skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see the point of advertising companies for free

What if I'm covering up the free advertising built into the machine? I like how my triforce sticker looks a lot more than the dell logo it replaced.
Siberian lake loved by Instagrammers is toxic, power plant says
I do appreciate Apple's overall stance and actions regarding privacy, but I see this as a very practical action for their own self-interest. Apple has staked its reputation on privacy. The headline-level summary of this incident is that Mac users are exclusively affected by Zoom's bug/security hole. Among consumers, unauthorized access to the webcam is the epitome of modern invasion of privacy. All it takes is one Apple user to be victimized for Apple's reputation on privacy to be as much of an ongoing punchline as Samsung's exploding phones.
It’s a design choice, and of course it arguable but it have it’s (good) reasons.

By design choice user data of any App should be only be readable and modifiable by the active user. If user data is stored somewhere under home folder, this mechanism comes for free for the App developer and the OS handle it. If you want that same level of privacy in the App Bundle developers would have to handle it themselves (and well).

But then what happen when you uninstall ? Either you are blocked because you can’t remove data from another user or you somehow require escalation to admin privileges to remove data of all users at once. Which might or might not make other users happy if they were unaware of the uninstall...

With current data model choice (pretty much shared across all UNIX world and even Windows). If user A delete the App but user B still needed it you just have to reinstall to keep user B unharmed.

Your proposal is not bad to optimize for disk space gain at removal, it just happen that (quite rightfully) OS vendors chooses to rather optimize for data persistence and security.
3-5 years for AWS / Azure should be minimum $70 per hr (I assume you have some certs).

7-10 years you are talking $80-95

This is in the major cities of Texas. If you accept less than the above that is fine, but those are the highest BUT ALSO quite reasonable rates I’ve seen. If you are contract-to-hire especially accepting lower isn’t bad.
Canadian Drivers Are Causing Accidents Because They’re Too Nice
That's a fair critique. For the record, I was responding to a post that I felt had a similar tone.

> I disagree with this machine-like optimization of human life. We are not machines running OSes allocating time.

I doubt OP was offended. And I didn't say to change their mind. I said consider something that the tone of their comment indicated they hadn't seriously considered.
True, there come times where one person has to stand up and be counted.
I think one of the frustrating things about this comment and the thread is this article is about Google's privacy policy specifically and how it reflects the change in Internet businesses. It's not a generic privacy policy article.

The Times DID publish a generic privacy policy article a week ago and it did call itself out as one of the worst ones [1].

It wasn't an explicit "at the Times we do this", but there's an infographic/chart in the article that places the NYT in a pretty damning spot[2]. They also called out a rival news organization (the BBC) which does a great job relatively speaking.

I think the Times has a huge point here in general and I find this article's narrative compelling and well done. Instead of making it about "why didn't we make this about themselves" I would rather focus on what it's trying to say. (Also, Google is probably the trailblazer here with this stuff and sets the tone/trend).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/12/opinion/faceb...

[2] https://imgur.com/Ct3YHiU
So much for not making it personal!
No wonder Apple took this step!

Many users are unable to enable Video feature even after applying recent patch released by Zoom. Also zoom has become security joke/conversation topic while starting a con calls!
Independent Contractor...aka Corp-to-Corp...should be minimum 30% higher than that. I would argue double, but I don’t know enough about the subject. That being said the only devs I know making more than 400k in Texas are independent contractors, usually who also are hiring a team for the client as well.
Apple is punishing Zoom, because they explicitly built this mess to get around Safari appropriately prompting users to decide whether they wanted to open the app on each meeting join. If you are a safari user, there was never a vulnerability. You’d be prompted. Why is no one talking about Chrome and Firefox’s lax security posture here? It’s frustrating.
The server was deliberately left running: if it was unintentional it would just error out if Zoom had been removed. Instead it downloaded and installed the client again. That’s fairly clearly designed to override the user’s attempt to remove the software, and is exactly the kind of thing malware does.

There is a real problem many (often primarily windows) apps have this bizarre desire to “install” content randomly scattershot across the OS. There is no reason to do this on Mac OS. OS X happily supports multiple binaries and services per bundle.

If you write an app that needs an uninstaller on OS X, and you aren’t needing to install some kind of driver, your app is doing things it should not be doing, and does not even need to do.
I appreciate what Tim has done and continues to accomplish to raise the profile and acceptance of startups as a viable career choice in Japan.

I've first-hand experience with the many challenges of startups in Japan. Finding talent who understand how startups are different. Convincing larger partners you're not simply another "supplier" they can grind margin out of. Explaining to potential investors the tradeoffs of quality, speed, and confirming product fit.

Educational platforms like what Tim has built through podcasting are needed to help close these gaps.

