skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience has been that some professionals are not actually very good at communicating in the first place. They won't read a detailed email, and instead prefer body language and rapport to substance. Perhaps the need for pictures and fonts in an email is related to this problem.
Funny story (well OK, not so funny), I worked at a company where the FBI decided to pay a visit and investigate some potential naughtiness performed by members of the senior staff. They asked questions such as "Do you use your cell phone and personal email for company matters." Guess what a lot of them said, "Yep, have to." That immediately made their personal equipment, etc. in scope for the investigation and they confiscated it. Interestingly enough, any crime discovered while in pursuit of another crime can also be prosecuted. (Guess how they leverage people to flip.)

After hearing about that, I never attach anything work related to my personal equipment. There is too much liability. Anytime that anyone even whispers about me using anything I own for company use, the answer is a resounding "No." You honestly, don't know who you are really working with/for and what they are actually like.
>They're already safer than human drivers, with fewer accidents per mile than humans.

The average driver-less car mile is a lot easier than the average human driven mile (driverless cars have far fewer miles handling inclement weather and rush hour traffic in non-grid cities than humans do) and the human average is dragged down by a small subset of the population that behaves badly.

Driver-less cars are not yet safer than typical drivers and this is before you count all the fender benders the early ones caused by violating social norms by behaving too conservatively in traffic.
My company does contract work for a big corporate and in my case they don't generally want access to the code - they'd rather just call me up when there's a problem as I'm not unreasonable with fees, generally available, and I know my work inside and out.

Of course if I'm away and there's an emergency they have everything they need to modify it themselves, including the in-house skills. I wouldn't do anything nefarious like this, but I can relate to the situation of them not wanting/needing day-to-day access to the code.
The lack of notification from AA of purported abuse should have been enough to get the case thrown out.

The abuse being serious enough to force AA to revoke the pass... yet not serious enough that they discovered or communicated it before they decided to revoke the pass?

I can't square that logic.
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The data in a protonmail account is encrypted with your own key. How is protonmail supposed to encrypt an email if they receive it unencrypted over SMTP?
>And if you eliminate Tesla from the category, since they aren't using LIDAR, you can also point out that a self-driving car has never killed a passenger.

Umm, this is leaving out the very relevant fact that a pedestrian WAS killed near Phoenix by a self driving Uber.
I'll second The Witness as a great game. Very different, and beautifully designed.
The Communists were big on revolution. As in, from the inside, done by the workers of the target country themselves, usually with a lot of foreign help but no full-blown foreign invasion. It may seem implausible now, but many countries had already fallen to revolutions, and it was not unreasonable at the time to think it might happen in the U.S.
There's no losing as long as you're being the change you want to see. I will always send plaintext emails and I have the technical skill to dig into the raw email and decode the encoded HTML data manually or rip out the relevant authorization URL/strings.
This appears to be why you shouldn't put an MDM on your phone.

I have my work slack and email on my phone, just with notifications turned off on both. There was nothing about installing an MDM.
One thing arguing against this is that there was little free atmospheric oxygen, and thus little ozone. According to Nick Lane in his book, "Oxygen", UV light at the surface of the earth was 30 times greater then than now.

Life has had a lot of time to build up mechanisms to protect against UV light [1], including sophisticated dna repair mechanisms and creating sophisticated antioxidants and regulation mechanisms.

But at the dawn of life, whatever self-catalyzing reaction which constituted the first replicators would have been extremely fragile and unlikely to tolerate baking as you suggest.

[1] In David Goodsell's book "The Machinery of Life", p.112, he mentions that when you stand in the midday sun without sunblock, UV light can cause adjacent cytosine and thymine rungs on the dna to cross link to each other. A repair mechanism sweeps the dna looking for this exact bond to unlink it before it gums up normal dna transcription activity. How often does it happen? 50 to 100 times per second ... per exposed cell.
> In short, the single-player game was not sustainable. So why should we think the current model is?

The single-player game is very sustainable. It's just not as lucrative unless you double-down on in-game monetization like Ubisoft does. Devolver Digital is plenty stable, even though it makes a tiny fraction of the revenue we see from "AAA" publishers.

> In 2008, those three publishers released 98 games; in 2018 they released just 28, not including expansions.

Well there's the problem. If you focus all of your effort on a few large-scale projects, you will have to milk those projects for all you can. There's still a huge market for small and medium-scale projects, though. The indie market is thriving.

> Independent developers, meanwhile, continue to fight for the smallest slice of an impossibly crowded market.

How is this an indication of a struggling industry? This just tells me that the market is easy to break into, which should be hailed as a positive. Of course "indie" studios aren't going to individually be responsible for a large slice of the market. They don't have the budgets to fund massive projects with a ton of marketing.

