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> Tech workers have a responsibility not just understand the technologies that they work with, but also educate themselves on the societal implications of those technologies.

I think this goes well beyond tech workers. I think it's time for society to legally recognize the balance between the value of ML systems and the privacy concerns of customers of ML.

Doctors and lawyers obviously should understand the value of privacy, but we, as a society, have also created legal rights and duties for them. Conversations with lawyers and doctors are legally privileged; at the same time, there are specific consequences for medical companies or lawyers who do not protect that information.

Companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. certainly have the resources, intelligence, and sophistication to comply with a similar regulatory regime. IMO it should be possible to construct a law that allows companies to collect, store, and tag customer data for purposes of training ML systems, but sets serious duties, with consequences, on them to do it right.

Right now, what is to keep employees at these companies from abusing these systems to stalk, to surveil, to harass, or even just to feed their own curiosity? These data systems are core trade secrets for these companies, which means they are opaque to any kind of oversight from outside the company.

The free market can't create the necessary balance because customers need information to make decisions--information that they don't have. The result will be an increasingly chaotic "hero/shithead rollercoaster" as customers make snap judgments based on scanty or wrong information about what these companies are actually doing.

This is a classic case for regulation, which prevents a "race to the bottom" of sketchy practices for short term gain, while also protecting the ability of people and companies to use this technology to create value.

Doing this right will help data-leveraging companies in the long run, just like attorney-client privilege and HIPAA have helped lawyers and doctors build trust (and therefore value) in their customer relationships.
Can anyone remember if the old AOL landing page linked to AOL created content or content by 3rd parties?

I’ve made the argument before that Google is the new AOL homepage. It’s the gateway to the web for a huge majority as AOL was at one time. AMP is concentrating Google’s web just as AOL once did for first timers.

Google has much more utility but it’s still very similar. AOL had email, web, chat, news, shopping? (maybe late days of AOL), and let’s not forget search.
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You can interpret it the other way. The stories we tell ourselves are mostly fiction. We make progress using these stories. It can lead us to unhappy places. We want to find meaning and purpose. But we end up with nihilistic reality. The author has explored aspects of Taoism, the fluctuation between meaning and nihilism. We need to find a balance.
While there is certainly value in this, I get the impression nowadays that NASA is doing everything but making meaningful progress in human space flight.
FWIW, I saw a small (~1cm length x >1mm wide) caterpillar doing this once in the woods. I thought it was dangling from a tree but then it just kept going.
If you just want to quickly input data without caring for cells, rows, columns this is great.
> I have _never_ received one

That you know of.
Agreed, I'd like to support Ubuntu development, I often run it on bleeding edge hardware I'd like to submit crash reports for, but the inability to sanitise the data causes me not to unless it's a "fresh" device.
> Perhaps Harkness could be modified to be less expensive to implement.

I think it could to some extent. For some students doing self-paced, online learning for lectures and then following that up with individualized/small-group problem-solving and discussion with peers/tutors/teachers certainly does work.

But kids in early high-school and younger? Someone really needs to be there for them all the time.

BTW, I also had a math instructor that got miraculous outcomes by finely grouping students within each classroom according to skill. She would individualize attention to each group, and then move individual students up or down to different groups depending on their ongoing performance/mastery. She literally had what I would recognize today as a kan-ban chart on a blackboard in the classroom and we, the students, were the projects/products. Thinking back about it now, it must have been a herculean effort. It was also the 70's in a Catholic school and she had total autonomy. I seriously doubt a talented teacher could get away with something like that today.
Not take them in the first place, develop them at home or a private lab, or use Polaroids.
> there needs to be a massive breach or abuse of power from one of these organizations/services that has severe real world consequences for those that utilize/support them. Until then nothing will change.

I think even more darkly: that the consequences of something severe enough to cause that change would be so much as to effectively destroy modern civilization. Consider that much of the modern economy is driven by tech companies not only ignoring privacy but often actively violating it.
Twilio (and their customers) listens to phone calls too no doubt.
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Exactly why I use Soulver. I can't stomach opening Excel or switching to it and waiting for it to load. With Soulver I just click and it works.
Get real, obvious, informed consent by asking if you would like your voice prompts to be improved on / heard by real live humans as an opt in. I bet 1/500 of the population would opt in to it.

And the first one to do it should be apple itself.
Sorry for the extreme analogy, but a gun owner is responsible if their nephew accesses their gun when they're not home.