Thanks to Tim for the insightful post on "how the sausage was made" and looking forward to seeing good things coming out of Tepco's innovation platform.
Similar to how car drivers feel entitled to being able to go 5mph over the speed limit without being penalized or reprimanded.
because I don't have automatic updates turned on

...the malicious entity already pushed it out silently in the last update you did accept...

You really have to trust the entity building the software on these devices. These little half-measures are purely psychological protection.
I have found it similarly satisfying to remove the dealer decals from every car I buy. Although it's probably easier just to make them remove it as a condition of sale.
Successful startup business ideas you can copy
Lay on your back and pay attention to something. I have had lucid dreams since I was a kid, although it took until adulthood before I discovered what it is. Since it used to scare the bejeebus out of me, I learned rolling onto my side allowed me to fall asleep without the creepy death-like thing.

Weirdly it only ever scared me early in the night. In the morning, if I wake up but then fall asleep, I get lucid dreams again, but they are far more entertaining and lack the dark scary thing.

One thing I noticed, and it makes me aware I'm in a lucid dream, is that even though everything feels real, there are a LOT of glitches. For example, once I was playing guitar and it was glorious hero-level axemanship. But at the same time, I realized it was in slo-mo and completely non-technical. When I woke up, I realized what I was dreaming was really crappy guitar playing, but at the time, I might have shamed Yngwie, lol. For all intents and purposes, it really was happening, and other than the wonkiness, I had full "normal" control - a thought process that is barely distinguishable from being awake and actually experiencing it all.

When you do realize you are lucid dreaming, try not to over-react or you will wake up. When you're having a good lucid dream, and excite yourself awake, it's quite a bummer. As soon as you get that far, you can "rewind" your dream and replay any part differently, or just do whatever you want - there are no physical laws.

Everyone is different, but that's my observations.
But highly plausible.
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes second touchdown on distant asteroid
Use the same restaurant every week would make it simpler. Slack channel. Ask who wants to order. Order what is said in the replies. No reply = no lunch. Everyone will soon learn.

Arrange with the restaurant to take an email order. You just forward it over.
Former Tesla employee admits uploading Autopilot source code to his iCloud
It's not the size of your economy, it's how you use it.

(North Korea spends ~22% of their GDP on their military.)
my parents smart tv has over a gig of storage for apps.

i'd be really surprised if that couldn't act as an offline cache.
But for that you have to touch CC info directly with all the risks and compliance bullshit.
If you're rewriting into a language like C++, this may very well be true. However rewriting in Rust in my experience yields far fewer bugs, and the ones that do surface are usually simple to fix. If a project truly is "stable" - there's very little effort involved in maintaining it, then yeah, it doesn't make sense to rewrite it. But if it's plagued by bugs and is painful to maintain, you'd be much better off rewriting it in Rust, assuming you're familiar with the existing project's limitations.
It was also really unimpressive in my opinion, instead of being smarter and making broad decisions about tactics that are harnessed by some perfect unit composition knowledge, the AI won on a purely micro scale.

There are videos from several microbots such as Automaton 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs that showcase what super APM can do. The DeepMind AI that beat some pro players did it by having better micro while generally having worse strategies. The DeepMind matches showed how better micro can turn a generally weaker unit composition into the winning unit composition just as that Automaton 2000 video did.

To me it seemed that the DeepMind team figured out that the only way to beat competent players was to do what all those microbots do and pump APM into godly levels. They decided to limit APM, however like you said, just average APM and have the bots explode APM when needed. The real funny match was when MaNa beat Deepmind by completely breaking the AI with generally simple drop strategies and made Deepmind look very much inept.
I am using Google Function , and it is okay. I using with NodeJs10. The bad thing is limited in the zones that can be deployed. It is GA for Node 6, I believe. In general, I had many problems with cold start last year, but now it's looking better.

I didn't use yet Cloud Run, but it looks promising. If I understood well, its billing time is better than Google Function for traffic spikes. However, it is beta.
Thanks! It's amazing how fast things change.
It's hard to believe there is no hard data as far as test scores. I would expect more of that in an article like this.

I assume there are studies that show significant improvement in test scores as well as some studies that show no improvement or even regression.

I think how well it works depends on how well the students are supervised, the actual content of the programs, the parameters such as required learning rate, how well the particular software works or not, how closely the software tracks or does not track with the standardized tests, etc.

For things like algebra I had to use pencil. How do computer instructions handle work like equations and math?
Just a nit - calling the NYT a "regional publication" is like calling Google a "california search engine." It's one of the largest global news organizations in the world with active newsrooms in NYC, London, Hong Kong and Paris. It has 6 news bureaus in the NY area, 14 news bureaus in the US outside of the NY area and 23 international news bureaus employing over 1300 news staff. (For reference the BBC has 50, CNN has 32 and the Times' has 46). Its California coverage is as robust as the LATimes and more robust than the SF Chronicle.