However, I'd be pretty interested in seeing just how much money "indie" titles as a whole bring in and how that has compared to the rest of the market over time. I'd guess it's grown significantly over time and that's the real reason why "AAA" publishers struggle with smaller scale games. There's a reason "AAA" publishers like EA want to be associated with some of these games.

> And Sony already offers a streaming service, PlayStation Now, which is likely to expand in the next generation.

If PlayStation Now is anything to go by, I wouldn't put a lot of stock in xCloud or Stadia. There's a lot of buzz around it now, but I doubt game streaming will get any mainstream traction for a long time.

> [a bunch of talk about data center power efficiency and climate change]

And how does this compare to the amount of energy spent running games natively? I'm sure Microsoft's, Sony's, and Google's servers are configured to utilize hardware much more efficiently than my gaming PC.

This seems like an out-of-nowhere tangent to me and the article doesn't provide enough information about it to really go anywhere so it devolves into lamenting the "current political climate".

I think this article makes the mistake of conflating the state of several large "AAA" publishers with the state of the games industry as a whole. I've long-since stopped caring about almost anything the "Big Three" (EA, Activision, and Ubisoft) have a hand in, and most other "AAA" publishers have damaged their reputation so much that I have practically zero anticipation for new games.

There are many things companies in the gaming industry should do better, but I don't think the industry as a whole is in near as dire a state as the author describes. I wouldn't shed a tear if most of the "AAA" publishers disappeared tomorrow. There's still plenty of great games coming out from developers and publishers with much cleaner reputations.
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These are all a lot cleaner than my locals hahaha
> Not killing pedestrians is just as, if not more important than not killing passengers.

I agree, but my point was that risk of death in the vehicle should not even be a concern for anyone, yet many will say (including other in this very thread) "I would never get inside one of these things".
You say “they don’t have a lawyer” I don’t know if you realize you’re addressing the lead developer and president of VLC. I think he may be quite a bit more aware of his org’s ability and desire to retain legal counsel than all of us.
Quite sad, I worked on one of these cars, and spent late nights getting my part ready on time.

Then I was a GM tariffs sacrifice.

My understanding is that 5G should fix the winter/rain issues, as you can calculate location more precise.
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In terms of phishing, plain text emails can still carry malicious attachments, which can be very dangerous.

Plain text does not prevent phishing!
"very few".

Well, that's a comfort.
You are saying that philosophers should not be so concerned about philosophy because there are bigger problems in society. But they are philosophers. Of course they are concerned about philosophy. Beetle scientists are concerned with beetle academia.

Why the scare quotes around "philosophers"? They are university academics in the field of philosophy.

The question of "what is a woman" seems to be obviously the sort of question that a philosopher should be engaging with. If you don't want to hear their thoughts on that don't read their journals, but to declare the question out of bounds seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of what philosophy is.

Other statements that are obviously philosophical include:

"Sex and gender are two different things"
"Gender is a spectrum"
"Sex is a spectrum"
"A person can change their sex"

And I am not persuaded by the argument that people's free speech is not violated if their career is merely ruined, but they are not put in prison. You can be sure that the blacklisting of Colin Kaepernick sent a clear message to every black NFL player that they were not free to share their support for BLM. :-(
"I can't find the actual complaint to see if it's a CFAA charge but it looks that way."

https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/06/25/tinley-siemens-logic-bomb....

Have federal prosecutors filed any CFAA complaints on behalf of individual consumers. For example someone who has lost over $5K in one year as a result of planned obsolescence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
The "logic bomb" as a named concept has been around almost as long as computer code itself, it's not something invented for this case.
That's crazy. What kind of companies are these, or rather; what kind of country is this? North Korea?
That person wasn't a passenger. My point was that people who are afraid to get in a self driver aren't looking at statistics correctly.
CC is rarely a good license to choose other than to make yourself feel good. It does a terrible job of dealing with the actual matters of importance to a license outside of photo sharing (and even there it's not a good choice, as many photographers have found because it explicitly grants rights to others that the photographer may not be able to to grant to them, leaving the photographer open to lawsuits as has happened).

In this case, imagine a student working on a class assignment. They use this data for purely academic purposes with no commercial intent in mind. After they train their system, they realize yow I could use this trained system and get rich. There was arguably no commercial use during the training. The use of the data was purely academic, like a person learning math or French. What you do after running the learning is a separate matter, just as using a CC licensed textbook to learn math doesn't prevent you from getting a job as a statistician.