It is not farfetched to imagine that, to be in compliance with the law, you would need to unplug your listening devices to avoid them accidentally going off.
Spend a ton of money lobbying for alternate power (nuclear plants, renewables). Push legislation that cuts down on carbon footprints (e.g., better networks for remote work, encourage building mixes that reduce commuting).

Ten billion isn't that much money compared to the problem, but you can do some smart things with it.
Maybe a form of public shaming and accountability could help?

This is a minuscule experiment I am running: https://gitlab.com/simonebrunozzi/dark-companies
> There isn't any Florence instance yet

My server admin moved us to Florence a while back, there are more than a few in production right now. Not really sure what your on about...

> Dansup has said he doesn't want to support other AP types.

Dansup says many things, the proof is in the pudding though. When there is public discontent he tends to change his tune fairly quick, based on his history back on Hyperboria.
Soulver has iOS apps too.
Makes sense. The home automation platform I use (Home Assistant) can use information from wifi APs for presence detection. I have mine configured with my Unifi controller.
The devices have a mute switch

Why would I trust that this does anything at all?
On a related note, what does organic search traffic look like these days? I was once personally invested in running several small content sites and at the time organic traffic was pretty much entirely from Google. There were other inbound sources - Bing, Yahoo!, etc. - but they were so negligible that it would have been reasonable to ignore them completely for the purposes of optimization.

I've been using DDG as my primary search engine now for several years, and using Google no longer "feels like the Web" for me. I imagine I have one hell of a case of observation bias in that, but it does seem like alternatives have been gaining some traction in recent years.
1) A person going into a hospital, having their voice recorded, and then having the recording sent to another hospital where it might help treat and/or save their lives

vs

2) A company exploiting the lack of regulation and public knowledge/education on the dangers of mining personal data, to mine personal data and make a profit with no regard for the safety of the individual

If explicit consent had to be obtained, with the requirement that the person consenting be fully informed on the details of what they're giving up, in which of the scenarios above do you think people would be more likely to refuse consent?
Did you mean to say the asteroid has more unmined gold in it than all the mined and refined gold on Earth? Because the core of the Earth likely has more mass of gold in it than all the asteroids, moons, and dwarf planets in the solar system put together.

We just find that particular gold more difficult to bring to market than gold found outside our gravity well.

To extra-terrestrial aliens, strip-mining would be grabbing all the loose asteroids and comets first, at the "surface", before venturing down into the deeper holes represented by the gravity wells. Stripping larger planets is metaphorically deep-shaft mining, from a space perspective.
My grandfather was a Nazi. I’ve seen why we need the EU
What about all the telecom APIs like Twilio? They have raw access to millions of phone calls every day. I doubt they have ‘secure rooms’ for debugging.
> The notion of abiogenesis occurring only once on earth seems improbable considering complex organs like eyes have evolved independently several different times.

Not quite. Simple life forms probably existed for far longer than DNA. The fact that we see convergent evolution in complex life forms, which emerged very late in the history of life, only suggests that there are recurring patterns in the system that enabled the formation of higher life. It doesn't suggest anything about the origin of cellular life itself, which existed for hundreds of millions of years before eyes or lungs.
> The truth is that overpopulation is a huge issue, but it is politically incorrect to bring this up.

It's really not an issue. Negative externalities associated with the environment is a huge issue, and population decline will become a big issue in about 80 years.
Context is US, many poor own vehicles.
where can i get the underlying data? have you found a buy signal?
Because move is just a cast to an rvalue reference. It doesn't do anything. It just gives type level hooks for operator overloading.
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How do you block their IP? Google has hundreds of numbers and AFAIK they don’t even publish all of them.
> There is a reason single-page apps became a thing, so I'm not clear why you think a page refresh for every user interaction is somehow a good thing.

So the reason I always hear is performance: Less HTTP-requests, less latency, therefore better user experience. While that might be the case for flaky mobile connections (although executing lots of Javascript on resource constraint devices might not be the best idea either), with fast wired connections I experience the opposite: The single page apps of today feel a lot slower to me, than the websites with the same functionality did 10 years ago, thanks to all the computation which has to be done on client side. Just take Youtube for example: What a bad experience nowadays, especially with Firefox. That was way better back in a time when they didn't try to avoid page refreshes. And it's not just Youtube, it's all over the web. A welcome change to all of that is HN, because it still feels as fast as websites did, before frontend development was even a thing.
That's completely impractical. I am not a structural engineer, but I know enough about it to know that plastic is certainly NOT the solution.
I do this kind of thing a lot...this is a tool that I didn't know I needed. Like excel-lite.