Of course, when you have multiple full newsrooms, you care about location capabilities. I get a customized California feed (California Today) when I go to it.
If I'm not mistaken a typical container ship can have over 5000 containers onboard, and in this case several were full of cocaine. That's close to "needle in a haystack" territory. I have a feeling a lot of containers manifested as everyday commodities come through carrying narcotics and other contraband.
It always upsets me that there aren’t assembly lines of successful designs, flinging them in every direction
Yes, and there are also hints of P.J. O'Rourke, I think, or perhaps a smidgen of more lighthearted Hunter Thompson.
And in US all SMS are stored for not less than one year, also required by law.
I give it five years before this is involved in technical interviews.
> Clinton never got a majority of the popular vote. A mere 43% in 1992 and 49.2% in 1996.

Doesn't change your point, really, but for completion, a Clinton also got a non-majority 48.2% in 2016.
Yeah but this is clearly a special case as Steam is not AppStore distributable AND it is basically an alternative to the AppStore.

They clearly could have made other choices and they have their own logic, but that clearly not on Apple role to oversight how their concurrents operate.

Antitrust, geeks and media network would instantly gather pitchforks to run on Apple if they even dare to hypothetically mention it.
Any company that has to tell itself not to be evil should be a red flag.
All these are fair and good points. But all of these are still workable problems that should be very much in the capable hands and constraints of the operating system and "app bundle runner" (call it) to deal with.

Your points are all solved by using the user's home directory, very true. But the problem simply remains -- I think this is my main point -- that the "App bundle" has failed the user by not allowing for cleanup of everything that the application has created. If an application can simply write any executable into any user directory it wants, there's no code signing or integrity checks on the app itself that matters.

Applications should be treated as hostile, just like a user is treated in a multi-user system.

I think it's a failure of an operating system to not be completely in control of the limitations and installation of any program. It's also a failure of the developer community to not stand up and insist on this too. A sand-boxed model is what we should all be striving for here. Force the bad actors out.

I'm not a Mac developer (obviously). But I am an old Unix neckbeard. So I get all of your points; Unix invented this problem.

In a multiuser system, individual users are treated as hostile. Going forward, so too should applications. That's the failure in all of this (and it's been with us a long time now). Our security model is based on not trusting users, but in trusting applications. This thinking was born in the 60's when users couldn't install/execute any random download.

It's interesting that the unix model of security is hurting us more today than helping. The time for sandboxed applications is definitely overdue.
this makes sense. i am wondering about technical solutions to this problem. keeping the paper record is one.

how about taking a photo of the screen (not a screenshot, but an actual photo with a separate camera) to record what the voter sees?

another idea is to enter the vote twice. like when we create new passwords. do make sure the same result is recorded. do it on two machines side by side. if there is a difference, start over.
Just leave early? Simple as that?
Then what in the world is the huge Application Support folder for?

And why is it filled with stuff from Apple programs?
I think the point is that it removes the locus on control about these things from the user to the dominate AMP provider.

I often find the issue with many things is a change in the locus of control. People feel less comfortable when it falls in another’s domain, and often these large players then take advantage of this.

The great thing about the old web which I think people miss is that it was (supposed to be at least, and initially was) decentralised. Every year the web becomes more centralised and in the control of large organisations.
> why "unfortunate"?

I mean, the kids in cages might find it unfortunate. The farmers being hurt by tariff fights are also finding it somewhat unfortunate. I'm pretty sure the LGBTQ community, too.

(I could go on - there's a long list of groups this POTUS is hurting.)
The intelligent community brain FRIDAY based on MASS
Most likely it's standard procedure to clean every unit that comes in for repairs.
lol, or a way to express themselves

Or....

A way to piss of IT departments
"Interpretability" is probably one of the most misunderstood topics in ML. The key with interpretability is that it's actually an Human Computer Interaction (HCI) problem, not a statistics or math problem.

The problem is that people have particular tasks that they need to accomplish and the goal of interpretability techniques is to help them solve those tasks. This is somewhat similar thematically to how a keyboard layout can help someone achieve their typing speed goals. The two main tasks that interpretability is usually geared towards is model error detection and hypothesis generation. In model error detection, the goal is that a human wants to be able to better evaluate (improve their accuracy) at detecting whether or not a model is "incorrect" or not. Hypothesis generation is more about the generation of testable causal hypothesis that can them be manipulated to manipulate the outcome.

The real trouble in the interpretability field is that very few people actually evaluate on those end tasks. The only paper I know of that did such as evaluation had a negative result (https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07810) in that the "interpretability" did not improve the ability of people to detect incorrect model predictions. As it stands, there is currently no reason to believe that any interpretability techniques actually work in helping people achieve the tasks they care about.
>It makes no sense to take entire lanes out of service for the tiny minority of people who can integrate biking into their daily commute.

