows" this is no longer the case, then this statement about the new case is disappointing. It implies that the percentage of users who bother about privacy and security on the web is now insignificant, so nobody actually needs to consider them anymore, and nobody will, and things will just keep on breaking and staying broken.
A hundred cars, helmets and various transparent windows accross 20 years of a travel life, cross referenced with your friends and family experienced may not be scientific. Hell it may not be a representative sample.

But it's a damn good hint.
germany has plenty of absurd zoning laws too. for example in many places the architecture of your house has to match the neighborhoods style. another example i just recently read right here on HN is that split aircon units are not allowed in many places because they make the walls look ugly. that fits right up there with blocking unsightly vegetables.
Optionally phone them one more time and inform them your next course of action is credit card chargeback.

Phone the card you used and walk them through what happened - they should reverse the payment. They're equally liable with Amazon. Edit: There's no guarantee Amazon will keep your account open after this - then again nor is that guaranteed after a CCJ.

Inform your local trading standards office and offer the same evidence.
They already track how many times you've viewed the site in order to decide when the paywall goes up. Doesn't seem like it would be that hard to track what articles you view and charge x cents / article.

I enjoy reading the WSJ Opinion section, but last time I looked at the price, it was way too high to justify based on the number of articles I read.
You should check out Dorco for razors. You can order directly from the manufacturer of the razors and the customer service has always been superb.
How do you know it's not a typically used unit? It could be Celsius at high pressure.

Or maybe you, like almost everyone else, aren't confused at all because you know water at sea level boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, a unit which is typically used in the U.S., and it's an informal quote by a U.S. resident of a coastal city.
Thanks for giving the site a try! Simple answer: the shapes in your template are too small. Try scaling the squares to 1/2 the size of that larger, white square in the center. This can be seen in the template for https://fractal.parts/sierpinski.

Each shape that you add is a transformation from the base shape. The base shape is that large, white square that appears when you first head to fractal.parts/create. The transformations in your template are around 1/4 the size of the base shape. Your template also has a fair bit of whitespace. Together this produces a fractal that progressively disappears.
I suggest ditching that piece of shit of an invention.

4 years on, the TouchBar:

- Adds zero value in terms of functionality nor user experience for 95%+ of the user base

- Fails to better the classic buttons to change volume

- Fails to better the classic buttons to change screen brightness

- Leaves users deadlocked when they change screen displays

- Is incompatible with bootcamp, oftentimes blanking out

- Needs the user to be very cautious to not rest their hand anywhere near the touchbar, or ESC/F1/F2 will be pressed accidentally

- Needs the user to make sure that ESC was pressed when they wanted it pressed. No haptic feedback is terrible.

- Consumes more battery

- Adds a few hundred bucks to the price of the laptop, and there's lack of choice for 2018 MBP which forces the TouchBar on the user

If still alive, Jobs would have ripped someone's head off for letting the marketing idiots drive product development.

Fuck you Apple.
Lots of companies here are working on solving problems related to the environment: https://www.greentownlabs.com. I sat there for about six months while working at a startup, it was great to see how many people were really committed to working on hard problems in the environmental/green tech space.
So the checklist worked sometimes, but the question is, could it have been improved if we put aside the issue of whether doing so would make a case for additional training?

It is quite possible that it would have been an adequate checklist when backed up with sufficient training that emphasized the differences between MCAS-induced trim runaway and that which might have been experienced in other variants. Simulator practice of manually trimming might help as well, though there is some doubt whether current simulators can adequately model the difficulties that may be experienced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4qDLR4s45U&t=296s
I've been involved with Extinction Rebellion, helping to organise some small (legal!) demonstrations.

Some people I was once friendly with now consider me an ecoterrorist. I have been tailed by secret police. I've been unofficially cautioned by an employer who now seem to be taking steps to fire me.

Our future can go find itself another champion.
Exactly - this is why direct action that challenges the root of power is needed. Instead of organizing to get the government to ban straws, we need to get the government to ban plastic fishing nets, cap carbon emissions, etc.
As lightgreen pointed out this anecdote doesn't mean anything alone. Many things could have shifted bug populations to other areas or changed their season.

As a counter anecdote my vehicle is covered in bugs. I should probably power wash my radiator.