Too bad it's mac only. And so is Numi.

Any linux (preferred) or windows alternatives?
> A priority is to understand the language one is writing in.

That's all well and good but you can't expect a developer to know all the optimisations different compilers will do, especially when it relates to undefined behaviuor.
I've never seen one, but I wonder if a motorhome/bus derby might be wild...
For one, sponsor lobbyists for renewables and invest in renewable energy plants. Do this especially where this competition from fossil fuel plants, with a clear intent to attempt to shut them down due to lack of business. Most customers will buy cheaper energy from renewables.
The 32GB card I have running in the Pi that often hosts www.pidramble.com has been running on a Pi 2, Pi 3, Pi 3 B+, and now Pi 4 for almost four years and has not had any corruption issues.

I also have had a number of other Pis using the Samsung Evo+ and SanDisk extreme cards, many running for one to two years (some doing logging, others saving time-lapse pictures, uploading in batch to an FTP share, then saving more), and have also never encountered a corruption.

I think it has a lot more to do with the power supply than the card itself (as long as you're using a SanDisk, Sony, Samsung, etc. and not some no-name card).

I think the endurance cards have a little better caching mechanism built into the flash controller itself, so they can kind of paper over flaky power supply issues. So yes, it is definitely better to use endurance class cards. But in my experience, I have not encountered an issue using the typical consumer-grade cards.
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Good point. I noticed that right after I made the comment.

Is it a stretch to believe that Israeli and Turkish security services are in contact with each other ... Despite headlined animosity between the 2 countries?
You can block Googlebot by User-Agent and IP addresses.
Is there currently a reasonably mature Erlang-style threading library for Rust? Something that is to Rust what Akka is to Scala?
I recently picked up a PlayStation Vita which I think has just the right form factor for portability when playing on the bus. The Vita is a 5 inch display, and this makes a 5.5 inch display Switch very tempting.
I've used Dudu Osun for a while now, and I think the key points are that it's super-fatted and has shea butter mixed in.
Not sure how it would fit in your workflow, but you can avoid that back-button bug by using the "read later" share intent (it's the pin with a white background instead of blue). With that one you get a toast message saying the bookmark has been added but you never leave the original app.

That does mean you don't get to add tags at that time, though.
I've found that google will still include the page in their search index if it's been discovered by means other than crawling the resource itself (e.g. it's linked from other pages). The search result will simply not include any content from the page, since they've presumably not crawled the page.
> Or can you recommend alternative resources?

Understanding OSes better by understanding a particular OS better is part of the reason why I moved from Windows to Ubuntu to Archlinux. Having your whole OS being open source (Windows -> Ubuntu) and using an OS that doesn't try to add a bunch of superfluous infrastructure over what's actually needed (Ubuntu -> Archlinux) makes understanding the system much easier.

As an alternative resource, I suggest installing Archlinux, read the documentation of the base system (manpages, info manuals, the Archlinux wiki, online documentation on particular projects like https://x.org/ for xorg/x11 documentation, etc.), experiment with it, see how it's built, look into the source code of anything you want to know in detail.

Also, there's the LFS (Linux From Scratch) project, which teaches you how to build a Linux distro without depending on an installation .iso. You get to download, build, and install the kernel from kernel.org, glibc from gnu.org, etc.
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>Police-reported

So the parent established that, in his case, a crash took place but was not recorded by the police. Police are known to give the benefit of the doubt to certain classes of people, leaving incidents that they cause outside of formal records and review. Is this a widespread phenomenon that could skew the data presented in your citation? I think that's worth investigating.
This site loads amazingly fast! Proves the point that you really don't need AMP.
Google once was a force for good by indexing pages and rewarding good content with SEO.

I deeply hate AMP. It's a monopolistic move to bully companies into handing over Google their content.
This is great for educational purposes, but if you're thinking of implementing your own primitives or cryptosystems please use a vetted out-of-the-box solution like libsodium instead.
Cool, wake me up when something more than one or two jets in the same area meaning their auto-targeting computers + pilots voice logs are all we have to work with.
Yes.

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Googlebot looks for this meta tag.
They should put a sticker on the box that explicitly states "Audio from this device will be listened to by Doug in Indiana"
Kids could walk, bike, or use the bus/train if the infrastructure was there.
There are services that track google IPs, those doing black hat SEO and cloaking rely on them.