Again, the tl;dr is instead of trying to divine how a court will deal with a poorly specified problem, it's much better to just not license your stuff using a CC license. There are almost always much better licenses to choose from.
It’s using WPF on Windows and Cocoa on Mac. It doesn’t seem to share much code between them, either.
No - but this comment is proving the point.
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We should be working for all recent browser versions. If you have an ad blocker in your browsers it may be causing the issue. We have had other users report that their ad blockers were preventing them from accessing the service. Would you mind giving it a try again and providing the javascript error if you see it again?
When one wants an AOSP-like state, they can install LineageOS. That doesn't include Google Play Services, so it isn't difficult to get rid of it.
They think that if they can jail people for using encryption then one of two things happen: terrorists stop using it (with the presumed good that entails) or terrorists don't stop using it. If the latter, they hope they can jail the terrorists for the use of illegal encryption - maybe even before any successful attack - without the need to show anything but the use of illegal encryption. If all you're focused on is short-term tactical progress in fighting terrorism, it's a win; I don't think it helps our argument to pretend like that's not the case.
Does it bother anyone else that Facebook is being fined $5 billion while Equifax, a company with a history of anti-consumer activity and privacy violations going back decades, the company that congress was forced to enact the Fair Credit Reporting Act to contain, and who gave away all the personal information for over a hundred million people through its own negligence, was fined a mere $650 million? Do you get the idea that this is less about consumers and more about Zuck blowing off Congress?
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Where did you drive it? On country roads? Roads in bad shape?

> with fewer accidents per mile than humans

This sort of stat is highly misleading. The data is for testing on very safe very good condition roads and/or highways.

I highly suggest this source if you'd like a real look at self-driving car progress and not self-patting press releases from the carmakers or PR churns from the media:

https://ideas.4brad.com/gmcruise-leaks-show-them-way-way-beh...

My favorite was one he had on the security of self-driving cars (which is laughably inadequate):

http://ideas.4brad.com/disconnected-car-right-security-plan-...

Brad Templeton is a former EFF chairman and a former adviser to Google's self-driving car project (from before it was called Waymo).
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Suggest everyone here pick a couple of news agencies who propagated this crap and write to the editors admonishing their shoddy fact-checking. I emailed two this morning.
>I've been in a self-driving car

How many miles did you do? How many corner cases happened? What was the weather like? And based on this experience you conclude that it's better than humans? How many Uber/Lyft accidents have you been in?

>The only reason they have to wait is because they know the public expects perfection. The public doesn't understand statistics.

It's way more complicated than obtaining perfection. For example, who is liable when a self-driving car crashes?
Keep in mind that many ideas that sounded very good turned out to be very bad.

Total stagnation is not the answer either, but we need to strike a balance. Testing things on a smaller scale first is a good best practice, even if it means most of us will miss out on the "obvious" perceived benefits for a while.
incredible guy, he really is the 10x everything type: https://colah.github.io/cv.pdf
Thats kind of my point. MDM has an administrative and capital cost. The Outlook app is free for everyone and doesnt get IT involved in your personal phone.

The use-case for MDM is not to get email on personal phones - thats the right tool for the wrong job. MDM is for simplifying the deployment and management of corporate phones.
Working for a petty autocratic bureaucracy is so inherently and intensely fulfilling, it's no surprise that so many rich people do it, even though they don't need to. /s
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Chances are:

1. A backup laptop is cheaper than a backup car.

2. You don't need your car for work; you can take Uber/Lyft or a taxi if need be.

3. If you do need your car for work, you've accepted loss of your car of extended periods of time as a risk and have probably gotten insurance for that. I hope.

4. If you're a big company for which cars are an integral part of your business, you have backups.

I don't take my car to dealers to get it repaired. The ones around here do a terrible job, and when I take it back, it's not unusual for the mechanics to sabotage various components (e.g., deliberately point both headlights as far down as they'll go). I'd rather forego the loaner and take my car to a reputable independent mechanic.

Additionally, the dealers around here usually don't offer a loaner anyway without an extra fee, except under certain circumstances (e.g., the repair takes longer than they expected because they broke my windshield and had to order a replacement--yes, that happened).
That is not what I said, I think you have to read a bit more carefully.
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That may be the reason for some people. I disallow loading images until I click, for security and privacy reasons. But I want to see pictures of my aunt's dog if she sends it.
>The owner of the vehicle would be responsible.

I think you're misinformed.

Why should I be? I've been informed, by you, that it's a better driver than me, and I have no control over the software.

Let me say, these are not insurmountable problems, by any means. But the government moves slowly.
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/mark-zuckerb...

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb f*s.
> It's pretty pathetic that a company is leaning on spreadsheets to survive.