Cart meet horse. I believe we have to "build it and they will come." It's a 'tiny minority' (well, minority) due largely to lack of infrastructure (bike lanes, sharrowed roads with modest speed limits, &c.).

Then, you hit upon the other issue...

>And for most people in the US, public transit is not an option because you have a last mile problem at both the starting point and ending point.

America needs more transit everywhere, and maybe more importantly, we need to dissolve the notion that mass transit is not just how low-income people solve transportation.

I love meeting New Yorkers and Chicagoans and their ilk because they are already on board with transit, they just don't continue use in newCity because the coverage is inadequate.

Playing devil's advocate for the car culture we do face the fact that the USA is huge and our cities have sprawled as a result. This makes cycling end to end take way more effort and often dictates that there be some powered locomotion to cover the bulk of the distance. And that's where transport fits perfectly.

Tl;dr. There's a symbiosis that needs to happen between bikes and transit to achieve critical mass and this wider adoption in urban centers. If we find strategies that get us to that tipping point then I think wider change is possible.

(me: currently commute by bike-bus-bike and previously did bike only (26 miles/day. I'll admit, the LA climate is a big help with this, no doubt.)
It's unfortunate that China just doesn't give a crap about IP rights.
When to move on or when to back track is a basic function of computer assisted learning and it is regulated by success in completion of exercises and exams.
I feel that with non-standard syntax like $100 + 25% tip it become very confusing whether the answer would be 100.25 or 125. I’ll end up spending a lot of time trying to verify the answer.
Can a user make honeypot accounts? They'd have $1 in them and a $5 recovery fee and a bot that accepts challenges. Nice way to earn a few bucks off thieves.
I wonder if these instruments are actually providing accurate measurements though... if they weren’t designed for such temperatures how can we be sure that they are not introducing artifacts?
Another decentralized option is that you can use Dark Crystal (https://darkcrystal.pw) which allows you to shard your secret using Shamir's Secret Sharing (Cryptographic encode your secret into several pieces that you can share with your social network...in this case your Scuttlebutt friends).
Try loading up 20 JS-heavy tabs in Firefox/Chrome and looking at your RAM/CPU/battery use :) Offloading that computation to a VPS somewhere with a fast internet pipe is attractive.

Most webpages are mostly text, and terminals are great at text.
They have had a very solid store business at one point selling electronic kits. (Pi's, Arduino, etc).

A few years ago the kits were even in every Barnes and Nobel ni the country at Christmas. (And sadly most of them were in the clearance bin in January...)
No.

A few executives might shave a fraction of a penny off their multi-million dollar annual bonuses. And a lot of lower level workers are going to lose their jobs.

But no more lives will be lost if Boeing fails to consolidate their defecation on this matter.
All of what worthless? The advice that cakoose gives seems quite valid to me without any encryption to localhost.

What do you mean encrypt calls to localhost? Encrypt with https? That sounds hard since you can't get a real CA to issue you such a cert. I don't see much point in encrypting with https because people off your machine can't sniff or intercept your connection to localhost. Is your goal to protect yourself from other programs or users on your same machine? That might be a valid concern on a machine with multiple users, but definitely makes the problem harder.

Or do you want some custom application-level encryption? I can't think of a good way to implement that either, but maybe it's possible.

But since I don't know what attacks you're trying to protect against, I can't tell whether there's any benefit at all to encryption.
I put gaffing tape on mine for grip since we have to key card in and out of doors on the floors of our non-shared office. I kept dropping a new-ish 15” they gave me as I often had to juggle things while getting in and out of heavily sprung doors. IT hates it but they hate dented aluminum cases more.
Electroboom is very entertaining and knowledgable, but it bugs me that he purposely shocks himself almost every episode. His safety practices are terrible. I get that that's part of the joke, and as long as you know it's a joke, fine. But somebody who doesn't get the joke and tries to copy him could get hurt.

Of course this is Youtube, so anybody who blindly copies anything there is asking for trouble.
Great post

Is there a general ratio for how much audio you record per session vs how long your average podcast episode is? Do you cut, say, 25% or something like that? They seem to run 40-50 minutes, from checking your site.

Would going the Patreon route (since your podcast is ad-free now) be viable?
News flash, all major motion pictures are created "just to make money". I like the Disney animations and rather enjoy the live action remakes.

I also enjoy remakes of classic movies. It doesn't appear that I am alone.

But what is the criticism really? That they are making something they know lots of people will like?

It's not like a remake is any less effort than an original.

Even the script has to be rewritten and I would guess it takes even more effort to come up with a rewrite that doesn't stray too far from the original.