Google is going to crawl, you just can’t stop them from crawling even if you tell them not to in robots.txt. Best option at this point is to add a noindex tag on pages and let them crawl to see it.
>To me, category 3 is the most dangerous. Tech workers have a responsibility not just understand the technologies that they work with, but also educate themselves on the societal implications of those technologies.

Do you think its possible to be educated on the societal implications of these technologies and still not be concerned? Seems like you've written your own viewpoint into the only "logical" one here.
I use dropbox everyday. But, he's still right all these years later isn't he? Dropbox hasn't made money yet. Perhaps it never will.
There's a multitude of evidence that teacher-student ratios are associated with positive outcomes:
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> I think what I find confusing is that I thought outside observers would never see the infalling observer reach or cross the EH due to time dilation.

It depends what you mean by "see". An outside observer will certainly not see this this in the literal sense of seeing photons that image the horizon-crossing event. However, there are sets of space and time coordinates on the manifold where the infalling observer crosses the horizon at the same "time" as external events occur.

> frozen and smeared into a blur outside the EH, fading away but never optically appearing to “enter” into the BH

Yes, but note that the brightness of the image gets exponentially suppressed as the infalling object approaches the horizon, so it really just looks more like it's vanishing than freezing (although it's doing both). Importantly, a finite amount of electromagnetic energy is emitted/reflected by the infalling object before it crosses the horizon so, for any given minimum-energy threshold of your detection equipment on the outside, you will see no more than a certain finite number of photons no matter how long you wait.

> and those falling in would see the universe blueshift (I guess getting fried by high energy photons before being torn up by tidal forces).

No, I don't think much blueshifting happens. If you hover above the event horizon of a black hole, the outside world will look blueshifted, to a stronger and stronger degree as you get closer to the horizon. However, the amount of force necessary to maintain a stationary position above the horizon goes to infinity as you get close, so you can't get arbitrarily close and experience arbitrarily large blueshift; indeed, the blueshift is in general quite modest without extraordianry materials or fuels. And once your support fails, so that you start falling into the black hole, the blueshifting goes away.
You'll have to find a third-party cross-border sales shop with a presence in Japan. The company I was using for this before (Dynamism) doesn't do laptops anymore and only does 3d-printing hardware. So you'll have to find another. It sucks, and in such a connected world it's amazing how hard it is to buy some product series from different places.

I do miss the Libretto!
I remember this, but I don't remember seeing it as an image.
I bought a foam dispenser, which I fill with very dilute Dr. Bronner's. It works amazingly well.
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I don't think so? Or at least, I haven't tried yet.
There's a video version of the University of Bristol research story too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRrUxi6d7so
In many real-world distributed systems, you actually trade off data consistency for scalability or the ability to independently change components among engineering teams.

I would argue that if you need strong consistency in very large datasets, distributed designs should more often be "sharded" designs where strong consistency is maintained in data shards and not necessarily between data shards.
You should just resign. If you really want to do this, I'm sure there are ways and means but at the expense of your reputation, references and professional contacts.
Vaguely related, I had a lightbulb moment when setting up the A/V system in my current place – literally every single device that needed network would accept an ethernet connection. One switch later and BAM! vastly less WiFi competition.
Back in the early 1960s some such toy as sold. But I recall them as spring-driven--you'd wind them, let them run against a wall and fly apart, then put them back together.
Most Americans do not live in areas where you could reasonably live without a car, and transit-rich, walkable areas have much higher rents.
I really like Calca and still use it a bunch, but it has a few annoyances (some of which cause incorrect answers) and seems to get updated about once every 4 years.

Putting the answers inline rather than over in a separate column (ala Soulver and Numi) makes more sense to me.
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I'm using TinyLetter by MailChimp, and I don't have any control over that page. I'll look into other providers in the future.
Why is that? If it's a properly conducted experiment with good documentation why do you think the larger scientific community would ignore this?
Take a road trip to the central valley and take a look at what's being farmed. Almonds. Cotton for mattress stuffing (too shit a grade for anything else). Lettuce. All very high water use crops that don't give you hardly any nutrition save for the almond.

There are dozens of crops that we can and absolutely should dispense with. The problem with agriculture is farmers don't farm what uses the least resources and brings about the most nutrients per land area, they farm what returns the most. We also subsidize a lot of these crops.
I love this show. I binge watched the whole thing about a year ago, and then started a second watch-through about a month ago. I'm down to the last 3 episodes now.

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The episode in Season Four where Gordon dies is very moving and sad. And it really makes you think about your own legacy, what you have/haven't accomplished, the value of the things you do in your career, etc. At least it did for me.