In my experience pretty much every company on the planet would be deemed "pretty pathetic" by your lofty standards.
> Video games have massive economies of scale

In what way? The code and art/music/voice/story assets are custom for each game; the only thing that might be shareable is the engine.
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>Critics didn't seem to mind very much

yongyea and jim sterling disagree

dont know about whatever gamespot/ign have been saying but they're becoming irrelevant
Teams were so much smaller.

Ultima IV was about as big-budget as a video game got. Here are the credits for the DOS version: https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/ultima-iv-quest-of-the-av...

19 people, total, for the original development and production on the Apple II version, plus the PC, Atari and Amiga ports.
I've always wondered why politicians here in Germany insist that you need 5G for autonomous driving. I thought tech companies just lied to them to get them to subsidize their 5G networks. Are you telling me 5G is actually used for geolocation? If so, I'd love to hear more.
> Where did you drive it?

Downtown San Francisco, where we had to avoid many obstacles, many people not following standard rules of the road, and major potholes.
> So from Facebook's perspective, this is probably a big win.

$5 billion is a lot, but Facebook is huge. Even considering, it's probably not pocket change for them, but they are getting a benefit from it for sure. They are buying public opinion.

"Look at us..we took a big fine and agreed to respect your privacy .. you can trust us now." It's essentially a very expensive ad, used to rebuild trust with their cattle; I mean users.
I own a basically German-engineered car (the car badge itself is Spanish), and one of its main advantages is that it is old enough (well, by today's standards, the car is from 2007) that is not sophisticated enough in order to include that much electronics and software. As such I'm perfectly confident to hop right in and drive 400-500 miles, heck, I've driven almost 3000 miles a couple of summers ago all the way to Switzerland and back.

I would totally not have the same level of confidence driving a more modern German car with more electronics and software included. As such, how much of today's value of a car is comprised of its software is orthogonal to how good or bad that software actually is.
This headline's a little sensationalist. There are a lot of workplaces that don't use MDM.

Don't put your employer's MDM on your own phone. Make them buy you a work phone.
Are medical errors the third most common cause of death in the U.S.?
When I did read a lot of those sites I remember giving up on Kotaku due to some rampant rumor stuff that ... often was nothing.

Granted that was a long long time ago, but it sort of exemplified why I quit reading those sites.
>That particular publication also tends to be the electric bug zapper for a lot of chuds, so there's a lot of misinformation out there.

What's that mean?
Like I said, cost per unit sold is almost nothing.
Farmers in Ohio basically plow empty, undeveloped land, plant seeds, use pesticides sometimes, and nature does the rest. They don't even irrigate, rain comes down from the sky and waters the crops.

The purchase price of farmland in Ohio is about $5000-6000 per acre.

You're talking about building a skyscraper as if crop production can generate enough revenue to justify that expense and somehow compete with all the other farmers who are just using the land as the found it a couple hundred years ago.

The cost to build a parking garage space is $20,000-$30,000 - and parking garages are just a slab of concrete. You'd still have to add in the costs of irrigation and artificially light the crops.

And then, how do you efficiently harvest vertical farms? Farmers in Ohio drive a giant vehicle over the generally flat and square field. How are you harvesting a vertical farm without huge labor costs in comparison?

There's actually nothing "green" about this vertical farm idea when you think about the extra power, concrete, and construction material requirement needed to realize it.
Slack, on my phone? Are you nuts?

If you want me after hours you call. Thats the only option you have.
Take a look at NASDAQ: FB. <0.5% change. This means nothing.
Has much thought been put into driving in poor road conditions? It seems in the cities self driving cars are pretty much ready, but I wonder about how they will be in bad snow/ice/hail/wind conditions. Humans are pretty bad at these conditions as well. I see a scenario that the self driving cars have X fatality rate which seems very high, while nobody believes the human fatality rate which is even higher.
Are you kidding? Employers will frequently avoid paying higher wages; either by making employees part time, by not hiring additional employees, or by firing. "Do more with less..." is a management mantra for a reason.
I meant the LTS model such as Ubuntu 18.04 gives you old version software with the possibility of worse functionality and more security holes. Arch may be more up-to-date than Ubuntu, but it isn't in the same category; it is not LTS, and it is not as widespread.
I think in a side-by-side test of the bare burger, you'd have no trouble telling which is which.

But most burger chains serve their burgers with an array of toppings, sauces, condiments, and other things that make it nearly impossible to taste the actual patty. There are so many layers that all the burger itself provides is a bit of chewy texture. The texture of an Impossible Burger doesn't have quite the same mouthfeel as one made out of cow, but if you're not expressly looking for it, you'd easily miss it. If they accidentally substituted it for a meat burger, I'd wager well over 80% of the patrons wouldn't notice.
A bike rack is more effective and also has the benefit of plausible deniability.
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